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A40857	The famous tragedie of King Charles I basely butchered by those who are, omne nesas proni patare pudoris inanes crudeles, violenti, importunique tyranni mendaces, falsi, perversi, perfidiosi, fædifragi, falsis verbis infunda loquentes in which is included, the several combinations and machinations that brought that incomparable Prince to the block, the overtures hapning at the famous seige of Colchester, the tragicall fals of Sir Charls Lucas and Sir George Lisle, the just reward of the leveller Rainsborough, Hamilton and Bailies trecheries, in delivering the late Scottish army into the hands of Cromwell, and the designe the rebels have, to destroy the royal posterity.		1649 (1649)	Wing F384; ESTC R3816	25,227	52

Greek Exorcist renowned Calchas when with his Magicke numbers he incouraged great Alreus Sonne and martiall Diomed to prosecute their Siege ' gainst Priam's Towne by thy insinuating perswasive art their hearts may move like Reeds when Boreas breath smites the huge Oakes that on Mount Pelion grow I know that Nectar hangs upon thy lippes and that the most absurd Syllogisme or care-deceiving paradox maintain'd by thee shall seem oraculous more dangerous to question than the Sacred Writ Sing then my Hugh and so thy Numbers sing All those that heare may joyntly curse their King Peters Most valiant and invincible Commander whose Name 's as terrible to the Royallists as e're was Huniades to the Turkes or Talbot to the French thy Nose like a bright Beacon sparkling still the Aetna that doth fame our English world hangs like a Comet o're thy dreadfull face denouncing death vengeance the Ancients fam'd Alcides for his Acts thou hast not slaine but tane the Kingly Lyon and like great Tamberlaine with his Bajazet canst render him within an Iron-Cage a spectacle of mirth when e're thou pleasest Had the Snake-footed earth-borne Sons of old but had thy ayde Imponere pelion ossae old Saturne might have laugh'd to see his Sonne sit sadly by him in the Cimerian shades while thou didst sway the Empire of the Skies Englands best Patriot and my noble Patron a Sermon such as Ignatius Loyalla himselfe were he to morrow to supply my place for dangerous Doctrine direfull Use and dreadfull Application would glory to name his I have provided such an one As shall confirme our Faction ten times more Then all that they have known or heard before In it I 'le prove Kings ab origine have been the Peoples plague given them by the angry Gods in wrath the meer exuberance of their crimes the sordid Vulgar being delighted much to honour those dull Images which themselves erect and dread those Anticks which themselves depaint themselves affording both the hornes and nailes which make them either dangerous or ugly I will assert that Regall power is Devilish and inconsistent with the Peoples Freedome I will make it good the Tyrant now in hold whom some yet call their Lord King CHARLES doth merit violent death as guilty of the many thousand horrours committed in the late most bitter Warre I will demonstratively Crom. Enough enough my dearest Hugh thou art my better Genius thy advice I will relie on with more sure respect then on a Sybils words or Delphian Oracle drink the Elixar of that pretious mettall he gives him Gold 't is soveraign ' gainst that perilous disease call'd Speaking truth 't will prove an animation to thy mind for to proceed in thy audacious practise I meane against the King and 's House of Peers thou'lt find it a most precious Antidote against the poyson wavering fame shall spit and to conclude a perfect supplement of all defects that Time or Fate shall by harsh doome appoint But what will please the best my dearest Hugh 'T will purvey for thee Wine and Wenches too Pet. Sir you are pleased to make my faults your mirth I doe confesse the luscious Paphian sinne hath ever vanquish'd all my virtuous powers the Cyprian Queene in full aspect of Mars being predominant solely at my birth besides the constitution of my body made up of moisture and venerable humors though some great Ladies say leane men doe best may help for to extenuate my crime of being too often prov'd beneath the Navell But Noble Sir this Colloquie is too poor if we consider our most high resolves our language should be like those Lawes we meane to give awfull and to be wonder'd at by mortals sable-brow'd Saturne and bloud-thirsty Mars must seem sole Rectors over us abroad though Venus and her soft Sonne the sightlesse Boy challenge our utmost faculties in private Crom. Thou art that Load-stone which shall draw my sense to any part of policy i' the Machiavilian world we two like Mahomet and his pliant Monke will frame an English Alchoran which shall be written with the self-same pensil great Draco grav'd his Lawes but first we must subdue the testie Scot and send the Beggars home as lowsie though not so propt with limbs or so well shap'd as when they chose the politique Hamilton to be their Generall meane time if those auspicious starres of sinne whose influence hath prosper'd Treason hitherto shall still continue gracious to our villany Tom Fairfax may take in the Towne of Colchester and force those stubborn truly-valiant Heroes for in my thoughts I doe esteem them so who have tane shelter in that antient City at least for to comply on remisse tearms my next work then is to new-mould our Army and give a strong purgation to those Punies who act for me and may be called my Parliament whose great worke yet remaines to do my Hugh the King shall die and they shal Father the most damned act upon the power of justice that done all Earles and Lords shall downe for to make way for me and those I favour Then thee and I and those whom we create Will Reigne like Princes and the Lords of Fate Pet. I knew before the scope of your intents and doe applaud them as magnanimous and the sole way left to preserve our lives in order unto which your deare designe it shall be my taske both at Presse and Pulpit to render Kingly Government obnoxious and incompatible with the Peoples Rights to prove the imprisoned King a truculent Tyrant whose bloud alone can expiate Heavens wrath and purchase an atonement with the Deities expect me all I may renowned Sir for promulgation of our well-fixt Cause from which no feare of paine or hope of profit shall be of force to draw me For he that dares attempt and goes not on Doth leap for safety into Phlegeton Crom. Our conference here must end some three daies hence I march towards the cold North to meet the Bannock feeding fierry Scots they have I heard already worsted Lambert and puff'd up with the pride of victory come on like Lyons flush'd in humane gore I shall not need to pray your readinesse Pet. Command me as your Creature Sir you were pleased to impose a taske upon me which by the ayde of some one amongst the Nine I know not which to thanke for the good turne I have performed after a tedious pumping the Theame you gave me Sir you know was this The Peoples right transcends the power of Kings Sir I have done my best to justifie your learned Axiome in this scroule gives him a Paper Crom. Your love to my requests makes your performance of them swift and punctuall by the great Genius of this Land o're which I hope to Reigne I had forgot what late I urg'd you to this shall oblige my love What 's here I am an ill Versefier or Verse-maker what doe you call your Trimeter-men and none but those have sipt of Hellicon I 've heard can grace a

on with hopes of re-establishment so long that now He doubts my feign'd reallity and a strong Partie in the Junto sit who without me are now in Treatie with Him but I shall breake the necke of their Designe perhaps before they thinke it the severall Commanders of the Army are now all of my Faction while Fairfax silly Foole sits like a Statue as if he nothing knew or nothing durst I have proposed unto the severall Officers to forsake the King and yeild Him up as one not fit to live unto the block I have informed them and it takes exceedingly so forward are the Fooles to worke my ends and their owne certaine ruine that the King is a Man of bloud by no meanes to be trusted being of a rigid and implacable Spirit hating even to the death all have opposed Him and that should He regaine his former Power He quickly would make use on 't to their ruine that therefore they should make a retreat in time nor yeild their necks unto a Tyrants mercy that they having declar'd so highly for Him might the more easily by farre entrap Him nor was it a discredit so to doe since in all Ages such a politick course hath been thought just and safe they snared with my words resolve to doe so for to remove the King by violent death and to set up a Military Power now my plots worke the Stage growes great with horror the English Monarchy growes sick to death its very Basis hath an Ague-fit which wil not cease to shake it till it be Levell'd to the humble earth Mount mount my thoughts unite like scatter'd springs 'T is a strong Torrent that must beare downe Kings Here I appointed my deare Buffone Peters Enter Peters Boswill Pride with Soldiers and Coll. Boswill Pride and my whole Army to meet about this houre See they come Welcome deare Friends you have observ'd your time My Hugh how thrives our Counsell in the Army that our great Generall the Lord Fairfax guides I am sure these gallant Soules serve under me are all unanimous to shake off Kings and while the Iron 's hot to strike that blow which shall for ever free the English Nation from Tyrants and their awfull power Peters Heroick Sir they all even as one Man applaud even to the skies your rare projection both Officers and Souldiers covetous for to accomplish what 's by you propos'd and as a signall of their Resolutions see here the more part of a queint Remonstrance which must by us be brought unto a period wherein we will divulge unto the world the reasons and grounds of our intents Cromwell As I would wish never till now could England hope a happinesse why how now Boswill why art thou so sad the noble Pride stands like a man astonish'd or like a marble Statue whose aged feet are wrapt in wither'd mosse what 's the matter Pride Nothing deare Sir but an excessive joy which hath surpriz'd my faculties and craz'd upon the organs of my speech my mind is busied 'bout the Kingdomes fate my Soule in a deep conference with my sense about mature affaires Boswill The constitution of my Soule agrees with thine in each degree of temper most honoured Cromwell from our late-sworne Principles I 'le not recede though Heaven rain'd down fire upon me though Earth yawn'd wide and Hell gorg'd balls of Sulphure the King that Man of bloud shall lose His Head and all His prime Adherents wait on Him unto the other world the People we will Rule by the Sword 's power their lives and goods by Conquest we have gain'd our sway must be maintain'd by Strength not Law The Sword that cut a passage to our Sphere 'T is that alone must secure us there Cromwell Oh let me put thee in my bosome Boswill henceforth let us converse more neerly and like the Zodiacks Gemini mix our loves we 'l be a second Pylades and Orestes and never part till death my Hugh let 's hear some part of that Remonstrance 't will highly spurre us on to action Peters You shall the most material Clauses Sir are these which take with this exordium I penn'd late yesternight He Reads Absolute power of necessity must subsist and keep above water though all else be assur'd of drowning to the losse of all or at least many branches of universall Freedome and therefore the Fox did not conclude amisse when he saw his fellowes steps march towards the Lyons Den Nos vestigia terrent if we enter into a strict scrutinie we shall find that our choice and our nature gave us Kings the dignity conferr'd upon a single Man was sure intended for the good of all but where one drawes from all can that be pleasing or fortunate or to leave this one can that be injury and therefore in order theretowe declare That we will call King CHARLES to an account as the prime Promoter Abettor and sole Occasioner of all the murthers and outrages committed this many yeares during the Warre and bring Him to a Tryall for His life That with Him we will bring to judgement all those of His Partie who in order to His Arbitrary Commands have murthered spoyled and impoverished the Free-borne People of England Crom. Hold I have heard enough why this is done to purpose and shewes all gallantry did not die with Brutus and his Confederate Consulls now Lawrell wreathes commixt with Myrtle branches shall deck our fortunate brows as the true Patriots of our native Countrey We 'l give the whole world cause for to remember us aside the ensuing Ages when they read our Acts shall blesse our memory with devout respect but flying Phoebus now hath left our Hemisphere black night hath now put on her ebbon robe and wrapt the Welkin in a sable shrowd we must away now towards the frozen North my fellow Souldiers we must direct our march to jerke the Scots back to their Sedgie Cottages malevolent Saturne oh be thou propitious prosper thy Agent in his deeds of death Which are so grim and horrid full of ire Some will suspect the Devill was my Sire Exeunt omnes Enter Fairfax Ireton Rainsborow cum aliis as in a Tent a Table and Tapers Fairfax How goes the night Ireton About the howre of twelve Fairfax Now then while all the worl'd 's involv'd in silence and man and beast takes their repose and rest let us determine 'bout these captive Heroes who with this Towne of Colchester to morrow must yeild themselves unto our mercy Rainsborow Renowned Generall under whose conduct we have been fortunate and victorious I need not now recite since you well know what vast expence of bloud of toyle and treasure we have been at since we besieg'd this Towne the third part of our Army quite consum'd by the immured Enemies frequent Sallies by our unfruitfull Onsets and hard Duty and how mercylesse they have shewn themselves to those of ours whom Fortune gave them Prisoners all which considered I doe give my vote and justice speaks