Bum. Yes, yes; There are abundance of Them.
Citt. Can you prove that ever they Sayd, or Did any thing, in favour of the Papists?
Bum. Nay there's enough of That I believe; but then there are such Huge Great men among 'um.
Citt. Pluck up a good heart Bumpkin; the Greater, the Better; We fear 'um not. Rub up your Memory, and call to minde what you can say upon Your own Knowledge, and what you have Heard; either about Sir Edmond-Bury Godfrey, The Plott; The Traytors that Suffer'd, or the Kings Evidence.
Bum. I have seen people shrug sometimes, and lift up their Hands and Eyes, and shake their Heads, and then they would clutch their Fists, look sour, make Mouths, and bite their Nails, and so: And I dare swear I know what they thought.
Citt. Ah Bumpkin, if they had but so much as mutter'd, they'd been our own.
Signs in Evidence.
Bum. Well but hark ye Citt, I hear People swear, or in WORDS to this Effect; why may not a Man as well swear, in SIGNS to this Effect? and that they lifted up their Eyes, and hands, bent their Fists, knit their Brows, and made Mouths, to this or that Effect?
Citt. No, that will never do Bumpkin, but if thou could'st but phansy that thou heard'st them speak.
Bum. Why truly I never thought on't, but I saw a Parson once, the Tears flood in his Eyes, as one of 'um went by to Execution. But your Surcingle-men, (as our Doctor told us last Lords day) are all of 'um Papists in their Hearts.