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A56861 The Quakers art of courtship, or, The Yea-and-nay academy of complements calculated for the meridian of the Bull-and-Mouth and may indifferently serve the brethren of the wind-mill order for noddification in any part of will-a-wisp land / by the author of Teagueland jests. Author of Teagueland jests. 1689 (1689) Wing Q14; ESTC R28162 67,642 169

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the rotten bottom thereof For the Cries of Friends are mightily against thee and will not fail to pull a horrible Vengeance upon thy Head. Therefore I advise thee to set at Liberty the Bodies of William and Tobet and Humphrey whom thou hast most wickedly and like a Member of the False Prophet kept in Bonds for filthy Hire so that they may be at Liberty to act in their Callings for the Support of their Families For thee mayst be well assured that if thou keep them there till Dooms-day Friends will not bow their Knee to thee nor to thy Baal whom thou after a most Idolatrous manner settest up Nay I say unto thee thou wilt find Friends rather willing to bear their Testimony unto the Death than to submit to thy Lewd and Idolatrous Impositions This was upon my mind to Declare unto thee to join my Testimony as a further Witness against thy carnal persecuting Spirit and hereunto I have set my Hand J. W. The 17th day of the 2d Month by the World called April and in the Year of Friends Captivity A Letter from a Friend in Noddy-Land Friend Thomas I Have often had thoughts of giving thee an Account of our Arrival in this Place of its Situation Temper and what we underwent as well in our Passage hither as since our Arrival and when this comes to thy Hand thou mayst see that I have taken the present Opportunity to dispatch unto thee by the Wind-mill Frigot Patrick Maggot Master being the same that brought us hither And it seems not amiss if I begin to relate unto thee what happened to us in our Passage which as thou knowest we began the 34th Day of the Month of Fancies When we came on Board at Gravesend there was very little material happened unto us until we passed the Downs saving that divers Friends came to take their Leaves of us not without promises that when we had planted the Light in those far Parts and Converted the Wolves and Natives of the Country to the Naylorian Faith they would come and seek out a Habitation amongst us and in the mean time would not fail to send over to us as many as they could of the Families of the Fickle-heads Paper-sculls Humourists and Stiff-necks besides some of the Order of Thomas Muggleton to Settle and Improve us in Bull-and-Mouth Faith. Having given us these assurances they recommended us to the Protection of the Waves leaving some vollies of Sighs to fill the Sails and a great many Farewels and goggling Glances to accompany us in the Voyage We took in divers Passengers as we passed down the Channel some of which I shall name unto thee because they may be of great use unto us in this place there was let me see Humh Thomas Giddybrains Arthur Holderforth Geofery Crackwit Marmaduke Featherpate and Humphrey Shakenoddle besides some She-Friends that freely offered themselves with much chearfulness to accompany the Brethren into any Region whatsoever for the sake of Propagating the Bull-and-Mouth Strain Amongst them was Elizabeth Stickfast Margery Tiplecan with some others who may be of great Refreshing when need shall require But I shall now speak no more of that matter but pursue my Design in acquainting thee with what we observed in our Voyage The first memorable Place we came to was that which they call the Bay of Biscay belonging to the Coast of Spain and our Wind-mill was here put very hard to it for the Winds were loud and contrary the Waters rough and mountainous so that it was well that we of the Ships Crew were of such Light Principles and make that we had no apprehensions of Sinking or else we might have been in danger of having our Lights quenched in the Bay by the Impetuosity of the Waters as some Friends have had theirs Extinguished on that Shore by the Violence of an Hurricane they call the Inquisition We continued two Nights and almost three Days in this boisterous Place before we got off and then the Sea calm'd and the Winds became gentle all of a sudden which seemed as if we had left all our troubles behind on the Shores of Europe and that we had now past the Storms of Adversity and were going to enjoy Peace Light and Tranquillity amongst the better natured Inhabitants of the Forests of Noddy-Land for though at our first Landing we might find them somewhat rough and barbarous yet we had no reason to dispair but the constant Temper of Friends and the Resemblance and Proportion they maintained in their Understandings with those of that New-found Country would soon beget a mutual Amity amongst us and reconcile them to so agreeable Conversation We continued our Course through a vast unbounded Ocean abounding with divers Sorts of strange Fishes some whereof had Wings and flew above the Waters these we thought might resemble Friends for that which occa●ioned these Fishes to fly was to avoid the devouring Jaws of certain great Fishes that hunted after them upon the face of the Waters and then they would of a sudden spring up and conveigh themselves in the Air to a far distant place and by that means were preserved We also saw divers of the great Fishes called Porpoises who with great and indefatigable Eagerness were still in pursuit of their Prey and these seemed unto us to represent our Adversaries the Informers Apparitors and Proctors who often suck in whole Shoals of Friends stowing them in the nasty Maws of their Prison-houses unless like the flying Fishes Friends get on Wing to avoid their greedy Chase One Night in our Passage Susanna dream'd That the Whore of Babylon had put her self in the Disguise of a Friend and was going over Incognito to mix her Tares and Chaff amongst the precious Seed that Friends were about to Plant in this to be reformed Climate and that she had on Board many Bushels of such detestable Weeds whereby she intended to choak the good Corn. We were very much troubled at this Vision of Susanna's and could not think it to be any think short of a Revelation wherefore we were as diligent as possible to find out if any such person was amongst us and began to enquire amongst our selves where every ones place of Birth and Abode had been At last it seems there was one who had been bred in Italy but upon further Examination of the Matter you could no more have imagined her to be the Whore of Babylon than the Cam of Tartary for it was not possible you could discern any difference betwixt her and the rest of the Sisters nor was there any sign that she had ever used Patching or Painting nor could we find so much as one Bull or Necklace amongst all her Cloaths besides her Looks were so Innocent her Demeanour so Humble and her general Conversation so sweet and obliging having such a particular kindness for Friends that we concluded Susanna's Dream must needs mean somewhat else that we could not conceive at that time and therefore we e'en