IF you are diſeaſed in your minde (as thanks to the Devil I am at the writing hereof) I am very glad. Theſe are to give you notice, that I am ſafely arrived at my Houſe of Bellew, (praiſed be the Rump) my Daughter is ſomething diſtempered with ſuch a tedious journey, but more afflicted at the breaking off the match with young Lambert. You would do me a great favour therefore in ſending down Dr. Chamberlain, or if he cannot be ſpared from his Synagogue, to pleaſure me with the aſſiſtance of Dr. Dun; he's a Man-midwife, and will ſerve the turn.

But now, good Sir, give me leave to tell you, that I take your la • e doings againſt me very unkindly. Come! had not you better have been under the miſ-rule of a Committee of Safety, that courted your compliance with all the reſpect imaginable, and had deſigned you for a Titulado upon that account? You may remember how ſecure you were during the Tyrannous Arbitrary Reigne of Oliver, and how cautiouſly he demeaned himſelf towards you, and that not out of dread of your honeſty (for he knew you and I were as arrant Rogues as himſelf) but becauſe he was ſenſible the leaſt Diviſion or difference amongſt Rebels would be the Ruine of him and his Deſign: And as the Devil will have it, it hath through your haire-brain'd impudence, juſt ſo fallen out.

Nevertheleſſe, I hope I may, on have occaſion to thank you too, for your intended injury to me; for if I were not fit company for you and your Knaviſh Gang, then I am fit for honeſter company, and I may return to the diſcharge of my Truſt (with the ſame minde and willingneſſe as Richard Cromwell doth his Fathers Funeral Debt) upon the Accounts of a Secluded Member: And I know no reaſon why I may not be re-admitted, for I have deſerved well of this Parliament; for had not my extravagant Counſel • introduced and quickened theſe Commotions, they had been out of Doors as well as my ſelf.

I give you warning therefore that I am coming to Towne, and I will ſit there in ſpight of your teeth, and promote a Vote to ſend you farther than Raby, even to Jamaica; and I believe you will returne me my thanks again, for on my ſeared conſcience you know not whither to run, or where to hide your impudent head.

But what think you Sir of a Volunteer for Dunkirk? get you with a Horſe-pox to Portſmouth, and take ſhipping there, if you can tell how to be let in; do but ſee, Sir Arthur, with halfe an eye, the Tranſitory Pomp of this wicked world, I dare warrant you, they would turn Taile to you, and tell you that you are a Rumper, and highly entertain and careſſe your Worſhip with Turnip tops; and ſend you going with Troops of Curſes to another gheffe Holl than Weſtminſters.

But yet I have ſo much reſpect for you, in my perſonal reflections upon your Merit, that I could wiſh your. Portſmouth-acquired Authority had ſtood: for then I could have oppoſed my ſingle Head-piece againſt all the Plots, and the moſt cunning Devices, the beſt Wits among you could have contrived againſt me; now I know not how to deal with theſe Gameſters, that have ſtood by ſo long, and I am afraid have ſeen ſo much more than we, that we muſt mend our ſight by the Spectacles of a Grate, and wiſh we had had eyes in our Arſe.

Well Sir Arthur, we muſt be fellows in Miſerie, as well as we have been in Miſchief; put in Lambert— and three merry Boyes are we, though queſtionleſſe there are more of us in the ſame pickle; but we three are not onely dip't, but ſouſed over head and ears in it. Pray remember my beſt Reſpects to my Lord Whitlock: You may, if you pleaſe, acquaint Alderman Tichborne, Ireton, and Praiſe-God Barebone with this. I think Fleetwood and Disbrow not worth remembring, but do what you thinke fit. Pray excuſe the trouble I have put you to by the Prolixitie of this; for I could not chuſe but open my ſelfe to You, as the Earth did for Abiram. If theſe Lines be not ſtrong enough, let all the Hempe in London make one for you. Fare ye well.