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A29882
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The head of Nile, or, The turnings and windings of the factious since sixty in a dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby.
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Baker, Thomas, 1652 or 3-1702.
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as much mischief as we expected good from it I hope our swift runners will bethink themselves in time and not pursue the Game so hotly we shall be undone else T. C. Had it not been for this Plot he had spent his life in the Wheel in running round in the Controversies betwixt the Papist and Reformers but he has serv'd us as Captain Drake serv'd the Spaniard run from West to East and come home by us when we were gaping after him elsewhere one would not have thought he could have so easily shot that little streight that parts us J. O. He has perfectly plaid the Tumbler with us run round us plaid with us at first at length he has given us the deadly bite who could have suspected Irenicon could have prov'd Threnicon to us or Ben Ammi Ben Oni and all this from a City Preacher the glories of those that are gone before us in the Faith are well known to the Saints upon the earth how they heretofore made the City Preachers bend the knee and make boast of the word preached and to make them by their often preaching lay the greatest reverence upon it and in a word to act this way unwittingly all the while for us and shall we so far degenerate from our Forefathers that aw'd the City Preachers more than their Bishop as to be baffled by one of them I am asham'd to think it more were we not among our selves to speak it T. C. 'T is a strange thing to be thus baffled and from a hand we so little expected it makes me begin to believe what we were often forc'd because it made for us to tell the people upon Afflictions impending That there is one that brings all Counsels to naught when he pleases How glibly all things ran even to our hearts content and now what a rubb our Bowls have met with when we thought we could not possibly be short it has put us out of all way too what shall we doe R. G. Doe Copy out a little more Jesuitism divide the Book and write an answer as speedily as may be R. B. Haste will do us a great kindness in order thereto if this venerable Assembly shall think fit I have some old and hasty remarks of mine made a long while ago against the Church of England in Vindication of our selves whom they style Schismaticks if you shall think fit we will Christian them with the title of an Answer to St. and we all know they will pass with those we desire they should our very writing again is argument enough 't is no matter what we write buz it abroad Richard has answer'd it shew them the Book and the work is done the heads of our Party are not Logical enough to weigh truth reason or matter of fact J. O. You had best to communicate your Notes Brother let us have the superinspection send for them R. B. I came arm'd with them praemonitus praemunitus J. O. Why do you think this will do this is hunting on the File here is nothing but what has been in print over and over again the Letters of our Press will set themselves if they are not as much worn as the Subject but our cause will break even a back of steel R. B. Well ne'er fear if my former Observations hold not I know not the art of deluding and besides we shall have this happiness to boot that there will be little or nothing said to it so that our side must look upon it as unanswerable and what will win upon them 't is pretty well swell'd for ye all know they look upon the bulk not the weight of reason H. I have an humble request to this venerable Assembly that a Book of mine wrote for the good of the Cause but not vending at all and there being danger of breaking two at once the Authour and Bookseller may have leave given it to have the Title-page reprinted and styl'd An Answer to S R. B. This way they will both sell mine had it not been for that had ne'er lain by me so long T. C. Let them both pass if we don't give the last blow though it is so faintly and weakly that it hurts not the Adversary the hearts of our people will not be kept up R. B. Since you have accorded in this great and weighty affair like Brethren let us e'en remember one another and hang together and fear not the enemy from without I leave you my peace and dismiss this Assembly Exeunt Omnes W. How do you like our proceedings they were short to day and they had some intelligence their meeting was smoak'd B. I wondred at their Conciseness in this affair considering their usual notorious Prolixity but is this All W. There was a sign made by the last that came in who by quality is half Spye half Coyner and has double pay of some notice taken but perhaps the Rogue gave us a cast of his last Office and did it onely to get credit like some Secretaries of State that make more Intelligence-mony be paid by thousands than it cost them he has lost you the best part of the Scene by much you would have seen one come in his Chair without as much as Livery-man to attend him B. Have you any such person that comes in a Chair to you W. I One that is very infirm that can't stir without hugging his man as much as the Cause one that has shewn himself true to us this forty and odd years though now and then for ours and his own interest he pretended to be otherwise but of these late years he has been strangely much our Friend we do nothing without his advice he receives all our Proposals Intelligences and manages all things returns back his Commands and they are executed there is no one comes into the Assembly without his Approbation and he is strangely suspicious whom he trusts much did you see him but walk you would swear he durst scarce trust himself he does not let one leg leave the other an inch for fear the other should be left in the Lunch after this you would have seen a pleasant Scene a sort of men set the discourse of your Coyners and Improvers as if they were to Act in the Duke's Theatre they reade to them on their own Subjects and limit them how far they may proceed without incurring the danger of the Law 't is their business to noise abroad several little boldnesses as that I wear my Hat by the same title and as good as the King wears his Crown by the Laws of the Land by the first we gain a disesteem to the King's Crown and Dignity and reverence to our own Coxcombs this way we teach men to depreciate Majesty and to exalt their own horns B. And what is the worst of all they think what they say they as little know time beyond their Year-books and Magna Charta as a rude Indian does Geography beyond his Feet and Eyes 't is true
the Kings wear their Crown by the Laws the Laws backing them in it yet 't is as true Kings of England wore their Crowns before and when there were no Laws and they were made by the Authority of the Crown and more for the good and security of our natural Crowns than through any want in the politick one and they are to them if any thing like that other mettal in Archimedes's golden Crown W. Hold no further we shall stop you else as we do others we have a way that if any but in the theoretick discourse runs the Crown of England up to its pitch and tells how fine feather'd 't was before 't was stript we presently ball they would have it so again and if they talk of any little Prerogatives we run them to the extremities in every thing what you would fain have him a King of France or the Great Turk send for what moneys he hears you have nay more from misinformation and though they disown any such thing yet presently runs into their head that Democratical Hectors saying I 'de stab and kill any Officer the King should send to command the least hair of my head and though we dare not but own the King can have no High Court of Justice against him and should he commit violence he must be turn'd over to the last Tribunal yet they think to escape themselves for downright murther These are the men that give ground to your Politicians in Coffee-houses how far they may traduce Government and not commit Treason and one not us'd to their discourse would be ready to make Affidavit that they spoke broad-fac'd Treason B. Were my necessities never so great and my heart never so villanous I should not love this trade of dancing upon the High-ropes I should be afraid of a slip and then I am gone I love to have my heart go with my words but not to have the Hangman my Interpreter but does no one Staly himself does the Pitcher never break W. No no now and then it gets a filthy crack or two when your Whitehall Bullyish Captains come to a City Coffee-house they get a kicking down stairs and a broken Rib or two but they would make them pay sauce enough were it not for their scurvy Protections and they Pocket it the quieter in hopes to make some nimble-heel'd Esq pay one day for all and make them amends B. I perceive then these Hectors in the Cause are meer Bully-Sandyâ— that will take a kicking if they can but nimm a little mony and your Setters are men of no practice that would force some this way sure these are the Causes Forlorn-hope and the very Pictures of Liberty and Property but does not His Majestie 's Honour-Guard his Attorney General never meet with these Privateers and clear the Coast W. They are swift Sailers and His Majesty is not furnish'd with Advice-boats a little Intelligence-money on this side the Narrow Seas not all beyond them might do the Jobb were it not for the extraordinary mercy of a moderate minded Jury which we seldom fail to find or make so that a man were he constrain'd to one had better run the risk of Scandalous words against His Majesty than against any of his Protesting Lords and His Majesty would he condescend to take the Privilege of a Peer as the House of Lords did to sit in the House of Commons when their own House was voted useless he should as they did find greater respect shewn him B. A pretty device to Commonwealth a Nation the point so long desir'd and so long tugg'd for ever since forty the King to be one of the Three Estates would come very easily how safely then might old Noll's own Major remember Pryn's own Principles and forget his Prince's immunities and rewards to him and send a sawcy Message to a Minister that he was out in his Prayer because he pray'd for the King as distinct as he is from the Three Estates but have you no more W. No more that appear upon the Stage but we have the Proposals of many Well-willers taken in there read and considered by a select Committee and the next Session in brief ript up to the whole Assembly how far usefull they may be to the Grand Cause in a fine set curt Speech then in this issue of the Brain we contradict our other practice and will not let the Father be the Godfather too but the whole Divine Camp Christian it B. As the Popes change their names you give them a clear quite contrary name to what the subject matter of the Proposals are as if a Book was writ to pull down the King ruffle the Lawn Sleeves you would call it the building up of Sion would you not W. The people else would not know what it was design'd for they would be afraid 't was Treason else B. 'T is pity these underhand Retailers of Treason should not be as well look'd to as your Wholesale Plotters W. Projectors have ever had the liberty to lay down their Hypotheses they enforce none to follow them people are left to their liberty B. And they should tast the fate of Projectors to be ruin'd for pitching upon such Subjects W. But we have a way now to ensure our Projectors we never let a Book signally calculated for the clipping the Wings of the raging Prerogative and excrescencies of Christ's pure Church but it comes recommended to the great Assembly of the Nation the two Houses of Parliament so that we way get a general Protection for them we seldom or never let any Piece by our good will goe abroad but about that time and then they pretty well swarm we have some that let fly against this part of the Prerogative others against that and so on the same method we use against the Church so that he that compiles them all together in a Body will find Monarchy and Episcopacy quite run down in all their branches B. Quite run down in all their branches A modest expression to palliate broad-fac'd Treason against King and Church the Government as it is now establish'd their writings to me are overt acts of their intentions and though they can't perswade those they recommend their treasonable projects to nor the King himself to Un-crown himself and H. N. or whoever was the author of the New Modell'd Government Plato Redivivus ought to be brought to the King's Bench Bar with his Papers as much as Coleman and suffer upon the same reason if not upon the same Law as they are guilty of the same Crime of Treasonably designing the Subversion of Monarchy and the introduction of another form of Worship shall Treason fare the better for being bare-fac'd and highly recommended to the three Estates Or is your Treason like to Wenching grown The great and bare-fac'd Sinner let alone The Underlings and Modest pay for all And these alone are caught because they 'r small They should fare no better nor worse than their Brother Plotters