A New Dialogue between Joseph the Just, and Lewis the False.
In the First there is a long Dialogue in Dutch and
French, between the two Monarchs represented in it,
viz. The present Emperor of Germany, and Lewis
the French King; suppos'd to be spoken after King
Philip's flying from Madrid, 1706. The Substance of
which Dialogue is as follows.
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There are several other Prints, which being too
chargeable to copy, we shall only here give some Description of four of 'em, both in Prose and Verse.
Jos.
Dear Cousin, why so melancholy?
Lov.
Why?
Have I not Cause, when all my Armies fly;
Bavaria, Villeroy, Berwick, Thesse.
Whole Kingdoms lost?
Jos.
'Tis hard I must confess,
But you a King most Christian, Coz, shou'd bear
With Christian Patience what you feel or fear.
Lov.
Patience, nor you, nor your Allies should name,
Nor such as prosper the unprosperous blame.
You know not, Cousin, what it is to lose
A Crown, and such a Crown as my Anjou's.
What shall I do with the poor hopeless Boy,
Who late was all my Hope and all my Joy?
Jos.
Do with him? Coz, since he was born to rule,
E'en make him Usher of some Country School:
There he may whip the Lads that learn to spell,
As
Denis did of old, as Stories tell.