SQVARE-CAPS TURNED INTO roundheads OR THE BISHOPS VINDICATION, AND THE BROWNISTS CONVICTION.  
Being a Dialogue between Time, and Opinion: showing the folly of the one, and the worthiness of the other.  
By H. P.  
Time. Opinion.  
Time doth Opinion call unto account,  
Who turns the Bishops down and roundheads mount:  
Upon Her lofty wheel their Noddels are;  
But Her Camelian feedeth on His air.  
LONDON, Printed for I. Gyles, and G. Lindsey, 1642.   

Mutant QVADRATA rotundis. Square Caps are turned into roundheads  Time. 
Now tell me Opinion, how long is it since you were at Amsterdam, and how long have you been in England?  Opinion. 
Ick hebbe niet cot Amsterdam ghew Desen three yaren.  Time. 
But you can speak English if you list.,  Op. 
Ya vader ick habbeghewont in't huys van een English predicant een hyhet Meester But-rush.  Ti. 
Come leave your Dutch and speak plain Egnglish, that Time may well understand you, you were borne at Amsterdam were you not?  Op. 
No verily and indeed I was born at Swine drecht a Dorpa near to Dordrecht in Holland bordering upon Zealand, but my Father was an Englishman borne in London, about Cateatenstreete, but my Mother was a Dutchwoman, borne in Amsterdam: of the family of the Fukers.  Ti. 
But what occasion had you to come over into England, and what employment have you had since your coming?  Op. 
I came (to tell you true) to see what entertainment I could find among my friends, when walking up and down I was taken for a Vagrant and clapped into Brid-well; for some outlandish Doctrine I taught and maintained.  Ti. 
There I believe you first learned to turn the wheel.  Op. 
I did indeed, for among other work I was forced to spin packthread.  Ti. 
I heard as much, for that reason (it may be) you are content to follow Your old employment, by turning about this wheel, an emblem of the Revolution and Change of these Present times to see, if they may be brought to a better pass and State than they are: I am He, who is everywhere complained off, as if it were long of me, they are in so bad a case as they are: Alas! I am old, and ending with the world, and desire no Innovation either in Church or commonwealth.  Op. 
It may be (Father) one of your years may dote, you may want your sight to see how the world goes round, I am sure you are either blind or willingly wink at a number of abuses.  Ti. 
I want my sight to see how the world goes? had not I my being with the first mover? am not I Primi Mobilis per successionem numerus. Neither do I wink at any thing, for I would amend all were it in my power.  Op. 
Truly Father it is generally imagined, that it is long of you, that the world is at this stay as it is at, but if it please you to be ruled by me, all abuses shall be reformed and amended.  Ti. 
Opinion, I am compelled so to do against my will, since all the world is led and ruled by Opinion.  Op. 
Indeed since my coming over from beyond the Seas into England, I have gotten so strong a party on my side, that I shall not nay I will not be crushed or kept down by the contrary party.  Ti. 
So it seems: because you uphold your roundheads, and keep them aloft: but the Square Caps of the Reverend Bishops You cast under to the bottom.  Op. 
Reverend Bishops? marry come up, Bishop's Sir Reverence; you should say.  Ti. 
Fie Opinion now you speak like yourself; distractedly and out of an ignorant malice, as the rest of your Faction do: who knowing themselves guilty of neither wit or learning, fitting so High and Sacred a Calling, bark at them as Dogs do at the Moon, who envy her luster and because she being so far above them they cannot come at her  Op. 
I have heard that every five hundred years, there is a manifest change and alteration as well in Church, as commonwealth: so that this change of these present Times is not long of me, but foreseen and determined by the Divine Providence.  
Opinion you are (as you were ever) out of the way and beside your bias, because God hath foreseen the wickedness and Factions of these Times, hath he therefore determined them, is this your Amsterdam Teaching?  Op. 
Yes indeed is it, and true Doctrine.  Ti. 
God foresees the most horrible Sins that are or shall be committed to the end of the world, does He therefore determine and make himself the author of them.  Op 
Why not?  T. 
Come about with your Wheel cast your roundheads below, and give the square-caps leave to take place aloft your wheel; else as sure as my name is Time, I will shortly have them above do what Opinion and her partners can.  Op. 
Yes ● I am weary of my task you may and I believe you will in the mean while I must say, as K. James wrote upon his sumpture Clothes coming after he was proclaimed King out of Scotland into England je a pris mon temps I have taken my Time; I was not thought on but despised both in city and country till of late, now who but I both in the city and country, there is hardly a shop in the Ci●ie but I can there take upon trust, whatsoever I or my friends want and they take upon trust, whatsoever they are taught by us in the Pulpit be it true or false.  Ti 
Why Opinion do you make no conscience amongst you of what you teach (as you call it?)  Op. 
Yes, as much as they do in the slae of their commodities to the unfaithful. So I believe, hence it is that so many the better to colour or cover their cheating, follow you to your Coventickles, to woods, Barns, moor-field all lies and the like places, and having once gott●n the name of Separatists they can command belief, Reverence, Money, meat drink, new suits of apparel, the solace of a Sister and what  
Come I pray you leave this vain and Idle discourse which is ordinarily laid to our charge among the profane sort your followers (I mean) whom the world calls Time-servers windmills and weathercocks who with every puff of a great man's Breath, or finger of alteration, will incline them, selves to what quarter you will; but I pray you Father Time why are Roundheads become more odious now in the world then Square caps, all heads are round by nature, Square Caps with their coxcombs on the top, came from Beastly Base and Roguish Rome; and become the head as well as horns do some of my followers: I was once taught these verses, when I lived with a Zealous Teacher. 

Cum Caput humanum fecit natura rotundum  
Cur quadrata iuben● pilea pontifices.   

Since Nature hath made man's head round to stand,  
Why then do Bishops these square caps command?    Ti. 
Square caps upon my knowledge were long before Opinion was borne, and tell your round-headed sectaries their corners are an Emleme of the four parts or quarters of the world, into which Christian Bishops and ministers are commanded to breach the gospel, Ite predicate ad omnes gentes &c. you know who said, then good Opinion, have a good Opinion of square Caps; I believe they never did you hurt except in the high Commission, or in the spiritual Court, you know about what.  Op. 
I am not foe much offended with the Caps as with them that wear them, your Lordly Bishops who never did good in Church or commonwealth.  Ti. 
Never did good, Opinion? it is true if you mean some of your own clergy, who have cast of their leather doublets and aprons and put themselves into long Cassocks with grave silk girdles hanging to the knees. Opinion you are but a novice, and are new come from your sliding upon the Ice among mariners boys, and upon Soldiers your frozen Crafts, and Rivers about Amsterdam and Harlem, but since the Parliament began: but let that pass, our Bishops have done more good than you, and your abettors will ever do so long as the world standeth.  Op. 
It may be some of them long ago have been good and done good but very few in England.  Ti. 
No? Who have built more colleges in our Famous universities more Churches, hospitals &c. in any part of Europe, than our Bishops have done in England?  Op. 
I have heard some of your Bishops have pulled down colleges, and Religious Houses, as you call them: but I never heard of any that built them.  Ti. 
I pray you what Bishop pulled down any? yet I think I know more Opinion than you do, neither is Time ignorant of any thing that hath been done, I do but only try you to see what you can say.  O. 
Did not your great Gor-bellied Cardinal Wolsie pull down forty houses of Religion, to found His college in Oxford? which He left unfinished.  Ti. 
He had finished it, if he had lived, and made it one of the fairest colleges of the world.  
But since you speak of Oxford and him, let me tell you what Bishops have done in Oxferd and Cambridge.  
William Durham was a Bish●p who endowed university college with large Possessions, having none before. Anno. Dom. 1217:  
Walter de Merton was B. of Rochester, Lord chancellor of England, and counsellor to K. H●n. 3. and Ed. 1. when He founded Merton college.  
Exeter Coll. was founded by 2 succeeding B. of the same See (viz) Walter Stapleton, and Edmond Stafford, brother to Ralph Earl Stafford in the year 1035.  
W. Wikham B. of Winchester, principal Secretary to Ed. 3. L. high Treasurer and chancellor of England, builded that complete House New Coll.  
Rich. Fleming, who died B. of Lincoln, also founded Lincoln Coll. in Oxford.  
Henry Chichley B. of Cant. and Cardinal of St. Eusebius founded All-Soles Coll. Anno Heny 6. 15.  
And it is worthy to be noted how this Henry Chichleys' Father being a very poor man dwelling at Higham Ferrer in Northampton Shire (where this Chichley was borne) had two sons whom being not able to keep at home, sent them into the wide world to seek their fortune; one of which proved Archbishop of Canterbury, and the other Lord Maior of London both at one time. William Patten, alias de Wainflet in Lincolnshire, B. of Winch●ster and Lord chancellor, and England, founded that absolute Coll: dedicated to Saint Marie Magdalen which like Euxine Sea never ebbs nor flows with more fellows or scholars than the founder gave and left at the first.  
Brasen-Nose Col. was also founded by a Bishop one W. Smith B of Ely.  
Corpus Christi by R fox B of Exeter Bath, and Wells, Durham, and Winchester (who was Godfather to King Henry the eight Anno 1516.  
And Cardinnll Wolsie, whom you so vilify and disdain, had he lived, he had perfected one of the most magnificent Colleges in the World, which he called Cardinals College but King Henry taking the foundation upon himself, called it Christ's Church.  
Princes I must confess had a greater hand in the foundation of colleges in Cambridge, than Bishops yet these were not wanting there.  
Peter House was Grounded by Hugh Balsham Bishop of Elie iTrnity-Hall by William Bateman Bishop of Norwich.  
Jesus college by Alcock B of Elie, and all these, Opinion wore square Caps, what say you have they been so bad members of the common wealth as you and your fellows would make them?  
Nay I can nor must not smother in silence many pious and charitable acts of Bishops of our own times; did not that good B. Witgi B of Canterbury found a famous School and hosp●tall in Croidon  
Did not B Abbot the like at Gilford in Surrey, where he was born, and was not Saint John's in Oxford so repaired and beautified by this now Lord Bishop of Canterbury, that it seemeth to have been new built by him, and beyond all the rest what magnificent things hath the now Archbishop of York done late Bishop of Lincoln.  Op. 
I never heard of any thing he did.  Ti. 
No you were beyond Sea, or Opinion unborn, if you have not heard what a bountiful benefactor he hath been to the Church. Let me tell you he much repaired and beautified the Church of Westminster where he is Deane, he repaired with a great charge the Bishop, P●llace of Lincoln's where he intended a goodly Library, having laid out a great sum of money to buy books, besides provided timber, which but for his troubles he had finished, as also a school and hospital in Wales where he was bor● he builded and gave a goodly library to Saint John's in Cambridge, and another in Westminster; he beautified Lincoln Coll. Chapel in Oxford, paving it with Marble, making the D●skes and seats of Cedar whersoever he was Parson in the country, he gave annuities to the poor, he gave scholarships to W●stminster, and I believe scholarships and Fellowships to Saint John's in Cambridge, but the masterpiece of his bounty I must conceal, let it suffice that you are utterly deceived in the name of a Bishop, and ignorant of the good deeds they have done.  Opin. 
If it be as you say, I shall have a better conceit of them than I had; but in the mean time I am carried, with violence in the throng I can do no ot●er then I do.  Time. 
Well Opinion, Omnia tempus habent; and my comfort is this, Nullum violentum diuturnum: Nothing violent lasts long. So fare you well, but be sure to keep a good tongue in your head.  Op. 
I warrant you Father.  
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