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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89434	A muzzle for Cerberus, and his three vvhelps Mercurius Elencticus, Bellicus, and Melancholicus: barking against patriots & martialists, in the present reign of their unwormed rage. With criticall reflections, on the revolt of Inchequin in Ireland. / By Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus. ...	Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus.	1648 (1648)	Wing M3166; Thomason E449_3	26,938	33

last as Solomon speakes of wine and women Prov. 9. 17. 18. cap. 23. 32. it stings like a Serpent and bites like an Adder which caused Sigismund the Emperour as Melancton hath it in his Chronicles lib. 5. pag. 630. to hit a flatterer a good boxe on the eare with this memento Cur me mordes why dost thou bite me and caused Zerpes saith Strigellus in his Chronicles part 2. pag. 119. to desire Demaratus a wise Counsellour ever to speake to him rather vera things that might profit him then jucunda delightsome things to please him This caused also Attila the King of the Huns to cast some scycophantizing Poems of the Calabrian Poet Marulus into the fire in which he had too hyperbolically extolled him Antigonus for the same cause saith Tholosanus in his Common-wealth lib. 6. cap. 12. pag. 339. distasting and detesting the flaughing Poems of Hermoditus because he would have made him as they some Gnatonists Alexander the sonne of Jupiter and si quid mea carmina possunt if I might be held wise or worthy enough to censure our Mendatious and malignant Mercuries mixt with saturnall spirits which cast aspersions on our state Ephorists and Patriots as blacke as their inck or that which the fish Scilopendra vomits out to blunder oft and to trouble cleane waters and these Court holy waters more poysonous then those of the Stygian lake which they sprinkle upon a Princely Monarchy to doe after the Persian Law quod libet licet every thing or any thing without being questioned Pope like with cur ita facis why doth it so or without such relation to counsell and counsellours as the best temperamentum ad Pondus in the body Politicke as the hot Hart an emblem of regality hath reference to the bellows of the lungs to blow upon it and to coole it I say I would have all such Mercurialized guilded paper poysons meerly consumed by Tobacco pipes like Tobacco to smoke or like the flattering Courtier Thurinus by smoake as meerly consecrated to Vulcan or in the best use if reprieved I would have them imployed by some Chandelours to stop Mustard-pots or by Monsier A-jaix as Harringtons Satyrs have metamorphized him Withall I further expostulate with my mercenary Mercury or Mounsier Mendax why he or any of his fraternity was so long from the 10 11 and 12 to the 17 18 19 of April in weaving a poor spiders web or Arachnees clew out of their owne invenomed bowells to catch poore credulous plebeian flesh fleas or rather in hatching of a wind egge or two which by the incubation of some Toads as poysonous as themselves may bring forth Cockatrices egregiam certe laudem spolia ampla tulisti every one of you have stoutly lyed and vied for the whet-stone and after some pumping of your hide-bound genius with Juno Lucina fer opem perturiunt montes nascitur riduculus mus you have brought forth a mouse to get into the Trunkes of Alephants or rather a blacke Rat to gnaw all Parliamentary papers and edicts yet I prophesie that if you bee once catcht out of your lurking holes and Cacus dens where you securely croake as all Schismaticall frogs in corners we have state storkes would catch you by the crags and Lionized Cats would clapper-claw you till you squeaked and perhaps you may at last finde by wofull experience that you may sigh or sing Ovids Elegiackes with ingenio perii your owne wits may be your owne woes as Cambises and Saul were slaine with their own swords as Adonijah spoke words and a Lieutenant of the Tower write lines like Vrias his letters to their owne deaths so your owne pennes with propriis configimur pennis with which you pricke and pierce our Senatours as with the sharpened quills of Porcupines may pierce your selves as it s noted that Cassius and Brutus killed themselves with those very swords which they drew against Caesar it may be you may know what it is to pulLions by the beard you may buy repentance as dear by your abused wickedwits spurted as mad dogs their slavers as inraged Boares their froth and horses their foams in the very faces of disgraced Grandees as Antiphon bought his bold jeast broken upon Dionisius which cost him his head or as Anaxarchus bought his sarcismes cast upon Anacreon which afterwards brayed him in a mortar as Pantaleon was cast into a darke cave and fed with the bread of affliction to his dying day for his base aspersions cast upon Arsinoe the wife of Lisimachus No lesse tragicall were the Iromes which some of the Nobles of Arragon spurted on Ranimirus their King recalled out of a Monastery which cost no lesse then eleven of them their lives with this caveat ignor at vulpecula cum quo ludat the Fox knowes not with whom he playes when he is too bold with the Lion as the tongue tragedies of these and many moe you may see writ in their owne blood as yours may be in time if you have either will to read them or skill to understand them largely historified by Collenutius in his first booke of the History of Naples p. 20. by Hagaceus in his Bohemian Chronicle part 2. pag. 171. by Strigellius upon Justin pag. 169. by Woffius in his memorables Tom. 1. pag. 359. chiefly by Erasmus in his Apothegmes in his sixt booke fol. 478 479. sc 548 549 and in his 7 booke fol. 633. to all whom their owne licentious and scurrilous wits unguided like Bellirophus horses without the Minervaes bridle of wisdome were as fatall and tragicall as the horse of Sejanus was to Cassius and Tolobella and to every one of his Masters and the Tholous gold to every one that possessed and plundered it in whose broken glasses you may see so far your owne faces that as generous spirits like Alexander in pardoning King Porus and in killing audacious Clitus and too bold Calisthenes are alwayes more exasperated with words then with swords and will rather pardon Targets against them then tongues so you may at last come to buy your impetuous scurrility in your scandalum magnatum in the highest degree as dear as Semei his reviling of David 2 Sam. 16. as Ra●shekah his railings against Ezekias 2 Kin. 19. as Michol her mockings of her royall husband 2 Sam. 6. as Ismael and Hagar their prophane scoffes against Isaac Gen. 21. yea as copious as I have heard his invectives against a Platonicall Rex pacificus revenged by an English Heroes or as those brats of Bethlehem brought their hereditary scurrilous taunts against that Round-head sound-head Elisha torne as their tongues had torne him by She-bears in a just retaliated vengeance 2 King 2. such Curs as you bawling so long against Lions and such Crowes as you chattering so long against incensed Eagles that they may lacerate and teare you as Hercules did Ops since patientia lae sa furor the most noble and masculine patience abused turnes into rage as sweet wine into sowre vinegar even a