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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<P>THE ANATOMY Of <HI>Et caetera.</HI></P>
<P>Or the unfolding of that dan|gerous <HI>Oath</HI> in the clo&s;e of the Sixth <HI>Canon.</HI></P>
<P>As it was contrived by the Bi&s;hops and &s;ome of the Clergie, in their late Oath <HI>Ex Officio,</HI> cunningly obliging the Con&s;ci|ences of his Maje&s;ties Subjects to ob&s;erve and obey what&s;oever errours they would impo&s;e.</P>
<P>Condemned and di&s;&s;ected in a pa&s;&s;ionate Conference be|twixt the two zealous Brothers <HI>Roger</HI> and <HI>Ralph,</HI> pen|ned at the fir&s;t injunction of the new Canons, and now publi&s;ht &s;ince their aboli&s;hment.</P>
<P>By an <HI>Oxford&s;hire</HI> Gentleman.</P>
<P>London printed. 1641.</P>
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<P>_TWo of the zealous Tribe being in&s;pired, as they tearmed it, and having a greater parcell of the &s;pirit than at other times, after a great deal of chat, now concerning this thing, and now again concerning that thing, at la&s;t drew them&s;elves as far as the <HI>New Canons,</HI> where they read, but yet you mu&s;t not thinke that it was without rubbes, and jarres, but comming to the <HI>Sixth Canon</HI> that ended with <HI>Et caetera,</HI> at the very &s;ight of which he &s;welled as much as <HI>Goliah</HI> with his weavers beam, and thus began to break forth in the&s;e or the like tearmes.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Roger.</SPEAKER>
<P>I that have behaved my &s;elfe &s;o well, that now I am in &s;incerity elected a Zealous Brother, I that having my worth &s;een am for it rewarded with twenty Nobles <HI>per annum,</HI> be&s;ides what I collect eve|ry year from our Female Charity, con&s;idering with my &s;elfe what a vile and indi&s;creet thing the&s;e new Oathes and Canons are, I am even wrapt be&s;ides my &s;elfe, and with this very word, or letter, or &s;yllable, or what&s;oever it is, I mu&s;t and will di&s;&s;ect it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ralph.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why brother <HI>Roger?</HI> Are thou of &s;o &s;hal|low capacity as thou make&s;t thy &s;elfe to be? Have patience pray, and rather finde fault with the Prin|ter than with the thing printed, or rather with him which &s;et the Printer on worke than with the Printer
<PB N="2" REF="3">him&s;elfe, the&s;e times are corrupted, for why? corrupt men have ruled us here in this Land.</P>
<P><HI>Here could</HI> Roger <HI>hold no longer, but like to a Bear-dog, he yawnes, and barkes, and bawles, &s;aying.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Roger.</SPEAKER>
<P>In &s;incerity brother <HI>Ralph,</HI> thou doe&s;t not know what an urging this is to me, &s;ee what a vile mi&s;hapen mon&s;ter it is, this <HI>Et caetera</HI> God ble&s;&s;e us! is a Limbe of the Devill, or as they plea&s;e to con|&s;true it, according to their wooden headed wit, That brand which is upon the buttocke of the Bea&s;t, the Dragons tail tied up together in an Antichri&s;tian knot, it is nothing el&s;e but a ne&s;t of young Apocry|phaes, nay, I thinke that the divine&s;t in&s;piration can never unfold and &s;et out to open view this Impe of Hell, this Caterpiller, this Toad, or what not.</P>
<P><HI>Now whilest</HI> Roger <HI>is in his mad way dividing the Text,</HI> Ralph <HI>begins to winke, to &s;pit, to &s;treak his beard, and expound, &s;peaking to</HI> Roger.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ralph.</SPEAKER>
<P>My pious and mo&s;t zealous Brother, hear|ken with fear and reverence to what I &s;hall now &s;ay, not of my &s;elfe, but by divine revelation. This is a very nice point, being clouded much with the &s;ophi|&s;ticall fallacies of the <HI>quondam</HI>-learned, I never read on't but it cau&s;ed me to fa&s;te twice at the lea&s;t, in&s;o|much that now I have had &s;o much by revelation that I have found this <HI>Et caetera</HI> to be one of the idola|trous litter.</P>
<P><HI>But</HI> Roger <HI>now is all fire, all envy, all malice,</HI> Goliah <HI>when he vanted him&s;elfe again&s;t the I&s;raelites had not halfe tho&s;e proud po&s;tures which now</HI> Roger <HI>had.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Roger.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;ay to thee <HI>(&s;aid Roger) Et caetera</HI> thou ly|e&s;t, I &s;ay again, I will confute thee, what art thou better than a curled locke of Antichri&s;t, thou art that very rubbi&s;h which was &s;ent from the confu&s;ion of <HI>Babel,</HI> for before I have done with you I will make it plain to the whole world, that the be&s;t of Langua|ges are confounded in this Bea&s;t <HI>Et caetera.</HI> Be&s;ides, all you which are my Brethren, hearken, and take di|ligent notice of this which I &s;hall &s;ay here, They &s;ay that men mu&s;t &s;wear by this Antichri&s;tian rubbi&s;h; take heed, take heed I pray, for I profe&s;&s;e ingeniou&s;ly in good &s;ooth, and in very good deed, that it is dan|gerous to &s;wear by <HI>Et caetera;</HI> for take this from me, who&s;oever &s;weares by <HI>Et caetera,</HI> &s;weares more Oathes at once, than ever came barkes from triple-headed <HI>Cerberus:</HI> Do you not &s;ee how the old cunning Ser|pent hath hid him&s;elfe in folds here, and here in an <HI>Et caetera</HI> you may perceive him: O thou accur&s;t <HI>Et caetera!</HI> thou prodigious Antichri&s;tian Ba&s;tard, now do I know what meant tho&s;e portentous bloudy Oi|&s;ters which were &s;een the other day: O <HI>Alestre!</HI> thou ancient writer of Almanacks, how did&s;t thou mi&s;&s;e to name this <HI>Et caetera,</HI> that ill borne Ba&s;tard in thy propheticke Almanack: but here &s;ee and won|der, this <HI>Et caetera</HI> is that ill portentous vault where that infernall Powder-plot lay a great while at an|chor, and &s;urely Brother, I thinke it not ami&s;&s;e, and if you will be ruled by me, to keep another fifth day of <HI>November:</HI> nay, here is not all yet, <HI>Et caetera</HI> look to your &s;elfe, I prote&s;t I will have another bout at
<PB N="4" REF="4">wa&s;tiers with thee, and &s;o have at thee; thy name is as ominous as a blazing Star at three of the clocke in the afternoon, or as a Schreech-owle hovering about the hou&s;e in day-time, nay my expre&s;&s;ions fail me to paint thee out in thy colours. The <HI>Trojan</HI> Nag was never &s;o gorg'd with mi&s;chiefe, as this ominous, ill-conditioned <HI>Et caetera, Og</HI> and <HI>Schon</HI> tho&s;e two great Commi&s;&s;aries and enemies to the Lords anointed ne|ver de&s;erved halfe that ill which this il-&s;hapen &s;lave <HI>Et caetera</HI> hath done. And now I finde my &s;elfe almo&s;t tired in following this light-footed mi&s;chiefe, and now my Babes of Grace, my greate&s;t de&s;ire is that you would be cautious how you &s;wear by <HI>Et caetera,</HI> for you have already heard how dangerous and damn|able <HI>Et caetera</HI> is, for indeed now to unfold the truth of all, if it were pulled out at length, it is ju&s;t like unto a <HI>York &s;hire</HI> way-bit, longer by far than a mile.</P>
<P><HI>But now he is in&s;pired, he &s;weareth,</HI> now truly, in truth, in &s;incerity, and in very good deed; <HI>in words at length, and not in figures, that this</HI> Et caetera <HI>did more trouble his con&s;cience than ever the fall of one of his dearest Sisters ever did. But now you mu&s;t note, that he dranke, which he takes off all, becau&s;e he was afraid to leave</HI> Et caetera <HI>in the bottom of the cup: his Brother</HI> Ralph <HI>pledg'd him, and marke how it &s;ell out, he &s;weares by the Sacke he drinkes, he will prove a catylier, or wor&s;e to the Synod, if wor&s;e might be.</HI></P>
<L>Thus they dranke on, not offering to part,</L>
<L>Till they had &s;worne out the eleventh quart,</L>
<L>While&s;t all that heard and &s;aw them, joyntly &s;ay,</L>
<L>They and their Tribe are all, <HI>Et caetera.</HI></L>
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<P><HI>Well, the&s;e two Zealous Brothers had dranke &s;o long to|gether that they played the beasts, like a couple of drunken rogues,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and then they must needs quarrell, and make them&s;elves, and Religion in them to be &s;coffed egregiou&s;ly, and indeed it is an ancient proverbe,</HI> When theeves fall out, true men come by their goods.</P>
<P><HI>It chanced that</HI> Roger <HI>gave</HI> Ralph <HI>&s;ome words in his drinke, which did not very well plea&s;e him, which made</HI> Ralph <HI>break out beyond the bounds of mode&s;ty, and told him that he was a di&s;&s;embling knave, and that he could prove him &s;o, for &s;aid</HI> Ralph, Is it not the part of a knave to carry another mans wife &s;o far as <HI>Banbury</HI> in <HI>Oxford &s;hire,</HI> and there to live with her, and keep her as your owne wife? fie, fie, for &s;hame.</P>
<P>Nay, <HI>&s;aid Roger,</HI> hic-up, if you go to that, hic-up, you are as arrant a knave, hic-up, as my &s;elfe, for do you remember, you Slave you, how you wi&s;ht your wife in the <HI>Low Countries,</HI> to &s;ay, that you were her brother, becau&s;e &s;he was fair, and that it might be &s;aid that you imitated <HI>Abraham,</HI> when he was a good man, whereas thou art a &s;tinking Rogue.</P>
<P><HI>Thus they brawled, and &s;colded, and &s;colded, and brawled, till they fell a&s;leep, in which pickle I left them.</HI></P>
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