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New news from Tory-land and Tantivy-shire
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Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
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New News FROM TORY-LAND c. GReat News from Whitehall Great News from Samm's Coffee-House Great News from the Pall-mall Run ye Rogues Run ye Whores The Rat-Catcher's just going off Cancaro What an Age do we live in What! will ye ne're ha done Gentlemen Here 's Noise and Din Clamour and Fury Raging and Storming Hoyday Here 's Thou Fool and Thou Knave Thou Rogue and Thou Rascal Thou ly'st and Thou ly'st Hei-go-mad Tantivishire is all in a flame with Thunder and Lightning Anathema's and Excommunications Tory-land is so dismally harrass'd with Tempests and Hurricanes that a Dissenter can hardly keep his Hat upon his Head or his Cloak upon his Shoulders Here are Your Thompsons Your Prologue-makers and Ballad-makers Your Heraclitus's and Roger's and the Devil and all Nay here 's Conjuring too downright Conjuring in the Language of Trithemius Tory Whigg Fanatick Tantivyman Come up here i' the name of Sandoâ—phon and Adarniel Hautzeviv and Tzautzeviv And what 's the meaning of all this For a Company of Poltrons and Paper-wasters to get money and disorder the Kingdom Who would not be the Danae of an Observator to be courted in Golden Showres and all to please the wanton Fancies or Politick Ends of some sort of People with the Harlotry of his prostituted Pen. Imprimis Received l. s.  By a Note into Lumbardstreet Guineys 100 00 00 Item For burlesquing the Popish plot and the King's Evidence from the Lords in the Tower 050 00 00 Item For defending the Protestant Faith better than the Sons of the Church can do from Cambridge 250 00 00 Item More from Oxford 200 00 00 Item More from Norwich 170 00 00 Item More from Salisbury 090 00 00 Item More from Bristol 100 00 00 Item More by Madam Johannas yearly Tribute 150 00 00 Summa totalis 960 00 00 Now mingle all this Money well together and tell me whether any Vintner or Coffee-man Mercer Taylor or Haberdasher be so quick-sighted in this Town as to pick out the Popish from the Protestant Money or if he should whether any would be so scrupulous as to refuse it for the sake of the two Cross Scepters But what 's the pretence all this while The fairest in the World even Loyalty it self which by virtue of a certain Crimson Charm these State-Pharisees would so engross to themselves as if all true Loyalty were confin'd within the Circle of a Scarlet Stayband Had it not been for an Observator and an Heraclitus Heav'n knows what had become of the Kingdom ere this Had not they stood in the Gap and rais'd monstrous Plots horrid Contrivances desperate Inventions and providentially discover'd them when they had done had not they Erected vast Bulky Piles of Surmises Leviathan Fears and Jealousies all over the Nation and then pull'd 'em down again the Land had been overwhelm'd with Fanaticism and delug'd with Liberty and Property God forbid Gentlemen but Faction and Disloyalty should be punish'd with the utmost Rigour of the Law But for the Loyalty of the greatest part of the Nation and most considerable for Wealth and Trade to be blasted and tainted with the venomous breath of Mercenary Scandal and Reproach what is this but the greatest Disloyalty i' the World to unrivet the Affections of the People and Eloin their Allegiance from their Soveraign Certainly were Disloyalty such a General Crime it could not be the bleating of a Feeble Observator or a Shatter-brain'd Heraclitus that could stem the Torrent of Universal Resolution But to come to the point if Disobedience to the King's Law be an Act of Disloyalty as no man will presume to deny I find none more guilty then these Primroses of Loyalty themselves For the King 's Positive Law enjoyns That no person or persons shall presume maliciously to call or alledge of or object against any other person or persons any Name or Names or other words of Reproach any way tending to revive the Memory of the late Differences or the Occasions thereof But contrary to this Law now put but your Nose into any Company What 's such a one A Whigg G dam him What 's such a one A Fan. G rot him What 's such a one A Tantivy-man That 's well He 's one of Us. What 's such a one A Tory. The Devil take me if I did not think him an honest Fellow by his looks Sbud these Whigs and these Fans they have different Faces from other men Then cries one Would they were all at the bottom of the Sea Another wishes for a Discreet Plague to separate the Sheep from the Goats Now what is this but to embroile common Friendship and humane Society which once unhing'd farewel Law and farewel all Allegiance Yet upon this Foundation the Observator rears the Fabrick of all his weekly Ribble-rabble Whiggs he will have and Whiggs he must have and who can blame him For quo he no Whigg no Guiney This King in his Proclamation against vicious debauched and prophane Persons dared in the 12th Year of his Reign is pleased to declare his Royal Will and Pleasure to this effect There are likewise another sort of men of whom we have heard much and are sufficiently ashamed who spend their time in Taverns Tipling houses and Debauches giving no other Evidence of their affection to Us BUT IN DRINKING OUR HEALTH and inveighing against all others who are not of their own dissolute Temper and who in truth have more DISCREDITED OUR CAUSE by the License of their Manners and Lives than they could ever advance it by their Affection or Courage We hope that they will hereafter become Examples of Sobriety and Virtue For the more effectual reforming these men who are a Discredit to the Nation and unto any Cause they pretend to favour and wish well to We require all Mayors Sheriffs Justices to be vigilant in their Prosecution c. But in contempt of all this 't is now Dam me won't ye drink the Kings Health Dam me drink it or I 'le throw the Glass in your Face Now it being certain that Loyalty does not consist in drinking Tavern Healths it follows then that the Peek is not between Loyalty and Disloyalty but between Huzzah-Loyalty ranting roaring damming swearing Loyalty and sober serious solid and temperate Loyalty And that 's the Loyalty that 〈…〉 the King and Kingdom though there were 〈…〉 drop of Claret i' the Nation His Majesty himself was pleased to declare in His Gracious Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs p. 5 and the sayings of Princes are not without a coercive Awe among prudent Persons That while he was in Holland he was attended by many grave and learned Ministers from England who were lookt upon as the most able and principal Assertors of the Presbyterian Opinions and to Our great satisfaction and comfort found them persons full of affection to Us of Zeal for the Church and State and neither Enemies to Episcopacy or Liturgy but modestly to desire such alterations in either as without
shaking the Foundations might best allay the present Distempers Sir Mathew Hales left them this Encomium Many of the Presbyterians had merited highly in the business of the Kings Restauration and at least deserved that the terms of Conformity should not be made stricter than they were before the War One would think now that the King might be believed No if the King don't understand his own business the Observator and Heraclitus do For Mr L'Estrange confidently avers in one of his late Observators that the Presbyterians had no hand in bringing in the King 't is a wonder he did not deny his own name and shift off Tonge that way and so have spar'd his silly Shammer shamm'd Therefore the Presbyterians are Traitors and Fanatick and the Kingdom is to be dispeopl'd with their utter Extirpation What a loyal Orlando Furioso is this thus to tilt against the publick Declaration and Judgment of the King himself and the Oracle of his Laws As if he were a Guide to the supream Magistrates of the Kingdom as well as the inferiour Clergy After all this Gentlemen pray consider Whether they that will not be confin'd to any Laws Proclamations or Declarations themselves are proper Persons to vent their Buffonry against the pretended Disloyalty of others But what 's become of the Popish Plot all this while Oh! The Triumvirate of Whigg-hunters are better employed than to mouth against that Cerberus has had a Sopp and is engag'd to be quiet Nay he does as good as confess he believes nothing of it For in his Observator N. 92. says Whigg You alwaies take the pains as much as in you lies to hide the Plot To which Tory replies Not the tenth part upon my faith as I have done to find it out Truly 't was pity a man should be so be Be-Gadbury'd in his old Age. Surely never did so wonderful a Cataract befilm the Eyes of Mortal Man before He could find out a blind Plot in a Meal-Tub but could not see a Plot that was visible to the whole Nation However since His Majesty and his two Houses of Parliament had found it out he might have had so much manners as to have believ'd his Prince and his Acts of publick Justice as well as the Lords i' the Tower The to'ther's a profest Papist and he swears there is no Popish Plot upon the Credit of Madam Baud and her Condemn'd-Fellow-Jayl-Birds in Newgate An ill requital of delay'd Justice For such Tenants at Will to feed the Press of a hungry Varlet with weekly Lies and Forgeries The third a Pusillanimous Mortal that lies snarling at present only against the Evidence hoping to come in for a snack in the next Tower Guinnies when they shall think him to have credit or wit enough to serve their turn And these are the Loyal Persons that one would have thought might have chosen a Nobler Theme to have decry'd the reiterated Periuries Forgeries and Subornations of the Papists to have turn'd their fury against the Scandalous and publick Vindications of their Treasons and Conspiracies to have maintain'd their Soveraigns Honour and the Justice of his Supreme Courts of Judicature and not to leave both him and them exposed to the malevolent inferences and impudent insinuations of his Capital Enemies Now what says that Backbiter in Ordinary to the Devil Heraclits E'ne what you please 't is such a pitiful Wight that he is scarce worth taking notice of He may serve for some Zany to a Mountebank to jest off Medicines for the Tooth-ach to the Rabble in Southwark Or else couple him with some blind Fidler and send 'em together about the Country to go snips at Wakes and Hobnayle Weddings For Faith Wine 's ill bestowed upon him here in London that does not deserve the weekly Wages of a Peny-post-man for a Months Brain-Work were he only meer Fool he might deserve Commiseration and the reversion of a Changelings Place in some Country Alms-House but the Serpenting Mixture being more predominant he cannot expect it However some good Friend of his would do well to advise him to give off in time before his snuff quite stink As for Mr. All-Conceit alias Mr. Steers man of the Hen-peckt Fregate most men are of opinion he had better have stock't his Shop with the Saints Everlasting Rest then thus to the shame of his Trade and the publick disturbance to run every day Scaperloytering after a Penniworth of Lowsy Farce and the restless and Pragmatical Employment of being a Silly Libeller and Common Accuser an Employment more fit for a Rascally Informer or some such Retainer to the Gallows An Employment from which such Revolters from their Substantial Livelyhoods can in the end expect no other kindness then a Recommendation to the Under-Beadles Place i' the Company or to be Tip-Staff'd over the water to keep a Coffee-House i' the â—â—les And now what may the world think of these People that so tamely and so easily surrender their belief and admiration to the Charms of Quirk and Quibble or that can be so blind as not to perceive with what different aims from their Pretensions they drive on their designs and that so apparently that there need no more then the Flashes of their own fury to discover ' em In the first place there is that Wizard Gadburies Astrological Jargonrie Printed for the Loyal Company of Stationers themselves stufft from the beginning to the end with nothing but lies and Popish Vindication and yet neither the Loyal Observator nor the Loyal Heraclitus take any notice of it Here are Castle mains Memento's and Staffords Memoires publickly Printed and Sold by Protestant Booksellers to the dishonour and scandal of the King and Parliament and yet neither the Loyal Observator nor the Loyal Heraclitus take any cognizance of it The Journeymen Prologue and Epilogue-makers openly deride the Discoveries of Heaven in the Play Houses and yet neither the Loyal Observator nor the Loyal Heraclitus have one word to say There is hardly any publick Meeting or Assembly of the People wherein the bold Emissaries of Pope and Devil do not barefac'd act their parts and make the Grand Plot and intended Parricide of Gods anointed the subject of their merry Sarcasms and the Theams of their Philistine Paeans Popery struts along the Streets openly by Noon-day Sun and Treason sneers ye in The Face and twits ye with the effusion of Holy Martyrs Blood Can the Sons of the Church of England so Passively hear the Reformed Religion abroad and all its pious Professors derided and their Reputation blasted by a Vermin of a Figure-Caster and not give one gentle admonition to their Great Guide to bestow one cast of his Office upon so infamous an Enormity These considerations should cause a Recoil of over hasty and passionate thoughts which were they seriously fixt upon the present Confusions of the Nation it is impossible that the Libels the Rimes the Ballads the Pamphlets that at such an unfortunate Conjuncture overflow the Nation and spit their quotidian Venome against the Dissenters so numerous a Body of the Kings Liege People and so deeply engaged by all the ties of common Interest to oppose and with all their might withstand the Enemies of their Prince and Soveraign Defender of their Faith as their own and the Capital Enemies of the Kingdoms Quiet should ever be imagined to be the inventions of Loyalty or that the Owners and Contrivers should be guilty but of so much Allegiance as will outweigh a Mustard Seed let their pretences be never so zealous or high-flown The Romish Policy keeps to no Maxim of Christ so close as to that of a Divided House cannot stand Nor have the Roman Pontiffs studied the Arts of National disturbance so long but that they well know that the Protestant Interest in England is not to be destroyed but by Self-destruction which they who under pretence of Loyalty make it their business to farther advance it were to be wish'd they would keep their Loyalty to themselves or practise it in some other Country under some more undeserving Prince FINIS * See the King's Speech to the Lords July 27. 1660. for hastning the Act of Oblivion