THE LOYAL SUBJECTS LAMENTATION FOR LONDON'S Perverseness, in the Malignant Choice of some Rotten Members, on Tuesday the 19 of March 1661.  
OH horrid Monsters! what strange News is here,  
When Factious Locusts thus in Swarms appear.  
At Guild-Hall-Gate, where they do freely Vote  
For such vild Scabs, who soon would cut the Throat  
Of Justice, and would have all idle sport  
In Churches used; Nay, they a Tennis-Court  
Would make it, if they could (by Lot or Fate)  
Obtain the Power to Rule in Church or State.  
The City Vermine in Guild-Hall did cry  
(Both Independent and Presbytery.)  
For Love, whose zeal so hot was set on work,  
That he declared he'd rather see a Turk  
Then a Sursingle, Rub on, there's none can  
Bowl better than this Independent man.  
Then Anabaptists they aloud did cry  
With Jack Presbyter 'gainst Episcopy.  
Saying, Fowk was a Member fit they knew,  
Who had the Brains to cheat a subtle Jew.  
So well his Cash, with cursed Self he loves,  
As did appear by those lefthanded gloves.  
He sold the Jew alone, but after they  
Were gone, he made his Chapman sound pay  
For Fellows to them, thus his pregnant wit  
Makes him a man for Parliament so fit.  
Next Echoed forth a dismal thundering Voice,  
Crying for Thompson; Oh such hellish Choice  
Will us undo; London, thy case all pity,  
And pray these Vermin may not spoil thy City.  
Such Shrubs and Stump will spoil a Royal Oak,  
Who have their Rise from stinking Indian smoke.  
As this rare Pedlar, whose ever smoking Brains  
Doth smoke and smell as hot and strong as Grains,  
The House wherein he sits, O England, pity,  
For why, 
The only honest man amongst them if any.  his breath will poison a Committee.  
The next was Jones, another smoker, chose,  
That all good subjects by the Choice suppose  
They did appoint that day for to undo  
Themselves, their King, I and their Country too.  
But stay, methinks I hear blind Justice say  
The Vote is carried a contrary way;  
For Independent Voices did appear:  
The Anabaptist and the Presbyter,  
Many of whom we may Malignants make  
Because they never yielded yet to take  
The Oath of true Allegiance to their King▪  
Which well their persons might in question bring  
With their estates; How can the Vote  
Of such stand firm, who have no note  
Of Loyalty; I do presume they are  
Chose by Malignants; Ergo, 'tis not fair.  
Thus have you Four sad Stewards chose, God send  
Them ne'er to sit, or soon to have an end.  
London, lament your Case, you plainly see  
Your worthy Burgesses, and what they be,  
Base factious Persons, of a rigid spirit,  
Chose by sad persons without Grace or merit.  
Yet if they stand without a just Return,  
God send the Commons House may soon Adjourn.  
And all that can displease so mild a KING  
As CHARLES' the Second, God in due time bring  
Them to an end, and grant they may as well  
HOYLE themselves as did Achitophel.   

LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1660