A LETTER FROM SOME-BODY in the Country: In Answer to NO-BODIES LETTER: Directed from LONDON: In Vindication of SOME-BODY.  

licenced,  
March 20. 1679.   
ROGER L'ESTRANGE.  
LONDON Printed for D. M. 1679.   

A LETTER FROM SOME-BODY in the Country.  
GOod Mr. No-Body, I have thoughr fit to bring you a Cordial to your Malady, lest the mighty Surfeit should impair your Airy Concavity, or drown your dabbling fancy in a maze of unlucky thoughts, whereby sad desperations might arise, and Tempests toss your Genius beyond what Nature is capable of sustaining; for many there are of your Profession, who in their Pericranium have continual Turnings, Whirlwinds, and Intestine Wars: Reason and Ignorance contend for Superiority, and oftentimes distracted, or with an Inundation overflow their bounds, and fall foul upon their Neighbouring Territories; for plainly I must tell you Mr. No-Body, whether in City or Country, in Town Corporate, Cinque-Port, or Village, or in what place soever I find you, I shall note you as an idle fantastical Fellow, delighting in scandals, reproaches, back-bitings, and a thousand Enormities: from whence you derived your being, none but yourself can inform the wandering shade of a grim Gobling, who plays least in sight, scouting from place to place, lest any should observe your Knavish Preambulation, or meet you at half bent; and if at any time you are trapped in your Roguery, then immediately to clear yourself, you cry out upon me, and say, Some-Body enticed you to act such under-hand mischiefs, when yourself was the Primitive Author; for you being an old Acquaintance of Fames, she fills your head with Proclamations, and puts you to relate things which never were transacted; the which long suming from your parboiled brains, at last breaks out into an open blaze, to the prejudice of many an honest man: but when they look for the Promoter of the Slander, you are not to be found, then presently I am taxed, and condemned as guilty of the equivocation Crime, or imperfect Birth, the which had its immature being from your spurious fancy; when at the same instant that it first took being, I was employed in Nobler Concernments, about State Affairs, ●etling of Government, propagation of Religious Exercises, and the like; the which if Some-body did not maintain, 'twould inevitably sink, and fall to ruin: And as you take that Arrogance upon you to tax me with Perjuries, Frauds, Thefts, Treasons, and a thousand more of your pernicious and dangerous villainies. I take Heaven to witness, that I have endeavoured to depress such Vices, and to settle the crystal streams of Virtue in a peaceful Land; and to compose horrid Wars, Intestine and Clandestine Tumults, depress Rebellious Miscreants; and whatsoever was pleasing and delightful, by Some-Body were cherished and maintained. And likewise let me tell you Mr. No-Body, that Heaven takes such delight in Some-Body, and Some-Bodies pious Exercises, that it thought fit to bestow all the Graces and privileges upon Some-Body for the same, that was capable to bear.  
Therefore Mr. No-Body, by your leave, I must tell you, it was an insufferable piece of impudence in you to Father Blushing Crimes upon me, and thus fully my Candid Reputation without a cause, casting your vile aspersion upon so honourable a Person; a Person, that were it not that I scorn to be concerned with so inconsiderable a Fellow as you in all probability are, I should make you know me better: For take notice, it is not for want of strength and ability I decline you, and suffer thus your erroneous Scandals and Exclamations; for Some-Body durst venture upon the Rump-Parliament, and turn them out of the House for non-payment of Rent; and Some-Body it was that fetched away old Noll in a Whirlwind, and shook him whilst three Kingdoms dropped from his Topesanday. And likewise after the remove of that Usurper, it was Some-Body that happily restored his now Sacred Majesty, after his so long and unjust Exilement, and placed him in his established Throne, against which let No-body dare to oppose himself, lest Divine Vengeance stop his Hell-bred malice with Eternal Flames.  
And since the blessed Restoration of our British Monarchy, and the depression of antickmouthed Fanaticks, whose Vinegar-Faces set peoples Teeth on edge, Some-Body has maintained the Laws and Liberties, propagated the Interest of the( before decaying) Kingdoms.  
And likewise Some-Body was instrumental in the discovery of the late hellish Plot, so secretly and subtly contrived, that all the art of Men or Devils could not do more; yet you have the impudence to tax me as guilty of that most abhorred sin, the which had not Some-Body timely prevented; had ruined both Church and State, for all stood tottering on the fatal brink: But Heaven made Some-Body so happy as to find out and discover the growing mischief before it was ripened or come to perfection; for which Some-Body was well rewarded by his most loving and bounteous Prince, for so good and great a work, at which let No-Body repined. And likewise since by Some-Bodie's good Instructions several of those Locusts that lately ascended out of the bottonles Pit, have been sent back again to their primitive Dwelling, e're they could finish their tripple-stingg'd Masters business, or complete the so long contrived task.  
And likewise Rome's dictatory is by Some-Body probably conjectured to be Antichrist, for No Body believes that the Keys of his Money-Chest will open Celestial dwellings, or that he can let roasted Souls out of smoky Avernus for Indian dust; therefore No-Body is such a Fool to trust him with his Eternal happiness. But Some-Body knows he is not able to save himself in the great and terrible day, in that day when Heaven and Earth and all the Elements shall pass away, and melt with fervent heat, Then No-Body will find Rome's Dictates. But if Some-Body should then call for the Pope, and desire his Warrants to justify them before the Ancient of Days, he will not appear, No-Body can produce him. Himself will not know in what place to hid himself, when he shall be called to an account for all the innocent blood his hands have  shed.  
Therefore let No Body trust a finite Being with the limits of Infinite mercy, lest in the mid-way to Salvation his laging wings cloged with the camps of mighty errors, should decline again, and instead of everlasting rest mistake the way, and plunge incircling fires, of which dread event Some-Body is always so wary as to avoid; and certainly No-Body will be so rash as to press violently upon premeditate destruction if any by accident do; No-Body but himself must answer for so dangerous an attempt. This from Some-Body, who desires the hatred of No-Body.  
York, March the 1●th, 1678.  
FINIS.