A SHORT, COMPENDIOUS, AND TRUE DESCRIPTION Of the roundheads, and the LONG-HEADS, Shag-polls, briefly declared, with the true discovery both of the time and place of both their original beginnings, deduced and drawn out of the purest and refinedst Antiquities or Records of Time.  
OR, AN ANSWER To a most ridiculous, absurd, and beyond comparison, most foolish Baffle, sent into the world by a stinking Locust, And entitled, THE DEVIL turned ROUND-HEAD.  
EZEK. 44. 20.  
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.  
Printed in the year, 1642.   

A true DESCRIPTION OF THE roundheads.  
ANd first there is laid down in these eight general heads: 

First, the original of them both, Gen. 2.7. Revel. 9  
Secondly, where they were made, as in the same records you shall find.  
Thirdly, of what made, the same records also declares.  
Fourthly, by whom made, there you shall find it also.  
Fiftly, how they are qualified, there you shall find it also.  
Sixtly, of the number of either of them, that you shall find Mat: 7. ver. 13. Revel. 9 of their use and particular end, Psalm 73.  
Eightly, and lastly of their last, and final end that is Math: 25.    
All these are severally handled more plainly and largely in their order by W. P.  
A faithful soldier of the sixt legion belonging unto the chief general of the most victorious regiment of the roundheads. Written upon the plain of the earth, in the midst of an innumerable rabble gathered together by the devil of shag-poll locusts, for the destruction of the roundheads.  
And first to begin with the roundheads original:  
His beginning was the sixt and last day of the world's creation, in time proceeding and going before that of the locust shag-polls, being of more antiquity, and therefore more to be had in honour, of those that reverence antiquity of time more than your shag-poll Locusts are.  
Secondly, for the place where your Round-head was made: why; he was made in a place incomparable, more excellent than that wherein your shag-poll Locust was made, as you shall hear hereafter, he was made in a delicate place, even in paradise a place of spotless purity, and delightful content; A place fit for a Round-headed puritan and semi-separate to be made in: your semi-seperate, puritan, and Round-head, are computable 3. objects comprehended in one subject, being all made of one and the selfsame matter, as also of one and the selfsame nature, differing only in the precedency of the titles, the title semy-separates, and Round-head, issuing out of the Puritan, as the stream issues out of the fountain, being all one as the fountain and his stream is.  
Thirdly, by whom wa● your Puritan or Round-head made? your Puritan or Round-head was made by him who made the round world, and all that therein is, by Jehovah Elohim in most perfect beauty, shape, and form, most admirable, composed in most comely proportion and order, his Round-head not Ass-Head like, but round indeed, which being looked upon by God himself, he saw that it was good, yea, most exceeding good and liked it wondrous well, so that he blessed his round head by him made, bids him increase and bring forth fruit, yea, even that fruit that should destroy the shag-polle locusts, and all the works of the devil from off the earth.  
Fourthly, of what made? he was made of that matter which that name which God gave him signifies, of red earth this Adam which the shag-polls in derision calls a Round-head, was made of red earth or of red dust, which to prevent some foolish objection, signifies one and the same thing.  
Fifthly, how is this Round-head qualified? admirably, with grace and virtue of unvalued worth, as, first with innocency of life, composed and mixed with rare ingredients, of mercy, truth, and love, as also with rare wisdom and understanding, so that he did know the composition, and secret natures of all the creatures in the world, and so was able to give them names according to their nature, and so he did; thus internally and externally was this Round-head qualified with Admirable Wisdom, Beauty, comeliness and strength.  
Sixtly, for his number and increase: why; for his increase of number it was but small, excellent for quality, but few for quantity, in regard as the time now is and ever was, but here & there one; excellent and exquisite things being always scant, and rarest to be found, and that is the thing, together with their secret virtue, that makes them be of such account with those that knows their worth, which knowledge of them, as they are, it is only in God and amongst themselves, for foolish shagpole locusts have no knowledge of their excellency, nor are no more able to discern their splendour, than a blind man that never saw the Sun, is able to judge or discern the glory of the illustrious beauty of the Sun.  
Seaventhly, of the roundheads use, what is he useful for? the roundheads use is manifold, of many sorts and kinds, but all for good; and first to set forth the splendid glory of the justice of God, his grace manifested to them in the face and favour of Jesus Christ, but never unto the shagpole locusts. Secondly, to set or show forth the virtues of Jesus Christ, the second person in the trinity, that hath therefore called these roundheads out of darkness into light; that they should show forth his virtues, and so they do as on the contrary the shag pole shows forth the vices of the devil. Their third use is to be store houses of wisdom; their fourth use to be temples of the living God.  
Fiftly, to be teachers and instructors of men for the praise and glory of God, his secrets being made known unto them only. Sixtly, to denounce his judgements against the world, Revel: 18. about the beginning, for these Round-heuds are called his Angels, Revel: 2.  
angel being a name of office, not of nature always.  
Seaventhly, they are useful to keep off his judgements sometimes from the shag pole, as that Round-head Lot while he was among the shagpole locusts Sodomites, the fire and brimstone could not come down to burn them; as also here in England, how does these roundheads keep off the pestilence, sword, and famine from the shag poles here, and are the causes that many temporal blessings doth come upon them, which notwithstanding these shag pole locusts know, that it is for their sakes that they receive these benefits, yet they cannot endure them.  
Eightly, & lastly, what is the final end of the roundheads? their final end next the glory of God is the salvation of his own soul, his final is the redemption from all miseries in this mortal life here and for ever hereafter, which no shag pole locust must enjoy, his final end is to be a King, to reign with Christ for ever, to be an heir with Christ, an inheritor and possesser of all things with him to all eternity; as also to praise and glorify God for ever in an everlasting state of blessedness in the highest heaven, out of which all slanderous lying, scorning, barking, shag pole locusts must be shut, Revel: 22. ver. 15. without shall be dogs, shag pole locusts, he means enchanters, whoremongers, and Idolaters, and whosoever loveth lies or makes lies, be they priests, or peasants, or whatsoever.  
And thus have we finished your Round-head.  
The second general head to be handled is your shag pole locusts original when it was.  
Your shag pole locusts original was the opening of the bottomless pit, Rev: 9: the smoky pit, out of that smoke; came those shag pole locusts that wear hair like women, which was long after the making of the roundheads; therefore are they of no such antiquity as your roundheads are: and therefore according to your own rules are not so honourable as your roundheads are.  
Secondly, the place where they were made: why, they were made in the bottomless pit, as is above mentioned, they came out of the bottomless pit, at the place from whence they came, there were they made.  
Thirdly, by whom were they made? why, by the devil the father of all slanderers and liars, such as these locusts are, whether locusts teachers, or locusts hearers, who made them all in uncomely, and in unmanly order, for they had hair like women, faces like men, and teeth like a lion, Revel. 9: vers. 7,8. all like deformed monsters, as well inside as outside, exceeding bad and vile, full of confusion and deformed disorder as well the priests as people.  
Fourthly, of what made? why, as first his case or outside he is made of dust as your Round-head is, although he knows it not as your Round-head doth, but for his pitch or inside it is semines incuba, or sperms diablus, he is made of the seed or spane of the devil, he is of his father the devil; as concerning his constitution of his mind, murderers and liars are they, and so is he.  
Fiftly, how are they qualified? why, clean contrary to your roundheads, not with innocency of life, but with nocency, with gross and palpable ignorance and blindness in spiritual and heavenly things, full of conceitedness of having that which they are utterly empty of, but being full indeed of the spirit: now I know to hear the name of spirit, will vex them, for they defy such as are full of the spirit; but to quiet them a little, I give them to understand, that that spirit which they mean, is not the spirit I mean, the spirit that I mean here that they are filled with; is the spirit of lying, and slandering, and false accusing of the roundheads, the spirit of whoredom and unsatiable lust, the spirit of envy, malice and murder, of drunkenness, Epicurism, and all manner of loose profaneness, the spirit of hatred against the appearance of any goodness, though never so little, for they love nothing almost but profit, impiety, like the devil himself, which rains effectually in them, and he it is that hath thus qualified them, and which hath also blinded them in their judgements, that they cannot discern the nature and difference of things, but judge good to be evil, and evil to be good, John 16. 1, 2. They shall excommunicate you, and he that kills you shall think he does God good service: whether this be so or no, I refer you to yourselves, all you shag-poll Locusts.  
Sixtly, for their number and increase, it is wonderful, in number they exceed the roundheads, to speak comparatively, more than the Muscetoes and flies exceeds in number the Eagles, they darken the light of the Sun with their multitude, as did the flies of Egypt.  
They are not rare to be found, as are the Eagles and the roundheads, there are whole swarms of them in every place; and as hurtful and troublesome to your roundheads in old England, as your Muscetoes are to your roundheads in New-England, and every way as evil to be dealt withal, for the more you strive to beat them off, the more they muster and swarm about you, so that there is no way of quietness for a Round-head, but to avoid them.  
Seventhly, for their use, that also is divers, but tending all to hurt, yet contrary to their minds it effects good, not to themselves, but to the roundheads, whom their whole intent and desire is to hurt. Now their first use is, to afflict the roundheads, which if your shag-poll did know, what good they did unto your roundheads, by afflicting of them, by their wrongs and injuries they do unto them, then would they never do it to them; for first, they teach them experience of the world's vanity; secondly, they make them weary of the world, and wean them from the love of the world, the love thereof would be their destruction; thirdly, they make them by these their outrageous wrongs and injuries they do unto them, more splendid, bright, and lovely in the sight of God and good men; fourthly, by the shag-polls hatred of them, they come to have certain knowledge, that God loves them, which otherwise they could not have; for if the shag-poll Locusts loved them, it were a certain sign they were hated of God, for your shag-poll loves none but such as God hates; fifthly, they increase the roundheads glory in heaven, for the more they scorn them here, the more shall they be honoured there; sixthly, the shag-polls, by reason of their outrageous wrongs and injuries that they do unto the roundheads, they make this world a hell unto these roundheads, wherein these shag-polls like devils do torment them, so that they shall have no hell hereafter, as your shag-polls shall; other sorts of uses that they serve for is, first, to make vessels of dishonour; secondly, to declare the justice of his wrath upon, and to teach the roundheads, that though he do spare for a time his and their enemies, that yet he will not always spare them; and lastly, to be such firebrands of hell, as shall never be taken forth.  
Eightly and lastly, of their final end, their final end next to the glory of the justice of God's wrath, is to be damned, for their end is damnation, they mind nothing but earthly things, their God is their belly, they glory in shameful things, their conversation is not in heaven, therefore by God his definitive sentence, their final end is damnation.  
And thus much for your roundheads and your Shag-polls.  
Only this by the way of Advertisement to the honest-hearted Christian Reader, that though some do either through ignorance, or some infirmity occasioning, wear their hair longer than may in some men's judgements seem fitting, for men professing themselves to be Christians to wear; know you that we intend not a definitive sentence against any particular person for wearing of their hair, but yet do wish them for the better informing of their judgements, to consider the Apostles rule concerning hair, in 1 Cor. 11.14. where he may have full satisfaction; and further also, we give you to understand, that we are so far off from a particular sentence, that we believe that there are many among the Long-heads, that may belong unto the roundheads, and that may in time declare themselves; and this also, that there are many Locusts among the roundheads, that now seem to be roundheads, yet are not so, and will declare themselves to be but Locusts; yet not withstanding that, all that wear long hair are not Locusts; as also, all that wear not long hair, are not roundheads, yet is long hair the visible sign or mark to distinguish a Locust, Rev. 9 8. and they had hair like women.  
FINIS.   


Not long agone a Champion came from Hell,  
To bid defiance to the host of Heaven:  
But with the Puritans he hath no mind to deal,  
Because with them to no end he hath striven.  
A Periwig in stead of Helmet on his head he wears,  
To prove, if he by that can hide his Midas ears.   

His armour loose profaneness is, and Hatred strong,  
Disdain, contempt of God and goodness all;  
Murderous desire, by him retained long:  
By which at last he hope● to make to full  
The Puritan, which now he Round-head call:  
A term, by which he thinks to overthrow,  
And beat all goodness from the earth below.   

By this design, he doubts not, but to stop  
The breath and life of goodness in this land;  
And spoil that strength that Puritans have got,  
And by this title Round-head, to set all good at stand:  
But silly Long-head, that hair is not thine own,  
'Tis but some harlots, though by thee it's worn.