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A43198 Obsequium et Veritas, or, A dialogue between London and Southwark, concerning the sitting and dissolutuion of the last Parliament at Oxford, March 21st, 1681 in a dialogue betwixt a shoo-maker, and a taylor. Hearn, R. 1681 (1681) Wing H1308; ESTC R12302 2,624 2

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Obsequium Veritas OR A DIALOGUE Between LONDON and SOUTHWARK Concerning the Sitting and Dissolution of the Last PARLIAMENT at Oxford March 21st 1681. In a Dialogue betwixt a Shoo-maker and a Taylor Shoom. GOod morrow Jack how stands the case of your Affairs at your end of the Town Taylor Stand Believe me we are like to have a blessed Parliament and we don't doubt but we shall have hopeful Resolutions and a brave Result of all their Consultations Shoom. Well but let us not stand here let Affairs stand how they will let us take one Cup of good Ale together and discourse it further Let us step here into the Kings-Head here 's a glass of good liquor Tay. Come allons donc Shoom. Well we were talking of hopeful Resolutions and a successful Issue to all the Consultations of the Parliament This you say the City hop's for nay doubts not of Tay. Yes indeed for to shew you how great an E●eem and sublime regard we have for our Parliament we have had the Major part of the City all true Protestants and good Patriots who offered their services to and accordingly did accompany our Sheriffs and Members of the Parliament to Oxford Shoom. S'Death that 's an unwonted Ceremony and it smells plaguy rank of Rebellion Bless me what were you affraid of that made you enter upon such a tumultuous Complement I heard indeed you were all richly equipt and made a most glorious show I was then in the Country and so did not understand it Tay. Why not understand it had we not a great deal of reason to secure the safety of those worthy Persons who were to deliver us out of the Fears Distractions and Disorders which the cursed Popish Plot and the Succession of a Popish Prince by which would follow the Subversion of our Religion Laws and Liberties and consequently the yoke of Popish Servitude did put us into Shoom. I faith you are brave fellows you talk of the safety of His Majesties Person and how great Loyalty and Zeal tends to it but for ought I see the subject is prefer'd before the Prince the King is not at all intimidated though in the midst of the most Implacable Enemies but he can did venture his Journey to Oxford attended with not Twenty of his Guards when Mr. Parliament Man has forsooth about Three or Four hundred for his suit Well but what Newes have you from Oxford what are we like to have a longer Session than they had last Tay. They are Dissolv'd Shoom. Dissolv'd S'Death when Tay. On Munday last being on the 28th of March Shoom. Really I 'me glad of it Indeed I heard how their Procedings were and what measurs they took in their Votes I thought the Kings speech would have had that Influence upon them that they would have Regulated their Actions according to that Rule which His Majesty told them should be ever his viz. The Law of which they with the King were the Fathers and not have pretended to make themselves a particular nay Supream Court of Judicature in Cases of Treason that no Person Impeached of Treason by the Commons of England in Parliament and stands so Impeached could be tryed by any other inferior Court without a high Breach of the priviledge of Parliaments Good God! I find then the King and the Lords are but Cyphers and what the King has declared ought to be must not be done because the Commons will not have it so So that they who make so great an Out-cry against Arbitrary Proceedings make themselves the great Favorers of it What I pray was the cause of this And who the Plague was it they stickled about then Tay. Fitz. Harris would the Devil had him e're we had been troubled with him and his Depositions too with a pox to ' em But I 'll tell thee there 's somewhat else that was the more immediate Reason of their Dissolution 't was concerning a Business of the Shoom. Ay ay of the Devil I think you Citizens if you cannot hear of the true genuine Reasons forsooth you 'll make them and shall pass Authentick too as if you had been intimately acquainted with the Kings Cabinet or had known his Resolutions before he thought upon them Faith I 'll tell thee plainly would but you Sir Formals learn this old Maxime that Sua quemque alit ars which perhaps is too much Latin for a third part of our Mechanick News-mongers who make it the greatest part of their Business to run from the Coffee-house to the Ale-house and thence to the Tavern and so buzzing about till they lose their sense as well as Reason I say would every Man but mind his own private Affairs erect a Tribunal in his own Closet and let his Domestick Oeconomy be his greatest Study we should have the Publick Peace less disturbed and the Government less obnoxious to Censure and Contempt 'T has never been good times since every Cobler and Porter pretend to understand State-Policy and every Finical Mechanick and proud Tradesman to be verse't and knowing in the Arcana's of the Privy-Councel Introth Jack my name 's Veritas and I must speak like myself I case not for popular Applause nor will I suffer Hypocrisie vaile my Nakedness though I have what I must always expect an Odium or Hatred For my part I am a good honest Southwark Borough and I thank God we love our King and our Country and our Publick Peace Utility and Order and as we said in our Addresses to our Elected Burgesses Though we did not like your accompanying to Oxford them in such Pomp and Splendor yet we assured them we were as ready to stand by them in the discharge of the Trust we reposed in them as the best Life-and fortune-men of them all Shoom. But prethee Jack are they all returned home yet from Oxford Tay. Yes a great part of them but they are not all come yet Shoom. Ha ha ha Faith I can't choose but laugh to see how silly and sneaking they lookt with their Heads hanging downwards and their Hats Flapping about their Ears their hopes frustrated and their Designs infatuated when in their Setting out they appeared brisk and airy and their Equipage shewed them like Men designed for a Camp rather than an Assembly of Peace Tay. Well well come talk no more of it Quod factumest infectum fieri nequit Prethee hold thy Tongue Shoom. Hold my Tongue I Gad it would make a Stone speak to see how hot brain'd Men are and forsooth to make their Designs more plausible a needless fear of the Subversion of the Government the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of the Subjects must still be the specious pretence for all their unwarrantable and unlawful Practices and every half wited Scoundrel must pretend to censure the management of those at the Helm A fine age I' Faith Come come Jack be of my mind Bene vixit qui bene latuit let us keep at home with our wives and leave frequenting the News-mongers and let us administer what we can to publick Utility and Peace Tay. I' Faith thou sayest very well Come here 's a health to thee which I am confident thou wilt pledge God bless King Charles and send us all Peace and Tranquillity now and at the hour of Death Shoom. Come with all my Soul and hang up all the Roundheads as the Oxford Blades said and let every true Englsh-man Loyal Heart and Honest Protestant say Amen By R. Hearn LONDON Printed for the Author in the year 1681.