GOOD news For all true hearted Subjects: VIDELICET, The PARLIAMENT goes on.  Written by FRANCIS mussel, Vintner. 
THough Times be troublous, yet true peace I bring  
To all who fear God, and obey the King.  

This Emblem thus deciphers the intent,  
What by the ensign and the book are meant.  
The ensign clear above his head doth flourish,  
With joy to show that God his flock doth nourish.  
The Book presents to us the Truth, in which  
W'are taught of God how to be truly rich:  
So to exemplify and keep out harms,  
Are barricadoed with the City arms.  
Blessed be our God above, whose preservation  
Hath been to us, to all men's admiration.   

Soli Deo Gloria   depiction of a man holding a banner with the blazon or coat of arms of the City of London  

GOod news, true hearts, hear this,  
And be no longer sad:  
Though things have been amiss,  
Yet now we may be glad:  
Some were abusive, and too blame,  
Yet all shall well e'er long  
Reformed be, let's bless God's name:  
The Parliament goes on.   

Those that have been ill members  
In Church and commonweal,  
And proved themselves dissemblers,  
Their Knaveries to heal,  
Shall plainly be unmasked, and then  
Must suffer for the wrong,  
Whereby they have oppressed poor men,  
The Parliament goes on.   

Some would have brought cursed Popery  
Into this blessed Isle,  
With Masses, Crosses, Foppery,  
'Twas feared, within a while.  
Their Beads and holywater  
Were false, and smelled too strong:  
But better news came after:  
The Parliament, &c.   

No tricks of man's inventions  
Can cross our just desires,  
Though base be the intentions  
Of Jesuites and friars,  
That would obscure, if they knew how,  
The truth of every tongue;  
But they'll be more discovered now:  
The Parliament, &c.   

Where sneak your lame Projectors  
That did men's means devour,  
The commonwealth's infectors,  
Whilst they had any power.  
Poor children oft might want their bread,  
By tricks they snatched it from  
Them; but such rascal's names are spread.  
The Parliament, &c.   

The judge unjust doth tremble,  
When Truth doth come to light;  
Nor dares stay to dissemble,  
But run away by night.  
The conscience will declare most clear,  
What mischiefs men have done;  
For now things plainly do appear,  
The Parliament goes on.   

Such men as have been faithful  
To God, King, State, and Land,  
Though vicious men be hateful,  
Yet honest men will stand,  
To venture coin and goods, nay this,  
Their life, even all they can,  
For truth's sake, and true hearts that wish  
The Parliament go on.   

Alas we helpless Commons,  
Our hearts began to bleed,  
To swear to the new Cannons,  
Et Caetera, indeed:  
We might inthraled ourselves thereby  
If such a thread we'ad spun:  
But we had grace them to deny,  
The Parliament goes on.   

Thus were we pinched and straightened,  
Nay almost stupify'de  
In sense, yet now well wakened  
By the true supreme Guide,  
Who never any heart forsakes,  
Which ever rests upon  
God, and his cares to him betakes:  
The Parliament goes on.   

To take the Protestation, 
2 Chr. 15. 2   
Good subjects strive and choose;  
No friends unto our Nation  
I think them that refuse.  
Religion must be perfect pure, 
Iam. 1. 2   
Not wavering to turn, 
Iam. 1. ●   
Than God will be with us, 
Matt▪ 28. 2  be sure,  
The Parliament, &c.   

The King, Queen, and royal Progeny,  
God bless with many years.  
Lord, to this Nation ne'er deny  
Good honest noble peers;  
That we reposing all our trust,  
In thee may flourish still:  
Then all our Foes shall be accursed,  
In hatching any ill.   

The Members of our Parliament,  
Lord give them happy days,  
With grace and truth, with one consent,  
Direct in all their ways,  
That all may for thy glory stand,  
Unto Eternity,  
Lord crown them in the Blessed Land,  
Amen, Amen, say I.    

¶ Printed with Licence, by R. H. for T. B. and are to be sold at his shop in the Old Bayly. 1641.