Part 2.
Nu. 33.
Mercurius Pragmaticus.
(For King Charls II)
Communicating Intelligence from all parts
touching all Affaires, Designes; Humors and
Conditions throughout the Kingdome.
Especially from Westminster, and the Head-Quarters.
From Tuesday Decem. 11. to Tuesday December. 18 1649.
Three Kingdoms chang'd to Common-Weales!
(The Saynts would have them so!)
But CHARLES, our King, will turn the Scales,
And Gordian's Knot under.
Fate for a time, hath seem'd to crosse
Our hopes, and make them voyd.
But well will be Repayr'd our Losse,
When Traytors are destroy'd.
When CHARLES appears Scepters & Swords
By them must bee laid downe,
And Hempen-Strings, Halters and Cords
Must serve in stead o' th' Crowne.
Then Lenthall, Bradshaw, Steele and Aske,
With Cooke, and all the Crue
Must by Wil. Loe be tane to taske,
To give the Dev'll his due.
------ Nemo me impunè Lacessit.
HA ha ha! Me thinks I cannot forbeare laughing, to thinke what a
merry day it would bee with England to see these cursed Saints
drag'd to their Homes at Tyburne; faith, though my businesse were never
so urgent, I should not faile to keepe that day holy, to view the Miscreants
in their March, and instead of a Funerall-Sermon (to lay open
their vicious and incomparable Treasons) I should not bee wanting both