Decemb: 9th 〈◊〉 monday 1644  
Alas poor Parliament, how are thou betrayed? This is the Plot the King's party boasted of, that should take whether God would or no: You see though they care not what they speak,: yet they know what they speak. We have brave generals that fight for the King, and make poor honest people pay for their own destructions: One of them hath wrought finely in the dark a l●●●●● while like a devil, but the other hath showed himse●●e an open enemy, and therefore is the more to be borne with; he hath made use of rogues, Cutpurses, Players, 〈◊〉 and Tinkers to forward a Reformation, and the other hath could out all the honestest Youth in the kingdom to keep them from Action, or for slaughter. Neither of them work, but make work; when they should do, they undo, and indeed to undo is all the mark they aim at. Do ye think greatness without goodness can ever thrive in excellent actions? no, Honour without honesty stinks: away with't: no more Lords and ye love me, they smell o'the Court.