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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96759	Opobalsamum Anglicanum: = An English balme, lately pressed out of a shrub, and spread upon these papers, for the cure of some scabs, gangreeves and cancers indangering the bodie of this common-wealth; and, to whom it is now tendred, by the vvell-affected English, in a double-speech, disjunctively delivered, by one of their fellow-ship, both to the faithfull, and malignant members of the representative-body of this Kingdome. / Penned, by the author of Britaines remembrancer Geo: Wither Esquire.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3175; Thomason E513_6; ESTC R205629	32,213	27

felt some limbs of your to faile VVhy do you halt somtimes and are so slow At other times when you should faster go And find defects among you now and than VVhich frustrate good designs do what you can VVherefore so frequently do you divide As if you had a Palsie on one side And often have so much ado to stay Your Votes from running on the left-hand-way Yea wherefore do the best among you find Some failings of your fellowes in this kind If none be questionable Or if we Offend in saying such among you be Why are there daily strivings in your wombe As if Rebecca's twins again were come To be new born and to afflict the Mother By strugling how they may supplant each other Why are complainings if no wrongs be done Who can Oppressors be if there be none VVithin your Houses Or if none of your Corrupted-members have abus'd their Pow'r Since all Oppressors ev'ry other where May have or ought to have redresses there As Samuel said to Saul if none are spar'd Whom GOD condemns whence are these bleatings heard Which fill our cares How come th' Amalakites To be so jocund and the Israelites So much dis-heart'ned VVhat mad-men are they VVho bring Petitions almost ev'ry day Against your Members And wherefore do some Although they pris'ners for it are become Still prosecute their charge and Plaints as far As men imprisoned enabled are Against those men if really they be From Guiltinesse and just Suspition free And why are not Accusers dayly hear'd That knaves may punish'd be and goodmen clear'd If all are in their actions so upright VVhy do not they on whom aspersions light Offer themselves to tryall by the Lawes According to the merit of the Cause VVithout respect of Persons that the greev'd May in their suffrings duly be releev'd The mouth of clamour stop'd if she hath made An out-cry when no cause at all she had And that all men who truly guiltlesse are May not in scandalls with men guilty share VVhy should you like the Benjamites connive At wickednesse untill Gods Justice drive The much incensed-people of the Land To come and to require it at your hand Nay we draw nearer VVhy have you so long Pursu'd the King because he did us wrong To keep from censure those who merit blame If you your selves have done the very same VVhy may not we as justly question them VVho break their trust to us as you do him And hope that GOD will find us out a way VVereby the Common-wealth deliver may Her self from those that her Trust-breakers be In most convenient time aswell as he Gave us this Parliament ev'n when else none Knew how without Rebellion to have done VVhat now we do although the King had broke That Trust wherewith the Crown he undertook Consider this and keep your selves and us From straights and courses which are hazzardous Least you both loose the glory you have got And feel a mischief when you fear it not For if you do not wicked men protect Yet while their prosecutions you neglect You may incurre the curse of their offence VVho do the work of God with negligence And to destruction all your friends expose By beeing too indulgent to your Foes Let GOD or Baal be serv'd For hate we do Those that are alwaies halting between two All they who in simplicity of heart Adhere to one though to the worser part Are so far in the way of walking right That those we hate not though with them we fight Nor shall we fear when reconcil'd these be But that they will be found as true as we Take not we pray you this free-powring out Of Gileads Balm as if we went about A needlesse Cure Or would have men believe VVe did annoint when blowes wounds we give Nor think we rub too hard For we are friends VVhat ere we may be thought whose love intends Your honour with your weal And having found How to advance them do as we are bound VVe are no Mountebanks who would endear Our Surgery by putting you in feare Of greater dangers then indeed are found But we would search the bottome of the wound Because we cannot perfectly be heal'd Till all our kown corruptions are expel'd VVe know no means of saving you and us But by plain dealing and by speaking thus That you may take some wise and speedy course To stop this mischief ere it groweth worse The Common remedies are at a losse The Sanctuary gold is mixt with drosse And there 's no meanes to part them which wee know But by attempting that which we do now Nor can you save your honor though you save Your selves if long you ill companions have For what your evill Members have mis-done Upon your score is ev'ry day set on As well as your best deeds and in your faces Their dirt is hourely fl●ng to your disgraces Those Resolutions which conduce unto The Publike-weale want but a Voice or two Somtimes of being lost such are their wiles Or such their number And if otherwhiles They carrie on a Vote in your despight That seems not to advance the publike-right You beare the blame thereof as much as they Yea to the Parliament the People lay Not onely that which is concluded on In either House although the same were done By some unjust contrivance But it beares The faults of ev'ry Member too of theirs Whose life is scandalous yea it pertakes In blame with him for each known scape he makes For when abroad the Common-people heare A Member of your Houses lie or sweare Or some of them no conscience make to pay Their long due debts when well enough they may Or see them reeling out of Tavern doores Or impudently courting of their Whores Or some such way imployed Oh! how quick They shoot at you their Arrowes and how thick Some say in scorn and some in discontent These are the Members of our Parliament These are those Worthies that must set us free From Tyrannie These our Deliv'rers be These are the Chosen ones who to this Nation Must bring the blessing of a Reformation Yea these whom here you thus debauched see Pertaining to the Honest-party be Or to the Godly the Malignant sayes And on them descants many other waies With such like scoffings as no modest ear Can without grief or indignation heare All which reflects on you who are the best And so it will till you reforme the rest How can you be insensible of this And since an injurie suppos'd it is To let aspersions on one Member fall Why brook you them who scandalize you all Why keep you those unquestion'd who are thought Blame-worthie till the blame on all is brought If you seem all concerned though but one Be some way toucht as if he had misdone How much more are you scandaliz'd if they Who justly doe accuse have cause to say They could not have their Informations heard Nor legall-tryall nor their due regard How doth this scandalize you if when

ours hath been esteemed dear To be from you And we confesse likewise That in your Honour and your safetie lyes Our safety and our Honour and that we In your well-being judge our VVeale to be And ev'ry danger and disgrace of your To be a danger and disgrace of our Excuse us therefore if the Double-due Of what we owe both to our selves and you Produceth an Attempt and an effect Which you do nor imagine nor expect And drew us to the pardonable Fault Of making this unlooked-for Assault Upon your patience since the thing we do Is that which we appear oblig'd unto And tends to nought lesse then the preservations Of you of us and all the British-Nations Suspect not our assembling thus together Nor look upon us as if we were either Of their Confederacy or their Condition Who come to raise an uproare or Sedition Or to compell you forceably to do What our wild Fancie hurried us unto But rather pleased be to understand That we are of those people in the Land Who are most peaceable and well content To be obedient to that Government Which doth preserve the Freedomes of the Nation Continuing firmly on the first Foundation And free from Superstructures which pervert The works of Nature by the Quirks of Art We are no Partners with those Factious-Fellowes Who bring the fewell or who blow the bellowes Of Civill-Discords nor of those that Dary Their Principles when their Designes miscarry Nor of their Creed who will believe no more Then what they have believed heretofore Or what their Grandfires did believe of old Or what shall by their Priest to them be told Nor are we of their mind who therefore do What they have done because they have done so But we are men who good advisement had Of what we do though some yet think us mad Men that have all our best endeavours vow'd To loose no Freedome Reason hath allow'd Men who resolve to seek a perfect way To walk it as uprightly as we may To keep unchanged GOD'S and Natures Lawes And change all other things as there is cause SIRS we are they who for the Common-right Began to speake e're we began to sight Some of us are well known to be the men Who with the Purse the Person and the Pen Engag'd our selves this Quarrell to defend Before we had an Armie or a Friend To ayd or second us We did expose Our selves against the violence of those Who exercise Oppressions of all sorts In Monopolies Arbitrarie-Courts And upstart Offices although it cost Our liberties and our preferments lost Whilst they who such rewards to us afforded Were for their Villanies enricht and Lorded And we are they who but a while ago When Tyrannie did so presumptuous grow And to such impudency as to dare Improve wrongs-private into open-warre Who did oppose it yea when Superstition Was to oppresse us joyned in Commission With Tyrannie and these came both together So furiously and boldly marching hither That justly you began to be a fraid Of Publike-Ruine and call'd out for ayd We were the men ev'n we who first of all Came in to your Assistance at your call And when we came we came not backward in Or as if we insensible had bin Of your as our own dangers But came flying As if we heard our Wives or Children crying Come helpe or we are murthred without stay Our Callings and Estates we flung away Our Plate our Coyne our Iewels and our Rings Armes Ornaments and all our Pretious-things To you we brought as bountifully in As if they had old rusty horshooes bin Yea GOD is witnesse with us we our lives Our Parents our dear Children and our wives Have often valued at so low a rate And so neglected them to serve the State At your Command as if they had not seemed Things worthy to be any whit esteemed Through heat and cold through dangers through Fears Through wāts woūds thorow swords spears Yea which is worse through their neglects scorn For whom in part we all these things have born We have adventur'd that we might-uphold Your Honour to the uttermost we could Which we repeat not to derive from thence Selfe-praise but to beget a confidence In you this day that we appeare as Friends With our first-love and with as loyall ends As when we first came in to offer to you The services we able were to doe you And we are still resolv'd if need appear To be as free and forward as we were Your Dignitie and Honor to maintain Yea twice mote yet and three times thrice again If you which we suspect not shall goe on With faithfulnesse to doe the worke begun And shall nor faint nor faile in your pursuite Of what you are about to execute We do ingage with you to fall or stand To give assistance both with heart and hand To all your just Designes and settle them In spight of those who shall our hopes contemn Yea whether your Antagonists are they Who here at home your Counsels would betray Or Enemies who from abroad shall dare Invade our Freedomes we resolved are To stand the shock of all their threats powers Be they States Prelates Kings or Emperours Or altogether For what hard can be To these three joyned GOD and You and Wee But You and Wee as reasonable men Must to GODS helpe adde our endeavors then Or else both You and VVee in vaine presume That GOD our Coadjutor will become Our best endeavours too must be imployed Where we most likely are to be destroyed Which otherwhile he better may discerne Who trims the Sails then he that Guides at Stern You are the Braine the Liver and the Hart Of this great Bodie and the Vitall-part Which gives it motion But we are the Hands Whereby it Acts The Feet whereon it stands The Bulk and Bones which must the burthens bear And VVee with You may claime to have a share In all the senses and without offence In that which hath been cal'd the Common-sence By us together therefore and alone Our Duties must respectively be done According to the Common-Interest And to the Faculties by us possest Vnited and a sunder with such care To heed each others counsels doubts and Feare And with such mutuall readinesse to add All comforts all good helpes that may be had And all endearements which may knit together Our Forces and our Loves to one another That none may come between us or find way To mixe with us our Counsels to betray This last will more endanger us then all The strength of Spain and France united shall If we prevent it not And there is need That hereof at this present we take heed For of this Evill to our griefe we view Both symptoms and effects yea not a few Most honor'd Peers Comons whilst you wake And watchfull are that we no harmes may take We sleep not so supinely as to sleight Our own securitie or that which might Indanger You

multiplieth wrongs That all your Engineers and cunning plots Shall nor divide the English from the Scots Nor separate those English from each other VVho by their Covenant are knit together Till they have done their work and you are pai'd VVhat they deserve who have their trust betrai'd Or else till they or we commit that act VVhich totally dissolveth our contract And wee to them who shall unjustly take Or give the cause that cursed Breach to make But whatsoever Blessing may ensue No portion of it can belong to you In this estate For plainly we descry That in the gall of bitternesse you lye VVe 〈◊〉 although we cannot hinder it VVhat you pursue whilst in the House you sit VVhat things abroad you practise and allow VVhat you in secret favour and avow And to effect your purposes to bring How you abuse both Parliament and King We know the means by which you entred in Upon what Principles you did begin What course you took before you were elected What fame you had of what you were suspected In what base projects you a hand have had How poor some of you were how rich now made By publike ruins and what follow must If you be long continued in your Trust We have observ'd though many crooks it hath The turnings and the windings of your path How you divide the Clergie by your sidings How your divisions and your sub-dividings You multiply and manie waies foment To work destruction to the Government In Church Common-wealth and how your tricks Extracted from the Jesuits politicks Do shake the Fundamentalls whereon stand The safety wealth and honour of the Land We see although we cannot yet prevent Or well expresse the same how you have spent The Publike-Treasures how the Publike-Pow'r Is brought it self to weaken and devour How you oppresse the Countrey without pity How you abuse the Bounty of the City Her valiant sons how you have wrong'd and sleighted Their faithfull service how you have requited And what unlesse both you and we amend Will be our portion and your later end Yea we grow sensible with what delay Our suits are trifled off from day to day How long we wait to have Petitions heard And when committed how you dis-regard Our charge by keeping witnesses in town Our tedious pains in trotting up and down To wooe for meetings that our time and cost In feeing Clerks and Councell be not lost All these with other hind'rances unnam'd For which the Houses are not to be blam'd We suffer to our bitter discontent And to the scandall of the Parliament Through your defaults who have by sitting long Learn'd new contrivances for doing wrong And such obstructive and destructive waies As were to us unknown in former daies GOD be your speed as your designes are just Els let them thrive as we believe they must Our hope you were but now our Fear you be And kept by you as lambs by wolves are we Regardlesse of our wellfare you are grown Gods cause pretending you pursue your own Increasing by the Common-wealths decrease Improoving by the ruin of our Peace And making to your selves ev'n as you list A Priesthood Lawes a Gospell and a Christ We that have been your first and fastest friends If ever you had honouroble ends In order to the publike have of late But serv'd your turns in serving of the State This having for our fordwardnesse enjoy'd That we are most opprest and first destroy'd And through your fault are griev'd by their neglect Whom we most honour and do best affect Nay which is worse you who on us have brought This mischief must the Publike-friends be thought And we Delinquents for no other cause But seeking execution of the Lawes Or for endeavouring how to break ope Some necessarie passage to our hope VVhen we are almost stifled in the throng Of miseries which have opprest us long If as our VOW injoyns us we accuse Your Fellowes who have seemed to abuse Their Publike-Trust Though by our Information VVe only seek the Kingdoms Reformation Yet such is your injustice that instead Of suffering us to have a faire proceed According to the merit of the Cause The Subjects Priviledges and the Lawes You fall on us as if that we were they VVho were accus'd the Kingdom to betray At leastwise we are us'd and look'd upon As if some great offences we had done The men inform'd against you do permit In their own Cause Examiners to sit To hear debates our witnesses to see And speak with them ere they examin'd be To act as Judge and Party To enlarge The guilty to condemn without a charge Us that are innocent and to pursue us As if unquestionable Rogues they knew us And if you were not yet more impudent It might be borne But to the Parliament You seek to make us odious and to leave us Nor friend nor bread nor ought that ease may give us And which is worse then this by having thus Thus impudently made a scorn of us Whose good affections gen'rally are knowne The people so discouraged are growne That had not some a love unto the State Which will out-live your tyranny and hate The Parliament would be deserted so And their Just-Quarrell so defamed grow That Traytors would be traitors without feare And none be bold to say they Traytors are A multitude of other wayes you grieve us Through misinforming them who should reli●… 〈◊〉 Through mis-reports and making outward showes Of better fruit then on your dunghill growes And we have little hope of gaining ease Till GOD himself by miracle shall please Or by some extraordinary way To change your minds or root you quite away For our most just-complaints do nought asswage Your cruelty but more encrease your rage Our Patience no respect at all hath won us But rather makes you more insult upon us Yea and the more your wills we stoop unto The more we have to suffer and to do If we seeme forward for the Common-weal With popularity you brand our zeal If we contribute more then some of you With enviousnesse our bounty you pursue And whereas we should favour'd be therefore You do not only make our burthens more Then other mens when ablenesse have we But lay them on when we unable be And for our being first in contribution Intend to make us last in restitution Nay some of us have cause to be affraid Well-doing shall with evill be repay'd For we whilst you proceed as yet you do Have more then symptoms that it will be so If want compell us for our own to pray With empty hands you send us oft away With long delayes our patiences are tri'd Ere we can get our suits heard or deni'd And then lest too much grace you should afford You seldome give us one respective word But looke upon us with such pride and scorn As if to be your vassalls we were born Meanwhile your Favourites forsooth and they That humour you in your imperious way Are