To the People of England — June-5-1659

An Abhorring the bloudy Civill warr begun by Popular fury under S.X. T.FX. and O.P. and Continnued Under Fleet[woo]d Lamb[er]t Va[ne] Heisel[rigge] Coss: &c:

Whither O wicked Brood do'yea run
Is't not enough what was begun
In a mad Futy but do'yea still
Invent new Fewds and how to kill
Must Sword be drawn again t'appeas
As if on Land and on the Seas
Of English bloud ther had not been
Enough yet spent or Malice seen
Must warr prevaile ore Peace and Truth
Whilst evry London Prentice youth
Is taught to skorne and Trample downe
The Clergies Rights and Lawmans Goune
And that which to our Enemies we
Mought wish, as that They not agree
By home discention we preferr
To be our owne Executioner
Thus doe not wolves nor Lions rage
'Less 'gainst some Other Parentage
Are we more fell than Beasts? doth Power
And Force incite us to devower
Each Other? is not Fury blind
To Cause us t'rush on our owne kind?
Or is our Sin soe great; noe Fate
'Save This may serve to Expiate
Bereft at Once of speach and sence
What may be read or guathered thence
But that for Remus bloud once split
Posterety should feel the Guilt.