THE ROYAL STANDARD OF King Charles the II. PRESENTED To the Public view of all true Subjects, Presbyterians, Independants, and others, both in the City of LONDON, and the Respective Counties throughout the Kingdom of ENGLAND, and Dominion of WALES. Written by the Lady Charlette, Countess of Bregy, that Oracle of Wit and Eloquence, and most Illustrious Ornament of the Court of France. And now Translated into English, for the pleasure and satisfaction of all his Majesty's Subjects that understand not French.  
LONDON, Printed for G. HORTON. 1660.   

The Royal Standard OF King Charles the II. Drawn by the so much celebrated Pen of the Countess of Bregy in France.  
IN this Picture of the valiant CHARLES, you shall at once behold (together with all the accomplishments of a Worthy King, and a most deserving Gentleman) the representation of the greatest events that fortune can produce; since that a Throne established by a long succession of Ancestors, and by a Government as just as gentle, hath been overthrown before our eyes without any other cause to this great mutation, than the inconstancy of all human things; which is such, that ordinarily a new evil is still preferred before a wont good; although by the experience of all preceding Ages, the people might have learned that they can hope neither for repose not happiness, but under the Dominion of their lawful Prince.  
He whose Image I now am graving is of so high blood, that by right of succession it renders him Master of three Kingdoms, of which one alone is capable to make a great KING; and the Possession of the three hath made so powerful Princes, that usually they looked upon their neighbours only to make alliances with them, and not to seek support from them. The riches of their Country, the security and happiness they enjoy, leaving them nothing they desire, and little to fear.  
CHARLES was born in the midst of all this glory, and was a long time amorously beheld as the hope of all his people, but a Constellation as powerful as cruel, having raised a storm in the midst of all his calm, did so confound the order of things, that their eyes being no longer able to suffer the brightness of the Sun; we saw on a sudden a King without Subjects, and at last, (alas) Subjects without a King. Let us there constrain our memory, and not suffer it to represent unto us what it was that rendered CHARLES so early a Successor to three great Kingdoms, but rather let us divert our thoughts by discoursing of the merit that makes him worthy to Possess them.  
And beginning with his Person, I must tell you it is like his virtues, Great and Royal: and that there is found in his looks something so illustrious and so awful, that without knowing who He is, it procures Him from all that see him the respect of a King. His goodly Stature, his long black curled hair, his manly and becoming motions, his Martial countenance, illustrated with those equally charming and Commanding eyes, accompanied with such a graceful Majesty as shines upon his brow, tender him the man in the World of the best Mind, without being at all beholding to beauty for any of his advantages; and truly after having seen him, it is no more to be counted as a thing desirable, since that without it, it is possible to be so amiable and so accomplished as is this Prince.  
Whose mind is Wise, Judicious and capable of all that's great and good; whose humour is gentle, civil and gallant; insomuch, that some can boast to have often had a share in His disquiets. For His heart it is as Royal as His birth, which renders Him Liberal, Valiant, and so truly Generous, that I know not whether I ought more to admire His Justice, Gratitude and Munificence towards His suffering friends, or His Kingly Clemency, Confidence and Bounty towards His reconciled Enemies.  
The frequent exposal of His life to the dangers He hath past, do sufficiently convince that he loves it less than glory, and hath hitherto employed it only to render Himself now worthy to Compel fortune to restore unto Him His Kingdoms, of which she had for so many years usurped the Revenge with so much shame unto herself, and so much Calamity to the people, that found themselves subject to all the Changes of her Caprices.  
Who all this time had been only constant in suffering, nothing to fall out favourable for CHARLES, whilst He seems to have been unfortunate to no other end, but that He might become more Worthy to Command; since that turning His exile to His advantage, he hath learned out of the different politics of his allies all that might one day conduce to make Him obeyed through esteem, and served through love and inclination. How successfully he hath laboured to enrich Himself with all the qualities that ought to accompany a Great Prince, is evident by the Zeal is now seen in his Subjects to return to His obedience, who if he were not their King by Birth he should be by Election.  
Heaven would not suffer that second Causes should have any share in this Prodigious revolution, to the end that CHARLES might know it was only the hand of God that Crowned Him; since He hath made him. Conquer without Arms, and in an instant given him the hearts of all his Subjects, making him find one so faithful amongst them as that illustrious Person, who hath redeemed the honour of his Nation, and made himself an example to the world, that behold him for ever Crowned by the hands of glory, in a manner more rate and more worthy of envy then are the Diadems of Kings; for having carried unto His, the auguste Present of three Crowns and Sceptres that heaven-sends back unto Him; which will find in CHARLES an arm so Worthy to bear that glorious weight, that henceforth the Principal employments of renown shall be to travel through all the Empires of the Earth, and inform them of the glorious Reign of CHARLES, and the great felicity of his people: Proclaiming to all the Universe, that never Throne was more Worthily filled then that in which CHARLES the second is seated, and whereof His generous and invincible Brothers are become the Defenders.  

An Appendix to the Standard-royal.  
Having made a serious review of the precedent Rural lines of this most worthy Countess, the Illustrious Ornament of the Court of France, give me leave, in the next place, to make a discovery of the obsequious ways, of some of the grand impostors, and most Prodigious Oppressors that ever any age of the world produced; who made Reformation their pretence, to gratify their own Avarice, introduced themselves, and involved the people into a far more than Babylonish Tyranny, imposing upon the Church and State, beyond all impudence or example. And if we look upon a party of the Scottish Nation, what there sordid actions produced, by deceiving their Brethren, selling their King, betraying his Son, and by all their perfidy; but a slavery more than Egyptian, and an infamy as unparalled, as their treason and ingratitude.  
Look nearer home on those whom they had engaged amongst us here, and tell me if there be a Person of them left, that can show me his prize, unless it be that of his Sacrilege, which he, or his Nephews must certainly vomit up again: What is become of this ignorant and furious zeal, this pretence of an universal perfection in the Religious and the Secular, after all that blood and Treasure, Rapine and Injustice, which has been exhausted, and perpetuated by these sons of Thunder? Where is the King, whom they swear to make so glorious, but meant it in his Martyrdom? Where is the Classis, and the Assembly, the Lay-elder; all that gear of Scotish discipline, and the fine new Trinkets of Reformation? Were not all these raken out of their hand, while now they were in the height of their pride and triumph? And their dull General made to serve the execution of their Sovereign, and then to be turned of himself as a property no more of use to their designs? Their riches, and their strength in which they trusted, and the Parliament which they even idolised, in sum, the prey they had contended for at the expense of so much sin and damnation, seized upon by those very instruments, which they had raised to serve their insatiable avarice, and prodigious disloyalty. For so it pleased God to chastise their implacable persecution of an excellent Prince, with a slavery under such a Tyrant, as not being contented to butcher even some upon the Scaffold, sold divers of them for slaves, and others he exiled into cruel banishment, without pretence of Law, or the least commiseration; that those who before had no mercy on others, might find none themselves; till upon some hope of their Repentance, and future moderation, it pleased God to put his hook into the nostrils of that proud Leviathan, and send him to his place, after he had thus mortified the fury of the Presbyterians. For unless God himself should utter his voice from Heaven, yea, and that a mighty voice, can there any thing in the world be more evident, than his indignation at those wretches and bare fact Impostors, who, one after another, usurped upon us, taking them off at the very point of aspiring, and praecipitating the glory and ambition of these men, before those that were, but now, their adoarers, and that had prostituted their consciences to serve their lusts? To call him the Moses, the Man of God, the Joshua, the Saviour of Israel; and after all this, to treat the Thing his son with addresses no less than blasphemous, whose Father (as themselves confess to be the most infamous Hypocrite and prossegate Atheist of all the Usurpers that ever any age produced) had made them his Vassals, and would have entailed them so to his posterity for ever?  
But behold the scene is again changed, not by the Royal party, the Common Enemy, or a foreign power; but by the despicable Rump of a Parliament, which that Mountebank had formerly served himself of, and had raised him to that pitch, and investiture: But see withal, how soon these triflers and puppets of policy are blown away, with all their pack of models and childish Chimeras.  
For the rest, I despise to blot paper with a recital of those wretched Intirludes, Farces and Phantasms, which appeared in the several intervals; because they were nothing but the effects of an extreme gyddiness, and unparelleled levity. Yet these were those various despensations and providences in their journey to that holy land of purchases and profits, to which they have from time to time appealed for the justification of their proceed, whilst they were, indeed, no other than the manifest Judgements of God upon their rebellion and their ambition: I say nothing of their hypocritical fasts, and pretended numiliations, previous to the succeeding plots, and suppositions Revelations, that the godly might fall into the hands of your Captains, because they were bugbears, and became ridiculous even to the common people.   
FINIS.