THE CAVALIERS JUBILEE: OR, Long looked for come at last: viz. THE GENERAL PARDON.  
In a pleasant DIALOGUE BETWEEN Sir Timothy Turncoat, and Sir Rowland Resolute, two Cavaliers that met accidentally, and were lately come over from beyond Sea, upon the noise of the General Pardon, and their Resolution to leave the service of the young Charles Stuart, and embrace the Parliaments protection in their gracious Act of Oblivion.  
Together with the condolement of the late made Lords and Knights for the loss of their Honours which they received from the late King and his Son, for their rebellion against the Parliament, and acting against their Country, by that late just Act of Parliament for the disanulment of them.  
March .8. 1651 London: Printed for William Ley at PAUL'S Chain. 1652.   

The Cavaliers Jubilee.  Timothy. 
HOnest Rowland, well met in England once again; I doubted much we should never have had this happiness to tread upon English ground, for I gave myself for lost, as many others have been already.  Rowland. 
Well Noble heart, and fellow Cavalier, as I am glad to see thee, so my heart leaps for joy that I have this liberty to live at home again; but since we are met, let's not part with dry lips, 'twas our custom (thou knowest) to take off our taplash, though we have been lashed for't, and I have half a Crown left still in my pocket; let's not part without further discourse, since we are met so happily.  Tim. 
With all my heart, for my Cash is not yet all gone; only let's put into some house, that we may speak our minds freely, in some that favours the Cause of C. R. thou knowest what I mean Blade.  Row. 
we'll take a house as it falls out, let's to this next, the sign of the Black Boy, is't agreed?  Tim. 
I am at your dispose; now being here, from whence came you last, from France, or Flanders, I pray tell.  Row. 
Ha! I have been wandering up and down, tossed from Post to Pillar ever since Colchester was given up; I went into Ireland amongst the bogs, and woods, and wild Irish; and when we were sound beaten there, I made a hard shift and got into Scotland, just out of the frying pan into the fire, amongst the Crags and Rocks, with a great deal of hunger, cold, and louse, (where I found more cold than gold;) and when we were routed there, I made for the Low-countrieses, where I found but small hopes to do any thing to advance my fortunes: words went high, and promises, but there were no performances, and so I got into France, to Paris, but there I perceived was no stay without pay, many things were in agitation, but all failed in the execution; the old Stallion decayed Courtiers looked like old rotten Mountebanks, or Quacksalvers, or Rat-catcher's, and findling that I should starve if I stayed, I resolved to submit to a Composition at home, rather than lose all for I know not what purpose; home is home, though it be never so homely, and so got over into England, and have finished my Composition pretty easily; which had I been as wise then, as I am since, I might have kept my state and my skin both sound, but 'tis too late to call again yesterday, but assure thyself, for time to come, they shall not find me at Dunbar or Worcester for their young bonny Scotch King; if he be so mad after a Crown, let him take heed of a cracked crown, for I'll tell thee, here are Lads that will not spare to strike home, and to lay on, take it off who will, or dare.  Tim. 
I perceive then that you are resolved to fight no more for that cause: well, should I tell you my sufferings, and travels and marchings, and journeys from Country to Country, and what miseries of hunger and cold, with wounds and imprisonment I have undergone, 'twould be past belief, I was so hasty, that I mortgaged most of my estate to be furnished with moneys: Oh how I bestirred myself, to undo myself, my wife, and children, to procure horses, and Arms, and Ammunition, for those which never gave me thanks, but helped to devour that which was left, in drunkenness, whoredom, and rioting, (the common use and custom of our Cavaliers:) I tell thee that I made more haste then good speed, and traversed from one Garrison to another, and road from one fight to another, and was wounded, and hacked, and hued, and cut, and flashed, and yet for all this I never could be looked upon, nor Knighted, but rather slighted, which though if I had been, a Knight of Post had been almost as good as myself, but I thought over shoes, over boots, and at last I was after the battle at York resolved to steal out of the Land, and so I went with other Widgeons as wise as Woodcocks to cry up the Cause in Denmark, and to solicit for relief; but finding their spirits dull and phlegmatic, and not apt to take fire, I went with that money which I could procure, too too much to be spent in such an unjust design, to Sweden, where I met with some of the old Stamp, but they all looked as though they had suffered shipwreck of faith, and a good conscience, for a dozen of them could scarce furnish a man with sixpence, they appeared like birds that had been pulled out of their feathers, or like bald Coats, or new shorn sheep; it made me begin to shrink in my shoulders, and to think with myself, that if I followed them, I should expect the like preferment, to wear rags & rottenness, instead of robes or riches; I began to suspect the justness of the cause, which produced none but beggars & bankerupts, if it found them not so, it made them so, if not worse; yet I was got in, and so must for Scotland with the crowd of Desperadoes and Renegadoes, where when we had done what we could to set up a King of beggars; we were all-well pelted and pillaged, and scattered like Jews into all quarters (as we deserved) but 'twas my shift to come to Worcester, from whence I made a poor shift to escape, and so am here in this condition as thou seest, it's a poor Hare has but one Muse.  
Well, let's not be tedious in telling our own miseries, what good news is now stirring?  Row. 
All that is on foot now is of the General pardon, 'tis extant for certain.  
May one rely upon it think you; well 'tis come out in as good a season as could be, it's wonderful that they should be so gracious to us, who have been so bitter against them; I'll lay hold on it I promise you, and if ever they catch me a fight for C. S. or C. R. again, let them hang me outright in the Isle of Dogs, or at Cuckold's Haven.  Tim. 
I am glad to hear your disposition so altered, for I did at first intent to do what I could to dissuade you from that service and company, and learn to be wise  it be too late. I myself was stiff for the Cause, and was conceited that it was just, and as too many others, who had more wealth than wit, and were richer in Coin then in Conscience, did neither spare life or limb, nor gold and silver to advance it; but now let them fight for it; who list, they shall not find me there I'll warrant thee, for no wise man will make haste to that Market where there's nothing to be had but blows; of any that ever fought for it, none that came off, but with disgrace, and ruin to their whole Families, such only excepted, whom it hath pleased the Parliament to pardon and forgive.  Row. 
You have said what's truth, and I am sufficiently convinced in that particular, and shall draw off as far as I can from their bloody employment, for I persuade myself, there's many of them do what they do in ignorance, some out of hopes of preferment, and others of gains (though most of malice) and desire of revenge: for a Gentleman without means, is like a bag-pudding without suet; but their honours are most laid in the dust, and themselves in the dirt; and for their preferments, they are like those the Popes were wont to bestow great Titleson, but no Revenues, for a Feather is enough for a fool, and for their gains they have got them over the left shoulders, the clean contrary way; pounds laid out, and wounds brought home, tattered rags, and a torn skin; they may truly say, most of them have come home by weeping cross, if they came home at all.  Tim. 
I deal plainly with thee, that I am sorry for what I have done upon that account; and I advise thee, since we are met, to let's resolve to accept of mercy, while 'tis so graciously and freely offered, be sure to add no new trespasses against our Magistrates, and to be so far from fight against them, that we will be ready to venture our lives for them; and if C. S. be so mad for a Crown, let him if he can get thither, go to the Rocks and Mountains in Highland, and not skip to Worcester again, where he durst not stay, because of the fray, and where he trusted more to his heels, than his hands. Row. You say right, where he left all there, his Earls and new Knights to be spitlers, and Goal-birds; as once Queen Elizabeth told the Earl of Essex, when he had made so many Knights at Cadize, that he should have done well first to have built Hospitals for them, for most of them came to beggary; and though I escaped there, yet now I dare not own, nor do I care for his pretended preferments and promises made to me, and to others, for I'll trust to them no more than to the man in the Moon, one Parliament pardon is worth all his promised Pensions, for words are but wind, 'tis money that buys Lands, and I hope to get my Lands again before he gets his longed for Crown; he may look after it, and yet never find it.  Tim. 
Pray what's become of all those great Earls and Nobles which were made by Charles Stuart since the war?  Row. 
I tell thee, the most of them would be glad of a three penny Ordinary, they are not loaden so much with Jewels, and Chains of Gold, as with Irons, and we say to them, as once 'twas said to those Dutch Lords and Heres, who left the State and followed the King of Spain, farewell ye great Lords without Lands or Heads; and so as it befell, it hath come to pass to many of his upstart Favourites.  Tim. 
I'll assure thee we have been misled long enough, but to our comfort, long looked for is come at last, the General pardon; large enough if we embrace it, an ounce of peace is worth a pound of war: I intent to come in, and once in again, never out: I have hitherto fought for a thing called his Standard, till I could not stand myself, and defended his Lions till I have made myself an Ass, and if I had followed them should have made myself a beggar, but actum est, let him and his look to themselves, for I'll go buy the General Pardon, and look to myself, and thank my betteas for granting it to me.  Row. 
Well, let's pay our reckoning and departed, and freely submit ourselves to this Government, that God may bless our Parliament who established it, and all those who will live under it.  Tim. 
Honest heart adieu; if you fight against the Parliament thou wilt perish, live under it, and prosper.  Row. 
'Tis resolved, I'll go home and hang up my sword and myself too, if ever I draw it against the Parliament any more while I live.   
FINIS.