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<P><HI>Nunc aut Nunquam,</HI> PEACE <HI>Now or Never;</HI> Being a DIALOGUE Betwixt Jack and Will, Upon the pre&s;ent Juncture of AFFAIRS.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Tho. Snowden</HI> in Great <HI>Carter-Lane, and &s;old by</HI> E. Whitlock, <HI>near</HI> Stationers-Hall. 1697.</P>
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<HEAD>Nunc aut Nunquam, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>JAck.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir, your Servant.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>O your mo&s;t Humble; well! old Lad, how move Matters now? You're a Man of Intrigue, Intelligence, and &s;taunch Judgment; you can Pe|netrate and Di&s;tingui&s;h, prethee be Open and Candid.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, Faith &s;o I will; you know I ever was &s;o; for tho' our Sentiments differ in &s;ome particulars, yet in this agree, to Cultivate and Improve the Sworn Amity between us, which &s;hall not be violated on my &s;ide upon the Score of any <HI>Revolution,</HI> or Change whatever.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nobly re&s;olv'd, and I concur; but come on, communicate a little.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>All the Tattle has been (you know) for &s;eve|ral Months pa&s;t, and is &s;till about Peace, a General One, with re&s;pect to <HI>Europe,</HI> that Paradice of the World, our be&s;t and mo&s;t beloved abode.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well! and what think you of't? I am &s;en|&s;ible you can gue&s;s &s;hrewdly, for you are the Ears as well as Mouth of a Politick Party (at lea&s;t &s;o in their own Thoughts;) you pretend to have the be&s;t and pure&s;t Intelligence, which is a great help to you in your conjectures, which at the beginning of the War fell pretty pat, and hit often very well, but now towards the dawn of a Peace, you all &s;eem to be mightily mi&s;taken in your Notions, which is to be imputed chiefly to your immoderate Zeal for the late King, and plaguy partiality to the French Intere&s;t.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>We may be a little too fond of our own Fan|cies,
<PB N="4" REF="4">and too warm for the Side we adhere to, but 'tis pardonable in us as well as others, becau&s;e all par|ties are apt to exceed in tho&s;e Points. But a propo&s;. Are you &s;o &s;illy to imagine there will be Peace? at lea&s;t yet a while!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, I am, and doubt not at all but we &s;hall have a very good one too, and that &s;peedily, even &s;ooner than you think for.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Say you &s;o truly? alas you are damnably de|ceiv'd, 'tis not &s;o near as you gue&s;s: <HI>Lewis</HI> the Great will trick the Confederates at the long run, and break the Chain of their Alliance at the Treaty which he cou'd not in the Field. One Link, you know, is dropt off, <HI>(viz. Savoy)</HI> which, tho' no &s;trong One, was a heavy hank upon <HI>France;</HI> The <HI>Spaniards</HI> by the Neutrality in <HI>Catalonia,</HI> (which is near concluding) follow next; and the <HI>Dutch</HI> have already (in a man|ner) agreed to a &s;eparate Peace and open Commerce.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fie upon you <HI>Jack,</HI> that you &s;hou'd be &s;o weak in the Noddle your &s;elf to believe this, and &s;o &s;trange|ly &s;tupid to fancy you can thus impo&s;e upon Man|kind; I know you &s;peak not your own, but the &s;en&s;e of your Party (who God knows have as little of that as hone&s;ty) I am a&s;ham'd of ye.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, I mu&s;t tell you further, Sir, the <HI>German-Emperor, Teutonique-Princes</HI> and <HI>States</HI> follow next, and then <HI>England</HI> will be left in the Lurch.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, and can'&s;t thou be &s;o damn'd dull to im|bibe this de&s;tructive Doctrine &s;o glibly and greedily? and to pretend to teach others? none but Men of thy own Faith and Folly will li&s;ten to thee! Was ever &s;uch in&s;ipid &s;tuff as this &s;huffled about! yet the&s;e are the <HI>Jacks</HI> Sentiments, and the Common Chat of their private and publik conver&s;ation!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay true, it is &s;o; for in reality we believe what we report.</P>
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<PB N="5" REF="4">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, and I doubt not wi&s;h it &s;o too.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>That may be, you know we are Enemies, ir|reconcilable to the pre&s;ent Powers.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>More Fools you for your pains, for tho&s;e pow|ers, as poor and pitiful as they may be in your E|&s;teem, will be too hard for you all, both within and without; but good Boy tell me whence proceeds this giddy Infatuation? will no Time nor Experience make you wi&s;er? was it not enough for ye to be Ob&s;tinate Blockheads at the beginning of our glorious and hap|py E&s;tabli&s;hment, but mu&s;t ye needs be &s;o for ever?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Gad we think you &s;o, and wor&s;e too! but mum. Well! what would you &s;ay if the Engli&s;h Plenipotentiaries (as they are commonly call'd) &s;hou'd not be own'd by the French?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Faith <HI>Jack</HI> that would be &s;omething &s;trange! can you be &s;uch an A&s;s to fancy that our Good and Gracious King <HI>William</HI> would nominate, in je&s;t, tho&s;e Renown'd <HI>Mercuriali&s;ts,</HI> and thereby expo&s;e his own and the Nations Honour? no, no, be a&s;&s;ur'd (old Friend) that point has been agreed, and without doubt &s;ome tolerable good under&s;tanding e&s;tabli&s;hed between the Courts of <HI>Ken&s;ington</HI> and <HI>Ver&s;ailles;</HI> thus much I am certain, that's the only way for <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> to obtain a tolerable Peace, and that's all he mu&s;t expect; and therefore 'tis his Intere&s;t to Court the Engli&s;h and Dutch, who alone can make things ea&s;ie to him. But to look back a little, what Maggot has crept into your Crown to fancy the Spaniards, Germans, and Dutch, but the la&s;t e&s;pecially, wou'd comply with <HI>France</HI> and exclude us?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>O! I have &s;ome Rea&s;ons for it, and very powerful ones too.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e &s;o; then let us have 'em.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>You know (and &s;o does every body) their
<PB N="6" REF="5">Commonwealth &s;ub&s;i&s;ts upon Commerce, and to make way for the re-e&s;tabli&s;hment of that (their life! their &s;oul! their all!) they'll truckle or do any thing, e&s;pecially being &s;en&s;ible of their own Poverty, and how impo&s;&s;ible 'tis for <HI>England</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t them, or the other <HI>Allies,</HI> that can hardly &s;upport her &s;elf in this her great Exigency.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! my choice Lad, the <HI>Dutch</HI> are not &s;uch Dolts as you make 'em, they warmly debate, but calm|ly conclude all their Councils to pre&s;erve and advance their true Intere&s;t; which I am &s;ure is not to drop us if they cou'd; for if our whole United Power has been but ju&s;t able to reduce <HI>France</HI> to Rea&s;on, what wou'd become of the <HI>Netherland,</HI> if old <HI>England</HI> were made a Sacrifice to the Modern <HI>Gauls?</HI> mu&s;t not all <HI>Europe</HI> &s;oon &s;ubmit and give up the Cau&s;e without any blows? Our Naval Power and Land Force joyn'd to that of <HI>France</HI> wou'd make the whole World trem|ble; therefore prethee away with tho&s;e Fopperies, as wild and extravagant as the Fumes of Melancholique-Men, and broach not idle Tales, fitter for the go&s;&s;ip|ings of weak women than wi&s;e Politicians, as you and your gang wou'd be thought to be.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, not &s;o Politick neither, we are men of more mode&s;ty than to pretend to much of that at this time of day; I mu&s;t own (under the Ro&s;e tho') that we ha' been plaguly out in our Calculations: faith, to be candid with ye, we are and have been but very in|different State-A&s;&s;-trologers, we like the Star-Gazers, Wizards and Witches, what ever good fortune we pre|dict to others, never have any our &s;elves, but like them are poor and pitile&s;s.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis your own Faults in a great mea&s;ure, for as they would fain penetrate the <HI>Mi&s;teria Coeli,</HI> &s;o wou'd you the <HI>Arcana Imperii:</HI> they are re&s;tle&s;s and
<PB N="7" REF="5">unea&s;ie to know what's doing above, and you &s;tark mad and raving that you are not admitted to manage matters below: truly we &s;hou'd be well ho'pe up to have you in Government, that <HI>Phaeton</HI> like wou'd if you cou'd &s;et the whole world on fire, ever murmur|ing and repining at the pre&s;ent, and prai&s;ing and ad|miring the pa&s;t times, which tho' not much better than the&s;e in any particular, and in &s;ome far wor&s;e, yet they were indeed the happier becau&s;e you were not then plaguing the Publick, as you do now upon all occa&s;ions, clogging and impeding our Affairs, aid|ing and a&s;&s;i&s;ting our Enemies as much as you can with intelligence, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But tho&s;e days are a'mo&s;t done.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>How &s;o?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, before the la&s;t day of <HI>June</HI> next there will mo&s;t certainly be a Glorious and General Peace concluded betwixt all Parties engag'd in this nook of the Warring World, and then not a <HI>Jack</HI> to be &s;een in the&s;e three Si&s;ter I&s;lands, their number dwindles alrea|dy, as well as Intere&s;t declines, and this &s;ome of the &s;harpe&s;t among 'em &s;ee plainly, and confe&s;s frankly.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Say'&s;t 'a &s;o, but prethee explain thy &s;elf a little, for thou art a man of a capacious Soul and clear Head, come impart.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay mo&s;t willingly, <HI>France</HI> has for the&s;e three years pa&s;t been earne&s;tly endeavouring by all ways and means imaginable to get only a bare Negotiation &s;et on foot, in order to a General-Treaty, &s;he has cring'd to and courted the <HI>Dutch</HI> along while only to admit their Agents into their Country; the Methods made u&s;e of were &s;o &s;upple and &s;o very humble, that 'twou'd ha' been pity almo&s;t to ha' denied their de&s;ire; this is Fact.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>And how do you know all this?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>O I ha' good Intelligence from mo&s;t parts
<PB N="8" REF="6">oth' Globe, how matters are manag'd, but e&s;pecially from the <HI>Hague</HI> where the&s;e Affairs were tran&s;acted.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Prethee go on.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>to oblige you I will, as al&s;o to open the eyes, nay and under&s;tandings too of your mi&s;taken mana|gers; I &s;hall undergo &s;ome pains in this bu&s;ine&s;s, and to that end I &s;hall be forc'd to retro&s;pect a little, and give a clean and neat deduction of what's pa&s;t, toge|ther with the pre&s;ent State of <HI>France</HI> and the <HI>Allies;</HI> which will be the &s;ur'&s;t way to convict and convince your &s;tubborn party.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Do, &s;et every thing in a clear light, be faith|ful and ju&s;t; keep as clo&s;e to Truth as you can, but have a care of her heels, le&s;t if you come too near, &s;he beat out your Brains or your Teeth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>On my Soul and Con&s;cience I will be &s;incere: Immediately after the Battle at <HI>Landen, France</HI> began to take in her Sails, not only upon that dear-bought-Victory in which &s;he lo&s;t the flower of her Troops and Officers, but upon the unanimous Re&s;olutions of the whole body of the <HI>Allies</HI> to rai&s;e more Forces, and to bring better and &s;tronger Armies into the Field the following and &s;ucceeding Campaigns, which was done, they finding by Staunch and unerring-experience that numbers only cou'd do the Bus'ne&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>They were much in the right, one wou'd ha' thought they might have &s;een that before by the con|&s;tant practice of <HI>France.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>True, but however 'twas not then too late. <HI>France</HI> from that in&s;tant began to recoil, &s;he fled be|hind lines, and tru&s;ted trenches rather than open bre&s;ts. The Confederates gain'd ground the very next Sum|mer, &s;topt the progre&s;s of their Arms, retook <HI>Huy,</HI> and the next year <HI>Namur</HI> (in view of the whole <HI>Gal|lick</HI> Power) in the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> and <HI>Cazal</HI> in <HI>Italy,</HI>
<PB N="9" REF="6">the two fine&s;t flowers in her Victorious Garland.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>This mu&s;t be own'd tho' again the grain.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>That &s;truck <HI>Mon&s;leur</HI> to the very heart, and made him lay his hand to it, and &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider that nothing but a Peace cou'd pre&s;erve him and his mangled Mermidons from &s;peedy and certain ruin. And there|upon new and more probable Propo&s;als of Peace were pre&s;ented, but the <HI>Allies</HI> ears being wholly deaf to all Overtures of that kind, that wor&s;e than Pagan-Court, ha&s;tily re&s;olv'd and hotly pur&s;u'd one project more, (not new but founded upon an old bottom) <HI>viz.</HI> by ba&s;e and bloudy A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ines to murder the Glorious-Head of the League, and &s;o make way for the cur&s;t return of Popery, Foppery, Bigotry and Slavery into the Bowels of <HI>Brit|tain;</HI> but Heaven! kind and indulgent Heaven! that always pre&s;ides over Princes Ju&s;t and Good, (in the true Intere&s;ts of their Subjects) warded off the Blow, and ex|pos'd tho&s;e mon&s;trous and cruel Con&s;piracies to the &s;corn and contempt of all the World. <HI>France</HI> thus bauk'd and happily (for us I am &s;ure) di&s;appointed, began to revolve upon her former Propo&s;als of Peace, and finding an uni|ver&s;al dete&s;tation and abhorrence of tho&s;e vile and bloody practices, &s;he thought no way &s;o proper to &s;ooth all up again, but by humbling her haughty Stomach, and offer|ing more mild and rea&s;onable Terms for an Accomoda|tion, which indeed was a true &s;tep.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Faith &s;o'twas, whatever our hot heads and <HI>Don Furio&s;o's</HI> think and &s;ay to the contrary.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;ee <HI>Jack</HI> thou art a Fellow of &s;ome Sen&s;e as well as good Temper; I am pleas'd at my pains, and &s;hall think it well worth my while, &s;eeing that I am like to make thee a Convert, which will be to thy honour and advantage, &s;eeing as the late Duke of <HI>Buckingham</HI> &s;aid, at a debate in the Hou&s;e of Lords, If a man was a Fool ye&s;terday, there's no rea&s;on he &s;hould be &s;o for ever.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="10" REF="7">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Before you ha' done with me, 'tis more than probable you may bring me over, and make me a hear|ty <HI>Williamite,</HI> I am inclin'd to be &s;wayed and influenc'd by a man of your high-Character, and great Con&s;idera|tion, as well, as mighty Intere&s;t in that Party.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hall be glad if my Arguments will convince you, and my notion of the State of Affairs make you wi&s;er or better before we part.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Pray proceed, I li&s;ten very attentively.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>If you did but know what In&s;truments and Arti|fices the Court of <HI>France</HI> made u&s;e of to encline the Con|federates to hearken to a Negotiation, you would not be a little &s;urpriz'd, e&s;pecially when you reflect on the haughty and towring Spirit of that Prince, you cannot but wonder at this unexpected Pro&s;tration.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed &s;o I do; for when I con&s;ider how nume|rous his Armies are, not broken or foil'd, but in good heart; Navy pretty well recovered again, Dominions en|tire and obedient; Provinces unpenetrated by their Ene|mies Arms, mighty Barriers on his Frontiers every where, Finances full, Publick Credit indifferent good, yet I mu&s;t indeed confe&s;s my &s;elf a&s;toni&s;ht at the noi&s;e I hear on both &s;ides my head of a Peace in view, nay and that <HI>France</HI> &s;neeks and begs it too; which, faith I can hardly admit into my <HI>Pere Cranium.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hall only &s;ay this to thee Friend <HI>Jack, Difficile credimus quod nolumus.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>You have rea&s;on Sir, but where is the mi&s;tery? where is the &s;ecret of all this? for to be &s;erious, the <HI>Al|lies</HI> have had no advantage over <HI>France</HI> by any entire Victories or Routs, the Reduction of 2 important places, and a defeat of part of their Fleet, is all that can be allow'd; &s;urely this has not reduced her to the&s;e terrible and truck|ling terms you &s;peak of.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, but the long continuance of the War, and
<PB N="11" REF="7">the entire lo&s;s of their Commerce has made this deep wound, and quite exhau&s;ted her.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, but the contributions formerly on her Ene|mies Countries half &s;upported her Armies, and the Prizes taken at Sea in a manner maintain'd her Navy, at lea&s;t tho&s;e &s;mall Squadrons &s;he has &s;ince the fatal blow at <HI>la Hogue</HI> fitted out to interrupt the <HI>Dutch</HI> and <HI>&V;s</HI> in our Trade, and to de&s;troy our <HI>Colonies</HI> in <HI>America</HI> and <HI>Africa.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>That has helpt them indeed, but yet it has born no proportion to the va&s;tne&s;s of their expence; it has mightily impoveri&s;ht her Enemies, but not inrich'd her &s;o much as you Fancy. Alas! <HI>France</HI> had not at the begin|ing of this pre&s;ent War recover'd her &s;elf out the Debts the la&s;t left her involv'd in; the Sword was drawn too quick, too &s;oon after'twas &s;heath'd, &s;he had not time to takebreath, for if you remember <HI>France</HI> was always ratling and flut|ring about with her Armies, marching and counter-march|ing, attacking and retreating, making War ha&s;tily, and &s;uddenly concluding Peace; this la&s;t has been a long knocking War, we are now entring the ninth year and the tenth Campaign, (for <HI>Phillipsburgh</HI> was be&s;ieg'd in 1688.)</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is &s;omething to the purpo&s;e, but however let's hear the re&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, you &s;hall. The extraordinary Taxes &s;he has been forc'd to lay on her new Conque&s;ts (tho large) as well as native Subjects, wonderfully le&s;&s;end in number by the late per&s;ecution and pre&s;ent War has depre&s;&s;ed her beyond recovery, witne&s;s the Armies of Edicts that dai|ly almo&s;t fly about, and which fall &s;hort in all their calcu|lations. In a word, &s;he is reduc'd to her la&s;t &s;hifts, her extreme and univer&s;al Poverty pinches her, and obliges her to truckle, as &s;he mu&s;t for Peace, which is the thing of the World &s;he mo&s;t de&s;ires and wants.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>But am I bound to believe all this?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, but I &s;hould think the Great and Conde&s;cen|ding Steps <HI>France</HI> has made to obtain a Peace, are Argu|ments
<PB N="12" REF="8">&s;ufficient to convince you and your whole Par|ty (if any thing can) that &s;he is in earne&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>What &s;teps do you mean?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t in the large and comprehen&s;ive Prelimina|ries (which contain the body of the Peace) already agreed to; now by the way, Mr. <HI>Jack,</HI> I mu&s;t tell you, this is a new and brisk way of Treating with <HI>France,</HI> She can't recede from tho&s;e Points, and the Conce&s;&s;ions are &s;o great, if you under&s;t and 'em, e&s;pecially in the Article that declares all the Reunions &s;hall be di&s;annull'd.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Prethee <HI>Will,</HI> what do they mean by that? I mu&s;t confe&s;s I am not States-man enough to know.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then I'le explain it: <HI>France</HI> has for the&s;e thirty Years pa&s;t (or thereabouts) been (till lately) gaining on all hands from her Neighbours, &s;ometimes by force of Arms, in an open and declar'd War, at others by ba&s;e Treachery, in a profound Peace, many of the Places thus taken and &s;tolen, She Re-united, and United to the Crown, and had them &s;olemnly Confirm'd and Ratified by the Parliament of <HI>Paris</HI> and others.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>And mu&s;t She give the&s;e back?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, She has already con&s;ented to that and more.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why then this Plaguy Peace will &s;trip Her very bare, and take away Her gawdy Foreign Plumes, which made Her look &s;o Fine and Gay.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, every Prince will have his own again, with advantage too, becau&s;e they are in a better &s;tate than when taken from them, being &s;trongly and regularly fortified, and at the expence of their Enemies.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why Sir, this will be a mighty change!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, for <HI>France</HI> formerly took all advantages with|out &s;paring Her Forces; whenever She had nothing to &s;tand in awe of, She turn'd all oppo&s;ition top&s;y turvy, plundr'd, burnt and fill'd all places with Fear and Terror of Her Cruelties, when they refus'd a blind &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion
<PB N="13" REF="8">to her Will and Plea&s;ure, and were not in a Capacity to make re&s;i&s;tance. Treaties, Alliances, Promi&s;es, Catho|lick-Princes, Religion, Sovereign-Pontiff, Truces, Peaces, Vows, Oaths, were not accounted Sacred by <HI>France,</HI> when She was never &s;o little di&s;&s;atisfied, and had the Power in Her Hands; 'twas in vain to make Her mo&s;t rea&s;onable Propo&s;itions; She would quit nothing of her preten&s;ions; She would have all, and if She could not ob|tain it, She ob&s;erved no Mea&s;ures.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s this is true, but it &s;eems <HI>Tempo|ra Mutantur!</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, I am &s;ure they are with her.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, but how came all this about?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Be patient and I'le tell ye; <HI>France,</HI> as Politick as She was, and is &s;till thought by your Party, was ex|treamly out in Her Conduct at the opening of the War.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Pray in what.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>She made mighty Levies, equipt formidable Fleets, and thought, by being early at Sea, and fir&s;t in the Field, and &s;ome Succe&s;&s;es (which indeed She wanted not) to break the Guardian Knot of the Alliance form'd again&s;t Her, She tore their Frontier Towns away, beat their Armies often, baffled their Navy once, and doubted not but by her prodigious Power to cut (<HI>Alexan|der</HI> like) the Confederacy in pieces, but Misfortunes and Lo&s;&s;es, which always &s;eparate, nay, bare down final bands of Men in private Contracts, undertakings or adven|tures, cemented yet this ligament the more, and made the Union the &s;tronger; nothing could di&s;courage the Allies, who re&s;olv'd to continue the War to the la&s;t drop of Blood and Gold. They grew and flouri&s;h'd during their &s;eeming Adver&s;iy; <HI>France</HI> droopt and dwindled in her highe&s;t po&s;perity, for She had &s;train'd Her Sinews, and acted beyond her natural Force, wholly of|fen&s;ively; but had She at fir&s;t been only upon the de|fen&s;ive,
<PB N="14" REF="9">and made lines to have pre&s;erv'd what &s;he had got in the former Wars; She had, for ought I know, by this good Husbandry of Her Trea&s;ure and Troops, in time, either di&s;&s;olv'd the League, or ruined the whole Body in Arms again&s;t Her.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Faith you &s;ay a great deal, and <HI>ad rem.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, She made a damn'd Blunder in the bu&s;ine&s;s of <HI>Ireland,</HI> which was purely a divertive. War, and &s;uch a Thorn in the &s;ide of <HI>England,</HI> that had <HI>France</HI> pro&s;ecu|ted that bu&s;ine&s;s prudently, and &s;upplied the Rebels with Men and Money, they had protracted that Matter, and di&s;tre&s;s'd the Allies the more in other places.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Where was the defect?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>The French Councils were divided in Senti|ments about it, they could then have &s;pared Forces and Coin, but <HI>Mon&s;ieur Louvois,</HI> the chief Director of the War, would have had his Son the Marquis <HI>de Barbe&s;ieure,</HI> at the Head of all in <HI>Ireland,</HI> which being oppos'd by <HI>Lewis</HI> and <HI>James,</HI> and another &s;ent, <HI>Louvois</HI> grew di&s;con|tented, neglecting that Affair, and &s;o that Kingdom was &s;oon after reduc'd to the Obedience of its True and Right|ful Lord King <HI>William.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well! well! I am &s;atisfied; I am indeed con|vinced <HI>France</HI> has been out in her Politicks in that and many other things; but don't you think that was a back-blow, a &s;mart &s;troke in earne&s;t, She gave the League in concluding the &s;eparate Peace with <HI>Savoy?</HI> and don't you believe that happy conduct of Hers will make her have better Terms at the General Treaty?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, not all, nor has that ha&s;tn'd the Negotiati|on now on Foot one bit, it was rather an Argument of <HI>Frances</HI> pinching Nece&s;&s;ities for a General Peace, which She had then in view; how faithful and punctual was that Court (mark it well, for it was the fir&s;t time) in per|forming every jot and tittle of tho&s;e Articles! what
<PB N="15" REF="9">ha&s;t they made to pay down the Stipulated Sums? what &s;peed was taken in nominating the Officers and e&s;tabli&s;h|bli&s;hing the Family of the Princes of <HI>Piedmont</HI> (now Dutche&s;s of <HI>Burgundy</HI>) and what Pomp and Magnifi|cence in the Reception of Her, and how was She care&s;|&s;ed and complimented at <HI>Lyons</HI> and other Great Towns, told She was the more welcome becau&s;e &s;he brought a Peace with Her, which the principal Magi&s;trates hop'd would be the foundation of a general One, and &s;o does the Court too! el&s;e they would never have conde&s;cended to &s;o mean a match.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>'Twas but a bad bargain, I vow to God.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>What! an <HI>Eagle</HI> &s;toop to a <HI>Sparrow!</HI> no, that's not his Quarry! Could the hopes of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Bourbon</HI> be be&s;tow'd no better? No fairer fortune to be found for him? would the Duke of <HI>Burgundy</HI> have been thus thrown away, think you, but that <HI>France</HI> had &s;ome further aim and pro&s;pect than that poor contemptible conjunction?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Was it voluntary or forc'd?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>That will be worthy our Enquiry; not very frank was <HI>France</HI> to come to it; the high &s;tomach of that Court cou'd not ea&s;ily dige&s;t &s;uch crude bits, 'twas &s;o great a diminution of the Glory of that High Flut|tring Family, that nothing can be like it, there's no parallel.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>What then could produce it?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nece&s;&s;ity! Dire nece&s;&s;ity! of their Affairs; A Peace mu&s;t be had co&s;t what it will.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>But don't you allow that our ill Po&s;ture here at home will be very favourable to <HI>France</HI> in this juncture?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>What do you mean?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>The &s;carcity of Species, the &s;tagnation of Com|merce, the Univer&s;al Cry and complaint of Want, the Lo&s;s of publick as well as private Credit, the difficulty of providing for the pre&s;ent, and the impo&s;&s;ibility of car|rying on the War for the next Year, if it &s;hould la&s;t &s;o long; to &s;ay nothing of In&s;urrections, Tumults, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
</SP>
<PB N="16" REF="10">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s 'tis a happy hit for <HI>France,</HI> and even beyond her hopes or thoughts, but tho' what you have &s;aid be in part true, yet to our great comfort and her un&s;peakable grief her Condition is much wor&s;e than ours, and her nece&s;&s;ity for a Peace much more pre&s;&s;ing.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>That will be well for us if it be true.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thanks to our good Government and prudent Parliament, we have almo&s;t recovered our &s;elves, that is, we have overcome the main difficulties we laboured under, Coin is become more common, Credit both Wooden and Paper ri&s;es, Tallies and Bank Bills advance in reputation, the Publick is chearfully tru&s;ted, Exche|quer Bills in full force and at a <HI>Par</HI> with Money, for we want not wealthy Patriots to &s;ub&s;cribe four hundred thou&s;and pounds to circulate tho&s;e and &s;upport their Fame; you &s;ee the People are patient, and &s;ubmit to a misfortune which was inevitable, having behav'd them|&s;elves with a great deal of Duty of deference, and with very little murmuring or repining, con&s;idering circum&s;tances.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, indeed 'tis more than I expected, our whole Party was big with hopes, and &s;o were the two Courts of St. <HI>Germains</HI> and <HI>Ver&s;ailes</HI> of an univer&s;al re|volt and defection; nay, we were &s;o wi&s;e to flatter our &s;elves 'twou'd embroil the Kingdom, and produce very fatal con&s;equences in general.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>But you were mightily mi&s;taken.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>So we were, and you may &s;wear it has not a little troubled us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! <HI>England</HI> was va&s;tly rich before the War, and tho' we are &s;omething exhau&s;ted, by &s;ending &s;o much money abroad (which was not to be avoided) to pay our Troops in <HI>Flanders,</HI> and by our carele&s;s conduct at Sea, in &s;uffering the <HI>French</HI> Privateers, and Squadrons
<PB N="17" REF="10">of Men of War to take our Shipping; yet thank God the wor&s;t is pa&s;t, we &s;hall mend and look better, that is, grow richer every day we live.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>That's but fancy. For nothing but Peace can re&s;tore you, by that you'll retrieve your Commerce, that extended and well manag'd, will produce a Ballance on your Side, that will bring in Bullion, that make Species; then we &s;hall all have Money enough, and the Nation thrive and flouri&s;h amain.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, this is good News for the <HI>Jacks</HI> and <HI>Gills</HI> too.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, and <HI>Wills</HI> al&s;o! for they are pretty poor at this juncture, but few of either party have any rea&s;on to brag of their abundance.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Be&s;ides there's above Eight Millions of Pieces of Eight coming from <HI>Cales,</HI> that arriv'd on the la&s;t <HI>Spani&s;h Flota,</HI> for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Merchants Account, that will help us mightily, which, with the Plate that in great Quantity lies ready to be brought in as &s;oon as ever the Mints are at lei&s;ure to Coin it, will fill us with Specie, and more than make good the lo&s;s we &s;u&s;tain'd by the Re-coining our Money.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Say ye &s;o Man!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, in &s;hort, we &s;hall be able to hold out the War longer than the French, and that will oblige them to think the more earne&s;tly of complying with the Allies.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>But can you imagine after all, that His Mo&s;t Chri&s;tian Maje&s;ty will ever con&s;ent to abandon King <HI>James?</HI> &s;o ab&s;olutely and entirely as &s;ome pretend, when he Swore &s;olemnly (as we have been told) that he would never put up his Sword in his Scabbard till he had re|&s;tored him to his three Kingdoms?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! good Lad, that is the lea&s;t of the Ob|&s;tacles to a Peace; don't you remember how the Court of <HI>France</HI> packt poor <HI>Charles,</HI> nay, and <HI>Jemmy</HI> too, (the
<PB N="18" REF="11">&s;ame Gentleman you talk of Re-inthroning, who, one would have thought, &s;hould not have car'd to have gone thither again) away, when they fled thither for Sanctua|ry, in the heat of the former times, and this only at the in&s;tigation and upon the threats of <HI>Cromwell,</HI> when <HI>France</HI> was in a much better condition than She now is.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have heard &s;omething of that, there may be truth in't; I think 'twas during the Mini&s;try of <HI>Maza|rin</HI> (that renown'd Cardinal) then I find <HI>France</HI> will &s;tick at nothing when Her Intere&s;t bids Her do it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Did not you know that before?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, but was loth to believe or think any thing that's ill of a Friend.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Whip, poor <HI>James</HI> upon the conclu&s;ion of a Peace (now not far off) mu&s;t be gone to <HI>Rome</HI> or <HI>Modena;</HI> the la&s;t can't give him Royal Reception and Maintenance, tho' the fir&s;t can; and that old Cur the <HI>Pope</HI> is a doting Fool, as well as ingrateful Ra&s;cal (but all Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks are &s;o when their bu&s;ine&s;s is done) that he does not by a Solemn Nunciature invite him to recide at <HI>New Babylon;</HI> He, and the Conclave of Cardinals, out of his and their va&s;t Revenues, allow him a large Stipend of a Million (at lea&s;t) of Crowns <HI>per Annum,</HI> to &s;upport his Dignity, furni&s;hing him a <HI>Palace</HI> at their Expence al&s;o; I am &s;ure he de&s;erves this and more from their Hands; he that has done and &s;uffered &s;o much for Mother Church; lo&s;e three Crowns for her &s;ake and &s;ervice (whereas the De'le take me Sir, as an hone&s;t <HI>Scot</HI> &s;aid, if I'de lo&s;e Half a Crown for all the Churches in the World.)</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay this is no impediment to a general Treaty:</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, not a bit. The <HI>Jack</HI> Intere&s;t is no rub; Did you ever know <HI>France</HI> ever value any Intere&s;t but Her own?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then where lye the main difficulties in the mat|ter?
<PB N="19" REF="11">we have been for many Months pa&s;t amus'd with the hopes of an accommodation, the very Subject of it, is almo&s;t thred-bare; 'tis really grown dull and flat, no|thing but the va&s;t hopes of its being near a conclu&s;ion, with the mighty benefits it will produce, cou'd make the daily and almo&s;t hourly Chat of it, reli&s;h with us, or be at all agreeable to our Ears, becau&s;e we have talkt &s;o long of it, and &s;ee &s;o little likelihood of it coming about.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>People are apt to be earne&s;t and impatient for any great good they de&s;ire; but Rea&s;on tells us plainly, that a bu&s;ine&s;s of that va&s;t import, and wherein &s;o many Great Princes and States are concern'd, and which requires &s;uch Skill and Addre&s;s to manage well (it be|ing one of the nice&s;t Points in the World, to &s;atisfie &s;o many different preten&s;ions, be&s;ides all great Bodies of cour&s;e, and Naturally move &s;lowly) will take up time to di&s;patch.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, &s;o it &s;eems, and a great deal too.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Emperor continues a little &s;tiff, and would have the Preliminaries enlarged, which the French, if they could, would avoid, but rather than continue the War, they will comply with, and entirely Re&s;ign <HI>Lor|rain</HI> to its Duke, without any re&s;ervation or re&s;triction whatever. When the Armies take the Field (which will be about the latter end of <HI>May</HI> 1697. they will quicken the Negotiations.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>That's a good while.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, the Grand A&s;&s;embly of <HI>Plenipo's</HI> will meet &s;ooner than that, for you may ob&s;erve, if you plea&s;e that the way has been &s;mooth'd extreamly by the <HI>French'</HI> Amba&s;&s;adors, having agreed that all Ceremonies &s;hall be laid a&s;ide quite, (which you know us'd to confound a deal of time to no purpo&s;e) the Titles of Princes al&s;o to be of no con&s;equence, which methinks, is plain Engli&s;h,
<PB N="20" REF="12">that our Mini&s;ters are to be admitted as amply as can be to the General Treaty; &s;o that you may perceive all parties, but e&s;pecially the <HI>Gauls,</HI> are very willing to come to; Alas! they won't conte&s;t about Trifles now, nor would <HI>France</HI> make the lea&s;t &s;cruple of owning King <HI>William</HI> openly, even before the Great Congre&s;s; but She is not yet &s;ure of a Peace, and if the Allies &s;hould fly off, then would She ab&s;olutely lo&s;e all Her Intere&s;t here among&s;t you and the Naughty Men of your Party, which is yet of &s;ome &s;ervice to her, tho' it has been of much more formerly.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, upon the whole, nothing you have &s;aid yet, has been able to per&s;uade me we &s;hall have an Agreement &s;o &s;uddenly as you pretend.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then I'le add, that be&s;ide the Propen&s;ity all Parties have for a Peace (which I &s;hou'd think would be Argu|ment &s;ufficient alone) not to &s;ay nece&s;&s;ity, tho' 'tis pretty near that, I tell you 'tis almo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible to mi&s;s of a Peace, becau&s;e the &s;everal Intere&s;ts on both &s;ides engag'd in the War have unanimou&s;ly agreed upon a <HI>Mediator,</HI> and this I hope you'll allow to be in earne&s;t and &s;olemnly done; now the differences that &s;hall ari&s;e at the General A&s;&s;embly, will not lie in the Power of either Party to di&s;pute long about, but they mu&s;t of cour&s;e be referred to the Arbiter, who alone has power to determine them, (to which end he was cho&s;e and excepted) now the King of <HI>Sweeden</HI> is no &s;uch contemptible Prince to be made a Tool of, or be affronted by the &s;tubborne&s;s or unrea&s;onable|ne&s;s of either &s;ide, for he has a very con&s;iderable Army of his own, made up of Veteran Troops in long and con&s;tant pay; if he &s;hould declare on either part 'twou'd fall heavy upon the t'other, and bring them to Rea&s;on.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>But there's no likelihood of that.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, No, I &s;ay this only to let you &s;ee the migh|ty probabilities of a &s;udden Peace; alas! neither the
<PB N="21" REF="12">high demands of the <HI>Allies,</HI> nor the flat refu&s;als of <HI>France</HI> will be able long to hinder, or in the lea&s;t break off the pre|&s;ent Negotiations, becau&s;e the <HI>Mediator</HI> has it &s;olely in his Power to decide the matter; nor is the que&s;tion &s;o much now whether there will be a &s;peedy Peace or not? as how to fix it upon &s;uch a <HI>Ba&s;is,</HI> that it &s;hall not for many years to come be in the Power of <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> to plague his hone&s;t and quiet Neighbours again by beginning a new War, and bringing it into their Territories.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>How can that be done?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>France</HI> by the Rendition of tho&s;e &s;trong Frontier Towns &s;he is now Mi&s;tre&s;s of, will &s;o weaken her&s;elf and &s;trengthen her Enemies, that &s;he'll ha' but little heart to think yet a great while of new Quarrels, be&s;ides if the Peace were this minute concluded, the <HI>Allies</HI> would not disband all their Armies, nor unrig their Navies, but keep up &s;uch a Force both by Sea and Land, that would be continual awe upon <HI>Lewis;</HI> be&s;ides 'tis time for him to think of quitting this World and preparing for another; a life (towards his latter end) of quiet and repo&s;e would be better for him, and more agreable to his advanced Age, and &s;uitable to his many infirmities, than the noi&s;e and hurry War nece&s;&s;arily occa&s;ions; He is almo&s;t worn out with Fatigues of State, late Councils, and the indifa|tigable applications he has gone through, not to mention Amours and the &s;oft plea&s;ures of Courts.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>As you have tack't them together, that's indeed lighting the Candle at both ends, that will ha&s;ten a man home to his Forefather.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Circles and Princes of the Empire have already re&s;olv'd to keep on foot even in times of Peace a good Body of Troops, and you may be &s;ure all the re&s;t of the Members of this renown'd and celebrated Uni|on will do the like; &s;o that <HI>France</HI> will be curbed on all hands; be&s;ides it will be many years before &s;he can re|cover
<PB N="22" REF="13">her &s;elf out of that deep de&s;olation and mi&s;ery &s;he now is in, the late heavy hand of per&s;ecution and the pre|&s;ent long raging War, have eas'd her of her &s;uperfluous Subjects and redundant Wealth which time and Peace can only repair.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Prethee <HI>Will.</HI> no more of this, for I tell you plainly, your Sentiments and our differ extreamly upon the pre&s;ent State and Condition of that Kingdom; and &s;o let's wave all further chat of that matter, and go to the Subject now in hand, <HI>Pax, Pax,</HI> is the word now mo&s;t in Vogue; becau&s;e earne&s;tly de&s;ired by the greate&s;t part of the weakened Warriours, tho' I can hardly ever be brought to believe that <HI>France</HI> is &s;o very zealous to ob|tain it as you would fain per&s;uade me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well <HI>Jack,</HI> to take yet a little more pains with thee, is it not a good Argument that &s;he would fain have Peace when all the World knows that &s;he fir&s;t and alone &s;ued and &s;ollicited heartily to come into her Enemies Countrey to treat? Can&s;t thou Fancy that <HI>France</HI> wou'd &s;end her Emba&s;&s;adors to <HI>Holland</HI> to negotiate, if the po&s;|ture of her Affairs were &s;o good as you pretend? No, rather the Confederates mu&s;t cringe, and creep, and &s;end Mini&s;ters to <HI>Ver&s;ailes;</HI> take Arms, be glad of what kind of Agreement that mighty Monarch (as you think him) would vouch&s;afe to give them. Is not this rational? in &s;hort, if this would not do with you nothing can, I will give over all hopes of convincing thy incurable ob&s;tinacy; it's time for us to part.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, dear <HI>Will,</HI> don't do that, we have not &s;een one another a great while, be&s;ides the Wine is excellent, we have &s;ome hours yet on our hands, and you are &s;en&s;i|ble I love your conver&s;ation beyond all the mens in the World; therefore pray proceed and inform me, that I may our whole Tribe, for faith and troth, with your con|&s;ent I will have it printed; I can remember ev'ry word of it.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="23" REF="13">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No <HI>Jack,</HI> I dare hardly confide in thee, becau&s;e for the &s;ake of that cur&s;ed Cau&s;e thou art embarked in, thou't pervert and change my words.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>By the Ma&s;s I won't, tho' I am a man of more honor than to do &s;o; however, to end this di&s;pute, pray do you &s;end it to the Pre&s;s to a man of your own Kidney, on whom you may rely, and let the Publick be obliged with it; I mu&s;t confe&s;s there's more weight and &s;olidity in it, than I am willing to own, becau&s;e you argue &s;o &s;trongly again&s;t an Intere&s;t I love mo&s;t pa&s;&s;ionately; however, come to the Text.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>By that, I &s;uppo&s;e &s;ome more Rea&s;ons you would have of an Approaching Peace.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, you gue&s;t well.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;hall, I will give ye a &s;hort Account of what I my &s;elf ob&s;erv'd at <HI>Paris</HI> (for you mu&s;t know, I have lately made the Tour of <HI>France,</HI> and am newly return'd) upon the Arrival of the Pa&s;s-ports, from the States General of the United <HI>Netherlands;</HI> and the Elector of <HI>Bavaria,</HI> to give leave to the French Plenipo's to pa&s;s through, and re&s;ide in their Territories; no &s;oon|er was this mo&s;t welcome News come to that Metropolis, but there appear'd an Univer&s;al and Vi&s;ible Joy among&s;t all the People, &s;miles on their Lips, and Mirth in their Mouths.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is u&s;ual in all Nations upon &s;uch occa&s;ions.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>But this was &s;o extravagant and extraordinary, that I could not but admire at it, e&s;pecially when I reflect|ed on the ridiculous Lies your Party &s;pread abroad in <HI>England,</HI> of the mighty wealth and pui&s;&s;ance of <HI>France,</HI> how va&s;tly they have gain'd by the War, how rich and ea&s;ie they are, how nimbly and plentifully Money rumbles a|bout there, how gay and gallant they appear every where, how little they repine at their numberle&s;s Taxes, (tho' three of the four Elements pay to the King) and how
<PB N="24" REF="14">indifferent Peace is or would be to them, and a great deal of &s;uch poor preamble as this.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>I can't deny but this is the common Chat of our Clamorous Clans, nay, and I a&s;&s;ure you 'tis a &s;ub|&s;tantial part of our Creed; we, like the thick-skul'd Cavaliers of old, &s;tifly and &s;tubbornly adhere to a Cau&s;e that has (as theirs did them) brought us to beggery, we live (Camelions like) upon the Air of hopes, thin Diet God wot, wor&s;e than Water-grewel; we promi&s;e our &s;elves mighty Matters upon a &s;econd Re&s;tauration, as they, poor Gentlemen, did upon the Fir&s;t, tho' I am almo&s;t of the mind we &s;hould not fare much better than they did, if &s;uch a Scene &s;hould be open'd.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, you may be &s;ure on't; you know the <HI>Stu|arts</HI> were ever a grateful Family; you may rely upon their promi&s;es that never kept any.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>We have all had prodigious A&s;&s;urances from King <HI>James,</HI> of his never failing Favour to us upon his Re-in|thronement, and we can hardly forbear believing him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>You are infatuated; have ye forgot his Brother <HI>Charles</HI>'s Conduct; but prethee do you and your Tru&s;ty Tribe &s;et your hearts at re&s;t, you'le never &s;ee any day like that, no return for him but in a Coffin; the rattle your Fools make of his coming ere long to <HI>Calis</HI> or <HI>Bo|longe,</HI> is only to take his <HI>&V;ltimum vale</HI> of old <HI>Eng|land,</HI> before he go his Pilgrimage to the Lady of <HI>La|reto.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why do you think his Re-e&s;tabli&s;hment Impo&s;&s;i|ble?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, or next to't.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, Gad, as &s;trange and &s;urprizing things have been brought about in the twinckling of an Eye, by the power of Providence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! Poor <HI>Jemmy</HI> has no &s;uch good Stars to help him to his three Crowns again, one Crown in the
<PB N="25" REF="14">other World is worth three and twenty in this, here's nothing in this lower Orb but trouble and vexation, and who would value empty Titles and noi&s;ey Greatne&s;s mixt with &s;o much allay and mortification?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>What! you prate like a Preacher, and banter the Old Gentlemen. You're mightily mi&s;taken, for he'le have a tug for it yet; the Catholick Princes to whom he Adre&s;t his fir&s;t <HI>Manife&s;to,</HI> will &s;urely have com|pa&s;&s;ion of his Ca&s;e, and give him &s;ome Relief, in order to re&s;tore him to his Dominions.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, without doubt, and &s;o will the Prote&s;tant Powers too! thou dolthead, that art &s;uch a Fool to fancy that either the Popi&s;h or Reform'd Kings or States, will take any notice of that hotch-potch of Incon&s;i&s;ten|ces; alas! for the fir&s;t of tho&s;e Pamphlets, it did indeed make &s;ome little noi&s;e in the World, (tho' not much) but for the &s;econd it died as &s;oon as it was born, and is now buried in oblivion. Can'&s;t thou be &s;uch a block <HI>(Jack)</HI> to think that writing will do the bu&s;ine&s;s, when &s;ighting could not; a <HI>Paper War</HI> u&s;ually makes way for, and pre|cedes the <HI>Bloody One,</HI> but never &s;ucceeds it; it is in vain for the Scriblers to pretend to effect with their Pens, more than the Sons of <HI>Mars</HI> can do with their Swords.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay well. But won't our old Ma&s;ter have a <HI>Plenipo.</HI> at <HI>Re&s;wicke,</HI> to take care of his Affairs, to pre&s;s his preten&s;ions, or at lea&s;t to enter his prote&s;tations?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, I believe not, that will hardly be permit|ted, for he has no bu&s;ine&s;s there, and therefore to what purpo&s;e &s;hould he &s;end a Mini&s;ter thither?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! by all means, to &s;ecure his intere&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>God knows that's very &s;mall at this time, and hardly worth taking any care about, but thou &s;hal|low-crown, does not thou know that that matter has been already adju&s;ted with <HI>France,</HI> that cunning Court
<PB N="26" REF="15">was made &s;en&s;ible, no Overtures of Peace could be li&s;t|ned to, except the Late <HI>Briti&s;h Bravo,</HI> and his <HI>Brat,</HI> with all their pre&s;ent as well as future preten&s;ions, were entirely and ab&s;olutely abandoned, and this <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> him&s;elf acquainted that unhappy Gentleman with, and at the &s;ame time let him know, that the nece&s;&s;ity of his own affairs, and the pre&s;ervation of his people from utter ruine and de&s;truction, were the true Motives that induc'd him to pre&s;s &s;o earne&s;tly for a &s;peedy Accommodation, and that he had hone&s;tly and honorably u&s;ed his utmo&s;t Effects to re-in&s;tate him, but that 'twas all in vain; the <HI>Allies</HI> were invincible, and almo&s;t inexorable, that their Armies were (and had been for &s;ome pa&s;t Cam|paigns) &s;uperior to his in number, in much better plight, their Heets I orded it on the Main and without controll or oppo&s;ition, burnt his Maritime Towns; that 'twas im|po&s;&s;ible for him to remount his Cavalry or recruit his Infantry, that not only Hor&s;es but Money al&s;o was want|ing; The Troops in great Arrears, his Magazines ill pro|vided; and in a word, that notwith&s;tanding his great retrenchments and mighty good management, thri&s;t and care, it was ab&s;olutely impo&s;&s;ible to carry on the War any longer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>The&s;e were melancholy <HI>Memento</HI>'s to an exiled King, the&s;e were &s;owre Sopps to a mi&s;erable man, tum|bled from the top of Honour to the bottom of de&s;pair, and all for the &s;ake of a mu&s;ty Religion, growing every day more and more out of Fa&s;hion: then I find by your account of things, we have but &s;mall hopes of ever &s;eeing that Spark in this part of the World again, at lea&s;t alive!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>No indeed, for the Princes of this Age are too wi&s;e and wary to fight &s;o furiou&s;ly and madly (as former|ly they were wont) for Dame Church, they take more care of their temporal E&s;tates than in times pa&s;t, nor are
<PB N="27" REF="15">they &s;o apt to be intoxicated by the Prie&s;thood, who pretend to be the Emba&s;&s;adors from Heaven and Sons of Peace, yet prove too often the Mini&s;ters of Hell, kind|ling the Fire of War on Earth upon the &s;core of &s;ome trifling differences in Ceremonies (not e&s;&s;ential in &s;acred Rites) or becau&s;e they can't bring the people to be all under one head (infallible for&s;ooth!) which is as ea&s;ie to be done as to make all the folks of one Phis. Be&s;ides, the Layicks have now more Wit, they won't knock one an|other on the Head to plea&s;e the Prie&s;ts.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>By my Soul, I think they are in the right on't. But come my choice Cock, let's pa&s;s from this Sally, which will be apt to carry us too far, leading us out oth' way, and let us talk of the Dove with the Olive branch in his Mouth, the plea&s;ing Pro&s;pect of Peace, the very &s;ound of that Word is grateful to our Ears; I believe the Men of Metal, tho&s;e Sons of Steel, are amo&s;t weary of the War, and would willingly be at quiet them&s;elves, for if it be a Trade (as it is &s;aid) it is quickly taken up, and may be as &s;oon laid down again, the perquits and profits are but &s;mall and not encouraging, e&s;pecially at this time.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>I think &s;o too, well, to the bu&s;ine&s;s in hand; be|&s;ides the Staunch and &s;olid Rea&s;ons I have offer'd you upon this Subject, I &s;hall yet add, that the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Dutch</HI> bearing the greate&s;t burden of the War in maintain|ing all the Sea, and mo&s;t of the Land Forces now in Arms, may very well pretend to have the large&s;t &s;hare and &s;troke in making the Peace; Territory they have not lo&s;t, and &s;o demand not any, they find <HI>France</HI> inclin'd to end the War by giving up to the Con&s;ederates their Provinces, Cities, Towns, and Forts; putting things in <HI>Statu quo:</HI> now 'tis not the Intere&s;t of <HI>Europe</HI> to ruine or conquer <HI>France</HI> (if it could be done) to bring her to good Terms by depluming her is, all that has been aim'd at, to this She will yield, though &s;omewhat unwillingly (it mu&s;t be
<PB N="28" REF="16">confe&s;t I mu&s;t needs &s;ay it would have plea&s;ed me better, and all tho&s;e that love the Common Cau&s;e, to have had <HI>France</HI> humbled after another manner, and reduc't to a nearer degree of Ruine.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>How do you mean?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>To have had her Forces entirely defeated, and her Territories entered by the Armies of the <HI>Allies;</HI> her Towns plundered, burnt and depopulated, the whole Country about ravaged, nothing but de&s;olation and de|&s;truction over the Land.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why you are cruelly enclin'd.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am &s;o, I talk like a Souldier; be&s;ides, it is but as <HI>France</HI> treated <HI>Germany,</HI> and would all the re&s;t of her Neighbours if &s;he could; I a&s;&s;ure you <HI>Jack,</HI> it troubles me not a little, when I reflect how well &s;he is like to come off, when after all the mi&s;chief &s;he has done in the world, and the mi&s;eries &s;he heap'd on others, I am clear|ly for <HI>Lex Talionis, &amp; nec Lex ju&s;tior illa, &amp;c.</HI> &mdash; 'tis like a man's dying in full &s;trength and vigor, for the Confederates to give over the War, when they had brought things to &s;uch a pitch, to exceed <HI>France</HI> in pow|er; it would have been much more glorious to have forced her by Arms to have &s;ent a <HI>Carte Blanche</HI> and &s;ubmitted to their Terms: &s;he that has been the cau&s;e of &s;o much Chri&s;tian blood-&s;hed, to gratifie her Ambition only, that introduced into the World, recommended and practi&s;ed &s;uch Tracherous and Villanous Polliticks, employed &s;uch Barbarous A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ines, encouraged Murders by poynard, and poy&s;on, corrupted Courts, debauched Mankind mangled Morals, perverted principles, done allt he ill things that were to be thought of or invented, to accompli&s;h her ends, (yet mi&s;t them) I &s;ay, &s;he that has acted thus in&s;o|lently, violently and inhumanely, to e&s;cape the venge|ance of Heaven, and avoid the Fate of <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah</HI> is &s;trange, I am &s;ure it is pity &s;he is not &s;acrific'd and &s;erv'd as the old <HI>Romans</HI> did <HI>Carthage,</HI> I &s;ay <HI>Delenda e&s;t Gallia.</HI></P>
</SP>
<PB N="29" REF="16">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is a &s;udden &s;ally of your inordinate Zeal and intemperare Heat, you fly too indeed; to depre&s;s the hou&s;e of <HI>Bourbon</HI> too low, would but give way to the <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> Family to pierk up again; there are but tho&s;e two topping Cedars capable of contending for the We&s;tern Empire, and you &s;ee it has been the de&s;tiny of neither to carry it; the Princes of Europe are &s;o prudent|ly politique when either of tho&s;e hou&s;es &s;well to an exce&s;s of Power, they bind and confederate together, to oppo&s;e their growing greatne&s;s; and &s;ince the extinction of the four pa&s;t mighty Monarchies, <HI>Spain</HI> towards the clo&s;e of the la&s;t Century, and <HI>France</HI> in her turn near the end of the pre&s;ent bid faire&s;t for the Univer&s;ality, and indeed both were pretty near the Mark.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>But Heaven rai&s;ed again&s;t the <HI>Spaniards</HI> a re|nowned and victorious Heroine in the la&s;t Age, our im|mortal Queen <HI>Elizabeth;</HI> and in this pre&s;ent has advan|ced to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Throne a Gallant and God-like Prince KING WILLIAM entirely entirely after our own hearts, to &s;top the progre&s;s of the <HI>French</HI> Arms; &s;o that both the pretenders have been hindred from obtaining the ab|&s;olute Dominion of the fourth part of the Globe; and it &s;eems plainly to me, as if Providence had re&s;erved that Glory for Old <HI>England,</HI> to have always the greate&s;t &s;hare of, <HI>viz.</HI> To pre&s;erve &s;weet Liberty, in oppo&s;ition to &s;owre Slavery, by falling into the conjunction to be the weigh|tie&s;t in the War, and by procuring a Peace, to keep the Ballance in her hands alone.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>That has indeed been the honourable Lot of our Nation, and I am &s;o much an <HI>Engli&s;hman</HI> to value my &s;elf upon't, &amp; to wi&s;h it may be always in our Power to do &s;o.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Will.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well &s;o much for that. I hope friend <HI>Jack,</HI> from what has been &s;aid, you are &s;ufficiently convinced that in all humane probability we are not far from a good Peace.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, truly I mu&s;t needs confe&s;s you have gone
<PB N="30" REF="17">a great way towards inducing me to believe it does draw near. I do own the Deduction you have given me of Affairs, with the pertinent Reflections you have made thereon, have wonderfully gain'd upon me; you have hit upon happy thoughts, are a good Logician and have from &s;ub&s;tantial premi&s;es drawn apt conclu&s;ions. I am indeed induced to think this Bloody, Tedious, and Unnatural War is terminating, which I &s;hall be glad of for the benefit of the Re-publick, nay, and Re-private too. But prethee what &s;hall we get at the winding up of the bottom, in Con&s;ideration of the Millions of Mo|ney, and thou&s;ands of Men that have been &s;pent and lo&s;t within the&s;e few years?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>From out of a multitude of Advantages, I &s;hall only enumerate &s;ome of the mo&s;t con&s;iderable. In the fir&s;t place, we have got a very good King for a very bad One; he alone is worth all the charges we have been at to keep him in, and the other out; next we have &s;ecured our Religion, Liberties, and Properties, beyond a po&s;&s;ibility of being (ever I think) in any danger again from that <HI>Puppet Popery,</HI> and that <HI>Mon&s;ter Tyranny;</HI> then have we pre&s;erv'd our Native Country, and all <HI>Europe</HI> too, from a Forreign Yoke, wor&s;e than Egyptian Bon|dage, which neither we nor our Fore-fathers could en|dure to hear of, much le&s;s to bear; we have taken <HI>Be|hemoth</HI> by the Beard, and pluckt him down; the <HI>French Leviathan</HI> could not &s;tand before us; how great a glory is it to our Kingdom, and what a large &s;hare each Eng|li&s;h-man participates, that we have been (by God's A&s;|&s;i&s;tance) the principal In&s;truments to reduce <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> to Rea&s;on; Let us not grudge the expence, nor murmur at what we have &s;uffered to accompli&s;h the&s;e great and gal|lant Ends; a few years of Peace will produce a mighty plenty among&s;t us, and heal the wounds the War has given. What an Immortal Honour is it to our Name
<PB N="31" REF="17">and Nation that we have dar'd to undertake, and have al|mo&s;t perfected the Re-coyning of our Money, even during the heat, and in the eigth and ninth Year of a raging War; nay, and what is next to miraculous, have &s;ur|mounted all tho&s;e Difficulties that encountred us, not|with&s;tanding we have had all along, and have yet in our very Bowels a Body of Scorpions, a Den of Dragons, a Troop of Tygers, that have bit and &s;tung us, and which is wor&s;e, have impeded all our great and Glorious Inten|&s;ions, (as much as in them lay) that cur&s;ed Faction of <HI>Jacks,</HI> (of which you are a Limb) has done us abun|dance of Mi&s;chief, they have been a heavy and dead weight in our Affairs, clogg'd our VVheels, betray'd our Councils, and a&s;&s;i&s;ted our (and their own) Enemies, to help on our mutual ruine.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Puh! you begin to rave.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, faith <HI>Jack,</HI> I don't. This is truth, and mat|ter of Fact, I charge on tho&s;e Varlets; unworthy the &s;weet Air they breath in, and gentle Government they live under. Ingrateful VVretches to their Mother Earth that bare them, endeavouring to de&s;troy her that gave them Life. VVorthle&s;s, unthinking Animals, Moles that VVork under ground, and would &s;ain undermine our happy E&s;tabli&s;hment (the Envy and Admiration of the whole world) what will become of the&s;e Con|temptible Creatures upon a Peace? where will they hide their heads? whither &s;ly for refuge? frontle&s;s and im|pudent as they are, &s;hame and confu&s;ion will 'oretake 'em, they will be the &s;corn and pity of all Mankind, they ought to be hunted and baited as wild Bea&s;ts, treated as Mad-dogs, for if they had not been Mad, they'd never have oppo&s;ed the true Intere&s;t of their Native Country.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>But prethee <HI>VVill,</HI> why &s;o fierce and furious? be mild and moderate; methinks the approach of the&s;e Halcyon Daies you pre&s;age, &s;hould in&s;pire your bre&s;t
<PB N="32" REF="18">with kinder and calmer Expre&s;&s;ions; Peaceful Planets have hovered over our heads ever &s;ince we began our Dialogue; therefore pray bani&s;h <HI>Mars</HI> out of our company, el&s;e I &s;hall &s;uppo&s;e you are in&s;luenced by that Fiery Spark (the VVorld Phaeton) VVe met Friends, and &s;o let us part; be&s;ides it is late (near twelve) let's make an end of this Bottle and &s;o move off.</P>
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<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>VVith all my heart. Come old Lad, here is a Bumper, a Clo&s;er to the Peace and Pro&s;perity of old <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jack.</SPEAKER>
<P>Faith I will pledge it cordially. You Rogue you, what a Succe&s;&s;ion of happy years are at hand! how pro|digiou&s;ly this Nation will flouri&s;h, and how &s;oon grow great again, e&s;pecially if our Councils bend them&s;elves to improve, encourage and extend our Commerce.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>VVill.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, we &s;hall &s;oon be a Great and Glorious Peo|ple, the VVonder of the World, the Pride of our Friends, the Terror of our Foes, the Darling of Heaven, and the Delight of each Other. I'le treat <HI>Jack,</HI> come Drawer take the Reckoning, there is a Shilling over for you, and &s;o my dear Friend <HI>Jack</HI></P>
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<CLOSER><SALUTE>Adieu.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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