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A27453 A lecture held forth at the calves-head feast before a society of Olivarians & Round-heads, at the white L---n in Cornhill, on the thirtieth of January, 1691/2 in contempt of the martyrdom of King Charles I / by Dan. Bergice. Bergice, Dan. 1692 (1692) Wing B1959B; ESTC R39530 5,765 8

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A LECTURE Held Forth at the Calves-Head Feast Before a Society of Olivarians Round-Heads At the White L n in CORNHILL On the Thirtieth of January 1691 2. In Contempt of the Martyrdom of King Charles I. By Dan. Bergice LONDON Printed for C. G. 1692. A LECTURE Held Forth at the Calves-Head Feast c. In the Thirteenth Spoke of a Cart-wheel you shall find these words written Calves-Head and Bacon THIS is the day my Beloved on which we Annually Sunder our selves together to Triumph in the Conquest we this day made over him that exalted himself to Dethrone us The Chosen of the World And since nothing is esteem'd more fit to rub up your Treacherous Memories than the Representation of the thing signified I have therefore thought fit my Brethren to insist upon these words and rattle in your Ears even as a Company of Drums do at the Window of a new married Couple my most secret Cogitations concerning the Premises This Calves Head is a Hieroglifick or secret Representation of a thing and here it represents that of its own likeness viz. a Head Now you are not Ignorant I am sure that a thing without a Head looks Simply I have sometimes been told that my Discourse has had neither Head nor Tail well what then it has had the more Guts and Heart and a Swinging Fat Carcass But here contrary to my former Custom I have only chose the Head as thinking it the most Noble Part being fill'd with Brains my Beloved yea these very Brains being made pallatable with the Vinegar of Affliction may whet the Stomachs of our Conscience and beget us an Appetite to and longing after Holy things this is the True and Holy Appetite and not as some of us do to long for a Harlot who will long for Treats and Mony and at last bring you the Crinkums whether you long for them or no you may long to be cur'd but you may chance to go to your long Home first 2. There is a Vexatious Longing when new married Women humbly Conceive in Winter they are very subject to long for Summer Fruit altogether impossible to come at and therefore they long for it on purpose to put their Husbands to charge and their Friends to trouble But I say let them eat nothing but Calves Head and Bacon 3. As there are Longings so there are Loathings that is when Satan has clog'd the Stomach of the Inward Man with Fat Dabs and Greasie Bits of Pleasure and Voluptuousness that he can digest nothing that is good but the Lean Calves Head of Meekness eaten with the Bacon of Understanding will never rise in the Stomach and cause Pukeings which Teeming Girls are troubled with 4. There is a very bad Loathing when Man and Wife Loath one anothers Conversation nothing follows but Care and Distraction Sorrow and Woe Trouble and Torment Anguish and Pain perpetual Slavery the Devil upon two Sticks the House goes out o' th' Windows and the whole Family is Damn'd as Black as Butter-milk Now my Advice to such is that they would agree Civilly be quiet for the future and sit down lovingly like Neighbors Children and make themselves Merry with a Calves Head and Bacon 5. There is a Loathing of all that 's good and that is none of the best 6. There is a Loathing and Longing joyn'd together that is when a Man loaths to come to a Meeting and longs to go to a Bawdy-house but my Friends Satan has a great Share in such a Man therefore I leave him by him to be Buffetted not thinking him worthy to come to our Feast of Calves Head and Bacon 7. When a Man Loaths Monarchy and Longs for a Common-wealth that we may Govern Higgledy Piggledy all over our own Heads This is that which I recommend to you Brethren this Calves-Head Feast as the World calls it is held amongst us The Chosen of Israel for a Memorandum and to Congratulate each other for that Blessed Action in Lopping off the Head of Charles I. after we had been long Soused in the Powdering-Tub of Affliction when our Hearts failed us and our Souls were filled with Emptiness Let us rejoyce in this that our Actions are Recorded and are as a Living Monument to Eternize our Names for so Brave tho' counted an Impious Action I say let us be glad in this even as a Sea-man's Wife is when her Husband is gone a Two Years Voyage let us not quench the Spirit but with loud and repeated Huzza's of inward Praises of the Renowned Oliver let us celebrate this day let us Sing Old Rose and burn the Bellows Triumphing over our Dearly Beloved Calves Head and Bacon When I look upon the Lively Emblem of our Sorrows this Calves Head it makes me melt into Rapture even as a Bride on the Marriage night not for any Remorse of Conscience which I feel dispersed from the lower Deck of my Soul but for thoughts of past Actions I Bless that Divine Fabrick Oliver who knock'd down the Church like an Oxe cut the Throat of Monarchy like a Hog and took off the Head of his Prince like a Calf and at last his Horns were exalted above the rest of his Brethren This I say causes my Soul to Rejoyce and is a very great Support to my Inward Man I suppose you are sensible that I know on which side my Bread is Butter'd I can see as far into a Mill-stone as another can put his Finger for what can be ill that is guided by the Inward Man Something has some Savor a Bit in the Morning is better than nothing all day and whoever says that Calves Head and Bacon is not good Prog they Lye Beloved yea they Lye Abominably But what says the World of me Why truly the Sons of Belial have been very busie and used my Name as a Cloak for and Author of Preposterous Holding Forth but let that pass I am what I am a real Lover of Calves Head and Bacon Now my Beloved the Text being short and not consisting of many words I shall endeavor to divide it by Letters and explain it according to Art Calves Head and Bacon C Cromwel A always L loved V very much E Extempory Prayer S such H Heavenly-mindedness E evermore A attended that D diligent Hero A Accordingly he N never D durst B behold A any Loyal thing C committed O on his part N nor no bodies else Thus my Beloved I have divided the Text which put together make a Sentence and the Sentence expounded right would fill a Volum so that for ought I can see the Text is very Proper and to the Unlearned Intricate but to me as plain as a pike Staff From which words we may draw these Inferences 1. That as that Holy Champion lov'd Extempory Prayer it infers that he abhor'd a Form which should teach us to be ware of a Form a Form Did I say Out upon 't a Form No no it is that rotten Form that upholds a Form of Government