felled before them; and then they think it a piece of Honour to be clear and ingenuous, and that destroys

them.

University.

1. HE beft Argument why Oxford fhould have

ment, by which Oxford is made a Body; made what it is; and Cambridge is made what it is; and in the Act it takes place. Befides Oxford has the best Monuments to fhow.

2. 'Twas well faid of one, hearing of a Hiftory Lecture to be founded in the University; Would to God, fays he, they would direct a lecture of Difcretion there, this would do more Good there an hundred times.

3. He that comes from the Univerfity to govern the State, before he is acquainted with the Men and Manners of the Place, does juft as if he should come into the Prefence Chamber all Dirty, with his Boots on, his riding Coat, and his Head-all daub'd: They may ferve him well enough in the Way, but when he comes to Court, he must conform to the Place.

Wows.

1.

Suppofe a Man find by his own Inclination he has

no mind to marry, may he not then vow Chaftity? Anfw. If he does, what a fine thing hath he done? 'tis as if a Man did not love Cheese, and then he would vow to God Almighty never to eat Cheese. He that vows can mean no more in fenfe, than this, To do his utmost endeavour to keep his Vow.

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Ufury.

HE Jews were forbidden to take Ufe one of another, but they were not forbidden to take it of other Nations. That being fo, I fee no reason why I may not as well take Ufe for my Money, as Rent for my Houfe. 'Tis a vain thing to fay, Money begets not Money, for that no doubt it does.

2. Would it not look odly to a Stranger, that fhould come into this Land, and hear in our Pulpits Ufury preach'd against, and yet the Law allow it? Many Men ufe it; perhaps fome Churchmen themfelves. No Bishop nor Ecclefiaftical Judge, that pretends Power to punish other Faults, dares punish, or at least does punish any Man for doing it.

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Pious Ufts.

HE ground of the Ordinary's taking part of at Man's Eftate (who dy'd without a Will) to Pious Ufes, was this; to give it fomebody to pray, that his Soul might be deliver'd out of Purgatory; now the pious Ufes come into his own Pocket. 'Twas well expreft by John O Powls in the Play, who acted the Prieft; one that was to be hang'd, being brought to the Ladder, would fain have giv'n fomething to the Poor; he feels for his Purfe, (which John O Powls had pick'd out of his Pocket before) miffing it, crys out, He had loft his Purfe; now he intended to have given fomething to the Poor: John O Powls bid him be pacified, for the Poor had it already.

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Mar.

O not under-value an Enemy by whom you have been worsted. When our Countrymen came home from fighting with the Saracens, and were beaten by them, they pictured them with huge, big, terrible Faces (as you ftill fee the Sign of the Saracen's Head is) when in truth they were like other Men. But this they did to fave their own Credits.

2. Martial-Law in general means nothing but the Martial-Law of this, or that Place; with us to be us'd in Fervore Belli, in the Face of the Enemy, not in time of Peace; there they can take away neither Limb nor Life. The Commanders need not complain for want of it, because our Ancestors have done gallant things without it.

3. Question.

3. Question. Whether may Subjects take up Arms against their Prince? Anfwer. Conceive it thus; Here lies a Shilling betwixt you and me; ten Pence of the Shilling is yours, two Pence is mine: By agreement, I am as much King of my two Pence, as you of your ten Pence: If you therefore go about to take away my two Pence, I will defend it; for there you and I · are equal, both Princes.

4. Or thus, two fupreme Powers meet, one fays to the other, give me your Land; if you will not, I will take it from you: The other, becaufe he thinks himfelf too weak to refift him, tells him, of nine Parts I will give you three, fo I may quietly enjoy the reft, and I will become your Tributary. Afterwards the Prince comes to exact fix Parts, and leaves but three; the Contract then is broken, and they are in Parity again.

5. To know what Obedience is due to the Prince, you must look into the Contract betwixt him and his People; as if you wou'd know what Rent is due from the Tenant to the Landlord, you must look into the Leafe. When the Contract is broken, and there is no third Perfon to judge, then the Decifion is by Arms. And this is the Cafe between the Prince and the Subject. 6. Question. What Law is there to take up Arms against the Prince, in case he break his Covenant?

Anfwer. Though there be no written Law for it, yet there is Cuftom, which is the beft Law of the Kingdom; for in England they have always done it. There is nothing expreft between the King of England and the King of France; that if either Invades the other's Territory, the other fhall take up Arms against him, and yet they do it upon fuch an Occafion.

7. 'Tis all one to be plunder'd by a Troop of Horse, or to have a Man's Goods taken from him by an Order from the Council-Table. To him that dies, 'tis

all one whether it be by a Penny Halter or a Silk-Garter; yet I confefs the filk Garter pleafes more; and like Trouts, we love to be tickled to Death.

8. The Soldiers fay they fight for Honour; when the truth is they have their Honour in their Pocket. And they mean the fame thing that pretend to fight for Religion. Juft as a Parfon goes to Law with his Parishioners; he fays, For the good of his Succeffors, that the Church may not lofe its Right; when the meaning is to get the Tythes into his own Pocket.

9. We govern this War as an unfkilful Man does a Cafting-Net; if he has not the right trick to caft the Net off his Shoulder, the Leads will pull him into the River. I am afraid we shall pull ourselves into Deftruction.

10. We look after the particulars of a Battle, because we live in the very time of War. Whereas of Battles paft we hear nothing but the Number flain. Juft as for the Death of a Man; when he is fick; we talk how he flept this Night, and that Night; what he eat, and what he drank: But when he is dead, we only fay, he died of a Fever, or name his Disease, and there's an end.

11. Boccaline has this paffage of Soldiers; They came to Apollo to have their Profeffion made the eighth Liberal Science, which he granted. As foon as it was nois'd up and down, it came to the Butchers, and they defired their Profeffion might be made the Ninth: For, fay they, the Soldiers have this Honour for kil ling of Men; now we kill as well as they; but we kill Beasts for the preserving of Men, and why should not we have Honour likewife done us? Apollo could not Answer their Reasons, fo he revers'd his Sentence, and made the Soldier's Trade a Myftery, as the Butchers is.

Mitches,