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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62440	Plano-pnigmos, or, A gag for Johnson that published animadversions upon Galen-pale and, a scourge for that pitiful fellow Mr. Galen that dictated to him a scurrillous Greek title / by Geo. Thomson.	Thomson, George, fl. 1648-1679.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. Epistolar discourse to the learned and deserving author of Galeno-pale.	1665 (1665)	Wing T1030; ESTC R24128	23,647	66

to forbid the Banes and to put a stop to the Enterprize of so unequal a Match and have shown most just Causes why two Parties so disagreeing should not be joyned in Matrimony so you will continue a vigilant Eye that the Galenical Satyr whose Lust of propagating whether in or out of Kinde is insatiable may not commit a Rape upon so delicate a Nymph as Pyrotechny such an unlawful mixture is by some reputed and reported the original of Apes Monkeys and Baboons if or no truly I shall not dispute but surely the unequal commixture before mentioned will in likelihood yea for certain produce as great or greater Monsters in Art then the others are in Nature allowing the supposition of their original for true 'T is granted of late many rash pretenders have assumed the Title of Chemists whom Nature not knowing nor they her the true Sons of Art disdain to own and protest against among whose number I know none more fit to be first begun withal then this Fugitive Renegado who never attaining higher honour in the Chemical Army then of a Pioneer or Dragoon at best hath proved an Apostate from that Profession he never was worthy of and betrayed to the Enemy as much as he ever knew which all that understand any thing in Art are assured is little enough by discovery of which no real Artist need fear dammage nor was there ground of Reply to any thing that either hath dropt or heréafter may fall from his Pen were it not that all who know him are induced to believe that he doth by that Scribble how impertinent soever it be as many of his minde in another case are reported to do father Brats which they are sure are none of their own because they either have received or hope to receive some beneficial Courtesies from the Fathers Therefore for sake of the real and not pretended Father of that piece I shall say a little to some Passages I observed therein though very briefly First I observe with what a magisterial supercilliousness he censures as illiterate all that are Professors of true Pyrotechny and maintain its Principles both as to the Preparation and Application of Remedies the judging distinguishing and curing Diseases in opposition to those who subscribing to Galen Avicen and others of that gang own the distinction of Dogmatists and Methodists and have done for many ages till of late they have wrought upon the facile Nature or Cranium of an easie impression of a nameless person of honour for ought I know to become their Godfather and now at the years of rotten ripe discretion to give them a new Name of Rational Chemists as a distinction I conceive between such whom his wisdom is pleased to style Melancholly Operators and them that is between such who will admit no practical Theorems whose Confirmation they have not practically received from the Fire and those more neat Genteel Chemists who without knowing the Names and Forms of Furnaces the degrees and manner of ordering Fires the shapes and diversities of Chemical Vessels can by depth of reading and profound Reason tell what are the best Chemical Remedies and when how and by whom they are best made and the time manner dose and rule requisite for the most beneficial administration of them This Gentleman I suppose for the honour of the Nation and future benefit of the Cadets of the Gentry will shortly distinguish between the Rational and Gross mechanical Merchant Marriner Souldier c. And for the honour and profit of Generations to come introduce and recommend Rational Pilots Masters and Captains of Ships Captains and Commanders of Land Forces Rational mannagers of Trafique by Sea and Land as also Dealers by Exchange of Moneys and the like and if he can perswade those in Authority to listen to and approve such a Rational Motion we may hope in time to be provided as well in all these mentioned Cases as we are now with Iatrochemical Galenists 'T is as possible and probable to be an expert Chemist without seriously sedulously indefatigably and constantly attending the Mechanical part of Pyrotechny making new daily pondering also and amending future Operations by past experience as to be an expert Anatomist without knowing the use of the Knife by bare Rational speculation 'T is the Mechanist informs instructs and confirms the Theorical speculator and not on the contrary But here the Operator acknowledges the highest of his attainments to his profound Masters of Amen-Corner and they owe all which they pretend to of Chemical Skill to this Servant thus one hand washeth another while an impartial by-stander may say It is pity such Masters and such a Servant should be separated But why must all that dissent from the Nil ultrà praeter idiotas of Pater Noster Row be branded for Illiterate 'T is well the visible father of this peremptory and petulant Charge is known not to be guilty of or overgrown with either wit or learning himself and therefore is as fit a Judge in the Case as Midas was of the excellency of Musick made by Apollo on his Harp or Pan on his Pipe and if he were repaid as well for his Judgement as Midas was his Masters in case they should lose him might finde him though hid under the Covert of a Philosopher by the same marks that the Farmer in Aesop found a lost Servant of his concealed under the disguise of a Lions Skin As to the Challenge made by you of deciding the grand Controversie by proof and experimental Demonstration the World will take notice although you and we should be silent how he seeks to evade it by scandalous and reproachful Quibbles in which his scurrility will try the utmost of your patience and will excuse you if you reply with Vinegar to his canker'd Lines writ with a pen dipt in gall I wish that either side had forborn to discharge your selves like Cannons roaring and rending each other yielding much smoke but little light yet must Apologize for you in the words of the Comick Poet that it is on your part responsum non dictum quia laesit prius He first transgrest the bounds of a fair Gamester and plaid such Butchers play as both the Pate and Shins that if himself get a crackt Crown he may thank his own indiscretion and his blustering huffing I have known an uncivil braving Hector so abusive to a sober Gentleman that he hath provoked him at length to cudgel him soundly for his unmannerliness and I could not account it otherwise then just that he who would not be guided by discretion should be basted into better manners But of this a word to the wise But concerning the thing proposed and that on such fair terms as cannot be refused with honour nor accepted without a silencing demonstration on one side or other if it be enough to laugh at the Proposal as impossible upon presumption that so many will not be found that will trust their Lives either in your or