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england_n	king_n	prince_n	spain_n	7,228	5	8.4983	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55410	Poor Robins Character of France, or, France painted to the life in a brief dialogue of the description of that nation, their manners, customs, complements, language, discourse &c. : as also, an exact character of the city of Paris, of their gentry, peasants, women &c. / by Poor Robin ...	Poor Robin.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1666 (1666)	Wing P2878; ESTC R8615	21,984	32

I was informed by a Gentleman that at a Mass in the Cordeliers Church in Paris he saw two French Papists when the most sacred Mystery of their Faith was celebrating break out into such a blasphemous and atheistical laughter that even an Ethnick would have blushed to have heard it Can we then think these men to be religious who make a scoff at the Divine Mysteries of our Salvation Certainly had a Lutheran done this some French hot-head or other would have sent them laughing to Pluto French-man Dat is none good to do soe me had rather goe to dine den to die to feede den to feight dere is no sush haste to goe to de Teiffel he vill have dem soone enough me varrant ye Me vill be glad to live so long as de old woman of Parry English-man I remember dat old woman very well who was of such an age that it is questionable whether she were ever young or no for but that I have read the Scriptures otherwise I should have been apt to have believed that she was one of the first Pieces of the Creation and that by some mischance or other she had scaped the Flood Our Countrey-man Tom. Parr the Salopian Wonder was but an Infant to her at the least you could not but have imagined her one of the Reliques of the first Age after the building of Babel several Ages before the birth of the Wandring Jew her face was for all the world like unto that of Sibylla Erythrea in an old Print or like that of Solomons two Harlets in the Painted Cloth or like those Statuas on the out-side of Westminster Abbey which for these six hundred years have been exposed to winde and weather It is doubtful whether our Arch Poet Ed. Spenser when he writ his Poem of The Ruines of Time did not purposely intend it of her sure I am it is very appliable in the Title Now by reason that all her Teeth were out her Tongue was boundless and without ceasing would move for six and twenty hours togethet the fastidious pratler which Horace mentioneth in his Ninth Satyr was but a Poisne to her Now whether she be living still or no I know not but if she once come to be speechless I suppose she is then past all recovery French-man Begar she was creat pratler indeed and so me tink we be derefore me now make haste vor my belly de chime Noon and me mush make haste vor fe●r of de pocky Shargeant English-man Well Monsieur onely one word before you go and then farewell There is an old Proverb that the Emperor of Germany is Rex Regom the King of Spain is Rex Hominem the King of France Rex Asinorum and the King of England Rex Diabalorum The Emperor of Germany is called Rex Regem in respect of having so many free Princes under him who have power of themselves to Coyn Money raise Soldiers and other Immunities consenant to Regal Authority The King of Spain Rex Hominem for that his Subjects are so constant and faithful in their Allegiance not questioning what the Prince does but obeying because he so commands it The King of France is called Rex Asinorum because of the Subjects patient bearing of those insupportable Taxes which he sucks out of their sweat and blood Pride in matters of Sumptuousness and the Civil Wars which lasted a long time in that Countrey having occasioned most of the Crown Lands to have been sold or mortgaged so that the Subject is now onely the Revenue of the Crown The Kings hand lying so heavy upon them that it hath almost thrust them into an Egyptian bondage To recite all those Impositions which this miserable people are afflicted withal were almost as wretched as the payment of them I shall briefly instance in some few and first Gabelle de Sel or Gabel on Salt which is an Imposition that no man in the Kingdom some few Countries excepted can eat any Salt but he must buy it of the King and at his price but this is not all for though through poverty many of them could be contented to eat meat when they can get it without Salt yet are they forced to take such a quantity of it or howsoever they will have of them so much money This Imposition is exacted with such unconscionable rigour that it is thought to be worth unto the King 3000000 of Crowns yearly Next is the Taillon a heavy burthen which lies almost altogether upon the poor Peasant who are a people of any other the most unfortunate paying such infinite Rents to their Lords and such innumerable Taxes to the King that all their care and extream labour is onely sufficient to pay their Duties and keep them from the extremities of cold and famine This Imposition was at first levyed by way of Extraordinary Subsidy and lay alike heavy upon all but now it is confined onely to the Peasant the greater Towns the Officers of the Kings House the Officers of War the President Councellors and Officers of the Courts of Parliament the Nobility the Clergy and the Scholars of the University being freed from it Divers Imposts have they besides as the Soll upon the Liure which is the twentieth penny of all things bought or sold onely Corn and Sallets excepted Imposts upon Wine double and treble and after all this the poor Vintner forced to pay the 8th penny of that Wine which he selleth to the King Then is there besides Imposts on all sorts of Fruits Provisions Wares and Merchandize to which we may adde the base and corrupt money in it being for the most part made of Tin and Brass Hardly shall you see a Piece of Gold of the French stamp scarce any but what comes out of Spain which are very ill proportioned and which one resembles to a French Cheese being neither long nor square nor round nor thick nor thin nor great nor little nor any one of these but yet all and yet none of them These Circumstances considered we may the clearer see our own felicities which to express in a word is to say onely this That the English Subject is in no circumstance a French man though we are so blinde as herein not to see our own happiness but by our often Rebellions have given occasion to that Apellation that the King of England is Rex Diabalorum FINIS