was in Holland, oh how the Kirk's Commissioners sighed, howled,
and snivel'd, for the mis-fortunes and cruelties don to his
Father and himself, and now they can make bold, to hit him in
the Teeth, with the guilt and wicked waies of Himself and his
Father's House.
Then they followed him up and down with Sugar plums
and swret-meats from the Hague to Bredo, and from Breda back
again to the Hague, humbly to beg and intreat, like his most
humble Spaniels, and to bewaile His desperate condition with
the Tears of an Onion. But now that they have gull'd him in,
they put him to the school of Correction, and down go his
Breeches, if hee refuse to obey and signe their odious Declarations.
Then they promised him the Kirk to be his obedient Spouse,
but now shee will have none of him but upon her own Terms:
Shee will not espouse him with his Malignant Parly.
Then they expressed, how ready and open the Arms of the
Kirk were to imbrace him, and made him beleeve they were
well satisfied with his Concessions upon the Treaty at Breda,
and that they would not trouble him with any further Propositions:
But now that they have drawn the yong man in, they
know how to handle him without Mittens, and threaten him,
except he publickly disavow and dis-own His and his Fathers
opposition to the Covenant, and give better satisfaction than
hee hath don, God knowes what will become of him. Alas,
poor Tarquin, whither wilt thou goe! The next Post may tell us
more; because they know how to lay him a sleep with Montrosse,
and with his Fathers: For, it is a Solecisn in Scotland,
that a King should be said to die in his Bed; and (if all Stories
bee true) the State was put to farr greater trouble and expence
upon the hanging of Montrosse, than some were pleased
to bestow upon Tarquin's great grandfather, when they truss'e
him up upon a Pear-tree.
And if this humor hold, then the Quarrell will be no longer
for a King, but purely for a Scotch designe upon England.
Yet, left this pretence of throwing off their King should prove
but a Trick at present, (though it bee sure enough they will cast