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OXFORD BESIEDGED, Surprised, Taken, and Pittifully Entred on Munday the second of Iune last, 1645. by the Valiant Forces of the London and Westminster Parliament.


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[For Browne, for Skippon, Cromwell, and for Fairfax]

For Browne, for Skippon, Cromwell, and for Fairfax,
Wee have a well string'd Instrument at Cairfax,
And that if they doe but their Worke by halves,
The Parliament would Hang em up like Calves.

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Postcript, or an old said saw of the Malignants.

Wise men Labour, Good men Grieve,
Knaves invent, and Fooles believe,
Then helpe us Lord, and stand unto us,
Or Knaves and Fooles will quite undoe us.
FINIS.