bid you use them; withal promife you that after twenty Years to remove you to the Court, and to make you a Privy Councellor. If you fhould neglect your Caftle, and refufe to eat of thofe Fruits, and fit down, and whine, and with you were a Privy Councellor, do you think the King would be pleas'd with you?

Pleasures of Meat, Drink, Cloths, &c. are forbidden thofe that know not how to use them; juft as Nurfes cry pah, when they fee a Knife in a Child's Hand, they will never fay any thing to a Man.

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Philofophy.

HEN Men comfort themfelves with Philofophy, 'is not because they have got two or three Sentences, but because they have digefted thofe Sentences and made them their own: Matter, Philofophy is nothing but Difcretion.

Poetry.

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pears in his Fafti, where we have more of the Feftivals of the old Romans than any where else; 'tis pity the reft are loft.

2. There is no reafon Plays fhould be in Verfe, either in Blank or Rhime; only the Poet has to say for himself, that he makes fomething like that, which fomebody made before him. The old Poets had no other reafon but this, their Verfe was fung to Mufick, otherwise it had been a fenfeless thing to have fetter'd up themselves.

3. I never converted but two, the one was Mr. Crashaw, from writing against Plays, by telling him a way how to understand that Place [of putting on Women's Apparel] which has nothing to do in the Bufinefs [as neither has it, that the Fathers fpeak against Plays in their Time, with reason enough, for they had real Idolatries mix'd with their Plays, having three Altars perpetually upon the Stage.] The other was a Doctor of Divinity, from preaching against 'Painting, which fimply in itself is no more hurtful, than putting on my Cloaths, or doing any thing to make my felf like other Folks, that I may not be odious nor offenfive to the Company. Indeed if I do it with an ill Intention, it alters the Cafe; fo, if I put on my Gloves with an Intention to do mischief, I am a Villain.

4. 'Tis a fine thing for Children to learn to make Verfe, but when they come to be Men, they must fpeak like other Men, or else they will be laugh'd at. 'Tis ridiculous to fpeak, or write, or preach in Verfe. As 'tis good to learn to dance, a Man may learn his Leg, learn to go handfomely; but 'tis ridiculous for him to dance, when he fhould go.

5. 'Tis ridiculous for a Lord to print Verfes; 'tis well enough to make them to pleafe himself, but to make them publick, is foolish. If a Man in a private Chamber twirls his Band-ftrings or plays with a Rush to please himself, 'tis well enough; but if he fhould go into Fleet-ftreet, and fit upon a Stall, and twirl a Band-ftring, or play with a Rufh, then all the Boys in the Street would laugh at him.

6. Verfe proves nothing but the quantity of Syllables; they are not meant for Logick.

Popt.

1. A Pope's Ball and a Pope's Brief differ very

much; as with us the Great Sed and Privy Scal. The Bull being the higheft Authority the Pope can give, the Brief is of lefs: The Bull has a Leaden Seal upon Silk, hanging upon the Inftrument; the Brief has fub Annulo Pifcatoris upon the fide.

2. He was a wife Pope, that when one that used to be with him, before he was advanc'd to the Popedom, refrain'd afterwards to come at him, (prefuming he was bufy in governing the Chriftian World) the Pope fends for him, bids him come again, and (fays he) we will be merry as we were before; for thou little thinkeft what a little Foolery governs the whole World.

3. The Pope, in fending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Waffels at New years-tide, they prefent you with a Cup, and you muft drink of a flabby fluff, but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.

4. The Pope is Infallible, were he hath Power to command; that is, where he must be obeyed, fo is every Supreme Power and Prince. They that ftretch his Infallibility farther, do they know not what.

5. When a Proteftant and a Papift difpute, they talk like two Madmen, because they do not agree upon their Principles; the one way is to deftroy the Pope's Power, for if he hath Power to command me, 'tis not my alledging Reafons to the contrary can keep me from obeying For Example, if a Conflable command me to wear a green Suit to-Morrow, and has Power to make me; 'tis not my alledging a hundred Reasons of the Folly of it, can excufe me from doing it.

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6. There was a Time when the Pope had Power here in England, and there was excellent Use made of it, for 'twas only to ferve Turns, (as might be manifested out of the Records of that Kingdom, which Divines know little of.) If the King did not like what the Pope would have, he would forbid the Pope's Legate to land upon his Ground. So that the Power was truly then in the King, though fuffered in the Pope. But now the Temporal and the Spiritual Power (Spiritual fo call'd, because ordain'd to a Spiritual End) fpring both from one Fountain; they are like to twift that.

7. The Proteftants in France bear Office in the State, becaufe, though their Religion be different, yet they acknowledge no other King but the King of France. The Papifts in England they must have a King of their own, a Pope, that muft do something in our Kingdom, therefore there is no reason they fhould enjoy the fame Privi leges.

8. Amfterdam admits of all Religions, but Papifts, and 'tis upon the fame account. The Papifts, where e'er they live, have another King at Rome; all other Religions are fubject to the prefent State, and have no Prince elsewhere.

9. The Papifts call our Religion a Parliamentary Religion; but there was once, I am fure, a Parliamentary Pope; Pope Urban was made Pope in England by Act of Parliament, against Pope Clement: The Act is not in the Book of Statutes, either because he that compiled the Book would not have the Name of the Pope there, or elfe he would not let it appear that they meddled with any fuch thing, but 'tis upon the Rolls.

10. When our Clergy preach against the Pope, and the Church of Rome, they preach against themselves, and crying down their Pride, their Power, and their Riches,

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have made themfelves Poor and Contemptible enough; they dedicate first to pleafe their Prince, not confidering what would follow. Juft as if a Man were to go a Journey, and feeing at his firft fetting out, the Way clean and fair, ventures forth in his Slippers, not confidering the Dirt and the Sloughs are a little farther off, or how fuddenly the Weather may change.

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Popery.

THE HE demanding a Noble, for a dead body paffing through a Town, came from hence; in Time of Popery, they carried the dead Body into the Church, where the Priefts faid Dirgies; and twenty Dirgies at four Pence a piece, come to a Noble; but now it is forbidden by an Order from my Lord Maifnal, the Heralds carry his Warrant about them.

2. We charge the Prelatical Clergy with Popery, to make them odious, tho' we know they are guilty of no fuch thing: Juft as heretofore they call'd Images Mammets, and the Adoration of Images Mammetry ; that is, Mahomet and Mabometry; odious Names, when all the World knows the Turks are forbidden Images by their Religion.

Potuer.