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A35868
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A dialogue between an exchange, and exchange-alley, or, A court, and city apprentice
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1681
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Wing D1303; ESTC R12007
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A DIALOGUE Between an EXCHANGE AND EXCHANGE-ALLEY Or A Court and City APPRENTICE Cit. SIR here is a Bill of Exchange on your Master will you pay it Cou. Yes I 'le answer your Bill though I have scarce Patience to answer you Cit. Why so pray I don't know my self so unhappy as ever to have been in your company long enough to merit a diskindness Cou. Come Sir it 's reason enough for all Loyal Apprentices to turn Abhorrers of you and all your Gang who run counter to them by promoting that idle Paper now going up to my Lord Maior as I conclude you do by your living with such a notorious Fanatick for though you were against it he would make you sign it or upon refusal threaten no Employment beyond Sea and I don't believe your Loyalty so much but you would throw it all away rather than be starved Cit. But that I find some though very much mistaken Ingenuity in what you say I should return an answer in harsher Language but at present take this though my Master be a Dissenter from some imposed Ceremonies if you call that a Fanatick though your Cant has reached further now of the Church of England yet I question not he I am sure I have otherguess Loyalty for the King than empty words or a little roaring Vive le Roy over a Pipe of Wine and for this Address if I know any thing of his Mind he is against my medling with it which I should have agreed to but that I think it a Duty I owe my self upon all occasions to demonstrate that I am really a Protestant and not behind any of your presumptuous Addressers for Loyalty and if it be more than our place and business thus in a Publick manner to declare it we may be excused under that just provocation you have given us and since many true Sons of the Church have gone so far in the management of it I am resolved to be a Dissenter in nothing but where I see good reason But this being no place to talk freely I could wish you would after I have told this small Summ afford your self half an Hour's time at Garraway's to be convinced how ridiculous such Abhorrers render themselves which if I don't do to an unbiassed reason though perhaps not to your prejudiced and inveigled understanding I 'le e'ne turn one too for I am resolved as an ingenuous Person said to be of Nature's side Cou. Though I am not a little fond of gaining Proselites yet Dam'e Coffee-houses they are not for our turn being all if not most Whiggified hereabouts if we be taken notice of we shall be bawled about in a Dialogue there 's Care Baldwin and Smith have the best Noses if they don't deal with thâ— Devil to smell things done in the open Street that ever I knew you seâ—one of ouâ— Party could not have his Posteriors saluted in the Street t'other Day but 't is in a Dialogue presently and the Rogues had like to have smelt that Hodg was with us to eat the fruits of his Address but we Hectored that off and retorted it with a brave slur upon Bethel therefore I am for a Tavern where I will command a Pint of good Wine Cit. Excuse me Sir I never drink Wine in a Morning and for privacy I 'le ensure you a Room under Lock and Key where none but our Selves shall be Auditors and if the Boy intrudes with a What do you lack do you call Gentlemen I 'le commend you in breaking a Dish upon his Head Cou. Well along le ts go but there 's another Objection I have you have heard I suppose the Truth of that Story of the Quakers Son which our Emissary Thomson has so handsomly confounded with his unparallel'd impudence on Tuesday last but there goes an odd passage that he should tell of some Body at the Amst Coffee-house on Tuesday next which methinks should make them all seem dangerous Cit. Never fear my Money fall's right only some to change come let 's away Cou. I 'le follow you Sir Cit. Boy shew a Room bring us a Bottle of Syder Sir will ye please to sit down this Place will serve us to chat as well as the best Room in the Half-moon Tavern Cou. No Reflections I pray Cit. There shan't I 'le promise you nothing but matter of Fact and convincing demonstration shall be urged by me and pray do you promise the like for I hate railing and impertinencies wherever I find them Cou. Since our time is precious let 's each promise Secresie and Freedom and so proceed to your ridiculing the Abhorrers of your proceedings who are all the People of England who join with us in Loyal Addresses to his Majestie Cit. Hold a little I must beg pardon for interrupting you when you go so high at first for if I consented to what you say I should give up all I have to say afterwards therefore let 's calmly consider what validity your words are of I must confess had I a Papistical or which I think can't be worse a Heathenish absurd Faith to believe contrary to all my Senses and thinking Faculties what those lying Oracles the Observator Heraclitus and Thomson have said and the Gazet it self I doubt not will say when they have got all the Addresses they can and published them in English and Erench under that Title I should then be of your Judgment or rather ill possessed Opinion but let the French believe what they please and further they won't go especially the great Men they hate impositions where they think them to be with a design I say though their Faith is implicit and they may by being used to believe as the Church believes bring their Senses to that absurdity as to say Amen to all the foolish Legends and idle Stories every Week published here yet I know no reason why we who can read Letters and see with our Eyes and hear with our Ears from more credible Persons things of a far different Nature should not only be contented to have our Pockets picked now and then of a Penny for the novelty of the thing but at last be perswaded and argue for the Truth of it but I have often thought that these dumb Dogs would never have prevailed by their Black and White were it not for their impudent Abetters who swarm both in City and Countrey and have so industriously abused the latter that there is nothing to be had out of Town but those we call Tory Pamphlets you see 't is almost Treason to have any other News-book there or so much as the City's Petition though the Act of the Common-Council approved of by Common-hall and Printed by their Order and Authority if they have any O the impudence as well as ingratitude of that Crape-making Town to abuse one of its best Benefactors at that rate Cou. Pray remember your promise Norwich is a Town I have great Veneration for as being a Pattern to us in Loyalty