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Mercurius elencticus, Number 1, 4th-11th April 1649 E.550[15]

Let the world know, if our successes be
Good (as our Cause) gold pl[unr]ed victory
Shall girt our Loyall brows, and that means
Put rings [unr]th nose of each Croinwelian;
For Charles he and his Myrmidons must weep
Riveless of bloud, till to Cocytus Steep
(There to quasse: molten had it [unr] bonds)
We send their perjur'd, hatefull, fordid souls.
And now the Rebels having cut off their pious Prince, both inverted
and subverted all Law and Discipline, proclaimed their
King Traytor, and (been so impudently devillish) as to declare that
they will kill him (and his Brother) if ever they lay their bloudy
tallons upon them; murthered, imprisoned, and disabled all, (not as
monstrously desperate as themselves) incorporated themselves
with the Military Faction, put the Goods and Lands both of the
Crown and Church to sale, (that so Treason and Sacriledge may walk
hand in hand) designed the ruin of all the Nobillity and Gentry of
the Kingdoms padlock the tongues of all these Ministers, averse
to their damnable proceedings and resolves; Excommunicated all
the learned Justices of the Peace throughout the Land from their
Offices, and in their steads have constituted a heard of pusillanimous,
factious, beggarly Ignoramusses. Now that they have pull'd off
their vizard, and with broad and brazen faces voted, the for ever
abolition of Kings; laid the Lords aside as useless, dangerous, and
dreadfull, bought them a superficiall eringe from the Hugan Mogan
States of the united Provinces, taken all propriety, and not left
the besotted sick braind Vulgar so much as the shadow of Libertie, and
therefore (as jo. Lil: saith Page 4.)in his second part of Englands
new Chaines discovered; now that they have attained their devilli
hends, having mounted on their Masters body to his Throne,
they convert (saith John)their successes and conquests to the advantage of
their Lust, pride and domination having walked hitherto by no rules or
principles either of honesty or conscience but as other Pollititions, have been
governed altogether by occasion and as they saw possibility of making progress
to their designs, which course of theirs they ever [unr] a waiting
upon providence, that with colour of Religion they might de[unr] the more
securely. Now I say, that they have (as they imagine)so surely subjugated
the people, that their lives and estates are at their beck,
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