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A Dialogue betwixt Mr. State Rogue, a Parliament-man, and his old acquaintance Mr. John Undertaker
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saving is a kind of getting S. R. Poh all this is nothing thoa mistakest me I say what shall we the Representatives in Parliament get What is it to us who Loseth so long as we are Gainers For 't is not the Nations Business that we are concerned for now but our own proper Interest Will the French King bribe us as does K. William Will he make us his Pentioners and will he be more generous to us than K. William J. U. He will upon my Life provided ye prove as great Rogues to King William as ye did to his Father Betray him as ye did his Father kick him out of the Kingdom and then swear he has abdicated and then vote your selves all Kings And I 'm sure all honest thinking Men will believe ye as good Kings as the Dutch Stadtholder Do this I say and the King of France will give ye any Thing Nay I dare engage ye Three Millions per Ann. shall all be at your Service S. R. Why 'faith Jack set this Project on foot and I fancy it may take Make us but sure of larger Bribes from the French King and I 'll engage for my Brother Rogues he shall have the Money Why prethee Self interest is our God and Religion And as we have for this betray'd our King and County where is the Difficulty for a greater Interest of playing the same Trick over again and leaving the Prince of Orange in the Lurch and becoming Friends to France Look you Jack that you may not doubt of Success in this Affair be assured 't is our Principle to sacrifice Father Brother King any Thing for Interest J. U. Dear State Rogue I 'm satisfied it is so Well I 'll to the House and propose the Project there you assure me it will take And then for France and the Business is done But hark you State Rogue you 'll make your Interest in the House and I will secure you out of the Three Millions Let me see Let me see Five hundred Guineas for a Bribe Be sure you lay before your Brother Rogues a Mass of Money a Million at least of the Three shall be distributed amongst them as a yearly Pention to encourage them in their Roguery and make them a Pack of thorough paced Villians for those you know are the Men of Honour the Men of Worship in little England S. R. Fear not Jack if thou canst manage the Project right with Grand Lewis and secure us the Money the Business will most assuredly be done For we have a prevailing Party in the House that Money will tempt them to any Thing There is not such a Devil in Hell as this Money to work a Parliament-man into what Form or Figure you please enough of this will make him what Devil you have a mind to and when he has got the Money call him as many Rogues Villains and Devils as you please he laughs at ye and crys 't is better to be a rich Rogue than a poor Devil as ye Jacobnes are starving about Town under that foolish Notion of Loyalty Five thousand Guineas didst thou say for a Bribe Ay that may do I 'll take it And if I give it back again as my Lord what do you call him did mark me down for a Fool as well as a Knave Prethee tell me Jack is not every Man desirous to put himself into the Mode and Fashion of the Times Why now is the Time and Fashion for every Man to be a Knave a Villain a Rogue a Rebel a Traytor and he who is the greatest is the most admired and in this we glory and pride our selves and laugh and despise such poor honest Loyalists as thou and thy Suffering Brethren term your selves who have little else to do but to sigh and groan for a turn of Fate which ye call by the Name of better Times Alas poor Animals We often meet you in the Streets with dejected Countenances like so many Ghosts that live in Monuments and have no other Conversation than amongst the Dead And your only Diversion is to curse the Times rail strenuously against the Government to get into little Jacobite Coffee-houses and Ale house Clubs for the poor Devils have no Money to drink Wine with there to build Castles in the Air how King James is to be restor'd and then what brave swaggering Boys you 'll be Ha ha ha farewel my honest Undertaker Live on with that pernicious Principle of Honesty and be still as little as it will make thee whist we the Knaves prosper and grow great But however forget not to stem the Tide of English blood and save the Nation Three Millions per. Ann. by virtue of giving us one Farewel J. U. Fear not it shall be done S. R. But stay now I think on 't what art thou Jack to get by this Project in case it succeed We you know are to give out of the Peoples Money Three Millions per Ann. that the French King will be quiet and keep within his Lines and for this doing the great Monarch is to give us the Reprosentatives in Parliament One Million back again Good This is just as we do with the Prince of O. He puts the Question Will we pick the Pockets of our Fellow Subjects every Year and give him out of them Six Millions per An. to carry on a vigorous War with France And our Answer was Give us â—00000 l for every such Sum and the Business shall be done as you see effectually it is Now if France will be contented with half the Sum and redouble upon us what Will. O gave us I see no difficulty in the Business For this way we shall get more and oppress the Poople less But then what will my honest Undertaker get by the Projects J. U. The Honour to do my Country Service the Reputation of a true honest English Man and Lover of his Country nothing else And this I value more than all your sordid Gold that ye have unjustly and barbarously squeezed from the Sweat and Blood of your Country S. R. Why then my true honest English Man farewel And may'st thou grow fat with Honour and Honesty whilst we Knaves wallow in Gold and rowl in Plenty And so I leave thee to think and wish for better Times Ha ha ha Mr. John Undertaker solus Good God! what is this World come to What an Age it this we live in When perjured Villains Knaves Rebels and Traytors shall brave it thus and glâ—ry to be so When Sin and Wickedness shall be exalted to the Throne and Vertue and Honesty trampled under Foot When honest Men shall not be permitted to live and for no other Reason but because they are honest When all Places of Honour and Trust shall be reserved for the bare faced Villains Thou great God! how long wilt thou suffer the Rod to be in the Hands of these Monsteâ—s of Men to chastise us When will thy Justice awake to disarm this Herd of Monsters and deâ—iver the distressed Israelites from the Plagues of this Egypt and the great Monster Pharaoh and his hellish Ministers When is it that we shall see Vertue once more take her place and be seated on the Throne and this black Devir Rebellion bâ—nished hence to Hell Well I have aimed at a double Project here The first would not take because Money enough was not offered the House of Commons But if the last succeed I have my Ends. If we can but alter the Channel and make our Gold and Silver run another way than what it does the Business is done the Confederacy breaks of it self For 't is nothing but our Money that cements them and when that is broken our Royal injured Master must return in spite of Malice and all the Rebellious Devils in Hell But if this be smoak'd my Project is at an end However I have made a perfect Discovery how we are betray'd and how the Nation is bought and sold and by those very Men who were entrusted to defend and protect it FINIS