Alas pore Parliament, how art thou betrai'd? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A75999 of text R4145 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E21_9). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A75999 Wing A837 Thomason E21_9 ESTC R4145 99872612 99872612 125055 2240944965

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A75999) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 125055) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 4:E21[9]) Alas pore Parliament, how art thou betrai'd? 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [S.l. : 1644] Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb: 9th [am] on monday 1644"; "Written by some independent against Ld. Gen. Essex and Ld. Manchester, and scattered about the streets in the night.". Date of publication from Thomason Coll. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Essex, Robert Devereux, -- Earl of, 1591-1646. Manchester, Edward Montagu, -- Earl of, 1602-1671. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. A75999 R4145 (Thomason E21_9). civilwar no Alas pore Parliament, how art thou betrai'd?: anon. 1644 1 218 2 0 0 0 0 0 92 D The rate of 92 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Decemb: 9th 〈◊〉 monday 1644

Alas pore Parliament , how are thou betrai'd ? This is the Plot the Kings party boasted of , that should take whether God would or no : You see though they care not what they speake , : yet they know what they speake . Wee have brave Generalls that fight for the King , and make pore honest people pay for their owne destructions : One of them hath wrought finely in the darke a l●●●●● while like a Divell , but the other hath shew'd himse●●e an open enemie , and therefore is the more to be borne with ; he hath made use of Rouges , Cutpurses , Players , 〈◊〉 and Tinkers to forward a Reformation , and the other hath culd out all the honestest Youth in the Kingdome to keep them from Action , or for slaughter . Neither of them worke , but make worke ; when they should doe , they undoe , and indeed to undoe is all the marke they aime at . Doe yee thinke Greatnesse without Goodnesse can ever thrive in excellent actions ? no , Honour without honesty stinkes : away with 't : no more Lords and yee love me , they smell o' the Court .