The Augustan Reprint Society
JOHN PHILLIPS
A Satyr Against Hypocrites
(1655)
With an Introduction by
Leon Howard
Publication Number 38
Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1953
GENERAL EDITORS
H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITOR
W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
ADVISORY EDITORS
Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington
Benjamin Boyce, Duke University
Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan
John Butt, King’s College, University of Durham
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Earnest Mossner, University of Texas
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library
John Phillips’ anonymous poem, A Satyr Against Hypocrites, wasentered in the Stationers’ Register on March 14, 1654-55 as the workof his brother Edward and the property of his publisher Nathaniel Brook,and it was probably published on August 17 (David Masson, The Life ofJohn Milton [London, 1877], V, 228n., cites the “Thomason copy” asindicating the date of publication). Actually, two issues appeared in1655. One gave no indication of the publisher and is reproduced here,as perhaps the rarest, from the copy in the William Andrews ClarkMemorial Library. The other was “Printed for N.B. at the Angel inCorn-hill.” The 1655 text was reprinted in 1661 as The Religion ofthe Hypocritical Presbyterians in Meeter, and a revised and enlargededition appeared in 1671 under the original title. It was this ratherthan the original version which is known through the summary given byWilliam Godwin (Lives of Edward and John Phillips [London, 1815], pp.49-51) and quoted by Masson as the most “exact description” possibleof the 1655 “performance” (ibid., V, 228). Other editions have beenrecorded for 1674, 1677, 1680, 1689, and 1710, the last being attributedto the author’s uncle, John Milton. Of these, the editions whichI have seen show only minor revisions of the 1671 text. A holographmanuscript, preserved in the Bodleian Library, includes a two-pagededication to the successful barrister John Churchill, but th