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A LETTER TO A FRIEND Concerning the Next PARLIAMENT'S Sitting at 0XF0RD.
Honest Tom,
HAving undergone the Gloomy Day and Newes of the Parliaments Dissolution, &c. as also the good Newes that it is his Majesties pleasure to Order my Lord Chan∣cellor to issue out. Writs in order to the Election of ano∣ther, all I say by the way is this, (Cavete Angli) Look to it you Free-holders of England, that you observe the good Advice contained in the Writ: But they are to Sit at Ox∣ford: And indeed, honest Tom, I think that in the time of the Sickness the then Parliament sat at the said place. And alas! now Tom it's a sick State, a sick Nation, a sick People, all sick, and to be feared near Death; And now to Oxford again must the parliament go. But Tom dost think London's Air to be infected ? I must confess, a bold Rogue of our Intimacy said, If it were, or any Parts ad∣joyning, it was then the Western end. But however, we know Oxford is a clear Air, and a goodly Place, likewise a Sumptuous Theatre for them to Act their parts in, and so let 'um march thitherwards. And I with them all Pro∣sperity and Felicity, and withall that there may be no Rogues, pensioners, or Fellowes that love their Pockets better than their Countrey; which I cordially wish for, who am,
Honest Tom,
Thy Old Friend and Companion, Philanglus.