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A nose-gay for the House of Commons. Made up of the stincking flowers of their seven yeares labours, gathered out of the garden of their new reformation. ... / By Mercurius Melancholicus.
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Mercurius Melancholicus, fl. 1648.
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1648
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you that have by your cursed rage ambitious to shew your Omnipotency ruined all this happinesse shut in our day of beauty love and peace within the black and dismall clouds of contention blasted all our Roses and Lillies of happines and long enjoyed amity with noysome and pestifferous showres of sanguinolent and bloody warres but this as a parhenthesis The Keeper or chiefe Lord of this Garden being of a credulous and tractable nature committed the care of this Garden to some servants through whose negligence some weeds sprang up and a breach was made in the fence Monopolizers thieves entred and stole away some flowers a Lambe or two was missing the Lord perceiving the negligence of his servants and their ambition for self-ends which had caused a murmuring in the people which he no sooner perceived but he summoned together all the chief of the Land to advise with him which way this Garden might be weeded and how this breach might be made up to help him execute justice on his servants that had betrayed their trust and so shew himselfe the most willing in this great worke he began to weed with his owne royall hands plucked up the thistles the Mayweed and Darnell that choked the corne Ship-money and other monopolies high Commision Star-chamber and committed the sole care and governance of this Paradice to these unskilfull Gardiners who no sooner were by this royall authority convented but presently every frog began to swell into an Elephant to lift up their heeles against their head and to kick at that power that had given them being and in stead of putting their hands to help him woâ—ke lifted up their hands against him and forced him to flie for safegard of his life and instead of making up the breach made the breach wider and instead of pulling up the weeds sowed seeds of strife and dissention feares and jealousies when presently in rushes the Wolfe the Tygar Anababtists and other Sectaries now under Fairfax the slye and crafty Fox Presbyter and the wilde Boare who all conspired the ruine of this most happy vineyard rooting up the tender Vines and the fattest Olives rooted up with their round snouts the rose-tree spoyled the curious knots and borders made holes through the fence broke the lawes that all manner of uncleane beasts entred rooted up the Arbors over threw the Tables the Commandements spilled the Manna mudyed the fountaine old Ford saints and quickly made that which was a Paradice of pleasure a wildernesse of woe barenesse and famine that which was the Phoenix of Christendome London they made a habitation for Owles and Jackdawes that which was the paragon of beauty the Church now the patterne of deformity and that which was lately the Crowne and pride of all Europe now to be the scar-crow and scorne of the world And this hath beene the seven yeares labours of this blessed Parliament that will hereafter be inroled in the monuments of fame for the most Traytorous that ever was Treason never went without a just reward who instead of curing the nationall maladies of this Kingdome have added fresh fuell to their encreasing flames disinthroned and imprisoned their Leige Lord and Soveraigne raised a most dreadfull and bloody war layd more heavy burdens on the people then ever Pharohs task-Masters did on the Israelites and finally have brought a generall ruine and destruction on the whole Kingdome all this is reall truth so help us God Now instead of a Postscript give me leave to speake a word or two to a stioking Kingdome and a disconsolate City and he that hath guided my hand in composing this Nosegay which I know will not be favoury to the Saints guide your hearts and understandings to that resolution that you shall be instructed unto by one that had he ten thousand lives would veâ—â—uâ—e them all for the reestablishing of his Majesty the freeing him from his abhorred imprisonment the procuring of a personall Treaty obtayning of an act of Oblivion and his Majesties gracious generall Pardon the Souldiers their arrears and every man his owne and truth and peace established in the Land with a favourable regard to tender consciences Which till this bee obtayned let all true subjects keepe their mony from these pr … ers over our lives and estates endevour to preserve and defend his Majesties Royall person the power and priviledge of Parliament and the Laws and liberties of the Subject and by all good wayes and meanes oppose and endeavour to bring to exact triall all such as eyther by plots or conspiracies have done or shall doe any thing to the prejudice of the purity of Religion the Lawes Liberties and Peace of the Kingdome And further withall just and honourable wayes endevour to preserve union and peace betwixt the three Kingdomes doe this and expect a blessing otherwise assured destruction The NOSEGAY A Little Hemp Hemlock wormwood and Rue Would make a Poesie fit for such as you Rebels and Traytors Cut-throates men of blood Fitter to hang then do the Subject good Others by fit election you by Fate Are made the Executioners of State And not distinguisht from the rank of those Who only know you are not whence you rose You countenance give to Error and and curb in Bold Reprehension make all truth a sinne Lâ—ve uncontroul'd and in contempt of Law Do kill do rob Tyrannize and over-awe Yet this your comfort is the more you strive To Ruine us the better do we thrive Like Hearbes the more you bruise us wee the better sent Plaine truth can nere be stain'd but may be shent FINIS
A NOSE-GAY FOR THE HOVSE OF COMMONS Made up of the stincking Flowers of their seven yeares labours gathered out of the Garden of their New Reformation Fierce judgements now like hemlocke springs apace To root out Rebels and their weedy Race Your Thistle May-weed Darnel-Ordinance Shall now no longer have continuance Treason shall now expire Justice and Law Are taking place will Rebels keepe in aw Loyalty and Truth shall Raign and chase away All mosty Errors from our clouded day The * King Sun shall with his quickning rayes give birth Ana * Queen â—una's silver-shine re-blesse the earth The * Prince C Morning-star shall mount the azure skies Till Fame doth eccho forth his Victories That * D. York Royall Dove inarked on the Sea Shall make you know what 't is to disobey Three Sunnes appeard at once not long agoe Three Sons shall set a period to our woe As starres doe shoot so swiftly shall they fall That now contrive a Ruinr generall Aug By Mercurius Melancholicus 15. Printed at the signe of You may goe looke 1648. THE DEDICATION TO all you zealous snufflers through the Nose I dedicate this Posie in Verse and Prose Smell out and spare not for from thence More savour comes then your * New Reformation surreverence Be you Presbyter or Independent Rebell or Traytor 't is to you I send it You whose edifying Noses can smell Plots Betwixt Langdale and your Bretheren Scots For which Malignant Reprobates doe say You voted have a new Thanksgiving-day Praise God for this too turne up your goggle eyes Then smell to your proud treasonous sacrifice I offer this too for your bretherens good Written as your Religion is in blood Of Innocents whose sad and dying groanes Make the earth tremble rends the rocks and stones Piercing the Heavens doth for swift vengeance call So loud ere long it will confound you all Whilst you give thankes for blood and murdering I le sing the glories of a gracious King A Nosegay for the House of Commons Smell smell I pray sirreverence unto the lower House And if from it there comes a stench pray take it in your mouth WAs there ever Garden in this world so soone overrun with stinking and banefull weeds that not long since flourished with all the choisest flowers both for scent and colour that Flora watered with pearle drops and Titans warming beames gave birth unto whose roots twin'd in chast imbraces as if they sympathized of each others vertue that Nature her selfe was prided to walke into the twined Meanders of her curious Mazes heere might you see the Princely Rose the King so full of fragrancy that for its smell and colour it was the envy of all the world yet guarded so with its sharpe pricking Thornes Militia that no rude hand durst touch it there might you see the Lilly Queen whiter then Innocence it selfe a fruitfull Vine bearing such tender Clusters as might tempt the Gods to taste there might you see the Olive-plants the Royall Progeny placed round about a table where Kings and Queenes did feast and there might kisse those fruits that their owne hands had planted Here grew hearts ease there pretious Time guarded with herbe of grace and Winter-savoury the curious Tulips Posies Pinkes and Mary golds Nobility and Gentry strived to emulate each other and to excell it sweetnesse Loyalty and with their spicy breaths to bloom each other and beget the blushing heats of love heere grew the Physick hearbs there those for nourishment that nothing wanted to adde perfection to a compleat Paradice that might reblesse the sinne scorched earth caused by our first Parents crimes and regaine the blessing that they lost by disobedience so set a period to all the thorny cares and weedy troubles that â—â—mpasse weake humanity In the midst of this Garden stood the Tree of Life pure Religion for hungry soules to feed on then stood a Fountaine Baptisme in whose Christall streames Angels like Swans might bath their silver wings so pure and cleare that you might read your name at bottome so shallow that an infant but of eight dayes old might wade and yet an Elephant might swim next to whose banks was planted by Heavens curious workemanship an Arbour in the midst whereof was a Table furnished with all delicates Manna Lords Supper that God might feast on the reverend Attendants Bishops weare white robes the emblems of true innocence the inscription over the Arbour was Hoe come every one that thirsteth buy milke and wine without money run run my soule one drop from thence will quench the fire of hell make thee for ever happy in immortallity and never thirst againe On the other side stood an Angell holding a flaming sword Justice prefigured in King Charles the chiefe Minister thereof and to render justice on all offenders to kill all venomous and uncleane creaturs that durst approach this place of happinesse The Angell was as a God to distinguish between good and evill vertue and vice the one by him cherished the other punished to whose praise you might heare contending Nightingals and sky mounting Larks Poets warbling out anthems to his earthly Diety there the two Tuttle-doves of peace and truth to kisse each other prosperity and plenty danced upon the downy frets of this blest Albion the people of which thrice happy Island in their white standard of peace might give this Motto beati populi a blessed people no Iland under Heaven so stored with all the chiefest treasures of nature being for martiall atchievements not onely honorable through the whole world but famous in the production and government of many glorious Kings and Princes where peace did spread her silver wings and Christian unity from the root of unseigned love did branch it selfe into the furthest boundaries of this happy Island that all Neighbouring Nations might participate and tast the fruit therof Now being at the height of all our happinesse surfeiting with excesse of blessings being full of bread we kick the heele against Heaven by our pride which breakes out into contention and so by evill and pestiferrous vapours blasts all this happy Island the Garden of the world nothing visible can be permanent all things are sublunary and subject to change who would seven years agoe have thought to have seene this flourishing Kingdome embraced in the armes of destruction here could I breake this brittle glasse of nature when I see we are certaine in nothing but uncertainties by times mutability turned and tossed on fortunes angry wheele unconstant as the Sea sometimes billowing up and by and by calme or like a ship sometimes floating sometimes sinking sometimes running then wheeling about the Suns most glorious Body sometimes is Eclipsed truth may for a time be clouded over and loyalty in a shade but shining forth they are more glorious made and if these glorious creatures suffer pray what must treason suffer what must paricide Sacriledge blood theft and such foule crimes suffer Good Parliament resolve me