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B08742 Aulicus his dream, of the Kings sudden comming to London Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665. 1644 (1644) Wing C3807; ESTC R223592 4,311 8

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AULICUS HIS DREAM OF THE Kings sudden Comming TO LONDON Printed Ann. Dom. 1644. AULICUS HIS DREAM Hollow mee Phantasie where hast thou been At Court I have been towring The plaines I have been scouring On an Errand for the Queen MY criticall part corrects my phantasie as the sage Father did his Sonne Ovid for making Verses but my phantasie having borrowed an argument from my Intellectus agens as they lay in bed together taking counsell of their pillow Replyed Why what doe yee think of the Poets had they no Judgement Yes sure saith Crisis they that write in Verse are to bee reckoned next to them for judgement and wisedome who write in prose But to tell you the truth before the dispute was ended there was one sent with a black rod not to dissolve the Parliament at Westminster but to charme my sences and I fell asleep fast for I was weary of trotting up and down in my Pilgrimage on the errand aforesaid and yet my Pilgrimage was no pennance because voluntary In the middest of my refreshing sleep I fell into a pleasing dreame First I began to conceive that there was a free passage from Oxford to London for any Lord Lady Laundresse c as if Col. Tompson our learned Littletous Agent were bribed to make legges and faces for them Then I pleased my selfe with the thoughts of the Citizens Propositions for the raising of 20000 men such as our good friends thought to hire men that would have done the Queen service enough had they never been pressed to it or rewarded for it with the Auxiliaries victuals Perchance some may say that Aulicus doth tell lies and dreame truths But as sure as can bee the Auxiliaries were the confiding men and yet some good simple Citizens were willing to withdraw that one meale from these trusty Auxiliaries who made fourteen meales upon that one meale that they might disarm nay starve their friends and feast their enemies the truth is I laughed so heartily at this jeast that I had almost awaked my selfe with laughing Not long after there came to my thinking a gallant Trumpeter to London their grand Garrison with C. R. upon his breast who had the favour to ride unblindfolded as farre as Pindars pride or Fishers folly and that very night Henry of the Low-Countreys I say not Holland rid out of London towards the Royall Quarters at Reding I hope no body heares mee for I dreame as softly as if I did whisper yet I am not willing to whisper some secrets of my dreame for fear of being overheard the Rebels have more whispering places then that of Glocester a City that God hath blessed the more because our Cavalry have so often cursed it This dreame being over I fell into a gentle slumber and afterwards into a melancholly dreame I dream't full sadly that Alderman Pennington was to be sent on shipbord and Sir Iohn Conniers restored to his old Lievtenantship of the Tower by whose motion I leave to the Reader to consider pardon me if I dreame waking I remember that Bellarmine as that Italian said dreamt once upon a time that he was in Purgatory but he awaked and found that he was beshit the Italian spoke plaine and so must I. It is confessed that I have dreamt my selfe into a Fooles Paradise I fancy our condition better and fairer then indeed it is for I heare that the Citizens begin to grumble and feare that there is some designe upon them they will have the Tower secured their Out-guards doubled and trebled nay they are offended that some Ladies are at liberty some Prisoners released and some confiding men imprisoned But the last part of my dream pleased me best I saw what within these two dayes some hope to see by day light the Kings Majesty riding into London in State attended with c. hee posted by White Hall and Saint Iames's and came directly to the House of Peeres the Speaker of the House of Commons was sent for and his Majesty bespake them after this manner My Lords and you Mr Speaker shall see that fulfilled before your eyes upon this happy day which you have so often begged with prayers and teares We are now returned to our beloved Parliament of England and are welcomed hither by the good affections of our Lords and blessings of our People You may remember that in our Message on the 8 of April 1642. we did assure you of our Princely resolution to goe into Ireland not declining any hazard of our own Person that we might performe that duty which we owe to the defence of Gods true Religion and our distressed Subjects and might settle the peace of that Kingdome and security of this by chastising those wicked and detestable Rebels odious to God and all good men We offered to raise two thousand foot and two hundred horse in the Counties neere Westchester where we desired that they might be armed from our Magazine at Hull for a Guard for our owne Person when we should have come into ●reland but we could not then prevaile with our Parliament to defray the charge of raising and paying that our forementioned Guard And therefore we have since been forced to make use of some of those Catholikes for our necessary defence against Anabaptists and Brownists men we trust equally odious both to you and us For we have reason to beleeve that you doe now at last see your owne errour which you fell into by your caus●esse jealousies and some unworthy suggestions of necessity and imminent danger for we defie the Devill to prove that there was any designe with our knowledge or privity for the dissolution of this Parliament which we have been ever carefull to preserve according to our Act of Grace our Act for the continuance of this Parliament We understand that you have now prepared twenty six Articles to treat upon for the setling of a blessed peace in this our Kingdome of England we desire to heare them read and wee are ready to subscribe them all which in our understanding of which God hath surely given us some use seeme fit to be subscribed Vpon this gracious speech it was expected that some dutifull Answer should be returned but the Speaker of the House of Peeres was no Speaker pro tempore and the rest of the Lords were in as deep a dreame as mine owne The Speaker of the House of Commons was dismissed and when hee came to his Chaire he sate ammused but there started up a Westerne Sparke and cryed What Mr Speaker his Majesty in the House of Peers a dreame or not a dreame Is this the fruit of all our expense of blood treasure pains time spirits and lives Is this the end of all our treating and covenanting no reformation of religion Mr Speaker durus sermo are all the Priviledges of Parliament and liberties of the subject lost in a moment shall we and our posterity be condemned to a perpetuall slavery is there no remedy I hope you will have