Num. 3.
Mercurius Aulicus.
(For King Charls II.)
Communicating Intelligence from all
parts, touching all Affairs, Designes, Humours
and Conditions throughout the Kingdom.
Especially from Westminster and the Head Quarters.
From Tuesday August the 28. to Tuesday Septemb 4. 1649.
O blest REFORMERS, non-such were
In any Ages past;
For these the Devil himself, I sweare,
They'le make a SAINT at last.
Th[unr]se pretty THINGS have learn'd their Trade;
They have Reformed all crimes,
Yea Owen-Roe O Neal th' have made
A most pure SAINT o'the Times.
Now Plots from Rome shall fright's no more,
Nor Pope and SAINT be parted:
Oh! happy news, Great Babels Whore,
Is to a SAINT converted.
Come Mahomet, for now I see
The time will quickly fall:
When thou, and thy Bashaws shall bee
The most pure SAINTS of all.
-Nemo me impune lasessit.
Reader, before I proceed to this weeks Intelligence, I must lay open
the jugling of the Supream Pocusses upon the transactions between
their party, and Owen Roe Oueal, which I was forced to let passe the last
week for want of room.
Is not this a blessed Reformation? to have old things passe away, and
all things become new, to have new States, new Saints, new Religions,
new law, and old Babels whore to be reformed into a new English Saint.
Certainly the zeale of our Reformers is more hot and powerfull then