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The Earl of Pembrokes farewell to the King, at his departure from the treaty in the Isle of Wight; with His Majesties reply. Also, his speech in the House of Lords, at his returne safe home from the treaty. Taken verbatim by Michael Oldisworth.
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THE EARL OF PEMBROKES Farewell to the KING At his departure from the TREATY In the Isle of Wight With His Majesties REPLY ALSO His SPEECH in the House of LORDS at his returne safe home from the Treaty Taken Verbatim by Michael Oldisworth Printed in the Yeer 1648. THE EARL OF PEMBROKES Farewell to the KING May it please your Majestie I Am now to take my leave of you yet I intend not to leave you quite and not see you againe and yet by God I may too Damme this Leaving has been the undoing of the Kingdom for had not your Majestie left White-hall the Parliament had not left you nor had the Army seiz'd on you 'T is an old Proverbs Leave is light but this leaving has produc'd many a heavie businesse in this Nation Your Majestie is now in the hands of Hucksters Damme and Hacksters too Your Majestie had better to have sign'd to the Propositions of the Parliament at first unsight or unseen without quirks and Queries of Conscience then there had been no more to doe with you You might have been before this time with us in your Parliament-House and then the Army might have been with the Devill for me Now they inâ—â—nd to try ye Indeed you are the Kingdomes Trustee and by God in my judgement they ought to try ye before they Trust yee They have fought against you and your Majesty hath fought against them and if they had not conquer'd you then your Majestie might have conquer'd them Your Valour they have suffâ—ciently try'd aâ—ready and your Patience too and think you that they will spare your Person No they will try yee and you shall have the same play as they desire themselves when they begge to be try'd by their Peers and pray are not those your Peers that have won it by the sword and if they have wenne it by God J see no reason but they may we are it too Jf J fight with another man and beat him and disarme him is not that man at my mercy and have not J power to to kill him if J will Let Law be what it will you know might overcomes Right Damme J can hardly right mine owne Name but yet J can â—ight my self if J am abused by one that is weaker then my self but if he be stronger then my self J can as well take an affront as offer it For the Treaty it is now ended and so it might have been before it had began for the good it hath brought the Kingdome Damme 't was never good World sâ—nce this Treating was invented Treating and signing and a great deal of of stir to no purpose a great deal of Puâ—pit prating but no practise a great cry but a little wool quoth the Devil when he shore his hoggs ' Zblood give me the substance and let the Signe goe where it will Signing Damme J thinke we are are all sign'd with the Signe of the CROSSE for nothing prospers that we take in hand Zblood sure wee are be witch'd with a Shee-Owle for all the Nations in Christendom whoots at us Nay the Great Turke himself J have clean forgot his Christen Name hates to have any Commerce with us wee are growne so perfixious and disloyall Damme would J were a Turke too for they have a thousand times more regall honesty then wee that sweare and lie on purpose to deceive and ruine one another make Covenants and Vows to God on purpose to ensare and entrap our Brethren that so wee may make a prey of them And now wee must have Levelling with a pox to 'em every mans Estate shall be alike No King no Prince Duke Earle Barron nor Knight what the Devill would they have us be trow â—an any body tell For my part J â—m an Oâ—â—â—mâ—n and iâ— they thinke J deserve not as much Honor as my Lord Say Let 'em Say what they will call me Spade Parliament-man Gaffar Mouth omnipotent or what they will it 's all one to Phillipâ— for J have so much understanding as to know my Age iâ— honorable and therefore if they denie me my Honor they cannot denie me my Age and that it is makes me honorable and if they will not suffer the Lords to sit nor have an eggetive Voice then J can hold my tongue in an affirmative Voice or sit as a mute in the House of Commons and speak their dumbe showes for them For my Religion I can keep that to my self and neither trouble God nor man with it By God I thinke it is Religion has set this Kingdome on a sight flame for too much Light is a deadly consumer I know it by my House Damee too much Light burnt it down to the very ground and so will these New Lights burn down not onely the whole Kingdome but the whole World too at the last day I am sure it makes me twi-light to think on 't for I grow sleepy and will hasten to an end onâ—y Iâ—e give your Majestie a word of destruction and conclude Damme Content is a Kingdom over and over or topâ—y turvey therefore you must be content beside Patience is a Crown and if impatient men uncrown you your Patience must Crown you again that 's Patience perforce so you exchange but one crown for another al know Exchange is no robbery Sâ—nk me I am as impatient an Asse If I be but throughly vext as any creature living yet I can have Patience and suffer too to prevent a mischief nay suffer my self to be crost too over the back with a switch by a base Scot too and yet had the Patience to suffer this rather then raise a War a Pox of this Warring for mee and this jarring too I am sure I am not a thousand pounds the better for it though some I could Name and not be a false SPEAKER that have purchased thousands a yeer by it Damme I hate fighting for it was I that swore at your Majestie for fighting against the Scots and caused you to withdraw your Forces and come safe home againe and Jockey to jogge back into his own Countrey And this I did to prevent Warre and by God would doe as much againe to prevent Warre and the ruâ—ne that follows it and would doe my business if need were in any place to bring home a happy welcome and long expected Peace Your Majestie knowes I am an ill Ornitor therefore as I began I will make an end And leave you to the will of the Army Your Majesties humble servant P. Pembroke His Majesties Answer to my Lord of Pembrokes SPEECH My Lord AMidst all my miseries you make me merry I have no more to say to you but that in my fall you may behold your owne and that suddenly For my part I am rewarded Evil for Good from them that pretend themselves Saints and the most Godly party but indeed the worst of sinners and most disobedient of my subjects as appears by their former professions late actions not only against me but
against the authority of both my Houses of Parliament My Lord when I demanded 5. Members upon just evidence of guilt Was it not adjuded both by you and them a grand breach of Priviledge And if by me a King so great a breach pray what is it in them that take away 11. at one time seven Lords at another time and now some 40. or 50. more God forgive them I doe and am arm'd to suffer whatever their mallice can alledge or their rage act against me I aske nor expect mercy from them but look up to One that is able to deliver me and mine Nothing afflicts me more then the Sufferings of my oppressed People yet my hope is That HEE that hath given me their King strength to beare the heaviest burden of woe will enable them my Subjects to bear the lighter But our hope is in God My Lord farwell I expect hourly an end of all my Troubles and then begins your owne and then comes theirs that caused both Yours C. R My Lord of Pembroks Speech in the House of Lords at his returne from the TREATY My Lords DAmme I mistake your Titles I may call you as well Spades Down-diddles or any thing for down you must that 's flatt levell'd all fellows now By God 't is but just with us if the Army would pull down our Breeches and whip us we have sate these 7. yeers to pull down the King with a pox and now we must be pull'd down our selves by a pâ—cky Generall Army I should say ' Zblood Treating the Devill shall Treat next for me Damme I knew the effect of Treating before we went We must goe like so many Hobby-Horses to the Isle of Wight to Treat with the King and then come home againe like so many Doccer-heads to Intreat a company of Shack-ragg lowsie Souldiers Damme our souldiers are now our Kings Dukes Lords Preachers nay and Cash-keepers too ' Zblood we are like to have a thorow Reformation indeed for if you are not of their Judgement you shall be run thorow and thorow againe a bloody Canish Religion indeed I am Chancellor of Oxford ' Zblood I had better be Master of the Bare-garden and Deform Bears in stead of Schollars when I my self must be taught and govern'd by Scullars Brewers and Tinkers and a company of thin-skulls that have no more hare then with nor no more with then honesty and yet more craft then Conscience more cruelty then coine I thank God I am neither Souldier nor Schollar but an upright Common-wealths-man 'T is confest I have been a Privie Counsellor but Damme I scorne to be an Evill Counsellor though I have unjustly given sentence in the Starr-chamber and Counsell-board for evill I thought none and could I Act Evell and not thinke evill No evill be to them that evill thinke and J thank God J can justifie my innocence by my Jgnorance Before J would Evill Counsell Kingdome Parâ—iament or Army Jâ—◠〈◊〉 Barly-Broath in Hell eternally with the Malignant Commons Damme J hate to Traytor my Lord and King the Kingdome which consists of the Body of the People which maketh a King and may as well marre a King who is but their Trustee or Deputie Damme J acknowledge no other King then my Soveraigne Lord the Common-People who is both Creator of King Parliament and all other Officers and Ministers of Justice Damme a Plow-boy is as much a King if my Lord the PEOLE pâ—ease as King Charles beside a plow-boy is the maker of a King and ought not every King to acknowledge his Maker Jf he claimes the Kingdom by the Norman Conquest then by God my Lord Fairfax may lay claime to it as well as hee for he hath conquer'd it againe from him and if Lord or Earle be usurped or derived from the Danes who as Chronicle-makers say were called Lurdanes or Lord-Danes because they lived Lordly or idly upon others labors as many of our Army doe therefore if Lord be a Title of Reproach and not of Honour wee may thanke the Army for taking away this Reproach from us For my part Sirs for LORDS I will not call you they shall not need to take away my Honor or Titles for I hold it more honourable to submit my Honor and Titles to thâ—m that knows better how to support them then my selfe therefore for my part let them take them I lay them downe and see no reason but you May doe so to Damme you ought to submit when you cannot otherwise helpe it and if you will still remaine obstinate then take what followes And so the blessing of Issachar rest continually upon you all SIRS J am never tedious in my Impressions and therefore include my SPEECH and desire you seriously to consider of the scope and sirrup of what I have said Your Honors Servant PEMBROKE and MONTGOMERY FINIS Vera Copia