Obsequium et Veritas, or, A dialogue between London and Southwark, concerning the sitting and dissolutuion of the last Parliament at Oxford, March 21st, 1681 in a dialogue betwixt a shoo-maker, and a taylor. Hearn, R. 1681 Approx. 10 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A43198 Wing H1308 ESTC R12302 13016587 ocm 13016587 96560 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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GOod morrow , Jack ! how stands the case of your Affairs at your end of the Town ! Taylor . Stand ! Believe me , we are like to have a blessed Parliament ; and we don't doubt , but we shall have hopeful Resolutions , and a brave Result of all their Consultations . Shoom. Well ; but let us not stand here , let Affairs stand how they will ; let us take one Cup of good Ale together , and discourse it further . Let us step here into the Kings-Head , here 's a glass of good liquor . Tay. Come , allons donc . — Shoom. Well ; we were talking of hopeful Resolutions ; and a successful Issue to all the Consultations of the Parliament . This , you say , the City hop's for , nay doubts not of . Tay. Yes , indeed ; for to shew you how great an E●eem , and sublime regard we have for our Parliament , we have had the Major part of the City , all true Protestants , and good Patriots ; who offered their services to , and accordingly did accompany our Sheriffs and Members of the Parliament to Oxford . Shoom. S'Death ! that 's an unwonted Ceremony , and it smells plaguy rank of Rebellion . Bless me ! what were you affraid of , that made you enter upon such a tumultuous Complement ? I heard indeed you were all richly equipt , and made a most glorious show , I was then in the Country , and so , did not understand it . Tay. Why not understand it ? had we not a great deal of reason , to secure the safety of those worthy Persons , who were to deliver us out of the Fears , Distractions and Disorders , which the cursed Popish Plot , and the Succession of a Popish Prince , by which would follow the Subversion of our Religion , Laws , and Liberties , and consequently the yoke of Popish Servitude , did put us into : Shoom. I faith ; you are brave fellows ! you talk of the safety of His Majesties Person , and how great Loyalty and Zeal tends to it ; but for ought I see , the subject is prefer'd before the Prince ; the King is not at all intimidated , though in the midst of the most Implacable Enemies , but he can & did venture his Journey to Oxford , attended with not Twenty of his Guards , when Mr. Parliament Man has forsooth about Three or Four hundred for his suit ! Well , but what Newes have you from Oxford , what , are we like to have a longer Session than they had last ? Tay. They are Dissolv'd ! Shoom. Dissolv'd ? S'Death , when ? Tay. On Munday last , being on the 28th . of March. Shoom. Really , I 'me glad of it . Indeed , I heard how their Procedings were , and what measurs they took in their Votes . I thought the Kings speech would have had that Influence upon them , that they would have Regulated their Actions according to that Rule , which His Majesty told them , should be ever his , viz. The Law of which , they , with the King were the Fathers ; and not have pretended to make themselves a particular ( nay , Supream ) Court of Judicature , in Cases of Treason ; that no Person Impeached of Treason by the Commons of England in Parliament , and stands so Impeached , could be tryed by any other inferior Court , without a high Breach of the priviledge of Parliaments . Good God! I find then the King and the Lords , are but Cyphers ; and what the King has declared ought to be , must not be done , because the Commons will not have it so . So that , they who make so great an Out-cry against Arbitrary Proceedings , make themselves the great Favorers of it . What , I pray , was the cause of this ? And who the Plague was it , they stickled about then ? Tay. Fitz. Harris ; would the Devil had him , e're we had been troubled with him , and his Depositions too , with a pox to ' em . — But I 'll tell thee , there 's somewhat else , that was the more immediate Reason of their Dissolution ; 't was , concerning a Business of the — Shoom. Ay , ay , of the Devil , I think ; you Citizens , if you cannot hear of the true genuine Reasons , forsooth , you 'll make them ; and shall pass Authentick too , as if you had been intimately acquainted with the Kings Cabinet , or had known his Resolutions before he thought upon them . Faith , I 'll tell thee plainly ; would but you ( Sir Formals ) learn this old Maxime , that Sua quemque alit ars , which perhaps is too much Latin for a third part of our Mechanick News-mongers ; who make it the greatest part of their Business to run from the Coffee-house to the Ale-house , and thence to the Tavern ; and so buzzing about , till they lose their sense , as well as Reason ; I say , would every Man but mind his own private Affairs , erect a Tribunal in his own Closet , and let his Domestick Oeconomy be his greatest Study , we should have the Publick Peace less disturbed , and the Government less obnoxious to Censure and Contempt . 'T has never been good times , since every Cobler and Porter pretend to understand State-Policy , and every Finical Mechanick , and proud Tradesman , to be verse't and knowing in the Arcana's of the Privy-Councel . Introth , Jack , my name 's Veritas ; and I must speak like myself ; I case not for popular Applause , nor will I suffer Hypocrisie vaile my Nakedness ; though I have , what I must always expect , an Odium , or Hatred : For my part I am a good honest Southwark Borough , and I thank God , we love our King , and our Country ; and our Publick Peace , Utility , and Order ; and , as we said in our Addresses to our Elected Burgesses ; Though we did not like your accompanying to Oxford , them in such Pomp and Splendor ; yet we assured them , we were as ready to stand by them , in the discharge of the Trust we reposed in them , as the best Life-and fortune-men of them all . Shoom. But prethee Jack , are they all returned home yet from Oxford ? Tay. Yes , a great part of them ; but they are not all come yet . Shoom. Ha , ha , ha ! Faith I can't choose but laugh , to see how silly and sneaking they lookt , with their Heads hanging downwards , and their Hats Flapping about their Ears , their hopes frustrated , and their Designs infatuated ; when in their Setting out , they appeared brisk and airy , and their Equipage shewed them like Men designed for a Camp , rather than an Assembly of Peace . Tay. Well , well , come , talk no more of it : Quod factumest , infectum fieri nequit , Prethee hold thy Tongue . Shoom. Hold my Tongue , I Gad , it would make a Stone speak , to see how hot brain'd Men are ; and forsooth , to make their Designs more plausible , a needless fear of the Subversion of the Government , the Protestant Religion , and the Liberties of the Subjects , must still be the specious pretence for all their unwarrantable and unlawful Practices , and every half wited Scoundrel , must pretend to censure the management of those at the Helm . A fine age I' Faith ! Come , come , Jack , be of my mind ; Bene vixit , qui bene latuit : let us keep at home with our wives , and leave frequenting the News-mongers ; and let us administer what we can to publick Utility and Peace . Tay. I' Faith , thou sayest very well ? Come , here 's a health to thee , which I am confident thou wilt pledge ; God bless King Charles , and send us all Peace and Tranquillity , now , and at the hour of Death . Shoom. Come , with all my Soul , and hang up all the Roundheads , as the Oxford Blades said , and let every true Englsh-man , Loyal Heart , and Honest Protestant , say , Amen , By R. Hearn . LONDON , Printed for the Author in the year , 1681.