HOW now Momus, what turn'd Porter?

Any thing for a quiet life these times: Better carry Bur­thens among Protestant Dissenters, than grind at the Mill like Sampson, with my eyes out among Phi­listian Papists.

Prithee what hast got there?

A bundle of stollen Stuff.

Art thou turn'd Thief these Tory Times? have a care good Brother, of going the Jesuits high way to Heaven.

What, to the Tripple Tree? there to get a Crown for Villany? and to be made a Martyr and a Saint for Treason? n'er fear, this is but pettit Lar­ceny and under the value of 12. d.

Whence did you Steal it?

Out of the Warehouse of the Answerer of the Character of a Popish Successor. 'Tis a bundle of rash Nonsence, new water'd and pressed by Nat. Thompson, and vended for good Sence and Reason: Fallere fallentem non est Fruus.

Nonsence, say you? I thought there had been no Haberdashers of such small Wares among the Papists: I thought the Dissenting Protestants had got a Patent for selling Nonsence only.

You see Sir you are decieved; for I assure you that this Mr. Answerers Ware-house was full of it, and I only took a small Fardel or two that came next hand.

What do you intend to do with it?

Fraught Heaclitus his Ship with it; he'l send it to Rome to be new dy'd, and then put it off for most excellent Papistical Sence and Reason.

Prithee let's see some of it.

That you shall, and hear it too if you please, for it rattles like gum'd Taffaty; look here; first by the way of Nonsence.

• That the People of England may sit down with their Hands in their Pockets, for that 'tis impossi­ble either the Pope, the Devil, or any Successor, should bring in Popery. p. 2.

O Sir, there is a woof of sence in this stuff, the meaning is, because 'tis in a manner brought in already.

That's a Jest Sir—see another piece, hold it to the light, and see if there be e're a thred of Sence or Reason in it.

• Item. The more Power a Popish Successor has, the less able he is to accomplish his Will.
• 3. Here is: A Popish Successor can never at­tempt to bring in Popery, though he has an Army, because he will be in fear of the People.
• 4. The personal excellencies of a Popish Successor, ought to be an Argument for his legal admission.
• 5. That it is so far from Sence, for any one to believe or think that a Popish King in England, can be any advantage or do any kindness to the designs of Jesuitical Instruments for bringing in of Popery, that it is the greatest Reason in the World, to be­lieve that he must of necessity be the greatest occasi­on of their Destruction.
• 6. That to keep out a Popish Successor is no less than Lesae Majestatis, and down right Treason, yet it is in the power of every Subject in the three King­doms, to be a Defender of the Protestant Religi­on, if it want it.
• 7. That all Protestants may be assured a Popish Successor will infallibly be the Cause of the De­struction of the Jesuits, by this Maxim, Suis & ipsa Roma viribus ruit. p. 5.
• 8. That a Popish Successor can never bring in the Popish Religion, because his Coronation Oath obliges him to the contrary.
• 9. He that Writes against a Popish Successor, is ipso facto, either a disguised Priest, or a Papist in Masquerade. p. 7.
• 10. Because the late Popish Plot did not take effect, therefore no other in this Age can be effect­ed. p. 8.
• 11. That a Popish Successor is the best defence in the World against Arbitrary Government, for if he would, he could not set it up, because of the watchful suspicion of the Protestants. p. 8.
• 12. That 'tis not in the Power of Sheriffs, Justi­ces of the Peace, Judges, and other Officers, be they never so Corrupt, or be they of what Religi­on they will, to bring in Popery under a Popish Suc­cessor, because hopes of preferment or fear of pu­nishment will deter them. p. 8.
• 13. A Popish Successor can never bring in Pope­ry, because the Tyde runs against it, and therefore it will be Folly and Madness for him to attempt it. p. 9.
• 14. That because Queen Mary could not bring in Popery, therefore no other Popish Successor can bring in Popery. p. 9.

I must interrupt you; I thought Q. Mary had set up Popery.

The meaning of the Answerer is, as I sup­pose, she did not set it fast enough: She should have Burnt all the Protestants, and according to St. Coleman's Principles, not left any alive: But hear how good a Navigator he is.

• 15. That Beasts running on the contrary side of the Ship, when she leans to the Lee, or by the Lar­board, sinks the Ship: p. 10.

Here are other Fardels, which I stole from seve­ral of Heraclitus his Merchants of Popish small Wares. As,

• 1. That to make the People of England of one mind, is to bring in Popery, and the way to make [Page]all Dissenters conform to the Church of England, is to make them first Conform to the Church of Rome. That they being Jews, may first be Christians be­fore they be Mussle-men.
• 2. That the most prudent way, not to fear any Invasion from the King of France, is not to believe it.
• 3. That the true way of securing the Church of England against the Pesbyterians, is to joyn with the Papists to bring in Popery.
• 4. That the best way to help the King to Money, is to advise him to Prorogue his Parliaments.
• 5. That the best way of searching into the late hor­rid Plot is to Jear the People out of the belief of it.
• 6. That to be a true Church of England man, is to rail against all but the Papists.
• 7. That 'tis the best way to maintain Reputation abroad, by going together by the Ears at home.
• 8. That to give Honour and Reputation to the Supream Councel of the Nation, is to laugh at their Votes, and to term them factious.

So much for your Nonsence, good Mr. Mo­mus; prithee, what Bag is that? is it stolen Wares too?

No, they are a few Nuts for Heraclitus to crack.

Out away, they are Queries.

Yes, Query Nuts, such as Heraclitus his Squirrils, Jest and Earnest, are weekly cracking in the ears of the People.

Let's have an handfull of them; I'le play at Cob-Que­ry with them.

• Whether Heraclitus his Fools Coat be long enough to hide his Knaves Jump?
• 2. Whether the Answerer of the Character of the Popish Successor was not mistaken, pag. 12. where he says, that Dagons Hands being broken off, he could have no Power to hurt the Israelites; When he should have said, according to the Scrip­ture, that his Head being off as well as his Hands, he could not then hurt the Israelites?
• 3. Whether Dagon could not have found hands to have hurt the Israelites, if his Head had been still remaining?
• 4. Whether all Laws to tye the hands of a Popish Successor, will not prove like Sampson's Cords, if ever he get into the Throne?
• 5. Whether the best way to establish the Church of England, (according to the Maxims of the Answerer of the Character of a Popish Successor) be not to set up a Popish Successor?
• 6. Whether the maintaining and preserving of Property, was not the first and main end of Government?
• 7. Whether the Grievances of the People do not sound louder than the Checkling Laughter of Mr. Jest, or the Tooting horn of Mr. Tantivie?
• 8. Whether according to the Opinion of Heraclitus, it be not a certain mark of a Rebel and a Traytor of 41. to Complain of Grievances in 81. or ever hereafter.
• 9. Whether Heraclitus does not mistake himself, who Numb. 2. says, that those who Murthered the late King, never repented them of it (meaning the Presbyterians) and yet Numb. 8. he owns Mr. Love was Beheaded, for endeavouring with the Presbyterians the bringing in of his Majesty? and whether the endeavouring to restore his Majesty to his right, shew'd not that they were the true Friends of the Son; and a sign of their not approving the Murther of the Father?
• 10. Whether a man may be properly said to Repent of doing that he never did Commit, nor ever did approve of?
• 11. Whether the evil Actions of a few Rebels, ought in Ju­stice to be imputed to the whole Body of the Presbyterians? and whether a third part of the Nation should therefore be brand­ed by Heraclitus's Jest and Touzers Earnest, with the odious Names of 41. Top and Top-Gallant Villains and Rebels?
• 12. Whether his Majesty has not had twenty years experi­ence of the Loyalty and peaceable temper of the Dissenters from the Church of England? and whether Heraclitus and others do not endeavour all they can to render them otherwise?
• 13. Whether a Worm that is trod on, by the Law of Nature, may not signifie by strugling its Oppression, without being call d Rebel and Traytor?
• 14. Whether a Water-man, who looks one way and rows another, be not a true Emblem of a right Tantivy, who preaches one thing and Acts quite contrary?
• 15. Whether B. Took be Flesh, Fish, or good red Herring?

These will serve me to play at Push-quaery with Hi­raclitus: But look you, to requite your Kindness, here is a Copy of Verses for you; and as Mr. Jest says, they have made me go all of one side with the weight of 'um.

I have known the Rogue go so this eight weeks, he is made as crooked as a Lesbian Squire; and has a bunch of Iniquity at hs Back, as big as a Camels. What are they? I love the Muses mightily—This is Mournful Melpomine.

No Sir: 'Tis an Ode: Heraclitus's last Pindarique trans­vers'd. Here read it your self, for I am at this time in haste.

Reads. The Prospect, a Pindaroque Ode.