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The last words of Thomas Lord Pride taken in short-hand by T.S., late clerk to his Lordship's brew-house.
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The last WORDS OF THOMAS Lord PRIDE Taken in Short hand by T. S. late Clerk to his Lordship's Brew-house My good Friends and Neighbours YOu are come I thank you to see me dye and let me request you to take my last Breath I 'll no set Speech the long Parliament loaded you with those so many Speeches as if orderly burnt would brew two hundred Quarters of Malt had sate speeching still if his late Highness had not bad to Vnhouse them I spake none neither in the Commons nor in the other House and yet I must either now speak or else hereafter for ever hold my peace My Conscience 't is my Conscience speaks And the first thing that is upon my spirit is the Killing of the Beares for which the people bait mâ— and call me all the names in the Rain-bow But did not David kill a Bear did not the Lord Deputy Ireton kill a Bear did not another Lord of ours kill five Beares and five Fidlers may Beares be kill'd in Nottingham in Leycester and not in Surrey You know I was high Sheriff of the County and if I might not kill a few Bears why was I made Sheriff I thought it our interest to let nothing live that would fight and therefore we made an Act against Gock maches others have kill'd far greater things with lesse Commission But perhaps they 'll say I strook at the Prerogative for Kings and Protectors have a Priviledge when they find a good Mastive Dog to clap their collar upon him and use him for the Game and so if kill the Beares hang the Dogs no Bear no Dog But think you the Prerogative would reach to Beares or that Great Britain were the Isle of Dogs are we like St. Mallowes guarded by Mastives the French have ever made us their Apes and uâ—till we follow their Doggs too If an English Mastive get whelps in France they all prove Curres I wish our English Souldiers there may never turn French Can we forget that horrid Accident when Major Generall Skippon came in a Horse-licter wounded to London when he pass'd by the Brew-house near S. John's street a Devillish Mastive flew as at a Bear at one of his Horses and held him so fast by the stones that the Horse grew mad as a mad dogg the Souldiers so amaz'd that none had the wit to shoot the Mastive but the Horse-licter born between two Horses toss'd the Major Generall like a Dog in a Blanket Thus your Dogs use Horse and Man And for Women remember now Swash the abominable Mastive took a dispensation with an Elder 's Maid Nay not a Sow in the streets by night but the Watchmen's Dogs steal privately to her which makes your London-Piggs have such round heads and when I my self had my first Brew-house which was at Pye-corner I heard a Pig bark whereby I knew 't was a City Pig Here 's a sweet stir with Beares and Dogs able to make a wise-man mad for first they pretend to preserve their Dogs yet rayl at me for shooting the Beares that kill those Dogs and then tax me for killing the Beares yet set their Dogs to tear the Beares in pieces Yes and the Man that ow'd the Beares now sues me for destroying his Goods but what the Devil are Beares good for They bragg of a Weapon-salve made forsooth of the fat of Beares killd in the Act of Generation though Beares never generate but by night when none can know it my Sword hath made some Wounds let them anoynt the blade of my Sword and try how many Cavaliers 't will cure The Devill has a hand or a foot in this Salve if it come from Beares for you know the Beast with seaven heads and ten hornes had the foot of a Beare whence people say a Beare has the Divel's foot You think I meane the Beare at the Bridgefoot for God sends meat and the Devil sends GOOKS I mean a Limb of the Devil and is it a sin to destroy the Devil George was Sainted for killing a Dragon Saints of old like honest George us'd to kill Beasts but now Saints commonly kill men the Dragon and Bear are Pictures of the same for the Devil hath divers Sutes to put on he wears not onely the Beast a red Dragon an Otter a Bear but a very Man a Woman in Silks in Buff in a long Mourning Cloak to hide his cloven foot and too often a Saint or Angel of new light yet then so like as one Devil to another An Author of Ours said the Beast's ten hornes are the Kings of Europe which may bee the reason why the Members that voted against a King were so hot for Decimation those Members were not the major part but the Major Generall part I confess that Author wrote after the King was beheaded when our Liberties stood committed to severall Keepers And yet I would know that Member's name that would not be a King every creature above and below hath a Monarch in his belly the Devil would fain have bin King of Heaven and Adam scorn'd to be King of the Earth and each of his sonnes would be King of all the rest And to speak my Conscience if the State should vouchsafe to name me King I think I should not question the Elections no though it were as I hear the Persians once chose a King by the neighing of a horse But he that hath Horse may soon be a King and therefore I love to save my Horse but why with a vengeance should we save Beares that feed upon Horse-flesh My Physician say's that an old fellow one Pliny told him that a piece of Beares flesh will grow bâ—gger by boyling whâ—ch shewes the Devil and his Damme is in Beares for all things else will boyl away to nothing had all my Beer had a good sound boyling I had not dyed worth a pound of Hopps Are these your Beasts of the Game I professe I hate Gaming there 's an Act against it though some of our own â—lay deep as any and the Gamesters made Diâ—e of some of Their bones who made that Act O who can tell how a man is us'd when once he comes to be a dry bone Something there is that Dice run now more false then ever that so many new curses follow those Bones Perhaps the Beares come not within the Ring of this Act against Gaming yet both Dog and Bear are within the lists of the Act against Duells and though they are out of the Act of Oblivion yet some new Justices brought them within the Act for Marriages 'T is confess'd they fight but not for us they are no part of the militia and never paid so much as Pole money they never with Lions were admitted into the Tower nor shew'd at Westminster among the fine Sights nor ever reckon'd among the Crown Jewels There were Propositions for bringing in Plate mony and Horse but not for Beares And yet now must England turn Greenland the War has made it Red