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A33485
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The cloud opened, or, The English heroe by a loyal and impartial pen.
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Loyal and impartial pen.
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1670
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Wing C4737; ESTC R27897
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The Cloud Opened OR THE English Heroe By a Loyal and Impartial Pen. Quam facile fit caecus dux vitae obscura lux temporum Historia Si non amentiae rarus est qui non ineptiae litavit Unicus sit qui Deo veritati obtulit London Printed A. D. 1670. The Cloud Opened OR THE English Heroes ONogylos is an Herb worthy of Asses a Lactuce like their Lips rough and prickly yet if Herbalists are to be credited a Counterpoyson Adulation though smooth as oyl is no Alexipharmick The tame Beast a Flatterer is more spotted nor less cruel than the Leopard or a Tyger And with the gayety of a Serpent the rich maâ—…esing of an Adders skin hath no unequal Poyson In the late Tyranny when Reason seem'd the most extravagant Freak and Religion and Loyalty had the repute of such Grand Malignants as a Plague might be suppos'd to harbour less of Contagion a Mercenary Trifler would have the Usurper Oliver an Olive sure after an happy Revolution no one can be master of more sense than the Clenching Panegyrist or Voluminous Nothing wanted as much a Stranger to Wit as to our Nation his Appetite only sharpen'd Invention and the hungry Gut vented Oracles Where the Scripture on the Rack was only taught to patronize Impiety by making bloudy and blasphemous Confessions it can be no wonder if Jotham's Parable was forgot by an Exotick Whiffler where the Olive could yield no Fatness to usurp and of a Bramble only could come the Fire to destroy the Cedars of a Lebanon such an unhappy Land as made a Forrest was inhabited by wild Beasts In an Age of Lying Wonders where a more than ordinary Antichrist brought Fire down from Heaven it could be none of the least of the Miracles that a Fisher could by Pagan Worship translate the Brazen Image of a Tyrant into Gold and make it equal an hundred Jacobusses or more pure Carolines in value A doubly blind Bard first in his own and as some fancie since by Gods Judgment would have him equal'd by a Kingfisher But to have had such a King for his Subject in whose cause Christianity might seem ingag'd sure could not need the temptation of a Bribe to him who had not renoune'd the Christian Profession though pedantically florid and less significant Pens serv'd but as Foils to his Portraiture and Sufferings which were only to be taken from his own Writings Virtue which is content with her own reward and Loyalty which expects no recompence below Heaven know not how to descend to that truckling and servile Assentation which has no better Hieroglyphick than the most impure of Creatures the sometimes fawning and at others snarling and biting Cur. The Deceased General may merit some grateful Epicediums above such dismal Ditties as attend upon Executions which seem more merciless than the Extremities of the Law while the Executioner in metre is more barbarous than the Hangman The Muses have little to do with Mars yet they must not permit a praise-worthy person to dy if they have any Faith for their Arch-Priest the Prince of Lyricks It is a Tribute due to Allegiance to commend him whom a King would honour Commands strong as mustard may seem unnecessary to make the Nations eyes water into Elegies for his loss who was the supposed Restorer of their sight the blessed Instrument of returning a King who may be truly call'd The Light of our Eyes Who would not melt by a Compassion if obdurate for lesser losses for the Muses Helicon what the Poets might call Showers of Tears might seem expedient when it is grown so muddy as it cannot furnish out so much clear wit as can sprinkle an Herse Foolish Versifiers like to Schismatical Pulpiteers by rackt Hyperbolees and tenter'd Allegories make the most sober Truths discredited Folly dispraises those she would commend and diminishes Glory by seeking to multiply it Who would not believe that a Fable which must have all the Heathen Gods brought into the Scene for the delivery He who ariseth early and praiseth his friend aloud it shall be reputed to him for a curse if the wisest of men is to be believ'd That a too early and inconsiderate commendation can irritate Envy and Contradiction which might have slept if not awak'd by rash and untimely bauling may be easily now demonstrated from the Discourses of Folly Whether Design or Chance renders more famous is incertain History can furnish us with a Coward who by the loss of his head grew victorious by a virtue inherent in the Spurs of Honor the more gen'rous Beast which is intitled to want of brains transporting to noble Atchievements A defect in the noddle hath render'd not a few strangely supereminent whose excelling Disposition like that of an inrag'd Horse hath qualified for the rushing into a Battle The Psalmist will have an Horse a vain thing to save a man to raise one to a fair Mount of Honor some can instance H. B. who for a Knighthood and Lordship would cry God-a-mercy to his Beast Thomas Anello is not the only Example of a brutish valor attaining to a mushrom grandeur Nor was the puny Thief Du Val the first Robber who lay in state by pompous folly to be made more inglorious The Aerian stalking Nag on whom the subtil Fowlers of Phanaticism set their aim to shoot at Game Royal had his Image order'd to be made by the grand Boglers at Ceremonies and Decryers of Superstition which intended for an Honor made him to suffer in effigie for a Traitor while a freak-inspir'd Sectary cut off an head equally stupid with that which he had devoted to the vain Idol of a Foolish Reformation The Protector of Flies carried in state like to a Pagan Deity might seem worshipped by an Heathenish Idolatry while our Gentiles Schisms fly-blows having gain'd wings by the warmth of his bounty with buzzing acclamations attended on their Belzebub Zisca would have a Drum made of his skin and our Glorious Edward would have his victorious Corps carried for a terror to his Enemies but nothing can be more vain than to take a pleasure in the hovering of those dire vapors above ground who might seem to have cleft it for contagion Vainly the dead are embalm'd with spices whose lives can contribute no odors in good works to persume their memories The Survivors worship of the dead was the wild Superstition of Heathen A commemoration of Saints and Benefactors deceas'd has bin neither the irteligious nor impolitick custom of sober Christians The honor given to good men is a tribute render'd to God who will be honor'd in his Saints the praises of the bad are so many acknowledgments to Satan who is thus worshipped in his Images The mysterious Riddle of Loyal Grandeur whom some will have a Parent to his Mother and his Fathers Father a Prince the Father of his Country the supererogating Monk G. D. of Albemarl may worthily challenge that surviving honor by which he seems triumphant
without which it could not have been effected now a private man opens a way for a General which led for a King's Restauration without which it might have been vainly hoped The Dragons tayl which gave Royalty the fatal wound cures it by an Antimonarchical vote by seeking to introduce a plurality of Generals brings in one King The Members which an Army secluded an Army restores Now better restored to their senses then to believe a King though intitl'd to the name of a Solomon when he call'd them all Princes they could not now fancy the Members Eternal who by the loss of that unhappy head which intrusted with power for its own ruine might find themselves mortal they could no longer dream of being Omnipotent when as a debt due to vengeance for denying the just tribute of Allegiance they had encountred the curse of curses been servants of servants and what might be the highest aggravation enslaved by their own vassals An Antesignane of Schism seems a Precursor of Loyalty he who by imposing on factious ears had justly lost his own now might seem worthy of the reserv'd head which in its lucid intervals could be so beneficially sober Loyal Reason was such a miracle from the self contradicting Author as could produce a self-denying Ordinance which might be as instrumental to a happy Restauration as that was to the utter extinguishing of faint and glimmering Loyalty The Sampsons who had been bound and blinded by deceitful Dalilahs false Oaths and foolish Ingagements though with their own dissolution can be content to pluck down the house of the Philistians so long devoted to the Idols folly A sober Council met the heart of the Kingdom votes for an Head that it might be no longer a sensless Nation By whose return'd command a loyal Body is legally summon'd which may truly hear Patriots Restorers an healing Senate Sanctuaries not slaughter-houses of Innocents who by contributing religious and loyal votes have expiated there the cruel follies where irreligious and disloyal suffrages chang'd an happy Land into a field of blood The merry Dr. Collins desir'd his taking of the Covenant might be deferr'd till the day of Judgment when it would be clearly known what became of Covenanters Wise men will suspend rash censures While the Curtain is drawn the best of Prophets are but probable Conjecturers Nothing of earthly glory hath been wanting to grace our Heroe ev'n to the Apotheosis of an Emperour Our Patron George interr'd a solemnity was intended to a Tutelar Saint of the name which had it been perform'd an hot-brain'd Zealot who had perus'd a Tertullian or a St. Cyprian de spectaculis might be more dangerously troublesom to the discomposure of weak and scrupulous noddles then the Polypragmatick Lawyer in his less significant and more ridiculous misquoting of them against Stage-plays That which is not evil in it self may be sometimes not well advis'd The order of the Garter may defend it self by its Motto Evil to him who evil thinketh Theognis will have Jupiter neither with rain nor without it to please all men Neither a close fist nor an open hand can want a misconstruction What was wanting to nearest Relations was conferr'd on the General without whom all might seem unavailable for a Crown Wise men can be pleas'd with the most excellent gratitude and fools can be gratifi'd with the gayetie of the sight It was the custom of Heathens to destroy the Living under pretence of honouring the Dead not a few made close mourners by a civil death seem'd to follow the corps of an Usurper Some can fancy that an Essex Ireton and a Cromwel lay in their beds of blasphem'd honour with more fond State None are suppos'd to have equall'd his funeral Pomp inferior alone to that of Princes by a Diadem The defects of earth may heaven supply by changing a fickle Coronet into a never fading Crown Mars in most opinions is best pictur'd reaking in blood A General render'd inglorious if not expos'd in the purple of War To bring in our Heroe with the white Robes of a Confessor and disingag'd from the bloody Camps of a rebellious Schism to make a Souldier of the Church Militant which can only lead to the truly triumphant paths of Glory if an errour is more venial then by intitling to the crast to bestow on him the prey of Foxes a great rather then good renown unworthy of a Christian Champion Let Mahometans glory in praises common to Wolves Bears and Tygers who expect in Paradise no pleasure above those of Goats by the enjoyment of brutish sensuality Foolish Historians like fond Heraulds make the most savage of Beasts supporters to the Arms of the highest Grandeur butcheries and debaucheries the prime parts in the tragedies of their Heroes what but nam'd might turn Christians blood into a congeal'd cake of Ice is affix'd to the story to make a more horrible Polyphemus Discretion should lay aside the bloody Shirt The fam'd Conquerour of the East who instead of all the vain pomp of proud funerals would have a Shirt carried aloft in triumph to show how small a portion was left a Saladine after his mighty acquisitions surely had a cleanly shift and no bloody emblem expos'd of humane inconstancie The cruel piece of duty which sacrific'd a man to revenge for an injur'd Father though some can fancy generous heroick and a prophetick action which first made the Souldier who was to restore the common Parent may it ever be forgot whilst the bloodless conquest for a Countreys Father never wants a grateful Commemoration May the bloody Atchievements in a Belgick Irish Scottish War be ever silenc'd and after so honourable a death be introduc'd by no puny Historian who while he fancies the erecting of Trophies by accumulating the dangerously acquir'd conquests of an Heroe exposes a brutish valour and bafled reason for marks of honour by a mistake of objects affixes indelible notes of infamy While the Lyon is forgot may the triumphs of the Lamb be celebrated who unlearn'd us the fierceness of Savages and by attending to the voice of Peace became a Gratioso to a most peaceable Prince on Earth and hath the promise of the blessing which attends upon Peace-makers and thus may be intitled a Favourite to the King of Kings who disdains not the title of the Prince of Peace It was no cruel victory to which our Heroe ow'd his honours and three Nations their preservation God appear'd not in the thunder and lightning of War but in the soft whisperings of Peace for the most happy of Restaurations The General can never want the Encomium of a Fabius will be ever intitled by delays the Restorer To attribute our Restauration to the Churches Prayers though an Heterodox can be no culpable opinion which cannot dishonour God by ascribing all to his mercies nor the King to have his cause own'd by Heaven nor the General by being made an instrument in the hand of the Almighty when his own Arm was withered by the loss of strength in a Commission The Psalmists Fool said in his heart there was no God and he said that all men were lyers may Wars Plagues nor Fires be the cruel Remembrancers to instruct that truth which we are so apt to forget To God only belongeth salvation Not unto us O Lord not unto us but to thy Name be the Glory Who would rob God of his Glory on Earth may fall short of being glorified in Heaven To God alone as ever due be ever Glory whose Fame only can make an History Everlasting ERRATA PAge 3 read Heroe Onogyros inamelling P. 4. l. 15. r. out of p. 11. r. cause p. 15. l. 12. not the p 18. l. 14. omit to p. 19. l. 16. r. go to p. 22. l. 2. r. M. his case p. 24. r. rolls for roots p. 29. l. 17. for place r. peace l. 23. r. predestinarian p. 34. l. 12. lick'd p. 35. 2. r. a for its l. 18. leave out and. FINIS