A Dialogue between Dr. Sherlock, the King of France, the great Turk, and Dr. Oates 1691 Approx. 9 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A35872 Wing D1307 ESTC R362 12264660 ocm 12264660 57971 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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Come , thou lookst like a true Musullman ; here 's twenty Purses more . Dr. Oates . You Rascals and Scoundrels , I scorn your Money ; but oh ! There 's whiping Dr. Sherlock . King of France . I and my Ally Sultan , are both come in propriis Personis , to thank the Master of the Christian Temple for his late Book , which perhaps may do us more Service than all the Mercenary Pens of France , or than all our Dragoons and Janizaries . I have now God Almighty's Authority , and an irresistable Power in Lorrain , Franch Comte , Strasburgh , Treves , Flanders and Savoy ; though I confess , I ravish'd them away from their legal Owners , contrary to my own Oaths and sacred Treaties ; yet Heaven justifies me by her Oracle Dr. Sherlock , who proclaims to all the World , that Providence brought these things to pass , and that God has deputed me his Vicegerent with an uncontroulable Commission . The Lorrainers and Savoyards must now fight against God , if they fight against me or for their lawful Dukes . Great Turk . My Case is the same ; this Christian Priest has pleaded my Divine Authority over the Holy Land , and Christ's Sepulchre : If the Vizier had taken Vienna in the year 1683 , and had swallowed all the Roman Empire , where could have been the Perfidy , and the Treachery , which Christendom brands us Mahometans with , and which our Mufti has often thrown in our faces ; seeing the great English Apostle attributes all to Providence , and seals all Success with the Finger of God Almighty ? Upon our Settlement in Germany , the Natives had been oblig'd to bear Allegiance to us , and never to restore their Emperor and Electors . Dr. Oates . Pox , Catzo ; my Brother Dr. stole that School-boy's Notion out of Lucan ; Victrix causa dijs placuit : But yet the great Cato ( whom Sir William Temple might have plac'd in his immortal Essay of Heroick Vertue ) was of another Opinion , and could by no Flattery nor Promise , be brought to call Caesar a Ruler . If his Priests had told him , that the Gods had brought all that about , and that Heaven had Ordain'd and Commission'd Caesar to be Irresistible Emperor of Rome , how would his Vertue , and his Constancy , seated on the true brow of Majesty , have thrown disdain upon those vile Sycophants , and Betrayers of their Country ? Si quis potestatem Populi Romani laeserit , Is morte puniendus . Dr. Sherlock . Methinks , Gentlemen , you are very merry , and familiar , considering you are God's Representatives . How came that impudent Dr. of Divinity into your Company ? They are asham'd of him at Dick's , and the Temple Club , as Mr. Ph. informs me . Et cum nemini obtrudi potest , itur ad Deos. Dr. Oates . I do not trouble God Almighty half so much as thou dost ; I never call him down upon the Stage , to act in all Scenes and Revolutions of State , as thou dost every day : Thou makest him always the Harlequin and Scaramouchi of thy Farces ; a King cannot tread the Carpet , but all the Host of Heaven must be summon'd ; though thy King is one day Noakes , the next day Lee ; one day Christian , another day Turk , sometimes neither . Now , Brother Doctor , I never fill my head with these Chimerical , Fairy fancies of things done in Heaven , I look only upon Men and Things , upon Laws and Compacts ; whilst thou , poor man , dream'st in thy Study , all vapour'd with Hypocondriack Enthusiasm , tickled with Visions , or else swell'd with Envy , Pride or Ambition ; I drink Coffee amongst the Beaux Esprits , mores hominum video & urbes , and hear more truth in one day from those fellows you call Atheists , than from a 130 Pulpits in a Year ; they all believe in one God , are of no Sect , or Cabal , under no prejudice of Education or Interest , are neither Jews , Turks , nor Christians , but all Tamerlanes . French King. This Pillory-Doctor has the most Wit of the two ; I perceive he has had better Education : However Brother Sultan , the Visionary Doctor is for our purpose ; for he Damns the Huguenots now in Arms against me , all the Vaudoies , and all the Prince of Orang's Friends , who took up Arms against God's Authority ; but the Devil is in this Doctor , who at the same time runs down my dear Ally Teckely , and sets up my mortal Enemy Frederick William with God's Commission ; tho' that's my comfort the Doctor unmans the People of England , puts them all into Hell , takes away their Arms of Laws , and the Weapons of their Senate , destroys the basis of their State , Acts of Convention and Parliament , and sets the Prince up in a floating Enchanted Castle in the Air , built by Centaurs , Hobgoblin's , Bo's , Nick , &c. As for the Doctor 's new Commission from Heaven that he fastens to the Prince of Orange whether he will or no , I care not a rush for it ; my Friend James will soon cancel that , for he still retains his Right , and wants nothing but Possession . I 'le see next Summer what 120 Men of War , and 30000 Land-men will do ; but then this Divelish Doctor robs me of all the Glory , and of all the Power ; for Providence must do the feat , and James derive all his Authority from God ; no thanks to my Arms , or Money ; and the Doctor curses the People that shall offer to assist his Rightful Legal James ; so that in the main he breaks our heads , and then gives us a Plaister , and seems resolv'd to fall like a Cat upon his Feet : Sometimes he plays the Williamite , but in a fools Coat , sometimes the Jacobite under a Vizard ; sometimes he tells the People 't is Damnation to Fight for the Prince of Orange ; then a little while after 't is Damnation to Fight against him : 'T was Damnation in the Year 88 , to Fight against Jemmy ; and now 't is the same Sin to fight for him ; so that this famous Doctor plays the Merry Andrew with the World , and like the Powder of Pimper le Pimp , turns up what Trump the Knave of Clubs calls for . Dr. Sherlock . You Kings being Heavens Brats , may rail and do what you please ; I 'le Swear to Obey you all , if you were ten Thousand ; mount the Throne , and you are as much Jure Divino as I am in the Pulpit ; however take heed how you disgust me ; for at one Stroke I can utterly destroy both your selves and your Governments . Alamanzor , Scanderbeg , and all Sir William Temple's Hero's are but Pigmies to me ; I can command God Almighty to be of what side I please ; Heaven is my Foot-stool . I 'le undertake to make Captain Tom , the most Dreadful , the most Soveraign , and the most Divine Thing upon Earth . Dr. Oates . I would only know which way you would confer that Power upon him ; for why should not I convey it as well as you ? Will you send it in a Basket as a Token of your pure Love to absolute Soveraignty , or in a Billet Dieu , or in a Poulet as I us'd to do to the Nuns at Salamanca ? Dr. Sherlock . The two Sultans are gone ; Sirrah Oates avoid the Room , I 'le have no further Conference with an Anti-Athanasian Doctor . Dr. Oates . I 'le go when I think fit ; I believe all Creeds more than your new coin'd one of Allegiance ; so I dismiss thee with a Speque Metuque Procul hinc , procul ito , Hoque FINIS . Printed in the Year , 1691.