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B02678
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A dialogue betwee the devil, the Pope and the chancellor.
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1689
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Wing D1328A; ESTC R175944
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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN The Devil the Pope AND THE CHANCELLOR Chancellor HAil mighty Patrons and Masters You that have been my hope from the beginning the first Founders of my Villany and for whom I have Labour'd all my Life I say once more Hail mighty Prince of Darkness and you his Benefactor go on and Prosper for I have done my Best my Dream De il My Son my Son my dearly beloved Son the only hope of all the Infernal Crew Why are you so Dejected and Cast down Cheer up see who 's here see me here your Lord and Master and lo here your Ghostly Father next and immediately under me Supream Head and Governor of the dark Dungeon and Stygion Lake Chan. My Lord I Adore you I Reverence you I am wholly devoted to your Service I give my self for ever Pope Bravely done thou Son of Perdition thou art the only Heir of Destruction and under Favour my Lord Lucifer I must tell you this honest dear true-hearted George has done us and our Kingdom more Service than all the Men in England To innumerate all his Exploits would be as endless as to count the Stars In the West of England my Lord he was not a little Active he hang'd the poor Souls up by the Dozen if you had been but there to see it it would have made you Burst with Laughing to see how a Dozen or two of them hung together showing of their Teeth and making wry Months at one another And then but the other day he Perjur'd himself as handsomly as I could do my self I believe but he lost nothing by it for he Married his Son to 20000 l. by the bargain and who would not be Perjur'd twice twenty thou and times for that Money Devil Nay that 's the truth on 't you speak like a good meaning Man and a Man of Great Parts I 'll Promote you e'er long for this you shall be my head Devil in ordinary and little George shall be my Cup-bearer Chan I am unworthy my Lord I am unworthy to Serve you but I have a mind to no other Office but Treasurer Devil By all my Infernal Power and the dark Regions of Hell thou art a cunning kind of a I cannot tell what a great Wit and damn'd Cunning. Pope Ay by the Mass my Lord if you should but see him upon the Bench with two Grave Counsellors Pleading before him it would make you admire to see how he runs down him that has not greased his Fist with a Sirrah you are a Rogue a Cheat I 'll deal well enough with you 〈◊〉 â—e you know Sirrah c. Devil Admirable well done I own him for my dear Son and Servant for ever Chan. And thus upon his bended Knees your humble and obedient Servant devotes himself wholly to be your Slave to all Eternity Devil In what prithee Chan. In every thing that your Infernal Majesty in your Profound Wisdom and Goodness shall think fit Devil Very well I 'll do thus much for you likewise viz. Command my Chief Secretary of State his Holiness to send out Writs of Excommunication against all the Peers of England to set thee at Liberty my Lad if it be possible Pope I am all joy I am all gladness my Heart is just jumping out of my Mouth I cannot contain I Melt O I Faint I Die I joy to express Who would not serve so Gracious a Prince as Lucifer Well I 'll disburst one hundred thousand Pounds more to buy Wood to Burn Hereticks that if it be possible Hell may be full Chan. I Kiss your Holiness's little Toe Nail and return you all immaginable Gratitude for so great a Favour Devil I know not how I shall gratifie you for your extraordinary care of my Kingdom and Affairs of greatest Importance certainly you were predestinated from the Beginning to be a partaker of the Crumbs of my Infernal Table go on therefore ye Sons of Perdition go on and prosper in your Work already begun if you live in my Fear you need not doubt but you shall die in my Favour and upon the word of Devil I 'll be kind to you if I am not never believe a Devil again for my sake Pope No my Lord that would be a very great Affront to your Lordship to doubt of the Sincerity of your intentions we have always found you Faithful hitherto indeed my Opinion is you are like me viz. you connot Err. Devil As for that I leave it to be determined Secuâ—dum artem by a Convocation of Jesuits But prithâ— honest George why art so Melancholy Chan. O my Dream my Dream â—â—s in my Head Dream of nothing but Halters and Hatchers and met hiâ— I continually see a Gallows before my Face or a Scaffoâ— or some such Place nay one Night I was in a prefoâ— Sleep and methoughts I saw my self brought before the Pâ—â—liament Accusâ—d of High Misdemeanors and Condemâ— Then methoughts I was had upon a Scaffold with a Fâ—ter about my Neck though not to be Hang'd in it but only Disgrace where methoughts I saw an innumerable â—pany of the Mobile with great Shouts insulting over me in my own Terms crying Away with him Hang him we know him of old he is a great R Then methoughts after a cold Prayer or two I laid my Neck down upon the Block and just as the Hang-man was taking his first Blow I awaked and was in such a Heat that you might have greased a dozen pair of Jack-Boots with the Sweat that came from my Arm-holes and glad I was that it was a Dream but I fear I shall yet find it True. Devil This is only a Dream and your Fancy works with the apprehensions of a fatal Blow Chan. But I could wish to be a little farther off of these Dutch Scoundrels for suppose my Dream should prove true what must I do then Pope Why I 'll Absolve you do you see and fear not Devil And I ll send my Ferry man Charon to bring him over Safe do you mind me And for joy we will keep Holy day all over Hell the Doors shall be shut and no Entrance given to any that day and the Night we 'll spend in Revelling and Dancing we 'll have a Play Acted by all the Infernal Fiends and it shall be called Jeffry's the Great or the Baron of Wem a Comi-Tragedy Chan. Your Excellency is very Merrily disposed but I have no Stomach to Die I can't find in my Heart to be so Barbarous to my self if I can help it Pope Let me tell you one thing which will help you if any thing will viz. Against you come to your Tryal I 'll furnish you with a good stock of Equivocations and Mental Reservations which if you use as you ought may do much in your Case I can Pardon all Chan. That I do not doubt but if they should fail then poor Pill-garlick must ly at the Hang-man's mercy my Dream my Dream a Pox on 't my Dream runs in my Head