A farrago of several pieces being a supplement to his poems, characters, heroick pourtraits, letters, and other discourses formerly published by him / newly written by Richard Flecknoe.

OF Your New Irreligious ORDER.

THey are, amongst you Irreligious, as your reformed Orders, (or Capu∣cins and Carthusians) are amongst your Religious, professing a more perfect state of life, and higher degree of perfection then the rest. They keep quire, and for Psalmody, have a sort of Bawdy songs, composed by certain Authors of their own, far surpassing your Antient Hea∣thens; for their Legend of Saints, they have Apitious's and Heliogabulu's Lives, and Aretins pictures for heightning their devotion. They meditate most devoutly on a Peticoat, and are rapt into extasy with contemplation of the Mystery therein; they observe their Rules of Modesty in Ladies company most exactly, standing with their hands

in their Codpieces, and minding Baw∣dry whatsoever they say unto them. As others have done by Philosophy, they have wholly subverted all Morality, neither deal they more favourably with Divinity, doubting whether there be any God or no; and holding all Scripture Apochrypha, Excepting onely the Can∣ticles of Solomon, which with their gloss passes for Canonical Bawdry; they count Heaven but a Melancholly place, and care not for coming there; so as those who would have them sav'd, must make a new Heaven a purpose for them. Marry the old Hell (with a little Addi∣tion) will serve them well enough. In fine, they are incapable to conceive how any Man can be honest, or Woman chaste, and make a fool of Macchiavel, who held that Men could not be extreamly vi∣tious, so as by help of their Example, your after Ages will learn of the present; that too many Religions incline men to Atheisme, as well as none at all. And such as these, whilst they call themselves Wits, have brought the name of Wit into such obloquy, as you will

shortly see the Church sensure it; the Lawes condemn it, Casuists invent new Cases for it; And finally, all Good Christians put it in their Litanies, to be delivered from such wits as these.