Numb. 2.
Mercurius Melancholicus.
Communicating the generall Affaires
of the KINGDOME.
Especially from Westminster, and the Head. Quarters.
From Munday January I. till Munday January 8. 1649.
Is there no Balme in Gil'ad, to asswage
The festred wounds of Englands fiery rage?
Are there None skill'd [nl] in physick to apply
A Cordiall aredine to her Malady?
Will these inhumane Rascals never cease
To be disturbers of thu Kingdomes peace?
Haston yee Powers Divine, to send reliefe
To dying England overpress'd with griefe,
Rescue our Soveraigne from the Jawes of Death,
And give the fainting Land a little breath:
Let Fairfax fall with his Rebellious Traine,
And Royal Charles be reinthron'd againe.
OH that I might finde just cause to alter my Title Page, and
bring an lepaan in the front of my Mercury, that my Melancholy
lines might be turned into jovial straines, and i might deliver
glad tidings with a sprightly pen, but in the meane time let
us cloath our selves in sackcloth, and hie into Forrests, Wildernesses,
and desolate places, that we may weepe our fill, and morne without
interruption; Let us rather chuse to accompany our selves with
bruit beasts, then to inhabite among men more bloodily salvadge,
then the fiercest beast: It is safer to trust to the mercy of the beasts
of the Wildernesse, then to these bloody, beastly, perjured dogs,
that sit at the sterne of this Kingdome; men who are the very
slaves of hell, that have overthrowne both Church and State;
Hypocrites, that have dissembled both with God and man; Rebels,
that live upon the spoyle of the Commonwealth; Canibals, whose
delight is in drinking Christian blood; Traytors, that have made
so large a progresse into impudence, that they blush not to brand
their Soveraigne with the name of Traytor, and declare that they