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Show ( ~48 ) Tranfaetions, or having advifed _rhem ; . rill a + 'folm Perfon t whofe Ear you cur, convtB:ed htm of Copeland. rhe comrary ; of whom, and his Ju.dgmem, and hi<; having more parricularly £O do 1_n r~e Blood of all our Friends, whom ye mm rheted, and his being rhe Encourager thereunro, 1 thall fpeak more anon : 0! rhe Anguifh and Trouble rh<a was upon you rhen, and what mtghr be the Confequence! Your Hearts ~ere full of Blood, your Confciences full of ~mh, your Hat:ds [ull of Cruelry your Refoluuons full of M1fchtef: Bur 0 ye Serpents! How did yo~ lurk, and rwine ir in rhc Ground, to htdc H, to cover your Heads, ro fave a Bruth? Oh, the Day of Judgmenr was a terrible Day ! Oh, rhe thoughts of the Bifhops made you fhake; who dared w wafh vour Hands in the Blood of r.hofe v.:ho dared ·to look you in the Face! Oh, 1fthe Kmg would bur now be your Friend, and let you go, and pafs by all rhar you had done, what good SubjeB:s would you. be! How Pro~ra:e w~uld you lie! If you mtght be ~m admnred mto rhe Number of his loyal Subjetls, who kneel at his Peer: Oh, the fenfe of a Reckoning, how hard it was! Oh, ro fuffer, what an uncouth thing it was ! You had forgorr en Bowels. of Tendernefs and Compaffion ; and now fuffermg for your Demerirs was like to be your cafe; N'ew-E~1g- 0! How comes the Scene w be changed ? t.wd' pa- And 0 how unlike Men metamorphoftd from nic~ fears rhe highell Munherers, inw the mofr fearf~l tlur~ng Cowards do uou appear? Bur alas, what FruH thele ' J • h 1 Things. did your Agenrs bnng fonh ? W a.t we ~om~ The King f'.:ews broughr they w you at rhe1r Arnval. decJa:es \;Vbat blefled advamage was rhe Confequence, for }~cr- as ro you? The King declared Libeny of Con· 1 Y 0 ~1enceo. n- r~.c 1• ence w rhofe in the Colon}', tO whom yhoadu had denied it, and made them co fuffer, and fo did that to the Coumry which was the End of the Plantation, wbich you pretended to in going thither; bur having gor inro rhe Sear, would give it none. · But how did you like this? And how did thefe his fieps pleafe you ? Whar Comforr aded all this ro you? And how were your Joys increafed? Did you Triumph at rheir return ? Or, did you wich gladnef<; of Heart caufe his Declaration to be read? How .liked you John Norton's Cufhion rhat he brought from the ArchBifhop, as was faid? Oh, how Palenefs grew upon you ! How wan your looks ! How thin your Cheeks ! Your Hearts grew fad ! You fighed I Oh! this John Norton, faid fome, hath brought m into Bondage. Oh ! John N orton and Simon Broadftreet, What have ye brought over? We fha!l be pick' d out at !aft ; we Jha!J be Jent .for Qver to England, orJe after another; we jhalJ be unra .. veiled; 2ve Jhalt be brought to nothing ; we jhall be ruined anrl undone ; if thio takes pl?Jce, we mu(! think of fomewhat elfe, &c. Commij]ioners, We of Bolton, of the Colony of the Maf*f achufers, 2vill n8t receive * QJ.llL .=n ath o rn · r: ·d 1 1a1 upo!'i a you • Training Day to have endea-voured to infinuate wich the Soldie~ ·s , that th_e l(jngs CommJ[]ioners were pretended Commiffioners; tbat thezr Comn11ffion w,zs made under a He~ge, and Sealed with re!low Wax, and th~t they were unmannerly, and n,o{)tt/d not put off their Huts to the Aurhorzty of the Country: ~nd that <\Soldier fhould reply, rou. have a Law to rt1h1p tbe ~takers for Juch 1hing.~", Whj do 'Ji: not t!Jc f.zm.e to them? Then that he made a Speech to the Company anci. bid You that are for the l(jng's Commiffioners ftand, and you rh.u a,e jo; the Country, follow me,&c. So fpeak your Actions, and rhe Things that . you have done, ana the Senfe vour AB:ions give ~f what h~uh been done ; and fo have you Y ., fai,d |
