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Mercurius pragmaticus, Number 49, 3rd-10th April 1649 E.550[13]

the whole Kingdoms is their, s intrusted', for the tyme being, Which
if so they are but Stuards and must be accountable, but Il'e warrant you
let them alone, for if the People should remand their respective members,
it is never their intentions to resigne, for they know they have been
unprofiteble servants, to the whole Kingdome, and can never make an
account of their Stuardship. But by their arme of flesh they will support
themselves in Tyrany,least they he cast into Prison, to lye untill they
have payd the utmost farthing, which they will never be able to doe.
But still ever their intensions have been their pretences were alwayes
fayre, and with the sweete Syrenian notes of promised liberty (say more
then promised, sworne, covenanted and protested) these chanting Rebells
with their charming notes, luld a sleepe the whole Kingdome (as the bewitching
Sirenes do those unskilfull master of Ships, who will harken
to their melodious charmings untill they be forth of compasse, and by
dashing upon somerock or shelfe ther Ships are split and they all drowned)
[unr] these bewitching Traytors, have toared along all unskilfull
people, and not onely them but all the whose Kingdome, untill the power
of their bloody swords have in compassed them and made them Subjects
to the Libidinous-wills of many Tyrants. This is the condition of worldly
men who never satisfied with their owne estates(thes never so happy)
doe still seeke to finde the good content instead whereof discontent is placed,
and the more they strive to fly from him, they are the further plunged
into [unr]. This is the case of selfe-conceited wise men of this
Citty, whoe weary with the government of a King, did resolve to shake
of that [unr]keing thereby to enjoy some extraordinary great happinesse
in altering their State and present government. This value fancy,
run violently through their braines and out of a desire to be more free,
and have greater liberty and knowledge ( like therefore-lather Adam,
when he care the [unr] induced by their severall Eves,who have had too
great a hand in working this alteration)they thought nothing to good
to venture life, goods, estates and even their soules, to obtaine their
desires, but now they finds that the subvartion of Monarchy, and the
setting up Democraticall [unr]tyrany,is become not the good [unr] (which
they have a long sought and gap after)but the good discontent, attended
with division, and probable destruction, wrought by all the band-maids
of war viz, [unr],and [unr].
Now Rebellions, Tyrany appeares in it's coulours, and [unr]ation
[unr] it selfe to my deare Couchold by [unr] of the Citty for now they
may plainly see their [unr] and how they are lost in their [unr],
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