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The causes and cures of an unwilling warre, or, Justice awakened from gownes to guns historified by Philalathes.
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Philalathes.
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Wing C1535; ESTC R25976
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de divitibus Midas Phidias Must be a rinden stridden golden Asse Each rich one must be Rebell or Roundhead As once a Tyrant fits with all one bed The shortest stretching long by racking strength Cutting them shorter who had too much length As once Farnefius y A commander under the Prince of Parma vow'd in Eighty eight His sword all English bred should hew downe right And that in Lutherans bloud his horse should swim An Irish spirit Pythagoriz'd was in him If Asse or Mule be fat the Lion sweares That metamorphizd Hornes be his long eares As in prime Paganish Arrian persecutions Our teares must be our svvords z Arma nostra preces lachryma our resolutions With Primitive Saints must passive be we parts Of Abell act tho Cains should pierce our hearts Our chopping cramb'd Court Chaplaines vvill impeach us Of Treason our selves saving for they teach us God that Augustus gave Domitian sent If Kings be Storkes the Frogs must be content Iupiter sends no Logs vevv Caesars Line From Nero to peace-planting Constantinea a Apud Eusebium in vita Constantini What Christians ere resisted good cause vvhy Their povvers vvere vveake besides vvhat History Shevves any Paganish King in any Region By oath vvas to defend Christs true Religion Yea under Deeiue Traian Attilas Neiva proud Cosro's steme Totilos b Victor prosopius passim ale persecutione Vandalocum Theodoricke Genserious all more Of Romans Gothes Christs sheep and lambs who tore Where ere were Parliaments of patriots Tyrants to curb and save poore Christians throats Who by sanguinolent Doctors now must bleed From bloud wrung Texts which come not in my Creed Since all irrationalls by art knew well To save poore life the Crow will powder smell Cranes wilde ducks wilde-Geese too keep centinell To warne the flocks to fly ere kil'd pell mell Yea when that growing sicknesses disease them Nature to Birds Brutes dictates c De quibus fusius apud Tholosanum in synt agâ—â—â—te artis murabilis what will ease them The Weazell Bue sick Dogs Cats five leav'd grasse Doth cure Hemlocks the Mauritanian Asse Spiders heale Apes and Munkies stomack sick And mans dung Panthers which they seek to lick So hony physicks Beares Doves Partridge Jayes Are purg'd by lawreall leaves experience sayes Yea Pliny Gesner and Physicians note How physicail cures man from the creatures got And every animall still doth what it can To save or cure a life but passive man Must yeeld his yoaked neck to strangling theeves Lie in the ditch and seek for no relieves Just safeties must but cloakes be from Heaven showres Reast forsooth he must not higher Powers Tho turnd to Tyranny as Wine to dregs These Doctrines feed a Church like rotten egs When that the Lion roares best beasts must feare When Eagles please to prey poore birds they teare Thus must our Peers and Stae be fool'd to death Unlesse inforct Armes save their vitall breath Court Sycophants by smooth Sophisme all would Chut To make us lie dovvne till our throats vvere cut Which since it is a damnable conclusion To bring on all Phaeronian confusion Our vvifer Ephorists from Religion Reason Grace Nature Lavves tooke Armes vvithout least Treason In just defence of Parliament and Lawes To save the Land from Minotaurioen jawes From Papiz'd Irish French and Atbions soyle Who all cry still up Moah to the spoyle d 2 King 2. Withall as with one bolt to kill outright Two Birds and two walls with one pencill white They had another just politicke end From forreigne soes the Land for to defend From Turke Pope Spaine who in their hot desires Dance at our frets and warme at our wisht fires Gardiners ay'md withall to root out weeds Cockles and darnell e Infelix Lollium sterilesque dominantur avena with their stems and seeds Even knowne Delinquents Lastly to protect These Lawes which grosse Delinquents * Grosse Delinquents ought to be punished by Gods Law Lev. 19. 15. Deut. 17. 10 11 12 21. 3 cha 24. 13. By the Cannon Law L. prospiciendum F. de poenis And Politicians verdict Bodin lib. de Rep. cap. 10. num 100. War ab Erenb de Reg. subd cap. 3. num 3. should correct For take away our Fundamentall Lawes And take the bit and bridle from the jawes Of Horse Mule Cammell from the pendent vine Osyers and Hops the props on which they twine Yea from their strengthning oakes weake Ivies slip Nay more helme anchor mast take from the ship And let it be expos'd by waves and shocks When Boreas blusters on the splitting rocks No Pilot then no Palamure affoard it When mutineers would rob it Pyrates board it Yea pull from houses their foundations strong And like to Dagons Shrine lay all along From cities too their circling walls pull downe Castles ports forts the strength of each Mart towne As if into Thebes Babylon Rome Troy Medes Gothes Greeks Turkes were let in to destroy Yea nerves and sinnewes from the body take When Lawes we doe annihilate scorne breake For none but dolts in grace art natures schooles Doe think that Kings rule men like beasts and mules Which they may yoake whip draw drive as they will And as meere brutes whom when they please may kill Without more cause or ground then Butchers give Why they let oxe sheep cow or dye or live And that men may not in Elias case f 2 King 1. 9 10. Davids g 1 Sam. 20. ch 21 22. 23 and Jonathans h Sam. 14. 15. resist acts base Kind bloudy when rage rules and reason sleepes Then Hagar beturn'd out i Gen. 21. 9. 10. tho Ismael weepes What 's Regall if Illegall well we know Sydrack and Misacke did disdaine to bow In idolizing k Dan. 3. 18. to great Babels King Daniel is Gods too not mans underling l Dan. 6. 8 9 10. So Martyrs Prophets and Apostles all Confessors did to God m Acts 5. 28 29. not men rise fall Romes Pretor must ' gainst Traian n Plutarchin Trajane use the sword If crost by Law be his Command Act Word Oh wash your braines with Saige you Tibers Dawes As Kings rule men know Kings are rul'd by Lawes Withouten vvhich like Tiber Tigris Thames Yea like svvel'd Sea they overflovv their Realmes Noahs and Ogyges floud their devastations Doe embleme yea Ducalions inundations Oh then they clapper-clavv the best long hated As lions balls and beares let loose vvhen baited But for to sparr more close to put a hooke On the Malignants nose right led to looke That Parliaments be novv the povvers supreme Tho Rotchets Rebels Robes long held crosse Theame Yea Ephorists and Tribunes glob'd in one Not Popes may plant supplant o Read their power affirmed and confirmed by 〈◊〉 de Senatus Alibusius Polit. a pag. 193. 194 ad pag. 223. Iunior 〈◊〉 de vindice lib. 1. 9. 1. Borrh. de author magniconsilii num 170. 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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