The Triumphs of MONARCHY OVER ANARCHY: Or the Rout of all Rebel-Republicans.
WIth
Alpha and
Omega to
Begin,
Of Monarchs Monarch, of all kings the King;
Doth he not govern all the World alone?
That
Realm's lik'st his, that ruled is by one.
The
Soveraign Power is Forces union;
Monstrous, weak in many; strong, right, in one.
Pythagoras ascribes to
one what's due to
God,
Said it was
Male, and
Female, even odd;
The
King of Numbers, and that unity,
Was the worlds
Soul, and the souls
Harmony:
The Fabrick of the
Grand Hexameron,
Assign'd was to the
Government of
one:
[Page 2] And in that
one the
Understanding seen
As
King, next it the Will doth reign as
Queen.
One
Head rules Soul and Body without
Schismes,
All Figures rise from
one, one makes all
Dismes.
Thus in the body
Politique we see,
One
multiply'd to make a Family;
And
Families makes
Towns, Towns
Cities make,
Both Provinces, whence Kingdoms being take.
All Powers, Force, Counsel, in Immortal Man
Call'd
King are joyn'd; what they cannot he can.
David must stay, not go to th' Camp to fight,
His life's
worth Armies, Israel loves her light.
That is the best you'l grant of
Governments,
Which
Gospel brought, and keeps where most dissents,
But such no
Major Vote or States call'd free,
To fix in
Brittish Isles could e're agree,
For still the
Major part hath prov'd the worse,
And would be rul'd by
Juda's sword, and Purse;
Betray the Truth, Religion, Innocence
To fools and slaves of
Wilwispt conscience.
How was it then you'l say in
Holland seen?
'Twas thither brought by
Nasau, and our
Queen.
First Kings rejected
Popes through Christendom,
Else they had rul'd all till the day of
Doom.
Those
Raging Waves the giddy multitude,
Like to themselves, have principles most rude;
They hate sound truths,
Dote upon Novelties,
Hunt for new lights, although they be old lyes.
They'r fierce for
Liberty of Conscience,
Satans chief ordinance, 'gainst God, Truth, Sense▪
Who e're saw Storms, Lightnings, Thunders, Legion
Of
Devils, but in Aires
Lowest Region?
[Page 3] The
King-fish hath no foes but the
Sword-fish
And
Thrasher; that good Kings had none I wish;
Then
Brittains bless the Lord from Pope and Sect,
Who hath you freed by
Princes six select.
O Europe
praise Jehovah King of Kings,
Who Kings you gave, who Gods pure word you brings:
By him they rule, he gives them Crowns and Birth,
And under him they'r th'
Atlas of the earth.
That Protestants should boast, could Foes abide,
Th' had
Europes greatest
Monarch on their side.
One o'th best works for's
Church our God could do,
Let's daily drink of
Praise one cup or two.
Now he may make King
Charles the Corner-stone
As ever
Brittain rul'd, of as high Throne:
But
Bankrupt States, like Brokers base were bent,
To patch their
Crack't States, though three
Realms they rent.
They acted were by our vvorst Foes and
Rome,
To bring our
King and
Kingdoms to their Doom.
Where most perfections meet in one, such things
As much excells as
Diamonds brass Rings.
Thus the worlds Soveraign, Angels doth excel,
More then
Heaven, Earth, Men, Beasts, which here do dwell.
Thus
Souls the body, bodies that are mixt
Surmount the
Elements in one place fix't.
All
Creatures sensibles and
Rational,
Surpass the sensless and meer
Animal.
Ashwerus Medes and
Persians their Kings call,
That's Sovereign power in one
which can do all;
So sure as their Law,
Monarchy sole Heir
Of Governments; the rest but
Bastards are;
[Page 4] Desired Accomplishments meet all in this;
All Powers, Force, Vertues, do each other
kiss.
The two Estates did make so much ado,
All with
Pythagorists Curse number two.
New Lords, new Laws, new Gods, nevv
Troubles bring
As was in
Layish Israel, when no King;
And in the
Persians five dayes liberty,
Which made them love their
Kings, hate
Anarchy.
So when we had a thousand Kings and more,
As many
Jarrs, who should be
King them o're,
They tyr'd us all, and made us loudly
thump,
And cry,
God save the King, and hang the Rump:
Since quietly in
Brittain, France, and
Spain,
Yea through the world
Dead Kings revive again,
And one succeeds the other with much ease,
Death one
Uncrowns, the other crown'd in
peace.
O King of Kings,
whilst Sun
and Moon
doth reign,
Let's ne're want Kings to guide
King Charles his Wain,
And may he live thrice o're his years again.
What is a
Commonwealth, but common woe,
Where each mans wealth's made common unto moe?
A Common-wealth's a Common Lottery,
Where fifty
Blancks for one good chance we see.
A Common-wealth's a Common Weathercock,
Which
whirles about with every winde and knock.
Whilst
Phaebus past twelve signes i'th
Zodiack,
As many changes nigh made
Brittains Quake.
When
Lords were all cashiered, and
honest men,
None left but
Fools, and
Slaves, and
Traytors then:
What was a Commonwealth but a
Fragment,
A Scrap, Fagg-end, a Rump of Parliament!
[Page 5] 'Tis a false
Mirror cannot represent
The peoples
understandings, wills, consent.
A
Bedlam Babel; what do you call it,
Where
Rowlands will is rul'd by
Randals wit?
And such as have nor t'one, nor t'other,
Are rul'd by the
Whimsies of another;
When many go to Feast, or Funeral,
From the vote
Major, Minor carries all:
Then Commonwealth's
a Common Juglers Box,
A Hoca, Poca, Major, Minor Vox.
A
Commonwealth's a state
Hermophradite,
Where
He's by day vote,
She's unvote by night.
Democritus laughs into a
Horaclite,
To think for mastry how
she-States did fight.
Nay, what's a
Common-wealth, but
Common Whore?
With
Nobles Honors prostrates to each
Boor.
Our
Common-wealth it was a
Common Pander,
To
Sects and
Factions, which about did wander.
A Common-wealth's
a common Pestilence,
Where
Passions vote 'gainst Reasons
Common sence.
That ours was
Ante-Christ who can deny,
Whose
Horns gor'd Christ, whose
Heads did him defie?
Mark what
Greeks said of
Greece, who saw't flourish,
When Kings
Greece rul'd, by
many rul'd perish.
When first these
Fiends of Hell, you guess their names,
By
Greeks we're
courted like two
Cyprian Dames;
The
Nations round jear'd
Greeks which fear'd their fames,
Scorn'd
Greece, when
Greece burnt
Greece with civil flames.
[Page 6]
By Fiends
are meant Free-States, and Common-wealth;
Since these Greeks rul'd, we
Trojans had no health.
Our Rulers
Bedlam Regelments by moe,
Teem'd with as mad
Effects as e're brought woe;
Then worst of
Rebels is
Republican,
Though Independent, Presbyterian,
Where e're had
Zimries peace against their
Masters,
Who 'rose and fell not by some sad disasters?
Hence let no new
Sectarian Schelies
Lead you to
Traytors Dire Ends, and Follies.
The world a
Chaos were of huge variety,
Wer 't not to order brought by
Monarchy:
Jah ruleth all, the Angels
Michael,
Who all the Rebels cast from Heaven to Hell.
The
Sun rules Stars,
Sphears, Sphears
Imperial,
All
causes end in one, the cause of all.
In the
Malignant Church false
Heads we see,
I'th Militant Triumphant, one must be;
All
Arts are
Handmaids to Theology,
Whose wonders men and
Angels stupifie;
All
Books but empty
Pamphlets are to it,
Which
God hath spoke, and with his finger writ:
In Fire,
in Air, Earth, Water,
and in Hell,
The
rule of one doth sway and bear the
Bell;
Fire above
Air, Air
Earth, earth waters fix't,
Gives life, and doth consume all bodies mixt.
Ducks have their
Drakes, Cranes have their
Kings they say,
All feathered Creatures their
chief Males obey,
But o're them all the
Eagle bears the sway.
Base Locusts, Grashoppers, Insects,
and Flies,
Who have no King, by their
confusion dyes.
Others live long, as th'
Ant and
Royal Bee.
[Page 7] A
Guard who keeps, lives,
dyes in Majesty.
Their Hives, Walls, Combs, Cities, Holes, Houses
are,
Stings are their
Arms, one rules in peace and war.
O're Papers Venice, Brown, Lombard, Horn, Demy, Royal,
Cap,
super Royal, Perial, Imperial.
Heards have their leaders,
Rams their flocks of Sheep,
All Beasts to th'
Lion, like
Jackals do creep.
O're Stones the
Carbuncle, o're Mettals
Gold,
Of which
Kings Crowns are made, for which they'r sold;
O're all the scaly Monsters in the Sea,
The
Whale's the
Tyrant, him they must obey.
By
Nereus sons, when caught in
Greenland sound,
Leviathan's priz'd at five hundred pound.
The
Basilisk a Crown on's head doth wear,
To shew o're
Serpents he doth
Domineer.
O're every sort of creature
Kings to fit,
Requires a
Tome, their
Nomenclators wit;
Each Master rules as
Monarch Politique,
His Children; Servants
as King Despotique.
One
entire Nation in the
world throughout,
O're it be
Kings, if you can finde without.
If you'l believe
Saint Hugh who pearcht in tub,
He was in
Hell, there's but one
Belzebub.
Thus from the highest
Heavens to the lowest pit,
The worlds
Grand Monarch, Monarchy hath writ
In his vast
Volume of the world, that here
Men might their
God, and his
Vicegerent fear.
That none might
Witchcraft of
Rebellion draw,
From
Devils presidents, and call it
Law:
Since
Michael down from
Heaven those Rebels threw,
Shew me one
Rebel thriv'd of Rebels crew.
[Page 8] By all the
Laws of
God. our
Charlemain
Is plac't in's Throne, obey your Sovereign.
Mark how our
Statists natures Course pervert,
When they the
rule of many would assert;
Suppose more
Gods than one to rule the world,
It soon to
Antique Chaos would be hurl'd.
Were Satan, Gog,
and Magog, heads
oth' Kirk,
If
Christ help not with Saints, they'd make mad work.
Parelii shone whilst
Edward Fourth did fight,
Paraselenes did the
Romans fright;
But rul'd so many
Suns and
Moons i'th sky,
You wonld believe
Doomsday vvere very nigh.
Make Pompey's Rivals
in grand Cesars Thrones,
Millions they'd turn to
Skulls, and dead mens bones.
Priests in each Tovvn set many Sects to preach,
The vvayes to
Hell sooner then
Heaven they'l teach.
Of many
Doctors, Patient be at cost,
Take all their
Physick, sure thy
life is lost.
To many
Lawyers put a doubtful case,
'Tvvill look like
Barred Pictures Protean face.
Who loves a rule by many let him try,
He shall have plagues enough in's family.
Set
Generals o're each army tvvo or moe,
They'l thrive like ours vvho did to
Hayty go.
Three
Colonels each
Regiment lets loop,
Four
Captains to each
Company and
Troop,
Five
Admirals in chief one
Fleet command,
Ne're shall
Victoria light upon their hand.
Siz
Pilots set o're every Snip you have,
Then Port in Seas they'l sooner finde a Grave:
Seven
Lords t'each
Mannor, t'each Family,
Eight
Husbands to one Wife as vvell agree.
[Page 9] Nine
Heads t'each body, such a comely sight,
The
Devil out of's wits perchance would fright.
Ten
Rams, Bulls, Bucks, to lead your
Herds and
Flocks,
Would
Horn each others pate, with
bloody knocks.
Fancy there were in each
Hive eleven
Kings,
A cruel
Fight you'd see with deadly stings;
Twelve
Cocks o'th Game set free out of your pens,
They'l fight till death for
Lordship o're your Hens.
Thus
topsie turvey they the
World do turn,
And all the
Creatures which at
Monarchs spurn.
These
wilde Conceits like their mad rules th' have left
Them,
Skip, Bear, Steal, I'le answer for your theft.
In all the world shew me one
Commonwealth
Without a
Sovereign Power had peace or Health,
Acted by
Artificial Kings and men,
Or to a
Babel all return'd again.
What did our
Slaves States do in twelve years space,
But
Sword mens wills o're those in
highest Place?
Without
Chymerian Kings was no conclusion,
Unless in jarring,
Factions, and
Confusion:
If such with
Native Kings you shall compare,
You
men, they
Kings in cloth of
Aras are;
Then are
Republicans the worst of
Traytors,
May
Cities Gates yield unto such
Heads, Quarters.
Kings but in
Nonage have Superiors;
Assemblies ever are inferiors
To Consuls, Projectors,
and Dictators,
To Generals, Presidents, Prolocutors;
Thus had the old
Lacaedemonians
Their Ephori,
Censors th'
Athenians,
And
Cosmosses the
Carthaginians,
Tribunes
the Romans, Doegs
the Venetians:
[Page 10] These rul'd
the roast under some feigned
name,
And us'd more rigor, power with
Kings the same:
And wheh these slav'd
Estates were put to shift,
They set up Kings to help at a dead lift.
Thus Romans boast their
Scipio's, Fabius,
Hated as were
Camillus, Manlius,
Athenians, Thrasibulus, Pericles;
Theb's, Epaminondas, Thucydides,
With many others who have their Country
As Kings who rul'd, when States had them enslav'd.
States
Mongrils like do run, when Wolves draw near,
But
Mastiffs fight, so
Kings when Foes appear.
Then needs must States yield unto
Monarchy,
Which in great'st troubles is their
Sanctuary.
The creatures of Assemblies were for aye,
Vast in their numbers, greedy for their prey;
To borrow all they could they licenese had,
Protected ne're to pay, to promote trade:
But Kings have
Mordecays, Josephs, who bring
As Kings to them, like profit to their King.
But our
Grand Hydra swallow'd Steeples down,
Churches, Delinquents Lands, and those o'th Crown,
To keep their
Crowd of Saints Lives and Estates,
Of a full
Million felt disastrous fates.
Cart loads of Coyn twice more they did divide
Then
David for the Temple did provide:
'Tis easier, cheaper for's to maintain one
Then thousands, which brings mischief, good to none.
Slave States are but the fragments of some Nation,
Drove into
Holds, and
Forts for their
Rebellion.
How can they
Grandeur either get or keep,
Like sneaking
Eunuchs which in holes do creep.
[Page 11] By marriage they can ne're as
Monarchs thrive,
A wonder 'tis by shifts they hated live;
But Kings more
Kingdoms do by
Venus get,
Then all
Free States by
Mars i'th
world have yet
More
Realms, Isles then the
Royal house of
Spain.
Or
Austria by their
Queens, our Kings did gain.
Some twenty Kings long canton'd
Brittish Isles,
Mars gave them not King
James but
Hymens smiles,
O're
Spain John of Gauuts Daughters heirs now Reign,
Our Kings by wedlock are heirs of
Brittain,
Normandy, Poictou, Anjou, Aquitain,
All
France; in
Paris shall be crown'd again,
When they their
Lions, Harp, and
Flowers in
France,
With Arms
ne're Conquer'd shall through it advance.
Our
Kings have on their side
God and all right,
Which makes our mens like
Lions in their sight:
The
French like
Lillies pale it doth affright,
That
five to
one of ours they ne're durst fight:
Did they e're Battle win these thousand years,
Unless with Scotch, Swisse, Mountaineers,
Normans, Higlanders? and when five to one,
Small numbers oft subdu'd their Nation;
This truth to clear we need no Tomes recite,
But
Agincourt, and
Cressy, Poictou Fight:
Alas poor sneaks, when e're we them assail,
We needs must conquer, now their old friends fail,
The
Pope set
York and
Lancaster by th' ears,
Which lost us
France, brought
Wars, and seas of
tears;
Else all were ours w'had nigh five hundred years,
So long the world the
Englishmen did fear,
And thought that they the
bravest Nation were.
[Page 12] Had our King all of
Kings and
Queens as heir,
Most Potent Prince in all the world he were:
King Charles had with his
Queen strong Towns so rare,
The next to them the names of
Kingdoms bear;
Besides, her
Dowre then many
Queens was more,
Her
Grace, Parts, Vertues, tentimes worth that o're.
Thus all our
Noblesi Families do rise
By
Nuptial Bonds, which States to States fast tyes;
True Lovers Knots tyed by Gods Hand and Word,
Faster joyns Crowns and Lands, then
Caesars Sword.
If we so fast as
Spain and
Dutch Lands take,
Our
Mars and
Venus soon great Realms may make
Of Mighty Princes;
'tis best Husbandry,
Their swarms of Poor well planted out to see;
To th' body Politique
more sad events,
Then
natural to void no
excrements.
Marriage five Crowns
in one for us doth blend,
And may
five more if God them
please to send:
Fly Capon Commonwealths, love
Monarchy;
Court not gelt States, hate
Bastard Polarchy.
Brittain by Kings, and Queens by Kings grew great
With Kings and Kingdoms, States a Hell hatcht cheat.
But since our zealous States plead Text, and Faith,
Mark what for
Kings 'gainst them the
Scripture saith;
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews,
And
Gentiles too, as Sacred Writ you shews;
In whom vvere all the
Prophesies made good,
Which e're vvere made to
Judah's line and blood:
As he by
Priests his
Laws to men doth teach,
So o're the
world by
Kings his
raign doth reach.
Kings are his lively Image, his
Vicegerents,
Who best his
Power and
Glory represents.
[Page 13] Since Christ's the
King of Kings, of Lords
the Lord,
Then Anti-Kings are
Anti-Christs by th' word.
God promised to
Abraham Kings of's
[...]eed;
Of his svvorn truths vvorld you make lyes? take heed:
And
Kings and
Queens unto his
Church he'd raise,
Fathers and Mothers to its good, his praise;
And
Kings to
Judah vvere the greatest bliss,
Jacob foretold; That them ye hate, vvhence this?
Balac said
Balam blest, vvhen
Kings to
Jews,
Like
Agags, Unicorns, Lions he shevvs,
And that the shout of Kings vvas in their
Camp,
No Foes Inchantments could them ever damp;
God vovv'd that
Israel should live secure,
Meaning vvhilst native
Monarchs did endure:
With greatest blessings he
Jesuron foster'd,
The chiefest vvas they to a
Kingdom prosper'd.
VVhen Kings had
Kings their Heirs, the
Jews confess,
That
God did them above all
people bless;
By this the
Kings and
Sheba's Queen did prove,
That he did them above all
Nations love:
Kings strongest
motives in
Gods Writ Divine,
To goodness vvear? he'd
Crown Kings of their line:
No Princes vvickedness did void
Gods Oath,
Nor can
absolve from our sworn
Faith and Troth:
As his, so ours was sworn to th' Royal Line;
We're perjur'd against
Heirs if we combine.
For Kings by
Gods Povver,
Rule, live, dye; and vvhen
He's pleas'd, he hath done vvonders by levvd men:
Our valiant Henrys, Edwards, Richards
face
Who darst, vve leave their
Vertues to Gods Grace.
If Crovvns from vvicked Kings Subjects might take,
Mad vvork i'th vvorld as oft it did, 'tvvould make:
[Page 14] VVhy then vvas
David unto
Saul so tender,
VVho for revenge true Loyalty did render?
He
darst not touch
the Lords Anointed;
Many
Rechabs vvere for this disjoynted.
Unkinging Kings to
Jews brought dayes of doom;
Such
Papal Facts, like fruits to
Christendom.
Of bad Kings this sharp Rock Rotation,
Though for a good, oft splits a Nation:
Balam, Saul, Judas, told truth as the rest,
So have levvd Kings
conqner'd and
reigned best.
VVhen God allovvs not vvords, bad thoughts of heart
Against his Kings, lest
Angels them impart
To Subjects vvo, that they may plagued be,
VVho dares resist
Royal Authority?
The
Jews and Gentiles
Restauration,
Began vvith
Christ his
Coronation;
The Sacred VVrit him sets on
Kingly Throne,
As oft as to the
World his
glories shovvn:
By Kingdom he presents his
Dearest Bride,
VVhen she in
Chariot pav'd vvith love doth ride.
But vvhen his
Bow against her he doth bend,
He threats t' uncrown her,
and her Scepter rend:
And vvas not this of all his
plagues the vvorst
To his
Beloved, vvhen of him thus curst?
This, this to
Jews stands for a lamentation,
Sign of Gods vvrath, their utter desolation:
Praised be his name,
Zanzummims han't their vvill
VVith vvorst of vvoes, three Kingdoms vvho vvould fill.
That our King vvears his
Scepter, Sword, and
Crown,
Th'
Emblems of
Power, of
Empire, and
Renown,
And may his
Heirs till
Sun and
Moon go dovvn.
[Page 15] You see how highly God and
Scriptures Rate
Kings, Titles, Honors, Orders,
Royal State,
Sets
Monarchy all
Governments above,
Whereby he rul'd from
Moses time his Dove.
Then let none
dare who
God or
truth do love,
Against their
King or
Kingship Traytors prove;
But them obey for
Gods and
Conscience sake,
That he them blessed may, not
cursed make:
But if to murmur
Rebels be so bold,
Let's in Gods word their Rise and Fall behold.
Rebellion first began in Heaven, thence fell
The
Dragon and his
Angels down to Hell.
All sins abridg'd in disobedience,
By which
man fell from state of Innocence,
Fot which he was expelled from
Paradise,
And from the
tree of Life of unknown price.
The Serpent for Rebellion licks the dust,
Women in pangs brings forth men,
Earth's accurst.
Cain was vagabond i'th Land of
Nod;
Rebels to
Prince and
Parents, hate of God.
The old
world crowned chiefly was for this,
Five Cities burnt with
Fire, which did amiss;
Aaron and
Miriam smote with
Leprosie,
Because their
Soveraign Moses they defie.
Of
Corahs company the word of truth
Shews fifteen
thousands sad and direful
ruth.
Five Kings did fall by
Chederlaomer,
And King
Hosea fell by
Shalmaner;
Abimelech
and Sechem
with Gaal,
By mutual
Treasons got their utter fall.
A Fire came from the
bramble which did burn
That
Rebel Town, and made of it one
urne.
[Page 16] When
Sheba's head was
Joabs, then they went
From
Abels Town each man unto his tent.
Did
Absalom or
Adonijah thrive?
They thousands spoil'd, more pardon left alive.
Re
[...]bah and
Banah who their
Soveraign slew,
David their hands and feet expos'd to view:
Sad
Fate o'retook that line,
sons of
Nebat,
Whose
Calves for ruine soon grew
Bulls full fat.
Ahab his sons and
Queen came to disaster,
And had false
Zimri peace, who slew his
Master?
No, for he kill'd King
Ela, felt Gods
Ire,
Him
Omri forc't with the Kings house to
Fire.
Though
Jehu to his work was call'd by
God,
Justice and Mercy
kist and burnt the
Rod.
Manahem
slew Shallum, Zachariah,
As
Hoshea slew
Peka, who kill'd
Pekaiah,
So
Ammons Servants, who their Master kill'd,
Were slain when good
Josiah his place fill'd.
Queen Athaliah slew the Royal Seed,
And rul'd until their Wounds made her to bleed.
Joash his slaves slew him, he
Zachariah,
But they were all slain by
Amaziah.
The Books of
Kings, more foes to
Kingly Race,
And many
Traytors to sad ends do trace;
Besides their
Armies which in battel fell,
Without remorse it
knoles your pass to Hell,
Amend,
repent, so live, and so
dye well.
Though Sacred Writ we value most of all,
Each
History is full of
Traytors fall.
Each
Age and
Country shevv sad
Presidents,
Of
Rebels Fates, to force them to repent.
[Page 17] Two hundred thirty cursed Plots and Treasons,
'Gainst Kings and Kingship without all reasons,
We since the
Normans times and Reigns have seen,
But th' authors of them still have hanged been;
And so must they who dare to shew such tricks,
For they against Gods Laws and men do Kick.
What is become of those conspir'd the death
Of
Englands Mother, call'd
Queen Elizabeth,
And for their Countries ruine close did wait?
Let
Spain and
Papists think of
Eighty Eight,
Of those King, Queen, Prince, States,
and Parliament,
To blow up with three Kingdoms did consent.
How hath this
Island Reel'd in her own blood,
Of troubles, twenty years o're ran't a flood!
Rebellion hath the
Scots of
glory stript,
And
Ireland strangely, for it hath been whipt,
By wondrous means and by a
Rebel Rout
Of
Martin Markings, and
Marprelates stout:
See their
Heads, Quarters, o're the
Cities Gates,
All
Rebels are destin'd unto such
Fates.
The Sacred Trinity with one consent,
And Scriptures prove, this the best Government.
The
Champions nine fought all for
Monarchy,
None lov'd
Kings more then sisters
three times three.
The
Jews had but confusion, nothing
In
Israel, when time was there was no King.
Moses as King did in
Jesuron raign,
Judges and Kings had the power Soveraign,
Till
Shilo▪ came, who rules as
King of Kings,
And under
Monarchy all Nations brings;
Prophets, Apostles, taught's to love and fear,
Them to obey; pray for, not scoff, or jeer.
[Page 18] The
Persian sages after long contest
Of Arguments prov'd
Monarchy the best.
Mecaenas
and Agrippa
told Augustus,
Your
wise men all, chuse
one, else ne're trust us.
For
Kings our Brittains who were stout and wise,
Ventred their fortunes, or have lost their lives:
So all our
States-men could say
Boh t'a Goose,
Which voge
made them Leards of the other House.
Great Alexanders
Master Aristotle,
Bias who carry'd all in's
Bag and
Bottle,
And all the rest of the wise men of
Greece,
Said one
Rul'd all, as Gander rul'd the
Geese,
That if there were i'th world one
Mome or
Goose,
Lov'd many
Rulers, let him try't in's
house:
And in such
peace and
order he should dwell
As Locusts do, worse then the
Fiends in Hell.
Old
Philo saith as
Kings o're all we see,
And God o're them, so Nations ruled be:
Thus stood for one the wise
Pythagoras,
As for
black Snow did
Anaxagoras;
So all the rest as
Homer, and
Dion,
With Plutarch, Seneca,
and Zenophon;
So did Theodoret, Basil, Cyprian,
Chrysostom, Austin,
and Tertullian:
All Counsels, Fathers, Latine, Greek,
Which were most godly, learned, grave, and meek;
There's scarce one School Boy but doth know it,
How Kings are prais'd by every Poet;
How
Homer, Virgil, and each
Poet sings
The noble deeds of
Mighty Queens and
Kings:
Thus Armies
great of Pen and Inkhorn men
I might produce to
tyre your sight, my
Pen.
[Page 19] For honest knowing
souls too much; for fools
They ne're will
learn, till taught in
Gate-House Schools.
That
Regelment's the worst which sowes the seeds
Of
sects, and
Factions and
Seditions breeds,
Which points the way to
Moles and each base lown
To creep through
Heads of
Factions to a crown,
That
Tyrants and poor
upstarts many more
Then we could bear, or keep us placed o're,
Which
Tygers, Wolves, and
Foxes manifold
Allow'd, by whom
Nations were bought and sold,
Which kept us all in daily
doubts and fear
What
Rule and
Rulers we should have each year;
Made strangers far and near refuse our trade,
Because they thought all
Rebels are stark mad,
Which cry'd with
Harlots lewd, Divide the child,
Such Mothers
Brittain lately did beguil'd;
Which
noblest men, and
Mindes, and
Clerks despight,
And in the
Scum of Sects and
Folks delight:
Which of each
Draggons Tail, and Hell-bred Faction,
Projects and
Acts for
Toleration;
Which vote free
Denizons for their base ends,
Turks, Popes, and
Jews, and the infernal Fiends,
Which coyn'd
Engagements, Vows, and
Oaths so fast,
That millions were forsworn or first or last:
Nurses so many,
mock-controwlers, sects so lewd
As fill'd each
City, Town, and house with fewd,
Which doth confound High, low, wise, fools, rich, poor,
Arms Slaves
'gainst Masters, shuts them out o'th door;
Which like to Comets poyson did distil
To all below, and them with Plagues doth fill;
Or like
Saturnal Planets in their Sphere,
The higher
still the more
Malignant were,
[Page 20] Which
lickt the
Cub of
Reformation,
Till
Love, Faith, Truth were out of fashion;
Which kept the people in
blinde Ignorance
Of
Fundamental Truths, as in a
Trance.
O sad that
one-in hundreds scarcely knew
What each one's sworn to;
Church by States thus grew;
The first
Imperious teacher of a lye,
By such
(dark souls) was ever most set by;
That
Priests and
Parents all should teach an
Act
Was fram'd by some, the most deny'd the fact;
'Twas
Ignorance and
Sects let in the
Turk
To
Asia, Greece; like
Crimes, like Plagues will work.
Wo, wo, wo, wo, to Christians who profess
Christs Laws, then his
worst Foes yet knovv much less,
Which did destroy like Fiends vvithout all fears
All Saints
good works,
of fifteen hundred
years;
Though but half Crowns Gods portion to them yields
They sold it all to buy the
Potters Fields;
Which make men covvards like the heartless Hen,
Hence all States fight by
Mercenary men:
VVhen our stout
Henry's, Edwards, fought vvith
French,
Did they not soon make foes, though millions, slinch?
An hundred times they made the
Scots and
France
To quake, vvhen they began their
Martial Dance;
But our
States Soldates did vvhat ne're vvas done;
Ten thousands from one troop of
Negroes run,
VVhereby they millions lost a golden
Town,
VVith it vvorlds richest
Isle, and their
Renown.
Of
Artificial men sans souls a crovvd
Are
States, vvhich name all
Villanies doth shrovvd;
For there's not one hath
Conscience, Reason, Faith;
All's publick, and not
private each one saith.
[Page 21] That
Government without all doubts the worst,
Which is the great'st
Plague for sins accurst,
Which is such
ugly Monster, full of shame,
That
Anomos in Scripture is its name;
Rac't out o'th
Calendar all Holy dayes,
That
Gods, Kings, Saints works none might do or praise.
Most fearful Fates surpriz'd their rotten bones,
Who
Souldiers, Cripples, Poor reliev'd with stones.
God makes men great for
Thousands good; State
Elves,
Careless o'th poor, cry'd, Ah, ha, ha, for selves.
Were every twig a
Pen; Earth, Paper; Seas, all
Ink;
Men could not write
all Crimes of States I think.
That's the
Best Rule which all distempers cures
In
Church and
Realms, keeps them, their
health secures,
Which to our sinking
Ark, like
Noahs Dove
Brought
truth, and
Peace, and th'
Olive Branch of love,
When both our
Isles were tost like
Ship on Seas,
Charles hush't all storms, and they in
calms did cease,
Which makes them like one
Cornucopia,
In plenty excell
Scicily, Candia,
Causeth these
Isles of
Dogs, or
Devils nam'd,
With proudest
pieces of the world be fam'd:
When foes would quite destroy our Nation,
Blur our high deeds and reputation;
Takes care that
Neptunes sons like lacky boyes
Tread on
Sols heels, without all foes annoyes:
With us the
Nations trade, if
Charles agree,
Which
Sun, or
Moon, or
Poles, or
Stars do see,
Where Justice mixt with Mercy, doth abound,
Vinegar in sweet
Grapes opprest, is found;
Where
Courage mixt with
Faith, and
Love, not fears,
To pluck the prey out of the paws of
Bears;
[Page 22] Where no good useful man
preferment lacks,
As most of late did under
Mushroom facks;
As
Phaebus light imparts to every
Star,
So
Charles gives
Honors to worth near and far,
Which purges Locusts and Caterpillars,
And such as are to
Kings and
Realms ill-willers,
To th' body
Politique as sad events,
As
natural, to void no
Excrements:
If fifty years Goal-birds had been sent o're,
Kingdoms and
Isles we'd had as many more:
Thus when the
Gardiner evil Plants doth weed,
He findes much better grow good
Plants and
seed;
Which care doth take the poor abroad to plant,
Lest thousands dye with
hunger, cold, and
want;
VVhich makes all people learn the
Truth,
VVant of such
knowledge is a
Kingdoms Ruth;
God and
King Charles this work may bring to pass,
Do more in it b'our
Kings then e're done was.
To
know and to
obey's pure
Reformation,
This
learn't and
done, makes glorious
King and
Nation.
The Spirit calls knowledge the
Key of heaven,
VVith Grace, Obedience,
it souls doth leaven;
Sermons won't do't, nor VVardens much forsworn,
This work is Gods,
Gods must lead the forlorn.
That rules the best which longest doth endure,
All these good things performs,
States faults doth cure;
No Star so bright i'th sky, but hath its spot,
To have no fault is
Gods, no
Creatures lot:
And let Jehovah Thunder,
or Rain,
or Shine,
He can't please all, nor
Kings, though
men Divine.
You'l say 'tis Verrue Crowns
Kings Governments,
Then happy we in ours to all intents;
[Page 23] His comely presence, meekness, majesty,
Do
Adamantine lustre far out-vye;
If to be highly born it is great bliss,
VVhat
Prince for
Birth may you compare with his?
If
Heirs are blest of God,
Usurpers curst,
From
Brute, what
King had title e're more just?
If wise men
Princes Marriage much look on,
Behold his
Queen, the worlds chief
Paragon.
Great Charles the Second
is of our Kings
first
By's
Queen t'each part o'th
world, whose rule doth thrust
Paire-Royal Nations, Indies
in her meets,
More worth then in all Mines, and Golden Fleets;
For
Royal Issue there's no doubt of
Heirs,
God will hear theirs, and millions of our prayers:
If Crosses breed
rare men, best tutors are,
VVith
Joseph, David, him you may compare;
For Courage, Prudence, Truth,
and Constancy,
Match him who can without
Sycophancy?
He
patiently endur'd
heavens indignation,
Until he wrought his
Restauration.
So free from pride, self-ends, and false renowns,
VVith
Kingdoms ruines he refus'd his Crowns;
Joy'd not to have his head crown'd with your loss,
Stay▪d till God crown'd his head, your joyes, his Cross:
Foes crying sins, their scandals,
obloquy,
He hides from pennance, by his
Amnesty.
He griev'd to see his Mother
Church so torn
By
Sects; so
stript, left
Rachel like, forlorn,
He did for her the best he thought or could,
VVhat modest Church-men
either wisht or would.
He cannot scoff, but pitty th' ill behaviour
Of Brain-sick folk,
as mad
as e're was Naylor.
Shew me his
pear in any
Region;
The
Giddy Rabble feared less you know
State ordinance, then
Juglers Jubeo.
Dead Rulers Junto Laws,
were Crows
to scare,
But Just Kings
winged Courts
of Justice
are:
Hence Kings in
Thrones of
Justice with the eye
Are said to scatter all
Iniquity.
He frequent is with God, familiar
In
Prayers, not
Oaths, as many thousands are;
Him for his bounty why should any blame,
VVhose Thrift, and Temperance, doth millions shame?
To Gentry, Commons,
and Nobility,
He's a
rare Pattern of Sobriety;
To all the world he freely doth declare,
Rebels to God and
Laws, worst subjects are:
Debauched men though great he cannot brook,
On such as his
worst Foes he e're did look:
VVhat good of him our
Senate doth desire
For
God or
Countrey done, he doth require.
Behold your King then thousands is more tall.
In
Grace, Power, Vertues, higher then you all.
VVhen Kingship, Persons, Vertues thus you see
All meet in one, happy's that
Monarchy.
Not
Solomon in's Glory may compare
VVith
Brittish Rose, and
Lillies, they'r so rare.
Caesars best wishes. Subjects votes and Praise
His Head crown, and to th' highest Heavens up raise;
Of millions
Prayers as he the Subject is,
So may heavens
Blessings showre on him and his.
FINIS.