Later Stuart tracts . ondly, as it was done while he wasin trouble, and unable to right himself. Secondly, to the Buyers, to whom it was a most ridiculous banter, andthe mere picking of their pockets ; the Author having, in his firstperusal of it, detected above 350 errors in the printing ; marring theVerse, spoiling the sense, and utterly inverting the true intent andmeaning. The Author having expressed himself, though in decent terms, againstthe foulness of this practice ; the Printer (having no plea to the barbarityof the fact) justifies it, and says, He will do the like by anything anAutho
Later Stuart tracts . ondly, as it was done while he wasin trouble, and unable to right himself. Secondly, to the Buyers, to whom it was a most ridiculous banter, andthe mere picking of their pockets ; the Author having, in his firstperusal of it, detected above 350 errors in the printing ; marring theVerse, spoiling the sense, and utterly inverting the true intent andmeaning. The Author having expressed himself, though in decent terms, againstthe foulness of this practice ; the Printer (having no plea to the barbarityof the fact) justifies it, and says, He will do the like by anything anAuthor prints on his own account \at his own risk] ; since Authors haveno right to employ a printer, unless they have served their time [apprett-ticeship] to a bookseller. This ridiculous allegation seems to me. to be as if a mans house beingon fire, he had no right to get help for the quenching of it, of anybodybut the Insurers firemen. A true Collection., &^c. Vol. II. Preface^ THESHORTEST-WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS, Ir Roger L Estrange tells us a story inhis collection of Fables, of the Cock and theHorses. The Cock was gotten to roost inthe stable among the horses; and therebeing no racks or other conveniences forhim, it seems, he was forced to roost uponthe ground. The horses jostling about forroom, and putting the Cock in danger ofhis life, he gives them this grave advice, Pray, Gentlefolks !let us stand still! for fear we should tread upon one another ! There are some people in the World, who, now they areunperchcd, and reduced to an equality with other people,and under strong and very just apprehensions of beingfurther treated as they deserve, begin, with Esops Cock, topreach up Peace and Union and the Christian duty ofModeration ; forgetting that, when they had the Power intheir hands, those Graces were strangers in their gates! It is now, near fourteen years, [1688-1702], that the gloryand peace of the purest and most flourishing Church in theworld has been eclipsed, buffe
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