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A28797 No Mercurius aquaticus, but a cable-rope, double twisted for Iohn Tayler, the water-poet, who escaping drowning in a paper-wherry-voyage, is reserved for another day as followeth, viz by John Booker. Booker, John, 1603-1667. 1644 (1644) Wing B3729; ESTC R238 6,147 8

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VVithall when thou hast dispatched this businesse and art returned to thy friends at Oxford carry them this Newes That in my late return from my Astronomicall Journey as I passed by the Twelve Signes I perceived very few of them to be Malignant but all sworne enemies to the desperate Cavalrie Aries and Tayrus have so rammed up the way to heaven and so guarded it that they will gore any Cavalier that shall offer to passe Gemini indeed would willingly entertain them because they are of kin being double every way double-tongued double-hearted double-Religion'd halfe one thing half another half Protestant half Papist or whole Athiest But neighbouring Cancer will pinch and gripe them for their cruelties and cast them into the den of Leo where they shall be Plunder'd and tolmented and never be suffer'd to Quarter in Virgo tell Rupert so for that is his Heaven his Turkish Paradise and the only hope of his Religion And then Libra will weigh them all the weight of whose Plundering cannot but b●eak the Scales And then they shall be bitten by Scorpio shot though with darts and Arrowes by Sagittarius hamme-string'd by Capricorne sowsed duck't and pump'd by thy kinsman Aquarius and then their blasphemous Tongues and blood-guilty feet be bitten off and devoured by Pisces and so at length they may chance to be cook't in the Devills Frying-Pan And thus thou learned Metropolitan of villany I have anatomized and Skellumatized your ridiculous roguing and lying Pamphlet which for this once I have taken the paines to answer in thy own straine being resolved to be troubled no more by thee for I have of late found out a Medicine which will cure thee and all thy Malignant Companions of their railing and malignant fits It is very good for purging away humours in the head and will cure the Vertigo or Staggers in Religion and cleare the eye-sight of the University and cure them of the Surfiet which they have taken of Protestantisme and quench the Praeter-naturall thirst after Popery and Slavery and take away the obstructions of Reformation Pray send the Bill to Her Majesties owne Apothecary who will very carefully compound it Rs. One dram of King Iames his Cordiall that was made by Buckingham Of His Majesties Protestations Of the Cabinet-Councells Honesty Of Harry Iermyns Honour Of Ruperts Religion Of Digby's English heart ana 2. graines Of Tompkins his Halter Quantum suffocat One of Her Maiesties good Intentions to the Kingdome Two Arguments at Law of Justice Heath's owne making Two Ounces of the Irish Commission and an ounce and an halfe of the VVaxe that sear'd it and three Pen-fulls of the Inke that wrote it I. Case of Conscience of Doctor Ferne in the behalfe of Tyrani● I. Head-full of Mischiefes of Bristoll and Cottington I. Heart-full of feares of the Iunto and one pound of their slavery Halfe a dramme of University Divinity and one scruple of Chop't-Logick and Hebrew Rootes ana 5. Gallons of holy-Holy-Water of the Vice-Chancellors owne Consecrating Boyle all these the length of a Masque at White-Hall or rather of Cart-Wrights Propheticall Play called the Royall Slave Then stop it close with Surplesses Copes and Hoods So let it simper like a Madam in her Night-cloathes in the ashes of the next Town which shall be fired for the Liberty of the Subiect then straine it and in stead of Syrupe sweeten it with a Bucket or two of Irish Protestant Blood that it may please the Palate Drink three ounces of this Cursing and Swearing and if it helpe not thee and thy friends to breathe out all your Malignant Humours which have so intoxicated your Noddles with vile Conundrums I must sit still admiring and leave you to the Gallowes the proper cure for such Rebells as thy self that are past Cure FINIS