THE WATCHMANS
Warning-peece, OR, PARLIAMENT Souldiers
Prediction. SHEWING,
THAT If our
ARMIES lay down
ARMS▪
before the
Work is at an end,
We may expect yet worser
Harms,
More pretious lives and States to spend.
An
Emblem of this Age, 'fore all is set,
To shew the thing that is not ended yet:
Smile not thereon, for sure it is a sad one;
For
good men to be cheated by
Abaddon,
The Relation.
THere vvas a plain, just, dovvn right man indeed,
Armed for
Truths defence in time of need;
His foes he conquerd', thought the storm was o're,
Vnarm'd himselfe of vveapons vvhich he vvore.
Then on a sudden comes the
Dragon fierce,
With open mouth, and arrovv
[...]d tongue to pierce,
The
Leopard 'gainst the
Lamb appear'd most cruell:
Venemous
Serpent acts his part in Duell.
The
Hart did start, the
Lamb did stand in feare,
VVhen vvilde beasts came vvith open mouthes to teare,
VVhen
Reason savv it, he vvas at a stand,
And vvent to take vvhat vvas at his left hand.
The Description.
And vvhat is by this EMBLEM represented?
The STATE (
by PLOTS
of Papists) circumvented
Shall I demonstrate still, to make you knovv,
That these (PPP) are
Papists all arovv.
The
Dragons He
[...]d, the POPE doth represent,
His
sharp tongu'd shaft, Curses vvhich he doth vent,
His
Teeth are ENVY, and his
Horns are
Povver,
The Dragons Body,
is Romes Church,
that vvhore.
The
Spotted Leopard also hath his Doom,
This body pleads for
Prelats Brats of
Rome.
His
Iavves are
Malice, Head EPISCOPALL.
A gaping Mouth, Teeth, Pavves, tyrannicall.
The
Crooked Serpent creeps upon the
Earth.
An
Antichristian Pre
[...]byter by birth,
His
Head's from
Rome, his
Taile and
Body so.
VVith them to Aye-
Perdition he shall go.
But all the choycest Friends to Parliament,
That joyn with one
Unanimous Consent,
A blessing may expect on their Designes:
Where
Wisdom guarded with an Army, shines.