WHo is it amongst us that hath not heard these Cuckoes at Westminster? an Ayrie of such Ominous Ow­ly Birds, that the like was never before seen in this Kingdom; that have kept a great cackling, and been long and Close sitters, but have hatch'd nothing but Cockatrice egges, vile Treasons, addle Ordinances and the like to ensnare and enslave a free-born People, making of them no better then Hedge-Sparrows, to nurse up (with their wealth) the Bastard Isse of their Pernicious Plots against King, Church and Kingdom; the Com­mon-People, that willingly fed them, and lent them not onely Hands, but Lives and Estates, being now (for their great kindness) justly become a Prey to the Ravenous and gri­ping Clawes of these Canniball Cu [...]koos (the Parliament and Army) that now are devouring them, (after they have Pulled and Pol­led them to the bare skinnes) are now feeding upon their flesh, and picking their very bones, Killing, Destroying, and Rob­bing them: and if this be not enough to provoke the People to Curse these unnaturall Vipers, and to loath all future Parlia­ments to the worlds end, I have lost my scenses; none will fear them, none will love them, none will obey them, all will hate them, all will despise them, all fight against them.

Let us now consider what manner of Birds these be: and we shall find them not Kuck [...]es onely, but other birds of Prey, as Ʋultures, Harpyes, Puttocks, Ostriches, Owles, Martyns, D [...]wes and [Page 4] such like Ominous and unclean Birds that with their huge Bo­dyes and balefull Wings, have obscured our King; our Peace; our Happiness, and hid all joy and comfort from us; these are all Birds of a Feather, that sit in Counsell and conspire together against the Eagle, the Phaenix, the Turkey, the Pea-hin, the Turtle, the Swan, the Canary, and sweet-singing Nighting [...]ll, who being all too credulous to beleeve the feined bablings of these Sate- Decoyes, are now covered and intangled in their Nets caught in their Pit-falls, and all their goods and feathers pulled from them by Lime-twigg-Ordinances.

The [...]e Birds of Prey flock together at Westminster; and have for almost Eight yeers roosted themselves there, even till they had de [...]yled their very Nests, and were forced to flie abroad till they were cleans'd and yet sit brooding, and hatching their per­nicious Plotts and Treasons, Cocatrice Ordinances, bald buz­zardly Votes, contradicting Orders, and changling Declarati­ons, both against the Laws of Nature, Reason, Conscience and Religion, and have Usurped all Power and Authority from and over their Lawfull and undoubted Soveraigne, doing their ut­most to deprive both him and his Posterity of their Hereditary Fights and Successions▪ denying to acknowledge him for their Head, forbidding Adresses to be made unto Him▪ or Messages to be received from Him, by wich they have changed and abando­ned the Nationall and Fundamentall Laws of the Land (the only ligaments and sinewes of a Kingdom) being an Act▪ not onely of the highest Treason that can be; but a Crime that di­vests them of all their Priviledges, un-Parliaments them, and makes them all guilty of the abhorred sin of Perjury in breaking Protestations, Oathes and Covenants, and lyable to a just Cen­sure, and conviction of Theft, Treason & Rebellion; for which they can no otherwise satisfie the King, Lawes or People, but by the tribute of their Roundheads; too slight a Recompence for such abhorred and Trayterous Crimes.

Therefore the People may now see (without spectacles) how grosly they been disceived, and juggled out of their Lives and Estates; 'tis true the Parliament at the first (convened by Roy­all authority) was a lawfull and (for ought I know) a conscien­scious Parliament, and the whol Body (being aptly and compleat­ly united together in the Members, without foreable dislocati­on, [Page 5] or false Election) was questioness the highest indicature in, this Kingdom; But since Edge-hill Fight, this juncto (or Pre­tended Parliament, acting in open Hostility, & fighting against their King.) abandoning their Head are no more a Parliament, but the Body of a Parliament (without a head) a monster, a very Cuckoos-nest▪ a combined medly o [...] Traytors and Rebe [...]ls, and far different from the Nature of a Parliament, (by reason of their Luciferian Pride, to be flung down to hell) and to be di­serted by all Loyall Subjects, as disjoynted, severed and mang­led in its members, (as deficient as their then Generall) unca­pable of any just Act▪ but wading on in blood (by an u [...]urped, Treasonous, Tyrannicall and overawing Power, having no di­rivation from the King, but their own▪ lusts,) therefore no Sub­ject whatsoever hath any warrant (neither can they binde▪ the Conscience of any) to yeēld either Active or Passive obedience to any Act or Ordinance, because they illegally Act, contrary to all Presidents of former Parliaments, and Parliamentary Po­wer, and are no longer the visible Representatives of the Body Politique, and so must necessarily be guilty of all the innocent blood shed these 6▪ yeers in this Kingdom, and still shedding in most Counties in England, these Rebells (being so flesh'd in Blo [...]d & Rapine,) thy are resolv'd to goe through-stitch in their abhorred Rebellion (though they ruine 3. Kingdoms) by their in­humane butcheries, being rewarded with a large sum for shed­ding blood in the City, incouraged & rewarded for murdering the S [...]rey-Petitioners, the Kentish and Essex men, for delivering (in a legall way) Petitions for redresse of their seve [...]a [...]l agrie­vances: what can any rationall man think, but that they defer to murder their King▪ untill such time as they have first mur­dered and destroyed all his Loyall Subjects.

That when the Army could not have an opportunity to plun­der the City, (as nothing so sure as they intended it) they were hired by Martyn, Mildmay, Veine, and the rest of that Nest to pick a Quarrell with the Countrey, that they might Plunder and un­undoe them (when then they had missed of their aime in the City) as now they doe in Essex, Kent, and all the Kingdome o­ver▪ Killing▪ Plundering, annd triumphing over all they are able to Conquer▪ so that between both Partyes (Royalists and Roundheads, as between the good and bad thief,) the poor Coun­ [...]ey must be crucifyed.

[Page 6]The chief fomentors that are Regicides, and most active in our destruction in the upper House, are the Lord Say, Pembroke, Manchester, Kent, Warwick, Denbigh, Stamford, Wharton, Grey, these alwayes Cuckoo forth one Tune, no K [...]ng, no King; in the lower House are a nest of as evill birds, as ever hatch'd at Tyburne, and these are Lenthall, Mildmay, Scot, Challoner, Martyn, Weaver, Veine, Corbet, Cromwell, that cannot endure to heare the King so much as named in the House; in the Synod of time-serving Priest-byters, there are Martiall, Burgesse, Stronge, Sedgwick, Vines, Love, Whittaker, Nye, that draw altogether in one yoak, against Monarchy, these teach Rebellion in stead of Divinity, more Lies then Truth, more Blasphemy then sound Doctrine, and will have no King to reigne over them, except he be of the Royall Proginy of Mrs. Parliament, or the Childe of Reformation: in the Army there are another nest of Birds, but not of the same fea­ther, and these be the Elect forsooth, the Precious babes that are hayl fellow with God Almighty, see strange Visions, and are possessed with unerring spirits, that whatsoever they doe, (tho never so impious and wicked,) is lawfull; and these are Peters, Dell, Erbury, Knowles, Goodwin, Symson, &c. The first ranck of these are Oxen, and the latter Asses, which the Parliament yoak in their Plow together, because they are forbidden it in the old Law, and by that means avoyd Idolatry; but their Drivers are more charitable then these Beasts, for they but kill our bo­dies, and rob us of our goods, but these Wolvish cattell slay our soules, take away our good Names▪ judge us, and condemn us to Hell; these are the charitable Saints, that have the mark of their brother Cain in their foreheads, Vagabonds that have no abiding places, but are hurryed with every winde from one uncertainty to another, and are constant in nothing but mis­chief; these are the running Plague-sores that infect the whole Nation, and cause swellings and Risings in the Body of the Common-wealth; these are those that sow discord among bre­thren, and though (like Samsons Foxes) they are ty'd tayl to tayl, yet they carry a Fire-brand amongst them that burnes up both Church and State in the mercyless and consuming flames of an unnaturall and bloody warre; these are the disturbers of our Is­rael, and hinderers of our Peace; old Foxes, & wilde Boares that root up our Vineyards, feeding themselves fat on the Ruines of [Page 7] others; these, in stead of expelling out Papacy (but one Faction) have brought in five hundred damnable Sects, and set them a [...]l to devour Episcopacie, to bring in blessed Liberty to pull downe Monarchy, and set up Aristocracy, by which means they have ad­vanced their Hypocriticall, Diabolical and pernicious Treasons to this very day: Are not these Cuckoes worthy of a Cage? surely they be: But I shall leave this Nest of Fow [...]e Birds to the Peoples ordering, having told them where it is, onely desiring all Loyall People to secure their money from them, to provide Armes for their own defence, and rather chuse to die like men, then live like slaves. But I will in stead of an Epi [...]ogue, give you a Dialogue to cure your Melancholly▪