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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25598	An Answer to the letter from Amsterdam of April the 18th, 1678 being found at Harwich, open'd and carried to the magistrates of that place.		1678 (1678)	Wing A3416; ESTC R28300	6,288	16

Oyl to the Fire When we hear such an one we begin to think them guilty enough and our selves their Masters In like manner we want mightily the old way of taking off which certainly while it held was one of the greatest Revenues of our Cause It is a great pity that our Stratagem of removing Ministers took not 'T was an excellent good one and had done our work effectually By this means we should have stript the King of his Friends For who dost think would have ventur'd the being a Counsellor unless he could Prophesie what advice would be grateful to us and would be sure to give none else and that would not serve his turn neither for we would be sure to disapprove it at a venture besides it is our priviledge and we have Precedents for it to accuse him without being bound to shew any cause which how Paradoxical soever it may seem is both just and honest For Vox Populi Vox Dei and thou knowst whose Representatives we are Moreover had this Plot taken the King had not only lost but we had got Friends We have daily experience in what stead we are served by outed Statesmen The Turks and we are much of a nature and Renegadoes commonly prove the best Captains to us both We must endeavour to lessen the House of Lords as much as we can Nobility and Treachery seldom fadging well together and in order thereunto we begin to act as if there were no such thing in the World We pronounce that all Treaties and other State-Transactions ought to be conformable to our Addresses and though the Lords better Education frequent Travelling abread c. do generally fit them more for considerations of this kind yet men ought to believe as we do our selves that each of us comes from the Plough like another Serranus and being once the Creature of a dozen Shoo-makers or such-like Fellows and these drunk too is sufficiently gifted for the Government of a Nation And the best is that as amongst the Bishops we have some who favour Presbytery which is No Bishops so among the Lords we have some Birthright-sellers who carry on our Democracy which is No Lords But at present our great and true grievance is the New-raised Army We 'l sit hard but it shall not stand long We are resolved like green Pease the season affords me the similitude to eat 'em young though it cost us never so dear they may grow too hard for our teeth And therefore to carry on the Metaphor we butter 'em and pepper ' em We sooth 'em with fair words and joyn issue with the King in calling 'em brave men and such as spent their livelihoods that they might venture their lives for their Country And at the same time we are about to appoint Committees for the receiving complaints and hearing the lamentable cries of several Pigs and Geese against them and have ordered stories to be brought in of more important Outrages Somewhat in imitation of the Scotch stratagem but the truth is the Scots have the advantage of us in this point not only because they are the more demure and consequently the better lyars and men hardly suspect so much wit as a lie comes to in that tone but also because the Scene of their Drama is more remote and their stories not so easily disproved as ours In all cases we firmly purpose one way or other to get rid of this upstart Monster For else what would those tumults thou speak'st of signifie We 'l disband 'em if it be but to find 'em again when we our selves need ' em We 'l serve 'em as a Printer doth his Letters distribute 'em after the printing one sheet into their respective Boxes that when occasion is they may be set in a new form to print another Thou need'st not bid us to set the pattern of 41 before our eyes but I should be glad thou couldst tell us a way of removing it from those of others It doth us no small mischief Would to Jove the Act of Oblivion had been more efficacious and corresponded better to the ends for which we desir'd it which were only thou know'st that their Party might not remember to prevent nor ours to forbear But we are never content What an ungrateful Rogue am I to grumble so much when I ought rather to thank the Devil that for the generality those impressions are at this time so well worn out that men begin to hear with patience what they would have abhorr'd five or six years ago and now prick up their ears where then their hair would have stood an end Before I go any farther I think fit to advertise thee of one thing which is that thou must not think for any thing thou read'st here that the Nation or House of Commons are all of our Party No we have a very small one in either But 't is no news to thee that the Pharisees are of the quality of Leaven a little serves to influence the lump Our business in the House is by specious pretences and covert lyes the Tools of our Trade to work a League offensive and defensive with several honest Gentlemen who mean better than they understand and by this course when Noses are told thanks to those which we lead for the most part we exceed by one or two and such a Vote is as much the Common Justice and Prudence as if it had been made Nemine contradicente I assure thee this is a great Prerogative of the House and vast Priviledge for the Members For by this means many times a Noddle that hath never a dram of sense in it comes in a trice to be the sense of the Nation Prithee as soon as thou canst send me over some Hand-Granadoes I mean some pretty quaint stories to throw among the People Popery is as good a Topick as ever it holds out admirably well This morning a man brought me a dozen of Stories to sell and at least nine or ten of 'em were on that subject But I refus'd 'em all for improbable save only one which was of 50 Priests hid in a Cave in Wales which he offered to prove out of the Old Testament saying that Abdias's hiding the Prophets was not History but Prophesie There was another of a secret League between England and France seal'd and deliver'd by the two Kings in the presence of certain Brandenburghers which was pretty passable and I may chance to buy But now to the main Bid the French Agent endeavour to have our Subsidies better complied with What does he think the 50 thousand Pistols return'd hither the other day such a business Mind him of our natural Antipathy against his Nation and that it requires a great deal to take this off and make us fit for Bribery on the square But let him not despond Money will do the work 't is that as a modern Author though an Enemy truly says which makes all doctrines plain and clear This will force us