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Mercurius melancholicus, Number 1, 25th December 1649-1st January 1650 E.536[27]

Numb.10
Mercurius Melancholicus.
Communicating the generall Affaires
of the KINGDOME.
Especially from Westminster and the Head-Quarters.
From Monday December 25. till Monday January 1. 1649.
The Rebells rage like mad, their greedie minds
Remaine unsatisfi'd; like blustring winds
They roare for Bloud; and with unweari'd toyle,
Pursue Destruction, Murther, Rapine, Spoyle.
They'r entred into Covenant with Hell;
Rebells beyond the Line of paralell;
Who trampling on Allegiance, doe desie
The Powers of earth, and scorne the Deitie.
Like Savage Beasts they forrage for their prey,
And lye in wait for Blood both night and day.
God, if it be thy will, lift up thy head;
Stretch forth thy hand, and strike these Murth'rers dead.
I Have heard of a saying, no lesse true then wittie, sometime spoken
in Star-Chamber, at the Tryall of those Patrons of Sedition, Burton,
Prin, and Bastwick, by that glorious Martyr of blessed memorie,
William Laud late Lord Archbishop of Canterburie; which
was, That those then Delinquents wounded the King through the
Bishops sides; and to that height of Impietie are their worse then
Heathenish Disciples now growne; that wee may straine our note
one degree higher, and say; That through the sides of our King, they
wound the King of Kings. Before I come to Intelligence, I cannot
passe by the holy Church of Saint Paul without a teare. I could not
but weepe over White-hall, when I beheld the Royall Mansion of
our most gracious Soveraigne, made a Cage of uncleane Birds; but
when I beheld Pauls, the Royall Palace of the King of Kings, the
Presence Chamber of the Living God, and his declared house of
Prayer, turned into a Den of Theeves, I could not but wish my selfe
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