While Eikon Basilike constructed an image of Charles as pious martyr-king, Cromwell's Bloody Slaughter-house did the obverse, vilifying Charles's opponents as "cursed Cains," "murtherers of the Father of your Countrey," "impudent Ravishers both of Church and State," "Monsters of Men," " putid Apostates," "execrable Saints," "shameless Sinners," and "trayterous Tyrants:"(61) and all this in only one of over one hundred impassioned pages!