[Numb, 1.]
MERCURIUS
ELENTICUS
(For King Charles the II.)
Communicating Intelligence from
all Parts, touching all Affaires Designs, Humors,
and Conditions throughout the Kingdome.
Especially from Westminster and the Head-Quarters.
Beginning Monday April 22. 1649
The Bloody Junctoes at a stand,
for now they fee they have
Almost undone all the Land,
and made each Man a Slave.
Looke to year selves deare Countrey-men,
and for the KING now fight,
Consider of your Portions when
the King shall win his Right.
Gan Devills alwayes rule this Place?
shall we he govern'd still,
By these same wicked Babes of Grace,
that seekes our Bloods to spill.
In Scotland now they fighting are,
to win King CHARLES his Crowne,
For Lives nor Guds they doe not care,
REBELLION must goe doune.
GEntlemen, perhaps you may wonder at the so long silence
of Elenticus, and well you may, when the Joyes of Hells
Feinds are in such abundant mannor, ready to devoure him alive,