Or rather with a Sacrilegious ACT, pull downe the Sacred Ordinance
of GOD : But shall ye prosper thus in this Hellish Enterprizer,
and will not heaven controul you, and timely step in and avenge the
Quarrell of his Vicegerent? Yes; expect a Julian dart in the midst of
pour Carrier to ceaze you : look for a dismall day, when ye shall
houl for a drop of that sacred Oile of Kingly Unction which ye now
so much despise, to poure into the Wounds of your festered Consciences:
Youl wish for that one day to cure you, which now you take
to be your greatest grievance.
And now would I Vntie a little that cursed LIST, and nick-name
in Order, the severall Judges of that high and mighty Court (to
(speak in Low-Dutch; and in stead of Hartunney's Hebrew Character,
Smutch them round with a Iew's Letter : but I shall spare them
at this time, having not waste Paper enough to give so much as Atkins
a Wipe; Nor indeed need I foul my fingers with them; it being
done already to my Hand. I had thought this week, in stead of a Sheet
of White, to have bought me a Blanket of Browne Paper to have toss'd
these Knaves in; but I am prevented by a pittifull fellow that peeps
out of the Presse last week under the Name of Pragmatticus, with a
Ballad on his Breast for the better sale of the rest, who hath taken
them all by Taile, one by one, till he went through the Flock, and so
let them goe : I perceive they lay in his Stomack a little undigested,
and so gave him an Arethmetick Vonitt, till he had cast them all up,
in the way of Addition (to a broken Page) with a little Cholerick
dash ot'h Gall and Vineger at latter end; and so left the Potion to be
lick'd up by the next deluded Reader : (for shame you should have
burnt your Paper and cover'd your Spew with the Ashes.) But I shall
rather chuse to deal with them in a way of Substraction; cull out the
most scabb'd of the Flock, and lay open to the World their V ulcerous
Soules, which as they fall to my hand, and in the way of my Intelligence,
I shall doe.
But what ? therryou mean to goe on my brave Blades of Steel, and
gallant Gown men in your Deposing Designe, and the Murderous
machination of your KING : Yes, the seat is now done, and
Law and Equity must both give way : the Trayterous Tragedians are
upon their Exit, and poor King CHARLES at the Brinks of
the Pitt; The Prologue is past, the Proclamation made, His Sentence
is given, and we daily expect the sad Catastrophic; and then behold,
The Sceane is chang'd :