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WHat means this thick ill-ſcentEſſex! See! he knows his Name! he comes up! Speak! ſpeak! VVhat wilt thou?
Yes, 'tis I, the moſt Unfortunate Eſſex! VVell, reſtleſs Syſiphus, will thy unboundPandora's Box, will leave them all in a freſh confuſion at thy Death,
Your Ghoſtſhip takes a Liberty which your Lordſhip would have forbore: But why Syſiphus, pray Sir? have I, like him, roul'd my Stone in vain? Shall one little misfortune blaſt the Glory of all my former Triumphs? Have my Projects been uſeleſs, or my Malice ineffectual? VVhy, this very Minute am I upon a deſign ſhall not only re-purchaſe my loſt Liberty and Honors, but, like the Gordian Knot, ſhall puzzle the wiſeſt of their Heads to unfold it.
Horror and Confuſion! Thou mak'ſt me, though a Ghoſt, tremble at thy Prodigious ImWeſtern Cruelties, nor thy Ears tired with the hollow Groans of the Fatherleſs and VViddows? Could not thy boundleſs ſwelling Thoughts of falſe vain Glory, fix in the Enjoyment of Riches and HoChriſtian World? VVhat would'ſt thou have, or whether would'ſt thou tend? haſt thou no remorſe for thy poor Oppreſſed Country, nor care for thy own future welfare? VVill neither paſt Examples, nor preſhewing him his Throat) and tremble at the Fate of thoſe, who have forſaken God, Conſcience, and Reaſon to lay the bloody Foundation of an unſtable Glory: Remember Eſſex, wretch, remember Eſſex.
This Advice, my Lord, runs very con
VVhat! dar'ſt thou then mock my Miſery? Art thou alone of all the Kingdom Ignorant of the bloody Circumſtances of my Death? Tremble, and think what Thou may'ſt yet endure. Beware thoſe means thou uſeſt for thy Safety, prove not thy utmoſt Danger. I fondly Dreamt, ConfeſſiIriſh Ruſſian, and a dread Command, ſoon let me know my Error Fear and Repentance are not ſafe to be truſted with a Prince's Secrets: Nor had Coleman bin ventur'd to the place of ExJeſt and Earneſt.
I muſt confeſs, under the Roſe, my Lord, 'twas generally whiſper'd, more Hands than your own were employ'd to ſign your Paſs; but as the Circumſtances of Time and Perſons are alterSlavery and Popery on the KingPerkin; 'twas I alone promoted and ſet up that Antichriſtian Court of Eccleſiaſtical Commiſſion, to Scourge the Clergy and Haraſs the People; 'twas I alone could reſolve all the known AnciKing: You may talk of Iriſh Ruſſians, and French Dragoons, Popiſh Conſpiracies, and Private Aſſaſſins, I think I have bid as fair for my Honor and Cauſe as any of them; If that Puny Raſcal that burnt a Heatheniſh Temple at Epheſus, could hope to be fam'd to Poſterity, What may not I expect, that have already ſorely ſhaken and endeaNero or Ravilliac, Jacques Clement, or Maſſianello.
He was running on in an extravagant DeGhoſt, with a frown full of Horror, (being as it ſeem'd diſpleas'd with his proceedings) put a ſtop to his diſcourſe, and being about to make anſwer, the Cock Crew, at which the Ghoſt ſeem'd affrighted, and without ſaying more, than Remember Eſſex, it vaniſhed.