THE CAUSES AND CURES Of an unwilling WAR.  
OR, Justice awakened from Gowns to Guns Historified By Philalathec.  
Omnia tentanda priusquam Armis.  
Printed in the year. 1645.   

To the judicious Reader who can, and the unpartial, who will, truly Critic the Times.  

GReat are our sores, what Gallenist yet may,  
Or Paracelsian prescribe a way  
For our Curation, we do feel our evils  
Like scandals base, up conjured, yea, like Devils,  
But who, Malignant spirits can conjure down?  
Known plagues to Court, Camp, City, Country Town!  
To this I answer, sooner comes the Cures,  
Known Causes when removed, Galen assures,  
(Hipocrates and Rasis hold this true,  
Barlow, Fernelius, and Chyrurgians new,)  
Now Papism 'Cause is, more than heretofore  
Why now, we wallow in our bloody Gore,  
Like Cadmus' brethren, and Polynices,  
Mutually wounded by Etcocles,  
In Barbarismes writ in blood, in postures cruel,  
We vulnerate one another, in each duel,  
In these domestic Wars, both hatched and fed,  
By bloody Priests, (our home breast vipers bred.)  
As in all Christian coasts, East, West, South, North.  
Rome her Palladium 
* Pretended to be sent from Pallot.  fatal, hath sent forth  
As full of Treasons, which State Ruins seeks,  
As was the Trojan Horse, once full of Greeks'.  
Chief with Jebusites, it is stuffed and gorged,  
Whose Tongues and Pens, black Treason have disgorged,  
And vomited even in the face of Kings,  
And tied their Crowns to Mitres, by strange strings.  
England and Ireland, and oft Warwrackt France,  
(Where Jesuits, their Factions did advance,)  
With Lacerate Germany, and Palatinate,  
Have felt their Tongues, Teeth, Matchevillian Pate,  
So have the Belgicks, 
‖ Anno 1584. 1594. 1598. so the Belgic Chronicles, Tom. 1. pag 519.  80 Moravia,  
Bohemians, Suevians, and Silecia. 
* Anno 1608 1609.   
And all parts else, where they a foot have got,  
And sent poor prayest unto the pot.  
Their Tragic plots, pranks, Pageants so well known,  
Felt, feared, I need not rip, they may be shown  
Writ on truth's Columes, with the blood of Kings  
And States: Rome's vassalized underlings:  
In England, Ireland, now (both Lands of Ire)  
How have they kindled their infernal fire?  
More hot than Aetna, or Vesnvius burning,  
(Which Pliny choked) which turns our mirth to mourning.  
We hang our Harps, (our heartstrings broke) upon  
The whipping Willows of proud Babylon,  
What their sanguinolent Agents, old and new  
Their Superstitious Factors, with the crew  
Of miscreant Malignants, Cavilliers  
Have done (of Heaven and Hell devoid of fears)  
How they have made our wounds, how to be cured,  
I salves prescribe: the chief, Charles rightly Lured,  
This high flown Eagle, whilom, (who now smites  
Our Doves,) reclaimed be from Harpies Kites,  
Who his good Genius poison, and his nature  
Crossed mould, to be their own-game-pouncing-creature,  
Then shall the plucked Innocuous birds have rest,  
And quietly sit and sleep in theirowne nest,  
As in Augustus' days, and in the times  
of Solomon, Grace, Peace shall bless our Climbs.  
Besides all know, what Court Dames do, brave Beagles,  
More fierce than Males, (like shee-Haukes, Wolves and Eagles)  
To help Nimrodian's, Nero's, Saul's, and Caines,  
To die white Albion red, in bloody grains:  
Confederates with God-dam-mee's, Pluto's Proctors,  
Witches and Conjurers. and the Devils Doctors.  
What I have done, these pests for to discover,  
Peruse these Shedules, if thou beest truths lover;  
Open thy unpartial eye, try gold from dross,  
See what is England's stooping Plague, Curse, Cross,  
In just scales poise the Cause, if thou beest wise,  
and see on whom, our British blood now lies.  
And if from Babylon our Land now be  
Made an Acheldema, out of her Flee;  
Detest the Favourites of the Scarlet Whore,  
Our bloods, our goods who pluck, and sqneaze us poor!    

To the Honourable, and ever Honoured Colonels, Captains and Commanders in these Defensive Wars.  

THese muzzle puzzle Momists, hook the Jaws  
Of Doegs: who accuse your Righteous Cause;  
These spure your speeds, Anchor (sans fluctation)  
Your right resolves for Church, State, Reformation,  
These whet your Swords, fuellize your zealous Fires  
For Grace, Peace, Truth, which wished, my loves, desires;  
All my poor best, my Martial mind, tongue, pen,  
Are with you, for you, brave resolved Men.  
Fight you for us, we will your Trophies raise,  
Crown your devoires, with Prayers, Praises, Bays.  
H. Redivivus.    

The Causes and Cures of an unwilling War, etc.  

LOng Albion flourished, in a Laureate Peace,  
With her fair Daughters, Plenty and Increase,  
Bright did Heaven's Sun, in our Horizon shine,  
With influence, of Moral and Divine  
Blessings, and gifts; the Muses and the Graces,  
Moses Minerva wise, fixed in their places;  
Spoke her the Wonder, yea, the Mistress great  
For adjuments and ornaments complete  
To all the welkin World, though her confine,  
Were but an Angel in the Western line;  
Scarce known in former Times, so far remote  
From Continents: yet late of such high Note  
To Foreign Countries was she paramour,  
The garden of the World, for every flower:  
A Sun she was amongst the lesser Stars,  
Splendent and Lustrous both in Peace and Wars:  
Fruitful in sons, whodyed in Honour's bed,  
With Dromedes hands, Ulysses head.  
Her Essex, Sydney's, Talbots, Howards, Praise  
I need not sing, all Crowned with Martial Bays,  
With millions since, out or their ashes sprung,  
As worthy Virgil's pen; and Homer's song,  
As that Achilles, or Anchises son;  
Hector, or he that killed the Misrmidon.  
Here Tempe was, Hesperides here, the Fleece  
Called Goldens not in Colchos, nor in Greece;  
Our Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Hampshire Wool,  
In staple Traffic, this spoke to the full.  
Nay, here was gideon's flerce, and Goshen bright,  
The world blood wet and dark, we dry and light:  
Cape of good hope, Elysian fields, withal  
Fortunate I'll, we might our Albion call.  
She was a Ruby in the Ring enrolled,  
Of the globed Earth; a Pearl right set in gold?  
foreign and neighbouring Continents, Coasts, Isles,  
Did Idolise her glories; beg her smiles:  
A Crystal glass she was where other Nations  
Saw mental spots, and civilised their fashions,  
And lustre from her took, as Cynthia bright,  
From Phoebus borrows herrefulgent light.  
She Was an Eagle which did sore above  
Her circling Birds, awed all by fear, or love.  
Hence was she proud Spain's scourge; Rome's Cross or Cui●●,  
Wild Ireland's Curb, and the Low Country's Nurse.  
Her wooden walls, and her Sea horses rid  
On Neptune's back, Triton's their homage did,  
She the Sea's Mistress might in every Ditty,  
Be styled, Sea-wed, more than the Maiden 
* Veni●●  City.  
But my Thalia now, in new strains must  
Recant her Glories late, laid in the dust;  
Brittle as glass, be our Terrestrials all,  
Up down like Wea-scales; tossed like Tennis ball;  
Ebbing and flowing, like to floods and seas,  
On eagle's wings they fly, which way they please;  
Like snow built Castles, how they soon melt down,  
Waxing and waning like the pale faceed Moon:  
Oh how on Reeds, Bogs, Quags on them we build!  
Our helps, hopes, peace, now be we taught and schouled.  
England's sweet waters, now like Jordan turn  
Brinish; and Red sea like, they bacward run.  
Changed are our calms to storms, here shoe doth wing  
Here ●ad Melpomene, gins, to sing,  
Her dolorous Accents; and he tragic Tones  
Like to the Turtles sads, Hien●● groans,  
The moans of Bitturne, Pelican and Swan,  
Of nest robbed Nightingales, or dying man,  
She sympathizeth, Jeremy's sad strains,  
And Ovid's Tristia, suit with her complaines.  
Albion's Haltion Days, they Last not long,  
Dog-days succeeded, which quite spoiled her Song,  
And all the music of her joys, turned frets,  
Eclipsed her Sun, and her Solary heats.  
Dissolved into a black, and pitchy cloud  
With reigned blood, from which we could not shroud  
Our plagued selves, no more then from Jove's Ire  
Of Ralne the worldings, Sodom from strange fire;  
From Dan we to Beersheba, we do reel,  
And plagues like Egypt, Ammon, Moab, feel.  
Chief the Sword, which eats our flesh, drinks blood,  
Changing our waters to a crimson flood,  
As best effect of sin, which brings all evils,  
Turns Heaven to Hell, sads Angels, glads the Devils.  
Sin is that Agrippina, which hath bred  
Our Nero's, which their Mother's blood have shed.  
Sin worst of Vipers, now hath hatched each pest,  
Which tears his Countries breeding feeding breast.  
Sins to us Sodoms grapes, and gall afford,  
Sins are our colloquint, our poisoning gourd.  
Sins are our French Fleas, our chief unctions marring,  
Which oiled the Crown; our tuned strings, turn they jarring,  
Our Peace to Wars; in Irish Bogs of woe  
They plunge us still, for up to Heaven they go  
With Ninive's; and cry for vengeance more,  
Their guilt and stain, since slightly we deplore.  
Our Harps (our hearts) unstring, we sing harsh notes  
Like to the Screech-owl's cries, the Ravens croaks:  
Even changed be in a trice, our songs of Zion,  
To Babel's sighs; incensed judah's Lion  
For hundreth years a Lamb, now seems to tear us,  
Nemesis provoked, he could no more forbear us;  
Our sugared Wine to Vinegar, now turns,  
Wrath brings (sin poisoned) to untimely urns.  
Millions of peccant souls, who in the dust  
Now sleep, (as Israel once) in graves of lust,  
Besides these Abel's, Naboaths, Zachariab's,  
Slain by Rome, Nero's, Ahabs, Zedekia's.  
But how may some say, did our Paradise,  
Turn real Purgatory in a trice,  
How did our Gold turn Dross, our Silver Tin,  
How did Religion lose, Rebellion win.  
How did we Peace (with Grace) quit at a clap,  
Listen Nimrodian wiles, and Hell's main● trap;  
For as I may, I will unrip a Fardel,  
Would move a heart of Caucasus; melt Marble,  
Yea into Niobe's, turn Jangling Jays,  
Heaven bred Urania, inspire my lays.  
I have not drunk at Aganippe's Well,  
Nor scaled Parnassus; I plain truth to tell,  
Desire not Phoebus, not the sisters nine,  
But the true jove, for to direct each line,  
Dropped from my pen like blood in piteous Ruth,  
Whilst I anatomize the naked truth.  
Thus thus; the Serpent enemy to Grace,  
As to external, and internal peace;  
Who betwixt God and man sew Ata's seeds  
Of discord first; and still with wheat sows weeds:  
Hating God's Image, in best Saints that were,  
As Panther's doemans' hated picture tear.  
This Serpent by his spawns long lodged in cells,  
His Gundimers, Machivils', Achitophel's,  
Court Hammans, French Sanballats, Rome's Tobiah'sses,  
Deans, Temporising Doctors, Zedechiahs.  
Prelates, Court Chaplains, Pasbures, 
a Jer. 20. 2.  Amaziahs,  
Hating pure Micha's 
b 1 Kings 22. 24. , Patriot Obediah's 
c 1 Kings 18. 13.   
(Church and State pillars) every Amos loving, 
d Amas 7. 10, 11.   
As Fox's Lambs, their flesh and fleece off shooving.  
Helin, White; cozening Cousins, Laude, wretched Wren)  
With birds of such black feathers, pests of men,  
As Simeon to Levi 
e Gen. 49. 5. , brethren bloody,  
Drunk with Rome's Philters, till brainsick, and giddy;  
As Crow's intoxicate with nux vomica,  
And Fish with oculus India,) in mad play:  
Aiming to turn Grace and Religion both  
Into vain Rites 
f Gal. 4. 9 Co. 2. 20. 21, 22. , as Bottle-Ale to froth;  
Or as some Sycamore Trees, their fruits to leaves,  
As bad grounds change to cares, and weeds wished sheaves;  
(As Owls have little flesh, but feathers all,)  
These Sinon's, Simons 
g Acts. 8. 23. , Sathanists, with gall  
Full gorged; with vild Malignants, like to these  
Infected with the Frenchified disease,  
Of Spleen, Lust, pride,: Arminians Romanized,  
Papized Prelate's, mainly Jesuitized,  
With such Sampsonian Foxes 
h Judg. 15. 14. , linked in Ire;  
Gods planted Vines, (and Vinitors) to fire:  
In hearts, hands, heads and tails, close chained in one,  
Plotting with Pluto, sought to cast a bone  
Twixt King and Parliament, with dam'd dintent,  
From the sound Body, this great Head to rend:  
They thought withal to Cyclops, his clear eyes,  
That Poliphemiz'd (in Ulysses Guise)  
They might scape Gun-shot of the Laws strict bent  
From a Triennial feared Parliament:  
At Schoolboys and Ship squabs, who mad pranks play,  
These feared the whip, and the correction day:  
As much as Steward's false, 
i Mat. 16. 2.  which do dissemble,  
At thoughts of Audits strict, do quake and tremble.  
Yea Woodcock like, a Mist they wished and watched,  
With Finch on Windy-bancks, to fly, ere catcht.  
Wilmot and Digby, wily cubs and fly,  
A German too, had fingers in the pie;  
With many such, clear peace, who stirred, to mud,  
To fish their own base ends in A●bions blood.  
Aiming to purge out all, pure just and good,  
Who for Religion, Laws and Justice stood.  
Suggesting to the Lion, for their prey,  
His right straight ready, and compendious way  
To work his will, and give to lusts the day  
Over all Laws, as Turkish Tyrants sway: 
k Per●●●● more quod libet lia cet. Lanclavius dear but Turcicis.   
Was to crush Puritans: or cut them down  
As Remora's to their ends; Foes to his Crown:  
To bang up, hang up so, the shepherd's Dogs, 
l Allusio olins Demosthevis suis Atheniensibus.   
That they like Wolves might worry, wroute like Hogs  
Even where they list, without control or check,  
Curb by no Laws, but by the Prince's beck,  
(Like janissaries who all powers withstand,  
And move at their great Ottomans Command. 
m Knolls in his Turkish History.   
As Novices, hang at their Jesuits strings 
n Vide Ignat. de obedientia Sect. 3, 5, 7, 15, 17. & Morpheum in vita Ignatii. Lib. 2, cap. 9   
In blind Obedience, to poison Kings.)  
So pinned to Kings, as Vines unto their walls,  
Ivies to Oaks, in rise or in falls:  
Their King to be their Law, their Lord their God,  
Their great Apollo; let him feel the rod,  
Yea heading Axe, if any Puritan,  
This Contradict; A Traitor call him than.  
But Papists for their good and mild behaviour,  
In England, Ireland, France, Charles ought to favour;  
Good Subjects, they their beards and brains do pledge  
As ever any King hanged on his hedge:  
(Sure of their Regal service, they may boast,  
Done to their Pope and Queen in Patrickt Coast.)  
Deep Politicians, then by this nought lose,  
To change their Protestant Doublets for French hose;  
Rotchets and Tippets for a Cardinal's Hat,  
(Parsons and Wolsey thought to gain by that:)  
And so did Eccius, Piggius too, I wots,  
Else had they not, against Luther been so hot:  
But if the Puritans stood, they knew right well,  
God's Ark went up, they and their Dagon fell, 
p 1 Sam, 5. 3.   
They and their mists should fade, their clouds decline,  
In God's right Worship, should the Gospel shine:  
Gone were the counterfelts, brought to the Tests, 
q Verum est index sui, & ubiliqui.   
The candle shows the thiefs, it them molests.  
These Cockatrice's eggs, 
r Esay 59 5, 6.  though whilst they hatch,  
Ixtons' clouds, 
s Apud Lucianum in Dialogis.  they for French-Iuno catch  
Shadows for substance, those most venerable  
Dorbels have grasped, or clasped with Esop's Fable:  
(Goate-like) so high they climb, on old State walls,  
Till they have caught haman's 
t Esther 6. 13  and Wolsey falls:  
Yea with a vengeance, by Afiraea's frown,  
Our empson's, Dudltys, Mortimers come down;  
As Spencer's once, and that Cat, Rat, and Dog,  
Who this sponged kingdom swayed, ruled by a Heg. 
u Rich. the 3.   
Chief great Charles, his safety so builds on  
Each ●●●hob●amiz'd 
w 1 Kings 2, 10.  young Phaton.  
And Ammon's lonadabs, 
x 2 Sam. 13. 3, 4.  (neglecting so  
True jonathans', 
y 1 Sam. 18. 1.  and Hushays 
z 2 Sam. 15. 37.  to his woe:)  
As if with Ink and Tar, he thought to wash  
The face of Church and State: or gave a mash  
Of powdered Lead, unto the sick or sore:  
In Court or Camp: or swum unto the shore:  
On milstoves in a storm: for in this fashion,  
His Papiz d Champione, stand for Reformation.  
His heart not Agents, so Religion love,  
As Hounds do Hairs; Cats, Mice, or Hawks the Dove,  
These our State Empirics by their verbal diet,  
(Little acquainted ere with Doctor Quiet:)  
Not purging, but procuring the King's evil,  
As Hell's main Organs, Factors for the Devil,  
So stirred ill humours, that our fixed peace long  
Fled: which to mourning, turned our Patriots song.  
Who grieving credulous Charles, should give an care  
To such his worst of snakes and vipers were.  
And that he should be carried on their fist,  
(Hauke-likehood-winckt, to pounce, even whom they list.  
Since Dionysius once by Diceles,  
And Aristippus; Sycophants like these,  
And Peers and Princes, moe, 
a Read the catalogue of them in brusomus his examples. Lonicer in his Theatre. Tex tor in his Officina. & Fulgosus, titulo de idulations  by flatterers fell,)  
By Antidotes they thought to care him well:  
But more, since he in Rhehoboams case,  
Seduc d was, yea bewitched, by Counselors base,  
Chief, lest that he should taste (uxorious mere,)  
Wise salomon's 
b 1 King. 11. 8, 9 Nehem. 13. 26.  and Theodosius cheer, 
c What mischiefs heritreall women have brought to Kings, and wrought in Courts: read Cytreus upon jud. pag. 374 Sigfridas' Saccus bis sermons. 107. 3. par. 4. p 760 and Melanctons' chronicles lib. 2. pag. 2. p 6. pag. 256. 269.   
(As now their sour sauce, each grieyed Subject feels)  
E'er all were shipwrackt: which now ran on wheels,  
Themselves, Church, State, to save, from threatening harms,  
Their Prince to rescue chief, from poysoving charms  
Of Parasites, who for to plunder moneys,  
Drawn from rich mines, even still make ropes of honeys,  
For these ends: (though known foes, to all Alarms)  
Our Tribunes were infored to take up Arms.  
As hunted David did 
d 1 Sam. 22. 2.  and Mordachy, 
e Est. 1. 1, 2, 3   
Jews, Romans 
f Ever fight, pro aris & facis.  Christians, in all history.  
Sincereason, (nature) hath, to men: beasts, suited,  
Defensive Arms, unjustly prosccuted: 
* Fugiunt nociva.   
Bees, Wasps, Asps use their stings, the crawling wormo  
Will save a life: Fish, Birds, Brutes, Serpents turn,  
Their powers, their policies, against grim death  
Lion and Locusts yield unwilling breath:  
Who then can justly tax, their acts, aims, end,  
A State by Wars last refuge to defend.  
To steer the Church's ship from threatening rocks,  
Where all ways else: were words but spoke to blocks,  
And Adders cares: and such effects did find.  
As for to sow the dust, and reap the wind.  
As colours which were showed unto the blind,  
Yea Physics, which the desperate do not mind  
In this case, tell me, politic Gallio:  
To save themselves, what they distressed, should do;  
Should they lie down, and cry with Craven notes,  
Come Saulasts, Ababs 
f 1 King. 21.  cut our sheepish throats.  
Come Doogs, come Court Dogs, and false accuse us,  
Then kill us if Saul bid 
g 1 Sam. 22. 9, 10, 18.  more to misuse us:  
Come Nimrods' 
h Gen. 10. 9  come God-dam-ruee's, slash our pates,  
Come Rome's Brandetties; French Assassinates:  
You are the Foxes, we will be the Sheep:  
You Wolves, 
i homo homini Lupus.  we Lambs, we scarce can bleat or weep.  
(Actaeon's Fate) you Poulcats, we'll let in  
To worry all, without trap, bat, or Gin:  
You are the hounds, we timorous hairs, or dear,  
We will not use our heels yet; shoot us here.  
Just at a stand, each Round-head, Sound-head think,  
A Rufus, Abbot's shafts may more blood drink.  
Hit home; we will not run, nor squat, nor double,  
Tapez or Croize; to save a life from trouble.  
The bolts wkich you do make; if Caesar shoot,  
Are Ioves 
k Procul a love, procul a fulmine.  own darts, we can say nothing noed.  
Just must all be, that's done by Alexander,  
Tho drunk at Babylon: he cannot wander 
l Alexander fecit, orgo justimest. :  
Thomas burn Persepolis, and Clitus kill 
m Curtius & Plutarch in Alexandres.   
Yea learned Calisthenes: Just is his will,  
(As Aeolus) luno 
n Mihi jusse capes●ere fas est.  who dare him gainsay;  
Tho that a Lais, Thais he obey,  
Albion, must Persian like, make lusts, her Laws.  
Alas we are Simplicians, Dulmen Daws!  
Kill Naboaths, Esays 
o Sawn in pieces by Manasses.  take Uriahs' wife:  
Squeeze, plunder goods, bloods, liberty and life  
Of most and best: (for wolves on fat sheep prey,  
And fat bucks fleshed dogs single, Woodmen say.) 
q bunishing of best men in Rome and Athens.   
Be Ostracism: 
p 1 Sam. 11.  up conjured; Hell renewed.  
Roman Triumvirs, cannot be eschewed:  
Athenian Tyrants, nor yet Catiline:  
Seylla, nor Dracoe's Laws 
r Said to be writ in blood  can we decline.  
Egypt's Taskmasters 
s Exod. i 13. 13. Cham 5. 6  may not be gainsaid,  
Commotions of Array, must be obeyed.  
In Turkish cruelty, though squeazing all,  
Chopping rich Pashas, into gobbets small.  
Strangling great Begglerbegs 
t In Lanclavius, & purchase his pilgrimage.  by active mutes,  
Yea Mustapbaes' 
u Mortuus est Mustapha proverbium tragicum apud Turcas.  when Ottomans will so suits:  
If Cannibals, Hannibals, Goths, Vandals, G●●es,  
Be regalized, we must endure their heats;  
Submit our necks, to a Vatiman hate:  
Though sprung from France or Rome, yea Rhyne of late.  
Prince Rupert Rake-all, is a younger Brother,  
He must return rich home, there's no way other,  
In his squeezed soil 
w The Palatinate.  to make his weak wing good,  
But our plucked Golden plumes, steeped in our blood.  
Each Croesus, Crassus 
x Of their vast weal. 〈◊〉 read Brusonius, Textor Fulgosus. titulo de divitibus.  Midas, Phidias,  
Must be a rinden, stridden, golden Ass.  
Each rich one, must be Rebel, or Roundhead,  
As once a Tyrant, fits with all one bed.  
The shortest stretching long, by racking strength,  
Cutting them shorter, who had too much length.  
As once Farnefius 
y A commander under the Prince of Parma.  vowed in Eighty eight  
His sword, all English bread should hue down right,  
And that in Lutherans blood, his horse should swim,  
(An Irish spirit Pythagorized was in him.)  
If Ass (or Mule) be fat, the Lion swears,  
That metamorphizd Horns; be his long ears:  
As in prime Paganish, Arrian persecutions,  
Our tears must be our swords 
z Arma nostra, preces & lachryma  our resolutions  
With Primitive Saints, must passive be: we parts  
Of Abel act, though cain's should pierce our hearts.  
Our chopping crammed Court Chaplains, will impeach us  
Of Treason: ourselves saving: for they teach us,  
God that Augustus gave, Domitian sent,  
If Kings be Storks, the Frogs must be content.  
jupiter sends no Logs, view Caesar's Line  
From Nero, to peace-planting Constantinea. 
a Apud Eusebium in vita Constantini   
What Christians ere resisted, good cause why,  
Their powers were weak, besides what History,  
Shows any Paganish King, in any Region,  
By oath was to defend Christ's true Religion.  
Yea under Deeive, Traian, Attilas,  
Neiva, proud Cosro's, esteem Totilos. 
b Victor & prosopius passim ale persecutione Vandalocum.   
Theodoricke, Genserious, all more  
Of Romans, Goths? Christ's sheep and lambs who tore,  
Where ere were Parliaments of patriots?  
Tyrant's to curb, and save poor Christians throats?  
Who by sanguinolent Doctors, now must bleed:  
From blood wrung Texts, which come not, in my Creed.  
Since all irrationals: by art, knew well  
To save poor life, the Crow will powder smell.  
Cranes, wild ducks, wild-geese too, keep centinel,  
To warn the flocks to fly, ere killed pell mel.  
Yea when that growing sicknesses disease them,  
Nature to Birds, Brutes, dictates 
c De quibus fusius apud Tholosanum in synt ag●●●te artis murabilis.  what will ease them;  
The Weasel, Bue, sick Dogs (Cats) five leaved grass,  
Doth cure: Hemlocks the Mauritanian Ass.  
Spiders heal Apes, and Monkeys stomach sick:  
And man's dung Panthers, which they seek to lick:  
So honey physics Bears; Doves, Partridge, Jays,  
Are purged by lawreall leaves, experience says.  
Yea, Pliny, Gesner, and Physicians note  
How physicail cures, man from the creatures got.  
And every animal still, doth what it can  
To save or cure a life; but passive man  
Must yield his yoked neck, to strangling thiefs,  
Lie in the ditch, and seek for no relieves.  
Just safeties must but cloaks be, from Heaven showers,  
Rest (forsooth) he must not higher Powers;  
Tho turned to Tyranny, as Wine to dregs:  
These Doctrines feed a Church, like rotten eggs.  
When that the Lion roars, best beasts must fear,  
When Eagles please to prey, poor birds they tear:  
Thus must our Peers and Stae, be fooled to death,  
Unless enforced Arms, save their vital breath:  
Court Sycophants, by smooth Sophism, all would Chut,  
To make us lie down, till our throats were cut:  
Which since it is a damnable conclusion:  
To bring on all, Phaeronian confusion;  
Our wifer Ephorists, from Religion, Reason,  
Grace, Nature, Laws, took Arms without least Treason,  
In just defence of Parliament and Laws,  
To save the Land from Minotaurioen jaws:  
From Papiz'd, Irish, French, and Atbions' soil,  
Who all cry still, up Moah to the spoil: 
d 2 King. 2.   
Withal, as with one bolt, to kill outright  
Two Birds: and two walls with one pencil white:  
They had another just, politic end,  
From foreign foes the Land for to defend.  
From Turk, Pope, Spain: who in their hot desires,  
Dance at our frets; and warm at our wished fires;  
gardiner's, ay'md withal, to root out weeds,  
Cockles and darnel 
e Infelix Lollium sterilesque dominantur avena.  with their stems and seeds.  
Even known Delinquents. Lastly, to protect  
These Laws, which gross Delinquents 
* Gross Delinquents ought to be punished by Gods Law. Leu. 19 15. Deut. 17. 10, 11, 12, 21. 3 & cha.. 24. 13. By the Cannon Law L. prospiciendum F. de poenis. And Politicians verdict Bodin lib. de Rep. cap. 10. num. 100 & War. ab Erenb. de Reg. subd. cap. 3. num. 3.  should correct:  
For take away our Fundamental Laws,  
And take the bit and bridle from the jaws,  
Of Horse, Mule, Cammell: from the pendent vine,  
Osyers', and Hops: the props on which they twine;  
Yea, from their strengthening oaks, weak Ivies slip.  
Nay more, helm, anchor, mast, take from the ship:  
And let it be exposed, by waves, and shocks,  
When Boreas blusters, on the splitting rocks:  
No Pilot then, no Palamure afford it,  
When mutineers would rob it, Pirates board it.  
Yea pull from houses their foundations strong,  
And like to Dagons' Shrine, lay all along:  
From cities too, their circling walls pull down,  
Castles, ports, forts, the strength of each Mart town.  
(As if into Thebes, Babylon, Rome, Troy,  
Medes, Goths, Greeks, Turks, were let in to destroy.)  
Yea nerves and sinews, from the body take,  
When Laws we do, annihilate, scorn, break,  
For none but dolts, in grace, art, nature's schools,  
Do think that King's rule men, like beasts, and mules  
Which they may yoke; whip, draw, drive as they will,  
And as mere brutes, whom (when) they please may kill:  
Without more cause or ground, than Butchers give,  
Why they let ox, sheep, cow, or die, or live.  
And that men may not in Elias case, 
f 2 King. 1. 9, 10.   
david's 
g 1 Sam. 20. ch. 21, 22. 23  and Jonathans' 
h Sam. 14. 15.  resist acts base:  
Kind, bloody: when rage rules, and reason sleeps,  
(Then Hagar beturned out 
i Gen. 21. 9 10.  though Ishmael weeps.)  
What's Regal, if Illegal? well we know,  
Sydrack and Misacke, did disdain to bow,  
In idolising 
k Dan. 3. 18.  to great Babel's King.  
Daniel is Gods too, (not man's underling: 
l Dan. 6. 8, 9, 10.   
So Martyrs, Prophets, and Apostles: all  
Confessors did to God 
m Acts 5. 28, 29.  not men, rise, fall.  
Rome's Praetor must, 'gainst Traian 
n Plutarchin Trajane.  use the sword,  
If crossed by Law be his Command, Act, Word.  
Oh wash your brains with Saige, you Tiber's Daws,  
As Kings rule men, know Kings are ruled by Laws:  
Withouten which, like Tiber, Tigris, Thames,  
Yea like svveled Sea, they overflow their Realms,  
Noah's and Ogyges' flood: their devastations  
Do emblem: yea Ducalions' inundations.  
Oh than they clapperclaw the best, long hated,  
As lions, balls, and bears, let lose, when baited.  
But for to sparr more close, to put a hook  
On the Malignant's nose, right led, to look  
That Parliaments, be now the powers supreme,  
(Tho Rotchets Rebels, Robes, long held cross Theme.)  
Yea Ephorists and Tribunes globed in one,  
Not Popes) may plant, supplant 
o Read their power affirmed and confirmed by 〈◊〉 de Senatus. Alibusius Polit. a pag. 193. 194 ad pag. 223. junior 〈◊〉 de vindice lib. 1. 9 1. Borrh. de author magniconsilii num. 170. Haitoman in histan Franc. cap. 10 & 10  a Regal throne:  
Chief Electives peccant, may go down,  
As oft the , and Polonian Crown.  
The great Venetian Dakes, the Palatine,  
Ill governed, to others may decline:  
With all, the power successive cannot stand,  
If that the sword be in a tyrant's hand.  
Wolves, Tigers, Heriticks, Fools they bridle may;  
Oppose, depose some; Politicians say.  
Timpler, Althusius, Bodin; Tholosens,  
A●●sius and Daneus, make it plain:  
With Lipsius, Coquier, and the rest; Inditers  
Of Politics; of Commonwealths the Writers:  
Chiese Junior Br●●us in his rods and whips  
For Tyrants; 
p De vindice Tyrano●um.  Where he, as with pincers nips,  
Wolvish Caligula's, Demitions,  
Nero's, Herodians 
q Hero l, Antipas, Agryppa Asalonnes.  Dionisians  
Phalaris, Busiris, and our crookt-back Dick,  
Hastings and Buokingham, who (like Boars) did stick.  
Bohemlab's Wenceslans, Jewer Uzziah,  
Poland's Popiell, treacherous Athalia.  
Phereus', Cosroes, Basilides,  
With millions more, who sympathised with these,  
In pride, lust, blood, in books enumerated, 
r Of these & other Tyrants deposed or slain, read Melancton Chron. lib. 2. josep. anti●. lib. 13 c. 18. Daneus lib. 6 Polit. cap. 3. ● Aelianus varioe, hist. li. 15. Gorlicius in polit. axioni. 116. Lipsius' li 6. polit. cap. 5. Bodin lib. 2. de Rep.   
Who from ill-governed Crowns were dislocated.  
Our Beuclark Prin; (after whose pen to write,)  
Were Iliads after Homer to indite:  
Whose works unparalleled, unanswered be,  
Like to learned Reynolds, Rome's Idolatry 
b De Idolairia Rom. ccolesin. :  
He proves the Case, by demonstration plain,  
From England, Scotland, Italy and Spain:  
From Polland, Denmark, Hungary and France.  
Bohemia too: in passing measures dance,  
Of Avirice, Lust, Injustice; blood; each King  
Was curbed or cured; when they abused their sting:  
Like master Bees in Hives, they had no Thrones,  
But were extruded 
c Of the Parliamentary power in our Nation, read Case in his politics li. 3. ca 15. & Sir Tho. Smith in his English. Government, lib. 2. sect. 2. & how exercised against Hen. 3. H. 6. & Rich. 2. read Pollidor Virgil, Hist. li. 11 Walsin. in R. 2. Hollinshed in H. 6. & Westm. in H●the 3.  like to Wasps and Drones.  
Shepherds and dogs, if once with wolves they side  
Against the sheep, what sheep can this abide.  
How the great Pan (just Jove) doth much adhorre it,  
Hanging or banging, it is to good for it.  
But if the shepherd do the wolf detest,  
Why walks he with him? hugs him in his breast  
Chief the wolf called Rebel, that ' the worst  
Of Irish Wolves; of God and man accursed.  
Who like a Curtain gulf, and Minotaured,  
Not only many millions hath devoured  
Of brutes and sheep; but o'er the world hath slunk,  
With Hecatombs of Christians blood, late drunk.  
And like a good fleshed dog, unwormed, and wood,  
Is now hug'd, fed, to gulf more righteous blood  
Of every Naboath and Nathaniel,  
Who will not side with Rome, Pope, Prelate, Hell.  
If any cavilling Thrase, make his vaunt,  
His Regal Pastor, is a Protestant,  
And hath confirmed his Faith by solemn oath,  
By Edicts, and by Proclamations both;  
That he hath neither jesuits' tongue, nor pate,  
(As Arrius once) for to equivocate.  
More than his Prelates, (on whose sleeves he pins,  
His Rites, Religion, Faith: War, Bloudsheds, Sins,  
To carry them in postures odd, or even,  
As they poise dubious scales, to Hell or Heaven.)  
Yet if a Protestant, great Caesar be,  
With the Papized, why holds he sympathy?  
Such is the man, as he, with whom he talks,  
Italians say, but chief with whom he walks:  
And God's Word faith, which cannot be beguiled,  
Together two walk not, unreconciled.  
Though that the Swallow eat no corn, all knows,  
What doth she yet amongst the carrion Crows.  
As the Clown told her, when their necks were wrung,  
She bore a sad part in their fatal song.  
Sound sheep, sound men, sound apples get a spot,  
And taint, by living, (lying) with the rot 
d Est aliquid mali prop●er vicinum malum, & dumvident l●es●s oculi, leduntur & ipsi.   
And who to bad men's manners, be no strangers;  
By their conversings, do incure their dangers 
e Rev. 18. 4.   
Why should jehoshaphat in lawless war,  
Assist an Ahab, an Idolater 
f 1 Kin. 22. 4. 2 Kin. 3. 7.   
Salve this sly Sophisters, with Papal prattle:  
His life was well nigh lost 
g Vers. 32.  in that mad battle;  
Besides, he so far felt Astroea's rod,  
That he was sore redargued by his God 
h 2 Chr. 19 2 .  
But Cavilliers will cavil here, and prate,  
Charles was distressed, and in a piteous straight:  
(As once our English Edward, john, and Stephen;  
Richard the Second to) and so straight driven  
By his own Barons, who on him did War,  
That he must seek for aid, both near and far.  
And like a pit fall'n man, might use the fist  
Of Turk, jew, Pagan, Popist, Polithist:  
As one diseased to heal him in sound fashion,  
May use his art, that's of a foreign Nation.  
(Gallon, Hipocraies, of Grecian Race,  
Razit or Avicen, Arabians base.)  
This is a Gordian knot, Malignants think,  
Put one may lose it, who doth dream or wink.  
For first Court Sycophants put him in the pit,  
As all may see; who hoodwink not their wit:  
His patriots too, firm friends, as pure as gold,  
If on their helping hand he had took hold,  
Had like to Reuben 
i Gen. 37. 21. , and to Ieremi's 
k jer. 38. 11, 12.  friend,  
Soon hug'd him out, and brought a calming end  
To his feared storms; had kept him safe and sure,  
(Tho Fears no fence have, Jealousies no cure.)  
If his true friends then, (vainly thought his foes,)  
Had frost-nipped in their buds, his self made woes?  
What need had he to use his Mount'bancks more,  
Who make his bloody salves worse than his sore.  
But easy cries the child, whose lip doth hang,  
And soon we find a staff 
l Facile est invenire baoulum, ut cedas canem.  a dog to bang:  
And we may in the straightest bulrush got,  
(As Mice make holes in walls) soon make a knot.  
As easy, Kings: as combats from the barrel,  
With their best Peers may pick or make a quarrel.  
Foxes, though at the fountains head they drink,  
Lambs at the streams 
m Fabula Aespi. , themselves yet wronged may think.  
(From reason and Religion, though much swerving)  
Base flattery gets respect 
n Obsequium omicos, veritas odium parit. , more than deserving:  
In Courts, in Camps, in Colleges, in Schools,  
Shows more than substances, please flattered Fools:  
But as King's sow, they reap 
o Gal. 6. 7. , self do, self have,  
Better to make no wounds, than balms to crave:  
Better sit still, then fall; for factious fellows,  
In clawing Kings, but rope themselves for th'gallows,  
As Empson, Dudley did, and Gavestan,  
Mortimer, Spencer's Haman, crushed each one?  
Ill counselled Kings, spliton the wracking shelves  
Of their self-will: by none hurt, but themselves:  
Causeless on others, though the blame they lie:  
As children full dugs sucking, then most cry.  
If lawless Kings will do, what do they should not,  
Tho Kings, they suffer must, even what they would not.  
(No more than Angels, high 
p Pet. 2. 4. jude 6. Casman his Angelographia, ●●d Smal●alds look of Angels. , now turned low Devils)  
They are not free from active passive evils;  
Torrents of woes break on them, still ground winning,  
Which they might well have stopped in the beginning:  
Soon is the fracture knit, the broken bone,  
The fresh wound balmed; scarce cured long let alone.  
Who on the hill top stands, he needs not run  
Down, neck break, cliffy rocks, he well may shun:  
But if he will run down: his wilful race,  
Precipitation brings: (a woeful case.)  
He stays not till, he to the bottom come:  
Then Kings fall 
q Fatalianen font alia & quos perdere vult Deus? res prius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Instat in multis Gorlieius in axtomotibus Eccles. & polit. , when their brittle glass is run:  
They need not kindle fires: they may prevent,  
(By quenching sparks) the flames, which they repent:  
Yet as a man half drowned, on aught lays hold,  
With frivolous, scruples, they do still make bold,  
Forsooth we must not touch the Lords Anointed,  
In David's case? How is this Text di●●oynted:  
For were not Priests Anointed, as were kings?  
What false notes, yet, so ere, Court flattery sings:  
Malignant Priests were touched, yea too combust,  
Scorched (like Rome's Priests of Priapus) with lust.  
Besides how topsie turvie, head to tale,  
Is the Text turned, as underboard the sail,  
For God reproved Kings for Israel's sake,  
His own Anointed 
r Psal. 105. v. 13, 14, 15, , not, (as most mistake,)  
Israel for touching Kings: whom they destroyed,  
(Seon and Og 
s Psal. 136. 18, 19, : and such as them anoy'd:  
Thus regal mists dispersed, and clouds dispelled,  
For legal must our patriots wars be held.  
Lord open all eyes; how is the sword abused,  
Against them: Is't for Liberties, Laws used?  
For, or against the Wolf? your wits bring hither,  
Birds of a feather ever flock together.  
To shut your eyes against the Sun its vain;  
prynn's royal favourite, doth make this plain 
t As also the blabbing Letters now lopcned. sound in the King's Cabinet at Nasby Field. T   
Hence our Armodians, Aristogitons,  
Our Brutusses, and our Timoleon's:  
Our Statists, Ephorists, have just Arms took up,  
Ere they their own blood drunk, in such a cup,  
As Alexander Pops, prepared one night  
To poison Cardinals 
u Apud Guiccardinum & platinam. : or Monkish spite, 
w The Monks of Bangor poisoned him in the Eucharist   
For English John, and Henry Emperor,  
When their worst humours, they began to stir,  
Hence grew Vatiman, though defensive wars,  
More bloody than the worst, of civil jars,  
'Twixt Guelphs, and Gibellines, Italians,  
The French, Aurelians, and Burgundians,  
The Florentine Pazzi, and the Medici's,  
Yea, Spinolists and Dorians, not like these,  
In Genoa: Nor in Saint Patrick's Land,  
Where Butlers bold, did Geraldines withstand.  
Yea these hot bicker, which Rome's ruins wrought,  
When the Casarians with Pompeians fought:  
And when fierce Saylla, who Marius slew,  
Unto his side sanguinolent Factions drew.  
Nor Catelines Conspiracy of old,  
Which Saluft hath, in bloody lines enrolled:  
Nor these Battalians, when Laucastrian line,  
In Albion, did from house of York decline.  
When as the White Rose in twice fourteen years,  
Was died in blood of Vulgars', Nobles, Peores  
All these with many such, where lust, pomp, pride,  
In bloody coaches, did in Trophies ride,  
Were scarce like ours so fatal, fierce, false, thieving,  
Sanguinolent, mercurialized, mischieving.  
Like Cadmus' brethren, and the Midi●nites 
x jud. 7. 22. y 2 Sam. 2. 16 ;  
Joahs' and Abners' men y, in Martial fights;  
We one another stab: the Son the Sire,  
Some scarce know why, since Gospel all desire,  
As all pretend: yet must be propagated  
By such as Grace, and Gospel ever hated.  
(As Puttocks, Chicks,) Arminians 
z Painted Papists. , Papists, Kebs,  
Athests; with Harpies Talents, bloody nebs?  
Who would pervert, (subvert) Religion, Laws,  
With wiles of Foxes, and the Lion's paws.  
Great Charles, blindfolded long Collirium 
a Rev. 3. 18.  get,  
And Hellibare 
b Opus esi Helebaro Horacè , to cure thy after wit:  
Lest Trojan like, thy dear bought, after lore,  
Cause thee to wish thou had been wise before:  
Used art thou ladder like, Rome's ends to climb, 
c Sero sapiunt thriges, sero medicina paratur.   
A Masse-God to resetle in this Clime:  
Round-headed sheep devoured, dogs, shepherds, hanged:  
Tiberian Wolves brought in; unbit, unbanged,  
England a golden Goose, like Venice, Spain,  
Fresh plucked, by Peterpences, brought in again:  
Then throw this Ladder by, they'll cry or burn it,  
Unless to Rome or Tiber, we can turn it,  
Fauxes and Ravillacks, they have yet store,  
To use thee as French Henry's heretofore:  
As living Infects do from dead Brutes breed,  
From Parry, Lopus, Titohburne, Squire, proceed.  
A nest of vipers, which would sting thy breast,  
Thee (as our Deborahs' 
d See Cambdeus Eliz. b. & Spencer's fiery Queens, of this late Deborah.  once) they do detest:  
Unless like their two Maries, thou be known,  
Their Catholic creature; tooth and nail their own:  
Thy face, (fate state) in other Kings, broke glasses,  
View, rue: be not feduced, by snakes, or asses.  
In Court and Camp, thou whilst be waited on,  
By many a jaques, Clement, Babington:  
Jesuits, assassinates, to make thee break,  
Unless the language of the Beast 
e Rev. 13. 15. 16.  thou speak.  
And be an Agent of the scarlet Whore,  
Sure as thy Creed, they aim the King no more.  
If every Roundhead, in Herodia's wish,  
Were lopped like juhasf, 
f Mark 6.  laid in a Courtly dish:  
If Protestants all, were in their bloody doom,  
As headless as Caligula 
g Suetonius. , wished Rome:  
Thee and thine Esther, (though not worth the name,)  
Thy haman's would consume 
* Cum hereticis nulla fides.  in self same flame,  
With thy best Subjects, who the Whore do hate 
h Rev. 17. 14.   
Thou (thine) would ruin, with thy ruined State:  
Eyes quick as Argus, Lynceus, Hawks and Eagles,  
Do see thee haunted, hunted, with Rome's Beagles.  
French, Irish, English; and lament thy state,  
‛ Moagst thy Nimrodia●s, most Italianite.  
Who though they Spaniell-like, now feign and jeer thee,  
(As Apes and Monkey's mop,) yet would they tear thee  
Worse than Actaeon's dogs, when to dire dangers,  
They had thee brought, by Romanized Meanders.  
Most Noble Charles, what England, Ireland fears,  
Or feels from Papists come, and Cavilliers.  
Right saddles for to set upon right horses,  
Thy Priests thy Prelates, be our curses crosses.  
Yet though the naked truth in Ruth I writ,  
With beasts at Ephe sui, I seem to sight.  
Yet sheep do bleat, bulls bollow, orblaspheme.  
Vociferating loud this threadbare theme:  
What, shall we have no King? will you put down  
His Regal Sceptre; Diadem, and Crown?  
Shall Monarchy, turn to Democracie?  
Or into flourishing Arristocracie?  
(As once in Lacedaemon, Athens, Greece,  
And now in Venice, with their golden fleece;  
The Cantons, Belgicks, and the prosperous Duteh,  
What dares your zeal, the Lords Anointed touch:  
Is this concordant to Religion, reason?  
Or to speak roundly, plain Roundbeaded Treason:  
Thus like the Clowns shorn Hog, the world you gull,  
Here is much cry, but very little wool.  
The poor bird Taurus 
i Apud Plinium,  hath a little body,  
Yet such a night voice hath, would fear a Noddy.  
Here's rock and spindle, but our yarn you want,  
Your Querees have someshowes, with substance scant.  
Great bolts you shoot, but will you stand and stay,  
The Persians and Hybernians run away;  
(Their darts once cast,) as Cravens out of pits,  
Cowards, have Clineas, and Dametas wits,  
To scold, not fight; your scruples we indite them  
Of spleen: It's to confute them 
k Reeitasse est confutasse ut ●lim Bernardus do heresibus.  to recite them,  
To all your quests; simplicians, hear our no's,  
You vent what's vain: Oh see yourself wrought woes  
The Roundheads cause the ruins of the Land,  
As Stentertons Steeple, caused goodwin's sand:  
They like to Noah, Lat, Moses, Aaron stay  
Floodgates of wrath, would wash us quite away.  
Elias did not trouble Israel,  
But Ababs Chaplaives, and their Jezabelle  
The Lamb's Plea to the Fox stands in small stead,  
He dies for troubling of the Fountain's head.  
Had powder plot prevailed, the Puritan,  
Not acting Papist, should have borne though blame.  
Emilius did it, but Rutilius 
a Fecit Emilius, plectitus Rutilius.   
Must suffer, Is not this injurious  
Court brambles we would lop, but they are held  
Precious; and fruit-trees best, for briars repelled.  
We loath Court gangreenes, spread from ill to worse,  
We love all pure like gold, we hate the dross:  
We love not thorns and pricks: we love the rose,  
The King we dearly love: but not his foes:  
Except as we for their conversion pray,  
Or feared conclusion; (dogs have but their day;  
As had Apostate julian, whose cursed head,  
By prayers the Primitive Church, soon crushed dead,  
Tyrants like him be clouds 
l Nubecula eito Iransiens  or squibs I think,  
Their flashes, fires, cracks, thunders 
m Read the book called Brute fulmi●● , end in stink.  
Quince, Apples, Pears, we love, but we love not,  
In pears (or Pears) or Prince, what's naught and rot,  
Like to Ezekiel's Figs; the nuts fair shell,  
We loathe: of worms, if the rot kernel smell:  
A King we love for wisdom, not for wracks,  
Borne in Malignants Arms, or on their backs;  
Chained to their hearts: his power pinned on their sleeve,  
To shoot their bolts, to seal what they believe:  
We love a shepherd, who loves in his heart  
His sheep: but not as he with wolves takes part,  
Seals them a warrant, or his Shepperdesse,  
(Or sleeps till sealed,) to woory great and less,  
A hundreth fifty thousand, as Priests boast,  
In (the right land of Ire) Saint Patrick's coast.  
Besides these naked stripped, as creckets, worms,  
In frosts, and colds, starved to untimely urns.  
The Sun we love and Planetary powers,  
Ripening plants, minerals; filling our bowers  
With Ceres, (Bacchus) Fruits: but when in May  
Malignant Planets so do be are the sway;  
Calm air that they embitter, and dive hence,  
Phoebus his sweet, and fruitful influence,  
This we love not: since what God gives most good  
Turns worst infected 
n Corrup●io optimi pess●●. , like corrupted blood,  
Which purer that it was, it sooner locks  
Life in Death chains, by seavers, pests and pox,  
Infection taking soon; as tinder powder  
Takes fire; which makes the crack (the wrack) the louder.  
A sword we love well matched, well watched, well man'd,  
In David's 
o 1 Sam. 21. 9 , salomon's 
p 1 Kin. 3. 24. , or samuel's hand;  
To how our Hagags 
q 1 Sam. 15. 32, 33. , our Amalakites,  
Which doth avenge our bloods, our wrongs with rights;  
Not governed by a fem, fox, child 
r Ne puera gladium.  or boy 
s juvenis atate & moribus apud philosophum.   
Themselves or others likely to destroy:  
This is Tom-tell-truth; and in plain words said,  
We Macedonians call a spaide a spaide:  
We from equivocating are averse,  
With Friars and jesartes we do not converse;  
Their vermisht Lies, and their Gunpowder evil,  
They learned from the Serpent 
t Gen. 3. 5. Eritu tanquans dij, id est demon●●. , from the Devil.  
For to anatomize our hearts more plain,  
Let Momus through and through them look again.  
A Pilot wise we love; which set at Helm,  
Steers right: not those, who State-ships overwhelm,  
Ill counselled, to split us on the rocks  
Of Papism, Lawless, will, Court flattering, blocks:  
Our Children dear we love: but we love not  
In Children, scuiffes, scabs, carbuncles, or spot;  
Their bodies, souls, healths wealths, and names we love,  
But their vain humours we do not approve:  
Chief their unequal weddings; when vain elves,  
With us they quite undo, their silly selves:  
Ruinated their houses, break their parents hearts,  
As Esau did, by acting Esau's parts:  
By marrying with a Hetbete 
u Gen 26. 34. 35. , Cananite 
w Deut 7. & Chap. 13. ,  
Whom God and good men have abhorred quite:  
By matching with a Dallilah, a Lais,  
A Rhodope, Xanthippe, Flora, Thais:  
Rome's proud Poppea, or French Bruni child,  
(Best Peers of France, by bloody wiles, who killed)  
Chief wedding one infected with disease  
Of swollen spleens like, Katherine de medices:  
Margaret of France, and such French fems as ever,  
Ominous to England were, but prosperous never:  
As now our pressures are beyond expression  
Able in marbled hearts, to make impression,  
More cause to show of our enforced Wars,  
Were drops to add to scas, to Sunshine Stars.  
As we Charles Person, (not his Parasites) love,  
Heaven speed our Plough: our Cause so bless great Jove,  
Moralists who Ethics read, know in a trice,  
That we may love a man, but hate his vice:  
In Loser, Loves, Lusts, Follies sons we hate,  
Chief when their Comrades, would them ruinated,  
And they with Eli's sons to ruin tending 
x 1 Sam. 2. 25   
To all good counsels deafened ears belending;  
As Records writ (like Thehas and Troy) in blood,  
Relate their falls, who Counsels have withstood:  
Lies then which tax our loves, come from the Devil,  
Once more we love the King; not the King a Evil,  
Which hath killed more within this three year's space,  
In both Climes, of each Sect, Sex, Garb. and Race;  
Then all late plagues, in Austria 
y In Grosius his Tragical Histories.  Rome, Vienna,  
Which Idolisers shipped for Gehenna,  
In Charon's boat: Oh here the shoe doth wrinch!  
We do not put it off, yet though it pinch,  
As Court, Camp, State, by Doegs be disjointed,  
Doegs we touch; but not the Lords Anointed.  
Let this then muzzle all Malignant lips,  
The Prince we love; but not his Pests, our Whips 
z Esay 10. 5. :  
We are not Spaniels, nor yet Russian Wives,  
We cannot love our beaters, for our lives.  
We are not Stockfish, Irish-Lacquies-Lasses:  
Better for beating, like to Hemp and Asses:  
Of Travellers coriatized, we pass the ranks,  
We cannot injuries receive with thanks.  
If a Musalman strike an English man  
Right bred; he sparrs but with a Cock o'th' game.  
What need my moved Muse Apologise  
More, for our Senators, just, pious, wise:  
Our Patriots themselves well understand,  
They aim to sweep Rome's Locusts from the Land:  
To shake those poisonous vipers off, which cleave,  
More like to Charles his heart, than hand or sleeve;  
By demonstration this is more than plain,  
To every eye not blind, head mad, heart vain:  
A King they wish like gold, refin'd (removed  
The dross) as once of God and man beloved,  
Like John 
a Luke 1. 80.  and Samuel, by 
b 1 Sam. 2. 26  good behaviour,  
Who grew with God and man in grace and favour,  
As Nero 
c In ●is qu●n niue.  for some years was loved of Saints,  
Ere fired Rome, with Martyr's blood he paints,  
Their loves turn pities, that by slattering breath,  
Too credulous Kings, should laughing go to death,  
As did Cel●nus 
d Apud Curtium.  that Gymnosaphist.  
And learned Democritus, Philologist.  
Tho subtle cubs, by clawing, Tigers please,  
(As Dionysius hug'd, base Damocles)  
Their paws yet felt, ill managed by their breeders,  
They kill for want of clawing, friends and feeders.  
I draw my paper sails up at this time,  
In few words, add my Colophonian line:  
We love a wise, just, and right counselled King,  
But not a vassalized underling;  
To what his creature mould him, tossed and hurried,  
As in their ship and coach; or hauke-like carried,  
As on his Faulconess fists, (whom he so loves,)  
Tiber's Crows spanned, to pounce his rich plumed Doves.  
Phoebus we lo●e, not Phae●on to ride.  
Drawn with wild horses trapped in Prelate's pride:  
Yea Horses of Belleroph●n, too bad,  
Which wise Minerva's kerbing bit ne'er had.  
David saul's skin ●oucht not 
e 1 Sam. 24. 10. , yet in his rage,  
His harp and hand 
f 1 Sam. 16. 23. , his frenzies did assuage:  
Now our Patritians, David's Art and Heart  
Do use; enforced to act the kerbing part,  
Of just wise Ephorists, as most physical,  
To cure the humours tumors of some Saul,  
Whose furious daris are thrown in either clime,  
At Jonathans' just 
g 1 Sam. 20. 23.  but at no Philistine,  
Unto, untuned States, Praetors, Tribunes ever,  
Musicians were, Chyrurgians, which the Liver,  
Yea, Heads and Hearts of dead sick Commonwealths,  
Did seek to cure, and to procure their healths:  
As our Samaritans seek to heal and help,  
Now a sick King, sick state, (what ere Kebs yelp)  
Yea for to rescue him, my faith believes,  
Both fall'n and wounded 'mongst a den of thiefs.  
His true friends credit this, sure as their Creed,  
Their Pater noster is, he may not bleed:  
That no hair from him fall, no finger ache,  
At thought of which, their very hearts do quake:  
They wish that from Court Philters free, from Charms  
Of Baby'onians, he be free from harms:  
His Senators (firmest friends) these snakes detest,  
Who hate his Person: Crown: Seed: Eagled nest,  
For him and his, they hearty do pray 
h 1 Tim. 2. 2. ,  
As Paul for Nero 
i Nero reigned in Paul's time under whom be was crucified with Peter. , (though contrary way,  
Some Serpent's hiss) for King of Babylon,  
As jenos did pray: (what ere fool's babble on)  
So they for him: that God would open his eyes,  
Direct, correct his will, and make him wise;  
Like the patrizing son of him, whose name,  
Of Rex pacifious, loud trumps his fame:  
We pray his course by Parliamenting lore,  
That he may sleare, as Albion's Kings of yore:  
This Via Lactea, in a golden means;  
Would make him unto after times a Theme.  
Yea, subject of an Annual, and a Story,  
Graven in brass, to his immortal glory:  
As were our Henry's, Fifth, and Seventh, (Not Eight)  
Young Edward, james, Eliza. who rul d right.  
Alphonsus, Domocles, and Aristides,  
Envied Thanistocles, Mil●iades.  
We pray he may live blest, like Charldemaine,  
And rise in Honour, (dead) above Charles Wain:  
Thus votes each Round-head, and each Sound-head plain,  
His, and the Kingdom's loss, so to regain:  
This would them glad, as if from France and Spain  
Charles were returned, into himself again;  
(As by a metaphorized transmutation,  
Or by a Pythagoriau transmigration,)  
His going from himself, into vain hearts,  
Good souls hath sadded (madded) hatched our smarts.  
Malignants do not these believe at all,  
But on our Senators acts, still spurt more gall.  
Our State disease now found withouten fees,  
I curing counsel give; cut down the trees  
Which bud from Tiber, and to Tiburns tend,  
At least their lopping cropping I commend:  
Or else translate them to another soil;  
Who would not worry wolves, the lambs who spoil?  
When the great Pan (beats dog's, which fright the fox,  
And sides with wolves, than Roundheads fit for blocks;  
Then will the world run round on whirling wheels,  
Antipodized, then go our upward heels,  
And down fall'n heads: the Cavillier then swaggers,  
Or reels, like calves with sturdy, horse with staggers,  
Fools we who choose the brambles, leave the Cedars,  
Olives and Vines to be our Heads, Guides, Leaders.  
Whilst each Abimelecke, like ram or bear, 
judges 9 per toium.   
Our Gidconized heads would crush; throats tear:  
Dragging the Lion too, to take their part,  
(As doth the Lioness) whilst they his heart,  
(Unpapized) plot to pierce, yet 'mongst themselves,  
Scichimites may fight: millstones 
i verse 53.  may crush these elves;  
As once on Ameleck were hailstones reigned,  
(Slinged stones 
k Sam. 17 49 , horns 
l Iosh. 6. 20. , goads 
m judges 3. 3 , jawbones 
n Cham 15. 16. , have Tyrants (tamed,)  
Some way just Nemesis will burn our briers:  
What trees be not for fruits 
o Mat. 3. 10. , must be for fires:  
Down must they, though whole woods, and groves for number,  
The Commonwealth's grand forest, if they cumber:  
Our jothams just, from times and histories,  
Propound these parables, these mysteries:  
Tho like Cassandra, they be not believed,  
Which glads mad Greeks, though Trojans true be grieved:  
Each trusty Troilus, Laomedon,  
Chalcas and Hector for their madness mourn,  
Whilst every Paris, who his Paradise  
Plants in his lusts, is blind to all advice:  
So much Court Philters, poisoned, can bewitch them,  
Till their own rods of ruin, scourge and switch them:  
Mean space Aeolian, and Dardanian smarts,,  
Whilst princely Priamus acts even pitied parts:  
Who lest his fatal favourites be annoyed,  
Lets Troy 
* Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi.  still burn; till Ilium be destroyed:  
Yet he and his for blood of many an Abel,  
May by his mad blades fall, though propped by Babel:  
(As in good David's days it came to pass p, 
2 Sam. 21. 1,   
Whose Kingdom for saul's bloody house plagued was.)  
Unless some Herb of Grace, so rub his eye,  
For crimson siunes seen, he for mercies, cry  
(As did Mauritius 
q Crying when murdered by Phocas: justus est dominus & rectum judicium.  Theodosius 
r After his Thessalonian Mass●●● Ambrose brought him to public penance. , Saul 
s Acts 9 11. 1 Tim. 1. 13.   
Israel's sweet singer 
t 2 Sam. 11. , Paganish converts all:)  
Unless that mercy pull him from the jaws  
Of murderers, thiefs, (they left unto the Laws,)  
As well deserving in my resolution,  
As Seyron, Cacus, Faux: just execution:  
The bloody oaths of his God-dam-mec's must,  
Turn out their blood to Mummiamized dust:  
Yea their grand Proctors (with their Doctors all  
Right Balaamiz'd) like house of Ahab 
u 2 Kings. 9 26. , Saul 
w 1 Sam. 20. 2 2 Sam. 21. 6. ,  
Yea like the house of Dagon and Black Friars,  
May fall down flat; for blood still blood requires:  
And Idols which do most pollute a Land,  
Tho propped by Royal favourites; cannot stand:  
Retaliating vengeance in times all,  
Keeps measures 
x Mat. 7. 2.  which be Geometrical,  
And Arithmetical: like sins still heap,  
Like sorrows 
y Poena & culp a proportierata. , as men sow, so must they reap;  
Eat as they bake, and drink such as they brew,  
Tho bowls of blood, their last Herb must be Rew.  
Admize●eck who the Thumbs off cut,  
Of seaventy Kings 
z judg. 1. 6. a Sicnecis artifices arte perire sua. , was to like penance put:  
And that Perillus, who himself did gull,  
Phalaris him roasts a, in his own torturing Bull:  
That Dancing Minions head too in a trice,  
Who Johus head begged, was lopped (some say) by ye.  
A bloody King, worse Queen by dogs were gnawn.  
Their bloody Pageants, perisht-all their spawn.  
Most Pag in Arrian, Papal persecutions,  
Found judas fates, and joabs' executions.  
Whole Volumes could I write to let Kings see,  
From former misled Kings, their Tragedy,  
Their steps who following fast, their cross ways running,  
They needs must fall, for all Rome's daubing cunning.  
To salve all these, great Charles that wars may cease,  
Thou and thy Crown secured, get grace with peace;  
Peace with thy God, peace with thy Parliament,  
For Gospel, God, thy Good, whose aims be bend.  
This clears all clouds, this tears wipes from the eyes  
Of all good subjects, heals all maladies;  
See with their Lincean eyes, work with their hands,  
Thou and thy Sceptre so securely stands.  
Rome had not bled an object of poor pity,  
But flourished like that Sea-wed maiden City.  
Had bloody Nero, stern Domitian,  
Clodius and Claudius, like Vespasian,  
Fortunate Augustus, Traian, Adrian,  
(Praised like Germanicus by every man,)  
Consulted with Rome's Senate, as of late,  
The great Venetian Duke, with that wise State;  
As Homer (his best precedent for Kings)  
With Nestor and Ulysses, counselling brings,  
His Agamemnon; Zenopbon his Cyrus,  
With his grand Peers: in History Darius,  
With his Zopyrus: with his Cyneas,  
Great Pyrrhus: by whose wits he Conqueror was:  
As Alexander by Parmenio,  
Did victorize ewhat he did undergo,  
Great Assuerus by his Persians wise,  
Is quit with Vasti who did him despise.  
Yea Israel's singer in the Text divine,  
By Hushai's Council, plots did countermine;  
And Nineve's King consults with his grand Peers,  
Heaven's wrath to pacify by Prayers and Tears.  
Yea Absolom hears his Achitophel,  
Tho a Malignant worse than Matchavell:  
Oh shut thy ears great Prince to Counsels given  
By Serpents, open them wide to votes from Heaven:  
Good men be ships, wide  to sun and sky,  
To earth and water, yet close shut they lie.  
Good ears and hearts open (like the S  
Unto the Sun) to Counsel rightly told;  
The bad shut like the spring-lock: Adders deaf,  
Hear not, or to their hearing give belief:  
Like Zedekiah, or like Eli's sons,  
Who threaten scoffed, like squibs and paper guns:  
Lightnings and thunders held till bolts they felt,  
Hearts Pharoized, less than Smith's Anvils melt.  
Lord soften thine like wax, to take impressiou  
Of sound advice, this soon salves all digression.  
Oh bless our eyes or eats with that bless day,  
To know thee with thy Peers; for which we pray:  
(A Senate just they be, though thou retire,  
A wife's a wife, though scorched with jealous ire:  
A husband wrongfully seduced, forsake her.)  
But of thy presence be they once partaker,  
This would turn Guns to Gowns, and Blades to Books,  
Calm furious Mars, and clear Bellona's looks:  
This Targets turns to Ploughs: Helmets to Hives,  
Spears into Mattocks, Swords to Tradesman's knives:  
Penury to Plenty, Discords into Loves:  
Haggards to Hens, and Harpies into Doves.  
Wars into Peace; and into pleasure pain,  
The golden Age should thus return again.  
Oh this would dignify our Albion's fame!  
Angloi's should name of Angels thus regain;  
Yea whatsoever is lost this would make even,  
In dry hay make up all, our Hell turned Heaven.  
Thus have I ripped State wounds, Church wracks, Camp woes,  
With salves: ere Cynthia yet few circles goes;  
If these my sound prescriptions be taken well,  
My Muse to balm our bleedings, more may tell,  
Ecclesiastic and Political,  
Tho against those some Doegs loud will bawl;  
Some Ass' bray, some Snake's sting; which no cure  
For the King's Evil, can or will endure:  
In touch of which each Cavillier who kicks,  
Shows that his galled hide, my sharp pen pricks.   
FINIS,