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Excerpt from A Dialogue Between a Member of Parliament, a Divine, a Lawyer, a Freeholder, a Shop-Keeper, and a Country Farmer: Or, Remarks on the Badness of the Market, on Our Happiness That England Is Not Made the Seat of War; On the Unhappiness of Civil Dissensions
Farmer. No; in my C0n(cience but Sir, the(e Printed Pa'pers have made us all Mad, I can never go to the Market, but Imeet with (omerakalhons' or other, thatali1uiltsme with hard words about my Landlord Your Matter is a brave man ((ay they) to take Bribes from France, and to Sacrifice hiscoun try to I'opery and Slavery; and when I ask them what they mean; who puts tho(e (trange Notions, into their heads They pre(ently pull out a Paper, and ibew me your Name in Print, and a great many more, who they (try have Con(pir'cl together to Ruin their Country; and if I happen to (peak one word in your Defence, if] tell them you have always been al'atriot ofyour Country; and all yourancei'tors before you, i( I tell them you have a great El'tate, a fin: Lady, many hopeful Children, and the like, and can any Man think thatyou can be Brib'd to Sell them all to Popery, and French Dragoons? They will not heathen at all, but are ready to knock out my Brain and (wear thati am one of your Ll?'ed Troopers, to (erve againl't your Country, and (0 bring in the pretended Prince of Wales, and (ometimes I am forc'd to leave my Goods un(old, for (ear ofthem I am (ure I (hall never be able to Pay my Rent at this rate.
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