CROP-EAR CURRIED, OR, TOM NASH His GHOST, Declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last Parricidicall Pamphlets, being 92 Sheets in Quarto, wherein the one of them he stretched the Sovereign Power of Parliaments; in the other, his newfound way of opening the counterfeit GREAT SEAL. Wherein by a short Survey and Ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, nonsense, blasphemies, Foreign and Domestic, uncivil, civil Treasons, Seditions, Incitations, and precontrivements, in Mustering, Rallying, Training and Leading forth into Public so many Ensigns of Examples of old revived Rebels, or new devised Chimaeras. With a strange Prophecy, reported to be Merlin's, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some Authors) it is said to be the famous Witch of ENDOR'S.  
Runton, Pollimunton Plumpizminoi Fapperphandico.  
By JOHN TAYLOR.  
Printed in the year, 1644.   

Errata.  
In pag. 8. lin. 20. for bold, read bowled▪ lin. 25. for Penury, read Penry, in p. 13. line 29. for told, read took.  
There are divers Latin words thrust into this mine Answer to his pestiferous Pamphlets, which words I neither understand, know the Authors, or thank them for it, as in pag. 11. lin. 5. and in pag. 18. lin. 30, 31. Celarent & Fleta, etc.   

TOM NASH HIS GHOST, OR, THE CURRYING OF CROP-EAR, etc.  
IN this Mad, Sad, Cold Winter of discontent. About the end of October last 1643, The Moon being near her change, and obscure in our Horizon, not one Star appearing, the sky (like an Ebon Canopy) muffled up the Hemisphere in an universal sable robe of Melancholy black, so that darkness was made a Mask which hide the Mournful visage of our Mother Earth; In and at such a time, when nothing was waking or walking, but Thiefs, Lovers, Careful minds, Owls, Bats, Ghosts, Witches and Goblins etc. About the Waste or Navel of the night, Drowsy Somnus came stealing to me, and with his Leaden Mace arrested me, at the suit of my old Lady Nox, which Arrest I obeyed by untying, unbuttoning, and quite undoing myself, and to bed; Where suddenly I winked at the faults of all the world, shutting up the two shop windows of my Microcosm, & (like a nimble Clothworker) I presently set a Nap upon my Threadbare eyes. I had not laid long in this silent pleasing Embrace of Mounsieur Morpheus but there appeared unto me a poor old swarthy fellow, with starcing hair, Neglected beard, Ashy Ghastly look, with a black Clo●th Cloak upon his back, which he had worn as thin as if it had been Serge, whereby I conceived him to be a Poet) I begun to be puzzled with this strange Apparition, & asked him whom he was, and what his business was with me.  
Quoth he, my name is Thomas or Tom Nashe, who when this Airy shadow of mine had a corporeal substance, I had a jerking, firking, jerking, Satirical and Poetical vein, Pegasus was my Palfrey, the Muses were my Minions, Tempe, Aganipp●, the Thespian, heliconian and Castalian Fountains did yield me Diarnall and Nocturnal Tributary Nectar: Fame and Defame were my Vassals, and I could make them both wait on whom I list, I knew Honour, and I Honoured it, spurned at Flattery, I loved Truth, I despised Riches, yet I lived and died Rich enough to be a Poet. And so much shall suffice to tell the what I was.  
Now in the next place Il'ecertifie thee whence I came, and what mine errend is: know this, that about the 30th year of the Reign of Renowned Queen Elizabeth, She and the Protestant Religion (which She defended and Maintained) were oposed and troubled with Heretics, Papists, Schismatics, Separatists, Brownists, Annabaptists, Familists, and Atheists; All of these disagreeing, yet all against the Church, and Government Ecclesiastical and Civil here established. Amongst those innumerable Locusts that then were spewed from the Bottomless Pit, there crawled and swarmed over the Kingdom, a Crew of Rascals called Martinists; whose Laxative Purity did most shamefully in printed toys, Pamphlets, and Lying Libels, besquitter all England over with such points of Doctrine, as was never known by Christ and his Apostles. And these Martin's Entitled their Pasquil's by the Impudent and saucy names of Martin Mar Prelate. These scandalous Rail of theirs were then answered by as Grave, Wise, Learned, and Reverend men as England yielded, and they were (by Scriptures, Fathers, Counsels, Divinity, Humanity, Learning, Wit, Wisdom, Truth, Sense, and Reason) Confuted; but none of these were available, for like anvils, the more knocks they had the more obdurate they were; insomuch that those Martin's like Caterpillars increased most pestiferously,  
I perceiving, that wisemen could do no good with those Vermin Began to take them in hand myself, & (whetting my Wits) I put some Aquafortis and Gall into my Inckhorn, with which I wrote a delicate discourse of Martin Mar tone, and Mar to theridamas and with a mess of Papp● with a Hatch●●, I made the Nest of Mischievous, Malevolent, Malignant Martin's take their flight from hence into the Low Countries.  
But the venom of these Vipers was so dispersed and scatterred in sundry places of this Land, that though my Satire's whip had lashed their leaders from hence, yet the Impostumated Matter of theirs was never through Ripe till now of late▪ for now thou see'st they have Perfited their hellish plots, their Pens and Pulpits, have (under the pretence and show of Religion and Law,) almost overthrown both.  
Wherefore, my well-wishing and beloved friend john Taylor, my Ghost hath made a short escape from Elysium, to stir thee up to Nip, and Whip, strip and Snip, these Matchless, Headless, Heedless Rebels, who are divided into three parts, Burtonians, Prinnians, and Bastwickians; for ti's certain that from Burtons' Divillity, Prinnes Illegal Law, and Bastwicks' poisoned Pills and Pamphlets, the most part of all the Horrid and Barbarous Impieties and Cruelties have proceeded, wherewith this Afflicted Kingdom is most miserably oppressed and over run.  
Concerning William Prinne, he hath lately writ two damnable and detestable Books, stuffed with as much hypocrisy Villainy, Rebellion and Treason as the Malice of the Devil, and his own mischievous brain could invent. The one is partly Titled THE SOVEREIGN POWER OF PARLIAMENTS. The other, is called THE OPENING OF THE GREAT SEAL. Jack, (kind Jack) I Conjure thee to take this Railing fellow in hand, look upon his wicked works, view his villainies, squeeze the Quintessence of his eighty and odd sheets of printed Confusion into 12 leaves in Quarto, that the abominable charge of his worthless high prized Volumes, (at ten or twelve shillings) may by thee be Epitomised▪ Abreviated, and Kirtled in Bulk, and price to  a piece. Fear not, go on Boldly, I will leave my Genius with thee, which shall Inspire thee, and infuse into thee such Terrible, Torturing, Tormenting, Termagant flames and flashes as shall Firk, Ferret, and force Prinne and his partners run quite out of that little wit that is left them▪ and desperately save the Hangman a Labour, farewell.  
This being said, the Ghost vanished, whereat I started up, put on my , fell to reading the aforesaid books at large, & with my pen made this short following abstract.  
Room for an old empty Pageant, drawn by the Trojan (or Grecian Horse) or rather by Sinon, the inventor of that wooden Palfrey. But this Beast claims his pedigree from Bucephalus, and hath had his ears twice Cropped, to bring him into the Capital Roundness of the Fashion, and (known to be so full of mettle) was marked (lest he should be stolen,) with two brands in the cheeks; he brags further to be descended from baalam's Ass, and overdoes his Predecessor in Imitation, for that Ass did reprove but, one Prophet (for which he had a large Commission) but this animal, (Saucily) reproves all the Prophets without Wit, Reason, Sense, Order or lawful Commission. This worthily marked jennet (like the Egyptian Ass that carried the Goddess Isis) so all the usurping Major Penningtons' Magazine are enclosed in Prinnes four books (or parts) of the Sovereign power of Parliaments, Ordered to be printed by the Fornicating Brownist M. john White, and confirmed by the New broad Scale, (lately opened by himself) And although three of those parts of his four (being eighty six sheets) printed close in large Quarto; hath been soberly, solidly, and fully answered in less than one leaf in Quarto, by too worthy a writer for him to Reply upon, yet he still Brays aloud, (like Apulcius his Ass) cries out, no man dares or can answer him, because it is done by Weight and not by Number, like a Scold at Billingsgate, is ready to cry for anger, because no body will scold with him; wherefore, to salve or plaster the poor scorned wranglers credit, as also to save his longing for this once, who desires to see his own picture by Reflection in a looking Glass, Sirrah Boy, bring me hither my pencil, for I have all the four feet of the Beast sure enough in the Trammels, that he can do no hurt, with Kicking, and his mouth is muzzled with his new Great (or Broad) Scale, that he is sure enough for Biting, and therefore let him frisk, and wince, and bray as long and loud as he list, I will rub the Galled jade till he be sensible, and either cure him, or make him see that there is no way but one for him, and that ere long his skin must come to Gregory the whit tayer; and to that purpose like a Dutch Limmer, I thus draw my first line in the just Symmetry; and therefore have at the fore-leg of the beast on the near side, as it is delineated in his first part of his Sovereign or Power of Parliaments.  
First, Sir to ommit your Embossed swollen Tiles (to your four good parts) which are like the Gates of Mindus, large enough for the whole town to run out at. I come to the preface of your first part, wherein you say That some Members of Parliament Induced you to enlarge that part of your Discourse, In this you are beleiud, for by you it was produced; by them you were Induced, and by the Devil you were seduced both to begin, prosecute, and finish the whole frame and form of your formless falsities and fooleries, besides it is not to be imagined that any true Christian, Protestant, or Loyal Subject, would either have induced, encouraged, approved, and rewarded your impious Studies and Voluminous pains taking, but only some of the sweet Members: thus fare I allow you.  
In the thirty second line of the preface, you Protest before the Great judge of Heaven & Earth, that you have wittingly maintained nothing, but what your judgement and Conscience both, Biased to no Sinister ends: Rub, Rub, hold Bias, that which followeth, will show the Reader what your Biased JUDGEMENT, CONSCIENCE, is. And in the sixty first line he protests again, That the effecting and restoring of a blessed Harmony of Peace and Quietness, throughout our Kingdom, was one principal end of this his Labour. The end of your Labour, will certify us the care you have in observing the truth of your great protestations. And so much for your praeludium, face, or preface; Now I proceed to the first of your 4. Good parts.  
On his first part of his Sovereign power of Parliaments. In the second pag. 'tis said that by A Declaration in Parliament (that is by a Faction in Parliament) Commissions are granted to Papists against Law to secure the King in these Wars. And pag. 3. that it is unsafe for his Majesty to put Arms into the hands of papists, and make use of them to protect the King's person or Crown. The Declaration we confess was out, but neither in nor out, by, or from, any power or Authority of a Parliament; for all the world knows that a Parliament is the highest and most Supreme Court, of greatest power, Veneration, Dignity and Authority, to which all other Courts must submit, and from which Court there is no appeal on Earth. Furthermore a Parliament doth Consist of a King, all the Peers & Barons of the Land, with the Knights & Burgesses of every County, Burrough and Town in the Kingdom; such a Parliament hath Sovereign power, whereof, and wherein the King is the Head, & the two Houses of Lords & Commons are the Body, which as long as the Head and Body are joined, is the only highest and Superlative Court, and hath the whole Sovereign power in it; and such an honourable high, (yea highest) Court and Senate was this, till such time as some Factious Members, by suffering Clamours, Routs, disloyal demeanours, and Tumultuous Assemblies and meetings, drove away the head to escape danger & seek safety, whereby parts of the honourable and Loyallest Members followed, leaving behind them a few Factious, Ambitious, Rebellious Sectaries, who having no Head, or scarce a good limb, do with headless and heedless impudence presume to call themselves a Parliament. And you Sir, with your Inck-squittering Treacherous Pamphlets are the main prop and pillar to uphold the sovereign unsavoury power of their Factious Conventicles. And thus have I briefly shown thee what is, and what is not a Parliament. And therefore the Declaration aforesaid, is from the power of no Parliament, but that the King (by their leave) may make use of His Popish subjects, as the pretended Parliament did (without the King's leave) of Ireish Rebels slain at Worcester, and their popish Walloons, maintained to have Mass at Fulham, but according to your Rule (M. P.) one must ask his fellow if he be a thief, let you and your abetters be your own judges, & hang ye all if you condemn yourselves, the case is altered, when Ployden's Bull is in the pound. I would have thee know that a papist is a thing that would live, and hath the sense to flee from danger and some wit to avoid it, he hath also the skill, means, and courage to fight and defend himself, and he holds it better to serve his King, under whom he hath security and shelter, (as long as he is Loyal) then to be enthralled by you, from whom he can expect nothing but Ruin and destruction.  
Concerning your long Treatise which you call the Treachery and Disloyalty of papists against their Sovereigns. Me thinks their old treacheries should be no precedents for you or any man or Members whatsoever to be Rebels and Traitors. For as those Crimes in them do seem odious to you, so your Villainies (transcending theirs) cannot be made Amiable by any of your Sophisticating Legerdemain Meanders. The powder Plot, I confess was Hell's Master piece, but you have done your best (amongst you) to outdo it; They that had a hand in it, (to the perpetual brand and infamy of that Religion) did all profess to be Roman Catholics, but let impartial Truth be the judge, and it will be found that the Contrivers and Actors in that horrid Plot, were of no Religion at all, and that they usurped the name and stile of Christians, (as you and your Crew do the Titles of Protestant and Parliament) for the chief of them had run out of fair Estates, by riotous feasting, drinking, drabbing, gaming, and all manner of profuse licentiousness, which when all was gone, and themselves involved and precipitated into bottomless Debts, than they grew melancholy desperate, and to raise their broken Fortunes upon the ruins of this mother Kingdom that nursed and bred them, devised that abhorred and detestable Plot; some there were of good estates and shallow capacities, who were seduced to aid with money and means, by the persuasions of Garnet and others, (for such a Treason, or scarce any other mischief cannot be plotted without the brain of a Jesuit, which makes very understanding heads conjecture that Prinne, and his Faction doth hold correspondency with them in these their abominable unparallelled Treasons.) Never was it heard or read that any, that profess to be Christians, did contrive or attempt so cruel, bloody, barbarous and execrable a Design; therefore I conclude them neither Christians or Roman Catholics, but mere Atheists, Libertines, and incarnate Devils. But by this I may be drawn into some suspicion, that I am popishly addicted or affected; to which I answer, that the true Church was once at Rome, for Saint Paul, Rom. 1. 8. gave God thanks through Jesus Christ for them all that their Faith was spoken of (in some Translations) famous, or published throughout the whole world: that faith Rome is fallen from, and in the stead thereof, she hath a Faith and Religion, so intermingled with humane Traditions and inventions of men, which is unsafe for a Christian to live and die in. But for all this a Protestant must not cast away all that is used at Rome, for they have God's Word there, they have the Scriptures there, which though they abuse, yet we have free liberty to use; and it is not their Religion, or ours that are Protestants, or any other who hold the Fundamental points, grounds, and Articles of the Christian Faith, that can be compulsively thrust into the souls of men, for an enforced Religion takes no root in the conscience, a persuasive may, which made the Patriarch Noah, Gen. 9 27. say, God persuade thee Japhet to dwell in the Tents of Shem; here is a Prayer for God's persuasion, not for man's enforcing the conscience.  
I have been the longer about this argument concerning the Papists, because my nimble Antagonists doth Cuckoo-like play upon the same tone and tune. So much in answer to Prinnes first argument.  
The second is page 5. & 7. The Papists have exercised a greater power over Kings than this Parliament doth; therefore this Parliament may do what it doth. Well, confessed, shake hands with the Pope, and be friends, we see these Round-headed Boatmen row the same way with the Romish Rebels, howsoever like Cutpurses they seem to quarrel one against another, that they may make a fray in the midst of a crowd unspied.  
The third and fourth Arguments are, page 7. & 9 Some Kings have been forced to call Parllaments, and have been deposed by their Subjects; therefore all Kings may be forced to the like, and be deposed by Parliaments. Well, bold Brother, now we begin to perceive how your judgement and conscience is biased. Why couldst thou not as well justify the Devil? Lucifer did rebel, therefore all may rebel, but I will help thee to a more concludent and significant Argument.  
Penury was tried legally at the Assizes, and hanged in Queen Elizabeth's time, for less Treason than this, therefore Prinne aught to be tried legally, and hanged in King Charles his time for this Treason. Also in the seventh Page and thirteenth line he mentions the deposing and death of Vortigerne, (a wicked King) to bolster out Treasons, and colour Rebellions against a good King; also how Sigebert King of the West Saxons, was deposed and murdered; and Ofred King of Northumberland likewise deposed; Ethelred his next Successor slain by his Subjects at Cobre, and how the People expulsed Bernard and Ceolwulph Kings of Mercia, and the like they did to Edwin King of Northumberland: these seventh and eighth Pages are sufficiently stuffed with Treasons of great Antiquity, some of them a thousand, and some twelve hundred years old, which were done by wicked Subjects against most wicked Kings, some of them Pagans, and not any of them a good Christian, and some usurpers that came to the Regal Dignity, by murdering the lawful Heirs; so that these precedents are inserted by Prinne out of the damnable, inveterate, impertinent malice of his heart, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. And it is an inscrutable Quere, what mischief Prinne would not do, to do the King a mischief.  
Page 5. line 39 He calls this our present Protestant Parliament. It is approved by lamentable experience, that the word [present] is too true, but as for the Parliament, it is passed any good Subjects understanding to know where it is; it is confessed, that it was at Westminster, but Rebellion hath scattered and shattered it into so many places, that upon the matter it is in no place, but of this I have spoken of before. It is also a transcendent ignorance and impudence in this fellow, to call this seditious Conventicle a Protestant Parliament; I pray thee, which way Protestant? Do they hold any Grounds, Maxims, or Tenets of the Protestant Religion? 'Tis most manifest that the six year's Persecution of the Protestants in the bloody Reign of Queen Mary never destroyed and ruinated half so many Protestants, as those Brownistical, and anabaptistical, bloody, tyrannical Sectaries have done within these two years, for none but Protestants have and do suffer, and no Religion but the Protestants is despised, derided, disgraced and trampled under foot, therefore neither Protestant Parliament, or Parliament, or Protestant.  
Now, Sir, to your fifth and sixth Arguments, from p. 19 to 32. you affirm that Popish Parliaments, Lords and Subjects, have by force of Arms compelled their Kings to confirm their Liberties, etc. and have affirmed, that when a Parliament was once met together, by lawful Summons, it might not be dissolved or discontinued again at the King's mere pleasure, and therefore this Parliament may do and defend the like.  
Proceed with your Popish practices and positions, and fulfil the iniquity of your forefathers, yet you do not so politickely as you were wont, to let the People see whence you derive your pretended Authority for abusing your present Prince, Take heed, lest they take up the Proverb, We have put down one Pope and set up many. Moreover in pag. 27. line 7. It was told King Richard the Second that if he absented from the Parliament forty days, not being sick, they might by Law rise or break up. Though you have no more power to dissolve than call a Parliament, I pray, who forbids you to take the benefit of that Law? who holds you but you may rise and break up? It cannot be said but you have risen, (with a witness) to such an height of impiety and Rebellion, as no age or Nation can parallel; and for your breaking up it hath been superlative, for there is no Law of God, or Nature, or Nations but you have broken up and down too; and if Treason, Murder, Burglary, Felony, were accounted any breaking of Laws amongst you, and that you should all have legal Trials for those Crimes, The Lord have mercy upon you, there are but few of you that could be saved by your Book; therefore let your factious Conventicle rise, and go home to their houses when they please; the King hath been absent from them more than five times forty days, for it is almost two years since they drove Him from them, therefore they may rise, and yet never break up any Parliament. I remember in pag. 28. line 15. the Cheshire men are much beholding to Master Prinne for calling them Rude and beastly People, (I wish you would go in person thither and tell them so) because they tendered themselves as a Guard for the person of King Richard the Second, in a time of Rebellion, for which they are honoured ever since with the Proverb of Cheshire chief of men.  
Pag. 33. to p. 42. His Arguments are concerning the power of Parliaments, and that the whole Parliament is greater than the King alone. They are such absurd equivocations, as (although he still follows the footsteps of his Fathers the Papists) yet his Brethren the Jesuits would be ashamed of such kind of arguing; and therefore he doth wisely to conceal their Association; for who knows not, that the Parliament, that is to say, the King, the Head, and the two Houses, the Members assembled together, have a Sovereign and transcendent Power, and excelling Dignity; but it follows not therefore, that the two Houses considered apart from their Sovereign, much less a few Members (a small parcel of that part) are of like eminency and authority, no more than it follows, Master Burton a Divine, Doctor Bastwicke a Physician, and Master Prinne an utter-Barrester stood all on the Pillory, and lost their ears, in one and the same hour, for one and the same Crime, of railing, slandering, and seditious libelling, therefore Master Burton, Doctor Bastwicke, and Master Prinne have all three one and the same soul, suffered all in one and the same Body, Bastwicke and Burton lost their ears for Prinne, by way of sympathy or co-ordination, (because Prinnes Ears were lost long before) and so se invicem supplent: and any two of them have all the capacities of all three; the Divine and Physician make a Lawyer, the Lawyer and Physician make a Divine, and the Divine and Lawyer make a perfect Physician, this is Prinnes Logic, by which he may prove his half Ears to be whole ones, and the Five Members to have as much power as both Houses.  
In pag. 42. for his Answer to the Objection concerning the King's absence from Parliament, affirming, that He is absent as a man, but present as a King; it is as learned as that is loyal which justifies the shooting bullets at Him in his personal capacity, yet obeying Him in his Regal capacity, and I believe both had their original from the same Master of Sentences, The Spirit of the Air which rules in the hearts of such children of disobedience.  
In pag. 44. & 45. Concerning his Arguments from Scripture, I will say no more, but when the Fox preaches, beware your Geese, for I am sure the Devil had his Scriptum est, (it is written) as well as he wrists, mangles, and misapplies it as ill as ever did the Devil. If any Diraan please to search, he shall find that the Devil hath but his due in this trial, betwixt Master Prinne and himself.  
Pag. 46. to 112. As for his Law and Law-bookes, let him look them over again, (if he took them not upon trust) as he doth the rest of his Learning, from Indices, Glossaries, Covels Interpreter, Lexicon Juris, etc. And he shall find, that they never attributed the most absolute and supremest Power of Head and Body (to use his own phrase) to the Parliament, but when it is a perfect true Parliament, consisting of the Head, the King, as well as of the Body, the Houses; nor would any man that is not as headless as Prinne is earlesse, have been so heedless in his own Authors, let all men that mean to be cozened become Prinnes Clients, he shall vouch Book-law enough, but not one law-case to the purpose; witness his instances of the Parliament lawfully deposing the King; and of the Parliaments power to dispose the Kingdom to what Family they please, and the like; he that wants a Kingdom, let him come to Prinnes market, he will afford large pennyworths, now he sets Kingdoms to sale, any man may buy one, or if he miss, he shall be sure to have Bulls enough at a cheap rate.  
Pag. 51. & lin. 33. He saith, King Edward the Confessor, took his Oath at his Coronation upon the Evangelists, and blessed Relics of S. S. (what is all that to King Charles?) indeed Prinne and his Members are worthy to have a King that will swear by Relics, for with a most treacherous diffidence, they will not believe a most gracious Christian King, that hath often sworn and protested by the true Almighty God to defend and maintain the true Protestant Religion, the Laws of the Land, the Subjects Liberty and Right, with all the Privileges of Parliaments, all which Oaths and Protestations his Majesty hath never broke, though a crew of perfidious Villains do slander Him most traitorously, with the aspish venom of their viperous Tongues, the pestiferous poison bawled, belched, and vomited from hireling Schismatical Preachers, and the Presses being oppressed with printing of infamous Lies, and Libels, for which (no doubt) but your great Master (the Burgess of Barathrum, as sure as George Peard is Burgess of Barstaple) who set you on work, will not fail to pay you your wages.  
In pag. 52. that William Conqueror took his Oath before the Altar of the Apostle S. Peter: this is as suitable stuff as the rest, but me thinks Prinne should not name an Altar, without an H. and if the Apostle knew you gave him his just Title of Saint, it is unknown how kindly he would take it; but diminutive mighty Isaak with your Taskmasters (the Members) that set you on work would utterly dislike your utter Barrestership, for daring to Saint any Apostle or Saint whom they by their Votes have unsainted.  
Pag. 79. He urges the deposing of King Edward the Second, and in pag. 80. he makes another traitorous precedent of the deposing of King Richard the Second, but he never mentions the mischiefs that this Kingdom endured by those wicked paracidicall Villains, I will reckon a few of them.  
First, Parson John Ball with Wat Titler, Jack Straw, and Jack Shepherd, arose in rebellion, etc. Anno 1379. murdered Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury, for which insurrection and murder 1500. Rebels were hanged in several places, look to it Prinne one place will serve your turn.  
Anno 1450. One Bluebeard was a Captain of Rebels, but they were quickly foiled, some hanged, and some taken, and for a token of remembrance, James Fiennes Lord Say, than Lord Treasurer of England, was found guilty of many Treasons, and handsomely hanged, in the 29. year of King Henry the Sixth.  
After that, Jack Cade a Bricklayer, and withal a counterfeit Mortimer, did then, as some of his Tribe do now, tax the King with evil Counselors; thus Cade raised an Army of Rebels, which were not suppressed without the loss of 5000 men, besides other outrages committed.  
Anno 1454. As the Battle of S. Alban, betwixt the Yorkifts, and Lancastrians, King Henry the Sixth lost 8000 men, and the Duke of York 6000.  
At Blore-heath field in Shrop-shire, 1459. between the King and the Earl of Warwick 4000 men slain, the 38 year of Henry the Sixth.  
At the Battle of Northampton, 3000 men were slain, between Queen Margaret and the Barons, and there King Henry the Sixth was taken prisoner.  
At the Battle of Wakefield Queen Margaret told Richard Duke of York and beheaded him, 4000 men slain.  
Anno 1460. At the Battle of Towton, Queen Margaret brought into the field 60000 men, and King Edward the Fourth had 49000 in which fatal Battle 36000 men were slain.  
Anno 1462. At the Battle of Exham in the North, between Queen Margaret and the Lord Marquis Mountacue 16000 men were slain.  
Anno 1467. At the Battle of Banbury, the 7. of King Edward the Fourth, between William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, and Queen Margaret's Forces 7000 slain.  
In the 9 of Edward the Fourth, at the Battle of Lose-coatesfield in Lincolnshire betwixt the King and the Barons 10000 slain.  
At the Battle at Teuxbury, Prince Edward eldest son to King Henry the Sixth was stabbed and murdered, and 3000 slain.  
And lastly, at the Battle at Barnet betwixt King Edward and the Earls of Warwick and Oxford, who were both killed and 10000 slain, the King being Victor.  
This I have inserted by way of digression, to show how the Divine vengeance was the reward for the deposing of a lawful King, for so all the world knows Richard the Second was; above eighty years was this woeful Land an unnatural bloody Theatre, wherein Englishmen against Englishmen did act all manner of unchristian cruelties, in which Dissension more than 60 of the Blood Royal were slain, besides others in abundance of Nobility and Gentry, as also more than 125000 common Soldiers, as our Histories relate, and to such a pass as this hath Master Prinne and his Faction done their best to bring it to again, as within these three years they have prettily begun and prosecuted.  
Page 87. He quotes the falling away of the ten Tribes from Rehoboam for a precedent for Rebellion, page 88 all along he mentions the deposing of wicked Popes, page 9 he repeats the words of Caiphas, That it was expedient that one should die for the people, (though a King, yea Christ the King of Kings) that the whole Nation perish not, rather than the whole Nation perish for him. O thou blasphemous beast, Dost thou so fare hate the Lord's Anointed, as to justify the crucifying of our Saviour, in expression of thy malice to thy Sovereign? Good Sir, there is no such necessity that either the King or Subject should die one for another, or that they should so much as distaste each other, nor had this lamentable Distraction been between them, but that your delicate Master the Devil hath, by your means, set them at Division. In his 91. page he speaks some Truth, That the King hath not power to tyrannize over his Subjects, or to oppress them with perpetual irremediable slavery. Good Master Gandergoose, 'tis confessed, that the King hath no such power, nor ever did he exercise any such Tyranny as you talk of, but you and your Accomplices have usurped a Traitorous power to yourselves, whereby ye have tyrannised over his Majesty's Subjects in more savage and barbarous manner than Turks or Tartars would have done. page 92. Prinne speaks a parcel of nonsense in capital Letters, It is lawful for the people (submitting themselves) to subscribe the King and his Successors what Law they please. O! what might this fellow's Head be worth at a hard Siege, when one of his Brother's Heads was sold at Samaria for 80 pieces of Silver, 2. King. 6. 25.  
Pag. 97. he saith, that King Edward the sixth, and Queen Elizabeth did hold their Crowns by Parliamentary title rather than by the course of common Law. Baw waw, indeed their legitimacy was objected against by some opulent Papists, because their Father the King had married the Lady Katherine, who was first his Brother Arthur's wife, and after 21 year's marriage, the King caused her to be divorced from him, and he marrying other wives in her life time, the children's Right (by birth) was by some Malignants questionable; to clear which doubts, the King caused their legitimacy to be confirmed by Act of Parliament, and so much in Answer to that absurd Treason.  
Pag. 101. he says, Charles the third, Emperor was deposed by the Princes, Dukes, and Governors of Germany because he was mad. Surely thou art not well in thy wits, to meddle with that mad Emperor, whose madness or deposing concerns neither thee nor thy mad Cause thou pratest and liest so in; then he talks of Wenceslaus the Emperor, and Childerick King of France, how they were both deposed; And yet in the 104 pag. he confesses, the King hath no Peer, He is not to have a Superior, and that the King ought not to be under man, but God. If Justice be demanded of him by way of Petition, (because no Writs runs against him) if he do not justice, this punishment may be sufficient to him, that God will revenge it; and yet presently again he says, the Parliament is above the King. Thus you see how sometimes the Devil gives him leave to speak truth against his will, though presently he fall from it again, as being not toothsome; was ever such a Crop-eared Ass, that would thus contradict himself? In the 106 pag. he says, the Emperors had not highest power in Rome, and yet he cannot deny that Saint Paul appealed to Caesar, from whom there was no appeal.  
In the 112 and last page, he calls the Rebels that the King's Forces took at Cicester, good People, he complains much of their hard usage, (I think he means because they were not hanged) it was winter, he says, and that they were forced to go barefooted in Triumph to Oxford, truly we are beholding to your Faction for the kind entertainment you have given to the King's good Subjects when you have taken them, you have either lovingly cut their Throats in cold blood, or courteously hanged them, or hospitably famished them, freely imprisoned them, bountifully robbed and plundered them, and favourably banished, ruin'd, and undone them, and all this and more you have done for the Liberty of the Subject, by the command of the Public Faith. Moreover he says that the good People from Cirencester were Chained together with Ropes; that's a Bull, Sir, I doubt not, but there will come a time, when young Grigge shall teach thee in a trice (with a trick that he hath) what the difference is between a Chain and a Rope; and so I leave Repeating and Paraprasing any more on Prinnes most matchless, first of his four Proditorious parts.  
The Reader may wonder why I spend no more Paper about the first part, and I doubt all his whole Book is not worthy of so much. But I assure you when I had surveyed every limb of the Monster, and pared of the excrescences, I had much ado to find thus much considerable matter in it, yet I am resolved to do him the honour, and afford him the patience, to view his second part, if it be but for love to his new Hebrew word (the Militia) for if his Brethren understood that it were Latin, the language of the Beast, they would never endure the use of it.  

An Answer to Prinnes second Part of his Sovereign Power of Parliament.  
IN his Preface he complains of Ignorance, (ah ungracious Boy dost thou rail against thy Mother!) in such as understand not a Parliament, and that his Books (he hopes) will be get a firm Peace; Indeed he that made light out of darkness, is able to produce good out of evil; but how Prinnes Books (stuffed as full of lies as lines) wherein every word breathes Treason, every syllable incites to Rebellion, and the whole Chaos and confused mass of it is an unshaped lump of all the Villainies, Assassinations, Murders, Treasons, Rebellions, Deposing, Imprisonments, and all the calamities that hath befallen to infortunate Kings and Princes, in all Nations, either Christians or others, since the world's creation; at least as much as his treacherous studious search could find out, he hath packed and huddled together, purposely to root out and ruinated His sacred Majesty and Royal Posterity, to raise a never ending Contention, and to make His Majesty's Dominions perpetual fields of blood; these are the marrow, pith, and intention of M. Prinnes sweet Peacemaking Books. At the latter end of his Preface, he uses a piece of the Litany, saying, Good Lord deliver us. But I wish him to take heed that it come not to the hearing of the Members, or the Close Committee, that he spoke such words, for than he will be mistaken for a Protestant, and so excluded from all grace, favour, and community with the godly.  
Pag. 3. In this second part you may find out of Prinnes own Confession. First, conveniency, second necessity, and thirdly custom; all concurring for the Kings ordering of the Militia. Take heed M. Prinne what you say, for if M. Saint-Johns, and your Masters of the highest lower House hear you, they may perhaps occasion a conference betwixt you and Tom Nash his Ghost, to be cried up and down the streets, as they dealt with your betters before you; and if your good Mistresses in London understand it, farewell all further Contribution, your late Triumphant Bays, will be turned to Funeral Ewghe, and if you can mend the matter no better, than you do, by begging the Question and arguing so barrenly, to wit, that it must be granted, that the whole power of his Majesty, and his Predecessors, in the Militia, was derived from the Parliament. This stuff he treats on, from the third pag. to the twelfth, wherein he crosses all that he says in the third pag. formerly repeated, but if you can confirm your fine flourishes no better then by Equivocations, Amphibologies, and mystical Sophistical Fallacies, by one while taking the Parliament for King and People, (as in the usual sense it ought to be taken and the Laws made by them all;) And another while making use of the word Parliament, in your own sense only, for the two Houses in contradiction to the King; your Grant must be only, to have and to hold, six foot in Knave's Acre, under an overthwart beam, for you hate the name of the Cross, on the highest Promontory in the Province of Foolciana; or if it light in the line of Communication, as a special part of that Province is situated near to them, than your Grant may be to have as much room for your Quarters as you had for your Ears, and that your Head may be mounted on London Bridge, and made one of the overseers of the City, which by your writings seems to be a special part of your Ambition, I am sure a just Reward of your most unmatchable undertake.  
Pag. 12. As for the consequence of denying His Majesty the Militia, and of the Parliaments seizing upon Hull, with other Ports, Forts, the Royal Navy, Arms, Ammunition, Revenues, and detaining them still from His Majesty, which you say, His Majesty and all Royalists must necessarily yield, nay you should have entreated to have them yielded out of courtesy, for else you can never enforce them, are not his, but the Kingdoms, in point of Right and Interest, they being first transferred to, and placed in his Predecessors, and himself by Parliament. Here is an excellent proof.  
Weaker then that of Tenterton Steeple being the cause of Goodwin Sands, for say those Logicians, there were no such dangerous Sands, before that Steeple was built, or sunk, so that Steeple was the cause of those Sands, but I can conclude more directly and contrariò, as thus;  
The Kings of England had always power over the Militia, ever since England had a King there;  
But there was a King of England, before there was any Parliament, and so soon as there is story of any people in England;  
Therefore the Parliament gave not the King of England power over the Militia.  
If the story of Brute be true, my Mayor cannot be false, if any Chronicle of England be true, my Minor will not fail; how then the conclusion can be denied I perceive not, except in the disputation betwixt the Collier and the Devil, which I leave to Prinnes Logic to resolve, and reduce the Contradictory by Impossibility, which if he do not in Celarent, he cannot escape doing it in Bocardo, where I leave him to read over his Fleta, it may teach him more Law and Conscience then to excuse the Rebellion in England, by a Rebellion in Ireland of their own making, as that is the best colour which yet this Brazen face can cast upon it.  
Pag. 25. and 26. he comes upon us with a drove of Bulls, of his own usual Breeding; That the Parliament (meaning the two Houses only) cannot be guilty of Treason; secondly, that the Statutes against Treason extends not to them; thirdly, that they are greater than the King; fourthly, that the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy bind only in Relation to the Pope and Foreign States, but not with reference to the Houses; or only out of Parliament time, not whilst the Parliament is sitting; These are such Mockado Fustian Non sense, and such silly Childish shufflings, as that the sense in plain English, is to say, That the King hath Authority against other Princes, but no power over his own Subjects, or that those in his own Realms are his Sovereigns, and other Sovereigns are his Subjects; or when he consults the most carefullest for the good of his Kingdoms, he desires to be required by being unking'd by them; such strange Paradoxes, absurd Solesismes, and monsters of Policy, Morality, Reason, Nature and Religion, are the offspring of this new State Empiric; who perhaps expects other applause, or, at the least, Approbation, as he is assured of his own Narcissian admiration, only because he sees but the shadow, understands not the substance of what he superficially delineates, by a Pen that drops Poison instead of Ink, to support the pretended Fears and jealousies, by an enumeration and malicious interpretation, of all the acts of justice since the third year of his now Majesty's Reign, upon those who were restrained from bringing this Rebellion sooner to the Birth; give Prinne but such another Fee as he had at his Triumphal Return to London, and he will be an Advocate for those in the third of jacobi, and for those in the 13 of Queen Elizabeth; yea for Ravilliac, judas, and Lucifer, for all were but Rebels and Traitors, only one was a little elder than the other; Thus from the 25 pag. to the 40. he reckons up a pack of grievances, wherewith the Subject was charged, which were all redressed, long ago, assoon as His Majesty was rightly certified of them; but no Acts of Grace can procure an expiation from inexorable Master Prinne.  
But why trouble I myself to satisfy one, whom Reason cannot satisfy, one, whom no Protestations, or Oaths of Princes, no Acts of Grace or Statutes passed in Parliament can satisfy, and therefore let him rest unsatisfied till he be hanged. He is ill to trust who will trust no body, the Proverb tells us▪ yet for this once, let him go on give him Rope enough, and he will hang, himself; In his 40 pag. he saith, the King hath no power to choose his Privy Councillors; but Prinne and his Magnificent Members, would have the choosing and authorising of new Privy Counsellors, and Officers of State, for those, he tells us, his Utopian Parliament hath power to appoint, (yet the King may not choose or appoint any of them their servants) he should have added in time of Rebellion. In pag. 41 to 64. and so from thence to 65 and 79 he prates (to little or no purpose) that the King hath no Negative Voice, but what the undeceived Majesty of the vulgar, Captain Highshoes, and Colonel Mawworme, and their companions please to propose must be granted; who, till those can agree whether the Lord Say or the right horrible Kimbolton shall be Protector: his Excellency or the Lady Waller high Constable of England, Pym, or Prinne (for I hope he will not plead all this while for other folks and forget himself) Lord Keeper of the new great Seal, Sergeant wild, or Speaker Lenthall, Master of the Rolls, Burton or Martial Archbishop; for that calling would be as lawful in one of their hands, as the Court of Wards was when the Lord Say was Master of it,) Peard, Glinne or Prideaux chief justices; Fielding or Stamford, (for they are both virtuous and thrifty men) Lord Treasurer; I would entreat Warwick, to provide for his own and their security in the Admiral Ship of Fools, and wish a fair Gale for them as fare as New-England, till they shall learn more sincerity in Religion, more loyalty to their Sovereign, more charity to their Christian Brethren, and Prinne cease falsifying and perverting Records, Precedents, and Allegations; and then a Property maker hath promised to restore his Ears again; in the mean time, let him confess himself worthily Branded for Falsifying, Lying and Slandering (even Scandala Magnatum) Forgery, False witness bearing, Perjury, and all manner of Villainy, with which his Books swarm as thick, as the lower House door did with Brownists & Anabaptists at the beginning of this Parliament, or as Westminster-Hall and the Palace yard did with Tumults before the death of the Earl of Strafford, or the putting the Bishops out of the House, or as the high ways and streets, did with Puritan Punks, when Prinne and his fellows (St Rebels) returned from Limbo to be Canonised at London, which City they have ever since transformed to be a Hell upon Earth.  
Further (to root the seduced people in dislike of his Sacred Majesty, and to make them Irrevocable Rebels, as also to blast the Integrity of his Majesty's Royal Person, his Honourable Counsellors and Servants,) he names Ganestone and the Spencers, Empson and Dudley, and others that were displaced by Parliaments for Delinquency; 'tis right William, but those Parliaments had proofs for what they did, and the King was with them, and confirmed their censures: but you are not so much as the bears Skeleton of a Parliament, which if it were a full Body, yet it wants a head, therefore all your Votes and censures are Headless.  
Page. 48. his running head talks of a Parliament in Running Mead, (near Windsor) wherein King John Assented to such Acts of settling and securing Magna-Charta, and all other good Laws and Liberties formerly granted. I tell thee Prinne, that King john did well in so Assenting to his Peers and Commons, for then and there their requests were just and Lawful; neither did King Charles (a more Christian and surer Titled King, than King john) ever deny his Royal Assent to any just request for the Redress of greivances, relief of His Subjects, and Tranquillity of his Kingdoms.  
Page 55. He hath a fling at Alice Pierce, King Edward the Third's Concubine, 'tis marvel that Rosamond and Jane Shore scaped him, and it had been as congruent for him to have brought in Lais, Thais, Faustine, Messalina, and all the rabble of royal and base Whores that have been since the Creation; for what though Alice Pierce (being herself proud of the favour of so puissant a King) did sometimes, with impudent and uncivil behaviour intrude herself to sit with the judges on the Bench, to countenance and prefer some private Causes for her own ends or her friends; to which I answer, that the judges were either bribed Knaves, or timorous Fools, in suffering such a Coapesmate to sit with them upon any terms of right or wrong. But to what purpose this Gentlewoman (who was dead and rotten 250 years before King Charles was borne) should be raked up as a Testimony against Him now, this is a mere Riddle to me, and is a task for an Oedipus only to unfold.  
Page 75. The King cannot by his Prerogative lay the least Tax upon any of his Subjects; but, I pray, what authority or Prerogative have you, and your potent Members to rob, spoil, and plunder the King and all his good Subjects, who is so just, merciful, and chaste, that neither the Devil nor any of the Members have dared to say the contrary? there's a bone for thee to pick.  
Page 78. Prinne (like an unmannerly Fellow) calls the famous General Jack Cade Rebel and Traitor; I pray Sir, moderate your passion, for me thinks, fellows should agree, and when Thiefs fallout, etc. You know the Proverb.  
In page 79. That the affirming the Petition of Right, the Bills for Triennial Parliaments, the continuance of this, the Acts against Ship-money, Forest bounds, illegal, new-invented grievances and oppressions, the Statutes for suppression of Star-chamber, High Commission, Knighthood, Bishop's Votes: although the King hath done all these and more, yet this Scarrab Cadworme says, that The King's Grace is not eclipsed, to say. They are no Acts of Grace, but Acts of Oath, Duty, Law, and Conscience. Thus doth this filthy Varlet most traitorously beslubber the goodness and gracious favours of a matchless and unparallelled Christian King.  
And thus you have the sum and substance of his second part of the Sovereign Power of Parliaments.   

Upon his third part of the Sovereign Power of Parliaments.  
ALthough his third and fourth parts are already answered by the learned Sir John Spelman Knight, Doctor Fearne, and Master Digges, too reverend and able Pens to take notice of the name of such a prinnified, prurigenous Puppy, from whom he stole his rational and Theological Passages, nothing being his own, but the outfacing with a multitude of pretended Testimonies, haled in, as he teacheth his Clients to hire Knights of the Post, to witness that which they know nothing of, saving (I say) that there is nothing that concerns England, but the same again (quoth Mark a Belgrave) to the Tune of Anthony, now, now, the old Song still; like the last hour and half of a Puritan Sermon, or one of his longwinded Traverses of Burton's Apology, or Bastwickes' Litany, in stead of a plea or answer, withouten that the aforesaid Henry Burton at Friday-street aforesaid, in the manner and form aforesaid, did beat his wife aforesaid, by reason of the independent sister aforesaid, to beat out the evil spirit aforesaid, and (withouten that) it was for the lust aforesaid, or withouten that the said John Bastwicke Doctor of Physic aforesaid, was so overrun with the Morbus Gallicus aforesaid, that when he was a Captain in the Rebellion aforesaid, at the Newarke in Leicester aforesaid, he was not able to get up to his horse aforesaid, without a stool aforesaid; and withouten that, William Prinne aforesaid, in the Church-lane there aforesaid, in the Assembly of Adamites aforesaid, exercised his gifts aforesaid, to the edification of the Sister's aforesaid, who gave him the Gold aforesaid, and (in the fear of God) joined in the Rebellion aforesaid, as they will be ready to aver and maintain, but never to prove any thing, if those his Books have not sufficiently proved it; yet for all this I will afford him the honour to shame him, in answering of his third part, and thus I begin.  
This third part he gins to magnify Treason in his delicate Dedication, most loyally to three Arch-Rebells, namely, the Lord Fairfax, and the two Knights Williams, Waller and Breerton, wherein he styles them, Deservedly Renowned Worthies, calls their valour, zeal, activity, and industry, incomparable; (you should have said their Rebellion too;) 'tis confessed, that their invisible Victories have been many and miraculous, and their being often beaten hath been apparently perspicuous and manifest, for which they have been jeered with Public Thankesgiving, as Master Prinne makes himself merry with mocking them, in his foisting Epistle; and it is not possible that these three Worthies should be so threadbare in their understandings, or that their wits should be so stupefied, as not to perceive this fellows flouting flattery; as for their Victories we do rather pity than envy; and concerning the Worthies, I have seen nine of their Figures or Pictures in Haberdashers Shops and Taverns, hanged up to garnish the rooms, but Master Prinnes three Worthies shall not be hanged up in a private room or shop, a large field is fittest for such mighty Martialists. And for the valour of those three Worthies, it was never known that the Lord Fairfax struck a blow, except it were to his Tailor or his Footman; and for Sir William Waller he hath been so happy that he was never wounded, but only in his reputation. But O, O, Sir William Breerton! noble, valiant, singular, supereminent, courageous Sir William Breerton, I could laugh hearty, were I once so happy as to see him within half a mile of a Battle, O sweet face, most amiable Sir William Breerton.  
In his Preface to the Reader, he saith, he hath been always a cordial endeavourer of Peace (as right as my leg John Jarret) you might as well have said Rope-ye-all, Halter-ye-all, as cordial.  
In his third Page he seems to invite his Majesty to visit the Parliament, and tells Him (and all loyal Subjects) by an old Precedent, what kind entertainment He might expect, for he saith, that Julius Caesar was, in the Capitol, stabbed, and murdered by the Senate, with no less than twenty three wounds. Sir, your kind invitation shall not be forgotten, & I assure you, it is one of most the significant passages and explanations of your Loyalty in all your whole Books.  
Page 5. That the King hath denuded himself of all Regal Authority; this shall pass for one of your small Treasons, wherein you show the denuded nakedness of your biased Judgement and conscience. page 3. This liberal Gentleman, proclaims liberty, and plenarily leave to rebel, He releaseth all his Majesty's Subjects from their Allegiance; surely, thou hast made a League with Sin, Death, and Hell, and they have blinded thee so, that thou canst neither see what thou sayest, or understand what thou writest. Thou givest the King's Subjects leave to cast off their Allegiance, and they give thee leave to be hanged to requite thy courtesy; but thou and thy Members (of Maintenance) must and shall know that all the King's loyal Subjects do understand, that the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, made to their Sovereign, is such a tye, and security, as it is the only chain upon earth, except love, to bind the consciences of men, and to hold humane society together; from which Oaths though Master Prinne (with Papal Authority) would dispense withal, yet his Majesty hath good and faithful Subjects enough, who scorn and deride your foolish, traitorous dispensations, and doubt not (by God's assistance) to mould you and your seduced Rabble of Rebels into better fashion.  
Page 13. If the King himself shall introduce Foreign Forces and Enemies into his Realm to levy War against it, or shall himself become an Enemy to it. This doubtful supposition is so idle and trivial, that the best Answer to it is to laugh at it. page 14. he talks how King Henry the second of France was casually slain at a Tournament by the Lord Montgomery, and then he tells us of Sir Walter Tirrell's Arrow (glancing against a Tree) slew King William the second of England; presently he makes a step into France again, and brings us word, that King Charles the first, being mad there, was deprived and kept clsoe, and that the deaths and deprivations of these Kings was then proved to be no Treasons, because they were done out of no malicious intents. This is Bombast to stuff out his big-wombe Book, and as near the matter as Braseol and Banbury. Page 17. He plays the Huntsman, and compares the Keeper of a Park, and the Dear in it, to a King and his People. Suppose this Comparison were granted, than you must also grant, that you have rebelliously broken down the Park pale, or wall, so that the Deer are scattered and divided, the best of them (I am sure the truest Hearts) do keep within their bounds, and live under the protection of their Keeper, whilst you have got all the whole Herd of Rascals amongst you, and much good may do it you with them. In Page 22. he makes a leap from hence into Asia, and relates strange News, how Tamberlane conquered Bajazet, and put him in an ironcage; than you are sure it was not a Pillory, but if a time of Peace were, (were it not for depriving the Hangman of his due) I would beg thee, and show thee in Fates and Marts, for a Motion, whereby thee and I could not choose in short time but be without abundance of money. From page 23. to page 60. he tautologically talks Natural Nonsense, and Artificial Impertinencies, which in page 60. he saith, he gathered from one Albericus Gentilis. page 61. he stumbles upon Truth again, and says, That it is out of controversy that no man ought to resist against the King. Page 63, 64. he citys 32 Arguments of Scripture to maintain the Cause, the chief of them is Daniel in the Lion's Den, he might as well have brought in Jacob's Well, and the Woman of Samaria.  
In pag. 66. be brings in the story of joram, 2 Kings 6. how he sent a messenger to the Prophet Elishaes' house to take away his head, and that the Prophet did cause the door to be shut, to keep out the King's messenger: from whence the learned logical Prinne infers, that because the Prophet did not obey the King, but shut his door against the Messenger, therefore King Charles his Subjects may oppose, resist, and rebel; a very trim Argument. From thence to page 73. he repeats old fusty business over and over, and there he runs for more luggage headlong into the Red-Sea, and drags the memory of crowned Pharaoh, 〈◊〉 example of God's judgements on that obdurate and impenitent King: this was somewhat to the purpose, but I cannot perceive where or how. Page 81. The King with the Lords and Commons in Parliament, have the whole Realm entrusted with them, of which great trust the King is only Chief and Sovereign: now I agree with you, Sir, if your writings had been all such as this, and your Members and Committees, Votes and Orders, correspondent, than we had had no Rebellion, and your high prized Books would have been justly valued, to be worth nothing. A little after he says, The King is the supreme Member of the Parliament, (thou ill bred Fellow, thou mightest have said HEAD) and that contrary to the trust and duty reposed in Him, through the advice of evil Counselors, wilfully betrays this trust, and spoils and makes havoc of his People and Kingdoms: these are but the old lies, fears, jealousies, doubts, ifs and and's, newly revived and furbushed: as in page 86. he hath another, which is, If the King should command us to say Mass in his Chapel, to which I answer, If the Sky fall, etc. and the one of those ifs is as possible as the other. Page 108. He musters up 51 of the ancient Fathers to lend him their hands to defend his falsities, wherein he hath wrested and abused their integrity sufficiently, but I observe that he meddles with neither of the Gregory's, either the Great, or Nazianzen, his policy is not to mention them, because then young Gregory herhaps may be put in mind of him; for Prinne is crafty and observes the Proverb, He must have a long Devil, that eats with a spoon.  
Page 92. He hath wrested the sword out of the hands and cut off the heads of all his opposite Goliahs. 'Tis well bragged, but if it be true, that you have cut off all the heads of your opposites, you have been bloodily revenged for the loss of your ears; I prithee, when thou diest, bequeath one of thy law-bones to be kept amongst the dreadful Weapons and Ammunition of the Members Magazine, it may do strange things amongst a Crew of Philist●ms.  
Pag. 134. He contradicts himself with Statutes of King Henry 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Eliz. That words against the King (even in preaching) are high Treason, as well as raising Arms: very right, and those Statutes being yet in force, what would become of all your reverend railing Pulpit-men? (I will not slander them to call 'em Preachers) upon my conscience thy destiny and theirs would be all one, (if the said Statutes were duly executed) and you would all leave your old Trades, and deal in the two rich commodities of Hemp and Timber, till your last gasps. Pag. 142. he rails at the King again, as if he were hired to it, or that he had nothing else to do; also he be labours the Cavaliers ex tempore, by the Titles of Cutthroats, bloody, inhuman, and barbarous, with other such pretty names, as the Gentleman pleases to bestow upon them, for which I hope they will not all die, till some of them be out of his debt. Page 143. Christians did not resist persecution under Pagans, ergo, Christians must not resist Christians, and because Subjects are Christians as well as Kings, therefore Christian Kings must not resist Rebels. In his last Leaf, he hath waded through this weighty Controversy, and proved that both by Law and Conscience this Rebellion is justifiable; and thus the Reader may perceive how Prinnes Judgement and Conscience is biased.   

Upon Prinnes fourth Quarter, or part of his Sovereign Power of Parliaments.  
IN page 13. he brings in a mess of musty Precedents, like the mouldy Bread, ragged , and clouted Shoes of the Gibeonites, when they deceived Joshua; as for allowing or not allowing the King's menial Servants: 'Tis no doubt but the King should be well served if such a Coxcomb as Prinne had Authority to choose his Servants. Page 15. Parliaments have power above Magna Charta: I believe Parliaments have power if there be cause to repeal Statutes either in Magna Charta, or any other Laws; but though Parliaments have this power, yet I would have Master Prinne to understand, that Conventicles and factions Assemblies have no such Authority, except they steal and usurp it. Page 24. he falls to his old vomit, and taxeth his Majesty with English, Irish, Scottish, French, and German Papists, and that they are whole Armies of them maintained by his Majesty, against his good Subjects, (of which you are none, therefore you need not fear.) Page 32. The Parliament hath unwillingly taxed and plundered men: your Votes, Imprisonments, Banishments, and Robberies committed daily on the persons and goods of such as were his Majesty's loyallest Subjects, (they being all firm Protestants) and your Mandates and large rewards to the Thiefs and Plunderers, with your Receipts and sale of the stolen goods, to strangers, Amsterdamnable jews, other foreigners and unnatural Natives, who have either bought the said goods for money (with which money you have maintained this Rebellion) or truckd and bartered it for other Commodities, as you have done lately with the Hollanders, for Butter, Cheese, Fish, etc. by these Practices of Robbery and Tyranny, it is apparent how unwillingly this Thing, called a Parliament, hath, and daily doth, Tax and plunder.  
In his 33. Pag. he speaks truth, That by the same power the Parliament had to raise an Army without the King, by the same power they may raise money to maintain it, which is as much as to say, by the same power they had to be Rebels, by the same power they might Murder, Rob, Plunder, Ransack and ruinated His Majesty's true Liege people, and by the same power you have made bold to do the like with all his Majesty's Honours, Manors, Royalties and Revenues; all which you have done by the same power, and liberal grants of that bountiful Potentate who offered to give all the Kingdoms of the world to our Saviour. Pag. 34. He taxeth His Majesty with placing of Popish Governors in his Garrisons, and such Commanders in his Armies; indeed you are not to be blamed much for your being grieved at those Governors and Commanders, because through God's assistance by them and their good directions, you have been often times greivously beaten, and questionless they are not quite out of your debts (except you mend your manners) they are such just paymasters, that they will pay you all: also every body will not believe that all are Papists whom you please to call so.  
Now I come to the survey of his ample Appendix; wherein at the first, he rakes up Rome's Foundation, and to small purpose, he hales Romulus, Remus, Numa Pompilius, and all the Heathen Kings, and Emperors out of their Urns and Tombs; then he hath a bout with the East and Western Empires, and all their wicked Emperors with their Tragical ends. In his 11. Pag. he blaspheamously outfaceth S. Paul, and his Doctrine both, Rom. 13. 1. to 6. That Kings are Subjects, to the highest powers, which highest powers Prinne interprete to be the people; take heed, though you have the pestilent art to make Law to be no Law, and stealing to be no theft, yet it is dangerous to pervert or juggle with holy writ. But why do I cast away admonition upon an Atheistical railing Rabshekah, who hath perverted, wrung, wrested, construed and mis-applied the Patriarches, Prophets, Apostles, yea Christ himself. Pag. 12. he presents the miseries of the unfortunate and perfidious King. Zedechias, how his children were murdered before his face, his eyes put out, and after, how he was carried Prisoner in Chains to Babylon. Also he mentions many other deplorable deaths and disasters, that fell upon divers Kings and Princes. All which Testimonies and precedents are so applied, as nothing else but Treason and Villainy can be found in the applications. In the 14. pag. he is sailed into Sparta, amongst the Kings of the Lacedæmonians, and there he makes enquiry how many of them have been brought to untimely ends. In pag. 15. he tells us how the Sabeans confined their Kings to their Palaces, and used to stone them if they went out of their bounds without leave. But your Scholars (the Tumultuous Rabble) did in Routs and Roguish Assemblies with cudgels, march with their Tatterdmallians against White-Hall when his Majesty was there last.  
Pag. 18. 19 and so to pag. 51. He runs through all the History of France, to find proditorious precedents, to prove Treason to be Lawful in England. pag. 51. he makes a skip into Spain, and doth as much there. pag. 60. he hath found out a Kingdom of Oreida, and that there many of the Kings were deposed, or Murdered. pag. 62, and 63. he travels Arragon and Navarre, and from thence into Castille, Portugal, Cordova, Vallencia, Granado, Gallicia. pag. 80. he is got into Hungaria. pag. 82. he is in Bohemia. pag. 85. you may have him in Poland. pag. 89. he is making a privy search in Denmark. pag. 98. he forageth through Sweden. pag. 99 he makes a step into Assyria, Cyprus, Lombardia, Naples, and Venice, and in the 100 pag. he is come bacl into Scotland, and there he tarries raking up all the Treasons in that Kingdom, from the reign of Fergusius (their first King) till these mad bad times; which theme he follows to the 112. pag. Then he posts into Asia amongst the Kings of the Gentiles, Israel, and judah. He is now in Persia, feasting with Ahasuerus; and presently you have him in Babylon, eating Grass (like an Ass) with Nebuchadnezzer, from whence he makes a spirit to see King Darius, and kindly he visits Daniel in the Lions Den. Thus you may perceive how nimble and active this Gentleman hath been, to play the Kennell-raker in grubling in all the nasty common Sewers, and contagious Dunghills of damnable Treasons, and perfidious Treacheries in all the Kingdoms of the World, maliciously and purposely, to defend, maintain, and countenance this odious Rebellion, now on foot in England. And, it is to be conceived that he could never have Traveled from Region to Region, and from Realm to Realm, with such Celerity and Subitorie quickness, but that he had the help of some Mephistopheles or Familiar, or else he bought, begged, or stole some Winds from a Lapland Witch; without which aids from the Instruments of his Grand Master (Don Diabolo) he could never have flown to and fro, to so many Territories to fetch mischief hither.  
Pag. 125. He saith, David was made King by God's Appointment, and the People's Election; I tell thee, (thou Owleiglasse) if thou didst understand what thou sayest, thou wouldst say somewhat more understandingly to be understood; for if thou note, what God himself saith to David, by the Prophet Nathan, 2. Sam. 12. 7. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee King over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hands of Saul; where is the people's Election here? God saith he chose him from the sheepfold, to be a King, Psal. 78. 71. and seeing God did choose and anoint David King, I must crave M. Prinnes leave, to believe the people did it not, but it is certain that David was made King by God's only Assignation; and that he that made the People's hearts, did also give them grace with unanimous consent to be obedient to his Ordinance; so that with loud shouts, and acclamations of joy, the people expressed their Loyalties and loves at David's Coronation, in which they had no Election at all, as this pretender pretends. Pag. 127. That God, and David's designation of Solomon to the Crown, did not take away the People's Liberty, Right, and Power to elect and nominate their Kings, my sweet Stercucian prudent Prinne, neither God or David did ever take that Liberty, Right and Power from the People, for the people never had any such privilege or prerogative to elect and nominate, and therefore such Right and Power which they never had, was never taken from them. Pag. 146. he names Zimri, Omri, and other Parricides and Homicides, Usurpers, Rebels and castaways, these he brings in to fill up the measure. Pag. 149. is crammed as full of Treasons and revilings, as he was able to put in, till he comes to the 153 pag. and there he tells me old news, How Darius set Princes over his Kingdoms and Provinces; And that Nebuchadnezzer, set Daniel over the Province of Babylon; let the Reader judge if Prinne doth not give himself the Lie. How dares this Varlet allege that King Charles hath not Power to set Deputies and Lieutenants over His Dominions and Provinces, or to choose His Privy Councillors, Officers of State, Trust, and Menial Servants, and yet he confesseth that two Heathen Kings, Darius and Nabuchadnezzar, had power to do it, and did it, and (for any thing that I can perceive) those Kings had power so to do, and did use that power without ask their Subjects leave or consent.  
From pag. 154. to 160. he brings in Chimaeras, Whimsies and mere Connundrums in such store, as they would furnish six French and Italian Mountebanks to vent their sophisticated Oils, Unguents, Drugs, Album Greaka, or black white Dogs da●es; Pag. 177. he says, that a Prince or Lord of a Country are not Princes without Subjects; very right, if a King hath no Subjects, than he is no bodies King, but you and your Comrades, would have no King, and therefore, by that rule you are no Subjects, or (I am sure no good ones.) From pag. 177. to 186. he makes a long Relation of the causes why the Netherlandish Provinces fell from the King of Spain; as suitable to his purpose as Mustard and Mince-pye together, and then he brings in Julian the Apostate, slain by a Christian Soldier; Pag. 188. That the Pope and Prelates alone, (without the consents of Parliament, Peers, or People) have deposed and judged Heretical and Tyrannical Kings to death, and devote them to Assassination. This is but crowding upon the old fiddle, because the Pope hath done so to wicked Kings, therefore you will take a devilish power (somewhat worse than a Popish) to supplant and ruinated a Just King and His Posterity. Pag. 189. he presents Tarquin, Nero, Vitelius, their banishments and deaths. Pag. 204. That Queen Elizabeth did aid and succour Protestants that lived in other Countries, and that the King of Spain did the like for Roman Catholics; This is Prinnes Foble Boble, as plain as a Pack-staffe; I wish that he and his Tribe would imitate that good Queen, and secure the Protestants, and not destroy and beggar them daily, as they do. Pag. 208. he swells and blisters out his Volume, with the sentence of degradation and deprivation of Wenceslaus the Emperor, as much pertinent as the fift wheel in a Coach. Pag. 216. he is vehement in persuading men to be Loyal Rebels, to be Valiant true Traitors, to persist in their execrable disobedience, for which he promises everlasting felicity; and lastly, he peremptorily concludes all Temporal and Eternal loss, dishonour, and perpetual torments, to be the Portions of all true Subjects; and then he closes with zealous Prayer, and Invocation, for the continuance, maintenance, and prosperity of Treason and Rebellion. And thus have I delineated, or rather Anotomized and disected the four Quarters of this Monster. Now I proceed to his Head, and the works of his Head-piece, his Opening of the New Great Seal.  

William Prinnes, Opening of his New Great Seal of ENGLAND.  
ADulterate Precedents, are (very seldom) Parents to Legitimate Consequences. This New Great Seal is Begotten, and Borne into the World, licked into fashion by Committees, Members, Votes and Ordinances, and Nursed, Cherished, Dressed, Tricked and Trimmed by M. Prinne, who hath painfully searched through the very Bowels of Antiquity to find out the original of Seals, and whence his New Seal may lineally derive its first being and pedigree.  
To begin which goodly piece of service, he loads his Margin with Notes and Testimonies of Scripture; The first mark whereby you may know from whence this Babye is descended, he quotes, the Signet which Judah left with his daughter in Law, Tamar, as a Pledge when he had committed Incest (or Adultery) with her, as it is in Gen. 38. A very fair beginning, to prove this Seal lawfully borne and bred from Judah's Signet, which was left in pawn as a token for Bawdry.  
The second descent of it he proves to be from Theft, Covetousness, and Murder, as 1. Kings, 21. 8. How Jezabel stole Ahabs' Seal, and with it sealed counterfeit Letters (in the King's name) whereby Naboth was perjuriously accused, and Murdered, and Ahab had the Vineyard. And from that Seal, and the notable effects which it produced, M. Prinne derives his New Seal, and presageth what worthy acts it may produce.  
I will name but one more of his Marginal Testificandums, Estber. 3. and 12. there he mentions King Ahsuerus his Ring, which he delivered to Haman, wherewith he sealed an Edict, that all the whole Nation of the jews, young and old, that lived in the King's large Dominions (127. Provinces) should all be slaughtered in one day. But I desire the Reader to take notice, that though Haman was a proud ambitious man, yet he did use no counterfeit Seal, nor usurped any power but what he had from the King; but M. Prinne and his Masters, have neither the King's Seal, leave or power, to destroy His Subjects, and Ruinated His Kingdom, but I would not have them to forget, (and make application too) that Haman was hanged although his fault was not Treason. But this is another strong Argument, what shall become of the Protestants, and His Majesty's Loyallest Subjects, if M. Prinnes new founded Seal were in force and vigour. And thus, out of his own Annotations, he hath proved his Seals originals, from Adulterous Incest, Thieving, Avarice, Murder, Perjury, and Destruction; and what can be expected, but the like mischiefs, and miseries from this Newborn, Counterfeit, Adulterated Mongrel.  
His very Title of Opening of the Great Seal, puts me into some suspicion of Blasphemy in it, as alluding to the Lambs, opening the Seal in the Revelation, (but I omit that, as too serious for this manner of Encounter.) And I have spied a Cross in his second page, to begin withal, which makes me ready to cry out Popery, Popery, and I thought it would have frighted him out of the Court, but I perceive the Devil is Elder, and M. Prinne is more impudent than the Legend tells us, (and I am sure that Legend is as true as most of Prinnes writings are.) The Devil was in Saint Christopher's days, for than he ran aside at the sight of the Cross, for fear of him that died on it; But now Prinne goes on in despite of both, (though indeed) somewhat like the Devil, all on one side, and tells us a Tale of Crosses, pag. 3. and at length of Seals, though it be a long time ere he could find that English Kings had any, event ill the Reigns of Offa and Edwin. Nor any Broad Seal till Edward the Confessor; The best is, he there by grants, that the Kings grant is good under his Sign Manual, or Signet, yea (if need be) under his hand without any Seal, (but this I leave to Lawyers.) And when the Broad Seal came into use, it was the Seal of our Lord the King, or the King's Broad Seal, and the Chancellors were called the King's Chancellors (not the People's, nor the Parliaments) pag. 10 and 11. that the Kings from time to time ordered, and altered the Great Seal at their pleasures, and that King Richard the first, pretending that the Great Seal was lost, when Roger his Vicechancellor was drowned before the Isle of Cyprus, and that the King caused a New Seal to be made. All this is granted, but no part of this doth say that a Parliament made that Seal, ('tis said the King caused it to be made) besides, that was not a counterfeit Seal made by a Faction, without the King's Consent, or, which is more, against Royal Commands and Proclamations, to the contrary. Then he goes on honestly, that our Kings have altered their Seals with various Inscriptions, Styles, and Arms, but always of their own, and in their own names, never of the Parliaments. (For I think their Arms and Motto, except it should be A Beast with many Heads, are yet to seek.) Nor was it ever meddled with in Parliament, but for the King's behalf, in the King's name, by the King's Authority, and according to his will, as even those two Instances of a New Broad Seal, made for Edward the first, pag. 18. 19 Whilst he was absent militating in the Holy Land; And for Henry the sixth, when he was an Infant of nine mouths old, and his Uncle the Protector, do more then manifestly convince, directly contrary to what he produceth them to prove. Nor were there any proportion or parallel betwixt an absent, and a present King, betwixt an implicit Consent, and an express Command to the contrary, betwixt the state of a Child, and a Mature experienced King; if the intents of our Parliaments were as Loyal as those appeared to be, (Whereas indeed the contrary is apparent,) but that he presumes that all his Geese shall pass for Swans, and that he can persuade the People that the Moon is made of the same Calf's skin, that his new broad Seal shall be affixed unto.  
Yet the better to secure himself, and his Associates, from high Treasons in this point (for they are deep enough in other matters) I would advise them to be contented to make use of the other Seals, which he saith were made by their Authority, (but I must tell him, not without the King) and may be newmade by themselves, viz. the Seal for Statutes, Merchants, in certain Corporations, the Seal for the Hundred, Rape, or Wapentake, City, or Burrough, left to the discretion of the justices of Peace (if they have any) or to the keeping of some honest good man of the County (M. Pym was once reputed fit to have been the Keeper of this Seal) p. 20. this Seal is great enough yet to have the stoned Horse carved in it for the bearing, which Pym's father bequeathed to Aguis, or the Seal of Alnegers and Collectors, etc. or that leaden Seal for  (which he insists upon as if it were as authentic as the Pope's Bull) or the Seal of the Customers Office (which they are well skilled in improving for themselves, though they rob the King of it) and the seals of cloth of Gold, Silver, Velvet, Damasks, Chamlets, Silks, Tobacco, and Tobacco-pipes, and of as many trinkets as are enumerated in their late Book of Excise and Rates; and let them take in the Seals of Yarmouth and Linne-wosted-makers to boot; but let them not meddle with the Duchy Seal, the Exchequer Seal, the Seal of the Court of Wards and Liveries, not the Seal of the Augmentation, (which he spends so much waste paper about, in his pag. 21, & 26.) for fear of a Praemunire, especially if they have any cares to lose, as some of them have hitherto; but above all, meddle not with the Great Seal, it is not Prinnes Assertion, that the Parliament is uncapable of Treason, and out of the intentions of the Statutes concerning Treasons of that kind, which can protect you against a Tyburn Pole-axe, except you can procure the King's consent, as a part of the Parliament, as the case was in the Times of King Edward the first, and King Henry the fixth, (which he repeats again, for no other purpose but to manifest how his Noddle is furnished with the Art of Memory to insert things over and over to the purpose aforesaid, as much as in the total comes to nothing;) but these remembrances are of small validity to make way for Master Prinnes pardon; as the whole Parliament was forced for a less Rebellion than this, in the time of Richard the second. Or unless you be resolved to make good your Speakers promise at the beginning of this Parliament, To make his Majesty the richest King in Christendom, against your wills, by forfeiting your Estates, Lands, and Lives, and having let the Kingdom in combustion, you fall (like Phaeton) for prosuming to guide that Chariot whose lustre dazzled your eyes, and whose sublimity astonisheth, yea confounds your understandings: And so confounded be all they that exalt themselves against God, and against the King. Let their lives be reibsome, and their deaths Herodian lousy and virmiculated, Let their mouths be sealed up with the speechlessness of their selfe guilt. And let their eyes be picked out by the Ravens of the valleys, and eaten by the young Eagles. But let the King ever rejoice in the strength of the Lord, and be exceeding glad in his salvation. Mat. 22. 12. Prov. 30. 17. Psal. 21. 1.  
Thus have I (with less than Herculean labour in six days) cleansed this Augean Stable of all the noisome filth that Prinne had raked in many weeks, from all the dunghills in the world, all which Merdur●nous Muck I have laid at the doors of the right Owners, viz. Master Prinne and his Members; I have been fain to encounter with him in the dark, for his Margins hath been so thatched with abused and wrested Authors, that as the Grand Signior had so many thousands of Arrows to shower at once upon the Christians, that they obscured the Sun, and darkened the Firmament, yet there was room enough under the shadow of those Arrows to fight (in a good Cause) and foil the Turks; so I, in the Cimmerian umbrage of this Cloud of Testimonies, have coped with him, and in the Combat so bruised him, that three of his small guts are dislocated, the Vertigo taking possession of his pulsive Brainpan, and (as I was certified) he takes a Diet next his heart every morning five spoonful of warm Cowdung mixed with Earwigs, compounded Caterpillars, and the Marrow of a Salt Bitch, so that there is some hope that he will recover, but never be his own man again, yet he may live longer than a Cat, or a Dog, or a better thing.  
If I had had any correspondency with him, I could have furnished him, with Authors, Testimonies, Witnesses, and Proofs more suitable for his four Parts, and his Great Seal too, as Laz●●ill● de Tormes, Don Quixot, Gusman de Alfarech, Bevis of Hamp●on, The mirror of Knighthood, John Dorry, the ancient Bards, Druids, Peripatetics, Stoics, Epicureans, and Gymnosophists: these learned Thebans would have been so suitable to his writings, that their authentic Assertions had like a Torrent overwhelmed me, so that I had been quite drowned before I could have answered half his Sovereign Powers, and for his Great Seal, 〈◊〉 been as fare from my knowledge, as he and it are from Truth and Realities.  
I 〈…〉 how to manage and husband this New Great Seal, the cheapest and thriftiest way, for as yet it is of small force and less virtue, People do begin to perceive 〈◊〉 they have been cozened with Public Faith, and large promises for great sums, which have been (and must be) paid invisibly, and now that (by beggarly experience) they see how the Game and Gear goes, they are unwilling to be sealed for fools, and pay for the sealing too. Therefore because it is like to prove a dead market with the New Great Seal, and that wax is dear, I advise to save that charge, and seal with Butter; I have heard of Obligations sealed so in the Welsh marches; or if that thrifty device fail, your Seal will make an excellent mould to make Wafer Cakes, or cast well kneaded Gingerbread in. There are divers other necessary uses which it may be put to, which I leave to thy grave and ingenious, studious consideration.  
How now, my running-witted, tolling-headed, taling tongued, rattle-brained Round-head? How likest thou this ve●●ie? Wilt thou have another bows? If thou darest but take up the cudgels once more, as good as thou thinkest thyself at Defensive Arms. I'll fetch thee about like a jack-an-apes, over and under his Chain, so that all the Gentlemen Spectators, (who shall be judges) shall not only pass their sentence on my side, that I have sufficiently dry-bast●d thee; but I will let thy humours blood for the Simples in the head-vein and break thy, Mazzard, so soudly, that all the world shall see that thou hast but a crazed Pericranium; and so, somewhat commiserating thy distracted condition, I in a small degree of true charity, leave thy excessive imaginary zeal to farewell, and behanged. What should any man say more to his Friend.  
William Prinne.    

A Prophecy.  
A Prophecy concerning the precedent Answer, found in a Whirlpool, three Leagues below the bottom of the Ocean, by a diver, who was sent thither in these times of necessity for Pym's purse, which because he found guarded by Hampden's Ghost, he could not bring, for that had been enough to have redeemed all this Isle, (except himself) but he brought this from a pennon whereon it was hanging, whilst the Neiades and Nereids were busied about an Ephemerideses, for perpetuating Booker's Almanac, till Naworths honest just-dealing Prognostication shall make a Comment upon Haly by the last year's success, and till the Puritan manner of canting Ass-trologers (like that of Scriptures) shall appear out of Guido Benatus, wherein having told a tale of their troublesome Army, he leaves out, BUT THE KING SHALL PREVAIL IN THE END. And rails upon the Licencer, because he put the rest out, upon discovery of that his juggling, and also they sat in Consultation about proroguing the Confutation (if it could be) of Prinnes legislative Sovereign Power of Parliaments, and opening the New Broad Seal, and divers other special pieces of that Minion and Favourite of Aeolus, Neptune, Proserpina, yea and the Grand Signior Pluto himself, all which have special influence into the occurrents of these Times.  
In the third year of the Grand Session of the infernal Plebeians spirits, and in the second year of the Pigmies Giantlike warring against Heaven, when the Furies shall be in Conjunction, Beelzebub and Jezabel in a Quartile Aspect, Asmodeus ascendant, Judas in the second House, Lucifer culminant, and Balaam Lord of the Assembly, the North Pole shall be translated to Troynovant, the Constellation called Corona shall be assaulted by Mars, and great endeavour shall be to draw it beneath the Moon, and one Prinne (son of the Centaurs) mounted to the Sphere of Mercury, shall persuade the middle world (made giddy with lately running round) that all is reduced to the Natural Motion, and the great Platonique year returned: but Charles Wain (driving a contrary way) shall force Ixion's Wheel to become retrograde, and cause a motion of Trepidation in all the Circulatours and Roundheads of Thule, and the greatest Antic Island; and when this son of the Centaur hath lead the World through four times four Signs by an Ignis fatuus more dangerous than that of Phaeton, and maintained worse Paradoxes than Copernicus, reaching at love's Sceptre with the hands of Briareus, and scorning juno more than Niobe did, and seems to rest secure, only laughed at by Logicians, hissed at by the Searchers of Clioes' Records, and despised by the Priests of love, by reason of his false quotations, disunderstandings, misapplications, blasphemy against God, Treasons against the King, Arguments drawn from absurdities, general Conclusions drawn from particular examples, and from most notable Nonsense, that in the Times and Acts of Rebellion, parallelld for the most part from, and in the Nadir (or Altitude) of his Pride, shall write with the Rays of a Comet, that he hath copiously confuted all Royalists, Malignants, Papists, clamorous Objections, and Primitive Exceptions, against the Proceed of this present Parliament, in four several Treatises, lately published concerning the Sovereign Power of Parliaments, and Kingdoms, which hath given good satisfaction to many, and silenced the Tongues and Pens of most Antiparliamenteers, who have been so ingenious as seriously to peruse them; then shall a holy water Clerk of Thetis contract his Iliads into a rotten nutshell, and inspired with ability rightly to interpret that old Saw of Rabbi Selimon, Answer not a fool according to his folly, (or according to his manner) lest thou also be like him. Aptly apply the inverted opposite Maxim, Answer a fool according to his folly, or according to his deserving, lest he be wise in his own conceit: and although Lilbourne the Libeler, or a Mushroom hatched by this blazing star in the black Night of Sedition, and that sincere upright versed man Withers with the rest of the Rabble of railing Poets be retained in fee by the Rebels to write weekly Lies for them; yet Tom Nash his Ghost returning to this Charon, with some distilled wilde-fire-water in an inkhorn, shall provide such a whip for this proud Horse, such a Bridle for this senseless Ass, and such a rod for this mad fools bacl, as shall tame Cerberus, whose Triple head sounded nothing but the three-syllabled and the three-letterd Lords, and barked against the radiant beams of Majesty, and shall cause the many heads of Hydra to be mortified and expire— in confusion, like the Heteroclitall monstrous Body of Five Members, shrunk into three, and one of them half withered too: all which shall happen before the end of the first Olympiad of the Lesbian expedition, and the Glasconian refining of Reformation: this is decreed by the three fatal Sisters, confirmed by the three infernal judges, and entered into the Books of the four times three Sibyls, in the Public Hall of Contingency, 7000 years before the imagination of Eternity.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
I Would not have Prinne, or his dismembered (divided) Masters Memorable Memberhoods, to imagine me so sterile as to be all this while pumping to answer his Traitorous lying Pamphlets, but let him and them know, that this my Book was written in October last, 1643. when their Saviour Pym was alive, (which had he then been dead, I had not mentioned) many alterations have happened since my writing, and the printing part of it before the end of December last, but I being extremely strooken lame, and the Press and Printers full of work of greater consequence than to curry Crop-eared jades, till now; and as I have formerly handled Booker, the Proditorious Prediction-monger, and Mr Prinne the unutterable utter Barrister, (or rather the Kingdom's Common Embarrater) so have I also written Answers to the nimble, villanious, quick, pretty, little witted Mercurius Britanicus, the Scottish Dove, (Pigeon or Widgeon) the Scout, and all the Rabble of lying railing Rascals and Rebels, all these things are laid (like rods in piss) till I can get them printed: and could I but have means, and the Press leisure, I dare undertake with my poor Goose quill, to stop the mouths or cut the throats of all the seditious Pulpitteers, and roguish Pamphletteers in England, or else I would lose my labour.  
FINIS.