Most curious Mercurius Brittanicus, alias Sathanicus, answer'd, cuff'd, cudgell'd, and clapper-claude ...
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Most curious Mercurius Brittanicus, alias Sathanicus, answer'd, cuff'd, cudgell'd, and clapper-claude ...
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MOST
CURIOUS
MERCURIUS
BRITTANICUS
,
ALIAS
,
SATHANICUS
,
Answer'd
,
Cuff'd
,
Cudgell'd
,
and
Clapper-claude
.
Han
Gupak
Navem
Ercu
Rius
,
Quar
Teratray
Torb
Ritan
Nicus
.
By
Interpretation
.
Hang
up
a
Knave
Mercurius
,
Quarter
a
Traytor
Britannicus
.
BRittanicus
,
have
at
thee
,
look
to
thy selfe
,
for
good
faith
I
am
IOHN
TAYLOR
,
and
let
it
not
make
thee
proud
,
that
I
am
pleased
to
descend
so
low
as
to
write
either
to
thee
or
of
thee
.
Your
Prophetick
writings
,
(
with
Bookers
conjunction
)
and
delicate
foysted
Declarations
,
and
Relations
(
being
all
Nothings
)
of
their
worthy
Orders
,
Acts
,
and
Votes
,
with
their
Don
Quixotticall
,
Amadis
de
Galldicall
Battles
and
Ayery
Victories
,
which
being
with
judgement
and
discretion
weighed
and
considered
are
Nothing
,
nor
ever
will
be
any
thing
to
any
purpose
.
And
if
the
round
Iobbernoll
of
Brittanicus
were
but
capable
of
the
capacity
of
Owley-glasse
,
he
might
see
that
all
the
great
Something
's
which
he
so
dignifies
,
falsifies
and
magnifies
,
are
nothing
,
have
done
Nothing
(
but
Mischiefe
)
which
is
worse
then
Nothing
.
You
are
merrily
pleased
to
call
Aulicus
the
Scripe
,
or
Register
to
the
Junto
,
whereby
I
perceive
that
you
can
breake
Iests
better
then
make
them
,
and
that
you
have
a
Foolish
Rogueish
desire
to
jeere
your
betters
,
but
that
your
plentifull
want
of
Wit
is
your
great
impediment
.
Then
you
fall
a
Scoffing
the
Nobility
here
(
which
is
no
newes
as
you
promised
a
Relation
of
newes
in
your
lying
title
)
but
sure
it
is
no
new
thing
(
though
worth
nothing
)
It
is
your
weekly
custome
to
promise
the
People
newes
,
and
pay
them
with
Nonsence
,
your
infamous
works
have
titles
of
Relations
,
and
the
froathy
substance
within
is
nothing
,
but
your
own
inventions
,
fopperies
,
and
fictions
,
for
what
knowledge
of
the
Affaires
of
great
Britaine
can
the
people
pick
out
of
your
Ignorant
and
Ridiculous
Rayling
and
Revileing
His
Majesty
,
His
Royall
Queen
,
Honourable
Counsellors
,
and
all
our
Nobility
,
Gentry
or
others
,
with
the
Reverend
Clergy
,
calling
them
Papists
,
Iesuits
,
Priests
;
are
these
things
new
intelligences
,
no
,
all
the
World
knowes
those
damnable
designes
to
be
no
newes
from
you
.
But
it
were
newes
worth
the
hearing
,
to
heare
any
truth
at
all
from
you
,
and
it
is
supposed
that
you
writ
purposely
to
make
your selfe
merry
,
and
for
some
other
Trencher
Respects
,
to
delight
as
wise
men
as
your selfe
in
reading
and
laughing
at
your
fooleries
.
What
knowledge
of
intelligence
,
or
what
profit
have
the
people
for
their
money
and
time
spent
,
in
buying
and
reading
your
scoffing
scandalls
&
calumnies
,
you
are
pleased
to
bestow
fine
Epithites
upon
them
,
as
fantasticall
Heads
and
Hydes
,
and
the
grave
and
Reverend
Iudges
your
wickednesse
is
pleas'd
to
trench
upon
Rastalls
Abridgements
,
and
to
call
them
Rascalls
,
neither
can
the
Serjeant
at
Lawes
Quoyfe
,
or
Iudges
Night-cap
scape
the
flowt
of
your
fooles
cap
,
the
Quoyfes
(
you
say
)
are
Quoifes
of
injustice
,
and
the
Night-caps
of
false
Judgement
;
Then
you
boast
of
your
(
and
none
but
yours
)
Parliaments
late
successe
,
and
your
Scottish
brethrens
advance
,
It
is
well
known
,
that
your
Parliament
hath
the
Art
to
Create
,
make
,
forme
,
fashion
and
frame
Successe
into
what
shape
they
please
,
and
be
it
either
good
,
bad
,
or
indifferent
,
they
can
metamorphose
it
into
feares
,
jealousies
,
Publique
thanksgivings
,
and
these
ingredients
being
melted
with
zeale
in
the
secret
Chrusible
of
the
Publique-Faith
,
and
so
with
hey
passe
and
Repasse
Legerdemaine
it
is
Transformed
into
money
,
and
that
money
into
Rebellion
.
For
your
brethren
(
the
Scots
)
advance
,
I
will
give
you
leave
to
bragge
of
their
successe
.
Then
you
seem
to
be
displeased
at
Aulicus
,
for
speaking
truth
when
he
called
you
Rebells
,
I
doe
heartily
wish
that
you
might
truly
give
him
the
Lye
,
but
if
you
be
not
Rebells
,
I
shall
suppose
Faux
,
and
Ravilltack
to
be
Honest
men
,
and
that
Wat
Tyler
,
Iack
Cade
,
Hackett
,
Penrye
,
Iohn
a
Leiden
,
and
Knipperdolling
dyed
true
Martyrs
.
Britanicus
saies
,
the
Ensigne
is
yet
unhanged
,
that
said
he
would
kill
the
King
,
t
is
very
likely
,
for
I
am
sure
you
have
hang'd
,
Imprisoned
,
Murdred
,
Plundred
or
Beggered
as
many
as
you
could
lay
hold
on
,
of
such
as
were
either
Ecclesiasticall
or
Temporall
Protestants
,
as
would
spend
their
livelihoods
and
deerest
blood
in
defence
of
their
true
Religion
,
and
service
of
their
Soveraigne
.
But
your
evasion
is
,
that
your
Trayterous
Ensigne
did
not
meane
King
Charles
,
But
Generall
King
is
the
man
he
meant
to
kill
,
in
this
you
are
a
Iesuited
Equivocater
in
Generall
,
and
a
lying
Knave
in
particular
;
you
bragge
what
a
brave
Cornelius
Burgesse
you
have
,
he
is
a
very
wholsome
Purified
and
Repurified
man
,
for
the
Records
of
the
Spirituall
Court
doth
keep
an
account
,
that
he
hath
been
twice
purg'd
in
that
court
,
for
two
female
servants
of
his
,
who
by
his
joyning
of
Jyblets
were
both
great
with
child
in
his
own
house
.
But
these
spirituall
Court
purgings
,
was
to
weak
Physick
to
work
upon
him
,
so
that
he
(
relapsing
)
fell
to
the
old
trade
againe
,
for
which
he
was
to
be
let
blood
,
purg'd
,
dieted
,
and
disciplin'd
in
the
High-Commission
;
But
that
he
and
his
friends
so
labour'd
the
dissolution
of
that
Court
,
that
it
was
Abollished
,
and
Cornelius
(
by
that
means
)
was
left
uncur'd
,
and
I
doubt
uncurable
,
and
I
have
heard
of
Cornelius
his
Tub
,
which
is
the
fittest
Pulpit
for
him
and
his
Rebellious
doctrine
,
he
is
no
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
(
as
you
say
)
but
it
were
better
for
the
peace
of
the
Church
and
State
,
if
he
were
Tacitus
,
with
all
the
Rabble
of
his
Tribe
of
Sectaries
;
Tacitus
was
a
Roman
Historian
,
and
wrote
the
lives
of
some
wicked
Heathen
Emperours
,
but
your
Loquatious
Burges
(
whose
discretion
had
more
appeared
had
he
bin
Tacitus
)
hath
with
the
Vollubillity
of
his
seditious
verbosity
,
omitted
Suetonius
and
destroyed
Tranquillius
;
In
a
word
,
he
hath
talk'd
so
much
strife
and
mischiefe
,
that
thereby
our
former
blessed
Peace
and
Tranquillity
is
as
rare
to
be
found
as
Truth
and
Loyalty
is
either
in
him
,
or
in
his
Imposture
Scribe
Mercurius
Britanicus
.
Next
;
he
pursues
the
Bishops
(
in
the
old
Beaten
way
of
Rayling
)
which
is
as
common
as
the
barking
of
doggs
,
and
therefore
I
hold
him
not
worthy
of
an
Answer
.
His
Ridiculous
scoffs
of
the
Earle
of
Bristol
,
the
Lord
Cottiugton
,
and
Sir
Francis
Windebank
,
calling
them
Spanish
Figgs
and
Reisins
,
is
such
poor
silly
Rogish
stuffe
,
that
the
folly
of
Will
Summers
,
or
Iohn
Dorye
were
profound
wisdome
in
respect
of
it
.
Then
Sir
,
(
to
shew
your
love
to
Learning
(
like
the
rest
of
your
sweet
Maisters
Magnificoes
,
Clarissimoes
Committee
and
Common-Councell
men
)
you
jeere
at
the
Schooles
,
which
is
a
place
renowned
for
a
famous
Librarie
through
more
Kingdoms
Provinces
and
Nations
,
then
are
in
the
Christian
World
,
and
the
ever
renowned
founder
(
Sir
Tho.
Bodley
,
will
for
ever
stand
in
the
Records
of
fame
,
when
the
memory
of
the
Calumniators
of
that
Magnificent
fabrick
shall
Rot
,
Stink
,
and
be
justly
held
odious
to
God
and
Man
.
The
Arch-bishop
of
Armaugh
falls
next
into
the
Roleing
streame
or
Railing
straine
of
your
Aspersions
,
and
indeed
your
commendations
and
approbation
either
of
him
,
or
any
other
man
,
is
one
of
the
greatest
disparagements
to
blur
and
blemish
a
good
Reputation
,
on
the
other
side
,
the
Ridiculous
and
Mallicious
Scandalls
which
you
are
pleas'd
to
bluster
against
.
Virtue
,
doth
illustrate
the
brightnesse
of
it
,
and
make
it
shine
more
Gloriously
perspicuous
,
(
for
mine
own
part
I
had
Rather
Brittanicus
,
and
all
his
friends
were
hang'd
then
that
either
he
or
they
should
be
at
the
charges
to
bestow
a
good
Report
on
me
,
for
every
honest
man
would
take
me
to
be
a
Brownist
or
Anuabaptist
,
a
Rascall
,
a
Rebell
and
a
Traytor
.
The
profound
learning
,
the
sincerity
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
the
Loyalty
to
his
Soveraigne
,
the
extraordinary
pains
of
his
Studdying
,
the
manner
,
Method
,
and
Elegancy
of
his
frequent
Preaching
,
his
Charity
,
Affability
and
carriage
of
his
Exemplary
life
and
conversation
;
all
these
vertues
,
being
the
unquestionable
practise
of
this
most
Reverend
Bishop
,
cannot
escape
the
snapping
and
snarling
of
Brittanicus
,
whereby
the
danger
of
a
Knaves
good
Report
is
most
plainly
manifested
.
Brittanicus
,
you
doe
Amplify
,
and
seem
to
stellify
the
Rebellious
Lord
Denbigh
,
and
some
others
,
with
the
Attainted
and
Outlawed
Say
and
Seale
,
and
if
there
were
no
other
proofs
of
their
Delinquency
,
your
justification
were
sufficient
Testimony
.
Deare-ring
(
you
bragge
is
come
to
you
,
I
pray
you
make
much
of
him
,
he
is
an
excellent
jewell
to
hang
in
the
Eare
of
a
Gallowes
,
at
which
time
a
Turn'd
shirt
of
Holland
may
serve
him
for
a
Winding
sheet
(
if
the
Crowes
be
not
couzned
.
)
You
say
you
look
for
Hopton
next
,
(
you
may
look
for
him
,
but
I
think
you
dare
neither
look
or
see
him
where
he
is
,
if
you
look
for
him
in
Imitation
of
Deereing
,
you
may
look
your
Eyes
out
,
and
if
you
and
your
Maisters
and
Members
had
the
grace
to
be
good
Subjects
till
Hopton
turne
Rebell
,
the
miseries
of
this
Kingdom
would
quickly
have
a
happy
period
;
in
the
mean
space
look
to
Hopton
,
for
Hopton
looks
for
you
.
You
extoll
the
Lord
Gray
of
Warke
and
your
Speaker
(
nine
yards
London
measure
above
Ursa
minor
,
)
Prophecying
that
they
with
the
Common-Counsell-men
shall
fill
Chronicles
;
in
this
you
are
believ'd
,
for
there
are
many
men
Cronicled
for
disloyalty
to
their
Princes
,
and
setting
of
Kingdoms
in
combustious
contention
,
and
why
not
they
.
And
then
you
(
victoriously
)
doe
jeere
our
victories
,
you
say
we
took
certain
prisoners
,
one
was
a
Trooper
with
five
shllings
3d
in
his
pocket
,
three
men
in
scarlet
breeches
,
and
one
dragoon
in
an
old
plush
doublet
,
in
this
you
keep
your
promise
with
your
chapmen
,
in
letting
them
have
some
Newes
for
their
money
,
and
no
doubt
but
some
of
them
have
so
much
wit
as
to
believe
you
.
But
you
prize
your
Generalls
blood
at
an
inestimable
valew
,
that
every
drop
af
it
is
a
Ruby
or
an
Emerauld
,
It
is
wonder
that
his
exceeding
Excellency
doth
not
beat
thee
for
thy
grosse
flattery
,
for
he
knowes
himselfe
to
be
scarcely
worth
a
Peble
,
and
his
Loyalty
to
his
King
were
overvalued
at
the
rate
of
a
Saint
Martins
Pearle
.
You
taxe
us
that
all
our
letters
are
falsities
,
and
we
know
that
though
they
be
written
with
all
grounds
of
reall
truths
,
yet
you
have
the
art
to
falsify
them
,
either
by
new
transcribing
,
misinterpreted
and
prejudicate
constructions
,
or
forged
counterfeit
Letters
of
your
own
devising
and
writing
,
which
Letters
have
been
often
interpreted
by
your selves
,
sometimes
at
Sea
,
out
of
a
Catch
or
an
Oysterboate
,
by
your
victorious
and
unmatchable
,
Admirable
Admirall
,
and
others
have
been
secretly
conveyed
to
your
Generalls
and
Commanders
,
who
have
easily
taken
the
poore
papers
,
and
sent
them
to
London
,
by
speedy
order
they
have
been
Printed
,
(
as
full
of
your
own
Lyes
,
as
your
malice
and
the
Divell
could
thrust
into
so
small
Roomes
)
then
they
have
been
dispersed
as
dangerous
plots
and
conspiracies
,
plotted
by
Papists
,
Royalists
,
and
Cavaliers
;
and
publique
thanksgivings
commanded
to
be
given
in
all
Churches
for
Greate
and
extraordinary
deliverances
from
fabulous
dangers
of
your
own
devising
.
Prinne
you
are
pleased
to
entitle
,
your
Protomartyr
,
in
the
Worst
times
,
and
a
Champion
in
the
Best
,
Prinne
hath
heard
of
me
lately
in
a
larger
tract
,
in
my
Answer
to
his
Traiterous
Pamphlet
of
the
Power
of
Parliaments
;
and
Vindication
of
the
new
Counterfeit
Great-Seale
,
Pennrye
and
Prinne
are
somewhat
neare
in
an
Annagram
,
they
are
nearer
in
their
Treasons
,
and
no
doubt
they
will
be
nearest
,
when
Prinne
suffers
as
Pennry
did
at
Tyburne
(
for
lesse
Treason
)
in
Queen
Elizabeths
time
.
The
truth
is
,
you
doe
make
bold
with
the
names
of
some
,
who
have
been
so
bold
to
beat
you
squarely
,
and
made
you
run
away
Roundly
,
for
which
causes
I
will
tollerate
you
to
be
angry
,
and
revenge
your
Maisters
cause
and
your
own
with
railing
and
playing
the
foole
,
that
's
another
full
poynt
.
It
is
your
profitable
and
safest
way
to
keep
your
distance
in
staying
at
London
or
Westminister
,
&
abuse
his
Majesty
,
and
as
many
as
doe
Love
Serve
and
Honour
Him
at
Oxford
,
But
your
Lyes
are
not
limited
only
hither
,
for
their
universality
flees
all
over
Great
Britaine
,
by
the
false
name
of
newes
:
and
because
the
Gentleman
is
so
exquisite
and
exact
in
taxing
names
in
stead
of
newes
,
the
name
of
Mercurius
Britanicus
,
(
as
I
am
Certified
)
is
James
Hudson
,
which
in
an
Annagram
is
the
Sphinx
,
which
the
Oedipus
of
my
Pericranion
makes
a
true
signification
,
of
,
for
it
opens
the
Riddle
of
the
Matter
,
the
Marrow
,
and
the
very
intrincicall
secrets
of
your
name
and
Pamphlets
.
As
thus
,
IAMES
HVDSON
,
annagram
,
O
,
HIS
MAD NVES
,
Thus
your
very
name
includes
the
nature
of
your
weekly
Relations
,
the
mad nues
of
Iames
Hudson
,
hath
made
abundance
of
fooles
,
and
knaves
as
mad
as
himselfe
,
he
is
mad
in
writing
,
and
they
are
out
of
their
Wits
,
with
countenancing
,
buying
,
Reading
,
and
believing
his
madnesse
,
which
doth
blow
the
Coles
that
Inflames
this
Mad
Rebellion
.
But
himselfe
and
his
damnable
Lyes
and
Labours
,
are
more
Really
described
in
another
Annagram
,
of
Mercurius
Brittanicus
,
with
his
own
name
mixt
with
it
;
As
thus
.
MERCVRIVS
BRITTANICVS
,
IAMES
HVDSONNE
,
Annagramma
,
BVRN
MI
NONSENSE
,
WHI
,
IT
IS
ACVRST
DREAMS
.
You
see
Sir
,
that
your
own
name
,
with
your
accurst
Pamphlets
Title
,
doth
most
plainly
demonstrate
the
lewdnesse
,
badnesse
,
and
madnesse
of
your
pestiferous
Newes
,
and
the
reason
is
,
you
acknowledge
it
worthy
to
be
Burnt
,
as
being
your
Nonsence
,
the
Question
Why
it
should
be
Burnt
is
,
because
it
is
Acurst
Dreams
.
Thus
you
see
that
Taylor
the
Waterman
(
whose
name
you
abused
and
Scoft
amongst
his
betters
)
hath
fidled
a
little
with
your
name
for
this
once
.
I
could
play
with
some
of
your
Maisters
Memberships
such
as
have
gotten
too
good
estates
in
being
bad
servants
to
His
Majesty
,
As
,
Henry
Vane
Senior
,
annagram
,
Ruines
anye
Honer
,
Henry
Vane
Iunior
,
annagram
,
I
Honer
vaine
Ruyn
,
Or
,
William
Fines
,
annagram
,
I
am
Sinful
Evil
.
I
could
fool
with
the
quondam
Grooms
name
,
and
tell
him
,
there
was
a
time
when
he
was
Rich
and
very
poor
at
once
,
till
by
his
Majesties
Grace
,
he
was
Rich
in
Honour
and
estate
,
and
now
by
his
Ingratitude
,
he
is
turn'd
poor
again
,
scarce
worth
a
Clout
or
Ragge
of
Holland
.
Then
you
tell
us
that
Denmarke
and
France
are
puzled
by
the
Sweadish
designe
;
indeed
it
behooves
all
the
Kings
of
the
Earth
,
to
take
it
into
serious
consideration
how
dangerous
it
is
for
Monarchie
,
to
be
Assaulted
by
a
Rebellious
Anarchie
.
And
(
Arrogantly
)
you
spend
your
Iudgement
,
that
nothing
can
help
but
Spain
,
and
the
pawne
of
Ireland
,
yes
Sir
,
there
is
one
that
you
know
not
,
(
or
scarcely
ever
think
on
)
that
both
can
and
will
help
,
without
the
help
of
man
or
forreign
Nations
,
or
pawn
of
a
Kingdom
.
If
you
would
but
take
God
in
your
mind
,
you
would
quickly
guesse
who
it
is
that
will
help
,
but
your
cause
is
so
bad
,
that
you
are
faine
to
buy
and
begge
help
of
your
Brethren
,
(
some
Rebellious
Scots
)
for
the
payment
of
whom
,
you
have
pawn'd
more
then
Kingdoms
,
for
you
have
morgaged
your
soules
to
the
Divell
,
by
your
execrable
perjury
,
Oathes
,
Vowes
,
Protestations
and
Covenants
.
You
heare
that
Holland
is
about
to
set
forth
some
Declaration
at
this
time
,
if
it
be
of
his
own
writing
,
I
shall
doe
him
the
Honour
to
Laugh
at
it
.
You
call
Warwick
,
your
unmatchable
Admirall
,
a
brave
man
by
Sea
and
Land
,
It
is
true
that
he
is
unmatchable
in
this
Rebellion
,
and
his
markes
of
a
Brave
man
,
is
his
wicked
constancy
in
an
accurst
cause
.
Sir
Tho.
Fairfax
,
and
Sir
William
Brereton
are
to
high
(
you
say
)
for
any
title
that
you
can
give
them
,
they
are
not
so
high
as
they
deserve
,
by
tenne
steps
at
least
.
Then
you
tell
us
,
that
you
had
forgot
one
peice
of
Newes
,
you
may
doe
well
,
to
let
us
have
some
small
peice
for
our
mony
,
for
you
have
told
us
of
no
newes
yet
,
But
what
is
your
piece
of
Newes
,
some
good
stuffe
no
doubt
,
like
the
rest
before
;
But
stand
a
side
and
be
uncover'd
,
this
newes
is
an
humble
wish
,
that
(
for
the
Edification
of
the
Ignorant
people
)
their
two
thinne
Howses
of
Lower
uppermost
,
and
Vpper
lowermost
(
which
he
calls
the
Estates
)
would
be
pleased
,
beneath
and
above
,
to
annex
to
their
commands
,
for
the
Reading
them
in
all
Churches
,
for
the
Citty
knowes
enough
already
,
and
the
Country
to
little
,
And
is
it
not
fit
that
seeing
all
Order
,
Decency
,
and
Doctrine
of
Christianity
is
(
irreligiously
)
and
Blasphemously
thrust
out
of
the
Churches
with
you
,
that
in
the
Room
thereof
,
the
Railings
and
Revilings
of
this
Weekly
Rabshekah
may
be
brought
in
,
which
may
in
future
ages
make
Mercurius
Brittanicus
,
as
famous
for
his
Madnewes
and
Accurst
Nonsence
Dreams
,
as
Mahomet
is
for
his
Alcaron
.
Then
you
say
,
that
the
Parliament
were
in
the
worst
condition
,
if
it
could
not
command
all
other
Courts
in
punishing
Delinquents
,
but
if
your
Thing
at
Westminster
,
were
a
Parliament
,
they
would
have
punished
you
for
Traiterous
Libells
,
against
the
sacred
Majesties
of
the
King
and
Queene
,
the
Royall
posterity
,
the
Reverend
Clergy
,
the
faithfull
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
the
true
hearted
Commonalty
,
and
finally
,
against
the
Peace
of
all
His
Majesties
Kingdoms
,
these
are
such
delinquencies
,
that
they
deserve
lesse
then
to
be
dream'd
a
Parliament
,
that
gives
them
encouragement
and
Rewards
,
these
are
no
Acts
,
or
Symptoms
of
a
Parliament
.
Lastly
your
words
are
,
That
you
doe
not
take
Armes
against
the
King
,
but
against
those
about
Him
,
Cod
is
about
Him
,
and
I
hope
ever
will
be
,
and
environ
him
with
his
all
saving
protection
,
the
blessed
successe
he
hath
had
in
being
still
preserved
from
dangers
,
might
make
you
believe
that
God
is
about
him
,
if
you
mean
his
trusty
servants
that
are
about
him
,
that
's
no
newes
,
it
is
their
Honour
to
be
hated
for
their
Maisters
sake
.
And
if
he
will
needs
involve
himselfe
into
their
Ruine
(
then
belike
you
mean
utterly
to
ruine
them
and
the
King
together
)
you
can
but
only
pray
and
sigh
for
the
misfortune
of
the
King
,
with
a
publique
Thansgiving
,
Doing
still
our
duty
to
the
King
.
We
thank
you
for
your
manners
,
I
know
none
you
have
.
Thus
Mounster
Mercurius
Brittanicus
,
I
have
trac'd
,
track'd
and
truely
answerd
all
your
madnesse
for
one
week
,
which
is
as
much
as
if
I
had
confuted
all
that
you
have
done
,
can
,
or
will
doe
,
but
if
you
meddle
with
me
again
.
I
shall
make
so
bold
,
to
bung
up
your
Chaps
with
a
Gravesend
Toast
.
FINIS
.