G. F. gent  
Do As You Would be Don Unto   
Oh I confess my fault, forgive therefore  
Good Mr. Marriot, I'll do no more!  
I have dear bought Repentance, 'tis so scarce,  
And seal it with my lips thus on your are—  
If once again to wrong you, I turn Fool,  
Then make my mouth for ever your close stool.   

A LETTER TO M R. MARRIOT from a friend of his: WHEREIN His Name is redeemed from that Detraction G. F. Gent. hath endeavoured to fasten upon him, by a scandalous and Defamatory LIBEL, ENTITLED The Great Eater of Gray's Inn, or, The Life of Mr. Marriot the Cormorant, etc.  
LONDON, Printed for the Friends of Mr. Marriot, 1652   

A Letter to Mr. Marriot, from a Friend of his, wherein his name is redeemed from Detraction.  
Mr. Marriot,  
HAd I not known you myself as well as by the report of your neighbours, a common easiness of credulity might have carried me on to believe a late published pamphlet, pretended to be the True History of your life, for the Author assures the Reader he sets down nothing but what hath truly been acted by you: whereas indeed, it is nothing else but a mere Libel, of Lies, Scandal and Defamation, spun out to a great length without one syllable of wit or honesty, whereof he sufficiently accuseth himself by shrouding his name under the covert of two Letters, and thereby securing his person from that punishment the Law hath provided for him, the injury of fastening upon your name so vile a detraction, and presenting you a derision to posterity is of so high a nature that it exceeds any satisfaction such an abject vermin can give, neither can I find out a better expedient for your reparation, then by letting the world know what you are indeed: and this I shall do as an equal friend to you and the truth.  
That you are a Gown-man, and the most ancient Member of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn now Resident, the book of Entrance can witness, having been a Student and Professor of the Law above 47 years: for your abilities and knowledge in the Law, and for your easy fees, your Clients do very much commend you: For your private way of life, you have given it a Geometrical proportion, squaring your mind and fortune with equal lines to a fit subservency of Nature's requisites in food and raiment: For your Society you have made choice of honest men, not despising the meanest, whereby you have stood firm in these Nationall Hurricanoes which have blown down the lofty and ambitious: and for your general deportment, it hath been so fair and clear, that I never yet heard you had wronged any man.  
How comes it then this unprovoked miscreant should bewray the press, and soil your name with the excrements of his skull? Sure his main design is a beggarly project, the sale of his book: Let him have the full price of it, and it is a Whipping-post, etc. that he fears, and therefore conceals himself under the Characters of G. F. Gent. Homogeneously insinuating his name to be Graceless Fool Gentile. For had he not been a very graceless fool, and an unconverted Gentile, he would never have committed to perpetuity so scandalous a piece, composed of lies and nonsense, and that for a very little money, soon to be spent; in due time he will have a just reward: for he serves a Master, though a Liar from the beginning, yet faithful in paying his servants their wages. In the interim let him stand to the public view in that becoming posture the Frontispiece presents him, as destined by charity to repentance.  
FINIS.