be pleas'd your self t' advise By thinking on precedent Prophecies Sixth Henry sure in this a Prophet was And did foreseâ— what things would come to passe Whom when confined by Imprisonment King Edward Fourth o th' name to visit went With Glâ—sâ—â—â—â— Duke and Richmonds all in state 〈…〉 two did Henry ruâ—naâ—e When those four Princes in one Bason wash't Successively a smile from Henry past Which Edward spies and thereupon would know The reason that did move him thereunto Th' unhappy King as he yet smiling stands 'T is strange quoth he four Kings should wash their hands Thus in one Bason Edward presseth on To know his meaning Henry thereupon Doth thus expresse himself I was Thou art And Gloster will be But for Richmonds part He shall be speaking thus as in despite Of all that should withstand great Richmonds might What shall be shall be none shall it oppose This force the words do in themselves inclose And so it was by Conquest Richmond wonne The Crown of England and by him was done A glorious work He did in one unite Those fragrant Flowers the Red-Rose and the White And so did cease that deadly bleeding Warre 'Twixt those two Houses York and Lancaster That King renown'd did in his judgement see Another union which in time might be When Monarchs two should so in one be met As that one Monarch over both should set A Crowned King England and Scotland both Their peoples should be made by sacred Oath One King to serve and that one to obay Whose Royall Scepter should both Kingdoms sway What Henry 7. foresaw to passe is brought The union as you see is firmely wrought The Laws of God and Nations do confirme it Woe then to them who seek to overturn it Our good King Charles from Henry 7 descended Of all the Kings no one King more commended For all the vertues that a King adorn His Royall Head by Right the Crown hath worn And Rightfully it doth to Him belong This to deny none dares do such a wrong Shall then the Subjects of his Kingdoms bend Their strength His Kingdoms from his Crown to rend With England Scotland joyn'd in full consent Shall each from other be in pieces rent God made the marriage and it is a wonder What God hath joyned that man should dare to sunder Great Brittain now by her great union is A Lady Crown'd with everlasting blisse If that her King and people could agree But to uphold her peacefull unity And this to do is our good Kings desire It is the thing which he doth most require His profer'd love is by his Subjects slighted And his desires of Peace with Warre requited Division now the union dis-uniting Sets both the Kingdoms 'gainst each other fighting And both of them 'gainst their Monarchall King Do joyn their Forces and their Armies bring Into the Field Can Heathen stories tell A work that may such mischiefs paralell Then Noble Earl be touch't with some remorse And now no longer do thy self enforce By civill Warre â—o spoile thy Countreys Peace But rather cause all bloody broiles to cease Remember Richmond shall be Henry said So Richmond was Now then his Of-spring aid And boldly say our good King Charles shall be In spight of Foes Our Royall King And he Shall Rule and Reign and all his Subjects they With faith's Allegiance shall their King obey Promote but this Great Brittains joy shall then In union stand confirm'd Amen Amen Renounce Rebellion 't is thy Honours stain He runneth farre that never turns again Turn to thy King and he will turn to thee With mercy more then can deserved be Lead on the Army under thy Command No more against but with thy King to stand Thy Christian love and loyalty expresse In working thus our Kingdoms happinesse Thus what Charles Ancestors did once foresee Shall be establish't to Eternity Thou shalt by such endeavours never fear it The love of God and all good men inherit But if thou shalt this warre continue then Thou shalt abhorred be of God and Men For such a wastefull cruell warre needs must In th' issue lay this Kingdom in her durst And therein will Gods worship be interred And best of civill Government lie buried Of this Great Isle the Old Inhabitants Did paint themselves to make their countenance Seeme to beholders gastly grimme and fierce Such Cesar found us But we now are worse We then were Salvages now Christians are And this Rebellion makes us worse by farre Then rude Barbarians such wayes we know Do worst beseem such as for Christians go America when first discovered Her People though by Heathens governed Yet to their King were most obedient And mongst them was such form of Government As all could well what was their own enjoy Themselves did not as we our selves destroy O mourning Times for every honest man Men-eaters like to those of Magellan Who Viper-like no whit at all will spare Their Mothers Womb quite out to rend and teare Wilt thou be one of that base viperous brood And is to thee thy Countries spoile thy food Thou do'st thy self a Christian write why then Wilt thou in sinne out-strip those Heathen men Who serv'd their King and durst not him offend Wilt thou thy evils unto that height extend Even Heathens shall 'gainst thee in judgement rise Unlesse some better course thou do'st devise In time For what by Warre can mended be In Warre we can but our confusion see In presence of our God conjure I thee That thou thy King and native Countrey free From their sad fate So that Religion true May stand establisht to the worlds wide view And that fair Englands people as in times Of Yore may all sit underneath their vines And peacefully enjoy what is their own That King and Kingdoms blisse may still be known And bear aloft the honour of their name Cleer'd from Rebellion Christians stain and shame This to atchieve do from Rebellion cease And Nobly worâ—elâ—y King and Countreys Peace Thus shalt thou make a mends for what 's a misse And to thine Honour gain eternall blisse The third Song My Muse is now upon an Errand sent To view a Wall that gives no good content Of such bad Wallers there's too many now And one of them my Muse will shew to you MY Muse doth now Sir William Waller see Who loves to sight where Walls and Hedges be Twixt him and them he is to fight withall For then hee 'l shew himself a Souldier tall O could his wit but handsomely contrive Before him always Woods and Hills to drive Then would he with a Souldiers threatning looks Amaze his Foes and burn up watry Brooks But on plain ground if he be brought to fight He knows full soon to save himself by slight For after-ages this remember will How fast he ran away at Roundway-Hill Yet notwithstanding that his overthrow My mind to me can sundry Actions show That 't is in Warre a very Common-thing One day to loose another day
'cause they all foresee The dolefull State of Englands miserie By this accurs'd Rebellion The whole Nation With speed now Posting unto desolation If thou good Subject bee'st remove those fears That make the Land powre out such bleeding tears 'T is more then time this fearfull storm to cease And nothing can â—ffect it but a Peace A happy Peace will both Ecclipses clear And Sunne and Moon in glory shall appear Each brightly shining in their proper spheare And then they will a glorious Peace uprear When Cynthia as a Servant unto Sol With one consent a happy union shall Twixt King and Subjects make and clouds disperse That be or shall be to our Peace averse This to effect Sir William reach thy hand And for thy King with resolution stand For Peace for Peace our Gracious King doth call Peace is that precious Pearl will please us all T is that will make both Church and State to flourish Blest be each Soul the means thereto doth cherish And blest art thou Sir William Waller when With heart and mind to this thou say'st Amen Amen Amen to this Amen say I Amen say all that love His Majesty The Fourth Song My Muse doth now make hast into the North To taste a Messe of Scottish ill made Broth And dine her self with Plummery and Keale Although she makes a very hungry meale And sooth to say and not at all to jest Shee 'l tell you whom she findeth at that feast BRave Limping Lesley Rebels welcome Guest Thy rough and boistrous blast blows North North East A Wind that 's good for neither Man nor Beast And yet inclos'd in Concave of thy brest Like Eolus thou send'st it forth from thence And mak'st thereby a raging violence Which doth produce a fearfull bleeding work All to uphold thy factious Scottish Kirk And bring a proud and up-start Presbytrie To Rule and sway in Englands Monarchie And in this work to further thy intâ—nt A Factious Force from England there is sent So that the Factious in both Kingdoms are Against their King met in Rebellious Warre Working therâ— by each Kingdoms fatall fall And this to do th' art made a Generall Doth Scotlands Kyrk thy actions look upon Allowing Ill that Good may come thereon Gods word then sure is not the Rule whereby They order all their seeming Sanctity All of thy Kyrk condemn I must not dare Among them sure some Learn'd Divines there are Some that are just and good and holy men With all my heart I love and reverence them But for the most the Swing of their intent Is unto Schisme and Faction chiefly bent The Brethren of the Parity are they Which in Rebellions Warre do bear most sway And for a true religious work allow it None of the Faction dare to dis-avow it Thou of that Brother-hood a Brother art And stand'st though halting strongly on their part Say not thou art a true Religious man Thy best is but a Rebel-Puritan Thou giv'st a mocking taunt to Purity And art but pure Religions Enemy Who plainly shew'st by thy Rebellious Course Thou hast no more Religion then a Horse Did ever Pure Religion teach this thing That Subjects might raise Warre against their King For any Cause or seeming good pretence No true Religion unto such offence Doth warrant give That false one doth of Rome Unto whole Tenent thou doest closely come Thus as the Devill to the Collyer cryed Like unto Like So thou with Rome dost side I care not though thou take my words in Snuffe I will not fear to give thy Pride a Cuffe Thy self thy words thy works all rude and rough Are Bastard-like base mis-begotten stuffe But in the wisdom of thine own conceit If thou dost think praise on thy Actions wait Then must I tell thee out of Wisdoms School That thou art left more hopelesse then a Fool The wisest King that ever Scotland bred Whose judgement was with understanding fed In things Divine to cleer each rais'd-up doubt There was like him in all the world through out Not any King It was his full intent To state both Kingdoms in one Government That Scholler like King and King of Schollers He The English and the Scottish Church did see Both of one Faith and that they might agree In Discipline with fuller unity Considering our English Form was found More pure then that of Scotland and more sound His whole endeavours he did then incline That Scots might use the English Discipline And to that end our Service-book he sent To them that they therewith might be content Which if with Ours it did not full agree Upon Complaint it should amended be And rightly judging that Episcopy Was bâ—st agreeing unto Manarchy He laboured that Scotlands Church might have Their learned Bishops godly wise and grave By this one Form of Discipline he knew Both Churches should be one though they were two And might appear full strong in their defence When in them both there was no difference But that blest work most proudly was withstood By those that were the Factious Brother-hood Whose malice did mischievously contrive Their Bishops all at once away to drive And in despight our Service book they throw Out of their Church A better yet I trow Nay more I dare 'gainst any undertake Those Factious Fooles could not can ever make Scarce one so good Of one thing I am sure The Scriptures Test it will throughout endure Here now begins Rebellion forth to break And Rebels mouths most lavishly do speak Gainst Gods Annoynted and belch out this lie That he did mean to bring in Poperie A thing which never came into his thought As knowing wel what works proud Rome hath wrought Yet now he finds his factious Subjects all Are in their works Rome-like Tyrannicall And thou proud Generall a man accurst If not the worst of all yet next the worst Do'st as a Chiefe in their Society Uphold this work of damn'd Impiety And with thee joyn our English Schismaticks The bratts of Hagar full of mocking tricks Our Mother-Church you all most proudly scorn As Hagar Sarah and each Isaack born Of hâ—r blest womb each childe of promise must With you as Off-scummes out of doore be thrust None are a Church but those of your new faction Lo how you joyn with Rome in this your action And this your monstrous buiâ—ding up to reare Against your King you proudly Arms do beare For why such sonnes of Desperation Can give themselves a Dispensation Two famous Kingdoms thus confounded are By Civill most uncivill barbarous warre The secret plot which did this work contrive Got life long since though then not seen alive To Luds great Town was sent from Edens land The Contract which fast joyned hand in hand This factious Crew by Vow and Oath to make This rue-full warre which dangerously doth shake Of either Kingdom their most strong foundation And threatneth both with direfull desolation For now ye see the Scottish Covenanter His Covenant dares to English Lords preferre
And thereby Englands Subjects sworn must be Against their King O matchlesse Villanie Who takes that Oath are perjur'd every one From Faith and Truth they desperately are gone No age before produc'd so vile a thing That Subiects should be sworn against their King One thing there is our Rebels stand upon Which doth in their Rebellion lead them on The King his Oath and Oath of Subjects all Are both alike say they reciprocall And so they are both must indeed be kept But know they have a different respect The King his Oath doth take with reverend feare To God alone But Subjects they do sweare To God and to their King If Kings offend 'T is God alone that must with them contend A power above them That which is below I meane Those that their Subjects be must know They cannot move in any other sphere Then of Subjection Whence it is most cleare As God alone hath power 'ore the King So Subjects must submit in every thing Unto their lawfull Prince who power hath To punish Subjects for their breach of Faith Let Subjects know it is not in their part To say unto their King Thou wicked art Who dares speak so but such as speak not well And proudly dare against their King Rebell And most unjustly when they but surmise The King doth 'gainst his Oath some plots devise Which he ne're minded Then if Subjects all On such suspect shall from obedience fall And runne into Rebellion presently All Government is quite destroy'd thereby If Husbands chance to break their Marriage Vow Shall wives 'gainst Husbands straight Rebell think you And then again much more especially When wives are mov'd by cause-lesse Jealousie Yet Subjects of our King so moved are To take up Arms in this Rebellious Warre And thou proud Lesley makes thy self a chief In working of thy King and Countreys grief And this must still be for Religions sake That makes the Rebels such a coyle to make The Turk were he to choose Religion now He would not be Religious like to you Scotch Generall then go gang thy way along Help to uphold the Turkish Alchoran At Meca there do thou a Champion set And fight thou there for their great Mahomet And then by that thy valiant enterprize Thou mayst command the Great Turks Janizaries Or Generall be of his Timariot Force And so command three hundred thousand Horse And rise to be of some great Bashaw's might Or Beglebeg a Lord of Lords in sight Here 's Honour for thy high Ambition fit Who mayst make choice of thy Religion yet Then stay not here great Brittains Isle to spoile By mischief of thy proud Rebellions broile Thy Scottish Covenant keep among the Scots Our English Church and Common-wealth it blots With Treason 'gainst our King uprightly just Who gave himself into his Subjects trust And that so generally as none before Was known to do so in the dayes of Yore Shall Subjects then their Soveraigns trust betray And 'gainst their King foule parts of Treason play The Proverb thou dost know it loudly rings And tells the world that Scotland bears no Kings Wouldst thou of such condition England make And spoile her honour with thy Scottish rake May judgement first upon thee strongly seize And King and Kingdom of that sicknesse ease A work 's begun which with infection strong Infects both Kingdoms by Rebellions wrong And canst thou Lesley find within thy heart Such works to do and take such workers part O strang to see for I have heard thy name With Honour prais'd whereof if true the Fame Thou art a Souldier and with warlike skill Canst in a Battaile all thy ranges fill And valiantly command an Army so As where thou marchest Honour there may go And so it might in Warre when Honourable Rebellions praise is most abominable Quit then thy Honour from dishonours stain And march no longer in Rebellions train It 's much too much thou hast already done Thy self but conquer there 's a Conquest wonne Shall make thee great Great glory shall they winne Who can like Conquerers o'recome their sinne Our good King Charles Prince Charles Noble Duke Set them before thee and upon them look With heart of love The King deserves no lesse And those sweet Princes do such grace expresse As not an heart unlesse of Steel or Stone But would be mov'd to love them every one Against them all to fight Offences such Do with a mischief Gods Annointed touch And yet the Actors they themselves will stile His Majesties most Loyall Subjects while They 'r nothing lesse Their actions foul and vile Do justly them from Subjects name exile To see in this how Subjâ—cts do proceed May justly make the stoniest heart to bleed Great Brittains Self her self doth bite and sting Our sinnes our sinnes on us these judgements bring What are the English now of Mad-mans Tribe To let the Scots to them a Form prescribe Of Government in Church and Common-wealths And to enforce 't for King and Kingdom healths No Lesley no wise England will not brook What thy base Faction now hath undertook Feed then no longer thy deluding hope Nor vainly give unto thy fansie scope For if thou do'st thou wilt but fool thy self And lay thy hopes upon a broken Shelf New Covenanters Ours and You Crafty Scots All base Projectors full of cosening Plots Shall all in Gods good time from England pack And work no more our Kings and Countreys wrack To Englands Rule if Scotland please to yeeld Great Brittains Union shall be then upheld Renown'd King Charles shall from that very day With joy the Scepters of both Kingdoms sway Gods true Religion then shall firmly stand And Brittains Isle shall be a glorious Land No clouds shall then Ecclipse her glorious shine Among the Nations round about her clime Her Peace shall then her safety fortifie As City built in glorious unity Lesley behold a wish't for happinesse Which to accomplish thou thy mind addresse If thou indeed religious rightly art Religion bids thee take thy Soveraigns part And be content in Scotland to abide And take what there God doth for thee provide And never henceforth any inrode make Into this Land in Hostile way to take From Englands King and English Subjects what To thee or any of thine belongeth not Which yet I 'de have thee know thou couldst not do Did not our Bastard-English help thereto I know 't is naturall for man to erre But know that Beast-like 't is to persevere In error Then retract To King submit And do what best a Subject may befit Strive now for Peace to Peace thy self betake And let an happy Peace thy Period make In Peace to live and so in Peace to dye Will bring to thee a Peace eternally And scorn not him whose pen these lines did write His Youth could well in warlike Battaile fight The Accidence of Arms long since he knew And all the Grammer Rules of Warre did view And can dispute the learning of that Art