It is the Old Cavalier interest that comes in now,
clad with a new cloak of the covenant, after the Scotish fashion;
and it comes attended by the Scot, the apostatising
Scot, that will side any way for a thriving voy ge into England.
Let the Presbyterians remember, that though they
laid not the old Tyrant down upon the Block. Yet the young
one Knowes, They were the men that brought him to the
Scaffold, and that they are the old Enemies of this Family;
in which respect he ever bore a mortal hatred to their whole
Faction; and gave a sufficient evidence of it; when hee chose
to joyn with the Irish, rather then with the Kirk party of
Scotland; nor could he be induced to go thither, till his Irish
hopes were blown over, and hee forced thither by pure necessity.
When he was setled there, the same hatred rather
abounded, than abated; for, before Dunbar fight hee did
nothing, would not so much as signe their Declaration, but
by constraint: After the fight, he joyed in the defeat, and
made it his opportunity to defeat and suppress all the Commanding
Presbyterians; banished the more conscientious
from his Court, and transform'd the rest into Cavalier converts,
till at length his own will and Cabinet Councel, gave
Law to all the consultations both of Kirk and State: And
in this posture he would have held them still; if he could have
held Scotland any longer.
But the Country being now (in effect) totally reduced,
and no safe footing to be had there any longer; the next,
and last design of the Tarquins is laid for a Match (or rather
fight) into England, with the Frighted remnants of a moldering
broken Army, without hope, without relief, or any Recruit,
save what shall be offer'd by meet chance or Fortune;
which surely, cannot bee much, as long as men are not mad:
For, we will allow both cavalier and Presbyter so much sens
(were their Spleens never so high) as not to embarque their
Heads and Estates in the bottom of beaten rabble, for the
sake of a Tay called King; who as he first fall'd into Scotland,
so now he is driven out again, by pure necessity. Yet
(for fashions sake) he protends great matters, and playes the
second part of Perkin Warbeck; who once invaded the