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The Parliament mended or ended, or, A philter and halter for the two Houses prescribed by their Doctor Mercurius Elenticus.
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Mercurius Elenticus.
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1648
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Wing P504; ESTC R6791
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THE PARLIAMENT MENDED OR ENDED OR A Philter and halter for the two Houses PRESCRIBED By their Doctor Mercurius Elenticus The Doctors Profession Here 's a Drinke so Soveraigne 'T will helps us to a King againe Here 's a Cordiall of such force It rootes the Army Foot and Horse And here 's a Caudell out of pitty For the fam'd Cuckolds of the City Here 's a Vomit I prâ—ferre To the bloody crew at Westminster Take it since J so freely give yee 'T will make you once more fill your Privy You are not squeamish I suppose VVhen I remember Atkins hose Bee not angry at my tricks You know wee are all Empericks WESTMINSTER Printed at the signe of the Traytors head and are to be sold right over against the House of Commons 1648. THE PARLIAMENT MENDED or Ended c. Nought can let out your rancour-vile but steele and Cupping glasses Yee most degenerâ—ted crew made up of Knaves and Asses The Sword which you have temper'd to destroy Our King and Church will prove your owne anoy And 't is but Justice of high heaven You to your Foes a prey are given You were our Fate But must not bee our State Where the Word of a King is there is Power and who shall say What dost thou Now struggle Trayters 't is in vaine to hope to sway yet longer The Devill is ti'de up GOD will bee stronger Your ruine is inevitable yet You dare not your owne fear 's before you set Then fall together If you live we dye If you our States then farewell Monarchy Yet seaven Weekes and wee Shall your Destruction see Where the Word of a King is there is Power and who shall say What dost thou HAving been a Practitioner in the Art of Physick these many yeares in the Loâ— Countriâ—s where I have approved my skill for the curing of Apoplexies Feavâ—rs Aches Vâ—rdigo's Gangrenas Spleenitick people and Madnesse with very good approbation and fortunate successe I resolved no longer to hide my selfe from my native Country but to returne into England that so my own people might be the better for me the residue of my yeares but now being arived I cannot but stand amazed and as if I had beheld another Gorgonhead mee thinks I am converted into stone for the face of things here are so changed since the time I set forward for my travaile that mee thinks it is no more like the Garden of the world once worthily called so then the Thessalian hils are compared with Tempâ— sure some Circe hath taken up her abode here and practiseth her metamorphosing Charmes for I incounter with none but beasts men I suppose when I left them and now I cannot but curse my selfe that ever I passed the Seas hither where I am like to starve for want of practise since the minds of the men of this Climate have need of cure and not their bodies Paracelsus Dioscorides Galen yea or the Inventer of Physick Aesculapius might sit here and practise upon themselves but since it is my ill hap to be here now and that I cannot evade it I have be thought my selfe of a way at least to vanquish hunger I perceive the vulgar are generally Infected and desperately overrun with a * Disease called Parliament dissease never heard of til the yeare 1641 and therfore I shal make semblance to have skill both in the original of the cause the taking away the effects Iack pudding Pudding Here Sr O master would I were amongst the butter-boxes again the faire haired Flemings here you are like to get nothing by your skill nor by any tricks Dr. Never feare Iack I shal get wealth and fame to boot and for that purpose I will have a stage erected by Chaâ—ing Crosse on which I wil divulge my skill unto al passers by get thou the copies of these bills speedily printed that performed clap them up in every corner of the Citie and in the most open places of the suburbs the first medecine I undertake to heale with is called A Soveraign drinke which whosoever shall tast but six spoonefuls of it brings into a Loyall temper and discovers unto him the goodnesse and excellencies of his King The Receit Let him take three Spoonefuls of the excellent juice extracted from the famous hearb so much lauded in scripture called Loyaltie with a good quantitie of the root of the hearb Grace and thereto an handfull of obedience asmuch Christian pittie and true Faith with a dose of humilitie mix all these together and boile them over the soft fire of Zeale according to Knowledge in an equivolent Number of teares taken from the cleare fountaine of a repentant heart and let all boile till they bee coagulated and then take and keepe A purge peculiarly to be administred to the members of the Iunto and prescribed onely for them and their use For that the Junto have this seaven yeares confined themselves to one place have not taken their progresse into the country thereby to refresh their ever working and troubled spirits with the odoriferous sweet smelling ayre and withall have been so unprofident and carelesse of their own health as to suffer a large and noisome Privie to have it evacuation nearly under their nostrills I have therefore being very Zealous of their preservation and how corrupt their bodies are even almost as fowle as their Soules have devised them this thorow Purgation which I am certaine if timely taken will bee for their exceeding profit The Receit Let them take twelve ounces of Loyaltie a Vegitable to be found in each corner of the pleasant Garden called the word of God with a good quantity of Order and Discipline with as much of Law and â—ustice a pound of Penitence with Competency of the antient Religious practises mix all these together with a hand not spotted with Rebellion murthers oppressions cruelties and Impieties and boyle them in a Caldron filled with their own teares of Contrition and then it being gathered to a jelly box it up and preserve it for your use this receipt will without faile restore you to your first and pristine Purity and you may yet be called a Parliament Another receit in case the other faile Take each of you a good hempen halter strongly and surely twisted and each of you after you haue well dined For it is not good to goo to hell with an emptie stomack adorn each of your thick necks with the aforesaid Bracelets that done you that have a mind to step into Charons boat unseene and have studies replenished with books onely for fashion sake enter into them and there casting up your eyes search out the most conveniently exalted beame to which by the ayd of a joint stoolâ— fasten your hempen jnstrument and having performed these necessary ceremonies without praying to God who abhorres you or calling on the Devill who longs to embrace you put your selves to the mercy of the throtle and without faile it wil prove your perfect cure