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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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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
what art do you use to get a new brood W. Even the same that was us'd to gain us We tread the same steps our Forefathers trod in and like the famous Horse Courser before Plato make the race be run in the same steps We play the old Dog o're again B. I don't suspect your art of ducoying but pray your methods you use W. In short I 'll tell you though you know we have men of great Fortunes and Estates that are pleas'd to espouse our Cause in all ages yet if you 'll observe you will find we have never a Gentleman in our whole Class of Teachers as godly as some Lady-mothers pretend to be the Popish Ducoys have got one Baronet and some very few Cadets but the most part are just like ours the Sons of the Proletarious Mechanicks the highest we can arrive to is the Son of a Shop-keeper whose Interest grew by his Religion and thinks he shall secure the former the better if he makes his Son a Prop and Leader of the Party B. But what Education do you give them W. We take them piping hot from their Mother's Milk in their untainted innocency send them to a Conscientious Sober Schoolmaster to one that knows their Mothers where they sha'n't learn to be Idle to Steal for others grow up to Drink and even whilst Children as 't were to lose the precious Jewel of Modesty by Wenching as they do in most Free-Schools B. You have copied out Julian's project in disguise but this is too mean to bring on your Cause What farther Education do you give them do you not send them to the University W. No no We tell them they will suck in there nothing but Tobacco Ale Arminianisme and Popery and they so soon run off their byass there as no one can imagine they prove Reprobates as soon as they can make a Syllogisme which make their Mothers almost out of opinion with the Prayers of the Congregation which were put up at their expence for them the first time they come home we can never see them with their short Cloak and little Bible under their arm they tell their Parents they have taken an Oath to the contrary non interesse Conventiculis Oh profane wicked antichristian abominable Sanction and if we come to discourse them we may as soon convert a Syllogisme as them B. How do you do to instruct them in the Arts and Sciences W. We are even with their Statute De non intrandis Conventiculis and make bold to profess Logick and other University trifles at Stamford or any where else even to the design'd prejudice of those two Nurseries of Debauchery in a word we have erected Academies where people don't serve such a slavish Apprentiship to the Arts as they do in the Universities and where those that design the painfull-preaching-Ministry are brought up as the Dutch Physicians do their Novices by the hand carry them about with them teach them how to handle the pulse of their Patients the Auditory and for the first Fee instead of preferment help them to a zealous Sister well-flesh't in the Purse and the Promise of a Reversion of Dr. such a one's Church or Dr. such a one 's B. You do it seems with your Congregations as some Captains do with their Companies raise them and then merchandise 'em off but do you think if the Universities should or could unbend the bow not tye up the youth at sixteen to take the Oaths but then when they take a compleat degree do you think the Universities would not fill more and the Dissenters be fewer 't would break your Academies and your beyond-Sea trade too Doway and St. Omers would find a great decay in Trade But these are but projects W. But then I 'll tell you what are and are not projects i. e. some Canons of yours design'd to be binding but are made meer empty air by the disuse which makes sufficient provision for the two Universities that like the Rivers though they come from the Ocean yet send as great a stock back thither again that Canon that commands every Parsonage endow'd to the value of to make such a proportion to poor Scholars for so long would stock the Universities so much if put in practice that Pluralities might find Curates at the rate current of their Forefathers i. e. Welch price current amongst us 20 Mark and a License not to marry but to sell Ale but our old enemy Laud though a grand enforcer of Church tricks and knacks in other cases foresaw what a stock we got by such Cattel and design'd a retrenchment scarce to be thought on to have rooted them in a manner quite out for under the rose 't was from thence we first had our store and 't is through our means so many little sprinklings of Charity as so many little 〈◊〉 store among your greati Channel which running but a little while makes theâ—◠〈◊〉 to us B. You have sufficiently I thank you given me a character of the birth and parts of your Pastours the meanest I find of both in the Nation but I wonder at your art of Ducoying Proselytes W. You may well wonder with the whole world and that 's part of the secrets I 've been so long disclosing how 't is possible we should so spawn I mean for the vastness of the encrease pray no other wise so few years when the other party thought we might be well enough content if we did as the Moors would have the Tangerines keep what we had encroach't and not endeavour to enlarge our bounds B. But you were too skilfull Engineers to samely acquiesce W. The Act of Renunciation I talk'd of before was quick silver to us and though we make no braggâ— of it we now and then chop upona piece of policy that taught us Non Progredi est Regredi and weighing well our circumstances we knew to our cost 't would be so in our case We kept therefore that mystery of trading still on foot and would by no means let them dishand and you must know in trade 't is not an easie thing to knock off a settlement on the sudden but we the more viggorously hurried on their effects that way land so mightily thriv'd that in a short time as we have seen by these blessed effects in our days we have poison'd as they say the Corporations of England we never bought of any people but our Party but sold to any of what Tribe soever for there were our gains and I think we have so strengthen'd our Party with wealth and multitude that they not onely awe but are able to conques the whole Country any if the Pilgrims should come from Spain and the black Bills appear we should easily though our Walls are down more than make our party good with them and if by chance or otherwise the King should dye before the P. Duke we should command the Grown upon the head or heads of whom we pleas'd B. But what if one