Aut NUNC, Aut NUNQVAM. NOW OR NEVER: For if not Now, ENSLAVED EVER.  
LONDON Printed in the Year, 1648   

Aut Nunc, Aut Nunquam. NOW, Or NEVER: For if not Now, Enslaved EVER.  
BRave Cavaliers, look about you. The game goes well on your side. That Black cloud which hung so long over you is now dispersing; your fortunes that have been at so long and low Ebb, are now arising. The hopes of those Malicious Traiteurs, wholly declining. That General, whose continued success never to this hour, admitted a retreat, is now defeated. Victorious Colchester remains unstormed: Kent reputes her of her easiness in subduing. v Suffolk reputes her of her weakness in complying. Both these have vowed to redeem their fame, or die it'h field.  
Look about you, and behold what a gallant Cavalry, and in what confluence, and with what confidence they come to meet you; with what compliance they invite you.  
Brave Northern blades are advanced to join with our Southern Spirits— Hounflow Heath, Dunsmore Heath, Black Heath, all Heaths, Boys, are their Randezvouses. There they expect you; where Honour will receive you: and where a cheerful calm crowned with the graceful palms of an Honourable peace, shall period those Brackish storms which did formerly encounter you.  
A pursuit after loyal fame admits no fear. See what a noble confluence of bravely minded Citizens invite you to accompany them! The City-aire cannot detain them: neither the persuasions nor long reasons of seditious Skippon decline them. These are steeled with true resolution; for to die on the feild-bed of Honour, is a brave conclusion. These see their Prince restrained; when Prerogative Royal should enlarge his Subject's Liberty: deprived of that which he might bestow on others. No Loyal Subject can see this with dry eyes. This it was made these brave Royalists conclude: and from that conclusion to advance hither: That the Prince's cure, aught to be the Subjects care. His service, their solace. Neither was it upon low grounds, whereon they built their foundation 〈◊〉 and upon which they are resolved to rise or fall. For they have taken a full view of those high and heinous insolences, insupportable indignities, nay, treacherous plots and Machinations not only practised but ready to be executed (if a divine hand had not diverted the stroke) upon his Majesty's Sacred Person; holding him too unworthy to live, because too worthy of their love. These, besides that Servile Yoke, whereto their necks have been too long accustomed, too assiduately acquainted, have invited, nay enforced these undaunted Cavaliers to sue for peace with Swords in their hands; with redress of those crying crimes 
* Nothing may be more truly related more justly aggravated, nor ruth fnlly instanced, for I myself know the place, where since these Civil Wars were commenced The Master of the House ninety years old, in standing with the strength he had for the defence of his daughter's honour, was cruclly Murdered, her Daughters ravished, and to complete this Barbarism, his house wholly Plundcred  Blood, Oppression, Rapes, Rapine, with whatsoever the riot of a Licentious State could produce.  
The King must be freed his Privileges restored, His Forts and Castles repaired: his Loyal Subjects righted, Satisfaction rendered: and those Sage Benchers, whose crammed coffers have recruited these Mischiefs, spunged. Such Ass' milk will be infinitely Sovereign for the consumption of a Cavaliers estate. The Blue-bonnet means to have a whole share too. Reformation is a specious pretence: but the establishment of a Religious Presbytery, deserves a bounteous Booty. Solvat Ecclesia.  
They for whom they row aught to pay their fare. These, who set them on work: are to pay them their Wages. Mean time, we stand here all engaged for one quarrel. Stakes are not to be paid till the Course be done. Our cause is too good, to entertain a distrust: Or to admit a parley: A speedy surrender, or no quarter.  
O how these Parliamentary Treaties have deluded us! Petitions upon Petitions with humble thanks returned to the Petitioners, by the oily mouth of their long-lunged Speaker, for their care of the public being the very business which they had at the same time taken into consideration, and now transmitted to Derby House [their Oracular Committee] and after due debate to be resolved— God knows when. But now comes Cyrus' Sword that cuts that Gordian knot and divides all rightly to a thread. Those delatory Pleas might have taken place, without admittance of Reply, so long as that brave consistory were Masters of the Militia and Navy: But those wooden Horses no sooner left them, than their Elbow Blades were turned into Wooden Swords. Their late invincible Atreus, their formidable Black-Tom, who was formerly so impatient of a repulse must sit down with it, His late City-guards skulk for fear to be apprehended, as some of their Cumrades lately were, for the Sacrilege they had committed.  
But phoh! I was nearly stifled with the vapour exhaled from the Senate-house. Some aromatic fume or frankincense for those two conclaves of the consuls. They are in a pitiful pickle.— Prosperity comes neither from the East nor the West: nor any coast else for their interest. What Sour faces too, and pitifully complaining Elegies make other Independants for the Death and Burial of their Anarchiall Protector CROMWELL. But no remedy, the Subtlest Sconced Traitor breathing cannot avoid Mortality.  
Go too then Boys,— Either NOW or NEVER, for if not Now, enslaved ever. Omit not the least minute of opportunity: Hearts and hands Prayers and Powers march along with yond, to expedite your victory.  
YET one word to you, Grand-Sedentary Delinquents. You brave State-Rufflers, who are so fare from paying tribute to Caesar, as you make Caesar's Subject's tributaries to you: you, who have sit fare longer than the State intended, and brooded more Sects, Schisms and Divisions then ever Parliament (without exception of that mad one,) to this day engendered. you, 
Hen. 3.  who have occasioned more blood shed in one year, than all our Civil Wars acted in all our Forefathers tyme. you, who under pretence of Reforming churches, have chased Religion quite out o'th' Church. you who have depopulated Towns, ruinated Cities, obstructed traffic, and rubrict your victories with the blood of Innocents'. you, who have made so many Fathers, their Sons Survivers. you, who have devoured Widows Houses: and divided the inheritance of Orphans among your Spoilers you, who have made the City your Stalking Horse, to work your own Interests. Return, return with tears in your Eyes: reverence in your knees: and zeal in your Hearts. As Patience has armed his Majesty amidst all his sufferings: So his Native goodness will  him with a princely compassion towards most of those by whom He has suffered. Minds nobly qualified, are ever more apt to remit then revenge. Some, indeed, there are, who (co leave Precedents to Posterity, how high and heinous an Offence it is to spurn at Majesty) must be baltered. For their rebellious insolences have been of that irremittable nature, as their impunity might call the judgement of a State in question. One or two exuberant branches may be well spared to save the Vine.  
But if these Motives have no influence over you, reflect upon your own present condition. A House dvided cannot stand: And pray you, tell us, what irreconcilable differences have been raised among yourselves? How diametrally opposite have your Votes and Voices been one to another! Members, [like so many lopped branches shred from their Root] expuist the Houses for cleaving to their first principles; yet upon better consideration, called back again, to make the weaker party stronger.  
But how can it be expected that there should be Unity of opinion, when your Principles are groanded in Ignorance? For should we go by the paul, and cull out most of the Lower Siege in both Houses: and Catechise them fully touching their Tenets either of Presbytery or Independency: we might without breach of Charity, conclude, that their Answer would be the very same, which Candaces returned to Philip: 
Act ●. 1●. Mat. ●6. ●0.  How should we understand these things without a Teacher? Or as Peter answered the Damsel: We wots not what you say.  
Mean time, these Nominal Professors receive in them pretended Notions of these undetermined Principles. But it is worthy our Observation, to take a Survey of their differences a rising from a calm time, when no Enemy is in view: and at other occasional Seasons, when they hear considerable Forces approaching. For than must HEROD and PILOT be made friends. Difference in opinion must not beget a distance in their affection. They must be called home from their Exile to the Capitol: and with such mutual Salutes, cheerful countenances, and graceful regreets, as the Thanks their ingratiating delivery returns to our City and County-Petitions cannot be more sincerely cordial. And now so long as it lasts, these two several Tribes must join in their Tenets. Enemy's abroad make Peace at home.  
Points of Faith which were never yet held Orthodoxal, may without Scruple of Conscience admit dispensation. Their Principles, indeed, were grounded upon a Presbytery: but the Catastrophe closeth with Independency: and yet only so long as it appears stronger, and weighs heavierith, Scale. [A brave frame of State! A wonderful Chemic extraction! Where one King is dilated to many: and many strangely elixired and resolved to none. If ever Sovereignty suffered under such Alchemy,  
I appeal to all grounds of humane policy.  
But the report of a Foreign force is the only cement that Shoulders up this difference of Opinions. The noise of our Bonny-Blew-Capps marching over Tweed, is of as considerable fear to our feverish Consuls, as ever the report of Caesar's passing over Rubicon was to the Italians. No more branching.  
The Independent and Presbyterian be all one. One Faith, one Form of Discipline. Their Loyalty and honesty divided equally to an hair breadth lest one should malign the Other, for being either more honest or loyal than the other. And to knit the joints of their fraternal League more strongly, they have lately entertained a New Creed: and in such a firm juncto: that neither of them henceforth is to question what the other believes: because the one knows not well what the other holds.  
But all this curiously woven artifice of State-policy will not do the seat. Let them run on in their Maze of mischief, canonising their rebellious Saints: Ordering Public Thanksgiving for shedding the blood of Honour: complying with City and County, and fooling them with trifling delays, upon some hopeful design: the success whereof might make them more peremptory in slighting the instancy of a peaceful Treaty. But what is all this but to scatter dust in the air? This will not serve their turue. Those Adjacent Counties by which they were assisted: That City by which they were recruited: that Navy by which they were secured, have now with clearer Eyes discovered their fearful projectments.  
The horror of their desperate and unparalleled practices has awaked them. One drop of blood taken from an innocent Prince is of that deep dye, such holding tincture, as it imprints revenge in a Vermilion colour.  
Heaven's judgements may sleep, they cannot slip: Nor need we doubt but that these heinous and hideous plots have been treacherously contrived seriously intended, eagerly pursued, and if they had not by God's goodness been strangely disclosed, timely prevented, had been as tragically acted. For else, how had Rolph been so justly accused: and in opinion so generally impeached?  
Would not the display of these inhumanities', quicken the Spirit of the remissest Royalists.  

* Those impious Speeches, (not to be repent with out horror) lately and confidently utteredby that forlorn Miscreant in Coven Garden, might be here inserted; publicly protesting, That he hoped ere long to wash his hands in the Kings Blood. Yet this impiety passeth with impunity; being for aught we hear, as yet unquestioned at least uncensured  Again to observe how these Villains are shrouded and Palliated! How some labour to mince them; others to suppress them: all malignantly affected, to excuse them: nay, to asperse the Accuser, and vilify his testimony, whose loyalty induced him to disclose it, and who with his blood will be ready to maintain it.  
I could here take occasion of taxing that trifling penny-sheet man, for his egregious folly & foppery (If the Creature were worthy my reproof) who being as it seems in fee with Col. Hammon, that rigid keeper of his Majesty in the Isle of Wight, has published a Tale, without head or tail, under the name of W. Rishton entitled HIS MAJESTY'S DECLARATION in the ISLE of WIGHT, concerning Col. Hammond and Mr. Osburne, and touching the preservation of his Royal Person from Poison etc. Wherein no less impudently then weakly, he takes upon him from the King's mouth to vindicate the innocency of Hammond, a man of such matchless courtesy and affability as his Majesty could not well Imagine his present restraint to be a place of captivity.  
A man so conscientious of his ways: as for him to enter into any such confederacy with Major Rolph or any other Assainate in such a bloody and horrid design, as was fuggested, was so fare estranged from his thoughts, as no man's honour could be more injuriously impeached. For the King himself holds him for an honest moral man; a faithful Governor; one who would not betray his trust for an Empire. Besides all this; Mr. Troughton the Governors' Chaplain, told his Majesty, that he hoped there was not any about him, who durst entertain a thought of doing hurt to his person (it being a thing so inhuman and barbarous) the King answered, that he hoped there was not any that was so cruelly minded.  
Grave Chaplain, Gracious Governor! For this Chaplain, he's known to be a fugitive fellow, one, who while he Sojourned it'h North-parts; was commonly known by the name of the Conventuall-Belman, for his zealous care of assembling, furnishing, and frequenting private couventicles. But afterward, being accused, impeached, and to be publicly punished for scattering Scandalous libels with other misdemeanours, he fled for refuge into these parts, where he has attained this unexpected Honour of being made Chaplain in ordinary (as no Chaplain more ordinary) to this Governor: and where in the judgement of those that know him, he can Preach to the full better than he can Read.  
Now for this Declaration of his Majesties in vindication of Colonel Hammon, it is merely hammared from the Forge of their accustomary lies- Hammon labours to clear himself before his time. These Paper pellets. must not do it. His and Rolphs' clearness will appear very shortly; if Truth the Daughter of Time, may be admitted to come to a Discovery.  
Now, What kind of men may these be, who are such Vindicators, nay, prime Agitators in these acts of High Treason; but such, whose private interests and treacherous ambition have brought a flourishing State to this forlorn condition?  
Here you shall find one (to render every of them their distinguishing notion) a subtle winding Snake, who has got the Art how to insinuate into the bosom of any active Member: and to oblige too by pretensive, curtefies, which he never means to perform, an Instrument of acquiring his own ends. This Anarchiall Achitophel, though his desires close with nothing less than Monarchical government, yet his protests imply a desire of Sovereignty. But his bosom friends, whereof he hath but a very few, to whom he dare communicate his thoughts, know right well, that he hates nothing more than an absolute Regal power. Thus cunningly he appears least, what he is most: Seeming most what he least is.  
For such State-politicians here grow rare,  
Who be the same they seem, seem what they are.  
It was said of Catilive, that he spoke much and did little; but contrariwise, jugurth spoke little and did much. A barking Dog is least to be feared.  
Whereas the State-Artists, when they are stillest and calmest, are ever most to be suspected.  
There is an other too, who desires much to second him; but falls fare short of him. One, who in his time has done Service for the State: yet found so remiss in his Commands, as he suffered in the opinion of the Houses: and at last, with much a do, after a long perplexive Answer to his Weighty Charge, he purehased his intempnity, but with as much difficulty as (damn him) Pembroke got his delivery.  
The Third you shall find a severish runegade; One who knows what Treason means; yet is more apt to conceal it, then to plot it; and less apt to Act it, then either to conceal it, or Plot it.  
But Protestations upon his Honour with other Subordinate Votes, have for the present by chance saved him; till these neare-approaching evil days (to use the new phrase of the time) otherwise secure him: Only know thus much, that he can pocket the injuries done to his own Person, or Treason to his Prince, with as much patience, and disloyal Silence, as any Flap-fly Lord of them all.  
Shall we stepped down to the Lower Stege, though the Subtler Sophisters? we shall find there too a Leash, amongst other yelpers of the same Litter, of as active My medons, as those cunning Terriers were, who gave the first sent.  
First you shall meet with, is a Sneaking Solicitous Rook, who for Lucre has sold his Honour.  
One made to bait their pretended Delinquents when they come to the Stake. But had he sailed away upon the Stating and closing of Hammonds case, it might have fared better with his fame, though worse with his Fortune.  
For the Second, he's a prating pertifogger; Sometimes a gangling member of the Pachequer Chamber; but now his own fortunes, by the Parliaments pension, have raised this impertinent Speaker to the Seazure of a vast Exchequer. I refer you to Holland, where you may find it.  
Mean time, his over-hacneyed Lungs gasp for respiration, he longs infinirely to have a progress to the Bath; if his gains would give him leave. Or rather to the German-Spaw; if he might have Sea-rome; but he despairs of both.  
For the Third and Last, though neither least nor best of that laste; is an unclean Beast. One, who ruminates nothing but sense who holds all Idols abomination, but a wench. one who affects no Elocution so much as Treason. He loves strong lines, but twisted together with such Snarls, as they will go very near to hang him. _____ The Martin is ever said to build her nest in clean places: but this is no such Clean Bird; for his Mouth is the very Common Sewer of Treason, his breast the very Brothel of all pollution.  
Now, you have heard their discovery: and you bless yourselves from them, as from Thunder: yet most of these are meal-mouthed, and will cry Peace, Peace, when their hands are preparing for Battle.  
Quicken then your hearts and hands, sharpen your Swords: Crush the Serpent in the Egg; nay, these Scorpions in their full growth; Leave neither top nor branch. Calydon Country, City, brave Cavalry, all stand for you.  
NOW THAN OR NEVER: FOR IF NOT NOW, ENSLAVED EVER.  
FINIS