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A80521 A copie of quæries, or A comment upon the life, and actions of the grand tyrant and his complices; Oliver the first and last of that name, not unfit, nor unworthy of thy perusall. 1659 (1659) Wing C6197; Thomason E988_10; ESTC R208073 6,423 11

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A Copie of Quaeries OR A Comment upon the Life and Actions of the Grand Tyrant and his Complices OLIVER the First and last of that Name not unfit nor unworthy of thy perusall COVRTEOVS READER J presume to present thee with some Quaeries come to my hands not long since which were Intended to be presented to the Parliam●nt in 1657 then Sitting but the time then being so malevolent and the chiefe subject of them being then in his full power and Tyrannie that neither the Author nor Printer durst publish then unlesse they minded wilfully to cast themselves upon his Mercy which all men knowes what that was There have come forth severall papers of Quaerees of late but not any of them in this kind If these which J now publish doe not please thee in a kind sacrifice them to the Fire and seeke out some better Wit to mend them and both the Author and Printer will give thee thanks Vale. PRIMO I. WHether this present Parliament which is to doe nothing but what OP shall appoint is to sit any longer then hee pleaseth 2. Whether all Votes must not passe in the House acc●rding as OP will have them whose will is to be the Law of this Parliament 3. Whether the Lord Protector his going with the Tide to the House do betoken any good tydings we shall heare from thence 4. Whether his returning at high water back againe doe not portend that his Prosperities are neere their Ebbe 5. Wheither OP did not seeme to Bugger the house when hee went into it the Back way 6. Whether such must not heare with OP his Eares and see with OP his Eyes who can fancy those Nations to be happie or beleeve any word hee sayes 7. Whether OP his short Speech to the Houses were not on purpose to insinuate that if his Friends it would become them likewise to use but few words If his Foes That he would yet be shorter with them 8. Whether what the Lord Fines who supplyed what OP left unsaid spake with his owne or the L. Protector 's mouth 9. Whether what the L. Fines spake with OP his mouth He may not one day be made to eat his owne words 10. Whether the L. Fines his Speech which began in Genesis If the Game goe on Par le Roy will not end in the Booke of the Kings 11. Whether the Houses Snarling at their first greeting one another may not agree like Dogs at last 12. Whether not Praying together but Severally they may be said to be of the same Communion 13. Or God for certaine not being amongst them nor ever likely to be unless in Vengeance howsoever they may pretend to seek him in mercy in whose Name is this Parliament met 14. Whether OP doing all things with a Fiat ought to have had Divine worship given him but that beholding all his works when they were done hee could not say that any of them were Good 15. Whether the bold Black smith that doth so Roundly Clinch the Lord OP and his Parliament would not also give him and them a remove if hee durst 16. Whether those Parliament mens Wives who lye languishing for want of their Husbands may not sue the Lord Protector for Delapidations who hath foreeably taken their Members from them 17. Whether those Members of the House of Commons who questioned the Peerage of the other House may not also scruple at the Kingship 18. Whether the Teares which OP wept when the Protectorship was forc'd upon him were not like those of the Crocadile 19. Whether Weeping at his Coronation hee will not be judged to shed the very selfe-same Teares 20. Whether OP his Hat seemed too light for his Head whether may not the Crowne be too heavie for it 21. And should the Crowne prove too heavie for his Head whether may not his head prove too light for his Shoulders 22. Whether this Parliament though it met in the Metropolis will not sit upon the skirts of the Nation 23. Whether like that of most Weddings the first joyfull day of this present Parliament will not be the fore-runner of a great many yeares of Sorrowes 24. Whether the House ought not to Petition for some other Name then that of Parliament to be called by since it is resolved by OP that no body in it must dare to speake Freely 25. Whether this present Parliament have not faire warning to sit close who have seene one Precedent to them so foully throwne out of the Saddle 26. Whether OP did not more then make good the old Saying In throwing the House out at the Windowes when with one blast of his Mouth hee blew Two whole houses of Parliament out of Doores 27. Whether OP his God-father and Godmother did not fore-see that hee would love Mutton well when they Christened him OLIVE-R 28. Whether the Cuckolds Crest ought not to be quartered hence-forward with the Lyon and Vnicorne since the Royall Armes are now to discend upon the Town-Bull of Ely 29. As the Off-spring of such a monstrous Parent what are wee to expect whiles that Line shall sway these Nations but the Tyrannie Rapine and Oppressions of a blood Disloyall 30. Whether are wee not to Expect an Earthquake in England when at the same time and in One person both a King a Tyrant and a Traytor shall Infest the Throne 31. Whether his Prognosticks be true who sayes wee shall have two Kings in England before the 24 th of Iune 32. Whether hee that from a Copper hath Rais'd himselfe to a Crowne hath not Brewed fairely 33. Whether OP and Col. Pride having been Brothers of the Sling would not Handsomely hang together 34. Whether having been Brothers all along in Evill and never likely to mend any Good may or ought to be expected from them If every one had his right and the Divell his due 35. Whether would CR or OP be the Elder Brother 36. Whether it would not have been a considerable advantage to Col. Pride and Col. Baxster had OP Knighting them call'd the one Sir Thomas Slingsby and the other Sir John Thimbleby for then they might have been Gentlemen as well as Knights 37. Whether Hell ought not to be removed out of Westminster into the City during this present Sessions of Parliament since so many Divels from all parts meeting in the House It were to much to have two Hells in one place 38. Whether all these Parliament men who frequent Heaven in the old Pallace for the love of Plum-broath and afterwards upon a full Stomach and against their Consciences vote downe their Countries Liberty believe there is any other heaven but that 39. Whether Sir Thomas Pride's wife were Dubbis a Lady at the very pronouncing of these words Rise up Sir Thomas or not till after hee had laine with her 40. Whether a man might not cry Rub to him who should say that OP were an Honest man Though hee hath proved himselfe a very good Bowler 41. Whether all Iourney-men and