being in the condition of Angels that Sun-beamlike attend to the world as helpers of others towards Heaven and in themselves are separate from it and united with Heaven as the beams with the Sun I fancied that as Stars which have the least Circuit are nearest the Pole so men who are least perplexed with businesse are nearest to Heaven because we cannot remove a thing from earth but we must exalt it nearer to Heaven Lewis You have been much entangled in the love of them but as businesses commonly move now it is a putrified course of life in many parts and respects A corrupted Monk is like the reflexion of the great Angel-Image from a Steeple-top in Millan which at one stroke limb'd it self on the Clouds in the Air of themselves prepar'd for such an impression and only amazed and amuzed the vulgar heads who vainly took the vain reflexion of an Image on the Clouds for a most heavenly Saint or Angel But when the Monks come down out of the Clouds we know them better because they are near to us we never find abroad men so passionate so profane besides that they are commonly drunken Beasts and lazy lousie belly-gods these their mysteries I inwardly know in many Monasteries they study Magical and Demoniacal Arts they learn the Art of compounding Philters and thereby draw Nobles to love them above their own children they compose poisons of all sorts they destroyed Henry the seventh Emperour with a subtle and most sacrilegious poison in a Church and your King John in a Monastery the Monk is the Jesuit's great Grandfather the Monks coin false money they falsifie stones of middle rank into Pearls and Jewels by the transmutation of Mettals they raise them into a kind of counterfeit silver Arist This I knew done by Father Broughton an English Monk at Lambspring in Germany amongst the Woods there who had he not been a Monk had ended his life at Brussels on the Gallows for the like forgery Lewis They leave the Frier many akers behind them that was the casual author of Gunpowder they make powders the smell of which procures lust and sets body and soul on fire they mix the purest paint for women their abundance of idle time incites them as to monstrous evils so to marvellous curiosities Trithemius a famous Abbot shewed Maximilian the Emperour his wife even long after her death and Verrucam in collo ejus the very Wart in her neck by which the Emperour particularly knew her I could recount a hundred of these There was a kind of mortal punishment amongst the old Jews badg'd with the title of Combustio anima the burning of the soul wherein they powred scalding Lead into the mouth of the condemned person by the which his inwards were consumed the shape and outward bark of his body remaining still with due proportion The body of the Monk is extant still his soul is burnt forth Trithemius satisfied royal curiosity and I have complied with yours I am a child of Rome both in birth and belief but abuses are now grown into a wilde Forrest and men are become as the wilde Beasts It hath oftentimes pleaded against me in my heart Are there no true worshippers in all the world but the three wickedest Nations of all the world Time will open it self that I may happily have place to give you the Story of Rome according to my knowledge and the Chronicle of my own memory from Urban the eighth and the childehood of his Popedome to Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus mus the Mountains bring forth and the ridiculous Mouse is born I will not now disease you further your indisposition admonishes me Exit Lewis Arist Your servant noble Don. The Novilships in the Monasteries are but idle inauspicacious impertinent and trifling merriments put in comparison with what I have suffered and yet they would have delivered me up for fuel to the most implacable revenge of the Inquisition Graft a Rose-tree then convey a grain of Musk into a cleft in the stock and all the Roses that come of the stock will carry Musk about them I hope that all my after-actions will be steept in this affliction I must withdraw Exit Act. 4. Scen. 4. Enter Sir John Wit-little Madam Hypocrisie Pretty Lucifuga Hyp. Sir John You gave me amongst your commands to provide for your use a small quantity of Love-powder and here I present it to you in this little bag of silk Wit-l. Madam You oblige me beyond world without end but I must retaliate and return you satisfaction Madam pray what cost it Hyp. It will be abundant satisfaction if you shall please to accept it and that it will cost you if you have it Wit-l. Dear Madam I would I were wiser and more knowing that I might thank you more learnedly but I will give your Boy something and something to your Maid And how must I use this Love-powder Madam Hyp. Sir You must apply the Bag a few minutes to the Nose of the person whom you desire to fire with the love of you Wit-l. Very good this I shall dexterously do Lucifug That Powder hath no such power attending upon it my Mistresse trifles with him but I have a perfume here sufficiently operative accordingly as it is presented Noble Sir Pray license a poor servant from the Blacks to present a poor something to you as an Emblem Flag Ensign Obelisk Pyramid Trophy of his most humble service and vaslalage You were pleas'd even now to give me gold and I desire to be your grateful servant and return your gold presently in a Present Wit-l. O brave black Boy What hast thou there that thou would'st sacrifice to me Lucifug Only a pair of Gloves Sir Wit-l. A fair pair indeed Lucifug Their greatest fairnesse is that they were presented with a grateful heart Wit-l. Where were these Gloves made Boy Lucifug In Italy Sir John and there perfum'd in a Monastery Wit-l. I know not what a Monastery is but I believe 't is a sweet place for the Gloves are wondrous sweet Lucifug The more you acquaint them with your Nose and smell of them Sir John if my Augury deceive me not the sweeter you will find them Wit-l. Boy I would fain put my powder upon experience before I prove it on my Mistresse Lucifug You may Sir with expedition Which of these my Mistresse of her Maid do you desire should love you Wit-l. I know not which they are both comely I could love them both let them both love me Lucifug Why then it shall be so Wit-l. But how shall I apply the Bag to their Noses Lucifug O Sir I can lay them both to sleep in a moment Wit-l. That will be fine indeed But how prythee Lucifug By murmuring a certain magical word in their ears I shall effect all this presently Madam The fat Vallyes are low and humble I humbly desire leave to deliver an humble word to you in your ear Vaing. Do so Boy Lucifug And another to
Forsooth the Truth is the Nation is like a Forrest on the Coasts of Barbary where every Beast proudly forrageth for himself according to the latitude of his strength and combates with every living thing he comes near either upon the account of Offence or Defence So that forsooth this may truly be called and in civil terms as the Civilians speak Religio Deserti the Religion of the Forrest or Wilderness or the wild Boar's and Bear 's Religion Arist Sir I find you are knowing Hither I subscribe to your Discourse And indeed I would steer any Discourse that I might be set in as much distance from Hypocrisie as the Globe of the earth would permit But you know how harshly and untuneably change sounds in the ears of all men Lu. Pray forsooth courteously lend an ear Then only Change is a Defect when it is opposite or fals cross to the well-being or perfection of the thing changed and is in some kind a degradation of it This is forsooth as the Rhetoritians speak ipsa luce lucidius clearer than the light or Sun because the Heavens and heavenly Bodies are incessantly changed in their motions We are changed for the better in our growings outward and inward Every season of the year revels and causes many changes in the world which forsooth cannot be imputed to the things changed as defects but adhere to them as legitimate perfections of their Natures and Beings Arist Holy Sir I do most highly value your Holiness and your Learning and humbly require of you more particular Information Lucifer Child give me leave forsooth to call you so For now forsooth you are and shall be my Ghostly Child I see forsooth you are ingenious I will send you first to Flanders afterwards to Spain then to Italy to sublimate and heighten your Learning and Experience and that you may learn the Arts and Sciences where they are best taught More of this betwixt us in private Exeunt Lucifug The Field is ours We have at last wrought him to us Open Hypocrisie Strumpet-like is too palpable I am now visible to you The Stratagem is then exalted high When th' Hypocrite reviles Hypocrisie Exit Act 2. Scene 3. Enter Agrippa Agrip. I have bound him by Command and by Promise I my self am bound to secure with my presence the execution Anguilla est elabitur If we give him his head he slips My Presence will keep him fixt Enter an Orange-Maid like those in the Pit What seeks this Maid here Fie on you so bold 'T is a Spirit and I must lay it Maid The Affair refers me to you and you are here Agrip. Be thou Spirit or Flesh thou hast no part in the Comedy Maid But I have Sir No long part you would say but a necessary part I have Agrip. Your place is the Pit and your Business is to wait there Maid And from thence I came The Gentlemen there are perplex't and troubled They complain that your Jesuit sends a chief Actour beyond the Seas and that either your Scene must be preposterously chang'd or they shall be deprived of the principal Occurrences which happen to him Agrip. Neither by vertue of my first and fundamentel Promise my power shall bring him hither at due times to act over again the most remarkable Occurrences and he shall neither know where he is nor what befals him Return this Answer with my devoutest Respects She was going forth and returns Maid I shall If you will civilly take your leave of me I shall present you with a Sevil-Orange Agrip. Is this your custom He salutes her Exit Maid Maid No Sir but it was in my desires to teach you manners Agrip. The Matter partly travels you shall find As Friends all brought before you to your mind Exit Act 2. Scen. 4. Enter Lucifer Lucifuga Madam Hypocrisie Pretty Mr. Complement Mr. Demure Gaffer Highshooe Galen Junior Ignore Magnifico See Senior Signior See Mr. Kickshaw Lucifer Well Madam I have dispatcht my Scholar to St. Omers you may now enter your whole Tribe Every one shall receive his Charge and I will discharge you of their persons Mr. Complement your charge is that you stow fire in the Court Speak every where of Abuses and of a singular discerning Spirit and a Holiness which you have but others are naked of as prophane Turn up the white of your eye and shew it as if that were the outside of your Soul according to the Naturalist Profectò in oculis animus inhabitat truly the Soul dwels in the eyes Draw every word through your Nose as if it past through a middle sort of crack't Organ-Pipe and lift up your hands towards that which scrupulous men call Heaven and close them when they are extended as if you had fast hold of Heaven Pretend alwaies like an Apton in the first onset true things and such as are in use with holy men those delude irrefragably The people regard not the tayl of the Business The Snake having past his head draws his body after him into the Faction Tell the people that by how much an Element is more near to Heaven it is by so much the more pure â—ctive noble that the Water is more pure than the Earth the Ayr than the Water and Elementary Fire than the Ayr That the higher the Ayr is it is the purer still and more subtile That in a Limbeck the things of greatest purity and vertue are sublimated that is hast to the top of the Limbeck the drossy matter fals Let there be a new shap't Achates in every period It is not necessary that one experiencing if Sea-water be salt should drink up the whole Sea nor that I should foot it over every particular your own Genius will direct you forward There is no more excellent manner of cozening and guâ—ling the simple Herd of people than with the specious Mantle of Religion because Religion out-powers and overswaies all in mankind Mr. Demure and Gaffer High-shooe you for the City and you for the Countrey are charged accordingly Galen junior when you are call'd to sick persons and find that their sicknesses lay close siege to their bodies first prepare them by some eloquent Preamble Say if you see the water in a calm Ser troubled and rise high into the Ayr take heed ther 's a Whale near Turn it homwards thus Sickness disturbing so highly the peace and tranquility of the Body Death is imminent Then make reverend mention of the Society and recount the numerous Conversions that we have wrought in the world and press it home to their Consciences that they leave us honourable Legacies according to their Conditions yea though they beggar and leave succourless their own dear children We are not their Heirs at Common Law but upon a higher account Tell them otherwise they are near to a Gulf a Precipice Then while the Iron is hot and upon the Anvile send for us If need urge we shall use you in Deletories vulgarly call'd poysons when we
from all admixtion of evil Tom. My most dear Child The Books of the ancient Schoolmen are crowded with polygeneous impertinent and impervious Doctrines of no worth or weight not one Grain heavy as being meer ebullitions of over-wrought and Feaver-tired Brains from the which our modern Divinity is separated by an Ecliptick as being transacted in Regulam Plumbeam or Lesbiam a Leaden Rule and bow'd appliably to all our purposes This Rule then obtains when the Judge bends the Law to the Cause and not the Cause to the Law The things we believe and do are infallibly true and good and the Law must be bended to them by a pliable Interpretation Arist This Divinity is not divine He roares Tom. My most dear Child The posses 't man expects an Alms Give him one Arist Notwithstanding all his various and indefinite Motions his right hand ballanc'd with an Almes finds the way readily to his Pocket How comes it that he foames at the mouth so liberally Tom. That Legerdemain is advanc't from the Apothecaries Shop And use hath apted his Face Eyes and Mouth to these horrid Representations He roars only when the holy thing is near or set in view and then he expects to be loaded with Alms. Exit Having all he can expect he is gone My most dear Child You have seen Mrs. Ward and her Jesuitrices as tender-headed people call them Arist I have Father We were six Schollars of us and they set us at a round Table so placed that we sate a Scholar and a Maid a Scholar and a Maid and which way soever we turn'd our faces to the right or to the left we had a pretty Maid a Quicksilver-tongu'd Girl to face us They told us in the Crowd of other things that they wrought Miracles in Germany a great way off Tom. Maids do you call them They were English Chambermaids indeed And the Miracles they wrought in Germany were Three or four of them were there got with child and afterwards they miraculously became Maids again But there is a Bull in agitation to come forth with a roaring and raging noise in opposition to Mrs. Ward and her licentious Crew against which there is no Ward nor Guard My most dear Child I am forsooth very desirous that because you are upon your Mission for England you should see Father John Barnes a Learned Englishman and a Benedictine Monk sent to Rome and committed to the Inquisition here by his own Order and Countreymen This place belongs to the Inquisition I will presently speak with the Fathers of the Inquisition and give you a call from yonder Window Exit Arist The Sun in Egypt after the Inundation of Nile heating the Mud quartermakes half-makes and when it perfectly makes makes but imperfect Creatures as Frogs Serpents and such like I have read in my Name-sake every man by nature desires to know This muddy forging of Miracles will never promote a desiring heart to perfect Knowledge The Naturalists have found by curious Inquisition that if a Pearl which is foul be swallowed into the womb of a Dove and remain there some while the Dove will give it again most pure and orient Every thing must be tried and examin'd according to my Lesson treasur'd up from the School of Devotion in the womb of devout Simplicity which womb will free it from spots clouds deformity Yet I find that in all these erroneous deviations there is some colour or semblance of Truth or somthing like an Asteriske or finger pointing to past truths Thus did the Devils Oracles deliver many sound Truths the better under such palliations to disseminate and publish their most unsound Errours Thus doth a stink offend us more when concomitant with some weak Perfume which it hath pro vehiculo than if it singly sets upon us the perfume procuring for the stink easier admittance into our sense Thus Poysons are most dangerous and irremediable when joyned in commission with a Cordial that is not able to resist them it serving to conduct them to the heart and being unable to vanquish their malignity Thus the old Fowlers deceived Pigeons by shewing an exoculated Pigeon leaping and dancing in a Net F. Tompson from above Exit Arist Tom. St. From the other He changes Windows Window I call'd him but this is the window from whence we must be Spectators It is the Ring-dove that builds her Nest early and unplumes her skin to soften it with her own Feathers when oftentimes her self dies of cold I would endanger my life to write this man ours The turning Pictures shew oftentimes a Lion on the one side and a Lamb on the other I have great hopes that he carries a Lamb inwardly Love and hatred are like the two ends of a Perspective-Glass the one multiplies the other makes less I would gladly settle him in a Mean betwixt both Aristotle Junior above My most dear Child I have procur'd a Convenience from the good Fathers here and we shall see more than ordinary F. John Barnes chain'd with a Collar of Iron about his Neck Barnes The better to discern the Arteries and the Vital Spirits in them Vesalius the Anatomist was wont to cut up men alive in these they observe the beating of the Pulse My torturers are more cruel they search me through and through every day and yet I live to see my self out-live my self Alex. Father I hear him but I see him not Darkness interposes it self the place is as dark as Hell Tom. You shall see him presently Barnes Some hold that the soul is extraduce and that one man begets another Body and Soul and that the Soul is enlightned from the Father as a Candle from a Candle otherwise say they a man begets but half a man and stands many stairs lower than a Beast that begets the whole Beast and that the three Faculties of the Soul should be infus'd in man whereof the two inferiour are begot in Beasts seems not to be a well-cemented Truth Alex. He talkes idly Tom. They have design'd him for madness because he was Master of a dangerous Head-piece Enter one with a Torch like a Damned Spirit Spirit O Barnes Barnes The torments that I feel are most unsufferable and outstrip out-run out-fly humane Apprehension Thou wilt quickly be in the same Circle of Condition with me Barnes Who art thou Spirit A Damned Spirit who when I was a Passenger in the world was affected as thou art and affianced to the Religion of wicked and abominable England I was commanded to tell thee that two deaths stand gaping for thee with open jawes in thy way and it is recorded in the black and fatal Volume of Destiny that both shall swallow thee The Funeral fire shall resolve thy Body into ashes and thy soul widdow'd of understanding shall everlastingly be bedded with me in Hell Hogs and Dogs Cats and Rats are more happy than thou and I. I must not stay longer for fear of discovery I go my Tormentor cals Exit Spirit