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A29968	Tyrannicall-government anatomized, or, A discovrse concerning evil-councellors being the life and death of John the Baptist : and presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty by the Author.; Baptistes. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5298; ESTC R4582	22,804	31

To traduce a Priest does it belong to thee Iohn When I reprove a wicked man I hold it spoken well Mal. A young man ought his elders to obey Iohn 'Tis rather meet that all should God obey Mal. Then dost thou speak these things by Gods command Iohn Truth doth command all men to speake the truth Malch It often profits to conceale the truth Iohn Profit with bad works joyned I nought account Malch Thou mayest call goodnesse what seemes bad to thee Iohn To see when I am able to reduce them into the way so many thousands perish it seems too bad Malch Thou able to reduce them why are not we the feeders of the flock Iohn If it be all one both to feed and fley Malch Do thine own businesse and let ours alone Iohn My neighbours misery is likewise mine Malch I pray who are you with such power endued Are you that Christ unto our Fathers promised Iohn I am not Malch Are you then a Prophet Iohn Neither Malch Are you Elias Iohn No Malch If none of these nor Christ our hope no Prophet nor Elias how darst thou be the author of new Baptisme declare to me whom shall we say thou art Iohn I am a voice that one the Mountain tops afar off call and cry Prepare the way make strieght your paths the Lord is neer at hand at whose first coming shall the valleys rend and Mountaines will be levyed with the plain I in his name the people do baptize whose shoes I am not worthy to pull off whom none doth know thoug• he converse with you Malch What snares doth he invent deluding me with circumstances by what miracle provest thou the authority which thus thou claimest Iohn And by what miracle thine canst thou prove I may on the other side thee also aske Malch How obstinate he is bee't nere so much that thou concealest yet all of us do know what makes thee mad Thou surely doest desire to grow up through our envy thou wouldest gain glory and mighty riches by our losse and become potent by flagitious Acts nor doest deceive us but deceivst thy selfe neither wert thou the first that did attempt thus to beguile yet thee the last I wish that may be duely punished or that thou by my advise thy mind wouldst rather change that as thou hast made many go astray through thee they may into the way return I have seen others that have made a shew of sever holinesse by outward habit whereby more easily they might be thought of simple modest mind but by such art honor and wealth when once they had obtained their dispositions by degrees appeared and were discovered for that pious course well clokd before they openly contemned and to their true conditions gave the Reigns But if this way thou aimest at honors hight unskilfull men blinde ignorance deceives By that Crosse path to glory none attain unlesse experience that best instructs and age that such experience doth beget hath very much beguild mee for thy fame and livlyhood thou better mayst provide seeking rather safty than renown Ioh. If I deliver truth and do what's right wherefore should any bid mee hold my peace but if untruth doe you that are so learned declare it to the simple Malch Of these things when thou shalt suffer punishment by death thou wilt repent thee Ioh. Threaten that to Those who feare to die Mal. But if I live ere long I'le make thee muorn for this perversness and know what it is the Elders to neglect the Scribes revile and vex the Rabines with thy saucy Tongue and haply feele since thou hast no regard to purchase friends the power of old mens hate Cho. He that himselfe prepares for secret stealth avoyds the light and Murderers doe hate a burning Torch that's conscious of their crimes A childe refuseth medicines intermixt with bitter wormwood a cut wound abhorres the wholsome plaisters and to him whose breast the hidden evills of his soule torments the truth is grievous which doth open lay his troubled heart and his bad minde bewray But O you Hypocrites in shew severe whom lawlesse gaine with rugged brow delights through error of the credulous common sort how well so ever you your thoughts conceale And though the •oule sinke of your impious minds be closely hid your gnawing conscience argues your lurking secrets That tormenter inclosed within your Entrailes eats you up scourging with cruell stripes O three times blest and more is he that being pure within becomes not guiltie to Domestick Iudges nor by a torturer within his heart pent up unseene endures perpetuall smart The fourth part Malchus Chorus Herodias THere is no certain trusting to the King his and the Common cause he hath betray'd through foule ambition while hee bends his thoughts to please the people and with favour hunts for ayrie applause Me under shew of lenity hee labours to subject unto the Co••ons wrath and with my perill would vindicate his wrongs even prepar'd to satisfie the people with my head as if he saw they heavily did beare the Baptists death But if to have the chiefe of their new Faction flaine they took it lightly he subtily by the vulgar would be thought with greatest glorie to have tane revenge Thus to themselves Kings of their Cities blood exhibite shewes by turnes and make a sport of mutuall slaughter challenge to themselves and publish all by them was only done all whatsoever the vulgar Votes approve and attribute our labours industry to their owne prayse but if the uncertain ayre of popular •avour otherwise doe turn against their expectation and desire then on their Officers they cast the fault and with a vile breath their own crime avert from innocent blood One only now remaines a Partner of our griefe the Queen enraged much like a Tyger of her Whelps •erest for that the Baptist had before the King accus'd the alliance of her former Bed to be polluted openly condemning the league of marriage with a Brothers wife forbidden by the Law now while the fire of estuating wrath is fresh and hot I will adde fire-brands to her troubled thoughts and feed them with fit language But behold how oppor•unely she presents her selfe Chor. Now poison comes to poison flame to flame now comes the uttermost hazard Malch Noble Queen our Nations glorious honour who alone in this so great a Kingdom doe deserve the highest place God save you Qu. And thee Malchus the most religious Rabine but why sad Malch For that which I suppose your minde afflict Qu. It may be so but tell me what is that Malch Doe you to see your dignity despis'd your royall names authoritie so sacred throughout the world to be accounted vile your Crown made subject to the vulgars sco•ne beare it with patience Qu. What then shall I doe teach me a remedy Malch Within your heart conceive so high a wrath as may be worthy of your Princely stock your nuptiall bed and bosome Qu. That's done already I am burst

purchase for the peoples hate Daugh The people must obey and Kings command Hero 'Tis a Kings duty iust things to command Daugh Kings by commanding may make those things iust which were before uniust Hero But Kings commands the Law doth moderate Daugh If that be right which pleaseth Princes then they rule the Lawes •ot the Lawes them Hero Then for a King a Tyrant the people will divulge me Daugh But your Scepter keeps them in awe Hero It doth and yet they'l babble Daugh Such babbling Sir by punishment severe is brid•ed Hero Kingdomes are ill kept with feare Daugh And Kingdomes by impunity of crimes are easily subverted Hero Yet we finde Kings are securest in the Cities faith Daugh It is not needfull that a King be lov'd but fear'd Hero The cruell are or• whelm'd with hate Daugh A gentle King the Vulgar do• despise Qu. My Lord all you have pleaded only tends in my opinion that your promise past in vaine may passe away as yet me thinks you do not know the duties of a King if th•se things which the common sort •uppose hone•t and otherwise you for a King bel•eve to be the same King Herod erres Brothers and sisters fathers sonnes in law friends kindred Citizens and adverse parties are bonds for poor men but vaine words for Kings Let him that on his head once puts a Crowne put from him all degrees of Common duty let him judge all things honest that conduce to a Kings benefit and hold no fact to be unseemly that he shall effect for his ow•e safety on the King depends the peoples welfare Whosoever then to wards his Prince is pious hath regard unto the pecples welfare shall the blood of this base fellow be so highly prizd that for anxietie by day nor night you can repose release us of this feare of shame your Scepter and of waste your City of rapine Armes and all of civill warre 'Tis fit by an example new and great you should ordein that Kingdomes to all men be sacred and inviolably stand he has committed an ungracious act and by that let him perish if no crime he has committed let him seeke for me• Give to your Queene her enemy your Queene if you neglect yet as a King and father your promise to your daughter see performd Her That Promise to performe with my best faith I am determind but if my advice the •i•le doe aske more wisely shee will wish Qu. But if shee aske my counsell yours my Lord she may not change or take Her Is't even so should I so unadvised have made a vow thus to a foolish girle my faith obligd and thus committed to a womans ha•ds my Kingdome safety treasure life and death Qu. Kings promises let certaine truth confirme Her Well fith I may not what I may deny againe I doe admonish and intreat let not wrath urge you to a bloudy act unworthy of your dignity and sex Qu. Grant this and leave all other things to us Her If of the Prophet you determi•e ought more rigourous the perill blame and shame is only yours Qu. Now shall we vindicate our royall dignity in future times to be of none derided now I'l force the flubborne people to speake well of Kings or learne it to their grief and make them hold that all their Kings commands they gladly must beare and obey though never so unjust Chorus Cho. O thou great City where King David reign'd you Towers of wealthy Salomon and Salem from whence against thy Prophets doth arise a rage so terrible and cruell thrist of blood so innocent unhappy thou whom it becomes to be a pattern rule or helme of pi•ty art now become the only mirror of a wicked life Slaughter with violence fraud theft and rapine are thy chiefe exercise no Godly zeale perswades the Churchman to restraine his hands from horrible deceits the people now forsake the Lord that all things did create and worship Idols for God stone and wood with Calves and Lambes their Altars are still hot and Images the workman doth adore which hee himself hath wrought life he requires of a meere stock and eloquence he craves of a dumb stone the rich intereats the poore the Lo••• the Servant ancient Rites are lost The guiltlesse Prophets blood brings thee perforce to the Tribunall of the greatest Iudge The poore exclaime and widowes fill the ayre with their complaints for which the fearfull paine of just revenge attends the• unlesses • be in my divination much de•eiv'd for he• that throwes down insolence and pride being the 〈◊〉 of Neaven Earth and Seas views from above th'oppressed peoples teares their heav•e prayers never doth forget and speedily with a 〈◊〉 arme will punish thy unspeak•ble misdeeds And over 〈◊〉 thy Towers where with thou swelst in silent victor-like The barbarous foe shall all thy Buildings Farmes and Lands possesse The V•neyard Keeper shall repaire his fruit to am Out 〈◊〉 Master And where now Salomons Temple high towards Heaven do th•ise • foraign ru•tick shall his harvest make O therefore while Gods favour to rep••• affords thee respit of thy ill pa•t life the sinnes 〈…〉 a move those fruitlesse Images of foreigne Rites Cu•b thy proph••e desire of wretched wealth and greedy thirsting for thy Brot••rs blood But thou wilt not repent thy ill past lif• 〈…〉 Rites amove nor shun the greedy thirst of brothers blood not one profane desire of wretched wealth A vicious P•ague shall therefore fe•se on thee Famine and warre with barrennesse 〈◊〉 want shall over whelm thee no• to be withstood till thou be quitted with dese••ed blood Nuncius Cho••s Nun. Where may I finde O who will tell me where The Prophets followers that I may relate my heavy tydings Ch• Stay your pace a while 〈…〉 in briefe for what you beare I gladly would pertake Nun. O but to know what you to know desire 'twill not delight you Cho. Yet your short abode think not too long how ere the master stands Nun. Know you what boone the Daughter of our King hath beg'd of him Cho. To have the Prophets head given her in a Charger Nun. And his head even so shee hath obtaind Cho. O horrible and most inhumane act that heavenly vigour and comly countenance by rigorous death is utterly decayed and cruell force with ever during silence hath shut up those lips that did abound with sacred vertue Nun. why weepe you cease to poure out vaine complaints Cho. When things to be bewaild I see and heare why should I not bewaile them Nun. If death be to be bewaild let us bewaile the dead whose hopes doe with their bodyes lye interrd who doe not thinke their short sleep being done their bones must rise again and there remaines another life Let wretched men bewaile those that are dead and only wretched liv'd None can be made by fortune miserable though the like and of mortall life betide the innocent and guilty good and bad no man shall die ill that hath lived well If by the severall manners of their ends you judge men miserable you will thinke so many holy fathers to be such who dyed by fire or water sword or crosse for him that dyed Defender of the truth both for Religion and his Countrey Lawes in all good things pursuing wee should pray and wish to have like end or funerall day Cho. Verily you have uttered nought amisse but we whom errors and opinion draw foolish by flying death with death doe meet the water drowning whom the fire hath spard And by the power of contagious ayre others are killd that have escap'd the sea And some that in the battell have surviv'd with sicknesse pyning die God doth ordeine wee may deferre but not our deaths eschew And daily wee delay our houres of death yet with Diseases danger troubles griefe Long life is nothing but a brittle chaine Of diuturnall evill which is knit With a contiuall course and speedy race Even to the bounds of death Not doe wee hold Bound with this bond our selves to bee inthral'd In misery but feare the fatall knife With deeper horror then a servile life FINIS

Tyrannicall-Government ANATOMIZED OR A DISCOVRSE Concerning EVIL-COUNCELLORS BEING The Life and Death of JOHN the Baptist AND Presented to the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY by the Author Die Martis 30. Januarii 1642 IT is Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons concerning Printing That this Book be forthwith printed and published Iohn VVhite London Printed for JOHN FIELD 16•• The Collocutors and Complaynants or Persons speaking Malchus Pharise Gamaliel Pharise Iohn the Baptist Chorus or a company of Iewes King Herod The Queene Herodias The Queens Daughter Nuntius or the Messenger The life and death of JOHN the BAPTIST The first part Malchus Gamaliel Rabines Malchus O This old wretched Age the neighbouring bounds of our last breath and you unhappy Fates long life on us have you bestowed for this or for these uses That we should behold our Temples lewdly cursedly defil'd our holy things prophan'd our Country slav'd the Reliques of our Fame which none might enter broken before me and the sacred gold rent from the posts what ere the greedy will of stern Gabinius could by Rapine gaine or Anthonies luxurious power exhaust all's lost and we have been a mocking stock which I abhorre to heare much more to speake to Cleopatra's gluttonous desires and lest we should not be in every part disgrac'd and vilified we now are brought under a cruell King the Nephews Son of halfe Arabian Artipater Iudaea serves an Idumaean Tyrant while an Arabian Lord in Sion Reigns Gods people and Ierusalem a man prophane and impious yet in this distresse among so many wounds of raging chance some sparks of ancient honor did remain a pattern of our Countries Discipline such as it is which by our foes themselves is to be reverenc'd the furious Victor and no small number of his purpled Court began to dignifie the Jewish Lawe• We w••h t•is h•pe •efresht though well neere tyr'd with misery had hardly taken heart to re-advance our heads when out alas a hainous matter which we never fear'd did suddenly arise a new Baptizer whose Pa•entage is holy who was bred among strange worships but by Nation ours by Stock a Levite given unto God even from his infant cradle being Son of an High-Priest and shortly to receive that dignity himself unlesse he chuse rather to taste false glories bitter fruit then honors harvest in due time to reape He therefore keeping in the desert soyle deceives with shew of sanctity severe the simple people cloath'd in skins of beasts his haire uncomb'd and feeding Savage like by which delusions he draws the lookes of all men towards him the common sort being poss•st with ignorant beliefe that a new Prophet to the world is sent And now unto himselfe he hath reduced an Army of the vulgar following him Him only now the people all admire leaving their Cities Noblemen and Kings honor and feare him where he past with pride through the madnesse of the multitude new laws gives like another Moses cleansing crimes with water and presumes our ancient laws with new Rites to adulterate and rends the Fathers with reproaches to enjoy the peoples mad affection with more ease who give him gentle hearing but if none himself oppose against this theifes attempts raging and ranging with bold insolence That sanctity throughout the world renown'd will soon expire nay it expireth now or rather hath expired Gam Men of our calling must do nothing rashly mildnesse becomes milde Fathers to young men if through temerity they go astray a pardon may be given but a fault by one of us committed no excuse to vaile it can pr•vaile Be calme a while this rage appease and let your sorrow slaked Ma•ch Then you Gamaliel as it seems approve this cursed Caitiffs actions Gam Malchus no I neither do approve nor yet condemn• before I know the matter that concerns this new-come Prophet who is not a man so far as I can hear so full of ill nor to be so opprest with publick hate Malch O Stars O Heaven O Earth that wicked wretch wants not a Patron here that can uphold his manners to be good Gam Who vice reproves good manners teaching leads the way himself which unto others plainly he directs can you perswade me that this man is naught Malch He that our Laws contemnes new Sects doth teach besides new Ritts reviles our Magistrates and our high Priests with calumny pursues can you perswade me that this man is good Gam If we were equally against our selves Judges austere and milder towards others then we are oftentimes our heynous crimes would lye more open unto publike view and sharpe reproaches howsoever we flatter our selves and are proclaimed bles• reputed by the common people Saints chast pious and upright but of us all none from t•e greatest fault was ever free Malch Gamaliel that these things may be true is•t lawfull for a vulgar man to rayle against a Prelate Let the people hear yielding obedience and sober live refuse no reyns by him upon them cast he can reduce the vulgar if they are to the right way let him be as a law unto himselfe but if in ought he chance to go astray the wicked God doth see and sharply punish Gam And do you conceive this Law is j•st Malch I do indeed Gam And why blind ignorance and want of skill Malch Because rashnesse and error commonly are found as proper and peculiar to the vulgar Gam He that to Prin•es wisdom gives not place is often taken from the vulgar thrung Malch But give we place then in this chair to shepheards Gam Moses a shepheard was and David too Malch They were taught all things by the spirit of God Gam He that taught them can also tutor this Malch Will God instruct him and relinquish us Gam God neither Scepter parents noble stock beauty nor Kingly riches doth respect but hearts that no contagion of deceit of lust or cruelty doth once pollute The holy spirit in this Temple rests Malch Surely Gamaliel to confesse a truth you seeme to me of •ate by your opinion a plain approver of that wicked Sec• I can no longer smother what I think seeing you do such things as are unworthy both of your Ancestors and of your selfe you that of all the rest ought to defend do chiefly our authority offend and that in favour of a mad young man For Gods sake tell me Whats your tryalls hope what profit do you seeke to get by this Perhaps hee'l give you honor or great wealth who •tterly destroyes our orders honor and labours to undoe us Gam Truely Malchus you shoot far from the marke that you suppose we can defend our dignity with pride and arrogancy or with strength of Arms our parents were not by such means advanced Malch Our ancient Laws and Orders more bec•me us that are ancient and let each one live according to the manner of his time Gam But rather good things good men still become Malch If wee had any of our fathers spirit Gam Our fathers