These Arms disarmed us, and Rebellion nursed;  
'tis not for Nothing They are no● Reversed.     

satire ON THE ADULTERATE COIN INSCRIBED THE COMMONWEALTH, etc.  

THat Commonwealth which was our Common-woe,  
Did Stamp for Currant, That, which must not Go:  
Yet it was well to Pass, till Heaven thought meet  
To show both This, and That were Counterfeit.  
Our Crosses were their Coin! Their God our Hell!  
Till Saviour Charles became Emanuel.  
But now— The Devil take their God Avaunt  
Thou molten Image of the Covenant!  
Thou lewd Impostor! State's, and Traffique's Sin!  
A Brazen Bulk, faced with a Silver Skin!  
Badge of Their Saints-Pretences, without doubt!  
A Wolf within, and Innocence without!  
Like to Their Masqued Designs! Rebellion  
Filmed with the Tinsel of Religion!  
Metal on Metal, here, we may disclose;  
Like Cerecloth stripped from Cromwell's Copper Nose.   

Thou Bastard Relic of the Traitorous Crew!  
A mere Invent, to Give the devil's Due!  
Or (as a Learned Modern Author saith)  
In their Own Coin, to Pay the Public Faith!  
Heavens! I thank you! that, in mine Extreme,  
I never loved Their Money More than Them!   

Cursed be those Wights! whose Godliness was Gain,  
Spoiling God's Image in Their Sovereign!  
They made Our angel's Evil! and 'tis known,  
Their Cross and Harp were Scandal to the CROWN.  
Had, amongst the jews, Their Thirty Pence been used  
When judas trucked for's Lord, 't had been refused.  
Worse than that Coin which our Boys, Fibbs do call!  
A Scottish Twenty-pences is Worth them All!   

To their eternal Shame, be't brought to th' Mint!  
Cast into Medals: and Their Names Stamped in't!  
That Charon (when they come for Waftage o'er)  
May doubt his Fare, and make them wait on shore:  
For, if Repentance ransom any thence,  
Know!— Charles' his Coin must pay their Peter-pences.   Prima peregrinos obscaena Pecunia mores Intulit: Juv. 
Hen: Bold olim è N. C. Oxon.   

LONDON Printed, and are to be sold in Little-britain. 1661.