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england_n	lord_n	sir_n	thomas_n	14,578	5	8.6064	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25840	The armies letanie, imploring the blessing of God on the present proceedings of the armie by the author of Mercurius melancholicus.	Author of Mercurius melancholicus.; Crouch, John, fl. 1660-1681.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?; Hackluyt, John.	1647 (1647)	Wing A3714; ESTC R22407	2,368	10

THE ARMIES LETANIE Imploring the Blessing of God on the present proceedings of the Armie By the Author of Mercurius Melancholicus Printed in the Yeere 1647. The Armies Letany SInce that no wise man dares to say Put the Army if they list they may Save us or bring us to decay Therefore let 's pray From any Souldier whose intent Is to ore-awe the Parliament And with his pay won't be content Libera nos From Sutlers wives with faces tallow Who with their Trulls the Army follow From a Commander in chiefe whose wit is shallow Libera nos From a Souldier that sweares yet dares not fight But would plunder London if he might From meeting a partie late in the night Libera nos From a Trooper that 's mounted on a leane jade And of cutting throats has learnt the trade From digging with a sword instead of a Spade Libera nos Frim bed-cord Match and priming Powder From hearing the Drum speak louder and louder From him that growes poor and yet waxeth prouder Libera nos From underminings and counterminings From Souldiers groanes and womens whinings From Booker and Lillies false divinings Libera nos From Morter Pieces and Hand Granadoes From Blockings up and Barracadoes From discontented Reformadoes Libera nos From Southwark-men who are but Treachours From Countrey Fooles and City Lechers From Sheriffs Bailiffs and Counter-catchers Libera nos From buying of our peace with money From a false-hearted knave whose words are honey From a Whores temptations who hath a hot Libera nos From Harunies Pamphlets and his fine Stories Of Asses Mules and Dromedaries From Presbyterian Consistories Libera nos From a Buffe-coat blade that needs will preach From the doctrine the Anabaptists teach From a Committee-man or any such horse-leach Libera nos From good pretences and bad intentions From hopes of plunder and base inventions From Peters when his dreames he mentions Libera nos From being perswaded out of our lives Our coine goods children and our wives By those who for our ruine strives Libera nos From a Winters Plague and Summers Warre From sleeping till we ruin'd are From those that do delight to jarre Libera nos From those that now like Princes sing Making themselves but marre the King From an Independent point and a Presbyters sting Libera nos From laying claime to more then is ours From riding on the backs of the higher Powers From a brother that laughs and a sister that lowres Libera nos From an Agitator that stormes and frets And goodly Monsters each day begets From a Scotch mist that devillishly wets Libera nos From the Parliaments Climactricall yeare From the Sectaries hopes and the Cities feare From being forc'd against our consciences to sweare Libera nos From * 49. and * 52. And those Ills we then are like to view From old errours that are reviv'd anew Libera nos From a begging Scholler or small beere Poet Who can scarce write sense yet the world must know it From him that 's scabby and glories to show it Libera nos From setling all things by the sword From those that hate our Soveraigne Lord Let England say with one accord Libera nos Domine THat it may please thy omnipotence Father of all excellence All jarres and strifes to banish hence Quaesumus te That it may please thee our Sir Thomas May now at length fulfill his promise In setling the King who long hath been from us Quaesumus te That it may please thee the Army may Consider what a preposterous way It is to impeach thus every day Quaesumus te That it may please thee to let them see How hard those Propositions be Were lately showne His Majestie Quaesumus te That it may please thee they may not rejoyce Nor yet with pride lift up their voice But to maintaine the truth make choice Quaesumus te That it may please thee as hitherto They have done what thou bidst them to do They the same temper still may show Quaesumus te That it may please thee we desire The Citizens may never tire To doe what the Army doth require Quaesumus te That it may please thee they may invent New waies against the moneyes spent They are to have more may be lent Quaesumus te That it may please thee with mild cheare They may bow downe their backs to beare They will be wiser sure next yeare Quaesumus te That it may please thee untill then My Lord Mayor and the Aldermen May re-inforce their Charter agen Quaesumus te That it may please thee for to blesse The Southwarkians with happinesse For that they gave the Army accesse Quaesumus te That it may please thee all Flesh-flies With L●ke 〈◊〉 beards egregious lies May be abhorr'd by all that 's wise Quaefumus te That it may please thee the Army may No longer let the Tub-men pray Extempore and what they list to say Quaesumus te That it may please thee they may declare Those Round-heads whose deeds are not square To be amongst them unworthy are Quaesumus te That it may please thee since 't is in them For to dispose the Diadem With it they Charles his browes may hem Quaesumus te That it may please thee they may vie With those that would have Anarchie And surely settle Monarchie Quaesumus te That it may please thee the Army knowing To what a height things now are growing May stop those floods that in are flowing Quaesumus te That it may please thee to perswade the Scot To be contented with his owne lot For he must lose the footing he got Quaesumus te That it may please thee the good the Army intend Us in the receiving may not offend And so at once have birth and end Quaesumus te That it may please thee the bloods of those Who some yeares past their lives did lose 'Twixt us and God mai'nt interpose Quaesumus te That it may please thee we may thinke on Our present dire confusion Caus'd by the Devills delusion Quaesumus te That it may please thee shew the King Thy strange and wondrous managing Doth make for him in every thing Quaesumus te That it may please thee the world may see Thy justice great and good to bee And what 's the end of treacherie Quaesumus te That it may please thee now at last The King may in his Throne be plac't And those that hate him downe be cast Quaesumus te That it may please thee to let him be Assured that Aristocracie Will ever cause confederacie Quaesumus te That it may please thee he so may raigne And his Sonnes when the Crowne they gaine England may ever in peace remaine Quaesumus te So shall we be as once we were The Almighties love the Nations feare And then we in each street shall heare Benedicamus Domino FINIS * 1649. * 1652. If the world last so long