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A77259	The devills white boyes: or, A mixture of malicious malignants, with their much evill, and manifold practises against the kingdome and Parliament. VVith a bottomlesse sack-full of knavery, popery, prelacy, policy, trechery, malignant trumpery, conspiracies, and cruelties, filled to the top by the malignants, laid on the shoulders of time, and now by time emptied forth, and powred out, to shew the truth, and shame the Devill. Time now at the last poures out much knavery. The Devill holds down fast to hinder the discovery. Malignants are the Divells agents still, the sack is England, which they strive to fil with misery and mischief, and this sack full stufft, is laid upon times aged back; time poures it out now in an angry mood, that all their knaveries may be understood.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed author.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed author.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4261; Thomason E14_11; ESTC R6322	7,574	9

for they doe not live after the rate of going to Heaven unlesse bloody murders Idolatry and killing of K●ngs be the way to Heaven These Malignants in my conceit are like those pictures which have a dubble aspect one like a man the other like a Devill when they are to doe mischiefe by flattering the King or making the countrey people rise in the Kings behalfe then they put on smooth faces and tell them of the Kings power and Prerogative and that the Parliament is no Parliament and therefore they may figh● against it that the King is wronged when indeed no body wrongs him but his malignant Councellours that they fight for the Protestant Religion that is for Poperie and to defend the Lawes that is the Law of tyrannicall slavery which the King would impose upon his subjects and that as the Locust devoured the Land of Egipt so they might swarm againe and devour us as they did in England in the times of peace when all the Law was in the hand of the Iudge and that hand must be filled with gold or else no Law was to be had but now for cunning wickednesse which is the malignants other face and wherin he resembles the Devill consider him as he was in the shape of Guído Faulx when he went with his darke lanthorn in his hand to set fire to the Gunpowder plot and was taken in this Devills shape and afterwards he and his Complotters were executed for traytors but what a number of black malignants are there now in this Land being a kind of smooth-faced machivilian Devills some with flattering bellows blowing the coales of dissention betweene the King and Parliament then there be horned malignant Devills that will roare sweare domineer use nothing but Dammees and R●mmees as the Cavaliers who blaspheme Heaven and Earth and are ready to sweare themselves a live into Hell then there are Irish Devills as hot as fire and as bloody as Belzebub these delight in firing of houses in killing women and Children in tearing the flesh off Protestants shoulders with hot Pincers as they did in Ireland together with their horrible cruelties here in England these are cruell Irish Divells such as doe not he idle in the Market-place as the Divill did upon his Elbow because he knew they would lie and sweare fast enough there to damn themselves but these Malignants are no Dormant Devills but active and stirring to doe mischief they proclaime his Majesties will and their own counsell to be Oracles and make the King beleeve that none have wit or understanding but his Majesties Cavaliers and his new borne Councellors and that none are so fit to make Priests and Jesuites as the Oxford Schollers and that if his Majesty print but a plausible Oath or a Proclamation that all hee doth is for the advancement of the Protestant Religion is Maiesty may doe what he will in favour of Papists and follow their Counsells as long as the Malignants can but brand the Protestants with the name of Brownist Anabaptist Separatist or Round-heads and then the Schollers of Oxford doe make Sermons before the King of the fidelity of Papists and how farre they are to be preferred above Puritanes and Protestants whom they accoumpt religious Traytors but O King be rul'd no more by wicked Evill Counsellors but follow the advice of Scripture wisedome If this Counsell or this worke of the Parliament be of men it will come to naught but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it least happily ye be found fighters against God Behold O King but the disposition of all these Eare wigs that insinuate into your Counsells can dissolute lawlesse Cavaliers defend good Lawes Or can Papists and Atheists fight for the true Protestant Religion that were as strange as for Thornes to beare grapes and Thistles to beare figgs and as strange it were that Papists and Athiests should bear arms to defend the Lawes the Libertie of the Subject and the Protestant Religion the Divell they will no they fight to errect here the Kingdom of Darknes and Popery that spirituall ambition may domineere flat-cap and the four-corner'd Cap may fill the foure corners of the world full of knavery there should be then no schisme but a constant Lubberisme in England Bishops Deans Doctors Dunces and Lubbers that when they preach't being very seldome would speake with a hoarse low voice as if two or three steeples having plutallity of Benifices stuck in their throat and when young VVives and wenches came to Confession how the Frier like the Divell would hugg them would not this be a prety medly of confusion nay right and wrong shall be all one fetch me such a Subiects head 'tother subiects bed and his table nay plunder him to a Pewter spoone if he will not submit unto the Kings Prerogative but banish conscience for miters and Bishops can't indure him Papists Priests can devise an easie Religion for my Court Lady that she may go to heaven on a bed of Roses never take the paines to come thither she is troubled with a loosenesse in the bottom of her belly and cannot sit out a long Sermon nor make long Prayers let her give a few scraps at her door and a doal of Puddings at her death and Angels shall carry her to Pope Iom But let us let these shee fooles alone these shee-Papists and malignant women that will talke themselues out of breath against the Parliament but if they might have their wills to beat and cuckold their husbands by act of Parliament then and not till then they would praise the Parliament But Time since thou hast thus far discribed the Malignants goe on with boldnesse poure out the rest of thy Sackfull of knavery make the Proverbe true speak truth shame the Divell who stands behind thee pulling down the sack to hinder the emptying of it but out with the trumpery the Knavery the Popery the Policy the Malignancy flattery and all the close wickednesse and impiety that hath been laid upon the back of Time doe it briefly roundly and plainly and shake out of thy Sack all varieties of Knavery VVell done Time what comes out here first Inprimis hundred-pound baggs of money and these were for Bribes for my Lords the Judges and for Symony to procure a Benifice for Master Dunscombe a Levite of littell learning and lesse Conscience whose Bribe being taken hee was admitted to the Parsonage O this money makes the Common-wealth a common whore that lies down and let fooles ride her and deride her while Knaves thriv'd and honest men went to wrack and every Iack might be made a Sir Iohn for an hundred pounds and to conclude malignant hundred pounds have sent hundred thousands to the Divell VVhat comes next Malignant pounds of Candles made only for Polititions to give them light how to study Plots against the Protestants the Bishop of Canterbury burnt twenty pounds of these candles in studdying how to bring in Popery the Earl of Strafford

The Devills White Boyes OR A mixture of malicious Malignants with their much evill and manifold practises against the Kingdome and Parliament VVith a bottomlesse Sack-full of Knavery Popery Prelacy Policy Trechery Malignant Trumpery Conspiracies and Cruelties filled to the top by the Malignants laid on the shoulders of Time and now by Time emptied forth and powred out to shew the Truth and shame the Devill Time now at the last poures out much knavery The Devill holds down fast to hinder the discovery Malignants are the Divells Agents still The Sack is England which they strive to fill With misery and mischief and this Sack Full stufft is laid upon Times aged back Time poures it out now in an angry mood That all their Knaveries may be understood London Printed for R. S. Octob. 26. 1644. The Devills White Boyes OR A mixture of Malicious Malignants with their much evill and manifold practises against this Kingdom and Parliament O England how hast thou been tost and tumbled VV●at have thy sufferings been since ●his warre began Atlas beares the world on his shoulders and alas sinne hath laid sorrow on thy back thou hast been O England a long time nothing but a medly of confusion of murder p●under and Malignant wickednesse and hast like a Porter groaned under the burden of a S●ckful of knavery ease now thy tyred shoulders and poure out some of them to the view of the VVorld Before the beginning of this Parliament thou wer 't divers wayes opprest and many were thy greevances which thou didst suffer under great men and how did the Star-chamber domineere over the wrong'd Subiect what corruption and Bribery was there in the Law what buying and selling of Justice This Lord and that Lord must be sollicited and sued unto even as sat as Coventry or the Devill of Dunsmore HEATH now with the King that it would please their Lordships to take a Bribe to doe a po●rs man Justice There was nothing but Playing Dancing and Masking the Common-wealth was a tree of Pleasure and whoring was the top branch when the Queen-mother was here and it is thought the Bishops ease and good fare made them lusty even to beget Bastards which they could doe with ease in their studies they lov'd pleasure better then Preaching and were the Hogges of our Israel that fatted themselves with the Acornes of Spirituall Livings Then the Judges were the Kings Parrets and cryed out Ship-money but the Subiects regarded those Judges no more then Parrats or prating Sicophants that with the Coblers Crow were taught to cry Ave Caesar God save the King Amen cry'd the people and deliver him from such malignant Judges that would make his Prerogative a Pick pocket and a hand to squeese out the wealth of the Subiest according to the Princes pleasure that so our King might like a forreign whom I could name be Rex Assinorum a King of English Asses when the liberty of the Subiect should be subiect to the Tyranny of his Prerogative These devices were then set on foot and are now marching abroad on the Souldiers leggs in the Kings army for what doth the Kings Army fight for but first for an universall Tyrany or unbounded Monarchy that the free-borne English may submit themselv●s to Royall slavery in token whereof the Schollers of Oxford not long before these warres began made a Play called The Royall Slave as if they had Prophesyed that all England should be turn'd into a company of Royall slaves and for this the Cavaliers fight cut and kill the Kings Majesties Subjects that they may conquer us into servitude and if they could beat us out of our Name of Subjects into the title of slaves but there 's no doubt wee shall be able to baffle such knaves that being pack't together have shuffer'd in the King amongst them and by their evill Counsell have made the King like an incensed Lion against his people and Parliament And what mad Lawes doe you imagine if the Cavaliers were law-makers It should be lawfull in the first place to kill any man for his money if it were demanded cum privilegio that is by vertue of the Kings Prerogative And the subiects should be turned into sub-jacks every great man should have a Monopoly to maintaine his pride and luxury the Kings Will should be the liberty of the subiect and my Lords will and my Ladies will and my Lords Secretaries will and my Lords great Horses will must be obeyed so that Iack should be in Office and every Courtiers will even to Will the Scullion in the Court Kitching should be a King if the Malignants could have their will Then for Religion we should have superstition Organs piping Lawne-sleeves preaching Bulls of Bason roaring and singing Anthems Little young Levites preaching Morallity instead of Divinity and cringing and complementing in the Pulpit fat Benefices and leane Sermons Dunces that could onely read Service and pray for faire weather should be Country Curates but 't is no matter this Religion would serve the Malignants who are half Epicures half Papists and half Atheist and a medly of mad wickednesse they and the Devill have been in Counsell a great while to devise a plot how to destroy all the honest Religious Protestants in England and the Earl of Strafford hee sits in Counsell every day about it with Pluto Ashteroth and the other Infernall Counsellors but this Devillish Counsell-Table cannot yet nor never shall be able to worke the ruine of the Protestants No yes the Cavaliers the Irish and Papists in the Kings Army will doe their endeavour and with their swords mow them downe the●es Digby and Cottington and a great many Lords and Knights that are Politick Divills that could instruct the King to undoe the Common-wealth in the times of peace and cannot they play the Divell in the time of warre yes yes no doubt they enticed the King the head of the Parliament from the members onely to save their own heads and will not they incense the King to kill his true Subiects under the title of Roundheads Come beleeve it they are wicked enough how can they fail in their plotts when experience tells us that Papists are full of black Invention and hellish Plotts what was the Gun-powder Plot and Straffords plot but what talke you of Plots The Kings Majesty will have it so and blinde men in Divinity have the best eyes they preach Obey the King and dishonour God but as for cruelty and cutting of throates I leave that to Prince Rupert and will acknowledge that there was heeretofore no other purgatory but the Chancery But what said my Court Lady at Oxford I love the Romane Catholick Faith for I would lie in bed and be religious and confesse my sinnes and live in pompe and pleasure and know nothing but complementing in French and praying in Latin● and hearing Masse and when shee did goe to heaven and v●si●e the Lady Mary and all the Papists that are in heaven which are very few