ially to the Army, cannot be
recovered without a general detriment and confusion to men's
estates, or a heavy imposition on all men's purses,--benefit to
none but to the worst and ignoblest sort of men, whose hope is to
be either the ministers of Court riot and excess or the gainers by
it. But, not to speak more of losses and extraordinary levies on
our estates, what will then be the revenges and offences remembered
and returned, not only by the Chief Person, but by all his
adherents: accounts and reparations that will be required, suits,
indictments, inquiries, discoveries, complaints,
informations,--who knows against whom or how many, though perhaps
neuters,--if not to utmost infliction, yet to imprisonment, fines,
banishment, or molestation. If not these, yet disfavour,
discountenance, disregard, and contempt on all but the known
Royalist, or whom he favours, will be plenteous. Nor let the
new-royalized Presbyterians persuade themselves that their old
doings, though, now recanted, will be forgotten, whatever
conditions be contrived or trusted on. Will they not believe this,
nor remember the Pacification how it was kept to the Scots, how
other solemn promises many a time to us? Let them but now read the
diabolical forerunning libels, the faces, the gestures, that now
appear foremost and briskest in all public places as the harbingers
of those that are in expectation to reign over us; let them but
hear the insolencies, the menaces, the insultings of our newly
animated common enemies, crept lately out of their holes, their
Hell I might say, by the language of their infernal pamphlets, the
spew of every drunkard, every ribald: nameless, yet not for want of
licence, but for very shame of their own vile persons; not daring
to name themselves while they traduce others by name, and give us
to foresee that they intend to second their wicked words, if ever
they have power, with more wicked deeds. Let our zealous
backsliders [the Presbyterians] forethink now with themselves how
_their_ necks, yoked with these tigers of Bacchus,--these new
fanatics of not the preaching but the sweating tub, inspired with
nothing holier than the venereal pox,--can draw one way, under
Monarchy, to the establishing of Church-Discipline with these
new-disgorged Atheisms. Yet shall they not have the honour to yoke
with these, but shall be yoked under them: these shall plough on