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A96745	The dark lantern containing a dim discoverie, in riddles, parables, and semi-riddles, intermixt with cautions, remembrances and predictions, as they were promiscuously and immethodically represented to their author, in his solitary musings, the third of November 1652. about midnight. Whereunto is annexed, a poem, concerning a perpetuall parliament. By Geo. Wither Esquire.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1653 (1653)	Wing W3152; Thomason E1432_3; ESTC R204097	38,711	84

should not trust With other mens estates who have been known To lose or hazard desperately their own Men to their pleasure overmuch addicted For Publike works will be by these neglected Such as apparently are Avaritious Or of Promotion greedily ambitions For if their ends thereby acquire they may These may be hir'd their Country to betray Such as indulge their lust and famed are Ju their uncleannesses to persevere For they will leave their Charge to please their whore And shame their fellows if they do no more Of irreligious persons make no choice For these will very seldome give their Voice But in the Negative to any motion That may be for advancement of Devotion Chuse none who are defam'd in any kind As being vitious for these means will find To hinder all enactings which restrain Ill manners or to sober life pertain Elect not children for it is unfit That in our Supreme Counsell they should sit To Vote in Grand Affairs whom Law restrains From managing what to themselves pertains Chuse none who are observed to withhold Their long due debts when they discharge them could Or outlaw'd persons for unfit are they To make our Lawes who will not Lawes obey Chuse none who shall solicite or propose That they for your Law makers may be chose And their Electors by the old abuse Of feasting wine and banquetings seduce For they who shall uncall'd themselves advance To that great work have much more arrogance Then worth and it is also ten to one They for themselves have something to be done And lastly take good heed that none get in By your Elections who have active bin Against this State till you of them have had Good proof whereby secure you may be made For he that hath into subjection brought A Thief who on the way to rob him sought And straight way trusts him with his sword and horse Takes not a very safe or prudent course This being done as in preceding ages Let those who are Elected have their wages Well paid and rendered proportionable To what the times require to make them able To serve their Country in the Parliament Without their private cost or detriment For both our Lawes and equity requires That Labourers should be allow'd their hires Yea 't is a kind of bribery in those Who offer without wages to be chose And Boroughs which unable seem to beare That charge not worth the representing are Beside their choice is for the most part made By some Malignant Stewards or or'e aw'd By misaffected Landlords to the wrong Of what to them with others doth belong And their objections are but cavillings Who shall alledge that these est ablishings Infringe their Antient Right for be it known The Commonwealth no priviledge can own Destructive to it self much rather we Who now by Conquest teinvested be With what was lost are bound to settle it Not as our foes wish but as may befit The present and the future preservation Of safety peace and freedome to this Nation Moreover as upon the House of Peers It was the custome in preceding years That there the Sages of the Law attended To whose debate such points were recommended As to the Law related so let some Selected be and summoned to come To whom each matter questioned relates To be advis'd withall in their debates As needfull it shall seem whether the cause In controversie shall concern the Laws War Merchandize or whatsoever may Require their best experience on the day Thereto assign'd that ev'ry work begun May by it proper instrument be done Which will prevent much doing and undoing And make now comers in short time as knowing As they that have sate long and finish more In three weeks then in three moneths heretofore These outworks will much strengthen and secure The works within yet that they may endure All sieges underminings and scaladoes Battries assaults and stormings with Granadoes By soes without and treacheries within To build a Cittadell let us begin Upon some Fundamentalls and provide They may for ever unrepeal'd abide Let it inviolably be decreed That Cities Shires and Boroughs do proceed Once ev'ry year upon the time assign'd On penalty of being deeply fin'd To make Elections that we never may For time to come be headless for one day Let it be overlasting banishment To him who shall to change this Government From being a Republike motion make And to act further if he undertake Let it be death with totall confiscation Of his estate without commiseration Unless the great Disposer of all things Who as he lists sets up and pulls down Kings Shall thereto by a conquering power compell And not to do it then were to rebell Whoever with the publike Treasury Shall stand intrusted and doth knowingly Defraud the Commonwealth or shall purloine Whether it be in goods or ready Coyne The worth of twenty ounces in pure plate Let it be loss of life and of estate Whoever this Republike shall betray Maliciously or for advance or pay Resigne his Trust or cowardly give up What he had means to keep or likely hope Let it when prov'd be death without reprieving Or any hope of temporall forgiving Whoever shall from any foraigne State Or Prince take pension or negotiate With them or with their Agents when they are With us in Treaties or in open war In State affairs unless the State gives leave Let him without a pardon death receive Above a moneth together suffer none To sit hereafter in the Speakers throne On some great penalty Because thereby Both publike wrongs and private injuries May be occasioned Impose the like On him that shall absent himself one week From Parliament without a good cause shown Or that without leave shall depart the Town Let some appearance every day be made That this great Body never want a Head That 's visible and to prevent what may Unthought upon befall us in a day Yea on the Sabboth for an houre or two Convene for 't is a Sabboth-work you do And Venice hath by long experiment Found that this Caution may be pertinent Nor will it over-burthensome appear When they are to continue but one year Let none in Parliament have toleration To mention ought to their disreputation Who absent are except they undertake Of what they shall aver good proof to make On pain of an expulsion or permit An Intimation likely to beget A misconjecture to the injury Of him that is not present to reply But let th' Accusers and their Accusations Be known that those may have due vindications Who are traduc'd For no man should enjoy A priviledge his neighbour to destroy Moreover lest the Parliament become By multiplying Suits more burthensome Then all those other Courts of whose oppressions We have complain'd and render our conditions Less curable let it admit no Cause But such as hath no remedy by Lawes In force or for a non-fruition Of Iustice by their partiall execution For by removing of such grievances And to provide against

immergencies Which may occurr both in affairs abroad And here at home they will have still their load If not the being of a Parliament Thus constituted doubtless will prevent So many mischiefs that it will return Large recompences for all charges born Let it expulsion be from thence for ever With some great mulct for any whosoever That as a Member of the Parliament Shall sit two years together yea though sent And let no Lawyers practise for a Fee Or plead whil'st of the Parliament they be Or any who there siteth as a Peer Be Iudge of any supreme Court that yeer Or during that imployment execute A Place permitting not a Substitute That in Appeals none may infringe the Lawes By being Iudge and Partie in one Cause And that to all men justice may be done Among your Fundamentalls make this one That whatsoever shall be taken from One few or many through all times to come In publike wants and dangers be repaid By equall Taxes generally laid And that they shall not make or abrogate A Law diminishing one mans estate More then anothers without recompence On whatsoe're occasion or pretence Yea let all mens estates reduced be To lesse then forty shillings yearly Fee Rather then friend or foe should justly say The publike faith were broken any way Which would inrich us and innoble more Then if our hills of chalk were silver o're Our sand pure gold our pebles pearls of price Our fields as fruitfull as old Paradise And ev'ry son which forth each mother brings As Prince or Lord and all their Fathers Kings Then to prevent the drawing those together Who for by-ends would fortifie each other Let him that place in Parl'ament supplies Who shall by letter word or otherwise Either contrive solicite or propose Another during that time to be chose Be from his Trust exiled with disgrace Never to be admitted to that place And that all Fundamentalls ratifi'd In Parl'ament for ever may abide Inviolated let no man be sent A City Town or Shire to represent Till by Indenture under hand and seal He stand ingaged to the Common-weal And his Electors that by no endeavour He shall repeal or any way for ever Weaken these Fundamentalls but assay At all times to inlarge them what he may For Parl'aments as heretofore our Kings Are but Trustees and therefore in such things As to the publike damage may redound As well as they shold Act within some bound By these provisions with some other such Made Fundamentalls we might very much Advantage this Republike and as far As humane industries enabled are To promise safety and establishment Secure from change the present Government Till men may dry-shod walk upon the sand From Deal and Dover Cliffs to Callis strand Or Penmin Maure be set on Snow-down hills And Time unto their springs turns back the rills This would be like the river wherewithall The Tyrant Queller cleans'd th' Augean stall As Poets faign and wash away that soil And bloud and filth which doth our beauty spoil By these means we might both in one contrive A true successive Representative Compleated in a safe establishment For ever of the self-same Parl'ament Producing all their just desires together Who seek the one or who desire the other And with prevention of all harms that may Be fear'd by th' one or other way By these means we shall never be without A Supreme power or live in any doubt Of harmfull change if wisely we pursue This course and to our selves continue true By these means there will still be an appearance Sufficient to keep up a perseverance In all great undertakings with due order And with such quick dispatch the suits to further Of men opprest that they may hope to see Those plaints determin'd which yet endless be And never will have end till wit or force Reduce us unto this or some such course By this expedient they that are in place At present may resign without disgrace The Trust they have to take a while their ease Or follow their affairs as they shall please And after one year back perhaps return To reassume the burthens they have born Hereby a likely means will be contriv'd Of that security which is deriv'd From many Counsellors and distribution Of burthens will make easie execution More quick yea and more cheap dispatches too For those who shall have ought with them to do By these means if a worthlesse Member come Among our Worthies to supply a room His heart may changed be whereas now they Who came in honest are oft drawn away From their first Principles with them to close Who mean to gain what e're the Publike lose Or at the worst he must from thence be gone Before much mischief can by him be done And such as do confederate and plot That for themselves advantage may be got Though to their Countryes loss and neighbors wrong Shall want the time and means which doth belong To such contrivements as are frequent now When most each others minds and interests know For by new Parties monethly coming in They 'l break as fast as they to knit begin And Gins which heretofore effects have took By kindred and alliance will be broke By these means they who do command to day Shall learn again to morrow to obey Many shall be encourag'd to enable Themselves in publike to be serviceable And in few years some thousands more then now The common interest will learn to know And how they may advance it when they come From that grand School to live again at home And think themselves obliged ev'ry where To further it as well as sitting there By this means ev'ry man within his Orb Shall be restrain'd and none have power to curb Supreme authority or to aspire By his ambition to a Station higher Then shall be safe to all and judged fit For this free State with prudence to admit Nor shall the da●ingst tyrant in the land Presume to move a tongu● or lift a hand Against that power o● plot vent or concceal Ought which may damnifie this Common-weal Yea by this means we calmly shall reduce The Parl'ament unto it genuine use Without advent'ring what may intervene By Intervalls and what hath feared been Not without cause by hazarding to call A new one or by an additionall Supply to this as now affairs relate To home designs and our next neighbring State But if we fail in any circumstance Here mentioned we never shall advance The Publike interest to that effect Which by this Parliament we might expect Nor scape that tyranny which is design'd By those who are contrarily inclin'd For they that would be tyrants knowing those Who did the Regall tyranny oppose Still zealous for the peoples liberty Will to effect their purposes comply With any party and then by displacing By disenabling or els by disgracing The well-affected at last compasse that Which is by them in secret almed at Unlesse prevented and involve us more In servile slaveries then

thereby differenced From vulgar persons might be honored According to their place and known among And by the people as they past along Into the Senate or as to and fro from place to place on their affairs they go Moreover when that they had laid aside Their Senate robes about their necks I spi'd A golden Wreath which thereat pendent had A Tablet whereon was enamelled The British Isles within the Ocean plac't And with a Verge of curled waves embrac't Which was bestown upon them for a badge of honor and likewise to priviledge Their persons wheresoe're they were unknown That due respect might ev'ry where be shown And no affronts receiv'd These badges were From man to man and still from year to year Resign'd to their Successors to be born By those whom their Electors should return Much more I saw which should I here relate Would yet appear things worthy laughing at As these declar'd already do to some But when the daies of their admittance come Which I believe draw neer it will be found That these Previsions had some likely ground And that the heart from whence all this did flow Meant well to you though these things prove not so Hear me with patience but a few words more And to their freedome I 'le your ears restore As country folks to keep out Witches do within the threshold nail a horses shoe So did I at the fore-door of this piece Insert a charm to keep out prejudice And now if some way els it in be brought That at the Back-door I may thrust it out I 'le fix a Si quis or it may be mo Upon the Postern Gate before I go If any think the posture we are in Will still as prosperous be as it hath been Or that GOD will this Nation still deliver By miracles although we shall persever In high prosumptions and supreme neglect Of that compliance which he doth expect They greatly are deceiv'd For know the end Of most things on contingence doth depend We of this Nation having walk'd upon The Pythagorean Y or Ypsilon Are come unto the foot thereof this day Where lies before our face a double way The one of them directeth us unto Prosperity the other to our woe On this hand Bliss on that hand Curses lie Proceed this way and live go that and die Ev'n Davids temp'rall Kingdom though there had Large promises concerning it been made Was on his heirs intail'd for their fruition Not absolutely but upon condition Which being broken all th' externall power And glory of it vanisht so shall our Moreover if that any shall believe Our hazards are far less then I conceive Let them not trust to such a dream as that Lest they discover when it is too late The dangers threatning us For I have been Inform'd aright what perills we are in And whereas of those things which passed by From time to time I sought to satisfie My private knowledge only that I might Assured be I had observ'd aright If I had thereby gathe'rd proofs to show To other men the truth of what I know I should of such things demonstration give As few suspect and fewer would believe And you would see that we are in a course Like his who in a dark night rode his horse O're Chepstow bridge upon a single board When lowd to him the dreadfull waters roar'd Beneath the broken arch and seem'd to say Oh fool take heed ther 's danger in the way And some perhaps if they assured were What hazzards they have past would die through fear As it is said he did when he had sight Next morn of what he scaped over-night We think perhaps we all this while have been Upon as plain firm ground as Richmond-green Or in a Course wherein as safe we run As on the race at Bausted-downs at noon When we are rather dancing o're the tops Of tottering pinacles on rotten roper Where but that we by providence are kept We down had fell at every Stride we stept Yet for the most part every losse and streight Which we are in makes us but lay more weight Upon the weak and each Deliverance Doth but increase our pride and arrogance As if we were resolved without heed of judgments or of mercies to proceed Untill confusion should compell us to What we might orderly and timely do Lastly if any shall be pleas'd to say Or dream as peradventure many may That with affairs I intermeddle here Which pertinent to my Superiors are And not to me To all these be it known The businesse which I treat of is mine own I claim in this Republike with the best A share proportion'd to my interest And freedome boldly to expresse my mind As often as I just occasion find the common liberty and common peace Are truly mine and no mans more or less I fought for 't and I pay for 't thrice my share According to the part which many beare My Countries wrong is mine her grief my sorrow And therefore they that wound her thrust me thorow They who her wealth or honor fool away Fool me when in that kind the fools they play And therefore they who thereto Traytors be Are therein also Traytors unto me And no man can without apparent wrong Restraint impose upon my pen or tongue In pleading of her cause nor will I fear To act my own work in my proper sphere For though I have not power to make a Law Or raise an Armie which can keep in awe Her private enemies and open foes Yet I have charms equivalent to those In some respects which operate unseen Those ends whereto they have intended been And will have due effects in their despight Who seek to trample on the common Right In this assurance here I 'le add a close To this and leave th' event to GOD'S dispose Who if we shall neglect a few weeks more Good counsell as we have done heretofore Will break down that which might preserv'd have bin And on another Base his work begin Nov. 30. FINIS