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Fire their Houses , and Drown their Brains , we'll put out their Eyes , and warp their Tongues, and Bore their Ears, and hey ! then for the Catholick Cause ! They shall alk to School to the thick skull’d Mother of Devotion. In the mean time,let’s keep up the Haloo again Phanatickss sometime since we s preach a Maxime, That. eis better be a Papist than a Presbyterian, which, obtain’d like‘an Oracle, or one of Father Hobies saying’, This has en couraged us to advance another step, and lay down this farther Aphorism. That a moderate Con, is a more dangerous Beast than a New Con, himself. By the first, we endeavoured to exasperate the Church of England against all Dissenters, but by this (if we can get it wallow’d ) we Divide her within herelf : Qui bene divi dit,bene dacet. We love these variances amongst Protestants with all our Souls, and it does us good at heart to see them tap one a nother, especially with those very Rods, which were solely provi ded for our backs. Hang ’um, Dam’um, Teaze *um, my good.Lads, Teaze um must they be prating against Papists ? and_talk of the Whore of Babylon? and believe Plots before they see them accomplisht.? we'll Muzzle the Whelps. Though our Bays miscarried in their Design, get down with their Conventicles, and. Burn their Pulpits 3 O those Pulpits are villai nous Engines ! They batter down at once Infallibility and the twenti's, burn them therefore as you love us , and throw the Ashes into Tybur. By plaguing them , we shall at least make a drawn game on it , and then what think you, if we could possibly get a general Amnety,to skin over all the old fores ?et us once a gain, but upon even ground, and if we do not Trip up your Heels, our Dons in the Bastile shall freely of their own accords give you their Heads. “If we can but flubber over this tabb, and begin on a few foot, well defiea second Oates to unravel the Web, till all the fies are caught. But this under the Seal of Confession ; there are some of the Arcana of our Plot-Craft, and Mysteries are not to be divulg’d to every gaping Heretick.
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History of Popery

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Tue, May 07, 1680

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