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<HEAD>Yorke</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Canter.</HEAD>
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<P>A NEW DISPUTATION Betweene the two Lordly Bi&s;hops, YORKE and CANTERBVRY.</P>
<P>With a Di&s;cour&s;e of many pa&s;&s;ages which have happened to them, before and &s;ince that they were committed to the Tower of LONDON.</P>
<P>Being very nece&s;&s;ary for ob&s;ervation, and well worth the Reading.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Edition, corrected and enlarged.</P>
<P><HI>Written in Engli&s;h PROSE by Laurence Price,</HI> February the 15. 1642.</P>
<Q><L>The &s;imple &s;ort lives mo&s;t at re&s;t,</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t Lordly Bi&s;hops are di&s;tre&s;t.</L></Q>
<P>London Printed for J. Wright. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A New DISPVTATION Betweene the two Lordly Bi&s;hops, YORKE and CANTERBURY.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>Yorke.</SPEAKER>
<P>FEllow and friend as a man may &s;ay, you'r well overtaken; who would have thought to have &s;eene you here at this time of the day?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Preth&eacute;e</HI> York <HI>be medling with &s;ome others matters, and talke not to me. I am not thy fellow yet; and thou knowe&s;t I was never thy friend, tis wel for you that you are &s;o light-hearted, I tell you truly I am heavy.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why <HI>Canterbury,</HI> if I may not be &s;o bold as to call you fellow nor friend, yet I am &s;ure we are neighbours; how long ever 'twill la&s;t I cannot tell: and whereas you &s;ay you are very heavy (if I am not much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;taken)
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Neighbour</HI> Yorke, <HI>if you will be &s;o cal'd, here we are both forth-comming though not comming forth, if thou ha&s;t any thing to charge me with, &s;peake thy mind and &s;pare not, I feare th&eacute;e not.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>And &s;hall I &s;peake my mind freely?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Ah, &s;ay what thou can&s;t.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am in doubt I &s;hall make you angry?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Feare not that, nor &s;pare no &s;p&eacute;ech.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then <HI>Canterbury</HI> marke what I &s;hall &s;ay to thee, <HI>I</HI> verily thinke if thou were re|warded an&s;werable to thy deeds, thou &s;houl|de&s;t be &s;erved as the two Romi&s;h Prie&s;ts were in <HI>January,</HI> which were benefactors for the Pope.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Why how were they &s;erved?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thus, fir&s;t they tooke &s;hipping at Newgate, afterwards &s;ayled up Holborne, and came a &s;hore at Tyburne.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>And have I de&s;erved to be drawne hang'd and quartered?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>If</HI> thou were as &s;ure to have it as thou ha&s;t de&s;erv'd for it, thy turne would be the next.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I wonder</HI> Yorke <HI>why thou &s;houlde&s;t
<PB N="3" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 31 -->be &s;o ambitious, and to pa&s;&s;e ra&s;h iudgment again&s;t me? thou art like him that can di&s;|cerne a little mote in another mans eye; but thou can&s;t not &s;&eacute;e a beame in thine own eye: for any thing I can perceive, our ca&s;es are both a like, I am in the Tower of</HI> London, <HI>&s;o are you, I am here kept a Pri&s;oner, &s;o are you, I am like to &s;uffer death for my mi&s;|deeds, and &s;o are you. Wherefore then &s;hould you not rather &s;tudy to cure your own di&s;ea|&s;es, then to apply a play&s;ter to my wound.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Stay, &s;tay, a little my little Lord, you put me in mind of wounds and grievances, <HI>I</HI> pray you tell me one thing if you can remem|ber it, how hath your body fared &s;ince your Doctor gave you the purge, which made you vomit up the Cro&s;&s;e-keyes and the Miter? me thinkes you looke very co&s;tive upon the mat|ters?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Now you &s;peake of my lookes, have you forgot my Lord, how the Devill made two lookes over</HI> Lincolne? <HI>I would wi&s;h you to beware the third, lea&s;t you come home by w&eacute;eping cro&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>De'e heare me <HI>Canterbury,</HI> &s;ince your mind runs &s;o much upon cro&s;&s;es, <HI>I</HI> can tell &s;uch &s;trange newes of a Cro&s;&s;e, which <HI>I</HI> think will cro&s;&s;e your humour to heare it. It is for
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Why, what have they done to</HI> Cheape-&s;ide <HI>Cro&s;&s;e? I thought that had not offended any body?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>It &s;eemes it hath offended &s;ome bo|dy, For <HI>I</HI> am &s;ure they have torne downe part of the portraiture of the body of Chri&s;t, and the Cardinals Cro&s;ier &s;taffe, and the Crowne that was placed upon the Virgin Ma|ries head.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Now by my Holy-dame, I thinke that they were no Papi&s;ts, that did it, but how can you approve this to be true, I am &s;ure that you were not there to &s;&eacute;e it?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Are you &s;o hard of beliefe, that you cannot beleeve any thing to be true unle&s;&s;e you &s;ee it? Then you will not beleeve that the two Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts were drawne hang'd and quartered for offending the Kings Laws; who&s;e heads were no &s;ooner &s;et upon London Bridge, but <HI>Bensteed</HI> your young watch-man turn'd his towards the Tower, expecting a third man. Then you will not beleeve that the Lord <HI>Digby</HI> is gone beyond Sea? Then you will not beleeve that Colonell <HI>Lunsford</HI> is ta|ken, If you will not beleeve nothing but what
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>But are you in mind that the di&s;|figuring of</HI> Cheape-&s;ide <HI>Cro&s;&s;e, is a greater di&s;ta&s;te to me then it is to your &s;elfe?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>It't plea&s;e your gracele&s;&s;e grace my little Lord, you know that <HI>I</HI> ever hated Pa|pi&s;try from the beginning; for which cau&s;e you cau&s;ed me to &s;uffer a long time impri&s;on|ment. Moreover you thought to have &s;eene an end of my life, but now I may chance to live to &s;ee your end.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>You talke like one that is over|ioy'd, but tell me one thing at your lei&s;ure, have you given in your an&s;wer to the charge, which was the other day layd in again&s;t you at the Parliament? or have you never &s;eene the</HI> Welch-mans Prote&s;tation?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P N="1">1. I would have you an&s;wer me to this que&s;tion, and then I &s;hall an&s;wer you the bet|ter? What newes doe you heare from <HI>Rome?</HI> hath your gho&s;tly father the Pope ever a par|don in &s;tore for you? are you &s;ure that when you dye you &s;hall be Canonized for a Saint? re&s;olve me that que&s;tion <HI>Canterbury.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Me thinks your tongue runs a little too fa&s;t</HI> York, <HI>have you any more que&s;tions to aske me?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, Yes, more I thinke then you will be willing to an&s;wer to.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Let me heare your excellent wits; tis very well knowne that I have an&s;wered too many great matters in my time, there|fore I make no doubt but I &s;hall be ready to give you &s;atisfaction to the full.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then I would have you tell me what you heare from the Cardinals, Monks, Fryers, Nuns, Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts, Je&s;uites, Seminaries, and Seducers in <HI>Rome,</HI> and other Countries, are they all friends with you? Is your grace in &s;uch high favour with them, that they will &s;end &s;ome of their Agents privily to convey you out of this &s;trong Tower. They intend &s;ure a practice, let them take heed of the <HI>Lon|don</HI> Prentices, for <HI>Ben&s;teeds</HI> death is not forgot|ten.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Fye</HI> Yorke <HI>forbeare, thou talke&s;t to me in &s;uch a rayling manner, that although I can, I will not an&s;wer th&eacute;e; therefore re&s;t thy &s;elfe content for this, I am per&s;waded to that, if all thy faults were written in thy fore-head, thou woulde&s;t appeare to be as bad, as who's wor&s;t.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Canterbury,</HI> if you are weary of my talking, I would al&s;o have you to be weary of your wicked deeds, and labour to &s;erve
<PB N="7" REF="11"><!-- PDF PAGE 36 -->your Maker as a true Prote&s;tant ought to doe, and to be faithfull to the Kings Maje&s;ty, and the Honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament; in &s;o doing, you may have peace of Con&s;cience in this life, and after death, your fins may be remitted, through the merits of our Savi|our.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Harke, harke, there is a Me&s;&s;enget comes, which hath brought me tydings that my dinner is ready, &s;o</HI> Yorke <HI>adieu far this time.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Canterbury</HI> farewell, remember the la&s;t coun&s;ell that I gave you, and as for my part I conclude, <HI>Hony &s;oit qui mal I pence.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Stay</HI> Yorke, <HI>yet a little longer, I have one que&s;tion more to aske th&eacute;e, which I had almo&s;t quite forgot.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>I</HI> thought you were troubled with the &s;imples, you have &s;o many things to think on, that I thinke you'l forget every thing are it be long: what would you &s;ay to me if you could &s;peake?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Tell me this one thing in courte&s;ie.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>What thing is that?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What is the rea&s;on that &s;o many Countrymen came up to</HI> London <HI>lately? I heare that thou&s;ands of men came up in troopes, &s;ome on foot, and &s;ome on hor&s;e back. What was the meaning of their comming?</HI></P>
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<P>Sure enough <HI>Camerbury,</HI> they came not for any good will they bare to you.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Why &s;hould they beare me any ill will?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>They &s;ay you have cau&s;ed them to have wor&s;hipped Idols, and that you would erect new Cro&s;&s;es, with Popi&s;h Pictures a|bout them, and that they were forced to &s;et up Altars in their church by your means, The&s;e are things which Prote&s;tants neither can, nor wil indure.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Why, doth the Law lye in their hands?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>For certaine they made Petitions to the honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament; to the end, that they would have all the Bi&s;hops put downe for your &s;ake.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>And doe you under&s;tand that all the Bi&s;hops &s;hall be put downe?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yea, all the Popi&s;h Bi&s;hops.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Then what thinke you will become of all the Romi&s;h Catholikes?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Prie&s;ts and Fryers may take their chance,</L>
<L>And walke a journey into <HI>France;</HI></L>
<L>The Je&s;uites they may trudge to <HI>Spaine,</HI></L>
<L>And never more returne againe;</L>
<L>The Papi&s;ts all may packe to <HI>Rome,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;tay there till the day of doome.</L>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>If all the&s;e things you live to &s;ee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then will a merry</HI> England <HI>bee.</HI></L>
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<P>Come a way to dinner.</P>
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<HEAD>Enter a poore Mu&s;itioner with a new SONG.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>FIDLER.</HEAD>
<L><HI>May it plea&s;e both your graces to heare a new Song,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In which on my word I meane no body wrong.</HI></L>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P>Is't worth the hearing?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Fid.</SPEAKER>
<P>I hope it will give your Lord&s;hips con|tent.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Come lets heare your Song.</P>
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<OPENER>Here beginneth the Song, to the tune of, <HI>Banks</HI> his Bill of Fare.</OPENER>
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<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>I Am a poore man and &s;carce worth a &s;hilling,</L>
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<L>As unto my neighbours is too too well knowne,</L>
<L>Yet to live upright in the world I am willing,</L>
<L>I covet for nothing but what is mine owne:</L>
<L N="2">2. And now in the fir&s;t place to tell you my mind,</L>
<L>For fal&s;e-hearted people I care not a &s;traw,</L>
<L>This is my conceit by experience I find,</L>
<L><HI>There's none but offenders that feareth the Law.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>I am not in que&s;tion cal'd for my Religion,</L>
<L>From every vile Sect I my &s;elfe can with-hold,</L>
<L>Both Papi&s;t and Athei&s;t I hold in deri&s;ion,</L>
<L>Ile not wrong my con&s;cience for lucre of gold:</L>
<L N="4">4. My tongue I will governe by the line of rea&s;on,</L>
<L>From every di&s;&s;embler my&s;elfe Ile with|draw.</L>
<L>I hate all &s;uch Rebels that dares to &s;peake Trea&s;on,</L>
<L><HI>There's none but offenders that feareth the Law.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>I marvaile what harme hath old Cheape-&s;ide Cro&s;&s;e done,</L>
<L>That &s;ome meer mechanicks hath wrought it &s;pight,</L>
<L>To disfigure Picture of <HI>Mary</HI> and her Son,</L>
<L>And dare not to &s;hew forth their heads by day-light:</L>
<L N="6">6. They al&s;o have pul'd down the Cro&s;ier Staffe</L>
<L>Which once was fa&s;t plac'tin the Cardinals claw,</L>
<L>This &s;port cannot chu&s;e but make Lucifer laugh,</L>
<L><HI>There's none but offenders that feareth the Law.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>One thing above all the re&s;t I doe admire</L>
<L>Why &s;o many vulgars are in an uproare?</L>
<L>To put downe the Bi&s;hops is that they de&s;ire.</L>
<L>Although they can &s;hew no good rea&s;on wherefore:</L>
<L N="8">8. But now to conclude lea&s;t I &s;hould you offend,</L>
<L>And you for my Song would no money me draw,</L>
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<L>Ile &s;hut up my Pipes and &s;o make an end,</L>
<L><HI>There's none but offenders that feareth the Law.</HI></L>
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<SPEAKER>Yor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why there's no hurt at all in this Song upon my word.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Cant.</SPEAKER>
<P>If all that reads Pamphlets, and &s;ings Ballads about the City of London and in the Country, did no wor&s;e then this, I &s;hould bee a great deale better plea&s;ed with them: Hold there is &s;omething for thy reward.</P>
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<L>My Lords I thanke you both, although your lives &s;tands in jeopardy.</L>
<L>The Fidler hopes to live &s;o long, to &s;ee your heeles at liberty.</L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>L. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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