THE EARL OF PEMBROKE'S Farewell to the KING, At his departure from the TREATY In the Isle of Wight; With His Majesty's REPLY.  
ALSO, His SPEECH in the House of LORDS, at his return safe home from the Treaty.  
Taken Verbatim by Michael Oldisworth.   printer's or publisher's device 
Printed in the Year. 1648.   

THE EARL OF PEMBROKE'S Farewell to the KING.  
May it please your Majesty,  
I Am now to take my leave of you; yet I intent not to leave you quite, and not see you again, and yet by God I may too: Damn this Leaving has been the undoing of the Kingdom, for had not your Majesty left Whitehall, the Parliament had not left you; nor had the Army seized on you: 'Tis an old Proverbs, Leave is light, but this leaving has produced many a heavy business in this Nation. Your Majesty is now in the hands of Hucksters, Dam and Hackster's too; Your Majesty had better to have signed to the Propositions of the Parliament at first, unsight or unseen, without quirks and Queries of Conscience, than there had been no more to do with you; You might have been before this time with us in your , and then the Army might have been with the Devil for me; Now they in●●nd to try ye; Indeed you are the Kingdoms Trustee, and by God, in my judgement, they ought to try ye before they Trust ye. They have fought against you and your Majesty hath fought against them, and if they had not conquered you, than your Majesty might have conquered them; Your Valour they have sufficiently tried already, and your Patience too, and think you that they will spare your Person; No, they will try ye, and you shall have the same play as they desire themselves when they beg to be tried by their Peers, and pray are not those your Peers that have won it by the sword; and if they have wen it, by God, I see no reason but they may we are it too: If I fight with another man, and beat him, and disarm him, is not that man at my mercy, and have not I power to to kill him if I will? Let Law be what it will; you know might overcomes Right; Dam, I can hardly right mine own Name, but yet I can ●ight myself if I am abused by one that is weaker than myself; but if he be stronger than myself, I can as well take an affront as offer it. For the Treaty, it is now ended, and so it might have been before it had begun, for the good it hath brought the Kingdom: Damn, 'twas never good World s●nce this Treating was invented, Treating and signing, and a great deal of of stir, to no purpose; a great deal of Pulpit- prating, but no practice, a great cry, but a little wool quoth the Devil when he shore his hogs; 'Zblood give me the substance, and let the Sign go where it will; Signing, Damn I think we are are all signed with the Sign of the CROSS, for nothing prospers that we take in hand; Zblood sure we are be witched with a Shee-Owle, for all the Nations in Christendom whoots at us; Nay the Great Turk himself (I have clean forgot his Christian Name) hates to have any Commerce with us we are grown so perfixious and disloyal; Dam, would I were a Turk too, for they have a thousand times more regal honesty than we that swear and lie on purpose to deceive and ruin one another; make Covenants and Vows to God, on purpose to ensare and entrap our Brethren, that so we may make a prey of them; And now we must have Levelling with a pox to 'em, every man's Estate shall be alike, No King no Prince Duke, Earl, Barron nor Knight; what the Devil would they have us be trow ●an any body tell? For my part, I ●m an O●●●m●n and i● they think I deserve not as much Honour as my Lord Say, Let 'em Say what they will, call me Spade, Parliament-man, Gaffer; Mouth omnipotent, or what they will, it's all one to Phillip● for I have so much understanding, as to know my Age i● honourable; and therefore if they deny me my Honour, they cannot deny me my Age, and that it is makes me honourable: and if they will not suffer the Lords to sit, nor have an eggetive Voice, than I can hold my tongue in an affirmative Voice, or sit as a mute in the House of Commons, and speak their dumb shows for them: For my Religion, I can keep that to myself, and neither trouble God nor man with it: By God I think it is Religion has set this Kingdom on a sight flame, for too much Light is a deadly consumer, I know it by my House; Damee, too much Light burned it down to the very ground, and so will these New Lights burn down not only the whole Kingdom, but the whole World too at the last day, I am sure it makes me twilight to think on't, for I grow sleepy, and will hasten to an end, on●y I●e give your Majesty a word of destruction, and conclude: Damn, Content is a Kingdom over, and over, or top●y turvey; therefore you must be content; beside Patience is a Crown, and if impatient men uncrown you, your Patience must Crown you again; (that's Patience perforce) so you exchange but one crown for another & all know, Exchange is no robbery: S●nk me, I am as impatient an Ass (If I be but throughly vexed,) as any creature living; yet I can have Patience, and suffer too, (to prevent a mischief) nay, suffer myself to be crossed too, (over the back with a switch) by a base Scot too, and yet had the Patience to suffer this, rather than raise a War; a Pox of this Warring for me, and this jarring too; I am sure I am not a thousand pounds the better for it; though some I could Name, (and not be a false SPEAKER) that have purchased thousands a year by it; Damn, I hate fight, for it was I that swore at your Majesty for fight against the Scots, and caused you to withdraw your Forces, and come safe home again, and Jockey to jog back into his own Country; And this I did to prevent War; and by God would do as much again to prevent War, and the ruane that follows it, and would do my business (if need were) in any place, to bring home a happy, welcome, and long expected Peace.  
Your Majesty knows I am an ill Ornitor, therefore as I began, I will make an end; And leave you to the will of the Army.  
Your Majesty's humble servant, P. Pembroke.   

His Majesty's Answer to my Lord of Pembroke's SPEECH.  
My Lord,  
AMidst all my miseries you make me merry; I have no more to say to you, but that in my fall, you may behold your own, and that suddenly; For my part, I am rewarded Evil for Good, from them that pretend themselves Saints, and the most Godly party, but indeed the worst of sinners, and most disobedient of my subjects, as appears by their former professions & late actions, not only against me, but against the authority of both my Houses of Parliament; My Lord, when I demanded 5. Members, upon just evidence of guilt; Was it not adjuded both by you and them a grand breach of Privilege? And if by me (a King,) so great a breach, pray what is it in them, that take away 11. at one time, seven Lords at another time, and now some 40. or 50. more? God forgive them, I do, and am armed to suffer whatever their malice can allege, or their rage act against me; I ask, nor expect mercy from them, but look up to One that is able to deliver me, and mine: Nothing afflicts me more than the Sufferings of my oppressed People; yet my hope is, That HE that hath given me (their King) strength to bear the heaviest burden of woe, will enable them (my Subjects) to bear the lighter; But our hope is in God. My Lord, farewell, I expect hourly an end of all my Troubles, and then gins your own, and then comes theirs that caused both;  
Yours, C. R:   

My Lord of Pembroke's Speech in the House of Lords, at his return from the TREATY.  
My Lords,  
Damn, I mistake your Titles, I may call you as well Spades, Down-diddles, or any thing; for down you must, that's flat; levelled; all fellows now: By God 'tis but just with us, if the Army would pull down our Breeches and whip us: we have sat these 7. years to pull down the King (with a pox) and now we must be pulled down ourselves by a p●cky General (Army I should say.) 'Zblood, Treating; the Devil shall Treat next for me; Damn, I knew the effect of Treating before we went: We must go (like so many Hobby-Horses) to the Isle of Wight to Treat with the King, and then come home again (like so many Doccer-heads) to Entreat a company of Shack-ragg lousy Soldiers. Dam, our soldiers are now our Kings, Dukes, Lords, Preachers, nay and Cash-keepers too; 'Zblood we are like to have a thorough Reformation indeed, for if you are not of their Judgement, you shall be run thorough, and thorough again; a bloody Canish Religion indeed. I am Chancellor of Oxford; 'Zblood I had better be Master of the Bare-garden, and Deform Bears in stead of Scholars, when I myself must be taught and governed by Scullars, Brewers and Tinkers, and a company of thin-skulls that have no more hare then with, nor no more with then honesty, and yet more craft than Conscience, more cruelty than coin: I thank God I am neither Soldier nor Scholar; but an upright Commonwealths-man. 'Tis confessed, I have been a Privy Counsellor, but Damn, I scorn to be an Evil Counsellor; though I have unjustly given sentence in the Starr-chamber, and Counsell-board; for evil, I thought none; and could I Act evil and not think evil? No, evil be to them that evil think, and I thank God I can justify my innocence by my Ignorance; Before I would Evil Counsel Kingdom, Parliament or Army, J●● 〈◊〉 Barly-Broath in Hell eternally with the Malignant Commons; Damn, I hate to Traitor my Lord and King the Kingdom, which consists of the Body of the People, which maketh a King, and may as well mar a King, who is but their Trustee, or Deputy; Damn I acknowledge no other King than my Sovereign Lord the Common-People, who is both Creator of King Parliament, and all other Officers and Ministers of Justice: Dam, a Plowboy is as much a King, (if my Lord the PEOLE p●ease) as King Charles; beside a plowboy is the maker of a King, and ought not every King to acknowledge his Maker: If he claims the Kingdom by the Norman Conquest; then by God, my Lord Fairfax may lay claim to it as well as he, for he hath conquered it again from him; and if Lord or Earl be usurped, or derived from the Danes, who as Chronicle-makers say, were called Lurdanes or Lord-Danes, because they lived Lordly, or idly upon others labours, as many of our Army do; therefore if Lord be a Title of Reproach, and not of Honour, we may thank the Army for taking away this Reproach from us; For my part Sirs (for LORDS I will not call you) they shall not need to take away my Honour or Titles, for I hold it more honourable to submit my Honour and Titles to th●m that knows better how to support them then myself; therefore for my part, let them take them, I lay them down, and see no reason but you May do so to; Damn, you ought to submit, when you cannot otherwise help it; and if you will still remain obstinate, then take what follows; And so the blessing of Issachar rest continually upon you all.  
SIRS I am never tedious in my Impressions, and therefore include my SPEECH, and desire you seriously to consider of the scope and syrup of what I have said,  
Your Honour's Servant. PEMBROKE and MONTGOMERY.  
FINIS.  
 
Vera Copia.