THe inexpressible favour you have shewn to the Adorer ( not only of his Mahometan Majesty the Grand Seignior , your self , the Mahometan Laws , and Religion , but also of your Excellency's Discenting Principle from your Christian Master , which is a true Parable with us here in these ; Kingdoms ) has fill'd me with amazement to find a Poet of our Party , to answer the incomparable Letter you were pleas'd to honour me withal ; For indeed I am not good at writing or reading , my business is only Plot-vouching ; for which ( I thank Mahomet ) I am famous all over the World . But at last ( rather than be silent ) I have by many importunities , persuaded him that was Author of a Famous Book , ( that I believe your Excellency has heard of ) Intituled , a Popish Successor , &c. to write this Answer , which will inform you the truth ; the whole truth , and nothing but the truth : which is more then ever I swore , or said in all my life before . In the first place I do from the bottom of my heart assure you ( which is more than I durst say of my swearing in the late Popish Plot , tho'I had one Prance an Eminent Murderer by Oath ; to back me with a well sworn improbable Murder of a Famous Justice of the Peace ) that I have as good wishes and hearty Prayers for the Mahometan Cause , as any man breathing in Christendom , of which I am under colour a Member , tho'never Baptiz'd ; and have ventur'd my Damnation as far as any that puts forth Christian Coulers on a Mahometan Design , as I shall give your Exellency a true Relation . In the beginning of my true swearing , ( of which every body is sensible ) was to the Earl of Shaftsbury's contrivance , I knowing of the truth of the matter , but was resolved to make my self Famous , as you are sensible I have . I must needs acknowledge my self a sincere adorer of Mahomet by my persecuting Oaths against the true Lovers of the King of England , whether Protestents or Papists ; ( I mean not the the True Blew Protestants ) for as I told your Excellency before , They were for the Mahometan Cause , we have always stood by . Therefore to answer your Letter without many more Parentheses ( tho' my life does admit of the Devil and all ; who is best acquainted with all my proceedings ) ( as our Sea-men say ) from Stem , to Stearn . I am , and all the Mahomeatan Protestants , under persecution ; for the sham Popish Plot which was to introduce a true Phanatical Conspitacy , that is also confounded : Therefore we have design'd a day of Humiliation , ( not only for the defeat of our Un-Christian Cause here ) but so . your Mahometan Cause before Vienna , as the Christian Gazets do inform us , whose truth we strive to confound , by our good wishes , and daily Mahometan Prayers ; and yet we cannot prevail . At the Christian Thanksgiving for the Discovery of our Horrid Conspiracy , did we not abuse the Government , and affrons the Clergy , by sending up perfidious Notes to their Pulpits , wherein we justify'd ( those that rightly suffer'd for contriving the death of the King and the Royal Family ) to be absolutely Murder'd and yet this does us no good , neither lies it in my power ( for what would it avail me to tell your Excellence a lie ) to resist by those Methods your Excellence requires ? for upon the faith of ( what shall I say ) a Gentleman , that I am none ; a Doctor I never was , and a Christian ( my Father being an Anabaptist ) would never make me . But ( by Mahomet whom I adore , ) I know nothing of the Black-Bills by me sworn in the No Popish Plot : for instead of thousands , I never saw one , nor does it lie in my power to tell you what they are like . Therefore I cannot assist his Majesty , the Grand Seignior , with any thing of that kind : For by our Prophet Mahomet , they were invisible to me too . I perceive , now our Cause is in its Wane , 't will expire like the snuff of a Candle , having no Sun to renew its light by ; unless the Son of Perdition , which will cast a damn'd pur-blind Reflection . For the Spanish Pilgrims ( as I have already sworn , I will not tell you a Lie , tho' I scarce know how to frame my self to a Truth , ) was an Aldersgate-street Contrivance , to carry on our Design ; and a Stratagem to amuse the Rabble ; for upon my Mahometan Faith , there was never any such thing . Therefore his Majesty , the Turkish Emperour , and my ever Honoured Prince , cannot possibly expect any belief from them . I am extreamly willing to change my Climate , had I but money to bear my Charges : for ( being in the vein of speaking Truth ) I was forc'd to pawn some of my Contribution plate to redeem me from the Tenter-hooks of the Poultry Compters which , an 't please your Excellence is a place , a man cannot get clear of without tearing his cloaths : And indeed mine began to be out at Elbows , for want of a Plot-allowance . ( Nay ) my Plot it self I was forc'd to pawn , to Archibald Sparks Serjeant at Mace belonging to the Shrievedom of London , who has no more Faith in my Plot , than a Jew has in Christianity : and now I have nothing else to pawn , unless it be my Soul to the Devil , which I fear he will lend nothing upon , ( being his own already ) without a Bribe Therefore I do not find any possibility of my going to wait on my Grateful Master the G. S. my Janisaries have left me , having no faith in my swearing , when there is no money stirring And now the Giant Perjuries of your humble Servant , are dwindled to the Dwarfish belief of a Loyal Subject ; so that I lie expos'd to Jack Ketch in his Office . I must confess I began to be tired with our True Blue Protestant Bums , ( having Bugger'd almost the whole Party over ) that I long for those Mahometan back-sides , assured me in the Grand Seigniors Masculine Seraglio . But that I now despair of , unless his Mahometan Majesty , by a speedy supply of money from his own Treasury , do redeem me from the Justice of those Christian Princes , I have ( I must needs confess ) by my Perjuries abus'd , and set all honesty in a flame , which is now like to scorch me to death : except I say , the G. S. and your self , ( who have exprest so much love to me ) relieve your Vassal : for by Mahomet , I adore you before the Crucified Saviour you design'd to persecute . For I was just to the True Blew Mahometan Cause , and will continue stedfast . For I will Lie for it , Swear for it , go to the Devil , and be Damn'd for it , if it will do the Cause any good . If you will send Money to bear the charge of their Voyage , I do not doubt but to bring the G. S. a hundred thousand True Mahometan Protestants , that ( since your Letter ) I have recommended your Excellencys respects too . Nay , a great part of them are in the Village of London ; and do talk , and will do as much for the good old Mahometan Cause , as ever . Our Prince Mon-Teckly has given us the slip ; but Bethel-Teckly is as vigorous a Cause-monger still as any man , and will be ready upon the least Summons to head us , with the help of Sir William Waller , who lies ready at a Bawdy-house in Holland , and can easily give us his assistance , as he has promised ; for he was the man that burnt his Saviour in Effigy , and therefore is true to the Mahometan Cause . But for those Commissions you mention , I confess by the Mahometan Faith , I never saw one of e'm my self . And for the Vessel that brought me from Spain to Islington in a days time , to tell you the truth , was a great Lye of mine , because I would be thought a worker of Miracles . The True Protestant Mahometans ( send but money ) you shall have them all ; but the Black-Bills , I deny : the Spanish Pilgrims , I know nothing of : the Irish Ruffins , was a Sham : the French Army was a Dream : Purbeck Invaders , was a trick to raise the Countrey : Screw'd Guns , and Chew'd Bullets were a Jest : but the Protestant-Flails , and Blunderbusses , were a real Truth , to destroy the King , and all the Royal Family : and beat out the Brains of all their Loyal Subjects . And if they will serve you , you may command them , from your Excellencies great Admirer ,