William lily Student in astrology, His past and present Opinion touching MONARCHY In these NATIONS: And his Decision of the controversy between the NORMANS AND The Long-PARLIAMENT.  
LONDON: Printed in the Year 1660.   

To the READER  
WE cannot but aclowledge our exceeding great oversight lately committed, in employing that impudent, ignorant, Spirit-Mongring Mountebank-Quack, Dick Sanders the Baker( who we know, and heard it justified, that he cheated Mr Birt of 100 l. under pretence of showing him Faces in a Glass,) to vindicate our( never to be repaired) reputation, against G.J. or J.G. who hath performed it more simply, then his W. used to perform with H.B. in putting it into a nonsensical illiterate Grubstreet abusive Pamphlet; which ourself is even ashamed to red. For we must confess ourself a tailor, and no Scholar;( As our Mot in our Anglicus 1657. Ab altero spears, altero quod feceris, loudly proclaims.) And that J. G. did pay our Servants wages three yeers together, by our own direction and appointment, which R. S. did for some yeers before: and we confess also, that we did( by our insinuating) Trepan J.G. in his Doctr. of not. on purpose to keep in with O.P. ourself, from whom we received 100 l. a year for our pimping under pretence of astrology for him. And we aclowledge that our Ascendent Pisces( to our own experience, is ten times worse and more traitorous, then scorpion can be; witness our Widow undoing, and dealing by Mr. Satterthwait, and our own second Wife, & all her relations. We confess also, that J.G. hath written four Books in our defence, for the which we never paid him his costs out of Purse; and that he calculated divers Nativities for us, that we were never able to perform; but we never requited him with any thing but Trepans. To conclude, being in Vespera vitae, in the late evening of our life, we confess our work hath been nothing else but trepanning; let our almanacs since 1645. be examined, and they'll prove it; and we believe the same fate hath attended our Cuckoldly Chancery Lane-Grubstreet Vindicator: who( like a right whelp of lily, a true mongril of our own breed,) predicted that we should have a Harry the Ninth, in the year that he heard Harry cromwell was sent Deputy to Ireland.  
And truly, as it elevates others to hear of their due praises, we are rejoiced that we have a time convenient to express and confess these our Imposturisms, Impudencies, Cheatisms, and Trepans, because we presume we are not so far past hope yet, but that we believe, by this our ingenuous acknowledgement we shall find mercy; And that J.G.( though we have abused him most shamefully, and like a villain indeed) will improve his interest, and become our Prolocutor for the same.   

William lily Student in astrology, His past and present Opinion touching Monarchy in these Nations.  
WE must here recount unto Posterity our so signal Prediction( or deduction rather) from the several Prophecies in our Monarchy or no Monarchy, published in 1651. In pag. 66. thereof, we wrote those words— That England shall be no more governed by Kings. And we must needs tell the world, that( notwithstanding the many clamours of Montelion the Knight of the Oracle, and the Boy who wrote the Novice Astrologer instructed, on purpose for our reproof) we are resolved still to adhere to that our so famous Prediction( so accounted by all foreign Astrologers) and with good grounds in our own Art will maintain the same to be true, against any Opposer whatsoever. 'Tis true, we were( as we have ingenuously confessed) a little misled in the Fate of our Patron, the King of Sweden; but we were well enough rewarded for that our mistake, yea, better then our Antagonists were ever for their serious pains against us.  
Some out of disaffection to us, are pleased( against our prediction above-cited) to urge, that Oliver cromwell that late famous Protector of England, &c. was a breach of the truth thereof: saying, There is no difference between Rex and Protector, saving in nomine, in the name. We hold such foolish Criticisms, nor their Authors, worthy an Answer: for, Aquila non capit muscas: We know, as well as they, that they differ not in Re, in the thing, or matter. But we would fain hear of any of those strict Cavillers, or but one of them, that ever got one hundred pound a year, by any of their true Predictions, as we have done by our many hundred false ones. Then others idly ask us, why we maintained, That the Long Parliament should never be overcome, and yet afterwards rejoice at their downfall? It is true, we sincerely aclowledge( and we will stand to it, maugre the malice of our and Astrologies Enemies) that in 1651. in our Epistle to the Reader, pag. 5. we did hypothetically( or some way or other) writ●— If the Bastard Norman, having no other Title but a good Sword, long since overcame our fore-fathers; by that very Law have we expulsed his Successors, regained our native Rights, and entrusted them with the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England; and we will maintain this power, and not return to feed upon the garlic and onions of a Scotish yoke. And in our Epistle to our almanac 1647. pag. 1. thereof, we remember we did affirm— That God Almighty was our Parliaments loving Patron and Guardian, &c. And in our general Judgement of that years actions, pag. 9. we maintained— That no person whatsoever that shall endeavour— to destroy this present Parliament, should never attain their desires, but perish in the design. And in our Occurrences 1648. pag. 38. we also laid down a like position, viz.— That the main Body of this Parliament, and their Authority( maugre all angry Devils( here, you see, we were not afraid to term our Parliaments Enemies, Devils, no more then we were ashamed to term the King of Swedes Enemies so, in our Anglicus for the present Year; for which G. J. or J.G. in his Novice Astrologer instructed, seemeth to term us irreligious, but we are above Boyish Squibs) and Scotish faction) shall be preserved and stand. Nay, so zealous were we, in our writing for the Parliament, that in our Anglicus for 1650. pag. 4. of the Epistle thereof, we promised— That if the People of England would elect a Parliament of dead men, we would with Pen, Purse and Person, perform our uttermost service for the support of that Authority so elected and set up. And in pag. 6. of our Anglicus for 1651. we say, This Authority of Parliament must stand. These Predictions, with a hundred more, have we with great confidence, several years together, furnished our Nation with, to the great honour of astrology, but greater profit to ourself. But as no person can writ to please all palates, it hath happened that we have written somewhat in our other works or Astrological Labours since 1644. which being perused by butchers, not Artists, they have( in envy to us) called contradictory to what we have here rehearsed: But whether they be so or not, we desire the world at large, and not our enemies, to be our Judges. And we shall therefore( to prevent the being misrepresented by stitching Pens, and scribblers: for you must know, it is for our Honour to embase others, and never confess ourself a Quondam tailor, lest we be blasted perpetually thereby) we shall I say, therefore, relate those several passages ourself, as the fittest for us to do, of any man, because no man else can truly understand our meaning. And so we begin with what first presents itself.—  
In our Epistle to Anglicus 1652. we( in good will, after our Patron B. W. had  told us) tell the Parliament, that— Providence, it seems, will have another Generation to enter upon this work, and to finish that great bu●lding, &c. and that we thought it our duty, ere their dissolution, to render them what thankfulness our heart was able. And in our almanac 1653. pag. 9. of our Predictions therein, we remember we Predicted— That if the Parliament shall— enforce us to some new and Illegal Assessment, or by way of raising money, upon any pretence whatsoever— I am confident, we of the communality, joining with the soldiery, shall assume so much liberty to ourselves, as to choose and elect such Members as hereafter shall be more tender of our purses, and more liberal of their own; and we shall endeavour so strictly to call unto account each Member of this Parliament, who hath fingered our Treasure, that we shall leave many of them as naked, as when they came out of their mothers wombs, or when first to be Members of Parliament. And in our Anglicus 1654. pag. 5. we very seasonably say, that had not that Parliament been miraculously routed, they had resolved to imbrue this Nation in civil broils, and to have destroyed this very Army, that gave them life and being. And in the same page., toward the lower end( with good ground in Astrology,) we affirm— They were unthankful to all that served them; and that they were never willing to make up a full house, unless for private ends of their own. And in our Postscript to that our almanac, we say— I began to rouse up myself and angry Genius, expecting assuredly a sudden change; which timely came to pass, by an especial providence of the Lord General cromwell and council of Officers; who taking into serious consideration, the sloth, drowsiness, and self-endedness of the then Parliament, and how little faith there was to be given to their Vo●e of sitting no longer then Novemb. 1654. they being become as cunning as Taylors, knew how to make that Vote, two or three yards longer. And his excellency, in April 1653. the 20. day thereof, dissolves that Authority, to the great liking of the whole Nation, and so redeemed us from a perpetual Parliament. And in Anglicus 1655. pag. 13. we writ— The Parliament were well eased of that burden they never complained of, viz. of lording it over others, and obeying no body themselves; being the day before their dissolution honourable, but the next day, no more worshipful then a— we meant, T. Now we ask the very enemies of ourself, and Astrology, what contradiction can be found in any of these our passages? If they shall say that to speak for, and against the Parliament, be a contradiction in us, then indeed( without a distingu●ndo) they say a seeming truth. But can they find in any one of our almanacs, that we have spoken pro & contra? If they cannot, let them be ashamed to blame us, and lay the fault upon their own ignorance, or non-understanding of our Method. Could any man be so senseless, as to think our Predictions should hold true, longer then our almanac should last? if there be any contradictions( and they are but venial sins at most; for no man was ever damned for writing contradictions, if we may believe John Calvin, and Lisyppus) We are confident our meaning was good in them; and we reaped as much advantage thereby, as any others did for-the most superior truth that ever was predicted. If we do chance to interfere in our presages, and make them to justle one against the other, it is but that truth in our works might get the upper hand of error and falsehood; for you must understand we writ both, that we may the better please all sorts of people; for, Quot homines, tot sententiae. Tell truth to a natural liar, he'll but hate you for it; and had we so written always, we had never been master of a Gold chain, and 100 l. per Annum Salary from all Governments since 1646. to poor Protector Dick's— downfall.  
But now all England are big with expectation of a King, I, and King Charles too: well, let them be so; we must keep close to our former Predictions. It is true, in 1651. we were not able( neither indeed were we at any other time) to cleave a hair in sunder; for we could not foresee the Scotch King's creeping into England; it was an act of madness, and not of reason; as we then most Astrologically wrote. However, in 1652. page. 12. of our Angilcus for that year, we were enabled to predict unto the Scotish King no re-establishment in that year, nor in any year hereafter; and though he is alive, he may live a wandering life— Let the Orchades suffice or satisfy his hungry appetite; or those other Mountains and could Islands give him a sufficient Patrimony; and he might think himself happy, if he could enjoy those barren Islands for his Patrimony, without disturbance.  
Nay, so fearless were we in 1653. that in our Anglicus of that year, pag. 10. we called him the pretended King of Scotland, and threatened him( without ground in Astrology, we readily aclowledge) with poison, Treachery, or a Stab; or something else as bad: and we solemnly profess, we are not yet ashamed thereof. For when Lambert got out of the Tower, we affirmed ourself( as we ever have been) a fanatic, and an utter enemy to Kingship: we admit of Kingship in a private Family, where ourself is sole Monarch; but we hate all other regality. And this we are persuaded to re-acquaint the world with, in this staggering time,( when neither Lamberts zeal, nor the Coleman-Street cursings can prevail,) and the rather, because my constant club-fisted friend John Booker, hath promised to hang himself, whenever the King comes into England: and since 'tis dishonourable to hang alone, we promise then, to swing with him for company: For monarchy and we can't possibly stand together.  
FINIS.