perform any wickedness which our power will assist us to effect Sen. Medea Tremenda caelo pariter ac terris mala Mens intus agitat vulnera caedem vagum Funus per artus levia memoravi nimis Haec virgo feci Homicides Paricides Mauslaughters murthers oppressions deceits extortions briberies and such like offences we committed in our youthful years when the Gospel was first planted in England but now we are become great proficients in Christianity we are now high and mighty Christians not fit to be fed with milk as babes and sucklings but with the bloud of Kings Regicides are our passe-times and to murther the King is holden to bee one of the chiefest Principles and proofs of a sound Christian whole Nations gather together and make a Covenant to murther their Kings which they hold to be as sacred and as beneficial as the old or new covenant in the Bible but Quae scelere pacta est scelere rumpetur fides That Covenant and trust which is made by wickedness by wickedness may be broken which doth most evidently appear in the transactions of the English and Scotish Rebels For they most wickedly swore and made a Covenant against the King like those Traitors of whom King David complained Psal 102.8 And after they had murthered the King then they swore and made Covenants one partie against another so that like those wicked men in Hosea 4.2 by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out blood toucheth blood because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land verifying the Proverb of King Solomon Prov. 26.27 Who so diggeth a pit shall fall therein and he that rolleth a stone it will return upon him for Rebellion by which they murthered the King is returned upon them and they now rebell one against the other so that we may truly say their own iniquities have taken the wicked themselves Prov. 5.22 and they perish by the devices and imaginations of their own hearts fulfilling the Scripture Prov. 11.21 Though hand joyn in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered For notwithstanding all the wicked plots and inventions of the bloody Rebels yet is our King C. 2. the seed of our most righteous Soveraign whom they destroyed delivered out of their hands as the bird out of the nets and snares of the fowler or as the innocent Hart out of the mouthes of the bloudy hounds Whilest they rage and are madd one against the other O the goodness and providence of the Almighty God! Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what dost thou Eccles 8. 2 3 4. The fear of a King is as the roaring of a Lion who so provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul Prov. 20.2 What sins then are we guilty of who not only provoke our King to anger but quench his anger with his own bloud St. Peter teacheth us another lesson which you cannot hear too often 1 Pet. 2.13 17. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as unto them who are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God Honour all men love the Brotherhood Fear God and honour the King And to see the Civil Law and the Divine Law go hand in hand harmoniously agreeing and consenting to lead a loyal subject into due obedience and allegiance to his Soveraign is no less delightful to the Royalist than envyed by the Rebels which Barclay doth out of the best Civil Lawyers sum up together cap. 14. saying Principem ex certa scientia supra jus extra jus contra jus omnia posse Et esse crimen sacrilegii instar disputare de potestate Principis Et Principem esse legem animatam in terris Et Principem solum posse condere statuta licet humanum sit quod consilio Procerum utatur Denique Principem posse tollere leges positivas quia illis non subjicitur sed illae sibi Et Deum Principi leges subjecisse nullam Legem ejus Celsitudini imponi posse Et licet de jure aliquid non valeat si tamen Princeps de facto mandat servari perinde est ac si de jure valeret quoad subditos Et solum Principem soli Deo habere de peccato reddere rationem soli Caelo debere innocentiae rationem Et temerarium esse velle Majestatem regiam ullis terminis limitare Et Principem re vera esse solutum Legibus The Latine is so elegant that I will not cloath it in English raggs None but blind Sodomites who grope for the wall at noon day will not here see the door which openeth to obedience and go in concluding That the King is free from the Laws and cannot be limitted by any humane invention may do what he please if he be more a Tyrant than Phalaris or Nerone Nerouior degenerate from all humanity and prove a Wolf to his People Yet by the Law of God by the Law of Nations by the Law of Nature by the Law of the Land by the example of all Saints by the rule of Honesty and by all equitable considerations It is not lawful for his Subjects nor any man or any degree or sort of men within his Dominions upon this pretence of Tyranny to rebel against their Soveraign For if any cause should be allowed to be just for the Subjects to rebel then that cause would alwayes be alleged by the Rebels though in truth they had no such cause at all For whom one man and his Company did esteem a good Pious and Religious Prince another party would proclaim him wicked Tyrannical and Idolatrous And who shall be judge between them but the sword and then Excessit medicina modum The remedy would be worse than the disease For it is an undoubted truth that Subjects did never despose their Prince although he was a Tyrant But that a multitude of Tyrants far worse than they pretended their Prince to be did rise up in his room By the cutting off the head of one snake twenty snakes grow in the same place Therefore it is not profitable aswell as not lawfull for subjects to resist their King For hear what Bodine saith O how many Tyrants should there be If it should be lawfull for subjects to kill their Soveraigns though Tyrants How many good and innocent Princes should as Tyrants perish by the conspiracy of their subjects against them he that should of his subjects exact subsidies should be then as the vulgar people account him a Tyrant He that should rule and command contrary to the good liking of the people should be a Tyrant He that should keep strong guards and garrisons for the safety of his person should be Tyrant He that
being done he implores the Gods that his Sons faults might be forgiven for he knew that it was his ignorance that made him so audacious and that at last though too late he would repent it Royal Phoebus likewise prayed that fortune would be more charitable to his hare-brained Son than he was to himself And so with this farewell ascended up into Heaven Inter utrumque tene fortunae caetera mando Quae juvet melius quam tu tibi consulat opto In medio tutissimus ibis Between these drive The rest I leave to fate Who better prove than thou to thy own state A lofty course will Heaven with fire infest A lowly earth the safer mean is best Mourning succeedeth rejoycing many a Sunshiny morning proveth a wet day The Bee carryeth hony in her mouth but a sting in her tail And those things which seem glorious at the first approach do many times prove fatal in the end Horace Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas Navita Bosphorum Paenus perhorrescit neque ultra Caeca timet aliunde fata Miles sagittas celerem fugam Parthi catenas Parthus Italum Robur Sed improvisa lethi Vis rapuit rapietque gentes No man knows truely what to shun The Punick Seaman fears to run Upon some shelf but doth not dread Another fate over his head The Souldier shafts and Parthian sight The Parthian Chains and Roman might But death had and still will have A thousand backwayes to the grave No sooner had this unhappy Lad obtained his pleasing wish and took the Princely reigns of his Fathers Chariot into his youthfull hands but that he was made sensible of his unadvised temerity Sed leve pondus erat nec quod cognoscere possent Solis equi solitaque jugum gravitate carebat Quod simul ac sensere ruunt tutumque relinquunt Quadrijugi spatium nec quo prius ordine currunt Ipse pavet nec qua commissas flectat habenas Nec scit quà sit iter nec si sciat imperet illis But Phoebus Horses could not feel the fraight The Chariot wanted the accustom'd waight Which when they found the beaten path they shun And straggling out of all subjection run He knows not how to turn nor knows the way Or had he known yet would not they obey When the Horses perceived that their Royal Master was gone and that the Government wanted that regal dignity and weighty Majesty which was wont to awe them they did what and run which way they pleased All of them thinking that as they had more power so they had as much right to be Governours as the raw Statesman who was newly mounted on the Kingly Chariot Which made young Phaeton that he could not tell how to rule neither could they tell how to obey So that that which even now was the object of his desire and greatest cause of his admiration is now become the greatest cause of his misery Now his Fathers instructions like the waters of Tantalus seem sweet but not to be tasted by his palate His preferment is now his greatest torment and by how much the higher he is exalted so much the greater is his punishment Vt vero terras despexit ab aethere summo Infoelix Phaeton penitus penitusque jacentes Palluit subito genua intremuere timore Suntque oculis tenebrae per tantum lumen abortae Et jam mallet equos nunquam tetigisse paternos Jam cognosse genus piget valuisse rogando Jam Meropis dici cupiens Ita fertur ut acta Praecipiti pinus Boreâ cui cuncta remisit Frena suus Rector quam diis votisque reliquit But when from top of all the arched skye Unhappy Phaeton the Earth did eye Pale sudden fear un-nerves his quaking thighes And in so great a light be-nights his eyes He wisht those steeds unknown unknown his birth His suites ungranted now he covets earth Now scorns not to be held of Merops blood Rapt as a ship upon the high-wrought flood By salvage tempests chac'd which in dispair The Pilot leaveth to the Gods and prayer Now he doth not only wish that he had never usurped his Fathers Government but that he had never known his Father He now wisheth that the King had his own again which he through foolishness had deprived him of He wisheth that he had still been a subject to his royal Fathers desires it repents him of his ill-got honour For why he seeth the Chariot wanting its lawfull Soveraign tossed about like a ship with tempests and with the rough waves in the Ocean whose Pilot hath left it and there is no means but prayers to the Gods to save it The Horses rage every one ruling and furiously drawing which way he pleaseth and so through the multitude of lawless Governours the whole Government is like to fall to the ground and bring destruction to all Quidque agat ignarus stupet nec fraena remittit Nec retinere valet nec nomina novit equorum Expatiuntur equi nulloque inhibente per auras Ignotae regionis eunt quaque impetus egit Hac sine lege ruunt Through ignorance he cannot hold the reigns Nor let them go nor knows his Horses names Who like the winds or tempests furiously With uncontrouled error scour the skye Through unknown airy regions and tread The way which their disordered fury led Amazement struck him dumb and what to do â—he is altogether ignorant He wanteth the courage years and wisdome of his Father to curb the unbridled lust of the fiery steeds and the Chariot wanted its wonted ballance He cannot go back neither knoweth he how to go forward He is gone so far that he cannot resign up the Government to the King neither knoweth he how to keep it himself He now findeth that it is better to be a poor subject than a rich usurper The Horses being lawless run whither their violence doth whirry them and he not being their rightfull owner hath no law to guide them O the deplorable condition of that Government where the true Soveraign is an Exul Not only Phaeton but the whole world had like to have been consumed by this Disaster Dissilit omne solum penetratque in tartara rimis Lumen infernum terret cum conjuge regem Et mare contrahitur siccaeque est campus arenae Quod modo pontus erat quoque altum texerat aequor Existunt montes sparsas Cycladas augent Earth Cracks to Hell the hated light descends And frighted Pluto with his Queen offends The Ocean shrinks and leaves a field of sand Where new discover'd Rocks and Mountains stand The Earth groaned and the news of this usurpation was carried down to Hell Which the Devills had no sooner heard but Pluto himself his Wife and all the rest tremble through fear For Pluto thought that those who had dethroned Phoebus might likewise be wicked enough to dethrone him wrest the Government of his Kingdom out
who was it that murthered the King Was it the people Every man knoweth that it was neither the people nor the Parliament But a Company of Jesuitical treacherous Rebels and damnable Usurpers Who flaming the people in the mouth with a tale that the supreme power was in the people made use of this power themselves against the wills of the people as an Engine to perform and bring to passe all their wicked and horrible designs But say they we are the peoples Representatives chosen by the people and so what we do they do Catch a Knave without a Knaves answer and he will give you leave to hang him I must confesse if this were true they might have somewhat the more colour though not the more honesty for what they do But this is as false as themselves For the people chose them to sit in Parliament and act according to the Kings Writ as part of the Kings Parliament according to the Laws of the Realm But since the Parliament is destroyed for what Parliament can there be without a King and House of Lords such a headlesse Monster was never seen untill of late Consequently their power which they derived from the people is gone also Neither are the Commons in Parliament the representative body of the whole Kingdom or people For they do not represent the King who is the head nor the Lords who are the nobler and higher part of the body of the Realm the Commons only represent the Inferior and lower sort of the people but if they did as they do not represent the whole body yet did not the people ever give them any power to cut off their Kings head For the Lords voted it unlawful all the honest Commons forsook the House and the people were all displeased except a few of their own hatching up and every one else murmured against it The Nobility mourned The Gentry were amazed The Common people wept and men women and Children did cry The Heavens cloathed themselves in black And the Sun hid his face The Lion King of Beasts died at the â—ight of his royal blood And the wild foules came wondering to see this execrable fact on the Scaffold And if the Thundering and Lightening of the Almighty be a true sign of Gods Angry Deity Then even from this we may conclude that these Regicides took too much upon them and very much provoked his wrath For Diespiter Igni coruseo nubila dividens Plerumque per purum tonantes Egit equos volucremque currum The Heavens roared with thunder which made the earth shake and the darts of fiery lightening threatened the ruines of both And who can think upon this worse than Gunpowder-Treason plot for then was but intended that which now is put in Execution viz. The murther of our gracious King and the subversion of all Laws and Religion with him and not justly expect all the Plagues of Aegypt and the punishment of Sodom and Gomorah to fall upon him and the whole people For Hor. Hoc fonte derivata clades In patriam populumque fluxit From the death of the King as from a fountain did flow the slaughter of the Nobility and people with the ruine of the Glory and freedom of the English Nation Tantae molis erat perversam condere gentem Such and so great villanies were perpetrated to raise this generation of Vipers Yet forsooth they will tell you that the supreme power and Soveraignty is in the people and that they act under them O grand Delusion Did the people turn out the long Parliament Did the people set up Oliver Protector Did the people turn out Dick his son Did the people foist up again the Rump of the long Parliamene Or did they hunt them out again Did the people sanctifie the Committee of Safety over them Or did they hunt in the Rump again Or have they made all the Revolutions and Choppings and Changings amongst us No neither the people nor their Representatives But the Devil his Representatives have been the cause of all our subversions For as the people have not so neither did the twentieth part of them ever challenge or claim the supreme power But have alwaies acknowledged the Soveraignty to be only in their King and only Soveraign only under God Reader take notice that in many places of this Book by the word Parliament is meant those Traytors the House of Commons who have unjustly usurped the name of Parliament For by the known Laws of the Land there can be no Parliament without the King Therefore let every one of the Regicides repent and pray to God to open his eyes and that the scales of blindnesse may fall from them that he may see his duty which is so evidently written in the Scripture and all other pious Writers which is to fear God and to honour his King which is acceptable in the sight of the Lord. And so I shut up my discourse with these verses which I would have the Reader get without book for his Edification Astra Deo nil majus habent nil Caesare terrae Sic Caesar terras ut Deus astra regit Imperium regis Caesar Deus astra gubernat Caesar honore suo dignus amore Deus Dignus amore Deus dignus quoque Caesar honore est Alter enim terras alter astra regit Cum Deus in coelis Caesar regâ—t omnia terris Censum Caesaribus Solvile vôta Deo A Tyrant without a Title set out in all his Colours and proved by the Laws both of God and man by the sentence of all honest and wise men by the vote of Antiquity and several Examples That it is most lawfull and glorious for any man either publique or private to fall upon Tyrants and kill them without Examination according to the usual forms of Judicature Where the consent of the people after Vsurpation makes an Vsurpers Title good and where not That the assent of the people cannot ratify any Government without him so long as their King liveth though banished but all their acting is Illegal How Tyrants pretend the safety of the people only for their own safe-guard and how they delude the people with specious names for their Magna Latrocinia their great villanies and robberies The Devil was a Rebel so are they and like Satan they have their power only by permission with an incitement to all men to execute them for these are not the Dignities we should obey LEt us now take our Swords in our hands and arme our selves to incounter with this Tyrant sine Titulo a Tyrant without a Title That bird of prey that beast of the game Orbis flagellum that scourge of the world that Devourer of Mankind Fulmen belli that Thunderbolt of war that Maule of the earth Poliâ—rcletes that destroyer of Cities that Hangman that Murtherer that great Robber whose might is his only right whose multitude of thieves makes him formidable builds himself up with honest mens blood feared by all men and fears
dear Trade dyeth thousands of Families are ready to starve Millions of men are ruined and undone the whole Realm groaneth under the burthen of excessive Taxes and Wars and rumors of Wars continually plague our Kingdom which hath lost its glory both abroad and at home and become a meer laughing-stock to all Nations and all this misery ariseth from the Tyranny of these Rebels who unjustly banish our lawfull haereditary King Charls the second and take possession of his three Kingdoms making themselves absolute Tyrannical Kings over us and so I believe they intend to make their Heirs for being accustomed to lye they declare in their Declarations that the People shall be governed by their Representatives in Parliament Yet their actions contradicting their words they will not suffer the People to chuse their Representatives or come into the House but they tell us that they will chuse men of fit qualities So one Thief chuseth another Similis simili gaudet We may be sure never to have an honest man amongst them if they have the chusing So that we may conclude that unlesse we arise and destroy these self-seekiâ—g self-created Tyrants and restore our gracious King to his Crown both we and our heirs shall be Slaves to the worlds end for no legal Government can be established without the King I have sufficiently proved that it is unlawfull for Subjects to rebel against evil Kings How much more then is it unlawfull to rebel against a pious and mercifull Soveraign which addeth to the bulk of the sins of our English Rebels For the whole world knoweth that Charls the Martyr whom they so trayterously murthered was the best of Kings and meekest of men He was Charls le bon Charls le grand good in his greatnesse and great in his goodnesse Some have said that a good King cannot be a good Christian but it is proved manifestly false in him for to the admiration of the whole Earth he was the best of Christians and no less to be admired as a good King So that his misfortune in his Government did not proceed from his deficiency in the art of Governing but from the excesse of the Rebels sins who transcended all Traytors since the creation of the world in sin and treachery as far as Hell is distant from the Earth Wherefore we may most truly say that he was murthered only because he was good For every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation if Satan also be divided against himself how shall his Kingdom stand Therfore if the King had been evil these evil Traytors would never have cast him out but seeing he was a pious and Religious King and so an evil Member to their evil Common-wealth They all united their hearts and hands to cut him off and lay to his charge all the Treasons Murthers Rapines Burnings Spoils Desolations Damage and Mischief to this Nation which they themselves committed So Thieves and Murtherers may spoil burn and make desolate all places and Massacre and kill many Noble and trusty Servants to the end they might take their Master and kill him and then having taken him lay all to his charge and execute him as the only Author of all those villanies which they themselves acted and occasioned O heavens Could the Almighty suffer this Why not The Lord made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of evil Pro. 16.4 As for our rising Sun Charls the second though hitherto obscured by the foggy mists of Treason and Rebellion in his own Kingdoms yet do the rayes of his sacred Majesty shine throughout the world beside and his renown ecchoeth in every part of the Earth to the admiration of forein Kingdoms and to the envy hatred of the Rebels in his own Yet cannot their malice but marvel at the virtues and patience of their King whom they so much wrong And it grieves them to see that royal progeny whose ruine they so greedily hunt after flourish with such glorious splendour amongst the Kings and Princes of the Earth growing in favour both with God and Man Whilst they odious to all but themselves by their Tyranny and Rebellion incurr the displeasure both of Heaven and Earth and become a Ridiculous Rump The object of the scorn and derision both of Old and Young Rich and Poor And had not these infatuated Rebels brasen faces to deny what their own Conscience telleth them is true They would presently declare that the only way to settle our distractions and restore our Nation to its pristin happinesse and glory were to call in the King and re-establish him in his own which they unjustly pocket from him For so long as there is one of the race of the Stewarts which God long preserve and any forein King or People remain alive we must never look for peace or plenty but as publick Thieves alwayes live in a posture of Warr and ever expect forein Nations to come in and swallow us up Who account it as indeed it is the greatest piece of Justice under the Sun to revenge with our bloods and utter destruction the bloody Murther of Charls the first and the unnatural Banishment of Charls the second our only lawful Soveraign Therefore let all English Spirits who have not washed their hands in the Innocent blood of Charls the Martyr joyn their prayers to God and their Forces to one another and lance this Ulcer and cut off this proud flesh whose growth destroyeth our King Laws and Religion Behold the Duke of York wiâ—l be your leader whose very name striketh terror to the greatest men of Warr and our Rebels tremble to think of his Martial atchievements It is he who will be our Champion to hunt out these treacherous Foxes who Rebel against his King and Brother and then make our Nation dreadful to the Pope and other forein Invaders Therefore let us not dream like Goats whilst we have this Lyon to be our Captain but follow him and destroy these Wolves who make us their continual prey keeping us in Slavery under a false pretence of Liberty and let us obey our King and Father Charls the second who will blesse us with the blessings of Jacob and weed out of our Church and State those Jesuits and Popish Blasphemors who now under the colour of a free State are working and contriving the ruine both of our Laws and Religion And then we shall prosper into a Kingdom Ezekiel 86.13 and once more be a glorious people under so glorious a King which God Almighty speedily grant for the glory of his Holy Name and for the welfare and happinesse of all Christian people Every one knoweth that in 1648. after the long tempest of a horrid VVarr and Rebellion raised by the Refractory and Treacherous House of Commons under a pretence of removing evil Counsellours from the King but in truth only to promote their own private Interests and factious designs The Currish Army who had for a long
square Without proportion all his actions are Is Fortune regent that doth blinded go And with unequal hands her gifts bestow Powr acts by will and will without restraint Doth what ambition teacheth and the Saint Is banish't from the Court Oh horrid times When Vertue bears the punishment of Crimes And Wolves pretending harmlesnesse bear sway Forcing the Britains blindly to obey But pious Ah in vain for Gold they hast To th' Indies True Religion is not plac't In Wealth or Fortune surely Heaven denyes Goodness to bad though prosperous treacheries Who were the fiâ—st that brought their private wealth For publick Treasure as 't were by stealth Made that the lure to sin Who first found Gold And Pearls not willing to be known from Mould Before that time no jealousies and fears No dayly Plots appear'd no widows tears Were seen for staughter'd Husbands no mad rage Of civil war corrupted had the age No Sword was sharpen'd yet against its King But uncorrupted Faith did duely bring The People to the Prince with loving zeal Blest Omens of a happy Commonweal The warlike Trumpet was not yet no blood The Wearer or his Arms had yet embrew'd The Sea was rugged free the shore All were contented with a little store They did possess the greatest of their boast Was to have seen and known their proper coast But now both Sea and Land are grown too smal To feed our base ambitious minds withal Desire to have and get burns now more fierce Then Aetnae's flames renown'd by Virgils verse Stands ought it 'h way death shall remove the stock We can bring Kings themselves unto the block If such may be their fate O dearest God How dreadfull are thy Laws how sharp thy rod Alas fool that I was I once had thought That just which now I see is vain and nought Caesar though oft forewarn'd at last was slain By his own Subjects a rebellious trayn But great Augustus on the factious head Of most revenged Caesar murthered But Ah! for Martyr'd Charls what man or State Will vengeance seek before it be too late O come Great God we pray thee at the length For without thee vain is our help or strength Let Charls the second in thy care be chief Guard him and give to his Affairs relief Preserve him safe and when he will demand His right from English Rebels guide his hand Make them to know that thou dost Rule on high Strike them with Lightning from the thundring Sky Revenge his Fathers guiltlesse death on them While there remains or Root or Branch or Stem But whether now my Muse where wilt thou croud Among the Shrubs it fits me best to shroud And not to climb the Cedar proud and tall Lest while I seek to rise I climb to fall Honor or Hopes calls most men to the Court Where one being wrought on by the great resort Is straightway struck and shortly hopes to be Seen in the City in full Majestie Another with much labour toyl and pain Would fain climb high but all his labour 's vain This courts Gemmes and Gold nor th'Indians can Nor Europe sate the hunger of this man Nor fertile Lybiâ—s plentifullest store But as he gets so still he covers more Another to the people shews his tayl Boasts his descent that so he may prevayl To draw the Fish into his Net and there Another for his valour doth appear And in the Publique place himself presents Spoyls of his Foes his new got Ornaments A rustick shepherds life doth laugh on me More sweet than all the lives that be I in my meaner way great things deride For why I know the vales have seldome try'd The force of thundring Jove when mountains high Have trembled at his threatning Majesty The meat and drink purchas 't by me is not Bought with the treasure of much goods ill got My sleep's unguarded I fear not to dye But in my little cot securely lye Not troubled with the noise of men or drums No trumpet there or horseman ever comes Oft when I rife I sit a little while Upon my fragrant bed of Camomile The Strawberries that in the thickets thrive My faintest hunger serve away to drive And pleasant apples as my Grandsire first So do they serve to quench my greatest thirst While Great ones drink in gold poison and blood I drink clear water out of wholsome wood Thus do I passe my time harmlesse to all But birds for whom I make some new pit-fall Thus stranger to the world yet to my self Known shall I dye and leave this worldly pelf But Sol withdrawing the approaching night And Starres appearing do to sleep invite READER ACcept these lines which I have plainly writ Though not adorn'd with curious Art or wit And thou shalt be my Patron at whose beck My Muse shall hoist her sailes or give them check So may I chance hereafter to relate Some things more solid and of greater weight And as our Palat's pleas'd with various fare So is our mind with studies choice and rare All things have changes ev'n the Law it self May lye and gather cob-webs on the shelf Though they be thine grave Cook who didst revise And mend the same or Plowden grave and wise But I love various learning and so do Make it my study and my pastime too And thus while others play at Cards or Drink Away their time I on Apollo think And pray his favour that he will admit Me from the Muses fount to sip some wit 1659. Yours in all officiousnesse and Love most obliged FINIS St. Pauls Jo. 18.37 * Nam quis iniqui Tam patiens orbis tam ferreus ut teneat se * A good Remedy but a bad Cure * The Rump c. * The Rump * Qui Curies simulant Bacchanalia vivunt O the venome of a perpetual Parliament 1 Chron. 21.13 Paradox 4. Res publica signifyeth a whore Quid prodest tibi nomen usurpare alieâ—um vocari quod non es (a) Note Reader that this Chaos of Religions hath justed the true Protestant Religion out of doors so have I seen a flower kill'd by the multitude of weeds and a Lamb destroyed by a number of Woolves a Bradshaw when he tempted the King alias at the Kings tryal but rather his Temptation a He will first suffer himself to be murthered at his own door as was Charls the I. Psa 72.1 Psa 2.12 Eccles 8.23 Zecha 9.9 Isa 49.23 Rev. 1.6 Hos 7.3 Prov. 29.4 Prov. 16.12 Prov 31.4 Prov. 29.2 1 Sam. 15.23 Prov. 17.11 Isa 1 2â— Josh 22.19 Mark 15.18 John 19.15 Mat. 21.38 Mat. 10.23 Rom 13.5 Jude 1.8 10 11. 2 Pet. 2.10 11. Hor. Ode 24. Ambrosius in Orat. contra Auxen Tom 5. 2 Kings 6 32. (a) witness the resolution of all the Judges in England in the reign of Charls the I. c. For suppose that the Parliament turn Traytors and Rebel against the King as did the long Parliament Is it not profitable for the people