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A89434	A muzzle for Cerberus, and his three vvhelps Mercurius Elencticus, Bellicus, and Melancholicus: barking against patriots & martialists, in the present reign of their unwormed rage. With criticall reflections, on the revolt of Inchequin in Ireland. / By Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus. ...	Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus.	1648 (1648)	Wing M3166; Thomason E449_3	26,938	33

sands to Steutertons steeple they being but as ill humours to be purged out or as Kibes Carbuncles Botches glassie eyes and wooden legs in the body no part of the body Politicall or Ecclesiasticall and suppose they be too glutinous and viscous as yet to be purged yea that the sons of Zerviah be as yet too strong for those of the house of David Zach. 12. 10. yea suppose to speake mystically that Themistocles his young boy should by degrees and gradations sway too much in Athens yet our Parliamenteires are to be pitied as passives not scoffed as actives if in any thing exposing them to the stars or spits of construction they be as some in a Coach carried or hurried not in their owne naturall but in a more coactive motion as in some cases as I have found experimentally in my selfe and others and as many can give the probatum est a man as David once yea a conglobed society may be in such streights 2 Sam. 24. 14 sailing as it were betwixt the Scylla of some inconveniencies the Caribdis of some mischiefes that doe what he can with the improvement of all his best powers and parts he shall split upon one or other with some shipwracke will he nill he like to him in the Fable who held a wolfe by the eares who if he held him longer would be sure to bite him yet if he let him goe he would worry and is it not with State Physitians thinke we as with corporeall the patient may be in such a posture by contrary diseases some from hot some from cold causes that their best skill and will knowes not so to cure one but they must to their griefe and non-plussing of Physicke increase the other the salve being oft as ill or worse then the sore and the medicine more pretious then the disease dangerous But to trace this tripping Mercury further in his impudiating humor he danceth without a piper and cuts his crosse capers Levaltoes as though he had a Welch harp or Scotch bag piper tuned in such Martiall streyns as his heart could wish our present frets being his mentall musicke he playes as a Porpoyce and a Dolphin in our supposed stormes and makes himselfe merry with that which makes every gracious heart sorry with the City murmuring the Apprentices mutining the Scots voting the Parliament Covenant-crackers false fraudulent every one cursing them ready to cut their throats the West and Wales and all against them and this is his sandy and unglewed argument that therefore their cause is nought he might as well have concluded as much against Elias when Ahab Jezabel the Priests of Baall all Israel bowing to Baal he thought himselfe Bird alone not one to stand for him 1 King 9. 14 and against Jeremy when the Fedifragous King the fluctuate people the perfideous Elders the Prelaticall Pashur and all were against him except one Blackamore and he saw nothing but pikes perils imprisonments death and danger all being so adulterous and treacherous against him that he wisht for a wildernesse to lurke from them Jer. 9. 2. cap. 20. 2. 9. 10. and against Moses and Aaron against whom the people so oft murmured and were so sore incensed that they tooke up stones to stone them Exod. 15. 24. cap. 16. 2. 3. Num. 20 3. cap. 21 5. Numb 16. 41 42. but chiefly against David against whom as the triall of his faith fortitude patience and dependance on God ere God settled him in his promised Kingdom that he might first crowne his sufferings as he did Jobs patience and Pauls perseverance 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. and make him exemplary to all imployed by God in great workes for his glory and the good of a people hee set not onely Saul against him to hunt him as a Partridge but the Zephins Achitophel Doeg and his owne wife Micholl to mocke him and Shemei to revile him yea the very people to stone him being oft in such straights greater then our Parliament ever yet that hee thought there was but a step betwixt him and death 1 Sam. 20. 3. chap. 23. 16. chap. 24. 14. chap. 30. 6. Yea might not this fellow have concluded as much against some of the German Henries and Fredericks fighting the Lords battailes when one Antichristian Pope after another had excommunicated them and armed their own Subjects against them yet some of them for all this marvelously and miraculously delivered as were oft the Hugonites in France Huniades in Hungare Luther in Saxon Queen Elizabeth here in England the late Polsgrave called the King of Bobemia and millions more in History whom God preserved and reserved to better times and to better ends and purposes after he had pulled them as brands out of the fire and brought them Daniel-like out of the very jaws of Lyons and as his three couragious servants out of the very flaming furnace where they were tried as pure gold ere the Lord effected by them those great workes of reformation or preservation of a people for which he fitted them by many fiery trialls and sure if the Parliament stand for God as he hath promised to stand for them and to deliver them as all his true Members Ministers and Magistrates out of all their troubles and to honour them which honour him Josh 1. 5. Heb. 12. 6. Psal 34. 18 19. 1 Sam. 2. 30. Act. 18. 10. Esay 43. 1 2 3. Though all the created principalities and powers in earth and hell were against them they must prosper and flourish if their work be of men I must confesse the decree is against them it will come to naught Act. 5. 38 the branches that are not in Christ wither Joh. 15. 6. But if their work be of God it cannot be overthrown Act. 5 39. who fight against it fight against God as glasse tilting against brasse to their breaking as waves surging and blustering against a rock dashing themselves to froath and foame omnes priminter divinitus he that consults with many Instances given by Melancton in his Postills part 3. p. 553. and Strigellius on the Psalmes pag 66. in Psal 8. shall see Gods hand fearfully on those who have had heads hearts or hands against his Church as also other Instances given by the same Author in Psal 41. pag. 334. in Hezekias Constantine Obediah Abdemelech the widow of Sarepta John Frederick the Duke of Saxony and I may adde our English late Deborah our Elizabeth with many moe friends of the Church in hac vita gloriose ornati ever gloriously honoured and patronized in this life which I prescribe as a cordiall and cooler to our Senators against the hot tongue poyson of this Mercurialized sonne of Beliall who being more perfect in his lying then in his Latin-tongue tells us of the brave exploits of two turn-coats in Wales Poyer and Powell in three times defeating the forces sent against them though I have it from the mouth of a credible Colonell that being but one 100. or 2000. sent

in the Skies To vent with Mercury loud lyes But these are but the off-scums of the wit of this junior Rombus this fritter of fraud this seething pot of iniquity as I could pay him home in his owne coyne in retorting jeasts as sharpe as the teeth of a Pike to nip this Gudgeon at best these are but ludicra genii vel ingenii the spots of his wit the playing but the Buffon or the Monkey to make himselfe and others sport with his Come a loft Jack an Apes with a whim wham but in his rhyme-doggerills which in them have no jot of rhyme nor reason like snow in June and Harvest out of season in these his toothed Satyrs on his Epitaphs or nipping-taphs as the Countryman mis-called them which the malitious momist makes on our Parliament men ere they be dead who perhaps may live to eat of the Goose which grazed on the grave of this Gander of Gotham in these he shewes himselfe in his colours indeed like the devill in his hornes there he tosseth them on the pike of his pen as a baited Royston Bull the valerous Mastives there he acts the parts not of a Davus onely to disturb all but of a Demon a devil to destroy all as homo homini demon he verifies in his damned desires that one man is a devill to another in boyling wrath like wilde fire and the coals of juniper scarce quenched by dead ashes for he so far like a snarling Fox shews his tongue and his teeth when he is coopt in his chaine that he cannot worry as he would that if he could he would sevire in manes tyrannize over their very deaths as the Greeks which abused Hector and the Papists in acts fitter for Wolves and Hienaes then Christians in digging up the dead bodies of Paulus Fagius and of Peter Martyrs wife for whereas in his other Satiricalls his Satyrae satirae he stings like a Serpent as it s said of a Serpent that eats a Serpent in his detestable Epitaph he proves a Dragon spitting wilde-fire besides some rough passages betwixt Hierom and Ruffinus Chrisostome and Ephanus Erasmus and Julius Scaliger Luther and Carolostadius more indeed then well became grave Divines and modest Christians I have read invectives as sharp as raizours and cutting swords of Salust against Tully Tully against Mark Anthony Varres and Cateline Estchines against Demosthenes and of latter times of Cocleus and Bolsecus against Luther and Calvin of Himmimus Ecardus and most ridged Lutherans against Calvinists more then against Papists of Stapleton in his Promptuary Faverdentius upon Jude Kellison in his scurrilous Survey and most Romish Rabshekahs against all Protestants chiefly of Turner in his orations against Queene Elizabeth but as if the spirits of all these in a Pithagorean transmigration with all the Satyricall spleen of Lucian against the learned called the Cerberus of the Muses and of Tom Nash against the three Harvies marching as though their guts with his Gunpowder tearmes were infused into his eldest sonne of Sathan as Polycarpus called Marcion he so sympathizeth with Sathan in his false accusations all these concurring as one as the venom of all Serpents in one Basiliske they could not expresse worse then he is in his damnable Epitaph upon the fictious deaths of the chiefe Ephorists of our state for like an Atheist little heeding nor believing the Epithites and Titles with which the Scriptures honour them as of Rulers Heads and Elders of the people 1 King 4. 1 2. Num. 11. 16 17. Deut. 33. 10. Privy-counsellours to Kings as sometimes to Ashuerus Hester 1. 3. and to the Kings of Israel Jer. 26. 10. and conjoyned with them in their Edicts Ionas 3. 7. nor regarding the honourable names of Patritians given to such as they in Rome of Ephorists in Lacedemon of Senators in Venice of great Dons in Spaine of Peers in France of pillars ribs sides foundation strength of the Empire in Germany by the Bull of Charles the fifth Cap. 3. 12. 24 26. all these honourable and authoritative Titles being spurned of such blatrant beasts as this malevolent Timonist as dogs and hogs spurne pearles he squeezeth his wits pumpes his braines digs as low as hell for gunpowdered calumnies and borrowes moe galling girding stigmatizing opprobries to cast in their Faces and on their places then ever Tailours Poets Players Perriwig-makers and Courtiers borrowed fantasticalities or Jewes and Jesuits new invented poysons or as our new Shakers and Seekers new invented Heresies and Sects of blacke Pluto himselfe Oh how he roares as in a Pumpe though in other passages this hot Gamester play all his trickes at noddy ever turning up knave o th' Clubs yet here he trumpes no lesse then Treason and playes all his prankes at Loadum or Loadhome loading our wisest worthiest Senatours with the base and bloody imputations of ambition rebellion pride lust murther sacriledge and what not as give the devill an inch and hee 'le take an ell over shooes over bootes in villany now that he is in his Rope-rhetoricke in a high way march like railing Jesuits from Tiber to Tyburne up Gallows gate and downe Hemp-street he cannot get out he can no more be got out of his tract then a Carriers horse in his way to Dunstable or Dublin or the devills Inne where he intends to take up his lodging hence he bites them further with his Theonine teeth sharper then Foxes and Badgers and more poysoned then the teeth of Vipers and Adders and sets his brands and imistions upon them of grand Impostors perjured Knaves out-veying any otherwise Newgate-bird Pick-hatch Shoarditch or Turnball-street Cockatrice or the most hot-mouthed Scold and black-mouthed cursing Witch in all the devills Territories such blacke and base stinking stuffe he vomits as would make the Devill himselfe the blacke Dog of Hell sicke to licke it up for my part it smells worse to me or to any right nasuted man then any Fox or Fowmart yea then any carrion or assafaetida as any may read what the blawant beast roares out in his reasonlesse raging rhymes in aspersions more false and foule then ever were cast upon Themistocles and Socrates in Athens on Cato himselfe the marrow of Justice and the two Scipioes and other Patriots in Rome oft questioned by calumniating emulating spirits even in the Senate as well as ours now yet ever came fairely or squarely off and bore the Bucklers as ours may doe and then rumpantur ilia Codri But to conclude I retort these his rascally raylings with Epithites of honour yea with this Epitaph of fame if they should perish in their projects and prosecutions of the common good incuria injuria temporum by the ungratefull and ungracious times yet this Encomium is fitter to be ingraven on their graves then his Roguish Rhymes THough Codrus guts should burst asunder Here be interr'd our ages wonder The fam'd physicians of our Seate Recorded with unworthy hate Of dog sicke Times who not induring Their purging pills did snarle their curing Yet their undaunted zeale stood shocks And stormes of Time like Neptunes Rockes And like the two fixt Poles in Sky They toucht all strings all wayes did try To curbe and cure the maladies Of Albions felt fear'd Tragedies Both the Kings evill in the head And Gangreens through the body spread By strong French Philters and slye trickes Of Michavillian Empericks The surging streames did rise so strong From Po Rhemes Tiber and so throng From fluctuate froathy fooles the waves In their mad moodes and Bedlam raves Yea so Antipathiz'd was their hate ' Gainst all reformes in Church and State That they are swallowed as by whales Just Jonasses in Tragicke falls Yet Phenix like burnt in the flame Of love and zeale they shall againe Rise and out live an ancient story As Albions Patriots Englands glory Whom Prince Pope Pests nor vulgars lust Could once divert from Lawes right just They sacrific'd their dearest blood ' Gainst Englands sins for Englands good Let Zoilists Momists here defaee them This Epitaph in their urnes shall grace them Their honoured ashes ' gainst the times Shall rise for all thy Roguish Rhymes And so I leave thee and all thy croaking frogs and ominous Owles and Ravens of thy base blacke and bloody feather chiefly thy Comraide Mercury Bellicus and Melancholicus since as striking two Wood-cocks with one bolt in putting a hook in thy nose I also hook them you hanging together in one subject like burs as you deserve to hang like bells or reasty Bacon much better for hanging for I prophesie if you hold on to vent your invenomed gals as you do your libelling lines may cut short the lines of your loathed lives dabit Deus his quoq fluvem and then you may sing or sigh your Lacrimae per varios casus per tot discrimina rerum tendemus in laqueum Through different base bad courses all our hopes Tending their ending have in Tibornes ropes FINIS