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.
Bum. Ay, ay: There's your free Speaker. Well Citt, the King wants such men about him. But pre'thee hear me; Is it certain his Majesty has Lent the King of France Three Millions?
Citt. No, no; some Two and a half; or thereabouts.