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A64508 A third dialogue between the Pope and a phanatick, concerning affairs in England by the author of the first and second, who is a hearty lover of his prince and country. Hearty lover of his prince and country.; Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. 1684 (1684) Wing T907A; ESTC R1259 29,364 58

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the Bench for a Million of Crowns for then I had lost all hopes of the Royal Blood and eternally ruined my whole interest in England I c ●nfess my continued Intrigues for Indulgence and all the softer methods of insinuation to propagate my Religion but as for those daring adventures of Treason and Regicide they are All your own and therefore I declare in spight of Satan and Salamanca that I knew no more of a Plot against the Life of the King then the Groaning-board Ph. Alas Sir you never yet had an Act of Oblivion and therefore your Parisian and Irish Massacres your Smithfield Fires and your Gunpowder Treason though acted long since are more fresh in memory than my late Murder of Charles the First and if I Swear you Guilty all the Tongues of Men and Angels can't perswade the people that you are Pope INNOCENT Po. Well I do hope that Time or the Gallows will give you Grace to confess the Cheat in the mean time I must tell you that if you had charged me with a Plot of any Honourable contrivance or plausible Perjury I should have pardoned such a meritorious forgery but to bring me upon the Stage in a Fools-coat and Cap to make my Nobles and Priests to act the parts of Bedlams this was a Sham and Effrontery that must be resented You know that the Court of Rome hath been more famous for Policy than Divinity and I have by finess and artifice ruined more Kings than ever you knew and can it be reconciled to common Reason or Interest that we should trust the Arcana of our Roman Empire and those Sacred endearments of Lives and Fortunes to the Mercy and Management of a Company of Banditi Renegadoes and Lazarillo's whose Iniquity and Indigence must certainly betray us Had you told the people that there was a mighty Spanish Armada seen at Anchor on Salisbury Plaines it had been as probable a Romance as your Forty Thousand Pilgrims from Spain And as for the Murder of Sir E.B.G. It fell out unluckily the laying of the Scene in Somerset-house for it looks a little odly that the Thames gliding by the walls of that Palace the Murderers of that unfortunate Gentleman should not in that Critical juncture have endeavoured an eternal concealment of the Murder especially there being at hand so easie and so safe a conveyance to the Thames where with less weight than a Milstone he might have been sunk 'till Dooms-day but the overseeing this ready advantage and the exposing his Body above ground nigh the passage to an Imperial City look'd like Frenzy beyond all the extravagancies and costacies of Bedlam you might as well have reported that I had cut my own Throat or leapt off the Monument And it is a miracle to me how you could gain a belief of so wonderful a Proceeding Ph. Why Sir the very word Pope is Enchantment and hath a prodigious power of Infatuation upon the people of England For suppose I should Invent a Plot as dark and confused as the first Chaos whose Monstrosities could out-do all the Fables of Talmud and Alcoran Allow me but the Harangues of a Presbyterian One-and-Forty-Parliament to Eccho the noise of a Popish Plot and the People would believe it as great a Truth as the Pharisees Conspiracy against Jesus but to conclude this Sir I spoke the Prologue to the Popish Plot before the Parliament at Westminster And at Oxford the King unhappily spoke the Epilogue and so FINIS and FITS-HARRIS Po. But Brother you know that the Good Old Cause which is our Common Interest amounts to no less than a Supremacy over all the Kings of the Earth and that is so Sweet and Glorious a Sovereignty that I hope you will never give over your designs for That fift Monarchy or Kingdom of Christ as you wisely phrase it Ph. Never suspect it my zeal is too warm and obstinate to be discouraged by a Disappointment and as long as my Numbers can merit the name of Legion or Association so long I will have the grace to persevere and therefore having shed a little blood by a falsifying blow but missing my chief aim in the Popish Plot I still pursued the same design only shifting the Scene from Rome to Geneva And now enter Anthony and the Giant Ferguson with Six Trumpeters attended with Forty brave Sons of Anak Arm'd with Sword and Blunderbus followed by a mighty train tyed together with Green Ribbands Now Sir you know that the Saints have diversity of Gifts and difference in Operation My Presbyterian was for destroying the King after the English fashion by the more generous and Religious procedure of a Civil War or the Popular Authority of a High Court of Justice My Independent Zelots were for Killing the King Alamode de France and like your St. Clement and Raviliac resolved upon the surest and shortest method of Assassination Your Jesuit Mariana and My Junius Brutus have resolved the Case that if a Prince invades our Religious Rights or Civil Properties he is by your Divinity and Mine decreed a Tyrant And then we are agreed on both sides that a Tyrant is a State-Behemoth and to kill such a Beast of Prey is not only Justice but Merit What Sainted our George but the killing of a Dragon and when David slew the Lion and the Bear and cut off the head of the Uncircumcised Philistine he was a Hero but no Assassin Po. I grant that if a Prince affront our humour or Interest we have an ancient privilege to censure him for an Her ●tick or a Tyrant But in this Age I dare not own the Consequence of Assassination not that this Modesty proceeds from any nicety of Conscience but Policy and Interest oblige me to dissemble that Grim Divinity And whatever you pretend I know the Duke hath a greater Endearment for his Brother than he hath for the Pope and I do easily foresee that if the King should fall by the hand of a Papist the Duke would in abhorrence of the Fact declare himself a Protestant nothing would appease his revenging mind but a Massacre of the Papists in England or the Ashes of Rome Indeed if I were again Lord Paramount of Christendom and had Crowns for Styrrups and could mount my horse upon the back of Kings as formerly I have done Or if my Numbers in England were as great as yours I should then no more scruple the hard words of Association or Assassination than you do but in my present Circumstances I can only dance in a Court-Mask with Caress and Complaisance But I must leave You to Act the rougher Scenes of Tragedy Ph. Nay I am satisfied that your present temper is but Politick dissimulation for I am certain as long as you are Pope you must be of my opinion in the matter of Princes and so long I will own you for a Brother But if ever you dwindle into a Bishop of Rome and an Apostolick slavery to Crowns Imperial I shall hate your Episcopacy