Mercurius Verax, OR TRUTH APPEARING AFTER seven Yeares BANISHMENT, Discovering falsehood, reproving error, revealing plots, and communicating infallible Intelligence from all Parts of the kingdom, especially from Westminster, the council of State, and the Head-Quarters.  
Concerning all affairs, humours, whimsies, and fancies.  

THe Proverb is falsified,  
For truth hath sought out corners,  
Being mocked and cuft and vilified  
By ungodly Parliament Scorners.  
Long seven Yeares it banished was  
From this Distracted Nation,  
Where Lies and Murder have taken place,  
To set up a wicked Faction.  
Now once again it doth appear,  
To scatter this mist of Error,  
To make things right, and banish Lies,  
And strike Rebellion with terror.   
Vide, Perlege, Fle, aut Ride.   

Mercurius Verax.  
WHat have we got here? Verax: why how dare you appear in this city, to bee trodden to death in such a crowd of falsehood, or how presume you to come so near Westminster, seeing the Parliament have made an Act to banish thee for ever; and that it shall be High Treason for Truth to dwell in the Land: how didst thou get away from our Land wherein once thou sattest as Princess? were you driven away by the tumult from White-hall? or wert thou frighted with that farthel of lying abominations weekly heaped together by Gilbert Mabbot the cobblers son of Nottingham in his false intelligence? or by the railing forgeries of Walker that Pillory-bird? hast thou been conquered by such sons of Perdition? but I dare not be tedious, least I should be apprehended in this company for a traitor, In regard that you are looked upon as the onely enemy destructive to the Common-wealth; so hated in the eyes of our Grandees, that if any do but mention thy name they shall be either sequestered, or executed for Malefactors: But I am so ravished with thy sudden unexpected presence, that I cannot hold in, thy very apparition hath infused such inflaming virtue into my heart gently working into all parts of my soul, that I feel the dross and dung of all hypocrisy and lies almost consumed, that now( though I confess it hath not happened so since this Parliament) I take delight to walk in thy paths therefore O noble truth, since thou hast been pleased to appear after a saeven years absence in our Nation, give ear to the friendly exhortation of rather a lover then a practiser of thy goodness, the times are evil, you shall meet with more opposition here then ever you did, when in Christ you reproved the Pharisees of old; hasten apace; retire to the Parliament, or to some of their Committees; disguise thyself with a habit of hypocrisy, that will make thee State-proofe nothing safer, and without that there is no abiding place for thee here; for if you walk in this city, the Excise men will snarl, and the men of Gold-smith●. Hall will make thee an enemy to the State, and by consequence a delinquent: if you walk in your residence of Pauks the Guard will take you to White-Hall, and there you have not one friend in the council of war, and Hewson will make thee squint-eyed like himself, for causing him some eight yeares past to be ranted in Shoomakers-Hall, for stuffing the souls of his bootes with shreds to make them ▪ weigh the heavier: if you go to the general he dare not entertain thee least it cost him his head; if to the Pulpits where you have been frequent afold, they are now so stuff● with false doctrine and blasphemy that you shall be suspected upon the least inquiry; if to the Pharisees of the Assembly, they will burn you for an heretic, for saying that it is unlawful for them to hold half a dozen livings a piece, as you know they do; if you go to the Parliament, alas, there you are undone, for they account you one of the greatest enemies now living; if to the Common Souldiers, they will not own you for fear of being shot to death for mutiny, thus if you walk in your own plain garment of honesty above board, you shal be taken and shal be persecuted, reviled, imprisoned, famished and in the end murdered; look to yourself warily, else you shall be tried, questioned, and condemned by the great Grandees and pillars of our Commonwealth, namely, heresy, Blasphemy, Perjury, Covenant-breaking, Ambition, Lust, Cruelty, Oppression, Murder, hypocrisy, &c. these are they that here ruled all and sainted all since you forsak't the land in Anno 1642.  

Then noble truth dwell in my heart,  
possess the safest corner there;  
So shall I stir and act my part  
By your Commands without all fear.   
And now having tipped my tongue with the silver keenes of truth; I will cry aloud and spare not, I will confounded Rabshekah, cry down Cedars of oppression, tyranny and murder, &c, level all their Plots and Machinations even with their downfalls, discoyet the secret plots of darkness, uncover the nakedness of false Army officers, the authors and prolongers of our too long-lasting calamity: sound out the oppression of poor, the cry of the Needy, the famishing of new made Orphans, the Lamentation of the widows and fatherless, the groaning of thousands starving for want of bread in every corner of the Land: and none no relieve them, the sudden fall, desolation, horror of conscience, consumption of purse; the vagrant banishments, confusion, peregrination and sad condition that shall through the just judgement, of God rain down from heaven upon the bloody Usurpers in Westminster who have let in this inundation of unpaparalelld calamity upon this once flourishing England, and that for no other cause but to satisfy their own lust, avarice pride, and ambition; therefore to begin with the ffrst Scene of their soon approaching Tragedy let them hear with patience what they might feel with sorrow the very thunder-bolts of heaven coming against them, to the great fear and consternation of all their guilty and Cain-like consciences.  
From the Hague May 25. that all things work together for the good of the Young King, that though there is a seeming difference outwardly, yet the agreement is concluded secretly underhand in Souland between the King and them. that it s in vain for the creatures in Westminster to endeavour for a faction there against Monarchy; a hopeful conclusion expected between all interests, which will bee effectually sealed upon his Majesties landing there and and that suddenly for already Friends and Foes are reconciled in that Kingdom,  
Now ye men of confusion, here beginneth the Spring of your deserved sorrows, the loyal Scots comply with their new King that their Land may no longer bee made a field of blood,( wilt you delight to walk in the ways of Cain) and that appears fully by that happy agreement that was timely composed between the two Scotch earls M●●tr●sse and L●●ericke, of late deadly enemies, but now of united hearts and mindes to live and die together in the service of their King.  

When the Lords work is accomplishing.  
he makes Foes unite to restore a King.   
The Zealots were so affrighted with these sudden good news brought in to to derby house for sure intelligence from Strickland their Agent in Holland, that for half an hour together they could not utter a word, but gaped and stared one in anothers face like a company of ●nticks at a puppy-play, every one reading his own fatal destiny in that grisly horror of guilt which appeared in the face of his fellow; for they well know that the King being established in Edenburrough cannot long be kept out of London, O that were a northern storm indeed!  
The news were not half digested, but in came another sniffer, who  told them that tru-ly he ha— ad some thing to communica— ate, intimating how that Dorislaus( whom they sent but a while since to make Holland( if possible) like this, a stage of Treachery) was sent per force to another world, to render an account of his stewardship, or to answer to the grand impeachment drawn up against him: But Lord, how ill provided was he so that journey, his hands being full of blood, his guts full of sack, and his conscience lo●den with black guilt.  

here Dorislaus butted in Oblivion,  
Who all his life lockd conscience and Religion,  
Destitute of grace, honesty, truth and reason:  
A Saint he was, although his principlc treason.  
But from hell is sent for, a bill to frame  
Against all such that fear Gods Name.   
This latter Message put every one of the Juncto in mind of his own deserts, which caused such a terror and with all a saintnesse that deprived them of both sense and sight for a space, that its marvel that Sir hag Mildmay did not cry out that the Kings Forces were near at hand, when he beheld Olivers nose, which( in that trance) seemed to him to be a beacon set on fire to give an alar●●●. Such is the sad Character of a black Conscience, that it flieth where there is none to pursue,  
And because they would encourage all famous traitors to be unfaithful, as the said Doctor of never Civill Law, until his death, they have taken into consideration how they might set a varnish upon his already rotten name; therefore they pitch upon a new found way, which is, that some of the bloodiest traitors should succeed him in his Vocation; to which purpose Tom, Noll, and every-way-sighted Hewson have taken the Degree of Doctors in the Civill Law, in honour of Saint Dorislaus. How now Squint, what a Doctor? Certainly the Palmer-worme of all souls, did abstract thee out of the shreds and relics of old bootes and shoes. Faith now I am in good hopes that the three famous colleges of Gotham shall be shortly repaired for the present and future relief of three sorts of people: The first for fools to keep them still in ignorance: The second for Knaves to make them seem holy: And the third for the education of all the young fry of cobblers, whose parents want money to prefer them, and then shall not learning flourish ▪  
unless this good work be prevented by news coming from a certain place, as the Tuesday News-monger calls it; but in plain English some say it is Hull: For by letters from york, bearing date May 26. it is ascertained that that town and Garrison have declared to the world unanimously that they will yield no more obedience to the Rebells in Westminster. But how will this tumult be suppressed, this may prove dangerous? Yes, my Lord, the Army will subdue them: but believe it from truth that there are of this Army already cashiered, with such as have willingly cashiered themselves, above five thousand, all the best Sword-men; and all because they will no more maintain tyranny. bless his new uncreated Lordship from the Gregory-Evill.  
And because they are so hellishly given to wickedness, and do nothing else but imagine mischief both day and night; the blood-thirsty Juncto have found out a trap to ensnare all men: for they have set up a thing called a Committee of Discovery, which have power to employ as many cut-purses, panders, and thieves as they please, to be enformers against any that shall speak against any proceedings of Westminster or White-hall, that all such may be proceeded against as traitors. They often meet near the Chequer in holborn. This Act of grace was made by the men of blood in the first year of Englands Slavery 1649. And have not ye purchased a hopeful liberty, when as your Lives and Estates must be confined to the merciless Oath of a the eving Atheist that neither fears God nor man?  

Thus England lost a glorious Liberty,  
And her People is yoked in Egyptian Slavery.   
And that the least dram of cruelty be not lacking either directly or indirectly, they have further appointed monk and Bishop, Martials of this and that side the Thames to torment and crucify whom they please or suspect, so that when they have fortified themselves in their intended tyranny, these Phar●●hs will turn us the next Year to make brick without Straw to build sumptuous palaces for their brats, their trulls, their pride and luxuriousness.  

A life in Turkey is surer, then  
under this monstrous brood of bloody-men.   
The Young King is now in France, having almost obtained all his Demands from all Christian Kings in point of Restauration. M●●tr●sse is upon his March with six thousand Horse and Foot, if not already landed in Scotland: Thus a new Visage begins to appear upon the face of things A short time will work great matters. London Derry is taken, and D●ublin in a sad condition.  

O Lord save us from being Slaves  
To the bloody Sect of Dorislaus.   
FINIS.