A Remonstrance of LONDONS OCCURRENCES IN A BRIEF, REAL, AND INGENIUS Demonstration of all particulars, and the bundle of news that flying Report doth annunciate in all matters.  
Describing the absolute and present estate of the Common-wealth, and which way the Fancies and Opinions of men are carried in these troubles of the kingdom.  
Also prescribing solid counsel to the ignorant, how to know the fashions of London, and to discourse prudently of the whole estate of this kingdom.  
Replenished with many witty conceits and humours, with divers ingenious passages inviting the Readers observation, and Judgement.  
Vir sapit qui pauca loqnitur.   

The Map of Londons Occurrences.  
IN Taverns and in other meeting places, when matters of Consequence fell to be the Subject of Discourse, it was formerly a custom to say, be it spoken under the Rose; but now when discord hath made mens tongues wrangle and jangle, it will be good for every one in the heat of their Arguments and Discourses to stay the claper of their conceits, with this old Proverb, fit to be applied for these times, namely, vir sapit qui pauca loquitur.  
The man is wise that few words speaks,  
Rash speaking often the neck breaks.  
For what has every one to do to be a censurer of his brother, we raise up ridiculous reports of roundheads, and they undergo this mocking Character in the judgement of the Cavaliers, that they are a company of thick skul'd fellowes, who are the Idolaters of ignorance, and love to be factious; well, admit they would have no Service, but call it porridge, and think it to be no subtle brain to compose their entoxicated opinions; Suppose they cannot endure to see a cross, but will start& run back from it! Alas, they love good coin both in Gold and silver, though the impression and figure of a cross be stamped thereon must I when I am tottering upon the Ale bench, and the devil like a fly dancing about the candle, while every thing appears like a blew fog or mist about me; must I or any one needs cast up our malice in railing against roundheads, no, no, vir sapit qui pauca loquittur, it is a good Motto fit to be learnt of old and young, to show them how to rule their tongue; for in this Age, the man is wise that few words speaks.  
Now what says the roundheads again of the cavalier, but that in regard of their long hair they may be said to wear a horses tail, that they are nothing but the desperate sons of furious faction and fawning favour, and that they are very busy and daring in most places, and especially in the North, but whether this be true or not, vir sapit qui pauca ●oquitur, he is wise that speaketh few words.  
As for clergy men, it may bee they were faulty, perhaps they had more Religion in their habits and Hoods, than they had in their hearts, I have known many a Dunce has got a bnfice, while the better scholar has red prayers; and besides some of that coat were most completely proud, and some of them h●ve, as it is generally known, preached in the Pulpit like Players on the Stage, only to get themselves rich wives, but I need not pick holes in their coats, some poor Schollers Cassocks and cloaks are thread-bare enough already, and therefore, Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur, he is wise that speaks few words.  
But there was never such a confusion of babbling and pro and cunning or cunning, you shall not find three men agree in one opinion, but now they talk of the King, and then of the Parliament, as it happens and chan●es, and conclude with prayets for both; but let discreet knowing judgements meddle with their Markets, and not with State matters, let them talk and think with reverence of the King and his gteat counsel the Parliament, ever praying for the prosperity of both, and the tranquillity and peace of the kingdom, vir sapit qui pauca loquitur, few words are wisest in all matters. Suppose I see a woman and her husband falling out together, she scoulds and rails upon him, calls him Rogue and Rascall, the people they pass by and none give them a word, perhaps he's a drunken cuckolded that spends at the Ale-house that which should maintain his wife and children, and shee plays the light housewife and gives him monstrous horns; will any one therefore be so foolish to speak what he thinks, and call his next Neighbour Knave, and h●s wife Whore; no, no, vir sapit qui pauca loquitur. Some again talk of the Irish Warres, and they imagine the Rebels are all conquered, others suppose that the business slowly forward, and that there is a malignant party at home, and that there are more counsellors then those of the Law, but mum there, vir s●pit qui pauca loquitur, fewest words are safest and wisest.  
Pride is grown so rampant, that the Devils is tired with inventing new fashions, come to a great man as a distressed son of the Muses, and his Porter will almost frown you out of the Hall, at last if your book be preferred to fall into the Lords Lands, you shall be bound ●o pray for his Honours half piece of bo●ntie, bestowed on your outside in p●tty of your case while a Whore shall have her whole pieces for a wo●ke of one houres performance, but vir sapit qui pauca loquitur. But where are your Lawyers now with their suits longer and more tedious than their gowns, there was so much bribery in their practices, so much colourable deceit in their councils, and such juggling of conveyances under hand to defraud the true heir, so that now if they were all turned into rooks they might live in some great Wood, for the Land has cast them up, and will be cheated no more by such fire-brands of diss●ntion, that eat up the poor like bead, but vir sapit qui pauca loquitur, few words are wisest and best.  
There was a Maid-servant called Faith, and she was turned out of service, and I think Faith is turned out of a great many houses into the street; for the Divels have an intellectual Faith, but no cordial and spiritual belief, so that these seeming Fideans and Believers, are but white Divels.  
There was a Letter brought to a Gentleman tother day, that contained merry News, good News, and true News: the merry News was, that the Yorkshire Maids have put down many of your Gallants at their own weapons, and that there are more wenches with child than ever was known in those Countries: But what was the true and good news? it was neither concerning this or that business, but onely of two Cheeses that a friend of his certified him he had sent him up by the Carrier, and there was no harm in all this, for, Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur.  
The man was wise that fewest words did use,  
For he to writ of Cheese did onely choose.  
Now as for Hull it is a strong town well seated and well victualled, it is strong in two respects; both for situation and Munition, and stronger fort he sent of pitch and tar that comes from the ships, and it may also be said to be strong, because there is good strong drink and wine therein, but for other matters, Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur, the man is wise that speaks few words.  
As concerning a Declaration, it is an expression of the mind and thoughts, by word and writing, as a Declaration at Law is an expression of wrongs and grievances: A Love-letter is a kind of Declaration, wherein he maketh known to his sweet-heart by the present contents of his Letter, that he is bound unto her in the utmost obligation of love and affection, but to speak of that or this Declaration of supreme and high consequence, vir sapit qui pauca loquitur, he's wise that speaks few words: There's no harm in all this, were it not a mad thing for a man to burn his lips with supping hot pottage, to talk or writ himself into prison, as the notable Tub-Lectures the right unworthy Mr. Walker the Ironmonger hath done, and make the proverb true: 
That man in prison oftentimes shall sit,  
Whose tongue in prating doth exceed his wit▪   
There have been other praters and railers, who have got nothing but to be tied up like mastiff Dogges for barking, some against one person, some against an o●he●● and some at their own shadows, such vehement spirits are fit to be confined, for they would bring all to ruin, could their power be as unbounded as their malice is; but they and all such may learn, vir sapit qui pauca loquitur, he's wisest that speaks fewest words.  
There are another company of ignorant spirits that know not what Militia or Anarchy is, and yet they apprehended them as fearful notions, and will talk as far from the purpose as a blind mans Arrow flies from the mark, and all their Argument is their own weak foolish opinion, these talk of matters at Bakehouses, Barbers shops, and Ale-houses, and especially women, for they will hold a thing stiffly by the end, especially when it comes within the compass of their capacity, but ver sapi● qui p●uca loqu●tur▪ the man is wise that speaketh few words; but where the woman is that speaks few words, is hard to be found, unless she be asleep, or laid in her grave; let women therefore talk as they are, like parrots of Religion, of Bishops, of the Service of the Church, and the government thereof, let them praise Tom Brownist, and Timothy troublesone his companion L●cturer, and let them talk of news from york, from Ireland, and tell news without book to exercise their tongues, which can never lie still no more then their tails: But let men speak with gravity of matters of Religion and Piety, let them speak nihil nisi bonum de principibus,& de Parliamento, nothing but good of the King and the Parliament, and let them think on this Caveat in their Discourse, Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur.  
That man is wise, and still shall live at rest,  
That speaks few words, or else doth speak the best.  

Why should common people  
of high matters talk,  
And let their bold tongue  
before their wits walk;  
Let him that his wisest use  
words few and least,  
Of the King and the Parliament  
still speak the best:  
Then warily and charily  
let us all sing,  
And pray God to bless  
this Land and the King.   
FINIS.