And now to make an end of all, I wish the Roundheads had a fall, Or else were hanged in Goldsmith’s Hall. Amen. Benedicat Dominus. THE OLD PROTESTANT’S LITANY. Against all sectaries And their defendants, Both Presbyterians And Independents. Mr Walter Wilkins, in his Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, says, the imprint of this broadside intimates that it was published in “the year of Hope, 1647,” and Thomson, the collector, added the precise date, the 7th of September. THAT thou wilt be pleased to grant our requests, And quite destroy all the vipers’ nests, That England and her true religion molests, Te rogamus audi nos. That thou wilt be pleased to censure with pity The present estate of our once famous city; Let her still be govern’d by men just and witty, Te rogamus, etc. That thou wilt be pleased to consider the Tower, And all other prisons in the Parliament’s power, Where King Charles his friends find their welcome but sour, Te rogamus, etc. That thou wilt be pleased to look on the grief Of the King’s old servants, and send them relief, Restore to the yeomen o’ th’ Guard chines of beef, Te rogamus, etc. That thou wilt be pleased very quickly to bring Unto his just rights our so much-wrong’d King, That he may be happy in everything, Te rogamus, etc. That Whitehall may shine in its pristine lustre, That the Parliament may make a general muster, That knaves may be punish’d by men who are juster, Te rogamus, etc. That now the dog-days are fully expired, That those cursed curs, which our patience have tired, May suffer what is by true justice required, Te rogamus, etc. That thou wilt be pleased to incline conquering Thomas (Who now hath both city and Tower gotten from us), That he may be just in performing his promise, Te rogamus, etc. That our hopeful Prince and our gracious Queen (Whom we here in England long time have not seen) May soon be restored to what they have been, Te rogamus, etc. That the rest of the royal issue may be From their Parliamentary guardians set free, And be kept according to their high degree, Te rogamus, etc. That our ancient Liturgy may be restored, That the organs (by sectaries so much abhorr’d) May sound divine praises, according to the word, Te rogamus, etc. That the ring in marriage, the cross at the font, Which the devil and the Roundheads so much affront, May be used again, as before they were wont, Te rogamus, etc.