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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A34746) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48384) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 487:9) The country-mans complaint, and advice to the King 1 sheet (2 p.) ; 29 cm. s.n.], [S.l. : 1681. Broadside. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Charles -- II, -- King of England, 1630-1685. Broadsides -- England -- London eebo The country-mans complaint, and advice to the King. [no entry] 1681 2 505 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2012-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2012-08 Sampled and proofread 2012-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2013-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Country-mans Complaint , AND Advice to the KING . WE only can admire those happy times Of Innocence , unskill'd in Laws and Crimes ; When Gods were known by Blessings , ownd by Prayer , And 't was no part of Worship for to swear : Clearer than Fountains , and more free than those , Impartial Truth they all to each disclose . To hear and to believe were strictly joyn'd , And Speech thus answer'd what it first design'd . But Oh unhappy state of Humane kind ! Nought dreadful now our Awe , or Faith can bind . Vows and Religions are but bare pretence , Oaths are found out to shackle Innocence , And Laws must serve a perjur'd Impudence . Tumults address for Blood , Witness for Hire deceives , And Judge is forc'd to Sentence what he ne're believes . All Truth and Justice , blushingly withdraw , Leaving us nothing but the Form of Law : Whereby Rogues profligate and hardned in their Vice Proscribe all Loyal men , as factions raise their price . Poor Land ! whose Folly to swift Ruine tends , Despis'd by Foes , unaided by its Friends . In vain does Heaven her Fiery Comets light , We stifle th' Evidence , and still grope in night : Baffled by Fools , betray'd by perjur'd Knaves , Rather than Subjects , we 'll be branded Slaves : And by a vain pursuit of airy Bliss , Forfeit substantial real Happiness ; Change Monarchy ( from all oppression free ) Religion , and its Native Purity , True Freedom , without lawless Liberty : For thousand Masters , worst of Tyranny , For frantick Zeal , formal Hypocrisie , For Licence to rude rabbles , Hell and Slavery . And all this wrought by old known Cheats and Rooks , Gods ! to be twice Cajol'd by Cants and Looks ! Sots , orse than Brutes , to run into that Net We see , and know for our destruction set !
To the KING . ARise , O thou once Mighty Charles , arise , Dispel those mists that cloud thy piercing Eyes ; Read o're thy Martyr'd Father's Tragick Story , Learn by his Murder , different ways to glory . How fatal 't is , by him is understood , To yield to Subjects , when they thirst for Blood , And cloak their black designs with Publick Good . As thou art God-like by thy Pity , show That thou art God-like by the Justice too : Lest we should count thy greatest Vertue , Vice , And call thy Mercy , servile Cowardise . Of old , when daring Giants skal'd the Skie , The King of Gods ne're laid his Thunder by , To hear Addresses for their Property . But quell'd His Rebels by a stroke Divine , And left example how to deal with Thine .

Printed in the Year , 1681.