opposite to their proceedings, and not yeelding so plausible
an aspect as formerly, whilst Prince Rupert playes Rex amongst
them, which much dulls the royall edge of those Grandees;
and should that City be lost, I shall without taint of malice
boldly cast her blood and ruines, yea the losse of that whole
Kingdome also on the brazen front of Lilburne, and his matchlesse
Make-bairs, and justly set them on their score; for when
both Parliament and Army had resolv'd on their releefe, the
Souldiers unanimously offering themselves a sacrifice for their
redemption; up starts sawcy Jack in the face of Justice, and in
the loud dialect of Billingt-gate, begins to blutter out such
demands as to the Souldiery and whibble such impudent toyes
as to common Liberty, that his faction (some of them being
design'd for Ireland) begins to cry him up with a Vox Dei non bomints,
thinking they had God by the toe, when they had the
Devill by the heele; and instead of obedience to publique and
superiour order, falls to muteny and disorder, even to an open
and hostile rebellion; wh reby the service is retarded, Magistracy
contemned the settlement of our home bred sorrowes
protracted and the whole Land exposed to that expected desolation
which her still crying sins hath so long and so loud proclaimed
against her; so that it is but justice that th s Cataline,
(who knew no way to expiate his former mischiefes but by
attempting greater) should fully taste of that bloody cup he
had intended for another. Prince Charles is now in France, partly
to visite and conclude some matter of importance with his
Mother, partly to prepare his voyage for Ireland, but chiefly
to attone the King, Queen-Regent. Cardinall Mazarine, and
the Parisians; and with all to advance (if possible) the peace
between the two Kingdomes of France and Spaine, that so he
might with more security and advantage play this game for
England
The report of Ports-mouth being revolted was meere tattle, but
no truth; indeed Cornet Joyce that prick ear d prick-lowse and
thymble thread, bodkin-bearer, begins to play like trickes at
Carisbrook, in the Isle of Wight as he did at Hamcky, only there he
carried away the King by force, but in the Island he presumes
to lead the people by the cords of love; but, latet anguis in herbs,
I wish all honest Christians to take heed of such vipers; specious