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A pleasant and vvitty comedy: called, A new tricke to cheat the Divell . Written by R.D. Gent; New tricke to cheat the Divell
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Davenport, Robert, fl. 1623.
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severall sorts of Friers white and blacke Friers Gray Friers and crutched Friers Gen. 2. Good you call to my remembrance Among them one expert in the Art of Necromancy His Name Frier Iohn whom Islington hath Made famous through London Gef. Him I saw but now crosse by the doore Lo. Good Geffrey finde him out and gently intreat him hither But acquaint him not with the cause Gef. Sir I shall doe 't Tre. But hath he done such strange things Gen. 2. Wondrous sir he can transhape his spirits if fame Lye not into what forme he please to imitate me Or personate you he could produce a Divell In shape of this good ancient Gentlewoman Wo. A Divell sir like me Gen. 2. H' hath done 't in habite of a Constable And may doe 't in a Gentlewomans for his commons In the Friers he cares not he can for a need Conjure his bread from Spaine from France his wine His dyet from the utmost of the Earth Thus hath his fame given out Gen. 1. Would we might see him to make proofe of his cunning Enter Changeable and his daughter Anne Chan. And as I told thee Nan be swayed by mee I le make him thine employ my industry Counsell and paines to weane him by degrees From his wild course of desperate Melancholy I le seeke him out perswade him lay thy love As open as the mid-day hope in me And doubt not to prevaile An. Sir I am yours Ch. Thou knowest he loves me I was still his friend And friend with friend what cannot he performe Make thy selfe mine I le crosse thy Mothers workings And foole that Lords attempts onely be you of a more Temperate humour and more stay'd observing but what I Shall project for you and doubt not my performance An. You in all things Have prov'd your selfe a Father I le henceforth Strive to expresse a Daughter Ch. Then enough Wo. Here 's now my Husband he can speake it all Lo. But ere I question that of you faire Mistris Let me be first resolv'd is your Braine yet In a more setled temper An. Sir it is me thinkes I am new wakened from a Dreame in which I long have slumbering lost my selfe Wo. And now art found An. I am thanke Heaven and my good Fathers counsell and advice Chan. I held it wife a deed of charity did it for the Lords sake An. Sir henceforth I shall observe you better Lo. You now have wreath'd me with a Crowne of hopes Wo. Made me againe thy Mother and this worke Your ever patient and obedient wife Chan. Marry Heaven continue it wife 't is but need In conscience thou hast bin froward long enough Tre. These things so well succeeding pray resolve us In what forme doth this Divell haunt your house Chan. A womans sure Tre. So I told you sure your Mothers Chan. Troth she was somewhat shrewish like my wife But yet I thinke not hers Tre. Your reason sir Chan. This apparition was the full portract of a young beautious Lady Gen. 1. On my life Acadna then Lo. Acadna what 's Acadna Gen. 1. A harmelesse Spirit fashion'd from the Aire And yet assuming substance shape and forme That where she loves doth all the Offices Of a faire Lady can supply with gold Gen. 2. And all things to man usefull Chan So I have heard but this cannot be she For this had with her beauty so much terrour So much affright and horrour in her lookes Such a confused noyse with hellish sounds Able to drive the sences retrograde Turne reason into madnesse and invert Capacity to fury that I vow I would not to be heire of all the World Endure like night againe Enter Geffrey Frier Iohn Gen. 2. Here comes the Frier the man can best instruct us Io. Haile Gentlemen this man that stands at Livery And saith he doth belong to a great Lord Hath partly by intreates part by command Enforc'd me from my meditations backe To know his Lordships pleasure Lo. Welcome Frier 't is told us thou canst exorcise a spirit We have employment for thee Io. Expect you such things from religious men And of our holy Order Gen. 2. Come we know you are an Artist in that hidden skill And have commerce with mighty Asterothe That great Arch Divell Io. Now mercy Heaven who hath seduc'd you thus Gen. 1. Come come we know it And this withall in what men are most expect In that they are most dainty and so you In Dauncers and Musitions 't is found true Of all men where they are most excellent They are most curious to expresse their skill So no question you Gef. Remember Islington my Host my Hostesse and the Constable Should we be silent every Oyster-wife Fish-wife and those cry Milke and Orenges Can speake of your rare supper fye Frier Iohn And so dainty to your friends Io. Either I must take upon my selfe and by some tricke evade it Or else shame that which I have done before Lo. Nay gentle Frier Wo. For reverence of your Order Tre. As you would purchase us your lasting friends Gen. 1. Or make us at our deaths Give Legacies unto your holy Couent Gen. 2. Come we know what you can doe good Frier Io. What you make me a Conjurer Gef. A man of Art no more so much we know you are Io. Well what 's the businesse Lo. This Gentleman you know him Io. My good Master Lo. His house is haunted by a wicked spirit Which we would have you by your Art remove Io. As how Lo. To lodge one night within the Chamber And know of it the cause of its disturbance Or what might be the will of the deceass'd Which knowne and being performed the troubled Ghost Might rest in peace Io. Lodge where the foule fiend walkes A propper jest t' expose me to such danger So I might come to justifie the Proverbe Where had the Divell the Frier but where he was But I must face it out Pray Gentlemen which of you all Hath seene that Vision in what shape walkes it Chan. Like a woman sir but with such horrour And astonishment I tremble once to speake 't Io. And I to heare 't What a shee Divell now for all the World I would not once affront her bring me hither Ten thousand male Fiends I could charme their tongues Before one Female fury Chan. Sure this Frier is wittily conceited Io. Had it bin great Belioth Asteroth or Belzebub I durst affront them and confront them too Oh but the Divells Dam why against her There is no Prayer no Spell no Exorcisme No Circle that can hold her But appear'd she Wrinckled in Brow or faire and beautifull Chan. As lovely to the view as flourishing May Clad in the pride of Spring Io. So much the worse Well wot you that our Order is by Oath Confin'd from any meeting with that Sex Especially at Midnight and so late Scarce in the day-time durst I meet a face Of such Temptation but in dead of rest 'T would scandalize
his wife with Child a courtesie and so it fitly may Be call'd because it brings him to his Knees Tre. Still still misprision might I advise you proffer What you purpose and if refus'd so leave him Lo. Counsail'd well there 's twenty pieces for you Sl. For a wife Her Ladyship is yours for nought already And should I sell her twice Lo. This saucy fellow usurpes upon our patience Which we 'le punish be our strong hand Sl. A punisher my Lord what beg the Beadles Office Gef. Dash out 's braines Sl. I doubt his Lord ships warrant is not currant therefore I le not obey As they strive to oppresse him Ent. Rog. They 2. beate of the other 3. Rog. Sir all 's dispatcht but by my faith I lye Here 's something here to doe Why God a mercy Master I perceive Your spirits not all spent Sl. Thankes to thy Sword or I had bin oppress'd else Rog. But how differ'd you to be assail'd by such a shamefull odds Sl. They scoff'd at my supposed poverty And my great Lord forsooth as I had begg'd Would have bestowed his guerdon on my want Which taking in foule scorne the valiant sir Assail'd me at these base advantages But hast thou done as I enjoyn'd Rog. Most carefully all 's to the full dispatch'd Sl. If with the Divell I could dispence as well I should have ease within Rog. Ha sirra Geffrey I Thinke you plaid at leape Frog Di. You are sad sir Enter the Divell and claps Slightall on the shoulder Sl. Doe not demand thy debt before the day Thy forfeit is not due yet Di. No such thing the businesse that I come to treat with thee Is of another nature Rog. Sir what 's he Sl. To hot for thy acquaintance doe not aske Attend me to my Chamber whether anon I will not faile to come Rog. Too hot and why he may be honest but he hath the Countenance of an old subtle knave well I le attend you Ex. Sl. Now what to me Di. Have I not kept my word Sl. Thou hast Di. Stor'd thee with all the suppliments Mans use can aske Sl. It cannot be deny'd Di. Nay was not I assistant in this quarrell prompting thy Man to come to thy release just at the instant danger Sl. His approach was fortunate and happy Di. Then speake freely Did'st ever in thy life time meete a friend Whose word assured trust and constancy Could ranke with mine in all things Sl. Never any but what may this inferre Di. Proofe of thy gratitude or to be term'd unthankefull Sl. Speake wherein Di. Wilt thou in meere Requitall of so many doe to me one faire Office Sl. First propose it and then expect an answer Di. There 's a house haunted with a she spirit one of my Servants and Kitchin maides in Hell employ'd by me For some knowne causes who hath play'd such prankes there No man 's so bold dares lodge within the roome This bed would I have thee to undertake Sl. To send me to Hell before my day your plot is too apparant Di. Still amisse have not I power o're al my creatures there To limit and command them art not thou One of our house by Indenture though to them Shee appear'd gastly horrid and deform'd To thee she shall seeme faire and beautifull No whit inferiour to that Graecian Queene That launcht 1000 Ships from Aulis Gulfe And brought them to the fatall siege of Troy Sl. Make but this good I le do 't Di. And so confirme thee A Minyon to the mighty Belzebub And great in our blacke Kingdome Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaene 1. Enter Lord Changables Wife and Geffrey Wi. BUt was he so perverse and peremptory Lo. He brav'd necessity and outfac'd want And tooke my proffer'd largesse in such scorne As he had bin some great Kings Treasurer My bounty he defy'd with shaking pockets The noise whereof deafned and seem'd to drowne The sound of my despised Charity Some pieces I would willingly have given Wi. Which would he not receive Lo. Meerely refus'd And with a haughty and contemplative smile Instead of gratefull thankes proudly demanded if I would Sell my Lordship Wi. Did you suffer it Lo. While I could limit patience I forbore To chastise him with an ungentle hand But when I found no bounds in his distast But that it still exceeded Law and compasse I thought to chastise his ingratitude And did it with my Sword Wi. 'T was bravely done Gef. I thinke we made him fly for I am sure some there Gave shamefull ground Wi. But leaving that How doth my Daughter relish you of late Doe you not finde her comming Lo. Affible as any courteous maid alive can be To whom I did discover these proceedings Which she seem'd well to relish Wi. Doubt not then all will be to our wishes One thing onely which sadds me when I thinke of 't Lo. Pray what 's that Wi. To thinke my house should be so strangely troubled In dead of Night Lo. It is prodigious sure Wi. And that I feare it is my Mothers Spirit Who for some unknowne causes restlesse walkes As one not sleeping in her quiet grave 'T is this that moves me deepely Lo. I have sent To one Frier Bernand a Religious man And Tutor to Frier Iohn to learne from him the depth of This concealement and see in happy time Treatwell 's return'd Ent Treatwell Tre. Sir I had conference with him Lo. Will he do 't Tre. By no entreaty or perswasive skill Nay were he press'd by menace or command He vowes to have no hand in these designes I could not make him thinke such things can be He counts them meere impostures falacyes Or let a man receive them at the best Illusions of the Divell that Ghosts walke He saith directly 't is impossible And in that faith he 'le dye further discourse I could by no meanes get him listen to but halfe displeas'd he left me Wi. That 's his faith but we are forced to credit Otherwise by lamentable proofe Ent. M. Changeable Gef. Here comes your husband he hath perhaps some newes Chan. I have bin labouring toyling and moyling To finde the cause of this so strange distemperature Question'd Divines and talkt with cunning men With Fortune-tellers skill'd in Palmistry Not a tain'd Gipsey can escape my search but I with such Have Trafficke Wi. And what comfort Chan. Troth small or none yet most in this conclude That pretend Iudgement that till we finde some one To lodge without companion in that Bed And in the dead of darkenesse question it Why to what end and for what cause it walkes The Vision shall continue this they said But none amongst them all so resolute as to Attempt th' adventure Lo. Then 't is desperate Chan. Not so for comming from the Friery late I met a man by chance that cross'd my way Whom rather too much spirit had possess'd Or too much folly made meere desperate Would willingly attempt it and indeed He did intreat it of