ALas, alas, Independents, and am I againe revived; I live againe, and shall doe so, till I behold the Babel you have builded, demolished by your selves, and your Anarchy bee reduced to Monarchy: The hyreling you imployed to pub­lish my Death, is since dead himselfe; alas the fel­low was smitten with the horror of his crime, and not able to indure the thoughts Pluto continually suggested; hee, like one weary of his Fetters, lea­ping out at the prison window, breaketh his limbes, gave up the Ghost. My sweet friends, I have the coldest comfort for you, that your greatest ene­mies can wish, during my confinement to the shades below, for to me it was permitted, as once to the righteous Lazarus, to take a view of things there done, and thence once more to visit the Earth.

I saw neere the Lake called Phlegeton, an infinite number of Royallists, alias Episcoparians, Romish Catholicks, Pimps, Panders and Parricides, knee­ling before the brazen Gates of Plute's Pallace, all [Page 2] with heav'd up hands, invoking the Prince of hell, to further their designe with his utmost ayde, to send his spirits abroad to seduce the soules of men, that they might be perswaded, to create a hell on earth, (if it might be) to set up confusion, and countenance utter desolation, to wit, Independencie, for which immunities, if it tooke effect, they joyntly swore by the river Stix, to stuffe hell with more souls, then the said river harboured Serpents, and with them­selves, to draw the world after them to destruction: The principal sticklers in this busines, my thoughts perswaded me represented the persons of a famous Apostate, now a house preacher, alias Tubist in Bell-Alley; and of another Apostle of the new Edition, a seducer, who daily giveth destruction, I mean in­struction, neer Finsbury; I had a sight of Saltmarsh, but he as a shadow flying away, fled from me; there were divers others, which for brevity I shall omit, who were uncessantly urgent on Lucifer, to lend them his ayde, when Goodwin was allotted by the whole multitude to speake in the name of them all, who said:

Thou knowst great Prince, how I with these my Brethren, have for many yeeres opposed even the high Court of Parliament, assembled in the chiefe City of England, to abolish Episcopacy, and set up Presbytery, hath bin their chiefe ayme, and yet by us have hitherto bin continually thwarted in their say­ings, opposed in their actions, and frustrated of their desires, I am sure thou canst not forget, how we have hitherto used al means, and devised all wayes to raise discords & divisions, which we know in the [Page 3] end cannot but prove the dissolution of Monarchy, and so consequently, the corner stone of Anarchy; to attaine which our desires, we have hired our deare Brother, and indeed, ours and thine owne Prop, John Lilburne, to persuade the people, that even their Lord K. Charles is now captive under their soveraign pow­er; that he be forthwith Articled against, Impeached, Regall Ty­ranny, pag. 14 [...]6.53. Arraigned, Deposed, Executed, & his Posteritie dis­inherited by the Parliament; that the Assembly of Divines be immediately dissolved, and impeached of high Treason, Presbyteries suppressed, the Directorie, Nationall League, Parishes, Parish Churche, Chap­pels, Tythes, Oblations, Ministers by Ordination, Universities, and all Schooles, except onely such as teach English, Write, and Cypher; all set formes of Prayer, the Lords Prayer, Creed, and Ten Comman­dements, Baptizing of Infants, & singing of Psalms, utterly abolished: Therefore, on our part, great Prince, thou mayst guesse, that there hath not, nor now is, any thing wanting that may further our De­signe, but onely thy present Aid, in an especiall man­ner, now in the nick of time we implore; for now, to our unspeak [...]b [...]e griefe, there is like to be a free and full Parliament, who have already Voted the Man whom we so extremely hate (the King) to Lond [...]n, there to remaine with honour and safetie: therfore, great Sir, as you tender the inlargement of your Territories, the Command of Soules, and the ruine of Mankind, devise some speedie remedie, that Inde­pendencie may be tolerated, his Majestie prohibited from comming to London, this Parliament dissol­ved, and our Anaschy introduced; and this as you tender your owne honour and our safetie.

This Speech was approv'd of by the whole mul­titude, who exprest their liking by a generall shout; but what answer Pluto returned, I cannot relate, for I was transported with a desire to pry yet further into the secrets of that tenebrous place; so pas­sing on from thence, I came into a large Plain, where fire continually ran along upon the ground, where were many men tormented with sundry torments; there I s [...]w a company of Furies, who were busily imployed in preparing Wracks, Gibbets, and o­ther various instruments of torture; upon a Grid­iron I beheld one lye, whom at the sight I took to be Quaterman, but viewing him better, I found I was deceived, for it was Wansworth the Committee­man, who gathered together the wealth of a whole County, pretending for the publike use, and then ran away over Sea: Neere him I beheld swimming in a Lake of Sulphure, Townsen, whom once the Parliament of England so much confided in, and now so well know his falsenesse, who after hee had cheated both the publike wealth and the whole Pa­rish wherein hee lived, being by them complained against and prosecuted, fled into the North part of England, and turn'd Minister; Ah Townsen, said I, thou never wert in such a Tub before; and were all house-preachers allowed no better a Pulpit, they would have little joy to expound: Neere these I beheld thrust through with swords of fire, divers Commanders, that through feare or falsenesse lately deserted the Army; Pluto had an it tention to make them of his own guard, for there he feared not their fl [...]eting▪ and there they might without scruple, be as [Page 5] they would themselvs, the more baser, the more bet­ter; neer these lockt in iron collers, glowing hot, I saw one Levite, whom by my guesse I took to be the Author of Hagio Mastix, hee much repented he left Coleman-street for Bell-Alley, and earth for hell; the thought of the dayes he once enjoyed, when his Au­dience gathered him for one Sermon 20. l. doubly augmented his torments: Neer him in the same po­sture, lay the simple author of Simplicities Defence, wall-ey'd Gorton, who wanting mony in old England, would needs be hired to go over into New England, to convert the Infidels, and after returned a perfect pagan, and ingrossed an Audience to himselfe, and they forsooth were Gortons Congregation, the fat foole howled like a Lybian Lion taken in the Hun­ters toyle; and therfore Photo cōmanded his throat to be filled with moken Lead, to stop the passage of his cryes; for he, as he did on earth, sought to di­sturb all Hell: But by this my time limited, was ex­pired, and my soule returned to my body, and com­ming on earth, and passing to Westminster Hall, I heard a fellow sing this Ballad, called,