ful destroyer of Goose-Quills, that doft plunder and ftrip thy poor kindred naked to the Skin, to maintain thyself in a tyrannical and arbitrary way of Scri bling against thy Brethren, even the Independants and Quakers, over whom thou fetteft up thyfelf as an unrighte ous Judge; for a Righteous Judge hath an Ear for both Parties, and thou haft none for either. Verily, William, thou doft Evil, and against the Light within thee, to accufe thy Brethren of that, whereof thou art more guilty thy felf; for tho' they break an Act of Parliament, yet thou didst worse, when thou wouldst have made one thyfelf, after thou hadft engaged thy Faith unto the House, that thou wouldst never lift up thy Heel against them more: Truly, thou fheweft thyfelf in this, no better than a Jew, in throwing the first Stone at them, unless thou wert innocent thyself, and all thy Fundamental, Municipal, Common, Natural Law, will not ferve to prove thee other, who haft been judged by the Laws of the Land as a Pharifee, to wear a Philactery in publick, and haft had thine Ears bored through, according to the Mofaical

faical Law: And I fear thy pretended Converfion to Christianity is but in order to fomething elfe, even as the Mahometans (they fay) will not admit a Jew to turn Turk, unless he first become a Chriftian: And that is the reafon why thou art fo cruel (like a Renegado) to thofe of thine own Sect; yea, even unto those in whose Quarrel thou haft loft Leather; for as one of thy Ears I was cut off for Presbytery, even fo was the other for Independency. But now I fpeak of thine Ears, give me leave to Cask thee one Queftion; I have heard, that those who have loft their Legs, do fometimes nevertheless feel Pains in their Toes; and I would fain know, whether toward change of Weather, thou doft not feel a kind of itching and tingling in those defunct Parings of thine, especially when Presbytery and Government are like to peep out again? For what else does thy railing against the Bishops (as well as us) hold forth, but that thou art the very fame Will, Prynne, Utter-Barrister, that didft heretofore publifh against them fo many ridiculous Hat-cafes and Band-boxes, in which thy Works are always bound

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up, and are to be fold on the Southfide of Paul's Church-yard, where thy Stationers live? Among thofe, I have feen thy Title-pages pafted, like Mountebanks Bills, in which thou doft always write Reformation, Law, Religion, and Fundamental in Capital Letters, even as thofe Quacks do Pox and Running of the Reins, and both to the fame purpofe, namely, to deceive the Reader, and vapour of more than thou art able to perform. But O! the Verbofity of thy Writings! Solomon faith, In many Words there is Folly; and thou haft prov'd it true: For thou writeft perpetually in the Language of a Conveyance, and doft not indite, but draw; and when thou fhalt anfwer for every Idle Word, all the Bills and Anfwers in Chancery will rise up in Judgment against thee. For thou ufeft fo many impertinent Tautologies, that thy Reader can never understand what thou meaneft, unless he fhould take the Pains to draw Breviates of thy fenceless Repetitions, which is unfufferable, and not to be endured by a Free-born Englifh-man. And this ferves thee to the fame purpofe that Hems and Hahs do

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thy Gifted Ghoftly Fathers, that is, to lofe time, and put off thy Commodity, namely, Wafte-Paper, whereof thou endeavoureft to obtain the Monopoly, and thereby undo hundreds of Families that live by writing lewd and profane Plays for when thou haft ingroft the whole Commodity of Wafte-Paper into thine own Hands, their Works will be left upon theirs; and in this thou takeft a more wife and rational Course, than thou didft heretofore in writing Indentures against them. For thou knowest not how to write in any other Strain; and therefore to let thee fee how easy it is to attain unto thy Gifts, I will now speak unto thee a few words in thine own way. Doft thou not remember, William Prynne, when the long Parliament, according to the ancient, known, fundamental, established Cuftom, Practice, Ufage, Example of all Rebels, Traytors, Cades, Tylers, Straws, fet open the Prifons, Goals, Dungeons, Cages, and took the Prifoners, Felons, Malefactors, Jayl-birds, into their Protection, Patronage, Safeguard, Tuition and, among others, thy felf, William Prymme aforefaid,

with thy Brethren, Companions, Copemates, Affociates, Burton, Baftwick, Lilborn, Poe, &c. How the Saints, Brethren, godly, well-affected, rod out to meet thee, with the Sifters, Helpers, Damfels, Handmaids, behind them, on the Tail of the Beaft, ftuck with Antichristian, Superftitious, Idolatrous Rofemary and Bays, to celebrate, welcome, and congratulate thy Remitter! How they dawb'd, dash'd, defiled, and polluted thee the faid William Prynne, with Dirt, Puddle, Greetings, Salutation, that thou didst look more like unto a Pimp, Pander, Bawd newly Carted, than an Utter-Barrifter Triumphant; and with how dirty and filthy a Grace, Fashion and Demeanor thou didst bow, ftoop, and lowt to thine Idolaters, the Rabble - Rout Crowd on both fides of the Street, or Streets, who made an Idol of the Rings of thine Ears, even as the Jews did of their Ear-Rings. This, verily, William, is thy perfect Stile, and right manner of Expreffion, in which thou art the freer of thy windy Stuff, because thou comeft easily by it, for thou dost but turn over thy Concordances, and

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