"Tis no wonder he tells us, (_p._ 8.) of _strewing her with the Flowers of withered and decay'd Poetry_; for the _Song_ out of which he hath transcrib'd his _Sermon_, is of very _great age_, and hath been sung at many a _Whitsun-Ale_, and many a _Wedding_ (tho I believe never at a Funeral before) and therefore in all this time may well be _decay'd and wither'd_: In the mean time, if you were to draw the Picture of a _great Princess_, I fansy you would not make choice of _Mopsa_ to sit to it. Alas! Sir, there was _Cassandra_ and _Cleopatra_, and many a famed _Romance_ more, which might have furnish'd him with handsome Characters, and yet he must needs be _preaching and instructing_ his People out of _Hey down derry_, and the _fair Maid of_ Kent. If he had intitled it, _The_ White-Chapel _Ballad_, and got some body to set it to the Tune of _Amaryllis_, compos'd by _W. P. Songster_, the Character of the _Author_, the _Title_, and the _Matter_, would have very well agreed, and perhaps it might have passed at the Corners of the Streets; but to call it a _Sermon_, and by _W. P._ Doctor in _Divinity_, 'tis one of the _lewdest_ things in the World.----" Mr. _Lesley_ attacks the Clergy, who pray'd "that God would give King _James_ Victory over all his Enemies[114], when that was the thing they least wish'd; and confess'd, that they labour'd all they could against it," saying, "good God! What Apprehensions, what Thought had those Men of their publick Prayers; bantering God Almighty, and mocking him to his Face, who heard their Words, and saw their Hearts? Is not _Atheism_ a smaller Sin than this, since it is better to have no God, than so to set up one _to laugh at him_." Again he says, (_p._ 123.) "It is a severe Jest, that the common People have got up against the Clergy, that there was but one thing formerly which the Parliament could not do, that is, to make a Man a Woman: But now there is another, that is, to make an Oath which the Clergy will not take." The same Author attacks Bishop _Burnet_'s _Speech upon the Bill against Occasional Conformity_, by a Pamphlet intitled, _The Bishop of_ Salisbury_'s proper Defence from a Speech cry'd about the Streets in his Name, and said to have been spoken by him in the House of Lords upon the Bill against Occasional Conformity_; which is one perpetual _Irony_ on the Bishop, and gives the Author occasion to throw all manner of Satire and Abuse on the Bishop. The beginning of this Pamphlet, which is as follows, will let the Reader into the full Knowledge of the Design of the Irony, and the manner of Execution. "The License of this Age and of the Press is so great, that no Rank or Quality of Men is free from the Insults of loose and extravagant Wits. "The good Bishop of _Salisbury_ has had a plentiful Share in this sort of Treatment: And now at last, some or other has presum'd to burlesque his Lordship in printing a Speech for him, which none that knows his Lordship can believe ever came from him.