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<HEAD>ANSWER To a Late <HI>Scandalous Libel</HI> MADE ON THE Ld. Arch-B. of C. And the Bi&s;hop of Heref.</HEAD>
<P><HI>By way of Dialogue.</HI></P>
<STAGE><HI>Enter a Church-of-</HI> England-<HI>Man, a Di&s;&s;enter, and the Scribling Au|thor of the fore-mentioned LIBEL.</HI></STAGE>
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<SPEAKER>Ch. of Engl. Man.</SPEAKER>
<P>NEighbour, I am &s;orry that I now a-days can never &s;ee you at Church, or at Sacrament, I remember the time when you was a con&s;tant man.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Di&s;&s;enter.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hold there Sir, I mu&s;t borrow one of <HI>Roger</HI> or <HI>Harry's</HI> Di&s;tinctions, I was con&s;tant at Church, but not a con&s;tant man of the Church; and I was unwilling that any Advantage &s;hould be taken again&s;t me by tho&s;e little Officers employed for per|&s;ecuting hone&s;t Di&s;&s;enters.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Scribler.</SPEAKER>
<P>And in troth I think thou wert in the right on't, when Whiggs were uppermo&s;t the Church of-<HI>England</HI>-men could &s;carce pre&s;erve the Crown or them&s;elves, then I cryd out again&s;t Popery, and tis well known that I then writ the <HI>Pacquet of Advice from</HI> Rome, and gave &s;evere glances on the Church of <HI>England</HI> too,
<PB N="2" REF="2"><!-- PDF PAGE 42 -->as not much better, and a-gad, I would have invented any. Lye to &s;candalize that Party, and take with the Rabble (whom I then &s;tudyed mo&s;t to plea&s;e) but in good &s;ooth I had &s;o much <HI>True Matter</HI> from <HI>Rome</HI> that I &s;tood in no want for Invention. But now having made a Truce again&s;t the Common Enemy, I have &s;ome of the other Party furni&s;hes me with &s;uch admirable rea&s;ons, which by example of <HI>Bays</HI> I make my own <HI>Ey, and Ey Gad too,</HI> I emprove 'em.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ch. of Engl.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hark y'e Neighbour, is not this the Saucie, Scan|dalous Fellow, who writ that ridiculous Libel again&s;t the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Hereford,</HI> which he calls a Dialogue.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Di&s;&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>This may be him, for I have heard it was done by a bold hand, and I'll a&s;&s;ure ye I do not know &s;uch a notable Man in the three Kingdoms for drawing a thing to the Life, and between you and I, he is one of the be&s;t Friends we have for endeavouring the raking away tho&s;e impious Laws for Payment of Tythes, and for enforcing af mens Con&s;ciences again&s;t their Intere&s;ts and Inclina|tions; But I mu&s;t beg yo'r Pardon if I de&s;ire him and your &s;elf to be better Acquainted.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ch. of Eng.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thank ye for yo'r Civility, but I believe men of a Loyal Di&s;po&s;ition will not &s;ure with his Temper.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Di&s;&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>O Sir, now he is all over Loyal&mdash; Mr. <HI>Care,</HI> Pray be Acquainted with this Hone&s;t Gentleman, I have given your Cha|racter to him.</P>
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<STAGE><HI>Scribler</HI> to the <HI>Church-of</HI>-England <HI>man.</HI></STAGE>
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<SPEAKER>Scrib.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir, before I become Acquainted with ye, you mu&s;t An&s;wer a plain Que&s;tion.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ch. of Engl.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir any hone&s;t Que&s;tion I &s;hall readily give an An&s;wer to; but I hope, the &s;ence I have of things, being plainly di&s;cour&s;ed, &s;hall not be informed of, or mi&s;-repre&s;ented in another place.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Scribler,</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis true, I have been a Writer in all times, for the prevailing Side, but I have written &s;o much again&s;t Parators, In formers, and yo'r Church of <HI>England</HI> Con&s;tables, Ju&s;tices of Peace, the per&s;ecuting Judges, and other Pre&s;enters, and Per&s;ecutors, that I cannot now in a Court of Ju&s;tice expect to be believ'd, tho' I &s;hould become an Evidence, or &s;ourvey Informer, but pray Sir, keep within Compa&s;s, for I mu&s;t hear nothing again&s;t the Government.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Di&s;&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, No, God forbid (Sir) nothing again&s;t the Govern|ment, nothing again&s;t Obedience, or for Liberty of Con&s;cience otherwi&s;e then is granted to us, according to Law.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ch. of <HI>E.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Why Mr. C. I under&s;tand ye commit <HI>Scandalum Magnatum,</HI> and would frighten the Lawyers out of their Read|ing and Sen&s;es, and give your Advice as frankly in publick Af|fairs as a Privy Councellor. Is this according to Law?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Scrib.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Sir,</HI> Pray Sir, I demanded the fir&s;t Que&s;tion, which if you will not hear; <HI>Your Servant Sir.</HI> Will you&mdash;</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ch. of <HI>E.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! Sir, I &s;ee what you would beat, No. But pray, Sir, Who gave ye the power of Interrogating any his Maje&s;ties Subjects about Laws or Government? What Commi&s;&s;ion have ye? or is it for the &s;ake of Medling, Gain, or Nece&s;&s;ity, as you venture at Scribling? Come, Sir, The Thief may through Ne|ce&s;&s;ity, or for &s;ome Booty, Rob; but unle&s;s the Government be very Merciful, he mu&s;t hang for it afterwards. I'le tell thee, I was at the <HI>Temple</HI> with my Lawyer, and before him lay that Impu|dent. Fal&s;e, Militious, ignorant Dialogue, Hawk'd about on <HI>Sa|turday</HI> la&s;t, fixing on the Greate&s;t <HI>Prelate</HI> and <HI>Peer</HI> of this Nation, ridiculous Rea&s;ons for not Reading the <HI>King's Declaration;</HI> He a&s;|&s;ur'd me that it was not only an Offence inquirable and puni&s;h|able by the Government; But that (according to Modern Pre|&s;idents) his <HI>Grace</HI> and <HI>Lord&s;hip,</HI> might bring their Actions at the <HI>Common Law,</HI> and recover more Damage again&s;t thee, than all thy Factious Crew would ever give for the purcha&s;e of thy Life, or their Liberties, otherwi&s;e than by <HI>Magna Charta</HI> and the King's Royal Protection, they ought to enjoy.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Di&s;&s;en.</SPEAKER>
<P>Neighbour! But pray, of what Religion and Temper of Mind was the Man, I fear &s;ome Notorious Man again&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed, <HI>Simple,</HI> and Pure <HI>Con&s;cience?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER><HI>Ch.</HI> of <HI>E.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Truly I &s;aw a late <HI>Poem</HI> in his Study, of Mr. <HI>Dryden</HI>'s on the <HI>Prince;</HI> where I ob&s;erv'd in <HI>fol.</HI> 8. the 10. and 11. <HI>lines,</HI> &s;peaking of his Bapti&s;mal Drops.</P>
<Q><L>Let <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> which is <HI>Int're&s;t ill di&s;guis'd,</HI></L>
<L>In the &s;ame <HI>Font</HI> be cleans'd, and all the <HI>Land</HI> Baptiz'd.</L></Q>
<P>What he meant, I leave to you, but I hope he intended only &s;uch Con&s;ciences as thine: For in truth I always look'd on thee as a Hypocrite, and &s;o I find thee, and &s;o I fear &s;hall leave thee:</P>
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<SPEAKER>Scrib.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir, I know you not, Sir, I'le warrant you Sir, he and you were, worthy Sir, both of a Church, a National Church, Sir, a Loyal obedient Church, Sir; and if we knew him, Sir, We &s;hould make him repent, Sir; And &s;o Farewell Sir. <HI>Your Ser|vant, Sir. Your Servant, Sir.</HI> We fear you not, Sir, Actions, Damages, Fines, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Sir. This Lawyer would fain be a Judge, a Recorder, or &s;ome &s;uch thing, Sir. I'le warrant he never was &s;o Loyal, nor you, Sir, if you be of the Church as you call it, to &s;tand by the King, but to pre&s;erve your &s;elf, and to per&s;ecute, as I have &s;everal ways in &s;undry of my <HI>Occurrences</HI> notably written,</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ch. of <HI>E.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I'le tell thee, that he is what <HI>I</HI> am, and that we both were always Loyal Church-men as by the Loyal Ad|dre&s;&s;es we Sign'd to before thy <HI>Occurrences</HI> came in Vogue, and a little after thy <HI>Pacquets</HI> were out of fa&s;hion, and by &s;uch Rogues as thee, called <HI>Papi&s;ts in Ma&s;querade.</HI> We were not only alwaies Loyal, but one of our Fathers was Se|que&s;tred, decimated, and dyed in Pri&s;on for the &s;ake of the Ble&s;&s;ed Martyr, the Father of our pre&s;ent Sovereign (whom God long pre&s;erve) and his Grand-Father in <HI>York-&s;hire</HI> rai&s;ed two Troops of Hor&s;e at his own Charge, under the Lord <HI>Hopton,</HI> and was killed in Actual Service, before the Surrender of <HI>Oxford.</HI> My Father dyed al&s;o upon that Account. And We have been &s;tiff to our Duty on all Occa&s;ions, without any regard to our Intere&s;ts, again&s;t Exclu&s;ioners, who would have turn'd the World up&s;ide down, de&s;troyed the Late Good, and this pre&s;ent Merciful King; &s;et up a <HI>Monmouth</HI> or a <HI>Shaftsbury,</HI> divided among&s;t 'em all our E&s;tates, and trampled on the whole Hierarchy of the Legally E&s;ta|bli&s;hed and un-impeach'd, un-blemi&s;hed, Loyal and True Chri&s;tian Church of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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