That Jew Corbet was set a work this last week to Contrive a
Letter; which must be (according to their old device) intercepted
as going to my Lord Cottington; this Parliament device is so
stale, that I had thought it had been forget by the Juncto, but now
I see in this they are no Changlings: By this they would make the
world believe, That the Loyallists hold complyance with Lilburn and
his Faction, and both Plot to have Billy Lenthal removed from
being Speaker, (very pritty!) and Bradshaw advanced into the
Chair: A very good change I'le promise you for the Loyallists:
Belzebmb would not be half so mischievous to poor Cavaliers as
that impudent Knave Bradshaw: If to remove one Unclean Spirits
out of their Rebellious House, to give way to a Legton to enter, be
a plot of the Loyallists, I am beside my wits; Or if the Loyallists
should so far degenerate from their wonted illegiance, as to joyu,
or side with those very persons as were to Mannage the Charge against
their King (if he had acknowledged their power) were as simple
to think: But what vexes them? the Kings Friends encrease daily
in affection to his Majesty; (and I beseech God to encrease it
daily) yet there in no Possibility of imbodying, although some
endeavours, have been that way, unless the Levellers lead the way:
(is it possible) then off go the Levellers; but what are these Levellers?
why none but the godly party, the ladder that the Rebellious
Juncto have got up to the height of all their wickedness, and
now (being on the top of their preferment) having no further use
of them, would fling them down, and destroy them; when they
have caught the Fish, burn the Nett: but this will not serve their
turns; the Levellers (if they could but unite) are able and fully
bent to fetch them down with a vengeance; but howsoever this
doth still but encrease the flame, and is at best a just judgement of
God, that those that formerly could unite to destroy the King,
should now seek to destroy one another, that so the King might
(at no charge) be rid of two Enemies, which is best or worst, I know
not, but I am sure both stark naught, and implacable Enemies to
Monarchy, the King and Kingdom, what ever they pretend to the
contrary.
These Two are like the Buckets to a Well,
The One but weighs the Other down to Hell.
The dangerous Pamphlet called, The Out. Cry of the Apprentices