Even with thy self were we both set a part But now let 's both to shield our selves from evill Fight 'gainst our sinnes the World the Flesh the Devill My Muse will him a Christian subject sing That Feareth God and honoureth the King The fifth Song Now that my Muse into the North is come Shee seeks about as hearing there are some Who side with Lesley in this shamefull Warre Which honest men should from their heart abhorre My Muse in seeking one she hath found out Doth tell his name and so resolves the doubt FAirfax Farre fetcht deer bought is good men say For Ladies yet not if they strain to pay Too deer a price for all the things they buy Such Chap-men turn to Bank-rupts suddenly Bank-rupt of Grace it seems that now thou art Against thy King to take Rebellions part And such a King as England never had Who did delight to make his Subjects glad By granting what they justly should desire What more could Subjects of their King require What fury then inflames Rebellions fire And causeth Rebels proudly to aspire To such an height their Soveraign to compell To do but what themselves should say is well Although it be at once to overthrow Both King and Kingdom which the Powder-blow Intended And what that would then have wrought This now Rebellion to effect hath brought Fair England which advanc'd in glory stood Is now thrown down into a Sea of blood A Jesuite and Schismatick in evill Are both alike the Children of the Devill Thou Fairfax art the last and dost so walk That future Ages thus of thee will talk He hated Rome and yet made way to bring A Roman-like Rebellion 'gainst her King In such a Warre wilt thou with Lesley joyn And set Religion's Stamp upon thy Coyn False Coyn to make by Law is Treason held And such a work thou brought'st into the field A Princely Generall in 's * Colours had this clause Foâ— God for King for Countrey for the Laws For these to fight it is a Souldiers praise And who so fight their Honours name shall raiâ—e In future Ages unto such an height As Honour shall on their Memoriall wait But those that dye in foul Rebellions plot Their memory their name shall stinck and rot And so shall thine if still thou bearest Arms To work thereby thy Kings and Countreys harms And all good Laws to trample under Feet Is this a work for Noble Subjects meet Ignobly sure with shames reproach runne they Who will runne on in proud Rebellions way I wonder Fairfax what 't is makes thee fight What Bugbear standeth in thy judgements sight Thy King hath promised by Oath and Vow Gainst Kingdoms Laws no one thing to allow You say His Protestations Verball are 'T were well for all you not so reall were Then would you not so really intend Your Gracious King unjustly to offend For whatsoere our King his word hath past Should be performed from the first to th' last If Subjects but a Legall way would take They might be sure he wholsome Laws would make And by their Execution give them life And so prevent whatsoere should move to strife What moves thee then thy Armies on to bring In Hostile manner 'gainst so good a King A woefull thing with Lucan 't was to spye 'gainst Roman Eagle Roman Eagle flye Unto our woe our eyes are now descrying 'gainst Englands Red-crosse Englands Red-crosse flying And Andrew's Crosse to fill their Scottish Gorge Comes flying in against our Englands George And English hands with strong Rebellions might Must Andrew help against themselves to fight ' Ware England ' ware help not the Scots too much Lest that mad work produce a danger such As may effect that Anchorets Prophesie Which Polychronicon doth testifie * Both Kingdoms Forces firmly joyned may With boldnesse to the world most stoutly say Deal as thou wouldst be dealt with We not care To bid our proudest foes do what they dare Our Force by Sea about the Island round Was strength enough to keep the Inland sound By Sea and Land we now our selves destroy Which into Mourning changeth all our Joy We through the World our Honour might have born But now to th' world have made our selves a scorn And 'mong our selves we have a spoâ—le begun Which all the World 'gainst us could not have done And yet the workers of our mischief still Do all run on most desperately in ill Iâ—Fairfax mad or drunk what dulls thy sence Thou canst not see the ill of thine offence Who eats a Hemlock-root in Parsneps stead Is thereby into fits of Madnesse led What Cup of Lethe doth thy sense beguile And makes thee sleeping dye and dying smile Awake thy self rowze thy distracted senses Rebellion Treason are such vile offences As throws thee down into an horrid State That God and all Good men thy Actions hate As Alexander once was heard to say To wise Calisthenes the same I may Speak unto thee That wiseman I do hate That doth not wisely for his own estate * Wise to thy self learn thou in time to be That thou thy straying wayes may'st wisely see The fear of God best wisdom doth begin It will thee reach to see and know thy sinne In thine amisse do thou thy self not cherish Thy Judge doth say thou must repent or peâ—ish The Prodigall comes to himself again Shews they are mad that do in sinne remain The Christians Faith not with Repentance joyn'd Doth argue name of Christian falsly coyn'd Beleeve Confesse Repent and sinne forsake These Graces do a Christian rightly make Those men are truly mad which do suppose Themselves true Christians whilst they do inclose Themselves in worst of sinnes such Monsters are And so art thou in this Rebellious warre If thou 'lt be led by sacred Wisdoms lore It will thee then unto thy wits restore Thou shalt no more in fits of madnesse runne Thy madnesse hurt enough too much hath done Already 't is time those fits should stay Which to thy self and Countrey brings decay Two Kingdoms will but make a sad conclusion When both of them have wrought their own confusion Me thinks Jerusalem may cause suspition That we our selves will bring to her condition None but seditious Brethren mongst us are The causers of this most destructive warre Will valiant Fairfax chief Commander be In such a Warre And where himself may see His Countreys Ruine joyned with his own O let so vile a thing no more be known A danger when foreseen is soon prevented It may at last untimely be lamented This foule Rebellion not in time withstood 'T is vain to think of Kings and Countreys good Thy warlike Hands hast thou to sinne so sold As by them still Rebellion to uphold Is this the way bright Honours Fame to winne By thy persisting in so damn'd a sinne That Honour purchas'd is at dearest cost When Soul and Body both thereby are lost Not Honour then but foule Dishonours shame Shall wait upon the
he no Brownist is No Is he not He is as bad or worse As now appears by his Rebellious course Though Brownists from our Church do separate They cannot thereof overthrow the state So dangerously as those amongst us staying Who still appear our Churches Peace betraying Here the Triumviri which first begin To lead the way unto Rebellions sin Are Burton Bastwick and their brother Prynne The stinking Sink of honoured Lincolnes-Inne These three the Church and Common-wealth would sway All men of greatest Understanding They Would seem to see all dangers imminent And seeming ones with mischief to prevent These lay their Plot upon which ground now stands The Armies of Rebellions armed hands I know them all and for them have been sad To see that they no more discretion had In every thing that counsell is not just Which thus prescribeth To be sure mistrust Mov'd by meere jealousies the more 's their guilt They throw down Out-works where no Fort is built For what they saw they should not so have spoken The Lyon sleeps when yet his eyes are open There was a care Romes Popery to withstand Even in those things which then were tool in handâ— Yet they crie out Saile not too neer Romes Gates Lest Popery prevaile thus talk't these Mates Those that would in the way of Truth prevaile Must sailing unto Heav'n by Hells Gates saâ—â—e And yet their course in all things wisely steere As Rocks and Shelves and Sands they never feare The Churches Ship in this worlds Sea thus sailing 'gainst Rocks Shelves and Sands shall be prevailing And those that thus in sailing wisely strive At last in Heavens fair Haven shall arrive But they so ill a course like wise-ones took As on a Dangerous Rock the Ship is strook And must into a generall shipwrack fall If this Rebellious Warre continue shall In which thou Brown a great Commander art And Brownist art in taking of their part But all this while I cannot but admire What things they are these Rebels do require Is it the true Religion to uphold This to defend our King is wondrous bold His Royall person into th' Field to bring And to his Subjects say Behold your King Compleat in Arms Religion to defend And for the same his dearest blood to spend And in this Cause Prince Charles with valiant spirit Doth nobly seek true Honours fame to merit And in th' atchievement of this glorious work We may behold the Princely Duke of York This sight but seen should make Rebellion cease And move all Subjects to embrace a Peace So often offered by his Royall Grace Why should not this in every Heart take place If in this warre the Royall blood be spilt Can England ever wash away the guilt What is your ayme All Papists out to root Is this the mark whereat your minds do shoot This but suspected Papists on their Guard Would stand and so your Market might be marr'd They do not want the best Intelligence There 's not a Kingdom but they hear from thence And whatsoere against them is debated Is by some speedy means to them related And sure it is that they did understand Three Kingdoms Schismaticks joyn'd hand in hand A strong Rebellion by degrees to raise Whose first beginning should be Scotlands praise And in that work although most closely arted The Papists knew they chiefly should have smarted Have been destroyed every Mothers Child At best should be perpetually exil'd This Myne perceiv'd a Counter Myne was wrought Which to effect in Ireland first was brought Not Papists there they Schismaticks did call As here not Schismaticks were Papists all First Irelands Myne did spring and up were blown The Protestants of English Nation Thus did this bloody Warre take its beginning From Web of woe our Schismaticks were spinning For Papists Now when Ireland thus brâ—ke forth Resolved to go on by Vow and Oath Our Parliament was trusted to addresse Some present means Rebellion to suppresse And Moneys raised were to this intent That presently an Army should be sent To Ireland but then suddenly did break Rebellion forth here mongst our selves to speak The Truth contrived long before Rebellion here increasing more and more By Moneys here for Irelands cause collected An home-bred sad Rebellion was protected Which spareth no mans lively-hood nor life But strikes at all and still doth grow more riâ—e Wherein our good King Charles hath saddest share His sorrows being deep beyond compare His Royall Heart from grief to grief proceeding To see that all his Kingdoms lye a bleeding Herewith when as my mourning Muse had met Teers from my eyes my blotted Papers wet The more because Our King still offer'd Peace Yet Rebels would not from Rebellion cease What hearts have they whence do they draw their might 'gainst King so good can any subject fight But next unto pretens'd Religions cause They say they fight for to maintain the Laws Of Englands Kingdom and the Subjects Right For these they bring their Armies forth to fight O shamelesse boldnesse that dares this averre When all the Kingdoms Laws by this their Warre They overthrow so much as in them lies T' uphold the Kingdoms Laws His Majesties Great Care is known he nothing more desires The Magna Charta's that which he requires Should stand in force of Englands Laws the ground And in that Magna Charta there is found A solemn Curse which doth most sharply speak 'gainst those who shall our Laws foundation break Though not pronounc'd at our Great Courts down setting Yet still it speaks a Curse on those begetting Who shall our Kingdoms National Laws destroy And Childrens Children may that Curse enjoy But this Rebellion Subjects Right doth seek As it the former doth for both alike Are over-thrown by it The Laws maintain The Subjects Right by Law the Subjects gain Their just propriety in every thing This to uphold our just and righteousse King Commands his Judges wherein if they faile The Law doth then against themselves prevaile Faine would the King at White-Hall Palace be That thence he might his Reverend Judges see In Order each unto their Courts to passe O what a singular blessed sight it was For Christ himself doth say Kings reign by me I Judges make my Justice to decree The King and Judges out of this way kept The Kingdom is of her just Laws bereft Who are they then that Subjects Right debarre The King or those that 'gainst the King make Warre Admit some wrongs 'gainst Law the Subjects grieved Were they not by our Gracious King relieved In those last Statutes which he pleas'd to make But now for making Laws new wayes we take The Subject dares against his Soveraigns will Make Laws what Age can president such ill That lawlesse man the Antichrist of Rome Within the bounds of Law will never come Divine and Humane Laws he breaks them all And Ruleth by a power Tyrannicall He standing on high terms doth
memory of thy Name When thou art dead Do therefore whilst alive Thy better thoughts within thy self revive Each Kingdom in it self divided is And each 'gainst other Now the Lord of Blisse Euen Truth it self hath spoken to us all No Kingdom in such case can stand but fall What hast thou done what is 't thou doest then No bâ—tter actions then the worst of men Such actions do as may thy self commend Gainst King and Countrey do no more offend Thy Countrey now which thou hast made to bleed To stanch her blood thy helping hand doth need Some healing Balme unto thy Countrey bring The Scorpions Oyl doth heale the Scorpions sting Now then resolve with all thy greatest force To stop and stay Rebellions wounding course Joyn thou with those that with our King do joyn Religion then no counterfeited Coyn Shall make to passe but lawfull money then Shall onely passe amongst us English men King Charles his Image Coyn shall lawfull make And that for currant shall his Subjects take Though now we are enforc'd by lawlesse might Some things to do as if in Laws despight And that by those who should our Laws protect Though now they do both King and Laws reject The King mongst them doth but a Cipher stand Their Will's a Law and unto their Command Both King and fellow-subjects must submit O monstrous shame for Heathens most unfit Yet to maintain such Actions most unjust They take up Arms and in their Swords do trust 'gainst God and King when such Rebellion's rais'd Curst be those tongues by whom it shall be prais'd To call ill good is an accursed thing A Curse it will at last most surely bring Who unto Peace do bend their heart and mind Shall out of doubt from God a blessing find Then Fairfax if thou truly valiant art Strike in for Peace and take thy Soveraigns part One of thy name long since in Arms I knew At Groning-Leaguer and indeed t is true He was a valiant Captain Art thou so No more against the Lords Annointed go Noâ— fight again against His Majâ—sty Nor Actor be in Englands Tragedy The Peace of Charles our Soveraign Lord the King His Crown and Dignity yea that 's the thing Which honest Subjects strongly should uphold And so in Arms of Peace their Countrey fold Fight thou for this and therein valiant be So Honour shall attend and follow thee Know Fairfax that I wish thy happinesse As thou thy self dost unto Peace addresse Peace Glory Honour these shall Crown thee then This Peace God grant unto us all Amen The sixth Song Mongst Oxen now my Muse desendeth down From Hob to Lob and so cries Whoo to Brown BRown-Bread and Onions with a Garlike-head Is Carters meat So Coridons are fed By which strong food they thereon feeding well Their breath is made to have a stinking smell So Brown hath thine what Onion is't I think Thou feed'st upon which makes thy breath to stink Is 't a Scotch Onion which Englands house withstood Though now they serve it even in Broaths of Blood It seemes it is an Onion sharp and sowre Which causeth many a thousand eyes to powre Forth teares with many a sad and grieved thought To see what sowre effects are thereby wrought But Brown art thou of that proud Browns descent Whose Schisme at first our Peace in peeces rent And of whose name the Brownists have their stile Whose foolish Sect can none but Fools beguile Yet of such Force as it hath been a terror To those who love to please themselves in error Those Greenway Barrow first did break the Ice Then Vdall did with Penry joyn advice Three first were hang'd to Scotland Penry fled And there abroad his Schisme he proudly spred The Brethren of the Scottish Parity Did joyn with him in all his Knavery So that each Kingdom to their trouble felt The share which Schisme and Faction freely dealt Amongst them And the holy Brâ—thren they Grew up together walked in one way By vow and Oath in League and Covenant knit To serve each others turn when time should fit Now Brownisme though it was by Law supprest In Corners yet it was too much profest And those though silenc'd would not silence keep But Preach at mid-night when 't was time to sleep In Woods in Cock-lofts Sellars Gravel-pits For some such place such Brethren best befits There would they pray and there full often Preach And to their Brother-hood Rebellion teach And say In cause Ecclesiasticall The King himself can have no power at all The Church is govern'd by her Ministry And herein they renounce his Majesty The King himself he must a member be Of some one Congregation and He Must Subject be unto their Church-Divine And must submit unto their Discipline So Preach the Brethren of the Parity And what is this but down-right Popery But David Salomon each following King In holy writ sufficient warrant bring That every King in his own Kingdom is Next unto Christ Supream And things amisse In Church or Common-wealth they all should be By Him reform'd Without him you may see No thing is done His Warrant His Consent Is that enables Subjects to Convent And ratifies what they conclude upon So that without him nothing can go on Priests High-Priests are by Kings prefer'd They can At pleasure place and displace any man Kings hold their Crown from God He that is King Doth in his Kingdom rule in every thing Such is His Dignity and Royall State All powers else are but subordinate To Him And Subjects ranged in their List The powers which are of God must not resist For if they do 'gainst God themselves they set And shall thereby his high displeasure get Kings take their place next under-neath their God To Him alone they must be left His Rod Is onely that which over-aweth them And not the Words nor Rodds nor Swords of men Who being Subjects onely must obey These no Commission have to over-sway Their King If Brown 'gainst this his reasons bring Hee 'l reason like a Traytor to his King And those his Priests who 'gainst this truth do Preach Do Treason and Rebellion plainly teach Mongst them too sorts of Brownists may be found Both building on the one and self same ground And both alike uphold Rebellion's Action Uprais'd by Schisme and by seditious faction The first least dangerous do separate Themselves from this our Church and dare to prate 'gainst this their Mother Nation and deny That here the being of a Church doth lye To build their Church to Amsterdam they runne But lose their labour when they thither come For why The States will not allow them there The honourable name of Church to bear They an Asse-sembly are not named Holy So well discerned is their Factions folly Some yeers there spent at last from thence they go As wise as Walthams Calf for we must know They hither come into blind Corners creep And there 's their Church
Papists meet They do most lovingly each other greet If such a course mongst us were wisely taken The Sword of Warre should be no longer shaken Against our Peace Our King should Papists find As Protestants in France to bear like mind Then Protestants and Papists surely would Our King and Kingdoms Peace alike uphold And those that did attempt this way to trie They did not deal therein unfaithfully Shall I for this a Papist judged be And one that would uphold Romes Popery 'Twixt Roman Church and Poperies rule therein I know not but a difference may be seen Romes Church had once no Vniversall Power But was in Faith and Truth a Church like our Romes being of a Church not quite distruct Rome still a true Church is though much corrupt From Rome as shee 's a Church we do not sever But where she is corrupt in that we leave her The Scripture hath to us this truth revealed We Babilon would heal she 'd not be healed Come out of her Corruptions then with haste Lest staying in them we her judgements taste Romes Church that was we must thereof allow We onely shunne those vile corruptions now Which are in Rome and do that Church deface We dare not for our Souls such stuffe embrace With Papists yet in outward things we may Hold such a Peace as doth not Truth gainsay This Truth Saint Paul doth by his Doctrine reach And so indeed doth his example preach To Jewes a Jew to Greeks a Grecian Paul Would shew himself becoming all to all That he might by his sacred Ministry Gain some to Christ And why then may not I In imitation of so holy a Saint My self with those of Roman stamp acquaint When Paul himself doth thus the Church advise Have Peace with all as much as in you lies This may be done Faith kept uprightly sound For we our Faith upon Gods word do ground The sacred certain grounds of our Salvation Our Church will hold without an alteration Those Fundamentals are and must be kept Romes newer Creed by us to Rome is left But to disturb the Peace of God and King For what is but a Circumstantiall thing A Ceremony we in sober sadnesse Do utterly abhorre such factious madnesse Who for such things themselves in Faction sute A Bride-well School may best with them dispute And still the better honest minds to stay And drive from them all jealous fears away Let no man fear in Christian world to see The Papall Monarchy advanc'd to be Free Kings and Princes now so wise are grown As under Christ they know to hold their own And not admit Romes Papall Jurisdiction Which to the world hath wrought such great affliction Shall it again a work of praise be counted To mount up him by whom themselves dismounted Have been so shamefully Kings will nor be The Stirrop-holders to Romes Papacy The Pope His Asse the Emperour shall be No more brought on the stage to make up three Romes Triple-Crowned Prince shall at no rate With what is theirs nor they with his estate Once meddle He his Oare shall never thrust Into anothers boat for that 's unjust And so will prove when Judgement once comes thither When He and Rome in flames shall burn together Christ's Church to have an Vniversall Head Besides himself must not be seen nor said Pope Gregory the Great shot not beside The mark who call'd it Antichristian pride Deer Protestants then let your hopes not quaile For of great power is truth and will prevaile All Protestants in truth who tightly are Let them the Peace of God and King preferre Gods Spirit which into all Truth doth lead In Scripture for the Churches Peace doth plead And doth beseech to mark with diligence The causers of all Schism and difference And to avoid them For indeed such are The causers raisers of Rebellious Warre I would to God each Brownist Seperatist Each Anabaptist and each Familist The brats of strife and workers of Division Whose Tenets Sound Divines have in Derision Were either banish't out of Englands ground Or here to punish them some course were found Laws ready made if executed well Have Force enough their Factions to refell These have a new Division made most strange Which hath in Subjects wrought a dangerous change The Person of the King they set a side And to the Laws His Royall Power divide A strange Division whereby Subjects may Rebell against their King yet Laws obey When as the Laws do in the King subsist His Royall Person gives to them their list If Laws be none of his whose are they then The Laws of Subjects given to other men Who as themselves are Subjects and no more This is a strain of wit not known before A Constable with power is heard to say I charge you in the Kings name to obey His Laws then in his Person do subsist And those who them His Person do resist His Crown and Dignity and every thing Which doth adorn the Person of a King These are the Sophisters whose slye dispute Enwrapt the Kingdom in a Mourning Suâ—e Had five of them at first been put away It had been happy for us at this day Westminster builded was a Monument Of Regall State and power Magnificent Westminster now a Monument hath built Which staines her Glory with Rebellions guilt That Cloud dispers't a Sunne will shine upon her And her restore unto her Ancient Honour The Kings and Countreys Peace from her shall flow And make them both in glory up to grow That man or woman is too much to blame Whose heart and mind doth not desire the same If Protestants would all in one agree That true Religion might upholden be And as dâ—er Children of our holy Mother The Church of Christ in England love each other And keep the truth of Faith with full consent Submitting to our Churches Government We then might Peace enjoy and every one Be both true Christian and good Subject known And let not Fools though they Divisions see Think that mongst us no Church of Christ can be The Spouse though black yet like the tents of Keder She comely is and on the mounts of Bether * Her glorious Husband Iesus Christ is found As Roe or Hart about that Hilly ground In Christ his Church offences will fall out But woe to those by whom they 'r brought about know Christ knows his own they him their Shep heard This Church of Christ no power can overthrow In England Christ hath his beloved choice And those are they who hearken to his voice And follow him unto their last of breath And hee 'l prâ—serve them both in life and death His Church as Tirzah doth appear in sight Most beautifull her glory shining bright And as an Army terrible is shee With Banners spread Her foes will fear to see The Majesty of Her well ordered form Which threatneth them with a most fearfull storm The Captain of Iehovahs Host doth lead The Battell on He for his