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An Humble address to the truly loyal citizens of London by a true lover of his king and countrey ; with a candid reprehension to the Intelligencer at the Stationers Arms in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange in Cornhil.
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True lover of his king and countrey.
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Wing H3391A; ESTC R42749
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An Humble ADDRESS To the truly Loyal Citizens of London By a True Lover of his KING and COUNTREY With a Candid Reprehension to the Intelligencer at the Stationers Arms in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange in Cornhil He that speaketh Evil of Kings Princes and Magistrates will be as Simple as he is Wicked to be offended and not amend when he is justly and moderately corrected Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens I Am not ignorant that whatever comes forth in Print if it be cum or sine Privilegio although it assert Allegiance to the King and Obedience to the Magistrates yet now adays it is A la mode to Libel it and for every pitiful Mechanick Fellow to become a Censurer Tempora mutantur At the Beginning it was not so It is now a great fashion for such scurrilous Persons to be the Common Mouth in Defaming the best of our Governours by villifying the Government disliking every thing which is contrary to the foolish Idea of their own minds but from Men of such factious and turbulent Spirits Libera nos domine Certainly it is worthy our most serious Consideration the shameful Actions done by some of our Fellow Citizens whose Courage and Deportment to our Loyal Lord Mayor and some of our truly Loyal Governours then sitting upon the Bench What is the reason that our brave Sir Joseph Sheldon or Loyal Turner must be despised at the great Solemnity of our last Election of Burgesses We have too great cause to conceive that those hissing Persons that were there present are the very Encouragers and Promoters of Faction and Sedition and that when opportunity serves we must feel the poysonous Sting that is in their Tails But we live not thanks be to Almighty God and our most gracious King in so miserable an Age that we need fear to utter Truth without a disguise Surely many then present were not Compos mentis that is the most charitable Excuse that can be made otherwise they would not have reproached and branded their Magistrates with false and opprobrious Language I may I hope without offence in this circumstance use the saying of the ever renowned Lord Chancellor Publish it not in Gath nor let it be declared in the Streets of Askelon Can we ever expect Gods Benediction whil'st we contemn the Magistrates he hath set over us It is a true saying Herba crescit satis quae nil habet utilitalis Such Persons would have the mark of the Beast set on them that Good and Loyal Subjects may shun them with an Oh procul este profani What ails the Fates what moves the wandring Stars That cause these Earthly Tumults and these Jars Are Men grown with Passion now so proud That their fond Humours must be heard so loud Shall not these worthy Persons nam'd be And must we Cavil at their Loyalty Happy are those Men that have the Kings Regard And Crown'd is he that hath the Kings Reward Pardon this small Digression from my intended purpose I shall now come ad rem It is to you Fellow Citizens that I shall now address my self I shall not Apologize for my self upon the account of my ensuing Discourse for Veritas non quaerit Angulos I fear not the Frowns nor the Threats nor the Censures of any self-conceited Cox-comb nor Humorist whatsoever my humble request is to you my dear Fellow Citizens that you would now in this juncture of time continue to make evident Demonstrations to the whole Universe of your Heroick and Magnanimous Resolutions to fear God and honour the King and joyn not with any turbulent Spirits who are given to change How many are there now a-days that make it their whole Business and Design to sow Discords and Divisions amongst us by the many scurrilous Pamphlets that daily appear in Print you may perceive that Greatness it self cannot Omnibus horis securely pass but sometimes it is the Butt of Envy and Detraction and meets with unhappy Vituperation Ah dolor sit pro dolore mirum videtur It must needs be strange that in so well-governed and regulated a City as ours is and in the face of so many of our Loyal Magistrates so many base and scurrilous Pamphlets are permitted without any punishment Were but the Advice of our Loyal and Learned Recorder put in practice which he gave upon the Election of our late Lord Mayor Faction would then be buried in Oblivion then we might hope to see a Resurrection of the Golden Age again then we might expect Peace and Plenty and Prosperity to co-habit amongst us I must declare it and without any Ostentation or Flattery it deserves to be written in Letters of Gold notwithstanding the ill Resentment some Turbulent Spirits were pleased to pass upon it but it is evident that many ill-minded men are so wedded to their Rebellious Principles which they have formerly imbibed that nothing will prevail with them to be metamorphosed but that Ancient Proverbial Saying must be verified Immedicabileulnus euse rescindendum est ne pars sincera trahaiur a few Scabby Sheep spoil the whole Flock I am sorry to see the Governours of our Church vilified witness the Weekly Packet October 3. 1679. And as for our Intelligencer it is a great Scandal to our Renowned City that such an Impudent Sawcy Fellow should so audaciously assume to himself in conspectu totius Mundi to abuse Persons of Worth as he hath frequently done in several of his Intelligences and then to say Erravi that he accounts Compensation enough witness his abusing Sir Gervis Elways and his Friend in saying That giving Money and Drink caused them to be Elected What an high Aspersion hath he cast upon those Worthy Gentlemen and upon the Electors likewise that chose them And what a base Aspersion did he cast likewise upon Samuel Pepys Esquire and then cried Peccavi and thinks that satisfaction enough It is likewise said That our Lord Mayor out of his great Circumspection Care and Loyalty gave this Intelligencer an Order to seize all Factious Pamphlets and he being Factious himself perverts his Lordships Design and winks at the Factious ones and stifles the other and hath the Audacity to think he shall now go on uncontrouled bragging he hath a Licence till the 26th of January next I would not be accounted arrogant neither will I be so sawcy to undertake to prescribe Methods to our Governours but if our present Laws or the Power of our Magistrates cannot put a stop to these Seditious Pamphlets I hope at the Convention of our Sage and Prudent Senators they will take it into their speedy Consideration How often hath the Gazettes taken notice of his Lying News and yet he goes on with as great Impudence as ever as if it were Cum Privilegio but I hope he will be made to recant openly where the World may see him It is well known to all Sober and Ingenious Citizens who are not Jenkismed that our Clergy have a Constellation of Theological and Heroical Vertues not onely in their Doctrine but Unity in their Lives and Conversation And they are Armour Proof against all Gain-sayers and I fear our Intelligencer will have need of an Amnesty or an Act of Oblivion for his many Scandala magnata by him published but Praemonitus praemunitus Let the renowned Speech of that Illustrious Knight Sir Robert Clayton be remembered in Memoria secuiorum omnium and let the Counsel therein be heartily imbraced by all Loyal Citizens then we may expect Halcion Days within our City which God of his Mercy grant then that excellent saying will be verified Concordia parvae res crescunt discordia maxima dilabuntur If that Persian Monarch Artaxerxes with a willing Gratitude and a graceful Will imbraced so mean a present as a Dish of Cold Water from so unworthy a Vassal as Cyneta I doubt not but you my Fellow Citizens will kindly accept of my Address and follow the good Advice of being True and Loyal to our King and Obedient to Governours and to live in Unity one with another VALE POSTSCRIPT READER be kind and when thou seest these Lines Thou 'lt surely censure Poetry declines Be impartial in thy Judgment and consider How ere usurpt the Lawrel doth not wither Neither impute that Science is decay'd Which unripe Wits endeavour to invade Rather blame the Impudence of him that tries To act against what Nature him denies But since it 's frequent to direct her Laws I 'll crave Indulgence for another Cause 'T is strange to me to see revenging Sheets Lamb's Conduit Paper that in Duels meets Nor dare I now presume to make presage How present Influences threat this Age. The New World's Old since Noah's Flood And most too Old therein for to be good Methinks I see most in that Evil Mood Though having Manna yet crave Quails for Food Some new fond Sight or some rare fine Show This gazing World expects below Now give me leave kind Reader to intreat Thy good Construction makes my Lines compleat Hoping that such the Vnion be reserv'd Which hath so long so careful been preserv'd From being broke as Knaves hope and Fools fear it Conclude with me Quis medio tutus erit Amator Patriae The Character of a Factious Libeller HE is one that has nothing to do with his Business and yet no Man busier than he and his Business is most in his Face He is one that forceth himself into all Company and Affairs without being sent for or feed his part is only an eager bustling that rather keeps a-do than does any thing His Discourse stuffed up with Faction speaketh ill of His Majesty and his best Subjects hath a dislike of all Government and Magistrates Commends much his own Chimaera's by which you may track him at the end maketh himself with a great deal of endeavour ridiculous The Worm in his Brain hath put him quite beside his Nature He cannot be what he would and hath forgot what he was He is one that must be principal Actor in every Trifle A Man very Contemplative or rather very Active in his Bed where he can do more by his Contrivances than six men at Work where we will leave him till he hath spun Thread enough to make him fast as long as he shall live FINIS