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Title: An Answer to a Scurrilous Pamplet [1693]

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: June 2, 2010 [EBook #32659]

Language: English

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AN
ANSWER
TO A
Scurrilous Pamphlet,

LATELY PRINTED,

Intituled, A Letter from Monsieur _de Cros_, to the Lord ----

_Il n' point de plus courte vie que celle d'un mauvais livre._
_Mr._ Vaugelas.

_LONDON_,
Printed for _Randal Taylor_ near _Stationers_-Hall, 1693.

An Answer to a late scurrillous Pamphlet, Intituled,
_A Letter from Monsieur_ de Cros, _&c._

The Author of the _Memoirs_ had so little to apprehend in his
Reputation either at home or abroad from the feeble Efforts of
_Monsieur de Cross_ in his late trifling _Invective_, that had it not
been for the repeated Instances of some Friends, who were unwilling
to have such a wretched Scribler escape unpunished, he had never
condescended to the severe penance of sitting an hour upon him. To
their Importunities, and not to his own Inclinations is the Reader
obliged for the following _Remarks_, which as they serve to justifie
those particular passages in the _Memoirs_ that are so outrageously
exclaimed against by Mr. _de Cros_, so they discover, _en passant_,
several Intrigues hitherto not so well known or understood.

Though we may safely allow it to be some sort of Mortificatioa for any
one to see himself lie under the lash of a Man of Wit; yet certainly
'tis infinitely more supportable than to be assaulted by a Malice
altogether made up of Phlegm and Dulness. _AEneae magni dextra cadis_,
was said by way of Consolation to young _Lausus_ as he fell by the
hands of that celebrated Heroe. When