The man-mouse taken in a trap

...continue the same honesty original: "Candor" in your observations on my following piece. And do you think then, in all seriousness, that you have been very fair with me? I pray you, tell me: what does it mean to be very foul? But I have provoked you? How? In what way? Was it your body I troubled, or the ballad of your soul? A reference to Henry More's philosophical poem "Psychodia Platonica" or "The Song of the Soul." I will tell you what this "provocation" means. You imagined your Psychodia Henry More's 1642 poem "Psychodia Platonica" (The Platonic Song of the Soul). was a rare, profound work, and that the Timaeus Plato’s famous dialogue regarding the nature of the physical world and human soul; Vaughan suggests More thought his own poetry was better than Plato's philosophy. was inferior to your stanzas original: "Coplas" — verses or songs.. This is true, my friend; but when my book came to your hands, your ignorance and inadequacy in Platonic philosophy were revealed. This was what annoyed original: "vexed" you, and though you did not understand me on a single point original: "Position", you thought it glory enough to rail against my person.

But I pass over to your second bit of vulgarity original: "Ribaldry", where you promised me some fairness original: "Candor"; and truly, I shall find you as "fair" original: "Candid" as a "Black-Moore." A derogatory pun on the author’s name, Henry More, playing on the word "candid" (which also meant "white") and "Moor." Here you call me a fool in a play, a Jack-pudding A bumbling clown or buffoon who assisted a traveling doctor., a thing wholly set in a posture to make the people laugh, a giddy, fantastical sorcerer original: "Conjurer", a poor kitten original: "Kitling", a calf's head, a boasting mountebank A charlatan who sells fake medicines from a public platform., a pimp original: "Pander", a sworn enemy of reason, a scatterbrained... The catchword "scul" suggests "shittle-skull," meaning someone flighty or unstable.