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england_n	france_n	king_n	sister_n	4,447	5	8.9577	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29784	Novus reformator vapulans, or, The Welch Levite tossed in a blanket in a dialogue between Hick-- of Colchester, David J--nes and the ghost of Wil. Pryn.	Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing B5067; ESTC R19452	34,237	46

as if the great Enemy of Mankind the Devil had sown the City with Rape-seed This has sunk his Reputation somewhat in the World There are several others in the same predicament with these but it wou'd be as troublesome to enlarge upon their Characters as to acquaint you with all the variety of Night-Caps Flannel Shirts Wastcoats Doublets and Upper-Coats a certain Noble Peer wears in the Winter Pryn. I find by what you have told me it will not be so very convenient to muster up the Charge of Ignorance But what say you now to the old Imputation of Debauchery and Profaneness Hick I am afraid Mr. Pryn this same business will do us as little service as the former 't is a two-edged Sword and cuts either way We still call ourselves indeed the sober godly part of the Nation for the same reason I suppose as the Kings of England stile themselves Kings of France viz. because our Forefathers were so But they a shame take 'em for it wore their Hypocrisie to Rags and so their Sons were cheated of their Inheritance and have only the Name to boast of A pious Sister can now pass by a Church even when the Organ is playing and yet fall into no Fits or be discomposed at the matter And a moody Brother can ride his Horse by a May-Pole and yet the insensible Beast never starts or offers to throw his Master even singing of Psalms in private Families is as much out of fashion as paying of Debts with the Men of Alsatia a Man may go through the Poultry or any of the most sanctified Streets about the Town a hundred times and hear none of the comfortable Poetry of Sternhold and Wisdom Lay Elders send their Daughters to Dancing Schools and their Sons wear Long Hair and set up for Sparks of the Town 'T is a sad observation Mr. Pryn but a very true one that as a Miser generally begets a Prodigal so a Saint begets a Rake-hell Pryn. Alas I am sorry to hear it and is there then ne're a publick spirited Son of Thunder in the whole Tribe that has Courage and Hardiness enough to lash the degeneracy of the Age and awake People to a sense of their Duty Hick No Mr. Pryn since you left the Earth we have been destitute of such brave fiery resolute Patriots There is indeed one Mr. Stephens a Poultry-Author that has very lately attempted something of this nature but through his too zealous management of the Affair it happen'd to miscarry He proposed to the Parliament to have the beginning or pledging of a Health punish'd with the same Penalty as he sets upon Swearing which is the precise Sum of twenty shillings and in case of disability to have those notorious Offenders put in the Stocks and whipt So likewise for any one that should presume to keep an Organ in a Publick House to be fined 20 l. and made uncapable of being an Ale-draper for the future But Mr. St did not think this punishment was sufficient for 'em so he humbly requested to have 'em excommunicated into the bargain and not to be absolv'd without doing Publick Penance Pryn. And did so pious a Project as this come to nothing do you say Hick 'T is very true Mr. Pryn it was nipt in the bud Not to be tedious with you there are none of the Dissenters that make any tolerable pretence to their ancient Austerity but the Quakers and even they begin to decline by degrees from their primitive Institution They still make a shift to retain their distinguishing Garb their little Cravats broad-brim'd Hats short Hair and Coats without Pockets before but as for the rest of the Separatists they have clearly lost all their Ear-marks you may meet with twenty and twenty of 'em in the Streets and yet not be able to distinguish 'em from the prophane part of Mankind by any exterior appearances And to say the truth their Forefathers are to be blamed for it they wore their Hypocrisie as they say a Welch-man wears a Shirt till it drop off from their shoulders they did not leave Hypocrisie but Hypocrisie left them Pryn. Well I should utterly despair of ever hearing that Presbytery wou'd make a figure again in the World unless it were for some comfortable News that I have learn'd of a Scotch Ghost in the other World He inform'd me of the miraculous Turn of Affairs in that Kingdom how Episcopacy was abolished and Christianity in its puris naturalibus set up in the room of it and what is yet more material how the Covenant the Covenant of blessed Memory is still looked upon as obligatory So I am in good hopes our dear Brethren there will cross the Tweed one of these days to remove the accursed thing to propagate the Cause and establish the great Works of Righteousness and Truth Hick Take my word for 't Mr. Pryn that Turn of Affairs as you call it in Scotland is not so much for our advantage as you imagine For my part I 'm so far from thinking it will contribute any thing to our Interest that on the other hand I fear it has broke the Neck of our Reputation or rather of our Juggling They have carried on the Reformation in that Kingdom with so much heat and rigour not to call it cruelty that altho' their Brethren of the same Perswasion here in England have made a horrid noise about the persecuting Spirit of the Established Church and daily talk of Moderation and giving Quarter to those of a different Religion yet 't is breath foolishly spent for every body believes they wou'd Copy from their dear Brethren of Scotland if ever they shou'd arrive to have the Power in their hands Such an ill favour'd Accident as this happen'd in the late Reign The Jesuits were willing to wipe off some of the most popular Scandal from Popery so they prevail'd with the King to grant Liberty of Conscience to all his Subjects and then they fell a magnifying the Charity and Bowels of the Church of Rome after a wonderful manner At the same time those of the Society in France were playing the Devil at the expence of the poor Hugonets so it was a very comical Scene to observe with what flourishes the Priests recommended Love and Unity and Forbearance to us here at home when there daily came over such shoals of French Refugee's to contradict every Syllable they said and 't is no small diversion to our Enemies without doubt to hear our Dissenting Parsons talk of Peaceableness and Gentleness and the Lord knows what when our streets are crouded with so many of the Episcopal Clergy of the other Kingdom whom the Presbyterian Moderation has forced to seek their Bread in another Climate But stay who comes here 't is one of my own Cloath David J appears I perceive I 'll say that for him he 's a brave lusty well-built Fellow But he mutters with himself like a bilked Coach-man or a disappointed Projector and looks