Flagitiosus Mercurius Flagellatus: OR THE Whipper whipped: Being an Answer to a SCURRILOUS INVECTIVE Written by George Parker in his almanac for MDCXCVII. In such Language and base Expressions that none but a Bended mechanic would be seen to own; and this without any Provocation given by me. THE pretended ground of this Quarrel is to inform us, That he is able to show in all cases the beginning of a Direction's Operation to a few days; and this in opposition to what I say of the Lady's Direction in 1696. But by the management of the whole, there is something else at the Bottom, and therefore take it right. The truth of all is, to be plain both with you and him; He is Poor and Infamous, Despicable in his Person, ill-natured and saucy in his Conversation. Unjust in his Dealings, Immoral in his Behaviour, Weak in his Understanding, Ignorant in his Professions; and wanting Parts, Prudence, Virtue and Honesty, finds he hath no other way to recommend himself to the World to be taken notice of, but by quarreling with some body or other, no matter whether they give him any occasion or not. And knowing this to be the Truth of the Case, I will certainly give him a cast of my Office, and do the most and best I can to make my hard-fac'd Adversary famous. This is not St. George, of whom the Boys sing, Nor General George, that brought in the King; But George the Petit, that hangs out his Banners, Declares against Honesty, Wit and Good Manners. Answer a Fool according to his Folly, lest he be wise in his own Conceit. The very first thing my Adversary tells his Reader, is a notorious Untruth; for, he says, I demand a Direction for her Death: Which is false, for I have name one; and desire them, and him too now, To give us a true measure of Time, that may agree in that, as well as in all other cases. And how much he hath done it, will appear hereafter; but for trifling and evading you must not be angry with him, he hath Mercury in Opposition to Jupiter, and Saturn on his Ascendent, which gives him a hard brawny Face. In the next place he would have the World believe, That he was the man aimed at( as he expresseth it) in that Example; as supposing none more able nor eminent than himself to be pointed at in that case: When, to say the truth, he is the most Ignorant and Illiterate man of all that do pretend to Astrology in Print. And all he prints you will find is either begged or stolen, if you will but trace him( of which more hereafter.) I do not indeed know any body that takes notice of him, unless it be to laugh at his ill manners, and pity his Poverty. In a word, I conclude this Conceit to be like the Fly on the Coach-wheel, that cried out, Oh: what a Dust I make! And you may be certain he sits easy that rides on a Hobbyhorse of his own making. He seems very angry, That I call him and the rest, Pretenders to the Art, as supposing himself pointed at, no doubt: here you may see not only his Folly, but his Pride and Ignorance too; for he doth arrogantly imagine himself to be arrived to the degree of a Master, when indeed he hath no more Skill nor Experience than the man that began but yesterday, as you may see by his almanac of 1696. where this great Master of Nativities was not able to furnish us with a more noble Experiment to iilustrate the Truth and Power of his Stars, than that poor, sorry, lousy Question of one Morgan Bourn that was hanged; and yet the Question was not propounded to him neither, but to one in Houndsditch, the better able of the two to give judgement: So that it was but a borrowed business at the best, and no thanks to his Skill. Let him show us something of his own, without begging and borrowing as he hath done hitherto; his almanac is made fine, like a Common Whore, by the help of twenty Brokers Shops; if every one should come and pluck out his own Feather, there would not be matter of his own left to fill a Horn-Book. And after all, I must tell this weak-headed man. That I do not think myself got above the Character of a Pretender, after more Reading and Experience than ever he will be master of, or attain to; for his Mercury is not for Study, but something else, which you shall hear by and by. And with this proud conceit he tells his Reader, That he will undeceive those that are perverted by Ptolemy's Doctrine. But pray Sir, Who are your Brethren Astrologers, you mention, that you are Advocate for? I suppose they will at last appear to be in the singular number only; that is, one knavish Pickpocket Sigil-maker; you do well to put it in the plural, like Sir T. M. when he subscribed a Warrant, We the Knights and Gentlemen, and no body▪ there but himself. I doubt your Brethren have made use of you as the Monkey did of the Cat's Foot. And now, my Mountebank Conjurer comes to his great point of Skill, and that is, To prove the Lady's Death, and the time of it, by Kepler's way of Direction: And this he pretends to do to a very few days, and then vainly boasteth of its exactness, which men of Skill durst never pretend to in any Direction, unless by chance; for I never desire a Direction to hit nearer than 4 or 6 months; and for the time of its inception, I take it from other Causes. And so I come to examine this Idle Mystery, to prevent the young Students being trepanned by the Bounces of this Fellow concerning the Truth of a method that he hath had no experience of; but gives it them on his Word, as Tom Street gave it him, and neither of their Words worth two pence. John Kepler was a witty man, and an Enemy to Astrology, and in a little Treatise he called the New Year's Gift to Astrologers, he propounds this way to direct by, which this weak man useth, to puzzle and confounded them, not believing any man would be so foolish as to rely on it, and use it for Truth; nor did he himself: Nor did I ever hear that Kepler did pretend to any more Skill in Astrology than what is commonly known to every common Student; so let us consider it. The Ground of this method of Direction, as well as its Measure, is lodged in the Sun's motion, and so counting from the Day of the Birth, to the degree( the Sun meets in his way) of any Aspect, it shall give so many Years, &c. as the Sun is days going to that degree by his diurnal Motion. Had Kepler slopt here, it would have been a good measure, with a little Improvement for all Directions; but in going further he hath done like a Monkey, the more he shows his Tricks, the more he shows his Tail. For he comes now to that improbable and most unreasonable Proposition, To make the Sun's Diurnal Motion in the zodiac, the Motion of Direction for the Midheaven, Ascendent, Moon, and Part of Fortune, and this without regard to the Part of Heaven, or Signs of long and short Ascention; and that I may make it plain to the Astrological Reader, I will give you an Example or two, as followeth. To that end let us suppose a Figure, where 15 degrees of Pisces ascends, in the Latitude of London; let the Sun be in 2 degrees of Aquary, the Moon in 2 degrees of Aries, with 5 degrees North Latitude, and Saturn in 28 degrees of scorpion. Now by Kepler's way, the Sun comes to the Square of Saturn in 25 years and a few months; the Moon, by the same Rule, to the Opposition of Saturn in 55 years and a few months; and the Ascendent to the Body of the Moon at 16 years and 8 months. The reason for this, in their Foolish Idle Way is, Because the Sun then move● 61 minutes in a day, and by consequence gives a year; therefore the Moon and Ascendent must move no faster through the Signs than the Sun doth▪ and for every 61 minutes of such motion they allow a year likewise. The same method they use also in the Midheaven and Part of Fortune. Now by the true, visible and natural Motion, the Moon by her Latitude is on the Ascendent, just rising, which they tell you is at least 16 degrees distant. The Moon comes to the Opposition of Saturn about 30 years after: And the Sun to the Square of Saturn 17 years; and this by that motion demonstrable on the Globe, and plainly to be proved by the Tables of obliqne Ascention; and by that Motion and no other all Directions are formed. Whence it is visible that there is no such motion in nature as this Fellow pretends to in the Ascendent, Moon, Midheaven, and Part of Fortune. Whence it is also plain, he is trying to delude and seduce Mankind into the Belief of an impossible Motion in Direction by his Confidence, &c. without having any experience, only hear-say, or taking time( if he is able) to examine it. The Fellow would be an Imposture, had he but good Stars; but he may set his heart at rest, the●e are but few will either believe or admire him, except it be some of his own Tribe, and as well grown in Reputation, Squires of Alsatin. Which leads me now to inquire into the Merits of the Cause, and what ground there is in Nature for this pretended motion. The Sun( it is true) hath such a motion as they pretend to, and may be allowed; all they say in one sense, i.e. in secondary Directions, which I allow, and in no other. But alas, the motion of the Sun can only answer for itself, and show its own Accidents and Qualifications in his way of Direction; but by no means prescribe a way for the Moon. The Moon moves in a different Orb, her Diurnal motion is proper to her self and none else; she hath Latitude and other Accidents, not liable to the Sun; her diurnal motion is from 12 to 15 degrees in a day; her rapt motion is the same with the rest, round the Globe in 24 hours. But here is no such) motion as he pretends to, of 61 minutes in a day, to bring up that Direction of the Moon to the Opposition of Saturn at 55 years, as in the Example before. And I challenge any man that pretends to this Foolery, to show where and how this motion is made, by what way and means, and how to be demonstrated and made intelligible, That the Moon is in the example proposed 55 years in coming to the Opposition of Saturn, modo Kepleriano. The Part of Fortune hath the same to pretend to as the Moon hath, with some little difference, but the motion and every thing the same, and as perfectly different from the Sun as the Moon is; and it is in vain to repeat the same, which I must do if I enlarge; therefore either red or imagine what was before said of the Moon, and it requires the same solution in the Part of Fortune also. The Ascendent hath no motion but what depends on the Primum Mobile, and that is either swifter or slower, according to the Signs of long or short Ascention; but for a progressive motion it hath none of its own in any sense whatsoever; but by that motion it is said to have, there are 360 degrees pass it every 24 hours. Here you see the Sun and Moon have diurnal motions, but the Ascendent hath none, and cannot be liable to any such motion that our second-hand Philosopher pretends to; nor can I think how they can out of this rapt motion of the Ascendent form such a motion as to make the Ascendent be 73 years coming up to the Opposition of Saturn, when in truth, and according to the true motion, and all the motion of the Ascendent, there is not 35 degrees of distance between them. Whence it is plain, the whole Scheme of this foppish way of Direction is really imaginary, and without any foundation in Nature; which is a sufficient argument for any, and every ingenious man to disclaim, detest and disown it; and whosoever builds upon a Principle that hath no Foundation in Nature, must certainly be judged a Fool or a Mad man. And for a support to my staggering Brethren, and as a further Information to them about Directions, I will lay down this as an Axiom, That Directions are nothing else but a Star or Point of Heaven, meeting with the Body or Beams of another Star in that way and motion that God and Nature hath appointed them. Now, if this Fellow can find out such a motion that he pretends to in the four Hilegiack Points, then I will give him the Cause; if not, I must look on him as I do now, to be a Confident Ignorant man, and one that contends for Contention-sake. But before I part with this subject, pray observe: This Fellow's Sow hath three Ears, and he always takes her by that which he thinks makes the best Noise and Rattle. Anno 1692. in his almanac, he tells the world, Nothing was so material and certain as Heliocentrick Directions. Then it was, We esteem the Earth a Principle Heligiack: Then it was, we gave that Impudent Challenge to the whole Nation: Then it was we were morally sure: Then it was we invited all the young Students to come to us to learn that excellent apish way of Direction: Then it was we were willing to show ourself their Servant: And at that time Kepler's way was not worth a louse in our sublime Author's Opinion, compared to the Heliocentricks. In 1695. he had a very good Opinion of Naibod, and was in some debate who ought to have the pre-eminence, he or Kepler. But now in 1697. the Doubt is discussed, and there is no man nor method to compare with Kepler▪ and his mighty Mystery in the method of Directions. Again, I deny this motion in the Sun itself, and that there is no such motion in the Sun neither, as he pretends to in Primary Directions. In the preceding Example, let the Sun be in 15 degrees of Pisces on the Cusp of the Ascendent, and I would know when he comes to the Opposition of Saturn, in 28 degrees of Taurus; and that is, by Kepler's foolish way, at 73 years of age; and at the same time there is but 34 degrees and 31 minutes between them by the obliqne Ascention; now it is plain that the Sun by that motion passeth the Opposition of Saturn in such a number of degrees; which if they please to say it must give 73 years, I desire to know by what Rule and Method it is to be allowed; and I will venture a Wager with this Great Philosopher, That this Direction, whose Ark is 34 degrees 31 minutes, shall have an effect, but his of 73▪ shall have none, unless there should be some Direction of the other Significators happen to work with it at that time, and so one colour the other. Upon the whole of the matter, you see our man of Art is fixed no where, but rambles from one Principle to another, from the Heliocentricks to Naibod, from thence to Kepler. And I will venture to predict one thing, and that is, He will not continue in this Opinion of Kepler's way neither long, but be ashamed after a while to think he hath maintained such a Nonsensical foolery; and yet I beg your Pardon, I cannot tell whether he can be ashamed or not: But I will say this for Kepler's Maggot, That it is the only method fit for an Ignorant man; for whosoever hath Skill and Sense enough to examine it, will never believe a word of it. Mr. Edlin was an admirer of this Foolery, and when he was sick, a Friend of mine, well acquainted with Astrology, went to visit him; who finding him dangerous, asked him, What Direction he was under? I am( said he) under none at all, but about three years hence there is a killing Direction, and then I shall die, and not before. What method( said my Friend) do you use in Directions? Kepler's, said he. But that three years never came to him, for in 14 days he was in his Grave, to the great Credit of John Kepler's mystical foolery. I have been the larger in this part of my Answer, not for my Adversary's advantage, but to inform the Astrological Reader; and so I come to the Queries. My first Query is, Why should her Life be so short, and the Sun Hileg, in his Exaltation in the Tenth? He says he agrees with me, and esteems it rational. Do you think he knows what he means by that Answer? I ask the Question, and he agrees with me to ask the Question too; a good mask for Ignorance. To my second Query he talks really like himself. That the Sun and Mars are made mildred and sweet-natur'd by the Trine of the Moon Lady of the Twelfth, which at another time shall do mischief. For shane keep to your Principles, if you have any, and give your Art certainty, if your Rules have any. My third Query he mumbles as an Ass doth Thiftles; and after all he hath said, he doth not believe one word: Nor doth he or any of that Tribe dare venture to predict a Fever on the Sun to the Square of Saturn, let the circumstances be as in that Figure; and this I challenge him to, if he dares: Nay! and he shall choose a Nativity too himself, so the Native be living, and he will be pleased to print it. But I can tell you beforehand, he dares not trust his own judgement in the case, and therefore pray do not expect it; and in plain terms he is totally ignorant of what gives the Disease in all Cases of Death. To my fourth Query he says, He knows no modern Author that lays any stress on the Alchocoden. Let him name me any modern Author, if he can, that hath handled the Doctrine of Genitures, that doth not use it as one of the most principal things to depend on for Death, as Gadbury and Coley in English, and for Latin I know he hath no business with it; and let him name me any man, if he can, that refused to believe it before me. Thus you see how he tricks and trifles with his Readers, and stops a lie in their Mouths; but you must red him with a reserve; and when you come to know him, you will find him to be a creature that is nothing else but Face and Feather. He is an Artist, a Physician, and Philosopher by the same Rule that a Ballud-singer is a Stationer, a Mouse-trap-maker an Engineer, and a Scotch-pedler a Merchant. Upon the whole of the matter, What doth this Fellow contend for? he grants( to my great Credit) the Direction to be the Square of Saturn; he allows two of my Queries, and the other two he denies; but at the same time confounds his own Doctrine: For in the one, to serve a turn he makes the Opposition of Venus a malesick Aspect, because Lady of the Fourth, but the Moon's Trine benesick, though Lady of the Twelfth. What doth he contend for then? Why, he works the Direction to 14 days, or less: Pray let him print some Nativities, and then I will talk with him upon that subject and piece of Art; I am sure he will make Blots enough for me to hit. I hear he talks at large among illiterate people, of Art, the Truth of Art, and that he is for the Improvement of Art, and Art is his common Cant among those that know nothing but the Name only, and indeed he and they are only fit company; for, to say the truth of the man, he doth not understand one word of Astrology more than the common Trade-Stuff, which I am sure he dares not venture to print, for all he makes such Noise and bounce of his Skill; because he is very certain I will take him by the Beard for it. And you Gentlemen that keep him company, when you hear him talk that word again, observe what a splay-mouth he makes when he pronounceth the word Art; for the Organs of his Voice are no more fit to express it, than the Instruments of his Understanding to comprehend it; and besides, the very use he makes of the Word would give any ingenious man just Suspicion he knows nothing of the matter, because of his extravagant use of it; for he that hath true Skill, and is an Artist, his merit will proclaim his Abilities without telling them himself on an Ale-bench, as he doth; in a word, he talks of it as a Whore of Chastity, a Pick-pocket of Honesty, and an Hypocrite of Religion; that is, he hath the notion, but not the thing. Among the rest of his Rhethorical Excursions and Flights of Fancy, he hath given us a specimen of George Parker's parts, and the true meaning of Saturn on the Ascend●nt, in Square to the Moon, and Mercury in Opposition to Jupiter, as well as of his Breeding and Manners, when he comes to fall so rudely and like a Beast on Ptolemy; a man that all Europe have been, and are still beholding to for his Learning and Labour. He was the first man that transmitted Astronomy and Geography to the European World, which are both red at this day in all places of Learning with respect. He was a man in his time of Universal Learning, which he improved by his Labour and Study for the advantage of future Ages. He was the first man that laid down the true philosophic Principles of Astrology, as Hippocrates did of physic, and this in his Quadripartite, and both Book and Man have had that repute among men of Learning and Eminence, that three of the greatest men( for Learning) in Eu●ope, i.e. Cardan, Junctine and Naibod thought it an honour to give the world each of them a Comment on his Book, the better to understand the Text( indeed Naibod's Comment was never printed, but is in Manuscript only); and Cardan says( and that most truly) If that Book( the Quadripartite) had not been left and preserved, we had long since lost the true and genuine Art, and Astrology long since would have had nothing to boast of but a heap of superstitious Trifles and Fooleries, even such as this ignorant man is now endeavouring to promote by Confidence and—. In a word, Ptolemy was a man of Learning, and no one need be ashamed to be his Disciple, and own his Doctrine as well as understand it; he lived a Gentleman, and dyed a Philosopher; and though the Earth is his Repositum, yet his Name lives without a monument, and is too big to be circumscribed; his Books are his Issue▪ in which he is interred, and in this Age Time itself writes almost 1600. years on his Tomb; see the Preface to his Almagest. Now after all this, comes a little Illiterate, Ignorant, Unmannerly, Ill-bred, Bended mechanic, and calls the Old Gentleman Impudent Villain; and upon his Ale-bench, among his Pot-companions, he oftentimes calls him Old Crooked Red-headed Rogue into the bargain. I doubt his Stomach is very foul, give Pug a Spider. I need not say much in answer to these Alsatian Flourishes, because the Language to all men of Learning and Breeding gives an answer to itself, and they will soon guess at the Man by his Manners. Had Ptolemy been a cobbler, a tailor, or a Broken Jacobite Cutler, this Language and Usage would have been very uncivil, and not becoming a man that pretends to be a Penman; and besides, had Ptolemy been living, it would have been looked on as a sort of malicious Billingsgate-Education; but considering he hath been dead above 1500 years, for a Fellow to venture on such rude Expressions without( you may be certain) any cause given, is such a brutish piece of Barbarity, that none but George Parker would dare to own or pretend to publish, and you may be sure he that will give such Language to the Dead, will not spare it to the living, if he doth not fear his head. Ptolemy is the Patron, nay, the Father of all Legitimate Astrologers; and this is the first Son that ever I heard durst take his Father by the Beard, and call him Villain and Rogue. Now let us turn the Tables, and suppose a man that hath Children should break and run into Salisbury Court to cheat his Creditors; and his Son should say to him, Ah you Jacobite Rogue, you spent the money that should have maintained us, in Whoring with my Mother's Maid. Would you not think this is very uncivil, as well as undutiful Language for this saucy Boy to give his Father? Notwithstanding the thing is true enough in itself; but the steadiness of the Boy is the thing. Did you ever know a Physician enlarge his practise and Acquaintance by calling Hippocrates Old bald-headed Rogue and Villain? Or did you ever know a Child the more valued and beloved for calling his Mother Whore, and his Father cuckolded? Or did you ever know any man the better respected among men of Virtue and good Morals, for using base and scurrilous Language in his Conversation, how witty soever he thought it in himself? In a word, I know the man so well, that should there be an Opportunity for it, he would say as much of Moses, Christ and his own Father, especially if Tom Street had but told him so. Upon the whole, Query, Whether this is the Merit for which he brags of a Place conferred upon him, and what Credit he will prove to the Donors? But why must Ptolemy be called a Villain? Why, because his Tables are not fit for this Age, and he doth not come again to mend them; and because Tom Street pretends there is an Observation wanting, which was left out by the Transcribers of old, no doubt, if there is one wanting; but Tom would lie, and because he doth not come or sand some body to teach him as well the Language as the Principles of his Quadripartite; and because the famous Bog-trotting Tom told him he was a Villain. Nay, if he hath the art of abusing men dead 1500 years by hear-say, I am sure he cannot be angry with me for what I say of himself, because the Matter is all true, and he living; let him disprove it if he can or dare. But why must it be the Famous Street, and the Villain Ptolemy? Oh, Tom was famous many ways; he was famous for being a Tapfler at Dublin, famous for being a Red-Coat-Soldier under cromwell; he was famous for being Poor, Ill natured, Morose, Peevish, Conceited, Knavish, and a good Astronomer: And all these Faculties he left to his Pupil George, except his Skill. He was famous for marrying when he was above Fifty; when he could not get Bread for himself, then he took a Wife to beget beggars. He was famous for wheedling a number of Gentlemen, by persuading them to subscribe for a Book he pretended to print, got about 150 or 200 pound of them, and then cheated them of their money. Hence it is no wonder to hear Parker commend Irish Tom, similis simili gaudet. But because Ptolemy was a man of Learning, Bravery, Honour and Honesty, it is no wonder to hear Honest George call him Villain and Rogue, &c. He was a man of too general and generous an Education for these two Fellows to understand or be acquainted with. And at last, after all his Noise and Cry for his ill-natured Master and his Skill, there are them in London that tell us, T. S. was but the Improver, and the Hypothesis of his Tables was not his own, but he had it out of Germany, and a Woman was the Author of it; so that he did but lick it into form, which was no such great matter. And as a conclusion to this part of the matter, here seems room for a very fit Query; and that is, Why these great Numerators should be so often subject to be Kn— s? One he run away at Midnight, and cheated both Landlord and Creditors; another he makes Sigills and Charms, and makes the people believe his Devilship can do Wonders; a third tricks a number of Honest Gentlemen, under the Notion of Subscribing to a Book: And pray which is the honestest man of the Three? The Fellow says, That whatever Ptolemy wrote, hath no sway with him, but when i● keeps place with Reason. And pray, Where must this Standard of Reason be found? No where I'll warrant you but in Honest George's own Head. Pray Gentlemen, Do you think he that hath his Mercury in Opposition to Jupiter, his Sun in Conjunction with Saturn on the Ascendent, and the Moon in Square to them both, hath not a fit Head to make a Standard of Reason for a whole Nation or City? He doth not believe Ptolemy but when he keeps place with his Reason; nor should I believe him if he did; nor can I believe his Reason when it doth not keep company with Honesty and Morality. Lastly, To carry on the Rattle, and make the world believe that he talks to the purpose, he confidently perks up, and demands a proof of my Table of Houses, what the Pole of each House is? what Influence the Parallels have? whether the Power of a Square, Trine or Opposition? with more such like tattle. As to the Table of Houses, I have in my Defectio largely spoken to that, and a Division of the Heavens in the general; but the thing was done in Latin by Didacus Prittus, and printed at Milan, 1647. afterward by Placidus at Padua in 1657. The Poles of the Houses were printed at Paris in 1646. at Millan in 1647. at Padua in 1657. and at London in 1688. The Influence of the New Aspects and Parallels were printed at Millan by Didacus Prittus in his Coelestis Philosoph. Lib 2 Cap. 2. Lib. 2. Cap. 9. And now is not this an impudent thing, for a fellow that sets up for a Master, and pretends to teach the Art, and Secrets not known to others, to be ignorant of things that have been so long in print, and published in several Nations? Thus you see how necessary it is for Confidence to go along with Ignorance; I suppose the Fellow would have me sand for the Books from beyond Sea, and translate them for him. As for his Ignorance in these things, you must not blame him, for his Business is not Skill, but Contention; not Reading, but Railing; not Learning, but Lewdness; and for his being my Pupil, I must beg his Excuse, for I never entertain any one that I know beforehand is both Fool and Knave. Thus I have given him a civil Retuan to all his ridiculous Stuff, more fit to have been hissed at, than answered; and now come to demand of him these things following. First, Before he runs away with a Conquest, let him prove such a Motion as he pretends to in the Ascendent, Moon, Part of Fortune, &c. in his way of Direction; for I do assure you there is no such Motion in Nature. Secondly, Let him tell the World what he hath further to say in justification of his Challenge in 1692. I hope he will not be so impudent to challenge a whole Nation, and when one single man appears drop his Cause, and run for it; if he doth, he is— you may guess what. Thirdly, In the Example preceding, let him tell us under what Poles the Sun and Moon meet those Directions, in his way of Kepler. Fourthly, Since you are so exact in Calculation, pray prove your Skill by printing your Daughter's Nativity again; and tell the World when she will be sick again, when she will mary, and when she will die: And I will print it too; if you dare do it. Likewise tell the World, Why your Son did not die on the Sun to the Square of Mars in Libra? Nay, Why he was not sick on that Direction? And also why your Daughter Elizabeth did die at almost two years old, notwithstanding she had Jupiter with the Sun in the Ascendent. Let these things be done, and then I will be ready for you again; answer something, as well as ask; and till that are done, expect no more from me. But I wonder you should call for the Poles of the Houses, when you use no Poles of Position in any Directions. The Second Part of the Whipper whipped. WHen Parker's almanac was printing for 1697. he hugged himself with what he had done; and told a Gentleman, He had clawed me off; to another he said, He had swindg'd me; to another he had drowned Gadbury and Partridge, though Gadbury nor myself did ever give him any occasion in the least to do it: But I observe the Fellow was pleased with his own Whim. He tells divers people, That I give a Guiney a year to have my Verses made for my almanac; if that were true, it is more like a Gentleman, to relieve a Poor Poet, than to go a begging with almanacs at Christmas, as Hospital-boys with their Psalms, among the Bellmen, Drummers, &c. as he doth. The Bellman with his Verses, the Dustman with his Bell, the Drummer with his Rattle, and the Alsatian Conjurer with his Stars. Thirty Shillings, he says, Dr. B. in Little-Britain gave him, and Ten Shillings Mr. L. of the Treasury, with smaller Sums of others; only these I mention, to prove what I say, for I know he hath the art of Denying, &c. The Friendly Courant; to the Tune of Flagellum Astrologicum. Sir, by your Leave, excuse my Rural Strain, I'll do thee right, thou Son of Tubal-Cain, I'll paint thee to the Life, exact and true; Thy fresh, but deep-dy'd Crimes. I'll draw them too; I'll show thy Birth, thy Parts in each degree, And how thy Stars are verified in thee▪ I'll show what Stars incline thee to this Strife, What clogs thy Soul, what gives thy vicious Life; What made thee turn a Quaker, what despise The Church, and Knavishly apostatise. What makes thee live in Jail, what gives this Itch, Basely to leave thy Wife, and keep a B— What makes thee trait'rous, what thy Friends deride, All Fools and Knaves, if by your Reason tried, False from thy Birth, this thy lewd Bosom bore; Thy Moon in scorpion( George) gives that and more. To Truth and Justice a known Enemy, Judas himself was just compared to thee; Proud without Parts, Lewd and Ambitious still, Bold and Audacious, without Art or Skill. Thy station ought near London-bridge to be, What difference( George) 'twixt billingsgate and thee? Ill words and saucy Language arm thy Tongue, The only Learning that was taught thee young. Morose and brutish, such beasts want a Clog, Groul, snarl, and snap like an ill-natured Dog. Your manhood made your humble Wife obey, And whipped her too the Heliocentrick way, Then forced her from your Bed; what shane is this? And ever since, you know, you've done a Miss; Done, did I say? poor Woman, hard's her Fate, That Wench, I mean, that helps you calculate, She lent betimes, but thou'lt pay wondrous late. A thinking man may in thy Forehead red, Nay, in thy Picture too, what makes thee bad; Thus did his Stars by public marks foreshow, And tell what Crimes in future years he'd do. Nature, when she's uneasy, lays about, And so his Dam in frightful shapes did shout When hardbound Nature squeezed this Monster out. Pity poor George, tainted with scribbling Itch! So poor in Parts, yet thinks he's over-rich: Though naked, thinks he doth possess a Crown; And though scarce primer Ripe, to teach the Town. He writes, 'tis true, and thinks, but thinks amiss, That Cicero's Eloquence is short of his; He hath( 'tis true) in Language him surpassed; Perhaps some man may lash him him for't at last, But I will use him gently like a Friend, Correct, but not strike hard, perhaps he'll mend, Poor ign'rant Soul, and so he'll be to toth' end. astrological chart Honest George Parker; Natus die 9. Augusti, hoar. 5 min. 17. manè. 1654. ☽ per Lat. ♂ exactè. Estimate past 5 manè. Sub Lat. 52. Lat. Planet. ♄ 1 25 N. ♃ 1 34 S. ♂ 1 9 N. ♀ 1 31 S. ☿ 1 48 S. ☽ 5 4. S. R. A. ⊕ 228 30 Dis. ⊕ ab J. C. 158 This is the day he says he was born on, but I am of opinion it was the 10. day at this time, and he not willing to own it; but I am sure that he gives of ♍ ascend. is false As Cardan says of Nero, so may I justly of this man, Nec nix nivi similior, quâm hac Genitura gestis, Moribus ac Fortunae Nati. I have but Two Accidents, and they are, The Ascendent to 〈◇〉 Sextile of Venus for his Marriage at 23 or 24 years old. The other is the Sun to the Opposition of Jupiter; at which time he walked from the Boar Cat in Newgatestreet at Midnight, being then 39 years and 3 months. And so I come to show how his Manners and Fortune agrees with his Stars; and also to show the young Student how to judge of an honest Nativity. De Ingenio Nati. In this we must consider the Sign Ascending, the Moon, and Mercury, and their Configurations. The Ascendent is lo, infested with the envious and malicious Presence of Saturn, who afflicts the Ascendent, the Lord of it, and the Moon; Mercury▪ you see, is in Opposition to Jupiter, so that, all the Significators of his Wit and Ingenuity are vitiated, depraved, and afflicted; and so must his Fancy and Parts be likewise, even an Enemy to Honesty. Saturn in the Ascendent with the Sun, gives him Pride and Uneasiness, and at the same time supplies him with a large share of Envy against every one that doth exceed him in Parts or practise, Interest or Reputation, Wit or Honesty. Saturn on the Ascendent, in Conjunction with the Sun and Square of the Moon, inclines a man to a sordid, brut●sh Temper, cruel, envious and seditious; this you may red in his common Language preceding, &c. All that Saturn addeth to his Ingenuity, is to make him thoughtful and studious, but at the same time it poisoneth his Thoughts, and the Product of it, and gives it a knavish Consequence; but we must seek that more perfectly in Mercury, the Picture of the Understanding. Mercury in Virgo doth undoubtedly furnish a man with Ingenuity, and a projecting Brain, and makes a man ingenious in any thing his mind is inclined to: But then consider, Jupiter is the Author of Honesty( says Cardan, Seg. 4. Aph. 34.) Piety, Modesty, &c. and he in Opposition to Mercury; so that you see the Understanding and Ingenuity are directly Opposite to his Honesty, Piety, &c. His Fancy hath no tendency to Good, nor is he inclined to it, because the Moon, who governs the Faculties of the Brain, is poisoned by Saturn and Mars, without any Relief, unless to quicken the Poison; and this in scorpion,( which Cardan says, Seg. 2. Aph. 55. Seg. 5. Aph. 166.) makes liars, Traitors and Knaves. And it is natural for one that hath Saturn in the Ascendent, in Square to the Moon, to be always contriving and designing▪ some Project to a knavish End and Design, which will generally fall on himself at last. Well then, you see I allow him to be ingenious, but what must it be? Why truly, such Ingenuity as Pick-pockets, Gamesters and Thieves have: For you must allow them too to be very witty and ingenious men. So Coley's Son, who had his Mercury in scorpion, in Square to Jupiter, and in Squre to the Moon, was very ingenious, and ready at what his Fancy inclined him to, which was Th— king; for which, they say, he was lost among the Trees. Morgan Bourn had his Moon in Square to Saturn, and Mercury in Opposition to the Moon and Square of Saturn; he was a very ingenious fellow, but hanged for Clipping and Coining. J. M. had his Mercury in Square to Mars, he was a genteel Fellow, and very ingenious, hanged for Robbing. H. O. hath his Moon in Conjunction with Mars, and both in Square to Mercury, he is idle, lewd and a notorious liar, yet living. And the Position of hon●st George▪ considered together with these, will give such ingenuity as these men had, and full as honest too. His Mercury in Opposition to Jupiter from Virgo and Pisces, will give him a Fancy like a cracked Looking-glass, all Project without Success; and for Piety, turn him loose! Nay, his Moon in Trine to Jupiter, is an Injury to him, because it strengtheners his Enemies in oppressing Mercury Lord of his Second. Pray look in his shrievel'd Face, and look on this Figure with Saturn on the Ascendent, and tell me your Thoughts, Whether it is like him or not? De Peritia in Arte sua. As to his principal Skill he hath hitherto furnished the world with, it is only of an Astronomical Nature, that is, Calculation; a work only fit for those that have nothing else to do, or rather fitter for a Porter than a Philosopher, which he imagines himself to be. And I will engage to teach a ploughman( so he hath but a little arithmetic) as much Astronomy in a month as he is Master of for all his great Blusters and Bounces. In Astrology he never durst show the World any thing yet; nor do I believe he will: And more than that, he is not able to do any thing; for if he had, he would never have gone to Italy for Examples, as you see he doth in his almanac 1696. and at last to fill up, tells us a lame lousy Story of Morgan Bourn, which he was forced to borrow, having none of his own. His almanac is patched up by divers hands, and he never wrote one yet that was his own. The Eclipses he hath yearly of Mr E. H. he not being able to calculate them. From the same E. H. he also hath the Table of the Satellites of Jupiter, which you see this year is wanting, because Mr. H— was in the Country. His Tide-Table he always had from Mr. F. and by the Assistance of these two men they set him up; and one of them I hear he quarrels with already, and so he will do with the other shortly. Nay, the very Eclipse of Mercury that he notes in Red-Letters in October 1697. is stolen( and not owned) out of the Philosophical Transactions, number 193. pag. 491. done by Mr. Halley for 180 years past and to come. Now you that espouse his Interest, see what a man of Art you have to defend. The Watch Motion is taken out of the Philosophical Transactions Numb. 214. pag. 248, 249. And out of one of the same Volumes also he hath stolen the Table of the Sun's Declination, and hath not Honesty enough to own either of them. The like in his patcht-up Ephemeris, the Moon there is not calculated, but taken from Argol, and not owned neither. His demonstration of the Modus Rationalis, in his Ephemeris, he had from Coley; from whom you see he he hath also learned to teach Astronomy and Astrology, with Varieties not known to every Professor: Compare Coley's Advertisement and his together. His Poetry that he writes, he makes it as Coley doth, at a Heat; and no doubt but he will teach him, in a short time, to make Sigils too. The Ephemeredes, he valves himself upon, is not done by himself to this day; at his beginning one did Saturn, another did Mars, a third Jupiter, and so patched up by divers hands: At which time he also promised us an Ephemerides for Seven years, depending on the same Assistance: But that Book the Boar Cat in Newgatestreet run away with. Nay, even the Ephemeris for this present year is not his own; but the Wench that cohabits with him doth her Share in the Calculation too: And yet this man of Noise would have the world believe there is none to compare with him. But it is like the Moon in Square to Saturn and the Sun, and Mercury in Opposition to Jupiter. As to his Doctoral Skill, pray observe; About the middle of January last, a Woman in Drury Lane was sent to me, but she mistook Salisbury-Street for Salisbury-Court, and to the Learned Dr. Parker she carries her Water. The Doctor looks on it, and tells her, She was in a deep Consumption, and over-run with Saturn. At that( said the Gentlewoman) I began to stare, and wondered what the man meant; and as he had an odd Countenance, so( said she) I thought he had been mad indeed. She asked him, if she were with Child? He said, Yes, she was She asked him if there were any Cure for her Consumption? He said yes, he could cure her. But Sir, said she, If I am with Child( which is not to be doubted) I am afraid it will be dangerous to take physic. No, no, said he, What I give you, a Child may take; and so to work he went, and gave her Four Doses of Pills, and Four Papers of Powder, to cure her Tabes, and strengthen her Womb. The Pills wrought with her 30 or 40 times every Dose she took of them, and had almost killed her; and when she was grown so very low and weak with his Pills; she begins with her strengthening Powders, expecting that they would have repaired her again: But instead of that, they proved very strong diuretics, made her miscarry, and brought away the whole Conception; and so between the Pills and this Powder making her miscarry, God knows what the Issue of it may be. Now what will you call this? Impudence, Ignorance, Knavery or Murder? Did you ever know any but Blockheads give strong Purges to People in a deep Consumption, as he told her she was? Or any but those flushed in Murder, give strong diuretics to a Woman above Three months gone with Child? If he thinks I trifle with him▪ let him put it to the Proof if he dares. Here's your Doctor, good Women! Would you be cured? then take great Parker's Pills, They'll do, the more he gives, the more he kills. I could tell you a pleasant Story about a Clyster he ordered for a Woman, but you shall have that among the next; for I have some Friends providing more matter for me. Did you ever know any man that had his Mercury afflicted, and Saturn on the Ascendent afflicting the Moon, that had Reason or a good judgement? Nor can this man make a good judgement of any thing, nor have Success in what he attempts from thence; and so I will leave you to his own Motto. To whom physic I give But few of you live. De Impudentia Nati. Saturn and Mars afflicting the Sun Lord of the Ascendent, and Saturn afflicting the Moon weak in scorpion, Mercury afflicting and afflicted by Jupiter, inclines men to be audacious, and shows such as trangress the Rules of Modesty, &c. And Cardan says, Jupiter and the Sun are the Authors of modesty and humanity, but in this Nativity they are both oppressed, and therefore those two virtues are wanting, and their places supplied with their Opposites. The proof, In 1694. he confidently dedicated his almanac to Sir J. F. to make his name Eternal( verbis suis) and this without asking his Leave and Permission. But did you ever know any man make a man or thing eternal by commending it in an almanac? Where is the Wit of it? Secondly, It is Impudence to the highest degree to endeavour to justify that base and unjust Punishment of Dr. Oats. It was proved by none but such as by our Law ought to have been hanged; and besides, what they swore was notoriously false, as it appeared by Hinton's Books, which justified Ireland's being in London that day Dr. Oats said he was, and that Hinton paid him Money then to his own hand. All I wish the Fellow is, That he may live to enjoy the Happiness of such a Gentle Punishment, perhaps already deserved, if he had his due. The meaning of the thing is, the fellow is setting up for a Jacobite without either Wit or Credit, of which sort they have a great number in the Party already, and he for his Impudence and scandalous Life comes behind none of them Thirdly, I will leave it to the World to judge if that was not a gross piece of Impudence in 1692. to challenge the whole Nation at once, To assign any other Direction for his Daughters Sickness, than that foolish one that he asserted, The Earth to the Heliocentrick place of Mars? And when a certain Person had given a Direction or two for that Sickness, he dropped his Challenge, and we never heard a word of that since. By the same Rule I judge he will take a good Drubbing, and sit down civilly with it too. I am sure none but a very confident Fellow could ever have had the Face to writ again till he had given the World satisfaction why he did not maintain his Challenge. But that which makes the thing more audacious, That which he challenged the Nation upon, he had no experience of, and that was the first example of its kind. Now find me out one to match him, and I will give you my Cap. Fourthly, I take it for a very bold, confident trick, to steal Dr. J. R's Advertisement verbatim out of my almanac, as you may see by comparing his of 1696. with mine for some years past, in these words. Parker says, It is the only Elixir of Scurvy-grass that is in being, and fit for the Closet of any Physician; those that buy it, if they find it not as here asserted, may return it without loss. And for the better understanding the Man and his Medicine, take the Receipt itself, which is thus. Take Scurvygrass, green and fresh, clean washed and dried on a Cloath, what quantity you please, put it into a Glass, and pour upon it the best Rectified English Spirit, so much as will cover it, 4 or 5 Fingers above the Herb; let them stand in a gentle Heat till the liquour is turned Green, and it is prepared and fit for use. The man must certainly have a large share of the Faculty, or else he could never put this on the world, which is a lie, and a Cheat at the Tail of it; fi●st, to tell the world it is an Elixir. And secondly, to sell it as such, when it is nothing else but a nasty, dirty Infusion; Thus he must be Horridly Ignorant, or plaguily Impudent, either not to know what an Elixir is, or to put a nasty Infusion upon the World for an Elixir, and then say, It is fit for the Closet of any Physician; indeed it is so for a cheating Physician, for there is not a grain of the Spirit or Salt of Scurvy-grass in it, only the nasty phlegm that spoils the Spirit of Wine. And now I will tell you how he came by it; When he set up for a Doctor, he went to several Physicians to beg Receipts of them; and among the rest he asked Mr. T. T. who promised to give him something; but in the mean time employed him to do his Nativity; to work goes Parker, expecting a mighty Reward, and when it was done, carried it to him, who instead of Money paid him in Physical Receipts, of which this nasty, filthy Infusion was one of them that helped to set up our Learned Doctor. By my next I shall give you some more of his Receipts. Fifthly, I will leave it to all sober regular people to judge if it is not an audacious thing for a Fellow to turn his Wife away, and live publicly with another Woman, and this in the face of the Sun and his own Children, as an Example to his Family to do so too when they come to years of Ripeness ●or such things; and you know, youth are too apt to make slight Examples great Encouragements, especially when they led to 'vice and Pleasure. I am very well pleased that the Jacks have him on their side; let them try if they can make a Silk Purse of a Sow's Ear. Since shane and virtue left their wonted place, The best Reproofs ne're pierce his brawny Face. De Saevitia Nati. Saturn on his Ascendent in Square to the Moon in Mundo, and afflicting the Sun also with Mars's assistance, shows the man must be of a Cruel Tyrannick humour and Temper; and so we find him; the Proof's easy. He hath a Son, a young Youth, that he hath brought up to nothing, and now at last beats him out of Doors, and sends him a begging. Now is not this a shane, that so great a Doctor as he is, should sand his own Child a begging, when the great Urania is a sufferer by the Scandal, as well as the whole Society. Faith, George, 'tis hard; Oh let it not be said, The great Urania's Grandson begs his Bread. Secondly, That which is almost scandalous to name, but far more base and scandalous to act, and indeed what I cannot mention but with a regret and Unwillingness, and that is, the Whipping of his Wife; such a piece of Barbarity, Cruelty and Inhumanity, that is not to be paralleled in any one but he that hath bid Defiance to all Modesty and Christian Morals, and took his final Leave of the evangelic Rule, Do as you would be done by. And yet, though he sets up for a Whipper, as you see he doth in his Epistle to his almanac, 1697. Commends it in the Punishment of Dr. Oats, and practiseth it on the Body of his poor Wife, yet he would be very unwilling to undergo it himself, and make a plaguy wry Face at the Sight of the Whip. Nay, to show you that he was not only guilty of whipping her▪ his Friend Mr. L. hath told me, He hath seen him throw a handful of Knives at her at a time in her Shop; thus you may see what a cutting Fellow I have to deal with. And you Good-women, you are finely fitted with a Whipping Physician, you see; for where he cannot come at your Posteriors, he hath Pills and Powders to do your business for you otherways. With Whips,( as with Instruments men pull down great Oaks) If she wont be obed'ent, George, have at her B— ks. Thirdly, I must reckon That among his Acts of Cruelty also that he useth to the Wench that lives with him; to do him a service she lent him her Money; and now when she asks him for it, he pays her in Tail, Tallies I mean. What! thrash for your Living? Thus Pleasures abound, In for a Penny, George, in for a Pound. De Religione Nati. Perhaps you will stare at this, that after this black Character I have given him, we should now talk of his Religion; pray don't wonder, for his Religion and his Morals are all of a piece, Mercury in Opposition to Jupiter, and Saturn on the Ascendent in a Mundane Square to the Moon. The Fellow was of a mongrel persuasion when he was young▪ and so continued till the Sun came to the Zodiacal Parallel of Jupiter, at 24 or 25 years of age; and then, he says, he was all Religion, and might say with the Holy David, That the zeal of God's house had eaten him up. At this time the Fellow was something poor, and he had heard it said, That the Quakers were very kind to their Proselytes, and did use to support them: So on the former Piety, agitated by the last motive, George turns Quaker, screws his Face into a regular Shape to be taken notice of, takes up the Terms of Thee and Thou. painted Beast and Hireling, and upon every Opportunity he trudged to the Bull and Mouth. Now it was he used to say, the Organs sounded like Rams Horns, and the choristers made a Noise like the bl●ating of the Sheep and lowing of the Oxen. In this Station George continued for some time, still expecting the golden Shower; but these subtle Quakers, I believe, knew the Fellow by his Countenance, and made no court to the new Proselyte, nor did they down with their Dust. George finding nothing came, and being unwilling to serve God for nothing, tacks about, and turns Pinacle-Churchman; and then he said the Organs and choristers sounded like the Heavenly choir, and he never he●rd them but he was in a Rapture. Thus you see George is the s●me man when his Face is turned to the Altar, as when he is using the Whip, or giving Powders to strengthen the Womb. Observe but his Sat●rn, and hear Jove's Complaint, You'l judge by his Birth, he's a two handed Saint. But besides this, he can pray too, as you may see by his almanac for 1696 in his Epistle: God bless his Majesty King William, and every individual Person of that Ro●al Family, Root and Branch. As much as if he had said, Pray God bless Honest John Stow, that went to York last Monday, and pray God bless the ●ix High way men that followed him; now the Question is, Whether he prayed for honest John or the High-way▪ men. Invenies passim multos, qui pelle sub agni Vipereum celant virus, moresque Luporum. De Libidine Nati. The Moon is in scorpion, a sensual beastly Sign, the Sun Lord of his Ascendent with the Cauda, and Saturn in a mundane Square to the Moon in scorpion: These are great Arguments of a Libidinous Nature. The Proof of this is easy, for the Neighbourhood in Newgate-street do not spare to talk largely of his Wife's Maid and he: And when you ask them the particulars, they refer you to Sir W. T.'s Clerk, who, they say, can give the best account how often they have been Warrantable about the Business. But we will leave that, and come to the present business, his living with another Woman openly; which is a plaguy presumption of something else at the bottom of it. Yet the worst of all is, they tell you, He used to make court to his Wife's Daughter: I hope that is the worst of it, tho the people talk unluckily of it, in another Sense; I hope it is not true. Young Dapper the Diver, the Son of old Ralph, That turned out the Cow to B— r the Calf. De Divitiis Nati. I will not be too much inquisitive into this part of his Affairs, because I would not discourage his endeavours in the World; yet this I will tell him, He hath a very bad position to get an Estate of an hundred a year; or keep a place of three hundred, where a Salary is payable; and my Reasons are Mercury in Opposition to Jupiter from the Second and Eighth, the Moon in Square to Mars Zod. the Moon in Conjunction with the Part of Fortune▪ and both in Square to the Sun and Saturn in mundo; he hath felt the Influence of them already in part; and for what is to come, I will leave to his own Observation; and let the time past serve for its proof, and though he hath an ill position for Riches, yet he hath a good one for a Stock: And now I speak of that, give me leave to say, The Assessors for the Capitation Act ought to have assest him for two Stocks, one of Confidence and the other of Kn— y. A Stock thou hast, lodged in thy shriveled Face, Yet not of Gold, but most substantial Brass. De reliquis Nativitate observandis. The Nativity is in the general one of the worst and most despicable positions that ever I saw; to have the Moon weak in scorpion, with the Part of Fortune in Opposition to the Tenth, and in a Mundane Square to Saturn and the Sun▪ must certainly involve a man into Troubles, Broils and Mischiefs, and keep him always low in the world, and his latter end worst of all; the Sun, who is the Author of Honour and Reputation, is besieged between Saturn, Mars and the Cauda, must make him always Scandalous, subject to Contempt, and furnish him with a very Despicable Reputation. And the Nativity he makes for himself, with 13 degrees of Virgo ascending▪ is a worse Scheme than this is; for there he hath put the Sun in the Twelfth, with the Moon in Square to Mars, and the Sun applying; if that be his Nativity, he will never live out of Jail while he lives; for the Twelfth House among the Stars is their White friars and Salisbury-Court, so that in the Figure he gives out, he hath ☉, ♂, ♄ and ☋ all in whitefriars, that is, in the Twelfth House; and therefore I do think it the worst position, but both bad. I confess I observe one pretty generous thing of him; for in his almanacs he used to affect a conceited way in writing, using Us, We, Our, Ourself, which was indeed the modestest thing in all his scurrilous Writings; for the Wench that lives with him helps him to calculate his almanac, and being not arrogant enough to take all the Honour to himself, he lets her share with him; sometimes it is We, that is, I and my Wench; then Our, i e mine and my Miss's; at another time it is Us, I and my w— then Ourself, that is, when he had the mayor part in the business, suppose in Bed. In a word, it is such a Nativity, that had it been brought to me to have looked over as one unknown, I should have judged it a fit position for a Clipper, a Pick pocket, an Informer, a Common Barreter, a traitor to his King and Country, Ay and his Master too; a Bankrupt, and a person fit for any thing, though never so unjust and wicked. And I think it would be far more commendable for him, to endeavour to get Bread for his Family▪ in a credible way, and pay his Debts, than to sand his Children a begging, and spend his time in wrangling and contending with those that do not meddle nor make with him. And now you see what kind of Enemy I have got to contend with. And must we part, my little mortal Foe; Great without any thing to to make thee so. Great in Conceit, armed with some sorry stuff, Dost, like a Codpiss Captain, bounce and huff. Some Animals, not much unlike to thee, At nine Days old by Nature come to see; But thee, thy Stars did for great things design, And, as a nobler Beast, takes longer time. To such a Head▪ who would not veil a Cap, Not crammed with Brains, but Heliocentrick Pap; A Head! matched with a Soul that lets us see, All Egypts ancient Learning's lodged in thee; dubbed with a Name that time shall ne're deface▪ And that engraved in monumental Brass, As the true Emblem of thy Face and Rise; Not to declare thee virtuous, just or wise, But to inform us▪ of thy Birth and Race, And when thy Name is used we'll think of Brass. And to relate thy brutish Trangums past Of which, I see, you'll give a second taste, And prove a broken Conjurer at last. Dear George, farewell, thou hast a rugged▪ task, Thou little tumbling, rumbling empty Cask. Once more farewell, with Har●y thy dear Brother, Who( like two scabby Golts) nab one another. Now a man that hath appeared in the world under these Crimes and Characters of villainy, and yet confidently looks mankind in the Face, he had need be m●ster of more Impudence than an old Carted Bawd. And to conclude, if any Gentleman of Reputation is so fond of such a Creature, as to patronise him still, after his Parts and Qualities are thus set forth and deciphered, it is pity their dear Friendship should ever be partend. Or if any Community or Society of honourable and noble Persons can think such an infamous Wretch a Credit to them and their Undertakings, it is left to their prudence to consider, when the shane and Dishonour of such an Instrument may be as inauspicious as it is reflective to the whole. Since nothing hath been said here( though justly provoked) which will not be made good, and the poor Wretch, if he hath a spark of Modesty yet left, his Conscience must whisper to him that of the Poet, —— Pudet hac opprobia nobis, Et dici potuisse,& non potuisse refelli. As for the man in Baldwins-Gardens, I must step to Pancrass to the Old Woman, Y●leeped a House-keep●r, and ask her who it was gave her the Ulcer in her Threat, of which she dyed? and whether it was of French growth or not? and then in a Dialogue between a Pick▪ pocket and a Sigil-maker, contending for the Honesty of their Trades, I will give the world an account of him, as a Reward for endeavouring to set people together by the Ears. FINIS.