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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96763	Prosopopœia Britannica Britans genius, or, good-angel, personated; reasoning and advising, touching the games now playing, and the adventures now at hazard in these islands; and presaging, also, some future things, not unlikely to come to passe. / Discovered, by Terræ-Filius (a well-knowne lover of the publike-peace) when the begetting of a nationall-quarrell was first feared. Expressed in two lections, or readings.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing W3183; Thomason E1149_2; ESTC R204086	62,569	119

and others too By taking on you more then you can do Lest when attendance much expence and trouble Hath made the losse and suffrance more then double They grow impatient and you come to tast The fruit of their impatiency at last Give Order how to cure those imperfections Which have been heretofore in your Elections Lest Members may among you be emploid By whom the Publike-Body be destroid Let not the Father there beget the sonne Though this in Bodies Naturall be done Let none among you be admitted in By Marriage or being near of kin Or to the Kingdames just dissatisfaction For being of this Sect or of that Faction As if among you some to purchase meant Inheritances in the Parliament And others aim'd by Parties to endeavour The keeping up Divisions there forever Let it be so no more if you can Order That such an injury proceed no further But let the Burroughs and the Shires be free To make their choice as they inclin'd shall bee According to their customes till it may Be better done by some new lawfull way That when for Trust-breach any blamed are Their chusers in that blame a part may beare If they hereafter for their private ends For fear or love shall chuse their Foes or Friends Their Land-Lords Kinsmen Lawyers or whom ever They shall not think will faithfully endeavour To serve his GOD the People and the King With single heart in ev'ry lawfull thing Consider how in giving a reward The person more then merit you regard How often that hath been for private ends Procur'd and with relation unto friends How Offices and Places are bestowne How some have two or three and others none Who better merit four if there were any Who could be capable of halfe so many And would ye well observ'd that this is done As if ye fear'd as if ye car'd for none Nor how the people who upon you cry For bread observe your partiality In giving that to one who hath no need Which would a thousand Starvelings cloath and feed Refuse no just complaints that men may see You sensible of their oppressions bee Yet to your selves assume not any cause Which is determinable by the Lawes In other Courts unlesse they prove corrupt Or till some difficulty interrupt The course of Justice there And so provide To try in course what is before you tri'd That you undoe not e're their cause have end Those who with Proofes and Counsell must attend The sad Petition which the poore man brings Sleight not nor make them but meere pocketings Till they are quite worne out or quite forgot Unlesse perchance your store supplies you not With tinder for Tobacco and so brings To memorie againe such triviall things More mind your promises of doing right To grieved men when you thereto have might And let them see that your devoiur you do As far as God enables you thereto Consider how you Legacies bestow Before you pay those debts which yet ye owe Ev'n debts for which the Publike-Faith doth lie At Pawne and is dishonoured thereby Debts for which your poore Creditors have laine In prison till their Freedomes to obtaine They sold their Freeholds when they had no more To live on and had sold their goods before Debts which they lent you in your greatest feare And borrowed for you when distrest you were Yea Debts which they who sent then lent you too Their lives the publike services to do And could have lost them with more joy them they Now live to see by seeing of this day How easily to some doe you afford Beliefe to their availe on their bare word When in the selfe-same case you are not moved To do the like for others who have proved What they aver'd by vouchers no not when It hath been prov'd by Oathes of honest men Consider how to some you do allow Their dues with interest who well enough May respite it and yet the same deny To him who felt extreame necessity By loosing part by lending of the rest By borrowing more for you on interest Now four yeares due and which before he shall In likelihood be paid will eat up all And let it be consider'd if it may What t is to take his liberty away To fine him to permit that through the land He for conspiracy defam'd should stand And suffer much more by their impudence Who misinform'd you of his innocence And all for nought but for informing you What he was told what he beleev'd was true What he produc'd his author for with proofe Of Part and circumstances too enough To make all probable yea more for what His Covenant oblig'd him to relate And what his sirst Relator did aver And will do still in each particular Should I propose here as considerable So many things to you as I were able I should as tedious in the same become As many times Committees are to some I le therefore sum up all in wishing you Of those things which you know to make reveiw And see if these come short in any thing Of those who heretofore misled the King Or if their falshoods or misinformations Were greater causes of his abberrations Or more dishonour to his Government Then these have been unto this Parliament Whose Pride Ambition Malice Arrogance Whose Avarice Selfe-love and Ignorance Whose Insolence or Cowardice of late Have caus'd so many to abhominate Them and their courses and nigh turned all Ev'n all things both Divine and Temporall Into a Chaos 'T is not as is deemed And as perhaps it hath to many seemed 'T is not the City which hath lately made Those tumults and those uproars you have had 'T is not the Army whence your mutinies New plots and new divisions do arise And whereby mischiefs daily do encrease To cause a new adjournment of your Peace The Parl'aments dishonour separations Between the late united British Nations And if it may be possible to bring The people of both Kingdomes and the King Into a further hatred of each other It is not your Dissenting-parties neither Those whom ye call Malignants who were able So weake to make you so dishonourable And in so bad a plight as you are in If your owne Members had not faulty been Nor had your City or the Army moved In any course which might not be approved If they had felt no influence upon them From higher Pow'rs which thereunto had won them Nor had so many men right well-affected And by whose purse and pow'r you were protected Been drawne into misactings and mistakings Which falsly are misconstrued forsakings Of their first love but that the policies Of some among you drew before their eyes Those mists and practised those juggling sleights Which kept the safest course out of their sights And what that was or what that yet may be Few have discover'd by ought I can see But were it knowne you could not rectifie Those things among you which are now awry Till you reforme your selves for well ye know

any thing to furnish-out the same Belonging to that race except a Name And here shall end that Prophesie unlesse It further be fulfild through wilfulnesse If he who ownes that name shall harken to Their counsell who will tell him what to do That name at last much like that stump may be Which was preserved when the Royall-tree Once representing Nebuchadnezzar Was felled downe And as he did appeare In former Glorie when he had confest His failings and the living God profest So shall it be with Charles if he repent God will the ruine of his House prevent Restore him to his Throne and make his fame To grow the fairer through his present shame But if he shall defer till 't is too late Let him prepare for King Belshazzars fate And let all those who shall to him adhere Expect in his sad dooms to have a share As Samuel did for Saul till God did sling That Tyrant off and chose another King So shall I pray for him with mourning too Till I perceive what GOD and he will do And therefore touching him I will before I speake to others utter somewhat more By no externall symptoms can I find That he doth yet begin to change his mind But so in his first march proceedeth on As if he wrongs receiv'd but none had done And whereas GOD for penitence doth call Doth seem to think there needeth none at all But rather that his people if not heav'n Should supplicate to be of him forgiven For suffring such an Innocent as he So scandalized and so wrong'd to be Yea and the people as it is their guize When some offender at the gallowes dies Whom they themselves brought thither do begin To look more on the streight that he is in Then on the reason of it And as when A Township having seized guilty men Who had much wrong'd their servants stole their goods Devour'd their cattell sometime shed their bloods And threatned their destruction in a rage They force them to the stocks or to the cage Or to the Justice and are like to teare The Rogues in peeces too ere they come there But when they are examin'd and when they Must at their Parish charges them convey Unto the Goale be bound to prosecute Take paines and spend some money in the suit That Justice may be done the Land to free From such a plague as those were like to bee Then if the Rascals whine as they will do And make their moane they fain would let them go Thus fares it with the people they complain'd Against the King of wrongs by him sustain'd And of worse like to come They saw he drew The Sword upon them therewith to pursue His Vsurpations and they were compel'd To arme and to oppose him in the field Where GOD the victory bestow'd on them And in their owne defence they conquer'd him Then finding that this Conquest drew on charge And that it further would their cost inlarge To keep what they have got lest all the cost And blood already wasted should be lost And worse things follow they impatient grow And are discourag'd and besotted so That they begin to pity his estate More then themselves to scandalize and hate Ev'n their Deliverers to underprize GOD'S mercies their own safety to despise And to behave themselves as if they had An inclination in them to be mad About next Moone in June Or had their Doome In spight of their Defenders to become Perpetuall slaves And this base Generation Foes to themselves and to their owne salvation Have so confirm'd the Kings obduracy By their imprudence and apostacy That he perhaps perswades himselfe there needs No penitence for any of his deeds Against the publike Rights and that his ends To compasse this vaine Rout will yeeld him friends Now therefore all excuses to prevent Though I have shew'd whereof he should repent Informed how and in some part of what Yet here I le touch a little more of that That He and they who think him without blame May somewhat now consider of the same Deserves it no repentance to invade Those priviledges which his people had And those proprieties which they injoy'd In their estates unjustly to make void Or from their ancient freedomes them to thrust Or from their due possessions for his lust Or maintenance for luxury and pride By other mens undoings to provide And then by Proclamation to pretend Some necessary and some publike end Which could be manifest to no mans view And which was generally knowne untrue VVas it no sinne by base Monopoles To raise the price of most commodities To take away free Trades and occupations To vex men with perpetuall Molestations By Courts and Officers devis'd for nought But that men into bondage might be brought To his Prerogatives and by degrees By new exactions Services and Fees Be screw'd up through demands appearing small Till he hath got a seeming-right in all For if that be his due which was receiv'd So is the rest if Priests may be believ'd VVas it no fault deserving penitence To take away the meanes of their defence From his most faithfull Subjects to ingrosse And raise the price of powder to their losse And their apparent danger to disarme Their persons who intended him no harme To put them under the Command of those Who are their knowne Oppressors and their Foes To make them lend what he ne're meant to pay To make them buy what he should give away To make them give who had no list thereto To make men sell what they would not forgo To act what may of all their dues deprive them And to deny them that which should relieve them Deserves it not a sigh that in his Court Prophanenesse and Oppressions were but sport That Judges were compell'd to wrest the Lawes Divines the Scriptures to maintaine a Cause Which GOD abhorres that all oppressions should Be there upheld and sin be uncontrold That Schoole-boyes not arriv'd at years of reason Should suffer death as culpable of Treason For childish words as if Kings grew afraid Through guiltinesse of what young Infants said Deserves it not bewailing to repaire By fines unjustly rais'd the House of Prai'r To punish men of merit with disgraces Dismembrings Stigmatizing of their faces Imprisonments exiles and separations From friends wives children yea from all relations For things not capitall or deemed crimes By Law or blamable in better times Was nothing done whereof he might repent When ev'n the speaking of a Parliament Was made a crime when Members were confin'd For doing what by duty was injoyn'd When all their Priviledges were so broke That some should violently have been tooke Ev'n from their Sanctuary which of old To violate no Tyrant was so bold And for which act alone this free-born Nation Would quite have ruin'd all his Generation In former times if they had ere obtain'd So great advantages as now are gain'd Deserves it no repentance to bestow Those honours which to virtue he doth owe On

keep his own sphere Lest if above their Circles they aspire Like Phaeton they set the world on fire Or aid those Comets which already glare Prodigiously to breed combustions here VVose mischievous effects you may in vaine Attempt perhaps hereafter to restraine Till to the snuffe they blaze or till they shall To quench their thirstings all your blood exhale This mischief to prevent let ev'ry wit And ev'ry Pow'r subordinate submit To that which is supreme ev'n unto that VVhich for the present is predominate For publike safety And let that abide On Principles whic neither may divide Or wound it selfe lest on it selfe it draw Contempt from them who thereof stood in awe And that contempt so weaken them at length That they with losse of honour lose their strength For you have felt as well as heard it told VVhat of Divisions hath been said of old Your present postures give occasion may To some of doubting whom they should obey How far forth their obedience must extend How long they shall uncertainely attend The hatching of that Government which must Continue fixt and whereto they may trust VVhich questionings and doubtings though good reason Hath made them in these Islands now in season Enfeeble much your Pow'r and do beget Though seemingly the people do submit Ill consequences which will still be worse Untill you settle on some certaine course Especially if they suspect that pow'r Intendeth not their benefit but your Delay not therefore that which they expect And till a settlement may take effect Or till they better know what doth pertaine To your new cunb and also to your reine With kindnesse mannage them and condescend To what may for their satisfaction tend In all just seeming Rights till they may see That by your pow'r their peace preserv'd shall bee And then if your Authority to own They shall refuse so make your courage known That none may dare blaspheme or scandalize Those needful Pow'rs and lawful Dignities Which are above their Censures least you farther Their Plots who have no hope but in disorder Since better it becomes VVisemen to dye In Order then to live in Mutiny Mark those among you who whilst they pretend Your Power and your Proceedings to befriend Impair them underhand by driving on Designs destructive to what should be done So many Marks upon them do appear Declaring to what Party they adhere That well they may be known And they to whom These are discover'd find what will become Of You and your Affairs unless you shall With speed and wisely them in question call Your greatest Foes and they who most may wrong you Are some who dayly Counsel take among you Your Adversaries as the Prophet said Are men of your own Houses who have playd The parts of Seeming Friends Of these therefore Take heed and seek to cast them out of door Before they cast out you Which were they stronger Deferred would not be one minute longer When you have purg'd your Houses till which day All will be spoke in vain that I shall say Take my advice for it is genuine And that whereto your Genins doth incline First to Debate and then to Question bring The Government and what concerns the King Which being prudently resolv'd upon Will save you twenty labours in that One And make if you perform as is profest An easie passing thorough all the rest In your Debates discover not that spleen Or Virulency wherein may be seen A purpose nor to give nor take content But so contest that when ye shall assent There may on you be seen the fewer scars Of your unhappy and uncivil Wars And that it may appear your strife hath bin Not that your VVill but that the Truth may win Yet lest whilst you are forced to contest You may destroy the noblest Interest By dull Indifferency or want of zeal Look to the safety of the Common-weal As to your chief Alligance For a King Who makes a claim although the claimed thing Be due yet if he so exacteth it As that it publike danger may beget Becomes a Traytor to the Royall Trust In him repos'd and merits to be thrust Besides the Throne if therein he persist To prosecute his private Interest When ye are certain what should be prefer'd From prosecuting it be not deter'd Or from a stout ingagement in that Cause Whereto you are obliged by the Laws Of GOD and Nature For a work begun With Courage is as good as halfway done Let not the foolish fears or superstition Of earebor'd slaves the Foot-stools of Ambition Who Idolize and deifie their Kings As more then mortal and unbounded things Let not these fright But well examine you What to the People what to them is due That so your Friends who see your prudency May be preserved from Apostacy Consider wisely how with him you deal Who of these Vessels was esteem'd erew hile Both Master and Chief owner that nor he Nor you may ruin'd or dishonour'd be By any practise which may not befit Your Wisdom or your Justice to permit Force not each other into such a Streight As that there may from thence be no retreit Or means left for th' one Party to prevent The others fall although he should repent But as indeed you hitherto have done Him as the Publike Father look upon And though his Parasites have him inrag'd By causeless Jelousies and far ingag'd Against your Lives and Freedoms yet assay To shew him all the Mercy that you may Vlisses did spontaneously assent To be inchained that he might prevent The Syrens Charms and you without just blame Have done and may yet do to him the same Who hath already been by their inchanting So charm'd that very little now is wanting Of his and your destruction By his own And others faults distemper'd he was grown And thereby hath indangered no less His own Safe-being then the Common-Peace And while destructive Courses he shall take You are oblig'd to stop and pull him back Though his Seducers grow inrag'd thereby And term you Traytons for your loyalty Yea you may still restrain him and thereto Add more if need require it should be so Till GOD by his especial grace hath broght him To shun the Course which evil Counsel taught him Or left him so that wilfully he shall Without your fault by his own Projects fall I will not counsel that ought less you do Then Salus Populi constrains you to For though the Sheepish Ront more think upon Things present then on what is past and gone And seem to have already so forgot Late grievances as if they thought it not So great a plague to be inslav'd for aye As present weights to bear though but one day Yea though the most part of the Common rabble So sottish are and so irrationable That out of fear lest others should enslave them They would inslave themselves and those that save them Yet must not those on whom the Land relies Benummed grow with such stupidities For 't is

GOD shall give an end By his own Pow'r to what you cannot mend And neither he nor you shall rise to stand But by advancing Justice in the Land Excuse me if 'twixt what concerns the King And these Republikes with some staggering I seem to Counsel you One while perswading That you oppose with stoutness his invading Your Freedoms and Proprieties Then streight Plead as it were that Grace obtain he might Herein I say excuse me For it fares With me as with King David in his Wars With Absolom Against whom to prevail He was content yet did his death bewail Loth was he by a Foc to be out-braved Griev'd was he that a Son might not be saved And him whom he had sent to overthrow him He did beseech that Mercy he would show him The same I do for him Oh let him have it If he be qualified to receive it But if he still persist as he begun Then do as GOD shall move you I have done Done as concerning him But much I find Concerning you and others yet behind Which must be spoken for the Reformation And Wellfare of this present Generation Or else if otherwise it shall succeed That Future-Ages may take better heed For know unless ye speedily begin To change the present Posture you are in That you who at this day have Pow'r to give Conditions to your King shall to receive Conditions very glad ere long become Yea and to buy them also with a sum That this may be prevented break the snare Wherewith at this time you ensnarled are When you have any thing to act which may Encrease the Publike suffrance by delay Consume not precious howrs like those who dally In their Affairs with Can We May we Shall we Till they whom you obliged are to cherish Through want of Justice and Subsistence perish Or else till they who yet are knit together So fall away from you and from each other That what you might effect this present day Hereafter you nor can nor shal nor may For think not that the Generalitie Can long continue in prosperitie Whilst you neglect particulars Or that You can accomplish what is aymed at If you leave off to act by rules of Reason Or linger out your works beyond their season Take likewise heed that when ye shall propose The way of Peace lest there may be of those Amongst you who desire that course should finde Obstructions whereunto you seem inclinde Or who for secret ends occasions give That their demands deniall may receive For GOD so hateth double heartedness That he will favour no such practises Then be as heedfull if you shall exceed Set-bounds by some inevitable need Compelling it that when the streight is past Your selves into a Legal Course you cast For while a Town is burning that you see May then be done which after may not be Do as you would be done to Give not those Who are your Friends occasion to be Foes As you would be Forgiven those forgive In whom a true Repentance you perceive Not all Offenders For sure no offence Is pardonable without penitence Since Mercie deigned to Impenitents Is crueltie to wronged Innocents Reward as well as punish For by that You cherish Virtue Fortifie the State And shall gain more then by the pence you spare Though many of this Thrift unheedfull are Against all Enemies make your defence By prudence joyn'd with Dove-like Innocence Keep firm to your first principles For he That standeth fixt though weak he seems to be Gets strength and will by standing still outgo That man who alwaies wanders too and fro Be constant then Affect vain hopes no more Do Justice and shew mercy to the poor Respect not Persons but judge every cause According to right Conscience and the Laws Remembring GOD all that to judgement brings Whether they sit with Commoners or Kings Know he marks all mens walkings and beleeve Such measure as ye mere ye shall receive So as ye answer poor mens prayers now So GOD will answer and so prosper you Make good the Gifts and Favours you bestow As well in deed be righteous as in show Break not your promises to any one Especially to men for you undone And do not let your left-hand them deprive Of that which with your right-hand you did give Nor them repay with scandals or neglect Who have deserved not your least respect For privie to such practises I am Both to the grief of many and your shame When any one of those free Commoners Whom you do represent traduc'd appears Within your Houses where he cannot make Reply thereto And whereof he must take No notice when thereof he shall be told Let his Traducers sharply be controld Or calld upon to prove what they have said That Innocencie may not be betrayd By Impudent Detractors yea and do That wrong as priviledged thereunto For what is more Injurious then disgrace Inflicted in so eminent a place In presence of the Kingdom as it were And whereby ere a man can be aware He may be wrong'd and wounded mortally And never know by whom or how or why Let none aspire to be a Grandee thought Till he his Greatness worthily hath bought By prudent Honestie Tri'd Faithfulness And such like Grandour nay let none possess Repute by these one minute longer then The Publike-Rights and those of private-men Are thereby not infring'd For 't is a wrong To all men unto whom there doth belong Equality to bring in such a Cheat Among you as a Lesser and a Great Or make Estates or Titles pass for more Then Cyphers do within the Counsel-dore And doubtless he unworthily there sits Whom false opinion of his Fellows wits Inslaves in Judgment and whose Ignorance Deceived by a smooth-tongu'd Arrogance Them doth advance to an undue esteem And which the more absurd doth make it seem Superiority ascribes unto them For that in which at home their wives out-do them It is a shame to hear it should be said yet said it is and done as well as said That if this man or that If He or He To make the Motion can procured be Or in the Cause to speak Or but to heed The same with favour it will surely speed And that if it concerns or may displease But any one that is a Friend to these Great Hogen Mogens then the Suitor loses His cost and labour what means er'e he uses Yea though he hath two hundred friends among Your Members who cry shame upon the wrong Nay be not angry that I tell you so For he that speaks it speaks what he doth know It is this Islands Genius who doth see What all your works and inclinations be Who saith it And for him your Conscience too Shall witness true what he hath said you do And I beseech you to consider whether This were the end of calling you together The Shiers and Burroughs by whom they were chose For Deputies did verily suppose By their great words at home their clothes and faces