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A52464 The triumph of our monarchy, over the plots and principles of our rebels and republicans being remarks on their most eminent libels / by John Northleigh ... Northleigh, John, 1657-1705. 1685 (1685) Wing N1305; ESTC R10284 349,594 826

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early Solomon the Truth explor'd The Right awarded and the Babe restor'd Thus Daniel e're to Prophecy he grew The perjur'd Presbyters did first subdue And freed Susannah from the canting Crew Well may our Monarchy Triumphant stand While warlike JAMES protects both Sea and Land And under covert of his sev'n-fold shield Thou send'st thy shafts to scowre the distant Field By Law thy powerful Pen has set us free Thou study'st that and that may study thee John Dryden To my worthy Friend J. Northleigh Esq Author of this Book and the Parallel THO we that Write in Rhime it is confest Are wont to praise them most that need it least So far from doing what we had design'd That we become impertinently kind Tho I 'me convinc'd of this and right well know I can add nothing to your Book or You Yet am I forc'd th' old beaten road to go And tell my Friend what wonders he has done Whose Loyal Labours could oblige a Crown A Crown asserted by the hand of Heaven By which Triumphant Laurels now are given And may they never never blasted be By any Bo'anerges of Democracy Compassionate Friend whose Arguments do prove The force of Reason and the power of Love Taught by your generous and good natur'd Pen The Salvage Beasts may once more turn to Men Be reconcil'd to the ill-treated Throne And shun those Rocks their Fellows split upon Your Call to th' unconverted may do more Than Orpheus's Charms did in the Woods before Convince the stubborn and th' unwary lead By benign Arts those blessed steps to tread In which our glorious Master led the way To Realms of Peace and everlasting Day Far'well Dear Friend and for this once excuse The last efforts of an expiring Muse Thomas Flatman ADVERTISEMENT THe Reader is desir'd to take notice that part of this Piece had past the Press before our late Soveraign of blessed Memory deceas'd and almost all of it was finisht before that expir'd Act for Printing was reviv'd that several Citations and Notes in the beginning are not plac'd against their proper lines which the Judgment of the Reader will rectifie His Candor will correct the false Punctations and the Literal faults for with both the mistakes of the Press has made it abound and for those that perplex the Sense they are These ERRATA PAge 45. line 22. for is read are p. 162. l. 22. f. over r. of p. 196. l. 7. f. pertual r. perpetual p. 219. l. 27. f. doubt r. don't doubt p. 408. l. 27. f. wen ever r. we never p. 435. l. 17. f. Blood so much r. so much Blood p. 442. l. 17. f. end r. one ibid. l. 19. f. Ancestor common r. common Ancestor p. 497. l. 26. f. secum r. secure p. 602. Margin f. Rex legia r. Lex Regia p. 615. l. 18. f. Phrases r. Phases p. 652. l. 4. f. quiet r. guilt p. 661. l. 12. f. unable r. able p. 671. l. 16. f. by Laws r. only by Laws made p. 983. l. 4. f. of Italy r. near Italy p. 746. l. 2. f. our r. one p. 761. l. 19. f. and. r. am Introductory Remarks FEW Persons amongst the mighty numbers that have writ shall condemn more the Vanity of Writing tho' I hope as few have used it less in Vain The first Design of my putting Pen to Paper was only to correct the Licentiousness of Paper and Pen and to supply with a timely animadversion the Expiration of a temporary Act 't was Time sure 't was high Time for every Loyal Heart to use his Ink when they had almost scribled us all into Blood and to weeld his Pen in the defence of the Government when the Knife was at our Throats and their Swords drawn I know the weakness of the dint of Argument against the power of Steel And the Impertinence of persuasion where the Law can Compel but since the Pen has the power of provoking a Rebellion and that experienced 't is as warrantable an experiment to turn its Point and make the same Wand to lay the Devil that it raises and since the Laws were almost silenced only with their threatning Arms 'T was time to animate the dead Letter To make it know its force and exert its power and to strengthen a Government That seem'd but too weak for its self and unhappily distrusted its own security And that to this purpose the power of the Pen has not been ineffectual will appear from these subsequent Observations Which the comfortable success will better justify than their prosperous Rebellion could have been made again Just and which I 'le assure you now 't is some Comfort to observe Especially to those that were so bold as to be concerned that dared to stem the torrent of Schism and Sedition when 't was but a dangerous Duty and embarqu'd with the Government in a storm when the Waves rose and raged horribly and the gathering of the People was like the noise of many Waters It is observable that upon the first dissolution of the Westminster Parliament that which might be as well called the healing one whose sober debates had superseded the sullen unadvisedness of the subsequent closed the wounds of an Intestine War cemented the Government of Church and State Compact and firm for about twenty years beyond what the force of Rebellion could devide or Plot and Treachery undermine That Parliament which they Libelled Publisht for Pensionary only because it would not take pay of the People where perhaps they would have been truly paid That Parliament which with regret they call the long And all honest Hearts resent as too short whose unhappy dissolution rivall'd almost the fatality of the late perpetual sitting whose Prudent Progress gave some probability of sounding a Plot which others inconsiderate rashness hath left without a bottom if not beyond belief or Foundation by proceedings unwarantable and bold 'T is observable I say that then the Serpent of Sedition that like the Primitive one was curst in the Restoration forc't to creep on its Belly and crawle upon the Dust began first to raise its Venom'd head and with audacious Libels spit its Poyson in the very face of Majesty We know we had Plots before and that Oats his too not as a Discoverer but as prime Rebel and Conspirator not as an informer of Popish ones but a Ring-leader of a Republican we know we had then too our Tongues that were hanged for Treason as well as those that could since get Traytors Hang'd yet still midst all those unsuccessful attempts to Rebel Sedition never grew so much and succeeded that blessed Interval of near twenty years quiet tho' oft endeavoured to be interrupted never afforded so much Treason from the Press as for the last five years has been Publisht in their Prints Libels lookt as if they had been Licensed for a Lustrum and as if the temporary Printing Act had expired seasonably 't was never resolved amongst all their Orders to be revived 't