Advice to Balam's Ass; OR, Momus Catechised. IN Answer to a certain Scurrilous and Abusive scribbler, ONE John HEYDON, AUTHOR OF Advice to a Daughter. By T. P. Gent. Pendentem volo Zoilun videre. My longing Eyes desire to see, Zoilus embrace the Fatal Tree. LONDON: Printed by E. B. for Henry Marsh, at the Prince's arms at the lower end of Chancery-Lane near the Inner Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1658. To the Ingenious READER. WHen the wisdom, Prudence, and Learning, of Mr. Osborn lively depainted in his book entitled Advice to a Son, had five times been invested with the Trabea Triumphali, the honourable Robe of universal applause, we had less reason than the female instructor hath brains, to suspect an Homero-mastix, one that durst malapertly endeovour by the interposition of his opacous and ridiculous conceptions, to eclipse the splendour of such an eminent Author. Had any Man of Learning and Modesty thrown down his gauntlet in defiance of some particulars, referring to study, Travail, Government, Religion, or perhaps like a Knight Errant in defence of Ladies seemingly wronged, my Pen should still have retained its quiet repose, and only my wishes have supplied the place of Heralds, to search the Champion, lest instead of the Sword of Truth, he should wound his Antagonist with the unlawful weapon of Malice, lent him by her Sister Vainglory. But since the Master of Gotham college, a grand proficient in Bacchus' school, and meriting to be chief professor of Billingsgate begins to bark, I shall (he being far unworthy of Mr. Osborn's Lash) muzzle him, and thank my auspicious fortune, if in requital of my journey to fetch him Hellebore, I might pluck Narcissus, the Secretary of God and Nature, (as he styles himself) from a fond admiration of the Chymaeraes of his own brain. He will brag perhaps that I durst not affix my Name to these my castgations of his Advice to a Daughter; and very true, for if a Cedar in literature be a nameless overworn wittol, what may a shrub whose▪ highest honour is only to be a lover of such, expect? I for my part esteem it little wit, and less breeding, to use such dirty language as he delights in, which a Gentleman should abhor to vent, when a just offence hath blown his possion into a flame, Yet he shall find me so favourable as to interpret what is dubious to the best sense, and to let every thing pass for weight, which wound up in candour, shall prove equally ponderous to one grain of reason. the Author often boasts, that this his Gourd sprang up in Sixteen days, I may truly affirm that what you see, was but the employment of a few vacant hours. Let your candid approbation (Courteous READER) second me whilst I fight this great giant, whose thundering name would affright many, although nothing is able to terrify me; but a non-permission to subscribe your ready Servant, T. P. Upon the Title. Advice to a Daughter. MODESTY is the greatest Ornament that a Daughter can borrow from her common Mother Nature, or hath inoculated into the flexible years of her Minority, by the circumspection of a prudent education which your Daughter must of necessity want, if she either follow her Father's footsteps, or imprint in her memory his sullied exclamations. In opposition to the Advice to a son. Your opposition is only culpable in this, that such a Pygmy as you, wage war with an Eagle in stead of a Crane. Under these general heads. 1 Studies. What shall your Daughter be a Minerva, or rather a Pope Joan, for she must it seems be a Student, and your first two heads treat about free-schools, and Universities, that there wants nothing but the pretty little elixir, and then Squire Rosa-Crucian the trick is done. 2 Marriage. Any that we will allow, let them have their longing. 3 travel. Your Daughter must be a gossip forsooth, but let her travel we shall not want any of your breed, and perhaps by diligent enquiry, she may find out and transport her father's wits; which have so long been a wool gathering in Spain, or at least in Vino Hispanico, and are now fallen under the inquisition. 4 Government. This head, by him that had an head piece, might have been totally omitted. A woman shall not need to make Machiavel her sampler: And 'tis the privilege of the weaker Vessels to lie at ancre in safe Harbours, whilst men, the serviceable ships of war frequently sink one another, by the impetuous firing of open violence; or give chase, until the quick sands of dissimulation and envy, glory in the wrack of the now transparent carack. 5 Religion. Let serious study first embroider your own soul, with the eleven moral virtues, resolutely solicit Heaven until you obtain the three Christian graces, Faith, Hope, and charity: Then when your soul shall be a pure fountain, I shan't resist, that all your daughters should zealously imbibe your religious precepts. Conclusion. I am glad your Book shall have an end although sorry that you should stagger six miles in such a difficult road, where your despicable wit, and indiscernable learning know scarce one step of the way, yet you are sure of fit company, if the Adage be true, Stultorum omnia plena. But it matters not when your book ends, for a few lines will make the Reader weary, and enable him to conclude, what both it and the Author are; that is to say none of the wisest. And if there be any one misdoubts it, let him or her rather (for 'tis the advice to a daughter,) open, and they may at the first search receive an undeniable demonstration. By Eugenius Theodidactus. Make room for the noble Gentleman Mr. Eugenius, and his friend Mr. Mr. a very hard name, I wonder who was his godfather: His name begins with T. H. but 'tis not Thomas, nor Theophilus, nor Theodosius, O now it comes, now it comes, 'tis Theodidactus. Pray sweet young Gentlewomen, let me add this advice to your good Fathers, that ye would every day get without book, one syllable of your Dad's name; And so in nine days, ye shall overcome a nine days' wonder, but honest Sir Eugenius, would no name serve your ●urne that is English, or Latin, but you must needs trouble some old Reader, to buy a new pair of Spectacles, that he might take up an old snip of Greek to make John Heydon's daughter an Apron? Alas why shouldest thou provoke him to curse Scapula, because it is a longer voyage from A to B. then from the twenty fifth to the twenty sixth of Job? If you had been desirous to have been adopted a Grecian; I could have furnished you with a name, but I dare not write it in Greek, lest you should make Affidavit my pen drew conjuration circles, 'tis Diabolus; not that I esteem you a devil, no, for the devil hath wit, although he wants grace. But because I find that name in the Muster-roll of that Regiment to which you belong, namely, in Plautus his Asinaria. Thus having escaped the formidable jaws of this Attic B●gg. Bear, if we please to turn over a new leaf, fortune may be so propitious as to show us a name suitable to an English ear, and not bafling the retention of a vulgar memory. To the excellently accomplished Gentleman, Mr. Charles Bruton citizen and Merchant Adventurer of London, &c. Whither these epithets are deservedly ascribed, let Mr. Brutons acquaintance be Umpires: If they be, I wish his Fame had a more worthy Trumpeter: If they are not, let him (to supply those defects▪) without procrastination admit himself pupil to Morality, and what erudition is ingenuous. Much Honoured Sir, I shall only make this adjoynder: Luctare ut niveum Laudis meruisse Lapillum, Te Famae insignis Buccina Vera canat. Honoured Sir is espoused to your name, Let desert force the World to vouch true fame. I here trouble you with a short discourse, if your Patron instead of every way, be but any way accomplished, you never spoke truer, than when you said I trouble you. It is no laboured piece, That's easily granted, And indeed no fit present! That's right, unless it be to Dunne Lord of Tyburn, who by way of requital, may for the small sum of thirteen pence halfpenny, added as a gratuity, make you tenant for life of his tri-angular patrimony. But I beg your acceptance, you may very well beg it, for you don't deserve it. But 'tis well, that you will have one Place in your book, that carries a tincture of modesty. The first time I ever saw the advice to a Son, was the last day of Hillary term, may be so, but hadst thou had but half the conference with the stars, that Nic. Culpeper thy predecessor had; Thou wouldest have begun thy reading, or to be sure thy scribbling, under a more fortunate Planet, both for thy own credit, and the stationer's profit. I read it, and found it full of bitterness against women, &c. Indeed this particular is something severe, but he that would drive an head strong youth to riches and honour, may well take leave to hold the reins straight. I shuffled up the answer in sixteen days for your spare hours, you are no artificial gamester it seems, for in recompense of sixteen days shuffling, I know nobody ever cut you an Honour, yet you have aptly expressed your mushroom to be sauce for spare hours, for he must have very little to do, that bestows the reading. In which you may make yourself merry, yes, for 'tis not a doctor's Gown, but a fool's coat that excites laughter. For it w●● in this last Vocation when, I did not ●● much labour as play, &c. I don't know whether it be your ign●rance or the Printers negligence, that can●● distinguish betwixt Vocation and Vacation but, peradventure your Vacation is you● Vocation, as it is with others busy to as litt●● purpose as yourself. I found him a nameless Overworn wittol. He was nameless 'tis true, but 'tis this ● wonder at, how he durst at last disclose hi● name, when such a Man as Mr. John Heydon had vowed himself the Champion of wronged and abused Ladies. And as for over worn wittol, because you are not Compos Mentis, you shall be constrained to die intestate, and reserve that for your heirs; but because you are ambitious to be eminent in something, since there was one Asinius Pollio a famous Orator among the Romans, & one Porcius Cato, a Man almost as wise as our Author, what if you assume Wittalius? that you who are Vir trium Literarum, may become a nobleman Trium Nominum, or rather if you would set up Bills, and exact Farthings a piece for the Sight of a profound exact Rosacrucian, style yourself, Don Johannes Heydonus, Wittalius, Eugeni●, Theodidactus De More Fields, and then it will do, I'll warrant you. That five times before I espied him, had adulterated the press, and abused Ladies and Gentlewomen. It was you adulterated the press, for not only two at a time, but two hundred witnesses will attest, that nonsense and your Daughter lay there together, and 'tis you abuse Ladies & gentlewomen, & not he, who dare take upon you to instruct them when a checkered kitchingstuff Wench might reach you to reverence your betters, and a Lady of fourteen judiciously deride some of your notions. And no Man dar'st answer him, (for so be reported) &c. Sir, I should have been thankful if you had quoted the place; but take it, for once upon your credit, it holds true yet, for although he said no Man durst answer him, He was never so angry with AEsop, as to deny that the dull Ass could bray Reproaches against the courageous Bore. I will see what and who this diseased Maccabee is. You are very charitable in pleasing to visit the sick, but since you have borrowed so much Divinity to garnish out the collation of Advice you present the Ladies with; let me entreat this favour, that you would not defy a Maccabee of all People, because the Maccabees are descended from the house of Levi. And prove his discourse and hard censure of Ladies and Gentlewomen, like the blasts of Ram's horns before the walls of Jericho; that throws down the reputation of Ladies at one utterance. What Sir are you horn mad? I thought all this while by your mad prating, that your brains were at Jericho, but make an antidote of a poison, and if Rams-Horns blew down the outworks of ladies' reputations, wind your own horns whether you have the horns of Aries, Taurus', or Capricorn, actually left you by Nic. Culpepper for a legacy, or only virtually in Causa Efficiente. and than one don't know, but that you may tote the diseased Maccabee into Repentance, down with His Honour like the Walls of Jericho, & force him to give all His Estate to the Printer, that His Recantation might be published in Capitals large enough to be distinctly Read, by the Inhabitants of any interjacent place, betwixt Oxford, and Quinzay. To the BOOK and READER. And now my book let it not stop thy flight, That thy just Author is not Lord or Knight. An. Who dreams you Lord or Knight? prove if you can, First yourself just, than next a Gentleman. Thy Bulk's not great; it will not much distress Their empty Pockets, but their Studies dress. An. The Bulk's not great; yet it doth much express, Not Students Help, but your own Nothingness. And this perhaps may sometimes move their Laughter, That thou art called Advice unto a Daughter. A. She that don't Laugh at Advice to a Daughter, I shall ne'er count for A Wise Woman after. I could have voiced the forth in such a dress, The Spring had been a Slut to thy express. That's nothing, 'tis ordinary for you, and your brethren to work Wonders. 'tis womens' virtue I do tell abroad, For Women-Angels are, sent us from the Lord. Women-Angels, observe that Angels are of the Feminine Gender, you may Read all Haward thorough, and not gain such a remarkable Notion: I am none of the Greatest Strangers to Latin and English Poetry, and yet I think the last Verse, was longer than Parnassus by half a foot. But lest you should fall too much in Love with Our author's Muse, Pray lend your View to this Elegant Prose. To his Daughter. Daughter, I have forborn to set your Name on the forehead of these aphorisms, not that I am ashamed of either of them, or you. You ashamed of your aphorisms, No, 'tis enough for the Stationer and Reader, to be so. Make but your Daughter as Brazen-faced as her Father, And if any of her Uncles the chemists take like their Coryphaeus Friar Bacon, Send Her to them; And they shan't need watch three Weeks, to hear A Brazen Head Speak. But because your Enemy, and his son, have done so before me. If they have been your Enemies, No question but Gratitude will reconcile them to you, since you are pleased to Honour them with an Imitation, for which they are wonder fully beholding. First we give to all the virtues, the Habits, and Visages of Women. I hope you are so well versed in Axioms, as to understand Nullum simile est Idem; All is not Gold that Glisters: And are not all the Furies also portrayed like Women? justice is naked, and is it not fit that all the Sex should imitate such an excellent pattern and Mistress. Excellent advice, surely your Father is the Key that unlocks Venus' Cabinet. By going Naked you'll save A great deal of money, And though we shall have no Pockets to put it in, your Father with his, will supply that defect, And ye shall be sure not to want credit, as long as your personal Estate is so Evident. But how will ye reconcile going Naked, with the Advice in the latter part of the Epistle? Follow not Daughter their Fashion, that uncover the chiefest parts of their Beauty, As their Face, Neck, breasts, and Hands, as the Index of the more secret object. Note, ye must always wear Masks, eat with your Gloves on, Not hold up your Head for fear ye should show your white Necks. But since he would have you cover all parts, let your Names be written upon your breasts, Or for the satisfaction of your Acquaintance, hire a Crier for a Gentleman-Usher; that he may salute each passenger with O yes! O yes! here goes Madam such An One, &c. Really it would be a Riddle how to please your Father, (first ye should go Naked, page 2, than all covered page 4,) But that his worship is his own Interpreter page 5. My Advice is to show all, or Nothing. 'tis great pity He is not chosen Major of Bloomsbury, or carnal Rector of St. Giles in the Fields. Such Titles were More proper to such An Adviser, than the Secretary of God and Nature, page 3. Women unclothed are all alike? Yes, as much as Venus and Hecube, Alabaster and a Westphalia Gammon. Man is the Consummation of the Creation. The great Book of Nature was perfected by Man's Creation; Only Woman was made Vice Corollarij, as a postscript, or Appendix. And Woman the Consummation of Man. Nay, Pray jet Man be the consummation of Woman, for reflect either upon the Admired pulchritude of the Body, or excelling faculties of the soul, and what may glory of these, but the Head? How general is the affection of Old Men to Women? Well, perhaps by continued practice, they have at last obtained virtue in Gradu Heroico, in the highest exaltation; And therefore now dare grapple with the worst of evils. If any Clumsy Old Doting wittol, &c. You do well to furnish your Daughters with compliments, I hope they'll retort them upon their Father; Although He is such An Eminent person for His writings, that He who protests against the sufficiency of Them, Adventures to make the Sun Stand Still, and wilfully goes about to counsel his Master. page 7. and 8. The World is full of Deceit. And your book is not without; For when I saw it first, I charitably expected prudent Admonitions, drawn by the pencil of an Eximious Rhetorician; but found A few frigid Conceptions, distilled in the Balneo Mariae, of a Rosa-Crusians Noddle. Beauty affords contentment. But it is too feeble a foundation, for a Wise Man to build his Felicity upon; yet thus far I'll accord with you, as I once vented my Thoughts upon this Subject. Beauty alone may for a time content, But to my Bed a virtuous Wife present. Let Age, or Sickness●, furrow her smooth Skin, They cannot raise her Beauty that's within. I know there was much of Naked Truths in it. If your Daughters would follow your Advice, forecited page 2. they should also as well as your Book, show much of the Naked Truth. Your Loving Father, &c. You might have spared, &c. for every intelligible Person will add an, et caetera; And so for this time we will say, You writ this Epistle, &c. Advice to a Daughter. Who is this that darkneth Knowledge by Words without understanding? I answer, John Heydon. Come thou embryo of an History, thou Cadet of a Pamphleteer. Why thou Geoffrey in swabberslops, thou little Negro mounted on the Elephant of thy own Folly, you and I will be sure to write something authentic, as long as we can steal from Mr. Cleeveland's diurnal-maker. And now I think upon it, I will allow thee time to Breath. Bravely resolved, a Noble Enemy is always courteous. It speaks like a Man, &c. Then by your own confession it is rational. It is the first tincture and Rudiments of a Writer, dipped as yet in the preparative blue, like an almanac Well-willer. Our Gentleman likes Mr. Cleeveland's entertainment so well, that he is come again for the other Dish, and falls on like a most undaunted plagiary. Send out an Hue and cry, and you will overtake him in Company of a characterised diurnal-maker. Behold his directions, &c. Under the five general Heads I will cut off, and you will think him the triple-headed Porter of Hell. Alas Sir, that you should forget to make a Commentary in Folio upon this mystical Expression: Your Enemies five Heads shall be cut off, Ergo the leaving Him no Heads, is the way to make him triple-headed. If Little David (as you style yourself) stumbles thus upon nonsense, the Ladies may account it a sad Omen, that their Champion may chance not to kill great Goliath. I scorn to kill him, I'll only box Bim, Kick, and cudgel him for his boldness. You scorn to kill him; Oh show me the like favour, and let us both Live to make panegyrics of your Clemency, yet we are courageous; Against your cudgel we'll furbish our old rusty backsword, and since you are Nettled, you shall have leave to Kick. And let him know, he is the better Man, who hath besieged and taken a town; not plotted to rob an Orchard. The robbing of an Orchard was not attributed to the better Man, but to the craftier Boy. But whither you are that better Man that besieged and took a town, I'll not dispute: However, without question since you wrote this Excellent Piece, the town hath been your own. STUDY. Para. 1. Here, he complains of the loss of those times, which I could wish I had not known. Mr. Osburn complains of losing the Advantage of his most docile time, but you see our Author loves not Learning so well, as to think his most docile time worth taking notice of. Then he runs from the sense of his Antagonist, and lends his Daughter an Use of Instruction, which he borrowed himself. 2 I believe our much use of Srong Beer, and gross flesh, is a great occasion of dregging our Spirits and corrupting them, till they shorten life. You may believe him, for Experientia docet Ebrios, aequè ac Stultos. Experience is the Mistress of Ale-adorers, as well as of fools. And those grosser fumes corrupting the Spirits are the probable cause why his style is so languishing, and book-short-lived. Weigh every man's Education as his means have been. If you were as rational in every thing as in this, you had saved me the trouble of Animadversions: It is indeed in vain to expect the modestly-blushing-Roses, and the dapled Gilliflowres, vapouring with their double and treble diadems, in an incultivated Field, which an affected neglect of the despairing Tenant, hath dedicated to briars, Nettles, and the contemptible production of Thorns and Thistles. 3 Besides, if I must describe a mere scholar, he is an Intelligible ass, or a silly Eellow in Black. Must I? must Sir Thomas Overbury, you should have said? from whom without so much as mention of his Name, you impudently steal a whole leaf: See over Character of a mere scholar. 4 There is no Syntax betwixt a Cap of Maintenance, and an Helmet. What's the reason, but because most Men like Hacknyes, can't endure to go out of their usual Road? for if a scholar durst as well read the lines Engraven in mens' Foreheads, as those written in Cassick Authors; He (being not only Gold Ore, as he is a scholar, but refined Gold, as having learned to exchange Probo quod Non. a contradictory humour, into Sir I kiss your Hand, a politic and Submissive compliance) would become fit to receive the impress of supreme Authority; Being stamped with Honour on the forepart, and bearing on the Ranverse regal Favour and Munificency. 5 Here he fancies the Habit of the Jesuites. This is without controversy, that what is exemplarily good may and aught to be followed, let whose will be the professors, Even purblind Pagans, and the more barbarous Turks. And although some fellows of colleges, have more Pride than Learning, yet since they are as petty Magistrates, their Place commands Reverence from inferiors. 6 Here he would have his Son make some inspection into physic, &c. It is implanted in all Men by Nature to desire long life; And consequently, his Society must be acceptable, who is supposed a fit ambassador, to persuade a League betwixt the four Elements, that they may unanimously concur in resisting Death, their common and Fatal enemy. The seventh is tolerable. 8 Idle books (like you natural Knave and artificial Dissembler) are nothing else but corrupted Tables, in Ink and Paper. What still more of the Beere-Warders Dialect? I must confess your foul-mouthed Thunderbolts can't be retorted; For you are no natural Knave, although a natural fool, and you are no artificial Dissembler, although you be an inartificial Slanderer, and so long you are safe. Our Law makes no difference betwixt the thief and the Receiver. Ans. Then woe be to them who buy your books, where there is so much stolen. His foolish Sentences dropped upon Paper in his Advice to a Son, hath set folly on an Hill, and is a Monument to make Women infamous Eternally. I Answer, They are wise Sentences; but only when they stand in competition for the Garland with yours; But without an irony, I take leave to suspect you looked through the Vitiated Medium of your own stupendious Ignorance, when you saw his Folly upon an Hill, for if it were so evident, some other should have seen it as well as you, And if it be folly, (Te ipso Iudice) it is as long lived as the greatest Wisdom; for it is an eternal Monument, although not to make Women infamous. 9 Would you know what kind of Stuffe this is? It is all his own, and that's a very punctual Answer. 10 This is full of very significant Expressions; Mr. Cleeveland is huge happy, that he hath so much worth the borrrowing by such a Learned Author. 12 He adviseth his Son to converse with the wits of the town, to refine his Spirit better than books. He speaks of no wits in the town, but saith Good Company is a better refiner of the Spirits, than Ordinary books: Good Sir, be a little more honest in citing your Author. 13 Of the Advice to a Son. Propose not them for patterns, who make all places rattle where they come with Greek, and Latin. Now mark Heydon's Inference, I should believe him a foolish juggler, that sprinkles his words in any vulgar Tongue against the lawful Magistrate, ecclesiastical or civil: A Rare Commentator, you don't blame them who murmur against a Magistrate; ay, and against a lawful Magistrate, so it be but in an unknown Tongue. 14 Arm! Armado! The Advice to a Son speaks Treason against the Majesty of our Rosa-Crucian, and yet you never regard it: He affirms no thief (The Genius of a Plagiary) is sufferable, who comes not off like a Lacedaemonian, without discovery. 16 Here he commends John Cleeveland. What plain John? your fellow? but let that pass towards the latter end. He insinuates want of Study makes fugitive Divines, like Cowards to run away from their text. He is an expert Disciple of theirs, and loves dearly to run quite away from the Subject he undertakes. The 18 is nothing to the purpose; yet we will allow Sir Tho. Over. Paradox to be witty. 19 He that reads the Fathers, shall find them written, as it were with a Crisped Pen. Although this be true, I suppose I may pass without being branded as censorious, if I Judge the Languages the Fathers are written in, no very intimate acquaintance of Mr. John Heydon's. 23 This is the Author of Advice to a Son, that goes to Sermons only to show his Gay clothes. It is very unjust that the Accuser should be Judge; but I'll grant you an Admirable chemist, if you can extract Pride out of this Advice: wear your clothes neat. But it is no Prodigy, if an Author be Injuriously interpreted, on whom Ignorance and Malice are Scholiasts. Here is almost an other leaf stolen from Sir Tho. Overburie's Charact. of a Proud Man. 26 To the Father advising his Son not to Gallop through a town. He replies thus; Why so? A Party may be riding post upon Life and Death, and then it is but being careful, and there is no danger. Who can forbear adoring this man's Ingenuity? But to his exception, I may add another; That if he should chance to crowd a Cart up Holborn Hill, he shall have leave to make the Horse Gallop as fast as he can. 29 Our Author commends Hunting; and I shan't discommend it, provided the Hounds chase not away Moderation, without which, the choicest Recreations are culpable. But for my own part I affect no Hounds, but such as the Duke of Saxo● showed the enquisitive ambassadors, which were a Pack of poor indigent persons, whom he phrased the Hounds, with which he hunted for Heaven. 38 Impudence is no virtue, but able to beggar them all. Advice to a Son. How rare would this be Jack, if it held in all circumstances? why then, you long before this time had been a very Landed Man. 40 A Wife is so wise that she can know her Servants Qualities, by their Countenances; and finding the first fault, will endeavour to amend it. Very few Wives can do the first, unless they Marry Sander's Disciples, or at least hear six score Lectures in Physiognomy: And when a Wife dies endowed with the second qualification, I will make a funeral Oration for her; and speak it in the Audience of all the Good Women in the Parish: Nay more, write a Chronicle on prupose, that I might insert the strange History of her Life. 42 It were a brave thing by use & custom so to order yourself, that you could endure to live without Food. This were a rare knack indeed, doubtless Ladies it would make ye very slender. 53 If there be virtues, and you be called to speak of him that owns them, tell them forth unpartially; if there be vices mixed with those, be content to let the world know them by some other tongue than yours; do as you would be done unto. How little you practised this when you called your Combatant natural Knave, and artificial Dissembler, Para: 6. And with the bitter and detestable Gall of Detraction, squeezed into a rash, and maliciously censorious Pen, write him the curled lock of Antichrist Par: 39 54 As our Saviour cursed the cozening fig-tree, never to bear fruit after; So He is worthy to be hated of Ladies for ever, who boasts of their Favours. A strange comparison, what will he that hath discoursed so. Theologically, make of Zion? A Temple for Dagon, by profanely comparing together the Curse of the King of Kings, and the slights of proud vain glorious Dust. The sweet waters of Jordan ought not to be contaminated, by commixing the Marah of our Trivial conceptions. 56 He is virtuous, that is so for virtue's sake; (so far we shan't oppugn,) And chooses rather to lie in sackcloth, then in Beds of Down, with silken delights, and Sarsne● embraces, from taffeta Mobs; who within are nothing but rotten Bones, and loathsome Diseases. If this be to be virtuous for virtue's sake, doubtless virtue hath A numerous Retinue of such, who had rather lie in sackcloth then in Beds of down, where rottenness should be their Bed-fellow, and loathsome Diseases, not with Flea-bites, but Viperous Stings, mortally wound the brittle fabrics of their Bodies; anticipating hell's eternal Torments, by the Violent Rackings of temporal Miseries. LOVE & MARRIAGE. 1 Here like A Spoon-feathered Philosopher, He discourses what Love is; and hath nothing worth Observation but one deep Criticism: How that Hatred is expressed by the Latins, sometimes by Odium, sometimes by Taedium. 2 You Tredeskin foppery, do you place Ladies in your Cabinet of November? If they be such Jewels as you talk of, they merit some Cabinet, or other; And I think your Book might augment Tredeskins fopperies; for if that were but there, you had enabled Him to show, another Feather of the Bird of Paradise. 3 He is so favourable now as not to answer by way of opposition, but of illustration; and since he hath consulted with Reason rather than Rage, I won't deny him my Euge. 4 John a Nokes, I have answered this in my last Paragraph, &c. Here John A Styles brings his Action of Defamation, against John a Nokes, because He hath compared his Daughters to painted Boxes, which Children, and Time will empty of delight, and leave nothing but Diseases: well played Sophister, you only take what you can carp at, A little Honesty would have inserted what was immediately subsequent to your Quotation; namely these words, Or at the best incurable Antiquity. And I suppose few Ladies think their ●●dding Beauty, counter-proof, against the con●ensed Frosts of old Age. 5 Here He inhibits Marriage, &c. 'tis true like a prudent Father, He would persuade His Son (when He might make A ●rosperous Voyage going Mate with Riches,) 11 Libidinous, &c. A very proper Term; why, because he is an Enemy to Women? 13 Woman is far more merciful than Man. The threatning Waves of Cruelty roar in some men's breasts, but for the most part they submit those frothy Tympanies to the experimented physic of right Reason, but Feminine Malice is too often found inexorable. 14 All their aspersions are the less, because they are from their enemy's Men. There are few Enemies so generous, and brave spirited, as not reciprocally to wound one another, with the secret stiletto o● forged Disparagements. Some of our Sex experimentally condemn their Brawling Wives. And some out of a peevish affected singularity, endeavour to stain the immaculate Candour of womens' goodness. Yet thus far we must acquit Men, as to a vow that many scars in their Reputation have not been the result of Virile Hatred, bu● of the unbridled flashings of fema●● Tongues. 17 When the Husband and Wife are tog●ther, the World is contracted into a Be●● Man of himself Sir, is a Microcosm; but this matrimonial Incorporation, proves often a contraction of the great World; when thousands of Acres are contracted by Pride and Prodigality, into the narrow limits of a Burying-Place. He that is perfect and Marries not, may in some sort be said to be guilty of a contempt against Nature, as disdaining to make use of her Sports, and natural Endowments. I answer, Pleasure may fitly be a sufficient Invitation to a short Walk; But he who Travels, without certainty of return to the happiness of a Single Life, must furnish himself with an answerable Viaticum, and cannot undertake such a Journey solely upon hopes to meet Pleasure, without he first banish Discretion. Although I should write a libel against Nature, if I should accuse Her of noting my Body with such an impotency, (discoverable by others, or known to myself,) as might render me unapt for the Slaughterlesse conflicts of Venus; Yet I can read thus much by the slender Glimmerings of Reason my soul enjoys, that the gratification of the sensual appetite is very Momentary, and 'tis only virtue that as a secondary Cause, can Echo GOD's promise, and say, I will make him an help meet for him. 20 Episco-mastix, &c. He that discharges his Birding-Piece heedlessely, deserves not the Title of a Good Shooter, although perchance a straggling shot should tumble down a Bird; just so you let fly at random your chain-shot, Episco-mastix; and therefore should you hit, ingenuity would not assoil; because you could not level at any irreverent speech, vomited upon the Pillars of the Church. Because she hath the subtler brain, and To those who account Every Woman a kind of Sibyl, and what ever falls out of their mouths a sacred Oracle, this may hold good: None can deny that some Women are wiser than some Men, but that in the general men's wits should be comparatively blunt, I shall scarce make the 13 Article of my Creed. 23 Though the Romans had their Vestals, yet after thirty years' continuance, the cruelty of enforced Chastity was not enforce against them, &c. The Vestals were chosen into the Nunnery, betwixt the Sixth and Eleventh year of their Age. And 'tis observable, that notwithstanding they were not prohibited Marriage after their thirty years' expiration; yet did they usually abstain, because, who Married, in the end died A fearful death. I for my part account it facile to carry that chastity inviolated to the Coffin, which for the succession of forty years, had quenched the wild fires of Lust. Read the twenty fourth in Sir Tho: Overbury's Character of A Good woman, And the Twenty fifth in that of A Good Wife. This conclusion excepted; Ladies now your Enemy is vanquished, you may take your pleasures. The old Knights Errant, used to make the breathless giant's Heads witness to confirm the victory: Had you struck of your enemy's Head, and on the top of your spear Presented it to the Ladies, you should have purchased belief: The only way to conquer, is to beg some auxiliary forces of sagacity from the Rosa-crucians'; for you may fear that at length the badness of your cause, and the impossibility of paying arrears, may make your Lord general and Lord admiral, Overbury, and Cleaveland, to desert you. Travel. Para. 1. I have discovered more with my Eyes, than Kings can comprehend in their thoughts. A King is frequently Surnamed Longimanus, because the energy of Supreme Authority is very comprehensive: But what is the extent of action, compared to the immense circumference of Thought? and yet you have seen more than Kings can comprehend in their thoughts? did you not in your travels see the poles upon which the Heavens turn? and were you never Astrolo-Medicus to the Queen of Fairies. 2 He hath lived but locked up in A Chest, who hath never seen but one Land. 'tis A maxim, Vnus Oculatus Testis, valet Auritis decem: One eyewitness is worth ten such as have no other basis for their Testimony then hear say. If English Gallants crossed the Seas, (as Posthumius, Sulpitius, Manlius, by whose observations the Romans made those excellent laws, called after ward Leges, Duodecem Tabularum) to drain other Nations of what might be really serviceable to themselves, or the commonwealth; travel would prove A great accomplishment: but since it is. A general Debaucher, I count him no more fool that takes upon Trust from good Authors, and can confine his desires to the Chest (as you call it) of one country, as He that dares vie for all things except Antiquity, with Drakes Ship; the imagined Girdle of the world. 3 The Philosophers Dogmatically aver that every Man hath duos Genios, Two Angels, A Good one exciting to virtuous Actions: And A bad, seducing him to all kind of vicious enormities. If you please to know what A Genius is, be sure to set the edge of your apprehension, and attend this Description. A Genius is that which from God to one of the seven Spirits is given, to be transferred by Sephiroth the several orders of Angels, to the Spheres of the Planets; Lastly, the moon raises it through the Elements, and infuses it into the body of Man. Risum teneatis Amici? I wish I had A Genius that enough, Could deride Heydon and such raving stuff. 6 Without registering these things with the Pen, they will slide away unprofitably &c. This Bolt is shot against that grave advice, Shun all Disputes, but Especially concerning Religion. See how Non-disputation, and the registering cohere. And observe what A strong man our Author is that there is not any thing, but he can Pull in by the Head and ears. As you have Examples, in this and the following Paragraph. The Sitxh subsequent are pretty moderate and though he writes at the beginning of every One, I answer, I answer; His answers are not occasioned by A contradictory Spirit, but because He hath sworn to say something though it be the same in sense with those aphorisms flourishing in that Rhetorical Tempe Advice To A Son. 18 Either Good Wits jumped, or you and Sir T. Over. traveler met. The nineteenth is A Remnant of the ●ame stolen cloth. 20 Here He mislikes that His Antagonist should be Servant both to AEsculapius and Astraea. A Doctor of physic, and A Justice of Peace,: Why? I hope Sir, that you are not offended, if A physician Anatomises the Law, but if He be A Doctor of physic, I wish he would cure you of the frenzy; Or if He be A Justice, make you a Mittimus to Bedlam. 21 I advise young Gentlemen not to marry uncomely Women for any respect, &c. Surely all your Daughters are lovely, or not much beholden to you for your council, what must none but Comely girls have Husbands? Pray see what a good Father ye have, excellent council, except sage advice. If any one be crooked, she is A Bride for None but Death. If the Small Pox digs your Face, And makes itself Cavities, as A Common shore to carry away the filth and corruption of the blood; ye, may whistle for An Husband and cry into the bargain, and yet go without. But what if ye were lame or had but One Eye? then ye should be thought stark blind, if ye entertained A thought of An Husband. And why may not Men marry unhandsome Women? Oh, because then of Necessity they shall have such Children: which quotidian experience confutes. I admire Beauty, and yet can look upon the greatest fulgour of A charming countenance, without dazzling my Eyes. I intend tolerable comeliness, should make A part of my entertainment in the Bridal Bed: yet I both can, and do look upon Notorious deformities, not with contempt, but pity, and that pity is not blabed abroad to their discontent, but locked up in my Breast, as a motive to thankfulness for God's more Merciful Dispensation, And disposition of corporal Materials, in the Architecture of my soul's Mansion. 24 Here you have the second part to the same tune of affectate Traveller which (ah me) is now at A period. Well, however it hath done, you know who, good Service; in this, and the forementioned places. I am afraid you will shortly be a bankrupt; You use to sell Overbury by whole Sale as in the mere scholar, P. 7. &c. and what is Wit such a scarce commodity, as you are compelled to retail? And he that uses to steal whole Characters makes one serve to stop three Vacuities, Para. 18. 19 and 24. fie, fie, you drive but a pitiful Trade. 25 inns are dangerous if Men be not careful. Ay, and carefulness too is far short as to warranting security from the thievish contrivances of A whole family not seldom trained up from their Cradle in such exercises. 25 By not calling Servants to an account, I myself have lost more thereby than I am worth. Our Author was A Gentleman of Quality, and Estate, in the Golden Age; and I believe much about that time kept great Store of servants. Only perhaps the fallacy lies here, that as much as He is worth may quickly be lost. But if you doubt like that Solution, I can reconcile his words to Truth another way, as thus, our Author makes use of A Prosopopaeia, And so 'tis not He to his Daughters, but Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son, that secures Truth, and fills this twenty fifth Paragraph. 27 Bestow your Youth in Travelling that you may have comfort to Remember it when past. Yes, yes, by all means put your Daughters in breeches instead of Petticoats; And Saylors Frocks instead of gowns: And let them Ramp through Greece, Egypt, Arabia, Part of Africa, Italy, Spain, France, and Germany, which their Father did trash over, if you list to believe Him. Pa. 104. But no mote of that; let Him who hath traveled so many kingdoms answer this Dilemma. This and several other improper Passages in your book, are either Advice to A Daughter, or to a Son, if to A Daughter, why do you foolishly and impertinently put Hercules club, into the Hand of An Omphale, by giving Advice to A Daughter concerning travel? when the greatest Commendation of A Woman, is to keep the House, and not to travel further than Duty (if you view Her as A Daughter) and conjugal obedience (if A Wife) commands, or the Poverty of Her Neighbour implores. On the other side, if your directions be only proper to A Son, why bears your Book this Inscription and Title; Advice unto A Daughter. To the men READERS concerning WOMEN. Now men's heads are broke, there is A kind Gentleman will afford them An Emplaster, I mean the very same that blazons himself by the name of Mr. Heydon, Pa. 111. This Gentleman of his own dubbing, there mentions A Book of his, which He calls the Rosacrutian Method of physic, but I shall refer no man thither, to transcribe a receipt for the procuring Content, since He may consult these words in the next leaf. Therefore if you cannot forbear to Love, forbear to Link. His Reason is, because after a while you shall find an alteration in yourself, and see another far more pleasing than the second or third Love. A wise Reason: that may only expect the Suffrage of the Bestial part of A Man. By long smelling to A Rose, my satiated sense strives to make Me credulous that the Rose is not so odoriferous as at first. But my reason quickly discovers the deceit, So by often repetition, the chaste embracers of A Loving Wife may happen to be nauseated; And the brutal Appetite promises herself Pleasure in a change: but then (In wise Men especially) Reason comes in as Umpire, and Evinces that A moderate cessation, will be as Sauce to whet Scaligers sixth sense, regard we pleasure: And what can be more dear to virtue, then Two souls (or rather one) perpetually engaged to mutual respect, and the sweet reciprocation of matrimonial affection. From their talk you may infer, that their Heads are not troubled with founding of Tyrannies. Nothing is more undecent, and distasteful, then that A Woman should act the part of an Eagle, and domineer over her Iron: yet sometimes We see, that the Husband hath only the name of Master, whilst the Wife exercises A tyrannical Monarchy, over the family. It is most fit that since Women bring forth Children, they should have the rule over them when they are brought up: I deny that, unless they want A Father, for if the Mother, who is better than Her Children, considered as A concurrent cause to their Being, is obliged by right Reason to be ruled by her Husband: it is irrational She should Challenge his Prerogative, to rule over them, unless as A Deputy under Him. 4 Government. Several Sections at the beginning if candour be their Advocate, may endure the test: they being rather A straggling commentary, than A refutation. Therefore we shall leap over the four first Mole hills, without leaving the foot steps of our disdain. 5 Para. The Grecians gave great Gifts, and divine Honours, to those that killed Tyrants, I answer, 'tis true, Liberty is the Darling of the Universe, and hath had such A confirmed Empire in the Hearts of every Man, that few are so pusillanimous, as not to dare to encounter manifest Disadvantages, and the most Astonishing Remora, in defence of this their great Diana. Nay, not those alone whose souls are enlightened by the celestial rays of Reason; But the very Beasts whose entity is one way or other to be serviceable to their great Lord Man; do show either a more secret, or violent reluctancy, against the ungrateful yoke of Servitude▪ The lion by His roaring, is his own Herald to proclaim war against his jailor. And the Innocent Linnet, which ravishes our jocund ears, with the sweet, and Harmonious Agitation of his little Throat: will notwithstanding ransack the upper, and lower rooms of his nauseated Cage, and seem by A melancholy posture, to insinuate discontent, because he is prohibited the enjoyment of chirping Revels, which His warbling Kindred dance on the contiguous Bushes. It was therefore venial in the ettimicks who had second Causes for their Hemisphere, and were not assisted by divine Benignity to take the Altitude of Providence; to reward them with the triumphal laurel, who nefariously had died their own Robes Purple, in A tyrant's Blood. But Xtians, who shall not need to consult deluding Delphos, with the blindfold Heathen; but may inquire at the sacred Oracles of God's most holy Word: shall not find their affected Ignorance a satisfactory apology, if they understand not that God permits as well A Jeroboam, for A Scourge to chastise refractory Israel: as sends a Josiah, for a consolation to God's peculiar People. The result of all is, that 'tis the greatest Liberty to obey lawful Authority, and to use no other Weapons against the supreme Power (suppose it tyrannical) but heaping coals of fire upon its Head, by the Evangelical Stratagem of forgiveness and Prayer. 8 This learned Gentleman, &c. Who is this learned Shentle man? Learned is the received compellation of Grotius: What is't he? Oh no, 'tis the Learned Mr. Heydon. But I think our Author, (who is well known to be an intimate Acquaintance of His) can't prove his words no, not although he had the stout and approved duelists, Barbara, Celarent, Darij, Ferio, to be His Seconds. 12 I have often wondered with myself what should move governors to Print Justifications of themselves; which I suppose never made An understanding man A Convert. One of Regal Dignity, desired not to trouble His Son with the Acquisition of any other Learning, but the neat Art of Dissimulation. And AEsop's Cat, knew no greater allurement to destructive Security, than the making A League with the Credulous Mice. Yet the sincere Lovers of Government, are content to receive excuses from their Common Fathers, Without A rigid examination of their Validity. 13 If this please you, pay your Thanks to the Urn of Sir Walter Raleigh, from whom (Pardon my audacity) I a little dissent in one particular, beginning Line the seventh. For 'tis frequently seen that Age consolidates that friendship which was begun young, and makes that to become sincere, which had first peradventure had no stronger Conglutination, than A Plausible compliance in youthful vanities. 15 I answer you mildly where you do not abuse Ladies, and Gentlewomen. And I for my part Mr. Heydon, delight not in arguing any thing blame-worthy which may deserve a favourable construction: and therefore (as you may oft observe) I shall requite a minim of Modesty, by my Pens leaping over this fifteenth Para: without a cross Dash of Correption. 16 Praise not yourself, except you will be counted a vain glorious fool; neitake delight in the Praises of other Men, except you deserve it. Your Daughters may retort upon you, as the young Crabb did upon his Mother, reprehending: Him for retrogradation I shall follow, if you set Me an example. 18 I hate a Coward. So do I, and yet I know that I should be voted worthy of Death, by the council of war belonging to the Lord of hosts; if I should engage my Enemy, before Divinity as general, and Prudence as my Captain give the Word. 20 I have perused this head, and find experience ready to attest the truth of your adversary's advice. And therefore I adjudge him an English Knave that squirts against him an opprobrius scoff; in denominating him Don Guzman, the Spanish Rogue. 23 This is very Poetical, if Fiction suffice, And A mynsterious Hirmos, guarded with an Army of hyperboles, commonstrate, that He is Cousin Germin (not above nine times removed) to a Rhetorician. As for the charge you exhibit against your subtle Proteus, in excilling the chameleon by the assumption of whiteness, you yourself may (if fame, and certainty, have drunk to one another the Poculum Charitatis) excel the chamaeleon in his unacquainted Red: For although Nappy Ale, seldom displies the pockets Or; yet it often blasons the Nose Gules. 30 Take heed how you manage A bad Cause for your Client. Take heed likewise how you manage A good Cause for your Client. Negligent remissness, is many times Mother of as mischievous Events, as down right Knavery. A good advocate sets all his wits upon the tenterhooks, that his client's Cause may not be overturned, by the boisterous winds of his opposing Brothers. A confident Pleader, is well nigh sure to crown A good Cause with conquest when A bad Cause, (if the judge's Head hath a shelf for St. Austin, as well as for Sir Edward Cook, I mean is both Learned and conscientious) shall make A bad Market: Although fringed with the most select rhetorical Raptures, and burnished with an undaunted impudence: Our times would prove Haltion days, if every Gentleman dignified with the long Robe, did but intently ruminate upon Christ's precept, and King James his motto; Beati Pacifici; neither can we totally attribute it to the lawyer's Breath, that the sparks of dissension are cherist into destructive Flames. The impetuous vulgar, seems resolved to blow up their own estates with the restless prosecution of Revenge: And that contention many times devours whole estates, besides the tedious exactation of many years patience, (as if poverty were so coy, that She requires such obsequious Servants, and necessity must needs be Treated at such vast expense) which by two Judicious and impartial arbitrators, might have been composed, and ended for the honest Corydon, in little more time, than He takes to bounce on his Leather Array, when the shrill Song of a pusillanimous Cock, hurries him away to Plough. I shall commend to Lawyers serious thoughts, as an Amulet against covetousness, their capital Crime, A Quaere of more concernment, than any to be found in Dyer; which himself puts Math. 16. verse, 26. What is A Man profited if He shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall A Man give in Exchange for His soul. To the Comminality, I shall prescribe Arbitration as the most Speedy, and sovereign emplaster, to heal their Wonndes: whither in Good-name, Body, or Estate. And never Trot to Westminster Hall, unless irreconcilable Oppression, and violent Necessity serve ye with A Sub Paena. 34 Princes words are as good as their Oaths; for they are both Trifles. I answer, A nobleman's protestation, is looked upon by the Eye of the Law, as aequipollent to the Oath of An inferior person. If the unanimous Reason of A numerous Assembly of Wise Men, thus aporoved the stars; what may We conjecture of the Sun? If Honour can equitably plead A general comprobation, much more may the lustre of Words, of Oaths, which can vouch majesty, be conceived abudantly able to expel the Mists of unbelief, prejudice, and such gross calumnies, as yours, That they are both Trifles. 36 A Rosacrutian sometimes, to my knowledges, loses himself in the World, &c. 'tis great pity you speak experimentally; alas, it was for want of that profound Science, published by Heydon, and mentioned, Pa. 114. to converse with their Genius, or angel, in A corporeal Shape; who knows but he might have rounded Him in the ear, and taught, how to extricate himself out of the fallacious Labyrinths, of human Machinations. RELIGION. Para: 3. I do not think the greatest Clerks are nearest Heaven, much of their Learning is superfluous. Since England was made A Goshen, by the distinguishing light of refined Religion, whilst some of her neighbour Nations were left groping, and stumbling in the langible darkness of Error, and Superstition; scholars have not (as I may say) monopolised Heaven: But the unlearned can understand God, speaking in their own language, by the mouth of His holy Word. Let Agrippa write de vanitate Scientiarum to prove that Every Science, hath its mixture of vanity: only Ignorance, the professed Enemy of the Muses, dares take up the gauntlet against this Truth, That Men polished with Literature, are more adapted to serve God, and their country, and to become Vessels of the Sanctuary, than the knotty Blocks of common Capacities which never were so happy as to meet with the Plainer of Education: But although this is confessed, yet let those brave Souls, whose Victories over the most crabbed and disheartening Sciences, have merited Statues upon the Ambitious Brow of Parnassus; take this as A Memento; that God is no respect or of Persons: And Pride, that tumbled angels out, shall exclude from Heaven Man, who is but Dust, and the Son of Man, who is but A Worm. A scholars greatest Embellishment is Humility ushered into the World, by an inaffectate affability. No pleasure can make deceit lawful, &c. When the Scribes, and Pharisees, by veiled and claudestine wickedness, had so far insenced the Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the World; as that He like A lion of the Tribe of Judah, denounces Vae Vobis Scribis, et Pharisaei. We be unto you Scribes, and Pharisees! the Ever blessed Jesus, oft times immediately subjoins Hipocritae, ye hypocrites: denoting that hypocrisy, was A principal matter in their indictment: it being of so heighnous A Nature, that it forces A curse from the bowels of infinite Mercy. Some of the ancient Heroes, have detested A Vistory, borrowed from their enemy's security, and the opportunity of A dark night▪ (When Sol taking repose after his diurnal career, and fair Phoebe Neglecting to light her Torch,) wooed them to surprise their enemy's Pavilions, And makes them Exchange an opacous sky, for the gloomy Tenements of solitary Ghosts. And what A shame is it for Christian soldiers, who fight under the Banner of the cross, to steal a Victory over their brethrens Lives, and Estates, betrayed by an innocent Credulity, not able to discover the frowns of An Enemy, touched under the Mask of A formal hypocrisy: yet this glow-worm, although it shines to the heedless passenger, taken up in the Hand of prudent Circumspection, loses its fraudent splendour; And He that was always▪ odious in the Eyes of God, becomes now dispicable in the sight of the World. A Man can't cheat another of A penny, but He loses. A talon of that celestial Gold, which will Crown uprightness, and piety, in the Heaven of Heavens. Permit hypocrisy to blind the World, thou art represented base in thine own Eyes, by the terrible knawings of Conscience: so that were there never A Cato to pass sentence on thy misdemeanours, self conviction would at last compel Thee, to approve the orator's council: {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}. Do nothing culpable, out of Hopes to conceal it: for although you may hide it from others, you will be conscious to yourself. Levellers and fifth Monarchy Men, &c. THE grand prop of the Levellers assertions, is that community practised by the Primitive Xtians: which Argument is not satisfactory to any, but Ignorant, and Ambitious Persons; who abhor the thought of cuffing poverty away, with A Fist hard Labour hath made Brawney: and are very sorry to Plough any man's ground, but their own. No wonder, if under the church's persecution they lived together who were to die together, They might well sacrifice their Estate to Charity, who every day expected to have their Lives offered up to malicious Fury: And this community was by Consent, not by Constraint; And so now, A Man may Lawfully share half another man's Estate, by the owner's permission. We need no other Stratagem to tumble down the Levellers Scaling-Lathers, than this; That the maugurating Sentence, Come ye Blessed, &c. As also that dreadful doom, Go ye Cursed, are expressly referred by the Omnipotent Lord chief Justice of Heaven to works of Charity. As feeding the Hungry, clothing the Naked, &c. From hence I conclude, it Evident, to every unbiased judgement, that it is God's Pleasure, (And therefore not to be Contradicted,) that there should be some poor to the end of the World. Or else, how should the goats on Christ's left Hand, go into everlasting Punishment, (Math. 25. vers. 46.) for the Omission of feeding the hungry, Clothing the Naked, Visiting the Sick, &c. Now if every ones Estate be equal, where will be the Object of Charity, of which there is such A singular Care taken by the Holy Jesus? As for the irrational, and peremptory Fifth-Monarchy Men, (the faeces of An impudent, and perverse Generation,) who by Stalking with the enthusiastical notion of A Fifth Monarchy, Catch some male content Artificers, and infine endeavour to Erect A seditious, and Diabolical Anarchy, Since they will not Learn Obedience to governors from the Word of God; I leave Them to the Sword of the Magistrate, for Confutation 18 That of the Civilians must Be remembered, Licere in Bello, quae ad finem sunt necessaria: Nothing is unlawful in war, that serves the end, and design thereof. By this the Civilians intend A Legal war, for if the war itself be illicit, it follows, that every Medium, subservient to the Accomplistment of its unlawful intention, and Design, doth circumstantially, aggravate the crime. If I have no other way to secure my Life, I may be any means, repel any Power, that assaults it, though Iust. You seem to descent from this opinion, and father it upon Culpeper; Let it be whose Child it will, Reason scorns to acknowledge it Legitimate: For I must not resist an unjust Power by unjust means; how much less repel, A Just Power by any means I can complot▪ 21 We can't be our own choosers in Religion, but must take it upon Trust from Others. There is no necessity you should venture your invaluable soul, in the Bottoms of your Progenitors opinions: You may choose your Religion; only as an obsequious Son (because nothing is more facile then to err,) let the plausible infallibility of your tender, and indulgent Mother the reformed Church, assist, and direct you in the choice. 26 fear nothing but God. He that is Holy will endeavour to do this; And he that is wise, will regard nothing throughout the Paragraph, but only this. 27 There are some things (as the King's Death) so written, that neither ginger, Geomancer, nor enchanter, is able to read; But only A Rosacrucian. I see second Thoughts are best you said pa. 162. you have seen matters fall out so unexpected, neither ginger, nor Rosacrucian, could give any successful judgement of them: And that A Rosacrucian, sometimes to your knowledge lost himself, in the Clouds of the world's occasions. I admire How the World should delude them to whom alone, the mysterious Writings of Providence are Legible. 32 The Clergy is as full of Changes as the Moon; for I can't see one of them settled in A Church, but before I have heard four Sermons, His face I perceive is full of strange Gestures, and His tongue of Novelty. Oh Sir, I know you draw near your end you talk so Idle. Now you are lunatic, the Clergy is as changeable as the Moon. I suppose you are beholden to the Clergy, & Shelton, or some of his Brother Brachygraphers, for the best part of your book. A Good Divine, indeed, may be compared to the Moon; which (with due reverence) I do thus. The Moon communicates no light of her own. So the Piow, Clergy, will not obtrude their own conceptions: but speaks to the People, as the Spirit gives them utterance. The Moon increaseth, and decreaseth. So doth the Orthodox Clergy; first increase in Learning, then decrease in their own conceit, and bodily strength; spending the oil should feed the Lamp of Life, That they might guide their Flocks, in the ways of Truth: But how are Ministers Tongues full of novelty? can any thing be News to A Rosacrucian? Mira canis, This is News indeed to Me. CONCLUSION. Para. 3. Remember how much Mr. Culpeper and his Wise have done▪ for you, & thank God for your happiness, I shall not strive to break Mr. Culpeper's Urn: Yet you can't say of him, in relation to us, What we can (posito Sexus discrimine) say of his Wife, in relation to you; That she hath done for you, even more than one would desire A Woman to do; And therefore lest you should forget Her, (who so frequently forget yourself,) & so rest unthankful for your happiness, rob the Art of Memory, of such images, as are apt for that purpose. For example, suppose you were to remember A certain Animal, called A Cuckold; you may seal your Memory, with the sign of the bull's head or else meditate upon the Brow-Anclets of Actaeon. 7 Let it be A piece of our daily orisons that God would guard our pulpits, from such Bontefeu's; as like AEtna, and Vesuvius, blench cut nothing, but flames and fiery discourses, of the Day of Judgement. I answer, if your Prayers be such, my Amen, shall not conclude them. Spiritual Physicians, sorrowfully understand, that where one Patient needs A Cordial, Thousands want Corrasives. Our Corruptions, require several Cupping Glasses. Let thy Ministers, O Lord! cry aloud, and Awake our drowsy Souls; let us swallow, and digest their reproofs, although never so bitter. And let us always, with A filial, fear so dread thy judgements, that thou mayst not enter into judgement, with thy Servants: But drown, oh drown, and overwhelm our Sins, in the fathomless Ocean of thy Mercies, and Crown our souls with bliss, and Immortality. Amen. Against the second Edition, I will make an Addition. When will that be in Plato's great year? you may save your Labour, the old rusty Sword will never be furbished; We will grant you an Act of Oblivion, if in the Next Book you choke the Press with; (for all your works are very dry) you prostrate yourself in an ingenious Recantation, at the feet of Grave, and Learned Mrs. Osborn. With indefatigable sedulity, Study that great Lesson, of knowing A man's self. Learn Humility. Court modesty. Exercise Candor, on all Occasions. And be not so stupid as to imagine, the Shadow of your frothy, and contumelious expressions, able in the least to obtenebrate The Honour, and Luculent Reputation of A star, of the first Magnitude, in the Sphere of Parnassus. Now you are taught some Wit; there's Nothing I, Wish your next lesson but morality. FINIS.