Mr.
TOLAND's
CLITO
Examin'd
,
IN
A
LETTER
To
a
FRIEND
.
SIR
,
THE
Poem
you
sent
me
,
reach'd
Astrop
on
Thursday
last
,
and
having
a
sight
of
Mr.
Toland's
Name
in
the
Preface
,
I
immediately
fell
to
work
,
to
see
what
an
Author
,
who
had
made
such
a
Bustle
in
the
World
had
oblig'd
us
with
.
The
Publisher
,
who
without
doubt
is
Mr.
Toland
himself
,
for
I
can't
suppose
so
ill
a
Man
can
have
any
Friend
,
begin's
with
the
same
Introduction
as
other
Pretenders
to
the
Press
,
that
it
had
been
handed
about
in
Manuscript
,
that
several
Copies
had
crept
abroad
,
and
underwent
different
Characters
and
Judgments
;
and
therefore
to
give
People
a
due
light
into
the
Principles
which
some
Men
counted
pernicious
,
he
had
sent
it
abroad
in
order
to
recover
'em
from
the
Prejudice
such
and
such
Misrepresentations
might
have
given
'
em
.
I
conclude
with
him
indeed
,
that
Poetry
is
not
his
Business
;
and
I
am
sure
His
at
present
can
be
no
Body's
Diversion
but
his
own
;
tho'
I
could
wish
he
would
rather
divert
himself
that
way
,
than
publish
OCEANAS
,
and
write
Panegyricks
on
Milton
;
and
give
us
the
Lives
and
Characters
of
the
worst
of
Men
,
in
order
to
debauch
us
into
the
Imitation
of
'
em
.
But
I
can't
but
wonder
at
his
way
of
conveying
the
Knowledge
of
his
Humility
to
us
;
He
never
was
heard
to
value
himself
for
any
thing
in
Verse
beyond
a
Song
,
which
in
my
Opinion
,
is
,
he
had
no
mean
Sentiments
of
his
Lyrick
Poetry
.
Without
doubt
his
Mistress
Victorina
,
who
has
had
many
a
lamentable
Ditty
from
him
,
can
tell
us
whether
he
reaches
up
to
the
Perfections
of
the
incomparable
Motteux
,
or
bears
any
Resemblance
to
the
Character
of
the
Prince
of
Sonnet-Makers
,
Mr.
Durfey
.
As
for
the
Name
of
the
Poem
,
how
he
comes
to
call
it
CLITO
,
or
,
the
Force
of
Eloquence
,
when
he
Himself
,
not
his
pretended
Friend
,
act's
the
Orator
,
I
know
not
,
and
it
looks
something
like
a
Mistake
.
Had
he
given
it
the
Heathenish
Name
of
TOLAND
,
or
ADEISIDEMON
,
I
am
apt
to
think
this
abominable
Issue
of
his
Brain
would
have
had
a
more
significant
Apellation
.
And
tho'
CLITO
be
too
good
a
Name
for
a
Person
who
has
any
Intimacy
with
a
Man
of
his
Character
,
Yet
I
must
joyn
with
him
in
approving
his
Choice
of
ADEISIDEMON
for
himself
,
which
is
in
down-right
English
(
not
Unsuperstitious
,
as
he
terms
it
)
but
one
that
fears
neither
God
nor
Devil
.
Having
got
rid
of
the
Preface
,
it
is
but
necessary
we
fall
into
the
Poem
;
and
the
first
thing
worth
Observation
here
,
is
the
Character
of
his
Familiar
,
and
his
Request
,
Clito
the
Wise
,
the
Generous
and
Good
,
Better
than
whom
none
ever
understood
Or
Things
or
Words
,
would
yet
distinctly
know
,
How
far
the
force
of
Eloquence
could
go
To
teach
Mankind
those
Truths
which
they
Mistake
,
And
who
the
noble
Task
durst
undertake
.
We
have
some
Reason
to
question
the
truth
of
this
Gentleman's
Character
from
the
Company
he
keeps
,
but
grant
him
what
we
believe
he
is
not
,
it
adds
to
our
Author's
mistakes
,
to
m●●e
him
understand
so
well
,
and
yet
desire
to
be
inform'd
.
In
my
Opinion
,
Adeisidemon
ought
to
have
made
the
Question
,
and
Clito
to
have
resolv'd
it
;
but
't
is
not
the
first
time
Mr.
Toland
has
undertaken
to
teach
his
Superiours
,
and
instruct
those
who
had
more
Knowledge
than
himself
.
But
to
begin
with
our
Man
of
Eloquence
.
As
furious
Winds
sweep
down
what
e're
resists
,
So
sball
my
Tongue
perform
what
e're
it
lists
,
With
large
impetuous
Floods
of
Eloquence
Tickle
the
Fancy
and
bewitch
the
Sence
,
Make
what
it
will
the
justest
Cause
appear
.
And
what
's
perplext
or
dark
,
look
bright
and
clear
.
Let
me
tell
you
,
Sir
,
this
promise
of
his
is
enough
to
raise
our
Expectations
,
and
make
us
hope
to
have
the
whole
Mysteries
of
Nature
unfolded
.
But
Mr.
Toland
has
a
natural
Aversion
for
Mysteries
,
and
is
so
far
from
endeavouring
to
set
perplex'd
or
dark
things
in
the
light
,
that
the
thought
of
our
Saviour
Incarnation
is
enough
to
make
him
Blaspheme
against
the
Being
that
caus'd
it
,
and
the
mention
of
the
Resurrection
,
to
make
him
give
the
Lye
to
that
Omnipotence
that
has
ordain'd
it
.
And
tho'
he
may
be
carry'd
away
in
the
Opinion
of
himself
,
that
he
can
make
which
side
he
favours
most
,
have
the
Advantage
,
yet
if
he
's
no
better
Orator
than
his
Poetry
shews
him
to
be
,
he
'll
shoot
wide
of
the
Mark
.
The
fate
of
Beings
and
the
Hopes
of
Men
Shall
be
,
what
pleases
my
creating
Pen
.
A
Rant
indeed
,
he
might
well
call
himself
Almanzor
in
the
Preface
,
when
he
pretends
to
the
Attribute
of
the
Almighty
in
the
Poem
,
and
may
properly
give
his
the
name
of
a
Creating
Pen
,
since
it
gives
Being
to
such
unheard
of
Impieties
.
Then
why
should
Men
to
die
have
so
great
fear
?
Though
noughts
Immortal
,
all
Eternal
are
.
Now
the
Fiend
begins
to
shew
his
Cloven
Foot
,
and
puts
off
his
Disguise
,
and
disuades
Men
from
the
Fears
of
Death
by
saying
nothing
in
'em
is
Immortal
,
and
yet
every
part
which
composes
their
Humane
structure
Eternal
.
Homo
frontis
audacissimae
!
At
this
time
of
day
to
preach
up
the
Doctrine
of
Mundus
est
Aeternus
,
when
the
Author
of
All
Aeternity
has
said
,
it
should
not
,
and
to
dare
to
affirm
the
Soul
to
be
mortal
,
when
the
Apprehensions
of
its
being
not
capable
of
dying
is
the
only
dissuasive
from
doing
ill
,
and
making
us
give
a
loose
to
our
Lusts
,
like
the
Beasts
which
perish
.
Nature
to
me
appears
in
no
disguise
;
Nor
can
one
Attom
scape
my
prying
Eyes
.
If
this
,
or
the
Mighty
feats
that
went
before
,
is
the
Business
of
an
Orator
,
I
know
nothing
of
the
Matter
:
a
Cicero
may
indeed
harangue
upon
the
investigators
of
such
hidden
Truth's
,
but
an
Aristotle
or
a
Cartesius
must
find
'
em
.
O
Glorious
Liberty
!
For
Thee
I
'll
prove
,
The
firmest
Patron
that
e're
Tongue
did
move
.
Liberty
is
the
Cloak
He
makes
use
of
,
to
enslave
us
,
and
bring
us
under
the
Dominion
of
Five
Hundred
Kings
,
when
the
Constitution
of
our
Happiness
consists
in
being
govern'd
by
One
.
But
He
may
move
His
Tongue
long
enough
before
his
Prosaick
Poetry
can
lead
us
into
the
mistake
of
making
Chains
for
our selves
,
and
seeking
imaginary
good
before
that
which
is
real
.
Their
Warlike
Troops
I
shall
with
Ease
Disband
,
And
conquer
those
who
all
besides
Command
;
I
've
known
a
Senate
with
some
Magick
Words
,
To
Forks
and
Spades
transform
their
bloody
Swords
.
Certainly
He
fancy's
himself
to
be
Mr.
Tr
—
d
,
and
that
He
wrote
the
Argument
against
the
Standing
Army
;
but
the
World
is
wiser
than
to
think
any
such
thing
,
as
knowing
He
was
picking
holes
in
the
Skins
of
the
Fathers
,
when
the
Parliament
were
saving
Theirs
by
Disbanding
the
Standing
Troops
.
However
,
he
lik'd
the
Fact
,
He
might
have
omitted
the
Commendation
of
it
for
the
sake
of
a
certain
Gentleman
,
whose
Character
He
runs
into
some
time
after
.
Restore
the
Nation
to
its
perfect
Health
,
Then
Pow'r
usurpt
,
destroy
,
&
form
a
Commonwealth
.
The
Nation
is
healthy
enough
without
his
Purges
,
and
he
may
have
occasion
perhaps
for
Catharticks
himself
,
after
he
has
dabled
a
little
longer
with
Madam
Victorina
.
As
for
the
usurp'd
Power
he
talks
of
,
I
don't
believe
King
William
(
tho'
he
has
the
ill
Manners
to
liken
him
to
Brutus
)
will
give
him
leave
to
destroy
it
,
or
permit
him
to
form
what
't
is
every
Monarch's
interest
to
joyn
against
.
Her
Brutus
Rome
had
not
so
long
ador'd
,
If
he
had
made
himself
Her
Sov'raign
Lord
.
Either
King
William
is
not
our
Soveraign
Lord
,
or
the
Comparison
between
him
and
Brutus
is
not
adaquate
.
The
City
of
Rome
had
from
the
Foundation
of
its
Empire
,
till
Julius
Caesar's
Time
been
a
Free
State
,
and
had
imbib'd
an
Hatred
from
its
very
Original
against
Kings
,
I
cannot
therefore
but
agree
with
our
Author
,
that
if
Brutus
had
cloath'd
himself
with
the
Soveraign
Power
,
the
Romans
would
not
have
had
such
a
Love
for
his
Memory
,
but
how
the
Application
comes
to
be
made
to
us
,
I
'm
very
far
from
knowing
the
reason
,
since
't
is
very
plain
the
Constitution
of
our
Kingdom
requires
a
Soveraign
,
and
His
present
Majesty
has
actually
accepted
and
invested
Himself
with
that
Dignity
.
And
sure
at
Home
,
if
thou
wer
't
so
severe
,
Thou
d'st
never
labour
for
a
Foreign
Heir
.
The
drift
of
this
last
Line
,
is
to
call
in
question
the
Justice
of
our
present
Settlement
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
and
by
Buzzing
about
,
that
the
next
Heir
to
the
Crown
after
Her
Royal
Highness
,
is
a
Foreigner
and
of
the
House
of
Lunenburgh
,
to
make
way
for
a
Commonwealth
.
And
this
he
has
the
Impudence
to
say
in
the
next
Line
but
one
,
he
expects
from
William's
Love
.
,
but
it
's
thought
His
Majesty
loves
his
nearest
Relations
a
great
deal
better
than
Mr.
Toland
.
High
Heav'n
alone
shall
o're
thy
Buildings
sway
,
And
that
alone
be
fairer
thought
than
they
.
Here
our
Poet
takes
the
Gift
of
Prophecy
upon
him
,
but
does
it
in
such
terms
,
that
the
Wind
and
Weather
Man
,
Dr.
Gustavus
Parker
would
be
asham'd
of
.
Every
body
knew
Heaven
was
high
before
he
gave
us
to
understand
it
;
but
what
swaying
over
thy
Buildings
is
,
I
know
no
more
than
the
Man
in
the
Moon
.
In
short
,
he
might
have
forborn
talking
of
the
Height
of
our
Buildings
,
when
the
Royal
Palace
of
White-Hall
lies
levell'd
with
the
Ground
.
—
All
Holy
Cheats
Of
all
Religions
shall
partake
my
Threats
.
Whither
with
Sable
Gowns
they
show
their
Pride
,
Or
under
Cloaks
their
Knavery
they
hide
.
That
may
be
,
and
not
be
a
jot
the
worse
for
'
em
.
People
,
I
thank
God
,
begin
to
know
Toland
pretty
well
,
and
he
may
threaten
till
his
Heart
ach's
before
any
one
will
take
notice
of
it
.
However
,
he
has
shew'd
us
what
a
Champion
of
the
Truth
he
is
,
when
he
falls
a
reviling
the
Messengers
of
the
onely
True
God
,
and
is
for
burning
His
Temples
,
as
the
Villain
did
that
of
Diana
at
Ephesus
,
only
to
be
talk'd
of
.
I
knew
indeed
,
Mr.
Toland
had
an
Aversion
to
Episcopacy
,
and
the
Establish'd
Church
of
England
,
but
never
heard
before
he
was
fall'n
out
with
Hypocrisy
,
or
had
shaken
hands
with
his
fromer
Regards
for
the
formal
Gentlemen
with
short
Cloaks
,
who
not
long
since
had
him
in
their
Service
.
RELIGION's
safe
with
Priest-craft
is
the
War
.
All
Friends
to
Priest-craft
,
Foes
to
Mankind
are
.
By
Priest-craft
is
meant
serving
God
in
his
Ordinances
,
and
by
Religion
,
an
irregular
Scheme
without
any
Matters
of
Faith
in
it
beyond
what
his
Reason
can
explain
to
him
;
so
that
the
last
might
well
be
safe
,
when
none
but
such
as
he
,
would
meddle
with
it
;
and
he
might
well
have
a
War
with
the
first
,
when
it
taught
such
a
Purity
of
Belief
,
as
ran
counter
to
the
Impurity
of
his
,
which
is
,
that
the
Friends
to
God
,
are
the
Foes
to
his
Creatures
.
When
I've
perform'd
these
feats
,
new
Danger
calls
From
Earth
I
'll
soar
,
and
scale
High
Heavens
Walls
,
To
pull
false
Gods
from
thence
,
that
Men
may
see
There
's
but
One
true
,
all
perfect
DEITY
.
Now
our
Spark's
for
soaring
,
when
,
tho'
he
is
not
so
swag-belly'd
as
Father
Dominick
,
yet
,
his
Guts
,
like
his
,
were
never
made
for
Mounting
.
But
there
's
no
danger
of
his
reaching
Heav'n
while
he
continues
obstinate
in
such
Principles
as
bear
no
Communication
with
it
.
However
,
he
's
for
renewing
the
Giants
War
,
and
like
another
Tiphoeus
,
is
for
scaling
Heav'ns
Walls
,
which
he
's
in
the
right
of
it
again
,
for
calling
High
.
I
could
wish
Mr.
Toland
did
not
furnish
us
with
the
following
Explication
of
these
four
Lines
,
(
viz.
)
That
when
he
had
debauch'd
his
Votaries
from
their
Faith
and
Allegiance
,
he
would
question
the
Being
of
our
Soveraign
Lord
,
God
Almighty
,
in
his
Trinity
and
Unity
,
and
dethrone
the
Second
and
Third
Persons
in
it
.
If
this
be
not
his
Opinion
,
and
the
Sense
of
his
words
,
I
ask
his
pardon
,
but
I
am
sure
't
is
that
of
the
Deists
,
which
abominable
Sect
he
's
not
altogether
a
Stranger
to
,
With
Forms
,
and
Postures
He
is
never
pleas'd
,
Nor
is
his
Wrath
with
Bribes
to
be
appeas'd
.
Good
again
!
He
himself
has
taught
us
a
Form
to
pray
by
,
and
yet
is
offended
at
our
making
use
of
it
.
If
God
is
a
〈…〉
y
with
us
,
it
matters
not
if
we
sue
for
Pardon
,
and
deprecate
the
Vengeance
we
are
threatned
with
:
He
's
too
just
a
Judge
to
take
Bribes
,
that
is
,
accept
the
Sorrows
of
a
true
Penitent
,
as
he
has
promis'd
us
in
his
holy
Word
,
and
it
's
impossible
for
Him
after
He
is
once
provok'd
to
be
appeas'd
.
This
is
robbing
God
of
His
Chiefest
Attribute
His
Mercy
,
and
flinging
every
one
into
a
State
of
Damnation
;
For
without
doubt
,
there
is
no
Man
living
but
has
offended
his
Maker
some
time
or
other
.
This
is
a
Scheme
of
believing
with
a
witness
,
and
credat
Judeus
Appelles
,
for
neither
I
nor
any
rational
Being
can
.
To
those
dark
shades
I
'll
introduce
the
Day
,
And
the
Vain
Terrors
of
Hell's
Court
display
,
Having
storm'd
the
Gates
of
Heav'n
,
the
next
thing
he
does
is
to
make
a
visit
to
the
Devil
,
and
dispossess
him
likewise
of
his
Authority
.
He
's
a
Fiend
indeed
fit
enough
to
supply
his
place
,
but
I
doubt
,
not
prevailing
enough
to
rob
him
of
his
Post
.
And
tho'
I
cannot
prove
any
such
Local
place
in
Being
,
as
this
of
Fire
and
Brimstone
is
,
yet
since
God
has
spoken
of
it
by
the
Mouth
of
His
Prophets
;
and
our
Saviour
Himself
has
made
use
of
the
Terrors
of
it
,
in
order
to
our
Salvation
,
I
give
an
implicit
Belief
to
the
Sacred
Writ
,
which
he
questions
the
Truth
of
,
and
which
may
bring
him
to
those
Punishments
he
may
wish
too
late
,
he
had
not
spoken
so
slightly
of
.
Legions
of
Fiends
to
Attoms
I
'll
reduce
,
And
leave
bad
Men
no
Tempter
for
Excuse
.
This
is
a
Confirmation
in
express
terms
of
what
went
before
;
and
as
he
deny'd
the
Punishment
there
,
here
he
actually
declares
there
are
no
such
Beings
as
the
Punishers
,
and
takes
the
part
of
a
Sceptical
Divine
,
who
said
that
Eve
had
no
such
thing
as
a
Tempter
,
but
that
the
Depravity
of
her
own
Nature
(
tho'
God
had
made
her
without
Sin
)
caus'd
her
to
rob
the
Tree
of
Life
,
and
original
Sin
was
born
with
the
World
,
not
the
after
growth
of
One
who
was
the
most
Beautiful
part
of
it
.
And
Fools
will
mend
when
Abler
Men
exhort
:
Or
by
strict
Laws
are
kept
from
doing
Hurt
.
I
wish
this
were
applicable
to
himself
,
and
he
would
hearken
to
the
Advice
of
the
Scripture
he
despises
,
or
else
our
Parliament
would
handle
him
as
they
did
in
a
place
which
gives
Birth
to
no
Venemous
Insects
,
but
yet
was
the
place
of
this
poisonous
Creature's
Nativity
,
that
the
strictness
of
their
Laws
may
tie
up
his
Hands
from
doing
hurt
,
and
dispersing
such
Doctrines
as
are
contrary
to
sound
Truth
,
and
take
all
manner
of
occasion
to
dilate
their
Infection
amongst
such
as
are
remiss
in
providing
against
'
em
.
So
shall
my
Words
like
Thunder-bolts
be
hurl'd
,
And
will
confound
,
or
mend
the
erring
World
.
As
he
before
rob'd
God
of
His
Mercy
,
so
now
he
has
made
bold
with
another
of
His
Attributes
,
which
is
His
Justice
;
and
having
got
the
Thunder-bolt
in
his
Hand
,
he
's
for
breathing
new
Souls
into
his
Fellow
Creatures
,
or
if
they
have
a
mind
to
keep
their
old
ones
,
he
's
for
dispatching
them
,
and
making
way
for
his
Creating
Pen
(
as
he
calls
it
)
to
form
others
.
But
whatever
he
may
think
,
I
'm
of
opinion
,
mending
is
none
of
his
Province
,
tho'
confounding
may
;
and
if
he
had
the
Gift
of
Reformation
,
he
has
so
many
Faults
of
his
own
to
employ
himself
at
home
,
that
he
need
not
go
out
in
search
of
Business
.
abroad
.
But
when
from
Cares
and
Publick
Business
free
,
Bright
VICTORINA
,
my
lov'd
Theme
shall
be
,
The
softest
words
the
sweetest
things
will
tell
,
And
all
I
write
or
speak
be
fine
and
well
.
That
is
as
much
as
to
say
,
when
he
drops
the
pursuit
of
doing
ill
,
which
is
his
Business
,
to
mend
the
Matter
,
he
betakes
himself
to
his
Mistress
;
and
tho'
he
us'd
rough
Expressions
,
as
Thunder-bolts
,
&c.
to
frighten
the
Men
into
Vice
,
Victorina
is
such
a
perverse
,
cunning
Baggage
,
that
she
'll
not
be
driven
;
but
he
must
speak
fine
and
well
,
if
he
would
bring
her
upon
the
Couch
of
Iniquity
.
A
sign
he
has
a
better
Opinion
of
the
Fair
Sex
than
his
own
;
and
that
he
does
not
pretend
he
has
spoken
well
of
his
new
System
of
Religion
,
when
all
his
fine
Words
are
kept
in
Reserve
,
to
make
a
Convert
of
his
Bona
Roba
with
.
But
her
dear
Image
calms
my
raging
Breast
,
All
should
be
still
to
lodge
so
fair
a
Guest
.
Let
me
tell
you
,
we
are
more
beholding
to
his
Love
than
we
are
to
his
Eloquence
,
the
last
was
gotten
into
such
a
fit
of
raving
and
blustring
in
Heroicks
,
that
we
should
all
have
been
flung
upon
our
Backs
by
the
force
of
it
,
had
not
the
first
interpos'd
,
and
hush'd
the
Storm-Well
,
I
hope
next
time
he
falls
a
thundring
,
his
Mistress
will
come
in
his
Head
,
to
prevent
the
Effects
of
it
,
and
lay
that
Evil
Spirit
of
his
which
hurry's
him
away
to
his
own
destruction
;
for
I
'm
persuaded
it
's
much
better
to
be
a
Whore-Master
than
a
Deist
.
Thus
far
I
spoke
;
and
CLITO
all
approv'd
,
Except
what
last
was
said
of
Her
I
lov'd
.
Had
I
been
in
CLITO's
place
,
I
should
have
had
another
Opinion
,
and
approv'd
of
what
he
said
of
his
Mistress
,
much
better
than
what
he
spoke
of
his
God
.
When
he
speaks
of
the
first
,
he
's
all
over
Obedience
and
Reverence
,
but
when
he
makes
mention
of
the
last
,
he
seems
possest
with
the
Spirit
of
Rebellion
,
and
looks
as
if
he
rose
in
defiance
against
Him
that
created
him
.
As
for
his
Lady
,
I
know
her
not
,
and
she
may
be
Virtuous
,
as
he
gives
us
his
Word
,
she
is
;
But
for
himself
,
he
may
be
assur'd
it
's
none
of
his
Fault
,
if
she
be
not
downright
Vitious
.
Thus
I
have
sent
you
my
Thoughts
of
the
Present
you
made
me
;
and
should
at
the
same
time
,
give
you
my
Sentiments
of
Fuller's
Narrative
,
had
not
I
already
swell'd
'em
beyond
the
Bulk
of
a
single
Letter
.
You
may
expect
my
Observations
next
Post
on
the
Trifler
in
Prose
,
as
you
now
have
those
dispatch'd
to
you
on
the
Pains-taker
in
Verse
.
In
the
mean
time
,
take
these
Observations
on
the
Poetical
Man
of
Eloquence
with
the
rest
▪
He
's
a
Poet
without
Versificacation
,
an
Orator
without
Elocution
,
a
Disputant
without
Reason
,
a
Subject
without
Obedience
,
a
Boaster
without
Performance
;
and
the
Body
of
his
Poem
has
as
little
an
agreement
with
the
Title
of
it
,
as
his
way
of
living
bears
proportion
to
the
Name
he
bears
of
a
Christian
;
and
he
may
write
himself
a
Deist
,
as
long
as
he
pleases
,
I
am
satisfied
his
manner
of
writing
shews
him
little
better
than
an
Atheist
.
Astrop
.
Octob
.
12.
1700.
Yours
,
&c.
S.
F.
REMARKS
UPON
Fuller's
Plain
Proof
,
&c.
TO
keep
my
word
with
you
,
I
have
gone
through
the
fatigue
of
reading
the
dullest
Book
in
Nature
,
with
the
least
appearance
of
Truth
in
it
that
ever
saw
the
Light
.
Our
Author
gives
it
the
Title
of
Plain
Proof
,
but
I
durst
to
be
sworn
his
Readers
will
give
it
another
Name
,
and
will
agree
with
me
,
that
he
has
so
little
made
out
the
Matter
in
dispute
,
that
he
has
more
perplext
the
Cause
than
ever
.
Without
doubt
this
Fuller
might
have
done
some
Service
for
the
present
Government
,
but
I
have
no
reason
to
conclude
that
the
Duke
of
Shrewsbury
gave
him
the
Certificate
he
impudently
puts
at
the
back
of
his
Title
,
for
his
bringing
the
Birth
of
the
Prince
of
Wales
to
light
;
and
tho'
I
should
be
as
glad
to
have
him
prov'd
an
Impostor
as
any
Englishman
living
,
yet
you
must
excuse
me
,
if
I
suspend
my
Belief
of
an
Assertion
which
is
Midwif'd
into
the
World
by
a
Person
of
his
Character
.
I
have
read
his
Life
too
lately
to
be
in
love
with
his
manner
of
Living
;
and
since
Truth
's
are
often
questioned
from
Men
who
have
known
Talents
at
Lying
,
you
must
not
think
me
an
Infidel
if
I
don't
give
Credit
to
a
Lye
,
that
comes
from
a
known
Lyar
.
There
's
no
dispute
but
the
Lord
Mayor
and
Aldermen
are
highly
oblig'd
to
him
;
but
if
they
have
giv'n
him
a
Penny
,
which
I
suppose
he
wrote
his
Dedication
for
,
they
have
return'd
the
Obligation
more
than
threefold
on
his
Head
,
and
kept
his
strong
Mountain
which
bids
defiance
to
all
its
opposers
,
sometime
longer
than
it
would
otherwise
from
dwindling
into
a
Mole-Hill
.
Sir
Richard
Levet
and
his
Right
Worshipful
Brethren
have
more
sense
,
than
to
beleive
what
the
House
of
Lords
,
and
the
Honourable
the
Commons
,
would
not
give
Credit
to
;
and
tho'
they
are
such
good
Protestants
as
to
be
sticklers
in
good
Earnest
against
Popery
,
yet
the
cause
of
Religion
is
of
it self
so
good
an
Argument
for
keeping
this
young
Gentleman
still
at
St.
Germains
,
that
they
have
no
need
of
having
recourse
to
a
Fuller
to
keep
'em
steady
and
unshaken
in
their
present
Loyalty
,
or
have
any
occasion
of
laying
hold
on
Illegitimacy
to
support
their
Pretensions
when
the
preservations
of
their
Laws
,
Liberties
,
and
all
that
's
dear
to
'em
,
are
sufficient
Pleas
in
favour
of
their
Conduct
.
As
for
my
own
part
,
tho'
I
'm
a
better
Subject
than
this
Affidavit
Man
,
yet
I
can
never
believe
his
Depositions
till
they
are
back
▪
d
by
those
of
as
many
noble
Persons
,
as
those
about
the
Truth
of
the
Prince's
Birth
were
;
and
if
I
forbear
giving
Credit
to
him
,
't
is
not
so
much
for
the
P
—
sake
,
as
for
his
own
,
who
is
so
great
a
stranger
to
any
thing
that
looks
like
Truth
.
In
his
Preface
he
begins
with
the
Reports
that
our
English
Travellers
make
of
this
Unfortunate
young
Gentleman's
Atchievements
,
and
the
hopes
the
Roman
Catholicks
have
beyond
Sea
of
establishing
him
and
their
Religion
yet
in
these
Kingdoms
.
As
for
the
first
,
some
young
Gentlemen
are
more
sprightly
than
others
,
and
I
should
be
glad
if
he
were
of
as
common
Birth
,
as
Fuller
reports
him
to
be
of
,
so
he
was
English
Born
,
to
hear
of
any
Fellow
Subject's
Improvement
;
and
for
the
last
,
I
've
a
better
Opinion
of
the
Roman
Catholicks
Prudence
,
than
that
they
should
tell
a
known
Enemy
and
Spy
,
they
design'd
to
Sing
High
Mass
shortly
in
St.
Paul's
Cathedral
,
but
am
apt
to
fancy
Mr.
Fuller
has
been
in
some
Goal
or
other
,
rather
than
a
holding
Disputes
at
Antwerp
,
or
a
travelling
in
the
Countries
at
Home
,
Cheating
His
Majesty's
Subjects
,
than
conversing
with
Father
Sabran
,
or
Hunter
beyond
the
Seas
.
Nothing
more
seem's
material
in
the
Preface
than
the
Reason
he
gives
for
not
publishing
this
dull
Pamphlet
sooner
,
and
that
is
,
because
he
expected
a
Hearing
before
the
Lords
,
which
they
Honourably
refus'd
him
,
and
rather
serv'd
for
an
Argument
to
forward
the
Suppression
of
such
Scandalous
Papers
,
than
their
Publication
.
Having
found
my
way
through
the
Porch
,
't
is
but
necessary
I
should
take
some
small
Entertainment
in
the
House
,
and
here
the
first
Course
is
a
Narrative
to
pick
at
,
which
has
all
the
Positive
Assurance
of
Matters
of
Fact
,
while
the
second
is
an
Epistolary
Desert
,
with
the
resemblance
of
something
that
looks
as
much
like
nothing
as
can
be
.
He
tells
you
he
was
deliver'd
of
a
small
Narrative
about
the
Prince's
Birth
four
Years
ago
;
that
a
Man
of
Quality
gave
himself
the
Trouble
of
Answering
it
,
and
examining
the
Features
of
this
Brat
of
his
Brain
;
and
that
the
Noble
Person
who
has
made
a
Fool
of
him
,
was
a
Gentleman
so
well
known
among
the
Citizens
of
London
,
that
he
can't
take
up
Goods
without
Ready
Money
.
When
he
might
have
said
,
he
himself
was
so
well
known
,
that
no
one
could
call
in
question
the
Truth
of
what
that
Worthy
Person
alledg'd
against
him
.
But
I
cannot
but
say
this
in
his
behalf
,
that
the
small
Number
of
his
Affidavits
shew
he
has
more
Modesty
in
making
Oath
than
his
Predecessor
T.
O.
D.
D.
of
Famous
Memory
,
who
stretch'd
his
Pagan
Lungs
much
beyond
Number
6
;
and
the
Simplicity
and
Incredibility
of
'em
are
such
,
that
it
's
full
as
hard
to
believe
the
One
,
as
't
was
formerly
to
take
off
People
from
giving
Credit
to
the
Other
.
To
go
on
with
his
Depositions
.
1.
He
's
ready
to
Swear
with
all
his
Heart
and
Soul
,
when
any
Body
will
take
his
Oath
,
That
the
Countess
of
Tyrconnel
,
brought
over
two
Big-Belly'd
Women
,
in
May
1688.
with
her
,
in
the
Monmouth
Yatch
,
Capt
.
Wright
Commander
.
2.
He
avers
upon
his
Soul
,
that
one
of
these
two
Big-belly'd
Women
,
fell
to
pieces
at
an
Inn
in
St.
Albans
.
3.
He
avers
again
,
as
he
hopes
to
be
sav'd
,
the
other
Lady
,
who
was
not
so
near
her
Time
,
and
could
carry
her
Burthen
farther
,
got
safe
to
London
,
and
was
lodg'd
in
St.
James's
Palace
in
two
Rooms
joyning
to
the
Marchioness
of
Powis's
;
and
upon
his
unquestionable
Veracity
,
her
Name
was
Mrs.
Mary
Grey
.
4.
That
the
said
Mrs.
Mary
Grey
,
fell
into
Labour
on
Saturday
the
9th
of
June
in
the
same
Year
,
1688
;
That
Mrs.
Wilks
was
brought
to
her
,
and
that
the
Queen
came
instantly
to
St.
James's
,
and
pretended
of
a
sudden
to
be
in
the
same
Condition
;
and
Mrs.
Grey
being
deliver'd
,
the
Child
was
carried
in
a
Warming-Pan
by
Mrs.
Labbady
(
which
he
actually
saw
,
by
all
that
's
good
)
through
the
narrow
Gallery
into
the
Back
Room
,
next
to
that
where
the
Queen
lay
.
5.
To
keep
his
Hand
in
at
Averring
,
he
avers
that
this
same
Mrs.
Grey
,
and
no
Body
else
in
her
Skin
,
was
sent
away
three
Weeks
after
her
Delivery
,
and
that
too
by
Command
to
Dover
,
in
a
Coach
and
six
Horses
,
accompany'd
by
Father
Lewis
Sabran
,
the
Marchioness
of
Powis's
Woman
,
and
the
said
Juror's
own
dear
self
;
and
that
one
Father
Grey
,
a
Secular
Priest
of
Calice
,
met
her
there
,
and
took
her
with
him
in
the
Pacquet
Boat
to
Calice
,
and
from
thence
to
the
Benedictine
Nunnery
at
Paris
.
6.
To
conclude
and
pin
the
Basket
,
he
makes
use
of
his
own
Word
,
and
avers
again
,
that
the
Lady
was
true
Flesh
and
Blood
,
and
did
not
care
to
end
her
Days
in
a
Nunnery
;
wherefore
she
made
a
Breach
in
the
Wall
,
and
made
her
Escape
from
her
Confinement
,
but
in
three
days
,
after
great
Search
,
she
was
found
,
and
sent
back
to
the
Cloister
,
to
mumble
over
her
Beads
again
.
These
are
the
Six
plain
Proofs
our
Ductor
Dubitantium
has
giv'n
us
of
the
young
Prince's
Illegitimacy
;
which
,
tho'
they
are
not
worthy
of
Reply
,
are
thus
expos'd
as
trivial
,
and
as
so
many
propositions
without
consequences
.
(
1.
)
Suppose
two
Gentlewomen
with
Child
did
actually
come
over
with
my
Lady
Tyrconnel
,
does
that
Argue
that
the
Countess
brought
'em
over
for
the
use
of
the
Queen
?
Certainly
Her
Majesty
had
no
occasion
to
send
to
Ireland
for
Breeders
,
when
so
many
young
People
were
playing
the
Fool
under
Her
Nose
,
and
understood
the
Act
of
Generation
as
well
as
any
Teague-lander
whatsoever
.
(
2.
)
't
is
highly
improbable
if
such
a
Design
was
in
hand
,
and
nothing
would
content
our
then
Sovereign
Lady
but
an
Irish
Bantling
,
that
the
Countess
should
pick
out
Women
so
near
their
Time
,
as
that
one
of
'em
should
cry
out
at
St.
Albans
in
her
way
to
London
,
and
the
other
lie
down
in
less
than
a
Month
after
at
St.
James's
3.
Take
it
for
granted
,
that
she
was
brought
to
and
lodg'd
in
St.
James's
Palace
,
over
my
Lady
Stricland's
Lodgings
,
&c.
Her
Lodgings
were
at
too
great
a
distance
from
her
Majesty's
,
and
very
disagreeable
to
the
intended
Design
.
For
the
Child
was
brought
hot
from
the
Body
,
which
could
never
be
,
had
it
been
born
such
a
distance
from
the
Queen's
Appartment
.
Their
Majesties
Physicians
made
Oath
in
Chancery
;
That
the
After-birth
was
reeking
,
and
how
that
could
be
after
its
being
brought
through
two
Chambers
,
the
Narrow
Gallery
,
and
Her
Majesty's
Anti-Chamber
;
those
who
understand
the
Nature
of
it
,
and
how
soon
it
cools
,
cannot
imagine
.
4.
The
Devil
must
needs
owe
Mrs.
Labbady
a
Shame
,
if
after
Matters
were
so
closely
concerted
,
as
he
would
make
us
believe
,
she
could
be
so
impudent
as
to
carry
the
Child
in
the
Warming-Pan
openly
before
a
young
Fellow
,
who
at
those
Years
was
so
far
from
keeping
a
Secret
,
as
he
is
now
from
being
trusted
with
one
.
5.
Let
him
aver
his
Heart
out
,
that
she
went
in
a
Coach
and
Six
Horses
to
Dover
,
he
shall
never
bring
me
to
conclude
from
thence
,
that
the
P
—
of
Wales
his
Mother
was
sent
into
a
Nunnery
.
I
'll
be
plain
with
him
,
it
seems
very
improper
to
me
,
that
a
fair
Lady
,
who
had
taken
her
Leave
of
Man's
Flesh
,
and
was
retiring
into
a
Convent
,
should
take
such
a
Lustful
young
Rogue
with
her
as
he
was
,
in
the
Coach
by
way
of
Mortification
.
6.
Had
the
young
Prince
been
her
Son
,
and
she
such
a
Tender
Mother
of
Him
,
she
would
(
after
her
Escape
from
the
Nunnery
)
made
what
haste
she
could
to
St.
Germains
;
but
,
tho'
Father
Sabran's
Letter
says
,
she
was
so
fond
,
she
could
not
live
from
her
Son
,
this
Spark
makes
her
otherwise
,
and
so
far
from
having
her
Bowels
yearn
after
Him
,
that
she
takes
to
her
Heels
,
and
runs
as
fast
as
her
Legs
could
carry
her
from
the
Sight
of
him
.
Thus
much
for
his
six
Affidavits
,
and
I
have
nothing
to
do
,
except
the
taking
Notice
of
one
thing
,
before
I
make
enquiry
into
his
Seven
Letters
,
and
two
Irish
Certificates
;
and
that
is
,
the
Reasons
why
Mrs.
Grey
was
murder'd
.
She
was
put
to
Death
,
he
says
,
because
she
should
not
discover
her
Son
to
be
the
Prince
of
Wales
,
and
so
break
the
Measures
of
the
Court
.
If
this
be
not
Argumentum
ab
imbecisiori
,
I
am
highly
mistaken
.
For
to
suppose
a
Woman
to
be
a
Mother
of
a
Child
,
fond
of
it
to
the
last
degree
,
desirous
of
his
Welfare
,
&c.
and
yet
at
the
same
time
to
repine
at
his
Preferment
,
and
discover
her
Son's
Birth
,
tho'
given
out
and
receiv'd
for
a
Branch
of
the
Blood
Royal
,
are
as
inconsistent
as
Falshood
is
with
Truth
,
or
a
Person
of
Fuller's
Character
,
with
one
who
has
an
Abomination
for
Fuller's
Forgeries
.
But
I
spend
too
much
Time
upon
what
does
not
deserve
my
notice
,
and
it
s
altogether
proper
to
keep
my
word
with
you
,
after
having
given
you
a
promise
of
what
I
could
wish
I
had
made
no
mention
of
,
i.e.
to
Communicate
my
thoughts
of
the
Letters
,
whether
they
are
genuine
or
no
.
Believe
it
,
Sir
,
I
perform
this
Task
very
unwillingly
,
as
being
in
the
Interest
,
of
a
Government
he
seems
to
Espouse
,
and
which
the
D—
of
S
—
has
given
under
Hand
,
that
this
Fellow
has
been
serviceable
to
,
but
as
the
People
of
England
have
no
reason
to
be
apprehensive
of
any
danger
from
their
Enemies
,
whilst
they
are
under
the
Security
of
his
present
Majesty's
Protection
,
and
are
shelter'd
by
his
Sword
,
and
govern'd
by
his
Sceptre
,
we
have
no
manner
of
need
to
make
use
of
little
Artifices
for
the
defence
of
a
Cause
which
has
occasion
for
nothing
but
it
's
own
Glory
and
Sincerity
to
support
it
.
Therefore
I
cannot
be
thought
to
side
against
my
Country
,
if
I
declare
the
Letters
which
are
any
thing
material
,
seem
all
written
by
one
hand
,
tho'
I
question
not
he
deliver'd
those
he
speaks
of
to
King
William
,
and
swore
heartily
before
his
Majesty
,
that
they
were
genuine
.
To
begin
with
the
Two
first
directed
,
to
the
Lords
Montgomery
and
Castlemain
.
The
Contents
of
'em
are
the
same
in
substance
,
and
sent
by
the
same
Messenger
of
Integrity
,
William
Fuller
.
And
tho'
we
should
be
so
favourable
to
him
as
to
make
no
scruple
at
all
in
relation
to
the
Person
that
Penn'd
'em
down
,
yet
we
have
good
reason
to
doubt
whether
her
Majesty
if
he
wrote
'em
,
was
so
sollicitous
about
the
recovery
and
flight
of
Mrs.
Grey
,
for
fear
of
discovering
the
true
Mother
of
the
Gentleman
that
goes
by
the
Name
of
the
P
—
of
Wales
.
Other
reasons
of
State
might
induce
her
to
make
enquiry
after
her
,
and
it
's
so
inconsistent
with
a
Lady
of
any
sparks
of
Christianity
to
desire
any
one
to
Assassinate
her
Eellow
Creature
,
and
at
the
same
time
address
her self
to
Heav'n
and
Pray
for
Success
in
such
a
Hellish
Affair
,
That
I
must
needs
be
excus'd
,
if
I
say
,
this
looks
very
much
like
Fuller
,
who
first
Forges
a
Matter
,
and
afterwards
abuses
God's
Holy
name
,
by
Swearing
't
is
matter
of
Fact
.
Lett
.
3.
Being
taken
out
of
Mr.
Crone's
Pocket
Book
,
and
he
afterwards
convicted
of
High-Treason
for
the
Contents
of
it
and
other
Matters
,
I
shall
not
call
the
Justice
of
the
most
equitable
Court
in
the
World
in
question
,
yet
,
though
it
shews
Her
late
Majesty
held
a
Correspondence
with
the
Lord
Montgomery
by
means
of
the
Bearer
who
was
under
Sentence
of
Condemnation
for
it
,
I
am
apt
to
believe
our
Affairs
were
not
so
firmly
established
at
that
juncture
,
but
His
Majesty
out
of
his
great
Wisdom
would
have
caus'd
the
Letters
which
relate
to
Mrs.
Grey
to
be
made
publick
,
in
order
to
fix
the
Minds
of
some
People
,
who
at
that
time
of
day
were
bending
towards
the
Belief
of
the
aforesaid
P
—
's
Legitimacy
.
One
thing
which
I
take
particular
Notice
of
in
this
Letter
,
is
,
that
Fuller
was
trusted
with
Bills
,
and
did
not
turn
the
Money
to
his
own
use
.
Lett
.
4.
Is
written
,
as
he
says
,
by
Father
Sabran
a
Jesuit
;
let
who
will
be
the
Author
of
it
,
I
dare
acquit
Fuller
with
a
safe
Conscience
,
that
he
did
not
write
it
himself
.
It
savours
too
much
of
Piety
to
be
any
thing
of
his
Dictating
;
and
there
's
too
great
an
Air
of
Roguery
in
it
not
to
be
of
his
Contriving
.
In
short
,
he
might
bring
it
to
the
late
Queen
of
ever
blessed
Memory
,
for
all
that
I
know
;
but
it
seems
a
little
odd
(
if
it
was
found
in
the
Dutchess
of
Tyrconnel's
Trunk
)
that
a
Prince
of
such
a
penetrating
Judgment
as
his
present
Majesty
is
,
should
order
a
Business
of
such
consequence
to
be
entrusted
in
the
hands
of
one
who
had
broke
his
Trust
before
in
Betraying
his
Mistress
,
and
to
let
it
be
unpublish'd
till
this
time
,
when
no
Prince
in
Christendom
disputes
the
Justice
of
His
Majesty's
Rightful
and
Lawful
Title
.
Lett
.
5.
Has
the
Dutchess
of
Powis's
Name
to
it
,
and
is
pretended
to
be
under
her
Hand
,
when
it
looks
very
much
like
the
Product
of
our
Man
of
Deposition's
own
Head
:
Tho'
't
is
not
done
so
artfully
as
became
a
Man
of
his
Invention
;
He
should
have
made
my
Lady
Dutchess
to
have
spoken
plainer
;
and
since
these
two
Ladies
held
such
a
free
Correspondence
together
to
have
cloath'd
his
Meaning
with
less
ambiguous
terms
.
Tho'
I
am
very
ready
to
conclude
,
that
an
Affair
of
this
Nature
would
scarce
be
trusted
to
any
thing
but
Cyphers
;
and
that
notwithstanding
he
pretends
it
was
taken
out
of
the
Dutchess
of
Tyrconnel's
Trunk
,
it
had
seen
the
Light
sooner
,
had
not
he
put
it
there
.
Lett
.
6.
Shews
the
dull
Mr.
Fuller's
Head
had
been
employ'd
in
Counterfeiting
the
Ingenious
Mr.
Carryl's
Hand
.
That
unfortunate
Gentleman
is
too
well
known
for
his
Stile
,
to
address
a
Lady
of
Quality
in
that
nature
;
and
tho'
some
People
who
know
how
to
Forge
Bills
,
&c.
may
give
us
something
not
unlike
his
Hand
,
they
may
try
long
enough
before
they
can
reach
up
to
the
Perfections
of
his
Head
.
Lett
.
7.
Is
far
from
being
artfully
contriv'd
,
and
may
be
genuine
for
all
that
I
know
,
for
there
's
nothing
in
it
,
but
the
Duke's
Sorrows
for
his
Kinswomans
Misfortunes
,
his
Thanks
to
the
Dutchess
of
Powis
for
her
good
Offices
,
and
his
Protestations
that
he
cannot
comply
with
Mrs.
Greys
desires
of
obtaining
a
Rockers
Place
,
because
of
her
Disposition
.
Several
other
things
might
make
her
Request
improper
,
besides
a
Mothers
tenderness
of
Nature
,
which
he
will
have
it
to
be
,
and
tho'
the
General
Opinion
has
so
startled
me
,
that
I
lean
very
much
after
the
Desires
of
knowing
the
Truth
of
this
Gentleman's
Original
,
who
is
so
much
talk'd
of
,
yet
the
Character
of
our
Author
,
his
known
Disingenuity
,
and
the
Contempt
he
has
met
with
from
Both
Houses
of
Parliament
,
confirms
me
that
it
cannot
be
as
he
asserts
,
tho'
I
cannot
tell
but
it
may
be
as
a
great
many
others
think
.
I
wish
heartily
for
a
Light
into
the
Matter
,
but
it
must
come
from
another
hand
,
if
it
expects
a
Reception
.
As
for
the
two
Irish
Squires
,
who
begin
their
Letter
with
Mr.
William
Fuller
.
Sir
,
their
Information
has
as
little
Authority
over
me
,
as
their
Wive's
Certificate
;
and
I
'm
a
Dog
if
I
can
think
a
Lady
of
the
Dutchess
of
Tyrconnel's
Temper
could
so
far
pocket
up
the
Injuries
of
the
Marriage-Bed
,
as
to
Caress
the
Women
that
had
rob'd
her
of
her
Husband's
Love
,
and
not
only
pocket
up
a
Rival's
being
with
Child
,
but
take
a
Voyage
for
England
,
to
take
care
of
her
safe
Delivery
.
This
is
such
a
piece
of
Condescention
,
your
Termegant
Wife
nor
mine
would
ever
submit
to
;
and
tho'
Fuller
has
made
the
Dutchess
give
'em
this
President
,
the
way
to
have
our
houses
pull'd
down
upon
our
heads
,
is
for
us
to
follow
the
Duke's
.
I
would
have
t'other
fling
at
this
piece
of
Ridicule
,
but
I
am
affraid
I
have
said
enough
to
make
me
lose
my
Interest
with
you
,
and
get
the
Name
of
a
Jacobite
,
than
which
nothing
is
more
contemptible
to
Astrop
14th
Octob
.
1700.
Sir
Yours
,
&c.
S.
F.