Alas pore Parliament, how are thou betrai'd? This is the Plot the Kings party boasted of, that should take whether God would or no: You see though they care not what they speake,: yet they know what they speake. Wee have brave Generalls that fight for the King, and make pore honest people pay for their owne destructions: One of them hath wrought finely in the darke a l [...] while like a Divell, but the other hath shew'd himse [...]e an open enemie, and therefore is the more to be borne with; he hath made use of Rouges, Cutpurses, Players, [...] and Tinkers to forward a Reformation, and the other hath culd out all the honestest Youth in the Kingdome to keep them from Action, or for slaughter. Neither of them worke, but make worke; when they should doe, they undoe, and indeed to undoe is all the marke they aime at. Doe yee thinke Greatnesse without Goodnesse can ever thrive in excellent actions? no, Honour without honesty stinkes: away with't: no more Lords and yee love me, they smell o'the Court.
⟨Decemb: 9th [...] monday 1644⟩
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