And how can he hope for any better success then a Fall , to fight against so many Grand Heroes all at once , and that with no better a Weapon than that Spear of the Frog aforesaid , to wit , a poor Bulrush ? All his Arguments he urgeth against them are not worth a Rush , and no better than a Bulrush , as the Sequel evidenceth .

The Observation whereof , looseth my long silent Tongue , ( as danger did the dumb Son of Croesus , who all on the sudden cryed out , kill not King Croesus . ) . Facit indignatio versum . A just Indignation at this sordid Sycophant , and Pick-thank Parasite , hath constrained me to cry out , Undo not the King , and his Kingdoms , with your precipitant Counsels , and your prejudicate Suggestions ; undo not your self , who like the filly Wezel , that dare nibble at the Heels of a Lion , that saith , nemo me impune lacessit , whom the provoked Beast easily destroys with his Paw , how much more a Nibler at the Heels of so many Lions at once ? One that casteth so much Dirt upon them , is in the high way to be destroyed , and the Nobles themselves not much damag'd thereby ? For if Dirt be cast upon a Mud-Wall , it may possibly stick , but it cannot do so upon Marble .

This scurrilous Libeller ( as suspecting his own strength in his Essay ) doth supplie with Policy his want of power and prowess .

He therefore first singleth out the Noble Earl of Essex , ( that brave Patriot for his King and Kingdom , ) as their Forlorn Hope , which could he but rout , then will he fall soul upon the main Body , that stood in a double File , or two in a Rank behind him . And in pursuance of this project he first assaults that single Earl , with subtile Insinuations , dipping his Nail ( he had to drive ) in Oil , to make it drive the deeper , not only to the Head , but to the Heart also . Thus like the Devil , he accosts the Earl with Flattering , before he come to his Frowning Work , which he comes to in the second place . Not only frowning upon the Earl , in telling him that he threatens his Majesty ( which his humble offer of Advice ( as he saith there ) can in no Grammatical sence without notorious wresting be so interpreted ) but also in giving that Noble Peer ( Tantamont ) the Lie , in upbraiding him with his weak Observation without the least ground in History , as if this obscure Whiffler ( ashamed of his own Name ) knew more both of the History and Mistery of our State than all those sixteen Lords , and all other the wisest of States-men .

However , he craftily quotes Baker's Chronicle only , and because he there found nothing of the Parliament at Clarendon , in Henry the II.'s Time , therefore he affronts the Earl with telling an Untruth : and he saith , the cause of that King's Unhappiness was from ambitious and discontented Grandees : But had he consulted Fuller's Church History , Cent. 12. lib . 3. pag . 32. and Prideaux's Introduction , pag . 319. edit. 2. ( both of them true Sons of the Church , and under Prelatical Order ) he would have found there , that the Parliament was called at Clarendon , to retrench the Enormities of the Clergy , where the Foundation of a Feud was laid , not so much 'twixt him and any ambitious Nobles , ( as the Pamphlet hinteth ) as betwixt him , and that Traitor-Saint . Becket , Arch-Bishop of Canterbury , who was a stubborn Patronizer of the debauched Clergy , with whom that King had many Bickerings ; and 't was not the Secular Lords ( as this Whiffler saith ) but this proud Spiritual Lord , Becket , who fomented the Difference betwixt this King , and Lewis the French King , Fuller , p. 33. with whom his own Son Henry sided against him , p. 40. And as to Henry the III . this Pamphleteer might have consulted the two fore-named Authors , as well as Baker , and there he would have found likewise something of an Insanum Parliamentum at Oxford , which proved prejudicial to Regality , Prideaux , p. 322. and how his immoderate and exasperating Favours ( cast upon Strangers ) drew on the Barons Wars ; and that the King's Non-age , after his Full-age , ( such was his Weakness of Spirit , and Lowness of Resolution ) was a great Cause of his Trouble , Fuller , ut supra , p. 55. who further saith , That the Barons had then too much Matter , whereon justly to ground their Discontent ; partly , because the King , distrusting his own Native Subjects , employed so many French Forreigners in Places of Power and Profit ; and partly , because he had used such indirect Courses to recruit his Treasuries , &c. More at large , Fuller , ibid . p. 66. Sect . 33. Yet was he happy in this , to redress all his Errors before he died , Sect . 38. granting that good Magna Charta , &c.

As to Henry the VI . our Libeller shuffles that up , and never quotes Baker , ( as he might have done ) who tells us , how the Duke of York first began to whisper for the Crown , p. 188 Col. 2. then secondly , made his way to the Crown , p. 190. Col. 1. After all this , takes the Oath of Allegiance to Henry the VI . p. 192. Col. 2. whom he cast out of his Throne , ( notwithstanding his Oath of Fidelity two several times , ) there being no less than four Changes in his Reign . But not a word of this must we hear from him , lest that should create the like Fears about the Duke of York at this time : For then did Richard Duke of York ( Edward the IV.'s Father ) get it confirmed by Parliament , to be Heir Apparent of the Crown ; and this is the great Contest of this Day . Neither doth he mention that Parliament held at Coventry , ( which that Honourable Lord in his Humble Address hinteth at ) wherein the Duke of York was convicted of High-Treason , and all his Lands and Goods confiscate to the King . This also had a Noli me tangere upon it , as being , like the afore-said , unsuitable to his Design , tho his Baker , whom he only quotes , do speak fully to all this , p. 196. Col. 1.

As to the Body of the Petition , I observe , this Libeller is a fast Friend to the plotting Papists , and would give us a Diversion from that kind of Cattel to the Presbyterians , ( whom he judge● far worse ) as if he had an hand in the Meal-Tub Intrigue .