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THE MAZE: Contrived, Digeſted, and Couched in theſe diſtinct Subjects: REPRESENTATIVES For theſe preſent times to admire: PRESIDENTS For future Ages to decline.
THE SENATES ANSVVER TO THE SCOTCH CHANCELOR.
A FUNERALL ORATION DELIVERED AT DARBY-HOUSE.
ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE FOURTH SECTION.
Orderly Marſhall'd with theſe Poems:
Sperate miſeri; Cavete faelices.
Printed in the year 1659.
Genius of preMenippus; with my bleſſing to the weak remainder of his Sequeſtred Fortunes. Let me incounter thee with the Dialect of theſe daies: the Salute of theſe times; What Newes abroad?
Hah, hah, hah. What Newes, my noble Euphormion? why? thou ſhalt finde every corner full of them. New, new, new, every blind Alley eccho's withall.
New Fates, new Faiths, new Foes, new Faces, new Faſhions, new Creeds, new Crimes: all things new, ſaving that old relique of Honeſty, which will never be renewed.
Goe to Sirrah; ſuch wormwood Lecturers as you, uſually convert your Pens into Needles, your Paper into Nettles. But in good ſober earneſt, tell me what becomes of the Capitoll?
The Senat of Saints, you mean. I will tell thee, Euphormion, there is not in that Saintly Sanctuary, ſo much as a Gooſe left for Centinell to guard that Antinomian Aſſembly. Their day-work is done, I can aſſure thee; for their Shop's ſhut
rubrick Letters, and a Peſt-houſe Poſie, LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US.
It was ſo long infected, I ever thought, it would break out into Spots ere long.
Spots, Euphormion! Nay, Carbuncles on my conſcimad Parliament was a Sage Synod to this. Such a Self-hanging phrenſie was never heard of.
The Devill never play'd his part with more active Subtilty: nor preſented Pageant with more Artifice nor ſhrowded Policy ſince he was a Tempter.
For he has made fooles of them, whoſe aime and art it was to befoole the State.
But are They in ſuch a deſperate condition?
Yes, Sir, I can aſſure you; They are never likely heretranſgreſſe out of the Line of Communication. They who could not all their time indure the Gregorian Letany, are very like, with a Gregorian line, to cloſe their Tragedy: WHARTON has rightly caſten up their Nativity.
Be they impeach't already?
They are; and this very day to receive their Judgement. The Crimes objected againſt them, are notorious and hainous. Pillaging, and plundring the State; obſtructing Traf
Excellent Reformers!
Long and heavy Quarters, grievous Taxes, numerous Excizes: All theſe have drawn up a Bill of Arreares together; And the Bill is found: The whole Jury returne them guilty. Ha, ha, ha. Hemp, by all likelyhood, was never in more requeſt, nor liker to be highlier honoured. I muſt tell thee Euphormion, low Necks and Collars, are not for theſe Nouzes.
As I live, this will be rare ſport for By-ſtanders. Me thinkes I ſee what wry mouthes theſe ſleek Orators will make at their Confeſſion!
Nay, at their Suſpenſion! Never found more Funerals dryer eyes.
I am ſure, they have made the State weep ſufficiMinippus, what Judges may we have to ſit upon them?
A queſtion that deſerves reſolving, truſt me. All the world knowes, Euphormion; we have but two judiciall Conſuls left us of all the old Covey; And the One is a meer Triviall nifter; as barren of Senſe, as he is cram-fed with Subſtance. The Other, ſometimes a Reverend Sage, had not this timing compliance made him an Aſſe, and fool'd his Judgement. His ominous Name boads, he muſt not die a natural Death.
I muſt tell thee, my Euphormion, though Juſtice ride on her foot-cloath, yet She goes on Stilts. There was never ſuch an halting Age ſince Vulcans time. She, who formerly ſtood like a Beacon to give others aime; is now become ſuch a Dark-lanthorne, it will ſcarcely afford it ſelf light.
All this while, Menippus, thou reſolves me not who theſe Judges be.
But I ſhall in good time, Euphormion: And firſt, give me leave to tell thee, that theſe, who are prickt out to ſit upon theſe Corrupt Members; were no Sergeants of the laſt Call, for thoſe wear a Parliamentary Coife; and for all their violet Livery on their ſhoulder, are very likely to be degraded of their honour. No; theſe be old Benchers, who have ſtuck cloſe to their reſtrained Juſtinian all this while. That Levelling Democracy bandied them into a deſperate hazard: Being ſent away in ſuch Shoals, as the whole Iſle of Antycera could ſcarcely receive them. But by a writ of Revocation moſt of them were calParty-colour'd Turn-coats both for Practice and Reverence. Now out of all thoſe, be theſe three cull'd for this great Goal delivery; Argeſtes, Bonarges and Calazius. The firſt, a pert pregnant felJuſtice: One, whoſe hands and eares hold antipathy with price and prayer. The Third, of a more coole and remiſſe Spirit: yet prompt enough to denounce judgement, where he meetes with an incorrigible Delinquent. Theſe be they that muſt doe the feat.
Away with them, away with them, They deſerve not to live: They have been the ruine of us, and our Families.
What meanes this ſhout within?
Hah, hah, hah. They come, they come, they come, we ſhall hear rare ſport preſently. Judges, Clark of the Aſſize, &c. at one door. EnTraitors, mannacled, by th' Marſhall, and other offiJudges of Oyer and Terminer: and theſe the Traitors, who haTrialls, found the only Canker-wormes of the Common-wealth; and ſuch whoſe egregious abuſes deſerve exquiſite puniſhments; are this very day to receive their Doomes.
Be there no more of this fry?
O yes, Euphormion! This very inſtant is Antipas imHigh Treaſon by Venaticus: But he's to be try'd by a Councell of Warre. Both our Higher and Lower Hives ſwarm with them: but theſe were the Principall Inſtruments of crea
What may that Grand Senior be, who with his wall-eyes lookes like one of Machiavels familiars?
Who he, Euphormion! Why? That is Miſarcus, a Protean Polititian; One who can preſent as many ſhapes to acquire his own ends, as any Cloud-walking Tiberius in the whole world. He can play the Fox, and make uſe of the poor Puſſes foot to get himſelf the Cheſnut. He has been in ſtrong labour of Anarchial Plots this twenty years at leaſt: and having now at laſt brought forth ſuch uſefull Principles of un-kinging; as Brutus and Caſſius could not be of quicker diſpatch, had his Agents been as ſecret as they were deſperate. Hee's held the onely Sinon in all Albania. In a word, he breathes not that knowes better how to mint, mince nor ſhroud Treaſon then he does. All the reſt are but Apprentices to him in that trade, the Velvet-Varlet can carry it ſo nimbly and neatly.
Who is he, that lookes for all the world, like the Promethean Satire; or ſome Antique piece of decayed Arras?
That is Montanus; a confident Agitator: but comes far ſhort of the former. For this Fellow Acts but what the other Plots. He has indeed, been ſucceſſefull in ſome undertapopular; which in the end unBaites are dangerous for theſe frisking Fiſhes to nible at. His Father, that Phyſiognomiſt of Queen Beſſe, was another kind of Creature. He could have taught him the guize how to ſculk in a diſtemper'd State; and to fiſh without excepHoneſt: But private intereſt begot ſuch obſtruction to his reſolves; as thoſe fair purpoſes were ſtifled in their infancy. So as, he held it his onely ſafe courſe to keep in Conſort with thoſe who accounted no part of Muſick, comparable to Diviſion. No Allegeance to arbitrary Obedience.
But what makes that Mellancholy Don ſo imbrim his face; and caſt down ſuch a forlorne and dejected a look?
Not without cauſe, Euphormion. That is the white-liver'd Clinius, who lately perform'd that fearleſſe feveriſh Combat with Damaetas; and to divert danger, (though they fought at ſufficient diſtance) made their equall retreats; the one to a Saw-pit, the other to a Marle-pit.
Is this the Man?
Yes, if thou pleaſe to call him ſo; but there is as little Man in him, as in any of all the Bunch.
Now to reſolve thee, why his Look makes this ſetled contract with the Earth; Thou muſt know, he has been ſo baſely baffled, jeer'd, and buffound in every quarter, as he conſorts with no Society, where diſgrace do's not meet him; telling Him, how his very Memory will be a laſting ſtaine to his Fame: a diſhonour to his Family. Doe not blame him then, for looking down
Men lookes to view the azure Skyes,Beaſts look down with earth-dejected Eyes.
Yet in ſome points, I muſt tell thee withall, that there is no Valiant loyall Spirit within the whole Iſland that may compare
pocket more Treaſon, then would hang a Legion: yet with proteſts of Honour and Reputation, incredibly ſalves it: and ſecures himſelfe by it. But feeding on the better ſide oth' Buſh, and forweake Cauſe with ſtrong complies (for he gloried in noſtyle of Machiavels ſon:) he never feachange: nor to be brought to ſuch a fearfull charge.
Who is he, that ſtalkes along with ſuch a ſhaking pace?
That is Lentulus; one of the Lower Siedge; and could ſhake his tongue in his time: and blaſt the temper of a wel-compoſed State with the diſtemper of his breath. But I beleeve, his Rhetorick has left him, ſince this State-palſey ſeized on his tongue. I partly underſtand what the ſumme of his Petition might be; if his God-fathers would afford him an hearing: He has more then a moneths mind to be out of the Pallace yard: and to be no Inhabitant under the Line. For he holds nothing more conduſafety then diſtance: which he might have procur'd without flight, had he acquainted his Tongue with leſſe ſpeech, and more ſilence. But the Inds muſt not ſave him: though he has mined ſufficiently for his time. The Moale is now to be unmolded. — O how happy a thing were it rather to be tongue-tide, then tide in a nooze; and for a little looſe lip-labour, ſumme up his Daies worke in a Halter!
Who is he, who carries thoſe Papers in his hand, as if he were Sollicitour Generall for the whole Synodall?
And ſo he is, I muſt tell thee: and for himſelfe too: for he's very likely to lick oth' whip as any of them all. Shall I diMetaxus; a fellow of infinite con
His firſt fame came to him by a Sea-caſe: ſince which time, he has incomparably thriven by a Land-caſe: having by his meanes and other Officials, brought the whole Land into that pittifull caſe, as none can live well, unleſſe they live ill like Land-ſharks: who prey upon the Fry of the Gentry: and by their irplaces of Hoſpitality become Neſts for Owles: or Cages to Impriſon Vindicators of their
This ſame Advocate is a cloſe youth, I muſt tell thee: One, who deſires nothing more then to impoſture a State with colouNature held ſuch correſpondence or Analogy with his Name; as the one could not hold up without the other. But watſoever he preCore then Cordiall, He might for a time gull private eyes with peculiar intereſts: and by laying his oylie hand on his hypocriticall heart, delude the eaſie Vulgar: But being now to act his part on the publique Stage; there were ſome (and thoſe unconcerned ſpectators) who had not like thoſe Lamiae, left their eyes at home in a boxe: but had the art to diſcover his poſture: and how his Action ſuited with his Perſon.
Who may that Malevole be; who walkes like a de
That, my brave Boy, is Hircanus; A Goatiſh Gameſter, whoſe profuſe luſt ſeared with an aſſiduate heat, has caus'd him to ſue forth a divorce betwixt him and his naturall Perriwigge. The Mounted Scale-drake has dropt all his fethers in his Cornelian Bath.
His mouth us'd formerly to be furr'd up with obſceane tales, and his paſſages of Brothelry: and herein (which may ſeeme a ParaMember (and ſuch a one as the Bordella's cannot ſhew a corrupter) he has acTreaſon. Now ſome there be (and ſuch who are not altogether unThat he does well in hatching his egges in the Houſe: for he can Sit better then he can Stand. Some there be that report, how he very lately had a deſire to travaile as well as any of the Tribe: hoping by that meanes (having ſent before Gold his Harbinger to ſtore him for proviſion againſt Winter) to eſcape the laſh. But this report admits no beliefe: for ſhould He travaile by Land or Water, thoſe that know him would witBone-ſetter then an Harbinger. So as, ſhould he now chance to be hang'd (as there's ſmall queſtion to be made on't) he would quarter himMedler, drop peece-meale from the Tree, long before the reſt of his fellows.
It ſeemes, Menippus, theſe three you deſcribed laſt are in their quality inferiour to the former.
'Tis true, Euphormion; but though their Siedge be lower; it is generally held that their Sconces be no wayes infeCentury liſts fully diſcover. Thoſe three indeed whom we diſplay'd before; were drawn forth from the Higher Hive; theſe three laſt from the Lower. But this Lower has infinitely trenched upon the Priviledges of the Higher; and preſumed to be as active too; for elſe had the coaſt been clearer, and the Storme calmer then now it is.
Clear the Barre there; and give way to the Priſoners.
Let us obſerve their proceſſe of Judgement. — Ju
Content, content; we ſhall heare ſhortly, how abus'd honour muſt be adjudg'd to collar with an halter.
Call Miſarchus, Montanus, and Clinius to th' Bar.
You know Miſarchus, what an honourable (and in your reſpect, immerited Tryall) you have had by your Peeres: how you have been found guilty of High Treaſon. How active for your part, you have approv'd your ſelfe, in the ſpeedy purHigher hand diveſted. Meane time, how little ſenſible were you of this ſhaken and ſhattred Kingdome? Your owne intereſt tooke up all your care: while our heart-ſick State became deſperate of cure.
Sir, The recollection of theſe muſt needs beget a remorce in you: with an earneſt deſire of your reconciliation to Him, whom you have ſo highly, and hainouſly offended. Which muſt be done
I muſt confeſſe, my Lords, that humane policy had too ſtrong a ſeizure o're my thoughts. I ſhall wiſh my fall may be a caveat to others, of falling upon the like deſignes; leſt they be
Your reſolves are faire, Sir; may theſe cloſe with as faire an evening.
For you Montanus; what could in reaſon move you to take up Armes againſt your Soveraigne? Was it deſire of Change? What eſtate could you aſpire to higher, or for your conCatiline had ſome reaſon to plead for Treaſon; becauſe his profuſe courſe had brought him to a ſhaken fortune. But you were no ſuch man. Well; I ſhall not aggravate it. Let Death be the Guerdon of your Crime: Onely, let me tell you, your houres are few; employ them then onely for eternity.
My Lord, I thanke you: my aimes are fixt that way.
You are only left me, to ſpeak to Clinius. Nor ſhall I need to preſent to you the horror of thoſe actions for which you are to ſuffer, I am perſwaded, you are no leſſe conſciencious in repenting for them, then you were conſcious in committing of them. Onely let me adviſe you not to be more fearfull of death, then you may be hopefull of a future life; So you neglect not time, but make an uſefull benefit of your juſt doome.
All my deſires (my good Lord) ſhall be ſumm'd up in this; that by the Princes clemency, my cenſure of death may be ſo much ſweetned, as it may be changed into baniſhment.
Sure ſo I thinke it might, Sir; our State needs little feare you; you were never yet held any dangerous Plotter: only
State-ſhadow, whoſe deſignes had their period in deſires: but you could pocket Treaſon, and conceale it; nay, with proteſts of honour ſtrive to ſalve it: being no leſſe then if you had contriv'd it. This renders you in that qualification, as your Crimes admit no lower puniſhment.
So! I ſee theſe younkers of the higher Siedge muſt be untruſs'd.
No; Thou art deceiv'd Euphormion; they muſt be truſs'd. — Let us obſerve the reſt. Theſe Grand Seniors preſſe here in cluſters.
Clear the Bar there behind. — Call Lentulus, Metaxus, and Hercanus to th' Bar.
Now, Lentulus; you lately heard what heavy Charge was laid againſt you: and how by the joynt verdict of an unintereſſed Jury you were return'd guilty. Now then it behoves you, in this little ſpace, nay pace of time, which muſt be afforded you, to take a ſerious Survey of all your actions and ſpeeches. You could no leſſe immodeſtly then indiſcreetly taxe a Member of your Houſe, of an unmannerly poſture, for laying his ſinnew-ſhrunk leg before him for his eaſe; ſaying, more reverence was due to that place. But what Anſwer gave this Member? Mr. Speaker, I could wiſh that you would begin as ſoone to ſit upright in your Chaire, as I ſhould do in rectifying this uncivile poſture, as you call it. What I doe, is for mine owne eaſe: whereas you abuſe your place for ſiniſter ends. How inconſcienciouſly you have purſued the States ruine for your owne ends! What a timing Prolocutor you have been to foment Sedition: and confine the Soveraignty of a juſt Prince, to the irregular ſway and ſwinge of Faction! It was your hint to Propoſe: Others to Say the Propoſition's good: and by ſtrength of prepared Votes, or abſence of oppoſing Voices, to ſeale whatſoever was propos'd or ſaid. But ſee to what ſhame and diſtongue tipt with the guilt of diſhoneſt lucre may bring the Speaker! your fame and fortune periſh in one Bottom. That gaine which you ſo much lov'd, muſt render rewards to thoſe whom you moſt hate. While a poor Shroud, after an ignominious death, ſhall be only left you to ſhadow your ſhame.
Good my Lord, give me leave to ſpeake.
No Sir, you have ſpoke too much: your Lips are beSnares. No Poyſon of Aſpes more full of Venome, then a Tongue infected with the witchcraft of Sedition. —Jay
How now Metaxus! what meane thoſe Papers? your preſent condition ſtands in more need of a Manual of Prayers. Your State admits no diſpute.
Beſtow now your Sollicitancy for heaven. So long as you ſtuCaſe, and pleaded the Commons Cauſe for removing publique aggrievances from our Realme; it got you repute: all which you have now loſt by playing the fooliſh Faune, and ſoothing Sycophant to a corrupt State. —Withdraw the Priſoner.
I am ta'ne in my owne Gin: being therein loſt, wherein I held my ſelfe moſt ſecure.
So—there will be worke enough for a Sollicitor in Limbo.
Draw nearer there to the Bar with Hircanus.
Truſt me, He's near enough already. —Pox on his Rogueſhip; this Palliard ſmels ranker then any Welſh Goat. He that holds not this Tege for a Mortified Member; He has ſmall skill in Chyrurgery.
I wonder much thoſe Grave Judges uſe not their Pomander!
They are the honeſter men, Euphormion, to prefer Justice before Senſe.
For you, Hircanus; though last, not leaſt, but worſt of that Anarchicall Crue; I muſt tell you, that of all others, your inbred and indurate impudence had ſo glazed your forehead, and by the bladder of popular ayre blown you up to that height of ſhameleſſe boldneſſe, as you durſt affront Majeſty, cry downe Monarchy, ſpurne at Authority, and lay a gappe open to that irregular Track, wherein your ſelfe ſo long trode, of licentious liberty. Command was with you a word of too ſtrict acception: Looſe lives deſire ever to be lawleſſe. Riotous-awleſſe minds give freeſt admittance to eaſie reines.
Yet do me right, my Lord, your Honour knowes how I have ever maintained, That if there were a neceſſity for us to have a King (with which Title my deſires could never cordially cloſe) my voice ſhould paſſe for Him whom we already had, becauſe we knew beſt how to truſt Him.
Go to, Sir; you meant by that particle Truſt, to aſperſe diſtruſt upon your Soveraigne. — No more; we will not rub too much upon your perfidious folly: Be it your care, if you intend your inward cure, to beſtow your few houres (for many you muſt not have) in bemoaning your numerous crimes; Dangerous Sins exact Deep Sighs. By how much ſlower you were in paying Tribute to your Earthly Caeſar; be ſo much ſpeedier in rendring your laſt dues in theſe your laſt daies to your Heavenly Maker.
Enough, enough; — Two dayes onely are afforded you for your Preparation. The Third appointed for your Execution.
Roome for the Judges. — Make way there, for the Priſoners.
—Come lets away, let's away, Euphormion; when theſe come crowding to Charon's Boat; He'le verily think, that Hell's broke looſe: and that theſe were ſome of thoſe Pick-locks who broke the Gaole: but being got againe, are to be waſted over to their old Lodging.
Haeccine perfidia comitantia praemia—?
Regium eſt bona facere, & mala pati.
Huntingdon?
All out of ſquare, M. Oſborne. I hold nothing more dangerous then to accuſe a great man of Treaſon.
'Tis no wonder; haſt thou no fear of an approaching fury; in levelling thy ſhot at ſuch a Conquering Leveller, as wins whereſoever he comes; and takes in whereſoever he Summons?
Who would ever have thought that he ſhould come to ſuch a formidable Greatneſſe?
Who ever knew him ſince theſe brackiſh times, and could think that this cunning Porpuiſe could fiſh worſe in ſuch trouHuntington, howſoever you ſtood conbraine ſymboliz'd with his barmy profeſſion; I obſerv'd him ever, to have Sage in his pate: And that his Head-piece (as one obſerv'd) would make an excellent Pipkin to boile Monarchy: and his Breaſt-piece a rare Drippin-pan to baſte Preſbytery. He knew well how to walk in a ſhade to his
Foes: and in the Sun-ſhine to his Friends.
Jugurths policy; which highly improv'd his Commands. Saluſt. Ma
Shallops neither. For they knew well how to build upon his materialls; and to act the deſignes of abſolute Inſtruments by his influence.
All this had redounded more to mine honour, if way, as Juſtice requir'd it, and due Allegeance enjoyn'd it, might be given to my Charge: which was ſo punctuall in every particular, as it could admit no exception.
Pray thee, Huntington, didſt thou never read how the Capitol was ever ſhut, when Janus Temple was open? Art thou become ſo hood-winkt to the knowledge of theſe worſt times, as not to obſerve, how Greatneſſe is a ſubterfuge to Guiltineſſe? How dangerous is it for Juſtice to plead her priviledge of Right, or enter into conteſt with a fleſh'd Souldier with his Sword in his hand?
Souldiers who have their lives in their hands, ſhould have grace in their hearts.
True, they ſhould ſo; but theſe Martiall times can ſhew us no ſuch Preſidents. Succeſſe makes a Souldier ſwell above the bounds of Juſtice.
After Pharſalia's Field, ſo fatall to Pompey, ſo ſucceſſefull to Caeſar; it was too hard a task for Cicero with all his Eloquence; or cunning Coelius with his Compliance; or cenſorious Cato with all his gravity and compoſedneſſe, to work upon Caeſars thoughts any thing leſſe then a Monarchicall influence. Either a Caeſar or none; and that Caeſar a King; and that King no King but Caeſar.
Thou art to know Huntington, for elſe thou knoweſt nothing, how theſe airy Spirits, who hatch their high-flowne projects in the Eagles neſt, never uſe to obſerve friendſhip, or court any favour out what may ſuite with their Ambition. He, who was but late
But pray thee, Oſborne, can theſe, who are for the prerotten Building ſupported only by the Baſes of others ruine; can theſe, I ſay, be ſo miſerably beſotted with the opinion of their plundred greatneſſe; as to imagine that this giddy-headed world will never come to her wits again?
What elſe, Huntington? So long as theſe Pious Rookes, or Magiſteriall Mag-pies, deigne to beſtow no better ſtyle on their Soveraigne, then a chief publick Officer of this Kingdome: Doſt not think they are confident enough of their Cauſe; and that their Party is grown too ſtrong to entertaine a change?
We ſhall then, no doubt, have a dainty Waxen State on't, when every blind Moale may caſt himſelf in his own Mold; and kick Diſcipline with his heeles.
What may we expect leſſe, when the Feet hold equipage with the Head! The divine Story ſufficiently informes us; that when there was no King in Iſrael,every man did what he pleaſed.
It will be a great pleaſure for an honeſt minded man to live under ſuch a Government!
Honeſt men, Huntington! Thoſe be rare Birds, and of a forraigne Airy. Were that wiſe Cynick now living, he would not beſtow a farthing candle on his Dark-lanthorne, to ſpend it in the fruitleſſe purſuit of that Inqueſt. No, no, Honeſty now goes by Beards: He that can time it the beſt, deſerves to enjoy his own, and his neighbours to boot. A rough-rigid Committee-man, who will not ſtick to impawne his Soul to improve the Publick, deſerves the Grecian Tripod. This ſage Decoy is ſuperſeded for all his tranſgreſſions from above: doe not miſtake me, I mean from above Hell at Weſtminſter.
They have a brave joviall time on't.
And ſo might we too, Huntington, had we been timely wiſe. What Mad-caps were we, to ſhoot our Shafts at the Moone? Could we in reaſon think, that our Gracious Senate would ſwinge their own Champions, Patrons, Aſſociates, or Aſſaſſinates? Had we no Articles of Charge to preferre againſt State-malignants, but their own Aſſiſtants? We had ſurely, left our eyes at home with thoſe Lamian witches, in running head
For all this, I feare not but a time will come.
Yes; To ſuſpend us for endeavouring to impeach their Protectors of High Treaſon.
Suſpend us! How doeſt thou mean, Oſborne, by our Eſtates?
No, Huntington, but by our Necks.
Sure they will not be ſo cruell.
O, thou miſtakes it! "Mercy to the Wicked, is cruelty to the Innocent. It were tyranny to ſhew indulgency, or leaſt ſpe
I ſhall acquaint thee with a late paſſage of a virtuous ſweetly demeaned Gentlewoman, daughter to Sir Peter Killigrave; who out of her pious zeal to His Sacred Majeſty, with a deep ſenſe of His unprincely uſage during this His reſtraint; was pleaNewport, onely theſe words, Hammon was hanged, and the Kings wrath was pacified. For which Sentence ſhe ſtood in great danger to incurre a cenſure; had She not been ſaved by her Book, though by ſome held for Apocryphall Scripture. And being further preſſed; that the Name uſed in Eſther was Ammon; She wittily replied, that H was no Letter: So as by means of her wit ſo well authorized by Scripture, She came off clear from further cenſure.
I muſt confeſſe, there be more Hammons then Mordecayes in that Iſland. But it was well for the Gentlewoman ſhe came off ſo faire: For it is no playing with Lyons at the mouth of the Cave.
Yet obſerve but thoſe wanton Cubs of their own Litter; and thou ſhalt ſee them without controul, ſporting in others Incloſures far freer.
GRIFFITH, a Member of the Houſe, raviſh'd the Lady SH ƲDLEY; and this was but a prank of youth; exempted from cenſure. MARTIN may play the frisking frolick Goat; and in the diſguiſe of an Independent, though his jeering Doxes ſwear by all the indiſpoſed haires of their Boults periwigge; that Hee's become an emaſculated Dependent. So as, with a kick oth' breech they diſcard him; tranſmitting him
Committee of Examinats for an uſefull Agent in a troubled State; but none for them. This leprous Lecher, I ſay, may attempt any Ladies honour: and returne piping-hot from his Neapolitan Stove, and his Common Whoores, to the Houſe of Commons; with an obſcene mouth, venting nought but Treaſon: and this beaſtly Buffoun muſt be hugg'd for a Witty Traytour.
And whence all this;Houſes, as Hercules did thoſe Augean Stables: the Parliament may thank themſelves; Their power will be abridg'd, as well as the Kings.
'Tis true; yet there was a Precept which admitted no ſuch reſtraint of Power: nor abate of feare. My Sonne,
feare thou God and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change: for their calamity ſhall riſe ſuddenly, &c.
True; But Theſe, who by their licentious living, rioting and ſurfeiting, (and all for the good of the Publick) put the Evil day farre from them, never dreame of any ſuch calamity to riſe ſuddenly, and fall upon them. Alas, poore Soules! (for I muſt pitty them, though I periſh by them) they laugh like the Foole when He goes to the Stocks. Impiety cannot promiſe to it ſelfe long impunity; Nulla Salus, iniquo bello. Their Principles are deep-ingrain'd in bloud: Their Lawes in Draco' Lines; all Rubricks. That wiſe (but unfortunate) STRAFFORD, ſhew'd himfeares, when He tooke his leave of earth: "Parliaments grounded in bloud, could promiſe "no good Succeſſe. We have found it; and They muſt finde it. For when divine judgement is deferr'd, it inferres more to come. The whole State is ſick; and heart-ſick: for, how can the Body be at eaſe, when the Head fares ſo ill? Now, this Sick State bePatient that is indangered more by his Phyſician, then his Diſeaſe. The Patient is the State:
Phyſician is the Senate. But ſmall judgement (it ſeemes) had this Phyſician either of her water, or her pulſe. For, her water is turn'd into bloud: and her pulſe beats nothing but diſtemper. Members fight One with Another: and threaten Diſſolution to the Whole.
Their comfort is, their precipice cannot be ſteep: ſeeing the whole Iſland muſt be laid Levell.
Too certaine; Theſe Civil Warres muſt leave ſuch imLevelling ſound cheerfully in the Eare of debauch'd Haxters, and profuſe Rioters; who look for a day when Debts muſt pay themſelves: and Trades-mens Books make publick Bonefires: yet be there many plump fed Lobsters both in City and Countrey, will hold it a ſtrange Cataſtrophe; when the very Dregs of the Land muſt ſqueeze their Veſſels: and their hopefull Heires, for whom they tooke ſuch infatigable care; become Sharers at beſt with theſe Levelling Sharks.
It will be, indeed, a ſtrange World, my Maſters! as that Corydon of Croydon ſaid, When the Winfleet Oiſtreſſe muſt ride cheek by youle with the Lady Mayoreſſe in her Caroch: and with a gracious buxom bed, ſalute her Subjects as She yoggs aa God ſave you my good People.
Thou doeſt well, Oſborne, in making a merriment of thy Miſery.
Doe well or ill, all's a matter. Warres grounded on Such Principles, could never fare better. He that holds himſelfe ſafe, ſhould he Sit at the Stearne, in a Diſturbed State? Surely, He's as dangerouſly Diſtracted as any raving Soule that inhabits it. We were too well fed, to be no better taught. We injoy'd plenty; and our Surfeiting begot in us a Loathing: and our next deſcent, Scarcity. We deſir'd infinitely to fight, though we knew not for what. Pretences and Shadows were faire inducements to ruine a Kingdome. "So ſweet is War to thoſe that know it not.
Three grave requiſites are to be aſſiſting of neceſſity to legitiviz. Supreme Authority. A Sound Cauſe. A juſt Intention: For Commanding it, for Undertaking it, for ExecuPalace yard at Weſtminſter, or no? that's a materiall Quaere.
They may fob a deluded State, with telling. All is for the Publick Good; meane time, Private Coffers be thoſe vaſt Exchequers of the State.
The Jewiſh Corbona may not be compared to their Store-houſe. Meane time, our Commonty is meerly gull'd; They wonder
No man that has his braines about him will wonder at it: Thoſe State-Saints, in the times of their feares,Leopard, the Unicorne, the Victory, the Marygold, the Enſurer, the Soveraigne, (wherein they deſire no great ſhare:) And ſome of theſe will acquaint you better, where theſe Gebezzais have banked their treaſure.Hearts and Treaſures lay. The ParHolland, with other convenient Coaſts; where their Wiſdomes had ſet their Reſt. Their Purveyors were ſent before them; but ſince their panick feares vaniſhed, they never to this houre overtooke them. Thoſe, who were ſcarcely Savers at home, in the time of Peace; are now become Uſurers abroad, in this time of Warre. Thus the Engliſh State becomes a Forraine Staple.
Meane time, what will become of us that can neither thrive at home, nor abroad?
We may thanke our loyall Service for it.
'Tis true; and thou art to be commended for't. I cannot compare thee more fitly, Huntington, then to One of thoſe brave couragious Doggs that the Prince of Albany ſent to Alexander the Great; who ſcorn'd to faſten on any Small or inferiour Beaſts, as Fox, Badger, wild Goat, or Otter; but Lyons, Elephants, PanHarveſt worke of mowing downe both Wales and Scotland: where in his military Progreſſe (for Warre is but His recreation) He was entertained with more Debonaire Salutes, and Courtly Congies by that Achitophel-ARGYLE, then ever He vouchſafed to beſtow on his Soveraigne all his time; None, I ſay, but this Northerne Terrour, this Calidanian Conquerour, Welſh Warrier could ſerve thy turne to tugge with: while it was my unhappineſſe to be ſnapt by a Iſle of Wight, where He praWeſel; a Soultry Souter; who alwaies had his ends: and liv'd by them. A rotten rebellious Runnegado, who left his Shoppe to ſalute the KING his Maſter with a Piſtol Shot. A pilfring Night ranger, that had more Diſeaſes then an Horſe: A Fiſtula in his breech; an Impoſthume in his breaſt; and an Apoſtacy in his heart.
Yea Oſborne, but now Fiſtula dulce canit —.partiall-guilt Nonſenſe, cur'd Him of all Diſeaſtreight.
But never of the Kings Evill.
Thou meanſt of the Evil he meant the King!
What elſe?
Piſh! Oſborne, thou daſh'd the very heart of thy Cauſe out in the beginning: for though thy Plea were juſtifiable, thy Foe deſpicable, nay in the preſence of Loyalty deteſtable: though (I ſay) thy Cauſe were as worthy, as his Caſe naſty, yet thou dark
How! darkned it?
Yes, I'le tell thee how: The firſt grounds of that Charge, thou laidſt againſt Him were ſo ſoiled, ſullied, and purSaw-pit Sand, as when it came to be read, very few of either Houſe could Diſcover the Character.
Thou art pleaſant, Huntington; But had that Saw-pit Peere liv'd in Severus's time, He would have choack'd him with his owne Duſt, for labouring to gravell ſuch an Act of High Treaſon.
True; but what Act can make Him a Traytour, that acts nothing againſt the KING but as a Publique Officer? His Prerogative-Royall extinct, Treaſon loſeth her name.— But now Oſborne, Since like two tame Fooles, we are catch'd both in one Net; let it be no Eye-ſore to thee, that my Foe ſhould be a Conquerour,
Pauſan. in Plut.
Cobler. It Skills not much whether my FetBut I heare,
Oſborne, how thy private Intereſt having failed in thy De
It were well argued by Thoſe that Object theſe AddreſThe Preſervation of His Sacred Majeſty, had influHammond, whom I count a ſilly weake Man in all actions, except Villany and Treaſon: and that branded Aſſacin Rolph: and all their Complices.
Thou doeſt well in that, Oſborne; reſolution muſt eiFalſe-Accuſers: Such as were aſhamed of our Charge.
Which for my part, I ſhall never be: Truth is, that ReSenate which pretends ſuch Uprightneſſe; may be aſhaCharge: and now being ready to juſtifie our Plea; thus to trifle time, and poaſt us off with fruitleſſe Delaies: Which preſuppoſeth Some (and thoſe no Rookes of a Low Perch neither) to be acceſſary to the Bill.
Blame them not then if they make it their Labour, to flip their necks out oth' Collar.— Now I profeſſe to thee, Oſborne, (for I am ſo perſwaded) that thoſe Senate Zimri's who have been hatching their Crocodile-eggs viſibly theſe eight yeares; but inviſibly Some Decads of Time; meane by ſome nimble tricks of Legerdemaine to have thoſe hatefull Traytours, whom we have juſtly accuſed and impeached, clearly acquitted; and our ſelves who ſtand in Defence of our Plea, perſonally indited.
So, indeed, was that Wildmans Motion.
And were not this extreame juſtice, for us to be thrown into Priſon, for our labouring by timely prevention, the preſerPerſon?
Piſh! What doeſt thou ſpeak of Juſtice?
Weſtminster-hall has ſhut gates of her long agoe. That Court of Wards Cuſhion, whoſe imbrodery profeſt it ſelfe an Attourney for the Widow and Fatherleſſe, is worne to the botome. That Court cannot be more out of Requeſt then the Cuſhion out of Date. BeDieu & Mon Droit, which was ſometimes held a proMary.
Whereto then ſhall we appeale! To the Court of Conſcience?
In no caſe; That was put downe with the High Commiſſion. Though in truth, it went out of the Court long before the Court went downe.—No; ſince we are ſhut from all Courts, let us flie into our ſelves: The Sanctuary of a Sincere Conſcience; where we ſhall find a faithfull Advocate to plead our Inno
Agreed.
In ipſo Scelere, fructus Sceleris eſt.
Creature more odious then Man, when he beunman himſelf. No Member more danCountrey, then a Court-fawne, or State-ſharke. Such an One, has crept into the poSinne: and idolatrizing Senſe. All his ayme is to prepare a Curtaine, to ſhroud his vice from Diſcovery. For in his too much heightned proſtituGroomes of the Privy-Chamber; then the All-ſeeing eyes of the Almighty. We ſhall need no other Pencil, then his owne looſe life to draw his feature. He has by this time, ſet up his Court in another Orbe. Luſt is too hot to neſtle long in One Ciyme. And here ſuppoſe Him imbaSwelling deſires in thoſe uſurped imbraces of his Dalilah. Meane time, that diſtreſſed and wofully diſtracted State, from whence They came; and whereto They owe themMan of Senſe, this Zanie of Pleaſure, braves it in the prohibited Delights of a Deveſted Prince: reteining not ſo much as the leaſt Sentiment of his reſtrained CHIEFE; who improved his liberty: nor of that PERSONS honour: whoſe abuſed Greatneſſe beſtowes now a Vermillion bluſh on her too long eclipſed Majeſty.
Reflect on thy condition, thou Senſuall Libertine! Is it poſArtaces and Nabarzanes branded with laſting diſho
Recall to mind thoſe private Addreſſrs, betwixt thy Diſloyall ſelfe, and that Perfidious Senate-houſe; and thou wilt confeſſe thy mercenary baſeneſſe. A Scandall to the Bed of Honour: A proIngratitude ſcrued up to a ſufficient height, by being Sharer in that princely pleaſure, wherein none was to reteine a property ſave the true Owner; and He thy Maſter: but thou muſt mould new Deſignes, to obſtruct all meanes of his Aſſiſtance: leſt his liberty might abridge this freeSoveraignty (though Majeſty ſeldome adSenſuality, which abridgeth life by corrupt love: and effemiDivineſt Faculties to the Service of Senſe.
Nor ſhall that native ardour, nor ſinnowy vigour, which for a Seaſon ſprinkles in thy bloud; and makes thee ſuch a choice Object to ſo eminent a Miſtreſſe; render the ever gratefull to ſuch imbraces. There can be no Perpetuity in a Subject of Frailty:
Perſon incurre diſ-eſteeme, or an eaſie neglect through diſ-abiCataſtrophe would this produce in thee? With what folded Armes, melancholly Walks, penſive thoughts, and pitifull aie-mee's, wouldſt thou ravell out the reMoment to Eternity? Hear the adviſe of a Sage Profeſſant: If thou wilt needes open thy boſome to love; fix it on ſuch an Object of Fancy; as thou mayſt have in it a juſt propriety. Stolne waters may ſeeme ſweet to the Senſe; but they taſte bitter to the Soul. Thy own Ciſterne will af
To divert then from thee, this opinion of being a German wonder, nay, a Monſter in deluding thy Master; and in betraying thy Country, a Viper: ariſe from thoſe ſheets of ſhame: Cure thy diſtemper by a timely abſence from thy Miſtreſſe. Sloath and delicacy is the onely effeminator of Man: and fomenter of Sin. The Poet confirmes it:
Aegiſtus play th' Adulterer.
Theſe preſent Civill Wars invite thee; Thy Princes ſafety inredemption of thine Honour calls upon thee. Though Reputation be not ſo eaſily gain'd as loſt: yet ſo gracefull be thoſe Returnes which remorce of Conſcience makes: as they beget in us a pious pitty, and religious joy, whereſoever we finde theſe evidences of an unexpected, but unfeigned Conver
Non facilis eſt venia, prava dixiſſe de rectis.
Perſonages of Honour. Such eſpecially, whoſe actions, were they ſumm'd up from their firſt infancy and initiation in the Court; or Affaires of State: cannot merit any rigid or Cri
This cannot in any one be more perſonally, nor preſentially inChancellour of Oxford, the Earle of Pembrook. Againſt whom, ſome virulent-traducing Pens, to diſgorge their exuberance of wit or Surquedry rather, have uſed ſuch abuſive liberty; as their vindication of thoſe expulſed Members of Col
Ʋniverſity; cannot do leſſe then bring along with it an errour of judgement in all thoſe who made choice of
Chancellour, whom his Speeches, Actions, or palpable Ignorance, as is pretended; have rendred ſo odious, or incapable of ſuch Academick Honour. Why was not this foreſeene, and timely prevented, before He came to be elected? Did He walk more in the Clouds then now? or did He diſcover more hopes of protecting, or improving the Priviledges of that famous Seminary then now appeares? No; it was neither his neglect of Theſe; nor his diſ-regard of Thoſe, whom in point of Honour He was to protect: No; nor his pretended ignorance, but ready complyance with thoſe late-domineering Viſitants, that begot Him diſtaſte. Admit all this; reſolve me candidly what might probably be done in this Caſe to ſalve his honour: and reHouſes, who by Ordinance of Parliament were to become ſubject to the Sentence and Cenſure of thoſe Viſitants? Should He have oppoſed the proceedings of theſe Viſitants? No; for ſo ſhould He have oppoſed the two Houſes of Parliament: and for his Oppoſition purchaſed to himDepoſition.
But He ſhould have allayed the fury and violence in their forme of Proceeding! No doubt he did; uſing by way of perPrinciples: and not to tranſgreſſe thoſe bounds which a Superiour Command had preſcribed them; His honour had runne himſelfe upon the ſame Rock. For thoſe
Ʋniverſity Viſitants were no ſuch Moderate Men, nor Meeke Spirits, as to admit of reproof. They knew well their own ſtrength: whom to appeal to; and from whom to receive ſpeedy redreſſe; upon the very leaſt com
Yet all this cannot cleare Him (you will ſay;) It had been the Duty of an honeſt and integrious Chancellour, in diſcharge of the truſt conferred on Him, and recommended to Him; to in
Ʋniverſity; whoſe Patriot, Patron and Protector He had profeſt himſelfe to be. But what would all this have adSucceed him: but not to redreſſe thoſe wrongs done to the Place committed to him. Yet, will Some alledge, his Honour was highly conſcious of one Erour; which, no doubt, He might ſeaſonably have diverted; by interpoſing himſelfe by way of authoriy, for the indempnity of ſuch Schollers, whoſe knowne abilities, ſweet and Docile natures merited not onely approveriſing hopes might have preſented them Singular Ornaments to ſo abſolute a Mother. It is anſwered; that his unqueſtioned deſires applied them ſeriouſly though not ſo effectually that way, as He did wiſh. For ſuch Severe Cenſors were thoſe Viſitours; as neiable parts nor affable natures could have any influence upon them. If they appear'd not pliable to their bent, ſutable with their ſtraine; They might neceſſarily incurre Cenſure. The walls of the
Ʋniverſity were of too ſtrait a Circumference to confine them.
Thus you ſee how groundleſſe aſperſions have beene throwne upon his Honour without Cauſe; being deſirous with his moſt ſtudious endeavours to purſue, what His Countermanded Power could not effect.
Shall we now peruſe Him as He was Courtier, or imployed in affaires of State? It was ſometimes obſerv'd by a Wiſe and exObjects, of all Others, moſt fatally dangerous to a qualified Courtier. Ambition; Ava
Ambitious He was never; for his deſires were ever impaled within the freedome of their owne juſt limits. His higheſt Ambition was how to preferre the juſt Suite of an injuried Petiti
Avarice; there is none that truly knows Him, but will witneſſe for Him, that it was never in requeſt with Him; nor admitted to take acquaintance of Him.
He was never mercenary in the ampleſt favours He ſhew'd to any. So as, though there have been ever many both Juſticiaries and Courtiers who might be aptly reſembled to the Celidonie Stone, that loſeth it's virtue and vigour, when it ceaſeth to be touch't with Gold; His Honor was not of that humour. Wealth was one of his loweſt and contemtibleſt Objects. His Revenues, indeed, were great; which might have ſtored his coffers with an affluence of treaſure: but his deſires were never confined to thoſe ends. His bounty every where returned Him this teſtimony.
For Recede from imployment; it was a thing, which of all other, He moſt hated. He was, you will ſay, a Man of pleaſure. He was, indeed, much addicted to Exerciſe and Recreation; wherein He would uſually be very Sociably merry. Some ſlight perfunctory Paſſion might, perchance, ſometimes overtake Him; but it was quickly overcome by Him. In all theſe Recreations and Delights, a pleaſing familiarity accompanied Him; which in all Places procured him loue: Being nothing like Some of our Surly Lords; who hold familiarity in ſuch contempt; as they become contemptible to their familiars.
Some infirmities, I muſt confeſſe, He has; as every One has Some: and He the beſt who is Subject to the leaſt. And of Theſe He repents Him. Neither is He at any time incenſed at Such as friendly admoniſh Him of them: but with all affability thank them. Habits, indeed, in Vice, are ſooner got then forgone. But his deſire to be reclaim'd from them, argues his hate to them: with his reſolution wholy to decline them.
His ſmall acquaintance and familiarity with Books, ſhould not muſter Such Invectives againſt his Perſon: though Learning be the exquiſiteſt beauty, that can imbelliſh Honour; yet it directs not alwaies a line to that Centre. There be more Havens to arrive at then Corynth. To be a Protector of Learning, though no Profeſſor, is praiſe-worthy in Honour.
Now, to conclude this Apology; whereas, much might be here Objected againſt Him touching his Compliance with theſe times; what that Great Favourite ſpake ſomtimes to ingenious Pibrack;
Honours and Revenues be ſtrong pullies to frailty.
But I am confident, his Honour reteines in Him thoughts of Loyalty: and will be ready to manifeſt them to the world with all reality.
You then, who uſually walk in Shades of Worm-wood, ceaſe from dipping your Pens in the leaſt tincture of Gall, that may any way tend to the impeachment of Honour. There be other Subjects fitter for Loyally-affected Subjects. Let your Pens be ſo employed, that Goodneſſe may be rather incouraged; then the leaſt hopes of proficiency in actions of Honour retarded.
For his Secretary Michael Olds worth, Eſquire, (ſo nearly ſymDivine) as His abilites are well known: ſo is his integrity no leſſe approv'd.
He ſhoots ſhafts at the Moon, (as one no leſſe worthily then Morally obſerveth) who out of a Malignant humour, makes it his labour to darken the ſplendour of Goodneſſe and Honour.
A tergo Nemeſis.
Brutiſh Britannicus.—You nitty-naſty Law-louſe; the Anagram of a good face—. Pray thee, Sir GREGORY NON-SENSE, marke what a nooze thou haſt woven for thy ſelfe! If thy traduc'd Mercurius play not Titaeus part, and make thee hang thy ſelfe by his tart, but true diſcovery of thee, I ſhall conclude thou haſt fooles fortune: and that want of underſtanding kept thee from hanging. For I ſhall no ſooner have diſſected thy Carrian quality, then thou wilt wiſh with all thy heart (la) that thou wer't transform'd by Meduſa's black rod, into one of thoſe Inſecta that thou brainleſly talk'd of.
Now to thy Anatomy Lecture; which for meer pitty ſake, I I ſhall doe with favour; leſt (thou Prodigy of Loyalty and Nacheeck-aſide Groat) ſhall I touch thy face? O no! It looks like a Noli me tangere. Thy party par pale will not endure the touch. Beſides that, St. Antonies Fyre (my ſqueaking Ginny Pigge) which holds ſuch affinity with thy crazy phyſnomy, proclaimes to the whole world, that ſome Incubus or other makes thy mummitiz'd body their nightly Hackney.—How bravely my Dydapper fluttered in Cornelius Tub! from whence, after ſome ſmall vent or reſpiration, thou preſented thy Adamite head like a Moulted Skale-drake, without ſo much as one hair of a naturall Perrywig. And well, thou ſcap'd ſo; for the ſacrifice of a tuft of Goatiſh haire, or of a decayed Calfe, were unſatisfactory Gages for diſcharge of the Mounte-bankes Bill. Thus, my Neapolitan Nit, having with much bathing, cupping and chaſing recovered thy deſperately-infected Body from the Clawes of the Grinchams: and after all this, procured a ſpeedy cure of the Snap thou hadſt got over ſhins with a French Faggot: thou ſeconded thy recovery with an honeſt reburn't Child fire dreads) from that time for
But now, my illiterate Criket, I will break off from any furRaddiſh for its frailty:) and take a little pains in diſplay of thoſe exuberant diſtempers of thy minde.
In the firſt place then, give me leave to become thy Remembrancer: for it is much to be feared (if thou wer't a thing worthy either our fear, or our care) that thou art fallen into Corvinus Meſſalahs diſeaſe; having either forgot, or elſe wholly loſt thy good name.
Tell me then, my ſurly grumbling Don, doeſt not remember how thy Father, though he had ſmall hopes of thee, and as weak promiſes of proficiency from that Pedant who taught thee; adFreſhmanſhip unProdigall. Ask forgiveneſſe for thy forepaſt follies! No; my ranting Ratoune; Thou hadſt ſuch bad ſucceſſe by Land, as thou meant'ſt to make one Adventure by Sea; and to bring thy Marchandize from a farre.
A Wife is compared to a Ship; but in theſe Notions different: She is neither to have many Owners; ſeeing onely one is to have in her a propriety: neither to ruffle it with her Top and Top-gallant; leſt ſhe ſhould negotiate with folly, by entertaining thoſe dreſſes of vanity; nor lay her broad-ſide open to all encounMaſter-mates; nor partake with ſharers. For this end, my dear Don, thou adventurouſly lanched, and at laſt proſperouſly arrived, for want of a better Harbour, at Cuckolds Haven; where ever ſince, like a ſullen Sourell, thou haſt beene ſhaking thy Velvet Head; but hopeſt in time to put forth: and brandiſh thy brow-antlers amongſt the Elders.
But we will leave thee with thy Britannica; intended at firſt for the Meridian of Dureſme, but may ſerve indifferently, upon any intervening opportunity for all Great Brittany.
But ſee and wonder! This peeking-Popingay-Puppy has by this time got an infinite itch (to ſympathize with his in-laid, and skin-laid Eryſipelis) to be ſeen in Print. He muſt foole it in folio; there's no remedy. In ſuch miſerable follies doe theſe madding times inſnare theſe Wittall Widgeons. But he muſt uſe the weak wings of his Coy-ducke to mount with: otherwiſe, his ſhort Icarian flight muſt be ſoone at an end. And who may this be? A CumBell-buzard, who will ſeaze on any prey for his advantage: and, indeed, a late baffled bonby, who, take
practiſe will neither doe Law nor Learning hurt, unleſſe it be to eat up their Commons. But this Ingle muſt be his Instrument to put his beſt helping hand to this weekly Sheet worke: or Mounſeur Clot-braine muſt ſuffer his webbe to faile in the Loomes. Suppoſe them then jogging and juſtling their equaladle Egges thrown out of one neſt, ſent abroad to beget a noyſome ſteame in the noſtrils of any ſenſible Reader; breathing out this, in their Peripatetick Garden-walke, for a ſetled Concluſion: That Brittannicus, who either out of his ambition, or his Cumra les diſcretion, to free his hide from a laſh, was to take upon him the Title of an Author, and ſhould play the Mercuriſt: though neither He, nor his Aſſiſtant knew the Gender of Mercurius. And this Puny-Puppy muſt take upon him to oppoſe all thoſe honeſt Mercurii, who wrote in their love to loyalty, for the honour of their Country.
Meane time, this egregious Dottrell dips his Gooſe-quill in ſuch poyſonous gall as might (for ſo his lean-lying Genius meant) turn the colour of zeal: and by his Paradoxes in defence of RebelDemocritus, reſolve thee ſelfe to laughter: for thou hadſt never a rarer Subject to tickle thy ſpleane: nor ſuch a Braintrap in all thine Iſle of Guls to ſport with!
It was not ſufficient for this Rebellious Raſcall, this ſordid ſulBritannick Anonymus, as his unknowne Name may give him liberty (under Mabbots priviledge) to impeach any mans Name, and make it as infamous as his own.
Nor is it his onely Profeſſion to aſperſe diſhonour on thoſe, who in the Opinion of beſt men, are held approved: but, by playing the baſe Sycophant, to magnifie thoſe, whoſe Names are odious to the Eares of all good men: nay, whoſe Memories ſhall rot, and to perpetuate their ſhame, leave ſtamps of ignominy to their hopeleſſe Families, for Cautions to Poſterity.
Let but Britannicus purchaſe a paire of uninterested Spectacles, if he may reſerve ſo much from his Commons, and peruſe his
Catalogue of purple Magiſteriall Bench-whiſtlers; thoſe reverend Scarlet Grand Guls: who never remember to whom they are ſworne: nor to whom they are by allegeance to adhere: nor whoſe Perſons they repreſent in their diſpenſation of judgment. O brave Sages! Politick Sconces! Deſerve not theſe to be recorBlack Book, where all State-Zimry's muſt be canonized. Meane time, what Hyperbolees muſt theſe ſoyles of honour and Staines to Juſtice have beſtowed on them; to make the face of TREASON look with the clearer Count'
For to deſcend to thy Criticall Catalogue: (for I proteſt, thou deſerveſt well to be pillored by the Parliament Party, for abuſing thoſe State-ſhadowes: and beſtowing on their immeriting perſons, ſuch undeſerving praiſes:) So as inſtead of the Clawing Sycophant, thou acteſt the part of a Saucy Critick; in praiſing thoſe whom all the world condemns: and for thoſe pretended virtues, which their tainted breaſts never harbour'd. For that praiſe falls into diſpraiſe, where either the Praiſer wants judgement:
Party praiſed wants merit. Neither is it leſſe Criticiſme, to praiſe where either the Object or Subject admits no praiſe.
Thus with a palpable cheating Ignorance, thou committeſt a double Offence: Firſt, in deluding theſe Authenticall Tranſgreſſors: in making them believe (if thy flattery could make them ſo credulous, or confidently opinionate, as to hug their folly) that all this long track of diſloyalty, wherein they have ſo aſſiduately ſtalked and trampled on the face of honour, was a path of publique conveniency; leading to the ſafety, ſecurity, and liberty of the Subject: and no diſturbance to a civill peace; their Principles tending to no other end, nor their Deſignes aiming at any other Object, then Reformation of Church by introducing a Presbyteredreſſe of abuſes coincident to the State, by coercion of Their power, who might otherwiſe extend Their power by a Priviledge of Soveraignty, and convert their Commands into a Tyranny.
This (my poore Rooke) were a plauſive palliating way, if thy ſhallow braines could either preſſe it: or integrity of judgment prove it. But leaſt one wedge drive out another, I muſt have a touch (my paltry Paraſite) at thy next error: Wherein thou
Perenniall Conſiſtory of State has already ordeerror, nor any Symptom of a corrupt Member, in that grave and graOrdure (He would ſay Order) in that High and magnificent Praetorian of Honour.
What a Pithy-aſſe would this Oratour prove, if the ground were ſound, he walkt on! But ſuch a Dampe ſteames from behollowneſſe within. There will appear Knavery in this Saintly Conſiſtory, or the World's cozened. All is not gold that gliſters, The mettall of this Maſſy Capitol reſembles th' Amalga; it has more Moone then Sun in it.
But now to thoſe Reverend Patriots, which thy bleer'd eyes have ſummon'd up, and ſo highly mounted. "The ravenous Puttock purſues the Parliament Kite. Pleaſure more ſutable for an Hagler then a generous Falconer.
Now for the firſt, He derives his title from Kent. "A man, whoſe faith and uprightneſſe is many degrees above all that reproach which the fouleſt of mouths can lay upon him.
Shew me, thou naſty excrementall Ibis, what Bird, or in what Ayry, that is more likely to blaſt the fame of any good man, then thy foule Mouth; Wherein impudence and ignorance hold ſuch predominance; as no modeſt eare capable of Senſe, can chuſe to doe leſſe then glow to heare humanity ſo much abuſ'd, by maZanie to every Society: an Object of contempt to all cleare judgments.
The Moralliſt can tell thee (thou Scarabee to honour) that vertues become vices and change 'their nature, when from a vicious tongue they receive their luſtre.
Truſt me, Sneeking Rat, I ſhould account it more praiſe-worKentiſh Peere were but little beholden to thee, if any vertue be extant in
For thy Second Patriot or Conſcript Statiſt; He is an Antiquary; One, who were he as Loyall as Learned, might be more deſerphrentick pen commends him. "A man not to be named without a religious kinde of horrour, and ſecret veneration. What meanes this religious horrour, thou injurious Tetter? Sure, there is either an error in the propriety of the Authour, or eſcape from the Printer. For I appeale to the Perſon concerned in thy frivolous diſcourſe, if in all His Readings through the whole Courſe of his Antiquities, He ever read ſuch a pitifull phraze.
Thirdly, for thy Engliſh Brutus; thouſtyles Him more proHenry Martin, will conclude, that hee'd not ſtick to act Brutus part, if he had but opportunity to ſtab Caeſar in the Capitol.
As for Maſter Speaker, being (as he is rendred) A Gentleman of admired conſtancy and faith to the State, and who to the infinite prejudice of his health (but allegiance will preſcribe him a cordiall) hath ſtood conſtantly to his duty, and will leave a better memory behind him then any of his Accuſers.
I muſt tell thee in the firſt place, that Compariſons are odious; there may chance to be an Accuſer, who upon equall termes may cope with your Speaker. Meane time, many of thoſe who know him are verily perſwaded, that he would with all his heart loſe all thoſe vaſt ſummes which he has purchas'd with his Tongue, upon condition he might have no occaſion to make Buttons with his T.
For Mr. Sollicitour, whoſe very name atteſts him a Saintly ProHe is a perſon of too much worth and honour to be tainted by a ſlander. Yet I muſt tell you, Sirra Snap, for all his integriJohn Stowell did not ſtick to lay more to his charge, then his untainted fidelity could well anſwer.
For Mr. Juſtice Rolls, "A man of endowments, excellent, and not the leaſt, for his parentage, contemptible; (obſerve the conOne whom the violenteſt malice durſt never yet attach, till the madneſſe of this pen (dipped in gall and poyſon) did first attempt it.
Tucca prove a daring Champion in defence of tainted honour! Well, Sirra; if thy practice faile, (as I am perſwaded thou wilt never be guilty of much) I'le tell thee how thou ſhalt improve thy valour, and with ſordid vailes miniſter freſh fuell to thy braving humour; Turne Boult or deſperate Haxter; thou needſt not want for Inmates; thy Coy duck will furniſh thy Covy. But tell me, my Gue, whence i'ſt, that thou ſhouldſt have ſuch confidence, in a diſtemper'd braine, to mainEraſmus, Gaudanus, Cornel. Agrippa, ingenious Rheſnerus, or ſpritely Co
or that no leſſe preſent then pregnant Perottus, then thou mighteſt with more aſſurance have writ as they did: ParaPraiſe of Folly; Vanity of Knowledge; Bravery of Beggery; Beauty of Deformity: Or what might more properly and experimentally Suite with thy fancy, BRITANNICUS; Paſquills in Praiſe of the French Poxe; in Honour of a Cuckold: and the commodious Society of a Louſe.
Neither was this Subject which thy cloddy braine undertook, of leſſe difficulty, if thy Scribling pen could have perform'd it as artfully.
Traiters are ſtrange Subjects for Encomiaſticks: Thou mighteſt have come off farre better, (though ſuch a Task, I confeſſe, could not have redounded much to thine honour) in praiſing thee ſelfe, as Apuleius did his Aſſe. But I ſmell thy meaning why thou reSkirt of thy ſheet to wrappe up the praiſes of theſe Rabſhakaths in. It is thy ayme, if ever thou creep into practiſe (as there's very ſmall hope on't) by this poore ſneeking inſinuating way, to make theſe Reverend Benchers ſo much thy friends, as thou maiſt by their countenance, procure audience and attention to thy Mariot-motion: and ſo by the preſent helpe of a ten groats Fee SatiſMa
: having told thy Tale, got bread and cheeſe, and come thy way.
But I will ſpend no more time in probing theſe impoſtumous ulcers. Bray the foole in a morter, he will never be wiſer. What a folly were it then to conteſt, with ſuch a madding Antago
Onely, out of the pitty I beare thee, let me adviſe thee, to diShrewſbury Weaver, who familiarly ſpoke Non-ſenſe to his Shutle.
Fawnes thy Stationer, holding ſuch firme relation to AllegiScribling, to the value of one reame of paper: And for that ugly ſpeckled Bird, Partridge, He hath freely proteſted, that he would not be at the charge of publiſhing it, but for the hate he beares to ſome particular perſons, who invey againſt it.
So as, theſe Pattent-Papers of thine (for we know well how thou holds in fee of that Saintly Synod) may ſleep peaceably with Mayes, and Spungy Sprigs mouldy Chronicles (ſuch ſpurious ſprigs varniſh our bloomy May) to the Generall Reſurrection: whilſt that welſh Stationer of the Roſe & Crown finds juſt cauſe to complaine with that Paſquill in Caſtalion. Eheu! Multi dum libros typis mandare volunt; Typographi liberos mendicare cogunt. But his Zeal ſupercedes his want of Sale. Leave off then betime, leſt one Royalliſt or other to thine utter diſhonour baſtinado thee out of thine humour.
Minerva's Hall to Laverna's Kitching
For I muſt tell thee, thy ſiniſter miſchievous pen oft-times be
Thy ominous friendly figure-caſter, languiſhing Lilly, whoſe approaching ruine, (maugre all his Divination) makes him looke like a Ruſſeting, being now out of all hope to be ſav'd by his Book; holds himſelf much agriev'd to be charg'd with a Wench, by his dear BRITANNICUS. This makes him bellow from his Aſtronomicall Cave.—Et tu Brute!— Go to then; leave betime, leſt thou lick o'th' whip. Pin thy ſelf up in thy Spiderwoven Study: and if thou finde ſo much capacity left thee, as to aſpire to the Desk of a Puny Clark; apply thy weak pericranium that way: for to uſe thy owne phraſe, thy radicall humour
Minerva is wholly exhauſted in thee. Thou art as feere as a Skeleton. How durſt thou then ſo impudently tax our late MERCURIUS, whoſe known abilities are not to be meaſured by thy Laſt, for inventing Theames; when they were reall Speeches: and tranſcribed by ſo ſincere an Amanuenſis, as his approved eſteeme is ſpheared above all exception? But me thinkes, in reTheame, thou ſhouldſt remember how Maſter Birch ſerv'd thee for playing the Truant, and pilfring thy Theame out of Apthonius: an Author too pretious to be abuſed by ſuch a brutiſh Britannicus.
Thou cenſureſt him too, like a bold Bayard, For rambling in Poetry, and making an huge-ſort of Verſes in the Baeotick dialect; which are in Engliſh to perſwade the ſwarmes of
Blewbotle, Bully Blewcap will go neare to turne your Roundiſme into true Blew.
to advance hither once more, to perfect thoſe rudiments of civility which they once got in England. But ſuch ſqueaking oratory as his (ſaies this State-puppy) is not likely to perſwade thoſe eares, who are not guided with any thing ſo much, as the reall appearances of a groat a day and fleſh.—Fury and folly mad thee! Has not thy miſ-guided Genius deluded thee? Is not Scotch laſt incurſion: a deſigne purſued with more hope then ſucceſſe.Calidony become a Cavalry; marHamilton; LieuteCalendar; Major Generall Lenrick for the Foot: with ſundry other brave Scotch Commanders, and numerous Forces furniſhed with all Ammunition, and feigned reſtraint, has given freſh Summons to the Scots for a fearfull recruit: having already reſolv'd (with the joynt vote and voice of their KIRKE) either to redeeme their indanger'd fame, and revenge the Sale and Slavery uſed to their Subjects: or to ſacrifie their deareſt lives in the Quarrell. LANCASHIRE, Returne a juſt Accompt of thoſe Blew bonnet Slaves you have ſold: with your ſeverall Rates, Prices and Receipts at that Mart: for it will be expected at your hands. That Anarchiall Councell of Warre may Vote downe Monarchy: and impoſe a period to a ſpecifiCharles, but never to a Succeſſive King; A life cannot contract a line: Nor can a Prince unjuſtly ſuffer without revenge from his lineall Succeſſour.Langdale? Be not our beſt defenNavy lately declared how Allegeance muſt be the Card that ſteers their Courſe? Is not the City turn'd Retrograde? Nay, what is more then a nine nights wonder; is not their Warner, that magiſteriall Monſter.Mayor become both Wiſe and Loyall againſt his will?
Thou wilt deliver us up to the juſtice and fury of the Kites (the Parliamenteeres thou meanſt) if we continue thus to ſpeak Truth! Baſe bug-bear, ſuggeſt theſe affrights to thoſe that fear thee. Our undanted Spirits, as they know how to trample on thy vilany: So they ſleight the braves of an uſurped power: the inſults of a diſloyall Enemy.
Loyall heart within him,Wiſdome keepes her Court,Tyrants fooles, their Cenſures ſport.
THERE is another walking Familiar; a peeking cozening Gipſey, a John of all Trades, having ſojourn'd in as many Shops, as ever Proteus took upon him Shapes, whom I am to have a bout with too. One who can ſpit poyſon in the face of Soveraignty with more facility, than any Martin of them all; be he never ſo ſufficiently qualifi'd in the Notions of Treaſon and Diſloyalty.
This egregious pluſh-turn'd Raskall, whoſe back was not long ſince beholden to an over-caſt Hounds-ditch livery: and whoſe Stomack was uſually gorg'd with the fly-blowne reverſions of a Pye-Corner Pantry; is now become one of the Grandees of that King-impeaching Aſſembly. This Rogue paſſeth under two Names: where his Alias makes up the latter; by patching up a ſenſleſſe Jew, Kenelraker: would be an Anagram more fitly ſuiHeathen Interpreter.
Anagram for the firſter. His Character ſhall render him a diſcovery. His numerous profeſſions the Badges of his knavery. Shall we then draw up his yearly Compute? Yes; and in it finde him thus diſtinguiſhed; thus dignifide.
Know all men by theſe preſents, that this Mangy Mungrell in the year 1641. was a broken Iron-monger: from whence collect his Iron age. In the year 1642. having found the commodity of Iron through want of credit to be out of requeſt: and of too hard and ruſty a temper to digeſt; He became Petty Stationer, and ſold ſmall bookes, and ballads, winter-tales, Carols, Hookes and Eyes, Claſps and Boſſes; And this was his Brazen age.
But deſirous to partake knavery in the higheſt meaſure; In the year 1643. intending to play the Evedropper, He ſculked in the Lobby for Newes; to ſet his peſtilent Forge a work: and in ſhort time grew ſuch a notorious Stigmatiſt that way, as by meanes of his broaking Agents imployed in that current Mintage
State-lies, He became the onely Claſſick Author of the Age: witneſſe thoſe many millions of treacherous fictions, and ſhame
Neither was this Horſe-leach thus ſatisfi'd; his palpable ignoRatle-braine, who took more of Rogue than Rabby (this is one of the Devils tricks, ever to ſhame his Servants before he leave them) took upon him to write pittifull Funerall Anagrams in Hebrew: a Tongue that might be rendred in the
Ʋtopian language, for ought he knew. For this paltry paraſiticall Raſcall, diſcovered in them as little ſenſe, as he had before ſhown truth in his Pen, or ſage in his Sconce.
I ſhall little need to devine what will become of him. All thoſe that know him, are verily perſwaded, how that threedpluſh which he now weares, for all its bravery, muſt become the Livery of Tyburnes Gregory. And that He muſt at the feet of his Horſe lie by doome of mortality, as he was permitted to lie here by Mabbots authority.
TERENT.
Scelera Sceleribus ſunt tuenda.
Moderate! Surely Corvinus, thou haſt quite forgot thy Name.Moderate: or a ſottiſh ſenſleſſe Libell forced with Calumny, Treaſon and Blaſphemy, hold in that predicament of Quality, the whole world, Sure, is whimzed: and has ſent forth their wits a wool-gathering, without all hope of recovery.
But to follow thee hot-foot in thy own path; and trace thee in thine own track; I mean to take a little paines with thee; not for that I hold thee worthy my labour: but that others, upon thy diſcovery, may look on thee, and bleſſe them from thee, as an Abject from Grace, and an Object of Horror.
To unkennell then this Mangy Mongrell; and uncaſe Him too if his Sultry Hide were worth it: you are to underſtand that this Campe-Cataline-Curat, or Pedanticall Pedro, having traverſed all Faiths, and ſeru'd his Apoſtacy to all faſhions: this Protean Gypſey, I ſay, to foment theſe Schiſms of the time: and repaire thoſe Seame-rent Schiſms of his Preeches: being in his Fig-leafe habit more like an Adamite, then a Senat Proſelite; chanc't to fall into an Anarchicall Society, wherein after a ſhort time of
Probation, He became the Chayr-man, and in his Paraean and unpublick Profeſſor; as this Iſis Aſſe was held their onely Idol in all the Synagogue. After a very little inHoly Fraternity, he was perſwaded to deliver his Anarchicall Opinion publiquely (as Jezabel did out of her window) in BELS-ALLY. Where this locally then doctrinally infuGadareus, his wanBell-Alley was the very place where Bell combated with the Dragon.
Satanicall Schiſmatick vented ſuch impertinent childiſh Tautologies: with other Atheiſticall ſtuffe to his judaicall Aſſembly; As any Sober judgment would verily have thought that he had beene ſome Lunaticke, newly broke out of Bedlam: ſuch apparent Symptoms of a phrenſy did this Bremo diſcover both in Language and action. Now the principall points (and all not worth a point) whereon this bawling Curre inſiſted; were in ſuch a levelling way digeſted: as in proceſſe of time, afgravellings, He laboured to preſent theſe his Familiars with a monſtrous miſ-ſhapen Body without an Head. Telling them plainly (for his Education from a pad-ſtaffe, could not promiſe much Oratory) that as there was no Smith in Iſrael, ſo it ſtood with the conveniency of a State to have no King in Iſrael. And that He would prove by good authority, that in their firſt Inſtitution, they were accounted as Ordinary men, both in reAntiquity, Dignity, and Quality. For ſaid He, what great Antiquity can they preſcribe from Adam? Do we read that either Adam was a King: or his Conſort Eve a Queene? Digging and Delving was no proper office for a King: neither Spinning nor Weaving for a Queene. Yet was this Manufactory and MaOnely Man on Earth enjoy'd the Style of King; yet all the World will confeſſe, that He had no great aſſurance of his Kingdome, when the taſte of an Aple drove him out of his Dominion. Beſides, was She worthy to reteine the Style of a Princeſſe, who was deceived ſo eaſily by a Serpent? Or He worthy to exerWoman?
To the Second point; if you account him ſo eminent in reſpect of his Dignity; you are wholly miſtaken (quoth He) there is no ſuch mattter. For look upon the manner of their Election; and you will finde in it no ſuch inducement of titular
Darius that great Perſian King; One who would have valued Great Britanny but as a Molehill; choſen King from Neighing of his Horſe: and I pray you, did not the Groome of his Stable deſerve that Title as well, if not better then He; when his device was the onely Meanes for his Maſter to win the prize? Was not Gordian likewiſe choſen Prince from the Plowſhare? And Probus taken from Setting of a Turnop in his Garden to be made Guardian over a flouriſhing State? Would not theſe prove brave compleat Courtiers, when the One was bred a Gardner; the Other a Curter? O dainty perfumed Emperours! With what beſeeming State could Hobnaile put on a Royall Roabe? Or a Turnop-ſetter, whoſe onely triumphant Cry was to improve the Sale of his Carrets, mount to a Chaire of State?
Thus you ſee, ſaid He, Majeſty clouted up in a Plow ſhare: and diſht up in a Sallet.
Now for the laſt, which is his Quality. Have not the Greateſt Kings been the worſt men? Looke upon that brutiſh Nebuchadonozer; and you ſhall finde him grazing amongſt beaſts of the field: and he the very worſt Beaſt of all the Herd. Look upon Pharaoh; and you ſhall finde Him acting bloudy Nimrods part, hunting cruelly and craftily after the Children of God. Go to Herod, and you ſhall heare Him exalting himſelfe above God. Rich Ahab muſt have poore Naboths Vinyeard, though he have many of his Owne. Naboth muſt be ſton'd, to inlarge his State. Thus many Kings have wholy unking'd themſelves, by ſtriving to make themſelves too abſolute Kings. By incroaching upon their Subjects, they have become lower then their Subjects. Baſe Mo
Thoſe Syracuſan Tyrants made fetters for themſelves. Their owne actions begot them factions. They needed no greater Enemies then them ſelves to depoſe them. Phalaris that cruell Tyrant cauſed his cunning Enginiere Perillus to make him a Bull (nearly reſembling our late Colcheſter Bull) purpoſely to torPerillus was the very firſt Pa
AFTER this manner, would this wandring Goſpeller vapour. But this Conventicle Alley grew ſoon weary of their Lecturer. So as, this Kentiſh Kite muſt be inforced to take upon him ſome Other vocation: being out of all hope to receive from Bells Alley or any other zealous Corner in all Colemans Street, any more penſion. To repaire then his ſtarv'd fortunes, He betakes himſelfe to that over-jaded Trade of a Scurrilous Statizing Pamphletter. A Diurnall dunce; Styling himſelfe THE MODERATE: Impartially communicating (if you may believe him) Martiall Affaires to the KINGDOME of ENGLAND.
Partheſ. & Viget. lib. 1. cap. 24. —latet AAuſon.
Moderate Gooſ-cap. Haſt thou crept out of thy Schiſmaticall Tubbe, to play the trecherous Bouby in Print? Canſt thou finde no face to caſt thy durt (baſe Kennel-raker) but on the Prince? Muſt He be thy Subject? Yes; for thou juſtifies thy Plea: and avowcheſt Him worthy of it.—Charging him with all the bloud that hath been ſhed by this Warre in the three Kingdomes: Nay, with a fact of that notoRabſhakeh, doeſt thou charge Him with the Death of his Father? Was it not ſufficient miſery for Him to be depoſed of His Soveraignty; deprived of his Liberty; but to have his precious fame ſtained with this egregious brand of infamy? Impious Impe! How dareſt thou accuſe thy Prince? One, to whome Thou oweſt even thy ſelfe, of ſo haynous a Crime as Patricide? By whom didſt thou ever heare Him Taxed, but by Thoſe whoſe onely ayme was to innovate and change our forme of Government; nay, utterly to ſupplant it? Theſe inEngineers of the Independent Faction, whoſe Labour it was, (as now it is, by their obſtructing our late Treaty; in laying to His charge (grounded upon his own pretended Conpurple Iſland. But reflect, (thou Monarchicall Moth) who beſtoweſt thy licentious Lampe in blanching the fame of Princes, and aſperſing diſhonour upon their actions, whoſe purity may juſtly vindicate them from the leaſt tincture of infamy! May the ſoveraignty of an abſolute Prince, who purſues nothing with more justifiable fervour, then preſerving his Prerogative Royall; (without which, Manaked style, or imaginary State) deſerState-poſition as a Maxim for Princes to obſerve, and Subjects to obey:
The Spirit of a Prince, who can diſpence with his Prerogative: or ſtudies to ingratiate his Subject; below himſelf, merits not the
Yet for all this, muſt the priviledge of thy licentious pen, made mercenary to relieve thy ſtarved guts with the ſcattered revenues of a threepenny Ordinary, break forth into this virulent detraction of laying this boundleſſe deluge of Civil blood (uncivilly effuſed) upon the juſt and legall deſtyle he beares; nor the Throne whereto he mounts:
What a brain-ſick madneſſe has ſurprized thee (Thou ſenſeSatanicall Satyr;Lamprid.
O quàm multa opera dum prodeunt, deplorati Authoris famam produnt! This may be juſtly verified in thee (Thou ulcerous Cenſor of Princes actions;) thy Book cannot poſſibly ſave thee, were the Ordinary, on whoſe indulgence thy illiterate ſconce ſo much depends, neParaeus boſome, plead thy Cauſe, thou mighteſt breath ſome ſmall hope of comfort, and though not of releaſe, yet ſome ſmall reprieve from preſent ſuſpenſion: But where none of theſe will adventure to become Advocates for thee, look for no mercy; onely expect a Newgate Jury to return their pittileſſe verdict upon thee; a Rhadamanth within thee to condemn thee: and Furies in all ſeaſons, and upon all occaſions to torment thee. What will become then of this Barbarous Bard, when he ſhall be taught to ſing his inNewgate Bird, and in reſemblance to the Oſtridge, feed on his Grate, with an eager digeſtion, for want of better proviſion?
If thou hadſt ever read ſo far (my muddy and moldy-witted Moderate) but I fear me thy Reading never travelled further then Riding, and conſequently never arrived at Corinth; as to have read thoſe heavy and tragick cenſures of Eupolis and Ariſtobolus; the gravell of their Criticiſme would have ſo grinded thy teeth, as it would have broken thy fangs: and returned thee in no capacity of biting: though by a naturall inſtinct, in a quality of ſnarling. But what diſcreet brain will ſet any value of thy invenom'd pen! Though I muſt ingenu
But whence comes this frontleſſe impudence (my Moderate Brain-ſtrap?) From no other ſource then a confident igDiurnall, procure thee by meanes of thy State-patron ſome obſcure corner in an Hoſpitall. And this thou hopeſt to obtaine, when thy aged joynts become ſeered, thy native faculties enfeeLASHER undeceive thee (my Moderate Mamothrept;) Thou art loſt if thou ground on theſe deluding ends. Let thy weakGenius cannot ſoare ſo high, as to right ſo Majeſtick an object as thou haſt traduced; yet of a miſ-named Moderate become an immoderate Penitentiary; A recluſe thy manſion; Teares thy Conſort; paſſionate ſighs thy ſole-breathing-accents. And if thy weak eſtate indanger thee to ſtarve; Returne to thy late manuall vocation (putting off thy former fraud and colluſion) and in thy progreſſe ſerve him, on whoſe providence ſo long as thou relieft, Thou canſt not ſtarve. Recover thy wits, ſo far eſtranged from thee: and diſ-own that improper Title of MODERATE, which has ſo groſly abuſed thee.
art, and pretending (if we may be confident of Scotch dialect) to ſome truth; we have here received, wherein your labour is in the perſon of your whole Council of State, to aſſure us of that unity & affectionate harRepreſentative, of ſo pure and refined a quality, as it were piacular to hold it capable of any jealouſy. But waſh off this Ceruſſe, Mr. Chancelor, that we may diſcover your Complexion the better. Can your plauſible Apology, though never ſo ſubtilly nor cuWolfe will ſooner loſe his haire then his conditions: and that the ancient Brittiſh Proverb will be ever ve
But let us draw the Curtain, that we may have a perfectPicture. You take your level from that pretenunion ſo happily eſtabliſhed betwixt the two Nations. But how have you for your parts tempered or preſerved that Cement, which ſhould have ſtrengthned this Juncture? Did your late Invaſion by that ever practiſing but never ſucceſſive Hamilton, manifeſt your affection to peace, or any ſymptom of intended Union? Can you under colour of plunder and hoſtility; pretend a continuance of our diſſolved unity?
Yes; you can cloſe the wound ſmoothly; and palliate your pernicious projects with numerous proteſts; that his preciimpudence can diſcoTiberius; that he could ſCimmerian ſhades, to have marched ſo inviſibly; nay, and unanimouſly too, without your joynt aſſent, admittance and authority. Yet we muſt not believe this, your hearts were ever harmoniouſly united to us. Both in judgment and affection you were wholly Aliens to any ſuch Invaſion. And if we may have ſo much faith as to believe you; there is nothing that may hold conſiſtence with our ſafety, which you do not equally ballance as your own ſecurity. What amicable brothers you be! who could think how any Snake could lye ſhrouded under ſuch green graſſe? And yet there lies hid a Pad in the ſtraw. Tell us, grave Chancelor, did there ever breake forth any ſuch ſparks of your ferverous zeal to us: or any ſuch flaming deſire of being individually united to us, till your forraging Army, either through want of ſpirit, or diſcipline, or both, were by us wholly diſcomfited? During your march, all were huſht: much expected from the ſucceſſe of your invaſion: no acknowledgement then intended: nor tender of ſubmiſſion. Did you then think (unboſome your ſelves freely, and for once caſhere hypocriſy) to call for merwhite banner have been then diſplaied? No, Sir; ſuch faire dealing could not be expected from your hands. It is not to be doubted, but your Nation knows better to make uſe of a victory, then how to get it. You who profeſſe your ſelves now (if we were ſo fooreproch and hate? Thoſe Northern Parts, through which you ranged and ravaged, had good cauſe to conjecture, that you came rather to plunder then conquer. Mun-Ro (a man as ignorant in the diſAſſiſtants, his Aſſaſſins: our pretented foes, our converted friends. This courteſie did that uncivil Bore do us, though againſt his will. Such infinite diſadvan
Fall from that accompt, good Chancelor; hoſtile invaſions are not ſo to be minſed. Though remiſneſſe of Spirit in the purſuit of your deſign, cauſed you to faint in your fight; the impoveriſhed North groaned under the inſupportable burden of your inſolence: finding no Salve to cure their Sore but a coactive patience. Now, your Caſuiſts will tell you, that the
offence cannot be remitted, till Satisfaction be rendred. Open your Exchequer; that muſt prepare the Plaſter. They who invade anothers intereſt, harping after nothing more eagerprey upon others, deſervedly become a prey unto others.
Though you hold your Stool of Repentance for ſome tranſPenance; yet where actuall or per
But you will object,Jubilee were expired) that you are for the preſent become our Tributaries, nay conſtant Almoners to our Souldiery: in your quartering and high Aſſeſſes to our Gariſons now reſiding with you. Tis true; but whence ariſeth this hoſpitable interAſſeſſe, rather then a Benevolence? Our morall Philoſophers, who knew beſt how to define true Libecoacted Bounty is a palliated Parcimony. What a ſtronger hand then your own will not ſuffer you to enjoy, that you ſeem willing to forgo; but our Nation, to whoſe favour you thus inſinuate, expects a more ſatisfactory Oblation. In your late aſſiſtance, which merits not the ſtyle but ſhadow of an Aſſociation, your valour was oft ingaged and brought to ſtake, but never came off with honour. Some indeed of your Country-carcaſes lay ſcattered under the walls at Hereford. Whoſe Deaths gave greater teſtimonies of their valour then their Lives: being onely uſed as dead Marks to ſhoot at, without reſiſtance. You were ſtill rather upon the taking then fighting hand. The eſtates and livelyhoods of our diſtreſſed Country exhauſted by the fury of civill warrs and domeſtick hoſtility, became your injurious merchandize and extorted booty. Which you on your foundred Sumpters daily exported to your ſordid and disfurniſhed Lithſtows, without ever doing any action of importance in our ſervice. Though we have heard one of your Country Commanders, after your
All their valour conſiſted in number. O, replied he, if we be ſo terrible in the apparence of our number, what ſhall we be, when we diſcover our valour? But the Cure had been worſe then the Diſeaſe, if our late and long diſpute had continued, till your perſonall proweſſe had determined it. Your old Generall, now a Blind Guide, and deſerted of his own; after his Sweden fame, amply gratified by his penſion in Pomerania, eclipſed much of his glory, in his too much ſpeed at Hayſham Moor; where he was better known to his feare then unexpected fortune: making his iſſue with ſuch winged ſpeed through his Army, as it would not ſuffer him to ſtay the time of being a wittneſſe to the iſſue or cloſe of the victory. Yet in this Conqueſt atchieved by our hands, it was wonderfull to obſerve, how your frontleſſe puſillanimity could put upon it the countenance of Sovereignty! For how often have we been adNorthallerton, Thirske, and Darlington in Scotland, with other places of confluence in our Northern parts: as if you had wholly ſubdued theſe to inlarge the boundiers and revenues of your penurious State, without relation to our benefit, but highly to the derogation of our honour.
And in theſe your braving and inſupportable inſolencies, we for beare to recount thoſe inhumane cruelties perpetrated by you; in the view whereof even the blood of Savages would curdle: and reſolve hearts wholly compoſed of marble into teares; being writ in characters, of ſo deep a dy, as no revoluti
But our Brotherhood, pretended alliance and aſſociation might ſeem to apply Salves to theſe Sores; we never called
But to omit theſe; for long ſince were they cancelled out of your memory; like a Stage-tragedy, no ſooner preſented, and the Curtain drawn, then with an act of Oblivion cloſed; your deſire holds ſtill to be at one with us; though there be no union among your ſelves. Which makes us partly believe that you are lineally deſcended from ſome of thoſe ancient Britaines, (as your Nation pretends) who whenſoever they were ingaged or indangered by their invaſive Enemy, fled for refuge to the Romans; not ſo much for any expreſſe of loyalty, as for their own ſecurity. In a word, if you mean to ſhake hands with us; you muſt firſt ſhake off your old haire. Whitened walls and painted Sepulchers are more ſuitable Emblems for your Presbyterian. Principles, then for the late Instauration of our Democraticall Government. Your inconſiſtency to Tepeace; and inconcurrency to truth, have made us your Aliens: though we dare truſt you, ſo long as you be Viſible Objects; in our ſight, but no further.
We ſhall be content to accompt you Subjects: but by a diſIliad of ages repaire.
SIR, you may ſpare your pen, where there is no probability to prevaile. Onely let us tell you: That your conquered Nation may hold it for a Trophie of Honour; when an Engliſh Victor injoyns you to ſuffer.
Houſe of Mourning then Rejoycing. Surely the mournfull condition of this late-MetaDARBY-HOUSE diſſolved! That Corbona! that Tagus! that Pactolus! nay, that Indian Inne of Albion blown up in a moment! Wo is me for thee, thou head
But in the recollection of our ſorrowes, it will become me, whom Authority hath injoyned to this ſad Task, to reduce theſe Iliads of griefes into Order, which mount to that height, as they will neither admit of meaſure nor number: unleſſe with thoſe, who have ſuffered ſo much by them, as they can forbear to ſuffer with them: or ſacrifice one poor teare of pi
Give me leave then to preſent this late Grand Modell or Master-piece of State in the form of a Naked Body, but no Breathing Feature: Onely a vapour; an indigeſted Bulke without Symmetriall Contexture, or Organicall Proportion: a veſſell of duſt; a Pile of diſſolution. Draw near then, ye amaPatriot, whom we here perſonally preſent: Behold a SpeGold has loſt his Colour; how this deceaſed Party, that lies here before you, has loſt both fame and honour! How clear a yesterday lookt upon it: and with what a lowring brow does this day welcome it? It cannot be leſſe then well known to you, Judicious Auditors; how ſingularly this Mournfull MeApollo's Senat, to beget a fe
Shall we diſſect him, and eye his Materialls? Wipe your eyes firſt, that ſuch a ſenſe-ſeazing Sceleton turn you not all to Niobees.
Philoſophy tells you, that Man conſiſts of three parts: and beſtows his faculties wholly upon them. The Iraſcible, Concupiſcible and Intelligible. Now ſurvey the late abilities of this Breathleſle Object in every of theſe: and the apprehenſion of them will leave you in aſtoniſhment.
For the Iraſcible; he ſcorned to recall to mind that leſſon which that abſolute Philoſopher left with his Emperour:
To repeat the four and twenty Greek Letters in his anger, be
Or to follow the examArchytas;
Who would not correct his hind, becauſe he was
No; this angry with him.brave Spirit was more ſenſible of a wrong: and more ſpeedy in his revenge. He would ſtrike while the Iron was hot: He was but a word and a blow.
He held it a diſhonour to him, to expoſtulate the cauſe with a ſuppoſed Malignant: Report was ſufficient to make him one, without further evidence to evince him.
Believe it, my Beloved, ſo ſtrong was this grave Segniour in paſſion; ſo free in his exhibition: as he with the reſt of his worRhadamanths, have ſent more Preſents from hence to Peter houſe, in one day: then they did in Almes or Peter-pence all their time. It has been obſerved, that the onely Aire which this reverend Cenſor uſed to breath, was—Secure him, Secure him. Which was ever done to purpoſe: for thoſe that went in, found the Lions Cave to be there: —veſtigia nulla retrorſum.
I have many times heard Him maintain it (to the gallArt of Memory; to the end he might reſenſe of his Injuries the better.Publick, but for priWaters were troubled: and our State diſtracted. He alwaies held it convenient in his object of revenge, to begin with the Cedar firſt. Eagles catch no Flies. This he confeſſed a few daies before he departed this life, to be be his Master-piece in the diſpatch of STRAFFORD:Nimble Didappers, whom he imployActive Instruments for that deſign; he had not timely lopped; the aimes of his Senat had not been onely prevented; and their main project diverted: But he with all ſuch as adSTRAFFORDS Gyn: and foold themſelves, before ever they had brought him to the Bay.
One Eucopius drawing near his Bed-ſide a very ſmall time before his death; ſeriouſly demanded of him, what his reaſon might be, under ſuch faire plauſive pretences ſo to imbroile a peaceful State: and inſtead of plenty, peace and proſperity, by his ſeditious complices, to bring in ſcarcity, ruine and miall Creatures feed not on clean meats: Nor all Fiſhes delight in Clear waters: So neither did it agree with all humours to hold peaceMerchants; whoſe improvement draws its life and ſpirit from Traffick: As all other Artiſts by Manufactory or other Myſteries: but Some we have who Margites—like can neither digge, delve, nor raiſe them a ſubſiſtence by any legall or peacefull enArts; Some for Arms. Arts had their proper vocations before; Let Arms ſupbeg nor work; by an eſpeciall Committee of Examinats, we have given them free ſcope to take that courſe as may inforce ſuch as cannot work, to beg reliefe from their hands, who make it
During the time of his viſitation; which was not very long: for he was taken with ſuch a violent peſtilentiall Fever, as through want of ſleep with other occaſionall diſtempers ariſing from the intemperate heat of his brain, He became diverſe times wonderfully diſtracted, and in the end mortally ſurpriſed; yet in his Intervalls, he was one evening by a ſerious and grave Royalliſt, who in regard of his near relation to him, oftentimes viſited him, asked theſe three queſtions.
The firſt, how he with the reſt of his prudent and reverend principall Members to be ſo injuriouſly rent and pulled from them; as if the whole Power or Prerogative of their Houſe were to render up their ancient pretended Privi
O, ſaid he; heave but my head a little higher upon my Pilprincipall Members; were permitted to be removed from us, not to prejudice us, but improve us. They were known to be ſtrong presbyteriall Opinioniſts; ſuch, as held an Article of Faith to ſtand to their firſt Principles: which, as we rightly apprehendPriviledges. We might diſstronger Party interpoſing. Though we had many votes in the Houſe: yet the Army had ever the caſting Voice.
For my part, my Conſcience was not ſo ſtraitly laced, nor moſt of my zealous Brethren neither (though the Army difConnivence ſlight us) but we could give way to Power: and diſpence with our own Tenets to procure our ſelves peace: ſo cautious were we of preſerving the propriety of our eſtate, and priority of our place.
But whence was it, replyed this Viſitant; that after you had given them this repulſe, you ſhould vote them ſo grace
O, ſaid this deceaſed Senatour;
Wiſdoms will be able to anſwer thoſe main and many Objections preſſed againſt you, by that great diſcomfit
Monſieur Loudon their reverend Chancelour, in the repreſentative Body of his credible Nati
City; whoſe frequent conſiderable recruits ever rePublick: by your joynt votes and voices to have oppoſed the Armies quartering with them: at leaſt from ſuffering them to be their own PayHumphrey ſo much,Diana's ancient TemAugea's Stable, Lavernas Staple.Pauls Sanctuary to a pilfring Scullery.
So might we, replyed this bemoaned Party, have brought an old houſe over our eares. The tongue is but a weak Engine againſt force. Whom had we to ſide with us for our ſecurity, if our indiſcreet votes ſhould have oppoſed the Army? you muſt know, Sir, it fares with us as with a ſplitted Ship, or a ruinous Pile: when the Houſe falls to decay, the Rats run away.
Beſides, our juſt revenge upon thoſe white-liver'd Citizens, (who, ſo they may ſit quietly to hatch their own eggs, care
Lawrell may ſecure him; he reſts ſecure of others ruine.
For their daring Petitions ſo often preſented to us; but with ſuch eaſie thanks ſlighted by us: that, albeit we commended their care and zeal for the publick peace, yet we carried ſtill a Stone in our Boſom, which we intended to throw whenſoever opportunity ſhould give way. That Spirit ſuits not well with the conſtitution of this time; that entertains re
Thus far have we preſented to you in this Spectacle of MorIraſcible Part: will you heare his own confeſſion for the Concupiſcible?
He acknowledged freely in the preſence of ſundry eminent perſons; but never till our Phyſitians had given him over: that ſince the very firſt time that he was made a M. of the Houſe; he found his mind much diſtempered with an Hydroptick humour. The more he got; the more he ſought. His thirſt was never to be quenched, no, though his ſteeming Lungs were the Spunges of the State; & ſhared ſufficiently with the Committee of every County: yet were all theſe In-comes but empty Purveiers to my hunMalignant: hugging that prudentiall Ordinance, by vertue whereof a cram'd Eſtate impowCommittee to make a Delinquent. Hence it was, that being fortified by Councel at home, and Forces abroade: we found it an eaſie matter to make Loyalty a Crime: and vote all ſuch as adP. by a Legiſlative Power, Egregious Traitors.
Now to the third; if you who be here preſent, and ſee me drawing near the ſhore, deſire to know how I ſince my firſt calling up to be a Senatour, imployed my Intelligible Part: WALSINGAM in his time was never more ſollicitous after Intelligence. I underſtood well how France begun to follow our foot-ſtepps: Soveraignty became unto them an inſupState-diſtractions, we have kept a firme and conſtant correſpondency. (for we had the knack of fingering the ſtrings of Infidels for the better tuning of our own Inſtruments) appro
This infinitely joyed me: not doubting, but within ſhort time (at leaſt in their next Turkiſh Jubilee) to be enrowled Saintly Muſilmen, in their Alcoran.
grand Areopagite. The grounds of his riſing; the occa
Dry eyes every where uſher in the Obſequies of this Se
The Senate-doors are ſhut: thoſe Doers in the Senate utDuke degraded: a Pretorian Train diſfaithleſſe Synod diſſolved: an endleſſe Trienniall addiſtracted State recovered; if a New State by a late-introduced Anarchy doe not diſ-compoſe it.
PEMBROOKS PLEA; the Perſon, to whom it had its addreſſe and relation, changed his life: and for a worſe, ſay ſome uncharitable Cenſors; who in the draught of his Will, like Commentors full fraughted with Lucians invention, ſtick not to preſent him acting the part of a Mad Lord at his death; as he had formerWeake one, all his life.
Truth is, to defend the weakneſſe of moſt of our Lords as well as his; were a work of ſuch difficulty:Laert.
loyall palats ſo diſ-reliſhing; as it would appeare a Paradox rather then an Apology.
But if this Lords capacity were in the loweſt Siege, (as is already granted;) how deſervingly are thoſe Grandees to be condemned, who being held deep Machiavels, have fooled themſelves out of their wits: and recorded their unthriving Projects in living Annals of Idiotiſme to all generations?
Much could I ſay, and more then ſome would have me ſay: but I will be ſpare, for I know our Conſul-kites have Eves-droppers in every corner: So jealous be theſe Actaeons of their own intereſts: Onely, let me ſay, what the whole world will make good: That never ſuch a Trienniall of State-gullery has been preſented, ſince thoſe Gooslings kept Centinall in the Capitol.— O what hacking and hewing has our Whimzed State made for Senatours; when they muſt be teezed out of Sawpits?— O Trephonius Cave, what a fit recluſe hadſt thou been; for theſe Spirits in the Vault, to act their Pagan Pageants in!
proving policy out of Anacharſes Morter, as SAYS Synodicall ArInfantry of our State-Lunacy, That was held the onely Jewiſh Sanhedrim for debate: or rather that Chymicall Crucible; which out of its Callow Principles could reEpiſcopall Mitre into a Presbyteriall Cypher: A Monarchicall Scepter into a Democraticall Centre. But theſe, like the Amalga, had more Moon then Sun in them. For what have our Bedlamites got by their ſame plots?
Have they not (with their breach of faith to boot) diſſeiſed themſelves and their Heirs for ever: and like deſperate Adventurers, imbarqued the remainder of their forlorne fortunes, in the Ship of fooles, with their Toloſan Treaſure ſent over before them; which in all mens judgements, ſhall never meet them? And were not theſe Wiſe Shallops, to ſtrip themboth of wit and wealth at an inſtant? —well, I ſhall ever commend that true Neapolitan, HARRY MARTIN: who, though he ſometimes plai'd the frontleſſe noddy; yet he loſport for his money.
Condemne him not for degenerating from that feathred Martin, from whom he took his name. That Bird ever took content in a cleanneſt: whereas pragmaticall Harry never ſtood much either upon neat lodging, or clean linnen: ſo his dainty mercenary Dabrides were free in her quartring.
Admit his late Suburban practiſe has made him as brittle as a Raddiſh; he stood as long, and ſpake as much in defence of the Cauſe; as his decaied Calves would give him leave: or the impoſthumed palat of his mouth, permit him to prate.
Thus you heare how this Spritely Member was payed home for his labour.
State-Mawworms ſprung from the corjade them: and undermine their States by their own Stratagems: Heraclitus would ſcarce find lungs enough to laugh at ſuch dottrells. For can we find any man ſo wiſe through our whole Iſland, that may unwarpe their deſignes: or in the diſcovery of them (if they be ſo quick-ſighted or ripe-ſented as to retreve the game) ſhall not obſerve their miſ-guided flight diſ-advantaground-givers, in directing
Gameſters for ſetting their Byaſſes ever the wrong way?
Now, theſe Sage-Soakers, who were ever accounted notaState-pyoners, have generally ſcaped the laſh; while thoſe of the younger fry, and weaker wing, being ſcarcely pen-feathred in actions of treaſon; muſt be ſtript, whipt, diſgraced and expoſed for Buffouns to the eye of the world.
It has been the unhappineſſe of many eminent perſons,Lord) to have ſuffered in their fames, by the unthankfull cenſures of ſuch, who had reDomesticks: as might be inſtanced in his CounApleby in the North: her groome, more tender, it ſeemes, of his Horſes harme then his Lords honour; cauſed a ſheet to be thrown over them, to keep them from cold: but the temI know not, to dye for't, how the devil has plundered it: nor what way it is gone: unleſſe my Lord (
Was not this egregious and unſufferable impudence from a mercenary Horſe-fly?being then lately dead) wanted a winding ſheet at his death: and it is flown Southward, to preſent his Hon. with an office of charity.
Alas, poor Pembrook! Thou couldſt not crop one May-bud, but thou muſt be taxed for freedom of ſenſe: and yet they taxe thee for want of ſenſe. Thou hadſt not the art to diſguiſe trearevenues were the remora's, and no oO quàm multi faeliciores fuiſſent, ſi minus poſſediſſent!
Favourites ſay; Thou couldſt not maintain the One without the Other.
Admit him a perſon of Pleaſure, a Court-Sycamour; more for ſhade then uſe; Take your Survey further, and you may finde ſome of our Rabſhakah Rabbies good for neither: Aſſa
failings in allegeance might be imputed to his weakneſſe. No Trees can be without their Shadows: and that our State-projectors made uſe of his umbrage; there is none, being acquainted with their proceedings and purſuit of aſſiſtance, but will admit it. This is the onely Plea that can be made for him: if the world have ſo much charity in ſtore to afford him.
Relliquiis belli civilis fungimur.— Pennigeris facimur Nidi ▪ —
Vix Oriens tales produxit in orbe triones. Novimus hiſce pares?—
DUring the late fatall continuance or epidemicall diſperſion of that unexemplary Kings evil; a contagion of ſuch malignant influence, as it forc'd a Princely Father to the Block; his Sonne to Exile; inacting Loyalty High Treaſon: and a Competent Eſtate a Sufficient Plea to impeach the Innocent of D
During (I ſay) this Careere in our diſtracted State; Sundry Parts of theſe Sections, through the Stationers fear of the ſtrict and ſevere ſearch of irregular Cenſors, or mercenary viſitants, (who pretended a power to ſeize on the Preſs, to cram their own Purſe) were ſcattered, in hope to be ſecured: ſo as the Originall Copy, after a long queſt could not be retrived: nor theſe Sections compleated; till now by the Authors induſtry, recollection and Helps of memory recovered, re
Though His neceſſitated attendance on Committees injoyning his abPreſſe, might occaſion the Committing of many Errors, which by his preſence might have been prevented. Let Gold-Smiths Hall then undergo the Cenſure:guild Error: and imbelliſh it too with a Curious State-Cov
Now to remove all grounds of prejudicacy (for it fares with Books oftGreat-mens Children, to be wrong father'd) the Author of theſe Sections, is ſuppoſed to be the ſame, who writ that Excellent Tragi-Comedy, intitled-MERCURIUS BASILICUS; preſented with no leſs State then generall applauſe before the Queen of Swede and other PrinStockholme.