In the _Orphan_, The Young Soldier _Chamont_ calls the Chaplain Sr. _Gravity_, and treats him with the Language of _Thee_, and _Thou_. The Chaplain instead of returning the Contempt; Flatters _Chamont_ in his Folly, and pays a Respect to his Pride. The Cavalier encouraged I suppose by this Sneaking, proceeds to all the Excesses of Rudeness,
----_is there not one Of all thy Tribe that's Honest in your School? The Pride of your Superiours makes ye Slaves: Ye all live Loathsome, Sneaking, Servile lives: Not free enough to Practise generous Truth, 'Tho ye pretend to teach it to the World._[205]
After a little Pause for Breath, the Railing improves.
_If thou wouldst have me not contemn thy Office, And Character, think all thy Brethren Knaves, Thy Trade a Cheat, and thou its worst Professour Inform me; for I tell thee Priest I'le know._[206]
The Bottom of the Page is down-right Porters Rhetorick.
_Art thou then So far concern'd in't?---- Curse on that formal steady Villains Face! Just so do all Bawds look; Nay Bawds they say; Can Pray upon Occasion; talk of Heaven; Turn up their Gogling Eye-balls, rail at Vice; Dissemble, Lye, and Preach like any Priest, Art thou a Bawd?_[207]
The _Old Batchelour_ has a Throw at the _Dissenting Ministers_. The _Pimp Setter_ provides their Habit for _Bellmour_ to Debauch _Lætitia_. The Dialogue runs thus.
Bell. _And hast thou Provided Necessaries?_
Setter. _All, all Sir, the large Sanctified Hat, and the little precise Band, with a Swingeing long Spiritual Cloak, to cover Carnal Knavery,--not forgetting the black Patch which Tribulation_ Spintext _wears as I'm inform'd upon one Eye, as a penal Mourning for the----Offences of his Youth_ &c.[208]
_Barnaby_ calls another of that Character Mr. _Prig_, and _Fondlewife_ carrys on the Humour lewdly in _Play-house Cant_; And to hook the _Church_ of _England_ into the Abuse, he tacks a _Chaplain_ to the End of the Description.[209]
_Lucy_ gives an other Proof of the _Poets_ good Will, but all little Scurilities are not worth repeating.[210]
In the _Double Dealer_ the discourse between _Maskwell_ and _Saygrace_ is very notable. _Maskwell_ had a design to cheat _Mellifont_ of his Mistress, and engages the Chaplain in the Intrigue: There must be a _Levite_ in the cafe; _For without one of them have a finger in't, no Plot publick, or private, can expect to prosper_.[211]