They did not mean he wrought th' effufion In person, like Sir Pride or Hughson ; The quarrel were by him set on; But ere this pass'd, the wise debate 1250 1255 1260 Your Ver. 1250. Pride.] Pride was a foundling. He went into the army, was made a colonel, and was principally concerned in fecluding the members, in order to the King's trial; which great change was called Colonel Pride's Purge. He was one of Oliver Cromwell's upper houfe. He is called Thomas Lord Pride, in the commiffion for erecting a High Court of Justice for the trial of Sir Henry Slingby, Dr. Hewit, &c. Mr. Butler calls him Sir Pride, by way of fneer upon the manner of his being knighted; for Oliver Crom-. well knighted him with a faggot-stick instead of a fword. Ibid. Hughfon.] He was a cobler, went into the army, and was made a colonel; knighted by Oliver Cromwell, and, to help to cobble the crazy ftate of the nation, was made one of Oliver's upper house. Ver. 1263.] This was Mr. Chriftopher Love, a fu Your mighty fenators took law; At his command were forc'd t' withdraw, 1265 1270 Who rious Prefbyterian, who, when the King's commif fioners met thofe of the Parliament at Uxbridge, in the year 1644, to treat of peace, preached a fermon there, on the 30th of January, against the treaty, and faid, among other things, that "no good was to be expect ed from it, for that they (meaning the King's com "miffioners) came from Oxford with hearts full of "blood." Ver. 1269, 1270.] The expence the English rebels. engaged the nation in, by bringing in their brother rebels from Scotland, aniounted to an extravagant fum; their receipts in money and free-quarter, 1,462,769 1. 55. 3 d. William Lilly, the Sidropbel of this Poem, obferves of the Scots, That they came into England purposely to fteal our goods, ravish our wives, en"flave our perfons, inherit our poffeffions and birthrights, remain here in England, and everlaftingly to inhabit among us." Mr. Bowlftrode, fon of Colonel Bowlftrode, a factious rebel in Buckinghamshire, in his prayer before his fermon, at Horton, near Colebrook, ufed the folwing words: "Thou haft, O Lord, of late, written bitter things against thy children, and forfaken thine wn inheritance; and now, O Lord, in our mifery and diftrefs we expected aid from our brethren of our "neighbouring nation (the Scots I mean), but, good "Lord, thou knoweft that they are a falfe, perfidious tion, and do all they do for their own ends." Who had so often, in your aid, To prove themselves your trufty friends, They train'd you up to, in the lurch, Not that I think thofe pantomimes, 1275 1280 1285 Who vary action with the times, Are lefs ingenious in their art, 1290 1295 While By the author of a tract, entitled Lex Talionis, 1647, it is propofed, as a preventing remedy, "to let the "Scots, in the name of God, or of the devil that sent “ thêm, go home. While others in old faiths and troths. Than those who never fhift. their linen.. None rife fo high as from the halter. And fo may we, if we 'ave but fenfe To use the neceffary means, And not your usual stratagems To ftand on terms as positive, 1300 1305* 1310 up Set the Covenant on crutches, 1315 'Gainft those who have us in their clutches, And dream of pulling churches down, Before we 're fure to prop our own; Your conftant method of proceeding,, Without the carnal means of heeding, 1320, Who, 'twixt your inward sense and outward, Are worse, than if y' had none, accoutred. 1325, 'Tis true we 'ave money, th' only power And meet with those that can pay well; 1330 1335 Than 'twas before we laid it down; 1340 For 'twill return, and turn t' account,. Who fee but th' outfides of our feats, And not their secret springs and weights, And, while they 're busy at their ease, carry what defigns we please? eafy is 't to ferve for agents profecute our old engagements.?> VOL. II. 1355 F Το |