thy tutor Jenkins, canst thou finde never a worme-eaten hole in
Magntcoarta, or the Petition of Right, to creep out at, and
save thy neck from noosing; is there not one quick in the reverend
I runk hole of old P yd n to be found for such a Traytors
as thou art to evade the Justice to a tryall? no Then Lord
biverne[unr] y upon [unr] Jack, Let the one and fiftyeth Psalme, and
the lamentation of a sinner be thy study. We that were your
friends had fairer constructions of you, then your merits now
require; we thought that two thousand pounds (thought they
had beene in a shitten clour) had beene a morsell both great
and sweete enough to have stopt your mouth. and not to have
made good the proverb, Adu how [unr] have more? but now we [unr]
that an ambitious heart admits no boundaries and Beggers will
be riding though they run to the Devill, or breake their necks
in the carreire; what! Because you saw the Parliament was
willing to give you somethings, you thought they durst not
deny you any thing; yes John, England is to great a Lordship
to be given at once; so that now Be shazzers doome may be thy
Motto, Mene, Tekel, Peres, which may suffer this interpretation;
Thy dayes are numbred, Gregory is preparing for thee; Thou art
weighed in [unr] ballance and art found a pregmaticall and busie knave
yok'd together with a light witted foole,and not fit for Empire;
and thy Kingdome is departed from thee, and instead of a
Crown, a halter shall be given thee.
So fare well Jack the anther of our stirres;
Abalter [unr] tbee, and thy Levellers.
Good Reader, pardon me, but not fling more at these Vermin,
because being newly entred the Stage, it shall passe for a
preludium to the sequell, and in my next I promise faithfully
and fully to satisfie thy expectations.
It is worth our pitty if not laughter to consider what a
strange and and strong Influence the Moon in her changeables
hath upon the quotidian actings and resolutions of these blind
beetle-headed busie bodies, as if the Sea kept a perpetuall ebbing
and flowing in their braines; one while they will be Levelling,
another while they declare against it; one while they
pretend to make us free and noble and presently binde us slaves
to degenerate principles now they are confident of their cause,
anon they exclaime (as they did at Burford ) as misguided by
Jesuiticall projectors, &c.