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england_n	army_n	king_n	scotland_n	7,134	5	8.6838	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81423	A dialogue between the French King, and the late King James at St. Germains en Laye: occasion'd by the signing of the peace.	James II, King of England, 1633-1701, associated name.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, associated name.	1697 (1697)	Wing D1331A; ESTC R222259	5,314	26

A DIALOGUE Between the French King And the LATE King JAMES A DIALOGUE Between the French King And the LATE King JAMES At St. Germains en Laye Occasion'd by the Signing of the PEACE LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1697. A DIALOGUE Between the French King And the Late King JAMES F. K. BON jour Mon Cousin K. J. I hope your Majesty will excuse my want of Breeding To tell you the Truth Sir I am quite out of love with any thing of French F. K. Why so out of humour Sir K. J. Not without Cause Sir if I may be a Judge in my own Case I presume your Majesty cannot but know the Occasion F. K. Upon my Honour not I Madam de Maintenon and I have been Solacing our selves congratulating each other upon the good News of a Peace K. J. And I upon the same Account have been Cursing my Cruel Fate and False Friends F. K. Sir I hope you are not come to affront me But that I am in an extream good Humour I might have resented such an Expression K. J. Your Majesty may do with me as you please I have lost Three Kingdoms already and I have nothing left now worth losing F. K. Come Sir let me desire you to curb your Passion and guide your self by Reason K. J. Is this a time to talk of Reason when Experience tells me I am in a fair way to beg my Bread F. K. What would you have me do K. J. As you promised me Sir and as I promised my dear Friends soon after I came here That you would not put up your Sword till you had revenged my Quarrel and replaced me on the Throne from whence the Heretical Crew expelled me F. K. 'T is true Sir I drew my Sword and will not put it up my self yet upon a second Consideration the Dauphin shall and really it is not just he should inherit a wasted Kingdom nor that I should entail upon him a perpetual War with his Neighbours therefore I have advised him to take your Grandfather's Motto Beati Pacifici knowing by my own Experience the fatal Mischiefs of War K. J. Truly Sir I think you cannot in Honour make a Peace with the Prince of Orange so long as he keeps me out of my Throne F. K. Put Interest in one Scale and Honour in the other you 'll find it a meer Trifle Necessity has no Law You have been my Pensioner these Nine Years and not only your self and Bedfellow but the little Prince as you call him and a Gallimaufrey of Highlanders Rapparees and Renegado's have been fed and cloathed at my Charge Is all this nothing K. J. Worse than nothing Sir except you had compleated that meritorious Work of Re-enthroning me But if I had had the least thoughts how I should have been served I would long ere now have come to Composition with my Subjects The English are naturally Honest and Good natur'd and I am perswaded would have allowed me the Interest though not the Principal But now Sir I have no hopes F. K. Recollect your Memory and you may remember that I lent you an Army in Ireland which with your own Courage and the Assistance of some able Friends in England and Scotland might have enabled you to regain your Post but no sooner did the King of England offer you Battle but away you run and left my Men to be knockt o' th' Head at the Boyne K. J. Natural Infirmities Sir you know are unavoidable 'T was nothing but what I deriv'd from my peaceable Grandfather my Brother Charles had a little of his Hypocrisy and I too much of his Courage yet Sir I can remember how I swing'd the Dutch bravely when I peept out of my Fortification of Cable-Ropes and cried Halloo Boys halloo Oh! how I made the Rogues scamper but now I grow old and unfit for Martial Exercise F. K. Luis d'ores you have squandred away without number under pretence of Secret Service for supplying the Necessities of the Loyal Clergy for Correspondence with Great Men at Court providing Arms and Ammunition to beat up the Prince of Orange's Quarters and a round Sum for Pamphleteers New-writers Ballad-makers Private Presses and Wagerers But where 's the Fruit of all this K. J. Sir you are too hasty I had as fine a Plot on the Stocks as any Jesuit in Europe could invent and would have Launcht it in two or three Months if this damn'd Peace had not prevented it F. K. Well remembred This brings to mind your fertile Inventions and Abortive Executions I suppose you have not forgot the Chevalier Granvil's good Success That was a rare Contrivance of yours o' my word had it been well effected K. J. Success is not in the Hands of Man Sir if it were I had had as good Success with the Prince of Orange as you had with the Duke of Loraine F. K. Your Son Berwick offered to bring the Prince of Orange Dead or Alive upon Condition that I would give him a Marshals Staff but that Project fail'd K. J. 'T is true Sir the Duke took the Sacrament on 't but forgot Ned Petres Benediction I 'm sure I did my endeavour on my bare Knees and if Ave-Mary's and Pater-Noster's would have effected it I had carried the Day For my part I believe the Virgin was asleep and St. Loyala thick of hearing else why should I be thus disappointed F. K. I 'll tell you why Sir your Faith has not been well-grounded you have expected Mountains and are fain to content your self with Mole-hills Could you ever think to reassume your Abdicated Throne by the help of a pack of desperate forlorn Fellows who have liv'd upon the Odd Pence you could spare out of my Allowance And whilst they pretended a Tenderness of Conscience would have cut your own Throat with as little Remorse as Rookwood or Cranbourn would have Assassinated your Son-in-Law K. J. I am persuaded Sir That Glorious Work had been done by my Faithful Servants and Martyrs had not those Two Traitors De La Rue and Pendergrass told Tales I say Sir A man can do no more than he can do and if such Enterprizes fail we are the less beholden to Heaven F. K. I am sorry Sir you are Born under so Malevolent a Planet If my Stars had been so unkind to me I should scarce have been Louis Le Grand now and weathered the Point through so many Campaigns as I have done But now I grow in years it is high time to be quiet for I 'd fain go to Heaven in Peace K. J. 'T is True you have had better success than I Sir but you may thank your Ammunition Sir 't is that has done you many a good piece of Service You Charg'd your Cannon with Luid'ores and fill'd your Bombs with Pistoles which upon the first Discharge made the Gates fly open and the Governors your Humble Servants F. K. Not always neither you may remember how Ashby