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their Medicines from Gibbets and Pillories, the Parings of thine Ears have been among their Ingredients, and thoạ art guilty thereof.

But I fear I begin to be like thee, that is, tedious to no purpose, for I do not expect that any thing can do good upon thee, who haft been so often incorrigible to the Laws; for as the ftrength of two Men in their Wits is not fufficient to hold down and quiet one Madman, even fo art thou proof against all Reason and Light, and therefore I will caft away no more upon thee, but leaving thee to thine own Darkness, with the old faying, bid thee twice Good night.

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HOU Quaking Quack, Jefu itical Romish Franfcifcan Frog, fee my Quaker Unmasked, pag. 1. 13. Thou art the Devil's Dice-Box, which he SHAKES, Rattles, Wags, to gull, cheat, delude, and feduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English Nation. Thou art fick of thy Church, and haft catch'd thy Religion like a Palfy, Epilepfy, Ague, and art taken with Tertian, Quartan, Quotidian cold Fits, at

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thy Superftitious, Idolatrous Jefuitical Meetings, Affemblies, Conventicles. See my Healths Sickness, p. 150. The Northern Blaft, p. 90. The Pope croffing the Cudgels, p. 297. Where thou fay' I have no Ears, &c. therein thou fheweft that thou haft no Light, Reason, Underftanding; for as a House is judged to be a Houfe in Law as long as any part is ftanding; and a light Piece of Gold is good and lawful English Coin, current with Allowance, altho' it be clip'd, filed, wafhed or worn; even so are my Ears legal, warrantable, and fufficient Ears, and good in Law, however they have been clip'd, par'd, crop'd, circumcis'd; and I have a better Title to the Remainders than thou haft to thine, for they have been twice adjudged to me by the Laws of the Land,which thine never were. For thofe parcels, fcraps, fhreds, that I was deprived of, did but confirm my Right to those that are (see my own Abridgment at large, pag. 29. Lifle upon Gerrard, pag. 26. The Legality of Treafon, in two Parts, S. G. upon both, pag. 666.) left, for exceptio firmat legem in cafibus non exceptis.

This fhews that the Light within thee, of which thou doft vapour, brag, vaunt, and extol thyself so much, is but a kind of dusky Owl-light, a trembling twinkling, ftinking Stuff, which thou carrieft in thy Paunch, Guts, Bowels, as an Ox, Bull or Cow doth Tallow to make Candles of, or the Cattle of Lincelnfhire do the Fewel of the Country; and thou knoweft who it was that looked over Lincoln, and cried, All's mine, as he will in time do over ye Quakers, Frogs, Vipers. See my Hidden Works of Darkness, pag. 400. A Looking Glass for a blind Guide, p. 79. Fryers a Fry of Frogs, p. 220, &c.

Whereas thou fayeft, urgeft and objecteft, that I would have made an Act of Parliament, therein thou art mistaken, deceived and deluded, for I would ra ther have marred, fpoiled and perverted one according to the Senfe, Judg ment, and Opinion of the Houfe, (and ejus eft interpretari cujus eft condere; fee Bracton) by putting in, adding and incerting fome thing or things of my own Invention, Wit, Contrivance, that had not paffed their Votes; and putting out, eracing, and expunging other things,

which had, which cannot be faid, held, or judged to be a Breach of Law, becaufe it was before it was made one, and if it had been fo, yet it would have proved no great Crime, Fault, Offence, for exchange (thou knowest) is no robbery. See The Foot cut of the Snare, pag. 53. Prynne's Principles, p. 200. which is more than you can fay, produce, or alledge for yourselves, who are a Generation, Spawn, Litter of Vipers, Frogs, Serpents; fo obftinate, peremptory, incorrigible, that you break the Act of Parliament, at the fame time that it is put in execution against you, like unto a Cut-purfe that picks a Pocket when he is going to be hang'd; for you croud, thruft and intrude yourfelves into Prifons by fhoals, that you may, in defi-. ance of Law, Government, Authority, meet more than five together, although it be in the Goal. See my Sword of Chriftian Magistracy fuppreffed, p. 550. The Setary diffected, p. 82..

Whereas thou fay'ft, I write in the Stile, Form, Language of a Conveyance, therein I do according to my Profef fion, Calling, Vocation, and if thou hadft done fo too, thou hadft, been but

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