A Dialogue Between Two Zealots Concerning the &c in the New Oath Noah Millstone Principal Investigator MPESE Sebastiaan Verweij Co-Investigator MPESE Richard Bell Research Associate Victoria Anker BRIHC Research Impact Fellow Mike Jones Research Software Engineer Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) 2017 United Kingdom London British Library Additional MS 22959 Diary of Reverend John Rous

British Library, Additional MS 22959

 United Kingdom London British Library Sloane MS 1467 United Kingdom London British Library Additional MS 24863 British Library, Additional MS 24863, ff. 86r–87v British Library, Sloane MS 1467, ff. 1r–1v Beinecke Library, Osborn b200, ff. 268–279 Bodleian Library, MS Douce 357, ff. 4v–5v Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poetry 26, ff. 94r–v Durham University Library, MSP 9, reversing the volume, 192–193 The National Archives, SP 16/466, /42 [ff.132v–133v]

1640 English Latin verse dialogue The Etcaetera Oath oaths church government episcopacy church ministers

A Dialogue between two Zelots concerning /&c/ in the newe oath. Sir Roger from a zealous piece of freeze Raisd' to a vicar but without degrees: Whose yeerly auditt may by strict accompt To xx nobles and his veiles amount Fedde on the Common of the Female charity Vntill the Scottes can bring about theire parity. So shotten that his soule much like himselfe Walkes but in Quirpo; this same Clergie else Encountring with a brother of the cloath Fell presently to cudgels with the Oath The quarrell was a strange mis-shapen monster &c: (god blesse us) which they conster The Brand upon the buttocke of the Beast The Dragons tayle tied on a knott: a Neast Of yong Apocrypha'ls, the fashion Of a new mentall reseruation Whiles Roger thus derides the text, the other Winkes and expoundes, saying, my pious brother Hearken with reuerence for the point is nice I neuer read ont' but I fasted twice And so by Reuelation know it better Then all the learn'de Idolaters of the Letter With that he swel'de and sette upon the Theame Like great Goliah with his Weauers beame I say to the &c thou lyest Thou art the curled locke of Anti-Christ Rubbish of Babel for who will not say Tongues are confounded in et cetera? Who sweares &c sweares more oathes at once Then Cerberus out of his triple sconce Who uiewes it well with the same eye beholdes The ould false serpent in his numerous foldes Accurs'd &c now now I sent What the prodigious bloudy oysters meant Oh Bowker Bowker how cam'st thou to lacke This fiend in thy Prophetick Almanacke? 'Tis the darke uault where the infernall plott Of Powder gainst the State was first begotte Peruse the Oath and you shall soon descry it By all the Fathers Garnets that stand by it Gainst which the Church whereof I am a member Shall keep another Fifth day of Nouember Nay heeres not all I cannot halfe untrusse Et cetera ‘tis so abdominous The Trojan Nagge was not so fully lin’de Vnrippe &c and you shall finde Ogg the great Commissary and which is worse Skewbald The Apparitor upon the skew-balde horse Then finally my babe of grace forbeare Et cetera will be too large to sweare For 'tis (to speake in a familier stile) A Yorkeshire way-bit longer then a mile Heere Roger was inspirde and by Gods diggers Heele sweare in wordes at length and not in figures No by this drinke which he takes of as loath To leaue &c in his liquid oath His brother pledg'de him and in that bloudy wine He sweares hee’l be the Synods Catiline Thus they dranke on not offering to parte Till they had sworne out the eleuenth quart Whiles all that heard and saw them jointly say They and theire tribe were all - &c.

In cathedra derisorum ne sedeam Psa. 1.