HAd I not known you my self as well as by the report of your neighbours, a common easinesse of credulity might have carryed me on to beleeve a late publisht pamphlet, pretended to be the True History of your life, for the Authour assures the Reader he sets down nothing but what hath truly been acted by you: whereas indeed, it is nothing else but a meer Libell, of Lyes, Scan­dall and Defamation, spun out to a great length without one syllable of wit or honesty, where­of he sufficiently accuseth himself by shroud­ing his name under the covert of two Letters, and thereby securing his person from that pu­nishment the Law hath provided for him, the injury of fastening upon your name so vile a detraction, and presenting you a derision to [Page 6] posterity is of so high a nature that it exceeds any satisfaction such an abject vermin can give, neither can I find out a better expedient for your reparation, then by leting the world know what you are indeed: and this I shall do as an equall friend to you and the truth.

That you are a Gown-man, and the most an­tient Member of the Honourable Society of Grayes Inne now Resident, the book of En­trance can witnesse, having been a Student and Professor of the Law above 47 years: for your abilities and knowledge in the Law, and for your easie fees, your Clients doe very much commend you: For your private way of life, you have given it a Geometricall proportion, squaring your mind and fortune with equall lines to a fit subservency of Natures requisites in food and rayment: For your Society you have made choyce of honest men, not despising the meanest, whereby you have stood firm in these Nationall Hurricanoes which have blown down the lofty and ambitious: and for your generall deportment, it hath been so fair and clear, that I never yet heard you had wronged any man.

How comes it then this unprovoked miscre­ant should bewray the presse, and soile your name with the excrements of his skull? Sure his maine designe is a beggerly project, the sale of his book: Let him have the full price of it, and it is a Whipping-post, &c. that he fears, and therefore conceales himself under the Cha­racters of G. F. Gent. Homogeneously insinua­ting his name to be Gracelesse Foole Gentile. For had he not been a very gracelesse foole, and an unconverted Gentile, he would never have committed to perpetuity so scandalous a piece, composed of lyes and nonsence, and that for a very little money, soone to be spent; in due time he will have a just reward: for he serves a Master, though a Lyer from the beginning, yet faithfull in paying his servants their wages. In the interim let him stand to the publike view in that becomming posture the Frontispiece presents him, as destined by charity to repen­tance.