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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>The dark Lantern, Containing A dim Di&s;coverie, in Riddles, Parables, and Semi-Riddles, intermixt with Cautions, Remembrances and Predictions, as they were promi&s;cuou&s;ly and immethodically repre|&s;ented to their <HI>Author,</HI> in his <HI>Solitary Mu&s;ings,</HI> the third of <HI>November</HI> 1652. about <HI>Midnight.</HI></P>
<P>Whereunto is annexed, A POEM, Concerning A Perpetuall Parliament.</P>
<P>By <HI>Geo. Wither</HI> E&s;quire.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>R. Au&s;tin,</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Richard Lowndes</HI> at the white Lion in PAUL'S Church|yard, neer the little North Door. 1653.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="author to the reader">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e <HI>Poems</HI> were delivered forth to be publi&s;hed about three moneths pa&s;t, with an expectation that they &s;hould have been imprinted forthwith, and had either an accidentall or a negligent delay prevent|ing their publication the la&s;t Term; and perhaps (I being ab&s;ent) they were afterward purpo&s;ely delay|ed, that they might come forth at the beginning of this <HI>Ea&s;ter Term,</HI> by their de&s;ign, who more con&s;ider|ed the Book&s;ellers advantage, then how much the ha&s;tning of them might concern the publike; by which means it was not fini&s;hed, untill that very day where|upon the <HI>Parliament</HI> had an unlooked for period: and yet peradventure, in regard of the many timely <HI>Cautions</HI> and <HI>Remembrances,</HI> which have been hereto|fore de&s;pi&s;ed, or neglected, <HI>Providence</HI> hath permit|ted the&s;e to be delayed, untill their publication came too late, for effecting that which was in|tended.</P>
<P>How&s;oever it will be u&s;efull to &s;ome other ends; at lea&s;t to te&s;tifie to the world, that what is now come to pa&s;&s;e, was fore&s;een, and endeavours u&s;ed for prevention thereof, which might probably have had good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, if contempt of many forewarn|ings had not hindred the &s;ame, it may be, to make way for the accompli&s;hment of &s;omewhat, fore-de|clared in my <HI>Britains Genius;</HI> in which <HI>Poem,</HI> I la|boured as much in vain to reduce the late <HI>King,</HI> to make u&s;e of that means which would have effected his
<PB REF="3"><HI>re&s;toration,</HI> as I have hereby done to pre&s;erve the <HI>Par|liament:</HI> and I heartily be&s;eech Almighty God, that I may not have occa&s;ion to be as fatall a <HI>Remembrancer</HI> to them who are now in <HI>Throne;</HI> le&s;t wor&s;e things hap|pen to them, then to their Predece&s;&s;ors, which I am a&s;|&s;ured will follow, if their proceedings (which I yet &s;u&s;pect not) be not really de&s;ign'd, and made an&s;wer|able to their fair pretendings. There are many faults e&s;caped in the printing, by rea&s;on of my ab&s;ence, and a Copy ha&s;tily, and not very plainly written, &s;ome of which are here corrected, the re&s;t I leave to be amend|ed, as you find them.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<P>PAge 5. line 25. for <HI>corall</HI> read <HI>carnall.</HI> p. 32. l. 9 r. Then &s;uch as Innocencies cau&s;e, &amp;c. p. 49. l. 29. r. <HI>Aegypts</HI> thrall. p. 72. l. 13. for <HI>foot</HI> r. <HI>fork.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="author to Parliament and the people of England">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>TO THE PARLIAMENT, AND PEOPLE OF THE Commonwealth of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SO let me &s;peed, in all that I pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>As, in what <HI>followes,</HI> I mean well to you:</L>
<L>And, as I bear a loving faithfull <HI>heart,</HI></L>
<L>To all of <HI>you, united</HI> and <HI>apart;</HI></L>
<L>Although, I peradventure, may appear</L>
<L>On &s;ome <HI>occa&s;ions,</HI> bitterly &s;evere,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e, in whom, I <HI>private-failings</HI> &s;ee,</L>
<L>Which, to the <HI>Publike</HI> may obnoxious be;</L>
<L>To make them <HI>judge them&s;elves,</HI> and &s;cape the <HI>doom,</HI></L>
<L>Which, from another <HI>judgement,</HI> els may come:</L>
<L>For, at no <HI>&s;ingle per&s;on,</HI> have I &s;trook,</L>
<L>By any <HI>line,</HI> or <HI>pa&s;&s;age,</HI> in this <HI>book.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If here, I further &s;eem to have pre&s;um'd,</L>
<L>Or, more upon my &s;elf to have a&s;&s;um'd,</L>
<L>Then may be <HI>warrantable</HI> thought, at fir&s;t,</L>
<L>Examine it, before you judge the wor&s;t;</L>
<L>And, try by <HI>circum&s;tances</HI> (as ye may)</L>
<L>What <HI>Spirit,</HI> hath directed me this way;</L>
<L>Or, for what likely <HI>ends,</HI> or for who&s;e <HI>&s;ake,</HI></L>
<L>I could, or dared, this <HI>attempt</HI> to make;</L>
<L>Except it were for GODS, for <HI>your,</HI> and <HI>mine,</HI></L>
<L>As they with one another, do intwine.</L>
<PB REF="4">
<L>Yea, &s;earch, if my <HI>Religion, &s;tudies, wayes,</HI></L>
<L>Or, <HI>manners</HI> (which have beene throughout my dayes,</L>
<L>Before your eyes) may any <HI>&s;ign</HI> afford,</L>
<L>That, I have, hitherto, in <HI>deed,</HI> or <HI>word,</HI></L>
<L>Been an <HI>Impo&s;tor;</HI> or, pre&s;ented you</L>
<L>With ought, that hath been <HI>u&s;ele&s;&s;e,</HI> or <HI>untrue;</HI></L>
<L>And as that ju&s;tly may incline your mind,</L>
<L>Let the&s;e <HI>expre&s;&s;ions</HI> acceptation find.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>madne&s;&s;e,</HI> they appear; con&s;ider well,</L>
<L>That, &s;uch <HI>mi&s;cen&s;urings</HI> have often fell</L>
<L>On <HI>&s;ober men,</HI> when tho&s;e deluding crimes,</L>
<L>Were prevalent, which raign in the&s;e our times.</L>
<L>If <HI>fooli&s;h,</HI> they be thought; remember this,</L>
<L>That, true&s;t <HI>wi&s;dome,</HI> &s;eemeth <HI>fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>worldly prudent men,</HI> when, God, forth brings</L>
<L>To fool their <HI>wi&s;dome,</HI> de&s;picable things.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Men, hear <HI>fools</HI> gladly, when them&s;elves are wi&s;e,</L>
<L>And, meekly pity rather then de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L>Their folly, learning, thereby, &s;ometimes too,</L>
<L>More, then by their own <HI>wi&s;dome,</HI> they could do:</L>
<L>But, <HI>wi&s;e, mad fooli&s;h,</HI> or, what ev'r I am,</L>
<L>To do this <HI>work,</HI> into the world I came;</L>
<L>To the&s;e <HI>times,</HI> was re&s;erv'd; to this <HI>end,</HI> taught;</L>
<L>And, to the &s;ight of many things, am brought,</L>
<L>Which, els I had not known, nor would have &s;een,</L>
<L>But, that, I ty'd, (as by the leg) have been,</L>
<L>(<HI>Ten years</HI> together, <HI>ten dayes</HI> work to do)</L>
<L>To <HI>know</HI> them, whether I &s;o would or no.</L>
<L>And, when I knew them, I would fain have done</L>
<L>My own <HI>work</HI> fir&s;t, or els, like <HI>Jonas</HI> run</L>
<L>To <HI>Tar&s;is,</HI> or <HI>Lundee,</HI> or any whither</L>
<L>(Adventuring through <HI>Seas,</HI> and <HI>Tempests</HI> thither)</L>
<L>Much rather, then to have proceeded on,</L>
<L>In doing that, which I, at la&s;t, have done.</L>
<PB REF="4">
<L>For, I am like the <HI>world,</HI> in many things,</L>
<L>And, oft &s;o tempted by her promi&s;ings</L>
<L>Of <HI>ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>&s;afety,</HI> in another <HI>cour&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>That, I, with much &s;trife, did my heart inforce,</L>
<L>To pro&s;ecute her <HI>duty;</HI> as ye may,</L>
<L>Perceive, if, <HI>you</HI> the following <HI>tract</HI> &s;urvay.</L>
<L>But, my own <HI>thoughts,</HI> would neither let me &s;leep,</L>
<L>Nor &s;uffer me a <HI>waking-peace</HI> to keep,</L>
<L>Or, follow my <HI>affairs</HI> (though they were brought</L>
<L>Neer to a point, of coming quite to nought)</L>
<L>Till, I, my <HI>mu&s;ings,</HI> had in <HI>words</HI> array'd</L>
<L>To be, by <HI>you,</HI> and <HI>other men,</HI> &s;urvay'd.</L>
<L>All tho&s;e <HI>affairs,</HI> a&s;ide, I, therefore threw,</L>
<L>To cloth my <HI>meditations,</HI> for your view;</L>
<L>Which, being fini&s;h'd, I can now lye down</L>
<L>And &s;leep, as well as any man in Town.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>times</HI> are dangerous; and, I am told,</L>
<L>By that which is my <HI>Guide,</HI> I &s;hould not bold</L>
<L>Beyond <HI>di&s;cretion</HI> be; which makes me talk</L>
<L>In <HI>riddles,</HI> and with this <HI>Dark Lantern</HI> walk:</L>
<L>That, I may &s;ee my way, and not be &s;een</L>
<L>By ev'ry one, whom I may meet, between</L>
<L>My goings <HI>out,</HI> and <HI>in:</HI> and that it may</L>
<L>Give <HI>light</HI> to &s;ome, who are be&s;ide their way,</L>
<L>As I occa&s;ion find; and, where I &s;ee</L>
<L>The <HI>light</HI> that's offer'd, may accepted be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, what my <HI>vi&s;ions</HI> are, as in relation,</L>
<L>Unto this <HI>Parliaments</HI> perpetuation</L>
<L>I plainly &s;hall unfold; becau&s;e, it may</L>
<L>Concern you all, with good advi&s;e to weigh.</L>
<L>Yea, fearle&s;ly, my free thoughts, I will &s;hew,</L>
<L>What <HI>liking,</HI> or di&s;like, &s;oe're en&s;ue.</L>
<L>For, though to all <HI>intents</HI> by me de&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>They may not reach; it much contents my mind,</L>
<PB REF="5">
<L>That I have freed my <HI>&s;oul.</HI> by thus imploying</L>
<L>My <HI>Talent,</HI> to an inward re&s;ts injoying;</L>
<L>And, rais'd a <HI>Witne&s;&s;e</HI> up, that may declare</L>
<L>To <HI>future times;</HI> what GOD'S proceedings are.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If this find <HI>acceptation,</HI> it will be</L>
<L>A <HI>&s;ign</HI> of future peace, to <HI>you,</HI> and <HI>me.</HI></L>
<L>If, you reject it; I will fit my <HI>mind</HI></L>
<L>To bear the <HI>troubles,</HI> which are yet behind:</L>
<L>Bewail, our manifold procra&s;tinations,</L>
<L>Of GOD'S intended <HI>ble&s;&s;ings,</HI> to the&s;e <HI>Nations.</HI></L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the <HI>little portion,</HI> I have got</L>
<L>As <HI>lost,</HI> or, els, as if I had it not;</L>
<L>And, &s;trive to wean my <HI>heart,</HI> from things abroad,</L>
<L>To &s;eek my <HI>re&s;t;</HI> and <HI>peace,</HI> alone in GOD:</L>
<L>A <HI>refuge,</HI> &s;o &s;ecur'd to me, that, neither</L>
<L>My <HI>frailties, faults,</HI> or <HI>foes;</HI> or the&s;e together:</L>
<L>Or <HI>friends,</HI> or <HI>Tru&s;tees</HI> failings, either may</L>
<L>Hazard, or forfeit; tear, or fool away.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble, and mo&s;t faithfull Remembrancer, <HI>Geo. Wither.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="1" REF="5">
<HEAD>A DARK-LANTERNE, OFFERING A Dim Di&s;covery, in <HI>Riddles, Parables,</HI> and <HI>Semi-riddles,</HI> intermixt with <HI>Cau|tions, Remembrances,</HI> and <HI>Predictions,</HI> as they were promi&s;cuou&s;ly, and immethodically re|pre&s;ented to their <HI>Author,</HI> in his <HI>&s;olitary mu&s;ings,</HI> the third of <HI>November</HI> 1652. about <HI>midnight.</HI> And, concluding with the <HI>Re&s;ult</HI> of a <HI>Contempla|tive Vi&s;ion,</HI> revealing a probable means of ma|king, even this pre&s;ent Parliament, to be both <HI>perpetuall,</HI> and <HI>acceptable</HI> to the&s;e <HI>Nations</HI> to the end of the <HI>World.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<LG>
<L>He, <HI>that goes</HI> with <HI>this LIGHT, his way may find:</HI></L>
<L>Him, <HI>that</HI> again&s;t it <HI>comes, it maketh blind.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>HE, from who&s;e perfect Light, all true <HI>Lights</HI> come,</L>
<L>Spake <HI>Parables;</HI> yea, &s;pake nought els, to &s;ome;</L>
<L>And, <HI>Providence,</HI> by many various wayes,</L>
<L>Of <HI>di&s;pen&s;ation,</HI> to the <HI>world</HI> convayes</L>
<L>The means, of carrying on, tho&s;e <HI>works</HI> which tend</L>
<L>To <HI>man's perfection,</HI> at his <HI>later end;</HI></L>
<L>And, to the w&oacute;nderfull accompli&s;hment,</L>
<L>Of what, <HI>eternally</HI> is his <HI>intent;</HI></L>
<PB N="2" REF="6">
<L>Bringing oft times about, the <HI>&s;elf-&s;ame things,</HI></L>
<L>(Or, &s;uch like) towards their accompli&s;hings;</L>
<L>That, <HI>prudent men,</HI> might under&s;tand thereby</L>
<L>What <HI>he</HI> de&s;igns, and therewith all comply.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Jacobs</HI> Off &s;prings (who, for many ages</L>
<L>Were <HI>figures, types, examples,</HI> and pre&s;ages</L>
<L>For <HI>future times,</HI> and <HI>&s;tates</HI>) became perverted,</L>
<L>And, grew to be &s;o blind, and &s;tubborn hearted,</L>
<L>As to de&s;pi&s;e the <HI>warnings, precepts, cautions,</HI></L>
<L>And good <HI>advi&s;e,</HI> which for their pre&s;ervations</L>
<L>Their <HI>Prophets</HI> had per&s;picuou&s;ly declar'd;</L>
<L>GOD, ju&s;tly, &s;ent unto them afterward,</L>
<L>His mind in <HI>Parables,</HI> whereof but few</L>
<L>The <HI>meanings,</HI> or <HI>interpretations</HI> knew:</L>
<L>And as they more and more, from him declin'd,</L>
<L>(And, from the <HI>truth</HI>) the more he couch'd his mind</L>
<L>In <HI>dark expre&s;&s;ions,</HI> till they nothing &s;aw</L>
<L>But what their <HI>plea&s;ure</HI> made to be a <HI>Law.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Prince, Prophet, Priest,</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> then, became</L>
<L>Wholly corrupt; a &s;candall, and a &s;hame</L>
<L>To their <HI>Profe&s;&s;ions,</HI> and to all their <HI>Nation,</HI></L>
<L>By an unlimited prevarication;</L>
<L>Whereby, the means ordained to recure them,</L>
<L>Was rendred in&s;trumentall to obdure them,</L>
<L>By their own <HI>fault,</HI> and tho&s;e <HI>hypocri&s;ies,</HI></L>
<L>Which, ju&s;tly, drew a <HI>vail,</HI> before their eyes.</L>
<L>For, whereas, u&s;ually in times preceding,</L>
<L>GODS <HI>errands,</HI> were made plain, at their fir&s;t he eding,</L>
<L>So, al&s;o, were their <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Prophets,</HI> then,</L>
<L>Renowned, wi&s;e, and honorable men,</L>
<L>Ev'n in their <HI>outward being;</HI> which, did add</L>
<L>Repute to that, which in command, they had:</L>
<L>But, <HI>He ard&s;men,</HI> and <HI>fruit-gatherers,</HI> afterward</L>
<L>(With &s;uch as brought no motives of regard,</L>
<PB N="3" REF="6">
<L>According to the <HI>fle&s;h</HI>) were &s;ometime &s;ent;</L>
<L>Which, in their <HI>hearers,</HI> did but &s;corn augment.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, thus, <HI>contempt</HI> increas'd: the <HI>truths</HI> then told,</L>
<L>Were not alone, wrapt up in manifold</L>
<L>Strange <HI>ambiguities, ob&s;cure expre&s;&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>Dark <HI>Metaphors,</HI> or much beclouded <HI>Vi&s;ions,</HI></L>
<L>Which few could under&s;tand; but, &s;ome, likewi&s;e</L>
<L>Illu&s;trated their <HI>words,</HI> and <HI>Prophecies,</HI></L>
<L>(Or, rather vailed them) with <HI>circum&s;tances,</HI></L>
<L>Which, did inlarge their hearers ignorances;</L>
<L>As al&s;o their <HI>di&s;dains:</HI> for, otherwhile,</L>
<L>They per&s;onated things, ab&s;urd, and vile,</L>
<L>In vulgar apprehen&s;ion: &s;uch as &s;eem</L>
<L>De&s;erving rather <HI>&s;lighting,</HI> then <HI>esteem;</HI></L>
<L>Yea &s;uch, &s;ometimes, as <HI>wicked</HI> did appear</L>
<L>To tho&s;e, who <HI>morally</HI> men righteous were:</L>
<L>As when, they were made <HI>&s;ignes</HI> unto that <HI>Nation,</HI></L>
<L>Of their <HI>&s;hame, nakedne&s;&s;e,</HI> or <HI>de&s;olation,</HI></L>
<L>And of GODS <HI>la&s;ting love,</HI> although they had,</L>
<L>By their <HI>adulteries,</HI> him <HI>jealous</HI> made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As with the <HI>Jewes,</HI> he, formerly hath done,</L>
<L>GOD will proceed with us; and hath begun</L>
<L>Already, &s;o to judge (and vi&s;it here)</L>
<L>As he did <HI>them,</HI> when they rebellious were.</L>
<L>He, &s;o, by <HI>changes,</HI> moves us to repent;</L>
<L>And, <HI>judgements</HI> blends with <HI>mercies,</HI> to th' intent</L>
<L>That, he, into capacity might wooe us</L>
<L>Of that great <HI>good,</HI> which he de&s;ires to do us.</L>
<L><HI>This,</HI> makes him, &s;ometime <HI>&s;mile,</HI> and &s;ometime <HI>frown;</HI></L>
<L>Now, <HI>rai&s;e us up;</HI> to morrow, <HI>pull us down:</HI></L>
<L><HI>This day,</HI> he, to our <HI>&s;tronge&s;t enemies,</HI></L>
<L>Renders us dreadfull: They, whom we de&s;pi&s;e</L>
<L><HI>That night</HI> triumph; and make us glad to fly</L>
<L><HI>Into</HI> our <HI>chambers,</HI> and there &s;neaking lie;</L>
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<L>Whil'&s;t they deride, in&s;ult, affront and jeer us,</L>
<L>Who, &s;ome few hours before, did greatly fear us.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This, makes him often fool our wi&s;dome &s;o,</L>
<L>That, we are at a <HI>non plus,</HI> what to do;</L>
<L>And, then, in our di&s;tre&s;&s;e, to make our <HI>want,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Weakne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>failings,</HI> more predominant</L>
<L>For our <HI>deliverance,</HI> in a fatall hour,</L>
<L>Then all our <HI>wealth,</HI> our <HI>wi&s;dome,</HI> and our <HI>power.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>This,</HI> makes him lead us through the <HI>wilderne&s;&s;es</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>doubts, di&s;pairings, troubles,</HI> and <HI>di&s;tre&s;&s;es</HI></L>
<L>To our de&s;ired <HI>Canaan,</HI> as be led</L>
<L>His <HI>Cho&s;en</HI> heretofore; and, as he did</L>
<L>To them in their re&s;pective aberrations,</L>
<L>So hath he done, and will do, with the&s;e <HI>Nations.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As their, right &s;o, our <HI>Princes,</HI> for oppre&s;&s;ions</L>
<L>Are driven from their <HI>Thrones,</HI> and their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions,</L>
<L>To eat (ev'n with confu&s;ion of their faces)</L>
<L>Their bread with &s;carcity, in uncouth places;</L>
<L>Where, peradventure, they were mindfull made</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e <HI>forewarnings,</HI> which they timely had.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our <HI>Lords</HI> (as their <HI>Remembrancer,</HI> foretold,</L>
<L>When they had greate&s;t likelyhood to hold,</L>
<L>And to encrea&s;e their <HI>greatne&s;&s;e</HI>) this day, &s;ee,</L>
<L>Their <HI>Hou&s;e of Parliament,</HI> de&s;troy'd to be,</L>
<L>Ev'n by <HI>it &s;elf;</HI> and, that they are become</L>
<L><HI>Vagrants abroad,</HI> or, els <HI>de&s;pis'd at home.</HI></L>
<L>Some of their <HI>Pallaces</HI> and <HI>Piles of State,</HI></L>
<L>Are ras't, defac't, or left quite de&s;olate,</L>
<L>For <HI>Zim,</HI> and <HI>Jim;</HI> for <HI>Vermine</HI> and &s;uch fowls,</L>
<L>As <HI>Dawes,</HI> and <HI>Ravens;</HI> great and little <HI>Owls.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> that were the gloriou&s;t <HI>Hirarchy,</HI></L>
<L>And proud'&s;t in <HI>Europe,</HI> next the Papacy;</L>
<L>(Who, by the &s;ame pen warned, did return</L>
<L>Sharp per&s;ecutions, injuries and &s;corn)</L>
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<L>Are now de&s;poil'd of all the pomp they had,</L>
<L>Di&s;honor'd, poor, and de&s;picable made.</L>
<L>Their fair <HI>Cathedrall Temples</HI> &s;tand for&s;aken,</L>
<L>With &s;till increa&s;ing <HI>ruines,</HI> rent and &s;haken;</L>
<L>And, in their &s;teeds, tho&s;e <HI>per&s;ons</HI> are deputed,</L>
<L>Whom they mo&s;t hated, and mo&s;t per&s;ecuted.</L>
<L>The <HI>Threats</HI> long &s;ince pronounced, now prevail,</L>
<L>The <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> and <HI>Prophet,</HI> are become the <HI>tail;</HI></L>
<L>And meer Mechanicks made <HI>di&s;pen&s;ers</HI> are</L>
<L>Or tho&s;e things, which to them committed were:</L>
<L><HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> of &s;o <HI>mean guifts,</HI> and &s;mall re&s;pect,</L>
<L>That, truth out of their mouths, gets but neglect;</L>
<L>Except with &s;uch, as undervalue not</L>
<L><HI>Good wine,</HI> though offered in an <HI>earthen pot.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For our <HI>unthankfulne&s;&s;e,</HI> and di&s;regard</L>
<L>Of <HI>nobler Teachers,</HI> whom, we long have heard,</L>
<L>Without improvement; for, <HI>hypocri&s;ies,</HI></L>
<L>Meer <HI>out&s;ide wor&s;hip,</HI> and <HI>formalities,</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>prayers, fasts,</HI> and <HI>prai&s;es;</HI> and, for, giving</L>
<L>That which co&s;t <HI>nothing,</HI> for great <HI>boons</HI> receiving:</L>
<L>For our <HI>back&s;lidings,</HI> and, then, <HI>per&s;evering</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>frequent &s;inning,</HI> after <HI>frequent bearing:</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>actions,</HI> not agrecing with our <HI>&s;aying:</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>painting, guilding,</HI> and for <HI>overlaying</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>Corrall &s;tructures,</HI> with <HI>fain'd piety:</HI></L>
<L>(<HI>Fal&s;e gold,</HI> producted by our <HI>Chyme&s;try</HI>)</L>
<L>For fal&s;ifying, with a brazen brow,</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;erious promi&s;es,</HI> which we did vow</L>
<L>To GOD and <HI>men,</HI> before the face of heaven,</L>
<L>When we into extremities were driven:</L>
<L>For adding to <HI>devouring &s;lames,</HI> more <HI>fuell:</HI></L>
<L>For being, in our very <HI>mercies,</HI> cruell:</L>
<L>For turning carele&s;&s;y, our <HI>eyes,</HI> and <HI>ears,</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Widdows</HI> prayers, and from <HI>Orphans</HI> tears:</L>
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<L>Yea, though <HI>Remembrancers</HI> did (as it were)</L>
<L>In publike, often pull us by the ear,</L>
<L>To mind it; yea, where many <HI>&s;tanders by,</HI></L>
<L>Ob&s;erv'd it; and, our gro&s;&s;e &s;tupidity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For the&s;e things; and, for many &s;uch as the&s;e</L>
<L>God, having &s;poken to us, in our dayes,</L>
<L>By <HI>ordinary Preachers;</HI> now, begins</L>
<L>By <HI>others,</HI> to reprove us for our &s;ins:</L>
<L>Not only &s;uch, as <HI>rea&s;on</HI> may allow,</L>
<L>Though called from the <HI>Shop board,</HI> or the <HI>Plough;</HI></L>
<L>But, &s;uch, as we &s;eem ju&s;tly to contemn,</L>
<L>As making <HI>truths</HI> adhor'd, which come from them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In &s;teed of <HI>Teachers,</HI> train'd up in the <HI>Schools</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Arts,</HI> and of the <HI>Prophets; children fools,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Women</HI> and <HI>madmen,</HI> we do often meet,</L>
<L>Preaching, and threatning <HI>Judgements,</HI> in the &s;treet:</L>
<L>To &s;ome, pronouncing <HI>ble&s;&s;ings;</HI> to &s;ome, <HI>woe;</HI></L>
<L>Scatt'ring their <HI>bread,</HI> and <HI>money,</HI> as they goe,</L>
<L>To &s;uch as need; (though, in appearance, none</L>
<L>Can poorer be, then they, when that is gone:)</L>
<L>Yea, by &s;trange <HI>actions, po&s;tures, tones,</HI> and <HI>cryes,</HI></L>
<L>Them&s;elves they offer to our <HI>cars</HI> and <HI>eyes,</HI></L>
<L>As <HI>&s;igns</HI> unto this <HI>Nation,</HI> of &s;ome things</L>
<L>Thereby <HI>portended;</HI> which (although this brings</L>
<L>Contempt upon their <HI>per&s;ons</HI>) may be &s;o,</L>
<L>For ought, the wi&s;e&s;t of us, yet doth know;</L>
<L>As were tho&s;e <HI>actions,</HI> per&s;onated by</L>
<L>Some <HI>Prophets,</HI> whom the <HI>Jewes</HI> did vilifie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It may be on that <HI>darkne&s;&s;e,</HI> which they find,</L>
<L>Within their <HI>bearts,</HI> a &s;uddain <HI>light</HI> hath &s;hin'd,</L>
<L>Reflexions making, of &s;ome things to come,</L>
<L>Which leave within them, <HI>mu&s;ings</HI> trouble&s;ome</L>
<L>To their <HI>weak &s;pirits;</HI> or, too intricate</L>
<L>For them to put in order, and relate;</L>
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<L>As they will ea&s;ily believe on whom,</L>
<L>Such, more then naturall, <HI>out-beamings,</HI> come)</L>
<L>And, that, hath peradventure, thru&s;t them on</L>
<L>To act, as men in <HI>exta&s;ies</HI> have done;</L>
<L>Striving, their <HI>Cloudy Vi&s;ions</HI> to declare</L>
<L>(And, of what con&s;equence, they think they are)</L>
<L>Till they have lo&s;t the <HI>Notions,</HI> which they had,</L>
<L>And, want but few degrees, of being <HI>mad.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This, <HI>Providence</HI> permitteth, to correct</L>
<L>Our deafne&s;&s;e, and our former di&s;re&s;pect</L>
<L>Of <HI>nobler instruments,</HI> who&s;e <HI>lights</HI> did &s;hine</L>
<L>More clearly; and, who, laying <HI>line,</HI> to <HI>line;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Precept,</HI> to <HI>Precept; in</HI> and <HI>out of &s;ea&s;on,</HI></L>
<L>Taught rea&s;onably, ev'n <HI>truth's,</HI> tran&s;cending <HI>rea&s;on:</HI></L>
<L>Or, els, it hath permitted been, to make us</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e heedfull, of the <HI>plague,</HI> that may or'etake us;</L>
<L>By <HI>tokens,</HI> and by <HI>&s;ymptoms,</HI> to us giving,</L>
<L>That, &s;eem not worth our <HI>heeding,</HI> or <HI>believing.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, I, perhaps, among <HI>the&s;e,</HI> may be <HI>one,</HI></L>
<L>That was let loo&s;e, for &s;ervice to be done,</L>
<L>In order to &s;uch <HI>kinds:</HI> (as, I believe</L>
<L>I am; as when I am gone, &s;ome will perceive,</L>
<L>Though, none ob&s;erve it now) For, though I dre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>The <HI>mind,</HI> and <HI>matter,</HI> of my <HI>me&s;&s;ages,</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>mea&s;ur'd words,</HI> with &s;ome &s;uch other <HI>fancies,</HI></L>
<L>As are allowed in <HI>Poetick frenzies,</HI></L>
<L>And, pa&s;&s;e for &s;ober <HI>garbs:</HI> yet, now and then,</L>
<L>I blunder out, what <HI>worldly prudent men</HI></L>
<L>Count <HI>madne&s;&s;e;</HI> and, what, oft, the be&s;t men, too,</L>
<L>Di&s;like awhile, and wi&s;h me not to do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, I be&s;t know my <HI>warrant;</HI> and proceed</L>
<L>As I am mov'd, with little fear, or heed,</L>
<L>What others judge: for, till &s;ome <HI>&s;lips,</HI> or <HI>errors</HI></L>
<L>Expo&s;e me, to be liable to <HI>terrors,</HI></L>
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<L>Ther's nothing, to my <HI>hurt,</HI> can dreadfull be,</L>
<L>Save my own <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and <HI>be</HI> that gave it me.</L>
<L>And, as this makes me, <HI>madly</HI> &s;eem to dare;</L>
<L>Ev'n &s;o, that &s;eeming <HI>madne&s;&s;e,</HI> doth prepare,</L>
<L>And draw &s;ome, out of <HI>novelty,</HI> to heed,</L>
<L>What, they had never, els, vouch&s;af'd to read:</L>
<L>And, the&s;e my <HI>ridlings</HI> now, are an <HI>invention</HI></L>
<L>De&s;igned partly, unto that intention;</L>
<L>And, partly likewi&s;e, to amaze tho&s;e <HI>Readers,</HI></L>
<L>Who, to my <HI>purpo&s;es,</HI> are <HI>counter-pleaders.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When, others think, the <HI>times</HI> afford me may</L>
<L>Enough to &s;peak of, I have nought to &s;ay:</L>
<L>When my <HI>heart</HI> calls upon me, I ca&s;t by</L>
<L>My own <HI>affairs,</HI> and to that <HI>call</HI> apply,</L>
<L>As I occa&s;ions find, uttring &s;ometimes,</L>
<L>My thoughts in <HI>pro&s;e,</HI> another while in <HI>rimes;</HI></L>
<L>One while, by <HI>&s;harp,</HI> and <HI>bitter &s;trains</HI> reproving;</L>
<L>Sometimes, by <HI>admonitions,</HI> calm, and loving;</L>
<L>Yea, <HI>Jigs</HI> of <HI>recreation,</HI> &s;ometimes &s;idling;</L>
<L>And, now, I'm faln into a fit of <HI>Ridling.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Riddle my Riddles,</HI> then, you, that have heard</L>
<L><HI>Truths,</HI> oft, and plainly &s;poke without regard,</L>
<L>(Except it were, in <HI>mi&s;chio&s;s,</HI> to combine</L>
<L>Again&s;t their <HI>peace,</HI> who ca&s;t their Pearles to <HI>&s;wine</HI>)</L>
<L><HI>Riddle</HI> them if you can: For, in them lies,</L>
<L>A dim <HI>character</HI> of our <HI>destinies.</HI></L>
<L>Within the&s;e <HI>Problemes,</HI> tho&s;e things couched are,</L>
<L>Which I, once thought, more plainly to declare:</L>
<L>But, from that <HI>purpo&s;e,</HI> have now chang'd my mind,</L>
<L>That, <HI>&s;eeing,</HI> you might <HI>&s;ee,</HI> yet &s;till be blind:</L>
<L>That, you might <HI>read,</HI> and yet not <HI>under&s;tand</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>work,</HI> which GOD and <HI>men,</HI> have now in hand:</L>
<L>Or, which of tho&s;e things will be <HI>fir&s;t,</HI> or <HI>la&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Le&s;t, <HI>future fates</HI> appear by what is <HI>pa&s;t:</HI></L>
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<L>And, that, your <HI>mi&s;inter pretations</HI> may</L>
<L>Produce tho&s;e <HI>good effects,</HI> which you delay:</L>
<L>For, to that purpo&s;e, all, which I unfold,</L>
<L><HI>Hi&s;terologically</HI> &s;hall be told.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Yon,</HI> likewi&s;e, who oft read, in &s;erious wi&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Shiptons Predicts,</HI> and <HI>Merlins Prophecies;</HI></L>
<L>Or, vain <HI>conjectures,</HI> from the <HI>con&s;tellations,</HI></L>
<L>Wherewith, <HI>Impo&s;tors,</HI> have long fool'd the&s;e <HI>Nations,</HI></L>
<L>Neglecting that, the while, which both <HI>fore&s;een,</HI></L>
<L>And, <HI>brought to pa&s;&s;e,</HI> in your own dayes, hath been:</L>
<L><HI>Riddle tho&s;e Riddles;</HI> or, at lea&s;t peru&s;e them,</L>
<L>And, if you find them frivolous, refu&s;e them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Riddle</HI> the&s;e <HI>Riddles</HI> too, ev'n <HI>you,</HI> that &s;eek</L>
<L>The <HI>common-peace,</HI> with hearts upright and meek:</L>
<L><HI>You,</HI> that have under&s;tanding to di&s;cern</L>
<L>The <HI>pre&s;ent times;</HI> and, willing are to learn</L>
<L>Good le&s;&s;ons from a <HI>Pi&s;mire:</HI> For, to <HI>you,</HI></L>
<L>By this <HI>Dark Lantern,</HI> I &s;hall give a view,</L>
<L>Of things <HI>far off,</HI> and <HI>rubs</HI> now in your way,</L>
<L>Whereat, through want of <HI>light,</HI> you &s;tumble may:</L>
<L>And, likewi&s;e, of <HI>effects,</HI> whereto, perchance,</L>
<L><HI>You,</HI> by the&s;e <HI>glimmerings,</HI> may rai&s;e <HI>advance.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ob&s;erve them well, without enquiring, what</L>
<L>Their <HI>Authors</HI> meaning was, in <HI>this,</HI> or <HI>that,</HI></L>
<L>Till, you <HI>your &s;elves,</HI> have &s;earch'd, how they <HI>in rea&s;on,</HI></L>
<L>Suit our <HI>affairs,</HI> our <HI>per&s;ons,</HI> and the <HI>&s;ea&s;on,</HI></L>
<L>According to your <HI>judgements:</HI> for, that, &s;hall</L>
<L>Be &s;omewhat to the <HI>purpo&s;e,</HI> though not <HI>all.</HI></L>
<L>But, where no &s;en&s;e that's likely, you can rear,</L>
<L>Leave it, as that, which lies without your <HI>&s;phear;</HI></L>
<L>For, that, which SHALL BE, will receive a <HI>being,</HI></L>
<L>From each di&s;&s;enting <HI>Readers</HI> di&s;agreeing;</L>
<L>From that mans <HI>knowledge,</HI> who the &s;en&s;e hath got;</L>
<L>From that mans <HI>ignorance,</HI> who knowes it not;</L>
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<L>And he that <HI>would,</HI> and he that <HI>would not</HI> too,</L>
<L>Shall help effect, what GOD intends to do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus, through a <HI>long lane,</HI> I have drawn you in,</L>
<L>Where my new <HI>Grove of Riddles</HI> doth begin,</L>
<L>With, now and then, a <HI>plain Lawn</HI> intermixt,</L>
<L>And, here and there, a &s;mall <HI>&s;herewood</HI> betwixt;</L>
<L>With &s;uch <HI>digre&s;&s;ions,</HI> that, you'l &s;ometimes doubt,</L>
<L>Whether I lead you, further <HI>in,</HI> or <HI>out.</HI></L>
<L>But, 'tis a <HI>wild plot,</HI> where are <HI>walks,</HI> and <HI>bowers,</HI></L>
<L>Made for my own <HI>content,</HI> as well as yours:</L>
<L>And, if they tedious &s;eem, you may be gone</L>
<L>At next <HI>low gap,</HI> you &s;ee, and no harm done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>harve&s;t</HI> of our <HI>Aera</HI> now drawes near,</L>
<L>And, faithfull <HI>Labourers</HI> will then appear</L>
<L>To order that <HI>fair field,</HI> where in was &s;own</L>
<L>The <HI>Corn,</HI> which now with <HI>tares</HI> is overgrown:</L>
<L>And, to di&s;tingui&s;h <HI>Wheat,</HI> from that which had</L>
<L>Re&s;emblance of it, both in <HI>&s;talk,</HI> and <HI>blade.</HI></L>
<L>Yet, ev'ry day, <HI>Impostors</HI> creeping in,</L>
<L>Will, by <HI>pretended holine&s;&s;e,</HI> begin</L>
<L>To plant <HI>them&s;elves;</HI> &s;eeking their <HI>lu&s;ts</HI> to feed,</L>
<L>By &s;cattering <HI>adulterated-&s;eed;</HI></L>
<L>And lab'ring, to de&s;troy tho&s;e <HI>means,</HI> whereby</L>
<L><HI>Truth</HI> may appear in perfect purity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In little time, &s;hall many <HI>changes</HI> be,</L>
<L>And <HI>interchanges,</HI> which will make men &s;ee</L>
<L>Their <HI>wi&s;dome</HI> to be <HI>folly;</HI> their chief <HI>might,</HI></L>
<L>Flat <HI>feeblene&s;&s;e;</HI> their high e&s;teemed <HI>light</HI></L>
<L>Meer <HI>darkne&s;&s;e;</HI> and, that, mo&s;t things by them done,</L>
<L>Will have <HI>effects,</HI> which they nev'r thought upon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In that <HI>Catholicon,</HI> or <HI>Mithridate,</HI></L>
<L>Which <HI>Providence,</HI> confected hath of late.</L>
<L>To temper, or di&s;pell, what hath di&s;eas'd</L>
<L>The <HI>Body Politike;</HI> it hath been pleas'd</L>
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<L>(As finding it, a <HI>mixture</HI> requi&s;ite)</L>
<L><HI>Vipers,</HI> and <HI>mortall poy&s;ons,</HI> to unite</L>
<L>With <HI>whole&s;ome things;</HI> yea, <HI>mineralls</HI> and <HI>mettle,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sulphur,</HI> and <HI>Steel,</HI> fixt matter, to un&s;ettle:</L>
<L>The <HI>Serpents brains,</HI> with faithfull <HI>Turtles hearts:</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Lions, Lambs,</HI> and <HI>Foxes,</HI> &s;ome choice parts:</L>
<L>Somewhat of <HI>Hares,</HI> that &s;wift and fearful be:</L>
<L>Somewhat of <HI>Snailes,</HI> in whom we nothing &s;ee,</L>
<L>But &s;lowne&s;&s;e, and, by well compounding the&s;e,</L>
<L>A <HI>cure</HI> preparing is, for our di&s;ea&s;e:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Fire, Water, Earth,</HI> and <HI>Ayr,</HI> (though di&s;agreeing,</L>
<L>In qualities) if well mixt, give a <HI>being</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>that,</HI> which cannot <HI>be,</HI> by any <HI>one</HI></L>
<L>Or, any <HI>two,</HI> or <HI>three</HI> of the&s;e alone:</L>
<L>And, &s;o, at la&s;t, &s;hall ev'ry <HI>contradiction,</HI></L>
<L>Among us, add &s;ome <HI>Dos,</HI> to our perfection:</L>
<L>Yea, they who <HI>pulldown,</HI> and they who <HI>erect</HI></L>
<L>Shall in the <HI>clo&s;e,</HI> concur in one <HI>effect;</HI></L>
<L>That, <HI>he,</HI> who's <HI>all in all,</HI> may have due prai&s;e</L>
<L>By ev'ry <HI>contradiction</HI> in our wayes;</L>
<L>And, that, out of their <HI>di&s;cords,</HI> he may bring</L>
<L>A <HI>Diapa&s;on,</HI> making ev'ry thing</L>
<L>A&s;&s;ent together, in the con&s;ummation</L>
<L>Of his <HI>de&s;ignment,</HI> at the worlds <HI>creation.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, whil'&s;t this <HI>medicine</HI> fermenting lies,</L>
<L>The <HI>wheels</HI> of <HI>temp'r all contrarieties</HI></L>
<L>Move on; and, ev'ry day, abroad will &s;end</L>
<L><HI>Productions,</HI> few, di&s;cerning to what <HI>end:</HI></L>
<L>And, yet, each <HI>individuall circum&s;tance,</HI></L>
<L>Somewhat, the <HI>Grand-de&s;ignment,</HI> &s;hall advance,</L>
<L>Yea, <HI>foolings, failings, fraud,</HI> and <HI>treachery</HI></L>
<L>As well as <HI>truth,</HI> and <HI>true &s;incerity,</HI></L>
<L>Shall add thereto; and, herein, will alone,</L>
<L>The diff'rence be; &s;uch, as have ju&s;tly done</L>
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<L>Their <HI>duties;</HI> and, in doing them per&s;ever,</L>
<L>(Or, willingly, and knowingly endeavour</L>
<L>As they are able) will enjoy the <HI>bli&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Which, they who counter-operate &s;hall mi&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I.G.N.R.N.S. with, other &s;ome,</L>
<L>Such like, confederated are become,</L>
<L>To ruine this <HI>Republike;</HI> and, have laid</L>
<L><HI>De&s;ignes,</HI> whereby it may be &s;oon betray'd,</L>
<L>And, infamous, in&s;en&s;ibly, become,</L>
<L>With all <HI>wi&s;e men</HI> abroad, and here at home.</L>
<L><HI>The&s;e</HI> (though but few ob&s;erve it) have, long, had</L>
<L>A purpo&s;e the&s;e three <HI>Ilands</HI> to <HI>invade;</HI></L>
<L>And, to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them, with a <HI>people</HI> far</L>
<L>More barbarous then <HI>Kernes,</HI> and <HI>Red&s;hanks</HI> are.</L>
<L>Some of their <HI>Party,</HI> to promote their <HI>ends,</HI></L>
<L>Do yet appear to be our faithfull <HI>friends;</HI></L>
<L>And, into every place of <HI>Power,</HI> and <HI>Tru&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Them&s;elves,</HI> and their <HI>confederates</HI> have thru&s;t.</L>
<L>In <HI>Townes</HI> and <HI>Boroughs, Cittadells</HI> and <HI>Cities,</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>Courts,</HI> and <HI>Councells,</HI> and in all <HI>Committees;</HI></L>
<L>In offices of <HI>profit,</HI> and <HI>command,</HI></L>
<L>Throughout the <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> at <HI>Sea,</HI> and <HI>Land</HI></L>
<L>They have <HI>Abettors;</HI> and, &s;o bold they grow</L>
<L>That, every man almo&s;t, their aimes may know;</L>
<L>And, their <HI>attempts,</HI> although but <HI>fools</HI> they are</L>
<L>Are at this pre&s;ent time, improv'd &s;o far</L>
<L>That, they have &s;haken that, wherein con&s;i&s;ts,</L>
<L>Our honor, and our noble&s;t <HI>intere&s;ts;</HI></L>
<L>And into practi&s;e, they begin to draw</L>
<L>Among us here, the <HI>Clagefurtian</HI> Law.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>M.N.O.P. <HI>Demas, Diotrophes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Peripateticks, Stoicks, Phari&s;ees,</HI></L>
<L>With others, who, in judgement diff'ring be,</L>
<L>Will, altogether, as one man agree,</L>
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<L>To fortifie their <HI>private intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Indangering (by what &s;hall be po&s;&s;e&s;t</L>
<L>Unduly) that, which is to others due:</L>
<L>Untill the <HI>faithfull Shepherds</HI> do pur&s;ue</L>
<L>Their <HI>claim</HI> aright; the &s;ame deriving from</L>
<L>Their <HI>Fo&s;ter-Fathers,</HI> whence, it fir&s;t did come;</L>
<L>And, of whom, it was long &s;ince propheci'd</L>
<L>That, GOD, by them, a <HI>portion</HI> would provide</L>
<L>For tho&s;e, he &s;ends forth, to pre&s;erve the <HI>beauty</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>holine&s;&s;e,</HI> when, man, forgets his duty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some other <HI>accidents,</HI> time will beget</L>
<L>Which may be mark'd out, by our <HI>Alphabet:</HI></L>
<L><HI>By,</HI> and <HI>for</HI> envy, jealou&s;ie, and pride,</L>
<L>Shall, A. B. C. be laid awhile, afide.</L>
<L>De&s;pi&s;ed al&s;o, V. and I. &s;hall be</L>
<L>P P. and S. again&s;t C S. and P.</L>
<L>Shall then con&s;pire; and, for a <HI>Salve</HI> employ</L>
<L>That, which it &s;elf, and all things, doth de&s;troy,</L>
<L>If <HI>Alpha</HI> and <HI>Omega,</HI> help not more</L>
<L>Then all the other letters, did before:</L>
<L>For, <HI>common helps,</HI> will be apply'd in vain,</L>
<L>The fury of their <HI>madne&s;&s;e,</HI> to re&s;train.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The cau&s;es, whence this hazard will ari&s;e,</L>
<L>Are &s;uch as this; ob&s;erve it, and be wi&s;e.</L>
<L>The <HI>Temple</HI> of the <HI>Gods,</HI> which heretofore</L>
<L>Stood open to the prayers of the poor,</L>
<L>Is clo&s;ed up, and few admitted in,</L>
<L>But, &s;uch as are conveyed by a <HI>gin,</HI></L>
<L>Contriv'd &s;o narrow, that the people &s;ay</L>
<L>It was choak'd up, the fir&s;t, or &s;econd day:</L>
<L>And, with di&s;temper, they exclaim, that this</L>
<L>Of all their <HI>grievances,</HI> the greate&s;t is:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e it puts their patience, to more trialls,</L>
<L>Then, if of <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> they had quick <HI>denialls:</HI></L>
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<L>Turnes <HI>hopes</HI> into <HI>de&s;pairs;</HI> converts their <HI>lives</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>living deaths,</HI> their <HI>b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">lmes</HI> to <HI>coro&s;ives.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Saints</HI> likewi&s;e, that mu&s;t propitiate,</L>
<L>On their behalfs, and offer at the gate</L>
<L>Of <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> and of <HI>mercy,</HI> their petitions</L>
<L>Are not &s;o &s;en&s;ible of their <HI>conditions;</HI></L>
<L>Nor from all <HI>partiality</HI> &s;o free</L>
<L>As <HI>Mediators</HI> alwayes ought to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This, makes one grumble in his privacies;</L>
<L>Another, gapes out open <HI>bla&s;phemies:</HI></L>
<L>Some, with &s;uch indignation filled are,</L>
<L>As, if they <HI>Giant-like,</HI> would make a warre</L>
<L>Again&s;t their GODS (if, lookers on, may gue&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>By their di&s;tempers, of their purpo&s;es)</L>
<L>And, univer&s;ally, there is a <HI>cry</HI></L>
<L>So lamentable, and rais'd up &s;o high,</L>
<L>That, if the&s;e <HI>Deities,</HI> &s;hall not in time,</L>
<L>With due compa&s;&s;ion, bow their ears to them,</L>
<L>And, their ju&s;t <HI>Prayers,</HI> and <HI>reque&s;ts</HI> fulfill,</L>
<L><HI>A higher power,</HI> the&s;e plaints examine will,</L>
<L>And the&s;e <HI>inferiour Gods,</HI> &s;hall tumble then,</L>
<L>From heav'n like <HI>Lucifer,</HI> and die like men:</L>
<L><HI>Riddle this Riddle,</HI> and re&s;olve me whether</L>
<L>This <HI>Temple,</HI> be <HI>Pantheon,</HI> or &s;ome other,</L>
<L>Wherein <HI>Subdeities,</HI> invoked are:</L>
<L>What <HI>Temple</HI> e're it be; we wi&s;h it were</L>
<L>More open; le&s;t upon tho&s;e <HI>Gods,</HI> it bring</L>
<L>Contempt, or wor&s;e, and ruines ev'ry thing</L>
<L>To them &s;ubordinate: for, hence doth flow</L>
<L>Mo&s;t other <HI>grievances,</HI> complain'd of now;</L>
<L>And, hence ri&s;e tho&s;e <HI>confu&s;ions,</HI> which increa&s;e</L>
<L>Our <HI>troubles,</HI> and procra&s;tinate our peace.</L>
<L>From hence is it, mens <HI>&s;uits</HI> prolonged are</L>
<L>Beyond their lives; and after <HI>twice five year,</HI></L>
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<L>As far from ending, as when they begun;</L>
<L>Yea, endle&s;&s;e, till poor <HI>Suiters</HI> are undone,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At the&s;e words, an <HI>Illu&s;ion</HI> cry'd, <HI>take heed;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And, further do not in this &s;train proceed;</HI></L>
<L>Le&s;t, &s;ome <HI>Interpreters,</HI> interpret, &s;o,</L>
<L>Thy <HI>Riddles,</HI> that the <HI>Ridler</HI> they undo.</L>
<L>The &s;uddain <HI>caution,</HI> &s;tartled me a while;</L>
<L>Yet, back return'd it with a &s;trong recoil;</L>
<L>Sugge&s;ting, that I over-much bewray'd</L>
<L>Their <HI>nakedne&s;&s;e;</HI> and them too open laid</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;hame I ought to hide, and, that &s;o far</L>
<L>It may provoke them, who &s;oon angry are,</L>
<L>As thereby to indanger at the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>My <HI>quiet,</HI> and my <HI>private interest.</HI></L>
<L>How, therefore, this <HI>objection</HI> I pa&s;t over,</L>
<L>E're further I proceed, I'le here di&s;cover.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Again&s;t the&s;e <HI>doubts,</HI> my <HI>Genius</HI> up aro&s;e,</L>
<L>And, quite out of my heart, their poy&s;on throws;</L>
<L>A&s;&s;uring me, I had no cau&s;e to fear</L>
<L>What other mens <HI>interpretations</HI> were;</L>
<L>Or, to &s;uppo&s;e the &s;afety of this <HI>Nation</HI></L>
<L>Were not more worthy of a pre&s;ervation</L>
<L>Then their <HI>repute,</HI> who are quite &s;en&s;le&s;&s;e growne,</L>
<L>Both of the <HI>publike danger,</HI> and their owne.</L>
<L>Or think it better that a generall</L>
<L>Di&s;ea&s;e o're&s;pread us, rather, then to call</L>
<L>A <HI>Scab,</HI> a <HI>Scab,</HI> or, timely to declare</L>
<L>The cure of the&s;e things, which de&s;tructive are.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It <HI>told me,</HI> (and with arguments not weak)</L>
<L>The <HI>cau&s;e,</HI> and <HI>time,</HI> requir'd me now to &s;peak</L>
<L>Without re&s;pect of per&s;ons; and, that, I</L>
<L>Was bound unto it by my <HI>fealty.</HI></L>
<L>It <HI>told me,</HI> 'twas a <HI>duty</HI> whereunto</L>
<L>I was ordain'd; and, which I'm kept to do.</L>
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<L>It <HI>repre&s;ents unto me,</HI> from what &s;trong</L>
<L>And &s;pitefull <HI>Adver&s;aries;</HI> and, how long,</L>
<L>I have pre&s;erved been, &s;ince I begun</L>
<L>To do &s;uch <HI>works,</HI> when they were to be done.</L>
<L>It <HI>bids me</HI> to record, by what &s;trange wayes,</L>
<L>(And means unlikely) I have all my dayes,</L>
<L><HI>Deliverances</HI> obtain'd; ev'n when I had,</L>
<L><HI>Oppre&s;&s;ions,</HI> that might make a <HI>wi&s;e man</HI> mad;</L>
<L>And, not one <HI>friend,</HI> me, in tho&s;e &s;treights to own,</L>
<L>But, &s;uch as GOD &s;till rais'd me up unknown.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It bids me mind, how oft (when I have had</L>
<L>No other help) his <HI>Providence</HI> hath made</L>
<L>The <HI>malice of my fees,</HI> things to project</L>
<L>Again&s;t me, which my <HI>&s;uccour,</HI> did effect;</L>
<L>And, without which, I probably had lo&s;t</L>
<L>Ju&s;t <HI>expectations,</HI> with much pain and co&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It bids me mark, how many there are &s;till,</L>
<L>(Who, without cau&s;e, have born me evill will)</L>
<L>That daily do expect to &s;ee me &s;tumble,</L>
<L>When they may add a kick, to make me tumble:</L>
<L>How, in tho&s;e <HI>High A&s;&s;emblies,</HI> where they deem,</L>
<L>It may mo&s;t di&s;advantage my e&s;teem,</L>
<L>They whi&s;per out <HI>detractions;</HI> or, &s;peak loud</L>
<L>Tho&s;e things, which cannot ju&s;tly be avow'd:</L>
<L>How <HI>enviou&s;ly,</HI> they often make relations</L>
<L>Of what GOD gives, beyond their expectations;</L>
<L>With &s;uch periphra&s;es, as may infer</L>
<L>That, my <HI>&s;upplies,</HI> were got as ill as their.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It wills me, likewi&s;e, &s;eriou&s;ly to heed,</L>
<L>How, they in other things, with me proceed;</L>
<L>How, by their <HI>&s;pight,</HI> all publike favours done me.</L>
<L>Bring nought, as yet, but co&s;t, and troubles on me,</L>
<L>Which had e're this de&s;troy'd me, had I not</L>
<L><HI>Preventions,</HI> from a <HI>Power</HI> above them got;</L>
<PB N="17" REF="14">
<L>And, by the&s;e <HI>mercies,</HI> it conjures me to</L>
<L>What, <HI>con&s;cience,</HI> and my <HI>judgement,</HI> bids me do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It minds me to be mindfull of that <HI>powre,</HI></L>
<L>Which hath pre&s;erv'd in every <HI>evill hour.</HI></L>
<L>How plentifully, I have &s;till been fed.</L>
<L>Ev'n when I &s;aw not means, of next dayes <HI>bread</HI></L>
<L>But, what was in their hands, who would not &s;pare,</L>
<L>The lea&s;t <HI>&s;upply,</HI> when mo&s;t di&s;tre&s;t we were.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How, my <HI>repute,</HI> with <HI>good men,</HI> was maintain'd,</L>
<L>When with <HI>unju&s;t a&s;per&s;ions,</HI> I was &s;tain'd:</L>
<L>And, when our <HI>Princes,</HI> on their <HI>Judgement Seats,</HI></L>
<L>Thundred again&s;t me, nothing le&s;&s;e then <HI>threats.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It <HI>charmes,</HI> to ob&s;erve, that, though I get</L>
<L>Little or nothing, of that <HI>publike debt</HI></L>
<L>Which was a&s;&s;ign'd, and which hath now been due</L>
<L><HI>Ten years</HI> (by claimes approved ju&s;t and true,</L>
<L>On <HI>treble trialls</HI>) and, though ever &s;ince,</L>
<L>It yeelds me nought, but troubles and expence;</L>
<L>That GOD, hath naythele&s;&s;e, improv'd of late,</L>
<L>My <HI>Mite,</HI> into a competent e&s;tate;</L>
<L>Meerly, by &s;uch unlikely means, as tho&s;e</L>
<L>Which <HI>Jacob</HI> us'd, when in the <HI>watering troughs,</HI></L>
<L>He laid his <HI>whit led &s;ticks,</HI> till he was paid</L>
<L>The <HI>wages,</HI> which his Ma&s;ter had delaid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It calleth on me, to look back upon</L>
<L>Tho&s;e works, which have within my dayes been done;</L>
<L>(And chiefly tho&s;e, which &s;tand in &s;ome relation</L>
<L>Unto <HI>my &s;elf,</HI> together with this <HI>Nation</HI>)</L>
<L>What <HI>&s;trange effects,</HI> and <HI>unbelieved things,</HI></L>
<L>Have followed my <HI>fore conjecturings:</HI></L>
<L>What <HI>ri&s;ings,</HI> and what <HI>fallings,</HI> I have heeded:</L>
<L>What <HI>mercies,</HI> and what judgements have &s;ucceeded</L>
<L>Our <HI>various paths.</HI> It urgeth me to weigh,</L>
<L>What may bety'd me, if I di&s;obey</L>
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<L>The <HI>motions of my heart,</HI> and what <HI>event</HI></L>
<L>He may expect, who &s;hall be negligent</L>
<L>To do his <HI>duty,</HI> when his <HI>eye</HI> perceives</L>
<L>What GOD intends; and, when his heart believes,</L>
<L>He dreams not; but, is really required</L>
<L>To act, according, as he is in&s;pired:</L>
<L>And, &s;omewhat tells me, that, if after all</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>mercies,</HI> and <HI>remembrances,</HI> I fall</L>
<L>From my <HI>re&s;olves;</HI> GOD ju&s;tly may expo&s;e,</L>
<L>And leave me, to the malice of my foes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Le&s;t, yet, my <HI>frailties,</HI> or <HI>&s;elf interest,</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>carnall rea&s;ons,</HI> &s;omewhat might &s;ugge&s;t</L>
<L>To blow all this away; it, comes &s;ometimes,</L>
<L>At <HI>midnight</HI> (as it did of late) and chimes</L>
<L>Dreadfull <HI>Alarms,</HI> which, do awaking keep</L>
<L>Mine eyes, when other men are fa&s;t a&s;leep:</L>
<L>From <HI>darkne&s;&s;e,</HI> then, it fre&s;h advantage taking,</L>
<L>(And from vain thoughts, which too oft keep me wa|king)</L>
<L>Thus, it invades me; what is that, which thou</L>
<L>Li'&s;t muzing on, and ruminating now?</L>
<L>Art thou contriving, how to lay <HI>foundations</HI></L>
<L>For thine own <HI>family,</HI> when <HI>Kings,</HI> and <HI>Nations,</HI></L>
<L>Are tumbling down? and, when impartiall <HI>fates,</HI></L>
<L>Are overthrowing <HI>Monarchies,</HI> and <HI>States?</HI></L>
<L>Is this a time to &s;ettle, when there are</L>
<L><HI>Earthquakes,</HI> that &s;hake the <HI>mountains,</HI> ev'ry where?</L>
<L>Is this a time to <HI>plant,</HI> when thunder-&s;trokes,</L>
<L>Root up <HI>high Cedars,</HI> and break down <HI>&s;trong Okes?</HI></L>
<L>Is this a time to <HI>purcha&s;e,</HI> when the trouble,</L>
<L>And hazards, make the payments more then double?</L>
<L>Or wheel thee (as by triall thou ha&s;t found)</L>
<L>Into a fruitle&s;s and a tedious round?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, if a <HI>&s;ea&s;onable time,</HI> it be</L>
<L>For others, can it &s;o befall to <HI>thee,</HI></L>
<PB N="19" REF="15">
<L>Whil'&s;t thou delaye&s;t his <HI>affairs,</HI> from whom,</L>
<L>The means to make thy <HI>purcha&s;es,</HI> mu&s;t come?</L>
<L>When, GOD, to build thy <HI>hou&s;e,</HI> hath now begun,</L>
<L>Wil't then, to fini&s;h it to others run?</L>
<L>As if, <HI>he,</HI> who from <HI>nothing,</HI> heretofore</L>
<L><HI>Thus far,</HI> hath brought thee, now, could do no more?</L>
<L>Oh take good heed, what <HI>cour&s;e,</HI> thou do&s;t pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>(And, what neglect) le&s;t els, thy <HI>cour&s;e,</HI> thou rue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>God, hath already, made thee to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e</L>
<L>The <HI>gates</HI> of tho&s;e that were thine <HI>enemies:</HI></L>
<L>And by a <HI>means unlooked for,</HI> re&s;tor'd</L>
<L>That, which was taken from thee by the <HI>Sword:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hou&s;es,</HI> by others built, to thee are granted,</L>
<L><HI>Orchards</HI> and <HI>Gardens,</HI> which thou ha&s;t not planted,</L>
<L>He gives, in recompen&s;e for what was lo&s;t</L>
<L>In <HI>publike &s;ervice;</HI> yea, without the co&s;t</L>
<L>Of this <HI>Republike;</HI> and, had more be&s;towne</L>
<L>E're now, perhaps, if thou to do thine <HI>owne</HI></L>
<L>Had'&s;t not delay'd <HI>his work,</HI> and, to thy <HI>hope</HI></L>
<L>For this (it may be) he will put a <HI>stop.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why, then, with <HI>frnitle&s;&s;e mu&s;ings,</HI> bu&s;ied are</L>
<L>Thy <HI>thoughts,</HI> on what, mu&s;t be anothers care?</L>
<L>Deferring that, which thou art call'd unto,</L>
<L>And &s;eeking daily, &s;omewhat els to do?</L>
<L>Art thou afraid, le&s;t thou thereby may'&s;t lo&s;e</L>
<L>Thy late <HI>recruits?</HI> or, reinrage thy foes?</L>
<L>Or, marr thy <HI>quiet?</HI> cur&s;ed is that fear;</L>
<L>And, <HI>thou</HI> too, if therein thou per&s;evere:</L>
<L>For, when a <HI>temp'r all ble&s;&s;ing,</HI> makes us wor&s;e,</L>
<L>It is a <HI>plague,</HI> beyond a <HI>tem'prall cur&s;e</HI></L>
<L>And, if thou take not heed will quite deprive thee</L>
<L>Of that which <HI>Providence,</HI> did freely give thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, who are they? or, where inhabit tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who dare to take away, what, GOD, be&s;towes</L>
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<L>If thou adhere to him? whom need'&s;t thou fear,</L>
<L>If in thy duty, thou &s;halt per&s;evere?</L>
<L>Nay, rather, which of <HI>tho&s;e,</HI> that &s;eem to be</L>
<L>Mo&s;t <HI>dreadfull,</HI> &s;hall not be afraid of thee</L>
<L>If he be guilty? and who (though on high</L>
<L>He bears his head) &s;hall not, in privacy,</L>
<L>Think on thy <HI>lines,</HI> with <HI>trembling,</HI> when he hears</L>
<L>What they declare, and what his <HI>con&s;cience</HI> fears?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>thou,</HI> &s;aid my <HI>good Angell,</HI> ha&s;t not, yet,</L>
<L>Quite &s;haken off, thy <HI>fears,</HI> and <HI>fanting fit;</HI></L>
<L>Con&s;ider, wi&s;ely, of this <HI>Generation,</HI></L>
<L>In tho&s;e things, which have thereto, nigh <HI>relation:</HI></L>
<L>Sum up together, that, which thou ha&s;t heeded</L>
<L>In tho&s;e thou <HI>fear'st:</HI> mark, how they have proceeded;</L>
<L>What, they <HI>have been;</HI> what, at this <HI>time,</HI> they <HI>are;</HI></L>
<L>What, they <HI>may be,</HI> before they are aware;</L>
<L>What, they <HI>de&s;ign,</HI> in what <HI>paths</HI> they are going;</L>
<L>What, they have <HI>done;</HI> what, they are daily <HI>doing;</HI></L>
<L>What <HI>Labyrinths</HI> involve them; what, <HI>confu&s;ions</HI></L>
<L>Enclo&s;e them round, as al&s;o what <HI>conclu&s;ions</HI></L>
<L>Are following; and, then, thou wilt not fear</L>
<L>Their <HI>power</HI> as <HI>foes,</HI> nor for their friend&s;hip care.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If, &s;till, &s;ome <HI>outward intere&s;t,</HI> be that</L>
<L>Which thou de&s;ir'&s;t to &s;ave; con&s;ider, what</L>
<L>Thereto conduceth: for, &s;ometimes, the <HI>thing</HI></L>
<L>We fear to loo&s;e, is <HI>kept</HI> by <HI>hazarding:</HI></L>
<L>And, lo&s;t in &s;eeking to pre&s;erve the &s;ame,</L>
<L>By other <HI>means,</HI> then that, through which it came.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If, <HI>thou,</HI> permit the <HI>proud,</HI> without a check</L>
<L>To follow their <HI>career,</HI> they'l break, their neck.</L>
<L>And, with <HI>them&s;elves</HI> (as our <HI>affairs,</HI> now &s;tand)</L>
<L>Indanger all the people of this Land.</L>
<L>Where, then, wilt thou be &s;afe? or, where wilt thou</L>
<L>Injoy with peace, what thou po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e&s;t now?</L>
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<L>But, if a <HI>word in &s;ea&s;on,</HI> thou &s;halt &s;peak,</L>
<L>Who knows, what <HI>in&s;truments de&s;pis'd and weak</HI></L>
<L>May compa&s;&s;e? and, who knows, but that, of <HI>them,</HI></L>
<L>Who, heretofore thy <HI>cautions</HI> did contemn.</L>
<L>Some, touch'd may be, with &s;en&s;e of their condition,</L>
<L>And, turn back, from the <HI>path-wayes</HI> of <HI>Perdition?</HI></L>
<L>And, who knows not, that many may be found</L>
<L>(Who&s;e <HI>actions</HI> blamele&s;&s;e are, who&s;e <HI>faiths</HI> are &s;ound)</L>
<L>That, by the&s;e <HI>hints,</HI> may hart and courage take.</L>
<L>Their <HI>Neighbours,</HI> from their dreamings, to awake?</L>
<L>At lea&s;t, therein thy <HI>duty</HI> having done,</L>
<L>If any be &s;ecur'd, thou &s;halt be <HI>one.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When the&s;e things were in&s;pir'd, and duly weigh'd,</L>
<L>My heart, which was a little while di&s;may'd</L>
<L>From pro&s;ecuting, what I had begun,</L>
<L>A&s;&s;um'd new courage, and went boldly on:</L>
<L>And, the&s;e <HI>expostulations,</HI> may perchance,</L>
<L>Some others, to the like <HI>re&s;olves</HI> advance</L>
<L>On like <HI>occa&s;ions;</HI> unto which intent,</L>
<L>The&s;e few &s;hort &s;teps, be&s;ide my way I went:</L>
<L>For I confe&s;&s;e, my <HI>theam</HI> I following not,</L>
<L>Have rambled out, as if I had forgot</L>
<L>What I at fir&s;t propo&s;ed; and in&s;teed</L>
<L>Of <HI>Riddles,</HI> to plain language do proceed.</L>
<L>But, I will wheel about, and with the <HI>rein</HI></L>
<L>Turn <HI>Pega&s;us,</HI> into his path again;</L>
<L>Though, he, in his <HI>digre&s;&s;ions</HI> (as we &s;ay</L>
<L>Of <HI>Beggers</HI>) never is be&s;ide his way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Once on a time</HI> (thus did <HI>old tales</HI> begin,</L>
<L>E're I was born, or thought I &s;hould have been)</L>
<L>A <HI>fooli&s;h people</HI> over much at ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Their <HI>wantonne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>vanity</HI> to plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Among their <HI>may-games,</HI> brought home from the <HI>wood,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Trees,</HI> which had els, till now, unheeded &s;tood.</L>
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<L>Of <HI>the&s;e,</HI> they made, by <HI>hewings, knocks,</HI> and <HI>&s;moothing,</HI></L>
<L>That, look like &s;omething, which re&s;embled nothing.</L>
<L>And, out of knotty, <HI>&s;hapele&s;&s;e logs,</HI> did hew</L>
<L>Some <HI>&s;tatues</HI> not uncomely to the view.</L>
<L>The&s;e, e're quite &s;haped, with &s;ome <HI>jeers,</HI> and <HI>mocks,</HI></L>
<L>They &s;et up higher, upon other blocks.</L>
<L>Then, them repoli&s;hed, and painted &s;o,</L>
<L>That, of what <HI>&s;tuffe</HI> they were, few men could know.</L>
<L>Beginning then, their own work, to admire,</L>
<L>They rais'd them higher ev'ry day and higher,</L>
<L>Till <HI>Idols</HI> they became; with whom, they grew</L>
<L>At fir&s;t, familiar, and did them be&s;trew</L>
<L>With <HI>flowers</HI> and <HI>garlands:</HI> &s;hortly after, they</L>
<L>Bow'd humbly down before them, ev'ry day;</L>
<L>Till <HI>custome,</HI> had their judgement more befool'd;</L>
<L>But, then (when <HI>the&s;e,</HI> mi&s;hrin'd they did behold,</L>
<L>Sparkling with <HI>Jewells,</HI> and with gold aray'd)</L>
<L>They, of their own <HI>Creations,</HI> grew afraid.</L>
<L>And, at the la&s;t, (as at the la&s;t, all do</L>
<L>That whoring after their own <HI>fancies</HI> go;)</L>
<L><HI>The&s;e fools,</HI> repented of their <HI>&s;uper&s;tition;</HI></L>
<L>Bewail'd the &s;lavery, of their condition;</L>
<L>With &s;ome appearances, of an intent</L>
<L>To grow more <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> as well as to repent:</L>
<L>Yea, to <HI>bla&s;pheme,</HI> their new made GODS they &s;par'd not,</L>
<L>And, would have pul'd them down again, but <HI>dar'd not.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, by their <HI>flattring attributes</HI> (long, given)</L>
<L>They had advanc'd them, to a <HI>&s;phere,</HI> or <HI>heav'n,</HI></L>
<L>Where, uncontroul'd, a power they exercis'd</L>
<L>According to their <HI>lu&s;t;</HI> and tho&s;e de&s;pis'd</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>hands</HI> had made them, &amp; who&s;e <HI>breath</HI> had blown them</L>
<L>Too high, for their <HI>ambitiou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> to own them.</L>
<L>Yea, by their <HI>incantations,</HI> the&s;e, had brought</L>
<L>Strong <HI>&s;pirits,</HI> into what their hands had wrought;</L>
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<L>Inliv'ning, and enabling them unto</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>actions,</HI> which their <HI>makers</HI> might undo.</L>
<L>Yet, per&s;evere, this <HI>blocki&s;h</HI> people will</L>
<L>To make &s;uch <HI>idols,</HI> and advance them &s;till;</L>
<L>Till both they, and their <HI>idols</HI> are de&s;troy'd</L>
<L>Unle&s;&s;e the GOD of Gods, my fears makes void.</L>
<L>For, mo&s;t men being of a <HI>&s;lavi&s;h</HI> mind,</L>
<L>Are nat'rally to <HI>&s;lavi&s;hne&s;&s;e</HI> inclin'd:</L>
<L>And to fulfill their bruiti&s;h lu&s;t will fawn</L>
<L>Upon a Dog, and lay their &s;ouls to pawn.</L>
<L><HI>Riddle</HI> this <HI>Riddle,</HI> if you can, and tell</L>
<L>What <HI>People,</HI> this may be, and where they dwell:</L>
<L>Which I believing you with ea&s;e may do,</L>
<L>Will add this following <HI>Parable</HI> thereto.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There was a time, when &s;illy <HI>Bees</HI> could &s;peak,</L>
<L>(A people, of much indu&s;try, though weak)</L>
<L>And, the&s;e, among them&s;elves, made grievous moans,</L>
<L>As being much oppre&s;&s;ed, by their <HI>drones;</HI></L>
<L>Who (having made intru&s;ions among tho&s;e</L>
<L>That had an uncontroulable di&s;po&s;e</L>
<L>Of their <HI>Republike</HI>) did in &s;undry wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Incroachments make on their <HI>proprieties;</HI></L>
<L>And, greedily, unto them&s;elves derive,</L>
<L>The <HI>fatne&s;&s;e,</HI> and the <HI>&s;weetne&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>hive.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Complaints in private,</HI> no redre&s;&s;e obtaining,</L>
<L>Increa&s;t to <HI>open,</HI> and <HI>avow'd complaining:</HI></L>
<L>Which finding like &s;ucce&s;&s;es, they begun</L>
<L>To <HI>buz,</HI> as when their <HI>&s;warming time,</HI> draws on:</L>
<L>Then, to <HI>&s;hut up their cells,</HI> to <HI>&s;hake their wings,</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>leave their wonted work,</HI> and <HI>&s;hew their &s;tings.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Drones,</HI> at fir&s;t, were &s;tartled much thereat;</L>
<L>But, being not &s;o <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> as they are <HI>fat;</HI></L>
<L>Neglected &s;till, the <HI>cour&s;e</HI> which might prevent</L>
<L>The <HI>mi&s;chief</HI> then appearing imminent:</L>
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<L>Which, when I &s;aw, I would no longer &s;tay;</L>
<L>But, &s;aid, GOD <HI>help them;</HI> and &s;o come away.</L>
<L>This <HI>Parable,</HI> if rightly moralliz'd,</L>
<L>Affords a meaning not to be de&s;pis'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o doth this which follows: as I went</L>
<L>On <HI>Pilgrimage</HI> unto the <HI>Parliament,</HI></L>
<L>Di&s;per&s;ed in my way, I &s;aw the <HI>cocks,</HI></L>
<L>(Which kept the <HI>hens,</HI> and <HI>capons</HI> from the <HI>fox</HI>)</L>
<L>With broken wings, with backs, without a feather</L>
<L>To hide their naked bodies, from the weather;</L>
<L>With plumele&s;&s;e <HI>tails,</HI> with &s;carred <HI>necks</HI> and <HI>brests;</HI></L>
<L>With empty <HI>bellies,</HI> and with <HI>combs,</HI> and <HI>cre&s;ts,</HI></L>
<L>Cut quite away; and &s;craping with their <HI>feet</HI></L>
<L>On dunghills, for their food, and in the &s;treet,</L>
<L>So de&s;picably, that it could appear</L>
<L>By nothing &s;ave their <HI>&s;purs,</HI> what once they were:</L>
<L>And, <HI>Popinjaies,</HI> and <HI>Parrets,</HI> cloath'd and fed,</L>
<L>By what the <HI>valour</HI> of the&s;e purcha&s;ed,</L>
<L>(And, trim'd with ill got <HI>feathers</HI>) &s;trutted by,</L>
<L>Ca&s;ting upon them a <HI>di&s;dainfull eye:</HI></L>
<L>Which when I &s;aw, methought (I tell you true)</L>
<L>It was no good pre&s;age; pray, <HI>what think you?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>News,</HI> if you look for, I but little know,</L>
<L>Save, &s;uch as this next <HI>Parable</HI> doth &s;how.</L>
<L>A <HI>fair &s;hip,</HI> now lies floting on the floods,</L>
<L>Well fill'd with <HI>Pa&s;&s;engers,</HI> well fraught with goods,</L>
<L>Labring to fix an <HI>Anchor</HI> on the &s;trand</L>
<L>Of her wi&s;h'd <HI>harbor,</HI> which lies neer at hand.</L>
<L>By many &s;tormes, much <HI>tackling,</HI> &s;he hath &s;pent;</L>
<L>Her <HI>Ma&s;ts</HI> are &s;hater'd; and her <HI>&s;hrowds</HI> are rent:</L>
<L>Her <HI>ammunition,</HI> and her <HI>&s;tores</HI> are wa&s;ted,</L>
<L>Her <HI>bread</HI> and <HI>bevorage</HI> is evill ta&s;ted:</L>
<L>Her <HI>keel</HI> &s;prings leaks, through her uncawked <HI>&s;eams;</HI></L>
<L>Her <HI>knees</HI> are weakned, bruized are her <HI>beams:</HI></L>
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<L>Her <HI>Pump</HI> is broke, no <HI>Cable</HI> &s;ound hath &s;he;</L>
<L>And, <HI>Anchors</HI> have been &s;lipt, till none there be:</L>
<L>Her <HI>Helm</HI> hangs loo&s;e, her <HI>Cards</HI> have great defects;</L>
<L>Her <HI>compa&s;&s;e</HI> likewi&s;e often mi&s;directs:</L>
<L>And ev'ry where, &s;he crazine&s;&s;e doth feel,</L>
<L>From <HI>Prow</HI> to <HI>Stern,</HI> from <HI>topma&s;t,</HI> to the <HI>Keel.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In this condition, too and fro &s;he drives,</L>
<L>And, on the waves, with much ado, yet <HI>lives:</HI></L>
<L>For, now of late again, the <HI>Seas</HI> go high;</L>
<L>A <HI>&s;tiff gale</HI> blows, and &s;he expos'd doth lye</L>
<L>To many hazards, clo&s;e without the <HI>Bar,</HI></L>
<L>Betwixt two <HI>Forelands,</HI> which in kening are:</L>
<L>If &s;he were <HI>fitted,</HI> forth again to &s;tand</L>
<L>To <HI>Seaward, Pyrats</HI> threaten; if to <HI>Land</HI></L>
<L>She makes; the rocks lye &s;cattered, here and there,</L>
<L>In which, as great, or, greater dangers are:</L>
<L>And, which is wor&s;e, they, who in her abide,</L>
<L>Are <HI>mutinous;</HI> and, &s;om what els be&s;ide:</L>
<L>Some <HI>ignorant,</HI> &s;ome <HI>trecherous,</HI> and, &s;ome</L>
<L><HI>Ambitious,</HI> how, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors to become</L>
<L>Of what is other mens: yea, &s;ome of tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who, have this goodly &s;hip at their di&s;po&s;e,</L>
<L>Have in delayes, their <HI>time,</HI> and &s;tores, mi&s;pent,</L>
<L>For private ends; or, for accompli&s;hment</L>
<L>Of <HI>wor&s;e de&s;ignes:</HI> and, in this great di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>(In part through <HI>fear,</HI> in part through <HI>guiltine&s;&s;e</HI>)</L>
<L>So much amuz'd, and &s;o amuzed are,</L>
<L>That, they are at a lo&s;&s;e, what <HI>cour&s;e</HI> to &s;teer,</L>
<L>Them&s;elves to &s;ave; and compa&s;&s;e their <HI>de&s;ign;</HI></L>
<L>Without which, to no <HI>cour&s;e,</HI> they will incline</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Owners, and the Pa&s;&s;engers, have waved</L>
<L>No means, whereby this <HI>Ve&s;&s;ell</HI> might be &s;aved:</L>
<L>For, to that purpo&s;e, they have not alone,</L>
<L>Put hand, to all things needfull to be done;</L>
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<L>And, faithfully, unto their labour &s;tood;</L>
<L>(Ev'n with the frequent hazard of their blood)</L>
<L>But al&s;o, willingly away have ca&s;t</L>
<L>Their goods; yea, &s;ome have thrown forth to the la&s;t</L>
<L>Of all their outward <HI>vi&s;ible e&s;tates:</HI></L>
<L>Few of her <HI>Ma&s;ters,</HI> or her <HI>Ma&s;ters Mates,</HI></L>
<L>In her extremities, adventring ought;</L>
<L>Although their <HI>Cabbins,</HI> with rich goods are fraught.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The danger &s;till increa&s;eth; and tho&s;e few</L>
<L>In place of <HI>tru&s;t,</HI> who to their <HI>tru&s;t</HI> are true,</L>
<L>Perceiving all endeavours rendred vain</L>
<L>By their decrea&s;e, to whom doth appertain</L>
<L>That <HI>&V;e&s;&s;ells</HI> charge; they labour'd &s;eriou&s;ly</L>
<L>To find out an expediment, whereby</L>
<L>Some other <HI>Pilots</HI> might be timely &s;ent</L>
<L>Their neer approaching &s;hipwrack, to prevent.</L>
<L>And, that by making of their <HI>Canons</HI> roar,</L>
<L>They might invite help, from the <HI>neighbring &s;hore.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>motion</HI> plea&s;ed all, &s;ave &s;uch as had</L>
<L><HI>Self-ends</HI> to fear; and, the&s;e a <HI>faction</HI> made</L>
<L>So &s;trong again&s;t it; that, this <HI>&V;e&s;&s;ell,</HI> yet</L>
<L><HI>Hulls</HI> there, with many perills, round be&s;et;</L>
<L>Not knowing (without hazard) either how</L>
<L>To ride &s;afe, tack about, or venture through</L>
<L>The narrow Channell; who&s;e hid winding lies</L>
<L>Ob&s;cured from their knowledge, and their eyes:</L>
<L>And, one <HI>dark night,</HI> or, but one <HI>tempest</HI> more,</L>
<L>Might wrack her on the &s;ands, or on the &s;hore.</L>
<L>But, maugre all the&s;e hazards; <HI>&s;he</HI> at la&s;t,</L>
<L>In her wi&s;h'd <HI>barbour,</HI> &s;hall an anch or ca&s;t;</L>
<L>For, to the <HI>Leeward,</HI> lies an <HI>un&s;een Bay,</HI></L>
<L>Where, through the &s;oft <HI>Ouze,</HI> run aground &s;he may</L>
<L>Without a bruize; and, &s;hall <HI>recruits</HI> take in,</L>
<L>Ev'n where 'twas fear'd, &s;he &s;hould have &s;plitted bin.</L>
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<L>You therefore, who conceive your intere&s;t</L>
<L>To be concern'd by what is here expre&s;t,</L>
<L>Pri&s;e God alone, when fafe this <HI>Ship</HI> &s;hall be,</L>
<L>For none could have &s;ecured her, but <HI>he.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And let not tho&s;e, to whom the &s;ame relates</L>
<L>Slight what this <HI>Parable</HI> in&s;inuates,</L>
<L>Which next en&s;ueth: for, it hath an u&s;e,</L>
<L>That much to their advantage may conduce.</L>
<L>A <HI>homebred Lion</HI> (of a hair unknown</L>
<L>In <HI>Africa</HI>) by being overgrown,</L>
<L>And dreadfull to his <HI>Keepers,</HI> will thereby</L>
<L>Awake the rage of <HI>&s;mother'd jealou&s;ie,</HI></L>
<L>And lo&s;e his <HI>tail;</HI> except between his <HI>pawes,</HI></L>
<L>He couch his <HI>head,</HI> and hide his <HI>teeth</HI> and <HI>clawes;</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Rampant</HI> grow; and what will follow then?</L>
<L>Ask tho&s;e you credit, they are <HI>Cunning men:</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>me</HI> you ask in vain; for 'tis my <HI>fate,</HI></L>
<L>Seldome to be believ'd, till 'tis too late.</L>
<L>But that &s;tout <HI>Lion</HI> by his prudency</L>
<L>May ea&s;ily improve this <HI>jealou&s;ie,</HI></L>
<L>Both for the <HI>Publike &s;afety,</HI> and th' increa&s;e</L>
<L>Of his own <HI>honor,</HI> al&s;o, if he plea&s;e;</L>
<L>And I do probably pre&s;ume he will,</L>
<L>If my <HI>well-wi&s;hes,</HI> have not fool'd my <HI>skill.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Before that time, they who have took delight</L>
<L>In <HI>deeds of darkne&s;&s;e,</HI> will put out the <HI>light</HI></L>
<L>By which the <HI>foot&s;teps</HI> of their <HI>foes</HI> are known,</L>
<L>And whereby they might <HI>&s;ee</HI> to guide their <HI>own:</HI></L>
<L>In&s;teed whereof, perhaps erect they &s;hall</L>
<L>An <HI>ignis fatuus,</HI> which will hazard all.</L>
<L>To each man then &s;hall <HI>Providence</HI> di&s;po&s;e</L>
<L>That, which for his <HI>chief happine&s;&s;e</HI> he cho&s;e:</L>
<L>The <HI>dogs,</HI> who to their vomit do retire,</L>
<L>And <HI>&s;wine</HI> (who love to wallow in the mire)</L>
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<L>Them&s;elves with their <HI>beloved fil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h</HI> &s;hall fill;</L>
<L>And they that are <HI>unclean,</HI> &s;hall be &s;o &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>wilfull Adder,</HI> who doth &s;top his ears,</L>
<L>And will not heed the <HI>Charmer</HI> whom he hears,</L>
<L>Shall feel a <HI>voice</HI> within him, that will &s;hake him</L>
<L>Out of his dumps; and from his deafne&s;&s;e wake him,</L>
<L>When 'tis too late to hear what might prevent</L>
<L>The dint of his forewarned detriment.</L>
<L>The <HI>Leaches</HI> &s;hall by <HI>&s;alt</HI> a vomit take;</L>
<L>Or els continue &s;ucking, till they break.</L>
<L>The <HI>Bubbles,</HI> who in <HI>emptine&s;&s;e</HI> do find</L>
<L>Their <HI>plea&s;ure,</HI> &s;hall be puffed up with <HI>wind</HI></L>
<L>Till (being blown to <HI>nothing</HI>) there appear</L>
<L>No <HI>&s;ignes,</HI> that in the world &s;uch <HI>bladders</HI> were.</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;ons of earth,</HI> who with the <HI>Gods</HI> make war,</L>
<L>Shall heap up hills on hills, till cru&s;ht they are</L>
<L>Ev'n by their own <HI>De&s;ignes;</HI> the <HI>Dogs</HI> that prey</L>
<L>Upon their <HI>Flocks,</HI> and tear their wool away,</L>
<L>Shall <HI>bark</HI> no more, but only <HI>&s;narle</HI> and <HI>grin,</HI></L>
<L>And run about the fields without a skin.</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;hrubs</HI> and <HI>Briars,</HI> which more proud are grown,</L>
<L>Then were the <HI>Cedars,</HI> lately broken down;</L>
<L>Among their <HI>leaves</HI> and <HI>thornes,</HI> a <HI>fire</HI> do hide,</L>
<L>Which on a &s;uddain will con&s;ume their pride.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>grubs</HI> and <HI>maggots,</HI> but e're while &s;o &s;mall,</L>
<L>So poor and weak, that they could hardly crawl,</L>
<L>Have got <HI>bulk, &s;trength, new formes, a&s;piring wings;</HI></L>
<L>Yea dreadfull <HI>teeth,</HI> and <HI>horns,</HI> and <HI>claws,</HI> and <HI>&s;tings:</HI></L>
<L>But, by a <HI>&s;torm,</HI> whereof they have no dread,</L>
<L>They &s;hall con&s;ume as fa&s;t as they were bred:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Within the circuit of our <HI>Northern Clime</HI></L>
<L>Not long before, or after the&s;e, in time,</L>
<L>Out of the putrified <HI>barbed &s;teed,</HI></L>
<L>Shall generated be a num'rous breed</L>
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<L>Of noy&s;ome <HI>hornets,</HI> which abroad will fly,</L>
<L>Much mi&s;chief doing, and next winter die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Friends</HI> po&s;&s;ibly may meet (our <HI>Proverb</HI> &s;ayes)</L>
<L>But <HI>mountains</HI> never; yet in the&s;e our dayes,</L>
<L>That <HI>Proverb</HI>'s cro&s;t: for <HI>hills</HI> have often met,</L>
<L>With purpo&s;e on each other to beget</L>
<L>A long'd for i&s;&s;ue; and it is believ'd</L>
<L>By many, that they &s;omewhat have <HI>conceiv'd</HI></L>
<L>Of great <HI>concernment:</HI> but you'l &s;ee the <HI>birth</HI></L>
<L>Prove nothing, but a <HI>moldring lump of earth;</HI></L>
<L>(As they them&s;elves will be, till <HI>clay</HI> and <HI>du&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Seek better things, then to fulfill their lu&s;t:)</L>
<L>For none can an&s;wer now our expectation,</L>
<L>But that <HI>great hill,</HI> whence cometh our <HI>&s;alvation.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All this from objects which are found within</L>
<L>Our <HI>Briti&s;h Orb,</HI> hath preconjectur'd bin;</L>
<L>But tho&s;e that follow next, to me appear</L>
<L>By things which I ob&s;erve without our <HI>&s;phere.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The bla&s;ted <HI>Orange,</HI> and the <HI>crooked Vine,</HI></L>
<L>With many <HI>trees</HI> on either &s;ide of <HI>Rhine</HI></L>
<L>Shall twi&s;t together, that beneath their <HI>&s;hade,</HI></L>
<L>A &s;helter for the <HI>Thi&s;tle</HI> may be made,</L>
<L>Till they perceive what <HI>cur&s;e</HI> is in pur&s;uit</L>
<L>Of that rejected <HI>plant,</HI> root, branch, and fruit;</L>
<L>And then they'l wi&s;er grow; le&s;t they may become</L>
<L>Expo&s;ed ju&s;tly to the &s;elf-&s;ame doom.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mean while, the <HI>tawny Olive</HI> &s;hall a&s;&s;ay</L>
<L>His roots into tho&s;e <HI>&V;allies</HI> to convay,</L>
<L>From whence it was di&s;planted; and effect</L>
<L>His purpo&s;e, by a <HI>Wile</HI> which few &s;u&s;pect;</L>
<L>Except the <HI>Willow,</HI> and the <HI>Oke</HI> fore&s;ee</L>
<L>What for their mutuall good &s;hould thought on be:</L>
<L>And both the <HI>frogs</HI> and <HI>mice,</HI> which are in fight,</L>
<L>Be wary what is watch'd for by the <HI>Kite.</HI></L>
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<L>By which means they &s;hall break a <HI>grand de&s;ign</HI></L>
<L>Which is on foot, their States to undermine;</L>
<L>And they who of this <HI>Peace</HI> fir&s;t movers are,</L>
<L>Shall of that ble&s;&s;ing reap the greate&s;t &s;hare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ob&s;erve this well: if ever you &s;hall &s;ee</L>
<L>(As po&s;&s;ibly it may permitted be)</L>
<L>That from it <HI>height,</HI> the RED-CROSSE &s;hall decline,</L>
<L>The <HI>half moon</HI> for that time &s;hall <HI>Northward</HI> &s;hine,</L>
<L>(With an ill influence upon the Seas)</L>
<L>Beyond the <HI>Pillars</HI> of great <HI>Hercules,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Southward</HI> not be retrograde again,</L>
<L>Till that a <HI>rea&s;cen&s;ion</HI> &s;hall attain.</L>
<L>But <HI>lo&s;&s;es</HI> are &s;ometimes a gainfull <HI>prize;</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>over-&s;ights,</HI> men grow to be more wi&s;e;</L>
<L>And they who know not yet what may concern</L>
<L>Their welfare, will perhaps more wi&s;dome learn,</L>
<L>When more experience makes their judgment &s;tronger,</L>
<L>By &s;uffering <HI>lo&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>&s;corn</HI> a little longer.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>We, on this &s;ide the <HI>water,</HI> are not yet</L>
<L>Confus'd enough that <HI>Order</HI> to beget,</L>
<L>Which mu&s;t e&s;tadli&s;h us; and &s;hall therefore</L>
<L>Pur&s;ue <HI>&s;elf-intere&s;t,</HI> a little more.</L>
<L>With <HI>new wine</HI> our <HI>old bottle</HI> mu&s;t be fil'd,</L>
<L>(Endangring <HI>wine</HI> and <HI>bottle</HI> to be &s;pil'd)</L>
<L>Till &s;uch as are in <HI>powre</HI> be pleas'd to hear</L>
<L>The coun&s;ell of a <HI>&s;lighted engineer:</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>new cloth</HI> our <HI>old garment</HI> patch'd mu&s;t be,</L>
<L>(Whereby the <HI>rents</HI> made wider ye &s;hall &s;ee)</L>
<L>Till every <HI>old rag</HI> be worn out, and then</L>
<L>The <HI>Robe</HI> &s;o rent, &s;hall be renew'd agen:</L>
<L>And they that own it, be &s;ecured more,</L>
<L>And much more dignifi'd, then heretofore;</L>
<L>If they who mu&s;t compleat it make their <HI>choice.</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>lot divine,</HI> as well as <HI>humane voice:</HI></L>
<PB N="31" REF="21">
<L>Whereto <HI>&s;elf-&s;eekers</HI> never will agree,</L>
<L>Untill inforced by &s;ome <HI>streights</HI> it be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when this comes to pa&s;&s;e, there &s;hall appear</L>
<L>A <HI>new light</HI> &s;hining in our <HI>hemi&s;phere,</HI></L>
<L>That will di&s;per&s;e the <HI>clouds</HI> and <HI>fogs,</HI> which make</L>
<L>So many cro&s;&s;e each other, and mi&s;take</L>
<L>The way of <HI>&s;afety;</HI> then we &s;hall perceive</L>
<L>Our <HI>Oppo&s;ites</HI> de&s;ire to interweave</L>
<L>Their intere&s;ts with ours; and to have &s;hare</L>
<L>In that which God will for the&s;e <HI>I&s;les</HI> prepare:</L>
<L>Wherein if we accord, we &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Each other, and the world in Chri&s;tian peace;</L>
<L>Till he approacheth to a&s;cend the <HI>Throne,</HI></L>
<L>Who mu&s;t unite <HI>all Nations</HI> into <HI>one.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then &s;hall the <HI>blazing Comets,</HI> which have &s;eem'd</L>
<L><HI>Fixt &s;tars,</HI> and been by many &s;o e&s;teem'd,</L>
<L>(Ev'n of the greate&s;t magnitude) down from</L>
<L>Their heights be thrown; and more de&s;pis'd become</L>
<L>Then <HI>Glowormes,</HI> or tho&s;e <HI>rotten chips,</HI> that glare</L>
<L>In <HI>darkne&s;&s;e,</HI> as if <HI>reall lights</HI> they were:</L>
<L>Then ev'ry <HI>&s;ingle per&s;on</HI> &s;hall be brought</L>
<L>Unto his <HI>Test;</HI> and that which he hath wrought</L>
<L>Shall pa&s;&s;e a <HI>fiery Triall,</HI> &s;uch as were</L>
<L>Made fat with <HI>publike &s;poils;</HI> and <HI>cloathed</HI> are</L>
<L>By ruining of others; will that day</L>
<L>Be <HI>hungry, poor,</HI> and <HI>naked</HI> &s;ent away,</L>
<L>And rendred the &s;corn of ev'ry one,</L>
<L>Whom they oppre&s;t, de&s;pis'd, and trampled on.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then they, who large <HI>indulgences</HI> contrive</L>
<L>For others, that them&s;elves they may forgive;</L>
<L>Who cunning are, at <HI>fast</HI> and <HI>loo&s;e</HI> to play;</L>
<L>Who <HI>take</HI> to <HI>morrow,</HI> what they <HI>give</HI> to <HI>day;</HI></L>
<L>Who make their <HI>&s;eeming favours,</HI> means unto</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>mi&s;chiefs,</HI> which their <HI>malice</HI> could not do.</L>
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<L>Who <HI>Spider-like,</HI> weave <HI>cobwebs,</HI> with pretence</L>
<L>To catch the noy&s;ome <HI>flies</HI> which give offence.</L>
<L>When none but harmle&s;&s;e <HI>Bees</HI> their <HI>engines take,</HI></L>
<L>For, through them <HI>wa&s;ps</HI> and <HI>hornets</HI> pa&s;&s;age make.</L>
<L>They, who do &s;acrifice unto the dead</L>
<L>That wherewithall the living &s;hould be fed;</L>
<L>Ev'n when they (wanting what &s;hould life pre&s;erve)</L>
<L>Lie naked, harbourle&s;&s;e, and like to &s;tarve.</L>
<L>And then &s;uch as <HI>innocents</HI> cau&s;e betray,</L>
<L>And ju&s;tifie the wicked, then &s;hall they</L>
<L>Who add more <HI>grea&s;e</HI> to <HI>fatne&s;&s;e;</HI> and where's none</L>
<L>Scrap't off, the fle&s;h that's left unto the bone.</L>
<L>Then &s;hall all the&s;e, and &s;uch like, to their doom</L>
<L>With fear, with trembling, and amazement come,</L>
<L>And undergo de&s;erved puni&s;hment,</L>
<L>Unle&s;&s;e beforehand timely they repent:</L>
<L>In which condition they may yet receive</L>
<L><HI>Remi&s;&s;ion,</HI> and in future &s;afety live.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then al&s;o they, who now are forc'd to take</L>
<L>The juicele&s;&s;e apples of <HI>A&s;phaltis Lake,</HI></L>
<L>(In&s;ted of that which was the price of blood,</L>
<L><HI>Limbs liberty,</HI> and of their livelyhood)</L>
<L>Shall better be rewarded; and confe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>There is a GOD that loveth <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</HI></L>
<L>Then they who have received <HI>stones</HI> for <HI>bread,</HI></L>
<L>(<HI>Scorpions</HI> for <HI>fi&s;h</HI>) &s;hall with <HI>good things</HI> be fed.</L>
<L>Then they, who &s;erv'd like <HI>Tantalus</HI> have bin</L>
<L>(With <HI>fruits</HI> and <HI>waters,</HI> which their lips and chin</L>
<L>Have often touch'd in vain) &s;hall that enjoy,</L>
<L>For which they fruitle&s;&s;e labours now employ:</L>
<L>Yea, they who got but <HI>gall</HI> and <HI>vineger,</HI></L>
<L>When in their greate&s;t <HI>Agonies</HI> they were,</L>
<L>Shall &s;ee what <HI>Samp&s;ons</HI> Riddle hath imply'd,</L>
<L>On them, and their oppre&s;&s;ors verifi'd:</L>
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<L>Out of their <HI>eaters</HI> carka&s;&s;es, will meat</L>
<L>Extracted be; and &s;weetne&s;&s;e they &s;hall get</L>
<L>Out of the bones and ruines of the <HI>&s;trong,</HI></L>
<L>By whom they formerly received wrong.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then ravenous <HI>Wolves,</HI> &s;hall <HI>Lambs</HI> and <HI>Kidlings</HI> feed,</L>
<L>The <HI>thi&s;tly field</HI> &s;hall bring forth pretious &s;eed:</L>
<L>The <HI>Crocodile</HI> &s;hall tears of <HI>kindne&s;&s;e</HI> weep;</L>
<L>The <HI>Ramping Lion</HI> to the cro&s;s &s;hall creep:</L>
<L>And &s;uch things as were noy&s;ome heretofore,</L>
<L>Shall make our future benefit the more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then, from the <HI>buried Oxe,</HI> will forth ari&s;e,</L>
<L>A &s;warm of thrifty <HI>honey making flies,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;hall with <HI>&s;weetne&s;&s;e,</HI> and with <HI>plenty</HI> &s;tore</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>Ilands,</HI> from the <HI>midland,</HI> to the <HI>&s;hore;</HI></L>
<L>And, &s;pread their <HI>floting hives</HI> o're all the <HI>Seas,</HI></L>
<L>'Twixt both the <HI>Tropicks,</HI> to th' <HI>Antipodes,</HI></L>
<L>(And all without) that <HI>ble&s;&s;ings</HI> which now are</L>
<L>Somewhere enjoy'd, may then be ev'ry where;</L>
<L>To make <HI>preparatives</HI> for that which brings</L>
<L>Into <HI>one body,</HI> all di&s;per&s;ed things.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Other events, that &s;eem of con&s;equence,</L>
<L>I do fore&s;ee approachings, not far hence:</L>
<L>But &s;o ob&s;curely, that I cannot &s;ay</L>
<L>(Without &s;ome doubtings) whereto tend they may</L>
<L>For, far beyond my apprehen&s;ion lies</L>
<L>The chain of tho&s;e conceal'd contingencies</L>
<L>Which draw on <HI>future things:</HI> and that frail <HI>gla&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Through which the <HI>light,</HI> di&s;clo&s;ing them, mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Is &s;o defective, that it may perchance</L>
<L>Mi&s;repre&s;ent them in &s;ome circum&s;tance.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet by th' <HI>inlightnings,</HI> which the <HI>&s;acred Writ</HI></L>
<L>On <HI>&s;anctified rea&s;on</HI> doth beget,</L>
<L>If we will weigh, con&s;ider, and compare</L>
<L>Tho&s;e WORDS and <HI>works,</HI> which <HI>pa&s;t</HI> and <HI>pre&s;ent are,</HI></L>
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<L>To GOD and men relating; we of &s;ome</L>
<L>Things <HI>future,</HI> may aright inform'd become.</L>
<L>Yea, out of que&s;tion, by <HI>the&s;e</HI> are fore&s;hown</L>
<L>To all intents, as much as need be known,</L>
<L>Relating either to our private fates,</L>
<L>Or unto <HI>Kingdomes, Commonwealths,</HI> and <HI>States:</HI></L>
<L>If thereto, for the right end, men apply</L>
<L>Their &s;en&s;e in <HI>faith,</HI> and with <HI>humility.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To find what &s;en&s;e my <HI>Parables</HI> contain,</L>
<L>No man that's wi&s;e, &s;hall need his wits to &s;train;</L>
<L>For e're three years, are three moneths pa&s;t the middle</L>
<L>Mo&s;t men the meaning of them will unriddle,</L>
<L>Without an <HI>Oedipus;</HI> and think that he</L>
<L>Who made them, had <HI>Ca&s;&s;andra</HI>'s de&s;tiny.</L>
<L>But the&s;e meer trifles are, re&s;pecting that</L>
<L>Of who&s;e approach I tydings can relate:</L>
<L>For long it &s;hall not be, e're that be done</L>
<L>Which will cut off all tyrannies in <HI>one:</HI></L>
<L>Yea that which many thou&s;ands have expected,</L>
<L>Hundreds of years, &s;hall fully be effected,</L>
<L>Before the <HI>Wheel of Time,</HI> now rowling by</L>
<L>Hath pa&s;t M. D. C. L. X. V. and I.</L>
<L>Which numbers how to calculate aright,</L>
<L>From this that follows take a little light.</L>
<L>Fir&s;t, to begin it, you mu&s;t learn to find</L>
<L>What <HI>year</HI> the <HI>Roman Empire</HI> fir&s;t declin'd,</L>
<L>All who&s;e Characters, us'd in <HI>numeration,</HI></L>
<L>Thus plac'd, according to their <HI>valuation,</HI></L>
<L>Explain a <HI>mystery:</HI> for of that <HI>State</HI></L>
<L>Whereto they did belong, they &s;hew'd the date:</L>
<L>And at that &s;ea&s;on 'twill compleated be,</L>
<L>In which <HI>Rome</HI> looks for her next JUBILEE.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My <HI>Ridling</HI> fit now leaves me for a time;</L>
<L>And here I'le put a period to my <HI>Rhime.</HI></L>
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<L>My inward perturbations are pa&s;t over,</L>
<L>My <HI>brains</HI> begin, by &s;etling, to recover</L>
<L>Tho&s;e wits, whereby I may, like other men,</L>
<L>Conver&s;e; and follow my affairs agen.</L>
<L>My <HI>night adventures</HI> I have pa&s;&s;ed thorow,</L>
<L>And they who meet me in the &s;treets to <HI>morrow</HI></L>
<L>Will &s;earce believe how mad I was this <HI>night,</HI></L>
<L>Untill they &s;hall peru&s;e what I now write;</L>
<L>And mo&s;t of them, will then, (it may be) deem,</L>
<L>That others are more mad, then I yet &s;eem.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="24">
<PB N="37" REF="24">
<HEAD>The Perpetuall PARLIAMENT. BEING The Re&s;ult of a <HI>Contemplative Vi|&s;ion,</HI> revealing a probable meanes of making this Parliament to be both perpe|tuall, and acceptable to the&s;e Nati|ons, if they &s;o plea&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><HI>A</HI> Paradox, <HI>though this appear to &s;ome, Con&s;ider it, le&s;t els, a</HI> mi&s;chief <HI>come.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>IS that de&s;ign'd? then it is time to vary</L>
<L>My <HI>Thems,</HI> le&s;t, on a &s;uddain, all mi&s;carry.</L>
<L>Riddles adien, let clouds away be blown,</L>
<L>And my <HI>Dark Lantern,</HI> quite a&s;ide be thrown;</L>
<L>That e're it be too late, I down may charm</L>
<L>The Spirits conjur'd up, to do us harm:</L>
<L>For in my <HI>contemplations</HI> I have had</L>
<L>A <HI>Vi&s;ion,</HI> which hath &s;ome di&s;cov'rie; made,</L>
<L>And in a <HI>plain &s;ong</HI> I intend to &s;ing,</L>
<L>How we may <HI>concord,</HI> out of <HI>di&s;cords</HI> bring,</L>
<L><HI>Order</HI> out of <HI>confu&s;ions,</HI> and re&s;tore</L>
<L>That <HI>Peace,</HI> who&s;e late infringements we deplore;</L>
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<L>Where, to begin the <HI>work;</HI> how to proceed,</L>
<L>That which is yet but words, may be a deed,</L>
<L>And to declare our means of <HI>&s;ettlement,</HI></L>
<L>to be an <HI>everla&s;ting Parliament.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It may appear, (and will be thought perchance)</L>
<L>At lea&s;t much ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, if not arrogance,</L>
<L>That I adventure to employ my pen</L>
<L>Upon a <HI>&s;ubject,</HI> which more able men</L>
<L>Have hitherto declin'd, and which of late,</L>
<L>Hath ground admini&s;tred of much debate,</L>
<L>(And much di&s;pute) to Coun&s;ells of renown,</L>
<L>Without a full <HI>re&s;olve,</HI> as yet made known:</L>
<L>But the&s;e are <HI>bla&s;ts,</HI> whereof &s;mall heed I take</L>
<L>For <HI>chaffe</HI> and <HI>feathers</HI> only, they can &s;hake;</L>
<L>And he that all things hath at his di&s;po&s;e,</L>
<L>Is plea&s;ed &s;ome <HI>expedients</HI> to di&s;clo&s;e</L>
<L>To poor and &s;imple per&s;ons, now and then,</L>
<L>Which he conceals from <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> and <HI>noble men:</HI></L>
<L>He, &s;ometimes calls men from within the grates,</L>
<L>To Coun&s;ell grave, and <HI>mighty Potentates;</HI></L>
<L>And they in <HI>meekne&s;&s;e</HI> have embrac'd the &s;ame</L>
<L>Without a jealou&s;ie of any &s;hame</L>
<L>Which might thereby reflect di&s;paragements</L>
<L>Upon their wi&s;dome, from tho&s;e <HI>in&s;truments.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor is there any cau&s;e, why &s;uch as are</L>
<L>Made in&s;trumentall, tho&s;e things to declare</L>
<L>Which may be &s;erviceable, &s;hould therefore</L>
<L>E&s;teem their wi&s;dome, or them&s;elves the more;</L>
<L>Since they have nothing, but what they receive,</L>
<L>And are but <HI>earthen pipes,</HI> to help derive</L>
<L>To others, what into them&s;elves they take,</L>
<L>Not &s;o much for their own, as others &s;ake.</L>
<L>And if a&s;&s;ume ought to my &s;elf I would,</L>
<L>I nothing know, that arrogate I could</L>
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<L>By what &s;hall be propo&s;ed, more then they,</L>
<L>Who have not to this end a word to &s;ay,</L>
<L>If they de&s;ire to &s;erve you; when they &s;hall</L>
<L>Meet &s;uch occa&s;ions, as I met withall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, as when two great <HI>Armies,</HI> long ingag'd,</L>
<L>Having each others fury &s;o inrag'd,</L>
<L>That over all the fields there are be&s;pread,</L>
<L><HI>Di&s;orders</HI> rais'd out of <HI>de&s;pair</HI> and <HI>dread;</HI></L>
<L>Such renovations on the hills and vallies,</L>
<L>Of <HI>charges</HI> and <HI>retreats;</HI> of <HI>routs and rallies,</HI></L>
<L>So loud a noy&s;e of <HI>drums,</HI> and <HI>guns,</HI> and <HI>eries;</HI></L>
<L>Such clouds of <HI>&s;moke</HI> and <HI>du&s;t</HI> to blind their eyes;</L>
<L>Such <HI>&s;tops</HI> by them that <HI>&s;lain</HI> and <HI>wounded</HI> ly,</L>
<L>Such <HI>througs</HI> and <HI>tumults</HI> among tho&s;e that fly,</L>
<L>And, &s;uch <HI>confu&s;ions,</HI> that the <HI>Chief Commanders</HI></L>
<L>Know not what cour&s;e to take; if then, <HI>by-&s;tanders,</HI></L>
<L>Upon a <HI>neighb'ring hill,</HI> &s;hall thence di&s;cern</L>
<L>Where &s;ome advantage lies, which may concern</L>
<L>Their <HI>friends ingag'd;</HI> and from among them <HI>one</HI></L>
<L>Shall (ventring down) inform them what is done;</L>
<L>Where their foes weakne&s;s lies; and how they may</L>
<L>Rally their <HI>broken troops,</HI> and win the day,</L>
<L>What great thing hath he done, whereof to boa&s;t?</L>
<L>Or what di&s;honor hath that <HI>Army</HI> lo&s;t,</L>
<L>By his officiou&s;ne&s;&s;e? or what's his gains</L>
<L>But knocks perhaps, or woundings for his pains;</L>
<L>From tho&s;e, it may be, of his <HI>Party</HI> too,</L>
<L>Who know not what he thither came to do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This is my ca&s;e; who for &s;uch <HI>&s;ervices,</HI></L>
<L>(And &s;uch adventures heretofore as the&s;e)</L>
<L>Have gain'd &s;o little, that none needs envy</L>
<L>The profit which I have receiv'd thereby;</L>
<L>Or, tho&s;e advantages I might expect,</L>
<L>If that which I propo&s;e &s;hould take affect;</L>
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<L>Con&s;idering, how many &s;till there be,</L>
<L>To make my be&s;t deeds mi&s;chievous to me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, what&s;oever &s;hall thereon &s;ucceed</L>
<L>With what is now intended, I'le proceed,</L>
<L>As my <HI>peculiar work;</HI> and to be done</L>
<L>By no man, if I let the &s;ame alone.</L>
<L>For, (as it by my <HI>Journall Books</HI> appears)</L>
<L>Somwhat above the term of forty years</L>
<L>I have been on the <HI>hills of contemplation,</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>voluntary Watchman</HI> for this <HI>Nation.</HI></L>
<L>I, oft, when none to &s;econd me I knew.</L>
<L>In times of greate&s;t danger &s;tood <HI>perdue.</HI></L>
<L>I oft was pris'ner took, and did inlarge</L>
<L>My &s;elf, at all times, at my proper charge.</L>
<L>I, more then once, to &s;cape my Foes made &s;hift,</L>
<L>With nothing, but my <HI>life,</HI> and <HI>raiment</HI> left;</L>
<L>And have per&s;waded been (ev'n ever &s;ince</L>
<L>J reacht the years of ripe intelligence)</L>
<L>That (next unto his &s;ervice) GOD, in chief,</L>
<L>Gave me my being, faculties and life,</L>
<L>To &s;erve my <HI>Country,</HI> and to have an eye</L>
<L>On tho&s;e who hindred her pro&s;perity;</L>
<L>And, to imploy my &s;tudies and my wit,</L>
<L>Jn &s;earching out what might advantage it,</L>
<L>Though no man &s;hould regard it; yea, though &s;till</L>
<L>J <HI>injuries</HI> receiv'd for my <HI>good will:</HI></L>
<L>And this hath oft produc'd &s;uch fruits as the&s;e,</L>
<L>Judge me, or u&s;e me for it as they plea&s;e;</L>
<L>J &s;hall, at la&s;t, be paid for all J do:</L>
<L>And, &s;o &s;hall they, who dare oppo&s;e it too.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Having thus <HI>prefac'd,</HI> to anticipate</L>
<L><HI>Mi&s;cen&s;ures,</HI> J, my <HI>Vi&s;ions</HI> thus relate.</L>
<L>When with &s;ad thoughts J many nights and dayes,</L>
<L>Had over-look'd my <HI>one,</HI> and <HI>others wayes,</HI></L>
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<L>Con&s;idering &s;eriou&s;ly, both what they were</L>
<L>And in what po&s;ture, our <HI>affairs</HI> now are;</L>
<L>I &s;aw &s;o much <HI>confu&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>di&s;order,</HI></L>
<L>The Chaos daily, &s;o much widing further</L>
<L>By <HI>new confu&s;ions,</HI> and &s;o few, that &s;ee</L>
<L>Or credit, in what hazards we now be,</L>
<L>That in the&s;e overwhelmings I almo&s;t</L>
<L>Was &s;wallowed up, in danger to be lo&s;t:</L>
<L>And doubtle&s;&s;e in tho&s;e <HI>whirlpools</HI> lo&s;t had bin,</L>
<L>But that the <HI>clew,</HI> by which I ventur'd in,</L>
<L>Did bring me forth, and &s;et me on a <HI>Station</HI></L>
<L>Where I might view them, without <HI>perturbation;</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>&s;afety</HI> too, and with &s;o true a <HI>light</HI></L>
<L>That, thereby plainly, I di&s;cover might</L>
<L>From whence this Chaos &s;prings; and by what cour&s;e</L>
<L>We might (if po&s;&s;ible) drink up the &s;ource,</L>
<L>Or make &s;ome &s;uch diver&s;ion, as would win</L>
<L>An <HI>entrance,</HI> where <HI>good order</HI> might begin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As I &s;tood mu&s;ing, how this could be done,</L>
<L>A <HI>voice</HI> within me &s;aid; this <HI>works</HI> for none</L>
<L>But him to do, who fir&s;t did out of <HI>nought</HI></L>
<L>Bring <HI>&s;omething;</HI> and from <HI>&s;omething, all things</HI> brought.</L>
<L>Then &s;aid my heart, LORD, though this <HI>work,</HI> to thee</L>
<L>Belongs alone, yet in&s;truments there be,</L>
<L>By which thou worke&s;t all things here below;</L>
<L>Some in&s;trumentall means, now therefore &s;how,</L>
<L>Whereby this may be done; and, then alone</L>
<L>Shal't reap that honor which infues thereon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In&s;teed of <HI>vocall an&s;wer</HI> hereunto,</L>
<L><HI>A firm per&s;wa&s;ion,</HI> that it &s;hould be &s;o</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;t my <HI>&s;oul;</HI> and that he who&s;oever</L>
<L>Would faithfully and &s;eriou&s;ly endeavour</L>
<L>A <HI>re&s;tauration,</HI> either &s;hould acquire</L>
<L>The full accompli&s;hment of his de&s;ire;</L>
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<L>Or &s;o much toward it, as might at lea&s;t</L>
<L>Secure him in his noble intere&s;t.</L>
<L>Herewith well &s;atisfi'd, a&s;ide I threw</L>
<L>My own affairs, and privately withdrew</L>
<L>Into my &s;elf, in &s;ea&s;on to begin</L>
<L>That undertaking which I now am in;</L>
<L>And whereto you, by the&s;e <HI>long lanes</HI> are led,</L>
<L>To &s;ignifie that I've con&s;idered</L>
<L>The <HI>Propo&s;itions,</HI> which to light I bring,</L>
<L>With good <HI>precautions,</HI> and examining.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One <HI>afternoon,</HI> as on my couch I lay,</L>
<L>About the <HI>ev'ning twilight</HI> of the day,</L>
<L>My <HI>contemplation</HI> introduced there,</L>
<L>A <HI>mask,</HI> that might be&s;eem a <HI>theater;</HI></L>
<L>And many grave <HI>&s;pectators:</HI> for thereby</L>
<L>Was repre&s;ented our late <HI>tragedy</HI></L>
<L>From that time, when the <HI>Prologue</HI> did begin,</L>
<L>Ev'n to the very <HI>act,</HI> we now are in;</L>
<L>With each materiall circum&s;tance, which might,</L>
<L>Be u&s;efully pre&s;ented to my &s;ight,</L>
<L>Pertaining to this <HI>Nation,</HI> and to tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who <HI>are,</HI> or <HI>have been,</HI> thereto friends or foes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It likewi&s;e drew a <HI>map</HI> before mine eyes,</L>
<L>Of all our pa&s;t, and pre&s;ent mi&s;eries,</L>
<L>With tho&s;e <HI>di&s;tractions,</HI> and tho&s;e <HI>contradictions.</HI></L>
<L>VVhich do prolong or multiply <HI>afflictions:</HI></L>
<L>As al&s;o of each <HI>actor</HI> and his <HI>actions</HI></L>
<L>Confu&s;edly wrapt up with their <HI>tran&s;actions,</HI></L>
<L>As they to me, and other men appear,</L>
<L>When we do look upon them in our fear;</L>
<L>Or as they pa&s;&s;ed by us day by day,</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t we among the &s;ame confu&s;ions lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>mummery</HI> withdrew: and then me thought,</L>
<L>It back again, each <HI>part</HI> and <HI>actor</HI> brought,</L>
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<L>Di&s;tinctly repre&s;ented, &s;o that I</L>
<L>Might perfectly di&s;cern with <HI>rea&s;ons eye,</HI></L>
<L>What in them&s;elves they were; and that we had</L>
<L>Of many things a <HI>wrong conjecture</HI> made.</L>
<L>That &s;ome, which to our practi&s;e were commended,</L>
<L>Have to our &s;hame, and our de&s;truction tended:</L>
<L>That others, which we judged might de&s;troy</L>
<L>Our <HI>intere&s;t;</HI> produc'd what we enjoy.</L>
<L>That wicked <HI>projects,</HI> other while brought forth</L>
<L>As good effects, as tho&s;e of <HI>reall worth,</HI></L>
<L>(Though not without a woe, to them, by whom</L>
<L><HI>Offences,</HI> and <HI>prevarications</HI> come)</L>
<L>That &s;ome, which good appear'd, were nothing &s;o,</L>
<L>That, others, making but an evill &s;how,</L>
<L>Were (if con&s;ider'd &s;imply) very good,</L>
<L>Or, better then they &s;eem'd, if under&s;tood</L>
<L>According to the <HI>time,</HI> and pre&s;ent &s;tate</L>
<L>Of the&s;e <HI>affairs,</HI> whereto they did relate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>Curtain</HI> then was drawn a&s;ide, that &s;hew'd</L>
<L>A <HI>Table,</HI> whereon portraited I view'd</L>
<L>A <HI>Directory,</HI> teaching me the u&s;e</L>
<L>Of all that I had &s;een, with their produce:</L>
<L>Which could my memory, have brought away,</L>
<L>Had done this work (which I intend to day)</L>
<L>Much better, then this <HI>picking</HI> out again,</L>
<L>What their impre&s;&s;ion left upon my <HI>brain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A thou&s;and &s;ev'rall things (&s;ome, neither fit</L>
<L>For my expre&s;&s;ion, nor in &s;ea&s;on, yet</L>
<L>To be divulg'd) were brought as in <HI>proce&s;&s;ion</HI></L>
<L>Before me, in an orderly <HI>progre&s;&s;ion.</HI></L>
<L>Sometimes confu&s;edly, there pa&s;&s;ed by</L>
<L>Strange <HI>Apparitions,</HI> which away did fly,</L>
<L>E're I could well di&s;ern them; or my <HI>thought</HI></L>
<L>Take notice, to what purpo&s;e they were brought.</L>
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<L>Sometimes <HI>bright &s;hinings</HI> from a light I had,</L>
<L>Which cheer'd my <HI>heart,</HI> and made my <HI>&s;pirit</HI> glad.</L>
<L>Another while, a <HI>darkne&s;&s;e</HI> me &s;urrounded,</L>
<L>Which, all my <HI>notions,</HI> for a time, confounded,</L>
<L>And &s;adned &s;o my <HI>&s;pirit</HI> by privations,</L>
<L>That I well neer lo&s;t all tho&s;e <HI>ob&s;ervations</HI></L>
<L>Which I had made &s;ometimes appear'd to me</L>
<L>Such things, as in our <HI>Antimasks</HI> we &s;ee</L>
<L><HI>Ridiculous,</HI> and worthy laughing at;</L>
<L>Sometimes <HI>things terrible,</HI> and after that</L>
<L><HI>Appearances,</HI> which promi&s;ed to &s;ome,</L>
<L>Much <HI>comfort, peace,</HI> and <HI>happine&s;&s;e to come;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;o the <HI>Vi&s;ion</HI> vani&s;h'd, and the <HI>day</HI></L>
<L>By that time to the <HI>night</HI> had given way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But by <HI>what repre&s;ented</HI> thus hath been,</L>
<L>By well con&s;idering what I have &s;een;</L>
<L>(By <HI>&s;pelling out,</HI> what every character</L>
<L>Held forth, and what things evidenced were</L>
<L>By <HI>readring all together</HI>) found hath bin</L>
<L>Where that <HI>great work</HI> mu&s;t fir&s;t of all begin,</L>
<L>Which may make up our <HI>breaches,</HI> when thereto</L>
<L>Our &s;elves we &s;ettle, as we ought to do.</L>
<L>In brief, I &s;aw, that in the <HI>&s;ettlement</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>con&s;titution</HI> of this <HI>Parliament</HI></L>
<L>Upon a ju&s;t <HI>foundation</HI> laid with &s;peed,</L>
<L>A cour&s;e of <HI>re&s;tauration</HI> might &s;ucceed;</L>
<L>And draw on by <HI>degrees,</HI> a means to bring</L>
<L>Into <HI>right order,</HI> ev'ry other thing</L>
<L>Conducing to our <HI>Weal;</HI> and if we take</L>
<L>That way whereof propo&s;all I &s;hall make,</L>
<L>I dare adventure, if it do not thrive,</L>
<L>To lo&s;e my head, or be inter'd alive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have attain'd a&s;&s;urance (and without</L>
<L>So much as any &s;hadow of a doubt</L>
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<L>That by this <HI>Parliaments</HI> mi&s;con&s;titution</L>
<L>We are uncapable of that fruition</L>
<L>Which we expect; that for the mo&s;t part thence</L>
<L>Proceed the cau&s;es of our indigence</L>
<L>And my&s;eries; and that 'tis naythele&s;&s;e</L>
<L>The <HI>chief,</HI> or <HI>&s;ole means</HI> left of our redre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Ev'n this in being now, this which men &s;eek</L>
<L>To bring into contempt, and to di&s;like.</L>
<L>This, which they (ju&s;tly too, in &s;ome re&s;pect)</L>
<L>Have laboured to make of no effect,</L>
<L>And to annihilate, as if thereby</L>
<L>(And thereby only) they &s;hould perfectly</L>
<L>Injoy their full de&s;ires, and be &s;ecur'd</L>
<L>From all the troubles hitherto indur'd.</L>
<L>Ev'n by this <HI>Parliament,</HI> God will effect</L>
<L>That future &s;ettlement which we expect,</L>
<L>If we too long delay not the pur&s;uit</L>
<L>Of an impartiall rativall recruit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For though the body of it being made</L>
<L>Of many members, hath among them had</L>
<L>(And hath yet) overmany &s;o corrupted</L>
<L>That they have not alone much interrupted:</L>
<L>The activene&s;&s;e of tho&s;e that have been &s;ound,</L>
<L>But are oft likely al&s;o to confound</L>
<L>The whole at once, by &s;eeking how to plea&s;e</L>
<L>Their <HI>lu&s;ts,</HI> or <HI>friends,</HI> or how them&s;elves to ea&s;e:</L>
<L>Yet by their faithfulne&s;s, who have been true</L>
<L>Unto their tru&s;t, and active to pur&s;ue</L>
<L>The <HI>publike intere&s;t,</HI> redeem'd we are</L>
<L>From that captivity in which we were;</L>
<L>And many things enjoy of him e&s;teem</L>
<L>(Though by &s;ome wants, <HI>enjoyments</HI> le&s;&s;e do &s;eem)</L>
<L>Whereof we had e're this been quite di&s;poil'd,</L>
<L>If they in their endeavours had been foir'd.</L>
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<L>It therefore were an Act of <HI>Tyranny,</HI></L>
<L>(Of high inju&s;tice, and of cruelty)</L>
<L>To wrap up the&s;e, with tho&s;e that have mi&s;done,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e &s;ome fail, to have re&s;pect to none;</L>
<L>But ca&s;t off all at once, and from us thru&s;t</L>
<L>With men unrighteous, tho&s;e that have been ju&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For if we weigh things well, it is their prai&s;e,</L>
<L>That they have marched through uneven wayes,</L>
<L>(Oft, ill accommodated) and have long</L>
<L>Oppo&s;ed without wearine&s;&s;e, a &s;trong</L>
<L>And cunning enemy; that they have bin</L>
<L>A&s;&s;ail'd by &s;ome without, and &s;tob'd within</L>
<L>By <HI>bo&s;ome foes;</HI> that they were lamed too,</L>
<L>In their own <HI>limbs,</HI> yet forward &s;till did go</L>
<L>With per&s;everance: and that al&s;o they</L>
<L>Stand for us in the gap, ev'n to this day;</L>
<L>It is their glory, rather then their blot,</L>
<L>Though their good purpo&s;e they accompli&s;h not.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is from the&s;e that we denominate</L>
<L>This <HI>Parliament;</HI> in them is lodg'd the fate</L>
<L>Of this <HI>Republike;</HI> yea, what e're it &s;eem,</L>
<L>This, as I &s;aid, is that which mu&s;t redeem</L>
<L>Our late lo&s;t honor; and if e're this &s;hall</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;olved be, down all our <HI>Structures</HI> fall,</L>
<L>Not to be rais'd, without the co&s;t of more</L>
<L>Then hath been &s;pent upon it heretofore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For what &s;hould keep it up? can wi&s;e men think,</L>
<L>They &s;hall uphold it, that it may not &s;ink,</L>
<L>Whom the&s;e depute? who while they do &s;ub&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>Pre&s;erve, with much care, their own intere&s;t?</L>
<L>Can any of us, rea&s;onably believe</L>
<L>The power which to their <HI>Sub&s;titutes</HI> the&s;e give,</L>
<L>When they them&s;elves are outed, &s;hall be able</L>
<L>To keep up &s;trongly, that which is un&s;table,</L>
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<L>Untill a <HI>Phoenix,</HI> yet unhatch'd ari&s;e</L>
<L>Out of their a&s;hes, with renew'd &s;upplies?</L>
<L>When, having far le&s;&s;e power, and le&s;&s;e e&s;teem,</L>
<L>(As being an extraction out of them</L>
<L>Who are prejudicated) they &s;hall contend</L>
<L>With tho&s;e <HI>immergencies,</HI> that may a&s;cend?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, grant it po&s;&s;ible, what way &s;hall we</L>
<L>Contrive, whereby this power di&s;&s;olv'd may be</L>
<L>Without a <HI>force,</HI> that may indanger more</L>
<L>Our <HI>&s;afety,</HI> then it hath done heretofore?</L>
<L>(Since by a Law, it was perpetuated</L>
<L>Which is not ra&s;hly to be <HI>abrogated;</HI></L>
<L>And which without inforcement, can by none</L>
<L>Repealed be, &s;ave by <HI>it &s;elf</HI> alone?)</L>
<L>It were not rationall we &s;hould petition</L>
<L>That they now &s;itting (weighing their condition)</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;olve it &s;hould, till they can be a&s;&s;ured,</L>
<L>How they may for the future be &s;ecured,</L>
<L>For giving their <HI>intru&s;ted power</HI> away,</L>
<L>To tho&s;e they know not; or, to &s;uch as may,</L>
<L>Ruine both <HI>them,</HI> and tho&s;e too, for who&s;e &s;ake,</L>
<L>They &s;erv'd, that rea&s;onle&s;&s;e re&s;olve to make;</L>
<L>Yea, &s;hould they leave to &s;uch <HI>uncertainties,</HI></L>
<L>(And, to &s;uch hazards, as might thence ari&s;e)</L>
<L>This <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> it were an Act unju&s;t,</L>
<L>And, an unan&s;werable breach of tru&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Parliament, though (by and for our &s;in)</L>
<L>Her <HI>vigorous actings</HI> have delayed bin,</L>
<L>Through tho&s;e <HI>ob&s;tructions,</HI> which it long hath had,</L>
<L>And, is by many foul <HI>bespatterings</HI> made</L>
<L>Unacceptable; though, that it &s;hould raign</L>
<L>O're them, the <HI>&s;ons of Belial,</HI> do di&s;dain:</L>
<L>Although, &s;ome al&s;o (without cau&s;e) have thought</L>
<L>That, to defame it, <HI>I my &s;elf,</HI> have &s;ought</L>
<PB N="48" REF="30">
<L>(Becau&s;e thereto mi&s;under&s;tandingly,</L>
<L>They &s;uch <HI>invectives,</HI> and <HI>reproofs</HI> apply,</L>
<L>As were intended only again&s;t tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Who &s;eeming to be <HI>friends,</HI> were &s;ecret <HI>foes.</HI>)</L>
<L>Yet &s;ince it fir&s;t begun (ev'n all along)</L>
<L>I have perceiv'd what <HI>works</HI> thereto belong,</L>
<L>And ever had a care how to prevent</L>
<L>Their <HI>&s;candall,</HI> by a plain di&s;tingui&s;hment</L>
<L>Of <HI>Doves</HI> from <HI>Crowes,</HI> and of mens <HI>private factions,</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>publike,</HI> and <HI>authorized tran&s;actions.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For as that man, who can nor hear, nor &s;ee,</L>
<L>And half who&s;e limbs, corrupt and rotten be,</L>
<L>May po&s;&s;ibly be all the means re&s;erv'd,</L>
<L>By which a <HI>noble hou&s;e</HI> may be pre&s;erv'd</L>
<L>From <HI>extirpation;</HI> &s;o, how bad &s;oe're</L>
<L>This <HI>Parliament</HI> may be, (or may appear)</L>
<L>I am a&s;&s;ur'd, by many a circum&s;tance,</L>
<L>It is that means by which GOD will advance</L>
<L>This <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> unto that <HI>&s;ettlement,</HI></L>
<L>Which may accur&s;ed <HI>Anarchy</HI> prevent,</L>
<L>If tho&s;e <HI>conditions</HI> be not long neglected,</L>
<L>Whereby our happine&s;s may be effected.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As heretofore, when <HI>Sarah</HI> was bereav'd</L>
<L>Of that which gave her hope to have conceiv'd,</L>
<L>She, naythele&s;&s;e, obtain'd a lovely &s;on,</L>
<L>In whom a <HI>num'rous Off-&s;pring</HI> was begun:</L>
<L>And whence did &s;pring that <HI>light,</HI> and that <HI>&s;alvation,</HI></L>
<L>Which is the happine&s;s of ev'ry Nation;</L>
<L>Ev'n &s;o, when we had wanted many a year,</L>
<L>The likely <HI>Symptoms</HI> of enjoying here,</L>
<L>Another <HI>Parliament;</HI> yea when a &s;top</L>
<L>Was rai&s;ed and proclaim'd, again&s;t the hope</L>
<L>Of &s;uch a mercy, when nought did appear</L>
<L>But that whereby di&s;pairs increa&s;ed were:</L>
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<L>VVhen <HI>Tympanies</HI> had &s;woln our <HI>Sarahs</HI> womb,</L>
<L>And made it rather &s;eem to be the <HI>Tomb</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>dead things</HI> only, then to quicken ought,</L>
<L>VVhich for our comfort could from thence be brought;</L>
<L>Lo, then, (and not before) it did conceive</L>
<L>A &s;on of <HI>Con&s;olation,</HI> to revive</L>
<L>Our drooping hearts; and which, if <HI>faithle&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Deprive us not of what we may po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Will free us from all <HI>tyrants,</HI> and re&s;tore</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>rights</HI> which they u&s;urped heretofore:</L>
<L>And not re&s;tore our <HI>liberties</HI> alone,</L>
<L>But propagate the ble&s;&s;ing here begun,</L>
<L>Throughout the world, untill all other <HI>Nations</HI></L>
<L>Are freed from their <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ors</HI> u&s;urpations.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Before the <HI>&s;ons of Jacob</HI> entrance found</L>
<L>Into their <HI>promis'd Land,</HI> they had a round,</L>
<L>Or Progre&s;s to fulfill, and many years</L>
<L>They in the <HI>De&s;arts</HI> were <HI>Probationers,</HI></L>
<L>By &s;ev'rall <HI>hard&s;hips,</HI> thereby to improve</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;eeds of faith,</HI> new &s;own at their remove</L>
<L>From <HI>Aegypt;</HI> and by <HI>&s;igns</HI> and <HI>wonders</HI> &s;hown)</L>
<L>To make unto them&s;elves their frailty known.</L>
<L>But they at each re&s;training of their lu&s;t,</L>
<L>Brake forth into repinings and di&s;tru&s;t;</L>
<L>Yea into flat <HI>rebellions,</HI> into rearing</L>
<L>Of <HI>Idols</HI> (when his Law GOD was preparing)</L>
<L>Into a wicked cau&s;le&s;&s;e murmuring</L>
<L>Again&s;t the means of their delivering</L>
<L>From <HI>Aegypts</HI> triall; and into wi&s;hes vain</L>
<L>That they might thither back return again.</L>
<L>For which of many hundred thou&s;ands none</L>
<L>Enjoy'd the <HI>promis'd rest,</HI> but two alone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And we are ju&s;t like them; yea, we have done</L>
<L>Since God, to bring us from our <HI>thrall</HI> begun,</L>
<PB N="50" REF="31">
<L>The very &s;ame things in the <HI>wilderne&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Of our <HI>Probation;</HI> and our carka&s;&s;es</L>
<L>Shall there be left, unle&s;s we do betimes</L>
<L>Make an <HI>attunement,</HI> for our pa&s;&s;ed crimes;</L>
<L>And with unfainedne&s;s that <HI>cour&s;e</HI> pur&s;ue</L>
<L>Which leads unto the re&s;t, that is in view.</L>
<L>So &s;hall our Leaders, likewi&s;e, who comply</L>
<L>With &s;uch <HI>tran&s;gre&s;&s;ers,</HI> and un&s;anctifie</L>
<L>Their power: &s;o &s;hall, moreover, tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who with our <HI>Dathans,</HI> and <HI>Abirams</HI> clo&s;e</L>
<L>In their con&s;piracies, and quite from all</L>
<L>Their likely hopes, and pre&s;ent glory fall.</L>
<L>For on <HI>conditions,</HI> (as King <HI>John</HI> had</L>
<L>His <HI>Throne</HI>) the peoples heads, they have been made,</L>
<L>And if they &s;hall from tho&s;e conditions &s;werve,</L>
<L>They mu&s;t expect the portion they de&s;erve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let them endeavour, therefore, how they may</L>
<L>Remove that <HI>fear</HI> and <HI>jealou&s;ie</HI> away</L>
<L>Which doth po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the people, and withdraws</L>
<L>Their <HI>good affections,</HI> with apparent cau&s;e:</L>
<L>Let <HI>tho&s;e,</HI> (<HI>ev'n tho&s;e, who have among the re&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Been lea&s;t to blame, and have de&s;erved be&s;t</HI>)</L>
<L>Con&s;ider, that by &s;uch as carele&s;&s;e are</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e great <HI>burthens,</HI> which they &s;eem to bear,</L>
<L>The <HI>weight</HI> increa&s;eth, and, that they &s;o fa&s;t</L>
<L>Decrea&s;e, on whom their weightine&s;s is ca&s;t,</L>
<L>As will e're long o're whelm them, if with &s;peed,</L>
<L>They do not to &s;ome remedy proceed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let them take notice, that the people rage</L>
<L>At their <HI>delayes,</HI> as likely to ingage</L>
<L>In &s;ome <HI>di&s;orderly re&s;olve,</HI> unle&s;s</L>
<L>They &s;ee that follow'd with more &s;eriou&s;ne&s;s</L>
<L>Which they de&s;ire; either a <HI>Parl'ament</HI></L>
<L>New made, or &s;omewhat that's equivalent:</L>
<PB N="51" REF="31">
<L>For thereby, they conceive, (and that thereby</L>
<L>Alone) their <HI>&s;ufferings</HI> may have remedy.</L>
<L>And &s;omewhat to that end (although not &s;o</L>
<L>As mo&s;t would have it) may be &s;it to do.</L>
<L>Yea, if I have not mi&s;advi&s;ed bin,</L>
<L>Our cure mu&s;t with the <HI>Parliament</HI> begin.</L>
<L>A&s;&s;i&s;t ye therefore, to promote the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Le&s;t ye partake with &s;inners in their &s;hame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There is a cour&s;e, whereby without di&s;grace,</L>
<L>Or <HI>danger,</HI> you may bring that <HI>work</HI> to pa&s;s,</L>
<L>And free your &s;elves from that great co&s;t and pain,</L>
<L>Which without <HI>thanks,</HI> or <HI>profit</HI> you &s;u&s;tain;</L>
<L>Afflicting others too, by tho&s;e <HI>confu&s;ions</HI></L>
<L>Which are increa&s;t by your irre&s;olutions.</L>
<L>Untill a better, therefore &s;hall appear,</L>
<L>Be plea&s;ed that <HI>expediment</HI> to hear,</L>
<L>And, if of tho&s;e <HI>preventions,</HI> or that <HI>good,</HI></L>
<L>It promi&s;eth, you find a likelyhood,</L>
<L>Take heed, that no &s;elf-intere&s;t, divert</L>
<L>That <HI>Approbation,</HI> whereunto your heart</L>
<L>Inclineth you; for God will find it out,</L>
<L>And cro&s;s the <HI>counter-work</HI> you go about.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In <HI>England,</HI> and in <HI>Wales,</HI> there is a <HI>Shire,</HI></L>
<L>For ev'ry <HI>week</HI> that's numbred in the year.</L>
<L>By <HI>twelve,</HI> according to the <HI>moneths</HI> divide</L>
<L>The <HI>Counties,</HI> with their per&s;ons qualifi'd</L>
<L>For <HI>Knights</HI> and <HI>Burge&s;&s;es,</HI> proportioning</L>
<L>As neer as may be, to an equalling</L>
<L>The <HI>number</HI> of the <HI>whole,</HI> &s;o, or &s;o many</L>
<L>Unto each <HI>moneth,</HI> without omitting any.</L>
<L>A&s;certain then, the <HI>moneth</HI> and <HI>day,</HI> wherein</L>
<L>Each <HI>twelfth part</HI> an <HI>election</HI> &s;hall begin;</L>
<L>(The <HI>middle of the week,</HI> appearing be&s;t</L>
<L>As being furthe&s;t from the day of <HI>re&s;t</HI>)</L>
<PB N="52" REF="32">
<L>On each fir&s;t <HI>Wedne&s;day,</HI> of each moneth, let tho&s;e</L>
<L>By whom their <HI>Deputies</HI> are to be cho&s;e,</L>
<L>Re&s;pectively convene in ev'ry Shire,</L>
<L>Upon that <HI>moneth,</HI> and <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> ev'ry year,</L>
<L>Which is to them a&s;&s;ign'd; and having cho&s;en,</L>
<L>(At <HI>moneths</HI> end) let each <HI>twelfth part,</HI> of the dozen,</L>
<L>Send up their <HI>cho&s;en men,</HI> to repre&s;ent</L>
<L>Their <HI>Shires</HI> and <HI>Boroughs</HI> in the <HI>Parliament:</HI></L>
<L>And on that very day, in which they come,</L>
<L>Let all their <HI>Predece&s;&s;ors</HI> give them room.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus one <HI>moneth</HI> &s;ome; and <HI>moneth</HI> by <HI>moneth</HI> for e|ver,</L>
<L>Let each <HI>twelfth part,</HI> &s;till orderly per&s;ever</L>
<L>To take a <HI>turn,</HI> till ev'ry &s;hare hath had</L>
<L>A <HI>moneth</HI> in ev'ry year; and having made</L>
<L>Their <HI>choice,</HI> let them &s;till <HI>enter</HI> and <HI>withdraw</HI></L>
<L>Succe&s;&s;ively, by a <HI>perpetuall Law,</HI></L>
<L>No man a <HI>place of tru&s;t,</HI> &s;upplying there,</L>
<L>At one <HI>election,</HI> longer then one year.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus, as the <HI>Thames,</HI> doth &s;till continue <HI>one,</HI></L>
<L>And is the &s;elf-&s;ame river, though there run</L>
<L>A new &s;upply of waters ev'ry day</L>
<L>Along the channell, &s;o continue may</L>
<L>This <HI>Parliament,</HI> by annuall &s;upply,</L>
<L>To be the &s;elf-&s;ame everla&s;tingly,</L>
<L>With very little charge or mole&s;tation</L>
<L>To tho&s;e who <HI>chu&s;e,</HI> or repre&s;ent the <HI>Nation.</HI></L>
<L>Thus may this <HI>Parliament,</HI> be both together</L>
<L><HI>Succe&s;&s;ive,</HI> and perpetuall; yet neither</L>
<L>Enjoying &s;uch a <HI>perpetuity</HI></L>
<L>As can occa&s;ion future <HI>tyranny,</HI></L>
<L>Or pre&s;ent <HI>grievances;</HI> not that <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;ion,</HI></L>
<L>Which may bring danger by an <HI>intermi&s;&s;ion:</HI></L>
<L>But make that <HI>con&s;titution,</HI> which will add</L>
<L>All power, which may from both of them be had,</L>
<PB N="53" REF="32">
<L>Either to compa&s;s, what good men affect;</L>
<L>Or to prevent the mi&s;chiefs they &s;u&s;pect,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What I intend may plainly be conceiv'd;</L>
<L>And to that end, &s;ome things may be contriv'd</L>
<L>Much better, if your wi&s;dome &s;hall refine</L>
<L>The rudene&s;s of my profered de&s;ign;</L>
<L>And by authority, &s;ome <HI>rules</HI> provide</L>
<L>Whereby th' <HI>elected</HI> may be qualifi'd;</L>
<L>And their <HI>Electors</HI> too; for 'twere unju&s;t,</L>
<L>In things of this <HI>concernment,</HI> tho&s;e to tru&s;t</L>
<L>Who have di&s;turb'd our <HI>Peace,</HI> untill a time</L>
<L>For their <HI>Probation</HI> be allotted them:</L>
<L>And till they likewi&s;e, by &s;ome good de&s;ert,</L>
<L>Make manife&s;t a <HI>reconciled heart,</HI></L>
<L>Ate&s;ted, and approved by tho&s;e <HI>Judges,</HI></L>
<L>Who &s;hall &s;u&s;pend their former <HI>priviledges.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;ince, ev'n they who are the be&s;t affected</L>
<L>To <HI>Publike welfare,</HI> often have elected</L>
<L>Such as deceive their hopes; &s;ince ther's no eye</L>
<L>But GODS, that &s;ees the hearts hypocri&s;ic:</L>
<L>Since it appeareth in the be&s;t <HI>Record,</HI></L>
<L>(Ev'n in the <HI>volumes</HI> of the <HI>&s;acred Word</HI>)</L>
<L>That <HI>lots</HI> were needfull in the choice of tho&s;e,</L>
<L>On whom they did a <HI>Supreme Tru&s;t</HI> impo&s;e:</L>
<L>Yea, &s;ince, ev'n when the pure&s;t <HI>Congregation,</HI></L>
<L>In all the world, had with deliberation,</L>
<L>(And from among the mo&s;t approved men,</L>
<L>Which to their knowledge liv'd among them then)</L>
<L>Elected <HI>two;</HI> a <HI>lot</HI> was al&s;o ca&s;t,</L>
<L>That GODS <HI>Election</HI> might on theirs be plac'd,</L>
<L>To &s;end forth him, who was to be employ'd</L>
<L>In executing of the place then void:</L>
<L>Since al&s;o GODS <HI>Election,</HI> joyn'd with our,</L>
<L>May <HI>peradventure</HI> on the <HI>Elected</HI> pour</L>
<PB N="54" REF="33">
<L><HI>New gifts;</HI> &s;ince we by doubtle&s;&s;e warranty</L>
<L>May with that antient <HI>Pre&s;ident</HI> comply:</L>
<L>Since it will probably give good content</L>
<L>To prudent men, and may oft times prevent</L>
<L>The <HI>choice</HI> of tho&s;e, whom for &s;ini&s;ter ends,</L>
<L>A numerous <HI>corrupted Party</HI> &s;ends:</L>
<L>Why may not? nay, why &s;hould not <HI>two</HI> be cho&s;e</L>
<L>For ev'ry place that's void, and <HI>one</HI> of tho&s;e</L>
<L>Be &s;ent by <HI>lot?</HI> that GOD may have a <HI>voice,</HI></L>
<L>And joyn with men in making up their <HI>choice?</HI></L>
<L>Since they, who mu&s;t this <HI>Nation</HI> repre&s;ent</L>
<L>Are GODS <HI>Vicegerents</HI> in the Government,</L>
<L>As well as our <HI>Tru&s;tees?</HI> who would not more</L>
<L>Con&s;ide in &s;uch a <HI>choice,</HI> then heretofore</L>
<L>They did in others? or, then they will do</L>
<L>In them, who &s;hall not now be <HI>cho&s;en</HI> &s;o?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why was it not? why &s;hould it not be thus,</L>
<L>If this the <HI>Kingdome</HI> be of GOD WITH US?</L>
<L>But that <HI>&s;elf-&s;eekers</HI> find, were this admitted,</L>
<L>They by <HI>reputed fools,</HI> &s;hould be out-witted?</L>
<L>And get no <HI>Jnlet,</HI> others to devoure</L>
<L>Hereafter, by an evill gotten power?</L>
<L>Yea, wherefore hath the <HI>lot</HI> been from among</L>
<L>All our <HI>Elections</HI> kept away &s;o long,</L>
<L>But that <HI>&V;&s;urpers,</HI> and <HI>Intruders</HI> know</L>
<L>It would their <HI>Kingdomes</HI> wholly overthrow;</L>
<L>Make them afraid, that CHRIST would raign indeed</L>
<L>Among us, (as they &s;ometimes hear and read)</L>
<L>And that they &s;hould hereafter never come</L>
<L>To revel (as they have done) in his room:</L>
<L>Nor will they, doubtle&s;s, if this take effect,</L>
<L>Except it be our failings to correct;</L>
<L>When GOD &s;hall by permi&s;&s;ion for our &s;in,</L>
<L>Reject the <HI>lot,</HI> and let a <HI>Knave</HI> come in.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="55" REF="33">
<LG>
<L>If therefore &s;ome <HI>Previ&s;ion</HI> might be made,</L>
<L>That we &s;hould <HI>lots</HI> to our <HI>Elections</HI> add,</L>
<L>A great &s;ecurity would thence redound,</L>
<L>And much contentment therein might be found.</L>
<L>Moreover, as an <HI>out-work</HI> pertinent</L>
<L>Remi&s;&s;ene&s;s in <HI>Electers</HI> to prevent,</L>
<L>(Upon who&s;e due performance much depends,</L>
<L>Which to the <HI>publike woe,</HI> or <HI>welfare</HI> tends)</L>
<L>It were not labour lo&s;t, if when&s;oe're</L>
<L>To execute that duty we appear,</L>
<L>Some &s;hort &s;peech might be made, or <HI>cautions read,</HI></L>
<L>Whereby it &s;hould be offred to our heed,</L>
<L>How much it will concern us, to take care</L>
<L>What <HI>choice</HI> we make, and what the danger; are</L>
<L>Which may en&s;ue; le&s;t for &s;ini&s;ter ends,</L>
<L>(For fear of <HI>great men,</HI> or to plea&s;e our <HI>friends</HI>)</L>
<L>We may di&s;place our <HI>trust,</HI> and ca&s;t away</L>
<L>Our &s;elves, and all, for ever, in one day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To which intent, our <HI>Orator</HI> &s;hould &s;how</L>
<L>What <HI>trust</HI> it is, which we that day be&s;tow:</L>
<L>What <HI>benefits</HI> may gen'rally ari&s;e</L>
<L>By chu&s;ing men <HI>couragious, honest, wi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>And fearing GOD; what <HI>perills</HI> will en&s;ue</L>
<L>(Which by forepa&s;t <HI>examples</HI> he may &s;hew)</L>
<L>If <HI>cowards, fools, ungodly</HI> men, and <HI>vitious,</HI></L>
<L>Or to the <HI>pre&s;ent Government</HI> pernitious</L>
<L>Elected be; he likewi&s;e may declare</L>
<L>How <HI>qualifi'd</HI> &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hould appear,</L>
<L>And warn them, that they never do unhallow</L>
<L>Their <HI>choice,</HI> with any &s;uch as the&s;e that follow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Men over-talkative, and loving much</HI></L>
<L><HI>To hear them&s;elves &s;peak;</HI> for not many &s;uch</L>
<L>Can keep or give good <HI>coun&s;ell;</HI> and they'l prate</L>
<L>Much precious time away, in vain debate.</L>
<PB N="56" REF="34">
<L>Your <HI>common Game&s;ters:</HI> for, they are unju&s;t</L>
<L>Unto them&s;elves, and them we &s;hould not tru&s;t</L>
<L>With other mens <HI>e&s;tates,</HI> who have been known</L>
<L>To lo&s;e, or hazard, de&s;perately their own.</L>
<L><HI>Men to their plea&s;ure overmuch addicted,</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>Publike works,</HI> will be by the&s;e neglected.</L>
<L>Such as apparently are <HI>Avaritious,</HI></L>
<L>Or of <HI>Promotion greedily ambitions:</HI></L>
<L>For if their ends thereby acquire they may,</L>
<L>The&s;e may be hir'd, their <HI>Country</HI> to betray.</L>
<L><HI>Such as indulge their lust,</HI> and famed are</L>
<L><HI>Ju their uncleanne&s;&s;es to per&s;evere;</HI></L>
<L>For they will leave their Charge, to plea&s;e their whore,</L>
<L>And &s;hame their fellows, if they do no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of <HI>irreligious per&s;ons</HI> make no choice,</L>
<L>For the&s;e will very &s;eldome give their <HI>&V;oice,</HI></L>
<L>But in the <HI>Negative,</HI> to any motion.</L>
<L>That may be for advancement of <HI>Devotion.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chu&s;e none who are defam'd in any kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>As being vitious;</HI> for the&s;e means will find</L>
<L>To hinder all <HI>enactings,</HI> which re&s;train</L>
<L><HI>Ill manners;</HI> or to <HI>&s;ober life</HI> pertain.</L>
<L><HI>Elect</HI> not <HI>children:</HI> for it is unfit</L>
<L>That in our <HI>Supreme Coun&s;ell</HI> they &s;hould &s;it,</L>
<L>To Vote in <HI>Grand Affairs,</HI> whom <HI>Law</HI> re&s;trains</L>
<L>From managing, what to <HI>them&s;elves</HI> pertains.</L>
<L><HI>Chu&s;e none,</HI> who are ob&s;erved to withhold,</L>
<L>Their <HI>long due debts, when they di&s;charge them could;</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>outlaw'd per&s;ons;</HI> for, unfit are they</L>
<L>To make our <HI>Lawes,</HI> who will not <HI>Lawes</HI> obey.</L>
<L><HI>Chu&s;e none, who &s;hall &s;olicite, or</HI> propo&s;e</L>
<L><HI>That they for your Law makers may be cho&s;e;</HI></L>
<L>(And their <HI>Electors,</HI> by the old abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Of <HI>fea&s;ting, wine,</HI> and <HI>banquetings</HI> &s;educe:)</L>
<PB N="57" REF="34">
<L>For they, who &s;hall uncall'd, them&s;elves advance</L>
<L>To that <HI>great work,</HI> have much more <HI>arrogance</HI></L>
<L>Then <HI>worth;</HI> and it is al&s;o ten to one,</L>
<L>They for them&s;elves, have &s;omething to be done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And la&s;tly, take good heed, that none get in</L>
<L>By your <HI>Elections,</HI> who have active bin</L>
<L>Again&s;t this <HI>State,</HI> till you, of them have had</L>
<L>Good proof, whereby &s;ecure you may be made:</L>
<L>For he that hath into &s;ubjection brought,</L>
<L>A <HI>Thief,</HI> who on the way, to rob him &s;ought,</L>
<L>And &s;traight way tru&s;ts him, with his <HI>&s;word</HI> and <HI>hor&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Takes not a very &s;afe, or prudent cour&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This being done, (as in preceding ages)</L>
<L>Let tho&s;e who are <HI>Elected</HI> have their wages</L>
<L>Well paid, and rendered proportionable</L>
<L>To what the times require, to make them able</L>
<L>To &s;erve their Country in the <HI>Parliament</HI></L>
<L>Without their private co&s;t or detriment:</L>
<L>For both our <HI>Lawes,</HI> and <HI>equity</HI> requires,</L>
<L>That <HI>Labourers</HI> &s;hould be allow'd their hires:</L>
<L>Yea, 'tis a kind of <HI>bribery,</HI> in tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who offer, without <HI>wages</HI> to be cho&s;e;</L>
<L>And <HI>Boroughs,</HI> which unable &s;eem to beare</L>
<L>That <HI>charge,</HI> not worth the repre&s;enting are.</L>
<L>Be&s;ide, their <HI>choice,</HI> is (for the mo&s;t part) made</L>
<L>By &s;ome <HI>Malignant Stewards;</HI> or, or'e aw'd</L>
<L>By mi&s;affected <HI>Landlords,</HI> to the wrong</L>
<L>Of what to them, with others doth belong:</L>
<L>And their <HI>objections</HI> are but <HI>cavillings,</HI></L>
<L>Who &s;hall alledge, that the&s;e <HI>e&s;t abli&s;hings</HI></L>
<L>Infringe their <HI>Antient Right:</HI> for, be it known,</L>
<L>The <HI>Commonwealth</HI> no <HI>priviledge</HI> can own</L>
<L>De&s;tructive to it <HI>&s;elf:</HI> much rather, we,</L>
<L>Who now, by <HI>Conque&s;t,</HI> teinve&s;ted be</L>
<PB N="58" REF="35">
<L>With what was lo&s;t, are bound to &s;ettle it,</L>
<L>Not as our foes wi&s;h, but as may befit</L>
<L>The pre&s;ent, and the future pre&s;ervation</L>
<L>Of <HI>&s;afety, peace,</HI> and <HI>freedome</HI> to this <HI>Nation.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Moreover, as upon the <HI>Hou&s;e of Peers,</HI></L>
<L>It was the cu&s;tome, in preceding years,</L>
<L>That there the <HI>Sages of the Law,</HI> attended;</L>
<L>To who&s;e debate &s;uch <HI>points</HI> were recommended,</L>
<L>As to the Law related; &s;o, let &s;ome</L>
<L>Selected be, and &s;ummoned to come</L>
<L>To whom each matter que&s;tioned relates,</L>
<L>To be advis'd withall, in their <HI>debates,</HI></L>
<L>As needfull it &s;hall &s;eem; whether the cau&s;e</L>
<L>In <HI>controver&s;ie</HI> &s;hall concern the <HI>Laws,</HI></L>
<L><HI>War, Merchandize,</HI> or what&s;oever may</L>
<L>Require their be&s;t experience on the day</L>
<L>Thereto a&s;&s;ign'd: that ev'ry work begun</L>
<L>May by it proper <HI>in&s;trument</HI> be done.</L>
<L>Which will prevent much <HI>doing,</HI> and <HI>undoing,</HI></L>
<L>And make <HI>now comers,</HI> in &s;hort time, as knowing,</L>
<L>As they that have &s;ate long, and fini&s;h more</L>
<L>In <HI>three weeks,</HI> then in <HI>three moneths</HI> heretofore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e <HI>outworks,</HI> will much &s;trengthen, and &s;ecure</L>
<L>The <HI>works within:</HI> yet that they may endure</L>
<L>All &s;ieges, underminings, and &s;caladoes,</L>
<L>Battries, a&s;&s;aults, and &s;tormings, with Granadoes,</L>
<L>By &s;oes without, and treacheries within,</L>
<L>To build a <HI>Cittadell,</HI> let us begin</L>
<L>Upon &s;ome <HI>Fundamentalls;</HI> and provide</L>
<L>They may for ever, unrepeal'd abide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let it inviolably be decreed,</L>
<L>That <HI>Cities, Shires,</HI> and <HI>Boroughs</HI> do proceed</L>
<L>Once ev'ry year, upon the time a&s;&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>(On penalty of being deeply fin'd)</L>
<PB N="59" REF="35">
<L>To make <HI>Elections;</HI> that we never may</L>
<L>For time to come, be headle&s;s for one day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let it be <HI>overla&s;ting bani&s;hment</HI></L>
<L>To him, who &s;hall to change this <HI>Government</HI></L>
<L>From being a <HI>Republike,</HI> motion make:</L>
<L>And to act further if he undertake,</L>
<L>Let it be death, with totall confi&s;cation</L>
<L>Of his <HI>e&s;tate,</HI> without commi&s;eration;</L>
<L>Unle&s;s the great Di&s;po&s;er of all things,</L>
<L>(Who, as he li&s;ts, &s;ets up and pulls down Kings)</L>
<L>Shall thereto by a conquering <HI>power</HI> compell;</L>
<L>And, not to do it then, were to rebell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whoever with the <HI>publike Trea&s;ury</HI></L>
<L>Shall &s;tand intru&s;ted; and doth knowingly</L>
<L>Defraud the <HI>Commonwealth;</HI> or &s;hall purloine,</L>
<L>(Whether it be in <HI>goods,</HI> or <HI>ready Coyne</HI>)</L>
<L>The worth of <HI>twenty ounces in pure plate,</HI></L>
<L>Let it be lo&s;s of <HI>life,</HI> and of <HI>e&s;tate.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whoever this <HI>Republike</HI> &s;hall betray</L>
<L>Maliciou&s;ly, or for advance or pay,</L>
<L>Re&s;igne his <HI>Tru&s;t;</HI> or cowardly give up</L>
<L>What he had means to keep, or likely hope;</L>
<L>Let it (when prov'd) be <HI>death without reprieving,</HI></L>
<L>Or any hope of temporall forgiving.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whoever &s;hall from any <HI>foraigne State,</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Prince,</HI> take pen&s;ion; or negotiate</L>
<L>With them, or with their <HI>Agents,</HI> when they are</L>
<L>With us in <HI>Treaties,</HI> or in open war,</L>
<L>In <HI>State affairs,</HI> unle&s;s the <HI>State</HI> gives leave;</L>
<L>Let him, without a <HI>pardon,</HI> death receive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Above a <HI>moneth</HI> together &s;uffer none</L>
<L>To &s;it hereafter in the <HI>Speakers</HI> throne,</L>
<L>On &s;ome great penalty: Becau&s;e thereby</L>
<L>Both <HI>publike wrongs,</HI> and <HI>private injuries</HI></L>
<PB N="60" REF="36">
<L>May be occa&s;ioned. Impo&s;e the like</L>
<L>On him that &s;hall ab&s;ent him&s;elf one week</L>
<L>From <HI>Parliament,</HI> without a good cau&s;e &s;hown;</L>
<L>Or, that without leave &s;hall depart the Town.</L>
<L>Let &s;ome <HI>appearance</HI> every day be made,</L>
<L>That this <HI>great Body</HI> never want a <HI>Head</HI></L>
<L>That's vi&s;ible; and to prevent what may,</L>
<L>Unthought upon, befall us in a day.</L>
<L>Yea, on the <HI>Sabboth,</HI> for an houre or two,</L>
<L>Convene; for, 'tis a <HI>Sabboth-work</HI> you do:</L>
<L>And <HI>Venice,</HI> hath by long experiment</L>
<L>Found, that this Caution may be pertinent;</L>
<L>Nor will it over-burthen&s;ome appear,</L>
<L>When they are to continue but one year.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let none in <HI>Parliament</HI> have toleration</L>
<L>To mention ought to their <HI>di&s;reputation,</HI></L>
<L>Who ab&s;ent are; except they undertake</L>
<L>Of what they &s;hall aver good proof to make,</L>
<L>On pain of an <HI>expul&s;ion;</HI> or, permit</L>
<L>An <HI>Intimation,</HI> likely to beget</L>
<L>A mi&s;conjecture, to the injury</L>
<L>Of him, that is not pre&s;ent to reply:</L>
<L>But let th' <HI>Accu&s;ers</HI> and their <HI>Accu&s;ations</HI></L>
<L>Be known, that tho&s;e may have due vindications</L>
<L>Who are traduc'd; For, no man &s;hould enjoy</L>
<L>A <HI>priviledge,</HI> his neighbour to de&s;troy.</L>
<L>Moreover, le&s;t the <HI>Parliament</HI> become</L>
<L>(By multiplying Suits) more burthen&s;ome</L>
<L>Then all tho&s;e other <HI>Courts,</HI> of who&s;e oppre&s;&s;ions</L>
<L>We have complain'd, (and render our conditions</L>
<L>Le&s;s curable) let it admit no Cau&s;e</L>
<L>But &s;uch as hath no remedy by Lawes</L>
<L>In force; or, for a <HI>non-fruition</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Iu&s;tice,</HI> by their <HI>partiall execution.</HI></L>
<PB N="61" REF="36">
<L>For, by removing of &s;uch <HI>grievances,</HI></L>
<L>And to provide again&s;t immergencies</L>
<L>Which may occurr (both in affairs <HI>abroad,</HI></L>
<L>And here at <HI>home</HI>) they will have &s;till their load.</L>
<L>If not: the being of a <HI>Parliament</HI></L>
<L>Thus con&s;tituted, doubtle&s;s, will prevent</L>
<L>So many mi&s;chiefs, that it will return</L>
<L>Large recompences for all charges born.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let it <HI>expul&s;ion</HI> be from thence, for ever,</L>
<L>With &s;ome great <HI>mulct,</HI> for any who&s;oever,</L>
<L>That, as a <HI>Member</HI> of the <HI>Parliament,</HI></L>
<L>Shall &s;it two years together; yea, though &s;ent.</L>
<L>And, let no <HI>Lawyers</HI> practi&s;e for a Fee,</L>
<L>Or plead, whil'&s;t of the <HI>Parliament</HI> they be:</L>
<L>Or any, who there &s;iteth as a <HI>Peer,</HI></L>
<L>Be <HI>Iudge</HI> of any <HI>&s;upreme Court</HI> that yeer;</L>
<L>Or, during that <HI>imployment,</HI> execute</L>
<L>A Place, permitting not a <HI>Substitute;</HI></L>
<L>That, in <HI>Appeals,</HI> none may infringe the <HI>Lawes,</HI></L>
<L>By being <HI>Iudge</HI> and <HI>Partie</HI> in one Cau&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, that to all men, <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> may be done,</L>
<L>Among your <HI>Fundamentalls</HI> make this <HI>one;</HI></L>
<L>That what&s;oever &s;hall be taken from</L>
<L><HI>One, few,</HI> or <HI>many</HI> (through all times to come)</L>
<L>In <HI>publike wants,</HI> and <HI>dangers,</HI> be repaid</L>
<L>By <HI>equall Taxes,</HI> generally laid:</L>
<L>And, that they &s;hall not <HI>make,</HI> or <HI>abrogate</HI></L>
<L>A <HI>Law,</HI> dimini&s;hing one mans e&s;tate</L>
<L>More then anothers, without recompence,</L>
<L>On what&s;oe're occa&s;ion or pretence.</L>
<L>Yea, let all mens e&s;tates reduced be</L>
<L>To le&s;&s;e then <HI>forty &s;hillings, yearly Fee,</HI></L>
<L>Rather then <HI>friend</HI> or <HI>foe,</HI> &s;hould ju&s;tly &s;ay,</L>
<L>The <HI>publike faith</HI> were broken, any way.</L>
<PB N="62" REF="37">
<L>Which would inrich us, and <HI>innoble</HI> more</L>
<L>Then, if our <HI>hills of chalk,</HI> were <HI>&s;ilver o're;</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>&s;and</HI> pure <HI>gold;</HI> our <HI>pebles, pearls</HI> of <HI>price,</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>fields</HI> as fruitfull as old <HI>Paradi&s;e;</HI></L>
<L>And, ev'ry <HI>&s;on,</HI> which forth each <HI>mother</HI> brings,</L>
<L>As <HI>Prince,</HI> or <HI>Lord,</HI> and all their Fathers <HI>Kings.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then to prevent, the drawing tho&s;e together,</L>
<L>Who, for <HI>by-ends,</HI> would fortifie each other;</L>
<L>Let him that place in <HI>Parl'ament</HI> &s;upplies,</L>
<L>Who &s;hall by <HI>letter, word,</HI> or otherwi&s;e,</L>
<L>Either <HI>contrive, &s;olicite,</HI> or <HI>propo&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Another, during that time, to be cho&s;e,</L>
<L>Be from his <HI>Tru&s;t,</HI> exiled with di&s;grace,</L>
<L>Never to be admitted, to that place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, that all <HI>Fundamentalls</HI> ratifi'd</L>
<L>In <HI>Parl'ament,</HI> for ever may abide</L>
<L>Inviolated; let no man be &s;ent</L>
<L>A <HI>City, Town,</HI> or <HI>Shire,</HI> to repre&s;ent,</L>
<L>Till by <HI>Indenture,</HI> under hand and &s;eal,</L>
<L>He &s;tand ingaged to the <HI>Common-weal,</HI></L>
<L>And his <HI>Electors,</HI> that by no endeavour,</L>
<L>He &s;hall <HI>repeal,</HI> or any way for ever</L>
<L>Weaken the&s;e <HI>Fundamentalls;</HI> but a&s;&s;ay,</L>
<L>At all times, to inlarge them what he may:</L>
<L>For, <HI>Parl'aments</HI> (as heretofore our <HI>Kings</HI>)</L>
<L>Are but <HI>Tru&s;tees;</HI> and therefore in &s;uch things,</L>
<L>As to the publike damage may redound,</L>
<L>As well as they, &s;hold Act within &s;ome bound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By the&s;e <HI>provi&s;ions,</HI> (with &s;ome other &s;uch</L>
<L>Made <HI>Fundamentalls,</HI> we might very much</L>
<L>Advantage this <HI>Republike;</HI> and as far</L>
<L>As <HI>humane indu&s;tries</HI> enabled are,</L>
<L>(To promi&s;e <HI>&s;afety and e&s;tabli&s;hment</HI>)</L>
<L>Secure from change the <HI>pre&s;ent Government,</HI></L>
<PB N="63" REF="37">
<L>Till men may dry-&s;hod walk upon the &s;and,</L>
<L>From <HI>Deal,</HI> and <HI>Dover,</HI> Cliffs to <HI>Callis</HI> &s;trand;</L>
<L>Or, <HI>Penmin Maure,</HI> be &s;et on <HI>Snow-down</HI> hills,</L>
<L>And, <HI>Time</HI> unto their <HI>&s;prings,</HI> turns back the <HI>rills.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>This,</HI> would be like the <HI>river,</HI> wherewithall</L>
<L>The <HI>Tyrant Queller,</HI> cleans'd th' <HI>Augean &s;tall,</HI></L>
<L>(As <HI>Poets</HI> faign) and wa&s;h away that &s;oil,</L>
<L>And bloud, and filth, which doth our beauty &s;poil.</L>
<L>By <HI>the&s;e means,</HI> we might both in one, contrive</L>
<L>A true <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;ive Repre&s;entative,</HI></L>
<L>Compleated in a &s;afe <HI>e&s;tabli&s;hment,</HI></L>
<L>For ever, of the &s;elf-&s;ame <HI>Parl'ament,</HI></L>
<L>Producing all their ju&s;t de&s;ires together,</L>
<L>Who &s;eek the <HI>one,</HI> or who de&s;ire the <HI>other;</HI></L>
<L>And with prevention of all harms, that may</L>
<L>Be fear'd, by th' one or other way.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By <HI>the&s;e means,</HI> we &s;hall never be without</L>
<L>A <HI>Supreme power,</HI> or live in any doubt</L>
<L>Of <HI>harmfull change,</HI> if wi&s;ely we pur&s;ue</L>
<L>This <HI>cour&s;e;</HI> and to <HI>our &s;elves</HI> continue true.</L>
<L>By <HI>the&s;e means,</HI> there will &s;till be an <HI>appearance</HI></L>
<L>Sufficient, to keep up a per&s;everance,</L>
<L>In all <HI>great undertakings,</HI> with due order,</L>
<L>And with &s;uch quick di&s;patch, the &s;uits to further</L>
<L>Of men oppre&s;t; that, they may hope to &s;ee</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>plaints</HI> determin'd, which yet endle&s;s be;</L>
<L>And never will have end, till <HI>wit</HI> or <HI>force,</HI></L>
<L>Reduce us unto this, or &s;ome &s;uch <HI>cour&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By <HI>this expedient,</HI> they that are in <HI>place</HI></L>
<L>At pre&s;ent, may re&s;ign without <HI>di&s;grace</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Tru&s;t</HI> they have, to take a while their ea&s;e,</L>
<L>(Or follow their affairs, as they &s;hall plea&s;e)</L>
<L>And after <HI>one year,</HI> back perhaps return</L>
<L>To rea&s;&s;ume the burthens they have born.</L>
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<L>Hereby a likely means will be contriv'd</L>
<L>Of that <HI>&s;ecurity,</HI> which is deriv'd</L>
<L>From <HI>many Coun&s;ellors:</HI> and, di&s;tribution</L>
<L>Of <HI>burthens,</HI> will make ea&s;ie execution;</L>
<L>More quick, yea, and more cheap di&s;patches too,</L>
<L>For tho&s;e, who &s;hall have ought with them to do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By <HI>the&s;e means,</HI> if, a <HI>worthle&s;&s;e Member</HI> come</L>
<L>Among our <HI>Worthies,</HI> to &s;upply a room,</L>
<L>His heart may changed be; whereas, now, they</L>
<L>Who came in hone&s;t, are oft drawn away</L>
<L>From their fir&s;t <HI>Principles,</HI> with them to clo&s;e,</L>
<L>Who, mean to gain, what e're the <HI>Publike</HI> lo&s;e:</L>
<L>Or, at the wor&s;t, he mu&s;t from thence be gone</L>
<L>Before much <HI>mi&s;chief,</HI> can by him be done.</L>
<L>And, &s;uch as do confederate and plot</L>
<L>That, for them&s;elves, advantage may be got,</L>
<L>(Though to their <HI>Countryes</HI> lo&s;s, and <HI>neighbors</HI> wrong)</L>
<L>Shall want the <HI>time</HI> and <HI>means,</HI> which doth belong</L>
<L>To &s;uch <HI>contrivements,</HI> as are frequent now,</L>
<L>When, mo&s;t, each others <HI>minds,</HI> and <HI>intere&s;ts</HI> know:</L>
<L>For, by <HI>new Parties,</HI> monethly, coming in,</L>
<L>They'l <HI>break,</HI> as fa&s;t as they to <HI>knit</HI> begin;</L>
<L>And, <HI>Gins,</HI> which heretofore effects have took</L>
<L>By <HI>kindred</HI> and <HI>alliance,</HI> will be <HI>broke.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By <HI>the&s;e means,</HI> they, who do command, to day,</L>
<L>Shall learn again to <HI>morrow,</HI> to <HI>obey.</HI></L>
<L>Many, &s;hall be encourag'd to enable</L>
<L>Them&s;elves, in publike, to be &s;erviceable;</L>
<L>And, in few years, &s;ome thou&s;ands more then now,</L>
<L>The <HI>common intere&s;t,</HI> will learn to know;</L>
<L>And, how they may advance it, when they come</L>
<L>From that <HI>grand School,</HI> to live again, at home;</L>
<L>And, think them&s;elves, obliged, ev'ry where,</L>
<L>To further it, as well as &s;itting there.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>By <HI>this means,</HI> ev'ry man, within his <HI>Orb</HI></L>
<L>Shall be re&s;train'd; and none have power to curb</L>
<L><HI>Supreme authority;</HI> or, to a&s;pire</L>
<L>By his ambition to a <HI>Station</HI> higher</L>
<L>Then &s;hall be <HI>&s;afe</HI> to all, and judged fit</L>
<L>For this <HI>free State,</HI> with prudence to admit:</L>
<L>Nor &s;hall the <HI>da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ing&s;t tyrant</HI> in the land</L>
<L>Pre&s;ume to move a <HI>tongu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> or lift a <HI>hand</HI></L>
<L>Again&s;t that power; o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>plot, vent,</HI> or <HI>concceal</HI></L>
<L>Ought which may damnifie this <HI>Common-weal.</HI></L>
<L>Yea, by this <HI>means,</HI> we calmly &s;hall reduce</L>
<L>The <HI>Parl'ament,</HI> unto it genuine u&s;e,</L>
<L>Without advent'ring what may intervene</L>
<L>By <HI>Intervalls;</HI> and, what hath feared been</L>
<L>(Not without cau&s;e) by hazarding to call</L>
<L>A <HI>new one;</HI> or, by an <HI>additionall</HI></L>
<L><HI>Supply</HI> to <HI>this;</HI> as now <HI>affairs</HI> relate</L>
<L>To home <HI>de&s;igns,</HI> and <HI>our next neighbring State:</HI></L>
<L>But, if we fail in any <HI>circum&s;tance,</HI></L>
<L>Here mentioned, we never &s;hall advance</L>
<L>The <HI>Publike intere&s;t</HI> to that effect,</L>
<L>Which by this <HI>Parliament</HI> we might expect;</L>
<L>Nor &s;cape that <HI>tyranny,</HI> which is de&s;ign'd</L>
<L>By <HI>tho&s;e,</HI> who are contrarily inclin'd:</L>
<L>For, they that would be <HI>tyrants</HI> (knowing tho&s;e</L>
<L>Who did the <HI>Regall tyranny</HI> oppo&s;e</L>
<L>Still zealous, for the <HI>peoples liberty</HI>)</L>
<L>Will to effect their purpo&s;es comply</L>
<L>With any party; and, then, by <HI>di&s;placing,</HI></L>
<L>By <HI>di&s;enabling,</HI> or els by <HI>di&s;gracing</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>well-affected,</HI> at la&s;t, compa&s;&s;e that</L>
<L>Which is by them, in &s;ecret almed at,</L>
<L>(Unle&s;&s;e prevented) and involve us more</L>
<L>In <HI>&s;ervile &s;laveries,</HI> then heretofore.</L>
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<L>For, doubtle&s;s, mo&s;t of tho&s;e who did befriend</L>
<L>The tyranny of <HI>Kings,</HI> will to that end</L>
<L>Adhere to the&s;e, in hope by doing thus,</L>
<L>To be reveng'd at la&s;t, on <HI>them</HI> and <HI>us.</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e are no &s;uch Propo&s;alls, as may hatch</L>
<L>A <HI>Cocatrice;</HI> or, be abus'd to catch</L>
<L>A <HI>private intere&s;t.</HI> No <HI>impo&s;tures</HI> are</L>
<L>Beneath a fair pretence ob&s;cured here:</L>
<L>Nor doth their <HI>Author</HI> act the <HI>Mountebank</HI></L>
<L>To any end: For, he expects not thank</L>
<L>For ought by him de&s;ign'd; nor, cares for more</L>
<L>But to di&s;charge the debt upon his &s;core;</L>
<L>And (if occa&s;ion be) to find a <HI>gap,</HI></L>
<L>Through which, without a <HI>mi&s;chief,</HI> he may &s;cape.</L>
<L>Which, if he do, he will confe&s;s, 'tis more</L>
<L>Then ever he could boa&s;t of heretofore;</L>
<L>Or, any other, who thus interrupted</L>
<L>The <HI>wilfull practi&s;e</HI> of a <HI>power corrupted,</HI></L>
<L>Unle&s;s that GOD, whom nothing can with&s;tand,</L>
<L>Secur'd him, by an over-ruling hand;</L>
<L>Or, by a miracle did change their heart,</L>
<L>As when he did great <HI>Nineveh</HI> convert.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This is the &s;um of that, which I remember</L>
<L>Kept me awake, &s;ome nights of this <HI>November,</HI></L>
<L>When my <HI>affairs,</HI> which then at hazard lay,</L>
<L>Had tir'd in vain my body all the day;</L>
<L>For, my <HI>nece&s;&s;ities</HI> requir'd the one,</L>
<L>My <HI>con&s;cience</HI> cry'd, the t'other mu&s;t be done;</L>
<L>And, if, now ought the wor&s;e thereby I fare,</L>
<L>My <HI>lot,</HI> as I am able, I will bear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Much more was repre&s;ented to my view,</L>
<L>Which I am unprepar'd (as yet) to <HI>&s;hew,</HI></L>
<L>And you to hear: but, if I had a <HI>pen</HI></L>
<L>As acceptable, as &s;ome other men,</L>
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<L>(And undi&s;turb'd) it might produce perchance,</L>
<L>That, which the <HI>Publike weal,</HI> might much advance:</L>
<L>Or, had I but a volubility</L>
<L>Of <HI>tongue,</HI> to help my <HI>fluid</HI> memory;</L>
<L>Or, dur&s;t declare my <HI>thoughts,</HI> e're them I &s;ee</L>
<L>Array'd in <HI>words,</HI> that, weigh'd they fir&s;t might be:</L>
<L>Yea, could I <HI>&s;peak,</HI> as many now can do,</L>
<L>More in <HI>one hour,</HI> then they e're thought in <HI>two,</HI></L>
<L>(Or, then I can be under&s;tood in <HI>three</HI>)</L>
<L>Much more e&s;teem'd would my <HI>Propo&s;alls</HI> be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here I had fixt, but, that there comes to mind</L>
<L>A <HI>&s;upplement,</HI> remaining yet behind,</L>
<L>Of &s;omwhat repre&s;ented, as relating</L>
<L>Unto this <HI>Parliaments</HI> accommodating,</L>
<L>With due <HI>conveniences;</HI> and with &s;upply</L>
<L>Of things pertaining to the <HI>Majesty,</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Supreme Senates:</HI> For, though, doubtle&s;s, they</L>
<L>Are be&s;t adorned, who them&s;elves array</L>
<L>With <HI>holine&s;s;</HI> though, they have mo&s;t renown</L>
<L>When <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> and <HI>mercy,</HI> is their Crown:</L>
<L>And, though the dignity of <HI>Governments,</HI></L>
<L>Con&s;i&s;teth not in outward <HI>ornaments,</HI></L>
<L>Or, neat <HI>accommodations;</HI> yet, the <HI>wi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Having regard to mans infirmities,</L>
<L>Did in all ages, by their joynt con&s;ents,</L>
<L>Add to <HI>e&s;&s;entiall things,</HI> &s;uch <HI>accidents</HI></L>
<L>As might to tho&s;e men, make their worth appear,</L>
<L>Who could not &s;ee, what in <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> they were:</L>
<L>And, that they who di&s;cern'd it, might not find</L>
<L><HI>Di&s;couragements,</HI> in that which is <HI>injoyn'd,</HI></L>
<L>To which end, we pre&s;cribe unto the &s;ick,</L>
<L>A <HI>gilded pill,</HI> and trim with <HI>Rethorick,</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>Arguments,</HI> thereby to palliate</L>
<L>What, we to others would in&s;inuate.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>And, to this end, were tipifi'd to me,</L>
<L><HI>Some things,</HI> which will, perhaps, hereafter be,</L>
<L>Mark them, if they be worth your heed: if not,</L>
<L>Let them be pa&s;&s;ed over, as forgot.</L>
<L>Methought, I &s;aw WHITEHALL new model'd out;</L>
<L>With <HI>Tow'rs</HI> adorn'd, with <HI>&s;trong walls</HI> fenc'd about;</L>
<L>With <HI>buildings,</HI> having much <HI>variety</HI></L>
<L>Contriv'd into a neat <HI>conformity</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>fair a&s;pect,</HI> and duly beautifi'd</L>
<L>With <HI>Gardens, walks,</HI> and with what els, be&s;ide,</L>
<L>Did render it magnificently fit</L>
<L>For their abode, who did inhabit it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;ide the <HI>Fabricks,</HI> de&s;tined unto</L>
<L>Meer <HI>publike u&s;e,</HI> and <HI>common works</HI> to do;</L>
<L>As, in the <HI>Firmaments</HI> wide Orb, there are</L>
<L><HI>Twelve man&s;ions;</HI> &s;o, <HI>twelve &s;tructures,</HI> &s;aw I there,</L>
<L>In each of which (as in the <HI>Zodiake,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>twelve cele&s;tial &s;igns,</HI> their Stations take)</L>
<L>The <HI>Senators,</HI> who <HI>moneth by moneth,</HI> vvere cho&s;e,</L>
<L>Had their di&s;tinct abodes; each one of tho&s;e</L>
<L>In <HI>lodgings,</HI> by him&s;elf; yet, altogether</L>
<L>In one <HI>pile,</HI> vvho, in one <HI>moneth</HI> vvere &s;ent thither:</L>
<L>That, for conveniency they might be neer</L>
<L>On all occa&s;ions; and, that ev'ry <HI>Shire,</HI></L>
<L>Might thereby find the ea&s;ier <HI>addre&s;&s;es,</HI></L>
<L>And, quick di&s;patches in their bu&s;ine&s;&s;es.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>con&s;tant Table,</HI> of one meal a day,</L>
<L>Was there prepared for a frugall pay,</L>
<L>That none might be compelled to &s;tray forth</L>
<L>To places unbe&s;eeming men of vvorth:</L>
<L>And, all things pertinent to pre&s;ervation</L>
<L>Of <HI>health,</HI> vvith ev'ry fit accommodation,</L>
<L>Was there contrived, &s;o, as that they might</L>
<L>Pur&s;ue the <HI>Publike &s;ervice,</HI> vvith delight.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>No famliy, was licens'd there, to ho&s;t;</L>
<L>No, not a <HI>wife</HI> (except a week, at mo&s;t,</L>
<L>In gue&s;t-wi&s;e) le&s;t the <HI>publike &s;ervices</HI></L>
<L>Might be di&s;turb'd by hou&s;hold bu&s;ine&s;&s;es:</L>
<L>Or, lea&s;t the drudgeries, or na&s;tine&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Occa&s;ion'd by a numerous acce&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Of children, &s;ervants, and their vi&s;iters,</L>
<L>Might &s;pread di&s;ea&s;es, in infectious years:</L>
<L>And le&s;t among them, &s;ome, through want of grace,</L>
<L>Might bring an <HI>evell name</HI> upon that place.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nothing uncomely, or di&s;order'd there</L>
<L>Could I behold; no noy&s;es did I hear,</L>
<L>Or &s;uch loud clamors, as have oft been heard,</L>
<L>Among the rude <HI>Jncommers,</HI> and the <HI>guard;</HI></L>
<L>But, &s;uch an <HI>lawfull &s;ilence,</HI> as if there</L>
<L>The Turks <HI>Grand Signior,</HI> always pre&s;ent were</L>
<L>By <HI>Mutes</HI> attended. To offend the eye,</L>
<L>Or <HI>&s;mell,</HI> no <HI>dung,</HI> or <HI>&s;inks,</HI> did open lye.</L>
<L>I &s;aw not thee, a de&s;picable &s;hed;</L>
<L>No <HI>Coach hous'd</HI> there, or any <HI>Coach hor&s;e</HI> fed:</L>
<L>No <HI>little children</HI> in the <HI>garden</HI> &s;prawling,</L>
<L>Or, in the <HI>Galleries,</HI> or <HI>Chambers</HI> yawling:</L>
<L>No <HI>Bakers Boy</HI> went tooting of his horn:</L>
<L>No <HI>Milk pails</HI> there, from place to place were born,</L>
<L>As in tho&s;e <HI>Courts,</HI> and <HI>Allies</HI> which we &s;ee</L>
<L>Pe&s;ter'd with <HI>Inmates,</HI> and <HI>poor lodgers be:</HI></L>
<L>Nor was there born <HI>through any pa&s;&s;age</HI> there,</L>
<L>(Save &s;uch, as out of <HI>common concour&s;e</HI> were)</L>
<L>Un&s;cemly burthens, or, ought els permitted</L>
<L>But what the honor of the place befitted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>Guard</HI> was needle&s;&s;e then for their defence,</L>
<L>(Since, <HI>ju&s;tice, mercy,</HI> and true <HI>innocence,</HI></L>
<L>Are <HI>guard</HI> enough, and keep more &s;afe, by far,</L>
<L>Then if an armed <HI>Phalanx</HI> doubled were)</L>
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<L>They had true peace within; and through the land</L>
<L>No man again&s;t them, dur&s;t to lift a <HI>hand;</HI></L>
<L>But, ev'ry one was ready to attend them,</L>
<L>And with their <HI>lives,</HI> as their <HI>life,</HI> to defend them.</L>
<L>Yet, for <HI>magnificency,</HI> and to further</L>
<L>The pre&s;ervation of <HI>re&s;pect</HI> and <HI>order,</HI></L>
<L>In times of <HI>concour&s;e;</HI> and that no <HI>addre&s;s</HI></L>
<L>Be made, but with all due <HI>re&s;pectivene&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>They had an <HI>able Band</HI> of men &s;elected</L>
<L>Out from among tho&s;e per&s;ons <HI>well-affected,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e faith and <HI>valour</HI> had been well approved</L>
<L>In <HI>publike &s;ervices;</HI> who, had unmoved</L>
<L>Stood firm in trialls, and who&s;e conver&s;ation</L>
<L>Had gained them an hone&s;t <HI>reputation;</HI></L>
<L>And the&s;e, <HI>arm'd, govern'd, decently array'd</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>liveries alike,</HI> and <HI>duly paid,</HI></L>
<L>Appear'd to give attendance altogether</L>
<L>When <HI>Princes,</HI> or <HI>Amba&s;&s;adors</HI> came thither:</L>
<L>And, in their <HI>turns,</HI> at other times, to do,</L>
<L>That <HI>&s;ervice,</HI> which they were injoyn'd unto.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Rhen, fora&s;much, as <HI>outward habits</HI> draw</L>
<L>Re&s;pect unto mens per&s;ons, there, I &s;aw</L>
<L>That cu&s;tome, which all <HI>Senators</HI> did hold</L>
<L>In &s;trict ob&s;ervance, through mo&s;t times of old,</L>
<L>The <HI>Knights</HI> and <HI>Burge&s;&s;es</HI> who repre&s;ent</L>
<L>The <HI>Nation,</HI> entred not the <HI>parliament</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>common habits</HI> only; but, each one</L>
<L>A <HI>robe.</HI> or <HI>upper garment,</HI> did put on</L>
<L>Peculiar to that <HI>Semate,</HI> differing neither</L>
<L>In <HI>fa&s;hion, &s;tuffe,</HI> or <HI>colour</HI> from each other.</L>
<L>To &s;ignifie (as I conceive) thereby</L>
<L>Their <HI>brother-hood,</HI> and their <HI>equality;</HI></L>
<L>And that, they being thereby <HI>differenced</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>vulgar per&s;ons,</HI> might be honored</L>
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<L>According to their <HI>place,</HI> and known among,</L>
<L>And by the people, as they pa&s;t along</L>
<L>Into the <HI>Senate;</HI> or, as to and fro,</L>
<L>from place to place, on their affairs they go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Moreover, when that they had laid a&s;ide</L>
<L>Their <HI>Senate robes,</HI> about their necks I &s;pi'd</L>
<L>A <HI>golden Wreath,</HI> which thereat pendent had</L>
<L>A <HI>Tablet,</HI> whereon was enamelled,</L>
<L>The <HI>Briti&s;h I&s;les,</HI> within the <HI>Ocean</HI> plac't;</L>
<L>And with a Verge of curled waves embrac't:</L>
<L>Which was be&s;town upon them for a badge</L>
<L>of <HI>honor,</HI> and likewi&s;e to priviledge</L>
<L>Their <HI>per&s;ons,</HI> where&s;oe're they were unknown;</L>
<L>That <HI>due re&s;pect</HI> might ev'ry where be &s;hown,</L>
<L>And no <HI>affronts</HI> receiv'd. The&s;e <HI>badges</HI> were</L>
<L>From man to man, (and &s;till from year to year)</L>
<L>Re&s;ign'd to their <HI>Succe&s;&s;ors,</HI> to be born</L>
<L>By tho&s;e whom their <HI>Electors</HI> &s;hould return.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Much more I &s;aw, which &s;hould I here relate,</L>
<L>Would yet appear, things worthy laughing at;</L>
<L>(As the&s;e declar'd, already do to &s;ome)</L>
<L>But, when the daies of their admittance come,</L>
<L>(Which I believe draw neer) it will be found</L>
<L>That the&s;e <HI>Previ&s;ions</HI> had &s;ome likely ground;</L>
<L>And that the <HI>heart,</HI> from whence all this did flow</L>
<L><HI>Meant</HI> well to you, though the&s;e things prove not &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hear me with patience, but a few words more,</L>
<L>And, to their freedome, I'le your ears re&s;tore.</L>
<L>As <HI>country folks,</HI> to keep out <HI>Witches,</HI> do</L>
<L>within the <HI>thre&s;hold,</HI> nail a <HI>hor&s;es &s;hoe,</HI></L>
<L>So did I, at the <HI>fore-door</HI> of this <HI>piece,</HI></L>
<L>In&s;ert a <HI>charm,</HI> to keep out <HI>prejudice:</HI></L>
<L>And, now, if &s;ome way els, it in be brought,</L>
<L>That, at the <HI>Back-door,</HI> I may thru&s;t it out,</L>
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<L>I'le fix a <HI>Si quis,</HI> (or it may be mo)</L>
<L>Upon the <HI>Po&s;tern Gate,</HI> before I go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If any think the <HI>po&s;ture</HI> we are in</L>
<L>Will &s;till as pro&s;perous be, as it hath been,</L>
<L>Or, that GOD will this <HI>Nation</HI> &s;till deliver</L>
<L>By <HI>miracles,</HI> although we &s;hall per&s;ever,</L>
<L>In <HI>high pro&s;umptions,</HI> and <HI>&s;upreme neglect</HI></L>
<L>Of that <HI>compliance,</HI> which he doth expect;</L>
<L>They greatly are deceiv'd: For, know, the end</L>
<L>Of mo&s;t things, on <HI>contingence</HI> doth depend.</L>
<L>We of this <HI>Nation,</HI> having walk'd upon</L>
<L>The <HI>Pythagorean</HI> Y or, <HI>Yp&s;ilon</HI></L>
<L>Are come unto the foot thereof, <HI>this day,</HI></L>
<L>Where lies before our face a <HI>double way,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>one</HI> of them directeth us unto</L>
<L><HI>Pro&s;perity;</HI> the <HI>other</HI> to our <HI>woe:</HI></L>
<L>On this hand, <HI>Bli&s;s,</HI> on that hand, <HI>Cur&s;es lie;</HI></L>
<L>Proceed <HI>this way,</HI> and live; <HI>go that,</HI> and <HI>die.</HI></L>
<L>Ev'n <HI>Davids</HI> temp'rall Kingdom, (though there had</L>
<L>Large promi&s;es, concerning it, been made)</L>
<L>Was on his heirs intail'd, for their fruition,</L>
<L>Not ab&s;olutely, but upon <HI>condition;</HI></L>
<L>Which, being broken; all th' <HI>externall power</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>glory</HI> of it vani&s;ht; &s;o &s;hall our.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Moreover, <HI>if that any</HI> &s;hall believe</L>
<L>Our <HI>hazards</HI> are far le&s;s then I conceive;</L>
<L>Let them not tru&s;t to &s;uch a <HI>dream</HI> as that,</L>
<L>Le&s;t they di&s;cover, when it is too late,</L>
<L>The <HI>dangers</HI> threatning us: For, I have been</L>
<L>Inform'd aright, what perills we are in.</L>
<L>And, whereas, of tho&s;e things which pa&s;&s;ed by</L>
<L>From time to time, I &s;ought to &s;atisfie</L>
<L>My <HI>private knowledge</HI> only, (that I might</L>
<L>A&s;&s;ured be I had ob&s;erv'd aright)</L>
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<L>If I had thereby gathe'rd proofs, to &s;how</L>
<L>To other men, the truth of what I know,</L>
<L>I &s;hould of &s;uch things demon&s;tration give,</L>
<L>As few &s;u&s;pect, and fewer would believe;</L>
<L>And you would &s;ee, that we are in a cour&s;e</L>
<L>Like his, who in a dark night rode his hor&s;e</L>
<L>O're <HI>Chepstow bridge,</HI> upon a &s;ingle board,</L>
<L>When lowd to him, the <HI>dreadfull waters</HI> roar'd,</L>
<L>(Beneath the broken arch) and &s;eem'd to &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>Oh fool! take heed, ther's danger in the way.</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ome, perhaps, if they a&s;&s;ured were</L>
<L>What <HI>hazzards</HI> they have pa&s;t, would die through fear,</L>
<L>As it is &s;aid he did, when he had &s;ight,</L>
<L>Next <HI>morn,</HI> of what he &s;caped <HI>over-night.</HI></L>
<L>We think perhaps, we all this while have been</L>
<L>Upon as plain firm ground as <HI>Richmond-green,</HI></L>
<L>Or in a <HI>Cour&s;e,</HI> wherein as &s;afe we run</L>
<L>As on the race at <HI>Bau&s;ted-downs</HI> at noon;</L>
<L>When we are rather dancing o're the tops</L>
<L>Of tottering <HI>pinacles,</HI> on <HI>rotten roper,</HI></L>
<L>Where, but that we by providence are kept,</L>
<L>We down had fell, at every Stride we &s;tept.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet, for the mo&s;t part, every <HI>lo&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>&s;treight</HI></L>
<L>Which we are in, makes us but lay more weight</L>
<L>Upon the weak; and each <HI>Deliverance</HI></L>
<L>Doth but increa&s;e our <HI>pride</HI> and <HI>arrogance.</HI></L>
<L>As if we were re&s;olved, without heed</L>
<L>of <HI>judgments,</HI> or of <HI>mercies,</HI> to proceed,</L>
<L>Untill <HI>confu&s;ion</HI> &s;hould compell us to</L>
<L>What we might <HI>orderly,</HI> and <HI>timely</HI> do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>La&s;tly, <HI>if any</HI> &s;hall be pleas'd to &s;ay,</L>
<L>Or dream (as peradventure many may)</L>
<L>That, with <HI>affairs</HI> I intermeddle here</L>
<L>Which pertinent to my <HI>Superiors</HI> are,</L>
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<L>And not to me: To all the&s;e <HI>be it known,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>bu&s;ine&s;&s;e</HI> which I treat of is mine <HI>own.</HI></L>
<L>I claim, in this <HI>Republike,</HI> with the be&s;t,</L>
<L>A <HI>&s;hare,</HI> proportion'd to my <HI>interest;</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>freedome,</HI> boldly to expre&s;&s;e my mind</L>
<L>As often as I ju&s;t occa&s;ion find.</L>
<L>the <HI>common liberty,</HI> and <HI>common peace</HI></L>
<L>Are truly <HI>mine,</HI> and no mans, more, or le&s;s:</L>
<L>I <HI>fought</HI> for't, and I <HI>pay</HI> for't, thrice my <HI>&s;hare,</HI></L>
<L>According to the <HI>part,</HI> which many beare.</L>
<L>My <HI>Countries</HI> wrong is <HI>mine;</HI> her grief my &s;orrow,</L>
<L>And therefore they that wound her thru&s;t me thorow.</L>
<L>They, who her <HI>wealth</HI> or <HI>honor</HI> fool away,</L>
<L>Fool me, when in that kind the fools they play:</L>
<L>And, therefore they, who thereto <HI>Traytors</HI> be,</L>
<L>Are therein al&s;o <HI>Traytors</HI> unto me;</L>
<L>And no man can without apparent wrong</L>
<L>Re&s;traint impo&s;e upon my <HI>pen,</HI> or <HI>tongue,</HI></L>
<L>In pleading of her <HI>cau&s;e;</HI> nor will I fear</L>
<L>To act my <HI>own work</HI> in my proper <HI>&s;phere.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, though I have not power to make a <HI>Law,</HI></L>
<L>Or rai&s;e an <HI>Armie</HI> which can keep in awe</L>
<L>Her <HI>private enemies,</HI> and <HI>open foes;</HI></L>
<L>Yet, I have <HI>charms</HI> equivalent to tho&s;e,</L>
<L>In &s;ome re&s;pects; which operate un&s;een</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>ends,</HI> whereto they have intended been;</L>
<L>And will have due <HI>effects,</HI> in their de&s;pight</L>
<L>Who &s;eek to trample on the <HI>common Right.</HI></L>
<L>In this a&s;&s;urance, here I'le add a clo&s;e,</L>
<L>To this, and leave th'event to GOD'S di&s;po&s;e;</L>
<L>Who, if we &s;hall neglect (a few weeks more)</L>
<L><HI>Good coun&s;ell,</HI> as we have done heretofore,</L>
<L>Will break down that, which might pre&s;erv'd have bin,</L>
<L>And, on another <HI>Ba&s;e</HI> his <HI>work</HI> begin.</L>
</LG>
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