THE VVelch Embassadour, or the happy Newes his VVorship hath brought to London.

Together with her thirteene Articles of acreements, which her propounds to all her Cousens in her Countries and her Cities to consider of.

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Printed for I. [...]rwood. 1643.

THE VVelch Embassadour.

IT is not uncaknowne to her oworlds that in her time of her Springs, or her summer seasons, her Kings and Princes goe out with her troops and her company to Wars and to pattailes, as in her Low Countries does her cousen her Prince of Orange, and in her King­domes of England her cousen Prince Ruperts with her white Tog, which as her Moderns hold is a Prince disguis'd; and also her owne Countriman prince Griffith who is gone out the Lord caknowes whither, with her troop in her beaten silver and her cold laces; for her thought it requisite and fitting, it being her time of yeare when her mens and her 'omens are hot in her Reines and her p [...]cks, and her motions and her agitations in her members & her ploods, which makes her men goe to wars with her 'omens, and fight with her in her beds till her sweat agen, to send her Embassadors to all her peo­ples and her natives to make her offers and her treaties of peace and attonements before her proceed to her open wars, in which her men shall be sure to get holes in her pates, out of which her wounds shall spring up her hornes in such number that her shall never be cur'd of while her has preath in her podies. And her would have her to take notice and good regards that her Embassadour is a Shentleman of Wales of fery ancient families, of a fery pig and a high house, and her ancestors were with her cousen Noahs in her Arkes, and came into Prittaine with her progenitor Prutes, and was had in creat estimati­on ever since in her welch Mountains. In Winter her has her unca­known pallaces, and in Summer time her has her habutations in her oods and her Mountains, & if her has desire to understand her names, her is cald plaine Cuckows, for her affects no, other titles nor deno­minations then what hath been given to her ancestors. Her cares [...] Ri [...]ing in states or in her pontificalibus, in her Coaches, or on her horses; out her is carried like her cousen Perseus through the avres, and twixt her Heavens and Earths, and takes her journies on her wings; her needs no interpreters, for her understand all her Lan­guages, [Page]& all her Nations understand her when her cryes Cuckows; and so much shall suffice for her descriptions of her persons and her qualities; now her shall proceed to her Articles, and her effects of her Embassage. Her is sent to all Christian peoples, to her Tuckes and her Infidels, her Pagans and her Shews, to let her understand her pleasures, which her has set downe as followeth.

Her first Article of acreements which her propounds is to her men and her wives, that live in her huge creat Cities which is, that her men shall in the time of her Springs provide her backs of Ar­mour of proofs, and have her long pikes which her beares about her in her preeches, well st [...]ld and stiffe on all her occasions when her coes to incounter her wives bodies to bodies, naked or in her Co [...]s­let of her shirts and her smocks in her fields of her peds or her Coa­ches, or her shall be sure her wives will denounce open wars against her, and never acree to peace, till her Embassadour of Wales have come to her houses, and at her doores proclaim'd her Cuckolds.

H [...]r second Article which her offer in the behalfe of her create Princesses, her wives to her subjects her husbands is, That whereas her used in her winter seasons not to firke her Tobies, nip her Nar­divies, smooke her phob [...]sses, tickle her Cuquoques, or which is in her plaine welch English whip her jetros, or [...]ounce her podies: Her must be sure to give her her due benevolence at least twice every night, and once after her dinners called nooning, for her trink­ings betwixt her meales, or her does menace her accustomed p [...]ocla­mation of wars; which is to cry Cuckow to her faces; and her wives doe threaten also to goe to peds to her Iournimen, and her eld [...]st or well-grown prentices, & experience her with one of her forem [...]ns.

Her third Article which her tenders her of peace is, that her hus­bands call her wives sweet Chucks, Honies and Pigs-nies, though her call her Roagues and Rascalls, nay beasts and Cuckolds; that her beware how her use her hands, or often to bestow on her armes or her shoulders her plows or her pastinadoes, though her wives breake her pates with her Ladles or her Skimmers; or if her will not acree to this her Article of peace without her exceptions, her is in all her names to denounce her Husbands open wars and defiances, which shall last till her houses be too hot to hold her, and till her boyes as her walks her streetes use her Embassadours Language, and cry out Cuckows. Her fourth Article is, that as her Spring is fresh & creen as her Leekes or her Onions, her first bee sure to take her wives into her fields and her medowes and give her creen cowns; her must also [Page]provid her new Cloaths (as her cousens in Wales doe her wives once in seaven yeares) and let her be in her fashions or her will set eff her wares and her commodities by retayls to purchase her fine habits & new Garments, which may breed much wars and divisions in her families. Her fifth proposition which her maketh to avoyd civill wars and dissentions betwixt her omens and her husbands is, that her husbands l [...]t her wives have her wills, or her will have it inspight of her teets; that her husbands have no feares, nor her jealousies, nor her misu [...]derstandings of her wives honesty, though her chance to see her in pe [...]s with her friends; for her jealousies as her all caknows are her author of her civill wars; and if her husbands crowe yellow in her hearts and her livers, her Embassador tells her as her friend, that her shall carry her ensignes on h [...]r foreheads, and be stander-bearer to her Cuckows or Cuckolds Her sixt proposition is, that her hus­bands must satisfie her wives appetites and her longings, which her are very subject to in her Springs, when her plood flows in her veins and her arteries, as if her had a mind to have two able mens, one to take her up before, and her other behind, and carry her in her chaires which her call Sedans, to her creat ped at Wares her must suddainly and with all celerities fulfill her pleasures, or it will beget j [...]rrs and prible prables which her shall hardly appease, without creat perill of being transformed as her cousen Ast [...]on. Her seventh Article is, that her must in no wise hinder her wives from going at midnight to her cousens labors, though her imagine her goe to her houses of Hospitality, which her in welch call Bawdy-houses, nor in her mor­nings when her tincle Tankling bells rings from her repavring to her spirituall exercise, with her bretheren in her Conventicles; not must her be so prophane to thinke her is con to her podily Recreati­ons, for then her proclaimes her open wats as an enemy to her peace and tranquility, and worthy to have her name of Cuckows.

Her eighth Article is, that her husbands for beare her Wines and strong trinks, and her wicked herb of Rebeccas, for her strong rinks make her trunks, and causes imbecillitys and disabilitys in the rising of her flesh, and erecture of her members; and her Rebeccas makes her mouths stink like her close stooles or her privys which are be­shitten, such as her all caknowes are very odious and odoriferous in her omens nostrills; if her neglect this her Article, her may kisse her wives blind sheeks as soone as her lips, and for want of doing her drudgery her selves, her shall bee sure to have it done by some of her neighbours. Her ninth Articls for peace is, that her husbands be not [Page]familiar with her Chamber-maids or her Kitchin queanes, nor take her [...]p in her holes and her corners, for that is her absolute preach of peace and will admit none of her reconciliations or attonements till her wives have made her looke out before as does her town pulls, and then her Embassador shall every day twit her in her teeth with Cuckows.

Her tenth Article, wch is the l [...]st her shall propound to her husbands is, that her shall suffer her wives to consume her estates as her pleases, let her keep her Cash and her Coynes, and sheat her of what her lists. Let her have free quarter in all places of her kingdoms, to have as many men as her has minds and appetites to solace her po [...]ies and tickle her concupisence, to winke when her sees her in ped with her friends as at small faults, and then her does testifie that in her ratification and sub­scription to these her ten Articles or Propositions, her shall live as long [...]s her can blow her nose backwards in peace & amities with her wives otherwise if her refuse to set her hands to all or any of these her Articles, her Embassador has full power to renounce & reclaime her open wars and pattailes, worse then those her Country-men had at Keyntons, and the word to give the signall to the fight shall be Cuckows. Her Em­passador has also her treaties and her negotiations with other peoples, and all manner of creatures her has a Message in her first place to doe to all her Sectuaries, which is that other will not let h [...]r haires crowe or weare night-caps, her shall be subj [...]ct to take cold on her beads, that if her will not leave her preaching in Tubs, and her false Dectrines, her shall if her travaile into Spain be burn'd for her hereticks; and her was pid to tell her, her may shance be whipt in E [...]glands, or hang'd in cood times for papbling ou [...] her blasphemies and her sectuaries. Her has a Message or Embassage, cat her as you please to her Cavalliers, that Plunder and take her cousens purses on her Kings High-ways, that if her doe not mend her manners and leave her nimming and her shifts, her shall rec­kon her yeares by her Gregorian account, and finish her daies with a long Psalme at her Callows; for her Embassador is to declare, that Plun­dering is but plaine Burglary or Robbing, it is but the word changed. Her is to denounce open war to all her creat fat Bawds, that buy her young wenches up that come out of Wales and other of her Countries at her Carriers, and sell her firginities, though her have lost them five yeares before with some of her owne cousens, dearer then her doe her welch Runts, if her give not over her Trades; her houses shall bee plun­dered on May Day next by her Prentices, and her bee carried Prisoners in her Carts to Bride-well, her Powdring-tub, or her New-gates, and there her shall lye without Bayle or Maine-prize. Her is to proclaime [Page]all her Taylors Theeves, and all our Bayliffes, Serjeants, and her Yeo­men caknaves. Her is charg'd to doe her Message to all Tapsters and Vintners that her doe not nick her Cans and her Quarts, least her goe to the [...]vell for her measures, and be peaten by her trunkards.

Her is friendlily to admonish all Nations under her Suns to beware least her plead, more then her trinks, that her have a speciall care how her goe to wars one with another, least her get plows and caknocks on her heads an [...] her Cox combs, which may much prejudice her healths and her welfares. Her would wish all her Cousens in her Kingdomes of England to spend no more then her gets or buyes in her Lands, by her Revenues, least her call her foole for her labours, and proclaime her to all the world peggars.

Her is to pronounce her menaces to all her Whore-masters, that her shall dye of her pox, or carry fire in her preeches which shall burne the rest of her podies, if her doe not leave h [...]r whoring.

Her is to tell as her part of her Embassage all her Usurers, that her are tammed to creat king Plutarchs hell, where her shall be kept as safe as her kept her baggs.

Her has as part also of her sharge to proclaime all omens that have pastards or shildren lawfully begotten out of her Matrimonis, and in her Wedlocks, crushes, that is because her let men crush her podies, and in plaine interpretations signifies, that her must give them her appellati­ons of Corkatrices, Giminivers or strikers, or as her ancients terme her in Wales, her Harlots or her whores.

Her must defie all such of her cousens for fooles as weare pables, or refuse mony from her betters, and her must call all her back-biters ca­knaves, her Pimps Panders, her roaring boyes Rascalls, and her Round-heads Russettings.

And this is the effect in priefe of her Embassage, which her has prought out of Mountaines of Wales to all peoples and Nations, and if her refuse to hearken to her treaties her may shuse, and goe hang her selves in her owne Carters, for her neglect of her Vrshipfull Embassa­dor her Cuckowes that will never chance her notes as her fooles now adayes doe her fashions, but justifie her cries and her Proclamations to her whole orlds, as her is a true Brittaine and a shentle-man of Wales.

HER Embassadors Message described,

to the tune of the merry Pedler, &c.
ON a day when Jenkin
Did walke abroad to heare
The Birds rejoyce,
With pleasant voyce,
In Spring time of the yeare;
Proudly and loudly
Her heard a Bird then sing,
Cuckoe, Cuckoe.
The Cuckoe never lins,
But still doth cry so mery merily,
And Cuckoe Cuckoe sings.
Her thought her had flouted
Poore Jenkin with a jeere,
And told in scorne
That the Horne
Should on her brow appeare;
Soundly and roundly
This bird one note doth sing
Cuckoe, Cuckoe,
The Cuckoe never lins;
But still doth cry so merry merily,
And Cuckoe Cuckoe sings.
It is knowne her Country
Doth many profits bring,
Sheepe and Goates,
And cloath for Coates,
And many a good thing;
Cheeses and Freezes,
And that fine bird that sings
Cuckoe, Cuckoe.
The Cuckoe never lins,
But still doth cry so mery merily,
And Cuckoe Cuckoe sings.
Her colour is most comely,
And a Round-head is she;
And yet no Sect
She doth respect
But of her note is free;
'Tis pity,
in City,
That this same bird neare sings
Cuckoe, Cuckoe.
The Cuckoe never lins;
But still doth cry so mery merily,
And Cuckoe Cuckoe sings.
If that she in Cheape-side
Upon the Crosse were seene,
Out of hand,
The trayned Band:
Would come against her in spleen;
Drumming and Cunning,
To kill this bird that sings
Cuckoe, Cuckoe.
The Cuckoe never lins,
But still doth cry so mery merily
And Cuckoe, Cuckoe sings.
Therefore her Embassadour
No Pedler is of wares;
Her hath no pack
Upon her backe,
Nor for no Cuckold cares;
Without feare
Doth jeere,
And in one note still sings
Cuckoe, Cuckoe.
The Cuckoe never lins,
But still doth cry so mery merily,
And Cuckoe, Cuckoe sings.
FINIS.

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