The roundheads Lecture.  

Being a true description of a roundheads conversation,  
Which you may hear in this following Relation.   
To the Tune of, Neighbour Roger, Or, they cannot hold their wits together.  


A Tub Lecture.   

WIll you please to hear a Song,  
though it want both rhyme and reason,  
It was pen d to do no wrong,  
but for description at this season,  
Of he or she what ere they be,  
that wish Church Orders quiter confounded,  
Yet make a show where ere they go  
of fervent zeal, I mean a Round-head.   

First heel have a smoothing tongue,  
next he'll learn for to dissemble,  
And when he hears of wilful wrongs  
then sigh, and look as he would Tremble,  
Next of all then let him fall  
to pride of heart and secret bravery,  
Speaking still against all ill.  
that is the cloak to hid his knavery.   

Let Charity be used much,  
in words at length and not in actions,  
For tis the common use of such,  
not to do't but give directions,  
They will be loathe to swear an Oath,  
by yea and nay you may believe them,  
But for their games they will take pains,  
to cheat and lie and never grieve them.   

The Common Prayer they like it not,  
for they are wise and can make better,  
And such a teacher they have got,  
confutes it all in word and letter,  
For they can rail, mens hearts to quail,  
with deep damnation for their sinning,  
Yet to amend heel nere intend,  
for to transgress he's now beginning.   

But he's a very worthy man,  
and undertakes more then he's able,  
And in a Tub sometimes heel stand,  
in Hay-barne, Sheepe-house, or in Stable,  
While all the rout that comes about,  
to hear his Doctrine, Saints he calls them,  
They vow and swear they nere did hear,  
such worthy things as he hath  told them,   

They will not hear of Wedding Kings,  
for to be used in their marriage,  
But says they're superstitious things,  
and doth Religion much disparaged,  
They are but vain, and things profane,  
and therefore it no whit behoves them,  
So to be tide unto the Bride,  
but do it as the Spirit moves them.    

The second Part,  
To the same Tune  
 

NO Pater-noster no: no Creed  
in their petitions they will mention,  
And holds ther's nothing good indeed,  
but what is done through their invention:  
Prayers that are old, in vain they hold,  
which can with God no favour merit,  
And therefore they w●ll nothing say,  
but as they're moved by the spirit.   

The wisest schools they count but fools,  
which do no more then they have taught them  
For Brownists they can preach or pray,  
with wit their fathers never bought them:  
Then I perceive that wit they have,  
they do receive by inspiration,  
No books they need, to learn to red,  
if all be true in their relation.   

Onely the Horne-booke I would have,  
you practise at the first beginning,  
That they the better may peceive,  
the ●●iute that comes by fleshly shining:  
Yet nere the less, I would suppress,  
all o●her Books which now are used.  
Lest that the Ghost, which leads you most,  
by too much art should be abused.   

Their hair close to their heads they crop,  
and yet not onely for the fashion,  
But that the care it should not stop,  
from hearing of some rare relation  
Therefore his ears he well preparee,  
to harken to an holy Brother,  
That in regard, he may be heard,  
from one side of the barn to'th other,   

They count their fathers were but fools,  
who formerly became such debters,  
To spend their means upon the schools,  
to teach their sons a few fond letters:  
The Christ cross row, is enough to show  
a child, the rest he'l quickly gather,  
And learn to red, if he proceed,  
till he be wiser then his father.   

And at the last, when they must part,  
let Male and Female go together,  
joined in hand, and joined in heart,  
and joined a little for their pleasure:  
First for kisses they'l agree,  
and what comes next you may conjecture,  
So the wicked do not see,  
and so breaks off the roundheads Lecture.     
FINIS.  

Printed at London for Francis coals, in the Old-baily. 1642.