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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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XXIII. PUNCTILIO'S OR CAPRICHIO'S OF STATE Among the pre&s;ent GRANDE<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">S.</P>
<Q>Sed magis ingenue <HI>Peribonius,</HI> hunc ego fatis Imputo&mdash;</Q>
<P>By Count GUNDOMAR.</P>
<P>Printed at <HI>Madrid</HI> in the Year, 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>XXIII. <HI>P&V;NCTILIO'S</HI> OR CAPRICHIO'S OF STATE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<P>WHether the Court of Honour was not timely and prudentially &s;uppre&s;t in the beginning of this <HI>brouillery,</HI> &s;ince the Authors of our confu&s;ion had none them&s;elves nor intended to leave any in; or to the Nation.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P>Whether we or the Kingdom of <HI>Portugal,</HI> &s;hall have the Honour of Precedency in returning to our ancient and Pri&s;tine allegiance; if not, whe|ther the &s;ame Armes that are like to reduce the latter, may not reduce us.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="point">
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<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the Engli&s;h <HI>Plenipotentiaries</HI> in the Sound, to accord the two Northern Kings, were not more u&s;efull at home to compo&s;e the diffe|rence betwixt the Parliament and Army, having been &s;o well exerci&s;ed and experienced in un|effectual and unfea&s;ible Treaties.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P>Whether Moun&s;ieur <HI>Downham</HI> may not be any ones Broker or Factor in <HI>Holland,</HI> &s;ince his Principals here are bankroupt; whether he have not lei&s;ure enough to enquire aftet the Crown Jewels, as his Ma&s;ter <HI>Oliver</HI> in&s;tructed him.</P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the Welch, or No Bodies Amba&s;&s;a|dour, were Sir <HI>William,</HI> or my Lord <HI>Lockhart,</HI> or my Lord <HI>Cardinals</HI> Fool at the late enterview of the <HI>Favovrites,</HI> whether he did <HI>Bezos los manos</HI> or <HI>la cueva</HI> of <HI>Don Lewis de Haro;</HI> and whether his Credentials were not writ in <HI>Scotch.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P>Whether to be ma&s;ter of the Sword and Mili|tia, be not more advantagious then to be ma&s;ter of the Wardes and Liveries, and yet if he be not <HI>Lamberts</HI> Pupil: and whether <HI>Charles Fleetwood,</HI> be any kin to miles <HI>Fleetwood.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="point">
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<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether it were not a main errour in <HI>Oliver</HI> in &s;atisfying him&s;elf with the bare diminution and eclip&s;e of my Lord <HI>Lambert;</HI> whether like <HI>Ixion</HI> he may not be begot of a cloud; whether like him he may not turn the wheel and change this aby&s;s of confu&s;ion into an <HI>Ely&s;ium.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether <HI>John Desborow</HI>'s high Shoon, or his Lord&s;hips Collo&s;ha's are be&s;t to wade through thick and thin; whether he knows any diffe|rence betwixt a Barn and the Parliament Hou&s;e, &s;ince ther's thre&s;hing and winnowing in both; whether <HI>Lambert</HI> plow not with him.</P>
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<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<P>Whether Lieutenant Col. <HI>Duckenfield</HI> ought not to be Ma&s;ter of the Ceremonies, &s;ince he could <HI>parler</HI> &s;o Court-like with the <HI>Speaker,</HI> and brought him &s;o <HI>A la mode</HI> to his Audience at <HI>Wallingford</HI> Hou&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<P>Whether my Lord <HI>Whitlocks</HI> extraordinary Emba&s;&s;y to <HI>Sweden,</HI> his <HI>Intrigues</HI> there, his <HI>puny</HI> Trea&s;urer-&s;hip, his Juniority to <HI>Li&s;le</HI> for the cu|&s;tody of the Seal, his new League with the Army will be any Riddle to knotty SQUIRE <HI>Dun.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="point">
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<HEAD>XI.</HEAD>
<P>Whether Alderman <HI>Tichburn</HI>'s impertinent Headpiece, make him not as trouble&s;ome a Se|nator to the Souldiery as he is a Pre&s;ident to the new Artillery men.</P>
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<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether <HI>Cri&s;pin</HI> was not a type of my Lord <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">w&s;on;</HI> whether he has not married a Quean: if he ought not at la&s;t to be Pre&s;ident of the new thing that hath &s;o much cobling work to doe.</P>
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<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XIII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether Mr. <HI>Brandriffe</HI> be better at the Drawing or Council board; whether he or his goo&s;e will be&s;t forward the Settlement; whether he be not fitter to be Porter at <HI>White-hall</HI> gate being mea&s;ured out for &s;uch a Fellow.</P>
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<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XIV.</HEAD>
<P>Whether <HI>Ireton</HI> in a Ruffe would not looke like Queen <HI>Be&s;&s;e,</HI> and wonderfully grace the new Senate and &s;trike <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">n awful reverence and dread into the boyes and girls of the Town.</P>
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<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XV.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the Army found it not ea&s;ier to cajole Lieutenant General <HI>Ludlow</HI> into their junto, then they will finde it to cokes <HI>Overton</HI> out of <HI>Hull,</HI> it
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being Rebellions and the Parliaments Metro|polis:</P>
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<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XVI.</HEAD>
<P>Whether Sir <HI>Orlando He&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">lrigge</HI> might not be one of this pack, if he would allow this 23 to be halfe &s;o villanous as his 5.</P>
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<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XVII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the Armies light touch of the Mur|der of the KING in their late Plea, be not a point mainly and chiefly to be in&s;i&s;ted on.</P>
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<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XVIII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the &s;olemn League and Covenant, the Parliaments engagement again&s;t KING, &amp;c. <HI>Olivers</HI> in&s;trument, the new &s;ub&s;cription of the ar|my were licen&s;ed by <HI>Matchiavil,</HI> and which of them is mo&s;t e&s;pecially and eminently obligatory in point of con&s;cience.</P>
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<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XIX.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the Army thought not to <HI>Monkifie</HI> General <HI>Monk</HI> by pre&s;cribing him &s;uch a toye as their Addre&s;&s;e for his imitation; whether they be not mi&s;taken, <HI>and the Divel a</HI> Monk <HI>is he;</HI> and if he mu&s;t be one, whether he had not better by his loyalty enter him&s;elf in the order of <HI>Benedict.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XX</HEAD>
<P>Whether <HI>Lawrence</HI> and <HI>Sydenham</HI> were not ta|ken
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in for Tutors to the new F<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">y, that the affaires of this new nothing might be managed orderly and to little purpo&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XXI.</HEAD>
<P>Whether Sir <HI>Henry Vanes</HI> wi&s;dome &s;hould not have been the fir&s;t Pageant in my Lord Maiors Shew, whether Mi&s;chief, Mony, or Vain-glory is mo&s;t plea&s;ing to him, whether he &s;utes with <HI>Bal|zae</HI>'s Character, that there are a &s;ort of men born to trouble and di&s;quiet the world, whether his Devil&s;hip be not convinced of his dete&s;table con|trivements; and if the Committee of &s;afety may not aptly be &s;urnamed <HI>Vane,</HI> and if <HI>London</HI> Bridge lack not a <HI>Vane.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XXII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether the re&s;t of the pack, can be mar&s;hal|led by any Herauldry but <HI>Ralph Bri&s;coes</HI> Bookes; whether their Politique Education has not been an in&s;uportable charge to the Commonwealth while&s;t it ea&s;ed particular pari&s;hes; whether they can give any other account of them&s;elves then <HI>Tom Pride;</HI> if they can, that they inform the Printer who will give them their due honour.</P>
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<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="point">
<HEAD>XXIII.</HEAD>
<P>Whether this <HI>Punctilio-</HI>maker would &s;cruple I think it below him to be Halter-maker of the Senate if he could not &s;hew them a better <HI>Turn</HI> of State then any yet; if &s;uch a cour&s;e would not be the onely way to &s;afety: and finally if the 23 Commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;hall not have in due time 24 Godfathers.</P>
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