Loyalty in Grain, OR THE ACT of OBLIVION repealed BY HERACLITUS.  
Th' Heav'ns laugh at your attempts, and tell you loud,  
The Sons shall live to' venge their Fathers Blood.  Heraclitus Ridens, Numb. 69. 
BUT is it possible that such an Expression should come from the Loyal Heraclitus, so great a Champion for the Royal cause and interest as he pretends to be, truly there's no doubt on't 'tis as like him as if it had been spit out of his mouth as certainly it dropped from his Scurrilous Pen, that Mischievous instrument of his with the feather end of which as he stroke the Government by his fulsome and deceitful adulations, the other end he employs to scratch the People with desperate and exasperating invectives; his oil and Vinegar being both improperly applied, not to the end to heal our Sores, but to make 'em; This politic whiffler, and mimic of State, that with his luscious drollery betwixt Jest and Earnest goes about to tarantulotise the Government and People into a fatal frenzy, and to dance themselves to death in frisking after his Lure and his Brother Observators Fiddle; A precious pair of Beagles indeed; and by their way of hunting, it is now evident what kind they are of: No other than Blood-Hounds their pursuit is blood and vengeance; our admired Heraclitus declares it plainly in this distich, the latter of which concludes. 
The Sons shall live to' venge their Fathers Blood.   
Oh most Loyal and Obliging; certainly the Devil has at last paid him the debt he has so long owed him for his services; the truth is I perceive the Whigs have not so wholly engrossed all the brass commodity as he speaks, but they have left him enough to tincture his Face with sufficiently; otherwise durst the impudent Baffoon be so saucy( to give it no worse word) with the Government, to dare to instigate the head thereof contrary to his own native clemency and goodness, and his Royal Brother to Vengeance even to blood against the People— Vengeance is Gods. And although Princes, his Vice-gerents may and ought to imitate him in acts of Justice, yet not in Revenge, than which nothing can be more unworthy and unbecoming to those Earthly Deities in the clemency and mansuetude of whose minds( not exempt from due acts of Justice where the law requires) lies the greatest security of their Peoples and their own peace.  
Certainly this Tory Writer was formerly Nursed up like Romulus at the Breast of some Irish Wolf, that he bears about him so savage and sanguinary a disposition; such cruel compliments as these might have been proper enough for a Nero or Caligula, but to pass them upon two such Christian Princes, Princes endued with so much honour and goodness, and so far alienated from the principles of revenge and cruelty, is a piece of Arrogance in this Boutefeau of Sedition that's not to be paralleled.  
Heraclitus is sometimes we find possessed with a poetic fury, when having his Brains inflated with the more brisk airs of the Observators Fiddle, he cannot contain himself, but must needs break out into Pindarick Raptures( and certainly the Noble Pindar was never more abused than in being ap'd by such a Sycophanting ●ug as this is) in this humour he presumes to vent his venom more liberally, and spares nothing sacred or civil, under the licentious pretext of a Licentia Poetica— in this humour we now find him under the pretence of a strained compliment upon his Royal Highnesses deliverance from his late danger at Sea( which we do as hearty Congratulate as he can do) belching out his malice against the Whigs; and menacing them with some severe judgments to be expected from their Vengeful Princes— 
Their Son's shall live to' venge their Fathers Blood.   
As if there could be no more acceptable Eucharists offered to the obliging Heavens for so great a deliverance, than by making the Subjects Victims to an unperioded Revenge.  
We do aclowledge the providences of God in the preservation of these two great Princes our sovereign and his Royal Brother to have been as miraculous as gracious, and we are sensible what returns have been made( not unbecoming them) to God for such his mercies; that sacred Blood( which this avenger of Blood is yet so eager to revenge) was most justly avenged upon those principal ones that could be found to have had the most immediate hand in it; The King therein acted both as a pious Son, and just Successor to his Royal Father, in making them Victims to Justice; but then the distemper of Rebellion and Disloyalty, which occasioned that cursed Tragedy being universal, and by some overt Acts or other, in a manner the whole Nation concerned in it, His Majesty was most graciously pleased to reconcile his delinquent Subjects to his favour by a free act of Amnesty and Oblivion, in which as a City of refuge they took Sanctuary, hoping the avenger of Blood should not farther pursue them. And by this act of Grace, the Love, Gratitude, Union and Obedience, and peace of the Subjects, were sufficiently secured, and I question not will continue so to be, notwithstanding these and the like malicious Artifices of this Over-grown scribbler, and his Brother Observator to the contrary.  
Who knowing no other ways to execute their revenge upon their Fellow-Countrymen( distinguished by them under the contrived names of Whigs, Fanaticks, or what they please to make them) than by involving them in the Rebellion of the late times, are still reviving the memory of 41 and 48. the crimes of which have been already either punished or pardonned, and by this means endeavour to obviate that gracious Act of Oblivion, and to render the Subjects of their revenge, how innocent soever as culpable of that horrid Crime of the Kings murder, as those that were actually concerned in it? But did the King and Parliament know what they did when they passed that healing Act, not only for pardoning past Crimes, but terminating all differences that should arise by reason of them? Were not the Kings Murtherers particularly by name exempted in it, and the persons so name deservedly brought to punishment for it? And why was the Justice of the Government, so limited? and the fanatics, and Whigs, those Rebels against Heraclitus, and the Observator, not also excluded from the benefit of that gracious Edict, seeing they and their Children too, must in the sense of Heraclitus, be as guilty of that horrid Regicidisme, as those that were the immediate instruments in it.  
We do believe that that horrid and unparalleled Crime of murdering his late Majesty, as it was detested by all good Men, so was no less hateful to God himself( whose anointed he was) and we may justly conclude that amongst those many Sins for which he has by manifold Judgments punished this Nation, this more especially has not been forgotten, and whether the next succeeding Generation, may not as well suffer for it as this has done, is best known to him to whom Vengeance belongeth; he may indeed by virtue of his divine Prerogative, visit the iniquities of the Fathers upon the Children, unto the third and fourth Generation, but that this should be the measures of human justice, especially as to Blood, I much question, let Heraclitus say what he will to the contrary; if the Fathers have eaten sour Grapes, must the Childrens Teeth be set an edge, yet this is the Divinity of our State Fop, Heraclitus Ridens. Why does he not commend this Doctrine to be preached up by the Observat. inferior Levites at Sams college, would it not think you be a rare Subject to descant on at Whitehall, if any of them should come to the honour to Preach there, to tell the King that his Fathers Blood is not yet revenged, but cries still aloud for his royal Justice( Now after almost 40 years to punish it) upon this and the succeeding Generations, that notwithstanding his former gracious Act of indemnity so long as he and his Royal Brother live, they are bound to revenge it by Massacres and public Slaughters, though the innocent Babes of the Whiggish Party be Baptized in their own blood to expiate for the Sins of their suspected Fathers. Would not this think you be an acceptable piece of Service to his Majesty to irritate him contrary to his own natural clemency, and goodness to such merciless and unbounded Revenges? and would it not be as obliging to the People, could they persuade them that the King were inclinable to such Counsels, that he has but dissembled with them in all those Acts of Grace that he has given them for their security against the stroke of his justice; for that his Royal Heart still burns in Revenge against them, and that both he and his Princely Brother will take all opportunities to revenge their Fathers sufferings upon this and the succeeding Generation? Would not this tend to render his Sacred and Serene Majesty equal with that Tyrant Nero, that wished his People had but one Neck, that he might at one stroke at once destroy them— what excellent effects such monitions as these, were they regarded, might have between the King and his People, is easy to be imagined.  
If His Majesty in the mean time take not notice of him, to other more deserved purposes, it is pity when such are there wanted, but this bold dictatory should be taken into the Council, and I question not but his advices would be as happy to the Government as those of the inferior States-men were to Rehokoam, and we might have one counselor at Court that shall match, if not out-mate the so much exploded Achitophel abroad, but before he arrive at the honour, 'tis well if the fate of the Achitophel of old( for these his villainous and Seditious Practices) do not more deservedly dispose of him. To require his Oracuous Metre, I shall conclude in like manner, 
Th' Heav'ns laugh at his attempts, and tell us loud,  
The Sons shall live to do their Country good,  
And punish those that seek the Nations Blood.    

Published by Langley Curtiss at the Sign of Sir Edmund-Bury-Godfrey, near Fleet-Bridge. 1682.