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A47820
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Citt and Bumpkin in a dialogue over a pot of ale concerning matters of religion and government
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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1680
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Wing L1216; ESTC R15090
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certain Occasion Citt. That 's a very good sign of Affection to the Cause as I told thee and it would be never the worse if they were under a Cloud at Court for an Honest Revenge ye know goes a great way with a tender Conscience Bum. I have hear'd some Inkling that way but we 'le scatter no words Citt. They never speak any thing to you in private do they As of Grievances I mean Religion the Liberty of the Subject and such like Bum. No no but they talk as other people do of the Plot and the Jesuits and Popery and the French King and so Citt. And what is the reason now do ye think that you are not receiv'd into their Bed-Chambers their Closets into their Arms and into their very Hearts as well as some other people as we kaow Bum. Alas what should they do with me I 'm not a man fit to keep them Company Citt. Why then Honest Bumpkin here 's a Golden Sentence for thee Be Taken Sifted Imprison'd Pillory'd and stand true to thy Principles and th' art company for the best Lord in Christendom They I never dare to trust thee till th' art Iayl and Pilloryproof and the bringing of thee into a Jayl would be a greater kindness then the fetching of Another man Out Bum. Prethee Cit tell me one thing by the way hast thou ever made Tryal of this Experiment thy self Citt. To tell thee as a friend I have try'd it and I 'm the best part of a thousand pound the better for 't 'T is certainly the high way to preferment Bum. And yet for all this Citt I have no minde in the World to be taken Citt. And that 's because th' art an arrant buzzard the Lord deliver me from a fellow that has neither Mony nor Friends and yet 's afraid of being Taken Why 't is the very making of man a mans Fortune to be Taken How many men are there that give mony to be Taken and make a Trade on 't Nay happy is the man that can but get any body to Take him Why I tell ye there are people that will quarrel for 't and make Friends to be Taken 'T is a common thing in Paris for a man in One six Months to start out of a Friendless and Monyless condition into an Equipage of Lacquays and Coaches and all this by nicking the blessed Opportunities of being discreetly Taken Bum. I have heard indeed of a man that set fire to one Old House and got as much Mony by a Brief for 't as built him two New ones Citt. Have not I my self heard it cast in a fellows Teeth I was the making of you Sirrah thoughy ' are so high now a body must not speak to you You had never been Taken and clapt up Sirrah but for me Bum. Father what Simpletons we Country-folks are to you Citizens Citt. Now put the case Bumpkin that you were Taken Examin'd and Committed provided you stand to your Tackle y' are a Made man already but if you shrink in the wetting y' are lost Bum. Pray'e what do you mean by standing to my Tackle Citt. You must be sure to keep your self upon a Guard when y' are before the Iustice and not to be either wheedled or frighten'd into any Discovery for they 'le be trying a thousand Tricks with you Bum. But may I deny any thing that 's charg'd upon me point-blank if I be guilty of it Citt. Yes in the case of self-preservation you may but you must be sure then that no body can disprove you for if it be known 't is a Scandall and no longer Lawfull Your best way will be not to answer any Questions against your self Bum. But now you have brought me into a Goal you would do well to tell me how I shall get out again Citt. Why before you turn your self thrice in your Kennell if Baylable Y' are out again upon a Habeas Corpus But in the mean time the Town rings of your Commitment the Cause of it and how bravely you carry'd it upon your Examination all which shall be Reported to your Advantage and by this time y' are Celebrated for the Peoples Martyr And now come in the Bottles the Cold-Pies and the Guynnies But you must lay your finger upon your Mouth and keep all as close as if the Fayries had brought it Bum. Pre thee Citt were thou ever bound Prentice to a Statesman Citt. No not altogether so neither but I serv'd a Conveninent time in two of his Majesties Houses and there I learnt My Politiques that is to say in Newgate and the Gate-house Two schools says one that send more wise men into the World then the four Inns of Court Now let your suffering be what it will the Merit of it will be rated according to the Difficulty and hazzard of the Encounter For there 's a great difference betwixt the Venture of a Pillory and of a Gibbet But in what case soever if you stand fast and keep your Tongue in your head you shall want neither Mony nor Law nor Countenance nor Friends in the Court nor Friends in the Iury. Bum. Hold hold Citt what if all my great Friends should deceive me at last Citt. They 'le never dare to do that for fear you should deceive them I have found the Experiment of it my self and every Term yields us fresh Instances of people that make their Fortunes in a trice by a generous contempt of Principalities and Powers Bum. Thou' rt a brave fellow Citt but pre'thee what may thy Employment be at present if a body may ask thee Citt. I am at this present Bumpkin under the Rose a Secretary-Extraordinary to one of the Grand Committees I told thee of and my business is to draw up Impeachments Informations Articles to lick over now and then a Narrative and to deal with the Mercuries to publish nothing against the Interest of that Party and in fine there 's hardly any thing stirs but I have a finger in 't Mine is a business I can tell you that brings in Money Bum. I make no doubt on 't Citt But could ye put me in a way to get a little money too Citt. We 'l talk of that presently You may think perhaps now the City-Petition's blown off that our Committee will have nothing to do But I do assure you businesse comes in so fast upon us that I shall never be able to go through it without an Assistant and if I find you fit for 't you shall be the man Nay hold let Me speak First do you continue the use of your Short-hand Bum. Yes I do and I have mended my Bastard-Secretary very much since you saw it Citt. Will you be Iust Diligent and Secret Bum. I 'le give you what security you 'le ask for my Truth and Diligence and for my Secrecy I could almost forget to speak Citt. That Figure pleases me but I must shrift you further How stands your appetite to
Wine and Women Bum. Why truly at the rate of other flesh and blood Citt. 'T is not to barrye neither but what Liberties ye take let them be Private and either to advance the common-Common-cause or at spare hours Bum. You cannot ask or wish more then I le do Citt. Only a word or two more and then I 'le let you into nay affairs What course did you propound to your self in case your Petition had succeeded I ask this because you seem so much troubl'd at the Disappointment Bum. Why if this Petition had gone on and the Parliament had met I was promis'd fonr or five Petitions more One against Danby and the Lords in the Tower another for the Sitting of this Parliament till they had gone through all they had to do a Third for taking away the Bishops Votes a Fourth for the Remove of Evill Counsellours and a Fifth for putting the Militia into Safe hands Citt. These points you must know have been a long time upon the Anvill and our Friends have Instructions all over the Kingdom to proceed upon them to shew the Miraculous Union of the Nation But do you think because the First Petition has receiv'd a checque and the Parliament is Prorogu'd that therefore the other Petitions must fall to the ground Bum. I cannot well see how it should be otherwise Citt. Why then let me tell you Bumpkin We 'l bring the whole business about again and carry it on in spite of Fate for we have better heads at work perhaps then you are aware of Bum. Ay but what Hands have we Citt for it will come to that at last Citt. Those Heads will find Hands never trouble your self if there should be occasion but 't is too early-days for that sport yet 'T was an unlucky thing however to be so surpriz'd For our Friends did no more dream of the Sacrament then of their Dying day Bum. Well there 's no recalling of what 's past But the Question is how we shall avoid it for the time to come Citt. Nay Bumpkin there 's a Trick worth two of avoiding it we 'l Take it next bout and then we 're safe we 'l carry it I 'le undertake by fifty Voices Bum. But cannot the Aldermen hinder you from putting it to the Vote Citt. 'T is the custom of the City I confess for the Lord Mayor to Summon and dissolve Common-Councils and to put all points to the Question but we 'l finde a cure for that too 'T is a thing we 've been a good while about already the bringing down the Authority of the City into the Major part of the Commons Bum. Now if the Mayor and Aldermen should be aware of this they 'l never endure it but we must leave that to time But hark ye Citt. I thought our Friends refusing of the Sacrament had been matter of Conscience Citt. Why so it is man but take notice then that you are to distinguish of Consciences There is First a plain simple Conscience and that 's a Conscience that will serve well enough to keep a man Right if he meet with nothing else to put him out of the way And then there 's a Conscience of State or Profit and that Conscience yields as a Less Weight does to a Greater an Ounce turns the Scale but a Pound carries the Ounce and no body blames the Weaker for being over-power'd by the stronger There is a Conscience of Profession too which is a Conscience that does not so much regard the Reason of the thing as the being True to a Party when a man has past his Word and this is the Conscience of a man of Honour that fights for his Whore There is likewise a Conscience of Religion and that 's a quiet peaceable Conscience that rests in the Affections of the Heart in submission to Lawfull Institutions and in serving God and doing Good to our Nighbour without Noise or Ostentation Bum. Well but I see a great many very Consciencious men that love to Pray and Sing Psalms next the Street that their Neighbours may hear 'um and go up and down shaking of their Hands and wringing of their Hands crying out of the Calves of Bethel and the High places Popery Prelacy and the Common-Prayer in such a manner that 't would grieve a bodies heart to see ' um Citt. These are Consciencious men Bumpkin and this is the Conscience of State or Profit that I told ye of Bum. Ay but I have seen some men in Fits of the Spirit Jump and sting about a Pulpit so desperately that they set the children a crying to have 'um let out One while they 'd raise themselves upon their Tip-toes and Roar out upon a suddain you 'd have thought they had been pinch'd with Hot Irons and then all in an Instant they 'd Dop down again that ye could hardly see 'um And so fall into a faint lamenting Voice like the Grone of a poor woman three quarters spent in Labour Nay there was One of 'um that gap'd and held his mouth open so long that People cry'd out The man has a Bone in his Throat These must needs be very Consciencious Men Citt. Citt. They are so Bumpkin but 't is the same Conscience still for it works all manner of ways We took up this Mode I suppose from the Transports and Grimaces of the Pagan Priests in the Ceremony of their Sacrifices which had a very effectual operation upon the People Bum. Nay Citt these Men have a Holy way of Language too as well as of Behaviour for all their Talk is of Heaven and Heavenly things the Saints and the New Jerusalem they deal mightily in Expositions upon the Viols and the Little Horn and then they are bitterly severe against Wicked Magistrates and those that Lord it over Gods Heritage They are in fine a very Consciencious sort of People Citt. Oh beyond question so they are But this is still a Branch of the same Conscience I have known indeed some people so Transported with this same Talkative Holiness that it has been a kind of Spiritual Salivation to 'um they continue spitting when they have not one drop of Moisture left 'um in their Bodies Bum. Prethee Citt tell me in Honest English where shall a body finde the simple and the Religious Consciences thou told'st me of Citt. Why every man living has the Former of 'um but takes no notice on 't But for the Latter sort 't is very scarce and you shall finde more of it perhaps in one Iayle or in one Hospital then in all the Courts of Christendom It is commonly the Blessing of men in years in sicknesse or in adversity Bum. Ah Citt that I were but as capable of Learning as thou art of Teaching Pre'thee explain thy self a little upon the Conscience of Profession too Citt. Observe me what I say then Bumpkin There is a Profession Particular and General Particular as when One Cavalier serves another in a