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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67534	A dialogue between K.W. and Benting occasioned by his going into Flanders after the death of the Queen.	K. W.	1694 (1694)	Wing W77; ESTC R221934	14,912	13

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN K. W. and Benting Occasioned by his Going into Flanders after the DEATH of the QUEEN W. In Bed the Candle burning dim W. THese Gripes of Conscience are a domn'd Disease nor is there any Cure for e'm except a Medicine that will never down with me I thought I had quell'd maul'd kill'd and rammed the Worm for ever moving more and yet if Trouble come or Danger threaten I cannot be alone but it comes crawling on and stings and bites the Vulture feeding on Prometheus's Heart cannot be a greater Torment The impartial Devil will not bate an Ace of Truth but musters up all my Villanies before me enough to have damn'd ten thousand to the lowest Hell and then ... The Q's Ghost glides by and disappears Ha! What art thou Sure it was She and is there then something of us that remains even after Death Is there a reckoning in the Case Sure mine will be no very comfortable part in the other World if it be answerable to my Deserts in this The Ghost returns approaches him and speaks Q's Ghost Repent for me it 's too late not yet for you Exit Ghost W. Ha! This preaching Ghost hath put me in a fit of Trembling but since Moses and tho Prophets could never do any good of me it shall never be said that She coming Canting from the Dead shall move me whom I never regarded in her Life Repent Wise work indeed Where shall I begin Or when shall I make an end My whole Life hath been such a Scene of Monstrous Villanies that they are searce to be repeated never to be repented Who would begin a work which will never be done I have traded in barbarous Murders hellish Lyes damn●d Conspiracies I have oppressed my Country Banished my Father Seiz'd his Kingdoms put the w●ole World in Blood and Flames and as far as Man can have even dethroned God himself for I have made Religion a meer Cheat and Stalking-horse to my Design● and undone all who would not ren●unce any Obligation from the Lows of God or from the Tw of Sacred Oaths and could I but conquer Conserence and the K. of France nothing could stand before me And shall ●repent No. no The evils I have done must be m●ntained by greater if greater can be if Hell can find out a Sin which the World never yet knew I 'll readily act it provided it may serve my Am●ition or further my Desi●●● But oh In spite of all I shall feel something within This gnawing Conscience the Devil would not be troubled with What Who wa●s there Enter Page P. Sir Your Majesty's Pleasure W. Go tell my Lord Pertlard it 's time to rise I want him and send in one to dress me Enter Second Page W. Come bring my Clo●ths Make ready Be quick I am uneasy and in haste Give me my private A mour next my Body there is no trus●ing any Man a Moment every Man is or has reason to be my Enemy Page Dost thou seep well on Nights Dost thou never dream of the Devils nor see Ghosts P. Sir I have heard of such things but nothing breaks my Rest unless when I am call'd and they will let me sleep no longer and then within my self I wish them hang'd for 't W. Thou art happier than thou art aware of Villain What dost Thou drawest the Stockin on my left Foot first Curse on the Fool and Omen both P. Sir I 'll pull it off and put it first on the other if you please W. Coxcomb Thou hast done what thou canst undo Dispatch let me be out of thy Hands Enter Lord Portland W. My Dearest Benting welcome I never more long'd for thy Company I have had a restlest Night Come let us retire this Room is haunetd the Devil here keeps 〈◊〉 B●nt Your Majesty seems disorder'd I am not a little troubled to see it thus W. I sent for you to help to mend the matter not to encrease my Vexation B. I will do 〈◊〉 utmost lies in me when I know what the ma●er is W. I doul●t it no● I know I have thy Heart and I never more nee●ed thy Head than now Have you considered wha● ●esperate circumstances I am in by the Deeth of the Queen and my Necessity of going for Flanders B. Yes if you were among Men of Sense or Thought but amongst the Block-headed English who never in Convulsions of State contrive any thing but their own ruin you may be safe enough W. I know the Generality of them are like a Hog who if he sets himself to go on in a way you may sooner knock out his Brains than turn him but then they are like a Hog still who if he chance to turn of himself is as obstinate in the quite contrary way and I have reason at this time to fear it B. We shall do well enough for that matter It is but employing your Agents to fill their heads with dismal Appreh●nsions of Popery and Slavery approaching and then spreading Strange Stories and Swinging Lyes and you may make them run mad which way you will W. I confess that has done Feat● But I doubt many begin to see throw the Artifice and many are not so willing to be deceiv'd as formely they were Besides were it not for the variety of Factions and the Natural Ungovernableness of the People notwithstanding the Scandal there wants not Men of Sense among them who are capable of managing Affairs as well as others B. True but it is Fatal in England for any Man to be wiser than his Fellows If any one have a longer Head than ordinary they are seldom quiet till they have it off However these need not trouble you For many of them are so deeply dipt in Guilt that they think they cannot be sate under any other Government and so are unquestionably yours by an unchangeable Interest And as for others you have finely trick't the Common-Wealths-men to their own Destruction by putting them in Employments These notwithstanding their swe●●ous Pretences are a Cruel Bloody Ba●barous sort of Men who will stick at nothing in their way and it is but giving them their sull Scope for a time and they will destroy every thing in the Nation that is Brave or Honest the Odium of which you may presently return upon them and thence take accasion to root out them also and so your work will be done every way W. Thou shalt be Canoniz'd in Hell Lucifer himself could not give better Councel but yet I fear all will not do and that my Tools will not work as formerly The Death of the Queen has shockt my Throne She was Popular and belov'd by many and in my Absence a sure Guardian of the Crown now I know not whom to Trust I am lest alone with a lamentable crackt Title there being no less than Four before me all Natural Born English and I a Forreigner agreeable neither in Humour nor Ma●ners to the People and engag'd ●n an Interest quite

when they had made us these costly Bon fires and ●●uminations they might whip away and be gone without the least hurt or damage either by hand or Sea unless by meer Accident W. 'T is very true and I wonder he hath not done it but I suppose it is to shew himself a Generous Enemy and to ingratiate himself into a Good opinion with the English B. But it is not your Interest to suffer this but by Bombing and Burning his Town● and Haressing his Coasts you must provoke him to Retaliate W. But I fear that when the English see their Houses on Fire and their Goods burnt they will be Enrag'd that they are not better Protected after such vast Sums of Mony given B. No It will only enrage them against the French King and they will every where cry out against his Cruellies and Barbari●ies tho' you foret him to it and being he hath forborn so long the People may be persuaded that it was not from his own Inclination but by the Instigation of K. James and thus you may set them violently against the K. of France and K. J●mes and revenge your self on the Engl●sh all at once W. What Excellent use may be made of Mischief and Lying But proceed B. When the Coasts are thus burnt you must take care to remove the Inhabitants either under Pretence of putting them into the Hospitalt or of allowing them Pensions or of finding them Employment or something else to that purpose but above all shew your self extraordinary Compassionate of their Condition and wondrous Zealous to relieve them W. Pox take thee Benting thou wast never so much out in all thy life as now Beside● that mercy is not in my Nature this would undo me B. Your Majesty is mistaken not I. I never intended you should do thus but only preten● it And when you have thus blinded the Peoples Eyes then scatter them all over the City of London and their Great Towns there to Starve or Beg their Bread and with Frightful Stories to enrage all others against the French but in the mean time you must 〈◊〉 sure to take care and see that you in no wise neglect to Rep●●ple the forsaken Coasts with trusty Forreigners who shall depend upon you and be your faithful Servants upon all occasions and if you could possibly thus secure the Coasts the whole Island must be at your Devotion for after all to deal plainly with you you must either Conquer this People or they will Conquer you and kick you off or deal worse by you W. Now you say somthing to the purpose if I could make a Conquest my work were done if nor I am senssible that I am only Tenent at will or by Curtesie and may be turned out at Pleasure and I will hazard all rather than l●ve in such Circumstances but as to what you were speaking the coasts indeed generally ly open and defenseless but yet there are several strong Ports and Cittadels which Monsieur cannot hurt and in these seems to lie the great strenth of the Nation W. Of those aron there are other Matters in course must fall under Consideration before them are you fully resolved how to leave Matters in your Absence W. Yes I think the best way will be as we concerted the Matter among our selves It 's true that in spite of the Parliament I made old Schomberg's Son General of all the English Forces and I would willing have left him and you my Deputies or Viceroys in my Absence but things are not ripe for that yet the Nation will not bear it and there are some sturdy Noblemen as well as some pliant Tools whom I must make use of till I can handsomely get rid of them B. Then you seem to be resolved on the Seven W. I am so I am unwilling to say that they have lost their Reputation however the worse Men the better for me but they have no Interest in the People so that it is not likely they should do me any hurt And then being so many and of such different Persuasions they will never agree upon any thing of Moment without Recourse to me so that wherever I am I shall be their Umpire and Oracle but if they should so fall out as to accuse each other I might in time have an happy opportunity to cut them all off and th●n be sure the rest shall follow as fast as I can Besides I have left Leeds and Sunde●land who are over head and cars in my Interest to be their Councel and Directors and in case any of them tread awry to be my Spies and Informers B. And I think you have so limited their Power by your Commission that they are rather Pageants than Princes But to leave these Actors to their Parts What are your thoughts of the Campaign W. I wish the Devil had it with all the Confederates and the King of France into the Bargain I must bluster and make a Noise and in words despise the French Lines and threaten to break through them at pleasure and some Shews and Offers I must make and perhaps cause ten thousand English or more to be knockt o' th head and then send strange News hither and cause every thing to be magnified and right or wrong reported on my side as if I had done Great Fea●● But to deal plainly and truly with thee my Bosom Friend I have 〈◊〉 little hopes of doing any good there that I care not how soon it is at an end and my Chief thought● are employed what I shall do at my Return if I can secure it B. Your Majesty is now come to the main Point for pardo● this Freedom Great Sir with humble submi●sion 't is my poor Opinion that if you do not your Business socedily at your Return you will certainly m●scarry W. I like not such O●nens But come tell me what you think can be then done that by Conful ation with my Friends in Holland I may improve ●t to the utmost I know nothing will b● wanting from them to dest●oy the English whom they irreconcilably hate B. My thoughts Sir are only to serve you and therefore I hope I am more pardonable if I warn you of Danger and advise you to secure your self W. I am sufficiently satisfied b●th of your Fidelity and Ability to serve me and therefore let me have no more of these idle A●●●●gies but come to the Business B. Sir there is an unlucky Swagge●ing ●amphletteer who hath given su●h a spiteful ●mp●deat lying Ch●racter of K Jame● that I m● self was ashamed to read it and yet in my Conscience he hath no great love for you but after all he has hit upon the thing that will do the Fea● W. Say you so But pray what may that be B. Sir He says plainly and I think truly that we are no ways likely to distress France whilst from time to time we talk only of trying one Summer more For as he well observes that Rich Kingdom cannot