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A95533	Crop-eare curried, or, Tom Nash his ghost, declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last parricidicall pamphlets, being 92 sheets in quarto, wherein the one of them he stretch'd the soveraigne power of Parliaments; in the other, his new-found way of opening the counterfeit Great Seale. Wherein by a short survey and ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, non-sense, blasphemies, forreigne and domesticke, uncivill, civill treasons, seditions, incitations, and precontrivements, in mustering, rallying, training and leading forth into publique so many ensignes of examples of old reviv'd rebells, or new devised chimeraes. With a strange prophecy, reported to be Merlins, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some authours) it is said to be the famous witch of Endor's. Runton, pollimunton plumpizminoi papperphandico. / By John Taylor.; Tom Nash his ghost.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T446; ESTC R212364	32,386	51

this Parliament may do and defend the like Proceed with your Popish practices and positions and fulfill the iniquity of your forefathers yet you do not so politickely as you were wont to let the People see whence you derive your pretended Authority for abusing your present Prince Take heed least they take up the Proverbe We have put down one Pope and set up many Moreover in pag. 27. line 7. It was told King Richard the Second that if he absented from the Parliament forty dayes not being sicke they might by Law rise or breake up Though you have no more power to dissolve than call a Parliament I pray who forbids you to take the benefit of that Law who holds you but you may rise and break up It cannot be said but you have risen with a witnesse to such an height of impiety and Rebellion as no age or Nation can parallell and for your breaking up it hath been superlative for there is no Law of God or Nature or Nations but you have broken up and down too and if Treason Murder Burglary Felony were accounted any breaking of Lawes amongst you and that you should all have legall Trials for those Crimes The Lord have mercy upon you there are but few of you that could be saved by your Book therefore let your factious Conventicle rise and go home to their houses when they please the King hath been absent from them more than five times forty dayes for it is almost two yeares since they drove Him from them therefore they may rise and yet never break up any Parliament I remember in pag. 28. line 15. the Cheshire men are much beholding to Master Prinne for calling them Rude and beastly People I wish you would go in person thither and tell them so because they tendred themselves as a Guard for the person of King Richard the Second in a time of Rebellion for which they are honoured ever since with the Proverbe of Cheshire chiefe of men Pag. 33. to p. 42. His Arguments are concerning the power of Parliaments and that the whole Parliament is greater than the King alone They are such absurd equivocations as although he still followes the footsteps of his Fathers the Papists yet his Brethren the Jesuites would be ashamed of such kinde of arguing and therefore he doth wisely to conceale their Association for who knowes not that the Parliament that is to say the King the Head and the two Houses the Members assembled together have a Soveraigne and transcendent Power and excelling Dignity but it followes not therefore that the two Houses considered apart from their Soveraigne much lesse a few Members a small parcell of that part are of like eminency and authority no more than it followes Master Burton a Divine Doctor Bastwicke a Phisitian and Master Prinne an utter-Barrester stood all on the Pillory and lost their eares in one and the same houre for one and the same Crime of railing slandering and seditious libelling therefore Master Burton Doctor Bastwicke and Master Prinne have all three one and the same soule suffered all in one and the same Body Bastwicke and Burton lost their eares for Prinne by way of sympathy or co-ordination because Prinnes Eares were lost long before and so se invicem supplent and any two of them have all the capacities of all three the Divine and Phisitian make a Lawyer the Lawyer and Phisitian make a Divine and the Divine and Lawyer make a perfect Phisitian this is Prinnes Logicke by which he may prove his halfe Eares to be whole ones and the Five Members to have as much power as both Houses In pag. 42. for his Answer to the Objection concerning the Kings absence from Parliament affirming that He is absent as a man but present as a King it is as learned as that is loyall which justifies the shooting bullets at Him in his personall capacity yet obeying Him in his Regall capacity and I believe both had their originall from the same Master of Sentences The Spirit of the Aire which rules in the hearts of such children of disobedience In pag. 44. 45. Concerning his Arguments from Scripture I will say no more but when the Fox preaches beware your Geese for I am sure the Devill had his Scriptum est it is written as well as he wrests mangles and misapplies it as ill as ever did the Devill If any Diraan please to search he shall finde that the Devill hath but his due in this triall betwixt Master Prinne and himselfe Pag. 46. to 112. As for his Law and Law-bookes let him look them over again if he took them not upon trust as he doth the rest of his Learning from Indexes Glossaries Covels Interpreter Lexicon Juris c. And he shall finde that they never attributed the most absolute and supremest Power of Head and Bodie to use his own phrase to the Parliament but when it is a perfect true Parliament consisting of the Head the King as well as of the Bodie the Houses nor would any man that is not as headlesse as Prinne is earlesse have been so heedlesse in his own Authours let all men that mean to be coozened become Prinnes Clients he shall vouch Book-law enough but not one law-case to the purpose witnesse his instances of the Parliament lawfully deposing the King and of the Parliaments power to dispose the Kingdome to what Family they please and the like he that wants a Kingdome let him come to Prinnes market he will affoord large penniworths now he sets Kingdomes to sale any man may buy one or if he misse he shall be sure to have Bulls enough at a cheape rate Pag. 51. lin 33. He saith King Edward the Confessour took his Oath at his Coronation upon the Euangelists and blessed Reliques of S. S. what is all that to King Charles indeed Prinne and his Members are worthy to have a King that will sweare by Reliques for with a most treacherous diffidence they will not believe a most gracious Christian King that hath often sworne and protested by the true Almighty God to defend and maintain the true Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land the Subjects Libertie and Right with all the Priviledges of Parliaments all which Oathes and Protestations his Majesty hath never broke though a crew of perfidious Villaines do slander Him most traiterously with the aspish venome of their viperous Tongues the pestiferous poyson bawl'd belch'd and vomited from hireling Schismaticall Preachers and the Presses being opprest with printing of infamous Lyes and Libells for which no doubt but your great Master the Burgesse of Barathrum as sure as George Peard is Burgesse of Barstaple who set you on worke will not faile to pay you your wages In pag. 52. that William Conquerour took his Oath before the Altar of the Apostle S. Peter this is as suitable stuffe as the rest but me thinkes Prinne should not name an Altar without an H. and if the Apostle knew you gave

Master Prinne with Papall Authority would dispence withall yet his Majesty hath good and faithfull Subjects enough who scorne and deride your foolish traiterous dispensations and doubt not by God's assistance to mould you and your seduced Rabble of Rebells into better fashion Page 13. If the King himselfe shall introduce Forreigne Forces and Enemies into his Realme to levy Warre against it or shall himselfe become an Enemy to it This doubtfull supposition is so idle and triviall that the best Answer to it is to laugh at it page 14. he talkes how King Henry the second of France was casually slain at a Tournament by the Lord Montgomery and then he tells us of Sir Walter Tirrell's Arrow glancing against a Tree slew King William the second of England presently he makes a step into France again and brings us word that King Charles the first being mad there was deprived and kept clsoe and that the deaths and deprivations of these Kings was then proved to be no Treasons because they were done out of no malitious intents This is Bombast to stuffe out his big-wombe Book and as neare the matter as Braseol and Banbury Page 17. He playes the Huntsman and compares the Keeper of a Parke and the Deere in it to a King and his People Suppose this Comparison were granted then you must also grant that you have rebelliously broken down the Parke pale or wall so that the Deere are scattered and divided the best of them I am sure the truest Harts do keep within their bounds and live under the protection of their Keeper whilest you have got all the whole Heard of Rascals amongst you and much good may do it you with them In Page 22. he makes a leape from hence into Asia and relates strange Newes how Tamberlane conquered Bajazet and put him in an ironcage then you are sure it was not a Pillory but if a time of Peace were were it not for depriving the Hangman of his due I would begge thee and shew thee in Fates and Marts for a Motion whereby thee and I could not chuse in short time but be without abundance of money From page 23. to page 60. he tautologically talkes Naturall Non-sense and Artificall Impertinencies which in page 60. he saith he gathered from one Albericus Gentilis page 61. he stumbles upon Truth again and sayes That it is out of controversie that no man ought to resist against the King Page 63 64. he cites 32 Arguments of Scripture to maintain the Cause the chiefe of them is Daniel in the Lions Den he might as well have brought in Jacob's Well and the Woman of Samaria In pag. 66. be brings in the story of Ioram 2 Kings 6. how he sent a messenger to the Prophet Elishaes house to take away his head and that the Prophet did cause the doore to be shut to keep out the King's messenger from whence the learned logicall Prinne inferres that because the Prophet did not obey the King but shut his doore against the Messenger therefore King Charles his Subiects may oppose resist and rebell a very trim Argument From thence to page 73. he repeates old fusty businesse over and over and there he runnes for more luggage headlong into the Red-Sea and dragges the memory of crowned Pharaoh 〈◊〉 example of God's iudgements on that obdurate and impenitent King this was somewhat to the purpose but I cannot perceive where or how Page 81. The King with the Lords and Commons in Parliament have the whole Realme entrusted with them of which great trust the King is onely Chiefe and Soveraigne now I agree with you Sir if your writings had been all such as this and your Members and Committees Votes and Orders correspondent then we had had no Rebellion and your high prized Bookes would have been iustly valued to be worth nothing A little after he sayes The King is the supreme Member of the Parliament thou ill bred Fellow thou mightest have said HEAD and that contrary to the trust and duty reposed in Him through the advice of evill Counsellours wilfully betrayes this trust and spoiles and makes havocke of his People and Kingdomes these are but the old lyes feares jealousies doubts ifs and ands newly revived and furbushed as in page 86. he hath another which is If the King should command us to say Masse in his Chappell to which I answer If the Skie fall c. and the one of those ifs is as possible as the other Page 108. He musters up 51 of the ancient Fathers to lend him their hands to defend his falsities wherein he hath wrested and abused their integrity sufficiently but I observe that he meddles with neither of the Gregories either the Great or Nazianzen his policy is not to mention them because then young Gregory herhaps may be put in minde of him for Prinne is crafty and observes the Proverbe He must have a long Devill that eates with a spoone Page 92. He hath wrested the sword out of the hands and cut off the heads of all his opposite Goliahs 'T is well bragg'd but if it be true that you have cut off all the heads of your opposites you have been bloudily revenged for the losse of your eares I prithee when thou diest bequeath one of thy law-bones to be kept amongst the dreadfull Weapons and Ammunition of the Members Magazine it may do strange things amongst a Crew of Philist●ms Pag. 134. He contradicts himselfe with Statutes of King Henry 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Eliz. That words against the King even in preaching are high Treason as well as raising Armes very right and those Statutes being yet in force what would become of all your reverend railing Pulpit-men I will not slander them to call 'em Preachers upon my conscience thy destiny and theirs would be all one if the said Statutes were duely executed and you would all leave your old Trades and deale in the two rich commodities of Hempe and Timber till your last gaspes Pag. 142. he railes at the King again as if he were hired to it or that he had nothing else to do also he be labours the Cavaliers ex tempore by the Titles of Cut-throates bloudy inhumane and barbarous with other such pretty names as the Gentleman pleases to bestow upon them for which I hope they will not all die till some of them be out of his debt Page 143. Christians did not resist persecution under Pagans ergo Christians must not resist Christians and because Subjects are Christians as well as Kings therefore Christian Kings must not resist Rebells In his last Leafe he hath waded through this weighty Controversie and proved that both by Law and Conscience this Rebellion is justifiable and thus the Reader may perceive how Prinnes Judgement and Conscience is biassed Vpon Prinnes fourth Quarter or part of his Soveraigne Power of Parliaments IN page 13. he brings in a messe of musty Presidents like the mouldy Bread ragged Cloathes and clouted Shooes of the

21. 1. Thus have I with lesse than Herculean labour in six dayes cleansed this Augean Stable of all the noysome filth that Prinne had raked in many weeks from all the dung-hils in the world all which Merdur●nous Mucke I have laid at the doores of the right Owners viz. Master Prinne and his Members I have been fain to encounter with him in the darke for his Margins hath been so thatched with abused and wrested Authours that as the Grand Signior had so many thousands of Arrowes to shower at once upon the Christians that they obscured the Sunne and darkened the Firmament yet there was roome enough under the shadow of those Arrowes to fight in a good Cause and foile the Turkes so I in the Cymerian umbrage of this Cloud of Testimones have cop'd with him and in the Combate so bruised him that three of his small guts are dislocated the Vertigo taking possession of his pulsive Brain-pan and as I was certified he takes a Diet next his heart every morning five spoonfull of warme Cow-dung mixed with Earwigs compounded Caterpillers and the Marrow of a Salt Bitch so that there is some hope that he will recover but never be his own man again yet he may live longer than a Cat or a Dogge or a better thing If I had had any correspondency with him I could have furnished him with Authours Testimonies Witnesses and Proofes more suitable for his foure Parts and his Great Seale too as Laz●●ill● de Tormes Don Quixot Gusman de Alfarech Bevis of Hamp●on The mirrour of Knighthood John Dorry the ancient Bards Druides Peripatetickes Stoickes Epicureans and Gymnosophists these learned Thebanes would have been so suitable to his writings that their authentique Assertions had like a Torrent over-whelmed me so that I had been quite drowned before I could have answered halfe his Soveraigne Powers and for his Great Seale 〈◊〉 been as farre from my knowledge as he and it are from Truth and Realities I 〈…〉 how to mannage and husband this New Great Seale the cheapest and thriftiest way for as yet it is of small force and lesse virtue People do begin to perceive 〈◊〉 they have been coozened with Publique Faith and large promises for great summes which have been and must be paid invisibly and now that by beggerly experience they see how the Game and Geare goes they are unwilling to be sealed for fooles and pay for the sealing too Therefore because it is like to proue a dead market with the New Great Seale and that wax is deare I advise to save that charge and seale with Butter I have heard of Obligations sealed so in the Welch marches or if that thrifty device faile your Seale will make an excellent mould to make Wafer Cakes or cast well kneaded Ginger-●read in There are divers other necessary uses which it may be put to which I leave to thy grave and ingenious studious consideration How now my running-witted tolling-headed taling tongu'd rattle-brain'd Round-head How likest thou this ve●●ie Wilt thou have another bows If thou darest but take up the cudgels once more as good as thou thinkest thy selfe at Defensive Armes I le fetch thee about like a Iack-an-apes over and under his Chaine so that all the Gentlemen Spectatours who shall be Iudges shall not onely passe their sentence on my side that I have sufficiently dry-bast●d thee but I will let thy humours bloud for the Simples in the head-vein and break thy Mazz●rd so soudly that all the world shall see that thou hast but a craz'd Pericranium and so somewhat commiserating thy distracted condition I in a small degree of true charity leave thy excessive imaginary zeale to farewell and behang'd What should any man say more to his Friend William Prinne A Prophecy A Prophecy concerning the precedent Answer found in a Whirle-poole three Leagues below the bottome of the Ocean by a diver who was sent thither in these times of necessity for Pym's purse which because he found guarded by Hampden's Ghost he could not bring for that had been enough to have redeemed all this Isle except himselfe but he brought this from a pennon whereon it was hanging whilest the Neiades and Nereides were busied about an Ephemerides for perpetuating Bookers Almanacke till Naworths honest just-dealing Prognostication shall make a Comment upon Haly by the last yeares successe and till the Puritan manner of canting Ass-trologers like that of Scriptures shall appeare out of Guido Benatus wherein having told a tale of their troublesome Army he leaves out BUT THE KING SHALL PREVAILE IN THE END And railes upon the Licencer because he put the rest out upon discovery of that his jugling and also they sate in Consultation about proroguing the Confutation if it could be of Prinnes legislative Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and opening the New Broad Seale and divers other speciall pieces of that Minnion and Favourite of Aeolus Neptune Proserpine yea and the Grand Signior Pluto himselfe all which have speciall influence into the occurrents of these Times In the third yeare of the Grand Session of the infernall Plebeians spirits and in the second yeare of the Pigmies Giant-like warring against Heaven when the Furies shall be in Conjunction Beelzebub and Jezabel in a Quartile Aspect Asmodeus ascendant Judas in the second House Lucifer culminant and Balaam Lord of the Assembly the North Pole shall be translated to Troynovant the Constellation called Corona shall be assaulted by Mars and great endeavour shall be to draw it beneath the Moon and one Prinne son of the Centaures mounted to the Spheare of Mercury shall perswade the middle world made giddy with lately running round that all is reduced to the Naturall Motion and the great Platonique yeare returned but Charles Waine driving a contrary way shall force Ixions Wheele to become retrograde and cause a motion of Trepidation in all the Circulatours and Roundheads of Thule and the greatest Antick Island and when this son of the Centaure hath lead the World through foure times foure Signes by an Ignis fatuus more dangerous than that of Phaeton and maintained worse Paradoxes than Copernicus reaching at loves Scepter with the hands of Briareus and scorning Iuno more than Niobe did and seemes to rest secure onely laughed at by Logicians hissed at by the Searchers of Clioes Records and despised by the Priests of love by reason of his false quotations disunderstandings mis-applications blasphemy against God Treasons against the King Arguments drawn from absurdities generall Conclusions drawn from particular examples and from most notable Non-sense that in the Times and Acts of Rebellion parallelld for the most part from and in the Nadir or Altitude of his Pride shall write with the Rayes of a Comet that he hath copiously confuted all Royallists Malignants Papists clamorous Objections and Primitive Exceptions against the Proceedings of this present Parliament in foure severall Treatises lately published concerning the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes which hath given good satisfaction to many and silenced the Tongues and Pennes of most Anti-Parliamenteers who have been so ingenious as seriously to peruse them then shall a holy water Clerke of Thetis contract his Iliades into a rotten nut-shell and inspired with ability rightly to interpret that old Saw of Rabbi Selimon Answer not a foole according to his folly or according to his manner lest thou also be like him Aptly apply the inverted opposite Maxime Answer a foole according to his folly or according to his deserving least he be wise in his own conceit and although Lilbourne the Libeller or a Mushrom hatched by this blazing star in the blacke Night of Sedition and that sincere upright verst man Withers with the rest of the Rabble of railing Poets be retained in fee by the Rebells to write weekly Lyes for them yet Tom Nash his Ghost returning to this Charon with some distilled wilde-fire-water in an inke-horne shall provide such a whip for this proud Horse such a Bridle for this senselesse Asse and such a rod for this mad fooles backe as shall tame Cerberus whose Triple head sounded nothing but the three-syllabled and the three-letterd Lords and barked against the radiant beames of Majesty and shall cause the many heads of Hydra to be mortified and expire in confusion like the Heteroclitall monstrous Body of Five Members shrunke into three and one of them halfe withered too all which shall happen before the end of the first Olympiad of the Lesbian expedition and the Glasconian refining of Reformation this is decreed by the three fatall Sisters confirmed by the three infernall Iudges and entred into the Bookes of the foure times three Sybills in the Publique Hall of Contingency 7000 yeares before the imagination of Eternity POSTSCRIPT I Would not have Prinne or his dismembred divided Masters Memorable Memberhoods to imagine me so sterill as to be all this while pumping to answer his Traiterous lying Pamphlets but let him and them know that this my Booke was written in October last 1643. when their Saviour Pym was alive which had he then been dead I had not mentioned many alterations have happened since my writing and the printing part of it before the end of December last but I being extremely stroken lame and the Presse and Printers full of worke of greater consequence than to curry Crop-ear'd Iades till now and as I have formerly handled Booker the Proditorious Prediction-monger and Mr Prinne the unutterable utter Barrester or rather the Kingdomes Common Embarrater so have I also written Answers to the nimble villanious quicke pretty little witted Mercurius Britanicus the Scottish Dove Pigeon or Widgeon the Scout and all the Rabble of lying railing Rascals and Rebells all these things are laid like rods in pisse till I can get them printed and could I but have meanes and the Presse leasure I dare undertake with my poore Goose quill to stop the mouthes or cut the throates of all the seditious Pulpitteers and roguish Pamphletteers in England or else I would lose my labour FINIS