_Citt._ Pre'thee do not _Balderno_, ye should say; Speak _Statutable English_, ye Fool you. Thou think'st perhaps that the people will not believe it: Observe but what I say to thee; let it but be put into the _Protestant Domestique_, that his _Imperiall Majesty_ is to hold up his hand at the _Kings Bench-barr_ for't, and let me be Dogs-meat if they do not swallow That too. Why pre'thee, _Bumkin_, we must make 'um believe stranger Things than This, or we shall never do our businesse. They must be made to believe that the _King_ intends to play the _Tyrant_; that all his _Counsellors_ are _Pensioners_ to the _French King_; that all his _Enemies_ are turn'd his _Friends_, o'th sodain, and all his _Friends_, his _Enemies_; That _Prelacy_ is _Anti-Christian_; all our _Clergy-men_, _Papists_, the _Liturgy_ the _Masse-Book_, and that the _Ten Commandments_ are to be read _backward_. Bum. _Blesse me_, Citt, _what do I hear?_ Popish Ministers may have Orthodox Offices. _Citt._ Come, come, Sirrah; y'are under an Oath; and This is the plain Truth on'. What is it to Thee and Me, I pre'thee, whether the _Great Ministers_ be _True_, or _False_; Or what _Religion_, the _Clergy_ are of, so long as their _Livings_ ye Rogue, are _Orthodox_, and their _Offices well-Affected_. Bum. _This does Qualifie, I must confess. But you were saying, that the First Clamour should be levell'd at some_ Known _and_ Eminent Papists: _Now what comes after That, I beseech you?_ _Citt_. You may safely Mark all Their Friends then for _Popishly-Affected_; and so consequently on to all that _Love them_, and all that _They Love_. When this Opinion is once started, 'tis an Easy matter, by the help of _Invention_, and _Story_, to improve it; and by this means we shall come, in a short time to secure all the _Councils_ of the Nation to _our Party_, that are chosen by _Suffrage_. If you were read in History you would finde, that still _as the_ Papists _set the House on fire, the_ Non-conformists _took the Opportunity of rosting their own Eggs_. Who are Popishly affected. Bum. _Yes, yes, I understand ye. As for Example now,_ One _goes to the_ Lords _in the_ Tower, another (_as you were saying_) _drinks the_ Dukes Health, _a_ Third _prays for the_ Queen: _a_ Fourth _Phansies_ Two Plots; _a_ Fifth _refuses the_ Petition, _a_ Sixth _speaks well of my_ Lord Chief Justice, _or calls the_ Protestant Domestick _a_ Libel. _All these now are_ Popishly-Affected. _Citt._ Save your breath _Bumpkin_, and take all in one word: whosoever will not do as we would have him shall be _made_ so. But now to the matter of _Invention_, and _Story_; I hate the over-hearing of Discourses, in Blinde Allyes, and such ordinary _Shams_: I'm rather for coming downright to the _Man_, and to the _Poynt_; after the way of the Protestant Domestique. Matters of Moment.