DEPARTMENT OF PRIVATE SAFETY |
| DIRECTOR Red Smelters |
ABOUT
Religion now is a young Mistress there,
For which each Man will fight, and die at least;
Let it alone a while, and 'twill become
A kind of marry'dWife: People will be
Content to live with it in Quietness.
(If that at least may be) my Voice is therefore, Sir,
For Peace.
Me. Were, Sir, the Question simply War
or Peace, It were no more than shortly to be ask'd, Whether we wou'd be well or ill: Since War the Sickness of the Kingdom is, And Peace the Health : But here I do conceive 'Twill rather lie, whether we had not better Fndure (harp Sickness for a Time, to enjoy A perfect Strength, than have it languish on us : For Peace and War in an incestnous Line, Have still begot each other. Those Men that highly now have broke all Laws (The great one only 'tis 'twixt Man and Man) What Safety can they promise, though you give
it? Will they not still suspect, and justly too^ That all those civil Bonds, new made, shou'd be Broken again to them ? So being still In Fears, and Jealousies themselves, they must Infect the People: " For in such a Case " The private Safety is the publick Trouble.