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A55165
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The plot in a dream, or, The discoverer in masquerade in a succinct discourse and narrative of the late and present designs of the papists against the King and government : illustrated with copper plates / by Philopatris.
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Philopatris.
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1681
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Wing P2598; ESTC R7519
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the Tiburnian Trident mangled by the hands of a cruel Carnifico into four quarters I took a sad leave of them and what is become of them I know not being since become a Wanderer in shades of darkness to find out that place of light and happiness which the Petropolitans told me would be the certain portion of all such as dyed in that Cause that I suffer'd for Why said I then were you a Petropolitan Ay replyed he or I had never left the other world so untimely it was my Zeal my Zeal for their Cursed Cause and with that he began to bite his Tongue afresh and to rave at the rate he had before done I stay'd with some trouble in my spirit till his passion was over and he began a little to recover himself and then I asked him the meaning of his biting his Tongue in that violent manner he told me it was but a just Revenge he took upon that Member for betraying him to that Cursed End but said he to satisfie your Curiosity at once for I perceive you are a stranger to the affairs of the other world as well as I am now I will tell you in short the History of my Tragedy I was upon Earth the Son of a Citizen of Londinopolis and a Petropolitan and being educated and instructed in that Religion I betook my self for some time to travel where I was farther instructed in the Policies of that People and of a Design they had laid against my late native Country of Albonia which I suppose is yet on foot although I am untimely taken off from seeing the end of it Upon my return into Albonia I was imployed by my Father to look after the Cash which he being by trade a Goldsmith was intrusted in his hands by the Petropolitan Party but the Plot for carrying on of which the said Mony was treasured up coming unluckily to be Discover'd they began to call in their Monies so fast that I began thereby to be perplexed and confused in my mind about clearing my accounts with them upon this I contracted such a spight and revenge in my mind against the Albonian Government as the cause of this disaster that I could not forbear letting loose this cursed Tongue of mine one time amongst Company where I was overheard into these expressions which I then spake in the Franconian Lingua my Consorts being of that Country The King of Albonia is a grand Heretick and the greatest Rogue in the World There 's the Heart striking his hand upon his Breast and here 's the hand that will kill him my self Some other words I spoke to the like purpose treasonable enough all which being overheard by the Company in the next room One of them a Loyal Gentleman was so exasperated thereby that he drew towards the room where we were to have run me through with his Sword and had done it had not his Friend interposed so they spared me for this time to reserve me for a worse punishment for upon this they having enquired out my Lodging presently went and gave in their Informations of this passage for by the Laws of Albonia no man dares conceal Treason as this was under peril of his own Life and thereupon the next day being summoned to answer it before the King and his Council I was by them committed to the Den of Thieves where I remained till my Tryal and then upon clear proof made of the words spoken notwithstanding I would fain have made my Tongue then to have loosened what it had tied before by some Petropolitan Evasion it was the opinion of the Court that I deserved to dye and had Judgment accordingly passed upon me to be executed as a Traitor by strangling and dismembring of my Body which Sentence has been lately executed upon me and now Bodiless as I am I wander in these Shades to find a rest The little comfort I have is that before this time my poor limbs are disposed by my Friends in some quiet repository that they may not remain as standing Dishes for Kites and Crows to feed on But Oh this Tongue this Tongue cryed he beginning then to rave again as before I advised him seeing that noisy Instrument was so great a torment to him to bite it off rather than to be troubled with the keeping of it telling him withal that I was going back to the other World and if he thought good would take it along with me and present it to some of his Petropolitan Friends who no doubt would dearly esteem it as a precious Relict No said he it deserves no such foolish honours although such for ought I can see be the only Recompence that the Petropolitan Church allows its Martyrs as they call us when they suffer in its Cause I will rather keep it to punish it for my own folly and with that gnashing upon it twice or thrice as a Token of his Revenge I heard him give a shriek and then presently disappeared Farewel thou poor deluded Ghost farewel Stories unto the other World go tell Of thine own folly let this be thy Note I am the Caitiff that hath cut my Throat With my own Tongue curs'd be that Zeal that first Inflam'd it and that devilish Cause be curst That caus'd it Now the difference I feel 'Twixt sober Actions and a wrong-plac'd Zeal My Vision presently carried me back to the City entring into which by one of the Gates methoughts I saw upon the battlements of it fixed upon a long Pâ—le the Arms and Shoulders of a Man with many Spectators gazing at it I supposing it to be of the quarters of some Traâ—â—or lately executed enquired of one of the By-standers whose it was he told me it was the Goldsmith's that was lately executed for speaking treasonable words against the King Why said I were not his quarters buried Yes replied the other by the King's leave he was suffered to be buried but his Petropolitan Friends to take of the ignominie of his End performed it with so much superstitious Devotion besides the extraordinary pomp of it as if it had been the funeral of some great Saint or Worthy rather than a Traitor which being looked upon as an affront both to the Government and Iustice of the Nation His Body was Ordered to be taken up again and the mangled quarters of it to be set up on some of the principal Gates of the City in such manner as this here is disposed of I could not but think nowhow the poor Ghost was cheated thinking his Body might have been suckling of Worms in some earthly repository when alas the thing he so much abhorred it was hung up for Birds meat I was not long after transported by a like Vision into a most dismal place and full of Horror I expected I was then again in the Regions of the Dead and that I should meet some more Spectrums as one I did a proper comly Person to look to but in his motion his limbs quivered
requital of his past-services desire of Rhadamanthus the Iudge to prefer him and that he might be promoted to the place of Secretary in Chief to Don Lucifero which at the Grand Viccars Request was accordingly granted and thereupon he was led away by the Officer towards the Sulphurian Pallace to take possession of his New Office No sooner was the Secretary carried off but in comes another led by a Lâ—ctor who I perceived was the Gentleman I first met in the Regions of the â—ead champing the Bit with his Tongue betwixt his Teeth as when I first saw him Rhadamanthus demanding of him whence he came he told him from the Tiburnian Trident where he received his Martyrdom for the Petropolitan Cause The Great Bishop then asked him what services he had done them he answered that he confessed that the greatest services he had done was with his t t Tongue in treasonably speaking his intentions of Cutting off the Albonian King that it was that cursed t t Tongue that said it In pronouncing which he gâ—â—shed his Tongue with his Teeth so vehemently that he could not speak without stammering But the Viccar replyed That his service was so slender as no great reward coulâ— be due to it and that tho he was to be commended for his Zeal yet he deserved to be punished for his folly for looking to his Tongue no better and therefore left him to the sentence of the Judge who presently ordered him to be carried down to Purgatory which was done accordingly Next after him were brought up the three bloody Murtherers of the Albonian Iustice They gave in a large account of their Services and Sufferings in so much that the Great Bishop himself began to plead in favour of them but Rhadamanthus was so incensed that the Violence was done to a Magistrate that he resented it as an affront to himself being one in that place and therefore ordered their Lictors to carry them away and to punish them severely as Contemners of Justice upon hearing their Sentence they all fell a howling most terribly and hung an arse as loth to leave the place but Volentes Nolentes the Lictors hurried them away For they must needs go whom the Devil drives The Great Bishop seemed somewhat displeased at the severity of this Sentence but Rhadamanthus told him that if he suffered his Martyrs to come to receive their Rewards from him they should expect no better Afterwards came up three other Ruffians Tiburnian Martyrs also Their names as they gave them in to the Judge were Bogland Ringepick and Wood. These were the Villains that undertook to take away the sacred Life of the Albonian Prince two of them viz. Bogland and Ringepick were Priests the other a Lay-man The account they gave of their Services was to this effect That at a Grand Consult held in Londinopolis a Resolve being there drawn up by the Petropolitans for the killing of the King they three had subscribed the same and resolved to attempt it Bogland being to contrive the way of doing it and the other two to execute it for which Services when performed one of them was to receive 1500 l. the other 30000 Masses amounting to the like value That in pursuance of this Resolve they two having armed themselves with short Guns fit for the purpose did once attempt to shoot the King walking in his Park near the Pallace of St. Iaques but the party that was to fire perceiving theflint of his Carabine to be loose durst not attempt it for which neglect as it was esteemed the party was pennanc'd by his Superior with twenty or thirty stroâ—ks of Discipline yet they resolved to proceed with their Design but could never find an opportunity to do it That they afterwards were taken by Phileroy who being revolted from the Petropolitans had now discovered their Designs and Parties concerned in them to the King himself Pox take him quoth the Viccar biting his nails for madness that Rogue has undone us all That being brought to their Tryals before the Tribunal of Iustice Phileroy and one Lobed a Renegade Discoverer both of them formerly Messengers to the Consults appeared against them and gave in full proof of the aforesaid particulars upon which notwithstanding they did in vain endeavour to invalidate their Evidence by slanders raised against them they were by the Justice of the Court condemned as Traytors and were accordingly executed Bogland and Wood first and Ringepick some time after by strangling and dismembring That at their Deaths they were so careful not to betray the Cause they dyed for that they rather ventured upon the Displeasure of the great Iehovah by dying with a Lye in their Mouths in denying the fact than to incur His Viccarship's Displeasure or to prejudice his Cause by an untimely Confession and therefore hoped His Vnholiness would grant them the rewards of Martyrdom and give them the turn of his Key to let them into Paradise The Viccar who could hardly forbear smiling under his Hat to see the folly of his deluded Martyrs told them gravely that indeed he was sorry to see them there for that they had mistaken their way and instead of Paradise they were come to Purgatory but however neither could he make use of his Key if they were at the Gates of Paradise for that the Wards of the Lock that should open them were lately altered upon some distaste taken there at their violent proceedings against the Christians so that he could not open them till such time as he could procure another Key ☞ Which Key His Viccarship will find When Rome turns honest or the Devil blind However he told them that as they had lost their Rewards on Earth by their not performing what they had undertaken so they could not expect to be otherwise rewarded here than as Bunglers in betraying a Design which they should have executed Thus right or wrong the Viccar saves his Bacon By telling all his Friends they are mistaken and so leaves them to the Judgment of Rhadamanthus who presently orders his Ianizaries to convey them to the Fiery Garison where he told them there was a very warm room provided for Regicides and they should have Entertainment accordingly besides the Society of some of their Albonian Country men as Guido Faur Ravillaie and others of the King killing crew who had been long his Prisoners and he questioned not would be glad of their Company This was all the Comfort they could get in this place so they were carried away after their fellows However it was no small pleasure to me to see my old acquaintance these Stromboâ—â—â—â—s returned hither in this manner instead of making their publick Orations at Petropolis as they expected Some small time after these was produced another crippled Martyr one of the Hangman 's jointed Babies whose Limbs hung about him like wire works by reason of his late dismembring at his Execution yet a grave comely person to look on upon view of his Countenance I knew him