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A27320	The Roundheads, or, The good old cause a comedy as it is acted at His Royal Highness the Dukes Theatre / by Mrs. A. Behn.	Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.; Tatham, John, fl. 1632-1664. Rump.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1761; ESTC R4272	52,860	68

whom do you derive your Title of Ladies La. Feet Have a care how you usurp what 's not you own Lov. How the Devil rebukes Sin aside La. Des. From whom had you your Honours Women Lov. From our Husbands Gill. Husbands who are they and of what standing 2 Lad. Of no long standing I confess Gill. That 's a common Grievance indeed La. Des. And ought to be redress'd La. Lam. And that shall be taken into consideration write it down Gilliflower Who made your Husband a Knight Woman Lov. Oliver the first an 't please ye La. Lam. Of horrid Memory write that down who yours 2 La. Richard the Fourth an 't like your Honour Gill. Of sottish Memory Shall I write that down too La. Des. Most remarkably Cro. Heav'ns Can I hear this Profanation of our Royal Family aside La. Lam. I wonder with what impudence Noll and Dick cou'd Knightifie your Husbands for 't is a Rule in Heraldry that none can make a Knight but him that is one 'T is Sancha Pancha's Case in Don Quixot Crom. How dare you question my Husband's Authority rises in Anger Who nobly won his Honour in the Field Not like thy sneaking Lord who gain'd his Title From his Wife's gay Love-tricks Bartering her Honour for his Coronet La. Lam. Thou ly'st my Husband earn'd it with his Sword braver and juster than thy bold Usurper who waded to his Glory through a Sea of Royal Blood La. Des. Sure Loveless has done good on her and converted her La. Fleet. Madam I humbly beg you will be patient You 'll ruine all my Lord's Designes else Women proceed to your Grievances both publick and private Lov. I petition for a Pension my Husband deceas'd was a constant active man in all the late Rebellion against the Man he plunder'd my Lord Capel he betray'd his dearest Friend Brown Bushel who trusted his Life in his hands and several others plundering their Wives and Children even to their Smocks La. Lam. Most considerable Service and ought to be consider'd 2 La. And most remarkably at the Tryal of the late Man I spit in 's Face and betray'd the Earl of Holland to the Parliament Crom. In the King's Face you mean it shew'd your zeal for the Good Cause 2 La. And 't was my Husband that headed the Rabble to pull down Gog and Magog the Bishops broke the Idols in the Windows and turn'd the Churches into Stables and dens of Thieves rob'd the Altar of the Cathedral of the twelve pieces of Plate call'd the twelve Apostles turn'd eleven of 'em into Money and kept Iudas for his own use at home La. Fleet. On my word most wisely perform'd note it down 3 La. And my Husband made Libels on the Man from the first Troubles to this day defam'd and profan'd the Woman and her Children printed all the man's Letters to the Woman with Burlesque Marginal Notes pull'd down the sumptuous Shrines in Churches and with the golden and Popish Spoils adorn'd his own Houses and Chimney Pieces La. Lam. We shall consider these great Services Lov. To what a height is Impudence arriv'd aside La. Lam. Proceed to private Grievances Lov. An 't please your Honours my Husband prayes too much which both hinders his private Bus'ness at home and his Publick Services to the Commonwealth La. Lam. A double Grievance set it down Gilliflower Lov. And then he rails against the Whore of Babylon and all my Neighbours think he call me Whore Crom. A most unpardonable fault La. Lam. We 'll have that rectify'd it will concern us Lov. Then he never kisses me but he sayes a long Grace which is more mortifying than inviting La. Des. That is the fault of all the new Saints which is the reason their Wives take a pious care as much as in them lies to send 'em to Heaven by making 'em Cuckolds La. Fleet. A very charitable work and ought to be encourag'd Loveless gives in a Petition to Gilliflower Gill. The humble Petition of the Lady Make-shift reads Heav'ns Madam here is many thousand hands to 't of the distressed Sex All. Read it Gill. reads Whereas there pass'd an Act Iune 24th against Fornication and Adultery to the great detriment of most of the young Ladies Gentlewomen and Commonalty of England and to the utter decay of many whole Families especially when married to old men your Petitioners most humbly beg your Honours will take this great Grievance into Mature Consideration and that the said Act may be repealed a blessing on 'em they shall have my hand too La. Lam. We acknowledge there are many Grievances in that Act but there are many Conveniences too for it ties up the Villanous Tongues of men from boasting our Favours Crom. But as it layes a Scandal on Society 't is troublesom Society being the very Life of a Republick Peters the first and Martin the Second Lov. But in a Free State why shou'd not we be free La. Des. Why not we stand for the Liberty and Property of our Sex and will present it to the Committee of Safety Lov. Secondly we desire the Heroicks vulgarly call'd the Malignants may not be look'd on as Monsters for assuredly they are Men and that it may not be charg'd to us as a Crime to keep 'em company for they are honest men 2 L. And some of 'em men that will stand to their Principles La. Lam. Is there no other honest men that will do as well 3 La. Good men are scarce La. Lam. They 're all for Heroicks sure 't is the mode to love 'em I cannot blame ' em aside Lov. And that when we go to Mornings and Evenings Lectures to Tantlings or elsewhere and either before or after visit a private Friend it may be actionable for the Wicked to scandalize us by terming of it ●busing the Creature when 't is harmless recreating the Creature All. Reason Reason Lov. Nor that any Husband shou'd interupt his Wife when at her private Devotion Enter Page La. Lam. I have been too late sensible of that Grievance Gill. And Madam I wou'd humbly pray a Patent for Scolding to ease my Spleen Pag. An please Your Highness here 's a Messenger arriv'd Post with Letters from my Lord the General Ex. Pag. La. Lam. Greater Affairs oblige us to break up the Council Rises the Women retire Enter Page with Messenger or Letters What means this Haste Opens and reads ' em Crom. Hah bless my Eye-sight she looks pale now red again some Turn to his Confusion Heav'n I beseech thee La. Lam. My Lord 's undone His Army has deserted him Left him denfenceless to the Enemies Pow'r Ah Coward Traytors Where 's that brutal Courage That made ye so successful in your Villanies Has Hell that taught ye Valour now abandon'd ye How in an Instant are my Glories fall'n Crom. Ha ha ha What has your Highness any cause of Grief Gill. Call up your Courage Madam do not let these things scoff you you may be yet a Queen Remember what Lilly

THE ROUNDHEADS OR The Good Old Cause A COMEDY As it is Acted at His Royal Highness the DUKES Theatre By Mrs. A. Behn LONDON Printed for D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple bar and Benskin in St. Brides Church Yard and H. Rhodes next door to the Bear Tavern neer Bride Lane in Fleetstreet MDCLXXXII To the Right Noble Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Grafton Earle of Sutton Viscount of Ipswich Baron of Sudbury Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Colonell of his Majesties Regiment of Foot Guards c. May it please Your Grace DEdications which were Originally design'd as a Tribute to that Reverence and just esteem we ought to pay the Great and Good are now so corrupted with Flattery that they rarely either find a Reception in the World or merit that Patronage they wou'd implore But I without fear Aproch the great Object being above that mean and mercenary Art nor can I draw the Lovely Picture half so charming and so manly as it is and that Author may more properly boast of a Lucky Hi●t whose choice and fortune is so good then if he had pleas'd all the different ill Iudging world besides in the business of the Play for none that way can ever hope to please all in an Age when Faction rages and differing Parties disagree in all things But coming the first day to a new Play with a Loyal Title and then even the sober and tender conscienc'd throng as to a forbidden Conventicle fearing the Cub of their old Bear of Reformation should be expos'd to the scorn of the wicked and dreading tho but the faint shadow of their own deformity their Rebellion Murders Massacres and Villanies from 40 upwards should be Represented for the better undeceiving and informing of the World flock in a full Assembly with a pious design to Hisse and Rail it as much out of countenance as they would Monarchy Religion Laws and Honesty throwing the Act of Oblivion in our Teeths as if that whose mercy can not make them forget their Old Rebellion cou'd hinder honest truths from breaking out upon 'em in Edifying Plays where the Loyal hands ever out-do their venom'd Hisse a good and happy omen if Poets maybe allowd for Prophets as of old they were and t is as easily seen at a new Play how the Royal Interest thrives as at a City Election how the good Old Cause is carried on as a Noble Peer lately said Tho' the Tories have got the better of us at the Play we carried it in the City by many Voyces God be praysed This Play call'd The Roundheads which I humbly lay at your Graces feet Pardon the Title and Heaven defend you from the bloody Race was carryed in the House nemine contra dicente by the Royal Party and under your Graces Ilustrious Patronage is safe from any new Seditious affronts abroad Your Grace alone whom Heaven and Nature has form'd the most adorable Person in the whole Creation with all the advantages of a Glorious birth has a double right and power to defend all that aproch you for sanctuary your very Beauty is a guard to all you daigne to make safe for You were born for Conquest every way even what Phanatick what peevish Politition testy with Age Diseases miscarried Plots disappointed Revolutions envious of Power of Princes and of Monarchy and mad with Zeal for Change and Reformation could yet be so far lost to sence of Pleasure as not to turn a Rebel to Revenge the Good old Cause and the patronage to Plebean sedition with only looking on you ' twoud force his meger face to blushing smiles and make him swear he had mistook the side curse his own Party and if possible be reconcild to Honesty again such power have charms like Yours to calm the soul and will in spight of You plead for me to the disaffected even when they are at Wars with Your Birth and power But this Play for which I humbly beg Your Graces Protection needs it in a more peculiar manner it having drawn down Legions upon its head for its Loyalty what to Name us cryes one t is most abominable unheard of daring cryes another she deserves to be swing'd cryes a third as if t were all a Libel a scandal impossible to be provd or that their Rogueries were of so old a Date their Reign were past remembrance or History when they take such zealous care to renew it daily to our memories And I am satisfied that they that will justifie the best of these Traytors deserves the fate of the worst and most manifestly declare to the World by it they wou'd be at the Old Game their fore-Fathers played with so good success yet if there be any honest loyal man alied to any here nam'd I heartily beg his Pardon for any offensive Truth I have spoken and 't is a wonderful thing that amongst so Numerous a Flock they will not allow of one mangy Sheep not one Rogue in the whole Generation of the Association Ignoramus the 1st and the 2d But as they are I leave e'm to your Grace to Iudge of e'm to whom I humbly present this small Mirror of the late wretched Times wherein your Grace may see something of the Miseries three the Most Glorious Kingdoms of the Vniverse were reduc't to where your Royal Ancestors victoriously Reign'd for so many hundred years How they were Govern'd Parcell'd out and deplorable inslav'd and to what Low Prostituted Lewdness they fell at last where the Nobility and Gentry were the most contemn'd and despis'd part of them and such Meane and till then obscure Villains Rul'd and Tyraniz'd that no Age nor Time or scarce a Parish Book makes mention or cou'd show there was any such Name or Family Yet these were those that impudently Tug'd for Empire and Prophan'd that Illustrious Throne and Court so due then and possest now through the infinite Mercies of God to this bleeding Nation by the best of Monarchs a Monarch who had yet the divine goodness to Pardon even his worst of Enemies what was past Nay out of his Vast and God-like Clemency did more than Heaven it self can do put it out of his Power by an Act of Oblivion to punish the unparalell'd Injuries done His Sacred Person and the rest of the Royal Family How great his Patience has been since I leave to all the World to judge but Heaven be prais'd he has not yet forgot the Sufferings and Murders of the Glorious Martyr of ever blessed memory Your Graces Sacred Grandfather and by what Arts and Ways that Devilish Plot was layed and will like a skilful Pilate by the wreck of one Rich Vessell learn how to shun the danger of this present Threatning and saved the rest from sinking The Clouds already begin to disappear and the face of things to change thanks to Heaven His Majesties infinite Wisdom and the Over-Zeal of the falsly called True Protestant Party Now we may pray for the