both in Church and State; a thing as they
thought, which would make you run the hazard
of the eversion of all your labour and charges.
But this weeks news hath erected their dejected
spirits, and put new life and hope into them again.
Our affairs here at present run after this tenor.
Our good Patriots having a long time found this
State in a declining condition for the worse, full
of ill humors and corruption; but seeing no remedy
to help themselves, being over-awed by
Cæsar and his faction, begin now to play the Physitian,
to administer a strong purge to evacuate
those corrupted humours; and like a good Chyrurgeon,
rather then the whole body should perish,
to cut off those rotten members, that have
laboured to sell and ruine the State. There are
(as we hear) five or six generall States forbidden to
come into Councel, being accused of bribery, wherby
they have acted things very prejudicial to this
State. Some of them are warned to appear upon
pain of forfeiture of their lives and estates; what
course they intend to take with them, we doe not
hear. It's thought if death had not wrung off that
letcherous Bird Muske's neck, the State would have
brought him to another nest, and without great
examination, plucked off his head. However
they will goe near to pluck some feathers off of
his surviving Shee-Muske, who is to be maried to
the rich and fine feathered Peacock Monsieur Paro.
It is said, if any body will come in and witness
to have given any bribe to Muske, he shall have it
made good to them again out of his Estate that he
left to his wise. This purge will greatly stir the ill