else to do but to scrible Pamphlets Every one judging according to his capacity or affection And as Men so Books are pressed to war Ad prelum tanquam ad praelium But Nulla fides pietasve viris qui castra sequuntur there is as little credit as piety to be found in Swordmen and so their calumny will not prejudice me in any wise mans judgement The good of my Country and the settlement of our Distractions is the thing which I aim at let Momus carp while his Teeth ake which Settlement will never be untill Right overcomes Might and every one be established in his own again For what man hath been secure and immutable since the great and wicked change Sen. Quem felicem Cynthia vidit Vidit miserum abitura dies He that shone like the Sun in the Morning was clouded like Night in the Evening a Protector one hour and glad to be protected the next God oftentimes curseth with the same Sins which were committed against him Pharoah hardened his heart the first time for his Pleasure God hardened it the next for his Destruction We changed our Government once to please our wicked Wills God hath changed it oftner to purge our impious Sins But Jam satis terris nivis atque dirae Grandinis mifit pater rubenâ—e Dextera sacras jaculatus arces Terruit urbem Terruit gentes Enough of hail and cruel snow Hath Jove now showr'd on us below Enough with thundering Steeples down Frightned the Town Frightned the World O thou God of Order now hold thy punishing hand cement our Differences and unite the lines of our Discord in the true Centre Let Charls the 2 d. our Augustus and Caesars Successor revenge the bloody Murther of Caesar O most worthy Augustus our only lawfull Soveraign be thou a stay to our falling Kingdom Patiens vocari Caesaris ultor do thou hasten to be Caesars Revenger and then Serus in coelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Quirini Neve te nostris vitiis iniquum Oâ—yor aura Tollat hic magnos potius triumphos Hic ames dici pater atque Prinâ—eps Neu sinas Medos equitare inultos Te duce Caesar Return to Heaven late we pray And long with us the Britains stay Nor let disdain of our offence Take thee from hence Love here victorious Triumphs rather Love here the name of Prince and father Nor let the Rebels scot-free ride Thou being our Guide Which is the continual Prayer of Your Graces most humble true faithfull and obedient Subject and most dutifull Servant usque ad aras Cimelgus Bonde ERRATA THe times are full of errors Parliaments themselves have erred therefore pardon the Errata of the Printer Some Letters nay some words are left out and wrong ones put in their room What then our Nobles nay our King himself hath been dis-throned and wrong ones The Shrubs their Servants have intruded and usurped their places The Rump ruled the whole Body the Feet got above the Shoulders And untill the Head fully enjoyeth its preheminence and Prerogative over the inferiour Members expect no Amendments either publick or private But since our Age hath more need of a Bit than Spurs adde bit to the end of the 21. line fo 6. line 9. fo 42. Munera l. 21. f. 47. of instead of for l. 22. fo 174. read Could such attempts In the Latin Verses read cujus and fonte in the two last lines THe Contents of this Book you may find fo 1. 20 28 40 54 65 73 86 106 119 132 192 204 210 219 267 361 376. And since the last in execution is the first in the intention I must request the Reader to begin with the last part of the Book and end with the first part in his reading And if he meet with any sharp and tart laguage let him remember the Persons whom it concerns whose Actions were more base than the most nipping and satyrical pen could rehearse For what villany so great as for Subjects to murther their gracious King Oh Heavens could the Godly do this Do this Yes root up our Laws and Religion destroy our Church and murder our Prophets with many thousands of their innocent Brethren and yet be accounted Saints too But from such Saints good Lord deliver us who took away the Kings and Bishops lands and then voted them Papistical and dangerous to the Church and Common-wealth It was Naboths Vineyard which made him a Blasphemour and Jack Presbyter would never have made a Covenant to extirpate Episcopacy as contrary to the power of Godliness had not the Bishops had Land and the Presbyter much Pride and more of the form than of the power of Godliness in him But Multa cadunt inter caliceÌ„ Supremaque labra the Independents stept between home and him got the honor of cutting off the Kings head and took to themselves the Revenues of both King and Bishop So that now Iohn could rellish a King and the Office of a Bishop I like his Appetite well but I pray God he do not spoyl the meat in the chewing it But renowned General Monk hath now cheared us with the hopes of a Free-Parliament which will put a period to our miseries that is they will bring in our exiled King without whom they will be but a Gallimaufrey of Confusion increasing not diminishing our Distractions for no Parliament without the King And no doubt but our famous General holds the Scripture Canonical and will never dissent from his Father Solomon who thus teaeheth and commandeth all of us My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Prov. 24.21 22. To the Author of the Royal Buckler or a Lecture to Traytors TO speak what ev'ry one desires and in a strain That suits with ev'ry Hearer is no pain No trouble to profess the bloody Creed Of Mahomet among the Turks no need To be afraid amidst ones friends but he That talks of Virtue before Villanie Who can be Christian among the Crew Of Sectaries and bid defiance to the Jew He that i' th worst of Times dares to be good Like Capel seals his Ligeance with his Blood Can strive against th' impetuous wind and wave And all their joynt-conspiracies outbrave In spite of Fortune resolutely stand To argue with a bloudy treacherous Land That Man 's a Man indeed can stoutly cry Hosanna when the Throng sayes Crucifie Sir such are you and such your Lines to whom Or to your shrine Posterity shall come Laden with Laurels and the little brood Of them whose hands were in their Prince's bloud Shall justifie thy Book and read therein Their own Misfortunes and their Father's Sin Shall read the Miracles of Providence And borrow matter for Romances thence Thus Sir your Pen shall to your self create A Monument beyond the Pageant state Of breathless Oliver or those Poor men That rul'd
in stead of proving a Keeper to the Trayterous Keepers he hath approved himself a glorious Dâ—â—ender of our Liberties for which Trophies of honour shall be erected to his eternal renown neither will our King spare heaping of rewards upon his so memorable merits at his return to his own house which the General hath swept for him and turned out them who made it aden of thieves On Tuesday the 21. day of February 1659. a day which deserveth more solemnization than Gunpowder Treason day for then we were delivered from those who only intended to destroy King and Parliament but now we are delivered from those who actually did destroy both King and Parliament and so consequently the whole Kingdome General Monk our famous Patron conducted the secluded Members to the House of Commons where according to their former agreement with the General they voted themselves in a short time to be dissolved and a free Parliament to be elected Now I hope no man will presume to conceive the General so insipid as to think there can be a free Parliament without the King and House of Lords No it is ridiculous to think so for a free Parliament without the King would be but like salt which hath lost his favour thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be troden under foot of men Mat. 5.13 It would be but a Rump fatned and grow bigger For we are all sick of the Kings Evil therefore nothing but the touch of his Sacred Majesties hands can cure us And I may with confidence and truth affirm that every one of that infinite number of people which so much rejoyced at the destruction of the Rump and at the voice of a free Parliament would mourn and cry at their sitting if they do not bring with them the good tidings of restoring their King the hopes whereof only made them rejoyce And indeed they would have more cause to bewail a free Parliaments sitting without the King than the sitting of the Rump for this we may be sure of that the King will come in either by fair means or by soul if by soul that is by war then the war will be greater with a free Parliament and so consequently more grievous to the people than with the Rump because a free Parliament will have greater force and power to levy a war than the Rump and so the combustible matter being more the flame will be the higher But it is Atheism to think that a free Parliament will withstand the King therefore I will not taint my Paper with such detestable words I let fall a blot of ink upon Mr. Prynne's Soverain Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes a Book which I am sure deserves a greater blurre But Mr. Prynne hath since repaired his credit and got the applause of the people by writing for the King and against the Rump and other sectaries Therefore to give him his deserts there is no man in the Nation hath so much merited as himself in pulling down the many Tyrannies over us since the murther of Charles the Martyr He hath been our Champion whose pen hath fought against the scriblings and actings of the Traytors and Rebels for which I shall ever love and honour him and without doubt our Gracious King will sufficiently reward him if he continueth constant in his loyalty which God grant he may And although the Presbyterian held the head of Charles the Martyr to the block by his hair whilst the Independent cut it off yet now I hope the many evils which we have sustained by that royal fall for which he shewed the first play will teach the rigid Presbyter moderation and make him confesse notwithstanding his violent Covenant against that Apostolical constitution of Bishops that Episcopacy is the best form of Church Government and the only way to extirpate and keep down those infinite number of s31y'sects and factions which have taken root and budded since Episcopacy was rooted up and blasted No Bishop No King was the Symbole of our Solomon King James who I think was as wise and as much a Christian as any of our Lay-Elders therefore in vain do the Presbytery think of enjoying Monarchy unlesse they first resolve to lay aside all their schismatical Tenets and stick to Episcopacy For as the same King sayes A Scottish Presbitery and Monarchy agree as God and the Devil Our Soveraign Charls the Martyr in his sacred writings hath so clearly approved and vindicated Episcopacy from the false aspersions of the Presbiterian faction and also laid open the absurdities of Presbitery so fully that it would be arrogance in me to say any thing after him and not only ignorance but impudence in any man to look upon his writings and still remain a Presbiterian Therefore O Heavenly Father asswage the pride and open the Eyes of these rigid Zelots that in seeing they may see and in hearing they may hear and understand and not professe themselves wiser than our Saviour that great Bishop and his Apostles which were Bishops and appointed successive Bishops as you may read in the Epistles of St Paul to Timothy and Titus c. And the Government of Bishops hath been the universal and constant practice of the Church so that as Charls the Martyr writeth ever since the first age for 1500 years not one example can be produced of any setled Church wherein were many Ministers and Congregations which had not some Bishop above them under whose Jurisdiction and Government they were Therefore let not the aspiring currish Presbiterian who would pull down a Bishop in every Diocesse but set up a Pope in every Parish no longer spet venom against the Reverend Bishops And truly I think their grounds are so slender against Episcopacy that if the King would but make them Bishops they would then be as violent for Episcopacy as they are now against it Therefore rest content Presbiter for though not thy deserts yet State Policy may in time make thee a Bishop The Antipodes indeed viz. the Long called Parliament who acted all things contrary to all Law and Religion voted that Bishops should never more vote as Peers in Parliament But why was it not because the Religious Bishops should not withstand their Irreligious and Blasphemous proceedings in Murthering the King Destroying the Church and all our Laws and Religion with them Surely no man can deny but that was the only reason Que enim est respublica ubi Ecclesiastici primum non habeant locum in Comitiis publicis de salute Reipub Deliberationibus For which is that Commonwealth where the Ecclesiastical persons had not the first place in all meetings and publique consultations about the Welfare of the Commonwealth Surely none but the Utopian Commonwealth of these Rebels For it is the practice of all Nations nay the Rebels themselves who voted it unlawful for Bishops and other grave Prelates of the Church to meddle the least in Civil Affairs could approve it in their new
to a Multitude of Tyrants and the dreadfull events if the Tyrants do not restore the King to his own again The murder of the late King Charles is proved to be most illegal and how the Rebels use the liberty of the people only as a Cloak for their wickednesse and their Knavery discovered in pretending the supreme power to be in the people whereas they use it themselves and so Tyrannize over us The Laws of England described and proved that our Soveraign Charles the 1. was unjustly killed against the Common Law Statute Law and all other Laws of England WE have already clearly proved that Kings are by Divine institution that they have their power from the Heavens and not from terrestrial men and that their power is above the people and Laws We are now come to see whether the people the Kings subjects have power to destroy and put assunder that which God hath thus created and joyned together It is a sound conclusion which naturally and of necessity floweth from the premisses that they have not and having shewed 1. That God made the first King Adam in Paradise 2. That there he received his regal power from God not from the people And 3. That there he arbitrarily made Laws according to his will where he had reigned a Monarch for ever as Divines hold had not he transgressed Let us now see what became of him after his transgression for King Adam did transgress and he must give an account of his Stewardship But to whom must he give his account To man he cannot for the King hath no superiour on earth Therefore he must to God who in the 19 th verse of Gen. cap. 2. challengeth his praerogative And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him Where art thou No sooner did Adam hear God call but he presently gave an account of himself saying verse the 10. I heard thy voyce in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid my self Where note That God taketh an account chiefly of the king for his subjects offences The king is Gods Steward and God will reckon with him God sent him from Paradise out of the garden of Eden to till the ground Therefore that he may make a good account he must Parcere subjectis debellare superbos cherrish the flowers and root up the weeds He must be a nursing Father to his loyal subjects but he must batter down the swelling pride of Traytors The true Protestant Religion must florish as the best flowet in his Garden But the Anabaptists Independents Presbyterians Papists Jesuits and other wicked Sectaries must be pulled up as weeds lest they overspred and choak the good flower They must be extirpated by the root whilest they are young lest theâ— grow up and seed and their seed be sowen up and down in the whole World He must set the Bishops again in their natural soyl which is now grown over with these weeds and rubbish That that stone which these new builders refused may become the head stone of the Corner and the Bishops Lands which they did not refuse must be given to the Church again The Common Prayer Book now rejected as fit for none but the use of Papists He must bring in and make those Papists read it who now reject it as Popery for no other cause but that there is no Popery in it He must turn the Horses and other unclean beasts out of his Sanctuary now made a Stable St. Pauls c. and put in holy Bishops and reverend Pastors in their room And since our Saviour hath commanded it He must make the Lords Prayer current amongst us That our Ministers may leave off piping what they list and pipe the true tune which the Lord of life the best Musician taught them that all Gods people may dance For how can we dance when the instrument is out of order and the wrong tune is piped Good God! what a superstitious and Papistical age do we live in when we account it superstition and Popery to say the Lords Prayer the Common Prayer the ordinary means of our salvation O blessed Iesus Hast not thou commanded us not to use vain repetitions But when we pray to pray thus Our Father c Dost not thou know what we want better than our selves and hast thou not prescribed us a set form of prayer to ask it with And shall we cast thy prayer behind our backs and presume to come before thee without it are we wiser than the Lord of life or is there any nearer way to Heaven than that which he hath taught us shall we present the Lord with our own husks and trample on the Manna which he hath prepared for us Is there any other spirit to teach us to pray than the Spirit of the Lord which taught us in his Gospel When we petition to any of our superiours on earth then we premeditate and cull out filed and curious words worthy of his personage But when we should pray to the Almighty then any thing which lyeth uppermost is shot out at him like water out of a squirt and what pleaseth our foolish phantasies that we pretend to be the Spirit of the Lord. O God arise vindicate thy own cause Let not the soul of thy Turtle Dove be given into the power of the wicked For how is the Mother reviled by her Children and it grieveth thy servants to see her stones lye in the dust But rege venienti hostes fugierunt It is Gods Steward otherwise called Stewart with must remedy all this He must turn our spears into pruning hooks and our swords into plow-shares and so consequently our sword-men into plow-men The love of his Subjects must be the Magazine of his Artillery and their Loyally and obedience must be their chiefest good and honour O fortunatos nimium sua sâ— bona norint O happy multitude if they did but know their summum bonum their chiefest good which is loyalty and due obedience to their Soveraign For he will not break the Charters of their Corporations nor invade their rights and liberties He will not distrain for excessive Taxes nor impose great burdens on his Subjects The Law shall be to him as the apple of his eye and the true Protestant Religion as his dearest heart Learning shall florish and the Vniversities shall not be destroyed He will not murder the Prophets nor massacre the Citizens before their own doors He will not contrive plots with his Impes and Emissaries to catch honest men with their estate Justice shall run down the streets like streams and peace shall make the Land flow with milk and honey Every man shall eat the fruits of his vineyard under his own vines and enjoy the presence of his family with the absence of a Souldier He will not build up his throne with bloud nor establish his royal state with lyes and dissembling Flatterers will he abandon from his Court and those who keep other mens estates
be chased away as a vision of the night The eye also which saw him shall see him no more neither shall his place any more behold him because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not Job 20. ENGLANDS REDEMPTION OR The Peoples rejoicing for their great deliverance from the Tyranny of the long called Parliament and their growing hopes for the restauration of Charls the second whose absence hath been the cause of all our miseries whose presence will be the cause of all our happinesse The prosperity of Rebels and Traytors is but momentary As Monarchy is the best of all Governments so the Monarchy of England is the best of all Monarchies Therfore God save King Charls the second and grant that the proud Presbyterians do not strive to make themselves Kings over him as they did over his Father by straining from him Antimonarchical Concessions and by Covenanting to extirpate his Bishops c. that they might set up themselves which was the primary cause of our late unnatural and inhumane wars Mr. Prynne commended Episcopacy is the best form of Church Government The Votes of the Clergy in Parliament The Arrogance of the Presbyterian faction who stand upon their Terms with Princes and make Kings bend unto them as unto the Pope OH the inscrutable judgments of God! Oh the wonderful mercy of the Almighty Oh â—he Justice of our Jehovah No sooner had I written these last words of the momentary prosperity of the wicked out immediately the same hour news was brought me that General Monck and the City were agreeed and resolved to declare for a free Parliament and decline the Rump Obstupui stetteruntque comae vox faucibus haesit I was strucken with amazement joy made me tremble and the goodnesse of the news would scarce permit me to believe it when I considered the crying sins of our Nation which deserved showers of vengeance not such sprinklings of mercy then all such conceipts seemed to me as vain and empty delusions but when I considered the infinite mercy of the Almighty then why might not God spare our Nineveh and send joyfull tydings into our discorsolate City Surely his mercies are greater than our great Sins Therefore to resolve this doubt I went up into the City where instead of Tears as formerly I had like to have been drowned with the Streams of joy and rejoycing The Bell rung merrily the Streets were paved with mirth and every house resounded with joyful acclamations I had do need then to ask whether the newâ— I heard in my Chamber were true or no both Men Women and Children Old and Young Rich and Poor all sung forth the destruction oâ— the Long called Parliament the whole City was as it were on fire with Bonfires for joy And now those who formerly threatned the firing of the City were burnt at every door for all the people cryed out let us Burn the Rump let us roast the Rump A suddain change History cannot tell us of its parallel No lesse than thirty eight Bonfires were made between Pleet-Conduit and Temple-Barre To be short there was scarce so much as one Alley in the whole City wherein there were not many Bonfires so that so great and general joyfulnesse never entred into the Walls of the City since it was built neither will again untill Charls the second be restored to his Crown The hopes whereof only caused the fervency of those joyes The Pulpits on the morrow being Sunday and all the Churches ecchoed forth Praises and Thanks to God and private devotion was not wanting neither was this joy confined only within the walls of the City but being a publique mischief was removed a publique rejoycing overspread the whole Kingdom and all the people with one heart and voyce shouted clapped hands and poured out joyful thanks for this great deliverance So the wearyed Hare is delighted and cheereth her self when she hath shook off the bloody Hounds and so a Flock of Sheep are at rest and ease when the Ravenous Wolves have newly left them Oh therefore let our distracted England be a warnin-gpiece to all Nations that they never attempt to Try and Judge their King for what cause soever And let all Traytors and Tyrants in the World learn by the example of our English Rebels that their Prosperity and Dominion though it seemeth never so perpetual is but momentary and as the wind which no man seeth For who so much applauded and look'd upon as the Long Parliament when they first took upon then to correct and question the King and who now so Ridiculous and Scorned They were them admired by the People as the Patrons Vindicators Redeemers and Keepers of their Liberty Nay I may most truly say that the people did worship and adore them more than they did God But now although they were as wicked then and did as much destroy our Laws and Liberties as they do now they are become a by-word the Scorn and Derision both of Men Women and Children and hooted at by every one as the greatest and most shameful laughing-stock in the World Who then can think upon our late most graciour King Charls the Martyr without Tears in his Eyes and contrition in his heart who can remember his patient Suffrings without Amazement and mourning who can look upon his Prophetical and Incomparable Book without Admiration and Weeping Rejoycings especially upon that Text in the 26 Chapter of his book viz. Vulgar complyance with any illegal and extravagant wayes like violent motions in nature soon grows weary of it self and ends in a refractory sullennesse Peoples rebounds are oft in their faces who first put them upon those violent strokes This needs no Commentary for every one knoweth with what zeal the Rabel of the people did at first stick to the Trayterous House of Commons in their Grand Rebellion and how they are now weary of them and with refractory sullennesse rise up against them and are ready to fly in their Faces who first taught them to Rebel and fight against their King Nay the Apprentices of London whom formerly these Rebels made instrumental to carry on their wicked designs against the King are now most vehement against them For why a noysome House is most obnoxious to the nearest Neigbours and the stinking House of Commons that sentina malorum doth most annoy this neighbouring City It is the nature of foxes to prey furthest from their holes but these unnatural foxes in sheeps clothing make all their prey both at home and abroad All is fish which comes to their net And that these Rebels may still have freedom to persevere in their villanies they cry up a free-State as the best of all Governments yet mark the nature of the beast a free-State say they is most beneficial for the people yet not so free but that they may and will qualifie and engage the persons chosen by the people according to
inspired Prophets whom they admitted to have the chiefest voyce in their meetings and consultations concerning Warr or Peace Pope John in his Chair never thought himself so bigg as a Cymical Presbiter amongst his Lay-Elders or as an Independant in a Committee of Tryers c. Neither did Pope Joan in her State ever think so well of her self as a Sanctified Presbiterians Wife drest up in her best Attire The Lords Prayer and the Common Prayer is held prophane by these Saints because Christ not they taught and commanded us when we pray to pray thus c. And because the Common Prayer is for the most part Texts of Scripture which learneth us to pray for Kings and Bishops more than for their Presbiterian faction The Reverend Bishops forsooth must have no voice in Parliament that Taylers Tinkers and Coblers might have a full cry in every Pulpit The Clergy must not meddle with Civil Affairs but every Tradesman nay those who were scarce their Crafts-master in their own Trade might handle Spiritual matters as the best proficients But from such Sacrilege and Blasphemy good Lord deliver us Let us therefore pray for the rising of the Son in our Lebanon whose glorious Rayes of his Sacred Majesty will soon dispell these foggy vapours of misty factions It was the Presbyterians who first Clouded our Sun already set And it is now in their power to drive away this long night of our Afflictions and usher in the â—oyes of our hearts in the youthfull morning of the Royal Progeny which God of Heaven sanctifie them to doe as I make no doubt but he will For Vox Populi vox Dei and the whole People cry to have it so The Presbyterians fought so â—ong for King Parliament that they destroyed both and by their Solemn League and Covenant to extirpate Episcopacy have fomented Popery and brought in Sects Heresies and Schismes which are ten times worse Therefore let the Cryes of thy People come unto thee O God and restore our Gracious King Charls the second to his Haereditary Crown Whose Youth thou hast seasoned with the Afflictions of King David and Clowded the Morning of his and our happinesse with the Misery of an Unchristian Exile which hath made him the fitter for his Throne and thy Mercy Restore our Antient Liturgy and our Lords Spiritual and Temporal to their undoubted Rights and Privileges in Parliament Restore the Commons to their right wits and learn them to know that the Heaâ— is above not below the Feet So thâ— our King only with the assent of thâ— Lords and Commons may make and givâ— us Laws as it was in the beginning uâ— till which time I will pull down my Saiâ— and keep close unto the Haven being suâ— to have nothing else but Tempests anâ— Storms and no clear setled weather untill then either in Church or Common wealth let our Republicans boast of theâ— Free State or of what else they please for a Bone out of joynt will never bâ— setled right but in its proper place FINIS Pastor Vitae suae mediocritatem commendans queritur cum Coeli caeterarumque rerum cursus certo regantur consilio non tamen res humanas juste ac certe cedere cum bonis male sit malis bene I LLe ego qui fraenis animum vinclisque domandâ— Latius imperito quam si mihi Paenus uterquâ— Serviat Lydiam Phrygiae Libiamque remotis Gadibus adjungam Paupere sub tecto contentus pane secundo Mollia securae traduco tempora vitae Non opus est nostrum clangunt ubi classica ad arma Currere atroci spectacula ponere Marti Non tentare levi vetitum scelus aequora ligno Quid vero vetitum nos culpae fertilis aetas Fugimus anne parum dii percivilia bella Flumina arva pio procerum tinxisse cruore Quin etiam Caroli rubefecit tela nefanda Dirus post genit is sangnis proh jura timenda Cedit lex armis discedit laurea terra At quo cymba decet parvis te currere rivis Non inter scopulos Tyrrhenum urgere minantes Ergo ubi nox ignes contraxit victa silentes Et sol regalis placidum caput extulit undis Armatus baculo saccum post terga ligatus Pabula nocturnis grege misso cana pru in is Carpo gravis medio cum splendet Phaebus Olympo Gramina aestivis resonant exusta cicadis Ad fluvios aut alta greges ad stagna reduco Expletasque sequens ad frigus amabile cogo Qua sucra fagus amant candida populus umbranâ— Consociare comis texuntque umbracula quercus Ut juvat argutis quae vellem ludere avenis Cespite sub viridi nunc stratum carpere somnos Quos mihi furta gemens Progne scelerata mariti Suadet alterno modulamine turba volucrum Nunc in arcanis agnam Pani immolo lucis Carmina qui calamis fingens sacra fontis ad ora Illice sub patula tendit gregis ubera lacte Tethios at gremio properat requiescere Titan Hesperus atque monet certum pastoribus astrum Ducere oves stabulis pastas numerumque referre Ne prato in viridi segete aut quis capta virenti Praeda fit agricolis pecudes aut forte sequutam Pastor ad insolitum vicinus ovile coegit Sic ô sic positae spatium breve transigo vitae â—on sitis imperii nullo satiata cruore â—ccendit fauces non regni caeca cupido â—eu quid sancta fides pietas quid caelica prodest â—i pede calcantur justi florentque nefasti â—egia caelicolae terrarum sceptra tenetis â—gnea constanti volvuntur sidera cursu â—alest is solitum reparat Latonia damnum â—ynthius atque vias superas agit aetheris alti â—t nudent sylvam gelidae nunc frigora brumae â—uae decorata comis nunc fundit montibus umbras Nunc fervore coquunt Cererem fera colla leonis Deinde suas vires autumno temperat annus â—rdine cur nullo mortalia pectora vivunt An fortuna regit manibus dans munera caecis â—ira libido bonos vincit frans regnat in aula Tristis iniqua nefas Virtus fert premiarecti â—mperat atque Lupus sub ovilla pelle Britannis At Pius heu frustra rigidos properavit ad Indos Non aurum in sacris aut gemmas numina poscunt Heu quis primus adhuc gemmus latuisse volentes Pondera illecibras vitiorum protulit auri Ante novae insidiae fuerant caedesque nefandae Non furor in regem civilis cuderat enses Incorrupta fides sacra comitata sorore Sincero populum regi jungebat amore Bellica terribilis siluerunt classica martis Nec cruor effusus crepitantia tinxerat arma Aequora non audax invisa subegerat Argo Quisque Mydas parvo tantum sua littora norat Jam maria tellus humana mente minora Saevior aetneis flammis amor ardet habendi Si pretium mortis vel