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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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Wing B518; ESTC R3068
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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 Nil haheo quod agam non sum piger Horat. Satyra Serm. 9. Lib. 1. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner 1681. THE HEAD of NILE OR The Turnings and Windings OF THE Factious since LX In a DIALOGUE between WHIGG and BARNABY Whigg HOW do all our Friends at that gud Family whose Master wants nothing but a Commission answerable to his heat to make him match his Father-in-laws Courage and Conduct and that other too the Jack-call to that Lyon who has espous'd too our Cause and Right by both sides but there is no surer or better holding than by the Tail he is a notable Young man and a great help though he don't shew much he can do as he is bid and hold his tongue too but I hope by this time you know one another better I am sorry we were there so severe upon you I profess I have seen some in a Pillory bear rotten Eggs with greater Stoicism Barnaby And with greater reason than your stinking breath that has had your rotten Cause so oft in your mouths Whigg But how do they all doe and the People of the Lord in and near about Shaking him hard by the hands Barnaby They all do as much mischief as they can though not the tithe of what they would do the times praised be God for it are alter'd since you had me at the stake baiting me there I expected by the discourses the Trumpet every moment for Battel I was thinking which way to get a Commission I did not care for taking one from my Playfellows and giving them another Whigg I find you are still the same man onely not quite so fierce Barnaby The Times don't require it there is not half the danger I love the Seaman though not his swearing that is most sollicitous and lays about him most when the black Clouds hang like a Kittesol or Umbrella o're his head and in the midst of a Storm blusters alike with it when that is weather'd out who but would imitate and enjoy the Calm W. You are of Principles different from mankind they love to be most quiet then to swim with the current they think it madness or folly to try to stemm it and some that are Pilots too sworn Pilots to a Port let me tell you but I am perswaded had I oâ— the Times kept where we once were we had converted you I profess we had so much business I had then scarce time for riding to this place posting to that to open my mouth even to eat much less to talk and spend those precious minutes in the conversion of a single Sinner but now we have leisure and how willing would I be to bring over a Saul to make a Paul of him B. If the flanting tail'd Comet at Christ-tide did not foretell this change yet sure the Isle of Purbeck business was no rais'd story by but a perfect Vision of one of your party that exactly represented these Times an Army rais'd from the very Clots of Earth and all of a sudden return'd to their Mould or popp'd under ground 't is a good hearing you are at leisure though I find 't is to doe mischief if you can the State-Physician may find as by a Pulse the condition of the Nation when the Cane big with Tuck of use and omen both walks the streets as if its Master was one of the Penny Posts when the Hat is pinch'd over the Eyes when the Saints are tenderly sought for in every corner and the Sisters are refresh'd only with the hasty and holy kiss and a Paper of Recipes are left not to cure but promote the twang of the Nose then is the Critical Minute but now you are playing the Moles W. If you could afford patience or leisure I could shew you which way we are and have been playing the Moles undermining Church and State but not so blindly as some may imagine but while we make others to think we can't see we soon alter the scene and find they can't or at least their blind-sides B. Your extraordinary freedom puts me upon my guard I am afraid you have entertain'd a design of converting me W. Faith you know comes by hearing God may afford you his Grace to fathom our depths if you will promise to lay aside all prejudice while we discourse I 'll be free with you and then you will see that it stands to reason to side with us when you find there can be no danger can reach you if you be with us if against us with what do your very dreams affright you with Plunderings Sequestrations Decimations Deprivations Axes and Halters B. And can you fansie if I lay aside all prejudice i. e. hearken to the dictates of naked reason unmixt with fears and interest your Cause will get the day W. We care not for such a Philosophical lump no more than for a man of Clouts give us one in a Political guise we should have nothing but old Plato against Plato Redivivus what a pother would you make in rooting your passions out before you could clear the eyes of your reason you would take a great deal of pains to make your self as useless to any body of Men as your Eunuchs are to Women if you design to be serviceable to a party you must bring your Tools with you you will else be accounted a meer Cypher you must use all the means you can to make your self as considerable as may be you are gone else into whatever party you list your self they make baits of better morsels than you would make your self come 't is better siding with us than be set by and abus'd to gratifie your enemies onely in hopes to bring them over or but to stop their full career your Principles will be forc'd to strike sail to their interest and you will at last find your self a sacrifice to their malice When you understand us better you will blame your self for holding out so long your knowledge of us is like Philosophy a little enclines a man to Atheism but a thorough knowledge in us is a perfect cure I 'll be free and because I have time I 'll be the Palavicino in our Cause give you such an History of our selves that you must needs be begg'd for a Fool or cloystred for a Madman if you stand out any longer B. Curiosity though it was the Mother of the first sin in Mankind yet I hope it will not be so fatal to me I will force nature for once to see what you so much boast of W. If you then consider first either our number our methods to gain or the secrecy in our Intreagues you may find them next to miracles and as good arguments for us as for our Religion in general and though we list above three parts of the Nation on our side as first some that
the shock of a Trial which Country have found you guilty what can you say why Judgment should not pass upon you why the Laws of the Land should not be put in execution against you and every one of you W. I when a Jury of the Country is lawfully call'd not when they thrust themselves upon such an Office that is when the Parliament is call'd then we will Safely stand to a Trial you will not I hope call a few the Representatives of the Nation a few Grand Jury-men pickt and cull'd by the Sheriff who you know is chose by the Court then a parcel of Inland Stuff Merchants that throw their words as lavishly as their hands and legs and think to make us the Shuttle-cock but we will remember their Stuff wee 'l tooth and nail if we have ever any more Parliaments in England again the next Session put in a Bill for wearing Cloth half the year we will build up our little Sisters Taunton-Dean Worcester and the Stroud Water-men they shall be able to o're-top your Stuff-Merchants and then we shall make them as humble as their Address but notwithstanding these Hogen-Mogen doings of Grand Juries Corporations c. a small parcel of men that have too much cowardise and covetousness to make good either Article of their new Faith and we have still the main Body of the Nation thousands and ten thousands that nee'r have nor will submit themselves and bend their knee to Authority manag'd by Popish Counsels B. This is very mysterious now and then when you please a Westminster Grand Jury shall be the voice of the Nation but no heed given to any other and the majority of a Corporation shall then speak the sense of the whole Town but at other times shall scarce have leave given them to speak even for themselves W. ' Ill give you the Test how you shall know whether they speak for themselves alone or for their places their purses not their heads give them the preeminence in B. How W. If the same number of God's and the King's people walk in the ways and frequent the places of worship which the profane call the Conventicles as did heretofore then 't is an evident sign that these nor none of these are included in the Addresses or come over but the same number c. walk in the same ways you know what follows B. And what follows if the same number doe the Nation is or may be as safe as long as they keep the power of the sword in their own hands 't is not onely the Papists houses may be search'd for Arms but any others and all taken away except what necessary for the train'd Bands your stock of Arms bought in at Fairs at the beginning of the Plot for pretended fear of the Papists should the State look to it would not be such scare-crows or if taken away no such oppression when the time was once known that a Malignant could not carry a Knife in his Pocket to cut his meat if he had any for fear he should be up in Arms with it W. How sease our Arms our last and onely hopes whilest the enemy is in the three Nations whilest there is a Plot this is to unbutton our Collars hold our hands and let the Papist or the Spaniard do execution to our throats I dread the death of a Spanish Grandee methinks hanging drawing and quartering in a good Cause is dying on a Feather-bed to that B. Since you seem to like that sort of death better than living in quiet why did you not choose it twenty and odd years ago you were ripe enough for it then why did you desire to leave your Leaders so basely in the lurch and at once the Hangman too but I find by your wincing where you are gall'd and where your hopes were when you gave out so many challenges to the Government let that begin to suppress Conventicles if it dares by the Lord they knew who would make an end but we find you are now match'd and his Majesty has a greater Life-guard than onely broken Citizens men that will stand by him with their Fortunes too W. I when I see that once when the 40 or 100 thousand pounds come then I shall think them in earnest and not look upon them as manag'd by your great Noble-men and little Clergy-men but now they are filthily manag'd and have words put into their mouths contrary to their own interest and then any one may safely swear contrary to their sense as if the City of Oxon could speak any more their minds in their paper Address than they could in the Presence-chamber when they went to give the King thanks for the Dissolution of the last Parliament such shameless Hypocrites Credat Judaeus Apella Non Ego they were made to do it in a politick sense of having him there again Come come things are not so much off the hooks as some may imagin and though now we don't talk much because 't would prejudice our Cause there was and is a time for that and all things we act the more B. Dare you further diselose your Secrets you must before you Proselyte me What are your methods W. Several according as occasions and circumstances vary and because the greatest Argument the Papists us'd was their certainty of a Revolution of times and the incertainty of acceptance should they refuse the Scepter held out I 'll be as kind to you and shew you such a Scene as shall satisfie you which way the wind is like to blow I can bring you incognito to our Smects of Policy where you shall see a Scene far better than our Discourse towards the building you up in the Faith and Fear of the Godly B. If you have got any Curtains to cover or hide me in or a peeping hole no danger but if I must pass under the sanctified name of an Obedias Tobias or so forth my face will want choak and I shall look too plump a month with a Sister will sanctifie my looks into the Brotherhood W. Come take no thought for that we have your whispering places as well as those of old Glocester is not the onely hole in England follow me but be sure to stand close B. I beg your pardon I shall hear some Treason and be kept by you so long from disclosing till I am made guilty of misprision I begin to suspect your extraordinary kindness thrown on one that can no way not desires any to merit it pray how have I deserv'd so ill at your hands as to be thought so well of by you as to be trusted W. I 'll tell you the truth for once which is rare with us you are in those unhappy circumstances that have caught many you have made some observations on us enough to undoe you there remains nothing more now but to proceed and know our utmost and side with us if not down-right in a perfect activeness yet in a sly under-hand covert acting or at least