_Roger._ And was this all your Landlord said to you? Had you nothing to say for yourself? You spoke rationally the last time we were together. _Humphrey._ Nay, I was forward enough to speak I’ll assure you; and I told them I was sure our old members would be for the rooting up of Popery, and would stand stiffly against Arbitrary Government. _Roger._ What said they then? _Humphrey._ My Landlord laughed at me, and told me I had been among the _Presbyterian Whigs_, and bid me have a care of being cheated into Rebellion, by those two words _Popery_ and _Arbitrary Government_. Then he showed me a printed paper, I think he called it _The Mistress of Iniquity_, which showed as plain as the nose on my face, that in ’41 they did as we do now, and by that means they brought one King to the block, and so they would now do by our present Sovereign, God bless him. _Roger._ Alas! alas! and that frighted you, did it? _Humphrey._ Frighted me, ay marry did it, and I think ’twould affright any honest man; you know I was always a King’s man, and I would be taught to join with those, or give my Voice for such, who, under the notion of crying against Popery and Arbitrary Government, would pull down the King and the Bishops, and set up a Commonwealth again. _Roger._ Well, _Numps_, I believe thee to be an honest man, and there be many in this land of thy condition, that are not of any great reach in policies and tricks of State Mountebanks, and so may be easily persuaded, upon false grounds, to betray your country, your liberties, your lives, and religion. _Humphrey._ Nay, that was not all; he then read another printed paper, with a hard name, I think it was _Hercules Rideing_, or something of jest and earnest which I laughed heartily at, and methought there were some things called ‘_Querks_,’ which made a jingling and noise in my ears, that I thought there was some spell in it, for it seemed to join with _Mistress Iniquity_, to make all the Presbyterians traitors, and most of the people of England mad and factious. _Roger._ There is as much heed to be given to these pamphlets as to the jingling of Morrice-bells. They are hired to set the people together by the ears, and are Papists in masquerade; things set up to affright the people out of their senses, with the buy leave of ’41; wise men see through them, honest men are not affrighted at them, and fools and knaves only are led aside by them. _Humphrey._ But don’t we do now as formerly, before the late wars? don’t we run in just the same steps as they did, who caused all the late bloody doings, as those pamphlets would make us believe?