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MAD VERSE, SAD VERSE, GLAD VERSE and Bad VERSE.
May 10th Oxford 1644
I Weeping sing the maddest mad Rebellion,
That ever Story told, or Tongue can tell ye on:
The Barbarous Wars of th' Heathen Gothes, and Vandalls,
Did never make their names such Odious Scandalls:
The Turkes, the Jewes, the Canniballs and Tartars,
Ne're kept such wicked, Rude, unruly Quarters.
Jerusalems Eleazer, Iohn and Simon,
Did ne're yeeld Poet baser stuffe to Rime on.
Not bloody Sylla, or consuming Marius,
Into so many mischiefes could e're carry us;
The Roman and th' Jmperiall Guelphes and Gibellins,
Vnto our English Rebells are but Quiblins.
Not Munsters Iohn a Leyd, or Knipperdoling,
Did ever use such Pilling and such Poleing;
Nor was their Cheating or their Hare-braind trouble like
As ours, (rais'd by the faithlesse Faith call'd Publique.)
The Royall twain, Lancastrians, and Yorkists,
Were ne're so mad as those Cornuted Forkists.