REMARKES
UPON
E.
Settle's
NARRATIVE
AND
now
the
Whiggs
may
thank
themselves
.
They
had
once
the
Great
Settle
on
their
sides
.
There
were
but
Nine
Muses
,
and
four
&
a
half
were
Whiggs
—
But
now
for
want
of
a
little
Contribution-money
to
defend
him
from
Taylors
Bills
,
and
Landlady's
scores
,
they
have
lost
this
mighty
Champion
of
Theirs
.
't
is
an
ill
thing
to
provoke
the
slaves
of
Patrons
,
that
have
no
where
to
feed
but
at
other
mens
Tables
;
that
have
no
bread
to
put
in
their
heads
but
what
their
Patron
affords
'em
:
for
these
Tenants
at
Will
under
other
men's
Roofs
must
sneake
and
cringe
,
and
if
a
Patron
will
have
'em
,
must
damn
their
souls
,
to
save
their
Bodies
.
The
Tories
therefore
would
not
loose
the
Opportunitie
,
but
finding
such
a
Belisarius
as
Elkanah
,
deserted
,
first
by
his
Patron
Roffee
,
that
kept
the
King's
Armes
against
the
Dukes
Theatre
,
and
forsaken
by
his
Aldersgate
street
Patron
,
presently
caught
him
up
,
fed
him
,
and
set
him
to
work
.
't
was
all
one
to
Elkanah
,
what
car'd
He
?
He
followd
the
Dictates
of
his
Necessitie
,
and
,
Ingenij
Largitor
venter
.
The
Whiggs
therefore
were
nothing
at
all
beholding
to
him
;
for
it
was
not
any
good
opinion
of
their
cause
,
or
upon
any
true
Ground
or
principle
of
vertue
and
reason
that
he
did
them
service
.
But
being
a
needy
Pedler
of
words
,
sold
'em
to
the
best
Chapman
,
as
the
Italian
Bravos
prostitute
their
Pistolls
and
still
etto's
to
all
the
leud
Designs
of
Mischeif
.
Nay
he
is
so
vain
and
ostentatious
to
make
the
world
beleive
,
that
his
Satyrs
had
effectual
Gall
,
and
that
the
Blemishes
of
his
Pen
would
most
severely
stick
where
they
lighted
.
And
who
d'
yee
think
must
be
the
first
that
was
to
feel
the
signall
Effects
of
his
wrath
and
disgust
?
No
less
a
Personage
then
his
Rooyal
Highness
.
This
he
thought
was
Par
Congressus
,
and
would
render
his
fame
Immortall
.
And
what
was
all
this
for
?
Because
the
Duke
was
not
pleasd
to
gratifie
his
humour
about
an
Idle
Play
.
A
crime
assuredly
of
a
most
high
nature
,
scarce
within
the
bounds
of
pardon
,
for
an
inconsiderable
Play
—
Wright
to
bend
the
force
of
his
Poeticall
Licence
in
the
defence
of
a
cause
by
him self
not
approv'd
,
and
consequently
to
put
an
Imposture
upon
the
Nation
to
endeavour
to
dethrone
the
Kingdomes
Heir
,
on
purpose
to
satisfie
his
Rancour
and
Revenge
against
the
Duke
.
And
all
this
not
out
of
his
zeale
for
the
public
Welfare
,
but
out
of
Malice
forethought
against
the
second
person
of
the
Realm
,
contrary
to
his
conscience
,
his
judgment
and
opinion
.
It
is
a
small
satisfaction
for
so
high
an
offence
,
to
come
with
a
glozing
panegyric
and
think
to
cover
former
injuries
with
the
tawdry
vaile
of
a
peice
of
flattery
.
For
if
ascribing
praise
be
a
doing
Honour
,
the
person
that
Honours
must
be
truly
qualified
to
give
it
.
But
the
world
will
hardly
be
brought
to
beleive
,
that
it
can
be
any
more
Honour
for
a
person
of
Sublime
worth
and
dignity
to
be
applauded
by
a
prostituted
pen
,
then
for
a
Lady
of
high
birth
and
untainted
vertue
to
be
extoll'd
by
a
common
strumpet
.
Rather
will
they
beleive
that
such
a
Magnifyer
would
not
stick
to
take
the
same
hire
again
to
commit
the
same
transgression
,
were
he
in
the
same
wide
world
under
the
same
Temptation
.
More
then
this
;
had
he
determind
to
have
shew'd
the
realitie
of
his
penitence
by
the
cleverness
of
his
proceedings
,
it
had
been
more
proper
for
Mr.
Settle
to
have
storm'd
his
own
book
,
and
to
have
batter'd
it
with
all
the
force
of
his
Tragic-fury
,
thn
to
fall
with
such
a
hungry
Appetite
upon
the
Plot
,
which
receives
no
farther
Detriment
from
this
assault
of
his
,
but
only
that
it
will
be
thought
to
have
been
so
Charitable
as
to
have
fed
him
all
this
while
of
his
last
Retirement
.
And
had
he
not
,
in
his
own
conceit
quite
annihilated
the
Plot
,
the
Lord
knows
how
long
he
might
have
eat
and
drank
upon
the
Plot
.
But
it
seems
he
was
weary
of
dyeting
too
long
upon
one
dish
.
All
his
Friends
,
even
to
the
Draggle-tayl'd
Female
are
sorry
for
him
,
and
wish
him
a
good
Concoction
;
yet
they
vehemently
fear
't
will
cost
him
a
most
terrible
surfet
.
Plots
and
Poultrey-Counters
are
wicked
hard
of
Disgestion
.
Our
Narrative-Monger
might
have
learnt
discretion
from
the
Observator
:
He
was
wise
and
politick
,
and
always
warie
how
he
deny'd
the
Plot
it self
;
and
therefore
liu'd
upon
it
for
several
years
,
only
by
Skirmishing
with
the
Witnesses
.
He
,
like
a
wastful
prodigal
,
Ruins
and
consumes
all
at
once
,
before
he
knows
where
to
have
more
;
for
't
is
to
be
fear'd
he
wants
learning
to
enlarge
upon
the
Critic
History
of
the
Old-Testament
.
But
Mr.
Settle
will
never
leave
his
B●y●sh-Tricks
.
Had
he
repeated
his
Narrative
,
as
he
was
wont
to
do
his
Tragic
Scenes
,
by
bits
and
Scraps
to
the
Scullers
in
Roffee's
Ale-Boxes
,
they
would
have
given
him
better
advice
then
he
has
taken
.
But
Mr.
Settle
was
misled
by
many
,
and
those
the
greatest
men
in
England
,
whom
he
would
involve
in
the
same
Crime
.
So
people
infected
with
the
Plague
,
out
of
a
particular
Malice
inherent
to
that
disease
,
labour
to
bring
others
under
the
same
Contagion
.
To
which
purpose
they
find
him
endeavouring
to
set
up
for
a
new
Evidence
,
though
,
according
to
his
usual
folly
,
a
day
after
the
Fair
,
and
accusing
the
dead
for
bidding
him
speak
more
favourably
of
Rebellion
.
A
thing
altogether
as
improbable
as
any
thing
he
has
objected
against
Oates
and
Bedlow
,
that
a
person
of
that
known
Experience
and
reserv'd
Wisdom
,
were
there
nothing
else
,
should
make
such
an
open
Declaration
of
his
mind
to
such
a
one
as
Mr.
Settle
.
For
deep
and
wary
Politicians
will
not
so
easily
trust
a
Hireling
.
And
therefore
Macnamarr
and
Zeale
for
that
.
He
whom
the
Towring
Poet
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Female-Prelate
calls
Englands
fastest
Friend
,
of
whose
great
services
for
England
,
the
most
ignorant
of
the
Orcades
were
full
;
whose
Counsils
to
the
King
were
unshook
by
frowns
,
and
unbrib'd
by
honors
;
he
who
had
so
Strenuouslly
and
so
justly
labour'd
to
defeat
a
dangerous
Faction
,
no
less
threatning
then
a
growing
Phaeton
,
this
flattering
Sycophant
,
having
spent
and
forgot
his
Dedication
mony
,
without
any
respect
to
Gratitude
or
his
own
Reputation
safely
now
besmears
that
once
ador'd
Honor
,
pronounces
all
this
to
be
mere
Poetic
Flames
,
and
Damn'd
Flattery
,
and
accuses
his
deceased
▪
Patron
of
a
most
improbable
piece
of
Treason
.
And
therefore
what
man
of
sense
or
reason
will
so
far
prejudice
himself
,
as
to
believe
a
Scribler
of
his
Profession
(
for
so
he
Stiles
himself
)
that
runs
a
trust
upon
the
hopes
of
a
Dedication
,
and
studies
Encomiums
with
the
same
Mercenary
Soul
,
as
Fidlers
play
at
Bridegrooms
Windows
?
't
is
either
we
thank
your
Lordship
,
or
a
pox
take
him
,
as
the
sum
reveals
it self
and
defrays
old
debts
.
I
say
what
man
of
sence
or
reason
can
believe
such
a
Miscreant
Writer
for
all
his
Canting
and
recanting
,
though
he
cant
and
recant
till
Dooms-day
?
However
,
the
Tide
being
turn'd
and
he
having
tasted
other
Obligations
,
the
Narrative-Merchant
complains
,
that
this
great
man
,
and
many
others
of
the
same
Quality
misguided
him
.
But
therein
he
tells
the
World
a
most
gross
untruth
.
For
if
his
own
words
are
printed
right
,
while
he
wrote
for
them
they
guided
him
very
right
.
For
then
in
his
Dedication
to
the
Tories
,
Pocket
—
Inspir'd
no
doubt
,
as
now
,
he
tells
the
world
,
That
their
Absolons
and
Achitophels
and
the
rest
of
their
Grinning
Satyrs
against
the
Whiggs
had
this
unpardonable
fault
,
that
the
Lash
was
more
against
a
David
then
an
Achitophel
,
while
their
Ranning
down
of
the
Plot
,
at
so
extravagant
a
Rate
,
savour'd
of
very
little
less
then
Ridiculing
of
Majesty
and
turning
all
those
several
Royal
Speeches
in
Parliament
on
that
Subject
only
into
the
double-tongu'd
Oracles
that
sounded
one
thing
and
meant
another
,
He
calls
it
farther
the
Branding
the
publick
Just●ce
of
the
Nation
,
and
affronting
even
the
Throne
it self
.
Nay
he
goes
yet
one
step
farther
,
and
says
,
That
the
Tories
who
will
believe
no
Popish
Plot
,
may
as
justly
come
under
the
Denomination
of
Fools
,
as
they
that
David
tells
us
,
said
in
their
hearts
there
was
no
God
.
This
was
one
who
says
,
he
was
no
Hypocrite
,
for
he
wrote
what
he
thought
:
no
Clod-pated
Fidler
that
sung
against
his
Conscience
.
So
then
at
that
time
,
while
he
acted
according
to
the
Principles
of
Integritie
and
Censcience
,
those
great
men
of
England
certainly
could
be
none
of
his
misguiders
.
They
could
never
be
said
to
be
his
misguiders
,
who
encourag'd
him
,
as
much
as
in
him
lay
,
to
repress
the
insolence
of
those
that
sought
to
Ridicule
Majesty
and
brand
the
publick
Justice
of
the
Nation
.
Now
then
what
must
he
be
,
but
a
contemptible
Renegado
from
his
integritie
,
and
a
flashy
Revolter
from
his
Conscience
,
while
he
falls
into
those
very
Crimes
that
before
he
so
justly
tax'd
in
others
?
A
young
Balaam
,
whom
the
Popish
Baal
Peor's
have
hir'd
to
curse
a
Plot
against
his
Prince
and
Country
.
Wonder
not
then
that
this
new
Proselyte
of
Satan
has
made
use
of
his
utmost
force
to
Ridicule
Majesty
and
brand
the
justice
of
the
Nation
in
Opposition
to
his
first
Sinceritie
and
Conscienee
.
For
't
is
observ'd
,
that
there
are
none
so
violent
,
none
so
Zealous
Enemies
,
none
that
study
more
the
Extirtation
of
Christianity
then
our
European
Renegado's
among
the
Turks
.
All
this
while
,
who
is
this
mighty
Gyant
?
't
is
but
Mr.
Settle
still
.
Now
hear
his
own
Description
of
himself
:
A
thing
so
nameless
and
inconsiderable
,
that
he
is
only
to
be
describ'd
by
Negatives
.
which
are
now
to
be
alter'd
according
to
that
shape
into
which
he
has
Proteus'd
himself
;
that
is
to
say
,
a
person
of
no
integritie
,
nor
repute
,
no
value
,
no
belief
,
no
credit
,
no
Conscience
.
Now
whether
the
mature
Deliberations
and
Examinations
of
his
Majesties
Council
&
both
houses
of
Parliament
are
to
be
arraign'd
at
once
by
such
a
worthless
Animall
as
this
,
let
all
the
sober
part
of
the
Kings
Dominions
judge
.
But
you
'll
say
,
he
is
now
a
Recanter
:
a
Recanter
in
the
Devil's
name
.
He
recants
that
ever
he
did
according
to
his
Conscience
,
he
is
sorry
that
he
did
not
ridicule
Majesty
,
and
brand
the
publick
Justice
of
the
Nation
.
This
is
such
a
Recantation
,
that
wherever
it
passes
for
such
begets
a
strange
conclusion
,
that
there
is
but
one
great
Knave
in
the
Nation
,
and
all
the
rest
are
Fools
.
For
as
for
his
personal
offences
against
the
Duke
,
they
stand
cowring
only
under
the
shelter
of
a
short
flourishing
submission
,
not
half
sufficient
to
expiate
injuries
committed
out
of
Malice
and
Revenge
,
and
contrary
to
Conscience
against
so
great
a
personage
.
For
which
it
could
be
no
satisfaction
to
decry
the
plot
wherein
he
was
never
in
the
least
concern'd
.
So
that
Mr.
Settle
is
the
first
since
Adam
'
that
ever
alter'd
the
course
of
Recantations
,
and
repented
of
acting
against
his
conscience
.
But
if
you
will
not
give
him
leave
to
recant
,
you
may
admitt
him
to
reform
.
For
he
sayes
he
is
resolv'd
to
renounce
both
the
Whore
and
the
Baud
.
A
blessed
Reformation
.
But
it
is
so
contrary
to
his
Genius
,
which
is
another
sort
of
conscience
of
his
too
,
that
it
is
never
to
be
expected
.
There
are
those
charmes
in
Salisbury-Court
and
Drury-Lane
,
that
a
youngman
of
his
robust
temper
can
never
resist
.
But
you
'll
say
he
does
not
mean
those
sort
of
Whores
and
Bauds
;
no
,
no
,
he
'll
never
make
a
Narrative
against
them
,
he
's
as
great
a
friend
to
them
as
ever
,
and
't
was
for
love
of
them
he
wrote
this
Narrative
;
he
means
the
Lust
of
Revenge
which
he
gratifi'd
,
and
the
Plot
that
rose
up
to
lend
him
means
and
opportunity
.
'
That
s
but
a
sham
.
As
if
a
man
so
bent
to
gratifie
his
lust
as
he
was
,
and
a
man
of
so
much
invention
could
not
easily
have
sound
out
a
way
to
gratifie
his
passion
,
had
the
Plot
never
bin
.
't
was
not
the
Plot
neither
,
but
the
debate
in
Parliment
that
arose
from
other
circumstances
that
gave
him
the
opportunity
.
But
because
he
?
could
not
revenge
himself
upon
the
Parliment
,
there
fore
he
resolv'd
to
reck
his
spleen
upon
the
●lot
.
Thus
't
is
plain
to
all
the
world
,
that
his
continu'd
lust
of
revenge
,
and
no
good
intent
to
the
public
good
,
has
bin
the
occasion
of
all
Mr.
Settles
malice
against
the
Plot
.
So
that
whatever
ammositie
he
may
have
against
the
Baud
,
he
has
not
renounc'd
the
Whore
yet
.
But
now
enter
Sathan
in
Mr.
Settles
likeness
,
breaking
ground
and
raising
his
first
batteries
against
the
Plott
,
accusations
upon
accsations
.
It
has
furnish'd
the
world
with
an
Ocean
of
guilded
zeale
and
hypocrisie
.
Of
which
the
cheifest
president
is
his
nown
dear
Self
.
It
has
made
the
greatest
Atheists
the
greatest
sticklers
for
R●l●●on
;
And
is
that
such
a
crime
?
to
bring
Atheists
to
beleive
in
God
?
But
it
seems
t
is
Mr.
Settles
opinion
.
It
brought
the
m●st
rigid
Fanaticks
to
the
Church
of
Englands
communion
and
Sacrament
.
And
is
Mr.
Settle
angrie
at
that
?
yes
—
for
,
it
was
to
capacitate
them
for
offices
of
trust
.
And
if
they
were
thereby
fitted
for
those
Trusts
,
what
should
hinder
'em
from
having
them
It
made
the
greatest
true
Protestant
Citey
Dons
perjure
themselves
.
That
's
as
far
fetch'd
as
his
Mask
of
Orphens
and
Eurid●ce
in
the
Empress
of
Morocco
.
For
one
swallow
never
makes
a
Summer
.
But
the
Poet
thinks
he
is
versifying
,
and
therefore
takes
the
Libertie
of
a
Romance
.
Others
believe
he
meant
Citie-Dun's
,
instead
of
Citie-Don's
.
For
the
first
indeed
may
deserve
the
lash
of
his
pen
;
as
having
been
frequently
Thorns
in
his
side
.
The
Plot
would
have
made
the
Metropolis
Independant
from
the
Crown
,
lopp'd
the
Prerogative
and
borrow'd
the
Militia
,
to
fight
against
Black
Bills
,
Thus
you
see
he
is
still
Gratifiing
his
renounc'd
whore
,
Lust
of
Revenge
;
for
you
must
know
the
Poet
has
a
peculiar
Antipathy
against
B●lls
of
any
sort
what
er'e
they
be
,
ever
since
the
persecution
of
his
Taylors
:
befides
't
is
an
Intrenchment
upon
his
Profession
for
any
other
people
to
utter
any
thing
that
so
much
as
smells
of
a
Hyperbole
;
a
Liberty
which
Poets
allow
only
to
themselves
.
Though
while
he
himself
was
talking
Hyperbole's
of
another
Nature
,
he
might
have
let
the
Brown
Bills
pass
,
without
calling
the
Corporal
.
In
the
mean
while
the
Poet
is
to
understand
,
that
men
Scholastically
bred
when
they
speak
of
Military
Affairs
,
may
not
always
be
so
fortunate
as
to
express
themselves
in
proper
Military
Terms
.
T
is
enough
to
save
the
Plot
from
the
Destruction
of
Settl●s
Briarean
Folly
,
that
there
were
several
Discourses
of
Military
Preparations
't
is
no
matter
what
the
weapons
were
,
nor
how
call'd
,
whither
the
Discoverer
spoke
like
a
Cutler
or
a
Gunsmith
,
or
a
Hermit
.
But
such
School-Cavils
,
Quibles
,
Quirks
,
and
Quiddities
you
shall
meet
with
all
along
in
this
same
Plot-Menippus's
Narrative
;
as
if
the
solemn
Determinations
of
the
supreme
Councils
of
the
Nation
were
to
be
confuted
and
baffl'd
by
such
a
slicer
of
Cowcumbers
,
a
meer
Romantic
Whiffler
in
Scotus
or
Zabarell
.
It
has
made
the
whole
Body
of
Antipopish
Dissenters
in
their
highest
Enmity
against
Plots
and
Rome
,
desire
to
be
incorporated
with
the
Church
of
England
.
What
strange
Crimes
has
this
Retainer
to
other
mens
Trenchers
found
out
against
the
Plot
?
For
certainly
no
greater
Felicitie
could
befall
this
Nation
,
then
a
happy
union
of
all
in
General
that
profess
the
Protestant
Religion
against
their
Common
Enemies
the
Papists
.
Such
a
League
none
but
Sons
of
Belial
would
presume
to
grin
at
.
And
surely
the
Church
of
England
most
heartily
desir'd
it
as
much
as
the
Dissenters
,
and
is
still
ready
to
receive
them
into
her
Embraces
.
Now
if
this
were
the
designe
of
the
Plot
,
why
did
not
the
Plot
bring
it
to
pass
?
Nothing
but
ill
luck
:
For
the
Papists
smelling
the
Plots
intention
,
presently
set
all
their
deep-mouth'd
Hounds
upon
her
,
that
in
a
short
time
hunted
her
to
a
Fault
:
and
now
here
's
Jowler
Narrative
has
started
her
again
,
and
is
resolv'd
alone
to
run
her
quite
down
.
Now
I
would
fain
know
whither
Mr.
Settle
has
not
done
like
himself
to
shew
a
dislike
of
the
Union
of
the
Nation
?
And
next
whither
such
a
Son
of
Division
deserves
to
be
patron'd
in
a
Hogstie
.
Then
the
Plot
writ
the
Association
.
If
he
mean
the
pretended
Association
.
't
was
a
Bastard
,
and
so
more-like
to
be
got
by
himself
.
If
he
mean
the
Association
propounded
in
Parliament
,
he
ungratiously
bespatters
that
high
Assemblie
of
the
Nation
,
which
was
so
far
from
proceeding
in
what
was
propos'd
without
his
Majesties
good
liking
,
that
they
petition'd
him
for
his
assent
.
But
what
signifies
all
this
from
a
Bartholmew-Fair
Booth-man
?
a
Strowller
about
the
Country
with
Farces
,
that
betray'd
his
Friend
Bose
,
who
was
wont
to
pawn
his
plate
to
supply
his
empty
pocket
,
to
the
Pillory
and
Banishment
.
All
which
the
poor
man
patiently
suffer'd
,
rather
then
reveal
him
the
Author
of
that
damnable
Lampoon
,
call'd
a
Game
at
Cards
,
presented
inconsiderately
to
Mr.
Duboys
.
And
we
may
with
as
great
probability
believe
that
the
hard
Fate
of
his
Friend
frighted
him
into
this
conversion
,
and
being
of
a
Lampooning
Nature
,
put
him
upon
this
Lampoon
against
the
Plot
.
Which
is
no
nine
days
wonder
to
them
who
have
but
cast
an
Eye
upon
his
Venemous
Invectives
against
his
Royal
Highness
.
From
the
severest
punishment
of
which
there
's
nothing
certainly
protects
him
but
the
baseness
of
his
Condition
,
while
men
of
Repute
and
Qualitie
,
the
more
unhappy
in
their
Errors
,
suffer
for
less
then
the
Hundredth
part
of
what
this
Prostitute
Scribler
has
done
.
But
the
world
does
not
perceive
the
Policie
of
this
lofty
Rimer
;
for
could
he
but
turn
the
Plot
into
a
Fable
,
he
would
soon
turn
the
Fable
into
a
Farce
.
That
,
he
thinks
,
would
be
a
Rarie-Show
indeed
,
to
carry
like
Scarroons
Comedians
,
from
County
to
County
among
the
Papists
.
't
is
ten
to
one
but
he
has
begun
to
build
Sconces
already
upon
the
Credit
of
the
Project
:
And
more
then
this
,
't
is
said
that
the
Jack-Puddings
begin
to
Petition
him
already
for
places
.
But
as
Lust
of
Revenge
against
Princes
,
and
Treason
to
Friendship
seldom
goe
unpunish'd
,
let
him
have
a
care
this
Lampoon
upon
the
Plot
be
not
the
last
Act
of
his
Play
.
For
he
is
to
understand
,
that
this
Lampoon
upon
the
Plot
,
which
never
any
yet
but
profest
Papists
and
Ribalds
durst
attempt
,
is
a
Lampoon
upon
Majesty
,
a
Lampoon
upon
the
Lords
and
Commons
of
England
,
a
Lampoon
upon
the
honour
of
the
Judges
,
the
learning
and
wisdom
of
the
Kings
Council
,
and
the
Integrity
of
the
Juries
.
Worse
then
Varlet
,
he
has
endeavour'd
to
besmeare
the
Throne
with
innocent
Blood
;
to
new
die
the
Graceful-Robes
of
Peerage
with
the
Crimson
Stains
of
Cruelty
and
Oppression
;
to
dishonour
the
Commons
of
England
with
the
Character
of
Barbarous
and
Blood-thirsty
;
to
involv
the
Judges
,
the
Council
,
the
Juries
promiscously
in
the
horrid
crimes
of
Corruption
and
Perjurie
:
and
all
this
,
to
offer
up
the
Guiltless
,
the
Beloved
of
God
,
to
the
Moloch
of
a
Romantic-Plot
.
What
no
true
Christian
,
no
Man
of
Common
Morality
would
have
been
brib'd
to
undertake
for
the
Guerdon
of
an
Empire
,
this
audacious
Butter-flie
of
a
Rimer
has
ventur'd
at
,
for
the
small
gains
of
a
Dedication
,
and
a
little
paltry
Coppy-mony
,
to
satisfie
the
hunger
of
his
Debauchery
.
A
Recantation
,
if
it
may
be
call'd
so
,
and
not
rather
a
more
fatal
Relaps
into
manifoldly
worse
transgressions
then
he
recanted
,
purchas'd
at
a
dear
Rate
.
Yet
greedily
bought
up
by
many
,
of
whom
Piety
it self
has
this
Charitable
perswasion
,
that
er'e
this
they
have
better
consider'd
the
unhappy
Consequences
of
their
belief
,
and
will
therefore
Sacrifice
the
Pernicious
Sheets
to
the
Flames
which
they
deserve
.
Some
men
perhaps
may
not
so
well
know
,
but
all
are
to
understand
that
this
is
not
the
first
Recantation
that
Mr.
Settle
has
made
.
It
as
natural
as
mud
to
an
Eele
,
for
Mr.
Settle
to
make
Recantations
,
somtimes
out
of
fear
,
somtimes
out
of
necessity
.
And
it
is
hard
to
say
which
has
the
most
Predominant
Influence
over
him
.
He
has
twice
given
it
under
his
hand
that
his
Mother
was
a
Whore
.
Once
to
Mr.
O.
as
not
finding
himself
any
way
prepar'd
to
die
,
&
as
unwilling
to
forsake
the
Devil
&
his
beloved
works
.
Another
time
there
was
a
Certain
Gentlewoman
that
shall
be
nameless
,
who
became
so
far
inveigl'd
with
his
Poetry
that
by
her
he
encreas'd
the
world
with
the
Issue
of
two
years
.
Afterwards
,
whither
out
of
love
or
hatred
,
that
he
might
perfect
the
work
of
undoing
her
,
is
uncertain
,
he
would
have
marry'd
this
Gentlewoman
;
but
she
having
doubtless
had
the
woful
Experience
of
his
Poverty
,
and
well
understanding
that
four
naked
legs
in
a
bed
are
not
sufficient
to
maintain
a
Family
,
rejected
his
Suite
.
Which
so
inflam'd
his
Lust
of
Revenge
,
that
he
came
and
brake
her
Windows
,
resolving
to
set
a
Bawdy-house
Mark
upon
her
Lodging
.
Presently
the
Gentlewoman
complain'd
of
his
ill
usage
to
a
Friend
:
and
as
the
complaints
of
Women
soon
find
a
compassionate
Champion
,
her
complaints
were
not
fruitless
.
For
the
Gentleman
taking
his
Opportunity
,
soon
call'd
the
Valiant
Window-breaker
to
an
account
,
and
gave
him
so
severe
a
Cane-Correction
,
that
Mr.
Settle
,
who
was
always
indulgent
to
his
Bones
,
and
kind
and
merciful
to
his
own
flesh
,
not
enduring
that
sort
of
Discipline
,
fell
immediately
into
his
never
failing
way
of
Recantation
,
and
among
the
r●st
of
the
Conditions
propos'd
to
him
,
readily
,
patiently
,
&
willingly
condescended
to
acknowledg
himself
the
Son
of
a
Whore
.
And
this
is
the
second
known
time
that
Mr.
S●ttle
has
Valorously
avoided
the
Just
Indignation
of
his
Enemies
by
defaming
the
Womb
that
bore
him
,
and
acknowledging
himself
the
spurious
Brat
of
Adultery
.
Yet
this
is
that
Contemptible
He
,
who
pretends
to
convince
his
Soveraigne
of
Errours
and
Faylours
in
his
Justice
,
and
to
put
all
the
Lords
and
Commons
of
England
upon
writing
Penitential-Psalms
for
an
Inhuman
Prosecution
of
the
Innocent
.
And
therefore
,
Quis
quis
Stolaeve
purpurave
contemptor
,
Quos
colere
debet
,
laesit
impio
versu
,
Erret
per
urbem
,
Pontis
exul
&
clivi
,
Interque
Raucos
ultimus
Rogatores
Oret
caninas
panis
Improbi
buccas
.
Nevertheless
,
after
all
these
crimes
,
far
worse
then
those
,
for
which
he
so
severely
sends
his
Lybian
Empress
to
the
other
world
,
he
vainly
flatters
himself
in
strange
advantages
that
shall
acctew
from
his
betraying
thus
both
his
Soul
and
his
Conscience
and
doing
injury
to
Heaven
.
For
he
that
endeavours
to
insinuate
such
bloody
Aspersions
u●on
Gods
anointed
,
and
those
high
dignities
next
to
him
,
injures
Heaven
it self
.
Nor
is
it
the
A●●ulation
of
his
Majesties
Halcyon
Raign
,
disturb'd
by
a
Plot
will
serve
his
turn
,
while
he
labours
to
extinguish
the
Prosecution
of
those
that
disturb
it
▪
I
say
after
all
this
,
oppress'd
with
the
thoughts
of
his
future
happiness
,
he
falls
into
an
Endymions
Dream
,
and
sancies
to
himself
that
he
has
now
shaken
hands
with
his
troublesom
Compan●on
Whigg●s●
,
by
which
perhaps
he
was
too
strictly
confin'd
at
least
to
publick
sobriety
and
moderation
(
for
otherwise
Whiggism
,
not
Phylacteriz'd
about
with
Libells
and
Lampoons
,
walks
about
as
freely
and
as
unmolested
,
as
the
most
Loyal
.
He
that
drowns
himself
in
Healths
to
the
King
)
and
therefore
he
shall
be
at
Liberty
to
look
Sence
and
Quality
in
the
Face
;
which
he
pretends
to
have
done
before
,
when
he
was
seduc'd
by
great
Persons
.
But
his
meaning
is
,
that
now
he
hopes
by
his
Conversion
,
as
he
terms
it
,
to
be
in
a
capacity
to
return
to
his
former
vain
and
luxurious
life
among
the
young
Extravagants
of
the
Town
,
where
he
shall
have
nothing
to
fear
,
unless
the
watchful
Eyes
of
Bayliffs
and
Serjeants
cause
him
to
pull
in
his
Horns
,
and
creep
back
into
his
Shell
.
Far
be
it
otherwise
from
all
persons
of
Repute
and
Quality
to
admit
him
their
presence
contaminated
with
Ridiculing
Majesty
,
and
branding
the
Ju●tice
of
the
Nation
.
Rather
let
him
retire
among
the
Turks
,
where
if
they
want
it
,
he
may
defend
their
Alcoran
,
or
among
the
Jews
where
he
may
make
a
Studious
Comment
upon
their
Fabulous
Talmud
,
.
So
Employ'd
he
may
perhaps
linger
out
for
some
time
a
life
borrow'd
from
Justice
,
unless
his
despair
give
him
up
to
a
more
early
Fate
.
Here
the
Scene
Changing
,
Enter
Narrative
,
Solus
,
with
a
flourish
.
And
here
you
are
first
to
observe
the
scope
of
the
Libeller's
idle
Discourse
,
which
is
to
manifest
,
What
an
unthinking
Pack
of
Jehu's
the
Papists
were
,
through
the
whole
Plot
,
and
what
Lunacy
and
Infatuation
drove
'
em
.
Not
considering
what
an
Unthinking
,
Lunatick
,
Infatuated
Fool
he
was
at
the
same
time
:
For
the
Lunacy
and
Insatuation
of
the
Papists
,
in
their
proceedings
against
Hereticks
,
is
so
well
known
to
all
the
World
,
that
he
might
have
spar'd
his
Labor
.
In
the
next
place
you
are
to
take
notice
,
that
the
weapons
that
he
has
chosen
to
make
use
of
to
play
his
Prize
withal
,
are
Quibble
,
Evasion
,
Contradiction
:
Weapons
which
he
has
stoll'n
from
the
long
since
baffl'd
Vindication
of
Roman
Catholicks
,
Stafford's
Memoirs
,
The
Morocco
Preist
,
and
such
like
inconsiderabe
Champions
of
Popery
;
and
has
now
only
new
ground
and
whetted
,
lest
they
should
be
known
again
by
their
rusty
Compexion
.
For
who
ever
has
read
the
lame
objections
which
those
Pampleteers
have
made
against
the
Verity
of
the
late
dismal
Popish
Contrivance
,
shall
find
this
Insolent
Plot-Bravo
to
have
only
been
their
Ape
,
and
to
have
mustred
up
their
repeated
Fallacies
and
Evasions
to
support
his
Insigificant
,
Rascally
Recantation
.
And
now
that
he
may
be
thought
to
begin
well
,
his
first
undertaking
is
to
assassinate
the
Belief
of
the
Intended
assassination
of
his
Majestie
.
To
which
purpose
,
after
he
has
been
prying
and
peering
up
and
down
for
Absurdities
,
Contradictions
,
and
Impossibilities
,
to
obliterate
the
Consult
in
April
,
which
he
calls
the
Hinge
of
the
whole
Plot
:
He
is
extremely
also
astonish'd
,
that
in
Pickering's
Tryal
,
the
Consult
should
consist
of
Fifty
persons
,
which
at
Langhorn's
Tryal
were
dwindl'd
into
Eighteen
or
Twenty
:
But
the
greater
wonder
is
,
That
an
Inconsiderable
namless
Fellow
,
by
his
own
Confession
,
and
which
by
the
Attestation
of
others
,
never
valu'd
his
own
Oaths
,
Vows
or
Protestations
,
should
be
so
nice
a
Critick
upon
other
mens
,
and
yet
speak
so
little
to
the
purpose
.
For
the
Consult
,
as
all
Councils
,
Synods
and
Parliaments
are
said
to
consist
of
their
full
Number
,
tho'
tis
Ten
to
One
,
whether
they
may
be
all
present
at
one
time
.
Besides
,
there
might
have
been
Fifty
at
First
,
and
but
Twenty
when
Langhorn
was
there
.
But
saies
Monsieur
Narrative
,
The
reason
why
the
Fifty
dwindl'd
into
so
small
a
number
was
,
because
't
was
proved
,
there
was
never
a
Room
in
the
Tavern
would
hold
above
a
dozen
;
which
is
notoriously
false
:
For
the
woman
that
came
to
Swear
against
her
own
House
,
became
the
laughter
and
contempt
of
the
Court
,
and
the
Judges
told
Langhorn
,
that
she
had
been
very
unfortunate
in
her
evidence
,
to
be
so
peremptory
in
what
the
standers
by
knew
to
be
so
untrue
.
Now
what
becomes
of
this
Puny
Argus's
Pun
of
Fifty
and
Twenty
being
alike
in
the
Sacred
deliverers
Arithmetick
.
The
Verum
necessarium
was
,
that
there
should
be
a
Consult
.
't
was
not
Verum
necessarium
,
whether
there
were
fifty
or
twenty
,
so
there
were
enough
to
make
a
Consult
.
But
this
same
Evidence-splitter
has
nothing
to
say
to
matter
of
fact
;
he
only
Trades
in
Contradictions
,
Absurdities
&
Impossibilities
,
Sad
ware
,
God
knows
,
to
lay
at
the
Top
of
the
Basket
,
if
he
hath
any
better
;
and
we
would
willingly
allow
him
as
much
Wit
as
a
Costermonger
.
For
to
Swear
there
were
Fifty
at
Pickering's
Tryal
and
Twenty
at
Langhorn's
,
was
no
contradiction
:
For
in
Contradictions
Alterum
negat
ubique
but
the
Swearing
of
Fifty
is
no
denyal
of
the
Twenty
,
nor
the
Swearing
of
Twenty
any
denyal
of
Fifty
.
Mr.
Slipstring
with
all
his
perspicacious
peering
,
does
not
find
any
Oath
positive
,
that
there
was
but
just
Fifty
at
Pickering's
Tryal
and
no
more
,
or
but
just
Twenty
and
no
more
at
Langhorn's
,
so
that
the
Ubique
negans
being
wanting
in
the
same
subject
,
the
Contradiction
vanishes
.
Looking
a
little
further
,
we
spie
a
Miracle
,
that
Whitebread
in
January
,
should
read
an
account
of
a
crime
,
at
St
Omers
,
not
comitted
till
March
following
:
That
was
somewhat
strange
indeed
,
but
being
more
strange
then
True
,
the
Miracle
ceases
.
For
the
demonstration
of
Januaries
Packet
,
relating
to
the
Errour
committed
,
had
no
relation
to
the
time
of
the
Penance
.
Whitebread
might
give
an
account
of
the
Error
committed
in
January
and
Pickering
not
be
punish'd
till
March
,
without
a
Miracle
.
But
he
desires
the
Reader
not
to
be
puzzl'd
to
imagine
how
Pickering
could
present
a
Gun
,
between
a
Pistol
and
a
Carbine
,
in
a
place
there
was
not
so
much
as
a
bush
or
a
bryar
to
shroud
a
Pignee
,
and
not
be
apprehended
or
seen
by
any
of
the
Kings
attendance
.
The
Devils's
in
this
fellow
for
putting
shams
upon
the
World
.
In
the
first
place
the
Oath
does
not
affirm
that
Pickering
presented
the
Gun
,
but
that
finding
the
defect
of
the
Flint
,
he
deferr'd
the
Action
till
another
time
.
Then
he
forgets
that
there
was
a
very
thick
Grove
at
the
end
of
the
Pallmall
,
where
His
Majesty
might
have
made
his
unfortunate
approaches
,
as
well
as
to
any
other
part
of
the
Park
.
In
the
next
place
,
fellows
prepar'd
for
such
desperate
designs
,
Bigotted
with
a
Belief
of
Merit
,
and
present
hopes
of
Heaven
,
are
not
such
Milk-sops
as
the
too
often
bastinado'd
Settle
,
to
fear
Apprehending
or
being
presently
mangl'd
to
peices
.
Nor
is
there
such
an
Impossibilty
but
that
a
Villain
so
daring
might
have
made
an
escape
.
For
we
read
that
the
Duke
of
Buckingham
was
Stabb'd
by
a
bold
and
resolute
Ruffian
,
in
his
Chamber
,
talking
with
Monsieur
Sobieze
,
in
the
middle
of
his
Army
;
and
yet
the
Historian
says
,
he
got
away
undiscovered
:
Yet
when
they
saw
the
Duke
weltering
in
his
Blood
,
every
person
look'd
upon
one
another
,
marvelling
who
should
do
that
horrid
Act
,
till
Felton
stept
out
and
discover'd
himself
.
And
thus
one
of
your
Plot-slayers
main
Impossibilitys
falls
to
the
ground
.
And
I
have
dwelt
the
longer
upon
this
unpleasing
Story
,
to
shew
how
little
Credit
there
is
to
be
giv'n
to
what
follows
,
when
he
has
acted
so
weakly
and
faintly
,
where
his
dead-doing
hand
against
the
Popish
Plot
,
should
have
struck
most
keenly
home
.
Suppositions
and
Objections
are
frivolous
,
fallacious
and
villanous
;
but
let
him
Answer
this
,
wheher
it
were
not
more
probable
that
the
Papists
,
a
people
generally
of
debauch'd
and
murderous
Principles
,
that
bear
no
consciences
towards
Hereticks
,
persecuted
by
Penal
Laws
,
should
be
induc'd
out
of
their
hatred
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
for
the
Advancement
of
their
own
,
to
remove
the
obstacles
of
their
freedom
and
happiness
by
the
Destruction
of
a
Heretick
Prince
,
then
that
a
few
inconsiderable
persons
without
any
support
or
encouragement
,
should
dare
to
Create
such
a
horrid
and
bloody
Plot
of
ther
own
heads
,
and
then
venture
their
lives
by
daring
to
justifie
it
to
the
face
of
King
and
Parliament
:
And
therefore
this
same
crawling
insect
of
a
Protestant
Poet
,
might
have
employ'd
his
time
much
better
then
in
disgorging
his
insolent
Gibes
upon
the
Divine
prevention
of
such
Infernal
Mischiefs
.
As
little
Reason
he
has
to
make
Chimerical
Armies
,
the
sport
of
his
loose
Wit
:
For
let
him
sneer
at
Armies
of
Satyrs
and
Centaurs
marching
through
Cheapside
,
the
bubbles
of
his
Tragical
Pericranium
,
yet
the
intent
of
raising
Armies
,
&
the
Promises
and
expectations
of
Forreign
Aid
,
the
Nerum
necessarium
,
were
not
only
Sworn
by
the
Evidence
,
which
he
derides
,
but
evidently
demonstrable
out
of
Coleman's
Letters
.
What
else
means
this
signal
passage
?
We
have
a
mighty
Work
upon
our
hands
,
the
Subduing
of
a
Pestilent
Heresie
,
which
has
domineer'd
over
great
part
of
the
Northern
World
,
a
great
while
.
There
never
was
greater
Hopes
of
Success
since
the
Death
of
Queen
Mary
,
till
these
our
days
.
But
the
Opposition
we
are
like
to
meet
with
,
is
also
like
to
be
great
,
so
that
it
imports
us
to
get
all
the
Aid
and
Assistance
we
can
.
And
all
this
the
Narrative-monger
did
once
so
really
believe
,
that
he
upbraids
and
taxes
those
he
once
called
Tories
,
for
being
so
nice
and
scrupulous
for
mistrusting
a
Popish
Plot
,
for
want
of
sufficient
Circumstances
,
when
they
could
believe
a
Protestant
Plot
,
without
either
Witnesses
or
Circumstances
at
all
.
And
for
disputing
about
raising
of
Armies
,
and
not
one
Commission
found
,
and
yet
could
swallow
the
raising
of
a
Protestant
Army
,
without
either
Commission
or
Commission
Officer
.
Nay
,
the
very
When
,
Where
or
How
,
were
no
part
of
their
Considerations
.
But
now
,
by
what
ill
fate
heav'n
knows
,
but
only
for
a
little
Pocket
money
,
the
same
Scruples
,
the
same
Niceties
,
are
crept
into
Mr.
Settles
Conscience
;
finding
it
no
doubt
as
empty
as
his
Pocket
.
And
therefore
,
mounting
upon
the
Rosinante
of
his
own
Vain
Wit
,
he
undertakes
,
like
another
Don
Quixote
,
to
Fight
French
Armies
,
Spanish
Armies
,
and
Armies
of
Jago
Pilgrims
,
without
so
much
as
the
help
of
one
Sancha
Pancha
.
He
would
make
ye
believe
,
that
the
French
King
was
half
a
Protestant
,
as
having
ravish'd
from
the
Pope
,
the
best
flowers
in
his
Garden
,
and
bidding
Defiance
to
the
Thunder
of
his
Excommunications
:
And
thence
insinuates
that
the
French
King
car'd
not
what
became
of
the
Plot
or
the
Popish
Religion
in
England
.
Not
considering
,
that
the
most
bigotted
Prince
in
Europe
,
Charles
the
V.
at
the
same
time
that
he
was
designing
the
destruction
of
the
German
Protestants
,
Besieg'd
and
took
even
Rome
it self
,
and
held
the
Pope
Prisoner
in
his
own
City
;
and
never
minding
that
the
French
King
was
then
,
as
now
,
aspiring
to
the
Univerfal
Monarchy
,
and
might
be
therefore
glad
of
an
Opportunity
to
get
footing
in
England
,
not
out
of
any
Religious
Design
,
but
to
make
it
the
Acquist
of
his
Ambition
.
As
for
the
King
of
Spain
,
he
tells
us
,
his
condition
was
such
,
that
he
had
occasion
for
ten
times
more
Armies
then
he
had
.
As
if
a
broken
Merchant
might
not
put
out
a
sum
of
money
,
for
his
own
advantage
,
at
the
same
time
that
an
Execution
was
Seizing
upon
his
Warehouse
.
He
is
mighty
merry
at
the
thoughts
of
the
Blind
,
which
the
Jesuites
found
out
,
of
throwing
the
Death
of
the
King
,
upon
the
Presbyterians
.
Tho
it
be
well
known
to
all
the
World
,
that
it
has
been
since
,
their
cheif
design
to
throw
the
whole
Plot
upon
their
backs
.
And
it
is
to
be
fear'd
,
that
some
unwary
people
,
who
call
themselves
of
the
Episcopal
Party
(
for
I
leave
out
the
Papists
,
who
want
no
information
)
do
half
believe
it
already
.
So
far
was
it
from
being
such
an
impudent
peice
of
Madness
or
Lunacy
as
this
Ninny-hammer
of
a
Narrative-Monger
,
would
make
it
;
the
worst
at
Absurdities
,
Impossibilities
and
drawing
of
Consequences
,
that
ever
read
For
the
due
joyning
.
For
were
not
his
Genius
wholly
at
the
Devotion
of
his
Pocket
or
his
Codpeice
,
he
might
all
along
have
observ'd
,
how
the
Papists
themselves
are
puzl'd
to
disown
a
plot
,
but
onely
they
would
faine
remove
the
Load
of
the
Reproach
from
their
own
Shoulders
.
But
then
to
talk
of
a
Massacre
,
is
the
greatest
sport
to
him
in
nature
.
For
quo
he
,
what
need
so
many
Commissions
for
the
preferment
of
Popish
Bishops
,
Abbots
and
Priors
,
when
the
People
were
all
destroyed
?
Hold
a
little
—
Men
do
not
alwaies
perform
what
they
speak
in
their
Passion
.
They
that
tereaten'd
not
to
leave
a
man
that
Piss'd
against
the
wall
.
did
not
always
put
the
utmost
of
the
Menace
in
Execution
.
And
the
wiser
sort
,
when
they
are
once
sure
of
the
day
,
think
it
better
to
triumph
over
the
Living
then
the
Dead
.
On
the
other
side
the
Papists
have
not
been
so
compassionate
to
the
Hereticks
,
that
a
Massacre
of
the
most
Barbarous
Nature
,
may
not
be
lay'd
to
their
Charge
.
Witness
that
of
the
Albigenses
,
where
they
destroy'd
Men
,
Women
and
Children
,
with
an
exorabe
Cruely
,
even
to
the
depopulating
of
a
large
Territory
.
Nor
may
we
omit
the
Irish
Rebellion
,
a
meer
Inundation
of
Murder
and
Massacre
.
that
spar'd
neither
Sex
nor
Age
nor
Parent
,
nor
Friend
,
nor
Relation
,
till
it
was
stopp'd
by
force
;
and
therefore
,
notwithstanding
Mr.
Shallowpates
mirth
,
it
would
have
been
but
ill
trusting
the
Papists
in
England
,
had
the
Plot
gon
on
.
Now
whether
they
would
have
cut
our
Throats
with
Brown
Bills
or
blew
Bills
,
that
s
not
the
Question
.
All
this
while
,
here
's
nothing
to
the
business
,
here
's
nothing
said
to
the
verum
necessarium
:
for
still
the
substantial
part
of
the
King's
Evidence
agrees
with
Coleman's
Letters
,
that
there
were
endeavors
,
and
large
endeavors
too
us'd
among
the
Papists
in
England
to
subdue
the
pestilent
Heresie
of
Protestantism
,
and
to
procure
all
the
Aid
and
Assistance
they
could
get
.
And
therefore
the
extravagant
Discourse
of
men
flattering
themselves
with
conceited
hopes
,
which
many
times
elevate
the
Fancy
,
even
to
a
kind
os
Luxuriancie
,
is
no
Argument
to
invalidate
the
more
subtle
and
solid
Part
and
Conduct
of
the
Plot
.
No
,
no
,
the
Plot
was
too
deeply
laid
to
be
undermin'd
by
such
a
young
Sophister
as
Settle
,
or
to
be
torn
from
the
Cheeks
of
Truth
by
the
Off-spring
of
a
Toothdrawer
.
He
takes
great
Advantage
from
the
different
accompts
which
Oates
and
Dugdale
give
of
the
various
Discourses
they
heard
of
the
management
of
the
Design
.
We
understand
him
,
—
he
would
have
had
all
the
several
Gangs
and
Clubbs
of
Plotters
have
all
just
jumpt
in
one
and
the
same
sence
and
opinion
,
like
the
Translators
of
the
Septuagint
.
As
if
he
could
be
such
a
Nicodemus
,
so
blockishly
ignorant
of
the
world
,
not
to
know
that
where
several
people
are
engag'd
,
there
will
be
several
Sir
Politick
Woodbe's
,
that
will
be
putting
their
Oar
i'
th
Boat
where
they
are
concern'd
;
one
will
be
proposing
this
,
another
that
,
and
many
a
Fool's
Bolt
will
be
shot
,
and
this
Discourse
,
though
never
so
simple
is
Treason
,
and
fit
to
be
known
by
way
of
Circumstance
.
But
from
hence
to
bring
a
Conclusion
there
was
no
Plot
!
where
was
this
Son
of
a
Barber
born
?
But
now
,
quoth
our
Impertinent
Plot-Thrasher
,
what
think
ye
,
if
I
prove
the
work
was
to
have
been
done
by
no
Armies
at
all
?
Why
truly
had
he
had
any
thing
else
in
the
world
to
do
,
he
might
have
spar'd
himself
the
labour
;
for
so
long
as
it
was
to
be
done
,
the
cheaper
they
did
it
,
the
less
it
would
have
cost
'
em
.
However
Ireland
,
one
of
the
Executed
Jesuites
,
was
of
opinion
,
that
there
was
no
way
to
bring
the
business
about
but
by
a
considerable
force
,
which
he
muster'd
up
to
Fifty
thousand
,
affirming
a
less
number
would
not
suffice
.
Neither
did
Langhorn
absolutely
deny
at
his
Trial
the
having
of
Commissions
,
only
he
deny'd
them
to
be
seen
upon
his
Desk
.
But
I
will
not
dispute
the
Case
farther
with
E.
Settle
;
for
perhaps
he
might
know
more
of
the
Plot
then
they
that
were
hang'd
did
.
And
therefore
for
Jago-Pilgrims
and
Flandrian
or
French
Armies
,
if
he
will
not
have
'em
to
carry
on
the
Plot
,
let
him
take
'em
to
Garrison
his
own
Castles
in
the
Air
.
As
for
the
Irish
Plot
,
he
swears
by
all
the
Idols
of
the
Moabites
,
there
could
be
no
such
thing
:
for
if
there
were
,
then
the
King
of
Spain
was
a
Blockhead
,
and
the
King
of
France
a
Lunatick
,
and
ought
to
come
to
E.
Settle
to
be
better
instructed
in
State-Politicks
;
for
which
,
when
they
have
learn'd
effectually
,
they
shall
only
make
him
a
Leg
,
and
thank
him
in
two
Verses
broken
of
Horace
,
—
Dii
te
,
Damasippe
,
Deaeque
Verum
ob
Consilium
donent
Tonsore
.
—
Now
because
most
of
his
Romantick
Objections
against
the
Irish
Plot
depend
upon
Plunkett's
Trial
,
upon
which
he
was
condemn'd
,
I
shall
not
trouble
my self
to
make
any
further
Defence
for
Courts
of
Judicature
,
then
what
has
been
made
already
.
He
is
very
inquisitive
after
the
Reason
why
Pickering
was
to
have
had
1500l
.
and
the
four
Ruffians
but
20l
.
apiece
?
What
's
this
to
the
destruction
of
the
Plot
?
Every
man
makes
as
good
a
Bargain
for
himself
as
he
can
;
and
it
is
the
property
of
a
Ruffian
to
demand
less
for
killing
a
man
,
then
for
lam-basting
him
.
If
they
were
Gentlemen
of
Rank
and
Quality
,
as
he
says
they
were
,
which
was
more
then
the
Evidence
themselves
either
knew
or
said
,
't
was
a
sign
they
undertook
what
they
did
out
of
pure
zeal
and
not
for
Money
,
as
the
Recanter
wrote
his
Narrative
.
But
these
are
Questions
fitter
for
the
Discussion
of
a
Country
Barbers
Shop
,
then
to
trouble
the
thoughts
of
Rational
men
.
For
what
tho
Bedloe
were
the
son
of
a
Cobler
?
What
absurditie
thence
arises
,
but
that
he
might
be
proffer'd
his
share
of
five
thousand
pound
to
head
a
band
of
Bravo's
to
execute
a
Murder
?
The
Jesuites
knew
murder
was
dearer
in
England
then
in
Italy
.
However
since
the
Son
of
a
Cobler
Swore
it
,
why
should
the
Son
of
a
Barber
Question
it
?
't
was
pity
the
Jesuites
had
not
known
Mr.
Settle
at
that
time
,
to
have
made
him
their
Treasurer
,
that
he
might
more
equally
and
uprightly
have
proportion'd
to
every
one
their
shares
according
to
their
Rank
and
Quality
.
No
doubt
but
he
would
have
given
them
an
Excellent
accompt
of
their
Money
at
the
Plots
end
.
T
is
a
strange'thing
;
nothing
well
please
this
Plot-Swashbuckler
.
't
is
such
a
Mr.
Find-fault
,
why
what
s
the
matter
?
Why
now
forsooth
,
Sir
Ed.
Godfrey
was
not
murder'd
to
his
mind
.
Now
if
he
were
not
murder'd
according
to
the
Protestant
Poets
mind
,
as
he
would
have
had
it
done
,
if
he
had
had
a
finger
in
the
murder
then
it
could
be
no
Tragedy
,
for
he
is
old
Dog
at
a
Tragedy
;
and
if
no
Tragedy
,
then
was
Sir
Ed.
Godfrey
never
Murder'd
.
But
as
if
Heaven
had
infatuated
all
that
go
about
to
defend
that
execrable
Murder
,
he
makes
such
false
Passes
,
such
fallacious
Objections
,
and
mistaken
Applications
,
that
neither
the
Blockhead
King
of
Spain
,
nor
the
Lunatick
King
of
France
,
ever
committed
grosser
Errors
in
the
height
of
their
Stupidity
.
For
the
Barbers
Son
does
not
observe
that
what
the
Coblers
Son
declar'd
before
the
Lords
,
in
reference
to
the
fact
it self
,
was
only
by
relation
from
others
.
For
that
neither
at
the
Tryal
,
nor
before
the
Lords
,
did
Bedloe
undertake
to
distinguish
the
Parties
that
did
the
fact
.
In
the
next
place
,
the
Barbers
Son
does
not
observe
,
that
there
were
Parties
engag'd
in
his
Murther
;
the
Cobler's
Son's
Party
,
and
Prance's
Party
.
Now
it
happen'd
that
Prance's
Party
got
the
start
of
Bedloe's
.
But
when
the
fact
was
committed
,
both
Parties
clos'd
,
and
fed
their
Curiosities
with
the
beautiful
Object
of
a
Murder'd
Heretick
.
Which
is
the
true
sence
of
Bedloe's
Deposition
,
tho
this
Recanting
Plot-Killer
would
so
fain
scrue
it
to
his
own
wicked
purpose
.
Thus
it
is
plain
that
Bedloe's
Oath
was
either
previous
to
the
Fact
,
in
relation
to
his
Contract
with
La
Phaire
,
or
post
factum
,
in
reference
to
his
being
carry'd
to
view
the
dead
Body
.
Prance
Swore
to
the
positive
matter
of
fact
,
as
it
was
acted
by
him
and
his
accomplices
,
and
so
to
all
the
succeeding
circumstances
of
Removal
and
concealment
of
the
massacr'd
Body
,
till
the
Murder
was
lay'd
a
sweetning
,
near
Primrose
Hill
.
To
this
Monsieur
Flim-flam
makes
his
first
exception
,
that
the
Murder
was
commited
without
one
syllable
to
any
Questions
ask'd
,
or
the
least
dispute
about
sending
for
Depositions
,
&c.
that
is
,
he
would
have
had
them
have
made
a
Prologuee
to
their
Tragedy
,
as
he
was
us'd
to
do
;
but
their
Circumstances
would
admit
of
no
such
delays
.
Then
he
admires
,
that
such
a
Fact
should
be
committed
in
the
sight
of
a
Centinel
,
who
had
ten
times
more
Authority
and
Power
to
prevent
the
Quarrel
,
then
the
Justice
of
the
Peace
had
;
forgetting
that
it
was
positively
sworn
that
there
was
no
Centinel
there
.
In
the
next
place
he
is
angry
,
that
the
Murderers
did
not
lay
the
Body
in
the
Street
,
and
come
out
like
Felton
,
and
bravely
confess
the
Fact
,
but
that
they
remov'd
him
from
place
to
place
,
as
their
Fears
and
Jealousies
prompted
them
,
and
the
heinousness
of
the
Crime
required
;
which
he
looks
upon
as
a
great
Absurdity
.
And
now
,
what
may
we
think
of
such
a
Bungler
as
this
,
who
having
undertaken
to
vindicate
Murder
and
Treason
in
the
highest
degree
,
and
the
Innocence
of
the
Papists
,
under
such
a
bloody
Charge
of
Impious
Plot
,
and
Infernal
Conspiracy
,
with
a
glorious
presumption
to
have
outdone
all
others
that
went
before
him
,
could
find
no
better
Implements
to
advance
his
Reputation
of
being
the
Wonder
of
his
Age
for
compleating
such
an
Herculean
Labour
,
but
a
company
of
moth
eaten
,
baffl'd
,
silly
,
nitty
Objections
,
and
pretended
Absurdities
,
which
his
old
Sculler-Pot-companions
would
have
been
asham'd
of
?
We
may
justly
believe
that
for
half
the
Sum
proffer'd
to
the
Cobler's
Son
,
the
Barber's
Son
,
had
he
had
as
much
courage
to
assault
a
man
,
as
to
lift
up
his
hand
against
a
surpriz'd
Woman
,
would
not
have
stuck
to
have
committed
the
same
inhuman
Murder
himself
?
Yet
after
all
these
Paltry
Reflections
upon
the
cruelty
and
strangeness
of
the
Assassination
,
he
has
the
insolence
to
affirm
,
that
after
Hill
,
Berry
and
Green
were
apprehended
,
all
Difficulties
were
remov'd
,
and
all
Differences
adjusted
:
As
if
the
Judges
of
the
Land
sate
in
their
High
Courts
of
Judicature
to
reconcile
the
Incongruities
and
Incoherences
of
perjur'd
Evidence
;
a
Crime
certainly
not
to
be
forgiv'n
by
injur'd
Authority
.
Having
made
this
frivolous
Attack
upon
Sir
Ed.
B.
Godfrey's
murder
,
he
falls
into
another
Extasie
,
and
admires
that
of
all
those
Letters
and
Pacquets
of
Treasonable
correspondence
sent
by
the
common
Post
,
none
should
be
intercepted
,
none
preserv'd
by
the
Discoverers
,
for
the
justification
and
proof
of
the
Discovery
.
Where
's
the
Improbability
?
For
the
King
has
no
Inquisitor
that
sits
in
his
publick
Office
to
break
up
Gentlemens
Letters
;
it
is
that
which
the
great
obstruction
of
Commerce
will
not
allow
.
And
yet
there
was
a
certain
Pacquet
sent
by
the
common
Post
,
directed
to
Father
Beningfield
,
which
by
an
unlucky
Fate
,
mist
falling
into
the
hands
of
those
who
would
have
made
better
use
of
it
.
No
man
can
be
so
indiscreet
as
to
believe
that
the
Irish
Rebellion
was
carri'd
on
without
correspondence
,
and
yet
it
brake
out
like
a
Torrent
without
discovery
.
And
then
for
the
latter
Part
of
the
Objection
,
the
Protestant
Poet
has
made
a
most
clever
Answer
to
it
himself
.
For
when
the
Cardinal
put
this
Question
to
Pope
Joan's
Witnesses
,
Can
you
produce
those
Letters
?
that
is
to
say
,
such
Letters
as
were
to
prove
the
D.
of
Saxony's
Heresie
.
The
Protestant
Poet
makes
Answer
,
No
,
my
Lord
—
For
still
the
cautious
Damasus
made
his
Soul
His
Treasons
Cabinet
;
all
dangerous
Papers
No
sooner
read
,
but
burnt
.
—
So
ingenious
he
could
be
for
Pope
Joan
at
a
pinch
;
but
in
his
Countries
and
a
discarded
Protestant
Cause
,
the
greatest
Bufflehead
in
Nature
.
His
Post-script
is
like
the
Fools
Part
in
a
Fortune-Playhouse-Comedy
,
to
make
the
sixpenny
Gallery
Sport
;
you
there
finding
him
a
perfect
Jack
Pudding
,
and
like
another
Merry
Andrew
,
telling
the
Jesuites
,
what
He
,
the
Worshipful
Protestant
Poet
would
have
done
,
had
he
been
of
their
Consult
.
And
under
the
Cover
of
a
Fancy
of
his
own
,
mistak'nly
carried
on
,
beyond
Sence
or
Reason
,
drolling
with
the
King
,
and
taxing
the
Duke
of
Ormond
of
ill
management
;
so
that
in
the
next
Popish
Plot
,
he
has
bespoke
himself
to
be
a
both
sides
.
On
the
one
side
,
chief
Manager
of
the
Plot
,
on
the
other
side
,
President
of
the
Councel
,
and
Lord
Lieutenant
of
Ireland
.
But
it
is
high
time
to
have
done
with
such
an
impertinent
Son
of
Necessity
,
the
general
scorn
of
his
Recantation
,
and
disdain
of
his
Nefarious
Attempt
being
sufficient
to
condemn
him
.
And
indeed
it
might
be
expected
,
that
ere
this
he
should
have
condemn'd
himself
.
And
that
we
might
have
had
Tidings
of
his
drown'd
Carkass
being
taken
up
at
White
Friers
Stairs
,
by
some
of
his
old
Friends
the
Watermen's
Boys
.
The
lightest
punishment
to
which
he
could
have
sentenc'd
himself
for
having
thus
at
the
instigation
of
his
Belly
,
so
boldly
presum'd
to
vent
an
Infamous
and
Rebellious
Libel
,
with
all
the
Reflexions
that
hungry
Falshood
and
Poetick
Forgery
could
invent
,
upon
all
the
Judicial
Proceedings
of
the
Nation
.
A
new
Surprize
upon
the
Kingdom
,
which
cannot
well
be
determined
whether
greatest
,
at
the
Irreligion
of
a
converted
Infidel
,
defending
Acts
of
Impiety
,
or
at
the
Confidence
of
a
Subject
contending
against
the
Justice
of
his
Sovereign
.
For
to
give
him
Dilemma
for
his
Dilemma
;
Either
he
is
in
the
right
,
and
the
Embody'd
Prudence
and
Justice
of
the
Nation
were
in
the
wrong
;
or
the
Embody'd
Justice
and
Prudence
of
the
Nation
were
in
the
Right
,
and
he
is
in
the
wrong
.
And
then
what
sort
of
open
Retaliation
he
deserves
for
the
worst
of
Crimes
,
they
whose
Wisdom
,
whose
Justice
,
whose
Integrity
,
in
the
highest
places
of
Dignity
he
has
so
insolently
and
scandalously
reproach'd
and
affronted
,
are
best
able
to
determin
.
Nor
is
there
any
thing
that
can
pretend
to
save
him
,
but
this
one
single
Expedient
,
that
while
all
Men
know
him
to
be
a
meer
Natural
Animal
of
a
Poet
,
his
whole
Recantation
and
Narrative
must
be
taken
for
a
Fiction
.
FINIS
.