Number 1
THE
Irish monthly Mercury.
Fab: 6: 1649
Brave Cromwel (and his valiant blades)
who hath conquer'd King doms three,
And made the War the best of Trades,
and made it like to be.
His Actions' tis I do intend
t' expose unto your view;
Therefore no Muse I need to friend,
nor ought but to speak true.
Jockey's Defeat makes all the earth
abundantly to know Him;
His Fame yet findes a second birth
from Zim, and Gim, and Ohim.
O would he keep but his Command
for one half file of years,
I'd lose my head he'd clear the Land
of Teigs and Cavaleers.
IT is but just that the People should have News for their
Money, and that they should hear, as well as feel the effects
of their Taxes: The Committees have to perfectly performed
the last, that if I do but the first as well, I may as much
merit a share in their gain, as they deserve a punishment for
making any.
But because I undertake his Excellencies Armies progress, I will
run over briefly those principal Occurrences which happened before
I could come to the conveniency of a Press, and henceforth