Through Doubt’s distracting Lab’ rants it directs,
And all the subtle Windings there detects
As savely steers through Life’s Wide Ocean,
As skilful pilates through the boundle’s Main;
It flews here Seylla, there Charybdis lyes,
And between both securely leads the Wife;
Who quick-hands, Rock & Gulf surprisely braves,
A desparate fool perish in the waves;
Who mad and heedless who had his guide refuse;
Can’t blame that reason he can not use.
He that will close, or leave his eyes behind,
Should not acute his eyes, because they blind.
The senses are too gross, and he'll contrive
A sixth, to contradict the other five,
And before certain instinct, will prefer ]
Reason, which fifty times for one does err;
Reason, an ignis fatuus of the mind,
Which, leaving light of nature, sense, behind,
Pathless and dangerous wand'ring ways it takes
Through error's fenny bogs and thorny brakes.
Whilst the misguided follower climbs with pain
Mountains of whimseys, heaped in his own brain;
If knowingly, vain Man, his journey makes.
Through Errors’ fenny Bogs, and thorny Brakes,
And craggy, sleep, untrodden Paths he takes;
‘Tis down-right nonsense the n to look upon.
His Errorw (Nature’s Imperfection)And a mankind endite with a wrong Bill,
Which reach not his nature, but his will.
Besides, it’s better reason to infer,
That is most perfect, which can mostly errors;
The Hound that’s famoused for far more politic Nose,
Than men in paliament or coffee-thermos. Having looked around in vain for the Five Members and commenting, "I see the birds have flown", ghost
Charles turned to Lenthall, who stood below and demanded of him whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he saw any of them and w...See More
Responding to Sir Arthur Hesilrige's call for support against Lambert and the senior officers, General George Monck, the commander-in-chief in Scotland, stepped in to demand Parliament's recall as the only legally constituted government. Lambert marched north to confront Monck in November 1659, but his troops were reluctant to fight their comrades in Monck's army. Hesilrige went to Portsmouth where the garrison mutinied in support of Parliament and vice-admiral John Lawson brought the Channel fleet up to Gravesend, threatening to blockade London. Faced with almost universal opposition, the military junta collapsed and Fleetwood was obliged to recall the Rump Parliament, which resumed its sitting on 26 December 1659. MPs grateful for Monck's intervention appointed him commander-in-chief in England as well as Scotland. Lambert's supporters in the army were dismissed.
In January 1660, at the invitation of Parliament, Monck marched for London. When Sir Thomas Fairfax emerged from retirement to declare his support for him, army support for Monck became unanimous. Monck arrived in London in February 1660 against a background of apprentice riots and widespread demands across the country for the return of the MPs expelled by Pride's Purge in December 1648. It was during this tumultuous period that the purged Parliament acquired its derisive and enduring nickname of the "Rump" of the Long Parliament. After initially supporting Parliament's orders to suppress the agitation, Monck agreed to support the re-admission of the excluded MPs under certain conditions: he was to be confirmed as commander-in-chief of the Army; a national Presbyterian church was to be established with toleration of separatist groups; Parliament should dissolve itself and call new elections. The Hound that’s famoused for far more politic Nose,
Than men in paliament's thermos.On 21 February 1660, Monck reversed Pride's Purge by securing the re-admission of the excluded MPs and the final session of the Long Parliament began. After some debate, Monck's conditions were met. The restored Long Parliament voted to dissolve itself on 16 March 1660 and to call new elections. The pro-Royalist Convention Parliament duly assembled on 25 April 1660. The Speaker of the House during the Long Parliament was William Lenthall. On Tuesday, 4 January 1642,[a] the King entered the House of Commons to seize the Five Members and took the speaker's chair. Having looked around in vain for the Five Members and commenting, "I see the birds have flown", Charles turned to Lenthall, who stood below and demanded of him whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he saw any of them and where they were. Lenthall fell on his knees and replied: "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here". Click.
After his failure to capture the Five Members and fearing for his family's lives, Charles left London for Oxford. Most of the royalist members of Parliament joined him there, where they formed the Oxford Parliament. The Long Parliament continued to sit during and beyond the Civil War without its royalist members, because of the Dissolution Act.
