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A89187	Mrs. Parliament her invitation of Mrs. London, to a Thankesgiving dinner. For the great and mighty victorie, which Mr. Horton obtained over Major Powell in Wales. Their discourse, desires, designes, as you may heare from their own mouthes. Munday 29 of May, in the eight yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne Lady Parliament. ...	Mercurius Melancholicus, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing M2283; Thomason E446_7; ESTC R14149	4,075	11

Mrs PARLIAMENT Her Invitation of M rs LONDON TO A Thankesgiving Dinner For the great and mighty Victorie which Mr. Horton obtained over Major Powell in Wales Their Discourse Desires Designes as you may heare from their owne mouthes Munday 29 of May in the eight yeare of the Reign● of our soveraigne Lady Parliament Mrs. PARLIAMENT her Invitation to Mrs. LONDON Deare Sister know this is the Day On which wee ought to Feast and Pray Because the Welsh-men wee did slay the cleane contrary way Now shortly wee must Pray ag●n Because wee kill'd the Surrey men Who did assault us you know when the cleane contrary way By Mrs. Truth principall Secretary in ordinary protempore to Mrs. Parliament Printed in the year 1648. Mrs. PARLAMEENT her Invitation OF Mrs. LONDON to a Thanksgiving Dinner FOR The great and mighty Victory which Mr. Horton obtayned over Major Powell in Wales By Mercurius Melancholicus Enter Mrs. London and Mrs. Common-Councell Mrs. London NOW our good Lord be thanked for this great Victory which the Righteous under the Command of that holy Saint Morton have obtained over the wicked under the Command of those Reprobates Poyer Powell and Langhorne Mrs. Com. Couns 'T was a happie Providence my dear Sister and much to be admired amongst the Saints for this will prove the animation of our owne party and the discouraging of our enemies those pagan Cavaliers who now begin to take armes and to fall foule on the people of the Lord. Mrs. Lond. Very true Sister who would have thought of this new distemper or that our honourable Sister Mrs. Parliament who was arrived to the very highest pitch of honour and said to her selfe J sit like a Queene and shall know no sorrow should on the sudden become wretchedly miserable she whom a Nation courted offering their lives and estates at her feet and maintained her for the space of seaven yeares in open Rebellion and Disloyalty against her head and Husband she that imagined her selfe so sure that no humane strength could shake her is now become in a manner desolate Like to a Whore both old and evill growne Shee hated is and pittied by none Enter Mrs. Militia a Malignant Mrs. Mil. Hell take this everlasting Parliament or rather this incorrigible Iunto what a tossing to and fro they make of me the King my true and onely Master must not Command me because forsooth like another Minerva the fate of new Troy as once that of the old consists in me Mrs. Parliament who hath commanded me this seaven yeares the Devill take her for it is now woed by Mrs. London to part with me and let her another while injoy me this she hath but to her great cost obtained and now As at the first a Royall Prince did owne me His Power layd by seaven yeares the world hath known me A three pil'd Bawd to Mrs. Parliament Now Mrs. Londons Cuckolds bee content Mrs. Lond. Looke Sister yonder 's that malignant Dame Mrs. Militia muttering to herselfe against Mrs. Parliament O 't is a notable Scold and of such force that shee is able to breake open yron barri●ado'd gates to stand an Army and tosse huge Cities in the Ayre but J have purchas'd her of Mrs. Parliament with a round summe of money and the truth is that godly woman is altogether swayed by Gold she will do nothing for me without greating i' the fist Mrs. Com. Coun. T is very true experientia docet for my part had I the money once J freely parted with mov'd with my sister Parliaments pious words I 'de be advised ere I gave it away but I hope well of her and that with us she is a Saint by calling how does Mrs. Militia Mrs. Mil. Sick sick at heart of the very same disease that is now so catching the Pox the Plague and all those cruell malladies Pandora brought on earth to ruine men though all conjoyn'd in one are not so mischievous Mrs. Coun. What disease Mrs. Militia Mrs. Mil. Why It s called Parliament the same that hath murdered so many thousands of loyall English subjects this Mrs. Truth her Speaker pro Tempore well knowes who for her honour hath busied himself to raise an Anagram on her name and to anex an Epigram thereto 't is this PARLIAMENT Anagramma A TRAP IL MEN. Epigram A Trap they are a Snare unto their Nation Having undone them by a Reformation A Trap that Sathan set as since wee find To fetter Kings and ruine all mankind A Snare a Trap a Pit wherein wee fall And if they live then must wee perish all But yet there 's hope it so may shortly hap These Traytors shall be tane in their owne TRAP ILL MEN. Ill men yea such a vile Rebellions crew No History records no Age ere knew Men meerly made of mischiefe blood and error Men borne to bee their owne and the worlds terror Devils yet cloath'd in Flesh cursed Projectors Good Mens sure ruine evill mens Protectors Haters of sacred Peace damn'd Regicides Horsleaches Canibals and Patricides Who place their thrones on Immolated men Have banisht Justice hoping shee agen Will never more returne by Furies nurst Gotten by Devils in their Cradles curst VVhom all the powers of Hell this seaven yeares Have ayded Slaves that joy to drinke our teares But the time now will shortly happen when Treason must terminate in those Ill men it printed is sufficient to make the people out of conceit with Mrs. Parliament while the world stands Mrs. Co●… t' is this same witch Mrs. Truth that hath undone us but who comes here Mrs. Parliament Mrs. Thanksgiving Mrs. Humiliation Mrs Lon. O Mrs Parliament I much joy to see you never was woman of your ranke so contemned and abused here was Mrs Militia the Malignant but even now who shewed mee and my sister Common counsell an Anagram which the Traitoresse Truth had framed on your names wherein shee taxes you of I know not how many crimes and sayes you are worthy to bee hangd as an enemie to your Country Mrs Parliament no matter what Truth reports you know I care not for her but for Mrs. Militia and the rest ò the Malignants I have given order for their removall twentie miles from thy presence Mrs. London Mrs Common counsell you are to publish the order reade it Mrs Thankgiving Mrs. Thanksgiving Reads Tuesday May 22. 1648 I Mrs Parliament by the permission and assistance of Pluto of England Scotland and Ireland Supreams Governesse doe decree and ordaine that al Papists by whom I meane al those that are for Monarchicall government for the Booke of Common Prayer for Archbishops and for order and decencie in the● Church of God that all souldiers of fortune and all other persons whatsoever that have borns Armes against mee that is to say all such as have according to their oath of Allegiance the Law of God the Law of the Land and the Law of nature been in Armes and fought for the honour of their Soveraign Lord King