Ferguson's remonstrance to the council of six upon the first discovery of the late horrid conspriacy a satyr.
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- Ferguson's remonstrance to the council of six upon the first discovery of the late horrid conspriacy a satyr.
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- Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.
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- London :: Printed for Charles Corbet ...,
- 1684.
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To his ever Honoured Friend WILLIAM BRIGGS, Esq
SIR,
I Beg leave to present you with this short unpo∣lish'd Satyr, not only for the Advantage of your benign Patronage, but to gain an op∣portunity of acknowledging the many Favors you have been pleased to heap upon me; and partly too as a kind of Bribe to beget your good Opinion of it, knowing that what you but barely say you like, is sufficient Reason to make the rest of Man∣kind admire, believing it has past the Test of your never failing Judgment. This I can assure you of it, 'twas writ with a Loyal Heart, caused by an ut∣ter Abhorrence and Detestation of the Villanous Practises (brought to light by the discovery of the late Horrid Conspiracy) of the ungovernable Faction, who have lately and long Hector'd it in this our Nation, and liv'd (and I fear still do) in opposition to the Commands of the best Monarch and best Government in the Universe. And now ac∣cording to the method of our modern Scriblers, I shou'd give you a kind of an Essay upon Satyr, and Rail at the most considerable part of Mankind; but I hope you will Excuse me, wanting Learning for
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the one, and the Discontents of Old Age for the other, scraps of Greek and the Fagg end of an Old Latin Author will be wanting too; nor will I give you one word of French to shew my Breed∣ing, no nor so much as find any fault with the Poe∣tasters of the time, to shew my Judgment; (though the World has bin sufficiently of late Banter'd by things of this Nature,) and all that I can say for this, is, that 'tis new and all my own, and if you are pleas'd to Judg favourably of it (and no Loyal Man offended) I have both my Wish and my Design,
Who am Your most Faithful Obedient Servant, W. R.