A WAR OF WORDS: DEFENDING THE UNITED PROVINCES HEXHAM, Henry. 

A Tongue-Combat, lately happening betweene two English Souldiers in the Tilt-boat of Gravesend, the one going to serve the King of Spaine, the other to serve the States Generall of the United Provinces.  Wherein the Cause, Course, and Continuance of those Warres, is debated, and declared … 

First edition, written in reply to a rare pamphlet with a near-identical title by Richard Verstegan [or Rowlands], an intelligence agent in the Netherlands for the English Jesuits.  Verstegan’s original Toung-Combat comprised a dialogue between the pro-Catholic Red Scarf and the Protestant Tawny Scarf, the latter a patsy for Red Scarf’s arguments.  Here Hexham reprints Red Scarf’s portion of the conversation in its entirety, but rewrites Tawny-Scarf’s rejoinders at length to expose the ‘many falshoods … wrapt up in those waste-papers’ – it is as a result an unusual sort of palimpsest, enabled by the dialogic structure of the original work.