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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54506	The dialogue betwixt Cit and Bumpkin answered in another betwixt Tom the Cheshire piper, and Captain Crackbrains dedicated to Right Worshipful the Mayor of Quinborough.	E. P.	1680 (1680)	Wing P17; ESTC R5521	23,355	40

none was ever yet so impudent to assert in terms what he makes his Cit to do and truly I do believe he is of the Cit's Opinion that a thing may be sin in one which is not in another for lying though it be a sin in most men is not so in him as he thinks he otherways would not have so much used it Capt. How came you Tom Piper to be such a distinguisher I did not expect it from you Tom. My Mother was a Parsons Daughter had little to her Portion but a few Books and Sermon Notes of her Fathers which I used to read at spare times to the Neighbourhood and so became thus skilful Capt. Well what think you of his clawing the Rogues off for their old Rebellion is 't not manly and brave Tom. It is a thing that has been said a thousand times when it was so but now it looks like breaking the Act of Oblivion a thing that his Majesty to his Immortal Honour holds sacred such a little Rat as he methinks should not be nibling when the Lyon is unconcerned Capt. Cit and Bumkin drunk and why may not we within then two Pots and shut the door after you But what thinkst thou Tom to page 26. is it not an excellent facetious discourse displaying Villalany in its proper colours Tom. It is rather a teaching people how to be Villains like your fashionable Plays teach more sins than they reprove Capt. My Cousin cannot I see get your good word but I 'll make you Friends Tom. As how Capt. You 'l Pipe at his Wifes next Churching and then I 'm sure the half Guinney and the Frumenty will please you Tom. Let it alone till then but in the mean time I 'll give a short account of my Sentiments of those ten Pages Capt. Let 's have it then Tom. He begins with comparing Presbyterians and Jesuites a thing now that is trite and thred-bare there is a Book called Lysimachus Nicanor that has done it more to the purpose writ near forty years agone but yet in his rails upon the later he speaks Ironically of the Plot when he calls the Jesuits the Heads of it upon the King c. as a man must needs conclude that reads the whole discourse especially if that Author had any intelligence or correspondence with the Author of the Further Discovery dedicated to Dr. Titus Oates and that flourish might have been as decently saved besides his Pen too much resembles a Cleaver cuts only one way as a man may easily observe by his constant pinching upon that party for the 1641. business a thing that none of them has the face now publickly to justifie and his passing by the Rebellion of Ireland accompanied with the murder of nigh a million of Protestants without the least Reflection though that Villany be yet justified or at least not owned to be so by that Party as it was at first abetted by the Pope and then after all as if he would make himself compleatly wicked he scandalizes the Protestant Religion which the late King of blessed Memory own'd that he fought for as may be seen yet by his Declarations and the Inscription upon his Coyns stampt at the beginning of the late Rebellion for by that is meant as he makes his Citizen say the Religion of the Dissenters from the Church a distinction that the late blessed Martyr would not have thanked him for Capt. I perceive you are very poynant upon my Friend still but go on Tom. Then he goes on with teaching a method of Villany which he would call discovering to inflame the Nation and widen the Breaches betwixt the King and his People for why else should he amongst other things lay such a stress upon the Kings being one of the three Estates and make such damn'd inferences a thing decried by all sober men because declared otherwise in the Preambles of several Acts of Parliament and yet the good King in a Message to the two Houses owned three Estates when the Bishops were by Act removed of which by consequence he must be one but that may be look'd upon considering the novelty of that disposition to be a lapse in the Secretary and so no weight to be laid upon it I refer you to the Declaration bearing date from York June 13. 1642. Then he falls upon the light and foolish antick Gestures of the Conventiclers with their fond Metaphors not worth answering because none so foolish as to adjust them then he goes on as if the Plot was only a Blind to enrage People and that there was a real Design to destroy the Hierarchy and all the Sons of the Church by the name of the Papists in Masquerade and get all the places of profit to themselves Capt. Is not that very well hinted Tom. What are you a hinter and a holder-forth so it 's well hinted of buzzing into the peoples Ears to dispose them to Rebellion of the Emperour of Morocco's landing upon Salisbury-Plain 35000 light Horse-men and a great many other Fopperies not worth taking notice on Capt. To say truth there are a great many little things in it but there must be something to fill up or else it would not come to account it would not advance from the Stationer any thing considerable Tom. But he should have studied propriety of things to have made 'em pass the better Is it not think you a well laid thing to make his Bumkin whom he represents a cunning projecting canting Knave to bring in a story by the Head and shoulders of Moses and the ten Tables and correcting himself with a thundering Oath one that he afterward makes justifying the three Estates and other intrigues of Politiques it might have passed had he laid the Scene amongst his Friends in Flanders and then saying that he had read in a Book that the Bishops in H. Eighth's time made the ten Commandements and make foolish inferences from thence too The whole thing is a lye for no man ever yet read any such thing in a Book but in his scurrilous Pamphlet the nearest to it is what Bishop Spotswood reports of the Priests in Scotland about that time That they would have made the common people believe the more to incense them against Patrick Hamilton and the Gospellers of that Age that Martin Luther and his Complices made the New Testament or at least St. Paul's Epistles but touch not mine annointed I hope the ingenious Author is too wise to make reflections of that nature But I perceive you care not what reflections you make upon my friend Tom. Your friend is unknown to me he should have set his name and then it may be he had been safer but I suppose his modesty would not permit it Capt. Well is this all you have to say Tom. There needs not I think but one word more at last he falls foul by his Cit upon Le Strange whom he calls Dog in a doublet or worse but after all he ends in a