The Game is up: Or, XXXI New QVAERIES AND ORDERS; Fitted for the present State of Affairs, and recommended to the Council of Officers. Together with an Old Prophecy, newly found out. Printed in the year 1659. THE GAME IS UP. Or, XXXI New QUERIES AND ORDERS. 1. WHether, when the Parliament first sat, and a Question arising, what name the House should be called by; and Alderman Atkins giving his opinion, that it should be called a House of Office, were suitable to his judgement? For at that time they had not voted him into a Place in the Excise, and so, by consequence, he had not done his business. 2. Whether Prideaux, when he left the world, did not, by order from his fellow-Members, ride post to hell, to tell their Patron, they would not be long behind? 3. Whether, when that Rump of a Parliament sent Lambert that Present, they did not give him a knife to cut their own throats? Or, when he melted it into Liquor, and bestowed it upon his Janissaries, whether the Army drank more for the Rump, or Lambert? 4. Whether, when Atkins was called to sit as a Member in the House, it was not prophetical, and signified, that businesses were like to go backward? 5. Whether, when the City-Slaves invited their Chains to dinner, it was not well and conscientiously done of the Army, to let the Parliament dine before they gave them a purge; and to let their bellies be full, before they sent their bones to rest? 6. Whether Lambert may not fitly be made High Constable, having lately laid so many Gentlemen by the heels; or whether he ought not rather to have that Office, because he hath got the better end of the staff? 7. Whether the Lord Mayor, by shaving his detestable chaps, did not put a new affront upon the City, and thereby showed them, that after all his impudence, he was not ashamed to show his face? 8. Ordered by the common-council, That the Lord Mayor, for that elaborate Oration which he made to the Parliament, and which he emphatically expressed by the bowing of his body, be sent forthwith to the Army, to congratulate this new change. 9 Whether there be any thing like a Blush in the whole Army, besides their Coats? 10. Whether mad Sedgwick, when he was prophaneing Scripture, and mocking God with a Fast, when he said, It was a Lambert that first compiled the Laws, and it is a Lambert that must reform them, did not intent, that Lambert would cudgel the Laws into better manners; because, when they gave rules to other men, they did not, by a particular exception, leave him to do what he list? 11. Whether the Army-Officers want any thing, but their heads to be shaved, and their heels to be fettered, to make them fit for Bedlam? And whether those hare-brained fellows, did not therefore, at their private Fast, do well, to choose a mad, man to whine, and carry on the sins of that day? 12. Whether, by reason of the shutting up of the House of Parliament, (a place lately infected with the Plague) the Citizens of London may not write over their doors, The Lord have mercy upon us? 13. Whether Henry Martin, if we should go to Wars with the Whore of Babylon, would not be the man that should fling the first stone? 14. Whether Henry Martin was fit to be made a Parliament-man, being he could never meet with a smirking Wench, but he was ready to reveal his Secrets? 15. Ordered, That if Henry Martin should lose his hair, by reason of the many hot services, to which he had exposed his body; the Lord Mayor, to repair the loss, should chop off a corner of his beard to make him a Periwig. 16. Ordered by the Army, That whereas in their Address to the long and short Parliament, they did then acknowledge, that by the wonderful goodness of God their eyes were opened, be intended to be only a mistake in the Printer. 17. Whether, when Satan removed his householdstuff from Westminster, he did not take up his Quarters at Wallingford-house? And if he did, Whether the Army ought not to go a house-warming thither? And whether Sir Arthur Hair-brains, and Alderman Beardless, larded with a load or two of Atkins' grease, ought not to be sent to the Devil for a Breakfast, and that Doctor Owen be appointed to say Grace. 18. Whether Vane's name doth not agree with his nature, being he can so well comply with the Times, and turn according as the wind blows? 19 Whether if Baxter should bring sufficient witnesses to prove, that Lambert was a Jesuit, he were like to get the better? because Lambert is a man of such a turbulent and unruly spirit, that the Judges will not believe it a thing possible, that he could ever find in his heart to enter into Orders. 20. Ordered, That the City-Cuckolds do from henceforth maintain their Militia, and put themselves into a posture of War; and that Alderman Ireton be appointed to lead up the Van. 21. Orderdered by the Commission-Officers of the Army, that a trick be put upon the Third Commandment; viz. That forswearing is not to take the name of the Lord in vain, but to good purpose. 22. Ordered, that from henceforth none be accounted honest, unless they be first approved of by the Officers of the Army. 23. Ordered, That Acts of Oblivion be henceforth generally practised, by the good people of these Nations, till every man hath forgot his duty as well as the Army. And for farther amendment of the Bill, let no man dare to teach the art of Memory, besides a Redcoat, when he comes for Taxes and Contributions. 24. Whether Alderman Atkins, ought not to be confined, being he is so apt to fly out? or whether it be a fit or discreet thing of the City, to admit him into the scarlet Counsel, being he is so generally known to be a loose-liver? 25. Whether God can endure to look upon the Nation, without holding his Hand between His Eye, and the Army? 26. Whether if Ferdinando the Jew were now to fish for the Devil, he would not choose to bait his hook with a Lobster? 27. Whether Deus dabit his quoque funem, were not a fit Motto for the Army? 28. Ordered, That whereas Bradshaw being now ready to leave England, and sail into the Low-Countries, Hazlerig be forthwith sent to Newcastle, to trade with the Devil for coals, that so he may be welcomed with a fire equal to his merits. 29. Whether the godly Army have not made the people of England truly feel what the Scripture only told them in a figure, That the Word of God is a two-edged sword? 30. Whether Titchburn, being a neat timbered Lad, if he were at Tyburn tottering in his Chain, would not swing with abundance of Discretion? and whether he being a man that deserved as well as any, it were not a great deal of pity but his turn should be served first? 31. Whether Monck will not, by all persons, be accounted an Ape, if he offer to comply with the present Juncto of the Army. Ordered that H. Martin, the Lord Mounson, and Mr. Scot, be Commissioners of the Bawdy-Court, and that Wat Long be chief Register, and that R. Smith, and R. Harper, be his Deputies. An Old Prophecy newly found out. When the Monk shall unveil his hood, And fifty Thousand here shall reign, And Traitors Heads shall swim in blood, We shall be happy then again. Till then expect no Settlement, From Army or from Parliament. The numerical Letters are L. M. FINIS.