The Phanaticks PLOT Discovered: BEING A true Relation of their strange Proceedings in Glocester-shire and other Counties; And what hath since hapned upon the appearing of the two great Bodies of Frogs and Toads, (as they pretended) in sundry shapes and dreadful Colours; to the great wonder of all Loyal Subjects, that shall seriously peruse these following Lines.
To the Tune of, Packingtons Pound.
Presbyterian Anabaptist
KInd Friends I am resolved to discover a
thing,
Which of late was invented by Foes to our
King;
A Phanatical Pamphlet was printed of late,
To fill honest hearted Affections with Hate:
But here lies the thing. God hath sent Us a King,
That hath Wisdom enough to extinguish their Sting;
And therefore I wish all Allegeance be given,
To Him that directly was sent Us from Heaven.
The Phanaticks do tell Us in
Gloucestershire,
A parcel of Christians as they call them there,
Did meet for to worship their unknown
Apollo;
But mark! for their baseness, hereafter doth follow:
I have taken the pain, without any gain,
The truth of this matter to you to explain:
And therefore believe not this flattering thing,
But stick close to your duty you owe to your King.
Here now comes the matter which I am to declare,
The
Anabaptists in
Gloucestershire,
Where Brother and Sister being privately met,
They say a rude multitude did them beset:
But Villains beware, and of this have a care,
Lest you with true Subjects should have no share:
For the King is resolved their Rights to restore,
And therefore Phanaticks plot Treason no more.
After this Multitude had them beset,
They went to a Justice his Warrant to get,
Desiring his aid and assistance therein,
But he being honest disowned their sin:
He bid them depart, if they had their desert,
They deserv'd to be whipt at the arse of a Cart:
But yet through their policie they do Us tell,
That the Judgment of God on that Justice befel.
And for to bring this purpose about,
One of their own Congregation went out
Into the fields, where by chance he did see
Of Frogs and of Toads a great company:
But this they do say, that in battle array,
To the Justice his house they straight took their way:
O do not believe them! my Friends have a care,
For this is an
Anabaptistical Snare.
Yet I'le not deny but that there was store
Of Frogs and of Toads at the Justice his dore,
Which was
Anabaptists, Brownists, and those,
Which ever were known to be the Kings Foes:
But thanks be to God they are under the Rod,
That never intended to do any good:
O do not believe them, my friends, least that they
Should delude you into their most damnable way.
Besides, they do tell Us the Justice his Maid
Were the cause that these Frogs and these Toads were conÂveyd,
Which before at the Justice his windows had been,
Was after dispierst, and never more seen:
But let them have a care, it will fall to their share,
That such Frogs and such damnable Toads as they are,
E're long will be banisht, and never more seen,
Which too long in this Christian Nation have been.
I wonder, me thinks, how they can be so bold,
To continue their impudent Actions of old:
It hath been their practice since
Oliver's days,
To plot and foment how dissention to raise;
Not calling to mind, how gracious and kind,
Our Soveraign Lord King
Charles they do find:
And as for their Pamphlet I wish you beware
How you do believe, and of them have a care.
O I wish you consider their Actions of late,
How they turn'd a brave Kingdom into a base State,
Throwing the Pillars quite out of the Socket,
And striving to get the coin into their pocket:
No man I'le name, then do not me blame,
But, Gentlemen, this I do speak to their shame,
That all their
Intentions was onely this
Thing,
To hedge in the Kingdom, and murder the King.
Come, come
Independent, and cast off thy hate,
Consider the workings of God here of late,
How miraculously he hath brought it about
To bring in the King, whom you thought to keep out:
The
Presbyter and the
Episcopal man
May safely rejoyce now, because that they can
Freely enjoy what is duly their own,
That's to have their Estates, and the King have his Crown.