malignant stars, for, within two lines, the great bear is called Charleswain.

By this you will imagine malignants are in heaven; but we and they shall scarce meet in one place; for else it were madness in us to kill them, because thereby we send them to be happy. But they, as well as we, would fain live, and would have good estates, as they had before, and as we have now. It is in our power whether they shall live, but not whether we ourselves shall die; for, though our army be as strong to-day as yesterday, yet our own bodies draw near death.

Behold it in me, and remember Naseby, which made us what we are; how the king's best men, when the victory was theirs, took a bottomless fancy of running all away, having done the like at MarstonMoor. I have known six thousand, and no cowards neither, fly all like bedlams, when no enemy was within seventeen miles; and, if they were all examined upon oath, they could not tell why. And they say, that one poor wooden horse at Troy did more than all our army in the Indies. It is certain, no woman is so fickle as an army. I speak not for myself, for it is well known I have done my part; sure I have killed better things than bears, and killed them as men should be killed, either in the field, or in a high-court of justice; the best cavalier among them all, the king himself, judged to the block; my Lord Hewson is my witness, for he sat next to me. Perhaps, they think my Lord Hewson and I not fit to be judges, because of our trades; but let them shew me one text of Scripture, where brewers and shoemakers are forbidden to be judges. I confess, in juries of life and death, we except against a butcher, as blooded in slaying of sheep and calves; but, if he only kil bears and men, he may be either a juror or a judge. I knew a judge did use to mend stockings, I spare his name, because he did a business for me, and it is as lawful to mend shoes as stockings; and, if a judge may be a cobler, a cobler may be a judge.

As for me, it is true, I have borne a sling, which made a knave call me, Sir Thomas Slingshy; but I made the Slingshy's shorter for it by one, and that one shorter by the head; and had done as much for young Mordaunt, but that, having drank white-wine that morning, I stepped forth to the wall, and, before I could return, Mordaunt was quit. Thus the life of man is but a pissing-while. But what if I have borne a sling; did not David so too? The difference is, he laid by his sword and took up a sling, and I laid by my sling, and took up a sword.

Kings, lords, and gentlemen take money for their lands; others sow it, and sell the corn to us; we advance it to good beer and ale, and then sell the drink to those kings, lords, and gentlemen; and thus the cup goes round. They sell for money, and we sell for money; and, if a shilling had a tongue as well as a face, it would say, sir, I am but twelve-pence, whether you meet me in the brew-house or in the excheIt is true, there are divers sorts of shillings; some are brass, impudent rogues, who, when discovered, are nailed to a post; some are lead, heavy dull beasts that will not go; others are right metal, but clipped, poor decimated things, that would go and cannot. But brass is brass, and silver is silver, at court and at Pye-corner. I was as warm in my leather-jacket as in my scarlet-cloke.

quer.

It is strange, what an eye-sore that cloke was to some, as if the gar ment itself could sin. Indeed, we had a man that used to hang his cloke in my brew-house, as country folks hang wool over pails of water to make it weight, and so, though not be, yet his cloke was a drun kard. But, cloke and jacket, I was the same man; I never denied, but still kept my trade; and, if others had done so, a hundred thousand lives had been saved. At last I got to be brewer to the navy, and, if each man had drank like the whale of Greenwich, I could have filled them all; for I had three brew-houses, one at London, another at Kingston, and a third at Edinburgh. And why might not I have three brew-houses, as well as assembly-men three benefices? They were my livelihood, as theirs were their livings.

One of those fellows at Margaret's Westminster, who had four preferments given him by the state, would needs teach us now to live by a word. You will ask, said he, what word is that; it is faith; get faith, and I will undertake you may live gentlemanlike; but that rascal brake his own word with me, and died twelve pounds in my debt. I grant, he was the first that told me my sirname came from a King of Rome, called, as I remember, Turkquinius Suparbus (there were seven of those kings, but they are long since dead) and thence call me*, one of the seven deadly sins; they may as well call me one of the seven wisemen, or one of the seven planets, or seven wonders of the world. But, if we credit such as he, it is a very hard thing not to be a king. They will prove, if you pay them, that Rhombus and Remus, that founded Rome, were of English extraction; I know not whether we had the same mother, but it is said many of us had the same nurse; but I never cared three-pence for their praise: therefore, I pray ye vex not my corpse. with a huge monument, which cannot protect itself, nor me; and many a man's bones had slept in quiet, if his prating tomb had not told where he lay.

And trouble not my ghost with any of their elegies, Latin or English; they make a man but laughed at, and are not worth a handful of grains. I do not mean Mr. George Withers, for he got the statue. office by rhyming; he hath now sold that office, but when will he sell his verses? A statue lies upon them, so as no-body will buy them. It is not a month since one of the state's poets brought me an anagram for me and my wife; but I hear those anagrams should be all fetched into a court of wards; for, although they have not wit enough for luna. ticks, they are dull enough for idiots. But now they will all at me: what a heap of paltry quibbles and clinches will they throw upon me? You will hear them cry, Now Pride hath a fall ;-now there are but six deadly sins. O sir, are you there with your bears? They but saw me stand, holding my crabtree-cudgel upright, and they cried, Lo, there is the bear and the ragged-staff! How have they dragged my poor name, and set me back from P. to B. to make me born in Bride's church. porch? It is false, and nonsense, to call me Bride, though my wife was so, when I led her to church. I know they will tell you of my letter to a friend, where, instead of my best beer, I wrote, I have sent my best bear. But all letters and books are false; there is none of them

Because my name is Pride.

honest, except the Bible. I have an abridgment of an English Chro nicle, which drowns the Duke of Clarence in a rundlet of Malmsey; the duke might as soon be drowned in a thimble; but, perhaps, it is a whole tun in the Chronicle, for my book is but a pitome. Hang names and words; Greek and Latin will not make an honest man; and a man may speak truth without true spelling.

I remember, when I dined with the Florida ambassador at Alderman Nowel's, where we had Florence wines, I told the alderman, that, when that ambassador got home to his country, he would send us more of that Florida wine. They all smiled, but what cared I ? It were not two-pence to me, if Florida were in Italy, and Florence in the Indies; they should remember I was a brewer, not a vintner.

But I am posting thither, where there are no quibbles, though I fear (in the weak condition I am now) I myself have been forced upon many; for dying men talk idly, and he, that is sick and talks much, can hardly escape from quibbles and nonsense. And I hope you will pardon my baiting your patience so long with the bears: consider, it was the great action of my life, and the only thing, in the opinion of many, that would lie upon my conscience. I confess, I thought the lease of my life had not been expired; there is breath enough in the world, but I must have no more of it; for death, death, is the grand malignant, and a malignant fever is his lieutenant-general, and (which is worse) the new disease is his major-general; a disease which sweeps through all counties of England. And, though the weekly bills of mortality know not us who die in the country, yet it is my comfort I die here in my own house at Non-such. It was the king's house, and Queen Elisabeth loved this above all her houses; and some say, my wife looks like that queen, though the old Earl of Manchester was said to look like her. That queen might look like whom she pleased, for she by proclamation forbad any to draw her picture; but I would not have my wife like both her and him, and so make her a maphrodite. She hath brought me divers sons, and I leave them good estates; I hope I do, and would gladly leave a good name to keep them company. The very malignants say, my sons are civil persons; but, should I live a thousand years, they would not say so of me. I think it would not trouble them to see me renew acquaintance with my sling. But how many know ye, that, raised like me to power and command, have willingly returned to the place from whence they came?

They talk indeed of a Roman general, who came from the plough, Dick Tatort I think they call him, who, having beat the enemy, went home to the country, rich, and renowned for a very wise man. And they say, if that pitiful pilchard Massanellot, who had a hundred thou sand at his pleasure, had left his command, he had not been rewarded with a musquet-bullet, but had been honoured with a statue of gold. It is true, the Queen of Sweden, though born a king's daughter, resigned her crown, and vows she never lived happy till now: but her successor loves kingdoms better than so, and will only have as many as he can get.

Ignorantly, instead of Florence.

lick, Dictator.

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+ Ignorantly for the highest title in the Roman repubThe fisherman and rebel in Naples. CC

He soon swallowed Poland, and as soon disgorged it; and is now in Denmark, holding two forts, with two hard names, which stand like our Gravesend and Tilbury: and, had he strength to take ours too, I think in my conscience, he would make us all Danes. He has many designs, but all my design is only to save my estate and my soul.

Indeed, heretofore I had some little plots, but they did not all take: I thought to make the same horses serve both for my coach and dray, but I found my dray-horses were too high shod, and I might as well have harnessed the bears. And yet I know what belongs to horses; for I was the first that brought horses into Paul's, and those horses brought saddles; for a saddler hath set up another exchange there.

I was told Epsom water might do me good; but I durst not take it, having used the vicar so very severely, lest the parish-priest should unhallow the well; and, to say truth, from my youth I never used to drink water.

My youth minds me of the late earl of Pembroke; for, when he lay dying, as I do now, I went to visit him; and when they told him Colonel Pride was there, for then I was but colonel, 'Who! who,' said he, Pride? Oh, a precious youth!' but what had he to do with my youth? had I such strength and health as in my youth, I would not change with any lord in England. I now die a lord, and, had I lived as long as that earl, I might have been an earl as well as he. And I die the first of all the new lords; whereby you will see, whether our sons succeed us in the peerage.

I would have no barons war, though I fear a world of doubts will be raised about the other house. They will put it to the question, whether our house be within the act against new buildings; and, if within the act, whether as built upon a new foundation, or because it is a cot. tage? Then, after the foundation, have at the roof; whether it be tyled or thatched; I do not mean by Wat Tyler or Jack Straw, whether it be the upper house, or a garret, where old shoes, old casks, and such lumber is placed? Whether this high-court be a court of war, where none sit but officers? With a hundred such questions, too many for a dying man to remember. And truly, I myself have been much puzzled with the other house; for the commons is one house, and ours is the other; and ours is one house, and the commons is the other. And I would fain know how I should know one house from the other?

If I send my man to my brew-house, he will ask if I mean to London? No, say I, but to my other house; then goes he to Kingston: when he returns, I send him to my other house; then goes he to Lon. don and, when he comes back, I bid him not go to Kingston nor London, but to the other house; and then must he march to Edinburgh.

Thus a man must run through two nations before he can find this other house for this is the other, and that is the other, and all are the

• Church, turned into a stable by Colonel Pride, &c.

other house; though sure our house of peers is such, as there cannot be such another house.

I hope it is no offence in me, to compare the house of lords to a brew-house; for I am * of both houses: I know how men are at work in both, and what great heats are often in both, and how, in both, they all work for one man, yet every man for himself; with twenty more things, wherein the two housest agree.

The difference is, that we took the engagement against a house of lords, but not against a brew-house; but that was meant of the old house of peers, not the new; and a new house is worth two old ones; for the state hath a whole year's rent of a new house‡, if it stand within ten miles of London.

But, alas! (my good friends) I am now going to the lower house || whither we all must go sooner or later; and the best and greatest lord of us all, had rather go to the other house, than to the other world; for no brew-house is there, but a great oven that will never be cold. Therefore take heed; for, as we brew, so must we bake.

ARTICLES OF HIGH-TREASON,

AND OTHER HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS,

AGAINST THE

DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH **.

IMPRIMIS, that the said duchess hath, and still doth cohabit and keep company with the king, having had foul, nauseous, and contagious distempers, which, once possessing her blood, can never admit of a perfect cure, to the manifest danger and hazard of the king's person, in whose preservation is bound up the weal and happiness of the Protestant religion, our lives, liberties, and properties, and those of our posterity for ever.

II. She hath laboured to alter and subvert the government of church and state, now established by law, and, in the room thereof, to introduce popery and tyranny in the three kingdoms, by her counsels from time to time.

III. She hath, by her persuasion, countenance, and other artifices and insinuations, reconciled several of her servants, and others, natural born subjects, to the communion of the see of Rome, in defiance of the statute which makes it capital, Jac. 3, 4.

Both a lord and a brewer. ti. e. The brew-house and the house of lords. dinance of parliament, to enable them to carry on the war. viz. The grave.

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Louise de Querovaille. This half sheet was published by the favourers of the Duke of York, to rain her character with the people, because, as it is worded in the twentieth article, she endeavoured to foist herself and son upon the nation, to the detriment of the said duke, and strove to set him aside from the throne by the Bill of Exclusion. ** 1680.