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<HEAD>A <HI>VINDICAT1ON of</HI> DUNCAN LIDDEL, And his Son GEORGE LIDDEL, The on Profe&s;&s;or of the Mathematicks, and the other a Student of Philo&s;ophie, and <HI>John Forbes,</HI> Printer to the Univer&s;ity and Town of <HI>Aberdeen,</HI> by way of An&s;wer of a &s;courrilous Ryme &s;ent from <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></HEAD>
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<P><HI>To the Tune of,</HI> The Gentlemans Mear is behind.</P>
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<Q><LG>
<L>An An&s;wer too that mad Mans Ryme</L>
<L>Will prove an Hor&s;e at fooling time,</L>
<L>And if that fail he'l turn an A&s;s,</L>
<L>As Ferrie's compt at the next gra&s;s.</L>
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<L>WHat makes the fooli&s;h Cocks-comb &s;o to carp,</L>
<L>Like too a foi&s;ting Curr can nought but bark</L>
<L>At him who is profoundly learn'd in all;</L>
<L>Not only &s;peculative, but practical</L>
<L>Parts of the Mathematicks (which fool ye)</L>
<L>Knows even as much as doth a Beetle Bee:</L>
<L>But grant ye had &s;ome skill as ye have none,</L>
<L>Then I would ask at you this Que&s;tion,</L>
<L>What is the difference 'twixt an current day?</L>
<L>And on compleat if this ye know, I &s;ay,</L>
<L>Your ignorance ye had not &s;o bewray'd,</L>
<L>Nor in your judgment had &s;o much decay'd,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s not to know the difference, I &s;ay,</L>
<L>Tiwxt th' Artificial and the natural day.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> this ye'd known as ye pretend to do,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e had confe&s;t our Fea&s;ts both right and true,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">he fir&s;t, the third of March which cannot fail;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hen without doubt the ninetenth of April.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;econd holds as ye may read and &s;ee,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">onfirm'd by <HI>Vincent Wing,</HI> and <HI>Gadburry.</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">our weakne&s;s Sir ye very much di&s;cover.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">or to prove Ea&s;ter by the Jews Pa&s;hover:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ut I with pardon this much mo&s;t tell you</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> greater things I fear ye're too much Jew.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s for your Hebrew it's not very good,</L>
<L>When ye mi&s;take moneth <HI>Ni&s;an</HI> for <HI>Abib.</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ut tho it were as ye would hav't to be;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> nothing proves as all learn'd men agree;</L>
<L>Athough good Friday fall near the full Moon;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;till it holds not &s;o, as may be &s;een</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">his pre&s;ent year, which I think none will doubt:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t you good Sir, who&s;e wit is in your &s;nout,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hen Chri&s;t our Saviour &s;uffered on the Cro&s;s,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e know that darkne&s;s was miraculous;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t that proves nothing to the thing in hand.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nd &s;o I hope your Wor&s;hip's at an &s;tand;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">en I conclude who ever you informs</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t ju&s;tly does de&s;erve a pair of Horns,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> at the lea&s;t to have the &s;ame reward</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ich <HI>Midas</HI> had: and what is that ye've heard?</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> I perceive who &s;ees you well without</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> all he can expect; for without doubt</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> nought within, but a poor empty Hou&s;e:</L>
<L>A Lodging hardly worthy a Mou&s;e:</L>
<L>But had ye knowledge as ye apprehend</L>
<L>Your &s;elf to have, then truly I would &s;end</L>
<L>Some lines unto you of an deeper dy;</L>
<L>But to an naughty &s;hallow Fellow, I</L>
<L>Thinks it below my wrath; becau&s;e I know</L>
<L>Ther's nought within you to your &s;elf ye owe,</L>
<L>But other learned Mens works that ye &s;teel.</L>
<L>Which &s;ure I am ye under&s;tand not well;</L>
<L>And here I will a Le&s;&s;on you pre&s;crive,</L>
<L>If ye be wi&s;e, no longer for to dyve</L>
<L>In matters to Antartick to your brain;</L>
<L>Or in the lea&s;t compet with learned Men,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Books ye are not worthy for to bear,</L>
<L>Should make you keep within your proper &s;phear</L>
<L>To wit the Dung Hill, which &s;ympathizes be&s;t,</L>
<L>With your dull brains, and there re&s;olve to re&s;t;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the&s;e heavenly Bodies which wee &s;ee</L>
<L>Goes far beyond thy gro&s;s capacity.</L>
<L>Your <HI>Prima Coruu</HI> which is in your Ryme</L>
<L>Holds forth your Grammer not to be &s;o prime</L>
<L>As ye would hav't, beleeved &s;ince there are none</L>
<L>Have learn'd the Rudiments, but knows its wrong.</L>
<L>I know by <HI>prima &s;tella</HI>'s under&s;tood;</L>
<L>But ye do lake (In An) to make it good,</L>
<L>And right con&s;truction, which plainly &s;hews</L>
<L>Your Latin is no better then a Cows.</L>
<L>What are the&s;e Problems? twelve I do not know</L>
<L>Ye've an&s;wered him, he only you but two,</L>
<L>To lie &s;o gro&s;ly holds you forth more ba&s;e</L>
<L>Then any horned Ox or &s;urdid A&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Next ye bring in to back your lies old Lilly;</L>
<L>Had ye a tail ye'd make a compleat filly,</L>
<L>For <HI>Lilly</HI> our Profe&s;&s;or know to be</L>
<L>As great a Ma&s;ter of the Art as he;</L>
<L>Although the&s;e jugling tricks he did not u&s;e,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Lilly</HI> did poor people to abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Erecting figures of A&s;trology</L>
<L>To cheat them, had not knowledge of their money.</L>
<L>If Ma&s;ter <HI>Duncan</HI> plea&s;ed to contend</L>
<L>With on like you, ther's none needs him defend;</L>
<L>But that he think's it below him to conte&s;t,</L>
<L>With either hummel or with horned bea&s;t.</L>
<L>Now of this Matter for to make an end</L>
<L>With our Profe&s;&s;or do not more contend,</L>
<L>Who&s;e skill and knowledge in A&s;tronomy,</L>
<L>And all the &s;ecrets of A&s;trology</L>
<L>Is known to be &s;o great, that there are few.</L>
<L>Will dare to challeng't, but an A&s;&s;e like you;</L>
<L>Since all the learn'd Profe&s;&s;ors of this Art,</L>
<L>In <HI>Britan</HI> or in what&s;omever part,</L>
<L>Both will and have acknowledged and confe&s;t,</L>
<L>He is not inferior to the very be&s;t.</L>
<L>As for <HI>George Liddel</HI> who&s;e years do not arrive</L>
<L>As yet unto the Number of four times five.</L>
<L>Mo&s;t &s;hameful hath put you to the foil,</L>
<L>And made you back upon your breach recoile</L>
<L>Who&s;e printed Problems plain and clearly &s;hew,</L>
<L>Which yet are extant to the publick is view</L>
<L>I think, and &s;o &s;hould every wi&s;e Man too;</L>
<L>Ye &s;hould de&s;i&s;t from rayling as ye do.</L>
<L>Whereas ye talk of <HI>George</HI> to run their fiddel,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;ure your &s;elf e're long ye's have a Riddel</L>
<L>Shall run you well enough, but that I fear</L>
<L>Your madne&s;s &s;poil your brains e'r ye come there.</L>
<L>As for our Printer ye &s;trive too abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Who is a Gentleman, and does not u&s;e</L>
<L>To rail on any man, but no thing's true.</L>
<L>I hope he's nothing yet behind with you;</L>
<L>But that he thinks't below him to conte&s;t</L>
<L>With you that loves to rail and lie at be&s;t.</L>
<L>If I had thought thee worthy of my Pen,</L>
<L>I could have written in an higher &s;train;</L>
<L>But for an Block-head this is good enough,</L>
<L>Who&s;e learning fits him better for the plough,</L>
<L>Then for to &s;train his Ru&s;tick brainet &s;o high,</L>
<L>As touch at Matters of A&s;tronomy.</L>
<L>If I e&s;teem'd Thee better than a Slav,</L>
<L>I 'd take in hand to Ryme thee to thy Grave.</L>
<L>Your empty head's no better then a &s;tock,</L>
<L>Fit for to be an Haberda&s;cher's block;</L>
<L>And &s;hall I &s;peak more properly my mind,</L>
<L>At be&s;t ye 're but a bladder blown with wind.</L>
<L>But I'le conclude, take head to your &s;elf,</L>
<L>In ca&s;e ye &s;plite upon a Northern &s;helf;</L>
<L>Since I have power to make an Storm ari&s;e,</L>
<L>Shall quite de&s;tract you if ye'l not be wi&s;e.</L>
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<HEAD>A CONFUTATION <HI>OF</HI> JAMES SETON And <HI>Mr.</HI> DUNCAN LIDDEL OR, <HI>An an&s;wer to the fore&s;aid Rables, Who place their Art in lying Tables; Against</HI> James Seton <HI>and the Bea&s;ts, Who will maintain Erronous Fea&s;ts.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>Tune.</P>
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<L>The Gentleman <HI>John Forbes</HI> Mear's behin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Then <HI>Pater&s;ons</HI> ye &s;till before &s;hall find.</L>
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<LG>
<L>IN Fa&s;tens-Even ye &s;e it is mo&s;t plain,</L>
<L>At <HI>Aberdeen</HI> they take their word ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>As here before it clearly may be &s;een,</L>
<L>But Cocks do rave &s;till near to Fa&s;tens-Eve</L>
<L>Yet how can this be, they are Horned Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>Becau&s;e they err'd &s;o much into the Fea&s;t</L>
<L>But what of this, they may be changed a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>You know upon <HI>Acteon</HI> what did fall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Becau&s;e he had to curious a Brain,</L>
<L>For to E&s;py and make his Sex a Stain;</L>
<L>He fir&s;t on two feet, then on four did go</L>
<L>May not their four, likewi&s;e be changed t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>For when like Bea&s;ts before they did rem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L><HI>Acteons</HI> foi&s;ting Currs would have them &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>But to return they are now in the burrs,</L>
<L>Their Combs do vex them, like <HI>Acteons</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
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<LG>
<L>Yea, Hony Combs that cometh from th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>Doth vex the&s;e Drons, as clearly you may</L>
<L>And now they do begin for to di&s;cover,</L>
<L>Their Ignorance into the <HI>Jews</HI> Pa&s;s-over</L>
<L>They do their <HI>contra</HI>-party call a <HI>Jew,</HI></L>
<L>But who will read in Holy write, <HI>Mat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI></L>
<L><HI>The twenty &s;ix,</HI> and likewi&s;e <HI>Mark fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI></L>
<L>Will clearly &s;ee that we no <HI>Jews</HI> have bee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
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<L>Then read what follows and ye will di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>Our SAVIOUR &s;uffer'd at the <HI>Jews</HI> Pa&s;s-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>And that he did on Sunday next ari&s;e,</L>
<L>Which none but <HI>Jews</HI> this any way den<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>Con&s;ider this, and ye will find it true,</L>
<L>And clearly know who now have been th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>You cite both <HI>Vincent Wing,</HI> and <HI>Ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e Rules are right, but Tables wrong th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
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<L>The <HI>Engli&s;h Liturgy</HI> will you confoun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Although of Art you &s;ay you're &s;o profo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>For it doth give the &s;ame Rule that we u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>Now if you lo&s;s your Comb you'le prove a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Who&s;e Feathers Southward did fly with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>But left the Goo&s;s for to be Ro&s;t behind:</L>
<L>Again&s;t the Fea&s;t of <HI>Chri&s;tian-ma&s;s</HI> I tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>And then we'le know the <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> from th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
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<L>The Month <HI>Ni&s;an</HI> and <HI>Abib</HI> is all o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"></L>
<L>Which none denies except your &s;elf a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Thou Boa&s;ts of <HI>Hebrew</HI> like a learned <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span">.</L>
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