The following are three small verses written by John Gwyn, who was a loyal Ensign in the First English Civil War for the Royalist cause. Later serving Charles II in the Earl of Holland's Regiment before the Restoration. Gwyn stated that "...I made in verse upon my inseparable devotion to loyalty I called mistress; with my invective in a short character of Cromwell, and his never-to-be-forgotten Long Parliament, who had hanged me for my loyalty...."
On inseparable devotion to Loyalty called "Mistress" -
I am so fond a lover grown,
That for my mistress' cause could die;
Nor would enjoy my love alone,
But wish her millions more than I.
I am devoted to her hand;
A willing sacrifice could be,
If she be pleased but to command,
To die is easy unto me.
On Cromwell's Character -
He's a sort of a devil, whose pride so vast,
As he were thrown beyond Lucifer's cast,
With greater curse, that his plagues may excel
In killing torments, and a blacker Hell! .
Upon the Long Parliament -
They tire the devil, for they would be worse
Than he himself, when he received a curse;
Sure it pained him to hatch so foul a brood,
Vile, pickled villians, damned through every mood,
Oh! strange they are not swallowed where they sit,
'Tis blasphemy to think what they commit. .
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