_2 Esdras, 7. verses 15., 16._Now therefore, why disquietest you your selfe, (Prince Rupert and Maurice) seeing you are but a corruptable man? and why are you moved (to come into these parts) whereas you are but mortall? &c.
Her text divides itself, or rather falls into three pieces of her own accord; in which words her shall find three general parts: her first part is the Terminus ad quo; her second, Terminus ad quem; her third and last part is, Terminus à quod. The Terminus à quo is meant you (Prince Maurice) in these words: Now therefore, why disquietest you your self: that is, why comes you into these her territories to disquiet us? Then the next or second part is, the Terminus ad quem; that is, to know who sent for her there; that is the quaere. Then follows the third and last part, the Terminus ad quod, therefore and for what her is come for, now Prince Maurice, or cousin Prince Maurice and Prince Rupert of Cumberland, which title her loves best that her desires her to accept of. And now her having formerly brushed her own countrymen's and women's coats and frieze jerkins, and told them of her faults soundly, for her will have her know that her country's bodies are not troubled with many gowns, her will with her leave, and her own privilege being a preacher, rub and brush her coats, also Prince Maurice and Prince Rupert, and first her will begin with her habit, and tell her of her own faults and imperfections in her garments, or arrayment. Her cannot call her coat her wears now, nor give it no better a term than even a smock of Rome, a siding coat, a Cavaliarisme, or Antiprotestatisme coat, full of idolatrous Romanistical buttons, so thick set in a popish ceremonious way, that even it is an abomination to her sight. Nor is this all her must tell her good Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, for her will be bold to inform her worship, that first the name of Maurice came out of this true, ancient, honorable principality of Wales, and it took her first original from Morris-dancers, or none that did rise and caper oftener than her fellows, and so called Morris, or Maurice. Be God, her country her can tell her, never proved false, but were honest true Trojans faithful to her kings and queens, and all her princes, that is a credit for her own country, for her does remember when her was but a Bachelor of Art, there was a true proverb went up and down her country, that is this; Three Welchmen, 2 soldiers, 3 Englishmen, 2 thieves, 3 Frenchmen, 2 traitors, 3 Spaniards, 2 whoremongers, 3 Italians, 2 jugglers, 3 Dutchmen, 2 drunkards: which plainly shows that you being a Dutchman is most subject to be intoxicated, ergo, overcome, or subject to her passions and humours. For let her but ask her one question, no, now her is in her pulpit, her is in a place of sanctuary, and may boldly talk her pleasure; what a devil made her to come into the Welsh Alps with her troopers, and her dragoons, and her pioneers, and her engineers? What, do her think to undermine her mountains, and throw down her huge [illegible] hills, and lay them level like his Low Countries, no her warrant her. So much shall serve for her introduction to the text, to her cousin Prince Maurice, now suffer her to tell her a word of reproof, which is this; Terminus ad quem, and last of all a word or two of admonition or advice, and then her will have done. As her said before, what a devil made her come, first come into England, secondly into her kingdom of Wales. Could her not be contented to stay at home in her own country, at the University of Leiden, a place her have heard of, but indeed-law her was never there, Leiden should be a place of dullness, or heaviness, like lead, which word Leiden is taken from lead, for lead is the first syllable to Leiden, that is, one that is heavy heeled, or has lead in her shoes. I say, why did not her stay there, who sent for her here? Her says again and again, who sent for her here? Will her not answer? Then her will declare, that it was malice, and envy; two of the eldest sons of the great devil. Again, what moved her to come in this warlike manner, had her any cause? Was her not well used at Leiden, had her not good apparel, had her not good victuals, had her not good hodge-podge mine-here there? Had her not good educations and instructions in all the liberal sciences; had her not there a school of war to exercise her valors in, but her must come into England, and there spoil and plunder, burn and deface whole towns and villages; and bring her brave country of England to destruction, and to want bread corn, and barley corn. Sirrah, sirrah, her have heard that most of her victuals, as beer, corn, mutton, veal, nay even her apparel that her has formerly worn has been sent her out of England to relieve her and the rest of her brethren when her was not able to help her self; but must have lived meanly, and gone with many a hungry belly to bed, and rose again with as good an appetite as when her laid her down and slept upon it. And her does thus ungratefully requite poor England, to kill her men and women, her fathers and her mothers, which often contribute out of her yearly means to help her, when her was as low as the bowl that runs in the bowling-alley, who meets with many rubs by the way. I say poor England did help to succor her, when her was not able to help her self, no not wipe her arse. Her might have kept her as her have said at Leiden in Dutch-land, and have made her self a captain, and gone against Jack Spaniard; there her should have found good causes and considerations for taking up of her arms, and for killing of men, there her says, her should have been honored of all the English nation, who had heard of her valors and her courages. Or her should have gone with her sword into Ireland, and with her dexterous hand and enchanted body, have endeavored to quell and refrigerate the hot Irish rebels, whose cruelty and inhumanity no British chronicle her can find in her country, nor in her own library, can parallel. There her must confess her had gone and steered a right and a good course, even by the compass of Christianity. But this course that he now takes is diabolical and satanical, and profane. Nay, her will tell her her own, and tell Beelzebub which is the third devil in hell, her faults if her meet her in her way, and say her lies in her teeth, if it be a lie. So may her tell her Maurice, that her is in a malignant and capital fault, in such a gross and barbarous manner exercised, that if her had one of her chief judges here, her would apprehend her, and bring a bill of Scandala Magnatum against her, and issue out a Fieri Facias against her, and by that means forfeit all her goods and lands by a praemunire. So much shall serve for my first reproof for England, sweet England, honey England, which is the Terminus ad quem. Now suffer another word of the reproof for her coming in Wales, in this her posture and warlike manner, which is her Terminus ad quem. And first, what did her mean to come into her borders, to spoil her brave orchards and gardens, her cider and her perry trees, what did her mean to do, to mar and change all her very good pippins and pomwaters into crabs, and all her excellent artichokes into thistles, and all her leeks and onions into brambles and thorns, and make it as barren as the place from where her come. Did her mean by her guns and her cruelties to destroy all her cattle and her Welsh venisons, and fine black cows, that her should have no butter nor toasted cheese, or cow's [illegible]. Her do think that her did mean to make all things so dear in her kingdom of Wales, as it is among your butter boxes, as to make her pay double or taxes for all her eats, or drinks, or wears, and that her shall in Wales feed as her did in Holland upon roots, and carrots, and onions, and hodge-podge, that is, all sorts of herbs sod together, which fills the Dutchman's hungry belly very well, as a little whey does our hogs' bellies in our barns or stables, a turd is as good and far wholesomer for a sow than a pan-pudding. No good Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, her was suffered, her shall show her no such hocus pocus tricks; to do such ungodly deeds, and be suffered to run on in her willfulness, her has brave spirits in Wales left yet, though her lost many brave soldiers at Kenton battles, and her have long poles with pikes or Welsh hooks at the end, such as can pull her to her, or put her from her, for her will tell her Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, if her do not go hence speedily, her soldiers will be beaten to pieces, and her self hugged worse than the chiefest devil Beelzebub did hug the witch, which will make her color the long seams of her hose, worse than new three penny ale does, or a purge of nux vomica given in a potion. Her tell her, her has valiant men in Wales, such as shall firk her [illegible] for her, and tickle her galligaskins, mark her that now. Her will warrant her shall make all her words good. Therefore her say be gone, be gone her say young man to Holland, for her do hold her but a monster, because her teeth is longer than her beard, be gone her advises her with her bag and baggage, and the rest of her lumbers. Her cannot endure these farting guns, nor these fifling pistols, nor this stinking powder which shoot nothing but pellets, and kill her countrymen 3 or 4 furlongs off; and then her is dead before her knows who hurt her, or can say her prayers, or make her wills. Therefore her gives her fair warnings, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, to be forthwith gone out of her territories, and trudge home, and keep her good queen her mother company, as her elder brother the Palsgrave did, so her then may become an honest man, and it may be a good bowler. Her countrymen cannot endure to be plundered and robbed of her goods and apparel, nor of her cattle and venisons. Her believes her would kiss where her sat a Sunday, if her had such fat goodly cattle, as her has in Wales, in your Dutch-land country, but her hopes her cattle have more wit than to range out of their country, or from their master's house, than to be enticed over sea with her when her goes. God sent her good shipping; her cattle will her hope have more wit, and find lead in her feet, rather than go to Leiden, if such a motion were made, or such a patent granted to any projector. So her should have done with Prince Rupert and Maurice if he had had any wit or money. But her shall be cozened as her grandam's dog was. Her will tell her plainly her has no money nor plate in England or Wales, and her parish is very poor that her lives in, and her is the parson of it; for her cannot put up at the quarter's end not above ten groats at the most.
Do her but look how her lived when her was in Vvales, her Parishioners were not able to buy or allow her a new Cushion for her Pulpit then, how many holes and rents were in her Cushion, how did her feathers flye about, and how did the Cony wool flye about her ears: her was not able to afford her a new coat but once in 2. or 3. years: what did her mean to come to Wales, by Cod, her whole Country was very poore; and her was there in a very pad condition; if her had not good store of tyth Pigs, Hens, Capons, Eggs, and such like, her should not know how to subsist with her wives and children; so much shall be enough which her has spoken for the Text, which is the Terminus ad quod; that is, therefore, and for what her did come for into Vvales, which her has told her sufficiently off, and her hopes will take notice and amend.
Now a word of Admonition, and so her will conclude, and that is this; her do wish her Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice to go her waies home quietly into her own Country, go her saies young Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice home to her good Lady and Mother, as her have said before, for every honest man will do as her is bidden and comfort her, who is very sorry to her knowledge, to heare how her doto abuse her selfe and her Country of England, her cood Lady and Mother is very heartly sorry for her rashnesse, goe home young Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, and be obedient to her deare Mother; her has sent for her two times already, and if her do not go before the third time of sending, her will tell her plainly, that Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice is a Canary-bird, and her will send two Tivels, and bid her take him Tivels take him; and if her Tivel has taken her they will so torment her p[illegible]dies, that her would have wished her had never come into England nor Vvales, to fire, [illegible] her meetes, and so her leaves her to her own considerations and consciences, to apply all these sayings to her selfe; and her commits her P. Rupert and P. Maurice to Dinner, because her smels the Roast meat and pyes piping hot, which staies for her upon the Table; and so her will end as her at first begun, that is with her Text; Now therefore, why disquiet est you your selfe, (P. Rupert and P. Maurice) seeing you are but a corruptable man? And why are you moved (to come into these parts) whereas you are but mortall: And why have you not considered in your mind this thing that is come rather then that which is present (Esdras, 7:15, 16)? Why has not you P. Rupert and you P. Maurice obeyed to voyce of her good Parliament, what a Tevill made you stay so long in England? Doe not you remember Prince Rupert, that for your part, you made cood promise to the good Parliament to be gone a great while agone, when you lost Bristoll Towne, and you went to Worcester to get you Prince Maurice to go along with her: What a Tevill made you so mad, as not to go then, but you would stay volens nolens untill you lost all, and now you must be enforced to goe, and carry your cruelties, your plunderings and all te mischiefes you have done along with you, to make you the more welcome into another Country: All I can say is to you Prince Rupert, England is heartily glad to see you so neere to be gone, and her does wish you never to come againe, you may remember what Mr. Lilly made a Prophesie of you. And for you Prince Maurice, her pray never think of comming into Vvales againe, for if you do, all te plunder'd Cows-bobby, all te Onions, Leeks, and Oat-Cakes in Wales will muster themselves together, and rise up in Judgement against you.
FINIS.
