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A79747	A candle for the blinde citizens of London, to see by: by a freeman of the same city, though of neither ranke or quality, yet reall in heart, fearing God, honouring his King, and a lover of truth, peace, and the brotherhood. With Englands farewell from its ancient prosperity, to its new change of misery.		1648 (1648)	Wing C424; Thomason E465_12; ESTC R205185	4,674	8

all Are you so blinde still that you cannot see take this candle and hold it to your noses see if you can see unto what a vast expence have you brought us to by going dayly to Westminster to guard them that neither feare God or regard man how is the wealth of this florishing City decayed how many thousand of Subjects bloud hath been spilt how many times have you beene deluded by bare votes how many assessments have been made to fetch our money how many mens estates have beene sequestred how many Bishops Lands have beene sold how much pole-money meale-money and contributions have beene given how much composition money hath been received how many plundred goods have beene so●d How much plate and money hath beene brought into Guild-hall of which we shall never see use nor principall how many thousand pounds out of His Majesties Revenues and out of the custome-house and how much hath beene payd at the excize Office and many others which my memory failes to speake of as money gived to the Scots to the reliefe of Ireland the buying of Irish Land for coales for collections and I know not what and of what one of these can there be a true accoumpt given and yet the Citizens cannot see and therefore have need of a candle lighted and if it bee but to see how many thousands of soules have beene sent to their untimely ends and for all this our Citizens still run post hast to fulfill every command of theirs and be ready to performe it in as dutifull and respective manner as can be done which makes me think that the older the Citizens be the more childish they grow and that great men are not alwayes wise for who would have thought that the Fathers of the mother City of three Kingdomes should have proved such d●nces so blockish and so wedded to their owne foolishnesse that blindnesse is their father that begat them and fearfullnesse their mother that brings them up so that now wee may bid a farewell to all our former injoyments and take up this lamentation and all long of such Asses I had almost said farewell to the King and Prince for we have got Thomas and Oliver farewell Bishops for wee have got Elders farewell councell table for we have got Goldsmiths Hall farewell High commission Court for wee have got close Committees farewell Pattentees for wee have got Excize and sessments farewell head for we have members farewell justice for we have got just Asses farewell Government for heere is Liberty of conscience farewell good neighbourhood for heere is base envy farewell money and Plate for we have got the publique faith farewell Religion for we have got superstition farewell Roundhead and Cavaleer for we have got Shimies and Rabshakehs farewell conscience for wee have got a Parliament farewell Lords and Ladies for we have got Souldiers and their Laffes farewell Nobility for wee will have all common farewell Common prayer for wee have a Directory farewell a preaching Ministry for we have got prating Coblers farewell Pulpits for we have got Tubs farewell Saints for wee have got Divells farewell Loyalty for heere is Rebellion farewell honesty for we have got hypocrisie fare well Churches and Chappels for we have got barnes and stables farewell freedome for we have got slavery and farewell citizens for we are made Asses Thus we may bid a farewell to all that ever wee have injoyed for by such meanes a well governed Kingdome is brought to destruction and who may we thank for this but the foreheaded Saints that have brought us into such a purgatory which was wont to be at Rome but now abides in England O here is a sweet resurrection a resurrection to destruction if we were not blinde to see it for such confusion comes by shaking off loyalty and joyning hands with rebellion this City hath beene the nurse that hath brought it up and dandled it on her knees and give it suck that it is growne to such a height of impudency that it dares call into question the unspotted life of the Lords anoynted I will not prophesie against thee thou great City but I will be so bold to tell thee that through thy meanes and in thee is all manner of wickednes maintained and thou must speedily-suffer except thou take this candle lighted to see by for thou hast plotted thy owne destruction and others also for it is nigh at hand and thou art sinking t is not the golden chaines about my Lords neck or the Aldermens or the great places of preferment that will secure them from vengeance no but let them rather take ropes about their necks and go to the King of England for he is a mercifull King and peradventure they may finde acceptance for t is high time to leave off dissembling You have protested vowed and covenanted with hands lifted up to the most high but neither Protestation vow or Covenant will you keepe Take this candle in your owne hands and see if you bee not a company of perfidious wretches and blinde Citizens You have troubled your Common Councel-men day after day and almost whole nights have been consumed in canvasing the affaires of the City and what hath been produced ye were as very fooles when you made an end as when you began notwithstanding you had candles lighted to see by The sweet proffits that have come into some of your purses from the Common people hath blinded your eyes that you cannot see when many a poore creature is turned out of all and ready to starve and you stand insulting over them that men are become wolves to one nother you have had fourscore fasting dayes since these troubles besides other dayes of humiliation to enlighten your eyes and yet you are blinde and there hath been 21 thanksgiving dayes at least when you have rejoysed and feasted your selves at divers Hals in triumph for joy of the killing victories of the Kings good subjects as if it were a sport to you to destroy them and for shame wipe your eyes that you may see your folly and leave off your assisting of Rebels lest you purchase a Rebels reward both to your selves and your posterity My candle is out FINIS

A CANDLE For the blinde CITIZENS OF LONDON To see by By a Freeman of the same City though of neither ranke or quality yet reall in heart fearing God honouring his King and a Lover of Truth Peace and the Brotherhood With Englands farewell from its ancient prosperity to its new change of misery Printed in the yeer of blindnes the month of stupidnes the day of dulnes and the hour of unnaturalnes 1648. A Candle lighted for the blind Citizens of London c. I Know well enough that the Citizens eyes are not yet opened for they have not suffered yet sufficiently nor feelingly neither doe they know that England is almost destroyed or that their King is secured or their states wasted or their fellow Citizens abused and which is worst of all their Religion lost and their God blasphemed and have they not then need of a candle lighted to see all this by They might have foreseene this before if they would they then were but purblinde but now they are quite starke staring blinde it is so hid from their eyes that they can see nothing at all Tell me yee Citizens did yee ever heare of any Nation in the world so abused as this is and brought into such slavery by their fellowes as wee are worse then the Aegyptian bondage was ever any Nation under Heaven so robbed of their Religion their chiefest interrest of their prviledges of their freedomes of their liberties of their rights and of their estates purchased with their owne penny and yet will sit still and neither say or doe any thing Surely they have neede of a candle lighted to see by Why where are your hearts become what is it you feare are you afraid to speake then you will never speed Are you afraid to act any thing Have you put your hand to the plow and do you draw back This is a base cowardise no feare not their faces nor their threats faint hearts never kist faire Ladies you know are you content to open your doores to let theeves in to cut your throats or take your goods from you and never make any resistance Are your hands so fast tyed that they cannot be undone Do ye feare the Parliament that they are so mighty and have the command of Sea and L●nd If they be you may thanke your selves for it who made them so Did not you send your men and horses money and plate to them Wherefore believed you their Orders Ordinances Votes Wherefore pay you Excise and seasments Wherefore let you them plunder your fellow Subjects and make slaves of them For behold how they insult over you and yet you cannot neither will you see and therefore you have need of a candle lighted for to see by Divisions swarme more and more without the least controle envy is seen in the faces of men and Rebellion is fine sport blood is spilt as water upon the ground and unnaturall and inhumane dealing with one another is a pastime for such fooles surely if you were not starke blinde you might easily see or you will not see because you have a finger in the pie you have wetted your hand in the Excise Office and that hath got you 2 or 3 hundred a yeare when as before your credit was so far lost that your best friends would not trust you for a Noble or you have got a Committees place and that hath set you a cock horse that you can buy Bishops Lands and write your selfe Bishop of such a place when as indeed you were but a broken Usurper or were it that you were but a poore Clarke of a Committee risen out of a stoake hole this hath made you a Gentleman that a good substantiall Citizen is faine to stand cap in hand to your Worshippes brich or have you been a Traytour and hath this made you hold up your head because you could speake treason in defiance of who dares Indeed if you have your hands in any of these or the like I blame you not for being so blinde that you cannot see but I feare your conscience is not smitten with any such forrow for such offences it is seared with a hot iron t is hardned in rebellions and which way to come off with credit you cannot tell and so you run on upon the score and make the breach bigger till at last you run headlong to hell to the Divell whose counsell you have lollowed Wherefore yee blinde Lord Mayer and Aldermen O ye dull and stupid Common-Counsell men and O ye besotted and benummed Citizens looke up and see if you can see this candle burne hath the two great Lights of the Kingdome shone so bright that the looking upon them hath dazled your eyes and smote you with blindnesse that you can see no more that you are as blinde as beetles What means all these delayes and excuses What meanes this spinning out of time 't is only a fine web to katch you in What meanes this word so often repeated we give you thankes of which my cat dyed after the presenting of your humble Petitions as you call them Truely 't is only to feed you with delayes and to keepe you in hand till they have brought about their owne ends know you not that whilst you humbly petition for peace they enviously prepare for war and have thankes given you for your care and you can go away as content and as cheerefully and so well fed and refresht as if you had been at the best banquet in the world or got such a purchase not to be valued at Truely with such toyes fooles are soone pleased and thankes is good enough to stop your mouthes withall and so be sent away with a flea in your eare even as wise as you went I would make a boy of 7 yeares old doe as good an errant or I would know a reason wherefore which makes me thinke that this candle will give you no light to see by because it is but a candle to the Sun Yet it may give a little light that you may perceive your condition The whole world lookes upon such blinde stupidnesse the Nations about us admire at your simplicity that such a reputed City with wise and valiant Citizens of such discretion judgement wit pollicy and government should now at last be fooled out this is not to be borne withall you are more ready to helpe and send reliefe men armes and ammunition to a company of Rebels then to relieve a poore Colchester distressed City from whence many thousands have their wealth you had rather lose your Marchandize and trading and shipping then to send a little mony to his Highnesse to relieve his wants you had rather see men and horse listed to fight against you then to list for your owne safety which if you should doe and be questioned for it you will cry peccavi you 'l doe so no more and so you will let it fall to the ground that so an insolent and proud domineering Souldier may undoe us