THE REPRESENTATIONS OF HIS MAJESTIES ADHERENTS OF THE COURT and country, Their Interest with the KING, and the SCOTS with them.  
Published For satisfaction of the honest well-meaning people of the Kingdom. A. BORIALIS.  
LONDON, Printed for John Hickman, 1648   

THE COURT and country cavalier  
CAvaliers though they are many, yet they are all but of two sorts, The more subtle, and the more simplo. The Subtiltitian or politic Cavalier is one that detains the truth in unrighteousness. knows he is in an error but believes it wisdom for him to bee so. he does not Idolize the King( though content that others should) but himself: None indeed cries him up more nor in heart intends himself then he, who is content to be a royal slave that himself may be made a popular tyrant, he makes a Staulking-horse of Prerogative, to aim at preferment, either to keep what he hath, or to get what he would have, Court-honour and other mens estates. mark them, and in all their ways you shal see self-love the load-stone of their loyalty, even in these times of war, who faced better with the King and fought worse for him then they that before were in court-favour, no, it was their duty to attend him in the safest place of the field furthest from danger, and to advice him to ●●n for his life that the might do the like for theirs, the whilst the poor mercenary and seduced Cavaliers with some small men of honour stood to it till they fell and were offered in sacrifice like so many sheep and oxen to the prerogative mayor and minor of the King and his courtiers, who that while were shifting for themselves. Being as glad of the destruction of one another in case either of envy or ambition( the courtiers cardinal virtues) as of the roundheads their enemies. And because His Majesty found the past of his own party beate after that sort, he gave them fit phi●●●● for their disease, plied them with Court holy water, titular Honours and large promises, the press-money of prerogative, which they all took thankfully, and thereby were engaged for ever to fight under the Kings colours( if they ran not away) and all else that they by their petty prerogatives could engage with themselves for themselves, 〈◇〉 Whereupon:  
The Simplician or impoliticke Cavalier enters the lists, and sincerely but simply thinks he owes more duty to the King then to his Country, for which both he and the King was born; coming from his Hounds or his hawks, a Tavern or an Ale-house, chaps in on that side where he sees most good-fellows without fear or wit, and is at first so thunder-strucke with the word King, that he is never after able to recover his sences, but raves upon it without reason or consideration, ventures soul and body for him and is as sure of salvation if he die in so good a cause( though with damice him in his mouth) as a Romish Priest that is hanged at tyburn with the Popes pardon in his pocket, He thinks there is no sin but Tre●son and Rebellion, nor no Treason or Rebellion but against the person of the King, which yet is onely sacred for the Common-wealths sake, & therfore itself must needs be much more so, He valves a Pot and a Pipe above liberty and property, and thinks the Parliament is more against liberty than the King, because they talk of reformation. He never considers what's at stake except it be a bear or a Bull. Wanting wit himself he adores Prag●●●maticu●● for his, whom these simpler sort of Cavaliers have in as much admiration as country people when they came to Court were wont to have Archer or Will: Summers. They have heard talk of gallant men that fought for their King, to wit, against the French and Scotch, when Country and King were jointly engaged, he for it, and it for itself and him, and in their simplicity they take it for a general rule without exception, and think it equally honourable to fight for him against their Country, as when others fought both for him, and it against foreign nations. Who ever were better Souldiers then they that were the best Subjects( not slaves) or fought better for their King abroad then those that against usurpation defended their laws and Liberties at home, even these mens Progenitors. But because it never came under the caps of these their degenerate offspring( for virtue never runs long in a line) to fore-thinke the mischief of an arbitrary power, they they are angry that any are wiser then themselves and cry out of the Parliament for not making the King a glorious Prince( as they say is promised) that is, in their sense for not laying the reins of Government on the neck of the depraved will of one man, whereas it is alone for a man to reign as for a beast to reign witness the great Turk, & Christian Princes are to better if exposed without Laws to be Laws to themselves, and their inordinate wills backed with unlimited power, the proper effects of a negative voice and regal Militia, those piliers of arbitrary prerogative, so much insisted upon to bee reared by the Sco●● in England, who have indeed reason to stand for pr●●ogative when they themselves pretend to a negative voice( a s●ep further then the dispose of the Kings person) and pled the Covenant, not to be free denizens for t●●a's below them) but s●●klers in State, which design was formerly driven to their hand( though not behind their backs) by thirteen of the eleven, but now they are fain to set a good face on't and put for't them clves, their agitators being transmarine, they have  told us( I know not how often) that they waded up to the armpits in snow when they first came in, of purpose to help● their poor oppressed brethren but it seems upon the thaw their mindes changed or if it be the same, then they came to help the oppressed into oppression different languages being subject to mis-understanding. But if it be a change then are they in hope to make as good a bargain for themselves of prerogative as they did of the prince that being now under Scotch custody as he was then, and doubtless two such Jewels of the crown as are the Militia, and negative voice, now our brethren pretend to have them under lock and key, must be dearly redeemed as he was; when they go about to gratify for that mercenary over-fight by offering him a Scotch dispensation for his Coronation Oath here in England decrying the Parliaments preamble to the propositions as knowing the duty of his place better then they, and putting him in hope of a new war, but as the King of France once said to a King of England; It's better believing an open enemy than a false friend, and he found it true upon trial.  
Its dangerous trading with Scotch Merchants, but certainly the best way for us is to buy out the Covenant in gross, better than thus to retail it in parcels, and redeem our Legislative English Liberties and Properties, all at once of our dear Brethren, which it seems indeed the Scots came to fight for, and gave us leave to Conquer, that they might overcome, it being a received position, that Englishmen lose by Treaty what they get by the Sword, which emboldens our Brethren to hope to be too hard for us at blunt, though not at sharp, and therefore nothing will serve but a personal Treaty with the King, and a national with Them, by which and the Londoners good favour, they hope to make their Markets, and put us to an after game. But to return, though I am not much out of my way, nor wide of the Mark, when I take a Scot for a Cavalier, but I say to return:  
We have had woeful experience of the Kings inordinate desire to be absolute, notwithstanding Magna Charta, Petition of Right, The Coronation Oath. All which have proved but like Samsons cords, and consequently what can be imagined would have been the Peoples portion, if by conquest he had gotten above the Laws, especially when so many hungry Harpies as are advanced to Titles of Honour, must have had those Honours made honourable by proportionable Estates, and petty Prerogatives, the reward of their service. What Kings were ever more glorious then they that most studied their People, and least themselves, how have they had the hearts, hands, & purses of the whole Common-wealth, been able to fight with and conquer France and Scotland? The glory of a King is in the love and liberty of his Subjects, to be the King of Free-men, as the Parliament would make him, and not of slaves, as he would make himself. But those that are slaves to the devil, and their own lusts, and think it liberty to be so, no wonder, if they can brook the yoke of Arbitrary bondage, it is the fittest for them, and were just upon them, that have fought for it; and against them that fought for them against it. We have imitated so long the French fashions, that we had almost been Apes indeed, under no other government, but a Whip and a Bell. Its well some's wiser then some, and that the kingdom hath found friends, as well as the King fools and flatterers. Its strange to see how Englands mastiffs are turned to Shepherds Curs, mere Sheep-biters. True Honour and Valour was wont to Entitle a man Cavalier, but now it signifies nothing but a Malignant on horseback treading down his country, as St. George does the Dragon, only they have not yet attained the honour of a Signe-post, who deserve to be hanged in effigy, to the shane of parricides, but that the Hierogliphick of so strange a creature and monster of mankind, cannot be drawn to the life, except by a French Limn●r. The best representation of him is a Janisary, who is born a Christian and bread a turk, and whose nature is so changed by his Education, that ever after he fights against his own Father and Mother.  
Had the Cavaliers of old been no better, wiser, and nobler then those of this Age. The great Charter, and Great Britain too, had long before this day been low enough, and little enough, but as they are changed from Patriots to parricides, so there is hope when they are at worst they may turn English-men again, for they must aclowledge that either they are the Sons of Traitors and Rebels that fought for their Country, Laws, and Liberties; or that they themselves are so, for fighting against them. But they know as much what belongs to Reason and publick-weal or Interest, as the Horses they ride upon, therfore Ile leave them●… as I found them, sick of the Simples, and wait to see if the next change of the Moon will cure them, and restore them to their senses, which will hardly be, except their tongues as well as their hands be tied to the good behaviour( for they have wit to rule neither 〈…〉 and made to leave scolding as well as fighting, fo●… since they could not prevail with their Swords, they hope to carry it by words, and ceasing to be me●… they are turned women. Pragmatically valiant. Impri. Gilb. Mabbott.  
FINIS.