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गौरी ब्रह्मे / GAURI BRAHME
अदिती गुप्ते / ADITI GUPTE
सुहास लिमये / SUHAS LIMAYE
परिचारिकांसाठी मराठी
लघु-अभ्यासक्रम / SHORT COURSE
संपादक / EDITORS
मेहर
े भूत / MEHER BHOOT
विभा सुराणा / VIBHA SURANA
आन�द काटीकर / ANAND KATIKAR
ले खक / AUTHORS
गौरी ब्रह्मे / GAURI BRAHME
अदिती गुप्ते / ADITI GUPTE
सुहास लिमये / SUHAS LIMAYE
संपादक / EDITORS
मेहर
े भूत / MEHER BHOOT
विभा सुराणा / VIBHA SURANA
आन�द काटीकर / ANAND KATIKAR
प्रकाशक / PUBLISHER
मुंबई विद्यापीठ / UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI,
राज्य मराठी विकास संस्था, मुंबई / RAJYA MARATHI VIKAS SANSTHA, MUMBAI
ई-पत्ता /E-MAIL
[email protected]
A first of its kind, this book has been prepared using an integrated communicative approach. It
dedicates itself to serve the sole purpose of teaching Marathi to the non-native nurses and for
them to be able to communicate in Marathi with the native patients, their relatives, doctors, co-
workers and the hospital management. It focuses on understanding the problems of patients and
giving them the right guidance and instructions in Marathi.
The book consists of ten chapters, each with units such as communicative texts in authentic
situations, pattern drills, grammar exercises, learning games, cartoons, answer keys, audio visual
components and an overview of the vocabulary along with its meanings in English. At the end
of each chapter there is a section of subject related information highlighting the specialised
vocabulary needed by the nurses for their routine chores, for e.g. contagious diseases, health and
nutrition etc. In addition to this, a comprehensive glossary from English to Marathi is provided at
the end. A final test has been included at the end to test the written and oral language skills of
the learners. Special efforts have been taken to integrate the communicative approach of learning
so that the learners will be able to communicate in a non-native environment.
Though the book is meant for classroom teaching of approximately 60 teaching hours, self-
learners too can make use of the book with the help of the vocabulary given with the meanings
in English and a glossary at the end. The course instructor may require 6 hours for each chapter.
Regular dictation, additional exercises, tests and extra inputs may be used as per the target group.
The course instructors are expected to use the audio-visual material, provided as free dvd with
the book. Keeping in mind the aim of the target learners, which is basically to communicate,
the instructor should stress on enhancing the speaking, listening and understanding skills of the
learners. The writing skills are not so important for this target group. Hence the instructors are
advised to undergo rigorous teachers’ training for the integrated communicative approach and
may contact the project co-ordinator / editors / Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha for the same.
'Communicative Marathi for Nurses' has been designed after an extensive research and a survey
carried out in various government and private hospitals in Mumbai. The content and preparation
of material of the book is based on the data collected from these surveys. It is created solely for
teaching communicative Marathi to the nurses and does not claim to impart medical knowhow.
The book aims to offer general information required by nurses for the daily routine and refrains
from mention of specific ailments and illnesses.
This book has been prepared under the aegis of the project Marathi Language Teaching (MLT)
spearheaded by Prof. Dr. Vibha Surana, Head of the Department of German, University of Mumbai
and graciously funded by Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha. The innovative project MLT strives to
complete six levels of courses for teaching communicative Marathi to non-native speakers and
four short-term courses for teaching Marathi to (i) non-native bank employees, (ii) government
officials, (iii) nurses and (iv) rickshaw- and taxi-drivers.
We are indebted to the editorial team of Madhuri Purandhare, Jyotsna Bhide and Sonalee Gujar
for reviewing this book and their invaluable inputs. We thank Girissha Tilak, Kruttika Bhosale,
Shrikant Pathak, Sammati Balgi, Mihir Kulkarni, Gurunath Kalamkar, Gurudutt Kamath, Saurabh
Bhosale, Manish Bawker, Disha Gudulkar for their sustained support and assistance. We are
grateful to Mr. Charuhas Pandit and Mr. Prabhakar Wadekar for the copyright permission of
Chintoo cartoon strips. We also thank Mrs. Sunita Deshmukh, senior nurse of Dr. Bedekar
Hospital for Women and Children and the nurses Harsha Shinde, Namrata Malusare, Shubhangi
Gogavle, Vandana Jadhav and Varsha Gawde for their photos and Mr. Sachin Suresh and Mr.
Rajesh Wadekar for the audio recording and the making of the DVD respectively.
We appreciate and thank all those who have contributed in the making of this book.
६ लक्षणे भूतकाळातली गोष्ट, असणे : होतो / होत नाही, नेहमी, सध्या, काल, वेदना आणि उपाय १०१
समस्या सांगणे, सामान्य भूतकाळ ‘होणे’, दररोज, हल्ली, महत्त्वाचे :
काय त्रास होत आहे कालवाचक क्रियाविशेषणे कधीतरी, पेशंटचे बेड कसे
ते सांगणे कुपोषण तयार करायचे?
७ औषधे व औषधोपचार, वर्तमानकाळ, भूतकाळ फार, कमी, भरपूर, औषधांची माहिती १२०
उपचार आहाराबद्दलच्या आणि नकारार्थी : असणे, किंचित, अत्यंत, आणि नोंद,
पद्धती सूचना, द्वितीया संप्रदान चतुर्थी, जरा, औषध कसे घ्यावे
आहाराबद्दलची परिमाण वाचक विविध खाद्यपदार्थ महत्त्वाचे : पौष्टिक
आवड-नावड क्रियाविशेषण आहार
८ चाचण्या इच्छा व्यक्त करणे, साधा भविष्यकाळ : येईन, बाजूला, मागे, वर, विविध १३६
व पत्र वाचणे, जाईन, घेईन, जवळ, लांब, मध्ये तपासण्यांसाठी,
तपासण्या तपासणी व गुणविशेषण संख्याविशेषण सुंदर, घाण... ऑपरे शनपूर्व सूचना
पूर्वतयारी, दहावा, देणे
रिपोर्ट वाचणे चाळीसावा... महत्त्वाचे :
संसर्गजन्य रोग
९ अपघात पेशंटचा रिपोर्ट कालदर्शक क्रियाविशेषणे आज, काल, उद्या, दुसऱ्या नर्सवर काम १५५
आणि लिहिणे, नातेवाईकांशी चतुर्थी विभक्ती परवा. पूर्वी, हल्ली, सोपवणे,
तातडीची बोलणे, सामान्य रूपे आजकाल, अपघाताचे वर्णन,
सेवा इतर परिचारिकांशी ला आणि ना नातेवाईकांना शांत
संवाद साधणे, करणे,
कुटु ब
ं पेशंटला धीर देणे
महत्त्वाचे :
ज्येष्ठ नागरिकांशी
संवाद
१० स्वच्छता स्वतःची आणि कालदर्शक क्रियाविशेषणे आधी, नंतर, पुन्हा, स्वच्छतेचे महत्त्व, १७४
रुग्णालयातील लगेच सफाईपत्रक
स्वच्छता, पण, आणि, महत्त्वाचे : पेशंटचे
काम करून घेणे स्वच्छतेची साधने स्पंजिंग कसे करावे?
सूचना देणे
१२ परीक्षा १९७
१३ उत्तरे २०७
१४ शब्दसंग्रह २३४
ओळख
१
ओळख १
चला, शिकू या :
अभिवादन करणे
आपले नाव-गाव आणि स्वतःबद्दल सांगणे आणि
विचारणे
व्यवसाय सांगणे व इतरांना त्याबद्दल विचारणे
मराठी वर्णमाला आणि सोपे मराठी शब्द वाचणे
आणि लिहिणे
प्रश्नशब्द (काय, कुठून, कुठे , कशा, कोण)
अंक : १-२०
meele 7
ओळख
१
8 Deeþ
ओळख
१
• हॅलो, मी रजनी.
• मी पुण्याची.
• मी स्वागतिका (रिसेप्शनिस्ट) आहे.
veT 9
ओळख
१
10 one
ओळख
१
स्वर :-
अ आ इ ई
उ ऊ ए अॅ ऐ
ओ ऑ औ
ऋ
स्वरादी उदा∘ :-
अं अः
DekeÀje 11
ओळख
१
व्यंजने :-
क ख ग घ ङ
च छ ज झ ञ
ट ठ ड ढ ण
त थ द ध न
प फ ब भ म
य र ल व
श ष स
ह ळ क्ष ज्ञ
12 yeeje
ओळख
१
१.५ स्वरचिन्हे.
क् + अ = क क् + आ = का क् + इ = कि क् + ई = की
क् + उ = कु क् + ऊ = कू क् + ए = के क् + ऐ = कै
क् + ओ = को क् + औ = कौ क् + अॅ = कॅ क् + ऑ = कॉ
क् + ॠ = कृ क् + अं = कं क् + अः = कः
lesje 13
ओळख
१
ऑ ॉ ह् + ॉ हॉ हॉल
औ ौ ह् + ौ हौ हौस
अं ं प् + ं पं पंख
अः ः त् + ः तः अंतःकरण
ऋ ृ न् + ृ नृ नृत्य
च चा चि ची चु चू चे चॅ चै चो चॉ चौ चं चः
छ छा छि छी छु छू छे छॅ छै छो छॉ छौ छं छः
ज जा जि जी जु जू जे जॅ जै जो जॉ जौ जं जः
झ झा झि झी झु झू झे झॅ झे झो झॉ झौ झं झः
ट टा टि टी टु टू टे टॅ टै टो टॉ टौ टं टः
ठ ठा ठि ठी ठु ठू ठे ठॅ ठै ठो ठॉ ठौ ठं ठः
ड डा डि डी डु डू डे डॅ डै डो डॉ डौ डं डः
ढ ढा ढि ढी ढु ढू ढे ढॅ ढै ढो ढॉ ढौ ढं ढः
ण णा णि णी णु णू णे णॅ णै णो णॉ णौ णं णः
त ता ति ती तु तू ते तॅ तै तो तॉ तौ तं तः
थ था थि थी थु थू थे थॅ थै थो थॉ थौ थं थः
द दा दि दी दु दू दे दॅ दै दो दॉ दौ दं दः
ध धा धि धी धु धू धे धॅ धै धो धॉ धौ धं धः
न ना नि नी नु नू ने नॅ नै नो नॉ नौ नं नः
प पा पि पी पु पू पे पॅ पै पो पॉ पौ पं पः
फ फा फि फी फु फू फे फॅ फै फो फॉ फौ फं फः
ब बा बि बी बु बू बे बॅ बै बो बॉ बौ बं बः
भ भा भि भी भु भू भे भॅ भै भो भॉ भौ भं भः
म मा मि मी मु मू मे मॅ मै मो मॉ मौ मं मः
14 ®eewoe
ओळख
१
य या यि यी यु यू ये यॅ यै यो यॉ यौ यं यः
र रा रि री रु रू रे रॅ रै रो रॉ रौ रं रः
ल ला लि ली लु लू ले लॅ लै लो लॉ लौ लं लः
व वा वि वी वु वू वे वॅ वै वो वॉ वौ वं वः
श शा शि शी शु शू शे शॅ शै शो शॉ शौ शं शः
ष षा षि षी षु षू षे षॅ षै षो षॉ षौ षं षः
स सा सि सी सु सू से सॅ सै सो सॉ सौ सं सः
ह हा हि ही हु हू हे हॅ है हो हॉ हौ हं हः
ळ ळा ळि ळी ळु ळू ळे ळॅ ळै ळो ळॉ ळौ ळं ळः
क्ष क्षा क्षि क्षी क्षु क्षू क्षे क्षॅ क्षै क्षो क्षॉ क्षौ क्षं क्षः
ज्ञ ज्ञा ज्ञि ज्ञी ज्ञु ज्ञू ज्ञे ज्ञॅ ज्ञै ज्ञो ज्ञॉ ज्ञौ ज्ञं ज्ञः
२ वाचू या.
तो ती ते
आजार – illness
आराम – rest
कागद – paper
वास – smell
HebOeje 15
ओळख
१
३ अवयव वाचू या
तो तळहात, -
palm, -s
तो गुडघा, ते गुडघे
knee, -s
तो पाय, ते पाय
leg, -s
16 meesUe
ओळख
१
खांदा, मांडी, बोट, हात, गुडघा, कोपर, पाऊल, पंजा, कान, डोकं, पोट.
meleje 17
ओळख
१
१. पाहणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
४. चावणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
५. चालणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
६. लिहिणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
८. खाणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
२. िकडणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
दात नाक कान पोट हात
३. पडदा फाटणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
५. फुगणे ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
४ वाचू या.
४.१ मराठीतील प्रश्नशब्द ‘क’ च्या बाराखडीतील अक्षराने सुरू होतात. वरील
संवाद वाचून त्यातील प्रश्नशब्द अधोरे खित करा.
18 Deþje
ओळख
१
प्रश्न उत्तर
SkeÀesCeerme 19
ओळख
१
व्यक्ती १ व्यक्ती २
मी कल्याणचा/ची
६ वाचू या.
१ एक ६ सहा ११ अकरा १६ सोळा
शून्य : _____, एक : १, दोन : _____, तीन : ____, चार : _____, पाच :____,
सहा : ____, सात : ___, आठ : _____, नऊ : _____, दहा : ____, अकरा :____, बारा : १२.
क) १, २, ३, ___, ५, ___, ७, ___, ९, ___, ११, ___, १३, ___, १५, १६, ___, १८, ___, ___.
ख) खेळू या :
20 Jeerme
ओळख
१
उदा° अक्कल : क् + क
क् + य = वाक्य
SkeÀJeerme 21
ओळख
१
त् + र = मित्र
८ आपले शरीर
चित्राखाली अक्षरे दिली आहेत, त्यांना काना लावून शरीराच्या अवयवाचे नाव लिहा.
दृि�टक्षेप
तो डोळा, ते डोळे
eye, -s
तो आराम, –
rest
तो पाय, ते-
leg, -s
22 yeeJeerme
ओळख
१
तो आजार, ते-
illness, -es
तो ताप, –
fever
तो वास, ते-
smell, -s
तो कागद, ते-
paper, -s
कुठे – where
शिष्टाचार शब्द
Courtesy words
हॅलो – Hello
हाय – Hi
अच्छा – Ok / Bye
टाटा – Bye
lesJeerme 23
रुग्णालय
२
२ रुग्णालय
चला, शिकू या :
वॉर्डची माहिती देणे
सर्वनामे
सामान्य वर्तमानकाळ : असणे, नसणे
अंक : २१-५०
वर, खाली, उजवीकडे, डावीकडे
किती वाजले , वेळ सांगणे
दिवस व महिने
24 ®eesJeerme
रुग्णालय
२
१ आपले वॉर्ड.
Heb®eJeerme 25
रुग्णालय
२
क ख ग घ
च छ ज झ
४. कान, नाक, घसा विभाग (Ear, Nose and Throat Department) – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
26 meJJeerme
रुग्णालय
२
४. ग – गु˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙घा ५. म – म˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ग˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
meÊeeJeerme 27
रुग्णालय
२
आमच्या रुग्णालयात एकूण ४० खोल्या आहेत. त्यांपैकी प्रसूति विभागासाठी २७ आणि बालरोग
१. ४० – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ २. २७ – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
३. १३ – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ४. १४ – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
५. ६ – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ६. १८ – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
६. १० – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ ७. ४८ – ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
३ महिने.
जानेवारी
फेब्रुवारी
मार्च
एप्रिल
मे
जून
जुलै
ऑगस्ट
सप्टेंबर
ऑक्टोबर
नोव्हेंबर
डिसेंबर
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उत्तर : ᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔
उत्तर : ᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔
उत्तर : ᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔
उत्तर : ᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔᳔
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२
१ क खाली
उजवीकडे
ख
२ वर
३ ग जवळ
डावीकडे
४ घ सरळ
५ च उजवीकडे
सरळ
६ छ डावीकडे
तो ती ते
पलं ग – cot
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६ वाचू या.
३. वॉर्ड नंबर ४ – ?
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६.२ तुम्ही रुग्णाला कोणत्या विभागात जायला सांगाल? योग्य पर्याय निवडू या.
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छ. नवजातशिशुदक्षता ६. Opthalmology
७ वाचू या.
• हॅलो, सकीना, तू इथे काय करतेस?
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सर्वनाम
मी आम्ही / आपण
तू तुम्ही / आपण
तो ते
ती त्या
ते ती
ती + ते ते
तो + ती
तो + ते
मी आम्ही आपण
तू तुम्ही/आपण तुम्ही/आपण
तू कुठे राहतोस? तुम्ही / आपण कुठे राहता? तुम्ही / आपण कुठे राहता?
मी मुंबईमध्ये राहतो. आम्ही मुंबईमध्ये राहतो. मी मुंबईमध्ये राहतो.
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तो ते
ती त्या
ते ती
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of Rome, was the refusal of the pope to grant him a divorce from his first
wife, and to gratify his desires in a dispensation for a second marriage.'
"Ergo: The first cause of the Reformation, was the satisfying an inordinate
and brutal passion. But is he sure of this? If he be not, it is a horrible calumny
upon our church, upon King Henry the Eighth, and the whole nation, as I shall
presently show. No; he confesses he cannot be sure of it: for, saith he, no
man can carry it so high as the original cause with any certainty. And at the
same time, he undertakes to demonstrate the immediate cause to be Henry
the Eighth's inordinate and brutal passion; and afterwards affirms, as
confidently as if he had demonstrated it, that our Reformation was erected on
the foundations of lust, sacrilege, and usurpation: Yet, saith he, the king only
knew whether it was conscience or love, or love alone, which moved him to
sue for a divorce. Then, by his favour, the king only could know what was the
immediate cause of that which he calls the schism. Well! but he offers at
some probabilities, that lust was the true cause. Is Ergoteering come to this
already? 'But this we may say, if Conscience had any part in it, she had taken
a long nap of almost twenty years together before she awakened.' Doth he
think, that Conscience doth not take a longer nap than this in some men, and
yet they pretend to have it truly awakened at last? What thinks he of late
converts? Cannot they be true, because conscience hath slept so long in
them? Must we conclude in such cases, that some inordinate passion gives
conscience a jog at last? 'So that it cannot be denied, he saith, that an
inordinate and brutal passion had a great share at least in the production of
the schism.' How! cannot be denied! I say from his own words it ought to be
denied, for he confesses none could know but the king himself; he never
pretended that the king confessed it: How then cannot it be denied? Yea, how
dare any one affirm it? Especially when the king himself declared in a solemn
assembly, in these words, saith Hall, (as near, saith he, as I could carry them
away,) speaking of the dissatisfaction of his conscience,—"For this only cause,
I protest before God, and in the word of a prince, I have asked counsel of the
greatest clerks in Christendom; and for this cause I have sent for this legat, as
a man indifferent, only to know the truth, and to settle my conscience, and for
none other cause, as God can judge." And both then and afterwards, he
declared, that his scruples began upon the French ambassador's making a
question about the legitimacy of the marriage, when the match was proposed
between the Duke of Orleans and his daughter; and he affirms, that he
moved it himself in confession to the Bishop of Lincoln, and appeals to him
concerning the truth of it in open court."—Vindication of the Answer to some
late Papers, p. 109.
Note VIII.
Note IX.
Unpitied Hudibras, your champion friend,
Has shown how far your charities extend;
This lasting verse shall on his tomb be read,
"He shamed you living, and upbraids you dead." P. 205.
Our author, in the preceding lines, had employed himself in repelling the
charge of his having changed his religion for the sake of interest. His loaves,
he says, had not been increased by the change, nor had his assiduity at court
intimated any claim upon royal favour: and in reference to her neglect of
literary merit, he charges on the church of England the fate of Butler, a
brother poet. Of that truly original genius we only know, that his life was
spent in dependence, and embittered by disappointment. But unless Dryden
alludes to some incident now unknown, it is difficult to see how the church of
England could have rewarded his merit. Undoubtedly she owed much to his
forcible satire against her lately triumphant rivals, the Presbyterians and
Independents; but, unless Butler had been in orders, how could the church
have recompensed his poetical talents? The author of the most witty poem
that ever was written had a much more natural and immediate claim upon the
munificence of the wittiest king and court that ever was in England; nor was
his satire less serviceable to royalty than to the established religion. The
blame of neglecting Butler lay therefore on Charles II. and his gay courtiers,
who quoted "Hudibras" incessantly, and left the author to struggle with
obscurity and indigence. The poet himself has, in a fragment called "Hudibras
at Court," set forth both the kind reception which Charles gave the poem, and
his neglect of the author:
Now you must know, Sir Hudibras
With such perfections gifted was,
And so peculiar in his manner,
That all that saw him did him honour.
Among the rest, this prince was one,
Admired his conversation:
This prince, whose ready wit and parts
Conquered both men and women's hearts,
Was so o'ercome with Knight and Ralph,
That he could never claw it off;
He never eat, nor drank, nor slept,
But Hudibras still near him kept;
Nor would he go to church, or so,
But Hudibras must with him go;
Nor yet to visit concubine,
Or at a city feast to dine,
But Hudibras must still be there,
Or all the fat was in the fire.
Now after all, was it not hard,
That he should meet with no reward,
That fitted out this knight and squire,
This monarch did so much admire?
That he should never reimburse
The man for th' equipage, or horse,
Is sure a strange ungrateful thing,
In any body but a king.
But this good king, it seems, was told,
By some that were with him too bold,
If e'er you hope to gain your ends,
Caress your foes, and trust your friends.
Such were the doctrines that were taught,
Till this unthinking king was brought
To leave his friends to starve and die,
A poor reward for loyalty!
Note X.
With odious atheist names you load your foes;
Your liberal clergy why did I expose?
It never fails in charities like those.—P. 205.
Our author here complains of the personal reflections which Stillingfleet had
cast upon him, particularly in the passage already quoted in Note VII., where
he is expressly charged with disbelieving the existence of "such a thing as
true religion." The second and third lines of the triplet are somewhat obscure.
The meaning seems to be, that Dryden, conscious of having given the first
offence, which we shall presently see was the case, justifies his having done
so, from personal abuse being the never-failing resort of the liberal clergy.
The application of the neuter pronoun it to the liberal clergy, is probably in
imitation of Virgil's satirical construction:
Note XI.
The Hind having shewn that her influence over Dryden was such as to induce
him to submit patiently, and without vengeance, to injury and reproach, now
calls upon the Panther to exert her authority in turn over Stillingfleet, for his
irreverend attack upon the royal papers in favour of the Catholic religion.
Upon a careful perusal of the Answers and Vindication of that great divine, it
is impossible to find any grounds for the charge of his having reviled Charles
II. or the Duchess of York; on the contrary, their names are always mentioned
with great respect, and the controversy is conducted strictly in conformity
with the following spirited advertisement prefixed to the Answer:
"If the papers, here answered, had not been so publicly dispersed through the
nation, a due respect to the name they bear, would have kept the author from
publishing any answer to them. But because they may now fall into many
hands, who, without some assistance, may not readily resolve some
difficulties started by them, he thought it not unbecoming his duty to God and
the king, to give a clearer light to the things contained in them. And it can be
no reflection on the authority of a prince, for a private subject to examine a
piece of coin as to its just value, though it bears his image and superscription
upon it. In matters that concern faith and salvation, we must prove all things,
and hold fast that which is good."—Advertisement to Answer to the Royal
Papers.
Dryden, however, like the other Catholics, was pleased to interpret the
impugning and confuting the arguments used by the king and duchess, into
contempt and disrespect for their persons. It was this forced construction on
which was founded the prosecution of Sharpe and of the Bishop of London
before the ecclesiastical commissioners. Sharpe having been defied to a
polemical contest, by a paper handed into his pulpit, took occasion to preach
on the arguments contained in it; and mentioned, with some contempt,
persons who could be influenced by such weak reasoning. This was
interpreted as a reflection on the new converts, and particularly on the king
himself; and a mandate was issued to the Bishop of London, commanding
that the obnoxious preacher should be suspended. The issue of this matter
has been noticed in the notes on "Absalom and Achitophel," Vol. IX. p. 302.
Note XII.
Note XIII.
It may be doubted, whether the reverend father was highly pleased with this
sarcastic description, or whether he admitted readily the apology, that the
poet, speaking in the character of the heretical church, was obliged to use
Protestant colouring.
The close correspondence of the fable with the real events may be farther
traced, and admit of yet more minute illustration:
This alludes to the numerous schools and religious establishments which the
Jesuits prepared to establish throughout England.[274] The chapel which
housed them is obviously the royal chapel, where the priests were privileged
to exercise their functions even during the subsistence of the penal laws. The
transient gleam of sunshine which invited the Swallows forth from their
retirement, is the Declaration of Indulgence, in consequence of which the
Catholics assumed the open and general exercise of their religion. The Irish
Catholics, with the sanguine Talbot at their head, may be the first who hailed
the imaginary return of spring: they are painted as
I cannot help thinking, that our author, still speaking in the character of the
English church, describes himself as the "foolish Cuckow," whose premature
annunciation of spring completed the Swallow's delusion. Perhaps he intended
to mitigate the scornful description of Petre, by talking of himself also as a
Protestant would have talked of him. The foreign priests and Catholic officers,
whom hopes of promotion now brought into England, are pointed out by the
"foreign fowl," who came in flocks,
Note XIV.
Note XV.
The fanatic author is John White, commonly called Century White. He was
born in Pembrokeshire in 1590, was educated for the bar, and made a
considerable figure in his profession. As he was a rigid puritan, he was chosen
one of the trustees which that sect appointed to purchase impropriations to
be bestowed upon fanatic preachers. This design was checked by Archbishop
Laud; and White, among others, received a severe censure in the Star-
Chamber. In the Long Parliament, White was member for Southwark, and
distinguished himself by his vindictive severity against the bishops and
Episcopal clergy, saying openly in a committee, he hoped to live to see the
day, when there should be neither bishop nor cathedral priest in England. He
was very active in the ejectment of the clergy, by which upwards of eight
thousand churchmen are said to have lost their cures in the course of four or
five years. In order to encourage and justify these violent measures, he
published his famous treatise, entitled, "The First Century of Scandalous
Malignant Priests, made and admitted into benefices by the Prelates, London,
1643;" a tract which contains, as may be inferred from its name, an hundred
instances of unworthiness, which had been either proved to have existed
among the clergy of the church of England, or had been invented to throw a
slander upon them. When this satire was shown to Charles I., it was proposed
to answer it by a similar exposition of the scandalous part of the puritanical
teachers; but that monarch would not consent to give countenance to a
warfare in which neither party could gain, and religion was sure to be a loser
between them. Similar considerations are said to have prevented White
himself from publishing "A Second Century," in continuation of his work. He
wrote another tract, entitled, "The Looking Glass;" in which he attempted to
prove, that the sin against the Holy Ghost was the bearing arms for the king
in the civil war. His own party bestow on White a high character for religion
and virtue; but the cavaliers alleged, that although he had two wives of his
own, a large proportion of matrimony, he did not forbear to visit three
belonging to his neighbours in the White Friars. He died in January 1644, and
is said, in his last illness, to have bitterly lamented the active share which he
had taken in ejecting so many guiltless ministers, and their families. This,
however, may be a fiction of the royalists; for the death-bed repentance of an
enemy is amongst the most common forgeries of party. White's body was
attended to the grave by most of the members of Parliament, and the
following distich inscribed on his tomb:
Note XVI.
When James II. ascended the throne, deceived by the general attachment of
the church of England for his person, and the little jealousy which they
seemed to entertain of his religion, he conceived there would be no great
difficulty in procuring a reconciliation between the national church and that of
Rome. With this view he made a favourable declaration of his intentions to
maintain the church of England as by law established, and certainly expected,
that, in return, they would consent to the repeal of the test act and penal
laws;[275] and this, it was conceived, might pave the way for uniting the
churches. An extraordinary pamphlet, already quoted, recommends such an
union, founded upon the mutual attachment of both communions to King
James, upon their success in resisting the Bill of Exclusion, and their common
hatred of the dissenters. "This very stone, which was once rejected by the
architects, is now become the chief stone in the corner. We may truly see in it
the hand of God, and look upon it with admiration; and may expect, if fears
and jealousies hinder not, the greatest blessings we can wish for. An union
betwixt these two walls, which have been thus long separated, and now in a
fair way to be united and linked together by this corner stone; after which,
how glorious a structure may we hope for on such foundations!" A plan is
therefore laid down, containing the following heads, of which it may be
observed, that the very first is the abrogation of these penal laws, which
Dryden states to be the principal bar between the alliance of the Hind and the
Panther.
"First, that it may be provided, That those who are known to be faithful
friends to the king and kingdom's good, may equally with us enjoy those
favours and blessings we may hope for under so great and so just a king,
without being liable to the sanguinary penal laws, for holding opinions noways
inconsistent with loyalty, and the peace and quiet of the nation; and that they
may not be obliged, by oaths and tests, either to renounce their religion,
which they know they cannot do without sacrilege, or else to put themselves
out of capacity of serving their king and country.
"Secondly, That, for healing our differences, it be appointed, that neither side,
in their sermons, touch upon matters of controversy with animating
reflections; but that those discourses may wholly tend to peace and piety,
religion and sound morality; and that, in all public catechisms, the solid
grounds and principles of religion may be solely explicated and established, all
reflecting animosities being laid aside.
"Thirdly, That some learned, devout, and sober persons, may be made choice
of on both sides, who may truly state matters of controversy betwixt us; to
the end, each one may know others pretensions, and the tenets they cannot
abandon, without breaking the chain of apostolic faith; which, if it be done,
we shall, it may be, find that to be true, which the Papists often tell us, that
the difference betwixt them and us is not so great as many make it; nor their
tenets so pernicious, but if we saw them naked, we should, if not embrace
them as truths, yet not condemn them as errors, much less as pernicious
doctrines. Yet if, notwithstanding all this, we cannot perfectly agree in some
points, let us, however, endeavour to live together in the bonds of love and
charity, as becomes good Christians and loyal subjects, and join together to
oppugn those known maxims, and pernicious errors, which destroy the
essence of religion, loyalty, and good government."—Remonstrance, by way of
Address, to the Church of England, 1685.
Note XVII.
The Test-act was passed in the year 1678, while the popish plot was in its
vigour, and the Earl of Shaftesbury was urging every point against the
Catholics, with his eyes uniformly fixed upon the Bill of Exclusion as his
crowning measure. It imposed on all who should sit in parliament, a
declaration of their abhorrence of the doctrine of transubstantiation. The Duke
of York, with tears in his eyes, moved for a proviso to exempt himself,
protesting, that he cast himself upon the House in the greatest concern he
could have in the world; and that whatever his religion might be, it should
only be a private thing between God and his own soul. Notwithstanding this
pathetic appeal, he carried his point but by two votes. With seven other peers
he protested against the bill. Dryden therefore, and probably with great
justice, represents this test as a part of his machinations against the Duke of
York, whose party was at that time, and afterwards, warmly espoused by the
church of England. But though the Test-act was devised by a statesman whom
they hated, and carried by a party whom they had opposed, the high-church
clergy were not the less unwilling to part with it when they found the
advantages which it gave them against the Papists in King James's reign.
Hence they were loaded with the following reproaches: "My business is to set
forth, in its own colours, the extraordinary loyalty of those men, who
obstinately maintain a test contrived by the faction to usher in the Bill of
Exclusion: And it is much admired, even by some of her own children, that the
grave and matron-like church of England, which values herself so much for
her antiquity, should be over-fond of a new point of faith, lately broached by a
famous act of an infallible parliament, convened at Westminster, and guided
by the holy spirit of Shaftesbury. But I doubt there are some parliaments in
the world which will not so easily admit this new article into their creed,
though the church of England labours so much to maintain it as a special
evidence of her singular loyalty."—New Test of the Church of England's
Loyalty.
Note XVIII.
James II. and the established church set out on the highest terms of good
humour with each other. This, as the king afterwards assured the dissenters,
was owing to the professions made to him by some of the churchmen, whom
he named, who had promised favour to the Catholics, provided he would
abandon all idea of general toleration, and leave them their ancient authority
over the fanatics. Moved, as he said, by these promises, the Declaration in
council, issued upon his accession, had this remarkable clause: "I know the
principles of the church of England are for monarchy, and the members of it
have shewn themselves good and loyal subjects, therefore I shall always take
care to defend and support it." This explicit declaration gave the greatest
satisfaction to the kingdom in general, and particularly to the clergy. "All the
pulpits of England," says Burnet, "were full of it, and of thanksgivings for it. It
was magnified as a security far greater than any that laws could give. The
common phrase was, We have now the word of a king, and a word never yet
broken. This general feeling of gratitude led to a set of addresses, full of the
most extravagant expressions of loyalty and fidelity to so gracious a
sovereign. The churchmen led the way in these expressions of zeal; and the
university of Oxford, in particular, promised to obey the king without
limitations or restrictions." The king's promise was reckoned so solemn and
inviolable, that those addresses were censured as guilty at least of ill-
breeding, who mentioned in their papers the "religion established by law;"
since that expression implied an obligation on the king to maintain it,
independently of his royal grace and favour. But the scene speedily changed,
as the king's intentions began to disclose themselves. Then, as a Catholic
pamphleteer expresses himself, "My loyal gentlemen were so far out of the
right bias, that, in lieu of taking off the tests and penal laws, which all people
expected from them in point of gratitude and good manners, they made a
solemn address to his majesty, that none be employed who were not
capacitated by the said laws and tests to bear offices civil and military."[276]
If James, had viewed with attention the incidents of the former reign, he
might have recollected, that, however devoted the clergy had then shown
themselves to the crown, his brother's attempt at his present measure of a
general indulgence had at once alarmed the whole church. This sensibility,
when the interest of the church is concerned, is severely contrasted with the
general indifference to the cause of freedom, into which they relapsed when
the indulgence was recalled, in a party pamphlet of the year 1680-1. "You
may easily call to mind, a late instance of the humanity and conscience of this
race of men here in England: For when his majesty, not long since, attempted
to follow his own inclinations, and emitted a declaration of indulgence to
tender consciences, the whole posse cleri seemed to be raised against him:
Every reader and Gibeonite of the church could then talk as saucily of their
king, as they do now of the late honourable Parliament; nay, they began to
stand upon their terms, and delivered it out as orthodox doctrine, that the
king was to act according to law, and, therefore, could not suspend a penal
statute; that the subjects' obedience was a legal obedience; and, therefore, if
the king commanded any thing contrary to law, the subject was not bound to
obey; with so many other honest positions, that men wondered in God how
such knaves should come by them. But wherefore was all this wrath, and all
this doctrine? merely because his majesty was pleased for a time to remove
the sore backs of dissenters from under the ecclesiastical lash; the bloody
exercise of which is never denied to holy church, but the magistrate is
immediately assaulted with the noise and clamour of Demetrius and his
craftsmen.
"But now, the tables being turned, the same mercenary tongues are again all
Sibthorp, and all Manwaring; not a bit of law, or conscience either, is now to
be had for love or money; not any limits to be put to the king's commands, or
our obedience. It is a gospel truth with these men, that all which we have is
the king's; and if he should command our estates, our wives and children,
yea, and our religion too, we ought to resign them up, submit, and be
silent."—The Freeholders' Choice, or, A Letter of Advice concerning Elections.
Note XX.
The first expression in these lines seems to have been a favourite with
Dryden. In the Introduction to the Translation of Juvenal, he makes it his
glory, "that, being naturally vindicative, he had suffered in silence, and
possessed his soul in quiet."
The arguments used by the Panther in this passage seem to have more
weight than her antagonist allows them. It was surely reasonable, that the
church of England should rest upon her penal statutes and test act, as the
sole mode of preventing the encroachments of her rival during a Catholic
reign, and at the same time that she should look forward with pleasure to a
future period, when such severe enactments might be no longer necessary for
her safety; a time, of which it has been our good fortune to witness the
arrival.
The argument of the Panther, in this speech, is, with the simile of the
inundation, literally versified from an answer to Penn's pamphlet. "The penal
laws cannot prejudice the Papists in this king's reign, seeing he can connive at
the non-execution of them, and the repeal of them now cannot benefit the
Papists when he is gone; because, if they do not behave themselves modestly,
we can either re-establish them, or enact others, which they will be as little
fond of. But their abrogation at this time would infallibly prejudice us, and
would prove to be the pulling up of the sluices, and the throwing down the
dikes, which stem the deluge that is breaking in upon us, and which hinder
the threatening waves from overflowing us." Some reflections on a discourse,
entitled, "Good Advice to the Church of England."—State Tracts, Vol. I. p. 368.
Note XXI.
This conveys a perilous insinuation, which perhaps it would, at the time, have
been prudent to suppress; since it goes the length of preparing a justification
of the resumption of the power, authority, lands, and revenues, of the church
of England, upon the footing of their having originally belonged to that of
Rome. It cannot be supposed that this hint could be passed over at the time,
without a strong feeling of a meditated revolution in church government and
property.
Note XXII.
Behold how he protects your friends oppressed,
Receives the banished, succours the distressed!
Behold, for you may read an honest open breast.—P. 225.
Burnet, in the "History of his Own Times," gives the following account of the
relief which James, either from inclination or policy, extended to the French
Protestants, who were exiled by the recal of the edict of Nantes.
"But now the session of Parliament drew on, and there was a great
expectation of the issue of it. For some weeks before it met, there was such a
number of refugees coming over every day, who set about a most dismal
recital of the persecution in France; and that in so many instances that were
crying and odious, that, though all endeavours were used to lessen the
clamour this had raised, yet the king did not stick openly to condemn it as
both unchristian and unpolitic. He took pains to clear the Jesuits of it, and laid
the blame of it chiefly on the king, on Madame de Maintenon, and the
Archbishop of Paris. He spoke often of it with such vehemence, that there
seemed to be an affectation in it. He did more: He was very kind to the
refugees; he was liberal to many of them; he ordered a brief for a charitable
collection over the nation for them all; upon which great sums were sent in.
They were deposited in good hands, and well distributed. The king also
ordered them to be denizen'd, without paying fees, and gave them great
immunities. So that, in all, there came over, first and last, between forty and
fifty thousand of that nation. There was such real argument of the cruel and
persecuting spirit of popery, wheresoever it prevailed, that few could resist
this conviction; so that all men confessed, that the French persecution came
very seasonably to awaken the nation, and open men's eyes in so critical a
conjunction; for upon this session of Parliament all did depend."—Burnet,
Book IV.
Note XXIII.
These, and the following lines, contain a character of James II. most
exquisitely drawn, though, it must be owned, with a flattering pencil. Bravery,
economy, integrity, are the ingredients which Dryden has mixed for his
colours. Without attempting a character of this unfortunate monarch, we may
say a few words on each of the attributes ascribed to him. Bravery he
unquestionably possessed; but it was of that ordinary kind, which, though
unshaken by mere personal danger, is unable to sustain its possessor in great
and embarrassing political emergencies. The economy of James, being one
great engine by which he hoped to carry on his projects, was so rigid as
sometimes to border upon avarice. His upright integrity, the virtue upon which
he chiefly prided himself, and which was the usual theme of courtly panegyric,
frequently deviated into obstinacy. When he had once resolved upon a
measure, he often announced his resolution with imprudence, and almost
always pressed it with an open disregard of consequences. No fault can be
more fatal to an English king; because the stream of popular opinion, which
would subside if unopposed, becomes irresistible when the obstinacy of a
monarch persists in attempting to stem it.
Note XXIV.
The virulent and abusive character which our author here draws of the clergy,
and particularly those of the metropolis, differs so much from his description
of the church of England, in the person of the Panther, that we may conclude
it was written after the publishing of the Declaration of Indulgence, when the
king had decidedly turned his favour from the established church. Their
quarrel was now irreconcileable, and at immediate issue; and Dryden
therefore changes the tone of conciliation, with which he had hitherto
addressed the heretic church, into that of bitter and unrelenting satire.
Dryden calls them doves, in order to pave the way for terming them, as he
does a little below, "birds of Venus;" as disowning the doctrine of celibacy.
The popular opinion, that a dove has no gall, is well known. In Scotland, this
is averred to be owing to the dove which Noah dismissed from the ark having
flown so long, that his gall broke; since which occurrence, none of the species
have had any.
Note XXV.
An hideous figure of their foes they drew,
Nor lines, nor looks, nor shades, nor colours true;
And this grotesque design exposed to public view.—P. 231.
The Roman Catholic pamphlets of the time are filled with complaints, that
their principles were misrepresented by the Protestant divines; and that king-
killing tenets, and others of a pernicious or absurd nature, were unjustly
ascribed to them. A tract, which is written on purpose to explain their real
doctrine, says, "Is it not strange and severe, that principles, and those
pretended of faith too, should be imposed upon men which they themselves
renounce and detest? If the Turks' Alcoran should, in like manner, be urged
upon us, and we hanged up for Mahometans, all we could do or say, in such a
case, would be, to die patiently, with protestations of our own innocence. And
this is the posture of our condition; we abhor, we renounce, we abominate,
such principles; we protest against them, and seal our protestations with our
dying breath. What shall we say, what can we do more? To accuse men as
guilty in matters of faith, which they never owned, is the same thing as to
condemn them for matters of fact which they never did."[277] Another author,
speaking in the assumed character of the established church, says, that the
Catholic controvertists have often told us, that "we behave ourselves like
persons diffident of our cause, decline disputes on equal terms, and either
misrepresent their tenets, as appears manifestly in their doctrines of
justification and merit, satisfaction and indulgences; or else play the buffoons,
joking, scoffing, and relating stories, which, if true, would not touch
religion."—A Remonstrance, by way of Address, &c.
Note XXVI.
Emblems, like puns, being the wit of a heavy people, the Dutch seem to have
been remarkable for them; of which, their old-fashioned prints, and figured
pan-tiles, are existing evidence. Prior thus drolls upon the passage in the text:
"Bayes. Oh! dear Sir, you are mighty obliging: but I must needs say at a
fable, or an emblem, I think no man comes near me; indeed I have studied it
more than any man. Did you ever take notice, Mr Johnson, of a little thing
that has taken mightily about town, a cat with a top-knot?[278]
John. Faith, Sir, 'tis mighty pretty; I saw it at the coffee-house.
Bayes. 'Tis a trifle hardly worth owning. I was t'other day at Will's, throwing
out something of that nature; and, i'gad, the hint was taken, and out came
that picture; indeed the poor fellow was so civil to present me with a dozen of
'em for my friends. I think I have one here in my pocket; would you please to
accept it, Mr Johnson?
John. Really 'tis very ingenious.
Bayes. Oh, Lord, nothing at all! I could design twenty of 'em in an hour, if I
had but witty fellows about me to draw 'em. I was proffered a pension to go
into Holland and contrive their emblems; but, hang 'em, they are dull rogues,
and would spoil my invention."—Hind and Panther Transprosed.
Note XXVII.
Note XXVIII.
The following song, which is preserved in the "State Poems," gives a similar
account of Burnet's personal appearance:
A new Ballad, called, The Brawny Bishop's Complaint.
To the Tune of—Packington's Pound.
I.
II.
III.
These sorrowful matrons, with hearts full of truth,
Repent for the manifold sins of their youth;
The rest with their tattle my harmony spoil;
And Bur—ton, An—say, K—gston, and B—le,
Their minds entertain,
With thoughts so profane,
'Tis a-mercy to find that at church they contain;
Even Hen—ham's shapes their weak fancies entice,
And rather than me they will ogle the Vice.[282]
IV.
V.
The jest of his being "a prophet, formed to make a female proselyte," was
more cutting, as he had just acquired a right of naturalization in Holland, by
marrying Mrs Mary Scott, a Dutch lady, but of Scottish extraction, being
descended of the noble house of Buccleuch.
Note XXIX.
It must be owned, that, with all Bishop Burnet's good qualities, there are
particulars in his history which give colour for this accusation. His opinions
were often hastily adopted, and of course sometimes awkwardly retracted,
and his patrons were frequently changed. Thus, he vindicated the legality of
divorce for barrenness on the part of the wife, and even that of polygamy, in
his resolution of two important cases of conscience. These were intended to
pave the way for Charles divorcing his barren wife Catherine, or marrying
another; and so raising a family of his own to succeed him, instead of the
Duke of York. These opinions he formally retracted. Notwithstanding his zeal
for liberty, his first work is said by Swift to have been written in defense of
arbitrary power. Above all, his great intimacy with the Dukes of Hamilton and
Lauderdale, the King and the Duke of York, the Pope and the Prince of
Orange; in short, his having the address to attach himself for a time to almost
every leading character, whom he had an opportunity of approaching, gives us
room to suspect, that if Burnet did not change his opinions, he had at least
the art of disguising such as could not be accommodated to those of his
immediate patron. When the king demanded that Burnet should be delivered
up by the States, he threatened, in return, to justify himself, by giving an
account of the share he had in affairs for twenty years past; in which he
intimated, he might be driven to mention some particulars, which would
displease the king. This threat, as he had enjoyed a considerable share of his
confidence when Duke of York, may seem, in some degree, to justify Dryden's
heavy charge against him, of availing himself of past confidence to criminate
former patrons. It is remarkable, also, that even while he was in the secret of
all the intrigues of the Revolution, and must have considered it as a near
attempt, he continued to assert the doctrine of passive obedience; and in his
letter to Middleton, in vindication of his conduct against the charge of high
treason, there is an affectation of excessive loyalty to the reigning monarch.
Against these instances of dissimulation, forced upon him perhaps by
circumstances, but still unworthy and degrading, we may oppose many
others, in which, when his principles and interest were placed at issue, he
refused to serve the latter at the expence of the former.
Note XXX.
Note XXXI.
Note XXXII.
To run a-muck, is a phrase derived from a practice of the Malays. When one
of this nation has lost his whole substance by gaming, or sustained any other
great and insupportable calamity, he intoxicates himself with opium; and,
having dishevelled his hair, rushes into the streets, crying Amocca, or Kill, and
stabbing every one whom he meets with his creeze, until he is cut down, or
shot, like a mad dog.
Note XXXIII.
Burnet may have been thus denominated, from having written the following
pamphlets, in the controversy respecting the Test, against Parker, the
apostate bishop of Oxford:
"An Enquiry into the Reasons for Abrogating the Test imposed on all Members
of Parliament, offered by Dr Samuel Parker, Bishop of Oxford."
"A Second Part of the Enquiry into the Reasons offered by Doctor Samuel
Parker, bishop of Oxford, for Abrogating the Test; or an Answer to his plea for
Transubstantiation, and for Acquitting the Church of Rome of Idolatry."
"A Continuation of the Second Part of the Enquiry into the Reasons offered by
Dr Samuel Parker, Bishop of Oxford, for Abrogating the Test relating to the
Idolatry of the Church of Rome."
These two last pamphlets were afterwards thrown together in one tract,
entitled, "A Discourse concerning Transubstantiation and Idolatry, being an
Answer to the Bishop of Oxford's plea relating to these two points."
Burnet himself admits, that his papers, in this controversy with Parker, were
written with an acrimony of style which nothing but such a time and such a
man could excuse. His papers were so bitter, that nobody durst offer them to
the bishop of Oxford, till the king himself sent them to him, in hopes to
stimulate him to an answer.
Several of these pieces seem to have been published after "The Hind and the
Panther;" but it must have been generally known at the time, that Burnet had
placed himself in the front of this controversy.