THE CAVALIERS Litany.  
Lately composed by a well-willer to his Majesty's Person, and all his most Loyal Subjects.  
Very fitting to be observed, and made use of, by all who desire Deliverance FROM, The damnable, execrable, unparalleled, and not before heard of, Detestable Actions, Proceed, Designs, Humours, Conditions, Votes and Ordinances.  
Now fully, and most exactly practised, delivered, and divulged, by the only, (yet illegal) Governors, of these our sad, desperate, distracted TIMES.  
Qui legit, intelligat.  
(Seu)  
Qui habit aures ad audiendum, audiat.  
Printed in the Year 1648.   

The Caviliers LITANY.  

FRom th' envious spiteful Critic that reads.  
My ignorant Verses: from all sort of beads,  
From putrified 
* Such as the house of Commons.  Members without any heads.  
Libra nos.   

From Hags, Hobgoblins, and devilish Witches,  
From damnable Usurers with all their riches.  
From Alderman Atkins beshiting his breeches,  
Libra nos.   

From the sort of Rogues which are in Whitehall,  
From 
* As Crumwell doth.  soaring too high, and then for to fall,  
From the hands of Mol-cutpurse; the Devil and all  
Libra nos.   

From being whipped on lashed in Bridewell,  
From vaulting or leaping in Dungeon or Celestina,  
From singing and roaring and such like in Hell,  
Libra nos.   

From riding and sitting the great wooden Horse  
From cruel Tyrants ' thou't any remorse  
From too much adhering with ' th' Parliaments force,  
Libra nos.   

From brawling and fight, and drawing of swords,  
From being pressed to death between Board's,  
From the house of perjured detestable Lords,  
Libra nos.   

From the fury of a Lion, the paw of a Bare,  
From a drunken-fellow that naught doth but swear,  
From the merciless 
* The Army.  Tigers that lie every wher●  
Libra nos.   

From the Laws of the Land or aught else to defile,  
From the Parliaments base and fraudulent guile,  
From the words you have stayed a terrible while,  
Libra nos.   

From saying the Pox or the Devil take you,  
From being commanded by the words i'll make you,  
From all execrations but evil forsake you,  
Libra nos.   

From an Irish crag, and a faint-hearted Scot,  
From being backed or stewed in a pot,  
From the term and acts of a drunken sot,  
Libra nos.   

From barbarous Rebels without any pity,  
From the crafty & subtle larg-conscienced 
* Of Haberdashers and Goldsmiths Hall.  Committee  
From the grand incomparable 
* The Comonn-counsell men.  Fools of the City,  
Libra nos.   

From being by our 
* The Parliament our supposed friends.  friends supposed betrayed,  
From the sin performing the acts by them made,  
From being entrapped by the snares of a Maid,  
Libra nos.   

From riding up Holborn hill in a boat,  
From beggarly 
* He that caused a Counsel to sit about his couckold-ship.  Fenton that vapouring Goat,  
From the senseless stile of a Parliament Vote,  
Libra nos.   

From being any more thrust out of the lines,  
From the noise of a Dog that continually whines,  
From spoiling the King, and such fearful designs.  
Libra nos.   

From walking within the compass of Traitors,  
From Levellers and Adjutators,  
From being under the Parliament 
* The house of Commons.  praters,  
Libra nos.   

From too much keeping an evil decorum  
From the manifold Treasons Parliamentorum,  
From Oliver Crumwell 
* Chief of all mischief.  Dux omnis malorum,  
Libra nos.   

From all pretended Reformation,  
Such as we see in this our Nation,  
From plundering, robbing, and such toleration,  
Libra nos.   

From superstitious Rosemary, and Bays,  
From the Fairy Nymphs, when dancing their Hays,  
From the 
* Both houses of Parliament.  Counsel that naught but wickedness says,  
Liba nos.   

From my Lord Mayor's horse that valiant beast,  
From his desperate rider, that 
* My Lord Mayor's.  Ass at least,  
From commitring the sin of keeping the 
* The Nativity of our Saviour  Feast,  
Libra nos.   

From the Parliaments fierce Ordinances,  
From Tom of Bedlams frantic dances  
From ruinning the kingdom, and such like 
* As the soldiers make of it.  fancies,  
Libra nos.   

From being like the Army hated,  
From the 
* The Prison.  Throne in which Charles 've reinstated,  
From by the 
* O! that Committee.  Committee to be sequestrated,  
Libra nos.   

From the inhuman barbarous crimes  
Committed these reformed times,  
From a 
* As Harry Walker.  man whose pates  with rhymes,  
Libra nos.   

From the treacherous 
* Against the King.  Votes of the house of Comm.  
From the Parliaments accursed 
* or Composition.  summons,  
From every one's ire, especially a woman's,  
Libra nos.   

From running into a Lion's den,  
From a villain that takes in the hundred ten,  
From the turbulent rout of Parliament men,  
Libra nos.   

From 
* The Parliaments.  that vile companies resolutions,  
From their wicked acts, words and pollutions,  
From their unheard of persecutions,  
Libra nos.   

From their many idle Declarations,  
From their several Oaths and protestations,  
From doing as they have done by three 
* England, Scotland, and Ireand.  Nations,  
Libra nos.   

From being a prisoner in the Tower,  
From living under this tyrannous power,  
From the hands of the Army that all would devour,  
Libra nos.   

From the Parliaments newly invented delusions,  
That have hatched in the land so many confusions,  
I say from their subtle disembling intrusions,  
Libra nos.   

From the house of Parliaments defendants,  
From Ireton and his vile attendants,  
From the falsehearted troop of base Independents,  
Libra nos.   

From the mighty 
* They are now raising new breast works or forts upon Tower hill against the Seamen.  fort which they have begun,  
From falling into deep love with a Nun,  
From them that have parted the father and son;  
Libera nos.   

From the 
* As Sir Tho. against the K.  foot against the head that kicks,  
From my Lord 
* otherwise L. Mayor.  Fool and his Christmas tricks,  
From all sorts of prattling profane schismatics,  
Libera nos   

From Cornhill Conduit and Cheapside Pump,  
From General Cromwell that natural 
* That Log of wood.  Lump,  
From the company of those that drink or the rump,  
Libera nos.   

From the Common Parliament men's p●●rwasions.  
From domestic foes, and foreign invasions,  
From having a hand in these 
* In undoing the King and Kingdom.  matchless occasions,  
Libera nos.   

From the many perfidious late inventions.  
From Sir Thomas his manifold known intentions  
From these evident nurtured vile dissension,  
Libera nos.   

From being tossed in Cupids, blanket,  
From abusing the word of God be thanked,  
From the inviting unto Grand- Pluto's Bauquer,  
Libera nos.   

From hearing the Widows and Orphans cries,  
From answering them just Parliament-wise,  
From prisoning a King, and such 
* As they esteem  petty like toys,  
Libera nos.   

From being clapped one the back with a writ,  
From burdening ourselves with the Citizen's wit,  
From running headlong into the pit,  
Libera nos.   

From the General Army their wicked intents,  
To ruin the Kingdom unless God prevents,  
From such evil, profane, unjust 
* As our Engl. Parliament.  Parliaments,  
Libera nos.   

From the lower House and the House of Peers.  
From our continual caused fears,  
From generally all Parliamenteers,  
Libera nos.   

From very Rogues, and the ragged 
* The common Soldiers.  Rout,  
From 
* The total Commanders.  surly Slaves, and Beggars stout,  
From the base enterprise 
* Tom, Cromwell, and the rest.  they go about,  
Libera nos.   

From the seldom heard of innumerable curses,  
The Parliament have for filling their purses,  
From the Spoilers of Learning that should be it Nurse's  
Libera nos.   

From Ludgate. Newgate, and Tower-hill,  
From both the Compters, or what you will  
From being 
* At the Session's Bar.  arraigned my prayers be still,  
Libera nos.   

From the Sovereign, Sacred, three legged Tree,  
From Black Tom, and his posterity,  
From th'Arch Executioner Gregory,  
Libera nos omnes.   

That it may please thee, to reinthrone  
Our gracious King into his own,  
And keep him not 
* In prison.  thus as never was known,  
Quaesumus te.   

That thy total Army may disband,  
That they no more oppress the Land:  
That thou mayest 
* Our Sove.  honour, and not command,  
Quaesumus te.   

That all good things may settled be,  
As before to posterity;  
That every one may live in's degree,  
Quaesumus te.   

That the very scum of this our nation  
Abased be from their ostentation:  
That they may be turned to their pristine fashion,  
Quaesumus te.   

That the monstrous noise and rumours of War,  
Be from poor England removed far;  
That this word of command be pronouced, as you were,  
Quaesumus te.   

That this our Godly Parliament  
Dissolved be incontinent,  
That thou'dst make them honest against their intents,  
Quaesumus te.   

That the Common house of puny Brats,  
Pe culled, be picked and washed like Sprats,  
That some of them suffer as often do 
* Th● 〈◊〉  Rats,  
Quaesumus te.   

That every one his own may enjoy,  
That thy men the people no more may annoy,  
That thyself and the rest might say vive le Roy,  
Quaesumus te.   

That our Lord the King may wear his Crown;  
That Faction and Heresies quite be put down.  
That to whom it belongs m●y have the 
The clergy.  Gown,  
Quaesumus te.   

That the Kingdom, the City, Militia, Tower  
Be yielded to 
* The King.  him that ought to have the power,  
That those Vagabond slaves may not England devour,  
Quaesumus te.   

That the manifest traitors which have been the cause,  
Of disturbing the peace, and infringing the Laws.  
May instead of the neck, be hanged by the jaws,  
Quaesumus te.   

That my good Lord Mayor for his valiant act,  
In charging the conduit, himself being backed,  
May for his fierce valour 
* A whip and lash.  receive what he lacked,  
Quaesumus te.   

That all our turbulent times may cease  
That our honoured King may have a release,  
Without which 'tis in vain to expect any peace,  
Quaesumus te.   

That of poor Widow's you'd hear the sad ditties,  
That you'd banish extirpate all sorts of Committees.  
That peace may proclaimed be through Country & City  
Quaesumus te.   

That thou thyself wouldst deliver up all  
The forts and forces great and small,  
That thou wouldst descend, lest you catch a fall,  
Quaesumus te.   

That last this visible distraction  
Be suddenly cured: that good satisfaction  
Be given for the Kings and Kingdoms exactions,  
Quaesumus te.   
FINIS.