The ladies answer to that busie-body, who wrote The life and death of Du Vall. Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08675 of text R173637 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C1660AA). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B08675 Wing C1660AA ESTC R173637 64551052 ocm 64551052 184435 2240860881

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08675) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184435) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2863:42) The ladies answer to that busie-body, who wrote The life and death of Du Vall. Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680. Pope, Walter, d. 1714. Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall containing the history of his life and death. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n.], [London : Printed in the year MDCLXX. [1670] Caption title. Signed: "El: C." El: C = Elizabeth Cellier. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.). Place of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng Duval, Claude, 1643-1670 -- Poetry. Pope, Walter, d. 1714 -- Poetry. English poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The ladies answer to that busie-body, who wrote the life and death of Du Vall. Cellier, Elizabeth, 1670 1 423 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2013-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-08 Sampled and proofread 2013-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Ladies Answer TO THAT Busie-Body , Who wrote the Life and Death of DU VALL . I 'Le tell thee senseless Fool , who e're thou be , Thou art a Thiefe , by far more base than he : Du Vall a little Wealth did onely take , Which they who lost it , got perchance by Cheat. Wealth , which poor Mortals heap they n'ere so fast , Pitiless Death will take them from at last . But , Thou unworthy to be call'd a Man , Rather some Beast , or monst'rous African , Would from our Ladies that Bright Honour have , Which out-lives Us , and triumphs o're the Grave . Honour 's a Thing too Sacred and Divine , Once to be touch't by such rude Hands as thine . How dar'st thou blame such mild and generous Tears , Or strive to blast their Pity with thy Jeers ? If they were sorry , 't was not that their Thoughts Approv'd his Crimes , or justifi'd his Faults ; Yet so much Valour as the Prisoner had , And so much Youth , might make a Tigre sad . The greatest Lords that England now can vaunt , Pity'd him too , and begg'd his pardons graunt : But them thou dar'st not mention , 't is thy fear Their Swords should find thee out for all thy care ; Onely poor Ladyes , that have no defence , Nothing to guard them , but their Innocence . These thou pick'st out , their Arms are in their Eyes , And Love ( thou know'st ) disdains so small a Prize ; Which makes thee bold , and glad to venture where Thou think'st there is not the least room for fear . This shews thy Narrow Soul , thy Little Merit ; This shews thou art all Gall , and hast no Spirit . Suppose 't were true , that any Lady here For the poor Criminal did shed a Teare ; Those for whose Beauty 's we were wont to die , Wee 'd now adore for their Humanitie ; And their relenting Hearts should bear no more Those Marble Names their vigour got before , I to thy cost would soon defend their Fame , But Coward as thou art , thou hid'st thy Name . Coward indeed ! who can'st employ thy Pen Onely against Weak Women , and Dead Men. El. C.

Printed in the Year MDCLXX .