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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96749	Furor-Poeticus (i.e.) propheticus. A poetick-phrensie. Some, (probably) will call it so: thus named, therefore, let it go. It is the result of a private-musing, occasioned by a publike report in the country, of the Parliaments restauration by General George Moncke, in February 1659. and meditated soon after the said General's arrival in London, in dorso pagi, recubans sub tegmine fagi: / by G.W. Esq;	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3159; Thomason E1818_2; ESTC R13545	23,933	48

hands with superstition And Sanctity dissembled with Ambition They shall so plague each other that if ten Of honest and true-hearted English men Be left in ev'ry thousand and together Knit in true Charity fast to each other They shall be a RESERVE to make this Nation More prosp'rous in another Generation I would have said before this year be gone If I had now seen Justice better done Or any probability perceiv'd That what I should declare would be believ'd But peradventure 't is a day too late This day on any terms to promise that Which yet expected is by some of them Who have the means neglected and the time For Charles those great advantages hath won By what hath been omitted and miss-done Which I long since foresaw that though his Pow'r MONCK shall employ for us nor his nor our Nor both united nor a Parliament Established with full and free consent Of all the People if by penitence GOD reconciled be unto that Prince Can at this present make the scale so even Vnless our peace be likewise made in heaven But that there will be ten for one at least To weigh him out his claimed Interest And force us those conditions to receive Which he himself shall pleased be to give For our great Wars confusions and dissenting Will frustrate so endeavours of preventing Our fears and setling true peace in that way Whereby we for a settlement assay That he by whom lost hopes reviv'd became May accidentally without just blame Through breach of trust make way to bring him in Who hitherto hath most opposed bin For that which cures where one distemper lies Kills where are complicated maladies Or else at least produceth an effect Much differing from what we did expect If still both Parties be the same they were They rather shall encrease confusions here Than qualifie them and for ought that yet To me appeareth likely to beget A better hope nought Reason offers us But this GOD grant it prove no worse than thus If he be qualifi'd as now some say He is and as for ought I know he may That will be then effected which few thought Could have here whilst they liv'd to pass been brought And if to GOD he reconciled be Why not to men Or wherefore not to me Who never was for self-respects to him An Adversary or a friend to them Who were his Enemies for being so But as he was or seem'd to be a Foe To GOD and Justice If he be not such Why should I doubt his favour Or fear much His wrath For doubtless if he be upright He then in honest men will take delight Yea peradventure may have need of one To do such services as I have done Without regarding greatly what men shall Be pleased or displeased there withall And if he be a Tyrant I know why He will have greater cause to fear than I. If her who with her Cup of fornications Hath long made drunk the Kings of many Nations He hath not pledg'd in secret nor so long Drunk her inchantments that they are too strong To be expell'd there may be perfect cures For all meer natural distemp'ratures Whereby he from Impostures may depart To own what GOD hath written in his heart And then it will be evidently seen Which way he might a glorious King have been Who now is none and what the Parliament Which promised to make him such then meant For he that governs men must righteous be And there is no such glorious King as he When King and People are confin'd by Laws Neither the Princes nor the Peoples Cause Can be infring'd and questionless if he Inclin'd to such a condescention be This would when both sides thereunto submit Good will to men and peace on earth beget And both GOD's Justice and his Mercy too It would illustrate if it might be so For GOD's Long-suff'ring doth abide for ever And Judgements very seldom times or never Are past by such an absolute Decree As by Repentance not revers'd to be Nor doth he look that man's Repentance should Proportion with his Deviations hold Since his Free Grace a standing help supplies To make amends for those deficiencies Manasses guilty of sins most abhorr'd Was cast out of his Kingdom and restor'd Yea and this Parliament whose Crimes are more Ten times than his were twice shut out of doore Yet now in grace again God grant they may Take heed of falling the third time away For GOD will then perhaps the second time As he did of the rest make proof of him What he will do is known to him alone Because he only knows what will be done By them to whom Conditions are declar'd With threatnings and a promised reward As they shall be neglected or fulfill'd Or men are either well or evill-will'd For they the Devil 's not GOD's Prophets are Who absolutely either peace or war Or shame or honour poverty or wealth Or life or death or sicknesses or health Shall promise unto them who have transgress'd Without conditions tacite or express'd And they are Fools abus'd by ill suggestions Who tempt men by demanding of such questions Yet GOD sometimes indulgently complies With us ev'n in our curiosities And other while unsought for giveth hints To prove us by conditional events Among some other things made signes to me When here a setled Government should be My Britains Genius hath long since recorded A signal previous one which is thus worded Brit. Genius Pag. 100. A King shall willingly himself un-king And thereby grow far greater than before c. This in the meaning might have twice ere this Fulfill'd have been and once in Terminis If Pride self-will and frowardness of mind Had not by false lights made true Reason blind And if that he whom it will most concern Shall now GOD's visitation-time discern Not letting opportunities depart By suff'ring vain hopes to obdure his heart When GOD shall on his soul begin to strike A call to penitence Manasseth-like But meekly comes and laies revenge aside All self-will animosities and pride It shall have such effects the self-same hour On these three Nations by a secret pow'r As will so change them too that ere the Sun Is at his next height and through Cancer run It will amaze the World their Foes confound Make some believe all things are wheeling round Or think that Revolution drawing near Which must conclude the great Platonick-year And good to many Realms 't will pre-divine Betwixt the Tropicks on both sides the Line This doubless will by no man be withstood Who seeks his own weal in the common good And doth not either strive to have possession Of other mens concernments by oppression Or is displeas'd with ev'ry Government Save that which his own wisdom shall invent If this may be vouchsaf'd or any thing Which might appear to have a modelling By GOD's and Natures Laws I am so far From Jonah's frowardness when GOD did spare Great Niniveh that though it quite dissented From all

With less than ruine specially if he A man beloved of the People be But much more hazardous will be his Case If he be likewise of the Royal Race This General hath been a Royalist Engag'd against the publike Interest And therefore some suspitious are become He may at last his first Cause re-assume But that 's improbable For hitherto He nothing seemeth to neglect or do Save what he should If there be neither ought Done or omitted more than yet is brought Unto my ears and his professions are Sufficient to abate the Peoples fear Yet with that modesty consist whose want Made others lately so exorbitant That many did suspect their gaudy signe VVas hung forth but to vent unwholsome wine He may appear to those who cannot see Whereto he shall necessitated be To deviate sometimes yet naitheless No whit infringe essential righteousness As when he is compell'd to raise a Blind To frustrate what is by his Foes design'd And hoped for by letting them enjoy Those hopes a while which may themselves destroy Or that he may discov'ries make thereby Whom to suspect and on whom to relie That he was once a Captain for the King Doth him with me in no suspition bring If he retain but so much gen'rousness As honourable Sword-men do profess For there are many persons whom I know True to him then and faithful to us now And touching him this is considerable That he made no revolt dishonourable To his Profession nor his aide withdrew Fro him to whom he thought his service due Or left him till that Obligation ended By his decease on whose life it depended No nor did afterward desert his Cause Till having leisure to peruse the Laws And Customes of this Nation he perceiv'd Crowns were not alwaies by descent receiv'd Nor justly could be worn by any here Till by the People they elected were Upon conditions whereto they were both By Law obliged and engag'd by Oath Which having weigh'd and that by GOD's permission The Pow'r was in another mans possession Without dispute meer conscienciousness Not Levity induc'd him to profess And Act as he hath done This I take leave Till he shall contradict it to conceive And of my hopes concerning him expect To see ere long a sutable effect Whereof if I unhappily shall miss My damage will be ten times less than his Since really he thereby forfeits more His honour than he did in shew before And if at this time to his moral trust And his Engagements he shall prove unjust Which may be possible no further then Thenceforward in the words or deeds of men Will I confide beyond what I know true Whether of honesty they make a shew Or of Religion But conclude that we On whomsoere we trust may cheated be And think as I did heretofore suppose None but false friends and reconciled foes Should overthrow our Cause My hopes of him Are better yet Oh GOD continue them No cause to me appeareth of suspect Save such as I may reasonably reject Yet since he 's but a man and lest I seem To under-prize or over-value him Yea since the heart 's unknown and I now am Of him inform'd but by a common fame At such a distance too as cannot give me Assurance that Report will not deceive me I 'll keep him on the Balance till I hear How he proceedeth and shall persevere For Lucifer did fall yea and he fell Whom some thought lately more than parallel To Moses Josuah and many more Renowned for their vertues heretofore And since he possibly by Adulations May be exposed to the like temptations I will not though he bravely hath begun A Garland make him till the field is won But if I live to hear he shall persever In prosecuting of his best endeavour To that effect for which GOD seems to raise him Whatere event shall follow I will praise him In such a Mode as cannot justly be By others blam'd or shame to him or me Which none can do though his deserts were greater Who doth not praise a man to make him better Faithful performances have been so rare That this Republike barb'rous would appear If what he merits be not duly weigh'd And well rewarded when her debts are paid Yet lest he may be if deferr'd till then As ill repaid as other faithful men Let them reward him now and whilst they may For here will be new changes ev'ry day But though he do his duty nor his Pow'r Or Virtue will avail us till of our Known duties our regard be somewhat more Than it appears to have been heretofore No good success though he continue true If we be false can possibly ensue No Nation can from servitude be saved Which when it may be free will be enslaved They easily and justly are betray'd Where Traiters are for treason better paid Than faithful men who freely did oppose With life and livelihood their Countries Foes Who can be safe where it is hardly known Either what Laws or Cause or Pow'r to own Or to disown VVhere merited or not Knaves Fools and Wise men have the self-fame Lot And honest men deserving best and first A worse than they who have deserved worst Yea where some suffer till they cannot fear VVorse mischiefs than they feel already there Although he should deceive their expectations Who now preserves the peace of these three Nations Expose us to the fury of the Dragon And with his horse draw hither Charles his Wagon Some are of this in hope and some afraid But chiefly they who have been largely paid For little work and some for doing none Or that which had been better left undone Some who were paid with little for great cost Which then may be in hazard to be lost Some likewise whom their Conscience hath accus'd For having wilfully their pow'r abus'd But be it as GOD pleaseth it shall be It no whit startles or affrighteth me For though this George should act that which will further His ends who is the Soveraign of the Order Of George on horseback guiltless I have bin Of what may make me dread his coming in Because I acted nothing with intent To Innovate the former Government Or to uphold this Pow'r save that whereto Conscience and Duty did oblige me to For when the late Intestine war begun I did not by a self-inducement run To make a Breach but called by that Power Which was by Law intrusted both with our And his Prerogatives who then did raign Came arm'd aswell his Interest to maintain As to preserve our own Which may appear By that Impress my Cornet then did bear Pro Rege Lege Grege was the WORD Which manifested why I drew my Sword And if the Pow'r I ought to have obey'd Misled me let the fault on that be laid What is' t to me since I am innocent If they proceeded further than I went The Pow'rs that rule my lawful warrant be And ought not to be questioned by me If they had ill intents in

if so fast And so ensnarl'd it be that at the last The Sword must once again the same unknit Woe be to them who shall occasion it O'er LONDON now that Luminary shines Which I foretold in my last publish'd lines Should be the Mountain whence that winde would blow Which of our greatest weal or greatest woe Should instrumental be and I expect Accordingly ere long time an effect We oft see miracles I must confess But I would fain see truth and righteousness Ascend the Throne that we at length might feast Upon that Peace whereof we had a taste And on those mercies which in little time GOD would vouchsafe if we reli'd on him And wilfully pursu'd not still that course Which to destroy our hopes may him enforce And which by long neglect of good endeavour Are now in hazard to be lost for ever He many Patrons and Deliv'rers gave us From Forraign and Domestick foes to save us Of whom some by their self-will and Ambition Wrought both our sorrow and their own perdition Some of them we disabled some despis'd We flatter'd some and some we Idoliz'd Untill to such a height we pust them had That to our servants slaves our selves we made Yet cease not at this hour to do the same Though still it brings more sorrow and more shame And will to be deliver'd from one curse Thereby incurr'd run headlong to a worse Mark though you sleight me what we dayly do And brand me if it shortly prove not so Unless we tack and wheel about to that Which may prevent it ere it be too late GOD still in his long suffering doth persever And us from our distractions to deliver Renews his mercy still when we almost Our hopes of reparation have quite lost Yea though he finds us willing to return To our late Bondage to distrust and scorn The Doom pronounced for this Common weal When we did in the field to him appeal Although he sees us prone in ev'ry triall To make of our just Cause a base deniall To bid to his assist ances defiance With his and our known foes to have compliance From our professions to apostatize And to requite him with hypocrisies For all his favours he is still to us The same he was though we continue thus And though he from our sins himself withdraws Still owneth both our Principles and Cause He hath now rais'd beyond our expectation A likely means of timely reparation And by his providence a man begot To perfect it if we corrupt him not Nor he decline from what he hath profest In order to the publike Interest Which I suspect not if he be so strong As to resist the batt'ries of the Tongue And use those Antidotes that may prevent The poys'ning that 's infus'd by Complement At this time to be GOD's Probationer In his great Work as others lately were He takes his turn and peradventure may Attain a Pow'r as absolute as they That what by them was wilfully neglected And by a less Power cannot be effected May now be done LORD make him wise and strong To do what to his duty doth belong And mindful that his chiefest Obligations Are to be true to Thee and to these Nations St George for England we were wont to say And to that Name assign'd a solemn day We knew not why But if what 's now begun Shall with sincerity be carried on It did perhaps by way of Allegory Presage what will produce an Actual Story That shall in future times deserve much better Mens credit morally than in the Letter That Fable did For we may hope unless Good probabilities have ill success A Champion of this Name shall free us from That Dragon which infests all Christendome And set a Bar to their malignant-pow'r Who threaten this Republike to devour If so it happen it will more endear This Name of George than Dick or Oliver Yea more than all their Names who lately lost That honour which they purchas'd at our cost And left us in those hazards from whence none Now can deliver us but GOD alone By his own Arm or else by an advance Of one design'd for our deliverance And qualifi'd by his especial grace To be a Guardian Angel for this place Instead of that imaginary Saint Which on our Inns and Tavern-signs we paint And whom our Grandees in blew Ribbands wore As badge of their chief honour heretofore And in his room of whom about next Spring Another Party seem'd in hope to sing John for the King GOD hath perhaps prepar'd That Hero for our Tutelary Gnard Whom Fame reports arriv'd with an intent To re-invest the baffl'd Parliament With her lost Pow'r which if it so ensue Will make some bid their old St George adieu His Legend will be very little priz'd Except as now it is Mythologiz'd And this GEORGE will henceforward by this Nation Be thought more worthy of Canonization Than either He or any one of those On whose new Saintships we did trust repose Till many did our confidence contemn And few at last trust either us or them This GEORGE for England probably intends The publike weal without sinister ends And is One meaning that which he professes One whom nor gifts nor flattering Addresses Shall tempt from an heroick Resolution Or draw to an ignoble prosecution One whom the Strumpet who bewitcheth Kings Nor those enchanting Songs the Syren sings Shall so seduce as they seduced were Who by the Dragons tail were from their Sphere Unhors'd of late But one who shall proceed Till from his Fangs these Nations he hath freed Despising those Allurements whereby they Who would divert him hope to stop his way For if his heart be right he will suspect Those Baits laid to corrupt his Intellect Or blind his eyes that from what 's well begun Into their Pitfals he may stumble on He will consider that they who profess Much love and fawn with most obsequiousness Are either some of those or such as they Who did the same to them the other day Whom now most barbarously they revile And may abuse him worse within a while And he will see that he must be more wary Than they were who not long since did miscarry By playing like a Moath about the flame Till thereby quite consumed they became I hope that as I have exprest him here He is resolv'd If not I wish he were That I might live to see before I die One man whose Deeds made not his words a lie A Monk profest an Instrument became Of Reformation Why not one by Name If love of honesty with him prevail The hopes of honest men he will not fail If love of honour or of safety move him Those Interests will for our Cause improve him It is a much more honourable thing To save a People than to make a King And safer too if he that makes him one Shall be his Liege-man whom he doth enthrone For Kings are of their Makers so afraid That seldome are such benefits repay'd