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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Dr. SHERLOCK, the King of FRANCE, the Great TVRK, and Dr. OATES.
What a parcel of Rogues are assembled together here? I'll call the Mobb to gut them.
Pray Dr. hold; here's a thousand Louis d'ors for thee.
Come, thou lookst like a true Musullman; here's twenty Purses more.
You Rascals and Scoundrels, I scorn your Money; but oh! There's whip∣ing Dr. Sherlock.
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 Jani∣zaries. I have now God Almighty's Autho∣rity, 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. Sher∣lock, who proclaims to all the World, that Providence brought these things to pass, and that God has deputed me his Vice∣gerent with an uncontroulable Commission. The Lorrainers and Savoyards must now fight against God, if they fight against me or for their lawful Dukes.
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 at∣tributes all to Providence, and seals all Success with the Finger of God Almighty? Upon our Settlement in Germany, the Na∣tives had been oblig'd to bear Allegiance to us, and never to restore their Emperor and Electors.
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 a∣bout, and that Heaven had Ordain'd and Commission'd Caesar to be Irresistible Em∣peror 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 Coun∣try? Si quis potestatem Populi Romani laeserit, Is morte puniendus.
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. in∣forms me. Et cum nemini obtrudi potest, itur ad Deos.
I do not trouble God Almigh∣ty 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 can∣not tread the Carpet, but all the Host of Heaven must be summon'd; though thy King is one day Noakes, the next day Lee;