A speech to the Lord General Monck at Skinners-Hall April the fourth, 1660. Bard, W. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78130 of text R211799 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.24[55]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A78130 Wing B745 Thomason 669.f.24[55] ESTC R211799 99870497 99870497 163786 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A78130) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163786) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f24[55]) A speech to the Lord General Monck at Skinners-Hall April the fourth, 1660. Bard, W. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for John Towers, London : 1660. Signed: Mr. W. Bard. In verse. Annotation on Thomason copy: "April 5". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Albemarle, George Monck, -- Duke of, 1608-1670 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. A78130 R211799 (Thomason 669.f.24[55]). civilwar no A speech to the Lord General Monck at Skinners-Hall April the fourth, 1660. Bard, W. 1660 626 3 0 0 0 0 0 48 D The rate of 48 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A SPEECH TO THE Lord General Monck AT SKINNER SHALL April the fourth , 1660. A Countryman-Cornish strives to come in , and is Obstructed by one of the Company . Cornish-man . CHe tell thee , Che will come in , and zee the gay volk ; ch'ave zome loquent Pistle to speak . Fidler . Thou a Speech ! Cornish-man . A zimple Trifle , better then your Zongs and Zonnets , I hill zay that , and a vart vort . Iche beseech your Lordships Pardon ; this zame Vellow is zawcy , Iche a tolden zo zundry times . And vor Iche know by sperience . Vine volk will a vine things and zense , I hill zee what Iche can do ▪ Chintend to let your Honour know , Bum Vaith , Iche will no vurther go , I hill now speak English too . MY Lord , I have receiv'd Command from those I this day do attend upon , to close Your Stomach with a Welcome . 'Thas been long Since that this Hall was grac'd with such a throng Kings , heretofore , have not disdain'd to be Made Free of this Ancient Fraternity : ' Tell that this most Unhappy Nation did Break forth into a Flame , from Fire long hid , Kindl'd by th' Sulpherous breath of furious Johns , And Subjects became desp'rate Phaetons : Whose dire Prodigious Rage , like Pelops brood , Thirsted and hunted after Royal blood . The Peoples Faith abus'd , who onely lent Their Aid to j●yn the King and Parliament : In stead of which , the Miscreants subtilty Laid violent hands on Sacred Majesty , Ev'n when it came to the* Concluding point , They did our Hope and Happiness disjoynt . " We finde our Fundamentals then begin " To stagger , when King-killing's thought no Sin , Nor was their Monstrous Malice satisfy'd When as the Peoples Martyr , Great Charles , dy'd ; From whence ( unto their horror ) this Truth springs , " The worst of Subjects kill'd the best of Kings . Thus were we drawn near to destruction By that White Devil , feign'd Devotion ; That Loyalty was held Malignity , And pure Religion counted Heresie ; And Parliaments , we did so highly prize , Made but the subject for their Mockeries . So that this forlorn hapless Continent , Hath been the Sepulchre of Government : Since Charles he suffer'd , no man durst complain , But held it mercy that he might be slain . It was a riddance from that Slavery Attended on a Tyrants Cruelty ; Whose Usurpations left us with the Wind , Though ( like the Snail ) h'as left a slime behind . Kings were held Nursing Fathers : Great Sir , then Grant us to see those Blessings once agen . Next unto God , the Power is in your hand , To make this Fertile , or a Barren Land . The old Arcadians , that did mourn all Night At the Suns-setting , and dispair'd of Light , Were next day comforted , when in his Sphere He on his splendid Chariot did appear : So Our great Loss admits of a Repair , In the succeeding hopes of Charles his Heir ; That all men cry , and all Cries meet in one , For th'Pious Father's God-like Patient Son . Spoken by Mr. W. Bard. London , Printed for John Towers 1660. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A78130e-30 Ed. 3. R. 1. H. 4. H 5. H. 6. Ed. 4 &c. made free of the Company . I●ea●y at the Isle of Wight