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A97365
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Mercurius cambro-Britannus, the Brittish mercury, or, The Welch diurnall communicating remarkable intelligences and true newes to awle the whole kingdome... [20th-27th November 1643]
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1643
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Thomason E77_7; ESTC P1079
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creat Lords friends to te Irish Rebells and preferred to the places of creat trust that aul te world may see that te malignants designe is to extirpate the Protestants in Ireland and to introduce Popery in England Yet te bad minds of te people are by a divine power soon changed into a better temper for those two Irish Regements that came out with Colonell Vavasour and Paulet are most of them returned to te Parliament about Glocester Tewxbury and creat shentlemen in te North Country have forsook te New-castle forces and will no longer assist te King in regard of te cessation with te bloody Rebells in Ireland for this cessation hath made creat souldiers fall away from te King te cruell effects which will follow being so cleerely manifested and knowne Her will now send you up some News from her own house in Wales which her know to be true and therefore it may be easily beleeved and first her must inform you from te hall of her pigge-house that all te guns Pikes that hung again te wall are awl taken down to serve for Arms to set out her Countrey-men Whereby the Story of te wise Solomon giving judgment between the true mother and te Harlot concerning doviding of te child may be plainly discerned the Morall whereof is That true love can admit of no destroying division and therefore such as have divided te Commonwealth into one part for te King and the other for te Parliament are false-hearted Subjects both unto te State and te Church of England Her must tell you also that her creat house keeping is become so poor and wretched that te Mouse starve in te Buttery and te Cavaliere may rise from her long table an hungry and not be welcome neither was strange alteration in Wales From her Kitchin her must inform you that it hath not been warmed creat whiles but will tell you News that awl the Fat is in the fire for her love Proverbs that is awl the fruitfulnesse of England will be consumed in te flame of te Civill war And heark you there are more Jacks then in her kitchin that have turned from te Parliament to te King and from te King to te Parliament And moreover awl her Countrey and indeed awl te Kingdom doth now keep-a continuall Shrovetide all their words and actions are Fritters of fraud seething in te creat skillet of malignancy awl her Spit is turned into long-sword wherewith her spit one another as her doe Wodcock in her Countrey one in te arse of another Te Bishops and Lawyers were so sat that awl their conscience dript from them her was feed her self let her flocke starve creat pigg-bellys love her kitchin better then te pulpit or te Commonwealth Te malignants are like her half-baked Pyes for between standing for te King Parliament they are luke-warme and must come to te Oven to make them hard and stiffe for Religion The fury of te Irish Rebells is like her very hot boyling pot of discention and te skum of te Rebells fly over into England But now from her study observe it is worth notice that awl her liberall Arts are turned into lying Arts and her creat books of History of War between Pompey and Cesar doe blush in Vermilion to hear of te unnaturall war of te King against te Parliament Her say also that her should tell her that no good Oratour doth or can write against te King and Parliament for nihil dicendum est de principibus Parliamento nisi bonum we ought as te Frenchman saith parley bien on parley rien speak well or speak nothing and therefore to conclude well Vivat Rex faustum foelix sit Parliamentum God save te King and blesse the proceedings of te Parliament her cood write Greek too but her would not pose but please her Readers FINIS