The true Protestants humble Desires to the Kings most
excellent Majesty. Or, Protestant-like Propositions for His Majesties perusall, tending to a safe and
well-grounded Peace. With a Commination or Chorus of the People
against those that desire it not.
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1 THat your Majesty will be pleased to signe
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To nothing that may after cause
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All former Statutes to decline,
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And grate our Fundamentall Lawes.
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And your good Subjects shall daily pray,
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God preserve your Majesty.
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2 That your Majesty would never let
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The Scottish Government be erected,
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For feare, lest when their Lawes we get,
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We with their treasons be infected.
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3 That your Majesty would never give
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The staffe out of your hand againe;
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For though as slaves we will not live,
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Yet we will have a Soveraigne.
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4 That your Majesty, as you are sworne,
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Would maintain the Church in that good state,
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As your Forefathers did it adorne,
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And hath been taken away of late.
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5 That your Majesty would graciously please
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To hearken to none would innovate,
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For so we shall nere cure our old disease,
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Occasioned by riots intemperate.
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6 That your Majesty would please once more
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The simple people to instate
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With the Common Prayer Book, as before;
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They are not for extempore prate.
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7 That your Majesty would not yeeld,
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Your friends, who venturd their state and lives,
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Fighting for your honour in the field,
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Should be cut off, as their Enemy strives.
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8 That your Majesty would please nere to admit
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Any Committees, the plague of the Nation,
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Who (while like Censors) in chairs they do sit,
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Do wrack the poor Commons in grievous fashion
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9 That your gracious Majesty would abhorre
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The thought, to consent your Sisters Sonne,
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Brave Rupert should die, for maintaining a warre,
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Ar every good Subject ought to have done.
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10 That your Ma. would please that famous Newcastle
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Whose religion makes not his loyalty less:
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Who once for you even with Mavors did wrastle,
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May not lose his lands, be it he did transgresse.
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11 That your Majesty woud make Jockey to pay
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Interest on interest for that vast sum of gold
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Which he took for your person, but the other day
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When you to your better Subjects were sold.
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12 That your Majesty would please, though we hate superstitions,
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Yet we may have one religion or other,
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Any thing but that of the English Precisians,
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And that of Jockeys our most deare Brother.
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13 That your Majest. wil please to have your old
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That is now behind for many years past,
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Due to be paid by your Parliament,
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Who are bound upon bond, to pay you at last.
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14 That your Maj. wil please again, when you get
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Your ships into your own hand, as you ought,
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Officers in them more trusty to set,
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Then those who assented for coine to be caught.
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15 That your Maj. wil please to give him his due
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That late hath infranchizd you from your con-finement,
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He deserves honor, that hath so helped you,
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Both in his own person, and by his designement.
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16 That your M. would please the lands two eys
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Now dimd may be restord to their old wont,
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I mean the two famous Universities,
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And we not mistake a bason for a Font.
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17 That your Majesty would please to call
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A Synod, a body of learned men,
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For ours in four yeares have done nothing at all,
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We are not the better for their purse, nor their pen
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18 That your Maje. would please to send for the Prince,
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To avoid the imputation that some
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Cast on him, who say, he on purpose went hence
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Himself to ingratiate with the See of Rome.
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19. That your Majestie would please to send for your Spouse,
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Who in France like a Turtle forsaken doth moan,
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She cannot the least disturb either house,
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If she will, then why do not they lie alone,
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20. That your Majestie would please by a Declaration
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The deluded Commons to undeceive,
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That you hate the acts of the Irish Nation,
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Contrary to that some would have them believe.
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21. That your Majestie would please nere to hearken to those
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That would have the Lawes in English translated
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So we may have bald Rime for verie good Prose,
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And have our calamities still propagated.
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22 That your M. would turn daies of humiliation
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And our daies of thanks for we know not what:
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With our strange Fast-daies for perturbation,
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For those which the Service-Book still pointeth at
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23 We beseech your Majestie all qualifications
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Not heard of but lately, all negative swearing,
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All Protestations and foule Abjurations
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May never be licenct againe to have hearing.
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These things, great Sir, if you please to afford,
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We shall have a safe and well-grounded peace,
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All this is allowable by Gods holy Word,
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& if observd, may occasion our weal to increase.
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And your good Subjects shall daily pray,
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God preserve your Majesty.
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A Comination to be confirmed
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By a Chorus of the people.
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SInce that by Gods Command, we may
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Curse those that doe the truth betray,
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Let us take up our curse and say,
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Cursed be he that hates the King,
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And would his State to ruine bring,
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And scornes to be wedded with a Ring.
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And all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be he the Queen that hates,
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And gainst the Privie Counsell prates,
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And doth delight to cause debates.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be he is Enemie
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Unto our harmelesse Liturgie,
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And to the Bishops Hierarchie.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Curst with a horrid curse be he,
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That would have the Scottish Presbytrie
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For to take root in Britanie.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be he that with hand and heart
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Doth not take the Armies part
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Gainst those that would our Lawes subvert.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be he, or they, or all,
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Wish not his Majestie in White-hall,
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As great as ever before his fall.
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And let all the people say Amen,
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Cursed be he would not the Queen
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Should once more with her Lord be seen,
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And in that pomp she once hath been.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be he doth not desire
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The Prince from France should now retire,
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For to behold his King and Syre.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be he that doth not use
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All meanes that may a peace produce,
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And doth to lend his aid refuse.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be all Inscendiaries,
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Schismaticks, and Sectaries,
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And all Inventors of new Fegaries.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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Cursed be he that doth not pray
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The Excize may quite be taken away,
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And all Traytors to come to decay.
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And let all the people say Amen.
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