Monarchia transformata in Respublicam deformatam: OR, A Jury of twelve Impossibilities.
1. GIve Generall
Tom a Common-Souldiers wit;
2. Cure frantick
Mildmay of his whimsey fit:
3. Quench
Peter's tongue (which hel hath set on fire)
4. Coole
Nol's ambitious thirst of soaring higher:
5. Make
Bradshaw bashfull, and false
Whitlock true;
6. Un-atheist
Lenthall, Corbet too un-jew.
7.
Pride's Sword, exchange for Slings; let
Ockey haste
8. Back to his Yeast-tub.
Hewson to his Last.
9. And
Wild (with Law) Sweep treason froĢ his bench
10. Hedge
Martin (all in common) with one wench.
11. Pack a Committee, without knaves. Let's see
12. A
Juncto (not of Rebels) and then we
For light in
Englands Chaos will yet hope:
For
Charls three Crowns, for Rebels, each a rope.
Numerall Letters are to be considered in these two following lines.
C
100harL
50es, the trV
5e pI
1C
100tV
5re of C
100hrI
1st C
100rV
5C
100I
1fI
1D
500e,
great brI
1ttans V
5I
1rtV
5oV
5s kI
1ng noV
5V
5 gL
50orI
1fI
1D
500e.
These Numerall Letters, All together be
Just sixteene hundred, forty, and thrice three.
1649. CLVICVCICVCIIDIVIVVIVVLIID.
These Letters (twenty six) five
Cees, two
Dees,
Two
LLs, eight
Ves, and
Ies a treble trine,
Make up the number, just as it agrees,
One thousand and six hundred forty nine.
That yeare, the first months thirtieth day, a blow
Laid
Charles our King, and
Englands Honour low.
But, He is High, grac'd with a glorious Crowne,
And (by His Death) three Kingdomes are cast downe.
The
Loafe's inside, and Circle of a
Spring,
Was worst of Traitors to a Gracious King.
FINIS.