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A47840 A dialogue between Sir R.L. Knight, and T.O.D L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1689 (1689) Wing L1235; ESTC R39017 12,478 33

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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Sir R. L. Knight AND T. O. D. LONDON Printed for Robert Waston and are to be Sold by the Booksellers of London 1689. A DIALOGUE Doctor O. HOld Sir why so fast Should your Worship now be found scampering again and upon the Wing though not I hope for Holland for all your Pilloring of me you may chance pass with some People for a Knight of the Post too Sir R. Indeed Doctor you find me habited somewhat like a Man of Expedition but not as you would maliciously insinuate running away I see you have none of that distinguishing Faculty which has alway attended my way of Writing Though I may look like one that is making a sort of Fashionable Retreat and have the Habitus of a Man in the Mode yet I am not come to the Modality it self which is the very Actus that must denominate a man a Run-away Dr. O. So then all this Rhetorical Circumlocution serves only to tell us you are only what we call in our vulgar Tongue Absconding Sir R. Truly I were as they commonly call it actually Absconded but it was my Fate to fare as in the Business of your old Friend Sir Patience when they were hunting for one Knight they stumbled in a Garret upon another who gave them the slip left me in the lurch and the greater Hypocrite of the Two had the better luck and so good night Sir Nicholas Dr. O. Why methinks you might have taken warning by me too I staid also a little too long after the Tide was turn'd Faelix quem faciunt c. was as good a Lesson as ever you learnt on the Fiddle and you know what follow'd Friend from my Fool-hardiness I was forc'd to follow the Cart for it and your fiddling Observators help'd to lead me such a Dance that you would be loth to have such another to the same Tune Sir R. You had a little hard measure I must confess Doctor and I were a little too smart upon your misfortunes when your Back-side sufficiently smarted and when you were fast enough in the Pillory I had so little Conscience as to toss you from Pillar to Post in my Papers but I hope since you have been so much Passive and such a Gospeller you have learnt somewhat of that Christian Temper the doing Good for Evil. Dr. O. Why Friend Roger I must tell you t●●● in Verbum Sacerdotis if my Passiveness would do thee any Good I could suffer whipping once more to Tyburn to see thee hang'd Sir R. I must confess Dr. O. for till now I could never call thee any thing but plain Titus I have been twice very near hanging You remember when your old Friend Colledge had truss'd me up in his Picture but you know Towzer broke the Rope and left the Joyner to hang in his room And I han't forgot when my old Master Noll was like to have spoil'd me for an Observator but my Fiddle brought me off like Arion with his Harp and so I weather'd the Storm Dr. O. But there are some unlucky Sayings that may now spoil your Comfortable Expectations The Third Time is commonly fatal too and the Pitcher that comes oft from the Well may be broke at last Sir R. And so you think at last may my Neck too but I hope better Times However I must tell you Titus after all my Service to the King and Government and especially the Church of England I am a little hardly us'd Dr. O. Hardly us'd say you Soft there I pray Hemp and Halter are hard things I confess but yet they may be easily born with for the Good of the Publick for the Administration of Justice and the giving every man his due But how comes the Church of England to be so much oblig'd to you and the Church of Rome not at all Sir R. Why truly as I manag'd the matter I writ for both Churches accordingly as they paid me but still that of Rome I reserv'd to reap the benefit of all that should be done or said for the good of any other by the Obligations of Honour and Gratitude I was retain'd to that Party for though a Counsel Learned in the Law may allow himself to take Fees on both sides yet he is bound in Conscience to plead most strongly for that side which has feed him most and he that disciplin'd your Hide so to Tyburn Titus that Officer of the Law being over-feed by the Adverse Party did not spare you in the least for all your Guineys that you gave Dr. O. So that if I apprehend you a-right there is some Honesty even in playing the Knave and that you had a constant Sallary for the Catholick Cause and but some poor Collections from the Church of England Sir R. Though you were once in my Opinion but a very bad Evidence I see you are very good at guessing But for all this though I design'd to serve none but the Popish Party I had that jilting Trick to pretend with them too now and then some Coyness when I had a mind to screw up my Gallants to be more liberal Dr. O. Verily Friend Roger this looks like playing the Rogue or picking their Pockets and instead of serving your King's Interest it was only cheating his Exchequer Sir R. I car'd not for that the most that could follow was but being counted a Knave by both sides or being call'd so behind my back and that will break no Bones And sure they 'l have more manners than to call a Man of Worship so to his Face Dr. O. Why this Worshipful Face of thine was never so graceful upon the Sign-Post in Fleet-street in any Print-shop or Coffee-house as when it looks through the Grates of Newgate Nothing but a Gibbet can make it look with a better Grace Sir R. Pray be not so severe let us come to some Understanding methinks that Place and the Kings-Bench should have some Correspondence Dr. O. I scorn your Words Sir We keep there better Company than such Observators for that 's only Latin for a Spy and those like the worst of Villains have never any Quarter given them any where Sir R. Come come bona verba precor You don't know what Service I did you when you were swearing up your Popish Plot As I told you above when the Papists did not pay me well I could leave them a little in the lurch Don't you remember a shrew'd Book that would have baffled and burlesqu'd all your Evidence in the very Bud call'd the Compendium Dr. O. I I some Popish Rascal as well as your self had a mind as he thought to run me down Sir. R. Hold there a little but you are Scandalum Magnatum proof it was lookt upon under the Rose rather to come from some Popish Peer a man of Parts and seem'd to carry some weight with it but I took care for all he was a Lord because he had not consulted me in composing it or let it all alone to me and