lynx Brittannicus, OR CONTEMPLATIONS upon the present condition of the kingdom.  
THe twofold object season●ble for our speculation, is a noble King happy in his true miseries, and an insulting convention miserable in their seeming happiness. The first having from his Princely essence, nobleness enough to create fortitude; The latter from their ambitious attempts, Uncertainty of event the Parent of Doubt and fear.  
Should the intention of the second move to the ruin of the first, their own mischief would halt, till their intention gave it feet to overtake themselves. policy and Allegiance make a happy Prince in a discreet Subject, but a people that mix policy and Disobedience, make an unhappy Kingdom.  
Obedience is implicit wisdom, but ill-guided policy excludes Christianity, without which all security is counterfeit.  
London hath long wrestled like jacob with Westminster, and got nothing but clearness; I doubt the angel will not confer a blessing, some of them are tired enough with the sleepy Patriarch to lie down and dream of a ladder while their Angels fly up and down, and their pillow of peace will prove to their considerate sense a ston.  
If the Scots take the cure in hand, one poison may expel another; something must succeed to cure the Remedy, else the mist that makes Independency vanish may make us wander. He that drowns or Hangs meets Death in the same Center. HENRY the eight confined Rome: leaving Rome for Herresies no less dangerous.  
True virtue is irrelative to either extreme, and there is hope the House may stand when two contraries winds strive to overthrow it. The Independent cedes to the Presbiterian, and while he seems to give ground, destroys his pursuer; thus a flying Scythian shoots backward, the Presbiterian thinks himself Master of the Field while his secure breast receives the unexpected Arrow. When both are either fled or dead, the kingdom will be without an Army.  
The noble King( of a molehill, though Master of a heart vast like Pelion upon essa) like the king of true Beasts entangled in the toil by some improvidence, scorns to fill the ears of the world with complaints and roaring; but with a Majesty repining to beg even liberty it sel●e, expects with silence the event of his Bondage; Thus caesar threw his garment over his face and dyed perpetual dictatory.  
See what an undesturbd mildness his countenance and actions express, as if this Eagle were a Dove and had no gull; the mischief is more then single which thunders upon his soul, the injuries of a dear Wife and a loud Issue come to Crown his patience, a shock worthy the resistance of so confirmed a Prince, Their own eyes who have been Instruments in this, must pay due tribute to so sad a Contemplation, and weep that only this way is left them to their supposed safety.  
What are his sufferings? such as would make death in all its horror to be courted by a carnal apprehension. Dejected job in the depth of m sery had triple comfort, and though he choose the Dunghill for a repose was unconfind. here tis treason for the son to beg the Fathers blessing; too much liberty for the Father to be shut up from the sight of his children, and utterly impossible for the counsel of friends to reach his ears; who being in himself so admirable a president, if to them the prime object and motive of imitation and parseverance.  
Let us dissect and Anatomize the Parliament, whose outside promise the Reformation of Church and weal, The faire one had some spots in her Face, to cleanse those in a Laver of blood, we have clouded the glory of her countenance; this purification begun at Canterbury, and to do well must end at White-Hall, the ill that they have done cannot be safe &c. like cunning state fencers threatening to strike off petty abuse at the foot of the Common-wealth, they falsify and have a care of the head. The design is not yet ripe for action, the squinting communality sees something, and a Northern plea puts in a Demur, The affections of the Subject must be sounded indirectly, first remove his throne out of the peoples hearts, and then one man may do the rest, something effectual has been long expected in that respect, and now tis come from Rochel a fine Kickshau.  
The King would not give way to the relief of Rochel, and their own King reduced them to due obedience, Dangerous and Exemplary this relates to themselves.  
The next Objection has the same reference, they must pretend something monstrous enough, to busy the eyes of the World, that their own intended mischiefs may be the less enquired into: the Kid must be seethed in the Dams milk, the Father died to leave the Son a kingdom, the Son must not be a King, because the Father's dead, Quis nisi Phalaris, who but such an Artificer could have invented such an Engine, Here Machiavel do homage: Did the King consent to violate his Fathers Age: he is as far above their question, as they are beneath their own justification, who like impious sons would do no less to the father of their kingdom, the meanest of their allegation wants no other confirmation. If the train take fire, and blow up the King, power, and person, Look upon the series of his progeny, and this is no security to the Machinators, but the Sun in stead of shining with serenity upon the kingdom, will become a blazing Comet, thretning fire and sword.  
I hope the better, and believe, that the wisest of them, like expert Generals, keep their ground, till their carriages are marched off, some pretty Voters that pin their resolves upon unpremeditated event have not the discretion either to perceive their own danger, or the conveyances of their wiser followers.  
When Souldiers turn Lawyers rapine will prove right; when Law●ers and Souldiers are thus confounded, MAGNA CHARTA shall be a Colour displayed at the command of FAIRFAX and cromwell. Miserable is their condition whose ●afety only lives in the opinion of a hir'd-Army, especially when themselves so loathe to pay the Hire of their own security  
If the King may be kept mew'd up, the A●my fool d, and the Scots bl●●●ishd, till the Hous●s are finished at Amsterdam, and the designs Ange●s fl●wn to rest on t●e bank beyond the water, then all that can will slip, to scape the collar.  
FINIS.