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<P>THE CHARACTER OF A CAVALIERE, With his Brot<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er SEPERATIST.</P>
<P>Both &s;triving which &s;hall bee mo&s;t active in dividing the two Nations, now &s;o happily, by the ble&s;&s;ing of GOD, united.</P>
<Q><BIBL>PSAL. 126.3.</BIBL>
<P>The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof wee are glad.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>W. H.</HI> 1547.</P>
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<P>of Treacherie, and cunning Contrivance, <HI>viz.</HI> when wee be|gan to look for &s;ome <HI>happine&s;&s;e</HI> after &s;o much <HI>mi&s;erie,</HI> how cun|ningly did this <HI>Je&s;uite,</HI> this <HI>Inc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ndiarie,</HI> this <HI>Malignant-Rebell,</HI> this <HI>Cavalier,</HI> thru&s;t in differences to divide <HI>us and our Breth|ren of Scotland,</HI> to which wicked ends how many traines hath he layd? how many Plots and Con&s;piracies undertaken, yet all invaine? how many Satyricall Invectives have been by him publi&s;hed under the Notion of <HI>Independency,</HI> when we could plainly perceive, that under this vizard there was the inveterate Malice of our old Adver&s;arie, the <HI>Je&s;uited Cavaleere,</HI> which had no other hopes to rai&s;e his fortune but by our fall, and make him&s;elfe happy by our ruine? which fault you have him here confe&s;&s;ing, with all other his Crimes and mi&s;deameanors a|gain&s;t the King, Parliament, and Kingdome, doing pennance in a <HI>Sheet,</HI> and crying guilty of all the bloud that hath been &s;pilt within his Maje&s;ties Dominion.</P>
<P><HI>He confe&s;&s;es that</HI> he has been a <HI>Malignant Adver&s;arie</HI> again&s;t Church and State.</P>
<P><HI>He confe&s;&s;es</HI> (how at la&s;t) that he has been &s;uch a <HI>&s;tubborn<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> wretch,</HI> that he has rendred him&s;elfe almo&s;t uncapable of fa|vour, notwith&s;tanding all our <HI>Parliamentary mercies,</HI> in offe|ring and proffering pardon to him, if he would come in and &s;ubmit, before the day of mercy were pa&s;t. 'Twere <HI>nihil ad Rhombum,</HI> for me to relate up here how many &s;uch precious opportunities he hath &s;lighted and neglected.</P>
<P><HI>He confe&s;&s;es,</HI> that hee hath been &s;uch an <HI>Incendiarie,</HI> as (<HI>Phaeton</HI>-like) able to &s;et the whole world on a fire: Truely I think his Epitaph &s;uits not ami&s;&s;e to this purpo&s;e.</P>
<Q><L>"<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><BIBL>Sandys <HI>Tran&s;l.</HI> Ovid <HI>Metam.</HI></BIBL></NOTE>Here <HI>Phaeton</HI> lyes, who though he could not guide</L>
<L>"His Fathers Steeds, in high attempts he dy'd.</L></Q>
<P>I have ob&s;erved many that write <HI>Characters,</HI> as <HI>Overbury, Curere, Shelton,</HI> &amp;c. But there's never any as yet met with the Character of a <HI>Cavalier.</HI> There was one (they call him <HI>Cleve|land</HI>) that writ the <HI>Character</HI> of a <HI>London Diurnall;</HI> in which there was more of Wit then Hone&s;ty, more of Prophanene&s;&s;e then Piety.</P>
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But to our <HI>Character:</HI> Here you have his poor <HI>Gentle|man Cavaliere,</HI> but in <HI>one &s;heet;</HI> who&s;e greedy Ambition (not long &s;ince) &s;caree all the Wealth of <HI>Europe</HI> could have &s;ati&s;|fied; The Ea&s;t not the Well &s;o bee bounding his unlimitted de&s;ires.</P>
<P>Hee's the onely man of all Memory, who&s;e unworthy Actions will perpetuate his Memorie to en&s;uing Generations. His very Name will be odious; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> when Po&s;terity (willing to ca&s;t a reflection on the deeds or their Predece&s;&s;ors) &s;hall find his name mentioned in our <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4+ letters">lls; they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ll bee inqui&s;itive to know the Nature of the Be<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t: This <HI>Skellum,</HI> this <HI>Nigro carbone notatus,</HI> this <HI>Mon&s;trum horrendun.</HI> He is one that bares an <HI>univer&s;all Hatred</HI> again&s;t <HI>Unity,</HI> and hates no Text of Scripture &s;o much as (133. <HI>P&s;alme,</HI> 1 <HI>ver&s;e</HI>) <HI>Behold how good, and how plea&s;ant it is for Brethren to dwell together in Unity.</HI></P>
<P>And therefore hee beares an <HI>immortall hatred</HI> again&s;t our <HI>Brethren of Scotland,</HI> and there's nothing that &s;ounds &s;o har&s;h in his eares, as the name of <HI>Britanny:</HI> What (&s;aies he) <HI>Eng|land and Scotland United?</HI> then there's no hopes: wee have cau&s;e to rejoyce, that <HI>our Brethrens fidel<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ty</HI> hath fru&s;trated their hopes, to the eternall honour of that N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tion.</P>
<P>He cannot endure the very word <HI>Covenant,</HI> 'tis the wor&s;t <HI>Character</HI> that ever he &s;aw; that bindes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ogether for main|taining and &s;etling the Religion, Rights, Lawes, and Liberties of both Kingdomes.</P>
<P>He hates a <HI>Parliament,</HI> the very word p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ts him be&s;ides his Wits: Before this <HI>Parliament</HI> was call'd, there was one of them heard &s;ay, (when there was talking of a Parliament) <HI>Nay then we are undone,</HI> though <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">al&s;e in other things, yet a true Prophet in this.</P>
<P>He &s;ayes, He loves a <HI>true Parliament,</HI> which is (if he may be his owne <HI>id e&s;t</HI>) a <HI>Junto,</HI> an <HI>Oxford Parliament:</HI> or &s;uch an One that would claime no power, <HI>a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Parliament,</HI> that may onely give advice and Coun<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ell.</P>
<P>He <HI>hates &s;lavery</HI> above all things, and &s;o he hates him&s;elfe: for he &s;old him&s;elfe a &s;lave to ba&s;ene&s;&s;e. The King he &s;aith may take away what&s;oever he hath, and di&s;po&s;e of mens fortunes, per&s;ons, or e&s;tates at his plea&s;ure, without the controlment of
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 10 -->any humane power. Which mu&s;t doe nothing again&s;t him, (though never &s;o wicked) <HI>coerciv&egrave;,</HI> but all <HI>directiv&eacute;:</HI> All our Armes mu&s;t be <HI>Suadeo, Rogo, Hortor, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, quae&s;o, &amp;c. And if he be in an errour, he may make new <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">awes to defend that er|rour.</HI> If he will <HI>murther</HI> us, if <HI>bani&s;h,</HI> if <HI>i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> pri&s;on,</HI> or <HI>confi&s;cate</HI> our E&s;tates, <HI>&s;tone,</HI> or <HI>behead</HI> us; there's none may &s;ay, <HI>Quid Agis? What do&s;t thou?</HI> This is his ordinary Di&s;cour&s;e, and that that proves a <HI>Paradox</HI> to another, he takes for a granted Truth.</P>
<P>But to &s;peak of &s;ome thing that he <HI>loves</HI> as well as <HI>hates.</HI></P>
<P>He has an indifferent good conceit of Q. <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and &s;tands for the Religion (as e&s;tabli&s;hed) in the dayes of Queen <HI>Elizabeths</HI> &s;i&s;ter.</P>
<P>He has a better opinion of the <HI>Spaniard</HI> then formerly the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> u&s;e to have, in regard he hopes he will contribute &s;ome helpe to the <HI>Catholique Cau&s;e in Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>He loves <HI>peace</HI> (at any rates) now he &s;ees hee can no longer prolong the warres, and railes again&s;t us becau&s;e there is <HI>no peace;</HI> no matter for <HI>Truth,</HI> that being a thing he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> never met with in all his <HI>plundring Progre&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>And for <HI>Militarie Affaires,</HI> as hee hates the <HI>Militia</HI> &s;o hee loves the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion of Array,</HI> which Armes the Subject a|gain&s;t him&s;elfe, and puts a &s;word into his hands to dig out his owne Bowels.</P>
<P>He was (when <HI>Oxford, Bri&s;toll, Exeter Worce&s;ter, York. &amp;c.</HI> were under the unhappy power of his command) of a &s;tout &s;to|mach, haughty, proud, de&s;perately audacious not enduring to be &s;ubject to the &s;everity of Lawes. The rea&s;on why I dip my Pen in Vinegar, &amp; fight again&s;t him with my Quill (that fought again&s;t us with his Sword) is that of <HI>Tertullian, Contra ho&s;tem communem omnis homo e&s;t miles;</HI> Every one will bee an <HI>Enemy</HI> to a <HI>common Enemy.</HI></P>
<P>Con&s;ider his out-ragious cruelty again&s;t his In&s;eriours, how he devoured his fellow Subjects, offering of many thou&s;and &s;pightfull indignities to their per&s;ons, by which hee has made him&s;elf odious to all good men. He is the Mon&s;ter of the world, from whom (&s;till) to be delivered we &s;hould doe well to make it a branch of our deprecation. His very name one time was as
<PB N="5" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 --><HI>formidable</HI> as now <HI>odious.</HI> Their armies (for the mo&s;t part) con|&s;i&s;ted of a <HI>Mi&s;celany</HI> of men from all &s;trange Nations <HI>Walloons, French, Dutch, Red&s;hanks, Iri&s;h-Cath<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters"></HI> having onl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the out-&s;ides of men, and &s;carce th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e&s;t <HI>mercies</HI> were extreame <HI>cruelties;</HI> the <HI>Characters</HI> of which, <HI>one that run<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ay read,</HI> upon tho&s;e unfortunate Garri&s;ons that were under their Commands, plainer then in this <HI>Character;</HI> in which (as in a little Map) there is not room fo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> de&s;cription of &s;mall places.</P>
<P>The Lawes of <HI>Nature</HI> and <HI>Nati<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ns</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">y of <HI>Po&s;itive</HI> and <HI>written</HI> Lawes, the laudable <HI>Cu&s;tomed</HI> and <HI>Liberties</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> (to which we are all born) were by the <HI>Rapines Plun|ders, Murthers, Extortions,</HI> and <HI>Exactions</HI> of this <HI>Malignant-Rebell</HI> &s;ubverted and trampled under foot.</P>
<P>And now we talke of <HI>Liberty,</HI> let's take <HI>Liberty</HI> a little to <HI>Characterize</HI> the <HI>Libertives</HI> of the&s;e times, who take <HI>Liberty of practice</HI> to act tho&s;e things that mode&s;ty <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> me conceale.</P>
<P>With this <HI>Cavaliere</HI> I might al&s;o picture for the home-bred Enemy, that is a little nearer to us, and is as active, as ever&punc; <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> onely our unhappine&s;&s;e does not break forth in open A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4+ letters"> but the hatred (he conceives again&s;t us) is &s;o great, that if &s;hould <HI>Characterize</HI> that, (in&s;tead of the man) you would rather ad|mire me, then believe me.</P>
<P>And his great de&s;igne that hee hath drove of late hath beene how to divide the <HI>two Nations, England and Scotland</HI> which if they could have done, their <HI>errors, here&s;ies bla<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">phemies &s;chi&s;mes,</HI> and <HI>divi&s;ions</HI> would have crept in to every c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rner of t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nd.</P>
<P>I could here &s;hew it under their owne hand-wr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ting, and bring in a <HI>Black Catalogue</HI> of their Books, many in number, that even the very Titles of them (if care<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ully collected to|gether) would &s;well it &s;elf<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, with &s;ome few enlarg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ments, into a rea&s;onable volume; all which they have u&s;ed as &s;o many fatall Engines and Plots, <HI>fir&s;t</HI> to divide us here at home, and &s;o make us mi&s;erable, &amp; <HI>then</HI> abroad to hinder all Union or Cove|nant with our Brethren, for fe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">re in it there be a Clau&s;e again&s;t <HI>Errors, Here&s;ies,</HI> and <HI>Schi&s;m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">;</HI> and &s;o adde more unhap|pine&s;&s;e to our Mi&s;erie, by adding Oyle to augment the flames.</P>
<P>But if the&s;e <HI>flamee of Contention</HI> bee not cautiou&s;ly and timely prevented, they will prove more fatall to our Churches
<PB N="6" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->and Kingdomes then all the former di&s;&s;entions, e&s;pecially (if it proceed &s;o farre) that it breaks forth into a new Civill <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> among&s;t but &s;elves, now we have totally vanqui&s;hed the <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">|mon-Enemy,</HI> the <HI>Cavalier enemy.</HI></P>
<P>Both of them have been very active by their <HI>Machivilian policies</HI> to divide us, but 'tis a happine&s;&s;e they were permitted but to marke us out for Ruine, and were not able to accompli&s;h that that their malice had intended; for certainly; if we that are now (&s;o happily) <HI>United,</HI> had beene, (or &s;hould be) <HI>divi|ded,</HI> we &s;hould &s;et open a gap to let in the old exploded <HI>Prela|cy,</HI> and <HI>Epi&s;copacy,</HI> or introduce the more feared <HI>Anarchicall Hydra,</HI> or <HI>Babel of Independency.</HI></P>
<P>Of this latter there are a ne&s;t of the vile&s;t Vipers, that ever <HI>Affrick</HI> or <HI>Nilus</HI> did produce. You have the <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> the <HI>Browni&s;ts,</HI> the <HI>Adamites, Famili&s;ts,</HI> the <HI>prophane Libertine,</HI> with the <HI>Envious Hypocrite</HI> all masking them&s;elves under the Vizard of <HI>Independency:</HI> A <HI>Generation</HI> that if long permit|ted to encrea&s;e, will <HI>Viper</HI>-like eate out the Bowels of their naturall mother, the Church of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>If this <HI>&s;pirituall Yoake</HI> come upon us, we may &s;ooner be|waile it, then remove it: Let us therefore with <HI>the Apo&s;tle</HI> endeavour to <HI>quit our &s;elves like men.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 5.1.</NOTE> And &s;o I end my <HI>Cha|racter</HI> with the <HI>beginning</HI> of the 5. Chapter of <HI>Paul</HI> to the <HI>Ga|latians: Stand fa&s;t therefore in the Liberty, wherewith Chri&s;t hath made us free and be not againe  ent<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ngled with any Yoake of bondage:</HI> with the Yoak of &s;laverie <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hat the fir&s;t part of my <HI>Character</HI> &s;et forth, nor this of the latter. <HI>New-fangled flattering Sectari&s;me;</HI> from both which to be delivered, (and that we may ob&s;erve a <HI>golden meane</HI>) there's but few but will &s;ay. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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