bloudy oathes of his God-dam-mec's must Turne out their bloud to Mummiamized dust Yea their grand Proctors with their Doctors all Right Balaamiz'd like house of Ahab u 2 Kings 9. 26. Saul w 1 Sam. 20. 2 2 Sam. 21. 6. Yea like the house of Dagon and Blacke Friers May fall downe flat for bloud still bloud requires And Idols which doe most pollute a Land Tho propt by Royall favourites cannot stand Retaliating vengeance in times all Keepes measures x Mat. 7. 2. which be Geometricall And Arithmeticall like sinnes still heap Like sorrowes y Poena culp a proportierata as men sow so must they reap Eat as they bake and drinke such as they brew Tho bowles of bloud their last Hearb must be Rew. Admizeâ—eck who the Thumbes off cut Of seaventy Kings z Iudg. 1. 6. a Sicnecis artifices arte perire sua was to like penance put And that Perillus who himselfe did gull Phalaris him roasts a in his owne torturing Bull That Dancing Minions head too in a trice Who Johus head beg'd was lopt some say by yee A bloudy King worse Queene by dogs were gnawne Their bloudy Pageants perisht-all their spawne Most Pag in Arrian Papall persecutions Found Iudas fates and Ioabs executions Whole Volumes could I write to let Kings see From former misled Kings their Tragedie Their steps who following fast their crosse wayes running They needs must fall for all Romes dawbing cunning To salve all these great Charles that wars may cease Thou and thy Crowne secur'd get grace with peace Peace with thy God peace with thy Parliament For Gospell God thy Good whose aimes be bent This cleares all clouds this teares wipes from the eyes Of all good subjects heales all maladies See with their Lincean eyes vvorke vvith their hands Thou and thy Scepter so securely stands Rome had not bled an object of poore pity But flourisht like that Sea-wed maiden City Had bloudy Nero sterne Domitian Clodius and Claudius like Vespasian Fortunate Augustus Traian Adrian Prais'd like Germanicus by every man Consulted with Romes Senate as of late The great Venetian Duke with that wise State As Homer his best president for Kings With Nestor and Ulysses counselling brings His Agamemnon Zenopbon his Cyrus With his grand Peeres in History Darius With his Zopyrus with his Cyneas Great Pirrhus by whose wits he Conquerour was As Alexander by Parmenio Did victorize ewhat he did undergoe Great Assuerus by his Persians wise Is quit with Vasti who did him despise Yea Israels singer in the Text divine By Hushai's Councell plots did countermine And Nineve's King consults with his grand Peeres Heavens wrath to pacifie by Prayers and Teares Yea Absolom heares his Achitophel Tho a Malignant worse then Matchavell Oh shut thy eares great Prince to Counsels given By Serpents ope them wide to votes from Heaven Good men be ships wide ope to sun and skie To earth and water yet close shut they lie Good eares and hearts ope like the Marygold Unto the Sun to Counsell rightly told The bad shut like the spring-lock Adders deafe Heare not or to their hearing give beleife Like Zedekiah or like Eli's sons Who threatnings scoft like squibs and paper guns Lightnings and thunders held till bolts they felt Hearts Pharoiz'd lesse then Smiths Anvils melt Lord soften thine like wax to take impressiou Of sound advice this soone salves all digression Oh blesse our eyes or eates with that bless day To know thee with thy Peeres for which we pray A Senate just they be tho thou retire A wife 's a wife tho scorcht with jealous ire A husband wrongfully seduc'd forsake her But of thy presence be they once partaker This would turne Guns to Gownes and Blades to Bookes Calme furious Mars and cleare Bellona's lookes This Targets turnes to Plowes Helmets to Hives Speares into Mattocks Swords to Trades-mens knives Penury to Plenty Discords into Loves Haggards to Hens and Harpies into Doves Wars into Peace and into pleasure paine The golden Age should thus returne againe Oh this would dignifie our Albions fame Angloi's should name of Angels thus regaine Yea whatsoere is lost this would make even In dry hay make up all our Hell turn'd Heaven Thus have I ript State wounds Church wracks Camp woes With salves ere Cynthia yet few circles goes If these my sound prescriptions be tooke well My Muse to balme our bleedings moe may tell Ecclesiastick and Politicall Tho against those some Doegs loud will baule Some Asses bray some Snakes sting which no cure For the Kings Evill can or will indure In touch of which each Cavillier who kicks Shewes that his galled hide my sharp pen pricks FINIS
THE CAUSES AND CURES Of an unwilling WARRE OR Justice awakened from Gownes to Guns Historified By Philalathec Omnia tentanda priusquam Armis Printed in the year 1645. To the judicious Reader who can and the unpartiall who will truly Critick the Times GReat are our sores what Gallenist yet may Or Paracelsian prescribe a way For our Curation we doe feele our evils Like scandals base up conjured yea like Devils But who Malignant spirits can conjure downe Knowne plagues to Court Camp City Countrey Towne To this I answer sooner comes the Cures Knowne Causes when remov'd Gallen assures Hipocrates and Rasis hold this true Barlow Fernelius and Chyrurgians new Now Papisme Cause is more then heretofore Why now we wallow in our bloudy Gore Like Cadmus brethren and Polinices Mutually wounded by Etcocles In Barbarismes writ in bloud in postures cruell We vulnerate one another in each duell In these domestick Wars both hatcht and fed By bloudy Priests our home brest vipers bred As in all Christian coasts East West South North. Rome her Palladium * Pretended to be sent from Pallot fatall hath sent forth As full of Treasons which State Ruines seekes As was the Trojan Horse once full of Greekes Chiefly with Jebusites it is stuft and gorg'd Whose Tongues and Pens blacke Treason have disgorg'd And vomited even in the face of Kings And tyde their Crownes to Miters by strange strings England and Ireland and oft Warwrackt France Where Jesuits their Factions did advance With Lacerate Germany and Palatinate Have felt their Tongues Teeth Matchevillian Pate So have the Belgicks ‖ Anno 1584 1594. 1598. so the Belgick Chronicles Tom. 1. pag 519. 80 Moravia Bohemians Suevians and Silecia * Anno 1608 1609. And all parts else where they a foot have got And sent poore Praiest unto the pot Their Tragick plots prancks Pageants so well knowne Felt feard'd I need not rip they may be showne Writ on truth's Columes with the bloud of Kings And States Romes vassalized underlings In England Ireland now both Lands of Ire How have they kindled their infernall fire More hot then Aetna or Vesnvius burning Which Pliny choak't which turnes our mirth to mourning We hang our Harps our heart-strings broke upon The whipping Willowes of proud Babylon What their sanguinolent Agents old and new Their Superstitious Factors with the crew Of miscreant Malignants Cavilliers Have done of Heaven and Hell devoyd of feares How they have made our wounds how to be cured I salves prescribe the chiefe Charles rightly Lured This high flowne Eagle whilom who now smites Our Doves reclaimed be from Harpies Kites Who his good Genius poyson and his nature Crost mould to be their own-game-pouncing-creature Then shall the pluckt Innocuous birds have rest And quietly sit and sleep in theirowne nest As in Augustus dayes and in the times of Solomon Grace Peace shall blesse our Clymes Besides all know what Court Dames doe brave Beagles More fierce then Males like shee-Haukes Wolves and Eagles To help Nimrodian's Nero's Saul's and Caine's To dye white Albion red in bloudy graines Confederates with God-dam-mee's Pluto's Proctours Witches and Conjurers and the Devils Doctours What I have done these pests for to discover Peruse these Shedules if thou be'st truths lover Ope thy unpartiall eye try gold from drosse See what is Englands stouping Plague Curse Crosse In just scales poize the Cause if thou be'st wise and see on whom our British bloud now lies And if from Babylon our Land now be Made an Acheldema out of her Flee Detest the Favourites of the Scarlet Whoore Our blouds our goods who pluck and sqneaze us poore To the Honourable and ever Honoured Colonels Captains and Commanders in these Defensive Warres THese muzzle puzzle Momists hooke the Jawes Of Doegs who accuse your Righteous Cause These spure your speeds Anchour sans fluctation Your right resolves for Church State Reformation These whet your Swords fuellize your zealous Fires For Grace Peace Truth which wish't my loves desires All my poore best my Martiall minde tongue pen Are with you for you brave resolved Men. Fight you for us wee will your Trophies raise Crowne your devoires with Prayers Praises Bayes H. Redivivus The Causes and Cures of an unwilling War c. LOng Albion flourish't in a Lawreat Peace With her faire Daughters Plenty and Increase Bright did Heavens Sun in our Horizon shine With influence of Morall and Divine Blessings and gifts the Muses and the Graces Moses Minerva wise fixt in their places Spoke her the Wonder yea the Mistresse great For adjuments and ornaments compleate To all the welkin World tho her confine Were but an Angell in the Westerne line Scarce knowne in former Times so far remote From Continents yet late of such high Note To Forreigne Countries was she paramour The garden of the World for every flower A Sunne she was amongst the lesser Stars Splendent and Lustrous both in Peace and Wars Fruitfull in sons whody'd in Honours bed With Dromedes hands Ulysses head Her Essex Sydneys Talbots Howards Praise I need not sing all Crown'd with Martiall Bayes With millions since out or their ashes sprung As worthy Virgils pen and Homers song As that Achilles or Anchises sonne Hector or he that kil'd the Misrmidon Here Tempe was Hesperides here the Fleece Cal'd Goldens not in Colchos nor in Greece Our Yorkeshire Lincolnshire and Hampshire Wool In staple Traficke this spoke to the full Nay here was Gideons flerce and Goshen bright The world bloud wett and darke we dry and light Cape of good hope Elizian fields withall Fortunate I le we might our Albion call Shee was a Rubie in the Ring inroll'd Of the glob'd Earth a Pearle right set in gold Foreigne and neighbouring Continents Coasts Iles Did Idolize her glories begge her smiles A Christall glasse she was where other Nations Saw mentall spots and civiliz'd their fashions And luster from her tooke as Cynthia bright From Phebus borrowes herrefulgent light Shee Was an Eagle which did sore above Her circling Birds aw'd all by feare or love Hence was shee proud Spaines scourge Romes Crosse or Cuiâ—â— Wilde Irelands Curb and the Low Countries Nurse Her wodden walls and her Sea horses rid On Neptunes backe Tritons their homage did Shee the Seas Mistresse might in every Dittie Be stil'd Sea-wed more then the Maiden * Veniâ—â— City But my Thalia now in new straines must Recant her Glories late laid in the dust Brittle as glasse be our Terrestrials all Up downe like Wea-scales tost like Tennis ball Ebbing and flowing like to flouds and seas On Eagles wings they fly which way they please Like snow built Castles how they soone melt downe Waxing and waining like the pale face't Moone Oh how on Reeds Bogs Quags on them we build Our helps hopes peace now be we taught and schoul'd Englands sweet waters now like Jordan turne Brinish and Red sea like they bacward run Chang'd are our calmes to stormes here shooe doth wing Here
in histan Franc. cap. 10 10 a Regall throne Chiefly Electives peccant may goe dovvne As oft the Germain and Polonian Crovvne The great Venetian Dakes the Palatine Ill governed to others may decline With all the povver successive cannot stand If that the svvord be in a tyrants hand Wolves Tygers Heriticks Fooles they bridle may Oppose depose some Politicians say Timpler Althusius Bodin Tholosens Aâ—â—sius and Daneus make it plaine With Lipsius Coquier and the rest Inditers Of Politicks of Common-vvealths the Writers Chiese Junior Brâ—â—us in his rods and vvhips For Tyrants p De vindice Tyranoâ—um Where he as vvith pincers nips Wolvish Caligula's Demitions Nero's Herodians q Hero l Antipas Agryppa Asalonnes Dionisians Phalaris Busiris and our crookt-back Dick Hastings and Buokingham who like Boares did stick Bohemlab's Wenceslans Jewer Uzziah Polands Popiell treacherous Athalia Phereus Cosroes Basilides With millions moe who sympathiz'd with these In pride lust bloud in bookes enumerated r Of these other Tyrants deposed or slain read Melancton Chron. lib. 2. Iosep antiâ— lib. 13 c. 18. Daneus lib. 6 Polit. cap. 3. â— Aelianus varioe hist li. 15. Gorlicius in polit axioni 116. Lipsius li 6. polit cap. 5. Bodin lib. 2. de Rep. Who from ill-governed Crowns were dislocated Our Beuclark Prin after whose pen to write Were Iliads after Homer to indite Whose works unparalel'd unanswered be Like to learn'd Reynolds Romes Idolatry b De Idolairia Rom. ccolesin He proves the Case by demonstration plaine From England Scotland Italy and Spaine From Polland Denmarke Hungary and France Bohemia too in passing measures dance Of Avirice Lust Injustice bloud each King Was curb'd or cur'd when they abus'd their sting Like master Bees in Hives they had no Thrones But were extruded c Of the Parliamentary power in our Nation read Case in his politicks li. 3. ca. 15. Sir Tho. Smith in his English Government lib. 2. sect 2. how exercised against Hen. 3. H. 6. Rich. 2. read Pollidor Virgil Hist li. 11 Walsin in R. 2. Hollinshed in H. 6. Westm in Hâ—the 3. like to Wasps and Droanes Shepheards and dogs if once with wolves they side Against the sheep what sheep can this abide How the great Pan just Jove doth much adhorre it Hanging or banging it is to good for it But if the shepheard doe the wolfe detest Why walks he with him hugs him in his brest Chiefly the wolfe cal'd Rebell that ' the worst Of Irish Wolves of God and man accurst Who like a Curtian gulfe and Minotaured Not onely many millions hath devoured Of brutes and sheep but ore the world hath sluncke With Hecatombes of Christians bloud late drunke And like a good flesht dog unworm'd and wood Is now hug'd fed to gulfe more righteous bloud Of every Naboath and Nathaniell Who will not side with Rome Pope Prelate Hell If any cavilling Thrase make his vaunt His Regall Pastor is a Protestant And hath confirm'd his Faith by solemne oath By Edicts and by Proclamations both That he hath neither Iesuites tongue nor pate As Arrius once for to equivocate More then his Prelates on whose sleeves he pins His Rites Religion Faith War Bloud-sheds Sins To carry them in postures odd or even As they poize dubious scales to Hell or Heaven Yet if a Protestant great Coesar be With the Papiz'd why holds he sympathie Such is the man as he with whom he talks Italians say but chiefe with whom he walks And Gods Word faith which cannot be beguiled Together two walk not unreconciled Though that the Swallow eat no corne all knowes What doth she yet amongst the carrion Crowes As the Clowne told her when their necks were wrung Shee bore a sad part in their fatall song Sound sheep sound men sound apples get a spot And taint by living lying with the rot d Est aliquid mali propâ—er vicinum malum dumvident lâ—esâ—s oculi leduntur ipsi And who to bad mens manners be no strangers By their conversings doe incure their dangers e Rev. 18. 4. Why should Iehoshaphat in lawlesse war Assist an Ahab an Idolater f 1 Kin. 22. 4. 2 Kin. 3. 7. Salve this sly Sophisters with Papall prattle His life was well nigh lost g Vers 32. in that mad battle Besides he so far felt Astroea's rod That he was sore redargued by his God h 2 Chr. 19. 2 But Cavilliers will cavill here and prate Charles was distrest and in a piteous straite As once our English Edward Iohn and Stephen Richard the Second to and so straite driven By his owne Barons who on him did War That he must seeke for ayde both neere and far And like a pit falne man might use the fist Of Turke Iew Pagan Popist Polithist As one diseas'd to heale him in sound fashion May use his art that 's of a forreigne Nation Gallon Hipocraies of Gretian Race Razit or Avicen Arabians base This is a Gordian knot Malignants thinke Put one may loose it who doth dreame or winke For first Court Sycophants put him in the pit As all may see who hood-winck not their wit His patriots too firme friends as pure as gold If on their helping hand he had tooke hold Had like to Reuben i Gen. 37. 21. and to Ieremi's k Ier. 38. 11 12. friend Soone hug'd him out and brought a calming end To his fear'd stormes had kept him safe and sure Tho Feares no fence have Jealousies no cure If his true friends then vainly thought his foes Had frost-nipt in their buds his selfe made woes What need had he to use his Mount'bancks more Who make his bloudy salves worse then his sore But easie cries the child whose lip doth hang And soone we finde a staffe l Facile est invenire baoulum ut cedas canem a dog to bang And we may in the streightest bulrush got As Mice make holes in walls soone make a knot As easy Kings as combats from the barrell With their best Peeres may pick or make a quarrell Foxes tho at the fountaines head they drinke Lambes at the streames m Fabula Aespi themselves yet wrong'd may think From reason and Religion tho much swerving Base flattery gets respect n Obsequium omicos veritas odium parit more then deserving In Courts in Camps in Colledges in Schooles Shewes more then substances please flattered Fooles But as Kings sow they reap o Gal. 6. 7. selfe doe selfe have Better to make no wounds then balmes to crave Better sit still then fall for factious fellowes In clawing Kings but rope themselves for th' Gallowes As Empson Dudley did and Gavestan Mortimer Spencers Haman crusht each one Ill counsel'd Kings spliton the wracking shelves Of their selfe-will by none hurt but themselves Causelesse on others tho the blame they lie As children full dugs sucking then most crie If lawlesse Kings will doe what doe they should not
to speake roundly plaine Roundbeaded Treason Thus like the Clownes shorne Hog the world you gull Here is much cry but very little wooll The poore bird Taurus i Apud Plinium hath a little body Yet such a night voyce hath would feare a Noddy Here 's rock and spindle but our yarne you want Your Queree's have someshowes with substance scant Great bolts you shoot but will you stand and stay The Persians and Hybernians run away Their darts once cast as Cravens out of pits Cowards have Clineas and Dametas wits To scold not fight your scruples we indite them Of spleene It 's to confute them k Reeitasse est confutasse ut â—lim Bernardus do heresibus to recite them To all your quests simplicians heare our noes You vent what 's vaine Oh see your selfe wrought woes The Roundheads cause the ruines of the Land As Stentertons Steeple caused Goodwins sand They like to Noah Lat Moses Aaron stay Floud-gates of wrath would wash us quite away Elias did not trouble Israel But Ababs Chaplaiues and their Jezabelle The Lambs Plea to the Fox stands in small stead He dies for troubling of the Fountaines head Had powder plot prevail'd the Puritane Not acting Papist should have borne tho blame Emilius did it but Rutilius a Fecit Emilius plectitus Rutilius Must suffer Is not this injurious Court brambles we would lop but they are held Precious and fruit-trees best for bryars repel'd We loath Court gangreenes spred from ill to worse We love all pure like gold we hate the drosse We love not thornes and pricks we love the rose The King we dearly love but not his foes Except as we for their conversion pray Or fear'd conclusion dogs have but their day As had Apostate Iulian whose curst head By prayers the Primitive Church soone crushed dead Tyrants like him be clouds l Nubecula eito Iransiens or squibs I thinke Their flashes fires cracks thunders m Read the booke called Brute fulmiâ—â— end in stinke Quince Apples Peares we love but we love not In peares or Peares or Prince what 's naught and rot Like to Ezekiels Figs the nuts faire shell We loath of wormes if the rot kernell smell A King we love for wisdome not for wracks Borne in Malignants Armes or on their backs Chain'd to their hearts his power pind on their sleeve To shoot their bolts to seale what they beleeve We love a shepheard who loves in his heart His sheep but not as he with wolves takes part Seales them a warrant or his Shepperdesse Or sleeps till seal'd to woory great and lesse A hundreth fifty thousand as Priests boast In the right land of Ire Saint Patricks coast Besides these naked stript as creckets wormes In frosts and colds sterv'd to untimely urnes The Sun we love and Planetary powers Ripening plants minerals filling our bowers With Ceres Bacchus Fruites but when in May Malignant Planets so doe be are the sway Calme aire that they imbitter and dive hence Phebus his sweet and fruitfull influence This we love not since what God gives most good Turnes worst infected n Corrupâ—io optimi pessâ—â— like corrupted bloud Which purer that it was it sooner locks Life in Death chaines by seavers pests and pox Infection taking soone as tinder powder Takes fire which makes the crack the wrack the louder A sword we love well matcht well watcht well man'd In Davids o 1 Sam. 21. 9. Salomons p 1 Kin. 3. 24. or Samuels hand To how our Hagags q 1 Sam. 15. 32 33. our Amalakites Which doth avenge our blouds our wrongs with rights Not governed by a fem fox child r Ne puera gladium or boy s Iuvenis atate moribus apud philosophum Themselves or others likely to destroy This is Tom-tell-truth and in plaine words said We Macedonians call a spaide a spaide We from equivocating are averse With Friers and Iesartes we doe not converse Their vermisht Lies and their Gunpowder evill They learned from the Serpent t Gen. 3. 5. Eritu tanquans dij id est demonâ—â— from the Devill For to anatomize our hearts more plaine Let Momus through and through them looke againe A Pilot wise we love which set at Helme Steeres right not those who State-ships overwhelme Ill counselled to split us on the rocks Of Papisme Lawlesse will Court flattering blocks Our Children deare we love but we love not In Children scuiffes scabs carbuncles or spot Their bodies soules healths wealths and names we love But their vaine humours we doe not approve Chiefe their unequall weddings when vaine elves With us they quite undoe their silly selves Ruinate their houses breake their parents hearts As Esau did by acting Esau's parts By marrying with a Hetbete u Gen 26. 34. 35. Cananite w Deut 7. Chap. 13. Whom God and good men have abhorred quite By matching with a Dallilah a Lais A Rhodope Zantippe Flora Thais Romes proud Poppea or French Bruni child Best Peeres of France by bloudy wiles who kil'd Chiefe wedding one infected with disease Of swolne spleens like Katherine de medices Margaret of France and such French fems as ever Ominous to England were but prosperous never As now our pressures are beyond expression Able in marbled hearts to make impression More cause to show of our inforced Wars Were drops to adde to scas to Sunshine Stars As we Charles Person not his Parasites love Heaven speed our Plough our Cause so blesse great Jove Moralists who Ethicks read know in a trice That we may love a man but hate his vice In Loser Loves Lusts Follies sonnes we hate Chiefe when their Comrades would them ruinate And they with Eli's sons to ruine tending x 1 Sam. 2. 25 To all good counsels deafned eares belending As Records writ like Thehas and Troy in bloud Relate their falls who Counsels have withstood Lies then which taxe our loves come from the Devill Once more we love the King not the King a Evill Which hath kild moe within this three yeares space In both Climes of each Sect Sex Garbe and Race Then all late plagues in Austria y In Grosius his Tragicall Histories Rome Vienna Which Idolizers shipped for Gehenna In Charons boate Oh here the shooe doth wrinch We doe not put it off yet tho it pinch As Court Camp State by Doegs be disjoynted Doegs we touch but not the Lords Annoynted Let this then muzzle all Malignant lips The Prince we love but not his Pests our Whips z Esay 10. 5. We are not Spaniels nor yet Russian Wives We cannot love our beaters for our lives We are not Stockfish Irish-Lacquies-Lasses Better for beating like to Hemp and Asses Of Travellers coriatiz'd we passe the rankes We cannot injuries receive with thankes If a Musalman strike an English man Right bred he sparrs but with a Cocke o th' game What need my moved Muse Apologize More for our Senators just