Queres to be considered of on the Kings much wished and hoped for arrival towards the City of LONDON.  

Quaere 1. whether his majesty's presence be not as much desired by the Commons, as his absence by some great ones? and whether he will not be as acceptable to the one, as rain to the thirsty ground, and to the other as the sentence of death to the malefactor.  
Quaere 2. Whether we ought not to give thanks to God and that in solemn manner, for carrying his majesty on, in so much health of body and cheerfulness of mind during this unnatural war, he having such ample cause to be impaired in both?  
Quaere 3. Whether or no, the King's Majesty be any ways to be constrained to new oaths, and involve himself in new Covenants, since he protesteth to keep his Coronation Oath, the very basis of our desire?  
Quaere 4. Whether the desires of the Army, are to be looked upon only with a glance, and whether their motions can be waved by any without an apparent danger to the whole kingdom.  
Quaere 5. Whether or no, if a second civil War should be set on foot, the most weakest eye would not discern that self-ends, the love of honour and gold, were the primary and immediate cause that incited the opposers of the Armies just desires to take the field again?  
Quaere 6. Whether the Committees or excizemen are not now so well fledged with borrowed feathers that they need not fear to fly abroad, and whether the Commons will not fire their nest.  
Quere 7. Whether the hearts of the Sectaries do not beat thicker than they were wont, fearing when the King cometh to them, their ringleaders will depart from them, and that Tubs shall not be filled as before?  
Quere 8. Whether Britannicus doth not repent, that he made Hue and Cry after the King, and that whereas before he spelled his name false, whether he wisheth not he had not spelled it at all, and whether he invoketh not Neptune to bear him safely to some foreign Land?  
Quere 9 Whether lily and Booker will not alter the course of the stars, and at the King's arrival prognosticate his after-tranquillity, and force the malevolent Planets to meet in conjunction for his good, and make predictions more mild than before?  
Quere 10. Whether some Divines will not alter the Orisons at the King's arrival, mention his name more frequently: whether for his sake they will not remember the Queen also: whether they will sing placebo in hope of preferment or not, and whether they will not be willing to become Prebends, Deans and officials, as ever before?  
Quere 11. Whether as the state of things are at present, the Bishop's government extirpated, and the Scotch form of Presbytery opening a wider gap for tyranny then before, Independency be not more to be tolerated, in 〈…〉ard that then all parties may have content; those that will admit of none but the old external form, and those whose consciences are not yet satisfied?  
Quere 12. Whether the sons of Ignorance do not despair, that Learning shall again be respected, and that the muse's sons shall once more rejoice, and that at the King's arrival the comic Sock and tragic Buskin shall again be worn?  
Quere 13. Whether there will not be a strict inquiry made after the carriage of things formerly effected, whether many will not want a satisfactory answer, and whether some will not be enforced to make restitution of extorted gold?  
Quere 14. Whether the King will not desire the Society of his Queen, and whether by God or man's Law he ought to be withheld from her?  
Quere 15. Whether our Tradesmen at the King's arrival will not fear to exercise their talon in preaching, and whether they will not choose rather to be Auditors than Instructors?  
Quaere 16. Whether some do not fear that there will be a settled Government, and that at the King's arrival, a conformity will be pressed on all men, and that schisms and factions shall be suppressed.  
Quaere 17. Whether some illiterate or envious persons will not grudge at these few Quaeres, and whether the Quaerist cares or no?   
FINIS.   

Printed in the year 1647.