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A34438	Stratologia, or, The history of the English civil vvarrs in English verse : containing a brief account of all fights, most skirmishes, stratagems and sieges in England, from the very first originall of our late warres, till the martyrdome of King Charles the First of blessed memory / by an eye-witnesse of many of them, A.C.	Cooper, Andrew, fl. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6049; ESTC R20852	74,138	195

by The Centinels the Kings approach descry Th' Allarum's given Hotham doth then decree That all the water-sluces drawn shall bee The Country 's drown'd men walls and Seas combine To frustrate this his Majesties design ☞ Meldrum a Souldier of no small repute But yet a Scot the Parliament depute Hotham's assistant who a party takes Of the most hardy Townsmen and out-makes A sudden sally where the King he beats Who with some loss to Beverly retreats But not long after this the Parliament A party strong for Hull from London sent Meldrum incourag'd by this new supply Will of a second bout the fortune try His choicest men hee soon together calls And issuing out on the Kings Leagure falls Whereof some scores in their new trenches dy The rest in haste disordered much do fly A hot pursuit after whom Meldrum makes At Aulaby the Kings Magazin hee takes Some barns and houses there this Scotch Knight fires And then for Hull his worship back retires ☞ The King perceiving all attempts in vain Against the Town of Hull for York again Retreats But O! who can his thoughts express How can hee now though milde passion suppress What shall hee do what will bee the event Of these beginings thus malevolent Reflects his looks no reverential awe Upon Spectators Dare his Subjects draw Their Swords against their Prince shall he dispence Further with their Rebellious insolence ☞ But whilest the King is in this self-dispute A Noble person did him thus salute By Traitors shall your patience be abus'd Your commands sleighted your demands refus'd Courage take Sir Divine and humane laws Loudly proclaim the justice of your cause See what a train of Lords do here attend In your behalf their dearest blood to spend the Parliament us Traitors doth proclaim Because to your assistance thus we came And though they speak not out their acts declare They are intent upon you for to Warre Why raise they Armies what is your intent Us and your self to such a Parliament Thus to expose our Swords must us defend Or farewell life and fortunes Strafford's end Wee may expect Traitors let 's them declare And make provision for defensive Warre A thousand lives who would not rather lose Then see such Rebels you and yours depose To see rapacious Harpies ruinate This flourish of our peace Religion State Are you so credulous these not to fear When Treason 't is to you for to adhere Review the Actions of those Monarches brave That as your Predecessors Reigned have See how the proudest of their foes did quake Even at their frowns which did whole Kingdomes shake Whose very names their Subjects did adore Reputing them not men but somewhat more Then such Heroicks courage now assume Let Traitors know they do too much presume Upon your Lenity Sir make them fear And know the Lion in your armes can tear ☞ At this the London Juncto Parliament Traitours proclaimed are The King 's intent Is for the South-west parts to take his way Posting before Commissions of Array Commanding quick attendance from all those In Arms that would not bee reputed foes Newcastle's General for the North design'd Whose influence on those parts soon combin'd An Army Gallant Thus to Civil War Fully resolved now both parties are But so my Muse with Morpheus power possest Take's Leave would England could do so to rest Finis Libri Primi THE ENGLISH CIVIL VVARRS BOOK II. The Contents A short dis-swasive from this Civil Warr The King sets up his Standard doth declare Of his defensive Arms the Innocence Londons Zeal for the Parliaments pretence Essex his Force to Coventry doth bring Worcester Fight The Battail at Edge-hill ROuze up brave Martial Muse prepare for fight Let Mars desist the Cyprian Courts delight Bellona's Trumpets cals our Troops to field Pallas advanceth arm'd with Spear and Shield Combates not Councels Muse thou must rehearse Warr Blood and Death are subjects of my Verse England O England do not thou distain This flourish of thy Peace with Blood refrain These Civil Wars whose sad effects wee see In self-divided ruin'd Germany Did Scotland tremble did the Irish flee Was France once Tributary unto thee Renowned England did victorious Fame From India unto India post thy name From cold Arcturus to th' Antartick Sands Thy admiration England fill'd all Lands Whilst Providence and valour forreign foes Vanquish'd shall home-bred discord work thy woes No Councell nor yet Rhetorick can asswage Uncivil Civil Warrs tumultuous rage The furious Sword scorns to obey the Gown Some with the State some with the imperial Crown Take part known Ensigns Ensigns do defie And English blood Englands Cross red must die If Warr wee must why do wee not assay On Asian ground our Colours to display Mahomet's dam'd Impostures to expell To their curs'd Author down to Pluto's cell Why do wee not out of the Seginor's hand Regain our Title to the Holy-Land What might wee not with lesser bloods expence Have quel'd the Turkes aspiring insolence Raz'd Constantinople's world-commanding Towers With her Seraglio Aegypt might bee ours And all the treasures of the spacious East By our victorious Armies bee possest As that brave Tartar lets our Force ingage Bajacet-like into an Iron cage Earths greatest Monarch 's captiv'd power to bring Or let 's advance against the Spanish King His Eighty eight's Armado's curs'd designe To vindicate our Forces let 's combine Heaven can but grosper such a brave attempt Heaven that from Spain's Invasion did exempt This Island for to bee Spain's dreadfull scourge Till all those Martyrs bloods shee shall disgorge Suck'd in by inquisition-Butchery Or let 's goe set the inslav'd Indians free Sail thither may wee with the tide and flood Of vengeance-crying murthered Indians blood Why march wee not to curbe that Prelates pride Whose Scarlet vestments in the blood are died Of Martyr'd Christians doubtless wee may fear His influence is too too powerfull here These sad incitements to this Civil Warr Hatch'd surely by his Romish Locusts are That Sweed Heroick to his high renown Vow'd to devest him of his triple-Crown And from his chair-infallible by force That Beast so much admir'd for to divorce And but that death too cruel did prevent Doubtless hee had accomplish'd his intent England O England Civil Wars decline And prosecute that noble Sweeds designe Hoise up thy Sailes for the Italian shore The airy Alpes resolve for to march o're Fall down like Thunder into Italy Th' affrighted-Scarlet Conclave let 's make flye And these high Walls wherein the Beast doth trust Let 's rase and level with that bloody dust Whereon they stand in blood they founded were Ruddy with blood their cement doth appear Rape Superstition Fraud Idolatry Polythism Murther Theft Theomachy Hypocrisie Pride Witchcraft Fornication Adultery Sodoms-lov'd-Abomination Are their curs'd Superstructures Powers divine Except propitious unto this designe Vengeance divine our Cannons best will bee Upon those Walls t' inforce a Battery Needs must wee conquer in so just a Warr Where

his Parliament But could our Royal Navies mannag'd bee Commerce maintain'd our Seas from Pyracy Be kept secure and all out of no thing Crows are not killed with an empty sling Or may not Kings when as the exigent Of state requires without a Parliament Impose such monies without all abuse Upon their subjects for such Soveraign use If not then farewell Crown and Royalty Who would not rather a Plebeian bee But peace as yet these things seem'd to represse Which did prepose a vulgar happinesse Till Vengeance eminent Celestial Ire Enflam'd three kingdomes in the fatal fire Of Warre for blood these raging flames to quench Bright English Swords brave English veines must drench Nothing but blood dolorous Phlebotomie Can cure poor England of this Lethargie Hot was the Zeal too hot for to be good That must be quench'd with so much Christian blood ☞ The King now presseth a Conformity In Scotland to our English Liturgy Intent all his three Kingdomes to combine In Uniformity of Discipline Holding that Prelacy doth most agree Both with the Scriptures and Antiquity For in our English Sphere even then did shine Such Prelates Orthodox truely Divine Whose learned works like blossoms redolent Sweetly respire an odoriferous sent And if my genius real truth inspire Their worths ensuing ages shall admire That the Kings Order might acceptance finde Some Scottish Bishops also are design'd For Privy Councellors But detestation Of Prelacy posses'd the Scottish Nation Shall their Presbytery now be substituted To Prelacy the cause not pre-disputed This Dagon ne're their Altars shall infest Their combin'd Synods boldly do Protest This Liturgy much Popery did comprize And did the Romish Missals sympathize Boldly though falsely do the Scots relate And with our Bishops thus expostulate Shall Romish Missals have their tolleration And Scotch Presbytery totall extirpation Papists than Calvinists lesse odious be Rome than Geneva to proud Prelacy In audience of their Commons Kirk Estates The King a Scotish Bishop imperates At Edenborough this Book for to repeat ☞ With zealous fury Furious zeal repleat The Scots avow their general disaffections By barbarous tumults furious insurrections Had not the Bishop's heels been his redresse He sure had dy'd in that tumultuous presse And that their zeal rebellious might appear They rise in Armes then covenant and swear Presbytery to defend even with their blood When as his Majesty this understood With this affront so high who could dispence He vengeance doth avow in consequence Upon the Rebells Prelacy disdaining And this his Liturgies non-entertaining Then to defend himself and them to fright Into subjection rather than to fight The King doth a defensive Army raise Yet both by messages and wise delayes Their furious zeal the King thought to allay And their Ring-leaders curbe some other way Then by the dint of Sword but the more milde They finde the King the Scots grow far more wilde Impudent fierce seditious arrogant What can induce such Zealots to recant But England's ease and peace here terminates Recluded are those Iron-Temple Gates Of Janus angry Jove by frequent Thunder Foretold those discontents that rent asunder This Monarchy Hell 's impious furies rage Prodigious blazing-Comets Starres presage England's sad fate Arm'd Chivalry appear Pransing upon the Clouds in full carrear And huge Battalions of Arm'd Infantry Marshal'd on the Etherial Canopy Of Heaven with beating Drums Colours displai'd And roaring Cannons seeme for to invade Each other Tragedy Murther Blood Dearth Declare Heaven's vengeance to rebellious Earth Abortive monsterous births of every kind Are to presage the rage of Heaven design'd Sea-monsters with innumerable swarmes Of Fishes bids England now prepare for Armes All Creatures our sad destinies disclose Sounding Alarm's unto our future woes But though Pandora from her Box do vent All the curs'd Symptomes of dire discontent To England her ensuing miseries Though Heaven sea land and all things trumpetise Yet all cannot extract a just remorse From England her lov'd sins for to divorce Mens hearts obdure impure impenitent Impious Seditious proud malevolent No Rethorick from such crimes can men perswade Ruine-portending Judgements to evade ☞ Now Beat our English Drums for Volunteers Royal Commissions to our Nobles Peers Are given to raise great forces in all parts Kings oft mens hands command when not their hearts To York in April these Commanders bring This gallant Army to attend the King Who there designes them Scotland to invade And Arundel's their Captain-General made ☞ For Scotland now it 's no time to recant They vow for to maintain their Covenant Against the King National devastation Kirk-Disciplines intended alteration Against proud Prelates and the Kings design They now profess they did and will combine That their rebellion might it self discry Yet further these their Frontiers Fortify Leavy more Forces to defend their Land Which Alexander Lesley doth command And to prevent the entrance of the King Lesley to Kelsay doth his forces bring From York with display'd Colours beating Drums To Barwick now the English Army comes Where first the prospect of the Scots white Tents Bold opposition to the King presents For Carlile are design'd some Regiments Whose in-rodes Lesley's vigillance prevents Having a party there in readinesse All such attempts expected to represse Finding the Scots to fight thus resolute With words not Swords the cause they 'l now dispute Our Grandees courage this doth much abate No hopes Presbytery to Episcopate The River Tweed these Armies did divide Who in their Quarters quietly recide For some few months and then strong Obligations Of Peace concluded are betwixt the Nations Both Armies to retreat and be disbanded Are by the Generals of both parts commanded ☞ But while the King for London's retrograde The Scots their faithlesse faith again betray'd And in their words an odium is discry'd Unto that League confirm'd pre-ratifi'd Nor would the Scots their Forces now disband But sleight the League the Peace the King's Command So much for their own ends and by-respects Scots faith upon advantages reflects New Articles they feigne wherein the King So low in condiscentions they do bring As never Monarch would though quite subdu'd On such dishonourable rearms conclude Which when the King receiv'd and read said hee Because my Forces all disbanded bee Will they abuse mee thus can they pretend That wee to these base tearms would condiscend No said the King London to'th' Tower is sent Who did these forged Articles present All Copies of which forg'd Pacification The common Hangman burns new preparation For Scotland's made The King with new supplies Edenborough and Dun-Brittan fortifies Those Scottish Merchants that in England Trade Their Covenant for to abjure are made The King having his Army new recruted His Captain-general Strafford is deputed The Scots their march For England do direct Strafford's advance at Barwick to expect His Excellence now in the North arriv'd This was the first designe by him contriv'd That Holland should passe Tweed and there discry The Scotish Camp number Artillery Who