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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05023	Familiar letters. Vol. I. Written by the Right Honourable John, late Earl of Rochester, to the Honble Henry Savile, Esq; and other letters, by persons of honour and quality. With letters written by the most ingenious Mr. Thomas Otway, and Mrs. K. Phillips. Publish'd from their original copies. With modern letters, by Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Dennis, and Mr. Brown.	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.; Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.; Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.; Cheek, Thomas.; Phillips, Katherine, fl. 1658.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Ayloffe, W. (William).	1699 (1699)	Wing R1745A; ESTC R182831	73,342	242

another nature to communicate to you which I am confident will highly please a Gentleman of your Curiosity Dr. Connor of the College of Physicians and Fellow of the Royal Society hath now publish'd in Latin his Evangelium Medici seu Medicina Mystica de Suspensis Naturae Legibus sive de Miraculis He designs in this Book to shew by the Principles of Reason and Physick as likewise by Chymistry and Anatomy that the Natural State of any Body can never be so much over-turn'd or the Scituation of its parts so extreamly alter'd but it may be conceiv'd in our Mind He treats of Organical Bodies and the Human in particular But because some Persons who never gave themselves the Trouble to be fully informed of what he means have been pleas'd to censure his Undertaking as very Extravagant I have his leave to lay open his Tenets before you who are own'd by all that know you to be so great a Master in all parts of Learning and chiefly the Mathematical Now the chief Heads of the Matters that he treats of are as follows I. Of the Nature of a Body particularly an Organical one where the Structure and Natural State of the Human Body is explain'd II. How many ways the Natural State of the Human Body is said to have been Supernaturally alter'd III. Of the Laws of Motion and of the three different Suspensions of the same in order to explain all Miracles IV. How it can be conceiv'd that Water can be changed into Wine V. How it can be conceiv'd that a Human Body can be Invulnerable Immortal and can live for ever without Meat as after the Resurrection VI. How a Human Body can be conceived to be in a Fire without burning VII How we can conceive that an Army can pass through the Sea without drowning or walk upon the Water without Sinking VIII How it can be conceived that a Man can have a Bloody Sweat IX Of the different ways a Human Body can come into the World where is given an Account of its Generation by Concourse of Man and Woman X. How we can conceive a Human Body can be form'd of a Woman without a Man as Christ ' s. XI How to conceive a Human Body to be made without Man or Woman as Adam ' s. XII How to conceive a Human Body dead some Ages since to be brought to Life again as in the Resurrection XIII How many ways it cannot be conceiv'd that a Human Body can he Intire and Alive in two places at the same time XIV Of the Natural State of the Soul and its Influence upon the Body XV. Of the Supernatural or Miraculous State of the Soul united to the Body The Doctor desires and I 'm sure you 'll own 't is a very reasonable Request that Gentlemen wou'd be pleas'd to suspend their Judgments till they see his Reasons which he will ingenuously submit without any Presumption on his side to their better Undestanding He is the more encouraged to publish his Thoughts about these Matters because some of his Friends to whom he has communicated his Reasons have told him That none but such as will not rightly understand him and People of that Complexion are never to be convinc'd cou'd deny what he maintains because his Reasons are not grounded upon any Metaphysical Abstract or Hypothetical Notions but entirely upon the visible Structure of the Humane Body When your Affairs will permit you to come to London you and I will take an Opportunity to wait upon the Doctor who I know will give you what farther Satisfaction you can desire And now Mr. Raphson I hope you have finish'd in your Country Retirement your Treatise de Spatio Infinito Reali which the Learn'd World has so long expected from your Hands All your Friends here earnestly long to see you in Town and particularly my self who am Your most Obliged Friend and Servant T. BROWN TWO LETTERS BY CAPT. AYLOFFE To the Lord North and Grey My LORD YOU seem to wonder what shou'd be the reason that Men in Matters of Gallantry generally have incurr'd the Censure of Inconstancy when Women prove Faithful even to an Inconveniency One reason I believe is that we hate to be long confin'd and their Conversation soon palls tho' what may be assign'd with greater plausibleness I think is that those very Favours a Woman grants to her Lover increase and continue her Affection but withal lessen his Mens Passion almost always extinguish with Possession and what is the Parent of a Woman's Tenderness is the Paricide of ours We seldom adore longer than we desire and what we aim at most can be conferr'd but once In our Sex there is not that fatal Distinction but as a Virgin after yielding has dispossess'd her self of that Jewel which every one was willing to have purchas'd and only courted her for I believe the Demonstrations of Love from Women are more real than ours there being too frequently more of Vanity than Verity more of Study than Affection in our Pretences But it 's no small wound in a Woman's Heart that constrains her to speak and I really am of Opinion that she can hardly love more violently who confesses she loves at all A word sometimes drops from their Mouths which as it was undesign'd gives a clearer Evidence of a growing Inclination than all the Elaborate Actions and Affected Languishings the greatest part of Gallants put in practice A Lovely Face is certainly the most agreeable Object our Eyes can behold and the very Sound of the Voice of one we dearly love is beyond the softest Harmony Yet by I know not what Fate I have seen the Juncture when both were without any effect and this more than once The Latitude I fancy which we take in our Addresses makes the Impression but feeble Variety of Objects distracts the Choice and we conserve our Liberty while we are pitching upon a Tyrant The Indulgence of one Woman who is not extreamly charming makes some sort of Reparation for the slighted Vows we vainly offer'd to a cruel Beauty Few Men are so much in Love as to be Proof against the continued Scorn of the most agreeable Phillis We ask to obtain not to be deny'd and that can find the same Satisfaction in every place will hardly be long confin'd to any one Not but that Women speaking generally are not so perfidious as Men and it is Injustice are well as Malice in us to treat 'em as we do They deserve really more than Policy will permit us to shew 'em they do Your Lordship 's humble Servant AYLOFFE To a Friend in the Country YOU have now at length left scouring the Watch and teizing the Exchange-women bid adieu to Bourdeaux and taken up with Barrel-ale You are all the Morning galloping after a Fox all the Evening in a smoaky Chimny-corner recounting whose Horse leap'd best was oftenest in with the Dogs and how readily Lightfoot hit the cooling Scent and reviv'd your drooping Spirits with a prospect

Matters were ripe I disclos'd the unwelcome Secret to him He raved and wept and after some interval wept and raved again but thanks to my pious Advice and the kind influence of t'other Bottle it was not long before the Paroxysm was over I cou'd almost wish you had been by to see how Heroically he threw off your Chains with what Alacrity he tore you from his Bosom and in fine with what a Christian Self-denial he renounc'd you more heartily I dear swear than his Godfather abjur'd the Devil for him at his Baptism And now Madam tho' I confess you have prevented my Curses by your choice of such a Coxcomb and 't is not good Manners to solicite a Judgment from Heaven on every such Accident as this for Providence wou'd have a fine time on 't to be at the expence of a Thunderbolt for every Woman that forswears herself yet so much do I resent the ill usage of my Friend that I cannot forbear to give you this Conviction how earnestly I can pray when I set my self to 't Therefore give me leave Madam to throw these hearty Ejaculations at your Head now since I shall not have the honour to throw a Stocking at you on the fatal Night of Consummation May the Brute your Husband be as jealous of you as Usurpers are of their new Subjects and to shew his good opinion of your Judgment as well as your Virtue may he suspect you of a Commerce with nothing of God's making nothing like a Gentleman that may serve to excuse the Sin but lousie Bush-begotten Vagabonds and hideous Rogues in Rags and Tatters or Monsters that stole into the World when Nature was asleep with Ulcers all over them and Bunches on their Backs as large as Hillocks May you never actually Cuckold him for that were to wish you some Pleasure which God knows I am far from being guilty of but what will serve to torment him as effectually May the Wretch imagine you 've injur'd him that way under which prepossession may he never open his Mouth but to Curse nor lift up his Hands but to Chastise you May that execrable Day be for ever banished out of the Almanack in which he does not use his best endeavours to beat one into your Bones and may you never go to Bed without an apprehension that he 'll cut your Throat May he too have the same distrust of you Thus may your Nights be spent in eternal Quarrels and your Nuptial-sheets boast of no honourable Blood but what 's owing to these Nocturnal Skirmishes May he lock you up from the sight of all Mankind and leave you nothing but your ill Conscience to keep you company till at last between his penurious allowance and the sense of your own guilt you make so terrible a figure that the worst Witch in Mackbeth wou'd seem an Angel to you May not even this dismal Solitude protect you from his Suspicions but may some Good-natured Devil whisper into his Ear That you have committed Wickedness with a Bed-staff and in one of his frantick Fits may he beat out your Brains with that supposed Instrument of your Lust May your History be transmitted to all Ages in the Annals of Grubstreet and as they fright Children with Raw-head and Bloody-bones may your Name be quoted to deter People from committing of Matrimony And to ratifie all this upon my Knees I most devoutly beg it may Heaven hear the Prayers of T. BROWN TO THE Honourable In the Pallmall SIR LAst Night I had the following Verses which for my part I confess I never saw before given me by a Gentleman who assur'd me they were written by my late Lord Rochester and knowing what a just Value you have for all the Compositions of that Incomparable Person I was resolv'd to send 'em to you by the first opportunity 'T is indeed very strange how they could be continued in private Hands all this while since the great care that has been taken to print every Line of his Lordship's Writing that would endure a publick view But I am not able to assign the reason for it All that you need know concerning the occasion of them is that they were written in a Lady's Prayer-Book Fling this useless Book away And presume no more to pray Heav'n is just and can bestow Mercy on none but those that mercy show With a proud Heart maliciously inclin'd Not to increase but to subdue Mankind In vain you vex the Gods with your Petition Without Repentance and sincere Contrition You 're in a Reprobate Condition Phillis to calm the angry Powers And save my Soul as well as yours Relieve poor Mortals from Despair And justifie the Gods that made you fair And in those bright and charming Eyes Let Pity first appear then Love That we by easie steps may rise Through all the Joys on Earth to those Above I cannot swear to their being genuine however there 's something so delicate in the Thought so easie and beautiful in the Expression that I am without much difficulty to be perswaded that they belong to my Lord. Besides I cannot imagine with what prospect any Gentleman should disown a Copy of Verses which might have done him no ill Service with the Ladies to father them upon his Lordship whose Reputation was so well establish'd among them beforehand by a numerous and lawful Issue of his own begetting The Song that comes along with them was written by Mr. Gl of Lincoln's-Inn and I believe you 'll applaud my Judgment for seeking to entertain you out of my Friend's Store who understands the Harmony of an English Ode so well since I have nothing of mine own that deserves transcribing I. Phillis has a gentle Heart Willing to the Lover's Courting Wanton Nature all the Art To direct her in her Sporting In th' Embrace the Look the Kiss All is real Inclination No false Raptures in the Bliss No feignd Sighing in the Passion II. But oh who the Charms can speak Who the thousand ways of toying When she does the Lover make All a God in her enjoying Who the Limbs that round him move And constrain him to the Blisses Who the Eyes that swim in Love Or the Lips that suck in Kisses III. Oh the Freaks when mad she grows Raves all wild with the possessing Oh the silent Trance which shows The Delight above expressing Every way she does engage Idly talking speechless lying She transports me with the Rage And she kills me in her Dying I could not but laugh at one Passage in your Letter where you tell me that you and half a dozen more had like to have been talk'd to death t'other day by upon the Success of his late Play For my part I don't pity you at all for why the Devil should a Man run his Head against a Brick-wall when he may avoid it On the other hand I wonder why you Gentlemen of Will 's Coffee-house who pretend to study Pleasure above other People should not as naturally scamper

to change that Folly for some less whether Wine or Women I know not according as my Constitution serves me Till when Dear Harry Farewel When You Dine at my Lord Lisle's let me be remembred Kings and Princes are only as Incomprehensible as what they pretend to represent but apparently as frail as Those they Govern This is a Season of Tribulation and I piously beg of Almighty God that the strict severity shewn to one scandalous Sin amongst us may expiate for all grievous Calamities So help them God whom it concerns TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE HARRY IF Sack and Sugar be a sin God help the Wicked was the Saying of a merry fat Gentleman who liv'd in Days of Yore lov'd a Glass of Wine wou'd be merry with a Friend and sometimes had an unlucky Fancy for a Wench Now dear Mr. Savile forgive me if I confess that upon several occasions you have put me in Mind of this fat Person and now more particularly for thinking upon your present Circumstances I cannot but say with my self If loving a pretty Woman and hating Lautherdale bring Banishments and Pox the Lord have mercy upon poor Thieves and S s But by this time all your Inconveniences for to a Man of your very good Sence no outward Accidents are more draw very near their end For my own part I 'm taking pains not to die without knowing how to live on when I have brought it about But most Human Affairs are carried on at the same Non-sensical rate which makes me who am now grown Superstitious think it a Fault to laugh at the Monkey we have here when I compare his Condition with Mankind You will be very Good-natur'd if you keep your Word and write to me sometimes And so Good-night dear Mr. Savile ROCHESTER TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE HARRY WHether Love Wine or Wisdom which rule you by turns have the present Ascendant I cannot pretend to determine at this distance but Good-nature which waits about you with more diligence than Godfrey himself is my Security that you are Vnmindful of your absent Friends To be from you and forgotten by you at once is a Misfortune I never was criminal enough to merit since to the Black and Fair Countess I villanously betray'd the Daily Addresses of your divided Heart You forgave that upon the first Bottle and upon the second on my Conscience wou'd have renounc'd them and the whole Sex Oh! That second Bottle Harry is the Sincerest Wisest and most Impartial Downright Friend we have tells us truth of Our selves and forces Us to speak Truths of others banishes Flattery from our Tongues and Distrust from our Hearts sets us above the mean Policy of Court-Prudence which makes us lie to one another all Day for fear of being Betray'd by each other at Night And before God I believe the errantest Villain breathing is honest as long as that Bottle lives and few of that Tribe dare venture upon him at least among the Courtiers and Statesmen I have seriously consider'd one thing That the three Businesses of this Age Women Politicks and Drinking the last is the only Exercise at which you and I have not prov'd our selves errant Fumblers If you have the Vanity to think otherwise when we meet let us appeal to Friends of both Sexes and as they shall determine live and die their Drunkards or entire Lovers For as we mince the Matter it is hard to say which is the most tiresome Creature Loving Drunkard or the Drunken Lover If you ventur'd Your fat Buttock a Gallop to Portsmouth I doubt not but thro' extream Galling you now lie Bed-rid of the Piles or Fistula in Ano and have the leisure to write to your Country Acquaintance which if you omit I shall take the Liberty to conclude you very Proud Such a Letter shou'd be directed to me at Adderbury near Banbury where I intend to be within these three Days From Your obedient humble Servant Rochester Bath the 22d of June TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE Dear SAVILE WHether Love or the Politicks have the greater Interest in your Journey to France because it is argu'd among wiser Men I will not conclude upon but hoping so much from your Friendship that without reserve you will trust me with the time of your stay in Paris I have writ this to assure you if it can continue a Month I will not fail to wait on you there My Resolutions are to improve this Winter for the Improvement of my Parts in Foreign Countries and if the Temptation of seeing you be added to the Desies I have already the Sin is so sweet that I am resolv'd to embrace it and leave out of my Prayers Libera nos a malo For thine is c. ROCHESTER Oxford Septemb 5. TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE HARRY 'T IS not the Least of my Happiness that I think you love me but the First of all my Pretensions is to make it appear that I faithfully endeavour to deserve it If there be a Real good upon Earth 't is in the Name of FRIEND without which all others are meer fantastical How few of us are fit stuff to make that thing we have daily the melancholly Experience However dear Harry Let us not give out nor despair of bringing that about which as it is the most difficult and rare Accident of Life is also the best nay perhaps the only good one This Thought has so entirely possess'd me since I came into the Country where only one can think for you at Court think not at all or at least as if you were shut up in a Drum as you think of nothing but the Noise that is made about you that I have made many Serious Reflections upon it and amongst others gather'd one Maxime which I desire shou'd be communicated to our Friend Mr. G That We are bound in Morality and common Honesty to endeavour after Competent Riches since it is certain that few Men if any uneasie in their Fortunes have prov'd firm and clear in their Friendships A very poor Fellow is a very poor Friend and not one of a thousand can be good natur'd to another who is not pleas'd within himself But while I grow into Proverbs I forget that you may impute my Philosophy to the Dog-days and living alone To prevent the Inconveniences of Solitude and many others I intend to go to the Bath on Sunday next in Visitation to my Lord Treasurer Be so Politick or be so Kind or a little of both which is better as to step down thither if famous Affairs at Windsor do not detain you Dear Harry I am Your Hearty Faithful Affectionate Humble Servant ROCHESTER If you see the Dutchess of P very often take some opportunity to talk to her about what I spoke to you at London TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE Dear SAVILE IF it were the Sign of an honest Man to be happy in his Friends sure I were mark'd out for the worst of Men since no one