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'Tis pleasant to obferve how finely they play into each others Hands; Marshal procures Thanks to be given to Sedgwick, (for his great Pains ;) Sedgwick obtains as much for Marshal, and fo they all pimp for one another. But yet (to their great Comfort be it fpoken) their whole feven Years Sermons at Westminster, are now to be fold in Fetter-Lane and Pye-corner. Before a Battle the Aembler ever fpeaks to the Soldiers, and the holding up of his Hands must be as neceffary as Mofes's against the Amalekites: For he pricks them on, tells them that, God loves none but the valiant; but when Bullets fly, himself runs first, and then cries, All the Sons of Adam are Cowards! Were there any Me tempfychofis, his Soul would not want a Lodging, no fingle Beast could fit him, being wife as a Sheep, and inno cent as a Wolf. His fole Comfort is, he cannot out-fin Hugh Peters: Sure as Satan hath poffeffed the Affembler, fo Hugh Peters hath poffeffed Satan, and is the Devil's Devil: He alone would fill a whole, Herd of Gadarens. He hath fuck'd Blood ever fince he lay in the Butcher's Sheets, and now

(like his Sultan) has a Shambles in his Countenance; fo crimson and tor rid you may there read how St. Law. rence died, and think the Three Chil dren were delivered from his Face. This is St. Hugh, who will level the Affembler, or the Devil's an Afs. Yoke thefe Brethren, and they two couple like a Saducee and a Pharifee or a Turk and a Perfian, both Mahometans. But the Aembler's deepest, highest Abomination, is his Solemn League and Covenant; whereby he ftrives to damn or beggar the whole Kingdom; out-doing the Devil, who only perfwades, but the Affembler forces to Perjury or Starving. And this (whoever lives to obferve it) will one Day fink both him and his Faction For He and his Oath are fo mucrone,that were he half irang'd and let down again, his firft Word would be Covenant! Covenant!

But I forget, a Character fhould be brief (though tedious Length be his beft Character.) Therefore I'll give ye (what he denies the fequeftred Clergy) but a fifth Part: For weigh him fingle, and he has the Pride of three, Tyrants, the Forehead of fix Gaolers

Goalers, and the Fraud of twelve Brokers. Or take him in the Bunch, and their whole Affembly is a Club of Hypocrites, where fix Dozen of Schifmaticks spend two Hours, for four Shillings a piece.

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King CHARLES I Truly Stated,

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John Cook, Master of Gray's-Inn.

By Mr. BUTLER, Author of Hudibras.

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