ΠΑΛΙΝΟΔΙΑ.  
Sive Fama Vapulans: Occasioned by her Retractation of her precipitate censure of Mrs ANNE GIBBS,  
By her real Convert and Re-admirer, R. W.  An. Mar. a Schur. in Apol. 
Nec viclasse tuas leges Astraea putabor;  
Quip suum tribui cuilibet ipsae jubes.  
Let me not seem, Astraea, to dethrone  
Thy Laws, thou bid'st that all should have their own.  
Printed, Anno Virginis parturientis, 1662.   

Ex spelunca Juxta tumescentis Laugherni ripas 9bris 26, 1662.  
Fama Vapulans.  

PROTASIS, Ad Musam.  

PIsh, prithee sleep, my Muse, do not molest  
The Thespian Vestals, let them take their rest.  
Alas! this purblind world will never see,  
Do what thou canst, their own stupidity:  
Perhaps some civilised men may deign  
To look upon this issue of thy brain  
With candour, but the vulgar are a rude,  
Malignant, headstrong, harebrained multitude.  
A Carnaval to them presents more sport  
Than the elaborate Operas o'th' Court;  
And in their Dances they had rather follow  
Pan's rustic reeds, than th'harp of god Apollo.   

Well, if thou wilt not, I can say no more,  
Then let thy Sonnets rant, thy Satyrs roar.  
Belch jo-paeans on this ponderous theme,  
And thunder execrations against them.  
I've spoke to Sabrine, and she will inspire,  
And let her Nymphs bring fuel to, thy fire:  
That 'spite of all opponents every page  
May be replete with true poetic rage,  
And swell with holy fury 'gainst all those  
That dare the chaste Panaletha oppose.    

EPITASIS.  

REcta in curiam, we here present  
LUCRETIA adjudged incontinent  
By a pretended court proclaimed of late  
In Fame's great name, which we seek to abate.  
In that Tribunal it was showed how she  
Had forfeited her claim to chastity.  
The reason urged was this. How else could those,  
For she had Comrades you must know, expose  
Themselves upon a Stage, or to the life  
Personate Annabel ', or Harebrain's wife?   

But see the fallacy, my Author vows  
A man may act those things he never knows.  
Think you that none can persenate a sin  
But that which he himself hath wallowed in?  
You may as well aver Players are made  
Apprentices to every manual Trade.  
Or, 'cause you know they act and speak such things  
That appertain to Princes, say they're Kings.   

Aless poor Dramaticks, striving to shun  
One gulf, ye full into another run.  
Histriomastix carped at ye because  
He thought your men before broke nature's Laws  
In using Woman's , but Cynthius' aurem  
Vellit, and 've got a Quiescas for him.  
Yet now that they perform their parts themselves,  
Your Scenes are threatened by as dangerous shelves.  
The cursed Hydra Mome assaults their names,  
Mistaking what's their glory for their shames:  
They're impudent Sluts cries one, for otherwise  
How could they thus surfeit Spectators eyes  
With their lascivious gestures? ' nother swears  
If they be honest he will forfeit's ears.  
Nay Lais too will say, as I hear tell,  
Can they be chaste? it is impossible.  
Thinking perhaps that she, although she can  
Within her chamber boldly treat a man,  
Yet could not on a Theatre obtrude  
Her confidence before a multitude.  
And therefore by her Logic doth infer  
They needs must be as errand Whores as her.  
So Clodius Maechos too, but wise men know  
They're ne'er th' more honest for pretending so.   

If seeming sanctity be all thou hast  
Whereby to judge these Sodom Apples chaste,  
Those that have found some rotten at the core,  
May well conclude each woman is a whore.   

Reader, 've been defendant hitherto,  
But now we mean to speak as Plaintiff too.    

CATASTASIS.  

PEace shameless Trumpetress, do not delude  
With Phantasms the too credulous multitude.  
Silence thy brazen Trumpet, that no further  
It calumnize the innocent Recorder.  
Recant those false Alarms of thy rude blast  
Which have the fair LUCRETIA's shrine defaced.  
Let Albion that rich Caskanet enhance.  
And not reject it out of ignorance.  
Let not Exoticks, who already do  
For Horses, ' count her th' Hell for actors too.   

Oh how can she, whose face long since confuted  
The Divine Heathen's 
(a) Artifices Scenici qui imitantur affectus etc. hoc Jndicio imitantur verecundiam, Dejiciunt vultum, verba submittunt, etc. Ruborem sibi exprimere non pessunt. Sen. ad Luc. Ep. 11.  maxim, be reputed  
Unchaste? when't is the first Lucretia's glory  
That we by this do now believe her Story.  
When had it not been sensibly to us  
Demonstrated, it had still seemed fabulous.   

Who saw those rosy blushes that did deck  
The intervals of her inamelled cheek  
At sight of Sextus, or th' complacency  
Wherewith she acted her self-butchery?  
But would conclude she his vile act abhorred  
As much in deed as most do now in word.  
Who saw with what reluctance and disgust  
She yielded but in show to Brothwel's lust.  
But must assert her chastity, or swear  
There is not one deserves a St●la here.    

CATASTROPHE.  

ANd now thou swift'st of 
(a) 
Fama malum quo non aliud velocius ullum,  
Mebilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.  Virg. Aen. 4.  evil which dost gain  
By motion strength, in flying force obtain;  
Say not my Muse was secretly suborned  
I'd have thee know such offices she scorned  
Quite from her infancy, and doth detest  
To plead for prejudice or interest.  
'Twas love to Truth which made me to incur  
The vulgar hate, which overruled her.   

‛ Would Pantemimick Teletes had lived  
In these depraved times, howed'd he have grieved  
And wrung his hands, to see his Art abused  
And his beloved Pupil's name misused.   

'Tis not that Dionysia, whose fame  
Long since gave great 
(b) Who for his action was called Gesticulatoriam Dionysiam, from a she Chironomer of that name.  Hortensius his name;  
She joins not Esau's hands to Jacob's voice,  
Nor doth she perpetrate the sinallest vice  
'Gainst his hand-law, but won the Palm in spite  
Of famous Roscius 
(c) Delicias suas so he used to call him  Cicero., 's delight.  
Who, had he lived until this last worst age  
Had lacked a Patron to repel the rage  
Of th' Rabble; Tully would have changed his cause,  
And rescued chaste LUCRETIA from the jaws  
Of envious obloquy, making each one  
Lay's hand on's mouth and act Sigalion.   

But why do I expatiate abroad?  
'Twas meant for an Abridgement, not a Code.  
May'st thou inherit base Cassandra's fate,  
As the demerit of thy vilder hate.  
Thereby supporting her now totterring State,  
Whom many envy, few can emulate.    
FINIS   

LUCRETIAE SACRUM.  
Auctariolum.  
Anne Gibbs Ἀναγραμματικῶσ. Sing Ben-ab  

Your pardon, Fairest, that, into the choir  
Of your Adorers, my discordant Lyre  
Hath thus far ventured, strucken to the same  
By th' Cabalistick accents of your name.  
To which she thought herself obliged in duty  
For to submit as vassal of your beauty.  
And by her Precedent Each Father's Son,  
She hopes, will modul forth an Unison.  
That to your glory this versatile round  
May still with Echoed Diapasons sound.    

Votivum.  

Mrisay all those Constellations, we allow  
A happy geniture, still smile on you,  
Never let aught Malignant once molest  
Natures Aenigma lodging such a guest.  
Excel in power as goodness, to defend you,  
Good and propitious Stars always attend you.  
Intrinsic and extern formosity  
Beatify your Gordian nuptial tie.  
But when the Fates conclude that you must die,  
Survive in bliss to all Eternity.   Cui non datur. 
FINIS