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New news from Tory-land and Tantivy-shire
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Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
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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