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Mercurius pragmaticus for King, Number 2, 17th-24th September 1649 E.574[20]

Squirils tayls in the other, thrusting out his long Nose from his shop
and crying, Pray come in and see what you want: here's very good
Child-bed Linnen, a Queen cannot have better; my Lady Cromwel
the other day had two Suits of it for her Daughter that had a mischame,
and came 15 weeks before her time, by taking a fright at the
reading a Letter that came from Ireland; here's old Suits of the Kings
will fit you, and do you honor in waring: here be fine Holland smocks
of the Queens, my wife wares of the very same; Gowns, Hoods, and
Dressings: And thus his Excellence intends to make his Head-quarters
a Market-place, and sell Tom-fools penniworths of the late King
and Queens Goods, and his wife (which is the better Head-piece of
the two) to over-see the Books, and set Prizes on her Commodities;
And seriously, I think it is no such simple trick of Tom to learn a
Trade to live by, here in England, for Trading in other Countries begins
to decay and be very rare, as you may perceive by the News
from Muscovia, that faith, That all English Merchants are Commanded
to be packing thence within a Yeer, in the mean time to sell off
all they have there, and be gon: and not return to Trade any more
there unless in the King of Englands Name, and by his Letters Pattents:
The like (is conjectured) will be from Constantinople, France,
Denmark, Spaine, and all the Kingdoms in the world: so Odious are
the Saints become, that no Nation or People but hate to have any
Commerce or Dealing with them: The very Turk strangling their
Agents, and branding them with the Title of Perfidious Liars: Neither
are they so great Liars, but they have all the rest of the good
quallities that belongs to the Father of Lies; all the Vertues Plutoes
Forge can produce, are as natural to them as Milk to a Calf: All Histories
and Presidents in former ages, of the most barbarous, horrid,
and dishonorable Acts come to light before these times, are but as so
many Types and Shaddows of the Impieties, Murders, and Rapines
acted by these Devils in Saints-skins; O that ever brazen fac'd impudence
should dare to approach the Seat of justice, and in the very
place of publick view where formerly she weighed out to Rebels and
Traytors punishments according to their Crimes; that in that very
place, Rebels and Traytors should take upon them the boldness to
Arraign justice her self, Usurpe her own Seat, and Office; to arraign
and Condemn Vertue, nay the King of Vertues; one that was too
much Christian to be King, and too much King over Himself and
Passions: O unbeard of Impudence! Blush, blush ye Heavens, extinguish
all your Eights; Crack, crack, ye Poles, and tumble all your
Frame into Confusion; that ye could behold such wickedness, and
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