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<P><HI>The &s;ame Hand again,</HI> Again&s;t the pre&s;ent Councel of STATE'S bad Friends, <HI>John Canna,</HI> and his maintainers, the Contrivers of tho&s;e very Licentious, Scandalous Books, called the <HI>Di&s;coverer,</HI> Part the Fir&s;t, and Second.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>JER. V. 26, 27, 28.</HI></BIBL>
<P>For among my People are found wicked men, they lay wait as he that &s;etteth &s;nares, they &s;et a trap, they catch men.</P>
<P>As a Cage is full of Birds, &s;o are their Hou&s;es full of deceit, there|fore they are become great, and waxen rich.</P>
<P>They are waxen fat, they &s;hine, yea they overpa&s;s the deeds of the wicked, they judge not the cau&s;e. &amp;c.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Yeer, <HI>MDCXLIX.</HI></P>
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<P>REader, The Di&s;coverer doth <HI>much de&s;ire that who&s;oever hath not &s;een the fir&s;t part, enquire after it, &amp;c.</HI> p. <HI>2. in margin;</HI> and in the <HI>line,</HI> &s;aith, <HI>We have already publi&s;hed &s;omthing to undeceive the People, &amp;c. and at this time &s;hall make a further Di&s;covery.</HI> Now I having in the <HI>Di&s;coverer uncovered,</HI> vindicated L. C. <HI>Lilburn,</HI> M. <HI>Walwyn,</HI> &amp;c. from the <HI>criminations</HI> of this <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> (and tho&s;e (how great &s;oever it maketh no matter to me) who did for covers, interpo&s;e this mans black coat betwixt them&s;elves, and the Peoples ey<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s) do de|&s;ire you al&s;o to read that <HI>Vindication</HI> and &s;ay, Whether the&s;e men are not as like as one egg is to another, to tho&s;e faithle&s;s Spies, who went to &s;earch, and <HI>Di&s;cover</HI> Canaan. <HI>Num. XIII.</HI> and brought an evil report of the Land, which (as faithful <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> and <HI>Caleb</HI> brought word) flowed with Milk and Honey, and was conquerable by their Bre|thren, might be made by their Couragious performances their own <HI>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion,</HI> as <HI>the many good things propo&s;ed</HI> (by the Gentlemen &s;o evilly &s;poken of) may be by our <HI>Parliament, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Further, Is it not a &s;aucy boldne&s;s of this <HI>Pedantick,</HI> this <HI>&s;ilius terrae, J. Canne</HI> (who was puft up, even to <HI>Per&s;onating the Coun|cel of State,</HI> in <HI>1^&s;^t</HI> part) to undertake to do (what?) no le&s;s than to <HI>An&s;wer</HI> when the <HI>Parliament</HI> (if any one) is cald upon; to undertake the <HI>Ju&s;tification of their Cen&s;ure,</HI> yea, to give the &s;en&s;e of the <HI>Com|mons of England a&s;&s;embled in Parliament</HI> (if we will believe him) touching &s;uch <HI>Particulars</HI> as their <HI>Wi&s;dom</HI> thought fit to be &s;ilent of: Or, of which their <HI>Supreme Authority</HI> needed not to &s;peak, <HI>viz.</HI> What was in the <HI>Book</HI> cen&s;ured <HI>De&s;tructive to the pre&s;ent Government; Wherein it tended to the rai&s;ing of a New War, &amp;c?</HI></P>
<P>And I would have returned words of correction touching his <HI>&s;lan|ders</HI> on each <HI>Particular:</HI> (For, its but to drop a little Inke on this mans ri&s;ing du&s;t, and its &s;oon laid) but</P>
<P N="1"><PB REF="2"><HI>1.</HI> There's ever and anon <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rences</HI> to the fir&s;t part of the <HI>Di&s;co|v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rer</HI> for <HI>proof,</HI> vid. p. <HI>4, 18, 29, 49,</HI> &amp;c. and that's <HI>Di&s;proved</HI> already in the <HI>Di&s;coverer Uncovered.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> You will (no doubt) &s;oon have the folly and ba&s;ene&s;s of the <HI>Di&s;co|ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">rs</HI> here &s;hown by Writings from the Gentlemen accu&s;ed.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> Mo&s;t of the &s;candals are cleanly, purely wip'd off by clear matter in the <HI>Praeface</HI> to the <HI>Agreement of the People,</HI> and in the neat An|&s;wers to (the Succe&s;&s;or of <HI>M^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">^s Gangraena</HI>) the book entituled <HI>Wal|wyns Wyles.</HI></P>
<P N="4"><HI>4. L. C. Lilburn</HI> hath in his <HI>Legal Fundamental Liberties of the People of England,</HI> p. <HI>74.</HI> promi&s;ed (as the <HI>Di&s;coverer</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lls me, who have not read it) <HI>to &s;eal with his heart bloud every line of the book (declared again&s;t.) &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P>I Shall therefore chiefly deal with matters relating to the <HI>Di&s;co|verer &V;ncovered.</HI></P>
<P>And (1) with that p. 19. <HI>Thomp&s;on &s;tab'd one M. Haiden with a dagger, without any cau&s;e or provocation.</HI> But (you men of <HI>State</HI>) was it not a <HI>Provocation</HI> when <HI>Haiden</HI> would (and he came with company) <HI>&s;eize</HI> upon &s;uch <HI>Papers</HI> as <HI>Thomp&s;on</HI> had at the Pre&s;s, which might (as the wickedne&s;s of the times then were) occa&s;ion &s;ufferance more than enough to <HI>Thomp&s;on,</HI> to the <HI>Printer,</HI> and to &s;ome others? And was not the <HI>&s;tab</HI> (being in his Arme, neer his Shoulder) in the Opinion of him&s;elf, (who made no more of it, but would practi&s;e his <HI>Rogueries</HI> (&s;ome whereof &s;ee p. 12. of <HI>Di&s;cover or &V;ncovered</HI>) from Saturday to Munday before he would have it dre&s;t) as well as in the judgement of many others, a wound not dangerous, if in any time look't to, of ea&s;ie cure? And did he not live about a moneth after this, ere death did give his heart the mor|tal &s;troke, Whereby, he, who oftner than once was like (and that ju&s;tly) to be hanged (but e&s;caped with burning in the hand) did now dy in his bed? For &s;hame mention his death no more, it ha&s;tned upon the wheels of his own neglect, and calls to mind too much his ill-lead life.</P>
<P N="2">2. He will (p. 41. <HI>in margent</HI>) &s;ay &s;omthing to the Author of the <HI>Di&s;coverer &V;ncovered,</HI> who writes for his name LAPIS FRUCTIFERA. Its this, <HI>Note, there is one who &s;tiles <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">im&s;elf LAPIS</HI> (he &s;aw onely with a &s;ini&s;ter eye, with a right he might
<PB REF="3"> have &s;een <HI>FR&V;CTIFERA, dextror&s;um po&s;ita) a Stone, or ra|ther a Block,</HI> (a &s;pecial Scholler, he tran&s;lates properly. Speak <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> out; <HI>Lapis,</HI> a BLOCK. How? &mdash; &s;ee you do &s;o no more, you de|&s;erved a whipping for this. It was not &s;o bad with you (though it was a fault great enough for one had read a Grammar) in p. 34. where <HI>irrefragabilis</HI> you turn <HI>un-gain-&s;aying, Verbalia in bili<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, accepta pa&s;&s;ive,</HI> being forgot) the <HI>Simplician (bona verba)</HI> under|takes (and performs it to thy <HI>&s;hame) to Di&s;cover</HI> (commend him, <HI>legit ut clericus,</HI> its <HI>&V;ncover) the Di&s;coverer, but speaks never a word to the matter</HI> ('t were ill luck if not one word hit) <HI>nor under|&s;tands it</HI> (how appears that?) <HI>For whereas the Levelling Faction</HI> (dunghil terms) <HI>hath a&s;per&s;ed</HI> (as the <HI>Di&s;coverer</HI> oft told us, but ne|ver could prove) <HI>the Parliament, Councel of State, (and Councel of War,</HI> which we have nothing to do with) <HI>the Di&s;coverer</HI> (wrong again. Spell it. <HI>&V;, N, &V;N-) denies the things laid to their charge</HI> (and he had good rea&s;on to do &s;o, <HI>vid.</HI> the <HI>Di&s;coverer &V;ncovered) Now</HI> (it &s;hould be <HI>And) in&s;teed of proving them</HI> (what <HI>them?</HI> the things the Undi&s;coverer denies? No &s;ure, you would not have him prove A&s;per&s;ions. That were a rare Task.) <HI>which he &s;hould have done,</HI> (he) <HI>undertakes the ju&s;tification of them (them,</HI> comely lines, which the <HI>Di&s;coverer</HI> made blots) <HI>The Block</HI> (ho then, we &s;hall never have done, if he'l alwaies be thus Cuckowing, as if he attend|ed to &s;ome Block-hou&s;e, or did &s;erve onely to hew wood (an em|ployment the beguiling Gibeonites were put to) &s;ince he lo&s;t his living by the Printing-Pre&s;s) <HI>&s;peaks a parcel of non-&s;en&s;e</HI> (Prithee, be not jealous, and blab, thou mai&s;t ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">p thy faculty to thy &s;elf) <HI>but for their accu&s;ation he meddles not withal</HI> (it may be an Errata of the Compo&s;iter, for <HI>with at all.</HI> But then the <HI>Di&s;coverer</HI> &s;peaks contrary to him&s;elf, Its &s;aid in the lines above, that I undertake the Ju&s;tifica|tion of them) <HI>Although he had not bin as &s;en&s;ele&s;s as a &s;tone</HI> (a brave piece of <HI>Non-&s;en&s;e.</HI> Sans controver&s;ie, he &s;peaks it naturally, el&s;e he could never do it &s;o kindly) <HI>he might have &s;een it was the main thing he had to do.</HI> Poor &s;oul! how anger harh tran&s;ported him, and he furles all? What a pitifully mi&s;erable bundle of loo&s;e confu|&s;ed matter was there?&mdash;! And is he otherwi&s;e when he flings the next &s;tone? let's &s;ee him, p. 44.</P>
<P><HI>Lapis, its like, thinks us &s;o contemptible and mean bred, or &s;uch &s;en&s;ele&s;s &s;tones (as him&s;elf) that we cannot decline TREASON, yet</HI> (he hath &s;o mingled his words, that <HI>Yes</HI> &s;tands like a Granting what
<PB REF="3"> was thought; not as Affirming the contrary) <HI>and could have found out &s;en&s;e too in his Book, of there had bin any. It will be the be&s;t wit the Block hath, if he have the wit to conceal his Name.</HI> How the wretch is troubled that he cannot &s;ee <HI>Sen&s;e</HI> in <HI>Lapis</HI> his book. So before, <HI>the Block &s;pake non-&s;en&s;e,</HI> And once more, p. 80. <HI>Lapis writes non-&s;en&s;e.</HI> Never was man di&s;tracted about Non-&s;en&s;e, till thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Di&s;cover|er</HI> was. But, come thy waies hither, I am an Engli&s;h-man, tender-hearted, and prone to acts of mercy; that thou mai&s;t not longer vex thy &s;elf thus &s;hrewdly, Ile &s;hew you &s;ome &s;en&s;e in that Books words thou ju&s;t now &s;pake&s;t, viz. That he who wrote the Epi&s;tle praefixt to the fir&s;t part of the <HI>Di&s;coverer,</HI> was, and is <HI>a contemptible, mean|bred, decayed Par&s;on</HI> (though he did a&s;&s;ume the <HI>Title</HI> and <HI>Tru&s;t</HI> of the COUNCEL OF STATE) being of <HI>contemptible</HI> birth (for &s;o honorable a Place) of <HI>mean</HI> breeding, and <HI>wa&s;ted</HI> in E&s;tate, <HI>Jack Canne</HI> by name (he cals L. C. <HI>Lilburn, Jack</HI> p. 60.) So that if one would expre&s;s it <HI>cum Rebus</HI> (and elect a <HI>Devi&s;e</HI> for him) you know what &s;mal ve&s;&s;els will do it, and they may without di&s;honor be pendant for his <HI>Signe.</HI> But the <HI>Counterfeiting</HI> THEIR Epi&s;tle, I dare freely &s;ay that men that have but one &s;park of Nobility in them, or that have the Grain of Gentlemen, will &s;corn to let it pa&s;s without condigne reward.</P>
<P>But to hearken how the&s;e Di&s;coverers decline <HI>Trea&s;on&mdash; We can &amp;c.&mdash;</HI> &s;ullen Schollers, they won't &s;ay their le&s;&s;on: but turn M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;ters, and (for&s;ooth) would have me <HI>to conceal my Name</HI> (yet p. 80. tells of my looking like <HI>No-body</HI> its for want of other di&s;cour&s;e) A &s;niveling Advi&s;e, for which I &s;hould hardly have forborn kicking the Di&s;coverer, if he had dictated it to my face; yet wi&s;h him furni&s;hed with &s;o much Greek and Hebrew, as to find out what <HI>LAPIS FR&V;CTIFERA</HI> might mean.</P>
<P>But, ob&s;erved you th'Application of this <HI>Marginal</HI> Note of the <HI>Di&s;coverers</HI> to the line-<HI>reading?</HI> How loo&s;e it is? If his Pulpit ex|erci&s;es are &s;tored with no clo&s;er applications, hee'l hardly ere earn his bread by preaching. And if he depended not more on &s;ome of the Councel of State, than <HI>u</HI> in the margent, on <HI>u</HI> in the page, I am afraid he might beg, or not live in <HI>England</HI> better than in <HI>Am&s;terdam.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3) Page 45. <HI>Hear what Lapis &s;aith, This Sycophant hath invent|ed wicked thoughts, which never entred their guiltle&s;s</HI> (what's the matter with him? Doth he read <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">hout his Spectacles? Its <HI>g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ile|le&s;s) &s;ouls. Poor hearts</HI> (toyi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion) <HI>las quentas en la mano, el
<PB REF="4"> Diablo on capillo.</HI> Yet with both <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s you may &s;ee the wickedly in|vented &s;curvie thoughts of the&s;e Di&s;coverers, if you'l read the <HI>Di&s;|coverer &V;ncovered.</HI> Which thoughts their <HI>ungodline&s;&s;es</HI> would <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ain b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> upon tho&s;e innocent &s;ouls which this Popi&s;h p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">overb no waies will &s;tick to. Its applyed <HI>(apud Hi&s;panes)</HI> to a &s;pecial Sect of their Clergy: b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> (as they &s;ay) <HI>Pien&s;a el ladr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n, que t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dos &s;on de &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n|dicion.</HI></P>
<P N="4">(4) Page 49. <HI>Lapis moves like him&s;elf in</HI> p. 6. <HI>He repeats &s;ome words of the Di&s;coverer</HI> [viz. <HI>How they have bin bu&s;ie to rai&s;e Sedi|tion and Mutiny among&s;t the Souldiers] and &s;peaks never a wi&s;e word to it (to them</HI> he would &s;ay) <HI>But that the yong-man might not be di&s;couraged, otherwi&s;e</HI> (here's &s;ome of that wherewith he &s;tores his book, as if he made <HI>trea&s;ure</HI> of non-&s;en&s;e) <HI>we would ask him whether he were not enticed</HI> (an elegant word in this place) <HI>to &s;tep in between us and the Levellers, through reading the &s;tory how the A&s;&s;e took upon him to judge between the Cuckow, and the Night|ingal. Now of all others the A&s;&s;e might wor&s;e do it.</HI> What broad &s;pining here is? Threds fit to be <HI>Dedicated</HI> to C. to make halters of. But fir&s;t, Excellent <HI>Concealers,</HI> what did I <HI>repeat? How they &amp;c.</HI> hold there. I repeated tho&s;e words of the <HI>Di&s;coverer,</HI> viz. <HI>They</HI> (the four Tower-Pri&s;oners) <HI>have bin bu&s;ie to rai&s;e Sedition among&s;t the Souldiers,</HI> and &s;hewed the invalidity of that cited to prove &s;o much. The fir&s;t quotation, being, <HI>not to be found,</HI> The &s;e|cond <HI>no whit concerning them,</HI> And the third <HI>ridiculous,</HI> as there you may read at large, And find &s;omwhat more than NEVER a <HI>wi&s;e word:</HI> at which <HI>expre&s;&s;ion,</HI> if I had as much wit as the <HI>Di&s;coverer,</HI> I could carp (like him, at by-matters, p. 4, 7, 10, 11, 24, &amp;c. letting the <HI>main</HI> go free.) But the&s;e wi&s;e Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atures, would fain take me in (with them) to appear th'other <HI>A&s;s.</HI> Or like me to <HI>One</HI> that took upon him <HI>to judge between the Cuckow and the Nightingal, i. e.</HI> as the <HI>Di&s;coverers</HI> lay it down <HI>between them</HI> (the Cuckow) and the <HI>Levellers</HI> [the Nightingal] A <HI>Fable</HI> ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reme new to me; and their <HI>Moral</HI> is fit to <HI>&s;coff</HI> them&s;elves with. And it could hardly be avoid|ed by them. For <HI>Prov.</HI> XXVI. 9. <HI>As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a Drunkard; &s;o is a Parable in the mouth of Fools;</HI> that is, them|&s;elves will be peirced met with by it.</P>
<P>Now, upon the &s;ole provocation of (what's provocation enough to me) mine ingenuity, to co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, (for, I would not wittingly have any line drop from my pen, b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at &s;hould fall plumb to one of
<PB REF="4"> Truth; and be ayproved &s;o, even when the curious &s;hall appone mo&s;t accurately the Level of Truene&s;s) &s;ince the former uncover|ing the <HI>Di&s;coverer,</HI> I am informed, that, though <HI>Am&s;terdam, Printed by John Canne,</HI> 1643. is in the Titl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> page of a book quo|ted by the <HI>Di&s;coverer,</HI> p. 9. of fir&s;t Part, yet the Book was Printed in England, without his knowledge. I therefore, upon <HI>in&s;ufficient</HI> (though likely) <HI>Ground</HI> charged it on him.</P>
<P>Hitherto, of the <HI>Di&s;coverer &V;ncovered,</HI> and to what &s;aid about it. Next, one word concerning their &s;econd part (and I have done for this time) its this; I think none will read farther in it (unle&s;s to confute it) after he hath read p. 12. where, with impudence &s;uf|ficient for men, who would arrogate infallibility to their hooded fancies, irrefragibility to their ea&s;ie argutationes, and authority to impo&s;e upon the judgement of the mo&s;t judicious Reader: they thus &s;uperciliou&s;ly affront him, <HI>The Reader &s;hall find here in our Di&s;|coverer, &s;o much cleerne&s;s of Truth, force of Rea&s;on, and fulne&s;s of proof, as he will ea&s;ily &s;ee their lies, unle&s;s he purpo&s;ely &s;hut his eyes, and chu&s;e rather to be deceived.</HI> He mu&s;t therefore provide him&s;elf of <HI>credulity,</HI> and be &s;ure to be <HI>ob&s;equious,</HI> otherwi&s;e (there is no praevention) he's <HI>cen&s;ured</HI> already. And to <HI>deal</HI> with them, is to have to do with men di&s;tempered, &s;o extremely incen&s;ed, and ex|ceedingly tran&s;ported, as to &s;ay, <HI>We dare avouch it, and &s;hall make it good, that there is not in the book one thing true, as they have &s;et it down, p.</HI> 33. though there are the&s;e Truths of holy Scripture (for the la&s;t words) that, <HI>There is a reward for the Righteous; and that, There is a God that judgeth the earth,</HI> &s;et down meerly as the <HI>Confe&s;&s;ion</HI> which will be enforced <HI>from the World, when the People &s;hall be comforted, and the Land enjoy her re&s;t, after &s;o many yeers of &s;or|row.</HI> Which ha&s;ten, &ocirc; God, the Creator! Amen.</P>
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