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<HEAD>A DIALOGUE Between Two BURGESSES, About Chu&s;ing their Next <HI>Members of Parliament.</HI></HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>Tom.</SPEAKER>
<P>WHither &s;o fa&s;t, <HI>Will?</HI> What's the matter, man? Thou look'&s;t as if thou wa&s;t frighted.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>I think there's rea&s;on, <HI>Tom:</HI> for either our wi&s;e men are mad, or we are all &s;tark fools; for the Parliament's Di&s;&s;olv'd again, and a New One to &s;it at <HI>Oxford,</HI> which being &s;o unexpected, pa&s;&s;es my under&s;tanding to unfold the meaning of it, and therefore I'll &s;ay nothing to it; but what I do under&s;tand is, That we are of|fer'd brave Sparks to &s;erve us, for there's Mr. <HI>Sweetlips,</HI> Mr. <HI>Swallow-Oath,</HI> Mr. <HI>High-Church,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Sell-Tru&s;t,</HI> have all writ, and are coming Po&s;t to court us to be our Servants; and being thou art an under&s;tanding Coxcomb, that go'&s;t to the Cof|fee-hou&s;e, and read'&s;t all the News, I come to ask thee what we &s;hall &s;ay to the&s;e Gentlemen, who are woundy civil, and very earne&s;t to have our Promi&s;es.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Tom.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am afraid &s;uch Servants will too &s;oon be a&s;ham'd of having us for their Ma&s;ters, and we may repent too late the having &s;uch co&s;tly Servants. But wil't promi&s;e them all four, when thou ha&s;t but two to chu&s;e? Let's con&s;ider them &s;everally: Mr. <HI>Sweetlips</HI> you know is a Courtier: Now what's the bu&s;ine&s;s of a <HI>Parliament?</HI> Does not the Court &s;till &s;trive there to get as much Money and Power as they can? And the <HI>Parliament</HI> does or &s;hould &s;pare our Money, and pre&s;erve our Liberty, as much as lies in their power; and do'&s;t not &s;ee then that chu&s;ing &s;uch a one is &s;etting the Lamb to the Wolf to Nur&s;e.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou &s;ay'&s;t right, we &s;hould e'en be as wi&s;e as the men of <HI>Gotam.</HI> Well but becau&s;e he's a courteous fine Gentleman, and de&s;ires to &s;erve me, I'll tell him, That if ever I have a Boon to beg of the King, or a Wedding-Suit to make in <HI>London,</HI> he &s;hall have the honour, as he calls it, to be imployed by me before any man; but in this I mu&s;t beg his pardon. But then what &s;ay'&s;t to Mr. <HI>Swallow-Oath,</HI> who though 'tis true he always herded with the Papi&s;ts, and was thought one for|merly, yet he now conforms to the Law, takes the Te&s;t, and rails at Popery as much as any man; and what &s;hall we do with him?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Tom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why if thou wilt do any thing to employ or tru&s;t him, put a Halter about his Neck, throw him into the <HI>Thames,</HI> and tie him to an Anchor, and let him &s;wim there for a <HI>Bouy,</HI> which is the onely u&s;e &s;uch a man is good for, that will turn with every Tide. But we mu&s;t have &s;uch Parliament-men as will &s;tand as firm as Bulwarks for our Religion and Liberty; and mu&s;t be blown up, or batter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d down, before they'l yield.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then &s;ure thou'lt be for Squire <HI>High-Church,</HI> whom they call a <HI>Jure-Di|vino</HI>-man; for he talks of nothing el&s;e but the Church, of which he is &s;o true a Son, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;wears over a Gla&s;s of Wine, he wou'd rather break ten Command|ments of God, then one of the Bi&s;hops; and cut a hundred Fanaticks Throats, be|fore he would eat Fle&s;h on a <HI>Friday:</HI> Be&s;ides, he is &s;o pious, that he &s;corns all Laws and Statutes, and proves by Texts of Scripture, The Prince and the Prelate in all Countreys have as much Power as the Turk and Mufty.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Tom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Squire <HI>High-Church</HI> is a very good man to &s;ome purpo&s;es, but every man in his way, and none good for all things; I'll go to Church with him, but I won't
<PB REF="2">go with him to impri&s;on and ruine my fellow Prote&s;tants that meet at a Godly Ex|erci&s;e afterward in private, as if we mu&s;t hang all that have more Piety then our &s;elves. I had rather keep <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> with him, then <HI>Lent;</HI> rather tru&s;t his Opinion in things wherein he u&s;es his own Rea&s;on, then where he pins his Faith on the Par|&s;on's Sleeve; and rather tru&s;t him in a difference betwixt me and my Neighbour, then make him my Repre&s;entative in Parliament: For his Principle is to be gui|ded by the Clergy, their Principle is to make them&s;elves pa&s;s for the Church, and then to take the be&s;t way to Preferment in it, and that be&s;t way is to make the King and the Bi&s;hop ab&s;olute, and that's the &s;ure way to make us all Slaves. Be|&s;ides, though perhaps he means well, yet I'm &s;ure he's mi&s;taken, whil&s;t by per&s;e|cuting <HI>Di&s;&s;enting Prote&s;tants,</HI> and magnifying the danger from them, he does that out of Simplicity which the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> do out of Villany, when they forg'd the <HI>Pre&s;|byterian Plot</HI> to make the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> de&s;troy one another, who mu&s;t needs ma&s;ter the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> if they united among them&s;elves.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why &s;ure <HI>Tom,</HI> thou do'&s;t not mean, I hope, to chu&s;e old <HI>Sell-Tru&s;t</HI> the <HI>Pen&s;ioner</HI> again, though he bids mo&s;t, and &s;pends free&s;t for it: for my part, I'd as &s;oon vote for <HI>Old Nick.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Tom.</SPEAKER>
<P>He that &s;ells dear, may afford to buy &s;o: But we are &s;o much oblig'd to Mr. <HI>Sell-Tru&s;t</HI> for his pa&s;t Services, that I know not how to requite him as he de|&s;erves, but thus: Let's promi&s;e all to Vote for him, if he'll Treat us Nobly; let's drink Sack, and fea&s;t jollily upon him till the day comes, and then let's tell him, There's a Scotch Proverb which &s;ays, <HI>If a Man deceive me once, the Devil take Him; but if he deceive me twice, the Devil take Both:</HI> And that &s;ince he voted our Money into his own Pocket, 'twas but ju&s;t we &s;hould wheadle &s;ome of it back again into our Belleys; but yet becau&s;e we would not break our words with him, nor let his old Ma&s;ter <HI>Danby</HI>'s new Directions to &s;et them all at work again, produce nothing, we would Vote for him as we &s;aid Unanimou&s;ly, but it &s;hould be, <HI>That he and the re&s;t of his Brethren, the Pen&s;ioners &s;hould be all hang'd by the next Parliament:</HI> And &s;o we remain yours to &s;erve you thus at any time, hone&s;t Mr. <HI>Sell-Tru&s;t.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Faith I cann't forbear laughing to think of the Je&s;t on't; we'll be &s;ure to do't: But then who &s;hall we chu&s;e man?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Tom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Who &s;hou'd we chu&s;e, but Mr. <HI>Blunt</HI> and Mr. <HI>&V;nity?</HI> Men that we know wou'd rather enlarge then le&s;&s;en the Liberties of an Engli&s;hman, and the Pale of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion;</HI> that will not part with any of our Money till we are &s;e|cur'd of the re&s;t; that will not be loo'd on the <HI>Fanaticks</HI> by a Trick, to &s;ave the <HI>Papi&s;ts:</HI> In a word, Men that we have had good experience of, that they are Com|plement-proof, Fea&s;t-proof, Sermon-proof, and Bribe-proof: And if they don't court us, let us court them, and chu&s;e them whether they will or no; for they have but the Honour and the Trouble on't, but we have the Benefit and the Security.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Troth, <HI>Tom,</HI> agreed; for I never heard of a Lords Head got in <HI>Parliament</HI> cheaper then the la&s;t was; and if we had had all the Bills the <HI>Commons</HI> pa&s;t, I'd ha' been content to pay Taxes for one year with all my heart. Well I'll go whi&s;per this about, and enjoyn Secrecy, that we may not fail of obliging Mr. <HI>Sell-Tru&s;t,</HI> as 'tis intended&mdash;But hold, I had forgot to tell thee one thing, they all &s;ay, That if we have any Exceptions to them&s;elves, 'twill plea&s;e them as well if we chu&s;e their Sons.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Tom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh Fire! Murder! Trea&s;on! Then 'tis a plain De&s;ign to pack another Club of Voting Knaves to undo us: They care not who 'tis, &s;o it be one of their own Gang: Tru&s;t none of 'em, <HI>Will.</HI> A young Devil will cry, <HI>I</HI> &amp; <HI>No,</HI> as well as an old one: The young Cock will crow after his Father; and if thou put'&s;t a young Fox that never robb'd a Henroo&s;t into the Goo&s;e-pen, thou'lt &s;oon &s;ee how Nature will teach him to play with the Flock. They have a mind to breed their Sons Knaves, and wou'd have us enter them in <HI>Parliament</HI> for them. Go thy way im|mediately, and do as thou &s;aid'&s;t, &s;atisfie all thy Neighbours, and God &s;peed.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Farewel: I'll fly about the Town in a minute.</P>
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