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<P><HI>Furor-Poeticus</HI> (i.e.) <HI>Propheticus.</HI></P>
<P>A Poetick-Phren&s;ie.</P>
<P><HI>Some, (probably) will call it &s;o: Thus</HI> named, <HI>therefore, let it go.</HI></P>
<P>It is the re&s;ult of a <HI>private-mu&s;ing,</HI> occa&s;ioned by a <HI>publike report</HI> in the Country, of the <HI>Parliaments</HI> re&s;tauration by <HI>General GEORGE MONCKE,</HI> in <HI>February</HI> 1659. and meditated &s;oon after the &s;aid <HI>General's</HI> arrival in <HI>LONDON,</HI></P>
<P><HI>In dor&s;o</HI> Pagi, <HI>recubans &s;ub tegmine</HI> Fagi: By <HI>G.W.</HI> E&s;q;</P>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Author</HI>'s well, and <HI>&s;ober,</HI> yet,</L>
<L>Although he fell into this Fit;</L>
<L>But, if more <HI>Wit</HI> than <HI>Grace</HI> he had,</L>
<L><HI>Oppre&s;&s;ions</HI> would have made him <HI>mad.</HI></L>
</LG>
<Q><P><HI>Tempora mutantur, &amp; nos mutamur in illis.</HI></P>
<P>Times changed be, and &s;o are we.</P></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>James Cottrel.</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Ingenuous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THough this <HI>Poem</HI> hath &s;omewhat a <HI>mad Title,</HI> thou &s;halt find me neither <HI>Mad man,</HI> nor <HI>Phanatick:</HI> For, the&s;e <HI>Mu&s;ings</HI> were in &s;oberne&s;s meditated (upon the fir&s;t <HI>News</HI> of <HI>General GEORGE MONCK's</HI> arrival at <HI>LONDON,</HI> when he came la&s;t out of <HI>SCOTLAND,</HI> and the <HI>Rumors</HI> rai&s;ed thereupon) and were mu&s;ed to no wor&s;e purpo&s;e, than that, by rationally pre-conjecturing the most probable <HI>events,</HI> I might not be &s;urprized by them, but &s;ettle my heart (what&s;oever &s;hould &s;ucceed) in a con|&s;tant waiting upon GOD, and in a contented peaceable|ne&s;s, by con&s;idering <HI>divine providence</HI> had the ordering of all things; and that the <HI>intentions</HI> and <HI>actions</HI> of men were no infallible grounds of hopes or fears. And I ex|pre&s;&s;ed my <HI>conceptions</HI> in the following <HI>words</HI> and <HI>mode,</HI> that my <HI>Extempore Notions</HI> might both remain, a fixt Object for my &s;elf (and others, if they plea&s;ed &s;o to u&s;e them) when occa&s;ion required; and to rouze up cou|rage when it began to droop by mi&s;-apprehen&s;ions.</P>
<P>Though they appear in an <HI>extravagant dre&s;s,</HI> &amp; are only &s;udden <HI>raptures,</HI> not <HI>de&s;igned di&s;cour&s;es,</HI> political, phi|lo&s;ophical, or divine, they are whol&s;ome <HI>fruits of the &s;ea|&s;on,</HI> and, being well dige&s;ted, will hint many <HI>notions</HI> per|tinent to our pre&s;ent condition: For, in the&s;e <HI>raptures,</HI> what&s;oever &s;hall be thought of them, I have infallibly in|formed upon what terms, you, either <HI>with your KING,</HI> or <HI>without him,</HI> &s;hall have a la&s;ting <HI>peace,</HI> and &s;etled <HI>Go|vernment,</HI> if ever you have it in this world; and <HI>(mark this)</HI></P>
<LG>
<L><HI>That, which henceforth, the</HI> common Lot, <HI>will be</HI></L>
<L><HI>In</HI> Weal, <HI>or</HI> Woe, <HI>&s;hall be fore&s;hown in me:</HI></L>
<L><HI>For, whether to the</HI> right <HI>or</HI> left <HI>it run,</HI></L>
<L>Judgement <HI>&s;hall at GOD's Hou&s;e be fir&s;t begun.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<P>I have warrantably made them a&s;&s;ume an unu&s;ual boldne&s;s (which may make them &s;eem to many more bold than welcome) the better to make way into their pre&s;ence, who either entertain them&s;elves and their A&s;&s;ociates in compo&s;ing and hearing tho&s;e ba&s;e and &s;currilous <HI>Pamph|lets</HI> (now innumerable) which tend to di&s;turbance of the common <HI>peace,</HI> and are &s;ure pre&s;ages of their de&s;truction who take plea&s;ure in them; or el&s;e to awake them who are &s;o bu&s;ied in their own vain <HI>projects,</HI> that they have no lei&s;ure to heed any thing conducing to the <HI>publike ho|nour and &s;afety,</HI> or to their <HI>own.</HI></P>
<P>As &s;oon as I came la&s;t to <HI>London,</HI> I communicated them to &s;ome of my acquaintance, who conceiving them u&s;eful, undertook their <HI>publication,</HI> which I left to their di&s;cre|tion; but heard of no proceed therein for many weeks, nor any rea&s;on of that delay. If they found any ju&s;t cau&s;e to change their re&s;olution, they are to be excu&s;ed, and &s;o am I, if it come too late, or out of that &s;ea&s;on which might have made it more effectual. Yet, thy time, nor thy ex|pence, will be lost, when&s;oever it comes to thy hands: For, that which I chiefly intended, will be at all times, and ge|nerally con&s;iderable, till we be utterly de&s;troyed, or our <HI>publike</HI> and <HI>private calamities</HI> redre&s;&s;ed; yea, and then al&s;o, to &s;ome purpo&s;es.</P>
<P>If thou finde&s;t any thing therein, whereupon I have of|ten heretofore in&s;i&s;ted, con&s;ider, that there is the &s;ame <HI>oc|ca&s;ion,</HI> and that a Naile cannot be driven into <HI>knotty wood</HI> at one or two &s;troaks. Take it candidly for thine own &s;ake, though not for mine; yet for my &s;ake it may de&s;erve thy acceptance: for, if thou love GOD and thy <HI>Countries</HI> welfare; I am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy wel-wi&s;hing, and truly loving friend <HI>G. W.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Furor-poeticus,</HI> (i.e.) <HI>Propheticus.</HI> A Poetick-Phren&s;ie.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>AFit,</HI> that &s;ome will call <HI>poetick-madne&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>Hath now &s;urprized me, in <HI>&s;ober-&s;adne&s;s;</HI></L>
<L>Which, how it &s;eiz'd me, &s;hall be here declar'd,</L>
<L>If any think it worthy of regard:</L>
<L>Nay, heard it &s;hall be, &s;ince it is begot,</L>
<L>Whether <HI>regarded,</HI> or <HI>regarded not:</HI></L>
<L>For, <HI>good</HI> to them, is equally intended,</L>
<L>Who, &s;hall be therewith, <HI>plea&s;ed</HI> or <HI>offended,</HI></L>
<L>If, quite in&s;en&s;ible, they are not grown</L>
<L>Both of the <HI>publike welfare,</HI> and their <HI>own;</HI></L>
<L>And, if well taken, this <HI>de&s;pi&s;ed-bable,</HI></L>
<L>will hint &s;ome <HI>Notions</HI> not unprofitable.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From thence, where many did of <HI>wrongs</HI> complain,</L>
<L>(And, where, to right them, &s;ome <HI>few</HI> &s;trove in vain)</L>
<L>I was retir'd, as far as I could go,</L>
<L>From hearing, what <HI>Knaves, Fools,</HI> and <HI>madmen</HI> do;</L>
<L>Expecting no &s;uch <HI>influence</HI> from heaven</L>
<L>As now appears, till <HI>nights</HI> and <HI>daies</HI> were even:</L>
<L>About which time (though why I do not know)</L>
<L>I look'd for <HI>&s;omething,</HI> like what's happen'd now;</L>
<L>But, <HI>Rumor,</HI> which is flutt'ring ev'ry whither,</L>
<L>Hath of a <HI>quicker change</HI> brought <HI>tidings</HI> hither:</L>
<PB N="2" REF="4">
<L>Whereon, a greater <HI>change</HI> will &s;oon en&s;ue,</L>
<L>If <HI>probable conjectures</HI> may be true.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Wind</HI> is &s;trangely turn'd; but, none yet knows</L>
<L>For who&s;e <HI>avail,</HI> or to who&s;e <HI>harm</HI> it blows:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, to gue&s;s who is a <HI>foe</HI> or <HI>friend,</HI></L>
<L>Or, what, men by their words or deeds intend,</L>
<L>'Tis now &s;o hard, that none can &s;cape <HI>deceit</HI></L>
<L>Save he, who keepeth his own heart upright,</L>
<L>And he (ev'n then) may &s;uffer naythele&s;s,</L>
<L>Who walketh in the paths of <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;s.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I hear the <HI>news;</HI> and I have heard it too,</L>
<L>With as much <HI>joyful hope</HI> as mo&s;t men do</L>
<L>Who know the <HI>World,</HI> and how much <HI>doubt</HI> and <HI>fear</HI></L>
<L>May ri&s;e from ev'ry thing they <HI>&s;ee</HI> and <HI>hear;</HI></L>
<L>When there is little <HI>Ju&s;tice, Truth,</HI> or <HI>Order,</HI></L>
<L>The pre&s;ervation of their <HI>peace</HI> to further;</L>
<L>And where they are &s;o puzz'led in the dark,</L>
<L>That they rejoyce in any <HI>glim'ring &s;park.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>Star,</HI> is now &s;hot hither from the <HI>North;</HI></L>
<L>But, what <HI>events</HI> the &s;ame will u&s;her forth</L>
<L>I cannot tell; nor (though the <HI>Morning</HI>'s bright)</L>
<L>What <HI>clouds</HI> may over&s;hadow us ere night;</L>
<L>And, therefore, I mu&s;t wait a while, to heed</L>
<L>With what <HI>A&s;pects</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Planets</HI> will proceed</L>
<L>Which regulate our <HI>Clime,</HI> before I can</L>
<L>Conclude on any thing de&s;ign'd by <HI>man.</HI></L>
<L>The greate&s;t <HI>Planet,</HI> that appears in heaven</L>
<L>Hath no more <HI>influence</HI> than <HI>one</HI> in <HI>&s;even;</HI></L>
<L>And, from <HI>malevolence,</HI> we are not free</L>
<L>While <HI>Mars</HI> and <HI>Saturne</HI> in conjunction be,</L>
<L>Although to comfort us, we may receive</L>
<L>Fair <HI>promi&s;ings,</HI> from all the other <HI>five;</HI></L>
<L>Except that he who plac'd them in their <HI>Orbs</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>Con&s;tellations</HI> qualifies and curbs;</L>
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<L>And, they are <HI>lying Prophets,</HI> who &s;hall dare</L>
<L>In his <HI>name,</HI> any <HI>&s;equel</HI> to declare,</L>
<L>As <HI>ab&s;olute,</HI> and not <HI>conditional,</HI></L>
<L>Relating meerly to <HI>to things temporal:</HI></L>
<L>For, that could only, but a means become,</L>
<L>To make men <HI>de&s;perate,</HI> or to <HI>pre&s;ume.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He, that, our <HI>grand Aenigma's</HI> mu&s;t unriddle</L>
<L>Is in the <HI>Zenith</HI> now, ev'n in the middle</L>
<L>Of that <HI>place,</HI> where our fatall <HI>Gordian-knot,</HI></L>
<L>(If my conjectures greatly fail me not)</L>
<L>Mu&s;t be <HI>unti'd,</HI> or <HI>cut;</HI> and if &s;o fa&s;t</L>
<L>And &s;o en&s;narl'd it be, that, at the la&s;t</L>
<L>The <HI>Sword</HI> mu&s;t once again the &s;ame unknit,</L>
<L>Woe be to them who &s;hall occa&s;ion it.</L>
<L>O'er <HI>LONDON,</HI> now that <HI>Luminary</HI> &s;hines,</L>
<L>Which, I foretold in my <HI>la&s;t publi&s;h'd lines,</HI></L>
<L>Should be the <HI>Mountain</HI> whence that winde would blow</L>
<L>Which of our greate&s;t <HI>weal,</HI> or greate&s;t <HI>woe,</HI></L>
<L>Should in&s;trumental be; and I expect</L>
<L>Accordingly, ere long time, an effect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We oft &s;ee <HI>miracles,</HI> (I mu&s;t confe&s;s)</L>
<L>But, I would fain &s;ee <HI>truth</HI> and <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI></L>
<L>A&s;cend the <HI>Throne;</HI> that, we at length might fea&s;t</L>
<L>Upon that <HI>Peace,</HI> whereof we had a ta&s;te;</L>
<L>And, on tho&s;e <HI>mercies</HI> which in little time</L>
<L>GOD would vouch&s;afe, if we reli'd on him,</L>
<L>And wilfully pur&s;u'd not &s;till that <HI>cour&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Which to de&s;troy our <HI>hopes,</HI> may him enforce;</L>
<L>And which, by long neglect of good endeavour,</L>
<L>Are now in hazard to be lo&s;t for ever.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He, many <HI>Patrons</HI> and <HI>Deliv'rers</HI> gave us,</L>
<L>From <HI>Forraign</HI> and <HI>Dome&s;tick foes</HI> to &s;ave us:</L>
<L>Of whom, &s;ome, by their <HI>&s;elf-will</HI> and <HI>Ambition,</HI></L>
<L>Wrought both our <HI>&s;orrow,</HI> and their own <HI>perdition.</HI></L>
<PB N="4" REF="5">
<L>Some of them, we di&s;abled; &s;ome de&s;pis'd:</L>
<L>We flatter'd &s;ome, and &s;ome we Idoliz'd,</L>
<L>Untill to &s;uch a height we pu&s;t them had,</L>
<L>That to our <HI>&s;ervants,</HI> &s;laves our &s;elves we made;</L>
<L>Yet cea&s;e not at this hour to do the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Though &s;till, it brings more <HI>&s;orrow,</HI> and more <HI>&s;hame;</HI></L>
<L>And will, to be deliver'd from one <HI>cur&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Thereby incurr'd, run headlong to a wor&s;e.</L>
<L><HI>Mark,</HI> (though you &s;leight me) <HI>what we dayly do;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And brand me, if it &s;hortly prove not &s;o,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Unle&s;s we tack and wheel about to that</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which may prevent it, ere it be too late.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>GOD, &s;till, in his <HI>long &s;uffering</HI> doth per&s;ever,</L>
<L>And, us, from our <HI>di&s;tractions</HI> to deliver</L>
<L>Renews his <HI>mercy</HI> &s;till, when we (almo&s;t)</L>
<L>Our hopes of <HI>reparation</HI> have quite lo&s;t.</L>
<L>Yea, though he finds us willing to return</L>
<L>To our late <HI>Bondage;</HI> to di&s;tru&s;t and &s;corn</L>
<L>The <HI>Doom</HI> pronounced for this <HI>Common weal</HI></L>
<L>When we did in the <HI>field</HI> to him appeal:</L>
<L>Although he &s;ees us prone in ev'ry triall</L>
<L>To make of our ju&s;t <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> a ba&s;e deniall;</L>
<L>To bid to his <HI>a&s;&s;ist ances</HI> defiance;</L>
<L>With his, and our <HI>known foes</HI> to have compliance;</L>
<L>From our <HI>profe&s;&s;ions</HI> to apo&s;tatize,</L>
<L>And to requite him with hypocri&s;ies</L>
<L>For all his <HI>favours;</HI> he is &s;till to us</L>
<L>The &s;ame he was, though we continue thus;</L>
<L>And, though he from our <HI>&s;ins</HI> him&s;elf withdraws,</L>
<L>Still owneth both our <HI>Principles</HI> and <HI>Cau&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He hath now rais'd, beyond our expectation,</L>
<L>A likely means of timely <HI>reparation,</HI></L>
<L>And, by his <HI>providence,</HI> a <HI>man</HI> begot</L>
<L>To perfect it, <HI>if we corrupt him not,</HI></L>
<PB N="5" REF="5">
<L>Nor he decline from what he hath profe&s;t</L>
<L>In order to the <HI>publike Interest;</HI></L>
<L>Which I &s;u&s;pect not, if he be &s;o &s;trong</L>
<L>As to re&s;i&s;t the <HI>batt'ries of the Tongue,</HI></L>
<L>And u&s;e tho&s;e <HI>Antidotes</HI> that may prevent</L>
<L>The poys'ning that's infus'd by <HI>Complement.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At this time, to be GOD's <HI>Probationer</HI></L>
<L>In his great <HI>Work,</HI> as others lately were,</L>
<L>He takes his turn; and peradventure, may</L>
<L>Attain a <HI>Pow'r as ab&s;olute</HI> as they;</L>
<L>That, what by them was wilfully neglected,</L>
<L>(And by a <HI>le&s;s Power</HI> cannot be effected)</L>
<L>May now be done. LORD! <HI>make him wi&s;e and &s;trong,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To do what to his duty doth belong;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And mindful, that, his chiefe&s;t Obligations</HI></L>
<L>Are, to be true to <HI>Thee,</HI> and to the&s;e <HI>Nations.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>St <HI>George for England,</HI> we were wont to &s;ay;</L>
<L>And, to that <HI>Name,</HI> a&s;&s;ign'd a <HI>&s;olemn day</HI></L>
<L>We knew not why: But, if what's now begun</L>
<L>Shall with &s;incerity be carried on,</L>
<L>It did, perhaps, by way of <HI>Allegory,</HI></L>
<L>Pre&s;age what will produce an <HI>Actual Story;</HI></L>
<L>That &s;hall in future times, de&s;erve much better</L>
<L>Mens credit <HI>morally,</HI> than in the <HI>Letter</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Fable</HI> did: For, we may hope (unle&s;s</L>
<L><HI>Good probabilities</HI> have ill &s;ucce&s;s)</L>
<L>A <HI>Champion</HI> of this <HI>Name</HI> &s;hall free us from</L>
<L>That <HI>Dragon</HI> which infe&s;ts all <HI>Chri&s;tendome,</HI></L>
<L>And, &s;et a Bar to their <HI>malignant-pow'r,</HI></L>
<L>Who threaten this <HI>Republike</HI> to devour.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If &s;o it happen, it will more endear</L>
<L>This Name of <HI>George,</HI> than <HI>Dick,</HI> or <HI>Oliver;</HI></L>
<L>Yea, more than all their <HI>Names,</HI> who lately lo&s;t</L>
<L>That honour, which they purchas'd at our co&s;t,</L>
<PB N="6" REF="6">
<L>And left us in tho&s;e hazards, from whence, none</L>
<L>Now can deliver us, but, GOD alone</L>
<L>By his own Arm, or el&s;e by an advance</L>
<L>Of one de&s;ign'd for our deliverance,</L>
<L>And qualifi'd by his <HI>e&s;pecial grace,</HI></L>
<L>To be a <HI>Guardian Angel</HI> for this place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In&s;tead of that <HI>imaginary Saint,</HI></L>
<L>Which on our <HI>Inns,</HI> and <HI>Tavern-&s;igns</HI> we paint,</L>
<L>And, whom our <HI>Grandees,</HI> in blew Ribbands wore,</L>
<L>As <HI>badge</HI> of their chief honour heretofore;</L>
<L>(And in his room, of whom about next <HI>Spring,</HI></L>
<L>Another <HI>Party</HI> &s;eem'd in hope to &s;ing</L>
<L><HI>John for the King</HI>) GOD, hath perhaps, prepar'd</L>
<L>That <HI>Hero</HI> for our <HI>Tutelary Gnard;</HI></L>
<L>Whom <HI>Fame</HI> reports arriv'd with an intent</L>
<L>To re-inve&s;t the baffl'd <HI>Parliament</HI></L>
<L>With her <HI>lo&s;t Pow'r:</HI> which, if it &s;o en&s;ue,</L>
<L>Will make &s;ome bid their old St <HI>George</HI> adieu:</L>
<L>His <HI>Legend,</HI> will be very little priz'd,</L>
<L>Except, as now, it is <HI>Mythologiz'd:</HI></L>
<L>And, this <HI>GEORGE</HI> will henceforward, by this <HI>Nation</HI></L>
<L>Be thought more worthy of <HI>Canonization</HI></L>
<L>Than either <HI>He,</HI> or any one of tho&s;e</L>
<L>On who&s;e new <HI>Saint&s;hips,</HI> we did tru&s;t repo&s;e,</L>
<L>Till many did our confidence contemn,</L>
<L>And few, at la&s;t, tru&s;t either us, or them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>GEORGE for England,</HI> probably intends</L>
<L>The <HI>publike weal</HI> without &s;ini&s;ter ends,</L>
<L>And is <HI>One</HI> meaning that which he profe&s;&s;es;</L>
<L><HI>One,</HI> whom nor <HI>gifts,</HI> nor flattering <HI>Addre&s;&s;es</HI></L>
<L>Shall tempt from an <HI>heroick Re&s;olution,</HI></L>
<L>Or, draw to an ignoble pro&s;ecution;</L>
<L><HI>One,</HI> whom the <HI>Strumpet,</HI> who bewitcheth <HI>Kings,</HI></L>
<L>Nor tho&s;e enchanting Songs the <HI>Syren</HI> &s;ings,</L>
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<L>Shall &s;o &s;educe, as they &s;educed were,</L>
<L>Who, by the <HI>Dragons tail</HI> were from their <HI>Sphere</HI></L>
<L>Unhors'd of late: But, <HI>one</HI> who &s;hall proceed,</L>
<L>Till from his <HI>Fangs</HI> the&s;e <HI>Nations</HI> he hath freed,</L>
<L>De&s;pi&s;ing tho&s;e <HI>Allurements,</HI> whereby they</L>
<L>Who would divert him, hope to &s;top his way:</L>
<L>For, if his <HI>heart</HI> be right, he will &s;u&s;pect</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Baits</HI> laid to corrupt his <HI>Intellect,</HI></L>
<L>Or blind his <HI>eyes;</HI> that, from what's well begun</L>
<L>Into their <HI>Pitfals</HI> he may &s;tumble on.</L>
<L>He will con&s;ider, that, they who profe&s;s</L>
<L>Much love (and fawn with mo&s;t ob&s;equiou&s;ne&s;s)</L>
<L>Are either &s;ome of tho&s;e, or &s;uch as they</L>
<L>Who did the &s;ame to them the other day,</L>
<L>Whom now mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly they revile;</L>
<L>And may abu&s;e him wor&s;e within a while.</L>
<L>And, he will &s;ee, that he mu&s;t be more wary</L>
<L>Than they were, who, not long &s;ince, did mi&s;carry,</L>
<L>By playing like a <HI>Moath</HI> about the flame,</L>
<L>Till thereby quite con&s;umed they became.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>I hope, that as I have expre&s;t him here,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He is re&s;olv'd: If not, I wi&s;h he were;</HI></L>
<L>That I might live to &s;ee, before I die,</L>
<L>One man, who&s;e <HI>Deeds</HI> made not his <HI>words</HI> a lie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>Monk profest,</HI> an In&s;trument became</L>
<L>Of <HI>Reformation:</HI> Why not one by <HI>Name?</HI></L>
<L>If love of <HI>hone&s;ty</HI> with him prevail,</L>
<L>The hopes of <HI>hone&s;t men</HI> he will not fail:</L>
<L>If love of <HI>honour,</HI> or of <HI>&s;afety</HI> move him,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Interests,</HI> will for our <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> improve him.</L>
<L>It is a much more honourable thing,</L>
<L>To <HI>&s;ave a People,</HI> than to <HI>make a King,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;afer too; if he that makes him one</L>
<L>Shall be his <HI>Liege-man</HI> whom he doth enthrone:</L>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
<L>For, <HI>Kings</HI> are of their <HI>Makers</HI> &s;o afraid,</L>
<L>That, &s;eldome are &s;uch <HI>benefits</HI> repay'd</L>
<L>With le&s;s than ruine; &s;pecially, if he</L>
<L>A man beloved of the <HI>People</HI> be:</L>
<L>But, much more hazardous will be his Ca&s;e,</L>
<L>If he be likewi&s;e of the <HI>Royal Race.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>General,</HI> hath been a <HI>Royali&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Engag'd again&s;t the <HI>publike Intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>And, therefore, &s;ome &s;u&s;pitious are become</L>
<L>He may, at la&s;t, his fir&s;t <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> re-a&s;&s;ume:</L>
<L>But, that's improbable: For hitherto</L>
<L>He nothing &s;eemeth to neglect, or do,</L>
<L>Save what he &s;hould; If there be neither ought</L>
<L><HI>Done</HI> or <HI>omitted,</HI> more than yet, is brought</L>
<L>Unto my ears; and his <HI>profe&s;&s;ions</HI> are</L>
<L>Sufficient to abate the <HI>Peoples</HI> fear;</L>
<L>Yet, with that <HI>mode&s;ty</HI> con&s;i&s;t, who&s;e want</L>
<L>Made others, lately &s;o exorbitant,</L>
<L>That, many did &s;u&s;pect their <HI>gaudy &s;igne</HI></L>
<L>VVas hung forth but to vent <HI>unwhol&s;ome wine.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He may appear to tho&s;e who cannot &s;ee,</L>
<L>Whereto he &s;hall nece&s;&s;itated be</L>
<L>To deviate &s;ometimes; yet, naithele&s;s</L>
<L>No whit infringe <HI>e&s;&s;ential righteou&s;ne&s;s;</HI></L>
<L>As when he is compell'd to rai&s;e a <HI>Blind</HI></L>
<L>To fru&s;trate what is by his Foes de&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>And hoped for, by letting them enjoy</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>hopes</HI> a while, which may them&s;elves de&s;troy;</L>
<L>Or, that he may di&s;cov'ries make, thereby,</L>
<L>Whom to <HI>&s;u&s;pect,</HI> and on whom to <HI>relie.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That, he was once a Captain for the <HI>King,</HI></L>
<L>Doth him with me, in no &s;u&s;pition bring,</L>
<L>If he retain but &s;o much gen'rou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>As honourable <HI>Sword-men</HI> do profe&s;s:</L>
<PB N="9" REF="7">
<L>For, there are many per&s;ons whom I know,</L>
<L>True to him then, and faithful to us now:</L>
<L>And touching him, this is con&s;iderable,</L>
<L>That he made no <HI>revolt</HI> di&s;honourable</L>
<L>To his <HI>Profe&s;&s;ion:</HI> nor his aide withdrew</L>
<L>Fro him, to whom he thought his &s;ervice due;</L>
<L>Or left him till that <HI>Obligation</HI> ended</L>
<L>By his decea&s;e, on who&s;e life it depended:</L>
<L>No, nor did afterward de&s;ert his <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Till having lei&s;ure to peru&s;e the <HI>Laws</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Cu&s;tomes</HI> of this <HI>Nation,</HI> he perceiv'd,</L>
<L><HI>Crowns</HI> were not alwaies by de&s;cent receiv'd;</L>
<L>Nor ju&s;tly could be worn by any here,</L>
<L>Till by the <HI>People</HI> they elected were</L>
<L>Upon <HI>conditions;</HI> whereto they were both</L>
<L>By <HI>Law</HI> obliged, and engag'd by <HI>Oath:</HI></L>
<L>Which having weigh'd; and that by GOD's permi&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>The <HI>Pow'r</HI> was in another mans po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>Without di&s;pute; meer <HI>con&s;cienciou&s;ne&s;s</HI></L>
<L>(Not Levity) induc'd him to profe&s;s</L>
<L>And <HI>Act,</HI> as he hath done. This, I take leave</L>
<L>Till he &s;hall contradict it, to conceive;</L>
<L>And, of my hopes concerning him, expect</L>
<L>To &s;ee ere long, a &s;utable effect;</L>
<L>Whereof, if I unhappily &s;hall mi&s;s,</L>
<L>My <HI>damage</HI> will be ten times le&s;s than his;</L>
<L>Since <HI>really,</HI> he thereby forfeits more</L>
<L>His <HI>honour,</HI> than he did in <HI>&s;hew</HI> before:</L>
<L>And, if at this time, to his <HI>moral trust,</HI></L>
<L>And his <HI>Engagements</HI> he &s;hall prove unju&s;t,</L>
<L>(Which may be po&s;&s;ible) no further, then,</L>
<L>Thenceforward, in the <HI>words</HI> or <HI>deeds</HI> of men</L>
<L>Will I confide, beyond what I know true;</L>
<L>Whether of <HI>hone&s;ty,</HI> they make a &s;hew,</L>
<PB N="10" REF="8">
<L>Or of <HI>Religion:</HI> But conclude that we</L>
<L>On whom&s;oere we tru&s;t, may cheated be;</L>
<L>And think, (as I did heretofore &s;uppo&s;e)</L>
<L>None but <HI>fal&s;e friends,</HI> and <HI>reconciled foes</HI></L>
<L>Should overthrow our <HI>Cau&s;e.</HI> My hopes of him</L>
<L>Are better yet: (Oh GOD! continue them.)</L>
<L>No <HI>cau&s;e</HI> to me appeareth of &s;u&s;pect,</L>
<L>Save &s;uch as I may rea&s;onably reject.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet, &s;ince he's but a <HI>man;</HI> and le&s;t I &s;eem</L>
<L>To <HI>under-prize,</HI> or <HI>over-value him;</HI></L>
<L>Yea, &s;ince the heart's unknown; and I now am</L>
<L>Of him inform'd, but by a <HI>common fame,</HI></L>
<L>At &s;uch a di&s;tance too, as cannot give me</L>
<L>A&s;&s;urance that <HI>Report</HI> will not deceive me,</L>
<L>I'll keep him on the <HI>Balance,</HI> till I hear</L>
<L>How he proceedeth and &s;hall per&s;evere:</L>
<L>For <HI>Lucifer</HI> did fall; yea, and he fell</L>
<L>Whom &s;ome thought lately, more than parallel</L>
<L>To <HI>Mo&s;es, Jo&s;uah,</HI> and many more,</L>
<L>Renowned for their vertues heretofore:</L>
<L>And, &s;ince he po&s;&s;ibly, by Adulations,</L>
<L>May be expo&s;ed to the like temptations;</L>
<L>I will not, though he bravely hath begun,</L>
<L>A <HI>Garland</HI> make him, till the field is won.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, if I live to hear he &s;hall per&s;ever</L>
<L>In pro&s;ecuting of his be&s;t endeavour</L>
<L>To that effect for which GOD &s;eems to rai&s;e him,</L>
<L>Whatere event &s;hall follow, I will prai&s;e him</L>
<L>In &s;uch a <HI>Mode,</HI> as cannot ju&s;tly be</L>
<L>By others blam'd, or &s;hame to <HI>him</HI> or <HI>me;</HI></L>
<L>Which none can do, though his de&s;erts were greater,</L>
<L>Who doth not prai&s;e a man to make him better.</L>
<L>Faithful performances have been &s;o rare,</L>
<L>That this <HI>Republike</HI> barb'rous would appear,</L>
<PB N="11" REF="8">
<L>If, what he merits be not duly weigh'd</L>
<L>And well rewarded, <HI>when her debts are paid.</HI></L>
<L>Yet, le&s;t he may be (if deferr'd till then)</L>
<L>As ill repaid as other faithful men,</L>
<L>Let them reward him now, (and whil&s;t they may;)</L>
<L>For, here will be <HI>new changes</HI> ev'ry day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, though he do his <HI>duty;</HI> nor his <HI>Pow'r</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Virtue</HI> will avail us, till of our</L>
<L><HI>Known duties,</HI> our regard be &s;omewhat more</L>
<L>Than it appears to have been heretofore.</L>
<L>No <HI>good &s;ucce&s;s,</HI> though he continue true,</L>
<L>If we be fal&s;e, can po&s;&s;ibly en&s;ue.</L>
<L>No <HI>Nation</HI> can from <HI>&s;ervitude</HI> be &s;aved,</L>
<L>Which, when it may be <HI>free,</HI> will be <HI>en&s;laved.</HI></L>
<L>They ea&s;ily, and ju&s;tly are betray'd,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Traiters</HI> are for trea&s;on better paid</L>
<L>Than faithful men, who freely did oppo&s;e,</L>
<L>With life and livelihood, their <HI>Countries Foes.</HI></L>
<L>Who can be &s;afe, where it is hardly known</L>
<L>Either what <HI>Laws,</HI> or <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Pow'r</HI> to own,</L>
<L>Or to di&s;own? VVhere, merited or not,</L>
<L><HI>Knaves, Fools,</HI> and <HI>Wi&s;e men</HI> have the &s;elf-fame <HI>Lot?</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>honest men,</HI> de&s;erving be&s;t, (and fir&s;t)</L>
<L>A wor&s;e than they, who have de&s;erved wor&s;t?</L>
<L>Yea, where &s;ome &s;uffer, till they cannot fear</L>
<L>VVor&s;e mi&s;chiefs, than they feel already there,</L>
<L>Although he &s;hould deceive their expectations,</L>
<L>Who, now, pre&s;erves the <HI>peace</HI> of the&s;e three <HI>Nations,</HI></L>
<L>Expo&s;e us to the fury of the <HI>Dragon,</HI></L>
<L>And with his hor&s;e, draw hither <HI>Charles</HI> his <HI>Wagon.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some, are of this, in hope, and &s;ome afraid;</L>
<L>But chiefly they who have been largely paid</L>
<L>For little <HI>work;</HI> and &s;ome for doing none,</L>
<L>Or, that, which had been better left undone.</L>
<PB N="12" REF="9">
<L>Some, who were paid with little, for great co&s;t,</L>
<L>Which then may be in hazard to be lo&s;t:</L>
<L>Some likewi&s;e, whom their <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> hath accus'd</L>
<L>For having wilfully their pow'r abus'd.</L>
<L>But, be it as GOD plea&s;eth it &s;hall be,</L>
<L>It no whit &s;tartles, or affrighteth me:</L>
<L>For, though this <HI>George</HI> &s;hould act that which will fur|ther</L>
<L>His ends, who is the <HI>Soveraign</HI> of the Order</L>
<L>Of <HI>George on hor&s;eback,</HI> guiltle&s;s I have bin</L>
<L>Of what may make me dread his coming in;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, I acted nothing with intent</L>
<L>To Innovate the <HI>former Government,</HI></L>
<L>Or to uphold this <HI>Pow'r</HI> &s;ave that, whereto</L>
<L><HI>Con&s;cience</HI> and <HI>Duty</HI> did oblige me to.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, when the late <HI>Inte&s;tine war</HI> begun,</L>
<L>I did not by a <HI>&s;elf-inducement</HI> run</L>
<L>To make a <HI>Breach;</HI> but, (called by that <HI>Power</HI></L>
<L>Which was by <HI>Law</HI> intru&s;ted, both with our</L>
<L>And his <HI>Prerogatives</HI> who then did raign)</L>
<L>Came arm'd, a&s;well his <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> to maintain,</L>
<L>As to pre&s;erve our own: Which may appear</L>
<L>By that <HI>Impre&s;s</HI> my <HI>Cornet</HI> then did bear.</L>
<L><HI>Pro Rege, Lege, Grege,</HI> was the WORD</L>
<L>Which manife&s;ted why I drew my <HI>Sword;</HI></L>
<L>And if the <HI>Pow'r</HI> I ought to have obey'd</L>
<L>Mi&s;led me, let the fault on that be laid.</L>
<L>What is't to me, &s;ince I am innocent,</L>
<L>If they proceeded further than I went?</L>
<L>The <HI>Pow'rs</HI> that rule, my lawful warrant be,</L>
<L>And ought not to be que&s;tioned by me.</L>
<L>If they had <HI>ill intents,</HI> in what was done,</L>
<L>What blame have I de&s;erved, who had none?</L>
<L>Or, who can blame them ju&s;tly, if perforce</L>
<L>The <HI>Con&s;equents</HI> have hapned to be wor&s;e</L>
<PB N="13" REF="9">
<L>Then their <HI>De&s;ign?</HI> as I believe (and &s;hall</L>
<L>Believe) it was, in &s;ome, though not in all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If for the &s;ins of <HI>Nations</HI> and of <HI>Kings</HI></L>
<L>GOD ca&s;ts out <HI>Governours,</HI> and Judgements brings</L>
<L>Upon a <HI>People;</HI> What man can re&s;i&s;t</L>
<L>His hand, or mend the matter, till he li&s;t?</L>
<L>Who doth not &s;tand obliged to maintain</L>
<L>The <HI>Pow'r</HI> that GOD &s;ets up, whil&s;t it mu&s;t raign,</L>
<L>Although it &s;hall oppre&s;s him, and were &s;ent</L>
<L>To be, for his defaults, a puni&s;hment?</L>
<L>And, who &s;o little rea&s;on under&s;tands,</L>
<L>That when without advancing of his hands</L>
<L>He, by anothers act, (through GOD's permi&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>May of his long-lo&s;t <HI>Freedom</HI> gain fruition)</L>
<L>Will not accept it, when it may be had,</L>
<L>Although they who were <HI>fools,</HI> will be &s;o mad</L>
<L>To venture their own lives, tho&s;e to betray</L>
<L>That would not be as very &s;laves as they?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When GOD enthrals a <HI>Nation,</HI> tis a crime</L>
<L>To break their chains and cords before his time;</L>
<L>And when he &s;etteth ope the <HI>pri&s;on door,</HI></L>
<L>They do offend as much, or rather more,</L>
<L>By adding to <HI>ungrateful di&s;re&s;pects</HI></L>
<L>Of GOD's <HI>free grace, unnatural neglects:</HI></L>
<L>If therefore, when our &s;ins we had confe&s;t,</L>
<L>GOD, them removes from us who then oppre&s;t;</L>
<L>And when we &s;lip into our former <HI>cour&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Brings back again tho&s;e <HI>Tyrants,</HI> or el&s;e wor&s;e,</L>
<L>Why &s;hould I murmur to behold him ju&s;t?</L>
<L>Or, (if I do repent, and in him tru&s;t)</L>
<L>Fear, I &s;hall him inexorable find,</L>
<L>Whom I offend not, but again&s;t my mind?</L>
<L>When <HI>frailty,</HI> and the <HI>torrents</HI> of the <HI>times,</HI></L>
<L>Have hurri'd me into the <HI>vulgar crimes?</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="14" REF="10">
<LG>
<L>This I have well con&s;idered: And, though they</L>
<L>Who, wilfully have gone out of the way,</L>
<L>And, with corrupt minds, do again begin</L>
<L>To tread the paths which they have erred in;</L>
<L>(Not yet repenting) find, that <HI>evil-tidings</HI></L>
<L>(Becau&s;e they have not &s;ettled their abidings</L>
<L>Beneath the &s;hade of GOD-<HI>Almighties wings</HI>)</L>
<L>Are, in the&s;e times of trouble, <HI>dreadful things;</HI></L>
<L>He arms my heart again&s;t them; and the more</L>
<L>They &s;hake the <HI>Earth,</HI> and make the <HI>Waters</HI> roare,</L>
<L>The more I &s;light them. Yea, although, be&s;ide</L>
<L>Tho&s;e dangers, which have others terrifi'd,</L>
<L>My ruine threatning, there, at pre&s;ent &s;tand</L>
<L>Steep <HI>mountains,</HI> and a <HI>De&s;art</HI> on each hand;</L>
<L><HI>Deep &s;eas</HI> before me, and an <HI>ho&s;t</HI> behind</L>
<L>Which doth appear malignantly enclin'd;</L>
<L>Yet, all the&s;e cannot from my <HI>hopes</HI> remove me,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, I &s;ee GOD in a <HI>cloud</HI> above me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My chief <HI>well-being,</HI> totally con&s;i&s;ts</L>
<L>With that <HI>wind,</HI> which blows <HI>when,</HI> and <HI>where</HI> it li&s;ts,</L>
<L>And, 'twill not mar my prime contentment, whether</L>
<L>We &s;hall have <HI>Parliaments, Kings, both,</HI> or neither;</L>
<L>Whether or no, the <HI>old Lords,</HI> or the <HI>new;</HI></L>
<L>All the <HI>&s;ecluded Members, none,</HI> or <HI>few,</HI></L>
<L>Shall to this <HI>Parliament</HI> admitted be,</L>
<L>Or to the next, and all men then be free</L>
<L>To <HI>chu&s;e,</HI> or to be <HI>cho&s;e:</HI> Whether this <HI>Sect,</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>that;</HI> the <HI>&s;upream Pow'r</HI> will be&s;t re&s;pect.</L>
<L>So <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> henceforth over us may raign,</L>
<L>And <HI>Truth</HI> may her due <HI>freedom</HI> &s;till retain,</L>
<L>I &s;hall be pleas'd, and my endeavour bend</L>
<L>To &s;uffer, what I know not how to mend.</L>
<L>Whatever GOD permits, <HI>his will be done:</HI></L>
<L>For, he is not a <HI>carele&s;s looker on,</HI></L>
<PB N="15" REF="10">
<L>But, active in di&s;po&s;ing to his ends,</L>
<L>What, man, to his vain purpo&s;es intends:</L>
<L>And, our <HI>de&s;igns</HI> will fru&s;trate be for ever,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s, with him concurrence we endeavour.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>peoples voice</HI> is GOD's, the Proverb &s;aies;</L>
<L>And is &s;o, many times, but, not alwaies.</L>
<L>Their <HI>Voice</HI> is, that the be&s;t means to prevent</L>
<L>Our threatned ruine, is a <HI>Parliament</HI></L>
<L>(Next under GOD) that mu&s;t be truly <HI>free.</HI></L>
<L>This, I believe, but, gain'd how &s;hall that be,</L>
<L>Or when procur'd? If, none we <HI>free</HI> mu&s;t call,</L>
<L>But, when there is a freedom left to all</L>
<L>To <HI>chu&s;e,</HI> or to be <HI>cho&s;e;</HI> Some other way</L>
<L>We mu&s;t be &s;av'd before we &s;ee that day,</L>
<L>El&s;e we &s;hall be de&s;troy'd. Mu&s;t we give <HI>Theeves</HI></L>
<L>(Who live but by their <HI>pardons</HI> and <HI>Reprieves</HI>)</L>
<L>Pow'r, to di&s;po&s;e as they &s;hall plea&s;e to do</L>
<L>Of our <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> and think it rea&s;on too?</L>
<L>To <HI>&s;ober men</HI> appears it to be ju&s;t,</L>
<L>With <HI>murtherers</HI> to put our <HI>Lives</HI> in tru&s;t?</L>
<L>To any <HI>wi&s;e men,</HI> will it prudence &s;eem,</L>
<L>With <HI>bloud</HI> and <HI>vast &s;ums,</HI> in the hands of tho&s;e,</L>
<L>From whom we <HI>won them,</HI> (being &s;till our <HI>Foes?</HI>)</L>
<L>Con&s;ent to take what <HI>freedom</HI> they will give us,</L>
<L>Who are the men who did, and would <HI>in&s;lave us?</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>cauterized con&s;ciences</HI> permit</L>
<L>In judgement, on our <HI>con&s;ciences</HI> to &s;it?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Free <HI>Parliaments,</HI> can we call &s;uch as tho&s;e?</L>
<L>Or, think the <HI>Members</HI> of it freely cho&s;e,</L>
<L>When they who much <HI>le&s;s worthy men</HI> do &s;eem</L>
<L>In others eyes, than in their own e&s;teem,</L>
<L>(And they, who have more <HI>wealth</HI> and <HI>pow'r,</HI> than <HI>grace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wit,</HI> or <HI>&s;incerity</HI> with &s;hamele&s;s face,</L>
<PB N="16" REF="11">
<L>By bribes, threats, fawnings, or corrupted friends,</L>
<L>Procure their own <HI>Elections</HI> for &s;elf ends?</L>
<L>And when th' <HI>Electors</HI> likewi&s;e cheated are</L>
<L>Of their <HI>free choice,</HI> by weakne&s;s, hopes, or fear?</L>
<L>Call you that <HI>free,</HI> which was at fir&s;t begot</L>
<L>In <HI>bondage?</HI> Which, at full enjoyeth not</L>
<L>A <HI>freedom</HI> yet? and, was to <HI>come</HI> and go,</L>
<L>When others plea&s;ed were to have it &s;o?</L>
<L>Can that be <HI>free,</HI> or <HI>freemen</HI> make of us,</L>
<L>Which is <HI>begot</HI> and <HI>con&s;tituted</HI> thus?</L>
<L>To which a <HI>Coney-burrough,</HI> or a <HI>village,</HI></L>
<L>Not able with rents, labour, trade, and tillage,</L>
<L>The Charges of <HI>one Burge&s;s</HI> to maintain,</L>
<L>Is as well priviledg'd, to &s;end in <HI>twain</HI></L>
<L>Unto a <HI>Parliament,</HI> as any <HI>Shire</HI></L>
<L>Which doth two hundred times their burdens bear?</L>
<L>And may corrupted be to make a <HI>choice</HI></L>
<L>Which will de&s;troy <HI>three Nations,</HI> with <HI>one voice?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, if a <HI>Parliament</HI> thus cho&s;en, be</L>
<L>By <HI>Custome</HI> lawful, and reputed <HI>free;</HI></L>
<L>We mu&s;t be as we are, till re&s;olution</L>
<L>Be taken up, to mend that <HI>Con&s;titution.</HI></L>
<L>For though this Age to GOD alloweth not</L>
<L>His <HI>choice,</HI> out of our <HI>cho&s;en ones,</HI> by <HI>lot,</HI></L>
<L>(As when <HI>Matthias,</HI> after mans election,</L>
<L>Was cho&s;e, when <HI>chu&s;ers</HI> had le&s;s imperfection:)</L>
<L>And though this <HI>Lottery</HI> was thrown a&s;ide,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e it bounded <HI>Avarice</HI> and <HI>Pride;</HI></L>
<L>And pleas'd not them who&s;e aime was to retain,</L>
<L>Or to acquire <HI>pre-eminence</HI> and <HI>gain;</HI></L>
<L>Yea, though it hath, without <HI>good rea&s;on</HI> why,</L>
<L>Been wav'd by <HI>Clergy</HI> and by <HI>Laity;</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>Lot,</HI> not only the fir&s;t vacant place</L>
<L>To an <HI>Apostle&s;hip</HI> &s;upplied was,</L>
<PB N="17" REF="11">
<L>But, al&s;o, <HI>Saul</HI> thereby Election had</L>
<L>Before he by the people <HI>King</HI> was made:</L>
<L>Mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eover, <HI>Achans</HI> crime when clo&s;e conceal'd</L>
<L>From humane knowledge, was by <HI>Lot</HI> reveal'd.</L>
<L>Then, that <HI>Expedient,</HI> why &s;hould we explode,</L>
<L>And, in things doubtful, &s;hun the Te&s;t of GOD?</L>
<L>His providence will order all we do,</L>
<L>Whether, thereby we plea&s;ed are or no;</L>
<L>And his concurrence in our choice by <HI>Lot</HI></L>
<L>Is ju&s;t and needfull, though we like it not.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, of his <HI>Kingdom,</HI> we have oft confe&s;t,</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>I&s;les</HI> are part: Our <HI>noble&s;t Interest</HI></L>
<L>Depends upon his <HI>Title</HI> and <HI>protection;</HI></L>
<L>They are now much endanger'd by defection</L>
<L>From <HI>him,</HI> and by <HI>&s;elf-tru&s;t:</HI> That <HI>wicked one,</HI></L>
<L>Who hath in other Lands u&s;urp'd his <HI>Throne,</HI></L>
<L>(And here in former Ages) doth intend</L>
<L>To re-in&s;lave us; he hath to that end</L>
<L>Made up his <HI>Breaches;</HI> is (with fal&s;e pretence</L>
<L>Of doing <HI>right</HI> to wronged innocence)</L>
<L>Now aiming to invade us, with a <HI>Pow'r,</HI></L>
<L>In probability, too &s;trong for our;</L>
<L>And, to re&s;i&s;t, we have not many more</L>
<L>Of <HI>cho&s;en-ones,</HI> than made up heretofore,</L>
<L>That <HI>little number,</HI> whereby (though &s;o few)</L>
<L>A mighty Army, <HI>Gideon</HI> overthrew,</L>
<L>Through GOD's a&s;&s;i&s;tance, who compel'd their foes</L>
<L>To make him way, by their <HI>&s;elf-overthrows,</HI></L>
<L>Becau&s;e, he credit gave to his direction,</L>
<L>Who &s;ent him <HI>helpers</HI> by <HI>divine election;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;hall we, in &s;o vi&s;ible a danger,</L>
<L>Make him, that's mo&s;t concern'd, to us a &s;tranger?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All, this premi&s;ed, why &s;hould we refu&s;e</L>
<L>To let GOD <HI>chu&s;e</HI> among us when we <HI>chu&s;e?</HI></L>
<PB N="18" REF="12">
<L>Or, thereupon di&s;tru&s;tful grow, that we</L>
<L>Shall in &s;o doing, pro&s;per wor&s;e than he?</L>
<L>GOD, by <HI>de&s;pi&s;ed helpers,</HI> oft enables:</L>
<L>By In&s;truments that mo&s;t e&s;teem but <HI>bables;</HI></L>
<L>By Lamps concealed in weak earthen pots,</L>
<L>And things much more to be de&s;pis'd than <HI>Lots.</HI></L>
<L>But, what <HI>expedient</HI> likelier can be found</L>
<L>To fix that which is alwaies running round?</L>
<L>Or, make a choice with which men pleas'd may be,</L>
<L>Who, in &s;o many matters di&s;agree,</L>
<L>Than (having cho&s;e as well as they can do)</L>
<L>To let GOD add perfection thereunto?</L>
<L>Since, when he li&s;ts, he can; and ever will</L>
<L>Make all we act, effect his plea&s;ure, &s;till?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This makes me, having acted what may &s;eem</L>
<L>Injoyn'd by rea&s;on, leave the re&s;t to him.</L>
<L>This makes me patiently to wait and heed</L>
<L>Mens counteractings, with what will &s;ucceed;</L>
<L>And, wait the more content, becau&s;e I &s;ee,</L>
<L>That, &s;ometimes things contemned u&s;eful be</L>
<L>In that which he at this time hath in hand,</L>
<L>If his intents, I rightly under&s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For my part, I will there no <HI>chu&s;er</HI> be</L>
<L>Of any, where GOD may not chu&s;e with me;</L>
<L>And, I their <HI>free choice</HI> al&s;o would refu&s;e</L>
<L>If (&s;ingly) <HI>Shire</HI> or <HI>Burrough</HI> me &s;hould chu&s;e</L>
<L>Without a <HI>Lot.</HI> But little need I feare</L>
<L>My being put to &s;uch a trial here;</L>
<L>For, one unfitting to be call'd unto</L>
<L>That <HI>trust,</HI> mo&s;t think me; and if not, I <HI>do:</HI></L>
<L>For, who&s;e end can I &s;erve, that am well known</L>
<L>This <HI>Principle,</HI> and &s;uch as this to own?</L>
<L>Or, who can hope I will to them be ju&s;t,</L>
<L>Who tru&s;t to none but <HI>him,</HI> whom they di&s;tru&s;t?</L>
<PB N="19" REF="12">
<L>Let them who of them&s;elves have high e&s;teem</L>
<L>Pur&s;ue that <HI>cour&s;e</HI> which be&s;t to them &s;hall &s;eem,</L>
<L>Set up what <HI>Pow'r,</HI> and make what <HI>Laws</HI> they plea&s;e,</L>
<L>I &s;hall have comfort, though but little ea&s;e;</L>
<L>And if in&s;tead of <HI>right,</HI> I &s;till have <HI>wrong,</HI></L>
<L>My time of <HI>&s;uffering,</HI> will not now be long.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To what&s;oever <HI>Pow'r,</HI> GOD, me &s;ubjects,</L>
<L>I will obey it with all due re&s;pects</L>
<L>Till he removes it; (as I &s;till have done,</L>
<L>Ev'n then, when I was cen&s;ur'd to have gone</L>
<L>Be&s;ide my <HI>Rule.</HI>) When <HI>Anarchy</HI> takes place</L>
<L>By rea&s;on, to pre&s;erve the <HI>common peace,</HI></L>
<L>I'll u&s;e all good and likely means I may;</L>
<L><HI>Sing,</HI> whil&s;t it la&s;teth; when it faileth, <HI>pray;</HI></L>
<L>That, though from me my Foes the <HI>out-works</HI> win,</L>
<L>I may &s;ecure the <HI>Fortre&s;&s;es</HI> within,</L>
<L>And, in the mean &s;pace, neither be perplext,</L>
<L>Or &s;car'd, to think, who will <HI>en&s;lave me next:</HI></L>
<L>For, he that tru&s;ts to an <HI>internal aid,</HI></L>
<L>Of no <HI>external Pow'r</HI> need be afraid.</L>
<L>The troubles of this life will &s;oon be pa&s;t;</L>
<L>The bli&s;s that follows, will for ever la&s;t:</L>
<L>And, I have &s;een the <HI>Authors</HI> of our troubles</L>
<L>So oft blown up, and puft away like <HI>Bubbles,</HI></L>
<L>That much I am a&s;ham'd to think how poor</L>
<L>My <HI>courage</HI> was to fear them heretofore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I know what <HI>Changes</HI> are now menaced,</L>
<L>Yet, I'll attend them without &s;ervile dread.</L>
<L>Let all tho&s;e do the like, who have took part</L>
<L>In this <HI>Republicks</HI> Cau&s;e with &s;ingle heart;</L>
<L>For, though, if he who doth our <HI>Peace</HI> prolong,</L>
<L>Should follow tho&s;e, who heretofore went wrong,</L>
<L>To make them pro&s;p'rous in their undertakings,</L>
<L>Who may be mark'd out by their <HI>our&s;ed &s;peakings,</HI></L>
<PB N="20" REF="13">
<L>(Their <HI>malice, &s;landers,</HI> and <HI>&s;currilities,</HI></L>
<L>Their great <HI>delight and confidence in Lies.</HI>)</L>
<L>They mu&s;t endure the &s;harpe&s;t <HI>blast</HI> that blew</L>
<L>Within this <HI>Climate,</HI> &s;ince the world they knew;</L>
<L>GOD, will vouch&s;afe them his <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;ting grace</HI></L>
<L>To bear it &s;toutly when it comes to pa&s;s,</L>
<L>And, put a &s;ignal difference, between</L>
<L>Tho&s;e that have <HI>hone&s;t,</HI> and <HI>unfaithful been.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>&s;torm,</HI> is brewing, whereunto, perchance,</L>
<L>The late <HI>North wind,</HI> hath given an advance;</L>
<L>For, I perceive, (although from <HI>Camps</HI> or <HI>Courts</HI></L>
<L>There be where now I am, but few <HI>reports</HI>)</L>
<L>Some <HI>Actings</HI> have produced an effect</L>
<L>Much differing from what I did expect,</L>
<L>And working on the <HI>common peoples</HI> pa&s;&s;ions</L>
<L>According to their various inclinations;</L>
<L>So that he mu&s;t be wi&s;er than <HI>Apollo,</HI></L>
<L>Who &s;hall inform us, what events will follow.</L>
<L>Some rail, &s;ome rave, &s;ome &s;coff, and &s;ome do jeer,</L>
<L>Some ring, &s;ome &s;ing, &s;ome hope, and &s;ome do fear,</L>
<L>Some of them do in&s;ult, &s;ome others whine;</L>
<L>But, all the&s;e <HI>whirlwinds</HI> &s;hake no corn of mine:</L>
<L>To my old <HI>Principles,</HI> I &s;till am true,</L>
<L>And will be, what&s;oever <HI>Change</HI> en&s;ue:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, I am a&s;&s;ur'd the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> we had</L>
<L>Was very good, though we our &s;elves are bad;</L>
<L>And, that, if after all our pains and co&s;t</L>
<L>We lo&s;e it, by our <HI>wickedne&s;s</HI> 'tis lo&s;t.</L>
<L>And, for my part, my portion hath been &s;uch,</L>
<L>That, if I lo&s;e all, I cannot lo&s;e much;</L>
<L>Nor by my <HI>Foes</HI> be much wor&s;e dealt withall</L>
<L>Than I have been by tho&s;e whom <HI>Friends</HI> we call.</L>
<L>The <HI>World</HI> can me of nothing di&s;inve&s;t,</L>
<L>Save that, which heretofore my <HI>cares</HI> increa&s;t;</L>
<PB N="21" REF="13">
<L>And, though &s;he &s;omewhat more oppre&s;s me may,</L>
<L>She &s;hall not take my <HI>happine&s;s</HI> away,</L>
<L>Nor mar my <HI>hopes</HI> with all her &s;corns and brags,</L>
<L>Although, &s;he wears, and tears, my fle&s;h to rags.</L>
<L>I can be but abus'd, and ground between</L>
<L>Two <HI>Mill-&s;tones,</HI> as I hitherto have been.</L>
<L>The <HI>favours</HI> of the <HI>World,</HI> to men upright,</L>
<L>Makes them the more obnoxious to de&s;pight.</L>
<L>If &s;he, to place of <HI>Pow'r</HI> and <HI>Trust</HI> commends</L>
<L><HI>Well-minded men,</HI> 'tis but for her own ends:</L>
<L>For, when her purpo&s;es to pa&s;s are brought</L>
<L>By them, who, her <HI>preferments</HI> never &s;ought,</L>
<L>(And, others for her &s;ervice &s;itter &s;eem)</L>
<L>The fir&s;t &s;he &s;lights, with barb'rous di&s;e&s;teem,</L>
<L>And them expo&s;eth to di&s;graceful &s;corns,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, no longer they can &s;erve her turns.</L>
<L>Therefore, though wor&s;e I &s;peed than heretofore,</L>
<L>My peace thereby &s;hall be di&s;turb'd no more,</L>
<L>Than if I heard a <HI>drivelling fool</HI> did &s;wear,</L>
<L>His <HI>Bable,</HI> and <HI>Bell'd-cap,</HI> I &s;hould not wear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As well <HI>mine,</HI> I confe&s;s, as <HI>others crimes,</HI></L>
<L>Have multipli'd the troubles of the&s;e times;</L>
<L>And, therefore, I mu&s;t undergo my &s;hare,</L>
<L>In what our <HI>National demerits</HI> are.</L>
<L>But, they can never force me to de&s;pair,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, I have a <HI>Mediators</HI> pray'r;</L>
<L>And, &s;uch a gracious GOD to tru&s;t unto,</L>
<L>As neither looks for more than men can do,</L>
<L>Nor doth &s;everely mark what's done ami&s;s</L>
<L>Through frailty, and without maliciou&s;ne&s;s.</L>
<L>And, though, a real un&s;ucce&s;&s;eful <HI>zeal</HI></L>
<L>To do my duty to this <HI>Commonweal</HI></L>
<L>Hath lo&s;t me &s;ome <HI>friends,</HI> and <HI>foes</HI> made me many,</L>
<L>I, am not a <HI>malicious foe</HI> to any;</L>
<PB N="22" REF="14">
<L>Nor were my &s;uff'rings, &s;ince the&s;e wars begun,</L>
<L>For any <HI>knavery,</HI> but, for having <HI>none:</HI></L>
<L>And, therefore, I &s;hall thrive, when <HI>hone&s;t men</HI></L>
<L>May have a thriving time; but, not till then:</L>
<L>And &s;uch a <HI>time</HI> (though by what's pre-declar'd,</L>
<L>It may a very long time be deferr'd)</L>
<L>May, very po&s;&s;ibly, &s;oon come to pa&s;s,</L>
<L>If <HI>he,</HI> that &s;hall have <HI>pow'r,</HI> hath al&s;o <HI>grace</HI></L>
<L>To u&s;e it prudently, when he receives it</L>
<L>To that intent, for which GOD chiefly gives it;</L>
<L>And &s;hall vouch&s;afe a more indulgent eare</L>
<L>To them, who&s;e <HI>words,</HI> by <HI>deeds</HI> confirmed were,</L>
<L>Than to the <HI>Complements</HI> of <HI>&s;eeming friends,</HI></L>
<L>Who fawn upon him for <HI>&s;ini&s;ter ends.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To fortifie that <HI>hope,</HI> a little more,</L>
<L>I have, (be&s;ide what is expre&s;s'd before)</L>
<L>Con&s;ider'd this, that, <HI>under&s;tanding men,</HI></L>
<L>Although they make &s;ome u&s;es, now and then,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Para&s;ites,</HI> to them, no tru&s;t will give,</L>
<L>Till they may be induced to believe</L>
<L>That, <HI>Crows,</HI> which flock about a <HI>new-yean'd Lamb,</HI></L>
<L>(To pick his eyes out) to protect him came;</L>
<L>That, they have oft ob&s;erv'd, it is their gui&s;e,</L>
<L>To wor&s;hip all <HI>new Stars,</HI> when fir&s;t they ri&s;e;</L>
<L><HI>Ho&s;anna</HI> unto him, this day to cry,</L>
<L>Whom they will next day &s;eek to <HI>crucifie;</HI></L>
<L>Set up a <HI>Man of clouts,</HI> to be their <HI>King,</HI></L>
<L>Yea, honour as a <HI>God-head</HI> any thing,</L>
<L>Whereby their pre&s;ent Lu&s;t may be enjoy'd,</L>
<L>Though thereby, they at la&s;t may be de&s;troy'd;</L>
<L>And, when by their own faults they are di&s;tre&s;s'd,</L>
<L>Cur&s;e their be&s;t friends, and tho&s;e whom they have ble&s;s'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, <HI>this mans fortitude,</HI> I hope is &s;uch,</L>
<L>That, their <HI>Bolts</HI> will not thereon batter much;</L>
<PB N="23" REF="14" MS="y">
<L>For, GOD confers the <HI>Pow'r</HI> on him be&s;town,</L>
<L>Ev'n for this <HI>Peoples &s;ake,</HI> not for his own;</L>
<L>And, if their tru&s;t in him, he &s;hould betray</L>
<L>By whom he is, that which he <HI>is this day,</HI></L>
<L>His lo&s;s will be as great (perhaps much more)</L>
<L>As their, who have, betray'd it heretofore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whether to <HI>this,</HI> or to <HI>that Intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>He will decline, 'tis coming to the <HI>Te&s;t:</HI></L>
<L>For, he now &s;tandeth on that fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed <HI>Y,</HI></L>
<L>Wherein, a <HI>right way,</HI> and a <HI>wrong</HI> doth lie;</L>
<L>And, he &s;hall hear a <HI>voice behind him,</HI> &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>GEORGE,</HI> that's the <HI>left,</HI> and this the <HI>right hand way:</HI></L>
<L><HI>This,</HI> leads to <HI>honour here,</HI> and <HI>future bli&s;s;</HI></L>
<L><HI>That way,</HI> the next way to <HI>de&s;truction</HI> is:</L>
<L><HI>That way,</HI> the <HI>greate&s;t number</HI> doth pur&s;ue;</L>
<L>Yet, <HI>this</HI> the <HI>&s;afe&s;t,</HI> although trod by <HI>few.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now, whether <HI>this,</HI> or <HI>that way</HI> he encline,</L>
<L>The danger will be rather his, than mine.</L>
<L>Whatever &s;hall &s;ucceed, which more or le&s;s</L>
<L>Ob&s;tructs th' enjoyment of our <HI>outward-peace,</HI></L>
<L>Me, 'twill not make much merrier, or much &s;adder,</L>
<L>Than ratling of <HI>three blew beans in a bladder;</HI></L>
<L>So, GOD gives <HI>patience</HI> till the &s;torm be pa&s;t,</L>
<L>And <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> prevail at la&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What, <HI>MONCK</HI> perhaps will do, or leave undone,</L>
<L>May mar &s;ome <HI>Trifles,</HI> I have doated on;</L>
<L>But, that, whereon my <HI>be&s;t hopes</HI> fixed be</L>
<L>Doth lie &s;ecured betwixt GOD, and <HI>me.</HI></L>
<L>That, which conduceth to my <HI>noblest ends,</HI></L>
<L>No more on <HI>his,</HI> than <HI>his</HI> on <HI>mine</HI> depends;</L>
<L>And, GOD, I know, will con&s;tantly proceed</L>
<L>In pro&s;ecuting what he hath decreed</L>
<L>Concerning this <HI>Republick,</HI> what&s;oever</L>
<L><HI>He, we,</HI> or <HI>any other</HI> &s;hall endeavour:</L>
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<L>And, when their <HI>fal&s;hood, malice,</HI> and <HI>do&s;pight,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In&s;ultings,</HI> and <HI>vain hopes,</HI> are at the height,</L>
<L>(Who, now, again&s;t this <HI>Commonwealth</HI> con&s;pire</L>
<L>To bring on &s;uch a <HI>Change</HI> as they de&s;ire)</L>
<L>They &s;hall but to and fro, like <HI>drunkards</HI> reel,</L>
<L>Do, and undo, and run round in a <HI>wheel,</HI></L>
<L>Till they have made that, not to be endur'd,</L>
<L>Whereby, they dream <HI>di&s;tempers</HI> may be cur'd;</L>
<L>And, GOD &s;hall fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">l their <HI>wi&s;dom</HI> in that hour;</L>
<L>So break their <HI>&s;nares,</HI> and weaken &s;o, their <HI>pow'r,</HI></L>
<L>That, what they did &s;uppo&s;e would have o'rthrown</L>
<L><HI>His purpo&s;es,</HI> will quite de&s;troy their <HI>own.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This I believe, who oft-times have fore&s;een</L>
<L><HI>Contingent things,</HI> that have unlikely been:</L>
<L>And, though for this, I may be flouted more</L>
<L>Than for the like <HI>expre&s;&s;ions</HI> heretofore,</L>
<L>And more in <HI>hazard;</HI> I am not afeard</L>
<L>To let them any where, be &s;een or heard,</L>
<L>Nor will be di&s;content with him who &s;hall</L>
<L>Conceive of me, as <HI>Fe&s;tus</HI> did of <HI>Paul;</HI></L>
<L>For, I expect not, that <HI>Grapes</HI> can be born</L>
<L>Upon a <HI>Thi&s;tle,</HI> or <HI>Figs</HI> on a <HI>Thorn.</HI></L>
<L>And though the <HI>Scorners</HI> ask to what intent</L>
<L>I have compos'd this <HI>Ribble-rabblement,</HI></L>
<L>(As they will call it) I, will tell them why,</L>
<L>In <HI>meekne&s;s,</HI> that they may as well as I</L>
<L>Be thereby profited; and (if their <HI>pride,</HI></L>
<L>Ob&s;truct it not) lay <HI>prejudice</HI> a&s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At fir&s;t relation of the fore&s;aid <HI>News,</HI></L>
<L>I &s;tept a&s;ide, to coun&s;el with my <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>That, as I often do, I might thereby</L>
<L>My <HI>heart</HI> again&s;t a&s;&s;ailings fortifie:</L>
<L>For, (my <HI>infirmities,</HI> I'll not di&s;&s;emble)</L>
<L>My fle&s;h as prone is to look pale and tremble</L>
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<L>As other mens, if I neglect the <HI>cures</HI></L>
<L>That mu&s;t be took for &s;uch <HI>di&s;temperatures</HI></L>
<L>As are begot, by &s;udden informations</L>
<L>Of <HI>accidents</HI> beyond our expectations.</L>
<L>To which end, if I did not oft retire</L>
<L>To &s;eek by <HI>mu&s;ings,</HI> what, GOD, will in&s;pire,</L>
<L>And thus pre&s;erve them in my <HI>&s;lighted Rimes,</HI></L>
<L>I could not bear the <HI>burdens</HI> which the&s;e times</L>
<L>Impo&s;e on <HI>me,</HI> or <HI>mine,</HI> and upon tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who fir&s;t made head again&s;t our common foes</L>
<L>By their encouragement, who had the pow'r,</L>
<L>Which might have &s;av'd tho&s;e whom they did de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"></L>
<L>And have as well brought &s;corn and outward &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 chunk"></L>
<L>On tho&s;e who acted with them, without blame,</L>
<L>As on them&s;elves; and, when GOD did re&s;tore</L>
<L>Their <HI>Pow'r</HI> twice lo&s;t, &s;till acted, as before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In that, and &s;uch like <HI>Ca&s;es,</HI> not in vain,</L>
<L>I thus di&s;till out from the <HI>heart</HI> and <HI>brain,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>&s;pirits</HI> of tho&s;e many mus'd-on matters</L>
<L>Which there I find, to make &s;ome <HI>cordial waters.</HI></L>
<L>For, though they, who confide in <HI>men</HI> and <HI>hor&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Deride them, as meer <HI>whim&s;ies</HI> of no force;</L>
<L>They make me <HI>merry,</HI> when my <HI>heart was &s;ad,</HI></L>
<L>They keep me <HI>&s;ober,</HI> when men think me <HI>mad;</HI></L>
<L>And, by my <HI>mu&s;ings</HI> al&s;o, now and then,</L>
<L>The like effects are wrought on other men;</L>
<L>For, they a&s;&s;i&s;t us to con&s;ider &s;o,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e things, which <HI>men</HI> may; tho&s;e, which GOD will do;</L>
<L>What, we our &s;elves mu&s;t act; what, leave undone;</L>
<L>What, may in <HI>rea&s;on,</HI> follow thereupon;</L>
<L>What madne&s;s 'twere to overcharge with <HI>&s;orrow</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>pre&s;ent day,</HI> with dreading more to <HI>morrow;</HI></L>
<L>Or, mar our &s;leep, by being di&s;contented</L>
<L>At what may <HI>not be,</HI> or <HI>not be prevented,</HI></L>
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<L>That, I take up what likely hopes I may</L>
<L>My pre&s;ent fears or doubtings to allay;</L>
<L>And fix my confidence on <HI>him,</HI> by whom,</L>
<L>I am a&s;&s;ured help at la&s;t will come:</L>
<L>And he &s;till &s;ends in, (when I know not where</L>
<L>To find &s;upply for things that needful are)</L>
<L>So much, as may &s;upport me to per&s;ever</L>
<L>In what I am obliged to endeavour.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I, am as &s;en&s;ible, as mo&s;t men are,</L>
<L>Of all tho&s;e <HI>Dangers,</HI> which do now appear;</L>
<L>And, till with GOD, I had convers'd a while,</L>
<L><HI>GEORGE MONCK</HI> with all his Forces in this <HI>I&s;le,</HI></L>
<L>And all that <HI>He</HI> and <HI>Mountague</HI> can do</L>
<L>At Sea and Land, with help of <HI>LONDON</HI> too,</L>
<L>Could put me in no hope they &s;hould prevent</L>
<L>The perils which appeared imminent:</L>
<L>But, now, though all their Forces they &s;hould bend</L>
<L>Again&s;t that <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> which we hope they befriend,</L>
<L>And, all the &s;trength both <HI>Spaine</HI> &amp; <HI>France</HI> can bring,</L>
<L>Were joyned to impo&s;e on us a <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>Without <HI>Conditions,</HI> I &s;hould not repent</L>
<L>My <HI>Principles,</HI> or fear the con&s;equent.</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, if by his coming, he &s;hall heal</L>
<L>Our wounds, and breaches, we are &s;afe and well;</L>
<L>And if he come in <HI>vengeance,</HI> we &s;hall ta&s;te</L>
<L>A bitter Cup, and, he the dregs, at la&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, having as <HI>Appendants</HI> to that <HI>Pow'r</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sins unrepented,</HI> and as great as our,</L>
<L>Which daily will encrea&s;e, <HI>when they come in,</HI></L>
<L>SIN, &s;hall do execution upon <HI>&s;in:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Prophane&s;s,</HI> joyning hands with <HI>&s;uper&s;tition,</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>Sanctity di&s;&s;embled,</HI> with <HI>Ambition;</HI></L>
<L>They &s;hall &s;o plague each other, that, if <HI>ten</HI></L>
<L>Of hone&s;t and true-hearted Engli&s;h men</L>
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<L>Be left in ev'ry <HI>thou&s;and,</HI> and, together</L>
<L>Knit in true <HI>Charity</HI> fa&s;t to each other,</L>
<L>They &s;hall be a RESERVE, to make this <HI>Nation</HI></L>
<L>More pro&s;p'rous in another <HI>Generation,</HI></L>
<L>I, would have &s;aid, <HI>before this year be gone,</HI></L>
<L>If, I, had now &s;een <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> better done;</L>
<L>Or, any probability perceiv'd,</L>
<L>That, what I &s;hould declare, would be believ'd.</L>
<L>But, peradventure, 'tis a day too late,</L>
<L>This day, on any terms to promi&s;e that,</L>
<L>Which yet, expected is, by &s;ome of them,</L>
<L>Who, have the <HI>means</HI> neglected, and the <HI>time.</HI></L>
<L>For, <HI>Charles</HI> tho&s;e great advantages hath won</L>
<L>By what hath been <HI>omitted,</HI> and <HI>mi&s;s-done,</HI></L>
<L>(Which, I long &s;ince fore&s;aw) that, though his <HI>Pow'r</HI></L>
<L><HI>MONCK</HI> &s;hall employ for us; nor his, nor our,</L>
<L>Nor both united; nor a <HI>Parliament,</HI></L>
<L>E&s;tabli&s;hed with full and free con&s;ent,</L>
<L>Of all the <HI>People; (if by penitence,</HI></L>
<L><HI>GOD, reconciled be unto that Prince)</HI></L>
<L>Can at this pre&s;ent, make the <HI>&s;cale</HI> &s;o even,</L>
<L><HI>(&V;nle&s;s our peace be likewi&s;e made in heaven)</HI></L>
<L>But, that there will be <HI>ten</HI> for <HI>one,</HI> at lea&s;t,</L>
<L>To weigh him out his <HI>claimed Intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>And, force us tho&s;e <HI>conditions</HI> to receive,</L>
<L>Which he him&s;elf &s;hall plea&s;ed be to give.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, our great <HI>Wars, confu&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>di&s;&s;enting,</HI></L>
<L>Will fru&s;trate &s;o, endeavours of preventing</L>
<L>Our fears, and &s;etling <HI>true peace,</HI> in that way,</L>
<L>Whereby, we for a &s;ettlement a&s;&s;ay;</L>
<L>That he, by whom, lo&s;t hopes reviv'd became,</L>
<L>May accidentally, without ju&s;t blame,</L>
<L>Through breach of <HI>tru&s;t,</HI> make way to bring him in,</L>
<L>Who, hitherto hath mo&s;t oppo&s;ed bin.</L>
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<L>For, that, which <HI>cures,</HI> where <HI>one di&s;temper</HI> lies,</L>
<L><HI>Kills,</HI> where are <HI>complicated maladies;</HI></L>
<L>Or, el&s;e, at lea&s;t, produceth an effect</L>
<L>Much differing, from what we did expect.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If &s;till both <HI>Parties</HI> be the &s;ame they were,</L>
<L>They rather &s;hall encrea&s;e <HI>confu&s;ions</HI> here</L>
<L>Than qualifie them: and, for ought that, yet,</L>
<L>To me appeareth likely to beget</L>
<L>A better hope: nought, <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> offers us,</L>
<L>But this; GOD, grant it prove no wor&s;e than thus.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If, he be qualifi'd, as now &s;ome &s;ay</L>
<L>He is; and as (for ought I know) he may,</L>
<L>That will be then effected, which few thought</L>
<L>Could have here whil&s;t they liv'd to pa&s;s been brought.</L>
<L>And, if to GOD, he reconciled be,</L>
<L>Why, not to men? Or, wherefore not to me,</L>
<L>Who, never was for <HI>&s;elf-re&s;pects</HI> to <HI>him</HI></L>
<L>An <HI>Adver&s;ary,</HI> or, a <HI>friend</HI> to them</L>
<L>Who were his <HI>Enemies,</HI> for being &s;o,</L>
<L>But, as he was, or &s;eem'd to be, a <HI>Foe</HI></L>
<L>To GOD and <HI>Ju&s;tice?</HI> If, he be not &s;uch,</L>
<L>Why &s;hould I doubt his <HI>favour?</HI> Or, fear much</L>
<L>His <HI>wrath?</HI> For, doubtle&s;s, if he be <HI>upright,</HI></L>
<L>He, then, in hone&s;t men will take delight;</L>
<L>Yea, peradventure, may have need of one</L>
<L>To do &s;uch <HI>&s;ervices</HI> as I have done,</L>
<L>Without regarding greatly what men &s;hall</L>
<L>Be plea&s;ed, or di&s;plea&s;ed there withall;</L>
<L>And, if he be a <HI>Tyrant,</HI> I know why</L>
<L>He, will have greater cau&s;e to fear, than I.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If, <HI>her,</HI> who with her <HI>Cup of fornications</HI></L>
<L>Hath long made drunk the <HI>Kings</HI> of many <HI>Nations,</HI></L>
<L>He hath not pledg'd in &s;ecret; nor, &s;o long</L>
<L>Drunk her <HI>inchantments,</HI> that they are too &s;trong</L>
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<L>To be expell'd, there may be <HI>perfect cures</HI></L>
<L>For all <HI>meer natural di&s;temp'ratures,</HI></L>
<L>Whereby, he from Impo&s;tures may depart,</L>
<L>To own what GOD hath written in his heart.</L>
<L>And, then, it will be evidently &s;een</L>
<L>Which way, he might a <HI>glorious King</HI> have been,</L>
<L>Who, now is none; and what the <HI>Parliament,</HI></L>
<L>Which promi&s;ed to make him &s;uch, then meant;</L>
<L>For, he that <HI>governs men,</HI> mu&s;t <HI>righteous be,</HI></L>
<L>And, there is no &s;uch <HI>glorious King</HI> as he.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>King</HI> and <HI>People</HI> are confin'd by <HI>Laws,</HI></L>
<L>Neither the <HI>Princes,</HI> nor the <HI>Peoples Cau&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Can be infring'd; and que&s;tionle&s;s, if he</L>
<L>Inclin'd to &s;uch a conde&s;cention be;</L>
<L>This would, when both &s;ides thereunto &s;ubmit,</L>
<L><HI>Good will to men, and peace on earth,</HI> beget;</L>
<L>And, both GOD's Ju&s;tice, and his Mercy too</L>
<L>It would illu&s;trate, if it might be &s;o.</L>
<L>For, GOD's <HI>Long-&s;uff'ring</HI> doth abide for ever;</L>
<L>And, <HI>Judgements,</HI> very &s;eldom times, or never,</L>
<L>Are pa&s;t by &s;uch an ab&s;olute Decree,</L>
<L>As, by Repentance not revers'd to be;</L>
<L>Nor doth he look, that, man's <HI>Repentance</HI> &s;hould</L>
<L>Proportion with his <HI>Deviations</HI> hold,</L>
<L>Since his <HI>Free Grace,</HI> a <HI>&s;tanding help</HI> &s;upplies,</L>
<L>To make amends for tho&s;e <HI>deficiencies.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mana&s;&s;es,</HI> guilty of &s;ins mo&s;t abhorr'd,</L>
<L>Was ca&s;t out of his <HI>Kingdom,</HI> and re&s;tor'd;</L>
<L>Yea, and this <HI>Parliament,</HI> who&s;e Crimes are more</L>
<L>Ten times, than his, were twice &s;hut out of doore;</L>
<L>Yet, now in grace again (God grant they may</L>
<L>Take heed of falling the third time away,)</L>
<L>For, GOD, will then perhaps, the <HI>&s;econd time,</HI></L>
<L>(As he did of the re&s;t) make proof of him.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>What he will do, is known to him alone,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, he only knows, what will be done</L>
<L>By them, to whom <HI>Conditions</HI> are declar'd</L>
<L>With <HI>threatnings,</HI> and a <HI>promi&s;ed reward,</HI></L>
<L>As they &s;hall be neglected, or fulfill'd;</L>
<L>Or, men are either <HI>well,</HI> or <HI>evill-will'd:</HI></L>
<L>For, they, the <HI>Devil's,</HI> not GOD's, <HI>Prophets</HI> are,</L>
<L>Who, ab&s;olutely, either <HI>peace,</HI> or <HI>war,</HI></L>
<L>(Or <HI>&s;hame,</HI> or <HI>honour, poverty,</HI> or <HI>wealth,</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>life,</HI> or <HI>death,</HI> or <HI>&s;ickne&s;&s;es,</HI> or <HI>health</HI>)</L>
<L>Shall promi&s;e unto them, who have tran&s;gre&s;s'd</L>
<L>Without <HI>conditions tacite,</HI> or <HI>expre&s;s'd;</HI></L>
<L>And they are <HI>Fools</HI> abus'd by ill &s;ugge&s;tions,</L>
<L>Who tempt men, by demanding of &s;uch que&s;tions.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet, GOD, &s;ometimes indulgently complies</L>
<L>With us, ev'n in our <HI>curio&s;ities;</HI></L>
<L>And, other while, un&s;ought for, giveth hints,</L>
<L>To prove us by <HI>conditional events.</HI></L>
<L>Among &s;ome other things, made <HI>&s;ignes</HI> to me,</L>
<L>When, here a <HI>&s;etled Government</HI> &s;hould be,</L>
<L>My <HI>Britains Genius</HI> hath long &s;ince recorded</L>
<L>A <HI>&s;ignal previous one,</HI> which is thus worded:</L>
</LG>
<Q><BIBL>Brit. Genius, <HI>Pag. 100.</HI></BIBL>
<L><HI>A</HI> King, <HI>&s;hall willingly him&s;elf un-king,</HI></L>
<L>And, thereby, grow far greater than before, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L></Q>
<LG>
<L>This, in the <HI>meaning,</HI> might have <HI>twice,</HI> ere this</L>
<L>Fulfill'd have been; and once, <HI>in Terminis,</HI></L>
<L>If <HI>Pride, &s;elf-will,</HI> and <HI>frowardne&s;s</HI> of <HI>mind,</HI></L>
<L>Had not, by <HI>fal&s;e lights,</HI> made true <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> blind.</L>
<L>And, if that he, whom it will mo&s;t concern,</L>
<L>Shall now, GOD's <HI>vi&s;itation-time</HI> di&s;cern,</L>
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<L>(Not letting <HI>opportunities</HI> depart,</L>
<L>By &s;uff'ring <HI>vain hopes</HI> to obdure his heart)</L>
<L>When GOD &s;hall on his &s;oul begin to &s;trike,</L>
<L>A call to penitence, <HI>Mana&s;&s;eth</HI>-like,</L>
<L>But, meekly comes, and laies <HI>revenge</HI> a&s;ide,</L>
<L>All <HI>&s;elf-will, animo&s;ities,</HI> and <HI>pride;</HI></L>
<L>It &s;hall have &s;uch <HI>effects</HI> the &s;elf-&s;ame hour,</L>
<L>On the&s;e <HI>three Nations,</HI> by a &s;ecret pow'r,</L>
<L>As, will &s;o change them too, that, ere the <HI>Sun</HI></L>
<L>Is at his next <HI>height,</HI> and through <HI>Cancer</HI> run,</L>
<L>It will amaze the <HI>World;</HI> their <HI>Foes</HI> confound;</L>
<L>Make &s;ome believe, all things are wheeling round;</L>
<L>Or, think, that <HI>Revolution</HI> drawing near</L>
<L>Which mu&s;t conclude the great <HI>Platonick-year;</HI></L>
<L>And, good, to many <HI>Realms,</HI> 'twill pre-divine</L>
<L>Betwixt the <HI>Tropicks</HI> on both &s;ides the <HI>Line.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This, double&s;s, will by no man be with&s;tood</L>
<L>Who &s;eeks his <HI>own weal</HI> in the <HI>common good,</HI></L>
<L>And, doth not either &s;trive to have po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>Of other mens concernments, by oppre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Or, is di&s;pleas'd with ev'ry <HI>Government,</HI></L>
<L>Save that, which his own <HI>wi&s;dom</HI> &s;hall invent.</L>
<L>If this, may be vouch&s;af'd, or, any thing</L>
<L>Which might appear to have a modelling</L>
<L>By GOD's, and <HI>Natures</HI> Laws; I am &s;o far,</L>
<L>From <HI>Jonah's</HI> frowardne&s;s, when, GOD, did &s;pare</L>
<L>Great <HI>Niniveh,</HI> that, though it quite di&s;&s;ented,</L>
<L>From all that I have aimed at, or hinted,</L>
<L>(Here, or el&s;ewhere) I, therein &s;hould rejoyce,</L>
<L>And prai&s;e Almighty GOD, with heart and voyce,</L>
<L>That, though he both did threaten to de&s;troy,</L>
<L>He lets <HI>both parties,</HI> at the la&s;t enjoy</L>
<L>More <HI>grace</HI> than they de&s;erve; and turns to them,</L>
<L>In <HI>mercy,</HI> though they turn not, yet, to him:</L>
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<L>For, my endeavours wholly were be&s;town,</L>
<L>To have GOD's <HI>mind</HI> fulfilled, not mine <HI>own;</HI></L>
<L>And, whether he in <HI>mercy</HI> or in <HI>wrath</HI></L>
<L>To give us <HI>Kings</HI> again, determin'd hath;</L>
<L>If he, &s;hall bring one hither, I'll receive him</L>
<L>With &s;uch obedience as I ought to give him;</L>
<L>And, prai&s;e GOD for his <HI>Justice,</HI> though his hand</L>
<L>Shall &s;mite me fir&s;t of any in this <HI>Land.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, I &s;hall not believe he hath <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI></L>
<L>To raign here, by GOD's <HI>grace,</HI> or his <HI>permi&s;&s;ion,</HI></L>
<L>Untill he gets admittance by th' <HI>A&s;&s;ents</HI></L>
<L>Of the&s;e three <HI>Nations</HI> in their <HI>Parliaments;</HI></L>
<L>Or, by <HI>re-conque&s;t:</HI> Nor, will I de&s;i&s;t</L>
<L>From &s;till adhering to that <HI>Intere&s;t</HI></L>
<L>Which we po&s;&s;e&s;s, and, on <HI>Appeals</HI> from heaven,</L>
<L>Was by GOD's <HI>Doom,</HI> unto this <HI>People</HI> given:</L>
<L>But, I'll a&s;&s;ert it, while life &s;hall endure,</L>
<L>Or, till for <HI>&s;in,</HI> GOD, takes the <HI>forfeiture</HI></L>
<L>Of what he gave; and <HI>ab&s;olutely</HI> &s;hall</L>
<L>Tran&s;late it; or, on terms <HI>conditionall:</HI></L>
<L>Or, till I &s;ee our diff'rences decided,</L>
<L>And, how the <HI>Pow'r</HI> now claim'd &s;hall be divided.</L>
<L>Mean while, I neither to be &s;aved from</L>
<L>His <HI>wrath,</HI> or, to find <HI>grace</HI> in time to come,</L>
<L>Will have with him compliance; le&s;t I wrong</L>
<L>That <HI>Pow'r</HI> to which my &s;ervices belong:</L>
<L>Nor, will I, whil&s;t this la&s;ts, one <HI>deed</HI> a&s;&s;ay</L>
<L>Which tendeth to removing it away.</L>
<L>Nay, notwith&s;tanding it &s;hould me oppre&s;s,</L>
<L>And, ill requite me for my faithfulne&s;s,</L>
<L>I would not tell in &s;ecret, how it &s;hould</L>
<L>Supplanted be, although, perhaps, I could:</L>
<L>Except, in telling <HI>Charles,</HI> his <HI>Re&s;ignation,</HI></L>
<L>Will be the be&s;t means of that <HI>&s;upplantation:</HI></L>
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<L>For, though the <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> I fought for, were unju&s;t,</L>
<L>I am a <HI>Traytor</HI> if I break my <HI>tru&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>Yea, though thereof, I be well &s;atisfied,</L>
<L>If I &s;hall turn unto the other &s;ide</L>
<L>Before that <HI>tru&s;t,</HI> I, totally re&s;ign,</L>
<L>With all that <HI>Pow'r,</HI> which by that <HI>tru&s;t</HI> was <HI>mine,</HI></L>
<L>Or, make my &s;elf a <HI>&s;tarting hole,</HI> whereby</L>
<L>I may be <HI>fal&s;e,</HI> with &s;hews of <HI>Loyalty.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Royal Pow'r,</HI> I loyally obey'd;</L>
<L>And, though it did oppre&s;s, was &s;o afraid</L>
<L>Of innovating; that a <HI>Reformation</HI></L>
<L>Thereof I wi&s;hed, not an <HI>extirpation.</HI></L>
<L>But, when by other men, through GOD's <HI>permi&s;,</HI></L>
<L>It was remov'd; to that, did yield &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Which then <HI>&s;ucceeded;</HI> and &s;o would have done,</L>
<L>Had <HI>twenty</HI> been admitted <HI>one</HI> by <HI>one,</HI></L>
<L>In whom I &s;aw the <HI>&s;overaign pow'r</HI> re&s;ide,</L>
<L>And, with mo&s;t vi&s;ibility abide:</L>
<L>For, ev'ry <HI>private per&s;on</HI> it behoves,</L>
<L>Till that whole <HI>Orbe,</HI> wherein he's fixed, moves,</L>
<L>To keep his <HI>place,</HI> not medd'ling any way</L>
<L>To overthrow the <HI>Pow'r</HI> he &s;hould obey.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let that <HI>MONCK,</HI> whom I &s;ee but through a <HI>cloud,</HI></L>
<L>(And may two faces hide beneath one <HI>hood,</HI>)</L>
<L>Con&s;ider this; and take heed, le&s;t he may</L>
<L>By <HI>fair appearances</HI> be led a&s;tray,</L>
<L>And make his <HI>Pow'r</HI> to over-balance that</L>
<L>Which mu&s;t be weigh'd out, by their free debate</L>
<L>To whom it appertains: for, they alone,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t, now, untill their own <HI>&s;et time</HI> is gone,</L>
<L>Determine that which in &s;u&s;pence doth &s;tand;</L>
<L>And, if the <HI>Pow'r</HI> then &s;lip into his hand,</L>
<L>(As po&s;&s;ibly it will) he then may do</L>
<L>What GOD and his own con&s;cience prompts him to.</L>
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<L>Mean while, it will behove him to be wary;</L>
<L>For, if an equal hand he &s;hall not carry,</L>
<L>As their <HI>Affairs</HI> now &s;tand, 'twill <HI>trea&s;on</HI> be,</L>
<L>Ev'n in the mo&s;t <HI>&s;uperlative degree;</HI></L>
<L>And, &s;hall be, doubtle&s;s, in the final <HI>&s;winge</HI></L>
<L>Rewarded with <HI>&s;uperlative revenge,</HI></L>
<L>Whether the <HI>Pow'r,</HI> from whom his <HI>Pow'r</HI> he had</L>
<L>Were <HI>perfect,</HI> or, &s;ome way <HI>imperfect</HI> made,</L>
<L>Either by their own <HI>faults,</HI> or <HI>other mens;</HI></L>
<L>For, his <HI>defects</HI> have no excu&s;e from thence:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e, a <HI>&s;ervants</HI> tru&s;t, mu&s;t be maintain'd,</L>
<L>How e'r their <HI>Ma&s;ter&s;hips,</HI> his <HI>Ma&s;ters</HI> gain'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let him con&s;ider well, that, he is bound</L>
<L>To <HI>them</HI> in that &s;tate, wherein <HI>them</HI> he found</L>
<L>When they intru&s;ted <HI>him;</HI> till their own <HI>Acts,</HI></L>
<L>Or, <HI>providence,</HI> invalid tho&s;e <HI>Contracts;</HI></L>
<L>Or, totally annihilates the <HI>Band</HI></L>
<L>By which they mutually obliged &s;tand;</L>
<L>And, that, if they, through what he &s;hall mi&s;s-do,</L>
<L>Be either forc'd, mi&s;led, or frighted to</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>conde&s;centions,</HI> which may quite de&s;troy</L>
<L>That <HI>Pow'r,</HI> by which he did his <HI>Pow'r</HI> enjoy,</L>
<L>His <HI>Faith</HI> is broke; unle&s;s, he do his be&s;t,</L>
<L>To <HI>re-impow'r</HI> them; or, make good, at lea&s;t,</L>
<L>That <HI>End,</HI> for which GOD and the <HI>people</HI> gave</L>
<L>To <HI>them,</HI> and <HI>him,</HI> the <HI>Pow'r</HI> which now they have.</L>
<L>And, this, (if there befall an <HI>over&s;ight</HI>)</L>
<L>Mu&s;t be endeavoured with all his might;</L>
<L>For, ev'ry <HI>promi&s;e, vow,</HI> and <HI>undertaking,</HI></L>
<L>Repugning this, is made <HI>null</HI> in the <HI>making;</HI></L>
<L>And, all the <HI>bloud</HI> which is in this <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> &s;hed,</L>
<L>Will down be &s;howr'd, in vengeance on his head,</L>
<L>Who &s;hall to wrong the <HI>Common right</HI> endeavor,</L>
<L>And in that pro&s;ecution &s;till per&s;ever.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="35" REF="20">
<LG>
<L>This is the <HI>Judgement,</HI> which this day, my <HI>Mu&s;ings,</HI></L>
<L>Dictate (as I think, by <HI>divine infu&s;ings</HI>)</L>
<L>To &s;ome <HI>good purpo&s;es,</HI> if we repent</L>
<L>That <HI>Cour&s;e,</HI> which yet ob&s;tructeth GOD's intent.</L>
<L>And, when that <HI>mad di&s;temper</HI> is allay'd</L>
<L>Which fru&s;trates all that can be <HI>writ</HI> or <HI>&s;aid.</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>Principles,</HI> by <HI>mu&s;ing,</HI> I a&s;&s;ay</L>
<L>To keep up, in my &s;elf; and, as I may,</L>
<L>To build in others, thereby, to encrea&s;e</L>
<L>Their <HI>faithfulne&s;s,</HI> and &s;ettle <HI>common-peace.</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>Principles,</HI> &s;o long as that <HI>Pow'r</HI> la&s;ts</L>
<L>Which is in <HI>being,</HI> though it dayly wa&s;tes,</L>
<L>Is much contemn'd; (and without likelihood</L>
<L>Of ought effecting for the <HI>publike good</HI>)</L>
<L>Compels me con&s;cientiou&s;ly to wave</L>
<L>All <HI>&s;elf-re&s;pects;</HI> and all tho&s;e which I have</L>
<L>To <HI>them,</HI> who&s;e <HI>welfare</HI> is to me more dear</L>
<L>Than mine <HI>own life,</HI> and all things mortal are,</L>
<L>Rather, than I tho&s;e <HI>duties</HI> would neglect,</L>
<L>Which, I think, may the <HI>common-peace</HI> effect,</L>
<L>(Though duties nor exacted, nor regarded,</L>
<L>But, oft, with in juries, and &s;pights rewarded.)</L>
<L>Yea, &s;till, though mo&s;t my purpo&s;es deride,</L>
<L>And, make me &s;corn'd of <HI>Fools</HI> on either &s;ide;</L>
<L>I, take up all <HI>occa&s;ions</HI> to re-mind them</L>
<L>Of needful <HI>Cautions</HI> which they ca&s;t behind them,</L>
<L>As now I do, and heretofore have done:</L>
<L>Sometimes, foretelling, what would fall thereon,</L>
<L>And, then, remembring them as I &s;aw need,</L>
<L>How, that which was foretold them, did &s;ucceed;</L>
<L>That, them (if po&s;&s;ible) reduce I may</L>
<L>Before it be too late, into that <HI>way,</HI></L>
<L>Wherein they may be &s;afe; for, they have bin</L>
<L>Long <HI>out,</HI> and likely, never to come <HI>in,</HI></L>
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<L>Till GOD, by what he &s;eems about to do,</L>
<L>(Or, &s;ome &s;uch way) &s;hall force them thereunto.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, 'tis not that <HI>cour&s;e</HI> which hath practis'd bin,</L>
<L>Our putting <HI>this man out,</HI> and <HI>that man in;</HI></L>
<L>Our puni&s;hing, of &s;ome for <HI>mi&s;s-conceiving</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>duties;</HI> nor, our <HI>giving,</HI> or <HI>forgiving,</HI></L>
<L>According as our <HI>ends,</HI> it may effect,</L>
<L>Or, as we <HI>favour,</HI> or, el&s;e <HI>di&s;-re&s;pect;</HI></L>
<L>Nor our Prudentials, though they did excell</L>
<L>The plots and coun&s;els of <HI>Achitophel,</HI></L>
<L>That will procure our &s;afety; or, &s;ucceed</L>
<L>Much better, at this pre&s;ent, than his did.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No &s;ure <HI>Conclu&s;ions,</HI> can be grounded on</L>
<L>That, which this <HI>General</HI> hath lately done,</L>
<L>Although, to make his pa&s;&s;age hither &s;mooth,</L>
<L>He <HI>Lambert</HI> foyl'd, as <HI>Lambert</HI> foiled <HI>Booth;</HI></L>
<L>For, <HI>men,</HI> and <HI>humane actions,</HI> what&s;oe'r</L>
<L>They promi&s;e, or portend, &s;o tru&s;tle&s;s are,</L>
<L>That, none can yet know, whether of the <HI>Three</HI></L>
<L>Shall to <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> or us, mo&s;t pro&s;p'rous be;</L>
<L>Though, for the pre&s;ent, there is in the <HI>One</HI></L>
<L>Hope of much <HI>good,</HI> and in the <HI>other</HI> none.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis not di&s;cov'ring of each others &s;hame,</L>
<L>(And of tho&s;e <HI>dunghils,</HI> out of which they came)</L>
<L>By &s;uff'ring &s;currilous ba&s;e <HI>Pamphleteers</HI></L>
<L>To fill the &s;treets, with &s;landers, lies, and jeers,</L>
<L>Till there is hardly left us <HI>time</HI> and <HI>room</HI></L>
<L>Of u&s;eful Truths, informed to become.</L>
<L>Nor <HI>preaching Swordmen,</HI> nor the <HI>fighting Prie&s;ts,</HI></L>
<L>Are they, who mu&s;t &s;upport our Intere&s;ts.</L>
<L>Nor they, who make our <HI>publike plagues</HI> the more</L>
<L>By &s;hutting <HI>private mercies</HI> out of door:</L>
<L>For doubtle&s;s they, who, find not time, to hear</L>
<L>A <HI>man oppre&s;&s;ed,</HI> once in twice four year,</L>
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<L>Though urg'd with frequent importunities,</L>
<L>Will make GOD's ears as deaf unto their cries.</L>
<L>'Tis not our <HI>Fellow&s;hip</HI> with <HI>pious friends,</HI></L>
<L>Made in&s;trumental for meer <HI>carnal ends:</HI></L>
<L>'Tis not our eagerne&s;s to mi&s;s-apply</L>
<L>The <HI>grace</HI> of GOD, and cloud it with a <HI>Lie,</HI></L>
<L>Which will endear, and make us acceptable</L>
<L>To him, who to deliver us is able.</L>
<L>Nor is't our <HI>formal Off'rings,</HI> or our zeal</L>
<L>To GOD, and &s;afety of this <HI>Commonweal</HI></L>
<L>Pretended, by our weeding from his <HI>Corn</HI></L>
<L>Tho&s;e, whom he doth command to be forborn</L>
<L>Till <HI>harve&s;t-time,</HI> (le&s;t, as we dayly do,</L>
<L>Among the <HI>Tares,</HI> we pluck up good wheat, too)</L>
<L>That, will be our protection from the &s;mart</L>
<L>And &s;ting of <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> when GOD tries the <HI>heart;</HI></L>
<L>Nor from tho&s;e <HI>ou'ward plagues,</HI> which many run</L>
<L>To meet, in hope, by that cour&s;e, them to &s;hun.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis neither our, nor the <HI>de&s;igns</HI> of tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who, to this <HI>Commonwealth</HI> are <HI>open foes,</HI></L>
<L>That help, or harm us: For, none can contrive</L>
<L>Wor&s;e <HI>mi&s;chieves,</HI> than both <HI>Parties</HI> do derive</L>
<L>From their own <HI>projects;</HI> (as it would appear</L>
<L>If, they of their &s;ucce&s;&s;es heedful were.)</L>
<L>Nor will it be our having of a <HI>King</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>no King</HI> good or bad, that <HI>peace</HI> will bring</L>
<L>To <HI>either &s;ide,</HI> till they &s;hall better heed</L>
<L>How mi&s;-advi&s;edly they do proceed.</L>
<L>Nor is't a <HI>pack'd, peec'd,</HI> or, new <HI>Parliament,</HI></L>
<L>Elected by a <HI>general a&s;&s;ent,</HI></L>
<L>That will repair us, though it might be had:</L>
<L>But, &s;ome things, whereof &s;mall account is made,</L>
<L>As we &s;hall &s;hortly find, when we have tri'd</L>
<L>What, by <HI>exper'ence</HI> will be verifi'd.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L><HI>Some will de&s;ire to know them: would they could</HI></L>
<L><HI>As heartily de&s;ire it, as they &s;hould,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And mend what is ami&s;s, when they do know it,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As ea&s;ily as I can truly &s;how it.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is, that <HI>Mercy,</HI> and that <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>Which, hypocritically we profe&s;s,</L>
<L>When we do &s;hut our <HI>doors,</HI> our <HI>eyes,</HI> and <HI>ears,</HI></L>
<L>Again&s;t the &s;ad <HI>Petitions, cries,</HI> and <HI>tears</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>men oppre&s;s'd,</HI> and ca&s;t away that <HI>Bread</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>dogs</HI> and <HI>&s;wine,</HI> that <HI>Children</HI> &s;hould have fed.</L>
<L>'Tis <HI>&s;elf-denial,</HI> and not that alone</L>
<L>Which ought by all men to be undergone,</L>
<L>But al&s;o that in chief, which by a Vote</L>
<L>Was once pretended, and e'r &s;ince forgot.</L>
<L>It is a <HI>con&s;cientious reparation</HI></L>
<L>Of this <HI>Republicks Faith,</HI> who&s;e violation</L>
<L>Makes all unpro&s;p'rous which we take in hand;</L>
<L>And, which hath brought a <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> upon this Land</L>
<L>That will not be remov'd, till we have payd</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Vows,</HI> which have been &s;hamele&s;ly delay'd.</L>
<L>'Tis want of <HI>meekne&s;s</HI> upon either &s;ide,</L>
<L>And <HI>Charity,</HI> which (making men <HI>divide,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>&s;ubdivide</HI>) doth day by day, encrea&s;e</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Di&s;cords,</HI> which de&s;troy the common peace;</L>
<L>For, nor <HI>mens wrath,</HI> nor their Phanatick zeal,</L>
<L>Compleats GOD's <HI>will,</HI> or cures the <HI>Commonweal,</HI></L>
<L>Or edifies his <HI>Church:</HI> But, <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Truth</HI> profe&s;s'd, with <HI>&s;incere &s;oberne&s;s.</HI></L>
<L>'Tis the&s;e things, that mu&s;t cure our <HI>Grand di&s;ea&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>And, if we peri&s;h, 'tis through want of the&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e, are the <HI>&s;ins,</HI> (as often heretofore</L>
<L>I have affirm'd, and &s;ay it now once more)</L>
<L>Which have de&s;troy'd, and totally laid wa&s;te</L>
<L>Great <HI>Monarchies,</HI> and <HI>States</HI> in Ages pa&s;t.</L>
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<L>Yet, to the&s;e Crimes, this Age hath added many,</L>
<L>Be&s;ide <HI>hypocri&s;ie,</HI> the wor&s;t of any.</L>
<L>Yea, they have crown'd them with <HI>impenitencies</HI></L>
<L>For &s;ins committed under fair pretences;</L>
<L>With per&s;everance in them, whil&s;t GOD's hand</L>
<L>Is &s;tretched forth in anger o'er this Land.</L>
<L>And, it is <HI>Penitence</HI> for the&s;e <HI>Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>As al&s;o, for our manifold <HI>omi&s;&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>That mu&s;t prevent the <HI>plagues</HI> now coming on.</L>
<L>GOD, grant, it may be timely, thought upon;</L>
<L>And, this, therewith, in &s;ea&s;on minded too;</L>
<L>That, we in <HI>con&s;cience,</HI> are oblig'd to do</L>
<L>As much as po&s;&s;ibly we &s;hall be able</L>
<L>To &s;eek preventing of that mi&s;erable</L>
<L>And <HI>&s;ad condition,</HI> whereto they are brought,</L>
<L>Who, for the <HI>common Intere&s;t,</HI> have fought</L>
<L>By their <HI>injoynments,</HI> (who then managed</L>
<L>The <HI>Pow'r,</HI> which their obedience watranted)</L>
<L>And, thereto, not alone contributed</L>
<L>Their Livelihoods. but, in their &s;ervice &s;hed</L>
<L>Their precious bloud, with hazard of their lives,</L>
<L>And ruine to their children, and their wives;</L>
<L>Whom, if we &s;lightly leave indempnifi'd,</L>
<L>Will rai&s;e the loude&s;t CRY that ever cri'd;</L>
<L>Make all men &s;ay, (who have their <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> well &s;cann'd)</L>
<L>That <HI>hone&s;t men</HI> by <HI>knaves</HI> have been trapann'd;</L>
<L>Fulfill, what, in my <HI>OPOBALSAM&V;M,</HI></L>
<L>I, fifteen years now pa&s;t, foretold &s;hould come;</L>
<L>And in &s;ome other <HI>Premonitions</HI> too,</L>
<L>(Though heeded not) nigh forty years ago.</L>
<L>Yea, and, bring <HI>Vengeance,</HI> ev'n on tho&s;e who &s;hall</L>
<L>Suppo&s;e, it them concerneth not at all;</L>
<L>For, mo&s;t, one way or other, guilty be,</L>
<L>And from the <HI>puni&s;hment,</HI> few &s;hall be free.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="40" REF="23">
<LG>
<L>What pinch was that? <HI>Oh gracious</HI> GOD! <HI>where art?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Stay by me: For, a &s;udden twinge at heart,</HI></L>
<L><HI>So gripeth it, with an injected fear,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As if &s;ome dreadful thing, were drawing near.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Waves, after waves, begin (methinks) to roul,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And, are come up, almo&s;t, ev'n to my &s;oul.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet, why my &s;oul, art thou cast down in me?</HI></L>
<L><HI>What is it, that can thus di&s;quiet thee?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Still, tru&s;t in GOD; thy &s;elf to him re&s;igne:</HI></L>
<L><HI>For, thou art his, and he is truly thine.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Although the Waters roar, the waves mount high,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And we are far from &s;hore, yet, GOD is nigh;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Although the &s;hip &s;inks, he can, if he plea&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Make us, with &s;afety, walk upon the Seas;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And, if we down into the Deeps mu&s;t go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>There, we &s;hall find him, and enjoy him too.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Take courage then, my heart, firm credit give,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To what he promi&s;eth, and thou &s;halt live.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>pang</HI> is wholly pa&s;t, and all my fear</L>
<L>Is now, for them, who, &s;encele&s;s do appear</L>
<L>Of their own hazards; who are without dread</L>
<L>Of that <HI>de&s;truction</HI> which hangs o'er their head;</L>
<L>And, who have <HI>help</HI> and <HI>peace</HI> expected from</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>hills,</HI> from whence, their <HI>welfare</HI> cannot come;</L>
<L>As, they would &s;oon find, if they heedful were</L>
<L>What <HI>winds</HI> breathe from them, and what <HI>fruits</HI> they bear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How long! how long! &s;hall GOD unto this <HI>place</HI></L>
<L>Make di&s;-re&s;pected offers of his <HI>Grace?</HI></L>
<L>How often, &s;ince great <HI>failings</HI> fir&s;t begun,</L>
<L>Hath he provoked almo&s;t ev'ry one,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Apart,</HI> or <HI>joyntly?</HI> Cea&s;ing not to prove</L>
<L>By <HI>Judgements</HI> and by <HI>mercies</HI> interwove,</L>
<L>How difficultly, either <HI>Grace</HI> or <HI>Nature</HI></L>
<L>Can work upon a <HI>&s;elf-corrupted Creature?</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="41" REF="23">
<LG>
<L>By all things which may any way relate</L>
<L>To <HI>&s;oul</HI> or <HI>body, credit</HI> or <HI>e&s;tate</HI></L>
<L>We have been call'd upon, one way or other;</L>
<L>By &s;weet, and &s;harp things, and both mixt togeth</L>
<L>By what to our chief <HI>joy,</HI> and <HI>&s;orrow</HI> tends;</L>
<L>By &s;ervants, neighbours, kindred, and by friends;</L>
<L>By &s;ickne&s;&s;es, and health; by &s;corns, and jeers;</L>
<L>By &s;hame, and honour, and by hopes, and &s;ears:</L>
<L>By other mens <HI>examples,</HI> GOD, forewarns;</L>
<L>Sometimes, by our own <HI>&s;uff'rings, wi&s;dom</HI> learns;</L>
<L>One while by <HI>wi&s;e men,</HI> and <HI>true Prophets</HI> reaches,</L>
<L>Sometimes, by <HI>Wi&s;ards, fools,</HI> and <HI>children</HI> preach</L>
<L>Then, la&s;t of all, when no effect the&s;e take,</L>
<L>By things <HI>(as now)</HI> like <HI>Bal'ams A&s;s,</HI> doth &s;peak:</L>
<L>And, that, which all this, probably pre&s;ages,</L>
<L>Is (without &s;wift repentance) <HI>Bal'ams wages;</HI></L>
<L>Which will be &s;urely paid, when they who may</L>
<L>Prevent it yet, <HI>&s;hall give their pow'r away:</HI></L>
<L>Unle&s;s that <HI>Mercy,</HI> which no ending hath,</L>
<L>Shall once again, put off the <HI>day of wrath;</HI></L>
<L>(Now-near approaching) when, in few, or none,</L>
<L>There &s;hall be any hope it maybe done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So, for a while, my <HI>mad fit</HI> now is over.</L>
<L>Would other mad men might as &s;oon recover:</L>
<L>And, be as &s;ober in their Intervalls,</L>
<L>As I have hope to be, whatere befalls.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus, once again, although that heretofore,</L>
<L>In this <HI>mode,</HI> I re&s;olv'd to <HI>write</HI> no more,</L>
<L>(As, ju&s;tly, otherwhile, the <HI>Parliament</HI></L>
<L>Revokes their <HI>Orders,</HI> when impertinent</L>
<L>To <HI>Common &s;afety</HI>) I, have boldne&s;s took,</L>
<L>For <HI>like re&s;pects,</HI> my <HI>purpo&s;e</HI> to revoke.</L>
<L>And, though, as our <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> now at hazard lies,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t men will judge me far more bold than wi&s;e,</L>
<PB N="42" REF="24">
<L>To own the&s;e <HI>Mu&s;ings.</HI> I &s;o dreadle&s;s am,</L>
<L>That, to atte&s;t them, I &s;ub&s;cribe this <HI>Name</HI></L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>At <HI>Hambledon,</HI> <DATE>Feb. 19. 1659.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>George Wither.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="publisher's advertisement">
<HEAD>An Adverti&s;ement.</HEAD>
<P>IT is the great <HI>mercy</HI> of GOD that the <HI>Author</HI> of this <HI>Furor-poeticus,</HI> (all things con&s;idered) fell not into <HI>Fu|rorem Bethlemeticum,</HI> long &s;ince: (for be&s;ide three <HI>Ad|dre&s;&s;es</HI> in Manu&s;cript, pre&s;ented to the two <HI>Protectors,</HI> and many hundreds of other <HI>Poems, Papers,</HI> and <HI>Petiti|ons</HI> printed and written, publi&s;hed, and privately prefer|red, during almo&s;t <HI>18</HI> years <HI>&s;ollicitation</HI> for <HI>publike</HI> and <HI>private ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>mercy</HI>) it will be partly demon&s;trated what experience he the &s;aid <HI>Author</HI> had of the&s;e Latter times, to all tho&s;e who &s;hall have patience to peru&s;e tho&s;e few <HI>Poems, preparatories,</HI> and <HI>Epi&s;tolary di&s;cour&s;es,</HI> only, which have been divulged within the compa&s;s of the la&s;t year, (or, not long before) and which may be had with the <HI>Printer</HI> hereof, or, at Mrs <HI>Stamps,</HI> who &s;elleth Books in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-hall,</HI> &amp; at other Book-&s;ellers, being the&s;e in particular.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>2. The</HI> Sinners Confe&s;&s;ion, <HI>or the product of a private humiliation.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> Epi&s;tolium-Vagum-pro&s;a-metricum, <HI>or an</HI> Epi&s;tle at Randome <HI>in Pro&s;e and Metre.</HI></ITEM>
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</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="to Hamon" TYPE="postscript">
<PB N="43" REF="24">
<HEAD>To the la&s;t mentioned Epi&s;tolary Di&s;cour&s;e, written to Mr <HI>R. Hamon,</HI> Merchant, I will here add this Po&s;t&s;cript, upon the occa&s;ion therein expre&s;&s;ed.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A Po&s;t&s;cript to Mr R. <HI>Hamon,</HI> Merchant.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>THat <HI>Letter,</HI> which to you I lately &s;ent,</L>
<L>On &s;econd Rupture of this <HI>Parliament,</HI></L>
<L>I am inform'd, by &s;ome, this cen&s;ure had,</L>
<L>That, doubtle&s;s, when I wrote it, I was <HI>mad:</HI></L>
<L>(As I, perhaps, might have been long ago,</L>
<L>Had, I their <HI>wit,</HI> whom <HI>troubles</HI> maketh &s;o.)</L>
<L>They know not what it aimes at, I hear &s;ay;</L>
<L>But, were they not more <HI>mad</HI> than I, they may:</L>
<L>For, from the <HI>whole Contents,</HI> they may collect</L>
<L>What, of their <HI>hopes,</HI> will be the &s;ad effect;</L>
<L>And, draw forth al&s;o from it, this <HI>Conclu&s;ion,</HI></L>
<L>That, they, and I, and all are in <HI>confu&s;ion;</HI></L>
<L>That, neither <HI>Army, Parliament,</HI> or <HI>King,</HI></L>
<L>Nor any other <HI>&s;ub-cele&s;tial thing,</HI></L>
<L>Can have a <HI>&s;elf-&s;ufficiency</HI> to cure</L>
<L>Our pre&s;ent <HI>Ruptures,</HI> and <HI>di&s;temperature,</HI></L>
<L>As we are now di&s;temper'd; till a <HI>Pow'r</HI></L>
<L>Therewith concur, tran&s;cending their, and our:</L>
<L>Till <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> with <HI>Mercy</HI> is inthron'd;</L>
<L>Till <HI>&s;elfne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>&s;elf-ends</HI> are more di&s;own'd:</L>
<L>Till ev'ry <HI>&s;ingle per&s;on</HI> &s;hall apart</L>
<L>Reform his <HI>Will,</HI> his <HI>Actions, Words,</HI> and <HI>Heart;</HI></L>
<PB N="44" REF="25">
<L>Or, &s;o endeavours it, that one by one,</L>
<L>We, may do that, which yet by none is done,</L>
<L>Untill to <HI>Numbers, &V;nites</HI> do encrea&s;e,</L>
<L>And make at la&s;t, tho&s;e <HI>Numbers</HI> numberle&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such <HI>Ends,</HI> as the&s;e, I aim'd at; and perchance,</L>
<L>If they, had more <HI>Wit,</HI> and le&s;s <HI>Ignorance,</HI></L>
<L>Who cen&s;ur'd me, their <HI>prudence</HI> had di&s;cern'd</L>
<L>My <HI>purpo&s;e,</HI> or more <HI>&s;oberne&s;s</HI> had learn'd.</L>
<L>Or, peradventure, they had under&s;tood,</L>
<L>That, &s;hould I then have written in a <HI>mood</HI></L>
<L><HI>More ab&s;olute,</HI> of things concerning tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who were of <HI>diff'ring Judgements, friends,</HI> and, <HI>foes,</HI></L>
<L>It might have added <HI>fewel,</HI> to encrea&s;e</L>
<L>Tho&s;e flamings, which did then infringe our <HI>peace;</HI></L>
<L>And wholly have made void that <HI>hone&s;t end</HI></L>
<L>Which, I did in &s;implicity intend.</L>
<L>For, had I magi&s;terially expre&s;t</L>
<L>What I di&s;lik'd, or own'd, or judged be&s;t</L>
<L>To be re&s;olv'd on; I &s;hould have appear'd</L>
<L>A <HI>Party,</HI> and by neither &s;ide been heard</L>
<L>Without &s;u&s;pect, that I would have acquir'd,</L>
<L>Not what was <HI>be&s;t,</HI> but, what <HI>I mo&s;t de&s;ir'd.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Much, therefore, <HI>po&s;itively</HI> to declare</L>
<L>I purpos'd not; but, &s;omewhat to prepare</L>
<L>All <HI>Parties,</HI> without frowardne&s;s of heart</L>
<L>To weigh tho&s;e things, which <HI>joyntly,</HI> or <HI>apart,</HI></L>
<L>Would mo&s;t concern them; and, then, make that u&s;e,</L>
<L>Which an <HI>Atonement</HI> &s;oone&s;t might produce.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I, &s;omewhat further, might Apologize;</L>
<L>But, this, on my behalf, may well &s;uffice,</L>
<L>Who, more for others &s;akes, than for mine own,</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>words</HI> and <HI>Lines,</HI> have thus together thrown.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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