Mercurius verax, or, The prisoners prognostications for the year 1675 wherein are prophesied several truths of very great moment yet to come to pass, which he that contradicts let him have a care he does not find them true by experience / by the author of the first Montelion and Satyr against hypocrites.

June's Observations.

COmets and Ecclipses are generally the forerunners of strange Alterations in the sublunary world. But they were never yet so luckie as to foretel humanity in an un∣der keeper; Not all the Influences of Sun or Moon, constellations or single starrs could ever alter their unalterable dispositions. Men before, but coming to that office, meta∣morphosed on a suddain into Tigers, Wolves and Canibals. They may strut in fine clothes, fat with feasting on the forbidden fruits of extortion and selling unlawful libertie at such unlawful rates, that Nero could do no more when he gave more then Parthia was worth to the Parthian King to teach him the Art of Necromancie, though what will a Prisoner not do, that has it? what will he not expend, to conjure down, and appease the evil Demon that so torments and haunts him worse then the Ghost of Agrippina? Yet if any of them would be so kind as to melt in∣to Mercy and Honestie we would certainly have a Cabal of Astrologers to place him in the Sky. What a miraculous thing would it be to see a Christian Officer shining in the room of a heathenish constellation? The Jaylor in the Acts fall down at the feet

of his two Prisoners, when he saw such a ter∣rible Habeas Corpus come from heav'n tore∣move them. But it is to be feared; had those Prisners bin here now, the Earth might have shook as well as the Prison, 'ere it could have shaken the heart of an English Petty Tyrant, that since the cannot alter them one way, they are resolved they shall be as unalterable another way; for by the unanimous consent of the whole host of Hea∣ven, never any one of them, from the highest to the lowest ever did or shall die worth a groat.