I Had no sooner corrected One Libell, against the Bishop of Worcester, but out bolts another against L'S., of the same Stamp, and Force, and Calculated for the same Me­ridian. What, Wh [...], or Where the Authour is, I neither Care nor Enquire; for meth [...]nks Hunting after Libellers, is some­thing like Gunning at Didappers; a man's in danger to Lo [...]se his Sho [...]t; or, if he Hitts, 'tis but a Nasty Quarry.

Heark ye my Masters of the Consistory; You are the Men must do Mee Right; These Fellows are but Your Bag-Pipes; You Blow, and They Bawl: But if I turn not up your Reve­rences, as fair, as ever This Whipster's Honourable Friend] did his Boyes at Westminster, let the world say I have no skill in untrussing an Apostate.

In short; the Spirit of Vntruth and Scandal is sent abroad from among you; and he calls himself D. E. (the Two first Letters of his Fathers Name, Jeh. 8. 44.)

In the First Page, the Phantome appears in the Form of a Philosopher: with This Character of L' S. [A Person so lost to all Good Breeding, of so forfeited, so undone a Reputation, [...]n poynt of meer Morality, &c.]

Gentlemen, you have been now Twenty Years at This sport of Libelling: The King, the Queen, the Royal Family, the Bishops; all that were L [...]yal, of the Nobility, Gentry, and Commonalty, have been be [...]patter'd by those Scribblers, and Lecturers, which you h [...]ve kept in Pens [...], e [...]pressly to de­ [...]me them The Church the State; the Law, the Gospel; No­ [...]ing so Sacred as to escape you. ( I speak only to Those that have Revolted f [...]rce the Pardon.) Have ye not deliver'd the [Page 4] Doctrine of Devills, for the Inspirations of the Holy Ghost [...] Vouching Texts for Perjury, and Rapine; Impul [...]e for Trea­so [...]; Cutting your Soveraign in your Prayers? in the same Act; Seducing the People [...] A [...]ronting the King, Dis [...]c [...]o [...] ­ring the Pulpit, P [...]phaning the Or [...]inance, and Blasphe­ming G [...]d himself.

This is not Passion Gentlemen, but Truth upon Record; and Printed by Stati [...]ners of your [...] Appointment, in Perp [...]tuam rei Memoriam. Your Names I spare; For I wish rather your Conversion, then your Shame: my D [...]ift being only to shew that your T [...]ngues are no Slander.

In the next Page, your Agent is a little unsavory, and I advise the Reader to make [...]e [...]f a P [...]mander. He com­pares L' S. to [a H [...]gg playing up [...]n the Organs.] I p [...]ay'e, had not this Wi [...]t [...] Hand in your Centuries of Scandalous Ministers? Look a Line further, and There you are to Phansy him, [ A Scavenger washing a Bishops Sur­plice] How naturally the Sloven goes from the H [...]gg, to the Sir-Reverence! with Licence, Gentlemen, what i [...] a man should now Phansy your [...]ubstitute [...] to be some Gr [...]m of the Sto [...]l to a Holy Sister? But soberly, To cleanse his Mouth would be the fe [...]lest part of a Scavengers Employment.

Say now ye Br [...]thren of the Text: Have ye a Scripture-Rule for This Language? Wee must do every thing in Mode and Figure; according to the P [...]ecept. [ Le [...] every thing be done to Edification], says the Apostle; [Bless them that Curse yee], says our Blessed Saviour. Stick to your [...]n Rule then, and Observe the Precept; Unles [...]e you will deal with the Law of God, as ye have done with the Law of the Land: Muzzle it with a Salvo, and only Practise Christianity, so far as it consists with Presbytery.

Not to be tedious, what your Emissary has expanded, take in Little; (that is, the Flowers of his Rhetorique.) [A Morrice-Dancer,—A Fidler;—A Common Barreter; A Mercenary Songster;—A Whiffling Thi [...]so [...]l'd Adversa­ry,—A Puny Author, A Sack-Drinker; (beshrew me, I [Page 5] like the Liquor but [it goes in, Sack (he says) and c [...]m [...]s out Water.] This, he could never have known, without the help of a Devill.

Truly Gentlemen, (to the point of M [...]sique) he is a little guilty of some skill in S [...]g; and not very Mercenary neither, to a Friend; hee'll do y [...]ur Bu [...]inesse however, when you please, by the way of a Madrigall, and never put ye to pay th [...] Fidler. Try him, and if he does not set ye such a suit of Hymnes to your unfumish'd Form of Publique Wor­ship, the very Ring of them shall shake the Fundamentals of a Christ-Church [...], and make the Brethren of your Milk-street Conventicle, Gape wor [...]e, and wider, then Mi­chael Angelo's Reprobates, in his Day of Judgment, say I'm no Conjure [...]. I speak with Reverence to the Good; and Charity to the Weak; But to hear Faction deliver'd for Conscience; to see People p [...]yson'd in the Church, and Princes Dethron'd in the Pulpit; Who, [...]hat loves either God, his Prince, or Coun­try, has not a Horreur for it? Further;

Your Angry mantels the World that L'S. is [ One that hath been a Fidler in all Governments, and would have been a Fidler in the worst of them; For which [...]nd (says he) Hee knows how may Pittiful Leggs and Faces he made [...] to scrape Acquain­tance with the Tyrant Ol [...]er.]

In earnest, This Report might do him a great deal of Hurt, but that I trust, he has some Friends at Court, will have a C [...]re that nothing shall do him any Good. Pray'e will you speak Gentlemen; You, have a great many of you been of All sides; did any of you, ever know him of any More then One? M [...]. —did you ever see him make the Pittiful Leggs, and Faces, (he talks of) to that [ Prudent, Pi [...]us, and Faithful Governour the Lord Protectour] Mr. — Don't you Remember that [ the Providences of God did as much appear in the removing of others from, and in­vesting their Honours with the Government of th [...] Nation, as ever they appeared in the [...]king awa [...], or bestowing of any Go­vernment in any History of any Age of the World?] did You ever take notice of any such thing? Mr. — You Inaugu­rated [Page 6] the Serene Oliver, and Blessed the Scepter in the h [...]nds of his Princely Successour: What say You to the World? Or did Sir John Presbyter ever smel out any such matter in the Protectour's Water? We could appeal further, but More were too Much, A Sober Line or Two now ( [...] y L beller apart).

I know the [...]e Tales are not Believ'd; yet they are enter­tain'd, in Whispers, and pointed at, in little Observations; and so One Scandal is grounded upon another: more [...]o the disadvantage of my Fortune, then the dis [...]rder of my Thoughts. If I am Guilty, why am I not Hang'd? If I am Innocent, why am I Slander'd? In fine, so innocent I am that I affirm; wh [...]t Person soever, (the Royal Bloud excepted) endeavours to possess his Majesty I am other, does in all Likely-hood purpose to Betray him, and his own Soul gainsayes his Tongue. Enough of This, now to the little Fellow again.

He saies, [ That many Sober Persons (w [...]s thought it very fit that the Bishop should be a little humbled) are much satis­fied by it, but the Bishop himself so far concerned, that he hath employed one L' S. to answer it.]

A very pretty kind of Colloquy, betwixt D. and E. Both which I dare say, would be extreamly Satisfy'd, to see the Bishop humbled; yes, humbled by the Head, as his good Friends humbled the Earl of Strafford; the Bishop of Can­turbury next; and at last the King. And what, when they had humbled These; and with These, Monarchy, and Episcopacy, into a base and inextricable Confusion: what did they raise, to fill those Vacancies, but Dunghill Vapours; that were scarce sooner up, then down again, in Plagues, or storms upon the People? I hope any Country-men have not forgot the Fruits of their last Humbling of the Bishops. In truth, a Conflict, had the Bishop replyed, might have made him asham'd; but barely to approve himself; confute a Schismatique, and cast out an Intruder from a Sequestred Living, was for his Honour.

[Page 7]Whereas he sayes, that the Bishop imploy'd one L'S. to an­swer the Animadverter, That same L' S. did, to my Know­ledge, declare, upon the first light of the Bishops Letter, that it was below the Dignity of a Pralate to Cope with a Libeller, and that if any man reply'd, hee'd undertake the next.

The Innocent, in the Second Page, Playes with the Bi­shops [Dudgeon phrase of This is the Truth, the whole Truth, and n [...]thing but the Truth, &c.] The man is here to be ex­cus'd upon several accompts. First as no Judge of a Good Stile, or el [...]e he Counterfeits, for His Jaggs like a Saw. Next; as a Stranger to the Law, he would not else have taken the Common form of an Oath for the Bishops Phrase.

In his fourth Page, he Challenges the Bishop and the world to make good six Positions which he pretends Asserted by the Bishop, and for plain dealing sake, wee'll set them down as the Animal delivers them.

Pos. 1.

That Monarchy cannot consist without Episcopacy.

Pos. 2.

That the Bishop of Worcester is the Sole and Im­mediate Pastor of all the Congregations in his Diocess.

Pos. 3.

That it is unlawful for any, though Ordeyned, to preach in the Bishop of Worcesters Diocess, without his License.

Pos. 4.

That it is Lawful in the Worship of God to enjoyn a small thing under a great Penalty.

Pos. 5.

That the Church hath Power to ex [...]t Confession and Recantation, for these Crimes which the State hath par­doned.

Pos. 6.

That the Presbyterians are All Seditious.

The Two first are no more the Bishops Positions, then the Animadverter is his Friend, ( Vide my Answer to his Animadversions, Pag. 5. & 7. & P. 13.) the Rest are suf­ficiently justified. The Third in Pag. 17. The Fourth, Pag. 30. The Fifth, Pag. 22, 23. The Sixth, Pag. 11, 12.

[Page 8]You the Heads and Patrons of the Revolt, by what Name or Title soever Dignify'd, or Distinguish'd; take notice that I here dismiss your small officer: and now, a Cold, and Serious word Singly, to Your Selves.

I am not [...]tte [...]ly a Stranger to your Consultations, and Cabalts; from whence I am well Inform'd, that you have been Hammering at an Answer to me: but finding that the Cause will hardly beat it, you are a little doubtful whe­ther That or a Libell. Proceed: and when ye shall have engag'd the nameless Issue of some Carted Strumpet to forge the Scandal; Then shall I Thank ye, Gentlemen, for using me no worse, then ye have done Your King, and all his friends before me.

When You have drawn your Goodly Piece, wee'll try our skill in Printing too: but I assure ye, Mine shall be done from the Life, Yours will be but a Phancy.

Ten [...]e est Mendacium, perlucet, s [...] diligenter inspexeris. Sen. Ep.