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A35861 A Dialogue between a monkey in the Old Bayly and an ape in High Holbourn 1681 (1681) Wing D1296; ESTC R29713 7,661 6

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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A Monkey in the Old Bayly AND AN Ape in High Holbourn Monkey VVHat 's the matter Brother you 'l not speak of late without Anger and Passion ushers in the Discourse I am sorry my Cracking of Nuts disturbs your Repose Ape The Devil take your Cracking for me it may easily be heard to the upper end of Holbourn A Gentleman can't be a little Apishly disposed in Propositions and Observations or the like but presently it s swallowed into the All-fogies of your Courant the noise hath spoiled I am sure many a Friday mornings Nap after whole Nights Observatoring Monkey Why Hath not Monkeys as much priviledge for to write Courants for mony to buy Nuts as Apes Observators for mony to buy Aples Ape No you unmannerly Monkeys-Face I think not is there no difference between the Shepherd and his Dog an Ape is a Gentleman and by vertue of his Descent claims a great many Priviledges as his Birth-Right Monkey As much Manners as your Worship and as well Desended if that be a sufficient tolleration for Scribling nay I never heard but a Monkey had the precedence if not for Gentillity yet for Honesty for the world knows you are a sort of Creature that will be imitating I believe the Gentleman pretended is but one of your Apish tricks but pray wherein lies your peculiar priviledge above the Monkey Ape That it may be a Correction to your Sawciness I le tell you My Patent like some sort of Pardons was stampt by Creation and is of so extensive a Nature that I have liberty to Fidle all sorts of Tunes either Regal or Oliverian to speak all sorts of Tongues either Italian or English to be of any Religion Christian or Insidel Protestant or Papist to keep any Company either Masters or Apprentices to be dispenced with as to Ecclesiastical Cannons in going to Church once a Year instead of once a Month to Ape any Office either in Church or State to give Rules of Guidance not only to Ecclesiastical but Secular Politicks too these and ten thousand more I could give you but I must observe my Vow of Mortification my sit is coming I begin to swell in a word know then I am the Center in which all Actions and Publick Resolutions for the Service of the Government and what is done injurious to the King or his Friends meet Monkey Cheap enough who would wrong so Innocent a Soul Did not I tell you Roger the property of an Ape because the Printers Wife Paints her Face therefore you must a person of Honour had a Pardon come out of Paradise therefore forsooth your Patent must be one of the six days Work too but the Lawyers tell me that odd name was given the Child because the Office of Baptism was performed after the Presbyterian way without God-Fathers it being a Basketted thing found at the door and like to be kept by the great Parish-Stock the Church-Warden of St. Martins was not very curious in the thing but your Patent is to my knowledg of a different Nature having past the usual Offices as Billings-Gate New-Gate S House Westminster-Hall Sadlers-Hall Doctors Commons c. Oh me and St. Giles's Church too no further I hope that way yet nay I have heard of a Commission that you have to seize all the Discourse of the Westphalia Folks and all the talk over a Glass of Wine as Prohibited Goods Ah poor Pugg look to thy self thou knowest the man bragged he had power to seize Monkeys too but Brother now I see your sits almost over either do it your self or give me leave to Read a few Lines more of that Famous Patent Ape Pray do the more you look the worse you like there is enough to make all the Monkeys in the world tremble Monkey The more Danger the more Honour Nothing Venter nothing Have Oh Heavens what omissions you made certainly you are the happiest man in the world both for Priviledges and Prerogative What to write any thing whether True or False to Abuse any person whether deserved or not to say White is Black or Black is White to obtain an end to say Popery is Protestantism or Protestantism Popery to write one week in Vindication of one Party and for diversion sake the next Monday Morning fall upon the persons Vindicated to perswade the people that its the Interest of Protestants to be very cautious of entertaining any ill opinion of the Genteel Papists to be a Commonshore for Contribution to empty it self into as well from House as Ely-House to write Histories of Conspiracies to Correct the Plotters mistakes in their own Discoveries to perform somtimes the Priests Office in Marrying Popery and Presbyterianism together and making a modest Son of the Church Father too calling Parliaments the Rabble of the Nation and representing the Councels and Debates of their House as Ridiculous as the Consult of Addressers at the Wonder Calling Lord Mayors and Courts of Aldermen a company of Impudent Fellows and Zeal against Popery Faction and Rebellion Arraigning the Government Appeals to the Rabble and the like to justifie the Papist as the Loyal Race of mankind and wipe off Plots and Conspiracies as Aspersions cast upon those men and to excuse all by vertue of that Honest Maxim It is my Trade I am paid for what I do Ape Stay stay the old Distemper my Tympany begins again to seiz my Spirits time is too short a space to Read it in I l'e give it you in short I can be what I will do what I will speak what I will write what I will abuse who I will commend who I will and all this without Reason Sence Honesty or Conscience under this one pretence of Loyalty and being serviceable to the Church Monkey It s well you stopt me I began to tire And gave me breath a little to admire Ape What is your Monkeyship of the Poetical Tribe a company of Treacherous Rascals you shall be sent to Oxford to Crack Nutts to see a Loyal Gentleman invested with a Garment of many Colours is that a thing so much to be admired at I believe it rather an Object of Envy than Admiration Monkey You are mistaken I Envy neither the great Chair nor the peaceable thing that sits in it but if I see a Fools Coat upon a Knaves back and admire a little who can hinder me perhaps I have a mind to give my Eyes a Fairing in an Ocular glut upon so pertty an Object for it falls out sometimes that he that is Andrew upon the Stage is Master of the Show in the Booth or which is all one he that is a Papist about the Middle-Row is a Son of the Church as by Law Establisht at St. Giles's or if you consider him the other way by that time he comes in Fanchurchstreet by his Arrival with Dr. Fell at the Hague you know the Sea is Purgative its petty Treason then to question the sincerity of the Conversion or a kind of