Thus the cock-brain'd Creatures crow for something, but
they know not what, frighing like silly Fishes out of their proper
element, and must [unr] doubtedly perish if not cast againe
into the water, I meane [unr] common stock of vulgarity from
whence they haxe originall For, high talke becomes not
fooles, nor State actions ignobre Peasants; but some will be
staring in the face of the Sun though they be struck blinde for
it. It had been more commen able for Jack Lilburne and all his
fellow troublesomes to have fallen to their Trades when the
great worke of the Kingdome was once finished, and not for
want of employment to blow the coales of sedition, and another
Warre againe; tell the Parliament what they must doe,
and prescribe rules and plat-formes of government to Authority.
Nay, so farre doth passion and selfe end transport them,
that had their late intentions lengthened into actions, they
had flretch'd them beyond all reason and humanity; For at
one of their Cabinet Councells (not yet divulged to the Publique)
this was the result; had they prevail'd, the Generall,
Lievtenant Generall, and all their adherents were design'd for
slaughter; the Parliament must be dismounted or (to give it
in their owne termes) unroosted, and all of them (except H.
M. and his associates) either noos'd or banished; John liburne
should have been made a Gentleman (if they could tell how)
and Lord Paramount, or Dominus fac tolum of the new Plantation;
and all women (except Mother Ougly and her Mawkins) should
have the freedome of community intail'd in unto them, and
their sex till Doomes-day; and then we might boldly sing
Ballads, to the tune of, Up tailes all. O what a holy brood of
free-borne Babes should then have possessed our Canaan, when
the whole Land had been contracted into one Bawdy-house,
and none but an universall community of blessed Lechers,
(Levellers I would say) leaping like Rams the holy Ewes, and
exercising their spirituall tallents or deare Brethren upon the
gifted Sisterhood of new Babilon; it is pitty they had such ill
luck as to breake their necks in the stirrops, before they got into
the saddle; but fierce Cowes have short hornes, their rising
and setting was but one act, some of them jumping into Hell
through loop-holes made into their owne breasts, the conclaves