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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

verdicts of Polititians and the Tragedies of these recited with numerous moe In Bucholcherus his Chronology pag. 389. In Melanctons Chronicle lib. 4. pag. 301. 443 444. In Strigellius his Chronicle part 1. pag. 207. part 2. pag. 60. In Crutreus his lesser Chronicle Amor. 93 94 95. pag. 44. In Tholosanus his Common-wealth lib. 11. cap. 3. pag. 656. In Bodius Common-wealth lib. 5. c. 5. pag. 888. In Patritius his Common-wealth lib. 9. ●it pag. 396. As also in heathenish Authors chiefly Polibus lib. 1. p. 15 16. And Heroditus l. 6. p. 163. l. 7. p. 207. which Authours I alleadge as on a sudden in two dayes I recollected them both to discover the folly of this frivolous Mercury in spinning a web to catch Grandees with meere rocke and spindle of a naturall wit without any yarne of reading or judgement as also to muzle or puzle him from barking any more against either the Parliament or the Authours I alleadge throughout this Rapsody the Champions against his cavills and ungrounded calumny In the rest of his Sarrismes this Don quipot fights as it were with Rams and poasts and Wind-mills for Giants I meane with his owne meere airy and windy conceits as the Cat playes with her owne tayle chiefly he fights as with his owne shadow when as a mad man he casts his brands at King Noll whom his fellow Melancholicus or his alter ego his second selfe plainly calls King Crumwell a man that is not in rerum natura not so much as in the orbe of the Moone nor on the center of the Earth within the sphere of our knowledge for although many meaner men for gifts and place then the Martiall Crumwell even some Country Peasants by similitude of physiognomies have usurped the names of Kings as one Wooldeman a Miller in Marchia in Pencers Chronicles lib. 5. pag. 60. and in Lauclavius his Turkish History pag. 291. and a Pseudo sinerdis in Persia who went long under the name of the sonne of Cyrus in Justin pag. 23. lib. 1. and in Heroditus lib. 3. 90. and one Phillip in Thessalia a meane Plebeian in the third Punicke war related by Florus in his Epitome lib. 49. 50. 52. and a Peasant in Saxony a false Fredericke anno 1262. in Cuspiman pag. 440. also we know in Henry the seventh dayes what broyles were kindled by Lambert and Perkin Warbecke vulgar youths pretented to be of the blood Royall yet that ever Crumwell or his fame-worthy Generall called or counted themselves Kings or were so held or reputed by their Souldiers shall be proved in Platoes great yeare or in the Callends of the Greeks when all Priapized Priests and Friars and all the vestall Nuns of Venus live chastely together or when Jesuitized Papists what ere they pretend shall love a Protestant Prince so wel unlesse moulded downe-right their creature as to spare him in the Basilicall veynes more then the two French Henries so long as they had ever at hand a junior Faux Rivillack Parry Lopus or Lupus with a ponyard a poyson or a pistoll in his hand as Treason in his heart In his next streines which deserve necke streyning as though he were an Incubus or Succubus or one of the Colledge of Bird or Merlin and Mother Shipton or were some Witch or Conjurer or had some Mephistophiles or familiar spirit as once Doctor Faustus Cornelius Agrippa Simon Magus and other Nicromancers or at least were some judiciall Ass-stronomer Ass Colens Astra consulting with the starres or at best some Familist and mushrump Enthusiast as once John a Leidan and Munster his Prophet he takes upon him to prophesie sepe malum hoc nobis predixit ab ilice cornix as ominously and fatally as the prognosticks of any ominous Scritchowle croaking Raven or howling dog yea with as much confidence as any blessing white Witch Gypsie or Fortune-teller of strange and heavy newes that we both have it and must have from France Scotland Ireland Wales every part of the Kingdome and the vertuall Island to more specially as though he should cry the Fox gives you warning and I give you warning to take heed of your Geese this Iack Iugler or Hocus Pocus shootes off a terrible warning-piece like a Balaams curse a Papall excommunication comming out or a Brutum Fulmen to take heed of the 28. of June for 28. was like to prove a fatall number to all Parliamentarians such as these dies nefandi these unlucky dayes which the Romans held as fatall in which Caesar was stabb'd in the Senate and in which they lost so much blood and honour in the battells at Canna and Thrasimen but mira Cannat non credenda Poetae your Almanack is held to be meerly like your selfe a Mercurialized liar and you are thought to study onely Errapater for when did you pry into Gods Arke or were admitted into Gods Cabinet-counsel If Grandees hold you fitter to be of their Privy as Sco●gan once to the French King then of their Privy-counsell and if you scoffe at Plebeians for perking from plowes and shops into Moses his chaire how dare you perke into Gods chaire to reveale his secrets lockt in his owne decree sure as there is a ●easting Epitaph of one Fiddle That the one and twentieth day of June John Fiddle he went out of tune so the eight and twenty day of Iune thy Cuckowes note goes out of tune Much I know the Platonists and Pithagoreans have ascribed to numbers and to their dayes yea yeares fatall chiefly to their Climactericalls in their revolutions of sevens and nines ominous in the falls of great Peeres and Princes as much at large is said for numbers by Cornelius Agrippa de occulta Philosophia lib. 3. and many instances are given by Levinus L●mnius in his second Booke of the secrets of Nature cap. 32. pag. 381. and by Ranzovius in his Climactericall yeares pag. 227 228. seq Patritius also in his Common-wealth lib. 5. tit 7. pag. 234. interposeth much to this purpose and for my poore part I have read how fatall the twenty eighth yeare hath been to many great ones Atropos then cutting short the thread of the lives of Phillip King of Spaine father to Charles the fifth of Lodovicke the sixt Lamdgrave of Thuringo of Oswald an English King sonne to Acha sister to Edmund call'd the Saint of Cardinall Hipolitus medices at those yeares poysoned of C. Caligula Caesar sonne to Germanicus stabb'd with thirty wounds of Iohn Medices father to that great Cosmus Duke of Hetraria slaine with a Canon as also of Persius the Satyricall Poet Daniel Gricaeus Hierom Vrsinus and many moe who in the prime and April of their yeares at the age of twenty eight yeares acting short parts on the worlds stage were then strucke non-plus by death most by a violent rather then a naturall stroke But for any great disasters that have fallne on the twenty eight day of June I have not slept with the Lune Nor am I verst so