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A81449	Look to it London, threatned to be fired by wilde-fire-zeal, schismatical-faction, & militant-mammon. Discovered July 15. 1648. in a discourse with one Croply and Hide, by one John Dias, one of Captain Whaleys regiment, extant in a printed schedule, here verbatim inserted and commented.		1648 (1648)	Wing D1380; Thomason E457_27; ESTC R32487	16,291	16

in the blood of the Lutherans but God so sought for the Protestants yea the winds and the waves as once for Honorius as the Red Sea once against Pharaoh the Stars and the River Kishon against Sisera halistones from Heaven against the Amalakites and Hornets against the Canaanites that all these felt and found what it was to fight against God to kick against the prick and to reckon without their Host as this fond Braggadocheo sells the Fox skin before he be catcht and reckons his chickens before they be harcht All would be their own All their own What will not part serve as some Gentleman pay their debts by a kind of Synecdoche cal'd pars pro toto a part for the whole will he and his outstrip the Pope that great Participle who takes part from the Clergy part from the Secular and part from both Will these Harpies play sweep-stake and take all both stock and thwatch harvest and gleanings all from Courts Carts and Crown from City and Country from Church and State All both Gold and Government Power and Pelf Will they as Cormorants devour all before them as the Gothes and Vandals when they over ran Italy and Lumbardy will they swallow up all as flap Dragons Gods part and all Will they rob Altars make with Pompey Temples Stables for Horses shave off Esculapius golden beard reave the Tholous gold rake not only as the Spaniards with the Indians and the Romans with the Iews into the guts of the living but as Darius once into the sepulchres of the dead for gold Oh will these Catepillers eat all the green things of the Land as the Aegyptian Locusts called Monks and Fryers oft in this our Albion our Terra florida Will they monopolize all and leave neither the Clergies part the tenth nor the widows part the thirds Will they rob the spittle and shear the Ape Will they make a mad medley of the dogs hair and the wool of a Baboon Oh sure however such as are the botts and glaunders in the Army the Achans in the Camp seed on such base and sordid projects as Scarabean fleas on dunghils who mayfor all their gaping jaws miss their fat morsels as Aesops dog mist the substance for a snatched shadow and as Ixion imbraced a Cloud for Iuno their brag being a good dog yet catching nothing yet I am perswaded the noble and generous spirits in the Army yea still in my old phrase the best and the most are as far from such dunghil thoughts and from stooping to such base Lures that if Satan or his organs did but dart them into their hearts they would pump them out again as Mariners waters out of their ships yea cast them out as new wines poyson out of the barrels and the seas their froth to the shores God forbid we should condemn all the Disciples for some Iudasses or all professors for some Anani-asses and Sapphiraes But still to follow them and to overtake them as the Hound the Fox in slow running Commeating further That if the Army should thus declare the City and Kingdom would rise as Dias was told Would rise Else they had an asinine patience a sleepish simplicity without any mixture of serpentine calidity to lie stil in a ditch til the ravens pluck their pelts and pulld out their eyes yea their right eyes as Naash the Ammonite projected to those of Iabes Gilead 1 Sam. 11. since nature teacheth the worm turn again if she be trod on the crows to chatter and wrens to wrangle if their nests be pulld down else where were the old English valor if cowed and over-awed as the Britains once with a Danish a Popish an Aegyptian yoke some being fit to be abused yea to sleep to Mecanas like a sawning Courtier a timerous Traveller and a Coriatized odcomb to receive injuries and give thanks but an English-man rightly bred is not fit to be abused though a grated Lion may perhaps be pluckt by the beard yet its dangerous to anger his whelps abroad and to provoke them too far if by any fair and square way of Truce or Treaty they may be appeased He answered Anser is Latin for a Goose They regarded not the City But the City hath both regarded and rewarded them and is she now shaken off as the spaniel shakes off the water when he hath used it to swim to his desired duck Have they climbed their own ends by her and will they now throw her by like broken Ladders Have they no more need of her men nor of her moneys the nerves and sinews of War Nor of her Ammunition which they carry away in Cart-loads full of kindness even many a man that makes Matrimony a matter of money regards the silver feathers if not the flesh of the bird which he takes into his nest but this is not commune malum But could fire it at pleasure At pleasure Oh Gunpowder spirits Jesuited Ignatians who would conclude all in ferio in ferro flamma as the Spanish inquisition and Bonner once and Gardner all are not guilty of this those who are gracious in the Army are also grateful in their invincible arguments of fire and faggot When Iames and Iohn would have fetcht fire from heaven to burn the Samaritans Christ told them they knew not of what spirit they were Luk. 9. But without being at cost with a. Herald we may derive some spirits from the torrid Zone from the pedigree and hot line of Thais that hot harlotrcausing Alexander to burn Persepolis of the mad Greeks firing Troy fired first by the lust of Paris of Nero firing Rome and singing funeral Elegies to it as to second Troy of the Tartars firing the great city Mosco of Faux the firebrand in his devilish intention and invention of a Parliament But to proceed where they exceed Fire the City Alas it s fired already First by wilde fire Sects and Schisms flaming like a sulphureous Aetna unquenchable as the coals of Jumper yea wel nigh as hell-fire either by the milk of the Word or the waters of the sanctuary still fuellized by zealous ignorance and arrogance the divisions of Reuben being great thoughts of heart Iudges 5. Most blinded Sectaries rather breaking like Oaks chiefly Hereticks like Arrius Nestorius Anastasius Valens Marcion Manes and others who all came to tragical ends then bowing like Reeds shutting their eyes against the Sun of truth Secondly fired by wilde-fire wrath and spleen burning and raging inwardly like fire close smothered in divided hearts breaking out into fiery factions and fractions in houses and families amongst those that are neerest united in the bonds of blood marriage nature consanguinity and affinity Withall the phrase of firing the City makes me start back as Moses from his rod turn'd serpent makes my hand stupid et vox faucibus haret and my tongue speechless as if I had seen a fiery-eyed Wolf and it speaks demonstratively to me that there is no sin so gross so grievous so hainous so

horrible but a graceless and godless man an unregenerate man out of Christ may commit it The murthering not only of a brother with Cain and Absalom but of a mother as Nero did Agrippina the killing of a father perpetrated by the two sons of Senacherib 2 King 19. the imprisoning of a father as the Duke of Geldria his aged Sire Rebellion against a father as Absalom against David murthering of their own children as did Manlius Brutus Progne and Medea Firing of Temples as Erostratus the Temple of Diana Assassinating Kings as Ravillack and Jaques Clemens the two French Henries ripping up the bowels of women with child as Hazael 2 King 8. and our Irish Rebels yea rosting some at lingring fires as the same Rebels did Mr Watson a Preacher and here as you see some threatning to fire one of the most glorious Cities in Christendom what worse acts could the Sodomites do if they were here on earth yea what worse could the devil himself do if he were visibly in the shape of man Withal see this surious sin of Firing aggravated cui bono to what end what good doth it but only to fuellize revenge which the Italians make the sweetest thing tinder the Sun as in that fiery faction in Jerusalem betwixt Simeon and Jehochonan in damnable spleen they fired a magazine of 20 years provision of corn only to plague the City and themselves conquered by this means by the belly more then the blade so homo homini lupus demon one man so is a wolf yea a devil to another in doing mischief only and doing themselves no good against the dictate both of Reason and Religion Moreover consider this fellows phrase in firing the City at pleasure At pleasure Oh the further aggravation of sin its pleasure to a carnal heart as carrion to a dog or vulture mire to a swine and filthy mud to a frog that which is the sorrow and vexation of a gracious heart to a combating Paul Rom. 7. to a mournful Jeremy throughout his Lamentations yea to a tender-hearted David Psa 6. 38. is a pleasure and a pastime to a graceless wretch even as Sampson a holy Nuzarite is a mocking-stock to the Philistines Judg. 16 Isaac to Hagar and Ismael Gen. 21. Holy David to Michal 2 Sam. 6. Lot to the Sodomites Gen. 19. Paul as a babler to the Athenians Act. 19. and Christ himself both in his Sermons and Sufferings to the carnal Jews Mat. 19. c. 27. Yea here you see is a pasquil mad-cap that joyns the firing of a City and pleasure both in oneline as if he would warm his hands in the flaming as now his heart in the conceited kindling of such a fire But it s a pastime to a fool to do mischief and the seat of the scorner being height of sin Psa 1. 1. there wants nothing but a cushion to that seat which is damnation unless speedy conversion prevent subversion Lastly premoniti premuniti forewarned let Troynovant be fore-armed to be cautelous to take heed how she entertains or retains any such brands into her City as would burn her any such hotspurs though blind and bloody Zealots as would fire her any such snakes into her bosom as would deadly sting her any such mice into her bowels as would destroy her in plain terms if she discover let her discard any such spirit or spirits as would betray her as Zopirus did Babylon Sinon Troy York Devoutree to the Spaniards for my part had I but a suspition of such a sojourner in my house as would cut my throat or my child's or any way by treachery abuse me as Paris did Menalaus or by cruelty as the two young Lacedemonians the daughter of Schedasus they should not nestle under my roose one night longer But in this case I prescribe nothing for that were to teach Eagles to fly and Dolphins to swim the City is so punctually wise even by experiments I need not light my candle to their sun withal far be it from me to put any jealousies and panick fears into their heads and hearts either of the fame-worthy General whose actions have hitherto spoke him both just and noble or of the Army in general who were fair-conditioned even when the ball was at their foot to have pludered with more opportunity then perhaps they may have again yea and with more power too as possessors of the Tower But when I consider again the fearful Tragedies in Antioch Gaza Alexandria Olyscopon and els where yea in Belgia in the Rustick Wars of Munstsr and John à Leiden which have been acted and writ by Historians rather with blood then ink by blind zeal bloody superstition and factious Schism and Herefie paraleling our new Seekers Shakers Lay-preachers Leaveners Enthusiasts Familists Anabaptists with their predecessors their Cozen-Germanes in now ruinated Germany and with our Norfolk Ket Hacket Jack Cade Tiler Straw and other firebrands of Rebellion at home I cannot but dicere praedicere prophesie truly though perhaps like Chelcas and Cassandra not beleeved if ever London be passive in blood or goods in this age it will be not by forreign power for Seleuchus his rods cannot be broken so long as they are fast tyed and bundled together but by the factions and fractions of her own home-bred in-bred Heresies like a diamond cut in its own dust by her present regnant sins ripening her ruine with other Nations chiefly her present distractions hastening and hurrying on her destructions Quod omen avertat Deus Meliora spero pejora timeo Et serò sapiunt Phryges serò medicina paratur which to prevent what you may after repent though I may be thought in politicals to be out of my element even piscis in arido and as unfit to councel you as once Phorimo Hannibal Yet si quid mea carmina possun● if my wishes were not in vain I could desire that as you have a care in electing selecting of your Maiors much more the Rectors of your Militia lest Militia turn into Malitia plus in duce quàm in exercitu The Athenians had a great care to trust none with the keyes of the City but Solon a wise and just man for a Pagan Oh for a Solon to this City ● Si non Sinon all is not gold that glisters many a nut with a fair shell is deaf rotten and worm-eaten for my part give me the nut called the brown leamin as most sollid massy and ponderous found in the kernel and hardest to be crackt in the shell If any be suspected much more detected in place and grace with you to be loose in the hast to shrink like some Western cloth in the wetting to side with Sectaries to list whom he list even Church and State-firing Schismaticks admit not such a rash phaeton to sit as regent such withall as the sons of Brutus who would keep in or bring in any proud and pernitious Tarquins are to be expulsed The very Geese and Ganders are not

Themistocles cannot sleep for the envied Trophies of Miltiades and Alexander weeps at the Tomb of Achilles so famoused by the Muse of a Homer O doxa doxa oh glory glory cries the Orator how dost thou boyl in the hearts of men Oh how the honor of men hath been and is aymed at by such Souldiers as Dias and his camped fellows more then the Glory of God Immensum gloria calcar babet Oh what a spur hath this vain-glory to be the subject of a story This is the whetstone to the Decians Horatians Scipioes Codrus Timoleon Anstogiton Scevola and millions moe of all other Heriock acts not so much undergone for the love of their Country as for the lust of vain-glory For this purchase Hannibal makes his way through the Alpes Cesar pitcheth so main battails the three Herods our Richard the third and thousand moe swim to Crowns through Hecatombs and Seas of blood the Aegyptian Kings build their Pyramides Absolon rears a Pillar and every man doth something from the Court to the Cart for this aery bubble this windy blather this vulgar vote this Plebeian puff called honor Some in the Army you see if Dias be not Monsieur Mendax will cross the publike good of a Kingdom in reducing the King rather then the City should monopolize this poor Punctillio of honor from them on which they stand so much as on their tiptoes as many Victories have been obstructed many Battails lost many Armies routed yea often Expeditions of Christian Princes against the Turk annihilated as I could bring in a Cloud of Histories meerly by the wild-fire Emulations of commanders about the Honors of several services Oh that as Iordan was turned bickward we could turn the stream of our boundless ambitions after humane Honors meerly to the Honor and Glory of God then in a good Cause should the swords of our Martialists like the swords of Ionathan and Saul return gloriously with the blood of the slain if with David and Jashuah they sought the Lords battels and not their own sought his honor not their own And that the Parliament did vote the Personal Treaty only to delude the people But how knows he this hath he some Mephistophiles like Faustus some familiar spirit as some Italian in a ring some devil like Cornelius Agrippa in the form of a dog or some lylng spirits like Ahabs prophets to acquaint him with this or is it his own mad imagination or as the Country-man mis called it madg-mason but till he prove this what slit deserves the scandalizing tongue of this reviling Shimei this railing Rabshekah if scandalum magnatum in slandering one noble man be so poenal what is it for this whelp of Cerberus to bite with his Theonine teeth a whole Parliament for this malevolent to cast his soul aspersions on so many selected Senators throughout the Kingdom but mens tongues are now more then ever their own what Law yea what Lord can controul them Psa 12. this were to tame Panthers and to shackle the Hellespont He likewise said He should or hoped to see the City on fire shortly Yet more fire more ire still the same Arminian Dragon spitting fire At dabit Deus his quoque funem God will cast on such a spirit lightening and thunder storm and tempest fire and hail Psa II. Satia te sanguine quem satisti Nestorius tongue that fired that world was scorched in his mouth Valens that fired so many Christians was at last fired by the Gothes But he hopes to see it fired His is such a hope as will never help him to heaven it will melt as snow to dirt and perish with himself as an embrio or the grass on the house top which withereth Oh the poor hopes of the wicked like the Romanized Religion founded in blood and watered with blood He further said That if the Kings revenue were ten times so much the more in were the better for them for the Crown Land would make many of the Souldiers Gentlemen And so indeed it would make not only Jack but Jackie too a Gentleman if he had the conscience to purse it Lastly this windy-bags venting That if they conquer us we shall be their slaves even slaves to such as he as Sicilian Lords once were opposed by their servants Soepe bilem soepeque risum vestri movere tumultus the humor of this fellow personating that bragging Thraso in Terence and Peripolinices in Plautias and of Bragauacheo in Spencers Fairy Queen I know not whether I should laugh at him pity him or be angry with him Thus having in this Rapsody gathered some grapes of political observances from his thorns and some gold of good counsels from his dross I sheath my pen from running any further Tilt with the pike of his tongue having unhorssed though not un-assed him enough already for abusing as a bold Buffoon even his own Army as well as King Kingdom and Parliament Imprimatur John Downame July the 26. 1648. FINIS