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●ars Puer Alecto Virgo VULPES Leo Nullu A CAT May look upon a KING London Printed for William Roybould at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard 1652. TO THE READER IF I were Master either of good Language or good Method I would then presume to present this ensuing Discourse according to the fashion intreat thy courteous acceptance But being so rude naked yet true I send it forth into the World to take its fortune with the rest of the Paperbrats of this Age some may fret some may laugh both please me alike my end only is that we may all of us after so much blood treasure spent with hearts and hands pray for and endeavor the welfare security prosperity of the whole Adieu The Introduction THE unparallel'd Transactions of these our late times have raised in mee such a confusion of thoughts that I resolved to look back as a man that is stunn'd with a stone looks not after the stone but after the hand that flung it And surely I find by the help of my spectacles King JAMES was the Fountain of all our late Afflictions and miseries It hath been a custome among our flattering Priests for I know none else used it upon mention of deceased Princes to use the expression Of blessed memory and so I believe have used it ever since William the Bastard of Normandy over-ran this Kingdome Which begat another itch in me to search the lives of all our Kings since him to see if any of them had deserved that reverend remembrance And first for King William The Conqueror I Know no better testimony of him then out of his own mouth lying upon his death-bed his words take as followeth The English I hated the Nobles I dishonoured the Commons I cruelly vexed and many I unjustly disinherited In the County of York and sundry other places an innumerable sort with hunger and sword I slew And thus that beautifull Land and Noble Nation I made desolate with the deaths of many thousands William Rufus THis King did not only oppresse and fleece this Nation but rather with importunate exactions did as it were flay off their skins His chiefest consorts were effeminated persons Ruffians and the like and himselfe delighted in continual adulteries and company of Concubines even before the sun None thrived about him but Treasurers Collectors and Promoters Hee sold all Church preferments for mony and took Fines of the Priests for fornication Hunting in that most remarkable New-Forrest Walter Tyrrel shot him to the heart with an arrow out of a Crosse-bow whether of purpose or not is no great matter Henry 1. IS branded with Covetousnesse and intolerable taxations and cruelty upon his elder brother whom he kept in perpetual prison and put out both his eyes and for his most excellent leachery leaving behind him fourteen Bastards King Stephen IN famous for perjurie a hater of this Nation whom he durst never trust but oppressed this Land with strangers notwithstanding that he had received the Crown upon courtesie dyes and leaves behind him two bastards Henry 2. NEver such a horrid extractor of monies from the Subjects as this King and is infamous for perjury jealousie and lechery curses all his children upon his death-bed and so dies leaving three bastards Richard 1. RAked more money by unparalell'd Taxes upon this Nation then any King before him his voyage to the Holy-Land pared them to the bones by many unjust wayes but his unlucky return quite ruined it He dyes by a poyson'd arrow and leaves two Bastards King John OF this King we cannot reckon so many impieties as he had Unnatural to his own blood to the wife in his bosom bloody to Nobility and Clergy Perjury often swearing but never kept his word betrayes the Crowne and Kingdome to the Pope And rather then want his will to ruine both Church Nobles and the whole Nation sends Ambassadours to a Moor a mighty King in Africa to render unto him this kingdome of England to hold it from him as his Soveraign Lord to renounce Christ and receive Mahomet In the heat of his wars with the Nobility Gentry and Commons of this Land repaires to the Abbey of Swines-head where he is poysoned and leaves behind him three Bastards Henry 3. A Chip of the old block for no Oath could bind him Jealous of the Nobility brings in strangers despiseth all counsell in Parliament wastes all the Treasure of the kingdome in Civil wars sells his Plate and Jewels and pawnes his Crown Edward 1. GOvern'd his will by his power and shed more blood in this Kingdome then any of his fore-runners counted his Judges as dogs and died as full of malice as he lived full of mischief Edward 2. A Man given to all sorts of unworthy vanities and sinful delights The scourge and disgrace of this Nation in Scotland against a handfull of men with the greatest strength of England After so many perjuries about his Favourite Gaveston and slaughter of the Nobility he is deposed and murdered Edward 3. TO his everlasting staine of honor surrenders by his Charter his Title of Soveraignty to the kingdom of Scotland restores the Deeds and Instruments of their former homages and fealties though after the Scots paid dear for it to supply his want Whatsoever he yielded to in Parliament was for the most part presently revoked And in that Parliament which was called The Good they desire the King having abundantly supplied his wants to remove from Court four persons of special prejudice to his Honour and the Kingdomes with one Dame Alice Piers the Kings Concubine an impudent troublesome woman But no sooner ended this Parliament having gotten their monies but those four forbidden return to Court and their wonted insolencies The Speaker who had presented the Kingdomes grievances at the suit of Alice Piers is committed to perpetual imprisonment Richard 2. T Is said of this King he spared neither the dignity nor the life of any that crost his pleasure spared neither lewd example nor vild action to follow cruell councell A man plung'd in pleasure and sloth in his private councels would alter whatsoever the Parliament had setled neglects his debts prodigal to strangers destroyes the Nobility and for his hypocrisie cruelty perjury and tyranny is deposed and murdered at Pomfret-Castle Henry 4. SO true is that Distych translated out of Suetonius Who first exil'd and after crown'd His reign with blood will much abound For after he had murdered his Predecessor nothing took up this Kings reigne but ruine and blood upon the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdome with such unsufferable taxes as never were before nor since Henry 5. THis King reigned about nine years and a halfe all which time our stories mention nothing but his wars raising of monies and spending the blood of this poor Nation Henry 6. AND Edward 4. WEre two men born as it were for ruine blood and misery to this kingdome whose lives and actions no man can read with patience