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Nevves from the Kings bath reporting nothing but an honest means whereby to establish an happy and much desired peace, in all His Majesties kingdoms generally.
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Pricket, Robert.
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1645
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Wing P3408; Thomason E290_19; ESTC R200141
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NEWES FROM The King's Bath Reporting nothing but an Honest means whereby to establish an happy and much desired Peace in all His Majesties Kingdoms Generally Psal. 122. 6. Pray for the Peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love thee Prov. 24. 21. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given unto change 22 For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Eccles. 8. 2. I counsell thee to keep the Kings Commandement and that in regard of the Oath of God 3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight stand not in an evill thing for he doth whatsoever pleaseth him 4 Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him What doest thou 5 Whosâ— keepeth the Commandement shall feele no evill thing and a wise mans heart discerneth both time and judgement BRISTOLL Printed at the Authors Charge 1645. The Epistle Dedicatory THou Royall Crosse with Age and Honour crown'd That stand'st i' th mid'st of the Kings Bath renown'd Both farre and neer such Cures thy Bath hath wrought As thousands unto thee for help have sought Who by thy warming Waters healed were Whose Stilts there left thereof do witnesse beare And to thy Honour on thy top are placed To shew with what great vertue thou art graced Neer to thy Springs my agitating Muse Hath made a Book which doth report some Newes As from thy self Her Book craves at thy hand It under thy renowned name may stand And I the Author choose to make my moan Uuto thy self For why As senselesse stone Most hearts are now become Therefore from thee An equall good may well expected be Through devious wayes sundry suddain fears My Pilgrimage in this sad vale of tears Hath past In Schools Camp and Court poor I Have seen the change of times variety And learn'd to know worlds best prosperity Is but a state of wretched misery I then began my thoughts for to remove From things beneath unto those things above And then my heart all sweetning comfort borrows From him who was a man of woe and sorrows In this base world which then I did forsake And once again unto my books betake My self God then of his free grace did call Me to that Warre which is spirituall And lawfully by Church-authority I was admitted to the Ministry And being thus by Gods great mercy brought Unto his work I have his Battels fought Full fourty yeers and never yet did cease Next to the Faith for to preserve the Peace Of holy Church as did become a Sonne All her commads by me were justly done And yet the heaps of followers did me wrong I could not mend't but all the way along In the whole course of my poor Ministry I was acquainted with adversity And did at last all means of living loose That hope fail'd me which I to trust did choose The Letters from and Orders of that Court Of High-Commission shall of me report No thing but well who please to see them may And hear on my behalf what truths they 'l say But once grown poor from England then I went To Ireland where I might with good content Have lived but that Rebellious fatall curse Drove me from thence to a Rebellion worse And now poor man in this thy City Bath I am alive as buried in my grave With grief I see the wofull misery Of honest poor dispised Poverty The Prophet of his time did hit it right That every one was found an Hypocrite Yea now that Hell-born sinne doth wound and stain The greatest number who as yet remain Professed Christians without Charity In such I 'me sure ther 's most Hypocrisie And for this cause that Book doth swiftly flie Which lamentation mourning woe doth cry To every Soul This Truth though seen and kown The greatest part from ill to worse are grown And seeing this I have the world forsook A help from thence it is in vain to look Yet went I on with my well-meaning Book From first to last with hardship undertook And though the means appears dispis'd weak And men may think it doth but vainly speak To stop Rebelious course that 's grown so strong * By weaker means God hath destroy'd the throng Of stronger Enemies as you may see In holy Writ recorded there to be My self my Book poor and dispis'd though thought Yet by such means the mighty God hath brought Great things to passe yea works of wondrous fame That glory might be given to his great name A happy Peace that precious Pearl to gain My Book with Gods assistance may obtain Or further the Obtainment and not hinder What may a Peace to King and Kingdom render Kind Crosse I pray thou wouldst accept it then For thou art kind unto all sorts of men To Poor and Rich to th' Lesser and the Great To all thou dost afford a warming Seat As is thy self my Booke 's a Bath for Health To heale the Aches of the Common-wealth If some therein to bathe will wisely trie It would them heale of Treasons Leprosie And thus kind Crosse I humbly take my leave Thou wilt not me of any hope bereave And what thou art I must resolve to bear My proper Crosse is unto me my share Which I 'le take up and joyfully will kisse So following Christ to my eternall blisse R. P. The Definition of a Round-head My Muse at first desireth to give a full and satisfactory Answer unto all those who do so often aske the Question What is a Round-head Answer A Round-head is a proud Rebell and a most Rebellious Unsound-head Roundly and thorowly that is in all things thorowout proudly rebelling against our good King Charles His Royall Person Princely Progeny Crown and Dignity and Kingdom generally and against all the Laws and Statutes both Divine and Humane in such Case made and provided Behold this is a Round-head but not a Sound-head and Roundnesse without Soundnesse is nothing else but stinking Putrefaction and Rottennesse and such and no better are all the Actions done by those who are Round-heads but no Sound-heads Me thinks then every good Subject should be ashamed to be such an Vnsound-head as justly to deserve the name of a Round-head What now doth follow take it as it falls As spoken to the Round-heads Generalls To them my Muse some severall Songs doth sing Expressing love unto Our Worthiest King THE FIRST SONG SX THat Noble name Time past and present viewing Thy Fathers tells and what will be thy Ruine His Fall I mourn'd and from the dust did raise His cast-down Honour with deserved praise Yet for thy sake His fault I 'le briefly touch That thou thereby mayst see thy Danger 's much The course He steer'd was to be over strong For his good Queen and those that did Him wrong To have remov'd For this he did devize Both Queen and Court on sudden to surprize No thought He had His Queen to hurt at
proudly say That he will never any King obey His will is that which for a Law shall stand The greatest King must yeeld to his Command That Court whose pride unto such height is Tric't Is sure therein a very Antichrist And every one of Antichrist a Limbe Who hoyseth Sailes and doth his Tacklings trimme Like men of Warre such Actions to defend As do against his King and Countrey bend Your Preachers your seditious Preachers are The Whelps that crie up this Rebellious Warre And say if the Kings party overcome Woe to us all the Kingdom is undone And Popery then the upper-hand shall have This this deer Brâ—thren all the Papists crave Withstand them then prevent our misery Which will be wrought by Papall Tyranny Our Laws will all be then quite overturned And Christ's deer Flock with fire and Fagot burned Let all good Christians then as Scripture saith With might and main strive to defend the Faith Religions Cause is that we have in hand This to defend 'gainst King and Keâ—sar stand Gods word doth warrant that in Cases such We cannot shew our love and zeal too much Such lies they do with monstrous zeal expresse And non-sence words and that in great excâ—sse They box their Desks and Pulpits bottom stamp Are drawn awry as with Convulsions Cramp If loud and fast their lying Tales they tell Thâ—y 〈◊〉 Chuâ—ch men Prâ—â—â—h most monstrous well These are the zealous men for so they 'r call'd That have 〈◊〉 so dangerouâ—â—y â—enthrali'd These and thâ—â— followers full of zeal Igrant But all true â—nowledge and discretion want And hence it is they in their zeal desire To set and see the Kingdom all on fire Yet some thing else Rebellion goes about Which is to root our Kingdoms Honour out The many headed Beast sole Rule would have Our Honour then lies buried in that Grave A Noble people once the English were And did aloft their Honour Nobly beare And shall we now dishonourably choose New shame to get and Antient Honour loose From best to worst from Monarchy to fall To Oligarchy bafest Rule of all Brave Noble mindes in England Nobly bred O're us to Rule Let not that Hydra's head King Charles advance to 's Honours him restore And state this Kingdom as it was before With this let all most wisely be content And strive no more for change of Government Their seeking so the thing for which they sought Hath a most miserable ruine brought Upon this Land The Kingdom rent and torn Is like a City ruin'd and forlorn Those things which did her Glory best adorn Rebellion spoiles and makes of them a scorn Those two most famous Vniversities Fair Englands Beauty and her Starre-bright eyes From whence there did such glorious Lights arise As that the splendour of their glorious shine Did spread it self through every Zone and Clime In all the world Is 't not a wonderous sight To see as now that Sunne-like shining light To be Eclips't whose once most heavenly rayes Was honoured with such deserved praise Those goodly Halls and Stately Colledges The Seed-plots of the liberall Sciences The fountain-heads of every pleasant spring About whose Banks did all the Muses sing Where Schollers liv'd and some so wondrous rare As might for learning with the world compare From whence was wont into the Church to flow Those blessed means which made her glory grow And bring forth fruit of greatest dignity A Reverend Grave and Learned Ministry Who being Orthodox with Spirit bold The Truth 'gainst Romes false Doctrines did uphold But now our Church whoso but looks upon her Shall see her rob'd of all her pristine Honour And Schollers are enforc't to lay aside Their learned Books and for themselves provide As Souldiers furnished in compleat Arms To shield themselves from present threatned harms And save their lives and all their Colledge-Lands Out of the reach of Rebels spoyling hands No Heathens yet would once dare to deface Their Idol-Gods nor to the ground to raze Their Pagan Temples But we now farre worse Then they have rob'd our God and brought a curse Upon us all which may cradicate Our Kingdoms Glory and so leave her state As wholly ruin'd waste and desolate And this to do Rebell on doth not stay But runneth on even in the ready way For next the Church what did our Kingdom grace They seek to spoile and utterly deface The Innes of Chanâ—â—ry and Innes of Court Where Englands Gentry used to resort And study there that they might wisely learn All points of Law with Judgement to discern Those Houses where the Ancients ruled so As all did in a comely order go And able were a King to entertain With Honours due unto his Royall train These all our Honour greatly did augment They did in them a kind of state present Which did the glory of our Land advance Now spoyled by Obnoxious Ignorance Laws Divine Humane Civill Common all Are troden down by force Tyrannicall T is then high time we should our sinnes repent For they are cause of all our punnishment But now because a present bloody broyle The Peace of England doth destroy and spoile What may be done a Peace for to restore To King and Kingdom nothing wisht for more Why This to do I nothing will invent But what I learn by actuall president Romes self it seemes doth now desire a Peace And that all Warres in Christian world may cease Since Gregory the first Surnam'd the Great Vrban the 8th who sate in Romes high seat Of all their Bishops was the very best His like was never found among the rest And this I think of him that suâ—e he would Have been a Protestant if that he could He doubtlesse lov'd a Protestant in 's heart And would not 'gainst them take the Papists part In Germane Warres he nothing would decree On either part but wish't they might agree For whil'st they striv'd each other to confound No Peace could grow out of so bad a ground Experience taught Romes Church this Truth to know When as their Priests did seeds of Treason sow And thereby spoil'd the Protestant Estate And did Reformed Churches ruinate The Plots whereby they kept so great a coyle Themselves thereby at last did chiefly spoile A Peacefull way Romes Bishop then intended Which was of all the best to be commended In outward form the Papists well may stand With Protestants affording friendships hand Each unto other That French Cardinall Who sought a Peace most wisely to enstall In that French Kingdoms Royall Government About that work he with such wisdom went As that by him the Protestants protected Their Faiths Allegiance never was suspected For they themselves did as good Subjects bear Unto their King He had no cause to fear Them any whit at all For as was meet They ready were down at their Soveraigns Feet To lay their lives their Countreys Peace to gain For this they would themselves to th' utmost strain There now when Protestants and