That is, the King’s and Churches’ land
Were sequester’d int’ other hands: 1230
For only then, and not before,
Your eyes were open’d to restore.
And when the work was carrying on,
Who cross’d it, but yourselves alone?
As by a world of hints appears, 1235
All plain and extant as your ears.
But first, o’ th’ first: The Isle
of wight
Will rise up, if you should deny’t;
Where Henderson, and th’ other masses,
Were sent to cap texts, and put cases;
1240
To pass for deep and learned scholars,
Although but paltry
As if th’ unseasonable fools
Had been a coursing in the schools;
Until th’ had prov’d the Devil author
1245
O’ th’ Covenant, and the Cause his daughter,
For when they charg’d him with the guilt
Of all the blood that had been spilt,
They did not mean he wrought th’ effusion,
In person, like Sir PRIDE, or HUGHSON,
1250
But only those who first begun
The quarrel were by him set on;
And who could those be but the Saints,
Those Reformation Termagants?
But e’er this pass’d, the wise debate
1255
Spent so much time, it grew too late;
For OLIVER had gotten ground,
T’ inclose him with his warriors round
Had brought his Providence about,
And turn’d th’ untimely sophists out,
1260
Nor had the UXBRIDGE bus’ness less
Of nonsense in’t, or sottishness,
When from a scoundrel Holder-forth,
The scum as well as son o’ th’ earth,
Your mighty Senators took law;
1265
At his command, were forc’d t’ withdraw,
And sacrifice the peace o’ th’ nation
To doctrine, use and application.
So when the SCOTS, your constant cronies,
Th’ espousers of your Cause and monies,
1270
Who had so often, in your aid,
So many ways been soundly paid,
Came in at last for better ends,
To prove themselves your trusty friends,
You basely left them, and the Church
1275
They train’d you up to, in the lurch,
And suffer’d your own tribe of Christians
To fall before, as true Philistines.
This shews what utensils y’ have been,
To bring the King’s concernments in;
1280
Which is so far from being true,
That none but he can bring in you:
And if he take you into trust,
Will find you most exactly just:
Such as will punctually repay
1285
With double interest, and betray.