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power_n	king_n	parliament_n	prerogative_n	4,918	5	10.1412	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77259	The devills white boyes: or, A mixture of malicious malignants, with their much evill, and manifold practises against the kingdome and Parliament. VVith a bottomlesse sack-full of knavery, popery, prelacy, policy, trechery, malignant trumpery, conspiracies, and cruelties, filled to the top by the malignants, laid on the shoulders of time, and now by time emptied forth, and powred out, to shew the truth, and shame the Devill. Time now at the last poures out much knavery. The Devill holds down fast to hinder the discovery. Malignants are the Divells agents still, the sack is England, which they strive to fil with misery and mischief, and this sack full stufft, is laid upon times aged back; time poures it out now in an angry mood, that all their knaveries may be understood.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673, attributed author.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653, attributed author.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4261; Thomason E14_11; ESTC R6322	7,574	9

for they doe not live after the rate of going to Heaven unlesse bloody murders Idolatry and killing of K●ngs be the way to Heaven These Malignants in my conceit are like those pictures which have a dubble aspect one like a man the other like a Devill when they are to doe mischiefe by flattering the King or making the countrey people rise in the Kings behalfe then they put on smooth faces and tell them of the Kings power and Prerogative and that the Parliament is no Parliament and therefore they may figh● against it that the King is wronged when indeed no body wrongs him but his malignant Councellours that they fight for the Protestant Religion that is for Poperie and to defend the Lawes that is the Law of tyrannicall slavery which the King would impose upon his subjects and that as the Locust devoured the Land of Egipt so they might swarm againe and devour us as they did in England in the times of peace when all the Law was in the hand of the Iudge and that hand must be filled with gold or else no Law was to be had but now for cunning wickednesse which is the malignants other face and wherin he resembles the Devill consider him as he was in the shape of Guído Faulx when he went with his darke lanthorn in his hand to set fire to the Gunpowder plot and was taken in this Devills shape and afterwards he and his Complotters were executed for traytors but what a number of black malignants are there now in this Land being a kind of smooth-faced machivilian Devills some with flattering bellows blowing the coales of dissention betweene the King and Parliament then there be horned malignant Devills that will roare sweare domineer use nothing but Dammees and R●mmees as the Cavaliers who blaspheme Heaven and Earth and are ready to sweare themselves a live into Hell then there are Irish Devills as hot as fire and as bloody as Belzebub these delight in firing of houses in killing women and Children in tearing the flesh off Protestants shoulders with hot Pincers as they did in Ireland together with their horrible cruelties here in England these are cruell Irish Divells such as doe not he idle in the Market-place as the Divill did upon his Elbow because he knew they would lie and sweare fast enough there to damn themselves but these Malignants are no Dormant Devills but active and stirring to doe mischief they proclaime his Majesties will and their own counsell to be Oracles and make the King beleeve that none have wit or understanding but his Majesties Cavaliers and his new borne Councellors and that none are so fit to make Priests and Jesuites as the Oxford Schollers and that if his Majesty print but a plausible Oath or a Proclamation that all hee doth is for the advancement of the Protestant Religion is Maiesty may doe what he will in favour of Papists and follow their Counsells as long as the Malignants can but brand the Protestants with the name of Brownist Anabaptist Separatist or Round-heads and then the Schollers of Oxford doe make Sermons before the King of the fidelity of Papists and how farre they are to be preferred above Puritanes and Protestants whom they accoumpt religious Traytors but O King be rul'd no more by wicked Evill Counsellors but follow the advice of Scripture wisedome If this Counsell or this worke of the Parliament be of men it will come to naught but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it least happily ye be found fighters against God Behold O King but the disposition of all these Eare wigs that insinuate into your Counsells can dissolute lawlesse Cavaliers defend good Lawes Or can Papists and Atheists fight for the true Protestant Religion that were as strange as for Thornes to beare grapes and Thistles to beare figgs and as strange it were that Papists and Athiests should bear arms to defend the Lawes the Libertie of the Subject and the Protestant Religion the Divell they will no they fight to errect here the Kingdom of Darknes and Popery that spirituall ambition may domineere flat-cap and the four-corner'd Cap may fill the foure corners of the world full of knavery there should be then no schisme but a constant Lubberisme in England Bishops Deans Doctors Dunces and Lubbers that when they preach't being very seldome would speake with a hoarse low voice as if two or three steeples having plutallity of Benifices stuck in their throat and when young VVives and wenches came to Confession how the Frier like the Divell would hugg them would not this be a prety medly of confusion nay right and wrong shall be all one fetch me such a Subiects head 'tother subiects bed and his table nay plunder him to a Pewter spoone if he will not submit unto the Kings Prerogative but banish conscience for miters and Bishops can't indure him Papists Priests can devise an easie Religion for my Court Lady that she may go to heaven on a bed of Roses never take the paines to come thither she is troubled with a loosenesse in the bottom of her belly and cannot sit out a long Sermon nor make long Prayers let her give a few scraps at her door and a doal of Puddings at her death and Angels shall carry her to Pope Iom But let us let these shee fooles alone these shee-Papists and malignant women that will talke themselues out of breath against the Parliament but if they might have their wills to beat and cuckold their husbands by act of Parliament then and not till then they would praise the Parliament But Time since thou hast thus far discribed the Malignants goe on with boldnesse poure out the rest of thy Sackfull of knavery make the Proverbe true speak truth shame the Divell who stands behind thee pulling down the sack to hinder the emptying of it but out with the trumpery the Knavery the Popery the Policy the Malignancy flattery and all the close wickednesse and impiety that hath been laid upon the back of Time doe it briefly roundly and plainly and shake out of thy Sack all varieties of Knavery VVell done Time what comes out here first Inprimis hundred-pound baggs of money and these were for Bribes for my Lords the Judges and for Symony to procure a Benifice for Master Dunscombe a Levite of littell learning and lesse Conscience whose Bribe being taken hee was admitted to the Parsonage O this money makes the Common-wealth a common whore that lies down and let fooles ride her and deride her while Knaves thriv'd and honest men went to wrack and every Iack might be made a Sir Iohn for an hundred pounds and to conclude malignant hundred pounds have sent hundred thousands to the Divell VVhat comes next Malignant pounds of Candles made only for Polititions to give them light how to study Plots against the Protestants the Bishop of Canterbury burnt twenty pounds of these candles in studdying how to bring in Popery the Earl of Strafford