SUre you were among your Gallypots and Gliſterpipes, when you gave your Choller ſo violent a Purge, to the fouling of ſo much innocent paper, and your own reputation (if you had any, which the wiſe very much doubt) you had better bin drunk & ſet in Stocks for it, when you ſent the Poſt with a whole pacquet of Chartells to me; in which you have diſcovered ſo much vapouring nonſence and rayling, that it is wholſomer for your credit, to have it thought the effect of drink, then your own naturall talent in perfect minde & memory: for if you underſtand any thing in your own Trade, you could not but know that the Hectick of your own brain is more deſperate then the Tertian fits of mine, which are eaſily cured with a little ſleep; but yours is paſt the remedy of a Morter and braying. But I wonder with what confidence you can accuſe me with the diſcovery of private paſſages between us, when you are ſo open your ſelf, that every man ſees through you; or how could I diſcloſe perfectly any thing in your Epiſtles to my Father and Mother, which was not before very well known to your Tutors and Schoolmaſters, whoſe inſtructions you uſed in compiling thoſe voluminous works. Let any man judge, whether I am ſo likely to divulge ſecrets as you, who cannot forbear Printing and publiſhing: Your Labours are now cry'd in the ſtreets of London, with Ballads on the Rump, and Hewſons Lamentations; and the Lord of Dorcheſter's name makes a greater noyſe in a cloſe Alley then Kitchingſtuffe, or work for a Tinker: and all this by your own induſtry, who are not aſhamed at the ſame inſtant to pretend to ſecrecy, with no leſſe abſurdity then you commit, when accuſing me for uſing foul Language, you doe out doe Billinſgate your ſelf. But now you begin to vapour, and to tell us you have 〈…〉 before: ſo I have heard you have, with your Wife, and Poet, but if you came of • with no more honour then when you were beaten by my Lord Grandiſon, you had better have kept that to your felf, if it were poſſible for you to conceale any thing: but I cannot but laugh at the untoward courſe you take to render your ſelf formidable, by bragging of your Fights, when you are terrible onely in your medicines: if you had told us how many you had killed that way, and how many you have cut in pieces, beſides Calves and Dogs, a right valiant man that has any wit, would tremble to come near you: and if by your threatning to ramme your Sword down my throat, you doe not mean your Pills, which are a more dangerous weapon, the worſt is paſt, and I am ſafe enough: for as for your Feats of Armes, there is no half quarter of a man that is ſo wretched, but would venture to give you battayl, but you are moſt unſufferable in your unconſcionable ingroſſing of all Trades: Is it not enough that you are already as many things as any of your own receipts, that you are a Doctor of the Civill Law, and a Bariſter at the Common, a Bencher of Gray's-Inne, a profeſſour of Phiſick and a Fellow of the Colledge; a Mathematician, Caldean, a Schoolman and a piece of a Grammarian, (as your laſt work can ſhew were it conſtrued) a Philoſopher, Poet, Tranſlator, Antiſocordiſt, Solliciter, Broker and Uſurer; beſides a Marqueſſe, Earl, Vicount and Baron; but you muſt, like Dr. Suttle, profeſſe quarrelling too, and publiſh your ſelf an Hector; of which calling there are ſo many already, that they can hardly live on by another. Sir, truly there is no conſcience in it, conſidering you have not onely, a more ſure and ſafe way of killing men already then they have, but a plentiful Eſtate beſides: So many Trades, & yet have ſo little conſcience to eat the bread out of their mouths; they have great reaſon to lay it to heart, & I hope ſome of them will demand reparation of you and make you give them compounding dinners too, as well as you have done to the reſt of your Fraternities; and now be your own Iudge, whether any one man can be bound in honour to Fight with ſuch an Hydra as you are; a Monſter of many heads, like the multitude, or the Devil that call'd himſelf Legion; ſuch an encounter would be no Duell but War, which I never heard that any one man ever made alone; and I muſt levy Forces ere I can meet you, for if every one of your capacities had but a Second, you would amount to a Brigade, as your Letter does to a Declaration; in which I cannot omi • that in one reſpect you have dealt very ingeniouſly, and that is, in publiſhing to the world, that all your Heroicall reſolutions are built upon your own opinion of my want of courage: this argues you well ſtudied in the dimenſions of quarrelling; among which, one of the chiefeſt ſhews how to take meaſure of another mans valour, by comparing it with your own, to make your approaches accordingly: but as the leaſt miſtake betrayes you to an infallible beating, ſo you had far'd, and perhaps had had the Honour which you ſeem to deſire, of falling by my Sword, if I had not thought you a thing fitter for any mans contempt then anger.