the earle of strafford his ellegiack poem, as it was pen'd by his owne hand a little before his death. strafford, thomas wentworth, earl of, 1593-1641. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription b03310 of text6 in the english short title catalog (wing e83). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 b03310 wing e83 interim tract supplement guide c.20.f.2[7] interim tract supplement guide c.20.f.4[211] 99885039 ocm99885039 182880 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b03310) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 182880) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books; tract supplement ; a1:1[7]; a4:2[212]) the earle of strafford his ellegiack poem, as it was pen'd by his owne hand a little before his death. strafford, thomas wentworth, earl of, 1593-1641. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n.], [london : printed in the yeare, 1641. place of publication suggested by wing. verse: "state give me leave, and vexe my thoughts no more ..." reproduction of original in the british library. eng strafford, thomas wentworth, -earl of, 1593-1641. -poetry. political poetry, english -early works to 1800. b03310 6 (wing e83). civilwar no the earle of strafford his ellegiack poem, as it was pen'd by his owne hand a little before his death. strafford, thomas wentworth, earl of 1641 509 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the earle of strafford his ellegiack poem , as it was pen'd by his owne hand a little before his death . state give me leave , and vexe my thoughts no more , i have too much within me to deplore my selfe , and it , who both oppress'd doe lye subjected to a growing anarchy . i have plough'd through my soule , & articled against my selfe within me , i have read all my life over , to find out what sin mov'd englands , irelands , & what scotlands spleen , and dare convince their blinded rage who can find in me errors more then speake me man . 't is dangerous to be great , treason doth lye to be too gracious in a princes eye : use your rage sharpest wit , for all your art though you my head , my king shall have my hart . be wise , vice-gerents , whose succeeding fate , shall reare you up unto the height of state , the ladder shakes you climbe on , every round is pav'd with icy fate , smiles on the ground from whence you rise , and , unadvis'd , you shall find , if not sudden , yet a certaine fall . my sinne was too much loyalty , and when that times to come , as sure there will be men , ( although this scanted age vents none , but those who of old titles and new fashion'd cloaths can boast , whose honest judgments doe agree to love the king and feare his subsidie . ) they , in disdaine of their fore-fathers hate , shall speake my vertues , and lament my fate . you , you , then ( happier nephewes ) what i tell so late , so true , accept as oracle , where ever justice calls you , for my sake be all your demonstrations faire , nor make a bad distinction , by mistaken zeale t' your prince , 'twixt him , and 'twixt his common-weale . come neerer death , and let 's imbrace ! but you that with such care and jealousies pursue my spited soule , although my blood 's no price to your wish'd peace , too weake a sacrifice to expiate three kingdomes ; yet from me take this my last and perfect'st legacie for all the service i have done the state , my early risings , and my sleeping late , for all those cares kept sad my charge , my long zeale to my prince , which you miscoster'd wrong , for all my labours , and in that pursuit my slaughtered honours , and my life to boote , doe this , and you shall by my counsaile prove happy on earth as i in heaven above and though ( for this shall your most cōfort bring ) you lov'd not me , yet love my lord your king . fjnjs . printed in the yeare , 1641. rump rampant, or, the sweet old cause in sippits set out by sir t.a., perfumer to his late highnesse, to the tune of, last parliament sat as snugg as a cat. t. a., sir, perfumer to his late highnesse. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a25585 of text r746 in the english short title catalog (wing a34). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a25585 wing a34 estc r746 12880440 ocm 12880440 94922 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a25585) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 94922) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1:7 or 21241:191) rump rampant, or, the sweet old cause in sippits set out by sir t.a., perfumer to his late highnesse, to the tune of, last parliament sat as snugg as a cat. t. a., sir, perfumer to his late highnesse. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [london : 1660] place and date of publication from bm. reproductions of originals in harvard university libraries and british library. eng political ballads and songs -england -texts. english poetry -17th century. political poetry, english. broadsides -england -17th century. a25585 r746 (wing a34). civilwar no rump rampant, or the sweet old cause in sippits: set out by sir t.a. perfumer to his late highnesse. to the tune of, last parliament sat as t. a., sir, perfumer to his late highnesse 1660 613 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-09 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-10 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2003-10 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-12 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion rump rampant , or the sweet old cause in sippits : set out by sir t. a. perfumer to his late highnesse . to the tune of , last parliament sat as snugg as a cat . in the name of the fiend , what the rump up agin , the delk , and the good old cause , if they settle agin , which to think were a sin , good-night to religion and laws . first tithes must go down like a sprig of the crown , although j. presbiter grumble ; already they tell 's our lead and our bells they 'l sell , next our churches must tumble . this poor english nation , by this generation hath been grieved 11. years and more , but in that season , and not without reason , they ha'thrice been turnd out of door . which they please to call force , yet themselves can do worse , for this piercel of a house dare keep out of door , thrice as many more , and value the law not a louse . first by owl-light they met , and by that light they set , the reason of it mark , their acts and the light , do differ quite , their deeds do best with the dark . esquire lenthall had swore , he 'd sit there no more , unlesse in with oxen they drew him , that he once might speak true , they pick'd him out two , sent pembrook and salisbury to him . when these gamsters were pack'd , the first gracious act was for pence for their friends of the army , who for any side fight , except't be the right ; sixscore thousand a month won't harm ye . yet many there be , say the house is not free , when i am sure of that , t'one another they are so free , that the nation do see , their too free for us to be fat . religion they wav'd , now they had us enslav'd and got us sure in their claw , they puld of their mask , and set us our task , which is next to make brick without straw . the next act they made , was for helping of trade , so they settled again the excise , which the city must pay , for ever and aye , yet might have chose had they been wise . to pull down their k. their plate they could bring , and other precious things , so that segwick and peters , were no small getters by their bodkins , thimbles and rings . but when for the good of the nation 't was stood half ruined and forlorne , though 't lay in their power , to redeem 't in an hour , not a citizen put out his horn . they had manacled their hands , with kings & bishops lands , and ruin'd the whole nation , so that no body cares , though they and their heirs , be cornute to the third generation . may their wives on them frown , but laugh and lie down , to any one else turn up trump , to mend the breed , as i think there is need be rid like their men by the rump . and may these wise sophees , pay again for their trophees , for i hope the parliament means ( now they ha' been at the costs , to set up the posts ) to make them pay well for the chains . the rump the whig rampant, or, exaltation being a pleasant new song of 82, to a new tune of, hey boys, up go we. quarles, francis, 1592-1644. 1682 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a56845 wing q120 estc r2621 12374543 ocm 12374543 60544 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a56845) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 60544) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 224:5) the whig rampant, or, exaltation being a pleasant new song of 82, to a new tune of, hey boys, up go we. quarles, francis, 1592-1644. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. printed for p. brooksby ..., [london] : [1682] attributed to f. quarles. cf. wing. place and date of publication from wing. reproduction of original in british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng political poetry, english. political ballads and songs -england -texts. broadsides -england -17th century. 2002-04 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2002-04 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2002-05 tcp staff (michigan) sampled and proofread 2002-05 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the whig rampant : or , exaltation . being a pleasant new song of 82. to a new tune of , hey boys up go we. now now the tories all shall stoop , religion and the laws , and whigs of common-wealth get up , to top the good old cause : tantivy boys shall all go down , and haughty monarchy ; the leathern-cap shall brave the crown then hey boys up go we. when once that anti-ceristian crew are chrush'd and overthrown , we 'l teach the nobles how to bow , and keep the gentry down ; good manners has a bad repute , and tends to p●ide we see , we 'l therefore cry all breeding down , and hey boys up go we. the name of lords shall be abhor'd , for ev'ry man 's a brother , what reason then in church or state , one man should rule another ? thus having pill'd and plunder'd all , and level'd each degree , we 'l make their plump young daughters fall and hey boys up go we. what though the king and parliament , cannot accord together , we have good cause to be content , this is our sun-shine weather : for if good reason should take place , and they should both agree , z — who 'd be in a round-heads case , for hey then up go we. we 'l down with all the uersities where learning is profest : for they still practice and maintain the language of the beast : we 'l exercise in e'ry place , and preach beneath a tree : uue'l make a pulpit of a cask , for hey then up go we . the uuhigs shall rule committee-chair , who will such laws invent , as shall exclude the lawful heir by act of parliament : uue'l cut his royal highness down , e'n shorter by the knee : that he shall never reach the throne , then hey boys up go we. uue'l smite the idol in guild-hal , and then ( as we were wont ) uue'l cry it was a popish-plot , and swear those rogues have don 't : his royal highness to un-throne , our interest will be : for if he e're enjoy his own , then hey boys up go we . rebellion was a thrveing trade on this our english coast : uuhen pauls-church was a stable m 〈…〉 then troopers rul'd the roast : then loyalty was call'd a crime , in anno forty-three : a godly reformation time , for hey then up went we . uuhen three great nations sweat in b 〈…〉 and many thousand slain : the bosome of the earth bestrew'd , then godliness was gain : but now the days are alter'd since , as college plain did see : if we rebel against our prince , to tybh go we . urn y we 'l break the windows which the w 〈…〉 of babylon has painted , and when their b — s are pull'd down . our deacons shall be sainted : thus having quite enslav'd the town , pretending to set free , at last the gallows claims its own . then hey boys up go we. finis . printed for p. brooksby at the golden ball in west smithfield . the whig rampant: or, exaltation. being a pleasant new song of 82. to a new tune of, hey boys up go we. whig's exaltation d'urfey, thomas, 1653-1723. 1682 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b06548 wing w1649a interim tract supplement guide c.20.f.8[517] 99889366 ocm99889366 183612 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b06548) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 183612) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books; tract supplement ; a5:2[403]) the whig rampant: or, exaltation. being a pleasant new song of 82. to a new tune of, hey boys up go we. whig's exaltation d'urfey, thomas, 1653-1723. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). printed for p. brooksby at the golden ball in west smithfield., [london] : [1682] attributed to thomas d'urfey. place and date of publication suggested by wing. verse: "now now the tories all shall stoop ..." an expanded edition of: the whig's exaltation. reproduction of original in the british library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng political poetry, english -early works to 1800. aristocracy (social class) -england -poetry -early works to 1800. great britain -history -puritan revolution, 1642-1660 -poetry -early works to 1800. 2008-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-04 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-04 elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the whig rampant : or , exaltation . being a pleasant new song of 82. to a new tune of , hey boys up go we. my book you see , remember me : then the old cause , we will set free . now now the tories all shall stoop , religion and the laws , and whigs of common-wealth get up , to top the good old cause : tantivy-boys shall all go down , and haughty monarchy ; the leathern-cap shall brave the crown then hey boys up go we. when once that anti-ceristian crew are chrush'd and overthrown , wel teach the nobles how to bow , and keep the gentry down ; good manners has a bad repute , and tends to p●ide we see , we 'l therefore cry all breeding down , and hey boys up go we. the name of lords shall be a bhor'd , for ev'ry man 's a brother , what reason then in church or state , one man should rule another ? thus having pill'd and plunder'd all , and level'd each degree , we 'l make their plump young daughters fall and hey boys up go we. what though the king and parliament , cannot accord together , we have good cause to be content , this is our sun-shine weather : for if good reason should take place , and they should both agree , ʒ — who 'd be in a round-heads case , for hey then up go we. remember the good old cause● we 'l down with all the versities where learning is profest : for they still practice and maintain the language of the beast : we 'l exercise in e'ry place , and preach beneath a tree : vve 'l make a pulpit of a cask , for hey then up go we . the vvhigs shall rule committee-chair , who will such laws invent , as shall exclude the lawful heir by act of parliament : vve 'l cut his royal highness down , e'n shorter by the knee : that he shall never reach the throne , then hey boys up go we. vve 'l smite the idol in guild-hal , and then ( as we were wont ) vve 'l cry it was a popish-plot , and swear those rogues have don 't : his royal highness to un-throne , our interest will be : for if he e're enjoy his own , then hey boys up go we . rebellion was a thrveing trade on this our english coast : vvhen pauls-church was a stable 〈◊〉 then troopers rul'd the roast : then loyalty was call'd a crime , in anno forty-three : a godly reformation time , for hey then up went we . vvhen three great nations sweat in 〈◊〉 and many thousand slain : the bosome of the earth bestrew'd , then godliness was gain : but now the days are alter'd since , as college plain did see : if we rebel against our prince , to tybh go we . ur●y we 'l break the windows which the 〈◊〉 of babylon has painted , and when their b — s are pull'd down , our deacons shall be sai●●ed : thus having quite enslav'd the town , pretending to set free , at last the gallows claims its own , then hey boys up go we. finis . printed for p. brooksby at the golden ball in west smithfield . a poem on the present assembling of the parliament, march the 6th. 1678 waller, edmund, 1606-1687. 1679 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a67340 wing w509 estc r1049 12241586 ocm 12241586 56790 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67340) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 56790) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 904:6) a poem on the present assembling of the parliament, march the 6th. 1678 waller, edmund, 1606-1687. 4 p. s.n., [london? : 1679] reproduction of original in huntington library. attributed to edmund waller. cf. nuc pre-1956. caption title. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng political poetry, english. 2002-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2002-12 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-01 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2003-01 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a poem on the present assembling of the parliament . march the 6 th . 1678. break , sacred morn , on our expecting isle , and make our albion's sullen genius smile ; his brightest glories let the sun display , he rose not with a more important day since charles return'd on his triumphant way : gay as a bridegroom then our eyes he drew , and now seems wedded to his realms anew . great senate , hast , to joyn your royal head , best councell by the best of monarchs swai'd : methinks our fears already are o're-blown , and on our enemies coast their terrour thrown . darlings of fame , you british bards that wrote of old , as warmly as our heroes fought , aid me a bold advent'rer for the fame o' th' british state , and touch me with your flame ; steep my rude quill in your diviner stream , and raise my daring fancy to my theam . give me th' heroick wings to soar as high as icarus did , i wou'd like icarus die ! now i behold the bright assembly met , and 'bove the rest our sacred monarch set , charm'd with the dazling scene , without a crime , my thoughts reflect on th' infancy of time , and wrap me in idea's most sublime . i think how at the new creation , sate th' eternal monarch in his heaven 's fresh state ; the stars yet wondring at each others fires , and all the sons of glory rankt in quires . hail , awfull patriots , peers by birth , and you the commons , for high vertues , noble too ! the first by heav'n , in this assembly plac't , and by heav'ns voice , the people's votes the last . as various streams from distant regions fall , and in the deep their general council call ; conveying thence supplies to their first source , and fail not to maintain their rowling course : our senate thus , from every quarter call'd , and in compleat assembly here install'd , shall deal their influence to each province round , and in our isle no barren spot be found . iustice as plenteous as our thames shall flow in peace the sailer steer , and peasant plow . from foreign wrongs safe shall our publick be , and private rights from home oppressours free : degrees observ'd , customs and laws obey'd , dues , less through force , than fear of scandal , paid . proceed , brave worthies then , to your debates ; nor to decree alone our private fates , but to judge kingdoms and dispose of states . from you , their rise , or downfall , they assume , expecting from our capitol their doom : you form their peace and war , as you approve they close in leagues , or to fierce battele move . and though the pride of france has swell'd so high a warlike empire's forces to defie , to crush th' united lands confed'rate pow'r , and silence the loud belgian lion's roar ; yet let their troops in silent triumph come from vanquisht fields , and steal their trophies home , take care their cannon at iust distance roar , nor with too near a volley rouze our shore ; lest our disdaining islanders advance with courage taught long since to conquer france , seizing at once their spoils of many a year , and cheaply win what they oft bought too dear : their late success but juster fear affords , for they are now grown worthy of our swords . howe're 't must be confest , the gallick pow'rs can ne're engage on equal terms with ours . in nature we have th' odds , they dread , we scorn , the english o're the french are conq'rors born. the terrour still of our third edward's name rebukes their pride , and damps their tow'ring fame ; nor can the tide of many rouling years wash the stain'd fields of cressey and poictiers . a pointed horrour strikes their bosomes still , when they survey that famous , fatall hill , where edward with his host spectator stood , and left the prince to make the conquest good . the eagle thus from her fledg'd young withdraws , trusts 'em t' engage whole troops of kites and daws nor has the black remembrance left their brest how our fifth harry to their paris prest , whilst france wept blood for their hot dauphin's jest. we forc't their cavalry their foot t'ore-run , as tides withstood , bear their own billows down : such was the virtue of our ancestours , and such , on just resentment , shall be ours ; our temper'd valour just pretence requires , as flints are struck , before they shew their fires . finis . an answer to old doctor wild's new poem to his old friend upon the new parliament by grand-syre gray-beard, the younger. grand-syre gray-beard, the younger. 1672 approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a25564 wing a3371 estc r16444 11930344 ocm 11930344 51093 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a25564) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 51093) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 48:27) an answer to old doctor wild's new poem to his old friend upon the new parliament by grand-syre gray-beard, the younger. grand-syre gray-beard, the younger. 4 p. s.n., [london : ca. 1672] in verse. caption title. place and date of publication from wing. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng wild, robert, 1609-1679. england and wales. -parliament -poetry. political poetry, english. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-12 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion an answer to old doctor wild's new poem , to his old friend , upon the new parliament . by grand-syre gray-beard , the younger . thus 't is to stand condemn'd by rigorous fate to the vile plague of a poetick pate : the itch of rhyming where it once does seize , becomes a more incurable disease than pox or scurvey : harder 't is to rout wild 's scribling humour , than to charm his gout . an old man's twice a child , i heard folks say , but never more , than when he would seem gay , and does with jingling hobby-horses play : when sprightly fancy's gone , the doting bungler mounts the brisk muse , but proves an errant fumbler ; gets only puling verse , languid and thin , not to be call'd a birth , but souterkin . sorry dull puns , and nauseating quibbles , worse than old crab-i'th-wood , or belman scribbles . just so sir limber-ham that scarce can crawl , will on his venus , and his cupids call ; and drains five hundred pieces from his purse to keep a miss , when more he wants a nurse . but tell me reverend songster ! was it fit thy doctorship should thus the pulpit quit , to revel in such babylonish wit ? thy very friends when they thy poem scan , say only — he 's a towardly old man. though thou forgot'st thy calling , age , degree , this subject sure should curb thy levity to treat of parliaments at such a rate , in fulsom metaphors of billings-gate , before th' august illustrious senate come , and straight turn up , ( sans shame , ) thy aged bum deserves a lash from the black rod at least to make th' old baby smart for the lewd jest , amongst so many olds as thou dost trace , 't is strange the good old cause obtain'd no place . then poor dissenter bravely might ascend into a pulpit from the tables end , and hold forth godly sonnets to his friend . we all are joy'd at present face of things , and thank both heav'ns kind influence , and the kings ; romes vultures , nor the gallick cocks we fear , safe in our watchful eagles royal care : yet love not to run mad , and dance the hay , as stung ( like thee ) with a tarantula : vvho e're thy greazie tale of pork does view , suspects thee for the by-blow of a jew . thy grandam when she burnt th' old stock , was cruel , not bees but wasps deserve to be made fewel : good housewives do not think her method safe , to drive is better than to burn by half ; but these wild sallies do too plainly show , thou dost but cackle when thou thoughtst to crow . treating of richest robes of state , and ermin , thou just like some pot-poets cozen german bethinks thee of th' own thred-bare cloaths & vermin . then cry'st to longlane with them new put on ; sweet sir ! 't is timely thought of , may 't be done . but best make haste e're ketches wardrobe 's gone . thinkst thou ( wild as thou art : ) such language meet t' approach the soveraign legislative seat ? pardon great senate ! that his phrensy drew me to the rudeness here of naming you. the haughtiest subjects tremble when they come to your just barr , and dread th' impartial doom . fair copy of heavens policy ! the same idaea that rules the vniversal frame , vvhere nobles , as the fixed stars do shine in honours firmament ; and rays divine from reverend fathers of the church are spread , to strike both schism and superstition dead . next , sages of the law , as planets trace their circuits , to enliven in each place those needful acts which here are fram'd , and deal distributive justice for the publick weal. then commons as full constellations , joyn , and their wise councels solemnly combine , vvhilst sacred majesty incircled round vvith native glory , as the sun , is found beaming his acts of grace so free and bright , that all from him borrow both heat and light. healing assembly ! whensoe're you meet , the peoples choice , and the kings wishes greet : their liberties , his honour , you mantain , o let them ne'r be differenc'd again ! in his own proper orb let each star move , not jostling those below , nor them above . let no false fires their dazling beams display , nor upstart meteors interrupt your way : all your debates let moderation calm , and your results become the nations balm . those little foxes that the land defile , and seek our vine and tender grapes to spoil , unkennel them ; and let romes conclave see , in vain they plot , whilst you our guardians be . may heaven all your consultations bless , and all good men pray for your wisht success . but our old buisie rhymer we shall lose , who hawks and kites , and blind buzzards pursues , until at last like a bewildred jolt-head , his muse has all her borrowed feathers moulted . age makes all stoop — how fast the man descends ? commences doctor , and poor robin , ends. finis . a poem on the present assembly of parliament, november 9th. 1685 waller, edmund, 1606-1687. 1686 approx. 7 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a67341 wing w510 estc r889 12241408 ocm 12241408 56785 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67341) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 56785) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 904:7) a poem on the present assembly of parliament, november 9th. 1685 waller, edmund, 1606-1687. [2], 6 p. printed for george powell ..., london : 1686. reproduction of original in huntington library. an alteration and adaptation of the author's a poem on the present assembling of the parliament, march the 6th, 1678. advertisement: p. 6. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng political poetry, english. 2002-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2002-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-01 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2003-01 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a poem on the present assembly of parliamnt , november 9 th . 1685. licensed , november 7 th . 1686. ro. l'estrange . london , printed for george powell over against lincolns-inn-gate . 1686. a poem on the present assembly of parliament , november 9th . 1685. break sacred morn on our expecting i 'le , and make our albion's sullen genius smile ; his brightest glories let the sun display , he rose not with a more auspicious ray , since god-like iames receiv'd * imperial state , our only recompence for charles his fate . a joyful bridegroom then , our eyes he drew , and now seems wedded to his realms anew : since when our panick fears are quite o're-blown , and on our enemies coast the terror thrown . ye ancient bards that britain's glory wrought as warmly as our british heroes fought , be still assisting to your country's fame , and in my daring song revive your flame . behold , behold , the bright assembly plac'd , and with our monarch's sacred presence grac'd : transported with a vision so sublime , our thoughts review the infant-pride of time , we think how at the new creation sate th' eternal monarch in his heavens fresh state ; the stars yet wondring at each others fires , and all the sons of glory rank'd in quires . as various streams from distant regions fall , and in the deep their gen'ral counsel call , conveying thence supplies to ev'ry source , and fail not to maintain the rowling course ; our senate thus from ev'ry quarter met , and with our peers in awful council set , dispense their influence to each province round , and in our i 'le no barren spot is found . justice as freely as our thames shall flow , in peace the sailer steer , and peasant plow , our publick safe from foreign wrongs shall be , and private rights from home-oppressors free . proceed brave worthies then to your debates , and by your counsels to direct our fates . thus , iames the pious , valiant , wise and just , performs not only yours , but europe's trust ; whose power or prudence makes their discords cease , where he perswades not , he commands a peace . so ( if small things with great may be compar'd ) we oft have seen two monarchs of the herd , upon some long-disputed plain engage with equal vigour , and with equal rage ; their goring horns are in the contest worn , the harrass'd earth is in the combat torn ; but if a lion from the hill descends , their fury ceases , and the battel ends . what though the gallick pride has swell'd so high ▪ a war-like empires forces to defie , to crush united states , confederate powr , and quite suppress the belgian lions roar ; yet let their troops in silent triumph come from conquer'd fields , and steal their trophies home . take care their cannon at just distance roar , nor with too near a volley rouze our shore . the terror still of our third edward's name rebukes their pride , and checks their towring fame : nor can the tide of many rowling years , vvash the stain'd fields of cressey and poictiers . a conscious terror strikes their bosoms still , vvhen they behold that famous fatal hill , where edward , with his host , spectator stood , and left the prince to make the conquest good . such was the vertue of our ancestours , and such , on due resentment , shall be ours ; averse from acting , as receiving wrong , vveak states support , and terror to the strong ; vvhose temper'd vallour just pretence requires , as flints are struck before they shew their fires . once more great patriots in the nation 's stead , vvith due respect , the loyal muses plead , since from your gen'rous trust our peace did spring , joyn'd with the matchless conduct of our king. secure the blessing you so well begun , and take for pattern what your selves have done . so albion to her ancient fame shall grow , by heaven's decrees above , and yours below . nor shall your influence in our lesser world lie pent , but through the universe be hurl'd : thence christian leagues shall firmly be combin'd , while turks and rebels equal fate shall find . thus earth and seas with safety shall be blest , and peace as calm as their great masters breast . heaven to our i 'le this priv'ledge does allow , besides her self to have no pow'rful foe . by rocks and seas fenc'd round from foreign harms , and only liable to in-bred arms. such shocks ( alas ! ) too oft we have endur'd , but ev'n from home-bred rage are now secur'd : no storm can rise while caesar guides the helm , while you support the throne , and he the realm . our faith and freedom trusted in his hand , immoveable as fate 's decrees must stand . usurpers from their promise may retreat , and common-wealths their publick trust defeat , while each his private interest does pursue , but heaven's and britain's monarch must be true . finis . advertisement . a devout exercise for every day of the month , together with meditations upon the most important truths of the gospel , translated from the last edition of the original , enlarged by the author . sir tho. moor's vtopia in english. all sorts of law-books printed for , and sold by george powel over against lincolns-inn gate . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a67341-e120 * the coronation , april 23 , 1685. a panegyrick to my lord protector by a gentleman that loves peace, union, and prosperity of the english nation. waller, edmund, 1606-1687. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a67339 of text r835 in the english short title catalog (wing w507). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 11 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a67339 wing w507 estc r835 12241353 ocm 12241353 56782 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67339) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 56782) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 904:5) a panegyrick to my lord protector by a gentleman that loves peace, union, and prosperity of the english nation. waller, edmund, 1606-1687. 8 p. printed by thomas newcomb ..., london : 1655. reproduction of original in huntington library. one of two editions published in the same year. eng political poetry, english -early works to 1800. a67339 r835 (wing w507). civilwar no a panegyrick to my lord protector, by a gentleman that loves the peace, union, and prosperity of the english nation. waller, edmund 1655 1788 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 b the rate of 6 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-11 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2002-12 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-01 john latta sampled and proofread 2003-01 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a panegyrick to my lord protector , by a gentleman that loves the peace , union , and prosperity of the english nation . claudian : &c. gaudet enim virtus testes sibi jungere musas , carmen amat quisquis carmine digna gerit . london , printed by thomas newcomb , in thames-street over against baynards-castle , 1655. a panegyrick to my lord protector , while with a strong , and yet a gentle hand you bridle faction , and our hearts command ; protect us from our selves , and from the foe ; make us unite , and make us conquer too ; let partial spirits still aloud complain , think themselves injur'd that they cannot raign , and own no liberty , but where they may without controule upon their fellows prey . above the waves as neptune shew'd his face to chide the winds , and save the trojan race ; so has your highness rais'd above the rest storms of ambition tossing us represt : your drooping country torn with civill hate , restor'd by you , is made a glorious state ; the seat of empire , where the irish come , and the unwilling scotch to fetch their doome . the sea 's our own , and now all nations greet with bending sayles each vessel of our fleet ; your power extends as farr as winds can blowe , or swelling sayles upon the globe may goe . heav'n , that has plac'd this island to give lawe , to balance europe , and her states to awe , in this conjunction does on brittain smile , the greatest leader , and the greatest ile ; whether this portion of the world were rent by the rude ocean from the continent , or thus created , it was sure design'd to be the sacred refuge of mankind . hither th' oppressed shall henceforth resort , justice to crave , and succour at your court ; and then your highness , not for ours alone , but for the worlds protector shall be known : fame , swifter then your winged navie , flyes through every land that near the ocean lyes , sounding your name , and telling dreadfull newes to all that piracy and rapine use : with such a chief the meanest nation blest , might hope to lift her head above the rest ; what may be thought impossible to doe for us embraced by the sea and you ? lords of the worlds great waste , the ocean , wee whole forrests send to raigne upon the sea , and ev'ry coast may trouble or relieve , but none can visit us without your leave ; angels and we have this prerogative , that none can at our happy seat arrive , while we descend at pleasure to invade the bad with vengeance , or the good to aide : our little world , the image of the great , like that amidst the boundless ocean set , of her own growth has all that nature craves , and all that 's rare as tribute from the waves ; a egypt does not on the clouds rely , but to her nyle owes more , then to the sky ; so what our earth , and what our heav'n denies , our ever constant friend , the sea , supplies ; the taste of hot arabia's spice we know , free from the scorching sun that makes it grow ; without the worm in persian silks we shine , and without planting drink of every vine ; to digg for wealth we weary not our limbs , gold , though the heavy'st metall , hither swims ; ours is the harvest where the indians mowe , we plough the deep , and reap what others sowe . things of the noblest kinde our own soyle breeds , stout are our men , and warlike are our steeds ; rome , though her eagle through the world had flown , could never make this island all her own ; here the third edward , and the black prince too , france conqu'ring henry flourisht , and now you for whom we stay'd , as did the grecian state , till alexander came to urge their fate : when for more worlds the macedonian cry'de , he wist not thetis in her lapp did hide another yet , a world reserv'd for you to make more great , then that he did subdue : he safely might old troops to battail leade against th' unwarlike persian , and the mede , whose hastie flight did , from a bloodless field , more spoyle then honor to the victor yield ; a race unconquer'd , by their clyme made bold , the calidonians arm'd with want and cold , have , by a fate indulgent to your fame , bin , from all ages , kept , for you to tame , whom the old roman wall so ill confin'd , with a new chain of garisons you bind , here forraign gold no more shall make them come , our english iron holds them fast at home ; they , that henceforth must be content to know , no warmer region then their hills of snow , may blame the sun , but must extoll your grace , which in our senate has allow'd them place ; preferr'd by conquest , happily o'rethrowne , falling they rise , to be with us made one ; so kinde dictators made , when they came home , their vanquish'd foes , free citizens of rome . like favor find the irish , with like fate advanc'd to be a portion of our state ; while by your valour , and your courteous mind nations divided by the sea are joyn'd . holland , to gain your friendship , is content to be our out-guard on the continent ; shee from her fellow-provinces would goe , rather then hazard to have you her foe : in our late fight when cannons did diffuse preventing posts , the terror and the newes our neighbor-princes trembled at their rore , but our conjunction makes them tremble more . your never-fayling sword made war to cease , and now you heale us with the arts of peace , our minds with bounty , and with awe engage , invite affection , and restrain our rage : less pleasure take , brave minds in battails won , then in restoring such as are undon , tygers have courage , and the rugged bear , but man alone can , whom he conquers , spare . to pardon willing , and to punish loath , you strike with one hand , but you heal with both , lifting up all that prostrate lie , you grieve you cannot make the dead again to live : when fate , or error had our age mis-led , and o'r these nations such confusion spred , the onely cure which could from heav'n come down , was so much power and clemency in one . one , whose extraction from an ancient line , gives hope again that well-born men may shine , the meanest in your nature milde and good , the noble rest secured in your blood . oft have we wonder'd how you hid in peace a minde proportion'd to such things as these ? how such a ruling-spirit you could restrain ? and practice first over your self to raign ? your private life did a just pattern give how fathers , husbands , pious sons , should live , born to command , your princely vertues slept like humble david's , while the flock he kept ; but when your troubled countrey call'd you forth , your flaming courage , and your matchless worth dazeling the eyes of all that did pretend to fierce contention , gave a prosp'rous end : still as you rise , the state exalted too , finds no distemper , while 't is chang'd by you . chang'd like the worlds great scene , when without noise , the rising sun nights vulgar lights destroyes . had you some ages past , this race of glory run , with amazement , we should read your story ; but living virtue , all atchievements past , meets envy still to g●apple with at last . this cesar found , and that ungrateful age which losing him , fell back to blood and rage : mistaken brutus thought to break their yoke , but cut the bond of union with that stroke . that sun once set , a thousand meaner stars , gave a dim light to violence and wars , to such a tempest , as now threatens all , did not your mighty arm prevent the fall . if romes great senate could not weild that sword , which of the conquer'd world had made them lord , what hope had ours , while yet their power was new , to rule victorious armies but by you ? you that had taught them to subdue their foes , could order teach , and their high spirits compose , to every duty could their minds engage , provoke their courage , and command their rage . so when a lyon shakes his dreadfull mayn , and angry growes , if he that first took pain to tame his youth , approach the haughty beast , he bends to him , but frights away the rest . as the vex'd world to finde repose at last it self into augustus arms did cast ; so england now does with like toyle opprest , her weary head upon your bosome rest . then let the muses with such notes as these instruct us what belongs unto our peace ; your battails they hereafter shall indite , and draw the image of our mars in fight : tell of towns storm'd , of armies over-run , and mighty kingdomes by your conduct won ; how while you thunder'd , clouds of dust did choak contending troops , and seas lay hid in smoak : illustrious acts high raptures doe infuse , and every conqueror creates a muse . here in low strains your milder deeds we sing , but there ( my lord ) wee 'll bayes and olive bring to crown your head , while you in triumph ride o're vanquish'd nations , and the sea beside ; while all your neighbor-princes unto you like joseph's sheaves pay rev'rence and bow . finis . a dialogue between claret & darby-ale a poem, considered in an accidental conversation between two gentlemen. ward, edward, 1667-1731. 1692 approx. 22 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 7 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-07 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a67500 wing w732 estc r15114 12208467 ocm 12208467 56215 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67500) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 56215) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 904:36) a dialogue between claret & darby-ale a poem, considered in an accidental conversation between two gentlemen. ward, edward, 1667-1731. ames, richard, d. 1693. 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng political poetry, english. 2003-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-03 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-05 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2003-05 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a dialogue between claret & darby-ale . a poem . considered in an accidental conversation between two gentlemen . london : printed for e. richardson , 1692. a dialogue between claret and darby-ale . two gentlemen meeting on ludgate-hill . 1 st gent. welcome from the country dear harry ; what an affliction has your absence been to your friends , who have hardly enjoyed one pleasant hour since you left us . 2 d gent. and i as few pleasant minutes . — they may talk what they will of the diversions of the country , as hawking , hunting , setting , coursing , &c. there 's no true solid pleasure like a town-life , half a dozen honest friends , and as many refreshing bottles of generous wine , is a pleasure which the country cannot parrallel . 1 st gent. pardon me there sir ; the very pleasure you speak of you may enjoy to as full a perfection in the country as you can in the town . 2 d gent. you would be of another opinion will , if you knew what was my usual company ; to day a couple of noisy knights talking of nothing but taxes and politicks . — to morrow three or four insipid ' squires discoursing of their horses and dogs , as crop and dapple , iowler , rockwood , ringwood and bowman . two or three days after , an old country iustice , with five or six rich yeomen confounding the gazets and publick news-papers with their senseless commentaries . but what need i say more , are not these think you very agreeable converse ? i am as glad i am come again to this dear town as an englishman who has been six months prisoner at st. maloes is to see his native country once more . 1 st gent. then you reckon your coming to town just as the iews did their return from the land of captivity . 2 d gent. well , let the iews be in captivity or out of captivity , i care not ; but this discourse edifies no more than a relation of the new lights to a blind man : i am for more substantial doctrin . — besides i hate standing in the street , it looks so like men of business , and those fellows , you know are my most particular aversion : let me see , what tavern are we near ? where we may meet with a glass of old racy generous wine , such as the gods drink when they 'r a dry , for i am resolv'd not to part with you , till we have refresht our understandings to such a pitch , that we shall be as witty as poets , as wise as statesmen , and as religious as the council of trent : what sayst thou my lad , ha ? 1 st gent. i think harry you need not the additional help of the bottle , for you talk as briskly already as if you were inspir'd . — what think you of a dish of settle-brain . 2 d gent. coffee i suppose you mean ; no , no , will , i never think on 't at all ; i have above twenty actions against that and small beer . — prethee no more of that sober discourse , but to the matter in hand ; whither shall we go , to the george , or the three-tuns ? you know 'em both i 'm sure . 2 d gent. yes , as i did mrs. you know who , about four years ago ; faith , 't was a pretty familiar girl till she practis'd jilting , and then you are sensible 't is high time to quit her . 2 d gent. why ? have they disoblig'd you lately by drawing you bad wine ? 1 st gent. no , never to my knowledg . — to tell you the plain truth harry , i drink no wine ; and i think the enmity between us is so great , that i fear we shall not be friends again . 2 d gent. then i come in a very lucky minute to reconcile you ; come , we will drink one compounding bottle of claret , and see if we can bring matters to accomodation . 1 st gent. i 'll as soon drink one bottle of aqua-fortis . — besides , you 'r deceiv'd if you think to find claret in town ; i will not say but there may be such liquor ; but a town-iilt never went by more names than claret does now ; in one place 't is barcelona , in another navarr , here syracuse , and there st. sebastian ; but the general name they give it is red-port . 2 d gent. let 'em give it as many names as the mogul has titles , i care not ; come , come , you shall drink one bottle with me . 1 st gent. indeed you must excuse me harry , for i swear i will not drink one drop of wine . 2 d gent. one may guess as much by thy ember-week complexion : you know i hate to press upon my friends too much : what then will you drink ? or what is your beloved liquor ? for i am resolved we will no more part with dry lips , than half-a-dozen fanaticks formerly met together , could part without railing at the government . 1 st gent. truly my ordinary liquor is the product of our own country , good nappy well-brew'd ale ; but when i would regale my sense , and treat my palate , 't is generally with a pint or two of nottingham or darby . 2 d gent. ha , ha , ha , ale , quoth a ! a man of thy sense and drink such foggy , unedifying stuff ! but we will not here descend into the merits of the cause ; come i have found out an expedient will please us both ; let 's go to the wonder within the gate , and i doubt not but honest ned b — s will furnish us with liquors both good in their kinds , you with your darby , and me with my claret . 1 st gent. agreed , — the house stands rarely well for a trade . 2 d gent. and no doubt it has it . — sirrah , drawer , bid your master bring us up a bottle of darby , and a half-flask of the best red he has in his cellar . 1 st gent. now we are set , dear harry let 's have a short account of some country intreagues of thine ; an assignation in a barn may , for variety's sake , please as well as at a ladys lodgings in the pell-mell . 2 d gent. something may be done after a dozen gasses or so ; but you shall first oblige me with some piece of wit , satyr , or lampoon , for i know you have been very happy in procuring things of that nature . 1 st gent. faith the town has been very dull this vacation . — but this morning i met a friend who gave me a paper of verses , which he said pleas'd him ; i have not had so much leisure as to read a line of 'em yet ; but here they are , and i wish they may be diverting . 2 d gent. they will no doubt ; wit is sometimes as agreeable over a glass , and relishes as well as a neats-tongue or a dish of anchovies . — bless me ! will , 't is the very subject we could have wisht for . — a dialogue between claret and darby ale. — if the author manages his subject well , we shall have diversion enough , no doubt ; but before we read it , we 'll take half-a-dozen glasses a piece to the memory of our absent friends . 1 st gent. with all my heart , — and then i hope the poem will attone for the dullness of my company . 2 d gent. no complements will. — but now to the business . — a dialogue between claret and darby ale , — a kind of aesop's fable in verse . — a half flask of claret standing on a table , a bottle of darby enters , and places himself within half a yard of him ; at which affront the claret in a passion speaks . reads . — claret . what slave art thou , impertinent and rude , that dar'st upon my privacies intrude ? speak quickly wretch , and tell me who thou art , thy business too , or instantly depart . darby . good words will breed no blisters on the tongue ; to call me slave and wretch , you do me wrong ; if you provoke me , i perhaps can shew as much of birth and pedegree as you ; for by your poor straw iacket , 't is as plain , as by your questions , you 'r no gentleman . claret . ill judging fool , who dost by outsides guess , and value things by their appearances ; my quality i may in time disclose , but till i know your name , we must be foes . darby . since choler o're your reason does prevail , i 'll humour you , — my name is darby-ale . claret . your servant ; are you then that mighty sir , who have so lately made so great a stir ? you and your cousin german nottingham , had so ingrost the breath of airy fame , that all the coffee-houses of the town , did you their tutelary angel own ; nay more , your boldness grew to such a height , that you presum'd at last t' invade my right . well said old straw-bottle , there 's an action good in law , and faith i 'll lay twenty pound thou carryest it . darby . my country breeding is i must confess , as yet not polisht with a fine address : i know no wrong i 've done . — but taxt by you , 't is fit your name and quality i knew , that i may either vindicate the action , or else submit and give you satisfaction . claret . spoke like a spark ; but since i stoop so low , to let thy little self my title know : prepare thy ears , and tremble when you hear it , i am the most immortal liquor claret , sent down to be a charm for mortal cares , son of the sun , and brother to the stars . that 's a line i have read in some play or other ; but however 't is well enough applyed here . darby . i 'm glad i know you , high and mighty sir ; think you your pompous empty name could stir my choler ? no , your title makes me fear , as much as if you 'd been six shilling beer . claret . thou son of earth , thou dull insipid thing , to level me , who am of liquors king , with lean small beer , but that thou art not worth my anger , else i 'de frown thee into earth . darby . i neither fear your frown , nor court your smile : but if i 'm not mistaken all this while , by other names than claret you are known . claret . you do not hear me sir the fact disown , some call me barcelona , some navar , some syracuse ; but at the vintners bar my name 's red port : but call me what they will , claret i am , and will be claret still . darby . so needy sparks by several names are known : it argues knav'ry to have more than one . none knows in private what the vinters do , but there 's some roguery hatcht between you two , those sons of bacchus else could never hold : why ? there 's more wine by name of claret sold one month in london , than a man can guess to be the product of three vintages . 1 st gent. there i think he is pretty even with him , for the vintners do certainly play the devil in their cellars ; and therefore 't was no ill joke when a brewers servant meeting a vintner of his acquaintance , bid him good morrow brother brewer . 2 d gent. you have heard the plaintiff , and 't would be unjust not to hear the defendant too . — let me read on . claret . offspring of element and grains forbear , and press not too inquisitively near our mysteries : for 't is not fit you know , what my old friend the vintner and i do . what racks and tortures ere i undergo , that 't is for my amendment done i know ; and i appear all fine at iovial club. darby . as fluxing sinner rose from sweating-tub : the diff'rence only lies between you two , he is by mercury cur'd , by brimstone you . 1 st gent. there i think old darby has given him a home thrust : come , here 's one health of remembrance to all our friends in the north for that jokes sake . 2 d gent. 't is a rude kind of jest tho , just like his breeding : but i 'll read on . claret . dull slave , thy empty foolish puns forbear , know that more virtue in this flask i bear , to chear the blood , and make the spirits quicker , than is in tuns of thy insipid liquor . darby . what mighty difference lies between us two ? i warm the blood as much , or more than you . claret . you warm the blood ! you put it in a flame , while i with gentle fires just heat the same : what man with thee one ev'nings brunt has stood , but rose with aking-head and fev'rish blood ? whereas my friends could no such symptoms mark , but rise next morning chearful as the lark . darby . could you examin pluto's weekly bill , you 'd find amongst those crouds his caverns fill , forty by drinking wine that thither came , for one , by darby ale and nottingham . claret . are you his register , so well you know the state of the departed souls below ? i thought that secret had belong'd to fate , but fools of things above them sometimes prate . darby . since you are mov'd , we 'll choose another theam , my want of spirit sure you wont condemn ; i warm the blood , and doctors all agree , when that is brisk , the spirits must be free . claret . with senseless jests , and farfetcht repartee , for sure no other wit was caus'd by thee ; the blood indeed you warm with poysonous fire , but i yet never heard you could inspire , except some smithfield poets when they write , and sad and lamentable songs indite ; for i have heard when liberal draughts of thee , have warm'd the brains that kept thee company ; such senseless strains pass currently for wit , as irish teague ne're spoke , nor saff — ld writ ; whereas the friends that hug me every night , ( not measuring time by hours , but by delight are men of sense , deep judgment , fancy , wit ; when they 'bout me in consultation sit , each glass creates some pretty virgin thought , which but for me had ne're to light been brought ; for poets , lawyers , orators confess , their words appear in the most charming dress , when they of me have took a plenteous glass ; if this be true , faith darby thou r't an ass. darby . how strangely you insult and domineer , you foreign born , and i a native here . i thought french breeding was more civiliz'd . claret . you scoundrel dog , am i not nat'ralliz'd ? the greatest part o' th' nation own my iuice , while they with justice foggy-ale refuse . darby . but acts of parliament 'gainst you are made . claret . what seem'd to crush has but advanc'd my trade . darby . then you it seems ( so very great your sense is ) are above law , as saints 'bove ordinances ; but there may come a time — claret . — when you shall be , loaded with shame , disgrace and infamy . back to thy native soyl , return again , while i my grandeur and my pomp maintain ; thy credit 's clearly lost about the town , and none but red nos'd sots thy power own , else in gazetts and advertisements , you would ne're have begg'd for custom ; is this true ? darby . perhaps it may , perhaps it may be not , may racking gouts , pains , aches , be the lot of him that drinks thee , may he more be curst with fev'rish heats , and an eternal thirst , till raving madness him of sense bereave ; so with these hearty prayers i take my leave . claret . what , angry darby ? nay , before you go , pray be so kind to hear my wishes too : may rhumes , catarrhs , defluctions light upon thy favorites ; but chiefly let the stone oppress them so , that in their fits they may , to go to hell for ease , devoutly pray ; may palsies rack their joynts , sharp pains their head , and not one part about their bodies freed from misery . — and so farewel old-darby , born at the peak , or else the devil's ass hard-by . exeunt . 2 d gent. what think you now will , who has got the better on 't ? 1 st gent. they seem to be pretty equally matcht ; but i believe the poet loves claret , he seems to be so favourable to that side . 2 d gent. he 's much in the right on 't , for faith will that ale you drink is a most ●ulsom liquor : let me feel your pulse . — lord ! how hot you are ? and your face looks as red as the moon in eclipse . — i am resolv'd to undertake thy conversion , and bring thee over to the faith again ; and to morrow we 'll dine at the rummer in queen-street and swim in claret . 1 st gent. i begin to be a little sensible of my mistake ; but since i am under no vow , wager , nor obligation , for once i 'll venture upon one pint to morrow , but it will be as odd and nauseous to me at first , as the bitter draught is to children troubled with the worms . 2 d gent. never think on 't . — let the first pint be what it will , the second shall absolutely recover thee from thy dangerous heresy . — i am sorry tho , we must part so soon ; but i have some business in the city , and fear i have out-staid my time . 1 st gent. i am sure i am not very fit for business of any sort , this ale has got into my head , i 'le go to the playhouse to keep my self out of bad company . 2 nd gent. a pleasant thought . — then till to morrow adieu . 1 st gent. i will not fail . — here boy , take your mony finis . advertisements . the folly of love : a satyr against women . a poem . the siege and surrender of mons : a tragi-comedy . exposing the villany of the priests , and the intriegues of the french. the pleasures of love and marriage : a poem in praise of the fair sex. in requital for the folly of love , and some other late styrs on women . a view of the times with britain's address to the prince of orange, a pindarick poem. settle, elkanah, 1648-1724. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a64927 of text r233019 in the english short title catalog (wing v371). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 39 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 11 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a64927 wing v371 estc r233019 12159470 ocm 12159470 55254 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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[no entry] 1655 6432 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2005-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2005-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-03 taryn hakala sampled and proofread 2006-03 taryn hakala text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a view of the times . with britain's address to the prince of orange . a pindarick poem . london , printed in the year mdclxxxix . to the right honorable the earl of arran , eldest son to duke hamilton . my lord , in this humble address to your lordship , perhaps as unseasonable now as the declaration of my never-failing zeal to his sacred majesty , my lord and master . i am very sensible how great a risque i run , first , of offending your lordship , and next the present state ; but i assure your lordship , i am infinitely more aw'd by my first fear than my last , for that i hope will allow liberty of conscience , even to the poets themselves , ( provided they be no papists ) though there ought to be no toleration for indiscretion and ill manners ; which , at this time , take too saucy a liberty , and treat even crown'd heads with that disrespect and contempt , as if the british world had agreed they would be govern'd by no more kings : and it is no doubt that sort of establishment is aim'd at by that great part of the nation , the dissenters . but all true english men , men of honor , and of the orthodox church , 't is to be hoped yet , have other sentiments , of which number your lordship is one ; whose glorious principles of loyalty and honor , even now shine forth to the world , and with a noble lustre gilding all your other vertues , have render'd your lordship one of the most considerable of any great men of your nation to all succeeding times ; and 't is from men of such principles we must hope for the accomplishment of that good which has so lately been assur'd us , that of making both king and people happy ; which cannot be by forcing his majesty to an exile , and , to palliate that cruelty , ( to give it no worse name ) brand him with all the infamy that malice can invent . we would willingly possess our selves with the belief , that such impudent and right-down treasonable libels , as daily come out upon their majesties , are rather the uncontroulable and implacable fire-balls of a few convicted ( though now too bare-faced ) criminals , than the connivance , much less the toleration of those that now rule ; whose commands ought to suppress mischiefs of so dangerous a consequence , lest upon every little pique they shall please to take against those they now pretend to serve , they should run into the same extremity , and treat them at last as ill as they have done their lawfull king , or god himself ; since to speak evilly of the one , is to prophane the other : they need not give us that infallible proof , that religion ( so much their pretence ) is the least of their design and aim , since no man on earth can profess himself a christian , or even a moralist , with notions so absolutely heathenish and diabolical ; actions so directly contrary to scripture , and all the rules that god himself has set us . and however necessary some may imagin these aspersions may be to the present interest , to possess the wretched rabble , and common rascality , yet they are so far from being approved or believed , by those of common sense or tolerable education , that they are abhor'd ; and are as absolutely a disgrace to this great design of setling religion , as the protection and toleration given to the assassin of the most reverend bishop of st. andrews , and the rye-house conspirator . and because three or four condemned criminals have by their villanies made themselves uncapable of living under a king , they must now be allow'd authentick evidences against his present majesty , and blacken him with such actions of horror , that the most barbarous of villains , thieves , and murtherers , nay the fiends themselves , were never guilty of : and though these ridiculous and inhumane libels are only calculated for the nasty rabble , and the foolish positive multitude , and are below the sense even of those that write them ; yet they serve to blow a fire that will be one day too hot for this nation . i know they are countenanced , and seemingly credited , by a great many disaffected and ill-minded men , whose business is no other ways to be done than by setting the world at odds. and no doubt but it was found absolutely necessary , after the treating his majesty at his return with such unaccountable contempt , that his fame and glory should be ruin'd as well as himself ; having no other excuse for their own crimes but loading his majesty with calumnies : a poor and barbarous shift to justify a too precipitate proceeding ; a proceeding which their lordships , both spiritual and temporal ( too zealous for religion , and too remiss for the king and nations safety ) had not , i am afraid , well enough considered , or the ensuing consequences ; nor ought it to have been expected , that when they turned out popery they should have suffered their king , by the indignities put upon him , to seek his safety in a foreign nation . i am certain , that none has a more intire respect for the prince of orange than my self , nor a higher veneration for the established religion : as for that word protestant religion , it bears too great a latitude for me to understand ; but , i hope , it is not by driving out the jesuits , to down with the bishops too ; which is but too much the fear of those that are hearty well-wishers to the established church , laws , and liberties . 't is therefore wished that such publick and noble spirits , as that of your lordship , would represent these fears to the great councils of both nations ; and since affairs go so contrary to the true intent of this great design , they would be pleased to take the care of these nations into their consideration : and as they are all men of honor , and his sacred majesty the head and fountain of honor , they would not suffer that to be polluted by prophane hands ; nor permit a cause of so high and glorious pretences , as this of the prince of orange , to be violated , and not serve the end for which it was advanced . and let those foul aspersers make good those scandals they have spread , by any honest or tolerable witnesses , ( and not such as perhaps , who having been guilty of a thousand crimes , and to get a general pardon for real villanies will confess themselves guilty of feigned ones ) and then they may be allowed to rail ; but if not , let them be delivered to that just law to which they are condemned already : for the land has too lately been made calamitous enough by false witnesses , on whose account too much blood has been shed . some such witnesses ( if any ) danvers will pick up for proofs that the e. of ess. was murthered , on which bloody subject he has troubled the world with too notable pieces ; which he is pleased to call , a full discovery , by positive proofs ; in which there is neither discovery , nor proof , but a deal of stuff and noise , trifling surmises , bug bear words , of horrid murther , bloody villany , and a thousand terms of the like frightful sense , dividing his text as if he were in his tub a bellowing forth as many lies , aspersing and accusing men of undoubted honor , and honest principles ; laying the scandal on , let them take it off as well as they can ; and let the world judge , if that noble and most pious lady , the countess of ess. exemplary for every vertue , and holiness of life , would let pass the murther of her lord in silence , and unsearched into , when she had so good an occasion offered as this , by the unchrist'ned colonel , if she were not assured of the way and manner of his lordship's deplorable death already . 't is therefore the humble request of all honest men , that this licentiousness of the press may be supprest ; otherwise , instead of establishing of laws and religion , we are hurrying both to ruin , and confusion . my lord , all the world knows your lordship to be a true lover of your country , and a noble asserter of all its liberties , and equal to those , the rights and prerogatives of your king , whose interest has hitherto been inseparable with your own , even in the worst of times ; but , oh ! never so bad as these ; for then our king was but oppress'd , but now he is forc'd to fly , contrary to the intent ( i hope ) of all who have embark'd in this great design . but though we have not yet found the effects of it , wholly to doubt it , were to call in question the integrity of a great prince , and the loyalty of the noblest part of the nation , and suspect the most astonishing and unpresidented atchievment that ever was surprizing in history , and the most considerable turn of state that the universe ever saw . we will therefore look up , and hope that the prince of orange , accomplish'd with so many vertues , and who has the true notion of religion and honour in his great soul , will , by the sacred keeping of his word , in making our king happy , give us an assurance of all he has promis'd us besides : for after the most refin'd statesmen , and men of the most wisdom and conduct in the establishment of nations , have debated as long as they please , they will find at last there is no way to give us our religion , laws , liberties , and repose , but by recalling and fixing our king in his lawful throne . the constitution of england being founded on monarchy , it were to embroil the nation in eternal war , either civil or foreign , not to submit half way , and recall our king to his proper glories ; otherwise , no humane wisdom can prevent our being perpetually fatigued with our neighbours , who are like to give us sufficient diversion , if we are in love with war , and be at a continual expence of english blood ( and mony more dear to us ; ) and let us please our selves , if we can , with the contempt we put on france , and set as lightly of the force and power of that monareh , as we do of his person , we may to our cost find , that lewis xiv . of france is not so easily subdued as ( it hapned ) james ii. of england was ; nor that his forces , of what religion soever , will abandon and betray their king , as ours did ; who , to the eternal shame of that religion ( we only talk of and do not practise ) find those principles ( which are thought too bloody in the papist ) infinitely more just and honorable than those of ours ; since they thought they ought in conscience to fight faithfully for that prince who fed and clothed them , let his religion be never so contrary to their own ; and most certainly there might have been a medium found between their quitting of their religion or their loyalty , which have hitherto been thought inconsistent : but on the contrary , vertues that used to go hand in hand among good christians , and men of honor . and the primitive christians gloried in their loyalty , though even to heathen and tyrant emperors . and as it was not lawful to push things to that extremity to which they are arriv'd , so neither was it needful ; we having a king that blest be god , who wou'd not have carried his dispensing power to that height , as to become a burthen , or grievance to his people ; and his majesty , and his council , must have been a synod of gods , to have committed no errors in the management of so critical a government . there is no doubt but his majesty , out of a tender compassion to the papists , was pleased to give them a little incouragement and respite from affliction ; and we may see by his majesties willingness to restore all things to their first order , at the very first address of the bishops , that he did not think his counsels infallible . perhaps 't will be objected , that he made not this gracious condescention till after he heard of the designs of the prince of orange : if this be granted , they must also grant me this other truth , that it could not be fear of being conquered by the foreign army ( as malice would insinuate ) that could oblige him to it ; for then his majesty knew not but that he was sure not only of his great men , but also of his army , that was able to have vanquish'd a far greater army than what came with the prince ; and no body doubted his success ( if they had fought , and that his men had stood by him ) except those who before knew how he was to be abandon'd . and 't is most certain , and well known to some of quality , that his majesty would have condescended to any reasonable terms that honor could have propos'd ; nor did he come back again from feversham but with a full intent to have adjusted the great affair : but while they complained on evil counsels , on the king's side , 't is thought , they had not those , on the other side , that were friends to peace , or an accommodation ; for if they had meant any such thing , his majesty had not been sent away again no better than a prisoner . i will not say , that those misfortunes that hinder'd us of this happy peace , and promis'd union , were the faults of his highness , whose designs were undoubtedly noble , but the effects of a too violent council , too much biassed against the royal interest . your lordship , and all other great men of both nations , are most humbly besought , by all loyal and honest church of england men , to use your interests both for the preservation of these poor distracted kingdoms , and especially for the restauration of his most sacred majesty ; for which yours , and their lordships , will eternally receive the prayers and blessings of all good men : and my humble muse , who presumes to prostrate her complaint here at your feet , shall rouse her melancholy head again , and sing yet once more to celebrate the loyalty of the great name of arran , and the illustrious hamilton . vivat rex . a view of the times , &c. i. as late my melancholy muse retir'd with thoughtful grief , not noble song inspir'd ; and underneath a gloomy shade , all silent , as the mansions of the dead , on the rough moss her bed she made , where down she laid her wearied head , and thus the weeping nymph in sighing numbers said : ii. farewell , false britain ! on thy faithless shore no more my songs i 'll tune in vain : my loyal lays shall strive no more to make your salvage natures tame . the changing winds thy voice as well may hope to calm to constant breeze ; or when they ruffle all the seas , thy verse the mounting waves as soon may quell : and yet the seas will sometimes cease to storm , and winds to murmur in the trees ; but oh ! the fickle world is never calm , the restless britain never is at ease . iii. how many forms of government thou'st seen ? how many dangerous turns of state have been in this fantastick world ? when first the british light i saw , religion , liberty , and law , were all to wild confusion hurl'd . a bleeding body 't was without a head , and every street was stor'd with mangl'd members of the noble dead , the trophies of the impious conqueror's sword . true child of sorrow thou wer 't born , and loyal sighs and tears did usher in thy morn . iv. then in a vile democracy thou sound'st thy education , and yet , by nature , scorn'd that tyranny , that so inslav'd the nation ; and still religion was the cry , the subjects liberty and property . no business here was for heroick song , and only satyr ( then but young ) durst move her daring tongue : and that in whispers too ; for had she loudly spoke , not all the gods she cou'd invoke , had sav'd her from the tyrant's fatal stroke . the rest of the harmonious train were laid around the martyr's tomb , all pale and dead , and in a noble funeral fire of mournful elegy , which their own god , apollo , did inspire . they rais'd their monarchs vertues to the sky , then in the perfum'd flame to him and heaven they fly . v. when from their ashes scarce yet cold and dead , a many little muses sprung , amongst the rest thou rear'dst thy feeble head ; but oh ! 't was long , they useless lay , unplum'd , unfit for flight , nor could they thrive in britain's night , but brooding sat expecting rising light : induring all the insolence of fate , and every rising storm of state . the bleak winds blew , and the loud thunder spreads their swift-wing'd mischiefs round their heads , by numerous falling showers opprest , by ignorance prophan'd ; yet still they kept the silent downy nest ; still they parnassus sacred grove maintain'd . vi . oft thou hadst heard of kings , of courts , and long past glorious things ; and oft been told the pitious tale of the deplorable , sad fate of charles the martyr , charles the good and great ; and oft the story did with tender sighs bewail ; oft thou hadst heard of a strange monsterous thing , that did at westminster reside , which had devour'd church , bishops , laws and king with an insatiate arbitrary pride : thou heard'st it fed on human blood , on widows , and on orphans tears , on lands of loyal commoners , and peers : and for its grace , it said long prayers ; and form'd what laws it pleas'd , which past for good : with ease the restive world this monster backt , and taught the hard-mouth'd beast t' obey , knowing , if once his hand he slack't , luxurious torrents , breaking from the sea , are not so wild , so ruinous , as she . vii . thus when ten annual tours , the sun in his diurnal course had run , after the ravage which the tyrant made , of all that was religious , great , or good ; after he had in ruin laid the sacred mansions of his king and god , in such a storm as yet no mortal e're on britain's shores did ever hear : in a vast sea of noble blood , deep down to the infernal shade , the monstrous regicide by furies was convey'd . viii . then in the compass of one circling year , each month was a new government , which the mad , headless body did invent , assisted by the monster parliament . king dick's short month was mungrel monarchy , and the next turn was anarchy ; then to a common-wealth they wou'd submit , but none had sense enough to manage it : and lambert's wife forbad that form , and swore her lord shou'd take his turn . thus was poor britain tost and torn , by every sect and every form , till ruin'd in the frantick storm . but heaven , more merciful , the tatter'd vessel saves , just sinking in the rowling waves ; who gathers up the winds , and binds the flood , and brings her labouring to the shore , which had so many wrecking seas withstood , and heard so many tempests roar : next heaven , 't was monk that made her stem the tide . and all triumphant on the billows ride . ix . monk ! whom true bravery inclin'd , thought it more great to give , than wear a crown , that restless glory rather now resign'd to that illustrious brow , to which alone the sacred load was due , than by it deify his own . whose entrance brought a universal change , and the whole world appear'd surprising , new , and strange a doubtful joy in every face was seen , both in the round-head , and the cavalier ; and all degrees of men were fill'd at once with hope and fear . the bloodless victor did not yet explain the great design for which he came : wallingford house committee stood amaz'd , and the rump-parliament their trembling speaker sent , to ask the conqueror , what he meant ? while the expecting city on the wonder gaz'd . x. the rude , ungovern'd mobile , as wild as the insatiate sea , no bounds or limits us'd to obey ; those who before with arbitrary rule , durst pull down monarchies and kings , prelats and peers as useless things ; and what was sacred turn to ridicule : this coward base plebean rout , who never venture out , but , like wild beast , for prey , where certain pillage , and no danger lay : these fearful curs , now in their kennels stay . not a horn'd beast durst from his covert peep , no busy traders fill the street ; but the whole city now appear'd a desart , all abandon'd by the frighted heard . xi . 't was wonderful to see that insolence , which nothing cou'd confine , laws human , nor divine : allegiance , nor their oaths of loyalty , ( but for each little fault that caesar made ) against all laws , religion , gratitude , the faithless , sawcy multitude rebell'd for idol liberty , and stampt it with the specious name of conscience , and their darling property , as if no sin , impiety , or shame cou'd in that standard of their actions lie . those , who but now to europe gave a law , and kept the universe in awe ; like rebel indian slaves now poorly creep beneath the mean subjection of the conquering whip . xii . thus easily the victor gain'd , without one stroke , his glorious end : ( th'attempt too pious was , to be by blood obtain'd . ) and thus the exil'd monarch was restor'd , his entrance crowding worlds attend , who , like a god , was welcom'd and ador'd : wild with their joys , no countenance durst wear disguis'd in a fanatick leer ; but even the most dissatisfy'd wou'd feign to approve the change in a consenting sneer . 't was then our halcion days began ; 't was then just laws in their old chanels ran , and right religion in her churches shon ; 't was then the king's prerogative did with the peoples property revive , and each man bask'd beneath his vine ; no sequestrators , by a lawless might , invaded now the subjects right , and mighty caesar too , from every willing hand receiv'd his due , according to the laws divine : xiii . 't was then , the muses left the sheltering grove , and to the open air unfrighted now repair , then thou , my muse , with unfleg'd pinions strove , to soar amongst the rest above . through untrac'd paths thou didst essay to fly , to bear thy monarch's fame on high , but flag'd beneath thy sisters in the sky ; yet often didst strive and often strive in vain , at last parnassus hill thou chanc'd to gain : the royal theme inspir'd thy noble verse ; great charles and james's vertues gave thy fancy wing , which in soft lays thou didst rehearse , and in prophetick numbers sing : xiv . but oh ! my callow muse had scarce began her flight , when a new face the faithless britain wears ; and to excuse her shameful appetite , pretends a thousand jealousies and fears ; wanton and loose , with too much plenty cloy'd , she satiates with the pleasure she enjoy'd . her plighted lord grows dull in her embrace , and his caresses now no more surprize : she doats on every flattering face , and each new fop is gracious in her eyes : adheres to every lewd dispute , and to each sect becomes a prostitute : then , like a subtil harlot , first complains , and crys , her lord by evil counsel reigns , to rome affected , pensioners of france . oh false ! oh villanous pretence ! against so just , so merciful a prince ; yet this pretence , when all her other fail'd , upon the restless multitude prevail'd , and only caesar's ruin cou'd redress her new-coyn'd fears , and fanci'd grievances . xv . then a false idol up they set , whose title is proclaim'd aloud , and frantick huzza's through each street , salute him from the dirty crowd ; that very crowd ( when the reverse of state , had turn'd about the wheel of fate ) pursu'd his ruin too , with equal-joys , and crucify him , was the common voice . oh faithless crowd ! oh vain uncertain state ! both of the peasant , and the potentate . thus fell th'ambitious youth lamented more , than e're he was belov'd before . but while he triumph'd here , he led along th'associating and rebellious throng ; more than divided now the world appear'd , and the more numerous part he shar'd . still 't was religion was the word that sanctify'd the cause , and edg'd the sword . xvi . no wonder then , illustrious james , that barefac'd malice dares traduce thy name ; when with the same inhuman crimes , they blot great charles's sacred fame ; though he the same establisht faith profest with those , by whom he was so long opprest . if with some laws he did dispense , shou'd those , who by rebelling , broke 'em all , make themselves judges of a king's offence , whom his just laws to no account can call ? those say , that kings can do no wrong ; though the account to any number shou'd amount ; to heaven alone his judgment must belong . laws , and religion both this maxim teach , if we 'll profess what our own church-men preach ; their doctrin says , no ill we can commit , whatever good might follow it : and all the dictates of the sacred word command us not to touch th' anointed of the lord : no law was given more forcibly and plain , than strict obedience to the sovereign . a thousand times god , and his prophets vext with rebel israel , do repeat that text : and yet how oft was caesar's life the aim , and nothing , but his death , cou'd free the world from slavery and popery , and fix religion in her wonted frame . religion ! oh thou thing of noise and show ! what villanies cannot religion do ? xvii . but heaven forbids that horror they design ! and caesar only must resign his life of wonders to the powers divine : those powers divine , that royal james preserv'd , for the succeeding glories he deserv'd , by heaven , by virtue , and by birth his own , and every mercy that adorns a throne . strange turn of fate ! that prince so lately sent , like a mean criminal to banishment , blacken'd with all the sins fiends cou'd invent . that prince for whom they form'd an impious bill , hatcht by the dark cabal of hell , which heaven abhorr'd , and all heavens * prophets too , who with a pious scorn , and just disdain , out of the senate that bold treason threw , that on the british honor laid so great a stain . this very prince their caprice would destroy , they now inthrone with universal joy . xviii . he reigns ! the pious prince in glory reigns ! but britain's still distemper'd brains to her old natural vice adheres , which fills her mind with jealousies and fears ; she fears , and cannot be appeas'd , dares not on caesar's word rely ; but seeks a desperate cure , before she is diseas'd , and to no wound will corrosives apply . his mercy is for strange designs mistook against the church and laws ; his kind indulgences are took for an establishing the roman cause . if laws too hard upon the subjects bear , what serves the mercy of a prince , but to excuse and soften what 's severe ; and with those laws by his just right dispence ? and since a monarch does a god present , it more becomes heaven's representative , the wretched guilty to forgive , than to destroy the innocent . xix . britain , who by no laws inslav'd will be , unjustly wou'd her king inslave ; rebels for idol liberty , and yet her fellow christians , born as free ; they wou'd of liberty deprive : as if the all-creating powers divine· did their vast knowledge to one sect confine . if holy writ must judge , ( as gown-men say ) then every christian may pretend a right to heaven his different way : if his own judg each is allow'd to be , why do you punish what the scriptures teach ? or if you will deny 'em liberty , why have they freedom then to search ? if all have right t' interpret , then in vain of principles and notions you complain . who can prevent opinion ? or convince the errors of his fancy'd sense ? who shall determin then 'twixt right and wrong , if each man's faith to his own sense belong ; why then , mistaken gown-men , why must i for an opinion fly , or changing my opinion , die ; since you have taught it in your school , that each man's judgment should be each man's rule ? and if our guides mistake their way , shall we be punish'd if we stray ? your pulpits oft this error do commit , and make a different sense of holy writ . when paying caesar's due has been the theme , then non-resistance was the cry ; which text was born to that extream , as if in that one point , did lie the saving business of eternity : xx . but oh ! with every turning tide , with every little ship of caesar's government , ( which human counsels can't prevent ) that passive doctrin's laid aside : and with new measures you pursue , new methods in your pulpits too ; and to th'occasion , sute the sacred word , t' advance some new design , and enterprize , then , 't is the doings of the lord , and marvelous in our eyes . perhaps in some of these perverted strains , ( for which this land has paid so dear ) 't will be at last , we 'll lead their kings in chains , and all their peers shall iron fetters wear . thus while from fears of slavery , the murmuring world we hope to free , we run into a worse extremity . unthinking britains ! you shou'd first agree what 's by that word , religion , meant , if the establish'd church it be , by boasted act of parliament , then oh , * eusebia , you , with justice , fear , religion will not now be setl'd here : if the whole reformation you include of differing sects , that endless multitude , what 's this , but that dispensing power in you , which caesar's great prerogative must not do ? all of the christian faith you cannot mean , lest popery , for her share , come in : is it religion lawful right to oppose ? or violate our sacred oaths ? is it religion to unsheath the sword against the anointed of the lord ? alass ! how vain is then the sacred word ? why then was david smitten in his heart , for robbing saul but only of his skirt ; with the same stroke he might have empire gain'd ; but god forbid , ( the royal youth reply'd ) against the king i should direct my hand , or see it in the blood of monarchs dy'd : if those a curse upon themselves must bring , who , but in heart , think evil of the king ; if of kings safeties heaven has took such care , that even the wing'd inhabitants of the air , shall every secret rebel thought declare . then , wretched britain ! what must be thy fate ? and where is this religion , which has made so great a noise in this divided state , and has so just , so good a king betray'd ? the outlaw'd villains blot his sacred name , he was , he is , this king of an immortal fame . then since , oh muse forlorn ! thy prince is gone , for whom thou tun'dst thy noblest song , in this dark shade ne'er with apollo blest , this covert suting with a soul distrest , with sighing winds , and murmuring rivers mourn , till james , thy god-like master , back return . britains address to the prince of orange . to you , great prince , three prost'rate nations come to ease their fears , and to expect their doom ; oh! hero , more than half divine ! whose glories , and replenish'd virtues first made me my willing shores resign up to your conquering hands in trust . not caesar's promise , nor the word of god cou'd calm the trembling fevers in my blood ; 't was yours , great sir , on whom i did depend , my laws , and just religion to defend ; 't was that , that did assist your glory's rise , 't was that , that made you britain's noblest choice , and gave you all the applauses of my people's voice : then , ( as your gracious declarations speak ) my king and people once more happy make . my people whom no more words or oaths can bind , yet strictly will exact this truth from you , as their own right , their property and due ; but to that justice will not be confin'd . the mighty work 's but half yet done , your glories cannot be compleat , till by a justice more illustrious yet , you bring great caesar to his rightful throne . brave offspring of the royal martyr's blood , by nature pious , merciful and good , maintain this empire in its lawful line ; this empire , which succeding time , by right of birth heaven may to you resign . content you with the glories you have won , such as no hero yet did e're renown ; nor let your nobler quiet be undone with the too restless burthen of a crown . nor you , illustrious mary , can receive what heaven denys , and justice cannot give : your virtues are too eminently great , to rob a father's head to adorn your own ; and that bright angels face , with every charm repleat , needs not th'addition of a lawless crown : leave it to heaven ! since you 've too lately seen the faith false britain paid an injur'd queen . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a64927e-620 hone's tryal , &c. and rye-house . * the bishope . ☜ * the church . oath of allegiance , &c. 1 sam. c. 24. v. 4 , 5. eccl. 10.20 . notes for div a64927e-6070 the princess of orange . the second part of the collection of poems on affairs of state ... by a ̲̲̲̲ml̲̲̲̲, esq. collection of poems on affairs of state. part 2. 1689 approx. 54 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 17 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a58997 wing s2302 estc r10478 11907260 ocm 11907260 50744 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng political poetry, english. political satire, english. great britain -history -restoration, 1660-1688 -poetry. 2002-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2002-06 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2002-07 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2002-07 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-08 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the second part of the collection of poems on affairs of state , viz. a dialogue between two horses . on the lord mayor and court of aldermen , presenting the l — k — and the d — of y — with a copy of their freedoms , anno 1674. on the prorogation of the eighteen-years parliament : or , club of unanimous voters . on the dissolution of the club of voters , anno 1678. on the lord chancellor's speech to the parliament , march 1680. an acrostick . the commons address to the k — . the answer to the acrostick . on the d — of y — s voyage into flanders . upon a dispute in the choice of sheriffs . on the same occasion . forewarn'd , forearm'd . a bill on the house of commons door , april 15. 1680. pursuant to a former bill , ian. 26. 1679. fixt there . on nell . justice in masquerade . a copy of verses flung into justice s — s's chamber . the pope's advice , with his holiness's benediction to his judge and jury in vtopia . a satyr . on the monument upon fishstreet-hill . the d — of m — s letter to the k — transvers'd . the answer to the d — of m — letter . by a — m — l and other eminent wits . none whereof ever before printed . london , printed in the year , 1689. a dialogue between two horses . by a. m — l , esq . the introduction . we read in profane and sacred records of beasts , that have utter'd articular words ; when magpies and parrots cry , walk , knaves , walk , it is a clear proof that birds too may talk . and statues without either wind-pipes or lungs , have spoken as plainly as men do with tongues : livy tells a strange story , can hardly be fellowed , that a sacrific'd ox when his guts were out , bellow'd . phalaris had a bull , which grave authors tell you , would roar like a devil with a man in his belly . friar bacon had a head that spake , made of brass ; and balaam the prophet was reprov'd by his ass. at delphos and rome , stocks and stones , now and then , s●srs , have to questions return'd articular answers . all popish believers think somethings divine , when images speak , possesseth the shrine : but they that faith catholick ne'er understood , when shrines give answer , a knaves on the rood . those idols ne'er spoke , but are miracles done by the devil , a priest , a friar and nun. if the roman church , good christians , oblige ye to believe man and beast have spoke in effigie . why should we not credit the publick discourses of a dialogue , lately between the two horses the horses i mean of wool-church and charing , who told many truths worth a man's hearing , since v — and o — did buy , and provide 'em for the two mighty monarchs that now do bestride ' em . the stately br●ss stallion , and white marble steed one night came together by all is agreed : when both king 's weary of sitting all day , were stollen off incognito each his own way . and the two jades after mutual salute , not only discours'd , but fell to dispute . the dialogue . woolch. quoth the marble horse , it would make a stone speak to see a lord mayor and a lumbard-street break : thy founder and mine to treat one another , when both k — s agreed to be each others brother . chair . here charing broke forth , and then he went on , my brass is provoked as much as thy stone● to see church and state bow down to a whore , and the k — 's chief minister holding th' door . woolch. to see dei gratia writ on the throne , and the k — 's wicked life say , god there is none . chair . that he should be stil'd defender of the faith , who believes not a word what the word of god saith . woolch. that the d — should turn papist , and that church defie , for which his own father a martyr did die . chair . tho' he changed his religion , i hope he 's so civi● not to think his own father is gone to the devil . to see a white staff make a beggar a lord , and scarce a wise man at a long council-board . woolch. that the bank should be seized , yet the chequer so poor , lord have mercy , and a cross might be set on the door . chair . that a million and half should be the revenue , yet the k — of his debts pay no man a penny . woolch. that a k — should consume three kingdom 's estates , and yet all the court be as poor as church rats . chair . that of four seas dominion and guarding , no token should appear but a poor copper farthing . woolch. our worm-eaten ships be laid up at chatham , ( not ou● trade to secure , but ) for fools to comeat'um . chair . and our few ships abroad become tripoli's scorn , by pawning for victuals their guns at leghorn . woolch. that making us slaves by horse and foot guard , chair . the basest ingratitude ever was heard ; but tyrants ungrateful are always affraid . woolch. on henry the seventh's head , he that plac'd the crown , was after rewarded by losing his own . chair . that parliament-men should rail at the court , and get a good preferment immediately for 't . woolch. to the bold speaking members of bastards you add , what a number of rascally-lords have been made . chair . that traitors to their country in a brib'd house of c. should give away millions at every summons . woolch. yet some of those givers , such beggarly villains , as not to be trusted for twice fifty shillings . chair . no wonder that beggars should still be ●or giving , who out of what 's given , do get a good living● woolch. four knights and a knave , who were publicans made , for selling their consciences were liberally paid . chair . then base are the souls of the low priz'd sinners , who vote with the court for drink and for dinners . woolch. 't is they that brought on us this scandalous yoke , of excising our cups and taxing our smoak . chair . but thanks to the whores who made the k — dogged , for giving no more the r — are prorogued . woolch. that a k — should endeavour to make a war cease , which augments and secures his own profit and peace . chair . and ple●potentiaries send into fra●ce , with an addle-headed knight , and a lord without brains . woolch. that the king should send for another f — whore , when one already had made him so poor . chair . enough dear brother although we speak reason ; yet truth many times being punish'd ●or treason , we ought to be wary , and bridle our tongues , bold speaking hath done both men and beasts wrongs : when the ass so boldly rebuked the prophet , thou knowest what danger was like to come of it , though the beast gave his master ne'er an ill word , instead of a cudgel balaam wish'd for a sword. woolch. truth 's as bold as a lion , i am not affraid , i 'll prove every title of what i have said : our riders are absent who is 't that can hear ; let 's be true to our selves , who then need we fear ? chair . where is thy k — gone , ( woolchurch ) to see bishop laud ? to cuckold a scrivener in masquerade ? on such occasions he oft s●rays away , and returns to remount about break of day . in very dark nights sometimes you may find him with a harlot got upon my crupper behind him . chair . paule ●rother a while , and calmly consider what thou has● to say against my royal rider . woolch. the priest-ridden k — turn'd desperate fighter for the surpli●e , lawn-sleeves , the cross and the miter , till at last on a scaffold he was left in the lurch by knaves , that cry'd up themselves for the church . chair . arch-bishops and bishops , arch-deacons and deans ; thy k — will ne'er fight unless 't be for queans . woolch. he that dies for ceremonies dies like a fool. chair . the k — on thy back is a lamentable tool . woolch. the goat and the lyon , i equally hate , and freeman alike value life and state : though the father and son be different rods , between the two scourgers we find little odds ; both infamous in three kingdoms votes , this for picking our pockets , that for cutting our throats : more tolerable are the lyon k — s slaughters than the goat making whores of our wives and daughters : the debauched and cruel since they equally gall us , i had rather bear nero than sardanapalus . woolch. de wit and cromwel had each a brave soul , i freely declare it , i am for old nol , though his government did a tyrant resemble , he made england great and his enemies tremble . chair . thy rider puts no man to death in his wrath , but is buryed alive in lust and in sloth . woolch. what is thy opinion of i — d — of y — chair . the s●me that the frogs had of i●piter's stonk . with the turk on his head , and the pope in his heart , f●ther patrick's disciples will make england smart . if e'er he be k — i know britain's doom , we must all to a stake , or be converts to rome . ah! tudor , ah ! tudor , we have had enough : none ever reign'd like old bess in the ●uff . her w●lsingham could dark counsels unriddle , and our sir i — ph write news-books and fiddle . woolch. truth , brother , well said , but that 's somewhat bitter , hi● pe●●umed predecessor was never more fitter : yet we have one secretary honest and wise ; for that very reason , he 's never to rise . but can'st thou devise when things will be mended ? chair . when the bad of the line of the st — are ended . conclusion . if speeches from animals in rome's first age , prodigious events did s●rely presage that should come to pass , all men may swear that which two inanimate horses declare . but i should have told you before the jades parted , both gallop'd to vvhite-hall , and there humbly farted : which tyranny's down●al portended much mo●e than all that the beasts had spoken before . if the delphick sybil's oracular speeches ( as learned men say ) came out of their breeches , why might not our horses , since words are but wind , have the spirit of prophecy likewise behind ? though tyrants make laws , which they strictly proclaim to conceal their own faults , and cover their own shame ; yet the beasts in the field , and the s●ones in the wall , will publish their faults and prophesy their fall ; when they take from the people the freedom of words , they teach them the sooner to fall to their swords . let the city drink coffee , and quietly groan , ( they that conquer'd the fat●●r won't ●e slaves to the son ) for wine and strong drink make tumults encrease , chocolate , tea , and coffee are liquors of peace , no quarrel or oaths amongst those that drink them , 't is bacchus , and the brewer swear dam me and sink ' em . then c — s thy edict against coffee recal , there 's ten times more treason in brandy and ale. on the lord mayor and court of aldermen , presenting the l — k — and d — of y — each with a copy of their freedoms , anno dom. 1674. i. the londoners gent to the k — do present in a box the city maggo● ; 't is a thing full of weight , that requires the might of whole guild-hall team to drag it . ii. whilst their church's unbuilt , and their houses undwelt , and their orphans want bread to feed 'em ; themselves they 've bereft of the little wit they had left , to make an offering of their freedom . iii. o ye addle-brain'd cits ! who henceforth in their wits would intrust their youth to your breeding ; when in diamonds and gold you have him thus enroll'd , you know both his friends and his breeding ? iv. beyond sea he began , where such a riot he ran , that every one there did leave him ; and now he 'll come o'er ten times worse than b●fore , when none but such fools would receive him . v. he ne'er knew , not he , how to serve or be free , though he has past through so many adventures ; but e'er since he was bound , ( that is , he was crown'd ) he has every day broke his indentures . vi. he spends all his days in running to plays , when he should in the shop be poring : and he wasts all his nights in his constant delights , of revelling , drinking and whoring . vii . tho' out of lumbard-street each man he did meet , he would run on the score and borrow , when they 'd ask'd for their own , he was broke and gone , and his creditors left to sorrow . viii . though oft bound to the peace , yet he never would cease to vex his poor neighbour with quarrels , and when he was beat , he still made his retreat , to his cleavelands , his nels , and his carwels . ix . nay , his company lewd were twice grown so rude , that had not fear taught him sobriety , and the house been well barr'd with guard upon guard , they'd robb'd us of all our propriety . x. such a plot was laid , had not ashley betray'd , as had cancell'd all former disasters ; and your wives had been strumpets to his highnesses trumpets , and foot-boys had all been your masters . xi . so many are the debts and the bastards he gets , which must all be defray'd by london , that notwithstanding the care of sir th — pl — r , the chamber must needs be undone . xii . his word nor his oath cannot bind him to troth , and he values not credit or history ; and though he has served through two ' prentiships now , he knows not his trade nor his mystery . xiii . then london rejoice in thy fortunate choice , to have made him free of thy spices ; and do not mistrust he may once grow more just , when he 's worn of his follies and vices . xiv . and what little thing is that which you bring to the d — e , the kingdom 's darling ; ye hug it and draw like ants at a straw , tho' too small for the gristle of starling . xv. is it a box of pills to cure the d — 's ills ? ( he is too far gone to begin it ) or that your fine show in processioning go , with the piss — the host within it . xvi . and who could swear , that he would forbear to cull out the good of an alien , who still doth advance the government of france , with a wife and religion italian . xvii . and now , worshipful sir , go fold up your furrs , and vyner turn again , turn again ; i see who e'er freed you , for slaves are decreed until you burn again , burn again . on the prorogation of the eighteen-years parliament : or , club of unanimous voters . prorogued on prorogation , damn'd rogues and whores , who pick●d our pockets , are now turn'd out of doors● have we our country plagu'd , our trust betray'd , given loans , polls , subsidies , and royal aid , hearth-money , impost , and the lawyers fees , ruin'd all trade , tormented all degrees , to b● thus serv'd at la●●●s have we more money rais'd in twelve years space , than norman bastard had , and all his race ; hurried up money bills against dutch and french , and seen it spent upon a dunghil wench ! were we content the kingdom to undo ; to enrich an over-ridden whore or two , and all for this ! with plague , war , and fire was the kingdom curst ; yet of all plagues were we our selves the worst , all just elections null'd , and took such pain to make this parliament a rogue in grain , heal'd co — y's ●lit nose , and through our fears , stood to be piss'd on by the house of peers . run to our masters cellar to fox our mace , and hundred more humble acts like these , that we might not his majesty displease , to be thus serv'd ! well fare , true , v — n , h — d , o — n , c — rr , l — n , s — r , and our great man of war , wil. g — y , the hector of our house , that always fetch'd his blow to kill a louse ; for these great patriots , malecontent , did plot their country's good , till they had places got , bluster'd and huff'd till they were officer'd , but then of country more the devil a word : they need not hector more 'gainst hogen mogen , and feel like asses the plague of a prorogueing . damned b — of a false sire the son , did we for this dismount old c — n , and set thee up the mighty man of state , and in thy hands put the whole kingdom 's fate ? did we forget thou truck'd'st with what was trump , and paid'st allegiance to the rotten rump . did we continue spilling s — y's life , that with more freedom thou might'st whore his wi●e , and all for this requite ungrateful wretch , may pox and plague and devil hence thee fetch . let some prorogu'd , incensed felton rather send't his curs'd son to find his guilty father . no other way could'st find t' attain thy ends , than by disgusting's majesty with 's best friends ; turn off a parliament , ne'er king before had such a one , or ever will have more ? did we give cause to fear we would not do , what ever k — or thou command'st us to ? if standing army 't was thou would'st be at , ( as well as others ) we could have rais'd that ; league tripartite we could have broke , and dance framed to the measures and the pipes of france . we could have yielded to have rais'd a cittadel , more our own city , than the dutch to quell , look through our fingers , and sneer to behold new london flaming as we did the old. we could plots make like oliver or hewit , and make them guilty of 't that ne'er knew it . and must we after all our service done , in field for father , and in house for son , be thus cashier'd to please a pocky peer , that neither round-head is , nor a cavalier , but of some middle cut , some ill shape , that fain would be something if he knew but what ; and like light butterfly much fluttering make , sleep of one judgment and another wake . he all things is , but unto nothing's true ; all old things hates , yet can abide no new . had we but hearken'd and the fore game play'd , we had prevented our being thus betray'd . but please your pocky grace to give me leave , to ask you why you did your prince deceive . our first prorogue might sure have stood till then , 't was time enough to have been prorogu'd then ; and not all in a hurry seven months before , the former was expired to add six more . is fob so full ? nell's in again ! though , we are out ; methinks we might have met to give a clout . well , now the sacred cod-piece must keep lent , if saints lend not , or cash from france be sent . ah sweet revenge ! let us but live to see , such rogues prorogued to be as well as we● indulge our envy but to see that day , though we be ruin'd by 't as well as they . we tyrants love , if we can tyrants be , if not , next wish is , we may all be free . on the dissolution of the club of voters . anno 1678. oh heavens ! we have signs below , to let us our destruction know . eclipses , bearded stars that range , are needless to presage our change . when monarchs frown upon the wise , and glibly swallow romish lyes ; when demonstration can't convince a deaf and unbelieving prince : when k — by evil counsel's lead , crushes the trunk to raise the head , and does the members fiercely sever , to make them calmly lye together ; when self ownness in state presides , and ignorance our council guides ; when y — compounded of ambition , and the wrath of inquisition ; when by the heat of heart and tongue , you 'd guess a heap of pigeons dung , and by fierce deeds rash and amiss , you 'd think his blood spirit of piss ; when he the stubborn charioteer , takes his full uncheck'd career ; whilst brother thoughtless of his crown , upon soft carkase lays him down , and he 's postilion to the crown ; and on the royal lumber drives , prostestants defend your lives : what can the issue of this be , but loss of subject's liberty ? when crowns revenue by bribes are wasted , and on vile pentioners exhausted , when honest men receive disgrace , turn'd out of offices and place ; and powers beckon from the throne , to let the nation stand alone . thinks on new ways for new supplies , and damns the parliament as spies● prorogues , and then dissolves their heats , and gives no time to try court-cheats . what can we think of these delusions , but loss of safety , and confus●on● when k — to commons makes fine speeches , and draws his reason from his breeches , declares our nation wants but c — which must be paid with subjects money ? when whores make monarchs ; drunk , and rule by the idle grant of a dipt fool● and dissolutions may be said the effect of staggers in the head , and government is a diseas● made up of vice and sensual e●se . when cavaliers in publick wars against their bubled governours , swear they 'll no assistance bring , to a lascivious dildoe k — . when c — s by various minds do's draw , ruling by letchery not by law ; who do's his pimps , not statesmen trust , spending his brains upon his lust : when things are thus perversly sowing , poor nineveh is surely going . when french runs through the prin●es veins , and he by theirs , not our law reigns . when french c●eeps into royal bed , first charming codpiece , then the head , and monarch sw — s on good behaviour , but as he 'll shew dear monsieur favour . when female buttocks dictate thus , good lord ! what will become of us ? is there no end of monarchs itch , that doats upon a fulsome bitch , who ranker than the adder grows , ferrets her belly with his nose ? and swears upon her bawdy skin , he 'll let the mass and french troops in : assigns his crown and royal power , to be dispos'd of by a whore● beware unthinking c — s beware , consider and begin to fear ; for pope and lewis are untrue : whatever i — declares to you , he 's warranted by holy mother , to sham and gull his elder brother ; when he 's to work you to design , he first will soak you well with wine , and then to your incestuous eyes , he 'll show again her h — ss thighs ; strip her of greatness for the cause , and shew her scut to change the laws ; but this is no immodest thing , to have her humbles view'd by k — , she may expose on such occasion , her popish a — to the whole nation . zeal wipes away all impudence , the greatest crimes are innocence , when for the churches good intended ; and thus her h — ss faults are mended , and catholick modesty befriended ; this was a good attempt at first , shew'd she ne'er bashfully was nurs'd ; but rather liv'd 'mongst shamble crew , brought up in some italian stew ; a dutchess in our country , known a common strumpet in her own . from dukes that are but little better , from a whore by nation and by nature , from a king that reigns by their direction , from subjects guided by the devil's protection , from a soust pilot at the helm , good lord deliver this poor realm . on the lord chancellor's speech to the parliament , march 1679. this is the time. would you send k — to p — l , great iames to be a cardinal , and make prince rupert admiral , this is the time. would you turn d — out of doors , banish rebels and french whores , the worser sort of common-shores , this , &c. would you unravel popish plots , send l — le amongst the scots , and rid the court of irish sots . this , &c. would you exalt the mighty name , of shaftsbury and b — m , and not forget judge sc — s his fame , this , &c. would you our soveraign dis-abuse , and make his parliaments of use not to be chang'd like dirty shooes , this , &c. would you extirpate pimps and panders , disband the rest of our commanders , send m — after teague to flanders . this , &c. would you send confessors to tell p — s , st — d and a — l , they must prepare their souls for hell. this is the time. would you remove our ministers the cursed cause of all our fears , without forgetting turn-coat m — s , this , &c. would you hang those that take example by c — and timber t — , for all such rascals merit hemp well , this , &c. would you once more bless this nation , by changing of p — 's vocation , and find one fit for procreation , this , &c. would you let p — try her chance● believe oates , bedloe , dugdale , prance , and send berillon into france , this , &c. would you turn papists from the q — , cloister up fulsome m — n , once more make charles great again , this is the time , an acrostick . c lose wrapt in p — 's smock his senses are ; h eadlong he runs into circe's snares , a nd by her charms is so besotted grown , r ather than quit her he will lose his throne . l eave her for shame , cast off those idle charms ; e mploy your self , like nighbouring kings , in arms , s ecure your nation and your self from harms . the commons address to the k. a. d. 1670. in all humility we crave our sovereign to be our slave , beseeching him that he would be betray'd by us most loyally ; and if he please but once lay down his sceptre , dignity , and crown , we 'll make him , for the time to come , the greatest prince in christendom . the answer to the acrostick . a. d. 1670. c — at this time having no need , thanks you as much as if he did . the house of commons are the people's god , the countrey 's scourge , the nation 's iron rod , the lord's vexation , and the k — by g — d. on the d. of y's voyage into flanders . r. h. they say , is gone to see the princess of the hague ; but p — h's left behind to be the nation 's whorish plague . some say he is diverted thence , and sailed into france , because the wind at 's going hence stood bedloe , oates , and prance . some think he went unwillingly , and others say he 's sent there , but most affirm for certainty he 's gone to keep his lent there . but those that can astrologize do swear nothing more true is , the soleness of his errand lies to fetch his cousin lewis ; and both together , as they say , ( if one may dare to speak on 't ) through hereticks bloud will cut a way to bring in i — the second . by yea and nay , the quaker cries , how can we hope for better , truth 's not in him that this denies , read edward coleman's letter . gar , gar , the jockey swears fou thing , man , here is mickle work : deel split his wem , he 's ne'er long king , whose name does rhime to pork the welshman swears , cut splutter nails , god send her from her foes , was never have a prince of wales that wears a roman nose . whate'er pretences offered be , sure somewhat is contriving ; and he is blind that cannot see the plot is still a driving . vpon a dispute in the choice of sheriffs there was a paper spread abroad , directed as followeth , to the worthy citizens of london . respice & cave . gentlemen , now is the time , acquit your selves like men , else who can say you 'll ever see 't again divide not , for your lives , their work is done ; down must the papists go , and mouth must run ; let not his imprecations us befool , he 's worse than mad that trusts a y — tool should he now chuse us sheriffs , and clodpate juries , we fall as victims to their popish furies . oh , heaven ! direct us to unite , we pray ; old england's fate depends upon this day , and those unborn to bless or curse us may . on the same occasion . lewis of france hath been the prot'stant scourge , and lewis of london is the papists drudge . one plays the tyrant to uphold his lust , and london's villain doth betray his trust. tyrant and traytor l — is no less . and n — and clod-pate maketh up the mess. close up the poll , or l — by this light , your own shall off , to doe the city right . fore-warn'd , fore-arm'd . m — ninny's case looks desperate , the papists cause the same , the traytors struggle with their fate , then patriots now beware their hate , look to your selves e'er 't be too late , or all is on a flame . a countrey hodge heard tory say , as he was walking home , october's three and twentieth day began the bloudy irish fray , and then to edge-hill took its way ; remember forty one . this trusty roger told for true , 't is odds he guesses right ; m — had prepar'd his murthering crew , at unawares to murther you , and by that blow the land subdue , as you sit late at night . unless in time ye him prevent , be arm'd against those fears ; ne'er trust to rowly's compliment when actions speak the ill intent , who never yet lov'd parliament , whate'er he says or swears . what if 't is said that m — shall go , the fool the knave may trust ; stand on your guard , prevent this blow , no matter whether he runs or no , 't is you must papists overthrow , let devil doe his worst . a bill on the house of commons door , april 15. 1680. pursuant to a former bill , jan. 26. 1679. fix'd there . gentlemen , when last you were here th' house ways to be let , but now to the pope and the frenchmen 't is set , if you 'll club in amongst them , be quickly resolv'd● or else you must home again ' rog'd or dissolv'd . we 'll try for another may serve our intention , that england will betray for place or pention , that 's the life of the cause , and the end of invention . we lost an old set would have done it no doubt , but — on ill luck , rogue tony was out ; could we get them again , we 'd hug and cologue 'em , nor d — nor dutchess should e'er prorogue ' em . ( and honest endeavour to make us all slaves , pray which the worst evil , the cause or the knaves : ) old albion looks ill , she was heard to complain , her head , o! her head was the cause of her pain ; it 's all on a lump , for it cannot discover 'twixt its catholick foes , and the protestant lover , her emp'ricks and quacks , call'd divine , and some civil , advise her to bleed again for the king 's evil. but better the rogues were sent quick to the devil : what! bleed an old woman , spring , winter , and fall ? don't you know she 's too old to be practis'd withall ? but if you do venture once more to attempt it , it 's forty to one you 're the first that repent it , for your plots , and your murthers , and treasons she 'll try you , though the monsieur , and tories , and devils stand by you . on nell . hard by pell-mell lives a wench called nell , k. c — the s — he kept her ; she has got a trick to but never lays hands on his sceptre ; all matters of state from her soul she does hate , and leave to the politick bitches . the whore's in the right , for 't is her delight to be scratching just where it itches . iustice in masquerade . a butcher's son's judge capital poor protestants for to enthrall , and england to enslave , sirs . lose both our laws and lives we must , when to doe justice we entrust so known an errant knave , sirs . some hungry priests he did once fell with mighty strokes , and them to hell sent presently away , sirs . would you know why , the reason 's plain , they had no english nor french coin to make a longer stay , sirs . the pope to purgatory sends , who neither money have nor friends , in this he 's not alone , sirs : for our judge to mercy 's not enclin'd lest gold change conscience and his mind , you are infallibly gone , sirs . his father once exempted was out of all juries . why ? because he was a man of bloud , sirs . and why the butcherly son forsooth , should now be jury and judge both cannot be understood , sir. the good old man with knife and knocks made harmless sheep and stubborn ox stoop to him in his fury but the brib'd son , like greasie elfe , kneels down and worships golden calf , and so do all the jury . better thou'dst been at father's trade an honest livelihood to have made in hampering bulls with collars , than to thy countrey be unjust , first sell , and then betray thy trust , for so many hard rix-dollars . priest and physician thou didst save from gallows , fire , and from grave for which we can't endure thee , the one can ne'er absolve thy sins , and the other ( though he now begins ) of knavery ne'er can cure thee . but lest we all should end his life , and with a keen-whet chopping knife in a thousand pieces , cleave him : let the parliament first him undertake , the 'll make the rascal stink at stake , and so like a knave let 's leave him . pars secunda . since justice s — p — and d — did bail , upon the good cause did turn his tail , for 2000 pounds to buy tent and ale , which no body can deny . the jury and judge to sham the plot , free'd the traytours to prove it was not , but old england will stand when the rogues go to pot , which no body can deny . s — was at first a man of the blade , and with his father follow'd the butcherly trade , but 't was the peter-pence made him a jade , which no body can deny . he 'd stand by the protestant's cause he said , and lift up his eyes and cry'd we'er all betray'd ; but the petty fogger was then in a maskquerade , which no body can deny . when d — mention'd to the king his name , he said he had neither honesty nor shame : and would play any sort of game , which no body can deny . he swears he 'd confound bedlow and oates , and prove the papist's sheep and the protestant's goats , and that they are all fools that on property dotes , which no body can deny . a copy of verses flung into iustice s — chamber . here lives the woolf justice , and butcherly knave , who protestants gaols , but the papist's does save , he 's a bold persecutour , contrary to laws , of all that dare write for the protestant cause : since these were his actions , in vain was his prate , and false imprecations he printed of late , 't will one day be prov'd ( old clod pate ) that you were brib'd by the court and portugal too ; when parliament come to town you 'll receive such a check , not your speech nor your pardon ) will save your bull neck : in the interim go on and play england's story , you 'll hang at the last as tresilian before ye . for we 'll have the plot — come on 't what can be in spight of old clod pate , y — , l — , d — : 't is not prorogations shall serve the rogues turn , we 'll dye at our doors e er in smithfield we 'll burn . the pope's advice ; with the holiness's benediction to his iudge and iury in utopia . well done , my sons , you have redeem'd my cause , beyond my expectation from the jaws of my curst foe's , the protestant's their laws ; for had you not thus timely stept between , they had endanger'd both my cause and queen , and then past all redemption had it been . from tyburn they more martyrs had me sent , which i had rather quick , to th' devil went , than my designs so well contriv'd be shent . go on and prosper never change you notes , the sign o' th' cross direct your open throats to cry not guilty , so you 'll baffle oates . forsworn , no matter , if you perjur'd be , you are d●spenc't with , and ought to go free ; 't is mighty service to the court and me : who will requite it and for certain know my pardons and blessings on you i bestow , besides the gold you have receiv'd , i owe far greater sums then e'er the court yet gave to pimp , or cheat , to traytor , whore , or knave , might satisfie our lust , or sinking credit save . but that 's not all unless we do declare , and set our mark upon our favourites fair , that hereticks may know them which they are : and first dear coggs with thee we shall begin , altho' of late thou wert a man of sin , and didst abuse those ( for us ) put ye in . from which we now absolve ye as we 're pope , and do allow that butchers by the rope ; begin ( not end ) for that would mar our hope . t is true at first 't was prudent , witty , quaint , to counter●eit the devil and the saint , with zealous thunder 'gainst the jesuits complaint . this gain'd your credit with the rabble rout confirm'd the choice to such who wisht you out , but now that 's done it's time to look about : and dare to act to set my vassals free , you shall receive from holy james and me , a crimson cap at least , my legat be ; provided you escape tressilian's triple tree . next hated ralph thou leader of the van , my papall power shall doe all it can to make the next election senate man : and reason good , for then my cause would thrive , if all prove such , the hereticks we 'll drive till not a soul of them be left alive . they 're all right roman h — h — d — town , and d — together b — these h — — sworn to be true but false as iack of leydon . next were two judges b — d — never right in rack and manger lay those beast's delight next three were monsters , a very whale that 's white : thus being coller'd , all together swore to doe such justice , ne'er was done before : prostrate their wives to save the common whore. for which good service most did places gain ; one made the whales unto charles's wain , and tape maker , light man did obtain . three more had places to their hearts desire , which t — afforded ; made them each esquire , and all they were to doe , was set the land on fire . informing d — that 's landlord to sir w — to save his tenent golden pills did take , whose blessed guilt before did make him quake : the rest had gold dropt by the fairy queen , left in their shoon that she might pass unseen ; which expell'd poyson as 't had never been . by this , my sons , ye left them in the lurch , and swept the scandal of our holy church ; which e'rst stood tott'ring on a broken crutch . strangely reviv'd my lordly sons i●th ' tower , who now ( transported ) laugh to scorn the power of lords and commons , from whom they fear'd a showre . and o'er the hereticks have ' dvantage got , who stopt the blest proceedings of my plot : no oppositions left but th' fanatick sot . for which good service debtors we remain , till we get britain in our fist again , then then be sure we 'll well requite your pain . till then adieu , he 'll have you in it's care , and ever dictate what you say or swear ; may make you usefull to st. peter's chair . rome iuly 22 d. stylo novo . 1679. satyr . his holiness has three grand friends , o great britain's shoar , that prosecute his ( and their own ) ends ; a d — a judge , and a whore. the d — is as true as steel to the pope that infallib'e else , therefore no friend to the common-weal , nor no freind unto himself . the judge is a butcher's son , yet hates to shed innocent bloud : but for ten thousand pound has done the pope a great deal of good . he that villain w — clear'd , who was to have poison'd the king ; as it most plainly appeard , for which he deserves a swing . p — that pocky bitch , a damn'd papistical drab , an ugly deform'd witch , eaten up with the mange and scab . this french hag's pockey bum so powerfull is of late , although it 's both blind and dumb , it rules both church and state. on the monument upon fish-street hill. when hodge first spy'd the labour in vain grown since he pass'd by pudding lane , to reach his chin up as he gaz'd , till level with his forehead rais'd ; with face that horizontal lies , with gaping mouth and staring eyes , supporting on his staff his jaw , he lookt the hight of what he saw as one that makes-an observation , chap-fallen he stood with admiration . hodge was ( although to cart confin'd ) a virtuoso in his kind , and long he stockt up in his crown whate'er he saw or heard in town within his musty fancy mew'd , heated into similitude , that whatsoever subject fell , he bargains ready had to sell , though the similitude most pat shew that men say they know not what● a new spout to quench the fire , or else to draw the smoke up higher ; a modell of a pepper-box , or microscope to view an ox , or else a candlestick to place a light for such as travel in the night ; or christmass candle overgrown , not to shew light , but to be shewn ; or else a torch with gilded flames , to steer the boats that row on thames , or else a piece of art and labour , of hook out architecting babor . when long he thus himself had guess'd , nor could the swallow'd sight digest , he ask'd a wag at the next stall , to whom belongs this house so tall ? the city's monument is this , in token that our mayor did piss ; it seems when london's mayor doth stale , she by consent too lays her tail ; bodies so great may bear th' expence of such a vast sirreverence ; but 't is a heap which would have rent all but the city's fundament . the d. of m's letter to the k. transvers'd . disgrac'd , and one forlorn , made fortune's sport , banish'd the kingdom first , and now the court ; out of my place turn'd , and out of doors , and made the meanest of your sons of whores ; the scorn and laughter of the common chat of your salt bitches , and your silly brats ; forc'd to a private life , to whore and drink , on my past grandeur and my folly think . would i had been the brat of some mean drab , whom fear or shame had made her choak or stab , rather than be the issue of a king , and by him made so wretched , scorn'd a thing . what little cause hath mankind to be proud of honour , birth , the idols of the crowd ? have i abroad with battles honour wone , to be at home dishonourably undone ? mock'd wit a star and garter , and made fine , with all those gaudy trifles once call'd mine ; your hobby-horses , and your toys of state , and now become the object of your hate , but damn me , sir , i 'll be legitimate i was your darling , but against your will , know , sir , that i will be the people's still ; and when you 're dead , i and my friends , the rout , will with my popish uncle try a bout , and to my trouble this one comfort bring , next after you by g — i will be king. the answer to the d. of m's letter . ungratefull boy , ( i will not call thee son , ) thou hast thy self ingloriously undone , and thy complaints serve but to shew the more , how much thou hast engag'd thy father's whore ; resent it not , shake not thy addle head , and be no more by clubs of rascals led . have i made thee the darling of my joys , the prettiest and lustiest of my boys ? have i so oft sent thee to the coast of france , to take new dresses up , and learn to dance ? have i given thee a ribbon and a star , and sent thee like a meteor to the war ? have i done all that royal dad could doe and do you threaten me to be untrue ? oh! that my p — when i thy dam did — had in some — a — , or cow's been stuck ; then had i been , when that base deed was done , sure to have got no rebel to my son. but say i did with thy fond mother sport , to the same kindness others did resort : 't was my good nature , and i meant her fame , to shelter thee under my royal name : alas ! i never got one whelp alone , my riches are to every fop well known , and i still willing all their brats to own . i made thee once ( 't is true ) the post of grace , and stuck upon thee every mighty place , each glittering office , till thy heavy brow grew dull with honour , and my power low . i spangled thee with favours , hung thy nose , with rings of gold , and pearls , till all grew foes , by secret envy to thy growing state , i lost my safety when i made thee great . there 's not the least injustice to be shown , you must be ruin'd to secure my throne . offices are but fickle grace the badge , bestow'd by fits , and snatch'd away in rage . and sure the livery i give my slaves , i may take from 'em when my p — raves . thou art a creature of my own creation , then swallow this without capitulation , if you with feigned wrongs still keep a clutter , and make the people for your sake to mutter , for my own comfort , but your trouble , know by g — i 'll send you to the rout below . finis . the third part of the collection of poems on affairs of state containing esquire marvel's further instructions to a painter, and the late lord rochester's farewel. collection of poems on affairs of state. part 3. 1689 approx. 70 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 17 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a64512) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 62287) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 298:32) the third part of the collection of poems on affairs of state containing esquire marvel's further instructions to a painter, and the late lord rochester's farewel. collection of poems on affairs of state. part 3. marvell, andrew, 1621-1678. [2], 30 p. 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't will suit our great debauch and little skill . or hast thou mark't how antique masters limn the aly roof , with snuff of candle dimm , sketching in shady smoke prodigious tools , 't will serve this race of drunkards , pimps , and fools . but if to match our crimes thy skill presumes , as th' indians draw our luxury in plumes . or if to score out our compendious fame , with hook then , through the microscope , take aim : where , like the new controller , all men laugh to see a tall lowse brandish the white staff. else shalt thou oft thy guiltless pencil curse , stamp on thy pallat , nor perhaps the worse . the painter so , long having vext his cloth , of his hound's mouth to feign the raging froth , his desperate pencil at the work did dart , his anger reacht that rage which past his art ; chance finisht that which art could but begin , and he sat smiling how his dog did grinn . so may'st thou perfect , by a lucky blow , what all thy softest touches cannot do . paint then st. a — s full of soup and gold , the new courts pattern , stallion of the old . him neither wit nor courage did exalt , but fortune chose him for her pleasure salt . paint him with drayman's shoulders , butchers mien , member'd like mules , with elephantine chine . well he the title of st. a — s bore , for never bacon study'd nature more . but age , allaying now that youthful heat , fits him in france to play at cards and treat . draw no commission lest the court should lye , that , disavowing treaty , ask supply . he needs no seal , but to st. james's lease , whose breeches were the instrument of peace . who , if the french dispute his pow'r , from thence can straight produce them a plenipotence . nor fears he the most christian should trepan two saints at once , st. g — n , st. a — n. but thought the golden age was now restor'd , when men and women took each others word . paint then again her h — ss to the life , philosopher beyond newcastle's wife . she , nak'd , can archimedes self put down , for an experiment upon the crown . she perfected that engine , oft assay'd , how after childbirth to renew a maid . and found how royal heirs might be matur'd , in sewer months than mothers once indur'd . hence c — r made the rare inventress free , of 's h — s royal society . happy'st of women , if she were but able to make her glassen d — s once malleable ! paint her with oyster lip , and breath of fame , wide mouth that sparagus may well proclaim : with chanc'lor's belly , and so large a rump . there , not behind the coach , her pages jump . express her studying now , if china-clay , can without breaking venom'd juice convey . or how a mortal poyson she may draw , out of the cordial meal of the cacao . witness ye stars of night , and thou the pale moon , that o'rcome with the sick steam did'st fail ; ye neighb'ring elms , that your green leaves did she and fawns , that from the womb abortive fled . not unprovok'd she trys forbidden arts , but in her soft breast loves hid cancer smarts . while she revolves , at once , sidney's disgrace , and her self scorn'd sor emulous denham's face ; and nightly hears the hated guards away galloping with the duke to other prey . paint c — in colours that will hold , her , not her picture , for she now grows old . she through her lacquies drawers as he ran , discern'd love's cause , and a new flame began . her wonted joys thenceforth and court she shuns , and still within her mind the footman runs : his brazen calves , his brawny thighs , ( the face she slights ) his feet shapt for a smoother race . poring within her glass she re-adjusts her looks , and oft-try'd beauty now distrusts : fears lest he scorn a woman once assay'd , and now first , wisht she e're had been a maid . great love , how dost thou triumph , and how reign , that to a groom couldst humble her disdain ! stript to her skin , see how she stooping stands , nor scorns to rub him down with those fair hands ; and washing ( lest the scent her crime disclose ) his sweaty hooves , tickles him 'twixt the toes . but envious fame , too soon , begun to note more gold in 's fob , more lace upon his coat : and he , unwary , and of tongue too fleet , no longer could conceal his fortune sweet . justly the rogue was whipt in porter's den : and j — n straight has leave to come agen . ah painter , now could alexander live , and this campaspe thee apelles give ! draw next a pair of tables op'ning , then the house of commons clatt'ring like the men. describe the court and country , both set right , on opposite points , the black against the white . those having lost the nation at trick track , these now advent'ring how to win it back . the dice betwixt them must the fate divide , as chance does still in multitudes decide . but here the court does its advantage know , for the cheat t — for them both must throw . as some from boxes , he so from the chair can strike the die , and still with them goes share . here painter rest a little , and survey with what small arts the publick game they play . for so too rubens , with affairs of state , his lab'ring pencil oft would recreate . the close cabal mark'd how the navy eats , and thought all lost that goes not to the cheats : so therefore secretly for peace decrees , yet as for war the parliament should squeeze ; and fix to the revenne such a summ , should g — k silence , and strike p — n dumb ; should pay land armies , should dissolve the vain commons , and ever such a court maintain , h — 's avarice , b — 's luxury should suffice , and what can these defray but the excise ? excise , a monster worse than e're before frighted the midwife , and the mother tore . a thousand hands she has and thousand eyes , breaks into shops , and into cellars prys . with hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds , and on all trade like casawar she feeds : chops off the piece where e're she close the jaw , else swallows all down her indented maw . she stalks all day in streets conceal'd from sight , and flies like batts with leathern wings by night . she wastes the country and on cities preys . her , of a female harpy , in dog days : black b — b , of all the earth-born race most hot , and most rapacious , like himself begot . and , of his brat enamour'd , as 't increast , bugger'd in incest with the mungrel beast . say muse , for nothing can escape thy sight , ( and painter , wanting other , draw this fight . ) who , in an english senate , fierce debate , could raise so long for this new whore of state. of early wittals first the troop march'd in , for diligence renown'd , and discipline : in loyal haste they lest young wives in bed , and d — m these by one consent did head . of the old courtiers next a squadron came , that sold their master , led by a — m. to them succeeds a despicable rout , but knew the word and well could face about ; expectants pale , with hopes of spoil allur'd , thought yet but pioneers , and led by s — d. then damming cowards rang'd the vocal plain , w — d these commands , knight of the horn and cane . still his hook-shoulder seems the blow to dread , and under 's armpit he desends his head. the posture strange men laught at of his poll , hid with his elbow like the spice he stole . headless st. dennis so his head does bear ; and both of them alike french martyrs were . court-officers , as us'd , the next place took , and follow'd f — x , but with disdainful look . his birth , his youth , his brokage all dispraise , in vain , for always he commands that pays . then the procurers under p — s fil'd , gentlest of men , and his lieutenant mild . b — d loves squire ; through all the field array'd , no troop was better clad nor so well pay'd . then march't the troop of c — n , all full , haters of fowl , to teal preserring bull. gross bodies , grosser minds , and grossest cheats ; and bloated w — n conducts them to their seats . c — n advances next , whose coife dos awe the miter troop , and with his looks gives law. he march'd with beaver cock'd of bishop's brim , and hid much fraud under an aspect grim . next th' lawyers mercenary band appear : f — h , in the front , and t — d in the rear . the troop of priviledge , a rubble bare of debtors deep , fell to trelawny's care. their fortune's error they supply'd in rage , nor any further would then these ingage . then marcht the troop , whose valiant acts before , ( their publick acts ) oblig'd them still to more . for chimney's sake they all sir p — obey'd ? or in his absence him that first it lay'd . then comes the thrifty troop of privateers , whose horses each with other enterfeers . before them h — s rides with brow compact , mourning his countess , anxious for his act. sir fredrick and sir salomon draw lotts for the command of politicks or sotts . thence fell to words , but , quarrel to adjourn , their friends agreed they should command by turn . c — t the rich did the accomptants guide , and in ill english all the world defy'd . the papists , but of those the house had none : else t — t offer'd to have led them on . bold d — e next , of the projectors chief : and old f — g of the eaters beef . late and disorder'd out the drinkers drew : scarce them their leaders , they their leaders knew . before them enter'd , equal in command , a — v and b — k , marching hand in hand . last then but one , p — ll , that could not ride , led the french standard , weltring in his stride , he , to excuse his slowness , truth confest that 't was so long before he could be drest . the lords sons , last , all these did reinforce : c — y before them manag'd hobby-horse . never , before nor since , an host so steel'd troop't on to muster in the tuttle-field . not the first cock-horse , that with cork were shod to rescue albemarle from the sea-cod : nor the late feather-men , whom t — s fierce shall with one breath like thistle-down disperse . all the two c — ys their gen'rals chose : for one had much , the other nought to lose . nor better choice all accidents could hit ; while hector harry steers by will the wit : they both acccpt the charge with merry glee , to fight a battel , from all gun-shot free . pleas'd with their numbers , yet in valour wise , they feign a parly , better to furprize : they , that e're long shall the rude dutch upbraid , who in a time of treaty durst invade . thick was the morning , and the house was thin , the speaker early , when they all fell in . propitious heavens , had not you them crost , excise had got the day , and all been lost . for th' other side all in loose quarters lay , without intelligence , command , or pay : a scatter'd body , which the foe ne'r try'd , but oftner did among themselves divide . and some ran o're each night while others sleep , and undescry'd return'd e're morning peep . but s — s , that all night still walk'd the round , ( for vigilance and courage both renown'd ) first spy'd the enemy and gave th' alarm : fighting it single till the rest might arm . such roman cocles strid : before the foe , the falling bridge behind , the stream below . each ran , as chance him guides , to sev'ral post : and all to pattern his example boast . their former trophees they recal to mind , and to new edge their angry courage grind . first enter'd forward t — e , conqueror of irish-cattel and sollicitor . then daring s — r , that with spear and shield , had strecht the monster patent on the field . keen w — d next , in aid of damsel frail , that pierc't the gyant m — t through his mail. and surly w — s , the accomptants bane : and l — e young , of chimney-men the cane . old w — r , trumpet-gen'ral swore he 'd write this combat truer than the naval fight . of birth , state , wit , strength , courage , h — d presumes , and in his breast wears many montezumes . these and some more with single valour stay the adverse troops , and hold them all at bay. each thinks his person represents the whole , and with that thought does multiply his soul : believes himself an army , there 's one man , as eas'ly conquer'd , and believing can . with heart of bees so full , and head of mites , that each , tho' duelling , a battel fights . such once orlando , famous in romance , broach'd whole brigades like larks upon his lance. but strength at last still under number bows , and the faint sweat trickled down t — s brows . ev'n iron s — s , chafing yet gave back , spent with fatigue , to breath a while to back . when , marching in , a seas'nable recruit of citizens and merchants held dispute : and , charging all their pikes , a sullen band of presbyterian switzers , made a stand . nor could all these the field have long maintain'd , but for th' unknown reserve that still remain'd : a gross of english gentry , nobly born , of clear estates , and to no faction sworn ; dear lovers of their king , and death to meet , for countrys cause , that glorious think and sweet : to speak not forward , but in action brave ; in giving gen'rous , but in counsel grave ; candidly credulous for once , nay twice ; but sure the devil cannot cheat them thrice . the van and battel , though retiring , falls without disorder in their intervals : then closing , all in equal front fall on , led by great g — y , and great l — n. l — e , equal to obey or to command , adjutant-general was still at hand . the martial standard s — s displaying , shows st. dunstan in it , tweaking satan's nose . see sudden chance of war ! to paint or write , is longer work , and harder than to fight . at the first charge the enemy give out ; and the excise receives a total rout. broken in courage , yet the men the same , resolve henceforth upon their other game : where force had fail'd with stratagem to play , and what haste lost , recover by delay . st. a — s straight is sent to , to forbear , lest the sure peace , forsooth , too soon appear . the seamens clamour to three ends they use ; to cheat their pay , feign want , the house accuse . each day they bring the tale , and that too true , how strong the dutch their equipage renew . mean time through all the yards their orders run to lay the ships up , cease the keels begun . the timber rots , and useless ax does rust , the unpractis'd saw lyes bury'd in its dust ; the busie hammer sleeps , the rope untwines ; the stores and wages all are mine and thine . along the coast and harbours they take care that money lack , nor forts be in repair . long thus they could against the house conspire , load them with envy , and with sitting tire : and the lov'd king , and never yet deny'd , is brought to beg in publick and to chide . but when this fail'd , and months enough were spent , they with the first days proffer seem content : and to land-tax from the excise turn round , bought off with eighteen hundred thousand pound . thus , like fair thieves , the commons purse they share , but all the members lives , consulting , spare . blither than hare that hath escap'd the hounds , the house prorogu'd , the chancellor rebounds . not so decrepid aeson , hash'd and stew'd with magic herbs , rose from the pot renew'd : and with fresh age felt his glad limbs unite ; his gout ( yet still he curst ) had left him quite : what frosts to fruit , what ars'nick to the rat , what to fair d — mortal chocolat ; what an account to c — t ; that and more a parliament is to the chancellor . so the sad tree shrinks from the mornings eye ; but blooms all night , and shoots its branches high . so , at the suns recess , again returns , the comet dread , and earth and heaven burns . now m — t may , within his castle tow'r , imprison parents , and the child deflowre . the irish-herd is now let loose , and comes by millions over , not by hecatombs . and now , now , the canary-patent may be broach'd again , for the great holy-day . see how he reigns in his new palace culminant , and sits in state divine like jove the fulminant ! first b — m , that durst to him rebel , blasted with lightning , struck with thunder fell . next the twelvecommons are condemn'd to groan , and roul in vain at sisyphus's stone . but still he car'd , while in revenge he brav'd , that peace secur'd , and money might be sav'd . gain and revenge , revenge and gain are sweet : united most , else when by turns they meet . france had st. a — s promis'd ( so they sing ) st. a — s promis'd him , and he the king. the count forthwith is order'd all to close , to play for flanders , and the stake to lose . while chain'd together two ambassadors like slaves , shall beg for peace at hollands doors . this done , among his cyclops he retires , to forge new thunder , and inspect their fires . the court , as once of war , now fond of peace , all to new sports their wanton fears release . from greenwich ( where intelligence they hold ) comes news of pastime , martial and old : a punishment invented first to awe masculine wives , transgressing natures law. where when the brawny female disobeys , and beats the husband till for peace he prays : no concern'd jury for him damage finds , nor partial justice her behaviour binds ; but the just street does the next house invade , mounting the neighbour couple on lean jade . the distaff knocks , the grains from kettle fly , and boys and girls in troops run houting by ; prudent antiquity , that knew by shame , better than law , domestick crimes to tame , and taught youth by spectacle innocent ! so thou and i , dear painter , represent in quick effigy , others faults , and feign by making them ridiculous to restrain . with homely sight , they chose thus to relax the joys of state , for the new peace and tax . so holland with us had the mast'ry try'd , and our next neighbours france and flanders ride . but a fresh news , the great designment nips , off , at the isle of candy , dutch and ships . bab may and a — n did wisely scoff , and thought all safe if they were so far off . modern geographers , `twas there they thought , where venice twenty years the turk had fought : while the first year our navy is but shown , the next divided , and the third we 've none . they , by the name , mistook it for that isle , where pilgrim palmer travell'd in exile , with the bulls horn to measure his own head , and on pasiphae's tomb to drop a bead. but m — e learn'd demonstrates , by the post , this isle of candy was on essex coast. fresh messengers still the sad news assure , more tim'rous now we are , than first secure . false terrors our believing fears devise : and the french army one from calais spies . b — t and m — y , and those of shorter reach , change all for guinea's , and a crown for each : but wiser men , and well foreseen in chance , in holland theirs had lodg'd before , and france . white-hall's unsafe , the court all meditates to fly to windsor , and mure up the gates . each does the other blame , and all distrust ; but m — t new oblig'd , would sure be just . not such a fatal stupefaction reign'd at london's flame , nor to the court complain'd . the bloodworth-c — r gives , then does recal orders , amaz'd at last gives none at all . st. a — s writ to that he may bewail to master lewis , and tell coward tale , how yet the hollanders do make a noise , threaten to beat us , and are naughty boys . now doleman's disobedient , and they still uncivil : his unkindness would us kill . tell him our ships unrigg'd , our forts unman'd , our money spent ; else 't were at his command . summon him therefore of his word , and prove to move him out of pity , if not love. pray him to make de-witte , and ruyter cease , and whip the dutch , unless they 'l hold their peace . but lewis was of memory but dull , and to st. a — ● too undutiful ; nor word , nor near relation did revere ; but ask'd him bluntly for his character . the gravell'd count did with the answer faint : ( his character was that which thou didst paint ) and so enforc'd , like enemy or spy , trusses his baggage , and the camp does fly . yet lewis writes , and lest our hearts should break , consoles us morally out of seneque . two letters next unto breda are sent , in cipher one to harry excellent . the first instructs our ( verse the name abhors ) plenipotentiary ambassadors , to prove by scripture , treaty does imply cessation , as the look adultery . and that by law of arms , in martial strife , who yields his sword has title to his life . presbyter h — s the first point should clear ; the second c — y the cavalier . but , would they not be argu'd back from sea , then to return home straight infecta re . but harry's order , if they won't recal their fleet , to threaten , we will give them all . the dutch are then in proclamation shent , for sin against th' eleventh commandment . h — s flippant stile there pleasantly curvets ; still his sharp wit on states and princes whets . ( so spain could not escape his laughters spleen : none but himself must chuse the king a queen . ) but when he came the odious clause to pen , that summons up the parliament agen ; his writing-master many a time he bann'd , and wish'd himself the gout , to seize his hand . never old letcher more repugnance felt , consenting , for his rupture , to be gelt ; but still in hope he solac'd , e're they come , to work the peace , and so to send them home . or in their hasty call to find a flaw , their acts to vitiate , and them over-awe . but most rely'd upon this dutch pretence , to raise a two-edg'd army for 's defence . first , then he march'd our whole militia's force , ( as if , alas , we ships or dutch had horse . ) then , from the usual common-place , he blames these ; and in standing-armies praise declaims . and the wise court , that always lov'd it dear , now thinks all but too little for their fear . h — e stamps , and straight upon the ground the swarms of current myrmidons appear in arms. and for their pay he writes as from the king , with that curs'd quill pluck'd from a vulture's wing : of the whole nation now to ask a loan . ( the eighteen hundred thousand pound was gone . ) this done , he pens a proclamation stout , in rescue of the banquiers banquerout : his minion imps that , in his secret part , lye nuzz'ling at the sacramental wart ; horse-leeches circling at the hem'roid vein ; he sucks the king , they him , he them again . the kingdoms farm he lets to them bid least : greater the bribe , and that 's at interest . here men induc'd by safety , gain , and ease , their money lodge ; confiscate when he please . these can , at need , at instant , with a scrip , ( this lik'd him best ) his cash beyond sea whip . when dutch invade , when parliament prepare , how can he engines so convenient spare ? let no man touch them , or demand his own , pain of displeasure of great c — n. the state affairs thus marshall'd , for the rest monk in his shirt against the dutch is prest . often , dear painter , have i sate and mus'd why he should still b'on all adventures us'd . if they for nothing ill , like ashen-wood , or think him , like herb-john , for nothing good . whether his valour they so much admire , or that for cowardice they all retire . as heav'n in storms , they call , in gusts of state , on monk and parliament , yet both do hate . all causes sure concur , but most they think under herculean labours he may sink . soon then the independent troops would close , and h — 's last project would his place dispose . ruyter the while , that had our ocean curb'd , sail'd now among our rivers undisturb'd : survey'd their crystal streams , and banks so green , and beauties e're this never naked seen . through the vain sedge the bashful nymphs he ey'd ; bosomes , and all which from themselves they hide . the sun much brighter , and the skies more clear , he finds the air , and all things , sweeter here . the sudden change , and such a tempting sight , swells his old veins with sresh blood , fresh delight . like am'rous victors he begins to shave , and his new face looks in the english wave . his sporting navy all about him swim , and witness their complaisence in their trim . their streaming silks play through the weather fair , and with inveigling colours court the air. while the red flags breath on their top-masts high terrour and war , but want an enemy . among the shrowds the seamen sit and sing , and wanton boys on every rope do cling . old neptune springs the tydes , and water lent : ( the gods themselves do help the provident . ) and , where the deep keel on the shallow cleaves , with trident's leaver , and great shoulder heaves . aeolus their sails inspires with eastern wind , puffs them along , and breathes upon them kind . with pearly shell the tritons all the while sound the sea-march , and guide to sheppy isle . so have i seen in april's bud , arise a fleet of clouds , sailing along the skies : the liquid region with their squadrons fill'd , the airy sterns the sun behind does guild ; and gentle gales them steer , and heaven drives , when , all on sudden , their calm bosome rives with thunder and lightning from each armed cloud ; shepherds themselves in vain in bushes shrowd . such up the stream the belgick navy glides , and at sheerness unloads its stormy sides . s — g there , tho practic'd in the sea command , with panting heart , lay like a fish on land , and quickly judg'd the fort was not tenable , which , if a house , yet were not tenantable . no man can sit there safe , the cannon pow'rs through the walls untight , and bullet show'rs : the neighbr'hood ill , and an unwholsome seat . so at the first salute resolves retreat , and swore that he would never more dwell there until the city put it in repair . so he in front , his garrison in rear , march straight to chatham , to increase the fear . there our sick ships unrigg'd in summer lay , like molting fowl , a weak and easie prey . for whose strong bulk earth scarce could timber sind , the ocean water , or the heavens wind. those oaken gyants of the ancient race , that rul'd all seas , and did our channel grace . the conscious stag , so once the forests dread , flies to the wood , and hides his armless head. ruyter forthwith a squadron does untack , they sail securely through the rivers track . an english pilot too , ( o shame , o sin ! ) cheated of pay , was he that show'd them in . our wretched ships within their fate attend , and all our hopes now on frail chain depend : engine so slight to guard us from the sea , it sitter seem'd to captivate a flea . a skipper rude shocks it without respect , filling his sails , more force to recollect . th' english from shore the iron deaf invoke for its last aid : hold chain or we are broke . but with her sailing weight , the holland keel snapping the brittle links , does thorow reel ; and to the rest the open'd passage shew . monk from the bank the dismal sight does view . our feather'd gallants , which came down that day to be spectators safe of the new play , leave him alone when first they hear the gun ; ( c — y the fleetest ) and to london run . our seamen , whom no dangers shape could fright , unpaid , refuse to mount our ships for spight : or to their fellows swim on board the dutch , which show the tempting metal in their clutch . oft had he sent , of d — e and of l — g cannon and powder , but in vain , to beg : and vpnor-castle's ill-deserted wall , now needful , does for ammunition call . he finds wheresoe're he succour might expect ; confusion , folly , treach'ry , fear , neglect . but when the royal charles , what rage , what grief , he saw seiz'd , and could give her no relief ! that sacred keel , which had , as he , restor'd his exil'd sov'raign on its happy board ; and thence the brittish admiral became ; crown'd , for that merit , with their masters name that pleasure-boat of vvar , in whose dear side secure so oft he had this foe desy'd : now a cheap spoil , and the mean victor's slave , taught the dutch colours from its top to wave ; of former glories the reproachful thought , with present shame compar'd , his mind distraught . such from euphrates bank , a tygress fell , after the robbers , for her whelps does yell : but sees , inrag'd , the river flow between . frustrate revenge , and love , by loss more keen , at her own breast her useless claws does arm ; she tears herself since him she cannot harm . the guards , plac'd for the chains and fleets defence , long since were sled on many a feign'd pretence . daniel had there adventur'd , man of might ; sweet painter draw his picture while i write . paint him of person tall , and big of bone , large limbs , like ox , not to be kill'd but shown . scarce can burnt iv'ry feign an hair so black , or face so rod thine oker and thy lack. mix a vain terrour in his martial look , and all those lines by which men are mistook . but when , by shame constrain'd to go on board , he heard how the wild cannon nearer roar'd ; and saw himself confin'd , like sheep in pen ; daniel then thought he was in lyons den. but when the srightful fire-ships he saw , pregnant with sulphur , to him nearer draw captain , lieutenant , ensign , all make haste , e're in the firy furnace they be cast . three children tall , unsing'd , away they row , like shadrack , mesheck , and abednego . not so brave douglas ; on whose lovely chin the early down but newly did begin ; and modest beauty yet his sex did veil , while envious virgins hope he is a male. his yellow locks curl back themselves to seek , nor other courtship knew but to his cheek . oft has he in chill eske or seine , by night , harden'd and cool'd his limbs , so soft , so white , among the reeds , to be espy'd by him , the nymphs would rustle ; he would forward swim . they sigh'd and said , fond boy , why so untame , that fly'st love fires , reserv'd for other flame ? fixt on his ship , he fac'd that horrid day , and wondred much at those that run away : nor other fear himself could comprehend , then , lest heav'n fall , e're thither he ascend . but entertains , the while , his time too short with birding at the dutch , as if in sport : or waves his sword , and could he them conjure vvithin its circle , knows himself secure . the fatal bark him boards with grappling fire , and safely through its port the dutch retire : that precious life he yet disdains to save , or with known art to try the gentle wave . much him the honours of his ancient race inspire , nor would he his own deeds deface . and secret joy , in his calm soul does rise , that monk looks on to see how douglas dies . like a glad lover , the fierce flames he meets , and tries his first embraces in their sheets . his shape exact , which the bright flames infold , like the sun's statue stands of burnish'd gold. round the transparent fire about him glows , as the clear amber on the bee does close : and , as on angels heads their glories shine , his burning locks adorn his face divine . but , when in his immortal mind he felt his alt'ring form , and soder'd limbs to melt ; down on the deck he laid himself , and dy'd , with his dear sword reposing by his side . and , on the flaming plank , so rests his head , as one that 's warm'd himself and gone to bed. his ship burns down , and with his relicks sinks , and the sad stream beneath his ashes drinks . fortunate boy ! if either pencil's fame , or if my verse can propagate thy name ; when oeta and alcides are forgot , our english youth shall sing the valiant scot. each doleful day still with fresh loss returns ; the loyal-london , now a third time burns . and the true royal-oak , and royal-james , ally'd in fate , increase , with theirs , her flames . of all our navy none should now survive , but that the ships themselves were taught to dive : and the kind river in its creek them hides , fraughting their pierced keels with oosy tides . up to the bridge contagious terrour strook : the tow'r it self with the near danger shook . and were not ruyters maw with ravage cloy'd , ev'n london's ashes had been then destroy'd . officious fear , however , to prevent our loss , does so much more our loss augment : the dutch had robb'd those jewels of the crown : our merchant-men , lest they should burn , we drown . so when the fire did not enough devour , the houses were demolish'd near the tow'r . those ships , that yearly from their teeming howl , unloaded here the birth of either pole ; furrs from the north , and silver from the west , from the south perfumes , spices from the east ; from gambo gold , and from the ganges gems ; take a short voyage underneath the thames . once a deep river , now with timber floor'd , and shrunk , lest navigable , to a ford. now ( nothing more at chatham left to burn ) the holland squadron leisurely return : and spight of ruperts and of albemarles , to ruyter's triumph lead the captive charles . the pleasing sight he often does prolong : her masts erect , tough cordage , timbers strong , her moving shape ; all these he does survey , and all admires , but most his easie prey . the seamen search her all , within , without : viewing her strength , they yet their conquest doubt . then with rude shouts , secure , the air they vex ; with gamesome joy insulting on her decks . such the fear'd hebrew , captive , blinded , shorn , was led about in sport , the publick scorn . black day accurs'd ! on thee let no man hale out of the port , or dare to hoise a sail , or row a boat in thy unlucky hour : thee , the year's monster , let thy dam devour . and constant time , to keep his course yet right , fill up thy space with a redoubled night . when aged thames was bound with fetters base , and medway chast ravish'd before his face , and their dear off-spring murder'd in their sight ; thou , and thy fellows , held'st the odious light. sad change , since first that happy pair was wed , when all the rivers grac'd their nuptial bed ; and father neptune promis'd to resign his empire old , to their immortal line ! now with vain grief their vainer hopes they rue , themselves dishonour'd , and the gods untrue : and to each other helpless couple moan , as the sad tortoise for the sea does groan . but most they for their darling charles complain : and were it burnt , yet less would be their pain . to see that fatal pledge of sea-command , now in the ravisher de-ruyter's hand , the thames roar'd , swouning medway turn'd her tide , and were they mortal , both for grief had dy'd . the court in farthing yet it self does please , and female s — t , there , rules the four seas . but fate does still accumulate our woes , and richmond here commands , as ruyter those . after this loss , to rellish discontent , some one must be accus'd by punishment . all our miscarriages on pett must fall : his name alone seems fit to answer all . whose counsel first did this mad war beget ? who all commands sold thro' the navy ? pett . who would not follow when the dutch were bet ? who treated out the time at bergen ? pett . who the dutch fleet with storms disabled met , and rifling prizes , them neglected ? pett . who with false news prevented the gazette ? the fleet divided ? writ for rupert ? pett . who all our seamen cheated of their debt ? and all our prizes who did swallow ? pett . who did advise no navy out to set ? and who the forts left unrepair'd ? pett . vvho to supply with powder , did forget languard , sheerness , gravesend , and vpnor ? pett . vvho all our ships expos'd in chathams net ? vvho should it be but the phanatick pett . pett , the sea architect , in making ships , was the first cause of all these naval ships : had he not built , none of these faults had bin ; if no creation , there had been no sin. but , his great crime , one boat away he sent ; that lost our fleet , and did our flight prevent . then that reward might in its turn take place , and march with punishment in equal pace ; s — n dead , much of the treasure`s care , and place in counsel fell to d — s share . all men admir'd he to that pitch could fly : powder ne're blew man up so soon so high . but sure his late good husbandry in peeter , show'd him to manage the exchequer meeter : and who the forts would not vouchsafe a corn , to lavish the king's money more would scorn . who hath no chimneys , to give all is best , and ablest speaker , who of law has least ; who less estate , for treasurer most fit ; and for a couns'llor , he that has least wit. but the true cause was , that , in 's brother may , the exchequer might the privy-purse obey . but now draws near the parliament's return ; h — e and the court again begin to mourn . frequent in counsel , earnest in debate , all arts they try how to prolong its date . grave primate s — n ( much in preaching there ) blames the last session , and this more does fear . with b — n or with m — n 't were sweet ; but with a parliament abhors to meet , and thinks 't will ne're be well within this nation , till it be govern'd by a convocation . but in the thames mouth still ruyter laid , the peace not sure , new army must be paid . h — e saith he hourly waits for a dispatch ; h — y came post just as he shew'd his watch. all to agree the articles were clear , the holland fleet and parliament so near . yet harry must job back and all mature , binding , e're th' houses meet , the treaty sure . and 'twixt necessity and spight , till then , let them come up so to go down agen . up ambles country justice on his pad , and vest bespeaks to be more seemly clad . plain gentlemen are in stage-coach o'rethrown , and deputy-lieutenants in their own . the portly burgess , through the weather hot , does for his corporation sweat and trot . and all with sun and choler come adust ; and threatens h — e to raise a greater dust. but , fresh as from the mint , the courtiers fine salute them , smiling at their vain design . and t — r gay up to his pearch does march , with face new bleacht , smoothen'd and stiff with starch . tells them he at whitehall had took a turn , and for three days , thence moves them to adjourn . not so , quoth t — s ; and straight drew his tongue , trusty as steel , that always ready hung ; and so , proceeding in his motion warm , th' army soon rais'd , he doth as soon disarm . true trojan ! while this town can girls afford , and long as cider lasts in hereford ; the girls shall always kiss thee , though grown old , and in eternal healths thy name be trowl'd . mean while the certain news of peace arrives at court , and so reprieves their guilty lives . h — e orders t — r that he should come late , lest some new t — s spring a fresh debate . the king , that day rais'd early from his rest , expects as at a play till t — s drest . at last together e — n come and he : no dial more could with the sun agree . the speaker , summon'd , to the lords repairs , nor gave the commons leave to say their pray'rs : but like his pris'ners to the bar them led , vvhere mute they stand to hear their sentence read ; trembling with joy and fear , h — e them prorogues , and had almost mistook and call'd them rogues . dear painter , draw this speaker to the foot : where pencil cannot , there my pen shall do 't ; that may his body , this his mind explain . paint him in golden gown , with mace's brain : bright hair , fair pace , obscure and dull of head ; like knife with iv'ry haft , and edge of lead . at pray'rs , his eyes turn up the pious white , but all the while his private-bill's in sight . in chair , he smoaking sits like master-cook , and a poll-bill does like his apron look . well was he skill'd to season any question , and make a sawce fit for vvhitehall's digestion : vvhence ev'ry day , the palat more to tickle ; court-mushrumps ready are sent in in pickle . vvhen grievance urg'd , he swells like squatted toad , frisks like a frog to croak a taxes load . his patient piss , he could hold longer than an urinal , and sit like any hen. at table , jolly as a country-host , and soaks his sack with n — k like a toast . at night , than canticleer more brisk and hot , and serjeants vvife serves him for p — tt . paint last the king , and a dead shade of night , only dispers'd by a weak tapers light ; and those bright gleams that dart along and glare from his clear eyes , yet these too dark with care. there , as in the calm horrour all alone , he wakes and muses of th' uneasie throne : raise up a sudden shape with virgins face , though ill agree her posture , hour , or place naked as born , and her round arms behind , vvith her own tresses interwove and twin'd : her mouth lockt up , a blind before her eyes , yet from beneath the veil her blushes rise ; and silent tears her secret anguish speak , her heart throbs , and with very shame would break . the object strange in him no terrour mov'd : he wonder'd first , then pity'd , then he lov'd : and with kind hand does the coy vision press , vvhose beauty greater seem'd by her distress ; but soon shrunk back , chill'd with her touch so cold , and th' airy picture vanisht from his hold . in his deep thoughts the wonder did increase , and he divin'd 't was england or the peace . express him startling next with listning ear , as one that some unusual noise does hear . with canon , trumpets , drums , his door surround , but let some other painter draw the sound : thrice did he rise , thrice the vain tumult led , but again thunders when he lyes in bed ; his mind secure does the known stroke repeat , and finds the drums lewis's march did beat . shake then the room , and all his curtains tear , and with blue streaks infect the taper clear : while , the pale ghosts , his eye does fixt admire of grandsire h — y , and of c — s his sire . h — y sits down , and in his open side the grizly wound reveals , of which he dy'd . and ghastly c — s , turning his collar low , the purple thread about his neck does show : then , whisp'ring to his son in words unheard , through the lock'd door both of them disappear'd . the wondrous night the pensive king revolves , and rising , straight on h — 's disgrace resolves . at his first step , he c — n does find , b — t and c — y , as 't were design'd . and they , not knowing , the same thing propose , which his hid mind did in its depths inclose . through their feign'd speech their secret hearts he knew ; to her own husband , c — n , untrue . false to his master b — l , a — n , and c — y , falser than any one , who to the brother , brother would betray ; nor therefore trusts himself to such as they . his fathers ghost too whisper'd him one note , that who does cut his purse will cut his throat . but in wise anger he their crimes sorbears , as thieves repriev'd for executioners ; while h — e provok'd his foaming tusk does whet , to prove them traytors , and himself the pett . painter adieu , how will our arts agree ; poetick picture , painted poetry . but this great work is for our monarch fit , and henceforth c — s only to c — s shall sit . his master-hand the ancients shall out-do : himself the poet and the painter too . to the king . so his bold tube , man , to the sun apply'd , and spots unknown to the bright star descry'd ; show'd they obscure him , while too near they please , and seem his courtiers , are but his disease . through optick trunk the planet seem'd to hear , and hurls them off , e're since , in his career . and you , great sir , that with him empire share , sun of our world , as he the charles is there . blame not the muse that brought those spots to sight , which , in your splendor hid , corrode your light ; kings in the country oft have gone astray , nor of a peasant scorn'd to learn the way . would she the unattended throne reduce , banishing love , trust , ornament and use ; better it were to live in cloysters lock , or in fair fields to rule the easie flock . she blames them only who the court restrain , and , where all england serves , themselves would reign . bold and accurs'd are they , that all this while have strove to isle the monarch from his isle : and to improve themselves , on false pretence , about the common prince have rais'd a fence ; the kingdom from the crown distinct would see , and peal the bark to burn at last the tree . ( but ceres corn , and flora is the spring , bacchus is wine , the country is the king. ) not so does rust insinuating wear , nor powder so the vaulted bastion tear ; nor earthquake so an hollow isle overwhelm , as scratching courtiers undermine a realm : and through the palace's foundations bore , burr'wing themselves to hoard their guilty store . the smallest vermin make the greatest waste , and a poor warren once a city rais'd . but they whom born to virtue and to wealth , whom neither flatt'ry binds , nor want to stealth ; whose conscience and whose courage high with counsels their large souls supply ; that serve the king with their estates and care , and , as in love , on parliaments can stare : ( where few the number , choice is there less hard ) give us this court , and rule without a guard. rochester 's farewel . tir'd with the noysom follies of the age , and weary of my part , i quit the stage ; for who in life's dull farce a part would bear , where rogues , whores , bawds , all the head actors are ? long i with charitable malice strove , lashing the court , those vermin to remove , but thriving vice under the rod still grew , as aged letchers whipp'd , their lust renew ; what though my life hath unsuccessful been , ( for who can this augean stable clean ) my gen'rous end i will pursue in death , and at mankind rail with my parting breath . first , the tangier bullies must appear , with open brav'ry , and dissembled fear : m — e their head , but gen'ral have a care , though skill'd in all those arts that cheat the fair , the undiscerning and impartial moor , spares not the lover on the ladies score . think how many perish by one fatal shot , the conquests all thy goggling ever got . think then ( as i presume you do ) how all the english ladies will lament your fall ; scarce will there greater grief pierce every heart , should sir george h — , or sir c — depart . had it not better been than thus to roam , to stay and play the cravat-string at home ? to strut , look big , shake pantaloon , and swear with h — , d — , there 's no action there . had'st thou no friend that wou'd to r — write , to hinder this thy eagerness to fight ? that without danger thou a brave might'st be , as sure to be deny'd as s — y. this sure the ladies had not fail'd to do , but who such courage could suspect in you ? for say , what reason could with you prevail , to change embroider'd coat for coat of mail ? let p — h , or let m — t go , whom fate has made not valiant , but desperate . for who could not be weary of his life , who 's lost his money , or has got a wife ? to the more tolerable alcaid of alcazzer , one flies from creditors , the other from torrezer ; 't were cruelty to make so sharp remarks , on all the little , forward , fighting sparks ; only poor c — i can't but pitty thee , when all the pert young voluntiers i see . those chits of war , who as much mirth create as the pair royal of the chits of state , their names shall equal all excelling glory , chit s — d , chit g — n , and chit l — y. when thou let'st p — h , 't was such a jest , as when the brother made the same request ; had r — d but got leave as well as he , the jest had been compleat and worthy thee . well , since he must , he 'll to tangier advance it is resolv'd , but first let 's have a dance . first , at her highness ball he must appear , and in a parting country dance , learn there with drum and fife to make a jigg of war ; what is of soldier seen in all the heap , besides the flutt'ring feather in the cap , the scarf , and yard or two of scarlet cloath , from gen'ral m — e down to little w — h ? there leave we them , and back to england come , whereby the wiser sparks that stay at home , in safe ideas by their fancy form'd , tangier ( like mastrich ) is at windsor storm'd . but now we talk of mastrich , where is he , fam'd for that brutal piece of bravery ? he with his thick impenetrable skull , the solid , hard'ned armour of a fool ? well might himself to all wars ills expose , who ( come what will yet ) had no brains to lose . yet this is he , the dull unthinking he , who must ( forsooth ) our future monarch be . this fool by fools ( a — g and v — n ) led , dreams that a crown will drop upon his head , by great example he this path doth tread , following such sensless asses up and down , ( for saul sought asses when he found a crown . ) but r — s is risen as samuel at his call , to tell that god hath left the ambitious saul . never ( says heaven ) shall the blushing sun , see p — s bastard fill the regal throne . so heaven says , but b — n says he shall , but who e're he protects is sure to fall . who can more certain of destruction be , than he that trufts to such a rogue as he ? what good can come from him who y — k forsook , t'espouse the interest of this booby duke ? but who the best of masters cou'd desert , is the the most fit to take a traytors part . ungrateful ! this thy master-piece of sin , exceeds ev'n that with which thou did'st begin . thou great proficient in the trade of hell , whose latter crimes still do thy first excel : the very top of villany we seize , by steps in order , and by just degrees . none e're was perfect villain in one day , the murder'd boy to treason led the way ; but when degrees of villany we name , how can we choose but think on b — m ? he who through all of them hath boldly ran , left ne're a law unbroke by god or man. his treasured sins of supererrogation , swell to a summ enough to damn a nation : but he must here , per force , be let alone , his acts require a volumn of their own : where rank'd in dreadful order shall appear , all his exploits from s — y to le m — . but stay , methinks i on a sudden find , my pen to treat of th' other sex inclin'd ; but where in all this choice shall i begin ? where , but with the renowned m — e ? for all the bawds the courts rank soil doth bear , and bawds and states-men grow in plenty there . to thee submit and yield , should we be just , to thy experienc'd and well-travell'd lust : thy well-known merits claim that thou should'st be , first in the glorious roll of infamy . to thee they all give place , and homage pay , do all thy letcherous decrees obey ; ( thou queen of lust , thy bawdy subjects they . ) while s — x , b — ll , betty f — n come , thy whores of honour , to attend thy throne ; for what proud strumpet e're could merit more , than be anointed the imperial whore ? for tell me , in all europe , where 's the part , that is not conscious of thy lewd desert . the great pedalian youth , whose conquests run o're all the world , and travall'd with the sun , made not his valour in more nations known . than thou thy lust , thy matchless lust have shown , all climes , all countries , do with tribute come , ( thou world of lewdness ) to thy boundless womb : thou sea of lust , that never ebb dost know , whither the ruines of all nations flow . lewd messaline was but a type of thee , thou highest , last degree of letchery : for in all ages , except her and you , who ever sinn'd so high , and stoop'd so low . she to th' imperial bed each night did use , to bring the stink of the exhausted stews ; tir'd ( but not satisfy'd ) with man did come , drunk with abundant lust , and reeling home . but thou , to our admiring age , dost show more sin than inn'cent rome did ever know ; and having all her lewdnesses out-ran , takes up with devil , having tir'd man : for what is else that loathsom uggly black. which you and s — x in your arms do take ? nor does old age , which now rides on so fast , make thee come short of all thy lewdness past : though on thy head , grey-hairs like etna's snow are shed , thou' rt fire and brimstone all below . thou monstrous thing , in whom at once does rage the flames of youth , and impotence of age. my lady d — s takes the second place , proud with thy favour , and peculiar grace ; e'n she with all her piety and zeal , the hotter flames that burn in thee does feel . thou dost into her kindling breast inspire , the lustful seeds of thy contagious fire ; so well the spirit and the flesh agree , lust and devotion , zeal and letchery . important use religion 's made , by those who wisely drive the cheating trade ; as wines prohibited securely pass , changing the name of their own native place . so vice grows safe , drest in devotions name , unquestion'd by the custom-house of fame : where e're so much of sanctity you see , be more suspicious of hid villany ; whoseever zeal is than his neighbours more , if man think he 's a rogue , if woman whore : and such a thing art thou religious pride , so very lewd , and yet so sanctify'd . let now the d — s take no further care of humorous stallions , let her not dispair , since her indulgent stars so kind have been , to send her b — y and m — e , this last doth banisht m — s place supply , and wit supplanted is by letcher for m — h he had parts , and wit , and sense , to all which m — e had no pretence ; a proof that since such things as he prevail , her h — s head is lighter than her tail. but stay , i p — h almost had forgot , the common theam of ev'ry rhiming sot ; she 'll after railing make us laugh a while , for at her folly who can choose but smile ? while them who always slight her great she makes , and so much pains to be despis'd she takes . goes sauntring with her highness up to town , to an old play , and in the dark come down ; still makes her court to her as to the queen , but still is justled out by m — e. so much more worthy a kind bawd is thought , than ever she who her from exile brought . o p — h , foolish p — h ! not to take the offer the great s — d did make , when cringing at thy feet ; e're m — h bow'd , the golden calf , that 's worshipp'd by the crowd . but thou for y — k , who now despises thee , to leave both him and pow'rful s — v : if this is all the policy you know , this all the skill in states you boast of so , how wisely did thy country's laws ordain , never to let the foolish women reign . but what must we expect , who daily see unthinking c — s rul'd by unthinking thee . finis . a collection of poems on affairs of state; viz. ... / by am-l, esq.; and other eminent wits. ; most whereof never before printed. 1689 approx. 71 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 18 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-03 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a80112 wing c5176a estc r202112 45578270 ocm 45578270 172211 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a80112) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 172211) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2618:1) a collection of poems on affairs of state; viz. ... / by am-l, esq.; and other eminent wits. ; most whereof never before printed. marvell, andrew, 1621-1678. dryden, john, 1631-1700. sprat, thomas, 1635-1713. waller, edmund, 1606-1687. 33 [i.e 32] p. 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng political poetry, english. political satire, english. great britain -history -restoration, 1660-1688 -poetry. 2007-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-02 elspeth healey sampled and proofread 2008-02 elspeth healey text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a collection of poems on affairs of state ; viz. advice to a painter . hodge 's vision . britain and raleigh . statue at stocks — m — young statesman . to the k — nostradamus prophecy . sir edmundbury godfrey 's ghost . on the king's voyage to chattam . poems on oliver , by mr. dryden , mr. sprat , and mr. waller . by a — m — l esq and other eminent wits . most whereof never before printed . london , printed in the year , mdclxxxix . advice to a painter , by a. m. esq spread a large canvass , painter , to contain the great assembly , and the num'rous train , where all about him shall in triumph sit abhorring wisdom and despising wit , hating all justice and resolv'd to fight . first draw his highness prostrate to the south , adoring rome , with this speech in his mouth . most holy father , being joyn'd in league with father p — s , d — y , and with teague , thrown at your sacred feet , i humbly bow , i and the wise associates of my vow ; a vow , nor fire nor sword shall ever end , till all this nation to your footstool bend : thus arm'd with zeal and blessings from your hands , i 'le raise my papists , and my irish bands ; and by a noble well-contrived plot , manag'd by wise fitz — and by scot , prove to the world , i 'le have old england know , that common sense is my eternal foe . i ne'r can fight in a more glorious cause , than to destroy their liberty and laws , their house of commons , and their house of lords , parliaments , precedents and dull records ; shall these e'r dare to contradict my will , and think a prince o th' blood can e'r do ill ? it is our birth-right to have power to kill . shall they e're dare to think they shall decide the way to heaven , and who shall be my guide ? shall they pretend to say , that bread is bread , or there 's no purgatory for the dead ? that extream unction is but common oyl , and not infallibly the roman spoil ? i will have villains in our notions rest , and i do say it , therefore it 's the best . next painter draw his m — by his side , conveying his religion and his bride ; he who long since abjur'd the royal line , does now in popery with his master joyn . then draw the princess with her golden locks , hastning to be envenom'd with the p — and in her youthful veins receive a wound , which sent n. h. before her , under ground ; the wound of which the tainted ch — fades , laid up in store for a new set of maids . poor princess , born under a sullen star , to find such welcome when you came so far ! better some jealous neighbour of your own had call'd you to a sound , tho' petty throne , where 'twixt a wholesom husband and a page , you might have linger'd out a lazy age , than on dull hopes of being here a q — e're twenty dye , and rot before fifteen . now painter shew us in the blackest dye , the counsellors of all this villany : cl — d , who first appear'd in humble guise , was always thought too gentle , meek and wise : but when he came to act upon the stage , he prov'd the mad cethegus of our age ; he and his d — ke had both too great a mind , to be by justice or by law confin'd ; their boyling heads can hear no other sounds than fleets and armies , battails , blood and woun'd 's ; and to destroy our liberty they hope , by irish talbot , and old doting pope . next talbot must by his great master stand , laden with folly , flesh , and ill-got land ; he 's of a size indeed to fill a porch , but ne're can make a pillar of the church ; his sword is all his argument , not his book , alt ho no scholar , he can act the cook ; and will cut throats again , if he be paid ; in th' irish shambles he first learn'd the trade . then painter shew thy skill , and in fit place , let 's see the nuncio a — ll's sweet face . let the beholders by thy art espy his sense and soul , as squinting as his eye . let b — s autumnal face be seen , rich with the spoils of a poor algerine , who trusting in him , was by him betray'd ; and so shall we when his advice's obey'd : great heroes to get honour by the sword , he got his wealth by breaking of his word ; and now his daughter he hath got with child , and pimps to have his family defil'd , next painter draw the rabble of the plot , g — n , fitz g — d , loftus , porter , scot : these are fit heads indeed , to turn a state , and change the order of a nations fate ; ten thousand such as these shall ne'r controul the smallest atom of an english soul. old england on a strong foundation stands , defying all their heads and all their hands , it s steady basis never could be shook , when wiser men her ruin undertook : and can her guardian angels let her stoop at last , to madmen , fools , and to the pope ? no painter , no close up this piece and see , this crowd of traitors hang'd in effigie . hodge , a countryman , went up to the piramid , his vision . when hodge had numbred up , how many score the airy piramid contain'd , he swore , no mortal wight e'r climb'd so high before . to th' best advantage plac'd , he views around , th' imperial throne with lofty turrets crown'd , the wealthy store-house of the bounteous flood , whose paceful tide o're-flows our land with good : confused forms fleet by his wondring eyes , and his soul too , seiz'd by divine surprize . some god it seems had entred his plain breast , and with 's abode that rustick mansion blest . a mighty change he feels in ev'ry part ; light guides his eyes , and wisdom rules his heart : so when her pious son , fair venus show'd his flaming troy , with slaughter'd dardan's strow'd , she purg'd his optick films , his clouded sight , then troy's last doom he read by heaven's light ; such light divine did seize the dazling eyes of humble hodge . regions remote , courts , councils , policies the circling wills of tyrants treacheries he views , discerns , deciphers , penetrates , from charle's dukes , to europe's armed states . he saw the goatish king in his alcove , with secret scenes of his incestuous love ; to whom he spoke : cease , cease , o charles , thus to pollute our isle ; return , return to thy long wisht exile ; there with thy court desile the neighb'ring states . and by thy crimes participate their fates . he saw the duke in his curst divan set to 's vast designs reaching his pigmy-wit , with a choice knot of the ignatian crew , who th' way to murthers and to treasons shew : dissenters they oppress with laws severe that whilst we wound these innocents , we fear their cursed seed we may be forc'd to spare . twice the reform'd must fight a double prize , that rome and france may in their ruines rise . old bonner single hereticks did burn , these reform'd cities into ashes turn , and ev'ry year new fires make us mourn . hybernian tories plot his cruel reign , and thirst for english martyrs blood again . our valiant youth abroad must learn the trade of unjust war , their countrey to invade ; others at home must grind us to prepare our gallick necks their iron yoke to wear . ships , once our safety and our glorious might , are doom'd with worms and rottenness to fight ; whilst france rides sovereign o're the british main , our merchants robb'd , and brave sea-men slain : t' insure his plot , france must his legions send , rome to restore , and to enthrone his friend : thus the rash phaeton with fury hurl'd , and rapid rage , consumes the british world. blast him , o heaven , in his mad career , and let these isles no more his frenzy fear : curst — whom all mankind abhor ; false to thy self , but to thy friend much more , to him who did thy promis'd pardon hope , ( coleman . and with pretended transports kiss the rope ; ore-whelm'd with grief , and gasping out a lie , deceiv'd , and unprepar'd , thou letst him die with equal gratitude and treachery . britannia and raleigh . by a. m. brit. ah raleigh , when thou didst thy breath resign to trembling james , would i had quitted mine . cubs did'st thou call them ? hadst thou seen this brood of earls , dukes , and princes of the blood ; no more of scottish race thou wouldst complain these would be blessings in this spurious reign . awake , arise from thy long blest repose ; once more with me partake of morlace woes . ra. what mighty pow'r hath forc'd me from my rest ? oh mighty queen , why so untimely drest ? brit. favour'd by night , conceal'd in this disguise , whilst the lewd court in drunken slumber lies , i stole away , and never will return , till england knows who did her city burn ; till cavaliers shall favourites be deem'd , and loyal sufferers by the court esteem'd , till liegh and galloway shall bribes reject ; thus osburn's golden cheat i shall detect : till atheist l — le shall leave this land , and commons votes shall cut-nose guards disband ; till kate a happy mother shall become , till charles loves parliaments , and james hates roome . ral. what fatal crimes make you for ever fly your once loved court and martyrs progeny ? brit. a colony of french possess the court ; pimps , priests , buffoons in the privy chamber sport ; such slimy monsters ne'r approacht a throne since pharaoh's days , nor so defil'd a crown . in sacred ear tyrannick arts they croak , pervert his mind , and good intentions choak ; tell him of golden indies , fairy lands , leviathan , and absolute commands . thus fairy-like the king they steal away , and in his room a changling lewis lay . how oft have i him to himself restor'd , in 's left the scale , in 's right hand plac'd the sword ? taught him their use , what dangers would ensue , to them who strive to separate these two ? the bloody scotish chronicle read o're , shew'd him how many kings in purple gore were hurl'd to hell by cruel tyrant lore . the other day fam'd spencer i did bring , in lofty notes tudor's blest race to sing ; how spain's proud powers her virgin arms controul'd , and gold'n days in peaceful order roul'd ; how like ripe fruit she dropt from off her throne , full of grey hairs , good deeds , and great renown . as the jessean hero did appease sauls stormy rage , and stopt his black disease ; so the learn'd bard , with artful song supprest the swelling passion of his canker'd breast , and in his heart kind influences shed of country lore by truth and justice bred : then , to perform the cure so full begun , to him i shew'd this glorious setting sun. how by her peoples looks pursu'd from far , so mounted on a bright celestial car , out-shining virgo , or the julian star. whilst in truths mirrour this good scene he spy'd , enter'd a dame , bedeckt with spotted pride , fair flower de luce within an azure field , her left hand bears the ancient gallick shield , by her usurp'd ; her right a bloody sword , inscrib'd leviathan , our soveraign lord ; her towry front a fiery meteor bears , an exhalation bred of blood and tears ; around her jove's lewd rav'nous curs complain , pale death , lust , tortures , fill her pompous train : she from the easie king truth 's mirrour took , and on the ground in spiteful fall it broke ; then frowning thus , with proud disdain she broke . are thred-bare virtues ornaments for kings ? such poor pedantick toys teach underlings . do monarchs rise by virtue or by sword ? who e're grew great by keeping of his word ? virtue 's a faint green-sickness to brave souls , dastards their hearts , their active heat controuls : the rival god , monarchs of th' other world , this mortal poyson amongst princes hold ; fearing the mighty projects of the great , shall drive them from their proud coelestial seat , if not o're-aw'd : this new-found holy cheat , those pious frauds too slight , t' insnare the brave , are proper acts of long-ear'd rout t' inslave . bribe hungry priests to deifie your might , to teach your will 's , your only rule to right ; and sound damnation to all that dare deny 't . thus heaven designs ' gainst heaven you should turn , and make them fear those powers you once did scorn . when all the gobling interest of mankind , by hirelings sold to you shall be resign'd ; and by impostures god and man betray'd , the church and state you safely may invade ; so boundless law in its full power shines , whil'st your starv'd power in legal fetters pines . shake off those baby bands from your strong arms , henceforth be deaf to your old witches charms ; tast the delicious sweets of sovereign power , 't is royal game whole kingdoms to deflower . three spotless virgins to your bed i 'le bring , a sacrifice to you their god and king : as these grow stale we 'l harras human kind , rack nature till new pleasures you shall find , strong as your reign , and beauteous as your mind . when she had spoke , a confus'd murmour rose of french , scotch , irish , all my mortal foes , some english too , o shame ! disguis'd i spy'd , led all by the wise son-in-law of hyde ; with fury drunk , like baccanels they roar , down wth that common magna charta whore : with joynt consent on helpless me they flew , and from my charles to a base goal me drew ; my reverend age expos'd to scorn and shame , to prigs , bawds , whores , was made the publick game . frequent addresses to my charles i send , and my sad state did to his care commend : but his fair soul transform'd by that french dame , had lost a sense of honour , justice , fame . like a tame spinster in 's seraigl he sits , besieg'id by whores , buffoons and bastards chits ; lull'd in security , rowling in lust , resigns his crown to angel cromwel's trust . her creature o — e , the revenue steals , false f — ch , knave ang — ery , misguide the seals ; mack-james the irish biggots does adore : his french and teague commands on sea and shore : the scotch scalado of our court two isles , fale l — le with adure all defiles . thus the states right marr'd by this hellish court , and no one left these furies to cast out : ah vindex come , and purge the poison'd state ; descend , descend , e're the cure's desperate . ral. once more great queen thy darling strive to save , rescue him again from scandal and the grave ; present to 's thoughts his long scorn'd parliament , the basis of his throne and government : in his deaf ears sound his dead fathers name , perhaps that spell may his ill soul reclaim ; who knows what good effects from thence may spring ? 't is god-like good to save a falling king. brit. as easily learn'd vertuoso's may with the dogs blood his gentle kind convey into the wolf , and make him guardian turn , to the bleating flock , by him so lately torn ; if this imperial juice once taint his blood , 't is by no potent antidote withstood . tyrants , like leprous kings , for publick weal , should be immur'd , lest the contagion steal over the whole . th' elect of the jessean line , to this firm law their scepter did resign . to the serene venetian state i 'le go , from her sage mouth fam'd principles to know ; with her , the prudence of the ancients read , to teach my people in their steps to tread ; by their great pattern such a state i 'le frame , shall eternize a glorious lasting name . till then , my raleigh teach our noble youth , to love sobriety and holy truth : watch and preside over their tender age , lest court corruption should their soul engage : tell them how arts and arms in thy young days employ'd our youth , not taverns , stews and plays : tell them the generous scorn their rise does ow to flattery , pimping and a gawdy shew : teach them to scorn the corwells , p — s , neils , the clevelands , osborns , berties , lau — ails , poppea , tegoline and arteria's name , who yield to these in lewdness , lust and fame . make 'em admire the talbots , sidneys , veres , drake , cav'ndish , blake , men void of slavish fears , true sons of glory , pillars of the state , on whose fam'd deeds all tongues and writers wait ; when with bright ardour their bright souls do burn , back to my dearest country i 'le return . tarquin's just judge and caesar's equal peers , with them i 'le bring , to dry my peoples tears . publicola with healing hands shall pour balm in their wounds , and shall their life restore : greek arts and roman arms in her conjoyn'd , shall england raise , relieve opprest mankind . as jove's great son th' infested globe did free from noxious monsters , hell-bred tyranny ; so shall my england in a holy war , in triumph bear slain tyrants from afar ; her true crusado shall at last pull down the turkish crescent and the persian sun. freed by my labours , fortunate blest isle , the earth shall rest , the heaven shall on thee smile ; and this kind secret for reward shall give , no poysonous serpent on the earth shall live . on the statue at stocks-market . as citizens , that to their conquerors yield , do at their own charge their own citadel build ; so sir robert advanced the king's statue , a token of a broker defeated , and lombard-street broken . some thought it a mighty and gracious deed , obliging the city with a king on a steed ; when with honour he might from his word have gone back , who that waits for a calm , is absolv'd by a wreck : by all , it appears from the first to the last , to be as revenge and as malice forecast , upon the kings birth day to set up a thing , that shews him a monkey , more like than a king. when each one that passes , finds fault with the horse , yet all do assure that the king is much worse : and some by the likeness , sir robert suspect , that he did for the k — his own statue erect . to see him so disguis'd , the herb-women chide , who upon their panniers more decently ride : and so loose are his feet , that all men agree sir william peak sits more faster than he : but a market they say doth fit the king well , who oft parliaments buys , and revenues doth sell : and others , to make the similitude hold , say his majesty himself is oft bought and sold . surely this statue is more dangerous far , than all the dutch pictures that caused the war ; and what the exchequer for that took on trust , may henceforth be confiscated for reasons most just . but sir robert , to take the scandal away , doth the fault upon the artificer lay ; and alledges the thing is none of his own ; for he counterfeits only in gold , not in stone . but sir knight of the vine , how came't in your thought , that when to the sc — id your liege you had brought , with canvas and deals you ere since do him cloud , as if you had meant it his coffin and shroud ? hath blood him away , as his crown he convey'd ? or is he to clayton's gone in masquerade ? or is he in his cabal in his — set ? or have you to the compter remov'd him for debt ? methinks for the equipage of this vile scene , that to change him into a jack-pudding you mean , or else thus expose him to popular flout , as tho' we had as good have a king of a clout . or do you his errors out of modesty vail with three shatter'd planks , and the rags of a sail , to expose how his navy was shatter'd and torn , the day that he was restored and born ? if the judges and parliament do not him enrich , they will scarcely afford him a rag to his breech . sir robert affirms they do him much wrong ; 't is the gravers work to reform so long . but alas , he will never arrive at his end ; for 't is such a king no chizzel can mend : but with all his faults pray give us our king , as ever you hope december or spring : for though the whole world cannot shew such another , we had better have him than his p — ' d brother . a young gentleman , desirous to be a minister of state , thus pretends to qualifie himself . to make my self for this employment fit , i 'le learn as much as i can ever get of the honourable g — y of r — wit : in constancy and sincere loyalty , i 'le imitate the grateful shaftsbury ; and that we may assume the churches weal , and all disorder in religion heal , i will espouse lord h — 's zeal : to pay respect to sacred revelation , to scorn th' affected wit of prophanation , and rout impiety out of the nation : to suppress vice and scandal to prevent , buck — 's life shall be my precedent , that living modal of good covernment . to dive into the depth of statesmen's craft , to search the secrets of the subtlest heart , and hide my own designs with prudent art : to make each man my property become , to frustrate all the plots of france or rome , none can so well instruct as my lord moon ; for moral honesty in deed and word , lord w — r example will afford ; that , and his courage too , are on record . to the king. great charles , who full of mercy , wouldst command in peace and pleasure this , his native land ; at last take pity of this tottering throne , shook by the faults of others , not thine own . let not thy life and crown together end , destroy'd by a false brother and a friend . observe the danger that appears so near , that all your subjects do each minute fear : one drop of poison , or a papist-knife , ends all the joy of england with thy life . brothers , 't is true , by nature , should be kind ; but a too zealous and ambitious mind , brib'd with a crown on earth , and one above , harbours no friendship , tenderness , or love : see in all ages what examples are of monarchs murther'd by their impatient heir . hard fate of princes , who will ne're believe till the stroke's struck which they can ne're retrieve ▪ nostradamus's prophecy . by a. m. for faults and follies london's doom shall fix , and she must sink in flames in sixty six ; fire-balls shall fly , but few shall see the train , as far as from white-hall to pudding-lane , to burn the city , which again shall rise , beyond all hopes , aspiring to the skies , where vengeance dwells . but there is one thing more ( though its walls stand ) shall bring the city lower : when legislators shall their trust betray , saving their own , shall give the rest away ; and those false men by th' easie people sent , give taxes to the king by parliament : when bare-fac'd villains shall not blush to cheat , and chequer-doors shall shut up lumbard-street : when players come to act the part of queens , within the curtains , and behind the scenes : when sodomy shall be prime min'sters sport , and whoring shall be the least crime at court : when boys shall take their sisters for their mate , and practice incests between seven and eight : when no man knows in whom to put his trust , and e'en to rob the chequer shall be just ; when declarations , lie , and every oath shall be in use at court but faith and troth ; when two good kings shall be at brentford town , and when in london there shall be not one ; when the seat's given to a talking fool , whom wise men laugh at , and whom women rule ; a min'ster able only in his tongue , to make harsh , empty speeches two hours long ; when an old scotch covenant shall be the champion for th' english hierarchy ; when bishops shall lay all religion by , and strive by law t' establish tyranny ; when a lean treasurer shall in one year make himself fat , his king and people bare ; when th' english prince shall english men despise , and think french only loyal , irish wise ; when wooden shoon shall be the english wear , and magna charta shall no more appear ; then th' english shall a greater tyrant know than either greek or latin story show ; their wives to 's lust expos'd , their wealth to 's spoil , vvith groans to fill his treasury they toil ; but like the bellides must sigh in vain ; for that still fill'd flows out as fast again ; then they with envious eyes shall belgium see , and wish in vain venetian liberty . the frogs too late , grown weary of their pain , shall pray to jove to take him back again . sir edmondbury godfrey 's ghost . it happen'd in the twilight of the day , as england's monarch in his closet lay , and chiffinch step'd to fetch the female prey ; the bloody shape of godfrey did appear , and in sad vocal sounds these things declare : " behold , great sir , i from the shades am sent , " to shew these wounds that did your fall prevent . " my panting ghost , as envoy , comes to call , " and warn you , lest , like me , y' untimely fall ; " who against law your subjects lives pursue , " by the same rate may dare to murther you . " i , for religion , laws , and liberties , " am mangled thus , and made a sacrifice . " think what befel great egypt's hardned king , " who scorn'd the profit of admonishing . " shake off your brandy slumbers ; for my words " more truth than all your close cabal affords : " a court you have with luxury oregrown , " and all the vices ere in nature known ; " vvhere pimps and panders in their coaches ride , " and in lampoons and songs your lust deride . " old bawds and slighted vvhores , there tell , with shame , " the dull romance of your lascivious flame . " players and scaramouches are your joy ; " priests and french apes do all your land annoy ; " still so profuse , you are insolvent grown , " a mighty bankrupt on a golden throne . " your nauseous palate the worst food doth crave ; " no wholsom viands can an entrance have : " each night you lodge in that french syren's arms " she strait betrays you with her wanton charms ; " works on your heart , softned with love and wine , " and then betrays you to some philistine . " imperial lust does o're your scepter sway ; " and though a soveraign makes you to obey . " yet thoughts so stupid have your soul possess'd , " as if inchanted by some magick priest . " next he who ' gainst the senate's vote did wed , " took defil'd h. and hesti to his bed : " fiend in his face , apostle in his name , " contriv'd to wars to your eternal shame . " he ancient laws and liberties defies ; " on standing guards and new raised force relies : " the teagues he courts , and doth the french admire , " and fain he would be mounted one step higher . " all this by you must needs be plainly seen , " and yet he awes you with his darling spleen . " th' unhappy kingdom suffered much of old , " when spencer and loose gaveston controull'd ; " yet they by just decrees were timely sent , " to suffer a perpetual banishment . " but your bold states-men nothing can restrain , " their most enormous courses you maintain ; " witness that man , who had for divers years " pay'd the cubb-commons , pensions and arrears ; " though your exchequer was at his command , " durst not before his just accuser stand , " for crimes and treasons of so black a hue , " none dare to prove his advocate but you . " trust not in prelates false divinity , " who wrong their prince , and shame their deity , " making their god so partial in their cause , " exempting kings alone from humane laws . " these lying oracles they did infuse " of old , and did your martyr'd sire abuse . " their strong delusions did him so inthral , " no cautions would anticipate his fall. " repent in time , and banish from your sight " the pimp , the whore , buffoon , church-parasite ; " let innocence deck your remaining days , " that after-ages may unfold your praise . " so may historians in new methods write , " and draw a curtain 'twixt your black and white . the ghost spake thus , groan'd thrice , and said no more : straight in came chiffinch hand in hand with whore : the king tho' much concern'd with joy and fear , starts from the couch and bid the dame draw near . vpon the king's voyage to chatham , to make bulwarks against the dutch : and the queen's miscarriage thereupon . when james our great monarch , so wise and discreet : was gone with three barges , to face the dutch fleet ▪ our young prince of wales ( by inheritance stout ! ) was coming to aid him and peep'd his head out ; but seeing his father without ships or men , commit the defence of us all to a chain , taffee was frighted , and sculk'd in again ; nor thought , while the dutch domineer'd on our road ▪ it was safe to come further , and venture abroad : not walgrave , or th' epistle of seignieur le duke , made her majesty sick , and her royal womb puke : but the dutch-men pickeering at dover and harwich , gave the ministers agues , and the queen a miscarriage ; and to see the poor king stand in ships of such need , made the catholicks quake , and her majesty bleed ; and i wish the sad accident don't spoil the young prince , take off all his manhood , and make him a wench : but the hero his father no courage did lack ; who was sorry on such a pretext to come back : he mark'd out his ground , and mounted a gun , and 't is thought without such a pretence he had run ; for his army and navy were said to increase , as appears ( when we have no occasion ) in peace : nay , if the dutch come , we despise 'em so much , our navy incognito will leave 'em i' th' lurch , and ( to their eternal disgrace ) we are able to beat 'em by way of a post and a cable ; why was this , sir , left out of the wise declaration , that flatter'd with hopes of more forces , the nation ? 't would have done us great good to have said , you intended , the strength of the nation the chain should be mended ; though we thank you , for passing so kindly your word , ( which never was broke ) that you 'd rule by the sword ; this promise we know you meant to fulfill ; and therefore you have reason ( by gad ) to tak 't ill , that the bishops , the bishops did throw out the bill . three poems on the death of the late usurper oliver cromwell . written by mr. john dryden , mr. sprat of oxford , and mr. edm. waller . heroick stanza's , on the late vsurper oliver cromwell , written after his funeral , by mr. dryden . i. and now 't is time ; for their officious hast , who would before have born him to the sky , like eager romans e're all rites were past , did let to soon the sacred eagle fly . ii. though our best notes are treason to his fame , join'd with the loud applause of publick voice ; since heaven , what praise we offer to his name , hath rendred too authentick by its choice ; iii. though in his praise no arts can liberal be , since they whose muses have the highest flown , add not to his immortal memory ; but do an act of friendship to their own : iv. yet 't is our duty , and our interest too , such monuments as we can build , to raise , lest all the world prevent what we should do , and claim a title in him by their praise . v. how shall i then begin , or where conclude , to draw a fame so truly circular ? for in a round , what order can be shew'd , where all the parts so equal perfect are ? vi. his grandeur he deriv'd from heaven alone , for he was great ere fortune made him so , and wars like mists that rise against the san , made him but greater seem , not greater grow . vii . no borrow'd bays his temples did adorn , but to our crown he did fresh jewels bring ; nor was his vertue poison'd soon as born , with the too early thoughts of being king. viii . fortune ( that easie mistriss to the young , but to her ancient servants coy and hard ) him , at that age , her favourites rank'd among , when she her best lov'd pompey did discard . ix . he private , mark'd the faults of others sway , and set as sea-marks for himself to shun ; not like rash monarchs , who their youth betray , by acts their age too late would wish undone . x. and yet dominion was not his design , we owe that blessing not to him but heaven , which to fair acts unsought rewards did join , rewards that less to him , than us were given . xi . our former chief like sticklers of the war , first sought t' inflame the parties , then to poise : the quarrel lov'd , but did the cause abhor , and did not strike to hurt , but make a noise . xii . war , our consumption , was their gainful trade ; he inward bled , whilst they prolong'd our pain ; he fought to end our fighting , and assay'd to stanch the blood by breathing of the vein . xiii . swift and resistless through the land he past , like that bold greek , who did the east subdue , and made to battels such heroick haste , as if on wings of victory he flew . xiv . he fought secure of fortune as of fame , still by new maps the island might be shown , of conquests which he strew'd where e're he came , thick as the galaxy with stars is sown . xv. his palms , though under weights they did not stand , still thriv'd , no winter could his laurels fade : heaven in his portraict shew'd a workman's hand , and drew it perfect , yet without a shade . xvi . peace was the prize of all his toil and care , which war had banishd , and did now restore : bolognia's walls thus mounted in the air , to seat themselves more surely than before : xvii . her safety , rescued ireland , to him owes , and treacherous scotland to no int'rest true , yet bless'd that fate which did his arms dispose her land to civilize , as to subdue . xviii . nor was he like those stars which only shine , when to pale mariners , they storms portend ; he had his calmer influences , and his mien did love and majesty together blend . xix . t is true his countenance did imprint an awe , and naturally all souls to his did bow , as wands of divination downward draw , and point to beds where sov'raign gold doth grow . xx. when past all offerings to pheretrian jove , he mars deposed , and arms to gowns made yield , successful councels did him soon approve , as fit for close intrigues , as open field . xxi . to suppliant holland he vouchsaf'd a peace , our once bold rival in the british main , now tamely glad her unjust claim to cease , and buy our friendship with her idol , gain . xxii . fame of the asserted sea through europe blown , made france and spain ambitious of his love ; each knew that side must conquer he would own , and for him fiercely , as for empire strove . xxiii . no sooner was the french man's cause imbrac'd , than the light monsieur , the grave don outweigh'd ; his fortune turn'd the scale where it was cast ; though indian mines where in the other laid . xxiv . when absent , yet we conquer'd in his right ; for though that some mean artist's skill were shown in mingling colours , or in placing light ; yet still the fair designment was his own . xxv . for from all tempers he could service draw ; the worth of each with its allay he knew ; and as the confident of nature saw how she complections did divide and brew . xxvi . or he their single vertues did survey , by intuition in his own large breast , where all the rich idea's of them lay , that were the rule and measure to the rest . xxvii . when such heroick vertue , heaven set out : the stars like commons sullenly obey ; because it drains them when it comes about ; and therefore is a tax they seldom pay . xxviii . from this high spring , our foreign conquests flow , which yet more glorious triumphs do portend ; since their commencement to his arms they owe , if springs as high as fountains may ascend . xxxix . he made us free-men of the continent , whom nature did like captives treat before ; to nobler preys the english lion sent , and taught him first in belgian walks to roar . xxx . that old unquestion'd pirate of the land , proud rome , with dread the fate of dunkirk heard ; and trembling wish'd behind more alpes to stand , although an alexander were her guard. xxxi . by his command , we boldly cross'd the line , and bravely fought where southern stars arise , we trac'd the far-fetch'd gold unto the mine , and that which brib'd our fathers made our prize . xxxii . such was our prince , yet own'd a soul above the highest acts it could produce or show : thus poor mechanick arts in publick move , whilst the deep secrets beyond practice go . xxxiii . nor died he when his ebbing fame went less , but when the fresh laurels courted him to live ; he seem'd but to prevent some new success , as if above what triumphs earth can give . xxxiv . his la test victories still thickest came , as near the center , motion doth increase ; till he press'd down by his own weighty name , did , like the vestal , under spoils decease . xxxv . but first the ocean as a tribute sent that giant prince of all her wat'ry herd ; and th' isle , when her protecting genius went , upon his obsequies loud sighs conferr'd . xxxvi . no civil broils have fince his death arose , but faction now by habit does obey ; and wars have that respect for his repose , as winds for halcyons when they breed at sea. xxxvii . his ashes in a peaceful urn shall rest , his name a great example stands to show , how strangely high endeavours may be blest , where piety , and valour jointly go . to the reverend dr. wilkins , warden of wadham colledge in oxford . sir , seeing you are pleased to think fit that these papers should come into the publick , which were at first design'd to live only in a desk , or some private friends hands ; i humbly take the boldness to commit them to the security , which your name and protection will give them , with the most knowing part of the world. there are two things especially , in which they stand in need of your defence : one is , that they fall so infinitely below the full and lofty genius of that excellent poet , who made this way of writing free of our nation : the other , that they are so little proportioned and equal to the renown of that prince , on whom they were written . such great actions and lives , deserving rather to be the subjects of the noblest pens and most divine phansies , than of such small beginners and week essayers in poetry as my self . against these dangerous prejudices , there remains no other shield , than the universal esteem and authority , which your judgment and approbation carries with it . the right you have to them , sir , is not only on the account of the relation you had to this great person , nor of the general favour which all arts receive from you ; but more particularly by reason of that obligation and zeal , with which i am bound to dedicate my self to your service : for having been a long time the object of your care and indulgence towards the advantage of my studies and fortune , having been moulded ( as it were ) by your own hands , and formed under your government ; not to intitle you to any thing which my meanness produces , would not only be injustice , but sacriledge : so that if there be any thing here tolerably said , which deserves pardon , it is yours sir , as well as he , who is your most devoted and obliged servant . to the happy memory of the late usurper oliver cromwel . by mr. sprat of oxon. pindarick odes . i. 't is true , great name , thou art secure from the forgetfulness and rage of death , or envy , or devouring age ; thou canst the force and teeth of time endure : thy fame like men , the elder it doth grow , will of its self turn whiter too , without what needless art can do ; will live beyond thy breath , beyond thy hearse , though it were never heard or sung in verse . without our help , thy memory is safe ; they only want an epitaph , that does remain alone alive in an inscription , remembred only on the brass , or marble stone . 't is all in vain what we can do : all our roses and perfumes will but officious folly shew , and pious nothings , to such mighty tombs . all our incense , gums , and balm , are but unnecessary duties here : the poets may their spices spare , their costly numbers and their tuneful feet : that need not be imbalm'd , which of it self is sweet . ii. we know to praise thee is a dangerous proof of our obedience and our love : for when the sun and fire meet , th' one 's extinguish'd quite ; and yet the other never is more bright : so they that write of thee , and join their feeble names with thine , their weaker sparks with thy illustrious light , will lose themselves in that ambitious thought ; and yet no fame to thee from thence he brought . we know , bless'd spirit , thy mighty name wants no addition of anothers beam ; it 's for our pens too high , and full of theme : the muses are made great by thee , not thou by them . thy fame 's eternal lamp will live , and in thy sacred urn survive , without the food of oil , which we can give . 't is true ; but yet our duty calls our songs , duty commands our tongues . though thou want not our praises , we are not excus'd for what we owe to thee ; for so men from religion are not freed . but from the altars clouds must rise , though heaven it self doth nothing need , and though the gods don't want an earthly sacrifice iii. great life of wonders , whose each year full of new miracles did appear ! whos 's every month might be alone a chronicle , or a history ! others great actions are but thinly scatter'd here and there ; at best , but all one single star ; but thine the milky-way , all one continued light of undistinguish'd day ; they throng'd so close , that nought else could be seen , scarce any common sky did come between : what shall i say or where begin ? thou may'st in double shapes be shown , or in thy arms , or in thy gown ; like jove sometimes with warlike thunder , and sometimes with peaceful scepter in his hand , or in the field , or on the throne . in what thy head , or what thy arm hath done , all that thou didst was so refin'd , so full of substance , and so strongly join'd , so pure , so weighty gold , that the least grain of it if fully spread and beat , would many leaves and mighty volumes hold ▪ iv. before thy name was publish'd , and whilst yet thou only to thy self wer't great , whilst yet thy happy bud was not quite seen , or understood , it then sure signs of future greatness shew'd : then thy domestick worth did tell the world what it would be , when it should fit occasion see , when a full spring should call it forth : as bodies , in the dark and night , have the same colours , the same red and white , as in the open day and light , the sun doth only show that they are bright , not make them so : so whilst but private walls did know what we to such a mighty mind should owe , then the same vertues did appear , though in a less and more contracted sphere , as full , though not as large as since they were : and like great rivers , fountains , though at first so deep thou didst not go ; though then thine was not so inlarg'd a flood ; yet when 't was little , 't was as clear as good . v. 't is true thou wast not born unto a crown , thy scepter 's not thy father's , but thy own : thy purple was not made at once in haste , and after many other colours past , it took the deepest princely dye at last . thou didst begin with lesser cares , and private thoughts took up thy private years : those hands , which were ordain'd by fates , to change the world , and alter states , practis'd at first that vast design on meaner things with equal mind . that soul , which should so many scepters sway , to whom so many kingdoms should obey : learned first to rule in a domestick way : so government it self , began from family , and single man , was by the small relations , first , of husband , and of father nurs'd , and from those less beginnings past , to spread it self o'er all the world at last . vi. but when thy country , ( then almost enthrall'd ) thy vertue , and thy courage call'd ; when england did thy arms intreat , and 't had been sin in thee not to be great : when every stream , and every flood , was a true vein of earth , and run with blood ; when unus'd arms , and unknown war fill'd every place , and ever ear ; when the great storms , and dismal night did all the land affright ; 't was time for thee , to bring forth all our light. thou left'st thy more delightful peace , thy private life , and better ease ; then down thy steel and armour took , wishing that it still hung upon the hook. when death had got a large commission out , throwing her arrows , and her stings about ; then thou ( as once the healing serpent rose ) wast lifted up , not for thy self , but us . vii . thy country wounded was , and sick before thy wars and arms did her restore : thou knew'st where the disease did lie , and like the cure of sympathy , thy strong , and certain remedy , unto the weapon didst apply ; thou didst not draw the sword , and so away the scabbard throw ; as if thy country shou'd be the inheritance of mars and blood ; but that when the great work was spun , war in it self should be undone ; that peace might land again upon the shore , richer and better than before : the husbandmen no steel should know , none but the useful iron of the plow ; that bays might creep on every spear : and though our sky was overspread with a destructive red ; 't was but till thou our sun didst in full light appear . viii . when ajax died , the purple blood that from his gaping wound had flow'd , turn'd into letters , every leaf had on it wrote his epitaph : so from that crimson flood which thou , by fate of times , wert led unwillingly to shed , letters , and learning rose , and were renewed : thou fought'st not out of envy , hope , or hate , but to refine the church and state , and like the romans , what e'er thou in the field of mars didst mow , was , that a holy island thence might grow . thy wars , as rivers raised by a shower , with welcome clouds do pour : though they at first may seem , to carry all away with an inraged stream ; yet did not happen that they might destroy , or the better parts annoy : but all the filth and mud to scour , and leave behind anothr slime , to give a birth to a more happy power . ix . in fields unconquer'd , and so well thou did'st in battels and in arms excel , that steely arms themselves , might be worn out in war as soon as thee . success , so close upon thy troops did wait , as if thou first had'st conquer'd fate ; as if uncertain victory had been first overcome by thee ; as if her wings were clipp'd , and could not flee , whilst thou did'st only serve , before thou had'st what first thou did'st deserve . others by thee did great things do , triumph'd'st thy self , and made'st them triumph too ; though they above thee did appear , as yet in a more large , and higher sphere : thou , the great sun gav'st light to every star. thy self an army wert alone , and mighty troops contain'dst in one : thy only sword did guard the land , like that which flaming in the angel's hand , from men god's garden did defend : but yet thy sword did more than his , not only guarded , but did make this land a paradiee . x. thou fought'st not to be high or great , not for a scepter , or a crown , or ermyn , people , or the throne : but as the vestal heat ▪ thy fire was kindled from above alone ; religion putting on thy shield , brought thee victorious to the field . thy arms like those , which ancient heroes wore , were given by the god thou did'st adore ; and all the words thy armies had , were on an heavenly anvil made ; not int'rest , or any weak desire of rule , or empire did thy mind inspire ; thy valour like the holy fire , which did before the persian armies go , liv'd in the camp , and yet was sacred too : thy mighty sword anticipates , what was reserv'd for heaven and those bless'd seats , and makes the church triumphant here below . xi . though fortune did hang on thy sword , and did obey thy mighty word ; though fortune for thy side and thee , forgot her lov'd unconstancy ; amidst thy arms and trophies thou wert valiant and gentle too , wounded'st thy self , when thou did'st kill thy foe ; like steel , when it much work has past , that which was rough does shine at last : thy arms by being oftner us'd did smoother grow ; nor did thy battels make the proud or high ; thy conquest rais'd the state , not thee : thou overcam'st thy self in every victory : as when the sun , in a directer line , upon a polish'd golden shield doth shine , the shield reflects unto the sun again his light : so when the heavens smil'd on thee in fight , when thy propitious god had lent success , and victory to thy tent , to heav'n again the victory was sent . xii . england till thou did'st come , confin'd her valour home ; then our own rocks did stand bounds to our fame as well as land , and were to us as well , as to our enemies unpassable . we were asham'd at what we read , and blush'd at what our fathers did , because we came so far behind the dead ▪ the british lion hung his main , and droop'd , to slavery and burthen stoop'd , with a degenarate sleep and fear lay in his den , and languish'd there ; at whose least voice before , a trembling eccho ran through every shore , and shook the world at every roar ; thou his subdued courage didst restore , sharpen his claws , and in his eyes mad'st the same dreadful lightning rise ; mad'st him again affright the neighbouring floods , his mighty thunder sound through all the woods ▪ thou hast our military fame redeem'd , which was lost , or clouded seem'd : nay more , heaven did by thee bestow on us , at once an iron age , and happy too . xiii . till thou command'st , that azure chains of waves , which nature round about us sent , made us to every pirate slaves , was rather burthen than an ornament ; those fields of sea , that wash'd our shores , were plow'd , and reap'd by other hands than ours . to us , the liquid mass , which doth about us run , as it is to the sun , only a bed to sleep on was : and not , as now a powerful throne , to shake and sway the world thereon . our princes in their hand a globe did shew , but not a perfect one , compos'd of earth , and water too . but thy commands the floods obey'd , thou all the wilderness of vvater sway'd ; thou did'st but only wed the sea , not make her equal , but a slave to thee . neptune himself did bear thy yoke , stoop'd , and trembled at thy stroke : he that ruled all the main , acknowledg'd thee his soveraign . and now the conquer'd sea , doth pay more tribute to thy thames , than that unto the sea. xiv . till now our valour did our selves more hurt ; our vvounds to other nations were a sport ; and as the earth , our land produc'd iron and steel , which should to tear our selves be us'd . our strength within it self did break , like thundring canons crack , and kill'd those that were near , while the enemies secur'd and untouch'd were . but now our trumpets thou hast made to sound , against our enemies walls in foreign ground ; and yet no eccho back to us returning found . england is now the happy peaceful isle , and all the world the while , is exercising arms and wars , with foreign , or intestine jars . the torch extinguish'd here , we lend to others oil , we give to all , yet know our selves no fear ; we reach the flame of ruine , and of death , where e're we please , our swords to unsheath , whilst we in calm , and temporate regions breath ; like to the sun , whose heat is hurl'd through every corner of the world ; whose flame through all the air doth go ; and yet the sun himself , the while no fire doth know . xv. besides the glories of thy peace , are not in number , nor in value less . thy hand did cure , and close the stars of our bloody civil wars ; not only lanc'd ; but heal'd the wound , made us again as healthy , and as sound , when now the ship was well nigh lost , after the storm upon the coast , by its mariners indanger'd most ; when they their ropes and helms had left , when the planks asunder cleft , and flouds came roaring in with mighty sound ; thou a safe land , and harbour for us found , and saved'st those that would themselves have drown'd : a work which none but heaven and thee could do , thou made'st us happy ▪ whe'r we would or no : thy judgment , mercy , temperance so great , as if those vettues only in thy mind had seat : thy piety not only in the field , but peace , when heaven seemed to be wanted least : thy temples not like janus open were , open in time of war , when thou hadst greater cause of fear religion and the awe of heaven possest all places and all times alike thy breast . xvi : nor didst thou only for thy age provide , but for the years to come beside ; our after-times , and late posterity , shall pay unto thy fame as much as we ; they too are made by thee : when fate did call thee to a higher throne , and when thy mortal work was done , when heaven did say it , and thou must be gone , thou him to bear thy burthen chose , who might ( if any could ) make us forget thy loss : nor hadst thou him design'd , had he not been not only to thy blood , but vertue kin ; not only heir unto thy throne , but mind , 't is he shall perfect all thy cures , and with as fine a thread weave out thy loom : so one did bring the chosen people from their slavery and fears , led them through their pathless road , guided himself by god. he brought them to the borders ; but a second hand did settle , and secure them in the promised land. vpon the late storm , and death of the late vsurper oliver cromwel ensuing the same , by mr. waller . we must resign ; heav'n his great soul does claim , in storms as loud , as his immortal fame ; his dying groans , his last breath shakes our isle , and trees uncut fall for his funeral pile . about his palace their broad roots are tost into the air : so romulus was lost . new rome in such a tempest mist their king , and from obeying-fell to worshipping . on oeta's top thus hercules lay dead , with ruin'd oaks and pines about him spread ; the poplar too , whose bough he wont to wear on his victorious head , lay prostrate there : those his last fury from the mountain rent ; our dying hero , from the continent , ravish'd whole towns , and forts from spaniards reft , as his last legacy to britain left ; the ocean which so long our hopes confin'd , could give no limits to his vaster mind ; our bounds enlargement , was his latest toil , nor hath he left us prisoners to our isle : under the tropick is our language spoke , and part of flanders hath receiv'd our yoke . from civil broils , he did us disingage , found nobler objects for our martial rage ; and with wise conduct to his country show'd , their ancient way of conquering abroad : ungrateful then , if we no tears allow to him , that gave us peace and empire too ; princes that fear'd him , griev'd , concern'd to see no pitch of glory from the grave is free ; nature her self , took notice of his death , and sighing swell'd the sea with such a breath , that to remotest shores her billows rowl'd , th' approaching fate of her great ruler told . finis . the character of a london-diurnall with severall select poems / by the same author. cleveland, john, 1613-1658. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a33429 of text r6762 in the english short title catalog (wing c4666). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 93 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 31 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a33429 wing c4666 estc r6762 11796334 ocm 11796334 49320 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a33429) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 49320) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 22:2) the character of a london-diurnall with severall select poems / by the same author. cleveland, john, 1613-1658. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a33429 of text r6762 in the english short title catalog (wing c4666). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread [2], 56 p. s.n.], [london : 1647. pages 7-56 in verse. attributed to john cleveland. cf. bm. place of publication from bm. fifth ed. cf. morris, b. john cleveland (1613-1658), a bibliography of his poems, d5. wing calls this 4th [i.e. 6th] ed., 22 poems. reproduction of original in huntington library. eng political poetry, english. a33429 r6762 (wing c4666). civilwar no the character of a london-diurnall: vvith severall select poems: by the same author. optima & novissima editio. cleveland, john 1647 15743 209 0 0 0 0 0 133 f the rate of 133 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the f category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2003-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2003-03 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2003-04 olivia bottum sampled and proofread 2003-04 olivia bottum text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the character of a london-diurnall : vvith severall select poems : by the same author . optima & novissima editio . printed in the yeere mdcxlvii . the character of a london-diurnall . a diurnall is a puny chronicle , scarce pin-feather'd with the wings of time : it is an historie in sippets ; the english iliads in a nut-shell ; the apocryphall parliaments book of macca bees in single sheets . it would tire a welch-pedigree , to reckon how many aps 't is remov'd from an annall : for it is of that extract ; onely of the younger ho●se , like a shrimp to a lobster the originall sinner in this kind was dutch ; galliobelgicus the protoplast ; and the moderne mercuries but hans-en-kelders . the countesse of zealand was brought to bed of an almanack ; as many children , as daies in the yeare . it may be the legislative lady is of that linage ; so she spawnes the diurnalls , and they at vvestminster , take them in adoption , by the names of scoticus , civicus , britanicus . in the frontispice of the old beldame-diurnall , like the contents of the chapter , sits the house of commons judging the twelve tribes of israel , you may call them the kingdomes anatomy before the weekly kalender : for such is a diurnall , the day of the moneth , with what weather in the common-wealth . 't is taken for the pulse of the body-politique ; and the emperick-divines of the assembly , those spirituall dragooners , thumbe it accordingly . indeed it is a prity synopsis ; and those grave rabbies ( though in point of divinity ) trade in no larger authors . the countrey-carrier , when he buyes it for their vicar , miscalls it the vrinall : yet properly enough ; for it casts the water of the state , ever since it staled blood . it differs from an aulicus , as the devill and his exorcist ; or as a black witch doth from a white one , whose office is to unravell her inchantments . it begins usually with an ordinance , which is a law still-borne , dropt , before quickned by the royall assent : 't is one of the parliaments liaments by-blowes , ( acts only being legitimate ) and hath no more syre , then a spanish gennet , that 's begotten by the wind . thus their militia ( like its patron , mars ) is the issue onely of the mother , without the concourse of royall iupiter . yet law it is , if they vote it , though in defiance of their fundamentalls ; like the old sexton , who swore his clock went true , what ever the sun said to the contrary . the next ingredient of a diurnall is plots , horrible plots ; which with wonderfull sagacity it hunts dry-foot , while they are yet in their causes , before materia prima can put on her smock . how many such fits of the mother have troubled the kingdome , and ( for all sir vvalter earle looks like a man-midwife ) not yet delivered of so much as a cushion ? but actors must have their properties ; and , since the stages were voted downe , the onely play-house is at vvestminster . suteable to their plots are their informers ; skippers and taylours ; spaniells both for the land and the vvater : good conscionable intelligence ! for , however pym's bill may inflame the reckoning , the honest vermyn have not so much for lying , as the publique faith . thus a zealous botcher in morefields , while he was contriving some quirpo-cut of church-government , by the help of his out-lying eares , and the otacousticon of the spirit , discovered such a plot , that selden intends to combate antiquity , and maintain it was a taylors goose , that preserved the capitol . i wonder my lord of canterbury is not once more all-to-betraytor'd for dealing with the lions , to settle the commission of array in the tower . it would do well to cramp the articles dormant , besides the opportunity of reforming those beasts of the prerogative , and changing their prophaner names of harry and charles , into nehemiah and eleaz●r . suppose a corne-cutter , being to give little isa●c a cast of his office , should fall to paring his browes , mistaking the one end for the other ; because he branches at both . this would be a plot ; and the next diurnall would furnish you with this scale of votes . resolved upon the question , that this act of the corncutters was an absolute invasion of the cities charter , in the representative forehead of isaac . resolved , that the evill councellours about the corncutter are popishly affected , and enemies to the state . resolved , that there be a publike thanksgiving for the great deliverance of isaac's brow-antlers ; and a solemne covenant drawn up , to defie the corn-cutter , and all his works . thus the quixotes of this age fight with the windmills of their own heads ; quell monsters of their own creation , make plots , and then discover them ; as who fitter to unkennell the fox , then the tarryer , that is a part of him . in the third place march their adventures ; the roundheads legend , the rebels romance ; stories of a larger size , then the eares of their sect ; able to strangle the beliefe of a soli-fidian . i 'le present them in their order ; and first , as a whiffeler before the show , enter stamford , one that trod the stage with the first , travers'd his ground , made a legge and exit . the countrey-people took him for one , that by order of the houses was to dance a morice through the west of england . well , hee 's a nimble gentleman , set him but upon bankes his horse in a saddle rampant , and it is a great question , which part of the centaure shewes better trickes . there was a vote passing to t●●nslate him , with all his equipage into monumentall-gingerbread ; 〈◊〉 it was cross'd by the female-committee , alleadging that the v●●our of his image would bite their children by the tongues . this cubit and an halfe of commander , by the helpe of a diurnall , routed his enemies fifty miles off : 't is strange you 'l say , and yet it is generally believed , he would as soon do it at that distance , as nearer hand . sure it was his sword , for which the weap●n-salve was invented : that so wounding and healing , like loving correlates , might both work at the same removes . but the squibbe is run to the end of the rope . rome , for the prodigy of valour , madam atropos in breeches ; wallers knight-errantry : and , because every mountibanke must have his z●ny , throw him in haslerigge , to set off his story : these two like bell and the dragon , are alwaies worshipped in the same chapter : they hunt in their couples , what one doth at the head , the other scores up at the heele . thus they kill a man over and over , as hopkins and st●rnhold murder the psalmes , with another to the same ; one chimes all in , and then the other strikes up , as the saints-bell . i wonder , for how many lives my lord hoptons soule took the ●ease of his body . first , st●mford slew him : then waller out-killed that halfe a ●●rre : and yet it is thought the sullen corps would scarce bleed , were both these man-slayers never so near it . the fame goes of a dutch heads-man , that he would do his office with so much ease and dexterity , that the head after execution should stand still upon the shoulders : pray god sir william be not probationer for the place . for , as if he had the like knack too , most of those , whom the diurnall hath slain for him , to us poore mortals seem untoucht . thus these artificers of death can kill the man , without wounding the body , like lightning , that melts the sword , and never singes the scabbard . this is the william , whose lady is the conquerour ; this is the cities champion , and the diurnalls delight ; he , that cuckolds the generall in his commission : for , he stalks with essex , and shoots under his belly , because his oxcellency himself is not charged there . yet in all this triumph there is a whip and a bell ; translate but the scene to round-way-downe : th●re hasleriggs lobsters were turned into crabs , and crawl'd backwards ; there poor sir william ran to his lady for a use of consolation . but the diurnall is weary of the arm of flesh , and now begins an hosanna to cromwell , one that hath beat up his drums cleane through the old testament : you may learn the genealogie of our savio●r , by the names in his regiment : the muster-master uses no other list , then the first chapter of matthew . with what face can they object to the king the bringing in of forraigners , when themselves entertain such an army of hebrewes ? this cromwell is never so valorous , as when he is making speeches for the association , which neverthelesse he doth somwhat ominously , with his neck awry , holding up his eare , as if he expected mahomets pidgeon to come , and prompt him : he should be a bird of prey too , ●y his bloody b●ake : his nose is able to try a young eagle , wh●ther she be lawfully begotten . but all is not gold that glisters : what we wonder at in the rest of them , is naturall to him , to kill without blood-shed : for , most of his trophees are in ● church-window ; when a looking-glasse would shew him more superstition : he is so perfect a hater of images , that he hath defaced gods in his own countenance . if he deale with men , it is when he takes them napping in an old monument : then downe goes dust and ashes : and the stoutest cavalier is no better . obrave oliver ! times voyder , sub-sizer to the wormes ; in whom death , that formerly devoured our ancestors , now chewes the cud : he said grace once , as if he would have fallen aboard with the marquesse of newcastle : nay , and the diurnall gave you his bill of fare ; but it proved but a running banquet , as appeares by the story . beleeve him as he whistles to his cambridge teeme of committee-men , and he doth wonders . but holy men ( like the holy language ) must be read backwards . they ri●le colledges , to promote learning ; and pull down churches for edification . but sacriledge is intailed upon him : there must be a cromwell for cathedralls , as well as abbeyes : a secure sinner , whose offence carries its pardon in its mouth : for , how can he be hanged for church-robbery , which gives it selfe the benefit of the clergie ? but for all cromwells nose wears the dominicall letter , yet compared with manchester , he is but like the vigills to an holy-day . this , this , is the man of god ; so sanctified a thunder-bolt , that burrowes in a proportionable blasphemy to his lords of hosts , would stile him the archangell , giving battell to the devill . indeed , as the angells , each of them makes a severall species ; so every one of his souldiers is a distinct church . had these beasts been to enter the arke , it would have pazled noah to have sorted them into paires . if ever there were a rope of sand , it was so many sects twisted into an association . they agree in nothing , but that they are all adamites in understanding : it is the sign of a coward , to winke , and fight ; yet all their valour proceeds from their ignorance . but i wonder whence their generals purity proceeds ; it is not by traduction : if he was begotten saint , it was by equivocall generation : for the devill in the father , is turn'd monk in the son ; so his godlinesse is of the same parentage with good lawes ; both extracted out of bad manners ; and would he alter the scriptute , as he hath attempted the creed , he might vary the text , and say to corruption , thou art my father . this is he , that hath put out one of the kingdoms eyes , by clouding our mother-university , and ( if the scotch mist further prevaile ) will extinguish this other : he hath the like quarrell to both ; because both are strung with the same optick nerve , knowing loyalty . barbarous rebell ! who will be revengd upon all learning , because his treason is beyond the mercy of the book . the diurnall as yet hath not talkt much of his victories : but there is the more behind : for the knight must alwaies beat the gyant ; that 's resolv'd . if any thing fall out amisse , which cannot be smothered , the diurnall hath a help at maw ; it is but putting to sea , and taking a danish fleet ; or brewing it with some successe out of ireland , and it goes down merrily . there are more puppets , that move by the wyre of a diurnall ; as brereton and gell ; two of mars his petty-toes , such snivelling cowards , that it is a favour to call them so ; was brereton to fight with his teeth , as in all other things he resembles the beast , he would have odds of any man at the weapon ; o hee 's a terrible slaughterman at a thanks-giving dinner , had he been a canniball to have eaten those that he vanquish'd , his gut would have made him valiant . the greatest wonder is at fairfax , how he comes to be a babe of grace ? certainly it is not in his personall , but ( as the state sophies distinguish ) in his polotique capacity ; regenerated ab extra , by the zeale of the house he sate in , as chickens are hatcht at grand cairo , by the adoption of an oven . there is the wood-monger too , a feeble crutch to a declining cause , a new branch of the old oake of reformation . and now i speak of reformation , vous avez fox , the tinker ; the liveliest embleme of it that may be ; for what did this parliament ever go about to reforme , but tinker-wise , in mending one hole they made three . but i have not inke enough to cure all the tetters and ringwormes of the state . i will close up all thus . the victories of the rebels are like the magicall combate of apuleius ; who , thinking he had slain three of his enemies , found them at last , but a triumvirate of bladders . such , and so empty , are the triumphs of a diurnall : but so many impostumated fancies , so many bladders of their own blowing . finis . poems . square-cap . come hither apollo's bouncing girle , and in a whole hippocrene of sherry let 's drink a round till our braines do whirle , tuning our pipes to make ourselves merry : a cambridge-lasse , venus-like , borne of the froth of an old half-fill'd jug of barley broth , she , she is my mistris , her suiters are many , but shee 'l have a square-cap if ere she have any . and first for the plush-sake the monmouth-cap coms , shaking his head like an empty bottle ; with his new-fangled oath , by iupiters thumbs , that to herhealth hee 'l begin a pottle : he tells her that after the death of his grannam , he shall have — god knowes what per annum : but still she replies , good sir la-bee , if ever i have a man , square-cap for mee . then calot-leather-cap strongly pleads , and faine would derive the pedigree of fashion : the antipodes weare their shoes on their heads , and why may not we in their imitation ? oh , how this foot-ball noddle would please , if it were but well tost on s. thom●● his lees. but still she replied , &c. next comes the puritan in a wrought-cap , with a long-wasted conscience towards a sister , and making a chappell of ease of her lap , first he ●aid grace , and then he kist her . beloved , quoth he , thou art my text , then falls he to use and application next : but then she replied , your text ( sir ) i 'le be , for then i 'm sure you 'l ne'r handle me . but see where sattin-cap scouts about , and faine would this wench in his fellowship marry , he told her how such a man was not put out , because his wedding he closely did carry . hee 'l purchase induction by simonie , and offers her money her incumbent to be . but still she replied , god sir la-bee , if ever i have a man square-cap for me . the law●er's a sophister by his round cap , nor in their fallacies are they divided ; the one milks the pocket , the other the tap , and yet this wench he faine would have brided . come leave these thred-bare schollers , quoth he , and give me livery and season of thee : but peace iohn-a-nokes , and leave your oration , for i never will be your impropriation . i pray you therefore good sir la-bee ; for if ever i have a man square-cap for me . marke anthony . when as the nightingall chanted her vespers , and the wild forrester couch'd on the ground , venus invited me in th'evening whispers , unto a fragrant field with roses crown'd : where she before had sent my wishes complement , unto my hearts content , plaid with me on the green . never marke anthony dallied more wantonly with the faire egyptian . first on her cherry cheeks i mine eys feasted , then fear of surfetting made me retire : next on her warme lips , which when i tasted , my duller spirits made active as fire . then we began to dart each at anothers heart , arrowes that knew no smart : sweet lips and smiles between . never marke , &c. wanting a glasse to plate her amber tresses , which like a bracelet rich decked mine arme ; gawdier then iuno wears , when as she graces iove with embraces more stately then warme , then did shee peep in mine eyes humour chrystalline ; i in her eyes was seen , as if we one had been . never marke , &c. mysticall grammer of amorous glances , feeling of pulses the physick of love , rhetoricall cour●ings , and musicall dances ; numbring of kisses arithmetick prove . eyes like astronomy , streight limb'd geometry : in her hearts ingeny our wits are sharp and keene . never mark , &c. the authours mock-song to marke anthony . vvhen as the night-raven sung pluto's mattins , and cerberus cried three amens at a houle , when night wandring witches put on their pattins , midnight as dark as their faces are foule : then did the furies doome that the night-mare was come ; such a mis-shapen groom puts downe su. pomfret cleane . never did incubus touch such a filthy sus , as this foule gypsie queane . first on her goosberry cheeks i mine eyes blasted ; thence feare of vomiting made me retire unto the blewer lips , which when i tasted , my spirits were duller then dun in the mire . but then her breath took place , which went an ushers pace , and made way for her face ; you may guesse what i meane . never did , &c. like snaks engendring , were plated her tresses , or like the ●limy streaks of ropy ale ; uglier then envy wears , when she confesses her head is perewigg'd with adders taile . but as soone as she spake , i heard a harsh mandrake : laugh not at my mistake , her head is epicoene . never did , &c. mysticall magick of conjuring wrinckles , feeling of pulses , the palmestry of haggs , scolding out belches for rhe●orick twinckles ; with three teeth in her head like to three gaggs , rainebowes about her eyes , and her nose weather-wise ; from them th' almanack lies , frost , pond , and rivers cleane , never did , &c. vpon an hermophrodite . sir , or madame , chuse you whether , nature twist'd you both together : and makes thy soule two garbes confesse , both petticoat and breeches dresse . thus we chastise the god of wine , with water that is feminine , untill the cooler nymph abate his wrath , and so concorporate . adam till his rib was lost , had both sexes thus ingrost : when providence our sire did cleave , and out of adam carved eve , then did man 'bout wedlock treat , to make his body up compleat : thus matrimony speaks but thee in a grave solemnity . for man and wife make but one right canonicall hermophrodite . ravell thy body and i finde in every limb a double kinde . who would not thinke that head a paire , that breeds such faction in the haire● one halfe so churlish in the touch , that rather then endure so much , i would my tender limbs apparell in 〈◊〉 his nailed barrell : but the other halfe so small , and so amo●ous ●ithall , that cupid thinks each haire doth grow a string for his invis'ble bow . when i looke babies in thine eyes , here venus , there adonis lies . and though thy beauty be high noone , thy orbe containes both sun and moone . how many melting kisses skip 'twixt thy male and female lip ? 'twixt thy upper brush of haire and thy nether beards dispaire . when thou speak'st , i would not wrong thy sweetnesse with a double tongue : but in every single sound a perfect dialogue is found . thy breasts distinguish one another ; this the ●ister , that the brother . when thou joyn'st hands , my eare still fancies the nup●iall sound , i iohn take frances : feele but the difference , soft , and rough ; this a gantlet , that a muffe : had sly ulysses , at the sacke of troy , brought thee his pedlers pack , and weapons too to know achilles from king 〈◊〉 phillis , his plot had fail'd ; this hand would feele the needle , that the warlike steele . vvhen musick doth thy pace advance , thy right legge takes thy left to dance . nor is 't a galliard danc'd by one , but a mix● dance , though alone : thus every he●eroclite part changes gender , but thy heart . nay those which modest can meane , and dare not speak , are epicoene ; that gamester needs must overcome , that can play both tib and tom. thus did natures mintage vary , coyning thee a philip and mary . the authors hermaphrodite , made after m. randolphs death , yet inserted into his poems . probleme of sexes ; must thou likewise be as disputable in thy pedigree ? thou twins-in-one , in whom dame nature tries to throw lesse then aumes-ace upon two dice : wer 't thou serv'd up two in one dish , the rather to split thy sire into a double father ? true , the worlds scales are even : what the maine in one place gets , another quits againe . nature lost one by thee , and therefore must slice one in two , to keep her number just : plurality of livings is thy state , and therefore mine must be impropriate . for , since the child is mine , and yet the claime is intercepted by anothers name , never did steeple carry double truer , his is the donative , and mine the cure . then say my muse ( and without more dispute ) who 't is that fame doth superinstitute . the theban wittall , when he once descries , iove is his rivall , falls to sacrifice : that name hath tipt his hornes : see , on his knees , a health to hans-en-keldar hercules . nay sublunary cuckolds are content to entertaine their fate with complement : and shall not he be proud , whom randolph daignes to quarter with his muse both armes and braines ? gramercy gossip ; i rejoyce to see shee'th got a leap of such a barbarie . talk not of hornes , hornes are the poets crest : for since the muses left their former nest , to found a nunnery in randolphs quill , cuckold pernassus is a forked hill . but stay , i 've wak't his dust , his marble stirs , and brings the wormes for his compurgators . can ghost have naturall sonnes ? say ogg , is 't meet , penance beare date after the winding-sheet ? were it a phoenix ( as the double kinde may seem to prove , being there 's two combin'd ) it would disclaime my right : and that it were the lawfull issue of his ashes , sweare . but was he dead ? did not his soule translate her selfe into a shop of lesser rate ? or break up house , like an expensive lord , that gives his purse a sob , and lives at board ? let old pythagoras but play the pimp , and still there 's hopes 't may prove his bastard imp . but i 'me prophane ; for grant the world had one , with whom he might contract an union , they two were one : yet like an eagle spread , i' th body joyn'd , but parted in the head . for you my brat , that pose the porph'ry chaire , pope iohn , or ioan , or whatsoere you are , you are a nephew ; grieve not at your state , for all the world is illegitimate . man ca●not get a man , unlesse the sun club to the act of generation . the sun and man get man ; thus tom and i are the joynt fathers of thy poetry . for since ( b●est shade ) this verse is male , but mine o ●h weaker 〈◊〉 , a fancy foeminine : 〈…〉 the child , and yet commit no slaughter , sword● shall 〈◊〉 be thy son , and yet my daughter . vpon phillis walking in a morning before sun-rising . the sluggish morn as yet undrest , my phyllis brake from out her east ; as if shee 'd made a match to run with venus , usher to the sun . the trees , like yeomen of her guard , serving more for pomp , then 〈◊〉 , rank'd on each side with loyall duty , weave branches to inclose her beau●y . the plants , whose luxury was lopt , or age with crutches underpropt ; whose wooden carkases are growne to be but coffi●s of their owne ; revive , and at her generall dole each receives his ancient soule . the winged choristers began to chi●p their mattins : and the fan of whistling winds , like organs , plai'd , untill their voluntaries made the wakened earth in odours rise , to be her morning-sacrifice . the flowers , call'd out of their beds , start , and raise up their drowsie heads : and he that for their colour seeks , may find it vaulting in her cheeks , where roses mix : no civill war between her york and lancaster . the marigold , whose courtiers face ecchoes the sun , and doth unlace her at his rise , at his full stop packs , and shuts up her gawdy shop ; mistakes here ●ue , and doth display . thus phyllis antidates the day . these miracles had cramp't the sun , who thinking that his kingdom 's won , powders with light his frizled locks , to see what saint his lustre mocks . the trembling leaves through which he plaid , dapling the walk with light and shade , like lattice-windowes , give the spie room but to peep with halfe an eye ; least her full orb his sight should dim , and bids us all good-night in him , till she would spend a gentle ray , to force us a new-fashion'd day . but what religious palsie's this which makes the boughs divest their bliss ? and that they might her foot-steps strawe , drop their leaves with shivering awe . phillis perceives , and ( least her stay should wed october unto may ; and as her beauty caus'd a spring , devotion might an autumne bring ) with-drew her 〈◊〉 , yet made no night , but left the sun her curat● light . vpon a miser that made a great feast , and the next day dyed for griefe . nor 'scapes he so : our dinner was so good , my liquorish muse cannot but chew the cood : and what delight she tooke i' th' invitation , strives to tast o're againe in this relation . after a tedious grace in hopkins r●●hme , not for devotion , but to take up time , march't the train'd-band of dishes usher'd there , to shew their postures , and then as they were . for he invites no teeth , perchance the eye he will afford the lovers gluttony ; this is a feast , a muster , not a fight ; our weapons not for servie , but for fight . but are we tantaliz'd ? is all this meat cook'd by a limner , for to view , not eat ? th' astrologers keep such houses when they sup on joynts of ●aurus , or their heavenly tup . whatever feasts he made are su●'d up here , his table vyes not standing with his cheare . his churchings , christ'nings , in this meale are all , and not transcrib'd , but i' th originall . christmas is no feast movable : for loe the selfe-same dinner was ten yeares agoe : 't will be immortall if it longer stay , the gods will eat it for am●rosia . but stay awhile ; unlesse my whinyard faile , or it inc●●nted , i 'le cut off th'intaile . sa●nt george 〈◊〉 england then : have at the mutton , when the first cut calls me 〈…〉 gl●tto● : what d●ax with ●is anger quodl'd 〈◊〉 killing a sheep thought 〈…〉 slaine : the 〈…〉 ; wounding his rost , i 〈…〉 up mine host . such 〈◊〉 is with 〈…〉 makes him an eunuch , whe● it carves his 〈◊〉 . cut a goose-leg , and the poore so●le for moane turnes creeple too , a●d after stands on one . have you not 〈…〉 a lan●aster grand 〈◊〉 will report ? the souldier with his morg●y watcht the mill , the cats they came to feast when lust●e will whips off great pusses leg , 〈◊〉 by so●e charme proves the next day such an old wom●ns arme : 't is so with him , whoe cark●se never ' ●capes , but still we slash him in a thousand sh●●es . our serving-men like spaniells range●●o spring the fowle which he hath clockt 〈…〉 his wing . should he on widgeo● , or on woodcock feed , it were ( thyestes-like ) on his owne breed . to porke he pleads a supersti●n d●e , but not a mouth is muzled by the ●ew . sawces we should have none had he his wish , the oranges i' th margent of the dish he with such hucsters tells them o're and o're , th' hesperian dragon never watcht them more . but being eaten now into dispaire , having nought else to doe , he falls to prayer : as thou did'st once put on the forme of bull , and turn'st thy lo to a lovely mull , defend my rump great love ; grant this poor beefe may live to comfort me in all this griefe . but no amen was said : see , ●ee it comes , draw boyes , let trumpets sound & strike up drums . see how his blood doth with the gravie swim , and every trencher has a limb of him . the ven'sons now in view , our hounds spend deeper , strange deer , which in the pasty hath a keeper stricter then in the park , making his guest ( as he had stoln 't alive ) to steale it drest : the scent was hot ; and we pursuing faster , then ovids pack of dogs e're chas'd their master , a double prey at once may seize upon , actaeon and his case of venison : thus was he torne alive . to vex him worse , death serves him up now as a second coorse . should we , like thratians , our dead bodies eat , he would have liv'd only to save his meat . a young man to an old woman courting him . peace beldam eve ; surcease thy suit : there 's no temptation in such fruit . no rotten medlers , whil'st there be whole orchards in virginitie . thy stock is too much out of date for tender plants t' inoculate . a match with thee thy bridegroome feares would be thought int'rest in his years , which when compar'd to thine , become odd money to thy grandam summe . can wedlocke know so great a curse as putting husbands out to nurse ? how pond and rivers would mistake , and cry new almanacks for our sake ? time sure hath wheel'd about his yeare , december meeting laniveere . the aegyptian serpent figures time , and stript , returnes unto his prime : if my affection thou would'st win , first cast thy hieroglyphick skin . my moderne lips know not ( alack ) the old religion of thy smack . i count that primitive embrace , as out of fashion as thy face , and yet so long 't is since thy fall , thy fornication 's classicall . our sports will differ : thou may'st play , leer● , and i alphonso way . i 'me no translator ; have no veine to turn a woman young againe : unlesse you 'l grant the tailor's due , to see the forebodies be new : i love to weare cloaths that are flush , not prefacing old rags with plush : like aldermen , or monster-sheriffs , with canvas backs , and velvet sleeves . and just such discord there would be betwixt thy skeleton and me . go study salve and treacle , ply your tenants leg , or his sore eye ; thus matrons purchase credit , thank six penni-worth of mountebank . or chew thy cood on some delight thou takest in thy eighty eight . or be but bedrid once , and then thou 'lt dream thy youthfull sins agen . but if thou needs wilt be my spouse , first hearken , and attend my vowes . " when aet●na's fires shall undergo " the penance of the alps in snow , " when sol at one blast of his horne " posts from the c●ab to capricorne , " when th' heavens shuffle all in one , " the torrid with the frozen zone ; " when all these contradictions meet , " then ( sybill ) thou and i will greet . " for all these similies do hold " n my young heat and thy dull cold ; " then if a feaver be so good " a pimp , as to inflame thy blood , hymen shall twist thee , and thy page , the distinct tropicks of mans age . well ( madam time ) be ever bald , i le not thy periwig be cal'd . i le never be , ' stead of a lover , an aged ●hronicles new cover . to mrs. k. t. who askt him why hee was dumb . stay , should i answer ( lady ) then in vaine would be your question . should i be dumb , why then againe your asking me would be in vaine . silence nor speech ( on neither hand ) can satisfie this strange demand . yet since your will throwes me upon this wished contradiction , i le tell you how i did become so strangely ( as you heare me ) dumb . ask but the chap-falne puritan , 't is zeale that tongue-ties that good man : for heat of conscience , all men hold , is th'onely way to catch that cold . how should loves zealot then forbear to be your silenc'd minister ? nay your religion which doth grant a worship due to you my saint , yet counts it that devotion wrong that does it in the vulgar tongue . my ruder words would give offence to such an hallow'd excellence ; as th'english dialect would vary the goodnesse of an ave mary . how can i speak , that twice am checkt by this and that religious sect ? still dumb , and in your face i spie still cause , and still divinitie . as soon as blest wit● your salute , my manners taught me to be mute : for , least they cancell all the blisse you sign'd with so divine a kisse , the lips you seal must needs consent unto the tongues imprisonment . my tongue in hold , my voice doth rise ( with a strange e●la ) to my eyes ; where it gets baile , and in that sense begins a new-found eloquence . oh listen with attentive sight to what my pratling eyes indite . or ( lady ) since 't is in your choice , to give , or to suspend my voice , with the same key set ope the doore wherewith you lockt it fast before ; kisse once againe , and when you thus have doubly been miraculous , my muse shall write with handmaids duty the golden legend of your beauty . he whom his dumbnesse now confines , but meanes to speak the rest by signes . i. c. a faire nimph scorning a black boy courting her . nimph . stand off , and let me take the aire ; why should the smoak pursue the faire ? boy . my face is smoak , thence may be guest what flames within have scorch'd my brest . nymph . the flame of love i cannot view , for the dark lanterne of thy hue . boy . and yet this lanterne keeps loves taper surer then yours , that 's of white paper . whatever midnight hath been here , the moon-shine of your light can cleare . nymph . my moon of an eclipse is 'fraid , if thou should'st interpose thy shade . boy . yet one thing ( sweet-heart ) i will ask , buy me for a new false mask . nymph . yes : but my bargaine shall be this , i 'le throw my mask off when i kisse . boy . our curl'd embraces shall delight to checquer limbs with black , and white . nymph . thy ink , my paper , make me guesse , our nuptiall bed will make a presse ; and in our sports , if any came , they 'l read a wanton epigram . boy . why should my black thy love impaire ? let the dark shop commend thy ware : or if thy love from black forbeares , i 'le strive to w●sh it off with teares . nymph . spare fruitlesse teares , since thou must needs still weare about thee mourning weeds : teares can no more affection win , then wash thy aethiopian skin . vpon the death of m. king drowned in the irish seas . i like not teares in tune , nor will prize his ar●●ficiall grief that scanns his eyes : 〈◊〉 weep down pious beads ; but why should i con●ine them to the muses rosarie ? i am no poet , here my pen's the spout where the raine-water of my eyes runs out , in pitie of that name , whose fate we see thus copied out in griefs hydrographie . the muses are not mermaids , though upon thy death the ocean might turn helicon . the sea 's too rough for verse ; who rimes upon 't , with x●●xes , str●ves to fetter th' hellespont . my teares will keep no channells , know no lawes to guide their streams , but like the waves , this cause runs with disturbance , till they swallow me , as a description of his miserie . but can his spacious vertues finde a grave within th' impostu●'d bubble of a wave , whose learning if we sound , we must confesse the sea but shallow , and him bottomlesse ? could not the winds , to countermand thy death , w●● their whole chard of lungs , redeem thy breath ? or some new island in thy rescue peepe , to heave thy resurrection from the deep ? that so the world might see thy safety wrought with no lesse miracle then thy selfe : most thought the famous stagyrite , which in his life had nature as familiar as his wife , bequeath'd his widdow to survive with thee , queene-dowager of all philosophie , an ominous legacy , that did portend thy fat● , and predcessors second end . some have affi●m'd that what on earth we finde , the sea can parallell for shape and kinde . books , a●ts , and 〈◊〉 were wanting , but in thee neptune hath got an universitie . wee 'l dive no more for pearle , we hope to see thy sacred reliques of mortalitie . wee 'l welcome storms , and make the sea-man prize his shipwrack now , more then his merchandize . he shall embrace the w●ves , and to ●y tombe , as to a royaller exchange shall come . what can we now expect ? water and fire , both elements of ruine , do conspire ; and that resolves us which doth us compound , one vatican was barnt , another dr●wn'd . vve of the gowne ou● l●braries must tosse , to understand the great 〈◊〉 of our losse ; be pupills to our griefe , and so much grow in learning , as our sorrow●s overfl●w vvhen we have● fill'd t●e r●●d●ets of our eyes , vvee 'l send it forth , and ven● such ●●egies : so that our teares shall 〈…〉 , vve floating islands , living 〈◊〉 . a dialogue between two zealots , upon the &c. in the oath . sir roger , from a zealous piece of freeze , rais'd to a vicar of the childrens threes ; whose yearly audit may , by strict accompt , to twenty nobles , and his vailes amount ; fed on the common of the femal charity , untill the scots can bring about their parity ; so shotten , that his soul , like to himselfe , walks but in querpo : this same clergie elfe , encount'ring with a brother of the cloth , fell presently to cudglels with the oath . the quarrel was a strange mis-shapen monster , &c. ( god blesse us ) which they conster , the brand upon the buttock of the beast , the dragons taile ti'd on a knot , a neast of young apocryphaes , the fashion of a new mentall reservation . while roger thus divides the text , the other winks and expounds , saying , my pious brother hearken with reverence ; for the point is nice , i never read on 't , but i fasted twice , and so by revelation , know it better then all the learn'd idolaters o' th letter . with that he swell'd , and fell upon the theame , like great goliah with his weavers beame : i say to thee &c. thou li'st , thou art the curled locke of antichrist : rubbish of babell , for who will not say tongues were confounded in & c. ? who sweares &c. sweares more oathes at once then cerberus out of his triple sconce . who viewes it well , with the same eye beholds the old halfe serpent in his numerous foulds . accurst &c. thou , for now i scent what lately the prodigious oysters meant . oh booker , booker , how cam'st thou to lack this sign in thy prophetick almanack ? it 's the dark vault wherein th'infernall plot of powder 'gainst the state was first begot . per●●e the oath , and you shall soon descry it by all the father garnets that stand by it . gainst whom the church , whereof i am a member , shall keep another fifth day of november . yet here 's not all , i cannot halfe untruss &c. it 's so abominous . the trojan nag was not so fully lin'd , unrip &c. and you shall finde og the great commissary , and which is worse , th'apparatour upon his skew-bald horse . then ( finally my babe of grace ) forbeare , &c. will be too farre to sweare : for 't is ( to speake i● a familiar stile ) a yorkshire wea-bit , longer then a mile . then roger was inspir'd , and by gods-diggers , hee 'l sweare in words at large , and not in figures . now by this drink , which he takes off , as loth to leave &c. in his liquid oath . his brother pledg'd him , and that bloody wine , he swea●s shall ●eale the synods cataline . so they drunke on , not offering to part till they had quite sworne out th'eleventh quart : while all t●at saw and heard them joyntly pray , 〈…〉 ●ribe were all &c. smectymnuus , or the club-divines . smectymnuus ? the goblin makes me start : i' th' name of rabbi abraham , what art ? 〈◊〉 ? or ●rabick ? or welsh ? what skilt ? ap all the bricklayers that babell built . ●ome conjurer translate , and let me know it : 'till then 't is fit for a west-saxon poet . but doe the brother-hood then play their prizes , like mummers in religion with disguises ? out-brave us with a name in rank and file , a name which if 't were train'd would spread a mile ? the saints monopolie , the zealous cluster , which like a porcupine presents a muster , and shoots his quills at bishops and their sees , a devout litter of young maccabees . thus jack-of-all-trades hath devoutly showne , the twelve apostles on a cherry-stone . thus faction 's all-a-mode in treasons fashion ; now we have heresie by complication . like to don-quixots rosary of slaves strung on a chaine ; a murnivall of knaves packt in a trick ; like gypsies when they ride , or like colleagues which sit all of a side : so the vaine satyrists stand all a row , as hollow teeth upon a lute-string show . th' italian monster pregnent with his brother , natures diaeresis , halfe one another , he , with his little sides-man lazarus , must both give way unto smectym●uus . next 〈…〉 is smec's ; for loe his side into a ●ive-fold lazar's multipli'd . under each a●me there 's tuckt a double gizzard , five faces lu●ke under one single vizzard . the whore of babylon left these brats behind , heires of confusion by gavell-kind . i think pythagoras's soule is rambl'd hither , with all the change of rayment on together : sm●c is her generall wardrobe , shee 'l not dare to think of them as of a thorough-fare ; he stops the gossopping dame ; alone he is the purlew of a metempsuchosis . like a scotch marke , where the more modest sense checks the loud phrase , & shrinks to thirteen pence : like to an ignis fatuus , whose flame though sometimes tripartite , joynes in the same : like to nine taylors , who if rightly spelled , into one man , are monosyllabled . short-handed zeale in one hath cramped many , like to the decalogue in a single penny . see , see , how close the curs hunt under a sheet , as if they sp●nt in quire , and scan'd their feet ; one cure and five incumbents leap a truss , the title sure must be litigious . the sadduces would raise a question , who must be smec at th' resurrection . who cook'd them up together , were to blame , had they but w●re-drawn , and spun out their name , 't would make another prencices petition against the bishops and their superstition . robson and french ( that count from five to five , as farre as nature fingers did contrive , she saw they would be sessers ; that 's the cause she cleft their hoof into so many clawes ) may tire their carret-bunch , yet ne're agree to rate smectymnuus for polemonie . galigula , whose pride was mankinds baile , as who disdain'd to murder by retaile , wishing the world had but one generall neck , his gl●tton blade might have found game in smec . no eccho can improve the author more , whose lungs payes use on use to halfe a score . no fellon is more letter'd , though the brand both superscribes his shoulder and his hand . some welch-man was his godfather ; for he weares in his name his genealogie . the banes are askt , would but the time give way , betwixt smectymnuus , and &c. the guests invited by a friendly summons , should be the convocation , and the commons . the priest to tie these foxes tails together , moseley , or sancta clara , chuse you whether . see , what an off-spring every one expects ? what strange pluralities of men and sects ? one sayes , hee 'l get a vestery ; another is for a synod : bet upon the mother . faith cry s. george , let them go to 't , and stickle , whether a conclave , or a conventicle . thus might religions caterwaule , and spight , which uses to divorce , might once unite . but their crosse fortunes interdict their trade ; the groome is rampant , but the bride displai'd . my task is done ; all my hee-goats are milkt ; so many cards i' th stock , and yet be bilkt ? i could by letters now untwist the rable , whip smec from constable to constable . but there i leave you to another dressing , onely kneel downe , and take your fathers blessing . may the queen-mother justifie your fears , and stretch her patent to your leather-ears . the mixt assembly . fleabitten synod : an assembly brew'd of clerks and elders ana , like the rude chaos of presbyt'ry , where lay-men guide with the ●ame woolpack clergie by their side . who askt the banes 'twixt these discolour'd mates ? a strange grottesco this , the church and states ( most divine tick-tack ) in a pye-bald crew , to serve as table-men of divers hue . she that conceiv'd an aethiopian heire by picture , when the parents both were faire , at sight of you had borne a dappl'd son , you checquering her imagination . had iacobs flock but seen you sit , the dams had brought forth speckled and ringstreaked lambs . like an impropriators motley kind , vvhose scarlet coat is with a cassock lin'd . like the lay-thiese in a canonick weed , sure of his clergie e're he did the deed , like royston crowes who are ( as i may say ) friers of both the orders black and gray . s● mixt they are , one knowes not whether 's thicker , a layre of burgesse , or a layre of vicar . have they usurp'd what royall iudah had ? and now must levi too part stakes with god ? the scepter and the crosier are the crutches , which if not trusted in their pious clutches , will saile the criple-state . and were 't not pity but both should serve the yardwand of the city ? that isau might stroke his beard , and sit judge of 〈◊〉 and elegerit . oh that they were in chalk and charcole drawne ! the misselany satyr , and the fawne , and all th'adulteries of twisted nature b●t faintly represent this ridling feature , vvhose m●mbers being not tallies , they 'l not own their fellows at the resurrection . strange scarler doctors these , they 'l passe in story for sinners halfe refin'd in purgatory ; or parboyl'd l●bsters , where there joyntly rules the fading sables and the coming gules . the flea that faistaff● damn'd , thus lewdly showes tormented in the flames of bardolphs nose . like him that wore the dialogue of cloaks , this shoulder 〈◊〉 a styles , that iohn a noaks . like je●es and christians in a ship together , with an old ne●k verse to distinguish either . like their intended discipline to boot , or whatsoe're hath neither head nor foot : such may these stript-stuffe hangings seem to be , sacriledge matcht with codpeece symonie ; be sick and d●eam a little , you may then phansie these linsie-woolsie vestry-men . forbeare good pembroke , be not over-daring , such company may chance to spoile thy swearing : and these drum-major oaths of bulke unruly , may dwindle to a feeble by my truly . he that the noble percyes bloud inherits , will he strike up a hotspur of the spirits ? hee 'l f●ght the obadiahs out of tune , with his u●circumcised algernoon . a name so stubborne , 't is not to be scan'd by him in gath with the six finger'd hand . see , they obey the magick of my words . presto ; they re gone . and now the house of lords looks like 〈◊〉 wither'd face of an old hagg , but with three teeth like to a triple gagg . a jig , a ji● : and in this antick dance fielding , and doxy marshall first advance . twiss blowes the scotch pipes , and the loving brase puts on the traces , and treads ●inque-a-pace . then say and seale must his old hamstrings supple , and he and ru●pl'd palmer make a couple . palmer's a fruitfull girle , if hee 'l unfold her , the midwife may finde worke about her shoulder , kimbolton that rebellious boanerges , must be content to saddle doctor burges . if burges get a clap , 't is ne're the worse , but the fift time of his cmpurgators . nol bowles is coy ; good sadnesse cannot dance but in obedience to the ordinance , her wharton wheels about till mumping lidy , like the full moon , hath made his lordship giddy . pym and the members must their giblets levy t' incounter madam smec , that single bevy . if they two truck together , 't will not be a child-birth , but a goale-deliverie . thus every gibeline hath got his guelph , but selden , hee 's a galliard by himself , and well may be ; there 's more divines in him then in all this their jewish sanhedrim : whose canons in the forge shall then beare date , when mules their cosin-germanes generate . thus moses law is violated now , the oxe and asse go yok'd in the same plough . resigne thy coach-box twisse ; brook's preacher , he would sort the beasts with more conformitie . water & earth make but one globe , a roundhead is clergy-lay party-per-pale compounded . the kings disguise . and why so coffin'd to this vile disguise ? which who but sees , blasphemes thee with his eyes . my twins of light within their pent-house shrink , and hold it their allegeance to wink . oh for a state-distinction to arraigne charles of high treason 'gainst my soveraigne . what an usurper to his prince is wont , cloyster and shave him , he himselfe hath don 't . his muffled fabrick speaks him a recluse , his ruines prove it a religious house . the sun hath mew'd his beams from off his lamp , and majesty defac'd the royall stamp . is 't not enough thy dignity 's in thrall , but thou'lt transcribe it in thy shape and all ? as if thy blacks were of too faint a dye , without the tincture of tautologie . flay an egyptian for his cassock skin , spun of his countreys darknesse , lin't within with presbyterian budge , that drowsie trance , the synods sable , foggie ignorance ; nor bodily nor ghostly negro could rough-cast thy figure in a sadder mould : that privie-chamber of thy shape would be but the close-mourner to thy royaltie . then break the circle of thy taylors spell , a pearle within a rugged oyster-shell . heaven , which the minster of thy person owns , will fine thee for dilapidations . like to a martyr'd abbeys courser doome , devoutly alter'd to a pigeon roome : or like the colledge , by the changeling rabble , manchesters elves , transform'd into a stable . or , if there be a prophanation higher , such is the sacriledge of this attire , by which th'art halfe depos'd , thou look'st like one whose looks are under sequestration : whose renegado form , at the first glance , shewes like the selfe-denying ordinance . angell of light , und darknesse too , i doubt , inspir'd within , and yet posses'd without . majestick twilight in the state of grace , yet with an excommunicated face . charles and his mask are of a different mint , a psalme of mercy in a miscreant print . the sun wears midnight , day is beetle-brow'd , and lightning is in keldar of a cloud . 〈…〉 of fate ! 〈…〉 eagle shrunk into a bat ? 〈…〉 what magick vapour can it be that shri●ks his rayes to this apostasie ? it is no subtile film of 〈◊〉 ayre , no go●-web vizard , such as ladies weare , when th●● are veil'd , on purpose to be seen . doubling their lustre by their vanquisht skreen : nor the false scabberd of a princes tough me●all , and three-pil'd darknesse , like the * slough of an imprisoned flame , 't is faux in grain● , dark 〈◊〉 to our high meridian . hell belcht the damp , the warwick-castle vote rang britains curfeu , so our light went out . thy visage is not legible , the letters , like a lords name , writ in fantastick fetters : cloaths where a switzer might be buried quick , sure they would fit the body politick . false beard , enough to fit a stages plot , for that 's the ambush of their wit , god wot . nay all his properties so strange appeare , y' are not i' th' presence , though the king be there . a libell is his dresse , a garb uncouth , such as the * hue and cry once purg'd at mouth . scribling assasinate , thy lines a●●est an eare-mark due ; cub of the blatant beast , whose breath before 't is syllabled for worse , is blasphemy unfledg'd , a callow curse . the laplanders , when they would ●ell a wind wafting to hell , bag up thy phrase and bind it to the barque , which at the voyage end shifts poop , and brings the collick in the fiend . it to the barque , which at the voyage end shifts poop , and breeds the collick in the fiend . but i 'le not dub thee with a glorious scar , nor sink thy skuller with a man of war . the black-mouth'd siquis , and this slandering suite , both do alike in picture execute . but since w' are all call'd papist , why not dare devotion to the rags thus consecrate . as temples use to have their porches wrought with sphynxes , creatures of an antick draught , and puzling pourtraitures , to shew that there riddles inhabited , the like is here . the black offender , should he weare his fin for penance , could not have a darker skin . but pardon sir , since i presume to be clarke of this closet to your majestie : methinks in this your darke mysterious dresse i see the gospell coucht in parables . the second view , my pur-blind fancy wipes , and shewes religion in its dusky types . such a text royall , so obscure a shade was solomon in proverbs all array'd . now all ye brats of this expounding age , to whom the spirit is in pupill age ; you that damne more then ever sampson slew , and with his engine , the same jaw-bone too : how is 't charles 'scapes your inquisition free , since bound up in the bibles liverie ? hence cabinet-untrussers , picklocks hence , you that dim jewells with your bristoll-sense : and characters , like witches , so torment , till they confesse a guilt , though innocent . keyes for this cypher you can never get , none but s. peters opes this cabinet . this cabinet , whose aspect would benight critick spectators with redundant light . a prince most seen , is least : what scriptures call the revelation , is most mysticall . mount then thou shadow royall , and with haste , advance thy morning star , charles's overcast . may thy strange journey contradictions twist , and force faire weather from a scottish mist . heavens confessors are pos'd , those star-ey'd sages to interpret an ecclipse , thus riding stages . thus israel-like he travels with a cloud , both as a conduct to him , and a shroud . but oh ! he goes to gibeon , and renewes a league with mouldy bread , and clouted shooes . the rebell scot . how ! providence ! and yet a scottish crew ! then madam nature wears black patches too . what ? shall our nation be in bondage thus unto a land that truckles under us ? ring the bells backward ; i am all on fire , not all the buckets in a country quire shall quench my rage . a poet should be fear'd whe● angry , like a comets flaming beard . and where 's the stoick ? can his wrath appease to see his countrey sick of pym's disease by scotch invasion ? to be made a prey to such pig-wiggin mirmidons as they ? but that there 's cha●me in verse , i will not quote the name of scot , without an antidote ; unlesse my head were red , that i might brew invention there that might be poyson too . were i a drowsie judge whose dismall note disg●●geth halters , as a juglers throat doth ribbands : could i ( in sir emp'ricks tone ) speake pills in phrase , and quack destruction : or roare like marshall , that gen●vah-bull , hell and damnation a pulpit full : yet to expresse a scot , to play that prize , not all those mouth-grandoes can suffice . before a scot can properly be curst , i must ( like hocus ) swallow daggers first . come keen lambicks , with your badgers feet , and badger-like , bite till your teeth do meet . help ye tart satyrists , to imp my rage , with all the scorpions that should whip this age . scots are like witches ; do but whe● your pen , scratch til the blood come ; they 'l not hurt you then . now as the martyrs were inforc'd to take the shapes of beasts , like hypocrites , at stake , i 'le bait my scot so ; yet not cheat your eyes , a scot within a beast is no disguise . no more let ireland brag , her 〈◊〉 nation fosters no venome , since the scots plantation : nor can ours feign'd antiquity maintaine ; since they came in , england hath wolves againe . the scot that kept the tower might have showne ( within the gra●e of his 〈◊〉 ●rest alone ) the 〈…〉 panther ; and ingrost what all those wild collegiats had cost the honest high-shoes , in their termly fees , first to the salvage lawyer , next to these . nature her selfe doth scotch-men beasts confesse , making their countrey such a wildernesse : a land , that brings in question and suspense gods omnipresence , but that charls came thence . but that montrosse and crawfords loyall band atton'd their sins , and christ'ned halfe the land : nor is it all the nation hath these spots ; there is a church , as well as kirk of scots : as in a picture , where the squinting paint shewes fiend on this side , and on that side saint . he that saw hell in 's melancholie dreame , and in the twilight of his fanc●e's theame , scar●d from his sins , repented in a fright , had he view'd ●cotland , had ●urn'd proselite . a land , where one may pray with curst intent , o may they never suffer banishment ! had cain beene scot , god would have chang'd his doome , not forc'd him wander , but confin'd him home . like jewes they spread , and as infection flie , as if the devill had ubiquitie . hence 't is , they live at rovers ; and defie this or that place , rags of geographie . they 're citizens o' th world ; they 're all in all , scotland's a nation epidemicall . and yet they ramble not , to learne the mode how to be drest , or how to lisp abroad , to returne knowing in the spanish shrug , or which of the dutch states a double jug resembles most , in belly , or in beard : the card by which the travellers are steard . no ; the scots-errant fight , and fight to eat ; their estrich stomacks make their swords their meat . nature with scots as tooth-drawers hath dealt , who use to hang their teeth upon their belt. yet wonder not at this their happy choice ; the serpent's fatall still to paradise . sure england hath the hemerods , and these on the north posterne of the patient seize , like leeches : thus they physically thirst after our blood , but in the cure shall burst . let them not thinke to make us run o' th score , to purchase villanage , as once before , when an act past , to stroake them on the head , call them good subjects , buy them ginger-bread . nor gold , nor acts of grace ; 't is steel must tame the stubborne scot : a prince that would reclaime rebells by yeelding , doth like him , ( or worse ) who sadled his owne back to shame his horse . was it for this you left your leaner soyle , thus to lard israel with aegypts spoyle ? they are the gospells life-guard ; but for them , the garrison of new jerusalem , what would the brethren do ? the cause the cause ! sack possets , and the fundamentall lawes ! lord ! what a godly thing is want of shirts ! how a scotch-stamack , and no meat , converts ! they wanted food , and raiment ; so they took religion for their seamstresse , and their cook . unmaske them well ; their honors and estate , as well as conscience , are sophisticate . shrive but their titles , and their money poize , a laird and twenty pence pronounc'd with noise , when const●ued , but for a plaine yeoman goe , and a good sober twopence ; and well so . hence then you proud impostors , get you gone ; you picts in gentry and devotion : you scandalls to the stock of verse ! a race ! able to bring the gibbet in disgrace ! hyp●●●olus by suffering did traduce the ostracisme , and sham'd it out of use . the indian that heaven did forsweare , because he heard the spaniards were there , had he but knowne what scots in hell had been , he would erasmus-like have hung betweene . my muse hath done . a voider for the nonce ! i wrong the devill , should i pick the bones ? that dish is his : for when the scots decease , hell , like their nation , feeds on barnacles . a scot , when from the gallow-tree got loose , drops into s●yx , and turns a solun-go●se . rupertismus . o that i could but vote my selfe a poet ! or had the legislative knack to do it : or , like the doctors militant , could get dub'd at adventures verser 〈◊〉 ! or had i cacus trick to make my rimes their owne antipodes , and 〈◊〉 the times : f●ces about , sayes the remonstra●● 〈◊〉 ; allegeance is 〈…〉 : 〈◊〉 colt , 〈…〉 recorder , might be a 〈…〉 order : had i but elsing's guift ( that splay-mouth'd brother ) that declares one way , and yet meanes another : could i but write a-squint ; then ( sir ) long since you had been sung , a great and glorious prince . i had observ'd the language of the daies ; blasphem'd you ; and then periwigg'd the phrase with humble service , and such other fustian , bels which ring backward in this great combustion . i had revil'd you ; and without offence , the literall , and equitable sence would make it good : when all failes , that will do 't : sure that distinction cleft the devils foot . this were my dialect , would your highnesse please to read me but with hebrew spectacles ; interpret counter , what is crosse rehears'd : libels are commendations , when revers'd . just as an optique glasse contracts the sight at one end , but when turn'd doth multiply't . but you 're inchanted , sir ; you 're doubly free from the great guns , and squibbing poetrie : whom neither bilbo , nor invention pierces , proofe even 'gainst th' artillerie of verses . strange ! that the muses cannot wound your maile ; if not their art , yet let their sex prevaile . at that knowne leaguer , where the bonny besses supplyed the bow-strings with their twisted tresses , your spels could ne're have fenc'd you : every arrow had launc'd your noble breast , & drunk the marrow : for beauty , like white powder , makes no noise ; and yet the silent hypocrite destroyes . then use the nuns of helicon with pity , lest wharton tell his gossips of the city , that you kill women too ; nay maids : and such their generall wants militia to touch . impotent essex ! is it not a shame , our common-wealth , like to a turkish dame , should have an eunuch-guardian ? may she be ravish'd by charles , rather then sav'd by thee . but why , my muse , like a green-sicknesse-girle , feed'st thou on coales and dirt ? a gelding-earle gives no more relish to thy female palat , then to that asse did once the thistle-sallat . then quit the barren theme ; and all at once thou and thy sisters , like bright amazons , give rupert an alarum , rupert ! one whose name is wits superfoetation . makes fancy , like eternities round wombe , unite all valour , present , past , to come . he , who the old philosophie controules , that voted down plurality of soules , he breaths a grand committee ; all that were the wonders of their age , constellate here . and as the elder sisters , growth and sence ( souls paramount themselves ) in man commence but faculties of reasons queene ; no more are they to him who were compleat before . ingredients of his vertue thread the beads of caesar's acts , great pompey's , and the sweads : and 't is a bracelet fit for rupert's hand , by which that vast triumvirate is span'd . here , here is palmestry ; here you may read , how long the world shall live , & when 't shall bleed . whatever man winds up , that rupert hath : for nature rais'd him of the publike faith . pandora's brother , to make up whose ●●ore , the gods were faine to run upon the score . such was the painters brieve for 〈◊〉 ; item an eye from iane , a lip from 〈◊〉 let isaac and his cit'z-●lea off the ●lace that tips their antlets for the 〈…〉 ; let the zeale-twanging nose that wants a ●idge , snuffling devoutly , drop his silve● bridge : yes , and the gossips spoon 〈◊〉 the summe , although poore cal●b lose his christ●ndome : rupert out-weighs that in his sterling-selfe , which their selfe-wants paies in commuting pelfe . pardon , great sir , for that ignoble crew gaines , when made bankrupt , in the scales with you . as he , who in his character of light stil'd it gods shadow , made it far 〈…〉 by an ecclipse so glorious , ( light is ●im , and a black nothing , when compar'd to him ) so 't is illustrious to be ruperts foile , and a just trophee to be made his spoile . i 'le pin my faith on the diurnalls●●eeve hereafter , and the guild-hall creed beleeve ; the conquests , which the common-councel hears with their wide list'ning mouth , from the great peers that ran away in triumph : such a foe can make them victors in their overthrow : where providence and valour meet in one , courage so poiz'd with circumspection , that he revives the quarrell once againe of the soules throne , whether in heart or braine ; and leaves it a drawne march : whose fervour can hatch him , whom nature poach'd but halfe a man , his trumpet like the argells at the last , makes the soul rise by a miraculous blast , 't was the mount athos c●rv'd in shape of man ( as 't was defin'd by the ma●edonian ) whose right hand should a populous land contain , the left should be a channell to the maine : his spirit might informe th' amphibious figure ; yet straight-lac'd sweats for a dominion bigger : the terrour of whose name can out of seven , ( like falstaffe's buckram-men ) make flie eleven . thus some grow rich by breaking ; vipers thus by being slaine , are made more numerous . no wonder they 'l confesse no losse of men ; for rupert knocks'em , till they gig agen , they feare the giblets of his traine ; they feare even his dog , that foure-legg'd cavaleere : he that devoures the scraps , which l●ndsford makes , whose picture feeds upon a child in stakes : who name but charles , he comes aloft for him , but holds up his malignant leg at pym . ●gainst whom they 've severall articles in souse ; first , that he barks against the sense o' th house . resolv'd delinquent ; to the tower straight ; either to th' lions , or the bishops grate . next for his ceremonious wag o' th taile : but there the sisterhood will be his baile , at least the countesse will , lust's amsterdam , that lets in all religious of the game . thirdly , he smells intelligence , that 's better , and cheaper too , then pym's from his owne letter : who 's doubly paid ( fortune or we the blinder ? ) for making plots , and then for fox the finder . lastly , he is a devill without doubt ; for when he would lie downe , he wheels about ; makes circles , and is couchant in a ring ; and therefore score up one for conjuring . what canst thou say , thou wretch ? o quarter , quarter ! i 'me but an instrument , a meere s. arthur . if i must hang , ô let not our fates varie , whose office 't is alike to fetch and cary . no hopes of a reprieve , the mutinous stir that strung the jesuite , will dispatch a cur . were i a devill , as the rebell feares , i see the house would try me by my peeres . there lowler there ! ah iowler ! st ! 't is nought what e're the accusers cry , they 're at a fault ; and glyn , and maynard have no more to say , then when the glorious strafford stood at bay . thus labells but annex'd to him we see , enjoy a copyhold of victory . s. peters sh●dow heal'd ; ruperts is such , 't would finde s. peters work , yet wound as much . he gags their guns , defeats their dire intent , the cannons do but lisp and complement . sure iove descended in a leaden shower to get this perseus : hence the fatall power of shot is strangled : bullets thus alli'd feare to commit an act of paricide . go on brave prince , and make the world confesse , thou art the greatest world , and that the lesse . scatter th'accumulative king ; untruss that five-fold fiend , the states smectymnuus ; who place religion in their velam ears ; as in their phylacters the jewes did theirs , england's a paradise , ( and a modest word ) since guarded by a cherubs flaming sword . your name can scare an athiest to his prayers ; and cure the chin-cough better then the bears . old sybill charmes the tooth-ach with you : nurse makes you stil children ; nay , and the pond'rous curse the clownes salute with , is deriv'd from you ; ( now rupert take thee , rogue ; how dost thou do ? ) in fine , the name of rupert thunders so , kimbolton's but a rumbling wheel-barrow . epitaphium thomae comitis straffordii , &c. exurge cinis , tuúmque s●lus qui potis es , scribe epitaphiū : nequit wentworthi non esse facundus vel cinis , effare marmor : & quem coepisti comprehendere , macte & exprimere . candidus meretur urna , quàm quod rubris notatum est literis , elogium . atlas regiminis monarchici hîc jacet lassus , se●unda orbis britannici intelligentia : rex politiae , & prorex hiberniae , straffordii , & virtutum , comes : mens jovis , mercurii ingenium , & lingua apollinis ; cui anglia hiberniam debuit , seipsam hibernia . sydus aquilonicū , quo sub rubicundâ vesperâ occidente , nox simul & dies visa est : dextróque oculo flevit , laevóque laetata est , anglia . theatrum honoris , itémque scena calamitosa virtutis actorib us , morbo , morte , invidiâ , quae ternis animosa regnis non vicit tamen , sed oppressit . sic inclinavit heros ( non minus ) caput belluae ( vel sic ) maltorum capitum : merces favoris scotici , praeter pecunias , erubuit ut tètigit securis , similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem . monstrum narro : fuit tam infensus legibus , ut prius legem , quàm nata foret , violavit : hunc tamen non sustulit lex , verùm necessitas , non habens legem . abi viator , caetera memorabunt posteri . additionall poems by uncertain authors . the scots apostasie . ist come to this ? what ? shal the cheeks of fame , stretcht with the breath of learned lowdons name , be flag'd again ? and that great piece of sence , as rich in loyalty , as eloquence , brought to the test , be found a trick of state ? like chymists tinctures , prov'd adulterate ? the devill sure such language did atchieve , to cheat our un-fore-warned grandam eve , as this impostor found out , to besot th'experienc'd english , to believe a scot . who reconcil'd the covenants doubtfull sence ! the commons argument , or the cities pence ? or did you doubt , persistance in one good would spoile the fabrick of your brotherhood , projected first in such a forge of sin , was fit for the grand devils hammering ? or was 't ambition , that this damned fact should tell the world you know the sins you act ? the infamie this super-treason brings , blasts more then murders of your sixty kings . a crime so black , as being advis'dly done , those hold with this no competition . kings onely suffer'd then , in this doth lie th' assasination of monarchie . beyond this sin no one step can be trod , if not t' attempt deposing of your c●d . oh were you so 〈◊〉 , that we ●ight see heavens ang●y lighting 〈◊〉 your eares to slee , till you were ●●rivel'd 〈◊〉 dust ; and your cold land parcht to a drought , beyond the lybian sand ! but 't is reserv'd ; and till heaven plague you worse , be objects of an epidemick curse . first , may your brethren , to whose viler ends your pow'r hath bawded , cease to count you friends ; and prompted by the dictate of their reason , reproach the traytors , though they hug the treason . and may their jealousies increase and breed , till they confine your steps beyond the tweed . in forraigne nations may your loath'd name be a stigmatizing brand of infamie ; till forc'd by generall hate , you cease to rome the world , and for a plague go live at home : till you resume your poverty , and be reduc'd to beg , where none can be so free to grant ; and may your scabbie land be all translated to a generall hospitall . let not the sun afford one gentle ray , to give you comfort of a summers day . but , as a guerdon for your traiterous war , live cherisht onely by the northern star . no stranger deign to visit your rude coast , and be to all , but banisht men , as lost . and such , in height'ning of th'infliction due , let provok'd princes send them all to you . your state a chaos be , where not the law , but power , your lives and liberties may awe . no subject mongst you keep a quiet brest , but each man strive through blood to be the best ; till , for those miseries on us you 've brought , by your own sword our just revenge be wrought . to summe up all — let your religion be , as your allegiance , mask'd hypocrisie : untill , when charles shall be compos'd in dust , persum'd with epithetes of good and iust ; he sav'd ; incensed heaven may have forgot t' afford one act of mercy to a scot ; unlesse that scot deny himselfe , and do ( what 's easier farre ) renounce his nation too , epitaph on the earl of strafford . here lies wise and valiant dust , huddled up 'twixt fit and just : strafford , who was hurried hence 'twixt treason and convenience . he spent his time here in a mist ; a papist , yet a ca●vinist . his prince's nearest joy , and grief ; he had , yet wanted all reliefe . the prop and ruine of the state ; the people's violent love , and hate : one in extreames lov'd and abhor'd . riddles lie here ; or in a word , here lies blood ; and let it lie speechlesse still , and never crie . on the archbishop of canterbury . i need no muse to give my passion vent , he brewes his teares that studies to lament . verse chymically weeps ; that pious raine , distill'd with art , is but the sweat o' th braine . who ever sob'd in numbers ? can a groane be quaver'd out by soft division ? 't is true ; for common formall elegies , not bushells wells can wash a poets eyes in wanton water-works : hee 'l tune his teares from a geneva jig up to the spheares . but when he mournes at distance , weeps aloof , now that the conduit-head is our own roof : now that the fate is publike , we may call it britains vespers , englands funerall . who hath a pensill to expresse the saint , but he hath eyes too , washing off the paint ? there is no learning , but what teares surround , like to seths pillars , in the deluge drown'd . there is no church , religion is growne from much of late , that she 's increast to none ; like an hydropick body , full of rheumes , first swells into a bubble , then consumes . the law is dead , or cast into a trance , and , by a law dough-bak'd , and ordinance . the liturgie , whose doom was voted next , died , as a comment upon him the text . there 's nothing lives ; life is ( since he is gone ) but a nocturnall lucubration . thus you have seen deaths inventory read in the sum to●all — canterburie's dead . a sight would make a pagan to baptize himselfe a convert in his bleeding eyes . would thaw the rabble that fierce beast of ours , ( that which hyaena-like weeps and devoures ) tears that ●low brackish from their soules within , not to repent , but pickle up their sin meane time no squallid griefe his looke defiles , he guilds his sadder fate with noble smiles . thus the worlds eye with reconciled streames shines in his showers as if he wept his beames . how could successe such villanies applaud ? the s●ate in strafford fell , the church in laud : the twins of publike rage adjudg'd to dye , for treasons they should act by prophecy . the f●cts were done before the lawes were made , the trump turn'd up after the game was plai'd . be dull g●eat spirits and forbeare to climbe , for worth is sin , and eminence a crime . no church-man can be innocent and high , 't is height makes gran●ham steeple stand awry . on i. vv. a. b. of york . say , my young sophister , what think'st of this ? chimae●ra's reall ; ergo falleris . the lambe and tyger , fox and goose agree , and here concorp'rate in one prodigie . c●ll an ha●uspex quickly ; let him get s●lphur and ●orches , and a lawrell wet , to p●●●fie the place ; for sure the harmes this monster will produce , transcend his charmes . 't is na●ures master-piece of error , this : and redeems whatever she did amisse , b●fore , from wonder and reproach ; this last le●i●imateth all her by-blowes past . loe here a generall metropolitan , an arch-prelat●que presbyterian . behold his pious garbs , canonique face , a z●alous episcopo-mastix grace ; a fa●●e blew-apron'd priest , a lawn-sleev'd brother , one leg a pulpu holds , a tub the other . let 's give him a fit name now , if we can , and make th'apostate once more christian . protaeus we cannot call him ; he put on his change of shapes by a succession ; nor the welch weather-cock ; for that we find , at once doth only wait upon the wind : these speake him not , but if you 'l name him right , call him religions he●maphrodite . his head i' th sanctified mould is cast , yet sticks th' abominable miter fast ; he still retaines the lordship and the grace , and yet has got a reverend elders place . such acts must needs be his , who did devise by crying altars downe , to sacrifice to private malice ; where you might have seen his conscience holocausted to his spleen . unhappy church ! the viper that did share thy greatest honours helps to make thee bare , and void of all thy dignities and store : alas ! thy own son proves the forrest-boare . and like the dam-destroying cuckow , he , when the thick-shell of his welsh pedigree , by thy warme fost'ring bounty did divide and open , straight thence sprung forth parricide : as if 't was just , revenge should be dispacht in thee , by th'monster , which thy selfe hadst hatcht . despaire not though : in wales there may be got , as well as lincolnshire , an antidote , 'gainst the foul'st venome he can spit , though 's head were chang'd from subtle gray to poys'nous red . heaven with propitious eyes will looke upon our party , now the cursed thing is gone ; and chastise rebells , who nought else did miss to fill the measure of their sins but his ; whose foule unparallel'd apostasie , like to his sacred character , shall be indelible ; when ages then of late more happy growne , with most impartiall fate , a period to his dayes and time shall give , he by such epitaphs as this shall live . hee yorks great metropolitan is laid , who gods annointed , and his church betraid . the end . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a33429e-1820 * 〈…〉 * 〈◊〉 . 