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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	parliament_n	traitor_n	1,870	5	9.9264	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81109	The cuckoo's-nest a [sic] Westminster, or the Parlement between two lady-birds, Quean Fairfax, and Lady Cromwell, concerning negotiations of estate, and their severall interests in the Kingdom; sadly bemoaning the fate of their deer and ab-hor'ed husbands. Who buyes a cuckoes-nest, hatch'd in an ayre ... to springe her for her base disloyalty. by Mercurius Melancholicus; Cuckoo's-nest at Westminster.	Mercurius Melancholicus, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing C7459; Thomason E447_19; ESTC R204931	4,714	8

The Cuckoo's-nest AT Westminster OR THE PARLEMENT between the two LADY-BIRDS Quean Fairfax and Lady Cromwell concerning Negotiations of ESTATE and their severall I●terests in the Kingdom sadly bemoaning the Fate of their Deer and ab-hor'ed HUSBANDS Who buyes a Cuckoes-Nest hatch'd in an Ayre That 's not far distant from Westminste●-Fayre The Hedge-sparrow that fed her 'tother day Is for her kindness now become her Prey O 't is a precious BIRD wer 't in a Cage 'T would please both King and People cure this Age That surfeits with Rebellion and can have No Helpe to keep her from Destructions Grave She Cuckoo's Treasons Strifes causes great Stir But must pack hence 'twixt this and Midsommer Though Goattam hedge her in with Pikes and Gun She shall not scape us though she flies or runnes For all the Birds with one consent agree To springe her for her base Disloyalty June 15th BY Mercurius Melancholicus Printed in Cuckoo-time in a Hollow-tree 1648. The Cuckoo's-nest AT Westminster WHo is it amongst us that hath not heard these Cuckoes at Westminster an Ayrie of such Ominous Owly Birds that the like was never before seen in this Kingdom that have kept a great cackling and been long and Close sitters but have hatch'd nothing but Cockatrice egges vile Treasons addle Ordinances and the like to ensnare and enslave a free-born People making of them no better then Hedge-Sparrows to nurse up with their wealth the Bastard Isse of their Pernicious Plots against King Church and Kingdom the Common-People that willingly fed them and lent them not onely Hands but Lives and Estates being now for their great kindness justly become a Prey to the Ravenous and griping Clawes of these Canniball Cu●koos the Parliament and Army that now are devouring them after they have Pulled and Polled them to the bare skinnes are now feeding upon their flesh and picking their very bones Killing Destroying and Robbing them and if this be not enough to provoke the People to Curse these unnaturall Vipers and to loath all future Parliaments to the worlds end I have lost my scenses none will fear them none will love them none will obey them all will hate them all will despise them all fight against them Let us now consider what manner of Birds these be and we shall find them not Kuck●es onely but other birds of Prey as Vultures Harpyes Puttocks Ostriches Owles Martyns D●wes and such like Ominous and unclean Birds that with their huge Bodyes and balefull Wings have obscured our King our Peace our Happiness and hid all joy and comfort from us these are all Birds of a Feather that sit in Counsell and conspire together against the Eagle the Phaenix the Turkey the Pea-hin the Turtle the Swan the Canary and sweet-singing Nighting●●ll who being all too credulous to beleeve the feined bablings of these Sate Decoyes are now covered and intangled in their Nets caught in their Pit-falls and all their goods and feathers pulled from them by Lime-twigg-Ordinances The●e Birds of Prey flock together at Westminster and have for almost Eight yeers roosted themselves there even till they had de●yled their very Nests and were forced to flie abroad till they were cleans'd and yet sit brooding and hatching their pernicious Plotts and Treasons Cocatrice Ordinances bald buzzardly Votes contradicting Orders and changling Declarations both against the Laws of Nature Reason Conscience and Religion and have Usurped all Power and Authority from and over their Lawfull and undoubted Soveraigne doing their utmost to deprive both him and his Posterity of their Hereditary Fights and Successions denying to acknowledge him for their Head forbidding Adresses to be made unto Him or Messages to be received from Him by wich they have changed and abandoned the Nationall and Fundamentall Laws of the Land the only ligaments and sinewes of a Kingdom being an Act not onely of the highest Treason that can be but a Crime that divests them of all their Priviledges un-Parliaments them and makes them all guilty of the abhorred sin of Perjury in breaking Protestations Oathes and Covenants and lyable to a just Censure and conviction of Theft Treason Rebellion for which they can no otherwise satisfie the King Lawes or People but by the tribute of their Roundheads too slight a Recompence for such abhorred and Trayterous Crimes Therefore the People may now see without spectacles how grosly they been disceived and juggled out of their Lives and Estates 't is true the Parliament at the first convened by Royall authority was a lawfull and for ought I know a conscienscious Parliament and the whol Body being aptly and compleatly united together in the Members without foreable dislocation or false Election was questioness the highest indicature in this Kingdom But since Edge-hill Fight this juncto or Pretended Parliament acting in open Hostility fighting against their King abandoning their Head are no more a Parliament but the Body of a Parliament without a head a monster a very Cuckoos-nest a combined medly o● Traytors and Rebe●ls and far different from the Nature of a Parliament by reason of their Luciferian Pride to be flung down to hell and to be diserted by all Loyall Subjects as disjoynted severed and mangled in its members as deficient as their then Generall uncapable of any just Act but wading on in blood by an u●urped Treasonous Tyrannicall and overawing Power having no dirivation from the King but their own lusts therefore no Subject whatsoever hath any warrant neither can they binde the Conscience of any to yeēld either Active or Passive obedience to any Act or Ordinance because they illegally Act contrary to all Presidents of former Parliaments and Parliamentary Power and are no longer the visible Representatives of the Body Politique and so must necessarily be guilty of all the innocent blood shed these 6 yeers in this Kingdom and still shedding in most Counties in England these Rebells being so flesh'd in Blo●d Rapine thy are resolv'd to goe through-stitch in their abhorred Rebellion though they ruine 3. Kingdoms by their inhumane butcheries being rewarded with a large sum for shedding blood in the City incouraged rewarded for murdering the S●rey-Petitioners the Kentish and Essex men for delivering in a legall way Petitions for redresse of their seve●a●l agrievances what can any rationall man think but that they defer to murder their King untill such time as they have first murdered and destroyed all his Loyall Subjects That when the Army could not have an opportunity to plunder the City as nothing so sure as they intended it they were hired by Martyn Mildmay Veine and the rest of that Nest to pick a Quarrell with the Countrey that they might Plunder and unundoe them when then they had missed of their aime in the City as now they doe in Essex Kent and all the Kingdome over Killing Plundering annd triumphing over all they are able to Conquer so that between both Partyes Royalists and Roundheads as between the good and bad