Mr. Roger Le Strange's SAYINGS With Brief NOTES to prevent misapprehensions. And some Additional REASONS to prove him,

This a Specimen of the Gentlemans Valor, the Wits are seldom Celebrated for Hero's, he defies his Enemy you see with his Posteriors and running away is, as Familiar with him, as his own Fiddle or Madam Bs. Base-viol.

This is spoken out of Pure Affection to the Citizens, and shews their Pates are good for something else, besides Petitioning. A Popish Successor will confirm the truth of this Aphorism.

The Devil himself sometimes speaks truth, though, against his Will. But the Pri∣vate Cabal will con him no thanks for this Description.

Is not this to Justifie an Association: But have the People indeed any such Rights and Fundamental Laws, Sir Poll, we thank you. And resolve Sixteen more of your Dialogues shall perswade us to part with them to any such Tories as you talk of, who would Impose Devillish Popery and French Slavery upon the Free-born Protestant People of England.

Our Author has endeavored to put this wholsom Doctrine in Practice, and Tugg'd hard at the Quill this many a fair day for a Secretaries place, or some other Court-Preferment. And 'tis no small grief to him, that after all, he should be disap∣pointed and go to Old Nick, a Beggar.

Undoubtedly this Oracle is pronounced from Experience, for the Author himself is got to his grand Climacterick.

This is an abrupt part of a Prophesie and you must send to some Holy-Road, for an Interpretation.

Can you blame our Author therefore for protesting before the King and Councel, and Swaggering since in Print, that he is no Papist, nor any more concerned in the Plot, than the Pope of Rome.

These are very Edifying sayings which have been worn threadbare in the Pulpit, and made two Hundred and Fifty little Parsons pass in spight of Nature and Truth at once both for Wits and Loyalists.

So say I too; and all its Paper-Bullets. But how the Squire will answer this rash Ejaculation to his Trusty Friend Harry is left to be determined by the Criticks Spiritual and Temporal at Sam's.

Can ye blame the Squire then, for Herding with the Biggest Party!

The Laborer is worthy of his Hire, and no doubt, but in due time, the Gentleman may have both his Desires and Deserts in this particular.

This looks like the very Syre of Heraclitus Ridens. And indeed for Religion in Jest and Fooling in Earnest, there's not a Merry-Andrew in all the Town can Match his (late) Worship.

This may be one main Reason why our Dog-Towzer, that has been a Pestilent Con∣ney-catcher in his time, is always Snarling and Barking, and can never lye quiet in his Kennel.

Yet this is that very Pleasant State, this Worthy Author if he had but as much Power as Malice, would reduce us to.

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This was a Preparatory Lullaby, that Popery might catch us Napping and none dare speak against it for fear of being stigmatized for Presbyterians.

Is Saul also amongst the Prophets? sure the Man is turn'd Fortune-teller and presa∣ges his own Destiny.

This you are bound to believe on pain of Curse Canonical; for so choice was his Innocence, that he durst not trust it in the hands of the Highest and most Honor∣able C•urt in the Nation, but fled and sneakingly sent his Wife to pretend he durst not appear for fear of Man-takers and Bumbailies, How A Licenser, and a Pa∣tentee and a Gazetter, and a Justice, and the Devil and all, and yet want a Protecti∣on for the Shoulder? This 'tis to Play all Night at Lantreloe with Rooking Ladies.

Alas poor Towzer! he can Open you see against Majesty upon occasion and upbraid the King with his Services, and in effect charge him with Ingratitude and Injustice; yet still the Gentleman may vaunt his Loyalty, though 'tis not the Cause, but the Crust he values.

What follows then, but you must Cut their Throats or Knock out their Brains to rid the World of such Incorrigible Hereticks, as your good Friends in Ireland did in the famous 41. This you would be at, but Curst Cows, God be thanked, have short Horns.

Why then need the Government trouble it self with making Laws either to exclude Popery or suppress Presbytery.

The first part of this is unsupposable, because Protestants can have no Dispensations to help them out, but the latter clause is a very truth and 'tis Forty to one, but this Author is an instance of it.

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Swearing is so natural to this Worshipful Son of the Church, that you see, he can∣not forbear it in Print. But who knows not the Proverb—he that will Swear, will lye.

Had any Body else said half so much, it had been an Arraignment of the Govern∣ment, and at least three quarters Treason, but this thinks, he has License to a∣buse either Court, Parliament, City, Country, or the Protestant Religion, when∣ever the humor takes him, or H. B. for satisfaction of old Scores calls upon him for a Pamphlet.

Some Additional Reasons to prove Roger Le Strange, No Papist.

• First, because he says and swears he is none in this Juncture, when 'tis very much his In∣terest to be thought not to be so. Though formerly when the Papal Stream ran high he acknowledged (as 'tis attested by Unbiassed proof) that he was of that Church, whereof the Pope was Head.
• 2. Because a Man that never practised any serious Acts of Religion in his Life, ought rather to be accounted an Atheist, than a Papist.
• 3. Because amongst all the Swarms of his sticht Tomes and six-penny Volumes, he never wrote one line against Popery, though he has translated Father Bona the Jesuit, to render that party more Acceptable for their Devotions, but on all occasions and in∣deed without any, has claw'd off Protestants and endeavored to Widen the differen∣ces between them, as heartily as either Philanax, or Goddin, or Serjeant could do for their Guts.
• 4. Because ever since the Discovery of the Popish Plot, he has endeavored to Ridicule all the Evidence, and to shamm it upon the Presbyterians, and divert the chase against Pa∣pists, and smooth the way for the Meal-tub-Plot and Fitz Harrises &c.
• Lastly, Because that after all this Bussle and so many charges against him, and the nume∣rous trifling Apologies, he has pestered the town with. He never yet durst pretend or offer the least-shadow of Proof. That for 18 long years together viz. between the year 1660 & 1678. he ever did frequent his Parish Church, according to Law or received the Sacrament there, as the Rubrick requires, now if he never (ordinarily) came at any Protestant Church, nor Communicated in its Sacraments in so many years, (and if he had, no doubt, but he would have told us of it) does it not roundly follow, that he is a notable true dutiful Son of the Church Establish't, very fit to be her Champion, and to upbraid those that agree in her Doctrin, and often joyn in her Communion? But since the Plot broke out and he was more violently suspected, and charged for a Papist, he has (as he pretends) gone to Church sometimes and taken the Sacrament in Hol∣land, and is not this, (though, for 18 years before he made no Conscience on't) enough to prove him a sound Church man and no Papist? Yes, verily, and therefore be satisfy∣ed, for that's all the Substantial Reason that (after all his Fooling) you are ever like to get from him.