An exact description of Prince Ruperts malignant she-monkey, a great delinquent

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An exact description of Prince Ruperts malignant she-monkey, a great delinquent
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[London] :: Printed for E. Johnson,
1643.
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Political satire, English
Great Britain -- History
Rupert, -- Prince, Count Palatine, -- 1619-1682 -- Humor
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Her malignant tricks and qualities.

First, she hath never a good condition: for find a whore without bad qualities, and a monkey without mad tricks, and you may hang them both together.

She is most certainly a great malignant, & cares not how the Cause goes forward, so she may sit on her taile end crack-nuts.

She is unconstant, and will leap from place to place, as the Brownist doth from point to point in his Sermons, and it may be supposed that she learnt her giddy actions from her halfe cousins, which are Baboons. Violent she is in all her actions, and would tear the Miter from the Bishops, and pul the Crown from the sacred brow of Majesty, if she were permitted to come neere them, for she doth love to rend, teare, and demolish all things, as the Brownists doe. Her dyet is a le mode de France, that is, after the French fashion, for she loves kick-shaws, and dairty novelties, and hath a constant appetite to delectable things, as if her mouth were made onely for a Lenton mill to grind figs, almonds, and raisens, and it is doubtfull whether La∣dies instructed her, or she taught them to waste time in devou∣ring sugar-plums and sweet-meats, for she will eate more then a parish Mid-wife. And because she is a Court Delinquent, and ready to play shrewd turnes there, if she be not prevented; she is therefore tyed to the nave of a wheele, which she rowls be∣fore 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as Prince Rupert tumbles about the wheel of Fortune, and ro••••l his Fate before him, pillaging and plundring where∣soever he comes.

And now we talk of plundering, this Monkey is by nature a notable plunderer, for if she were put into a Study of Classicall Authors or into one of the shops in Pauls-Churchyard, do you think she would reade any of the Books? No, but in the Study she would teare and rend all the papers and letters that shee could find, and all the books, then she would spill the ink up∣on the table, and poure out all the sand-dust. If Prince Rupert should but let her raise an Army of Monkeys, or transport them hither by shipping from beyond Sea, it is thought that this Mon∣key with an Army of Malignant Monkeys would come and

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plunder all the Coster-mongers houses in London, and all the Fruiterers stalls; and moreover, she and her Forces would plunder all the Ladies closets, and make vile worke amongst their sweet-meats; but yet she would be more merciful then Prince Rupert, for she would take away no gold or silver, but nuts, cakes, apples, ginger-bread, and the like, should be all her pillage, which she would seize upon. Besides all these tricks, she is a cunning jugler, for she can cast a mist before soldiers eyes, so that when they think they have gotten their pay in their own hands, if they do but open their hands, they shall find no∣thing in them but a rusty musket or a pike. Morever, if she should come into a Church, if she did but breathe or blow upon a Ser∣vice-book, and afterward bid a Brownist open it, he would sweare that all the leaves were ful of nothing but Crosses, Ima∣ges, Beads, Surplices, Hoods, Coaps, and all kind of Popish Ce∣remonies. It is thought that she made the Adamites walk na∣ked, so that the holy sisters thought it a divine innocence to shew their Monkeys to their zealous brethren. The Family of love had the same zeale to monkifie themselves, and through the provocation of the spirit (which they called holy zeal) they became as lustfull as monkeys, and none must be admitted into their conventicles, but the monkified brethren and sisters of the family. Thus P. Ruperts Monkey is a kind of old, little, wrink∣led, old faced, petulant, wanton, and malignant gentlewoman, the little whore of Babylon in a green coat, that somtimes rides upon the beast that is Prince Ruperts dog, that tempts the Prince by her lascivious gestures, to think oftner on a woman then he would do, though I beleeve he dare stand for the femi∣nine cause, and hath plundered some Ladies cabynits as wel as Countrey towns. She is indeed a skin-ful of folly, a malignant ancient gentlewoman, a Cavalier-monkey, a jugler, that hath turned the University-caps to Court-feathers. It is fit therefore she should be delivered up, and baited to death this Lent, before the well-affected brethren; who without doubt wil grant this to be a considerable motion concerning Prince Ruperts malignant Monkey:

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Prince Ruperts Monkey is a toy, That doth exceed his dog calld Boy, Which through dogged folly, Both barkes and bites But this delights, The Prince when's melancholy.
He puts sweetemeats and sugar plumbs Into his Monkeys tothlesse gums, Which open like an oyster, For he doth esteeme, A wench I meane, More then a Nun in a Cloister.
And all his Cavaleeroes bold, That live at Oxford uncontrould, When as they are halfe drunkish, Their heate to quench, Will have a wench, That Lusty is and Monkish.

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