I forc'd my Tongue to Act as Cold a part
As e'er it cou'd unto my burning Heart:
But ftill my faithful, and more generous Eyes
Wou'd fhow him all its fecret Treacheries:
Then tell, ye Heirs to ancient Athens Fame,
Some way with more Address to hide my Flame?

Answer.

And can your fatal Sex, form'd to deceive,
Want Arts to make us what you please, believe?
You're Tongue it felf, cou'd Sacred Duty fway,
And yet not make your ftubborn Eyes obey?
You're all a Miracle; but will be more,
If still unmov'd, you let your Swain adore:
Stifle thofe Flames which from your Heart arife;
Or if they still fly upwards, hide your Eyes.

gain, fince there's not a Profelyte to this Art, but is an Idolater, becaufe it takes Peoples dependance off from God Almighty, and fixes it elfewhere, whilit with a finful Curiofity, they endeavour to pry into Secrets, depending upon the Event,and neglecting their Duty; our Saviour as he was Man,knew not Times and Seasons,and check'd his Difciples for being over-bufie with that incommunicable Attribute of his Father. Time was

Q. Whether any Man or Woman, [ the Study, gets well by the Barwithout Conjuring, is able to answer thefe feveral Questions: Life long ar fhort? Healthful or unhealthful? Rich or Poor? Or what way to get Riches? If the beft times be paft or to come? Women with Child or not? If not, whether ever have any? Whether you fhall Marry the Perfon defired, or what will hinder? Servants or Lodgers, if true or not? Goods ftoln, whether they will be had again or not, and the best way to get them? Law Suits, who will overcome? If good to remove from the Houfe or Place where you are? Fournies, if fuccefsful or not? Money owing, if recoverable or not? An abfent Perfon Alive or Dead? Friends and Acquaintance, whether True or Falfe?

4. 'Tis all abominable Nonfenfical Stuff, from the beginning to the end; nothing in't but a defign to confound filly Peoples Brains, and be paid for it; but the Inftigator, who is the Devil, and first puts ill or ignorant People upon

when thefe fort of People were taken Cognizance of by the Magiitrate, and punish'd for their Abufes and Impofitions on the weaker fort of People; but to the pretended Questions, in which this She-Stargazer offers a fatisfaction, which we fhall confider fingly by themselves,with our Refolves upon 'em to fuch as would be fatilfied in any of 'em.

1. Life long or bort? Healthful or unhealthful? Anfw. Long very probably, if Young, Temperate in Dyer, Active: But if Old, or undutiful toParents,Debauch'd, Ff3

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Intemperate, or a Liver in open (Affirmative. 'Tis common for

and actual contempt of the Laws, no body but an Aitrologer would take a Leale of your Life."

the Aftrologers to tell a Maid, That fhe is with Child, if the can but diffemble and play the Wife a little; nay, they'll tell what Fortune the Non-entity fhall have, as Life long or short, Healthful or Unhealthful, Rich or Poor, &c.

5. Whether you shall marry the Perfon defired, or what shall hin

2. Rich or Poor, or what way to get Riches? Anfw. If Charitable, Industrious, and continue fo, you are Rich, or fhall be fo if you live, for you have God Almighty's promife, for it: But if you are given to Gaming, Women, entring into Bonds,or Sloth-der? Anfw. We have known one fulness, the Stars can never keep of the most famous Planet-Proyou out of Rags and Poverty. pheteffes in Town, tell two Young In these two, and the following Perfons, that afterwards married Anfwers, the Querift is to confi- together, that he fhou'd have two der, that we are now examining for three Husbands, and he as mathe common Method of God's Pro-ny Wives, now unless the Stars vidence, which is as certain, nay, much more, than in a Lottery, to throw the Means of the Dice be. fore fix Aces, or fix Sixes; though We deny not but fuch a Chance is upon the Dice, and may be thrown in Tryals enough, but what wife Man can believe it would be his Chance, rather than the reft, fince it is aboye Forty thousand to one.

influence one of 'em to be hang'd for acting agreeably to the former influences, this must be fome Riddle, but what Riddle no Man in his Wits needs to trouble himself about, for 'tis evident, That 'tis not the Stars, but Judicial Stargazers, that influence fuch Contradictions.

6. Servant's or Lodgers, if true or not? Goods ftoln, whether they - If the best times be past, or will be bad again or not, and the to come? Anfw. If by beft Times beft way to get them? Anfw. Enyou mean Happinefs, that's' cer-quire of thofe that know them, rainly to be only intirely enjoy'd hereafter,by fuch as live well here: But if you mean affluence of this World's Good, Friends, Reputation, e take the meatures in the last Question, and you may reafonably enough expect yet bet-new Question, the best way is to ter Times.

and if you are very fcrupulous, enquire after those Perfons Credit, which gave you Information, this is a fafer and truer way than Aftrology. As for the fecond part, which rather looks like a

Fee the Thief-catcher; but it's 4. Women with Child or not? fome odds, you never have what If not, whether ever have any? you lofe, though if you go into -Anfw To the former part of the Moorfields, Towerhill, Ludgate, Question, tarry a little longer, and other places of Inspiration, and you will certainly know your you may be certain of lofing felf. As to the latter part, tenome more after it, for Aftroloto one but any Woman that is Is won't let their twelve Houfes not fuperannuated may expect the or nothing,

7. Law-fuits, &c. Answer,thing be a Name, for Nothing con

This and the following are all of
a piece, equally Impious and Ab-
furd,and we can't ha' while to con
fider 'em all, only the business of
Planetary Hours, which this Au-
th'refs pretends the can give to any
one for the undertaking of a thing
to be profperous: We can't but
ferioully caution every one that
pretends to Chriftianity, to take
heed of any dealing with these
Wretches, especially as to their
Planetary Hours and Seafons fet
apart for bufinefs, as being lucky
or unlucky. St. Paul look'd up-
on fuch as obferved Days and
Times, and Months, and Seafons,
(in this very Senfe) to be in the
ready way to Apoftacy, and to
whom his Preaching was in vain
But we fhall take occafion to
confider of these things more
fully when Mr. Gays day
comes, wherein he has promis'd
to call us to an Account.

have no Name but Nothing, which
is no Nothing, and therefore no
Noun, and yet it agrees with, and
is govern'd by Verbs, and has all
the Cafes, as well as other Nouns :
I defire your ferious Aufwer here-
in, and the Definition of No-.
thing, and Opinion, whether it
may properly be call'd a Noun-
Subftantive?

A. As for this weighty Quetion, which undoubtedly he who lent it thinks delerves a ferious Anfwer,and accordingly defiresit, We have already in part reply'd tot, but fhall here for his latisfaction be a little larger. He requires a Definition of Nothing,nor can we give any more clear or comprehenfive than what he has formerly had, that Nothing is--00000000000000p, &c. wherein 'tis a plain Cafe are included all things that are neceffary to a compleat Definition, for there's first - then Q. Nothing, in Latin Nihil, its Genius, which is o in Greek, is in all thefe its difference, both effential o Languages a Noun Subftantive and accidental onay, all the now a Noun is the name of a thing Train of little Tiny accidents that that may be feen, felt, beard, or wait upon the ancient Family of understood, and how can any part the Nothings, clearly and distinctof that Defcription agree toly marshalled according to their Nothing? If you Aufwer 'tis the refpective Ranks and Titles, as o; and left oname of Nothing, or word No-o thing, which is feen, or heard, &c. thers of 'em fhou'd take it amils and is therefore a Noun Sub- for being neglected or excluded, a ftantive, why is it then other-long, &c. is left for a Back-door wife put Nullores, or gá- to all the reit.

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which Nulla and ev are But in order to Answer his both Adjectives, and have their weighty Objections, We muit Subftantives Res, and wedyn now, like bad diputants,be forc'd fut with them to exprefs nothing, to diftinguifh after we have deand why fhou'd the parting of No find. There are three forts of from thing cause it to be Nulla Nothings, very near akin to the res, and i♪av wędza, and the three kinds of Seekers; one noputting 'em together, make 'em thing which is fomething, anoNihil, and day and how can No-ther nothing Letween nothing and

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fmething, and a third nothing away, as Privation, blindness in a which is nothing. This may make Man, &c. or only outwardly afPeople ftare that are no Metaphy-fects it, as any Extrinfical Denoficians, but 'tis all as plain as a mination. Some reckon alfo a Pike-staff to one that has but read Nothing of Subfiftence, by which Suarez; for look ye Sir, to be they mean Accidents, of Modes of yet more methodical, there is in Being, but we think these downthe first place your purum nihil,right Somethings, and that Noor arrant nothing, a Contradicti-thing has nothing to do to pierce on, an abfolute impoffibility in fo far into the Realms of Entity. Nature; A Monster, one part of After all,it feems to us,that there's whom unbuilds another- as ftill lurking one old, great GeneTranfubftantiation, a Facobites rical Nothing, which includes all Faith Courage, Honour,Honefty,and these, and yet may be confider'd twenty other Nothings of the fame as abítracted from them, a fort of ftamp. There is a fecond Nothing Ideal Nothing, a Being of Reason which is between a nothing and a or Fancy, which we must havein fomething what the old Jabberers our Minds fome how oy other, call a Nihil exiftentia actualis, when we discourse of Nothing, Nothing as to actual, real Exi- and which yet can't perhaps ftrictftance, but what may exift; as aly and properly be comprehended Million of things (Nothings we mean) that are poffible are not future, or which we hope, nay, we have a strong guefs, will never be prefent: As a Plague that fhou'd Tweep away every honest Engliband for ought we know,fifty Lanman, a Delcent, from France we guages more than ever were in the mean. A leventh Son of the Polyglot. This fometimes exlate K. James, to do Marvels, and preffes all the foremention'd parbe a Bishop of Canterbury, and ticular Notions, poffible, impofLegate a Latere, at the fame fible, privative, &c. at others,only time that his Brother of Wales is the general confus'd Notion of unKing of England. But though determinate Nothing, and fomethis Nothing has but a very small times again 'tis taken TEX Portion of fomething in't, yet for its own little felf, the very Tifome it seems to have, at least to ny word, the Nihilum, first dock'd Conception, and there is, by Avi-into Nibil,and then geltagain,and cenna's leave,a difference between the Nihility of a Poflibility, and an Impoffibility.

There is farther a Nihil pofitionis, luch a Nothing as comes we think nearer to fomething than all the rest, and may be reckon'd juft on the edge of Being. A Nothing which puts or affirms nothing, but either takes fomething

under any of the former Heads: And yet lefs than all these is the word Nothing, the meer shadow of a fhadow, for all its high Pretenfions to Latin Greek,and Hebrew,

ramm'd up into Nil, (not unlike
our Nothing, not ought, Nought)
and fo made less than nothing
(and if any can make more on't
they are welcome.)

Now for the other Queries,how can no hing be seen, felt, heard, or underflood? O very eafily! Did you never yet see a Country Fellow in Cheapfide gaping up in the

Sky?

Q. If the Wind has fo great a Power over the found of a Ring of Bells, as to make 'em be heard much more plain that way it blows, than the contrary, what's the Reafon by its irregular rapid Motion it does not rather confound, and render the Sound inharmonious?

4. The Sound of Bells is doubt. less render'd more or lefs diftinct at a distance by the violence or Equableness of the Blaft,as it happens, for often we hear, and not hear the fame Bells in a Moments time,nay,hear fome of them(without any regard to their intrinfick Sound) more clearly or dully than others. But notwithstanding this accidental difference, the Air of it felf Equably and Circularly mov'd whenever Sound is made, as the Water,when a Stone,or any other pondrous Body is thrown into it; and thofe Circles move on still, till their force is spent, the Wind furthering 'em in their way, tho

Sky? Go to him, and ask him what he fees there,and ten to one his Answer will be, Nothing; nay, pick out (if you can) forty wile People out of the Crowd, that pals the Poultrey in a Summers day, and defire them to look up as well as he; they'll all agree they fee Nothing, tho' perhaps a Hundred thoufand Fools might ftare fo long, till they had made fomething on't, and difcover'd whole Squadrons of fiery Dragons, and headless Armies: Then for feeling: Nothing may be a Noun, Ay, and a Noun Substantive too, for all that; For did you never put your Hand in your Pocket, and feel nothing there? If not, we're fure you have better Fortune than fome, that fhall be Nameless. Then for hearing, there's no manner of doubt on't, for as long as we're fure, that an horrid Still ness may invade the Ears of us Mortals, 'tis a clear Cafe,that like a fat old Gentleman with Goldfring'd Gloves,who steals many ait may chance a little to ruffle hearty Nap at Church against the Pillar of the Middle Ifle, 'tis poffible for a man to have his mouth open, and yet hear nothing: Or if he fhou'd chance not to Nod fair, but try Hard-heads with his Brother-Inorer and wake 'em both before the fhreeking Clark did it, Q. Gent. I'm a Tradefman, yet if the Parfon talk Senfe, they and live in reafonable Good Credit might understand Nothing on't: amongst my Neighbours; I fol And fo may Nothing befeen, felt, low my business, and by my labour, heard, and understood: Erg. 'tis a together with Gods Blessing, I Noun -Q. E. D. And if all procure a competent maintain this ben't enough, but we should ance for my Family. My common be accus'd for trifling in fo weigh- Expence doth not exceed 3 d. a ty a Cafe let the Querift look back day, except occafioned by a Relato our diftinctions above, and as tion, or fome other Perfon for or for what remains, he may eafily in whom I have either Efteem or answer it himself, without put-Intereft, and yet I am under the ting us to any further trouble. misfortune of baving a Wife, that

'em; as at Sea, where thefe Circles are larger, if there's a Gale of Wind, it drives on the Undulated Water fo equably and justly, that the Wave does not often break till it reaches the Shore, unless another dafhes against it.

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