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And would not one think that a Nation of men in their wits, should after so long and sad experience of the mischiefs of hatred and division, be willing of the reviving of Love and Concord, and hate all motions of dividing any more? But alas, they hate them that would heal our wounds; and if any one lay on a healing Plaster, there are hands too many both Lay and Clergy, ready with rage to pull it off, and yet it's all on pretence of healing us, that they will not suffer us to be healed; for the way of peace they have not known. Unhappy Surgeons, that know no Balsam but Corrosives and Distilled Vinegar, yea no way of healing but by dismembering, even the usefullest members of the Body. Having learned of the Romish Leeches that live on blood, when they are for exhausting the vital Stock, and cast the Kingdom into a Palsy or Marasmus, they tell you it was all but corrupt or haemorrhoidal blood, and the loss of it necessary to cure the madness of the Land.

And would not one think that a Nation of men in their wits, should after so long and sad experience of the mischiefs of hatred and division, be willing of the reviving of Love and Concord, and hate all motions of dividing any more? But alas, they hate them that would heal our wounds; and if any one lay on a healing Plaister, there are hands too many both Lay and Clergy, ready with rage to pull it off, and yet it's all on pretence of healing us, that they will not suffer us to be healed; for the way of peace they have not known. Unhappy Surgeons, that know no Balsom but Corrosives and Distilled Vinegar, yea no way of healing but by dismembring, even the usefullest members of the Body. Having learned of the Romish Leeches that live on blood, when they are for exhausting the vital Stock, and cast the Kingdom into a Palsy or Marasmus, they tell you it was all but corrupt or haemorrhoidal blood, and the loss of it necessary to cure the madness of the Land.

The beginning of some reconciliation between the first contending Parties, began to flatter us with the hopes of Restored Love ⟨p. 21⟩and Quietness: Secret consultations prepared the way: Lords, Knights and Gentlemen, Print their Protestations for Oblivion and Reconciliation, and against Revenge. Hereupon those that by Land and Sea, in the three Kingdoms had fought against the King, restore him: The land rejoiceth in the smiling hopes of reviving Charity and Concord: The King chiefly causeth these hopes by his Declarations and Act of Oblivion, and specially his healing Gracious Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs. The house of Commons and the City Ministers give him thanks for it: Who would have thought now but such Experience, such Protestations, such Obligations, such Authorities should have put the whole Kingdom into a longing desire to perfect the work of Love and Peace? But it proved clean contrary: Some had other things in their Heads and Hearts; outlandish Fashions, especially French, have long been the Badge of English folly! There are men in Spain that trade much in the fire, and Queen Mary brought the trade into England: There are men in many other Foreign Lands, who are so devout that their Canons and Religion rule their appetites; And they love no meat like a Carbonadoed Protestant, nor are pleased with any Perfume or Incense so much as with the smell of a roasted Saint, first called a Heretic or Schismatic: Like the Roman Tyrant that gloried in the sweetness