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The sophister· A comedy.
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Zouch, Richard, 1590-1661.
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new misery For what else could our hearts content desire But firme assurance of continuing When whilst with joy we others blisse admire Our selfe straight vex't with fortunes torturing With sence doe feeele how her fierce wrath extends From our owne selves unto our dearest friends But say is his wound dangerous Enter Intellect and Distinction But see Iudicium here Lord Intellect is come Iud. All happinesse attend your welcome presence Intel. Thanks good Iudicium but you are man Distinction whom I must acknowledge the author of my freedome Iud. Where hath your Lordship been and whence is it Distinctions honest care hath set you free Intel. I am indebted to Ambiguity I was promised by him to be led to a faire library but was conducted to a Vatican of all villaines Iud. Say good Distinction how fell this out Dist. How he fell in you have heard already and for his deliverance this it was I by reason of this coate which how I got I list not now to tell being taken of Fallacy for Ambiguity received of him these keyes with direction to go to his closet together with a certaine violl he delivered me which my curiosity quickely apprehending I went and found the young Lord Intellect in one roome the Lady Truth and her daughters in others all which I have thence delivered Prop. O act Heroicall Iud. And were you in his closet Dist. A closet doe you call it I will be sworne it is a spacious storehouse of all subtilties a Burse of impostures an Italy of poysons a Frankefurt of false Authors there are infinite Iliads of Hermeticall precepts many barrels of white powder bales of false dice boxes of false weights bags of counterfet coine golden fishhookes iron rakes vizards and darke Lanthornes for theeves maskes and painting for Gentlewomen for all hee furnished them dayly enough to load an Argosy or a Spanish Carrick Prop. And what was in the violl you nam'd Dist. O I thought to tell you the rarest receipt that ever was composed Predea nor Circe never made the Like Iud. What was it poyson Dist. When he gave it me I mark't he said it wrought powerfully and so mistrusting the effect tride the conclusion upon a dog I met which no sooner had tasted a dram of it but dragging his tail on the ground he grin'd and snarl'd and presently ran mad which effect I observing thought I had now opportunity to requite a kindnesse Ambiguity did me and so tempering it in a cup of sweet wine adventur'd amongst Fallacies followers who bravely carousing to their good fortunes let my cup go round amongst them and presently they all daunc't Frantique so that nothing grieved me but that Ambiguity was not amongst them Pro. O strange will any drug cause madnesse Iud. Easily Quid bibit inde furit I have both read and seene it and I feare Discourse's madnesse might have such a cause Iud. But doe you heare Lord Proposition If he through artificiall meanes lies mad As by these signes t is more then probable I know he may be help't again by Art Let him but purge and bleed in his head veine I dare to warrant his recovery Pro. Happy Hermenia if againe she see Discourse recover'd and for ever bound To your discreet good will and worthy love Vouchsafed to us in your friendly presence Iud. What cunning Chirurgeon hath Parthesia Pro. Here 's one well practis'd skilfull fortunate Analysis who hath well nigh recur'd The life-despairing brothers Topicus and Demonstration Jud. Let him straight Take care of him Prop. Sir would you goe your faire direction might assist us much Jud. With all my heart young Lord pray lead the way Exeunt Act. 5. Scae. Prim. Enter Fallacies followers madde and singing and at last fall together by the eares he comming they disperse and fly Fal. What Pannick fury hath o'rerun the world Or universall madnesse raignes this day Are there nor fellowes those whose subtile braines Would have spun forth the finest villanyes Those whose sound heads so oft I have employ'd In working deepe designments and see now What wilde confusion hath tane hold of them Was 't not enough that truth and Intellect With hated science and opinion Escap't by them art set at liberty But they in this disordred fashion Must make me odious scorned and despis'd Oh that I could convey me from this world Or know where to hide me but my dores Are lock't against me and my wicked wals Late surfetting with filthy luxury Doe seeme surcharged cleane to spew me out Is 't possible that I should be thus crost What is there any goodnesse in the world Of force enough to contervaile the wit Of proud Fallacy or is 't some feind Some divell not of his owne confederacy That with his counterplots controlls my skill Or was my selfe the cause my cursed selfe Lulled asleepe in fond security Exit Enter Aequipolency Analysis leading Discourse Anal. 'T was well you came so timely Aequipolency The memory of this foule imposture may survive In that recover'd couple Aequip. Sir they added As they found ease amidst their vomiting Pouring forth curses against Falacie How for his sake they had thrust the worthy Brothers Topicus and Demonstration into their desperate fury Iud. Now I doe verily believe Analysis That villain's cause of all it will appeare He forc't his fathers madnesse Anal. Aequipolency Leave the perfume behinde you Looke you use fresh pigeons Vntill the venome of their wounds be quite exhal'd There were no losse of them but at this time Their words may be produc'd therefore pray be carefull Aequi. I will He delivers the Perfume and departs Now let him be brought hither feare not stirring him I warrant he 's secure Invention You shall doe well if against his waking you provide some show And Musick which may welcome home his wandring senses Iud. I le see what may be done for both Exit Analysis lets Discourse blood Now see Iudicium here 's no blood but humours This black stuffe is the excrement of Melancholy This sometimes makes him 'mongst the groves and rivers Pen Sonnets to the Nymphs and Goddesses In good assemblies to withdraw his thoughts And dictate to his Desk and Closet walls Dangers with which a wise man scarce would trust His very bosome this next Is Choler hast thou met with voyces Breathing seditious discontent and malice This humour rules them from this fiery vapour 'T is not the Chaire of State or Iustice seate Can shield the Prince or publike Magistrate Yea unto Heav'n it selfe it oft aspires Against Religion and the sacred Arts Casting prophaner and impurer darts This watry Phlegme is that which putrifying His springs of breath infects the neighbouring ayre With blasts of slothfull envie whence destruction Casts mists upon the best endeavours Iud. Now me thinkes The blood appeares 't were best Analysis You stop the Orifice Anal. Oh his blood Is much corrupted This doth feed that veyne From whence lascivious Songs lewd Epigrams And obscene Satyrs flow This itching humour
bid me I have if any other I have not Defi. Description give mee my Spectacles not without good cause hath our Soveraigne sent unto us to draw out for him the pedigree which is a true lineall discent of all the chiefest inhabitants within these provinces and view their ancient possessions which are be Dominions and Lands conveighed them by their Ancestors least here it should come to passe which is happened in all other Countries that the dignity and jurisdiction depart from the noblest houses which are families retaining in many generations the impression of some heroicall vertue and passe to upstarts who are such as Fortune not Desert hath made gratious Opp. Nay feare not that while Opposition lives there shall be alwaies some to resist that confusion Divis. With which Province will you beginne with Substance or with Quantity Defi. Best I thinke with Substance right and here is the rolle The first Duke that reigned here and gave his name to the Country was Substance I cannot well say what he was his antiquity was so great Divis. Hee was the eldest sonne of Ens was he not Opposition Opp. No he was his eldest child the rest were Daughters Descr. It should seeme so for accidents are of a feminine nature they cannot exist alone by themselves Divis. Well howsoever this Realme was equally divided amongst them I have heard Pythagoras was employed in assigneing them their portions Opp. It is not so it was his Scholler Archetas Tarentinus he measured out the Provinces by his Geometry Defi. Hence we may gather of what antiquity this Kingdome was it is sure as ancient as the Romane Empire for Architas and Numa were Schoole-fellowes Opp. Fye no Pythagoras liv'd long before him Defi. This Country was then called Decaphylia till afterward subdued by Mercury was by him called Hermenia Divis. Well howsoever let us proceed Substance matching with the Lady Corporea had by her a sonne called Corpus Dist. My Lord there were two Dukes of that name one in the Province of Substance another in the Province of Quantity Defi. But we meane him of Substance Descr. Good Lord what odds there is betwixt the men that were in those dayes and the men that are now in this latter declining Age of the World This Duke Substance was a monstrous tall huge bigge man hee had a head greater than any Horse a necke like a Bull larger sides than the Westerne Hogge Leggs like Winde-mill posts and feete proportionable His sonne Corpus was very like unto him the Aldermen of the Corporation that are scarse able 'to come in at our Colledge-gates might have shewne tricks like Tumblers in a hoope through his Thumb-ring King Arthurs tallest Knight would have scarse trust his points The Bull-hide that cut out in Thongs compast as much ground as the walls of Carthage could not make him a Girdle Dist. I wonder how any man had so much leasure as to looke about him and draw his description Descr. O sir ex pede Herculem Defi. Him succeeded Corpus surnamed Animatum him Animal who was named Rationale and begat Homo Divis. He had two wives the other was Irrationale Dist. Sure that Irrationale had many Husbands I have knowne her married to above Twenty my selfe Opp. Why had not all the rest so Substance Corpus and Corpus animatum my sonne Privation if he were here could tell their names Defi. Where is he Opp. He hath laine a long time bed-ridden deafe blind and dumbe Defi. I am sorry for him Divis. Who are next Definition Defi. Homo begat Socrates Plato and the rest Divi. Now thou seest Description Nature gives with two hands with one the gifts of the body with the other the qualities of the minde so to these men she hath now given more understanding than unto Substance Corpus and those in former time Desc. But may it not be doubted whether Socrates and Plato were of this Countrey I could never heare that they had much to doe with Substance Dist. 'T is true if you meane Substance as the Vulgar doe for wealth But if you understand it as we doe the Province questionlesse they had Opp. I say they had not and can prove it They were Philosophers were they not Dist. Yes Oppo. And Philosophers have no place here Dist. And why not Sir Oppo. Because ignorant fellows have not it holds from contraries Dist. So it pleaseth you to conclude Sir but how prove you that Sir Oppo. They are Transcendents over all the Provinces and therefore cannot rightly be said to be in any Descr. Indeede they say Homer had seven Cities strove for his Birth but none ever gave him place of abiding but I thought Philosophers had more certaine abode than a wandring Poet Oppo. They are in Substance for they love to stand by themselves and depend on none They are in Quantity for ignorant men are in number many in magnitude monstrous Des. I think least of all in Quantity for they are rather in number infinite and I cannot tell whether they have Longitude and Latitude I am sure they have no profoundnesse Dist. Profoundnesse either may be taken for deepnesse of judgement and understanding and that they are farre from or for thick grosnesse and that in them is most palpable Oppo. They are in Quality for who so fat faire strong and lusty as they out of Relation they cannot bee You have ignorant Rulers ignorant Subjects ignorant Tutors and ignorant Schollers who more in Action who more passionate in all places at all times who use more gestures Who better apparrelled Defi. For the particulars you Description take this our Licence by which we doe authorize you to goe through the Countrey and take notice of the names and Differences of them all For us it is sufficient to set downe these things in generall Defi. Belike Sir you meane I shall not dye in idlenesse Div. Shall we proceede to some other Province Exit Defi. I must first have the assistance of Lord Demonstratition I can doe nothing without him Oppo. Why send you not Distinction for him Goe tell him we expect his comming intreate him to make haste Enter Proposition Prop. Now my Lords as you love your selves or respect the State imploy your carefull providence with all expedition Defi. Why what is the matter good Proposition speake Prop. Oh I shall speake too soone Our Lord Discourse is falne starke madde Divi. Falne mad Oh fatall calamity Defi. What shall we doe Prop. Nay worse than this Oppo. Worse cannot bee Prop. Demonstration Topicus and Fallacy are hot in contention who must governe Oppo. How comes Fallacy neare him lately he could no endure him Propo. I know not how but now he seemes exceedingly to affect him Defi. Have they no more care of their Father this is too bad 't were good for to take some order with them presently Div. Let us goe visite him hereafter we will goe finish these businesses Exeunt SCENA SECVNDA Enter Ambiguity Amb. HE is not here