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A dialogue between Dick and Tom, concerning the present posture of affairs in England
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1689
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determined by Legal Bounds that while they so continue there must needs be an admirable Harmony in Government but when either of these are stretch'd beyond their due Limits the whole is put out of Frame but when those of the Long-Robe I mean the Scandals of it shall either by the Frowns or Smiles of their Prince or by the Allurements of Interest give him a Power of Dispensing with Laws rendring their fellow Subjects just so many Asses to be led or driven according to the Humour of the Supream Governor He that is of so cold a Temper as not to resent this in some manner ought to be rank'd with the dullest of Irishmen a Creature whose Soul serves only instead of Pepper and Salt to keep his Body from stinking unworthy the Title of Man and unfit for the meanest Conversation Tom. Hold Sir hold if my Lord Chief Justice should over-hear you now he 'd lay you up in Lob's Pound for this Dick. I should be glad to see his Lordship I know the Gentlemen of Maudlin College are uneasy till they have made him some greatful Returns for his last Visit to them Tom. Was not that unlucky Business call'd Purging the College Dick. Yes It was a Purge with witness to void the Bowels and retain the Excrements no doubt but the other Colleges must have undergone the same Course of Physick had not the Revolution of time produc'd a new Scene of things Tom. Certainly the Papists were bewitch'd when they gave his Majesty such cursed Counsel Dick. Without question they were infatuated but to use your Country Proverb They were resolved to make Hay while the Sun shone I am perfectly lost in Wonder when I think seriously on this Revolution To us that know it it looks like a Dream but to Posterity it must certainly seem a Romance and the Histories of Don Quixot or Garagantua will seem the more authentick Relations of the Two that all the Politicks of several Years last past should be unravelled in Three Months certainly it argues an excess of good Nature to have Maudlin College restored the Bishop of London's Suspension taken off the several ancient Charters given again to their respective Corporations and all this done on the sudden Lord how unconstant a Creature is Man to Day all Anger Fury and Resentment to Morrow all Candour Beniguity Kindness Love and Condescention Tom. Why verily what you say is true enough we had as honest a Gentleman for a Mayor as ever broke a piece of Bread but upon the new Regulation of our Town he was turned out and a Papist put in his Place on the sudden our Charter comes and then honest Mr. H was Mayor again though it went against his Stomach to be kick'd up and down like a Foot Ball. Dick. Publick Officers honest Tom have lately been like Tavern Clocks made to strike Eight or Nine when it has been Three or Four in the Morning according to the pleasure of the Vintner who has been sure to get by such deluded Company 'T was a happy time when the Entrance to the Temple of Honour was only by the Gate of Merit then Men of Learning Sense and Integrity were thought the sittest Companions for a Prince but now the humble Grin the sawning Leer the Spaniel-like Cringe are in this Age practised as the only way to Preferment Tom. When I was a School-boy I heard of one Dogenes I think they call him a Surly old Cur that always lived in a Tub. Now had that Coxcomb complemented Alexander 't is a Thousand Pound to a Cherry-stone but he had been preferred Dick. I will not pretend to Vindicate the Cynick his Humour was nothing but his Pride but believe me I had rather be honourably poor than villainously rich Tom. But there 's one thing I wonder at that his Majesty should again retire after his kind Reception to Whitehall after his first withdrawing Dick. That 's a Catholick Riddle I am not able to fathom his so sudden departure occasioned a kind of Interregnum which the Mobile being sensible of committed those Outrages of Rapine and Violence on the Spanish Ambassadors Residence and Chapel St. John's the Franciscans Chapel in Lincolns-Inn-Fields Bucklersbury Lime-street c. Though he must be degenerated from common Humanity that will justifie any such base and villainous Actions Tom. The same was done in several Parts of the Country on the Houses and Chapels of Papists but honest Tom never lik'd such violent Doings Dick. Spoke like thy self I heartily wish our English Factories beyond Sea do not suffer severely for the Insolence of a few Rascally Villains Here you know Revenge magnifies every thing beyond its due proportion undoubtedly Relations from England to Foreign Parts will be stuffed with a Thousand Falsities and that will be resented as the Act of a whole City which was only the Fury of an Ungovernable Rabble Tom. But since he has left us who is our Governor Dick. There was a time in Israel when every Man did what was right in his own Eyes But Heaven be praised 't is not so with us for the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being assembled did unanimously desire the Prince of Orange to take upon him the Government Civil and Military till Matters could be settled in a Free Convention to meet on the 22d of January Tom. But after all Who is this Prince of Orange whose Name makes such a noise in the World we Country Polks know no other of him than that he Married the King's Daughter when he was Duke of York Dick. I will not pretend to give you his Character after the life you must be content with some rough Draught In short he is descended from the illustrious House of Nassaw a name that shines in History he had all the Education of a high-born Prince early he became acquainted with the Rules of Government and practised them with that success as to be made Stadtholder of Holland The Dutch you must know are a people jealous of their Liberties to the last Degree and did not the Prince carry it with the highest moderation that wary people would soon express their uneasiness under his administration He is one adorned with all the Virtues that are requisite to his high Birth and Character his Justice is remarkable his Prudence inimitable his Temperance extraordinary his Courage and Conduct exceed expression and all his other Virtues which wait upon these forementioned are exalted to the highest degree that humane nature is capable of in the practice of all which he is so very happy that his worst Enemies could never fix a scandal upon him Tom. No was he not ambitious when he came with an armed Force to Invade England Dick. Hold a little there good over-hasty Tom we must serve your Question as Parsons do their Texts take it to pieces and first for the Ambition you seem to charge him with Tom. Lord Sir I am sorry I said that word I 'm afraid you 'll go and inform