O England! how hast thou been tost and tumbled? VV [...]at have thy sufferings been since [...]his warre be­gan? Atlas beares the world on his shoulders, and alas, sinne hath laid sorrow on thy back, thou hast been, O England a long time nothing but a medly of confusion, of murder, p [...]under and Malignant wick­ednesse, and hast like a Porter, groaned under the bur­den of a S [...]ckful of knavery, ease now thy tyred shoul­ders, and poure out some of them to the view of the VVorld. Before the beginning of this Parliament, thou wer't divers wayes opprest, and many were thy greevances which thou didst suffer under great men; and how did the Star-chamber domineere over the wrong'd Sub­iect? what corruption and Bribery was there in the Law? what buying and selling of Justice? This Lord, and that Lord must be sollicited and sued unto, even as sat as Coventry, or the Devill of Dunsmore HEATH (now with the King) that it would please their Lordships to take a Bribe to doe a po [...]rs man Justice.

There was nothing but Playing, Dancing and Masking; the Common­wealth was a tree of Pleasure, and whoring was the top branch, when the Queen-mother was here, and it is thought, the Bishops ease and good fare, made them lusty, even to beget Bastards, which they could doe with ease in their studies; they lov'd pleasure better then Preaching, and were the Hogges of our Israel, that fatted themselves with the Acornes of Spirituall Livings; Then the Judges were the Kings Parrets, and cryed out, Ship-money, [Page 3] but the Subiects regarded those Judges no more then Parrats or pra­ting Sicophants; that with the Coblers Crow, were taught to cry, Ave Caesar, God save the King; Amen cry'd the people, and deliver him from such malig­nant Judges, that would make his Prerogative a Pick pocket; and a hand to squeese out the wealth of the Subiest, according to the Princes pleasure, that so our King might like a forreign, whom I could name, be Rex Assinorum, a King of English Asses, when the liberty of the Subiect should be subiect to the Tyran­ny of his Prerogative. These devices were then set on foot, and are now march­ing abroad on the Souldiers leggs in the Kings army: for what doth the Kings Army fight for? but first for an universall Tyrany, or unbounded Monarchy, that the free-borne English may submit themselv [...]s to Royall slavery, in token whereof, the Schollers of Oxford not long before these warres began, made a Play called, The Royall Slave, as if they had Prophesyed, that all England should be turn'd into a company of Royall slaves, and for this the Cavaliers fight, cut and kill the Kings Majesties Subjects, that they may conquer us into servitude, and (if they could) beat us out of our Name of Subjects, into the ti­tle of slaves, but theres no doubt, wee shall be able to baffle such knaves, that being pack't together, have shuffer'd in the King amongst them, and by their evill Counsell, have made the King like an incensed Lion against his peo­ple and Parliament. And what mad Lawes doe you imagine, if the Cavaliers were law-makers? It should be lawfull in the first place to kill any man for his money, if it were demanded, cum privilegio, that is by vertue of the Kings Pre­rogative. And the subiects should be turned into sub-jacks, every great man should have a Monopoly to maintaine his pride and luxury, the Kings Will should be the liberty of the subiect, and my Lords will, and my Ladies will, and my Lords Secretaries will, and my Lords great Horses will must be obeyed, so that Iack should be in Office, and every Courtiers will, even to Will the Scul­lion in the Court Kitching, should be a King, if the Malignants could have their will.

Then for Religion, we should have superstition, Organs piping, Lawne­sleeves preaching, Bulls of Bason roaring, and singing Anthems, Little young Levites preaching Morallity instead of Divinity, and cringing and comple­menting in the Pulpit; fat Benefices, and leane Sermons, Dunces that could onely read Service, and pray for faire weather, should be Country Curates, but 'tis no matter, this Religion would serve the Malignants, who are half Epi­cures, half Papists, and half Atheist, and a medly of mad wickednesse, they and the Devill have been in Counsell a great while, to devise a plot how to destroy all the honest Religious Protestants in England, and the Earl of Strafford, hee sits in Counsell every day about it with Pluto, Ashteroth, and the other Infer­nall Counsellors, but this Devillish Counsell-Table, cannot yet, nor never shall [Page 4] be able to worke the ruine of the Protestants; No? yes the Cavaliers, the Irish, and Papists in the Kings Army will doe their endeavour, and with their swords mow them downe; the [...]es Digby, and Cottington, and a great many Lords and Knights that are Politick Divills, that could instruct the King to undoe the Common-wealth in the times of peace, and cannot they play the Divell in the time of warre? yes, yes, no doubt, they enticed the King the head of the Parliament from the members, onely to save their own heads, and will not they incense the King to kill his true Subiects under the title of Roundheads? Come, beleeve it, they are wicked enough, how can they fail in their plotts? when experience tells us, that Papists are full of black Invention and hellish Plotts: what was the Gun-powder Plot, and Straffords plot; but what talke you of Plots? The Kings Majesty will have it so, and blinde men in Divinity have the best eyes; they preach, Obey the King, and dishonour God, but as for cruelty and cutting of throates I leave that to Prince Rupert, and will acknowledge that there was heeretofore no other purgatory but the Chancery. But what said my Court Lady at Oxford, I love the Romane Ca­tholick Faith, for I would lie in bed and be religious, and confesse my sinnes, and live in pompe and pleasure, and know nothing but complementing in French, and praying in Latin [...], and hearing Masse, and when shee did goe to heaven, and v [...]si [...]e the Lady Mary, and all the Papists that are in heaven, which are very few, 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, [Page 5] 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 [Page 6] 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 studdyed alwayes by one of these ma­lignant Candles, till at last, the Divell puff't out both the light of his Candle, and the light of his life both together; It is known that Diogines had a malig­nant candle in his Lanthorne, which gave him light to see how to rayle, and so Malignants, and all wicked men have some of these Candles, Prince Rupert never goes to bed, but the Devill lights him up a candle, that he may see to forget to say his prayers, and that he may not see his cruell plunderings; and one of these candles are continually burning before the Kings Maiesty, which [Page 7] gives [...]im such a dim light, that he cannot see the way how to returne unto his Parliament▪

Next comes out the Papists Reliques, beads, crosses, crucifixes, whips, papist bookes li­cenced by the Bishop of Canterbury, fire and faggots, with which they intended to have burnt the Protestants, as they did in the dayes of Queen Mary; and our Queen Mary thought to have seen the like bon-fires in her dayes: Hold down the mouth of thy sack, Time, what great gray thing is that come out tumbling? Oh, 'tis one of the Fryers that liu'd at Saint Jameses, fatt and full of knavery and popery; bold, there's a Surplesse, and two payre of Lawn-Sleeves, a hood, a cope, and the poopish Service-boke that was sent downe to the Scots, and a paire of Or [...]gans, and a may-poole, and the skull of the Queen-mother, with a number of p [...]p [...]st skulls, that while they liv'd, were all Traytors to the Common-wealth of England.

What's heere, Serpents? such as Cottington and the rest of the Kings evill Counsellors; and look heere are Eeles, Court Eeles, that would slip into any place of preferrment, but it is knowne, that thunder doth break the bedds of Eeles, and since the thunder of warre began, these malignant Eeles are all run unto the King, and doe live in the fresh waters at Oxford, Bristoll, and other puts in the VVest Country.

Now comes forth Lawy [...]rs black-boxes, poore men brought these by their sides out of the Country to London, and returned againe with nothing but penury and papers; shake them out Time, for when these times were, the Divell and the Lawyer were alwayes full of busi­nesse in the Terme time.

VVhats heere? a Lions skinne, with a Foxes tayl [...] to it, a very good Embleme, to shew that malignant Counsellours d [...]e make use of the Lions power, to back their malignant plotts, and thus the King is abused by the malignants pollicy.

But oh horrible and monstrous, heer's a hand with a sword in it, full of hearts, that have been run through by the Sword, and upon the point of the sword is a Crowne, Oh I fear this sword doth too evidently point out the King, who hath been abused by his Evill Counsel­lo s, his Cavaliers, and the Irish Rebells, who have run their swords through the hearts of many thousand [...]rotestants, this is a bloody sight shak't out of the Sack of Time.

Here are more swords, all which have been guilty of English blood, not onely their hilts, but their blades are sanguin'd over, they look red, and blush, that friends and brothers, should with hearts of Iron, hard as their swords, kill one another; but now comes out of the sack two bloody hands, the one holding a sword, the other a Torch, and this doth signifie Prince Rupert, who is a bloody man of his hands, and doth shew continuall cruelty with fire and sword, as he did at Bolton in Lane shire, and in many o [...]her places, which have suffered un­der this plundering Prince.

Heere comes out n [...]w a Box, full of Commissions to doe nothing; such as the Duke of Buckingham had when he went to relieve the Protestants in Rochell, and Sicill, when he went Cales Voyage; and then here's another box, with the Kings Armes upon it, and in it there's the Commission of Array, with a great many of the Kings Protestations, together with let­ters from he Queen, and how the Kings Cabbinetts of Jewells, being pawn'd, he hath no­thing left but a box fu [...]l of papers not of [...]oetry, but pollicy, and they must needs be strong l [...]nes, that are writ by a King and Queene, and their strong malignants.

Now comes out tumbling together Ship-money, Coxcombes for earpet-Knights, such as Jermyn and Endymion Porter, being new made Gentlemen, and now being malignants, are made I know not what: heere comes out Monopolies of white-soape, ragges, mary-bones, cardes, tobacco, and a pattent that should have been granted for pissing against the wall; m [...]nopolies and knaveties, come out here.

W [...]ts heere? Oh 'tis the Bishop of Canterburies new book, that he sent to the Scots, being sent to him from his Holinesse of Rome, and contrived by the Pope, but the mischief was, the bishop of Canterbury could not get a close cover for this booke, so that the Scots disco­vered [Page 8] his Popish purpose, and would rather see it burnt, then entertaine a leafe of it, to be read in their true reformed Churches.

Hold, hold, heer' a company of eyes and eares, and tongues poured out of the Sack of Time; why Time, wilt thou shame thy self, could there ever be a Time so wicked, that the Star-chamber should endeauour to pluck out the eyes of Religion, and to pick out the best men, to have them disgraced by cutting off their eares nay, and by cutting out their tongues, that is, by sil [...]ncing Godly Ministers in the Diocesses where the bishops reign'd, this was true enough.

But whats heere? Oxford Trumpery, and Knavery, Schollers flat-caps, and square-caps, Divines gowns which the Schollers lay down, and while they drink healths to the confusion of the Roundheads, they will cry; Lie there Di­vinity; these are pretty fellows to make Popish Priests of; it is known that Au­licus is one of these drunken fellows of All soules Colledge; but here comes out more, namely Christ-Church Organs, surplesses, Beades, Crosses, Halfe-Crowns coyn'd out of Oxford Place, Cuckolds hornes made by the Cavaliers, Books of Popery, of con [...]uring and all sorts of Malignant Pamphlets, long gownes, that cover the Oxford Levites, that have little Gospel in them, with speares, gunnes and Corslets and Helmets, which the Bishops and Schollers ware at Oxford, being better head pieces than their owne.

But oh what comes out now? the very worst of all, the bottome of bot­tomlesse Popery and cruelty, Heads, Armes, Leggs, feet, and whole quarters of men, women and children butcher'd by the Rebells in Ireland, and heere comes out tongs and Pincers wherewith being heated red-hot, they did pluck the flesh from the bodies of the Protestants; Daggers with which they stab'd the Protestants, and let them bleed to death in their fight, Gridirons whereon they roasted Protestants; with Halters, Clubs wherewith they knock out the braines of Protestants, long Knives where-with they ript Children out of their Mothers bellyes, and cut the throats of many thousand Protestants, Axes, wherewith they quartered Protestants, cutting some into small peices, but the burthen of varieties, of cruelt [...]es which Time hath born in England and Ireland, is insufferable, the Papists Plots and projects innumerable the Malignants ma­lice and pollicy unchangeable; the Kings heart implacable, so that it would be a hard matter for Time to shake all Malignants out of his Sack, he is no small-coal-man, for his sack can never be emptyed, it having no bottom, but is as deep as the Sea of Rome, that have so many that help to fill it with knavery, as Bishops, Malignants rotten Lords, Cavaliers, Pint-pot Preachers, Judges, Law­yers, Country Knig [...]ts, Malignant Majors of Towns, Bristoll, Cottington, Prince Robert Mauris, Lords of Cumber-land, Bath, Southampton, Dorset, Northamp­ton, Devenshire Bristoll, Barkshire, Hopton, Capell, with the Lord Digby, and the Lord Devill, the grand Malignant.