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A37165	The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, with the restauration of the Protestant religion, or, The downfal of the Pope being a most excellent play, as it was acted both at Bartholomew and Southwark fairs, this present year, 1680, with great applause and approved of and highly commended by all the Protestant nobility, gentry and commonalty of England, who came to be spectators of the same.	J. D.	1680 (1680)	Wing D31; ESTC R22544	15,259	27

The CORONATION OF Queen Elizabeth WITH The RESTAURATION OF THE Protestant Religion OR The DOWNFAL OF THE POPE Being a most Excellent PLAY As it was ACTED BOTH AT Bartholomew and Southwark FAIRS This present Year 1680. With great Applause and Approved of and highly Commended by all the Protestant Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of ENGLAND who came to be Spectators of the same LONDON Printed for Ben. Harris at the Stationers Arms under the Piazza in Cornhil 1680 TO THE Protestant Reader KInd Reader After the great Applause this Play has gained upon the Stage I have thought fit for the better Satisfaction of the Curious to publish it to the World that all may plainly behold my sincere Intentions herein which was only to lay open the Cruelties and Villanies of Rome more to the Life than they have been exposed since the beginning of this late horrid and most barbarous Plot for upon second thoughts I considered that many who only saw this Play were not of such profound Capacities as to let it take a firm Impression upon their Memories therefore that all might the better weigh each particular circumstance as their leasure served them I have presumed to send it abroad into the World though no doubt amongst a thousand Foes whose Malice unquestionably will endeavour to asperse and fully the candid Reputation it has already gained amongst several Noble Personages of this Nation whose sound Judgments are undeniable the reason of it is perhaps because it plainly shews them as in a Mirror the purity of our Religion and the gross Absurdities and Cruelties of the Pope and Church of Rome in their proper Colours not gilded over with borrowed Ornaments or Fictious which never were but howsoever under the friendly Patronage of all truly Loyal Protestants I have sent it abroad to tell the World the Noble Exploits Heroick Resolutions and Victories of that blest Queen who maugred all the Plots and dire Conspiracies of Rome to the last moment of her long and prosperous Reign So I remain a Lover of all that own the Name of Protestants and live up to the Dictates of that Sacred Profession to serve them in all sincerity J. D. The Actors QVEEN ELIZABETH 1. Bishop Protestants 2. Bishop Protestants A Lord General to the Queen Another Lord. 1. Popish Cardinal 2. Popish Cardinal Tim. a Tinker Brush a Cooper Honey-Suckle a Cook The Pope Devil 2. Jesuits designed to kill the Queen Dulcemente a Nun Ravished by the Pope Cardinal Moricena her Father 2. Ghosts 2 Devils more Singers and Mutes c. The CORONATION OF Queen Elizabeth WITH The RESTAURATION c. ACT I. SCENE I. The Noise of Kettle Drums and Trumpets are heard at which the Curtain rising discovers the Queen sitting under a Cloth of State in her Royal Robes attended by her Lords and Ladies of Honour two Bishops supporting her Crown and two Popish Cardinals standing at a distance The Scene imagined to be White-hall 1. Bish LOng live Elizabeth of England France and Ireland Queen sole Protector of our Lives Fortunes and Religion under whose Sacred Rule may it shine brighter than unclouded Stars A Lord. May Forreign Nations fly to do you Homage and Kings find Succour under the Shelter of your Wings Princes and Potentates bow down before you as the Universal Goodness of the World Ne'r was England so happy in a Monarch nor we in such a Royal Mistriss 2. Bishop May the Aethropians forget the Sun and fall down and worship you whose Sacred Influence governs thus Mankind Queen My thanks to all But I must refuse that Worship which the Immortal Powers have only bidden to themselves yet must own you next to the Powers above who have given me Essence and preserved my Life from Dangers great placing me upon this Throne to Rule a Tottering State driven by fierce Storms of Malice o'r the deep Billows of devouring Envy encompassed on every side with Foes yet fearless will I act First then To settle Religion the dearest part of Government and surest Rock for Princes to build upon shall be my speedy care to begin I 'll reform my own House and after that the Nation Therefore all you who pay Obedience to the See of Rome or think Supremacy due to the Pope we here discharge you and banish you our Court You my Lord Cardinals as chief must shew the way and in your rooms such faithful Ministers I 'll place as shall be worthy of so great a Charge Bloodshed and Rapine shall to Rome retire Murther and Luxury which feed the fire Shall to the Scarlet Beast for Succour fly And unimploy'd within his Bosom die Exeunt all but the 2 Cardinals 1. Cardinal Is it come to this 2. Card. Now Heresie begins to peep abroad that in Maryes days was laid as low as Earth 1. Card. Oh I could curse her Heart out nay my own for not preventing it before it had took root 2. Card. Horrors and Death why were our hands so tame when one brave stroak had done it at the Altar 1. Card. Where was this Devil Rome's great Counsellor where was he I say that he fore-saw not this Monster to have pashed it in the Mould of Nature or have strangled it in its Infancy e'r it grew to such a Gyantick Stature now enough to shake the very Throne of Rome 2. Card. It is not yet too late the Seeds are newly sown and e'r they root too deep we may pluck them up or by lopping off the Cedar make the Shrubs bend pliant as we please 1. Card. Let us about it then and lose no time methinks I could as freely strike the Heretick as one assured Salvation 2. Card. 'T is that must crown our Wishes the Queen once Murthered the rest are easily reduced unto the See of Rome let 's on then no opportunity must be omitted to get her speedily dispatched 'T is meritorious no doubt Blood and Murthers are Rome's chiefest Glories 1. Card. O Pius Quartu● assist us with thy Prayers and Hell if thou hop'st a glutting Harvest protect the best Religion Exeunt SCENE II. Enter Tim the Tinker Brush the Cooper and Honeysuckle the Cook with several other Rabble Tim. Enter Come Neighbours come This day is as we may say a Holy day for this day Queen Elizabeth is Crowned King of England and therefore we ought to keep it Holy All. We ought we ought Brush How Neighbour Holy Pray Neighbour have a care what you say for methinks talking of keeping a day Holy sounds as if we intended to keep a day for his Holiness Honey Who 's that talk's of his Holiness His Holiness is a Pimp and so is he that speaks of him I say no more I say no more Tim. Indeed Neighbour Brush my Neighbour Honeysuckle is in the right on 't for since King Elizabeth has Banish'd Popery out of England I say he 's a Son of a Whore that names any thing like it Brush Ay but Neighbour this had been Treason a year ago Tim.

But now we have got a King Elizabeth 't is no Treason Neighbours Agad I think my son as good a Christian now as any man of no Religion whatsoever Brush A year ago I had like to have been burnt for a Heretick because the Watch took me with a Bible in my Pocket which I had had there at least a quarter of a year and never thought on 't Tim. Nay I had like to have gone to pot too for saying that I was as great a Whoremaster as the Pope But those times are gone they are I thank my Stars or else we should all have smoak'd for speaking against the Pope Well I am but a Tinker but if I would have turn'd Papist I never needed to have mended Kettle more Honey How 's that never mended Kettle more that had been brave Tim. No for you must know I am a great Politician and a great Statesman that is a man of the State and a man of the State is a Statesman mark ye me Neighbours Honey Why then we are all Statesmen All. All all Statesmen Tim. Yes every Man and Mother's Child that don't go to Church too often for if ye go to Church too often People takes ye to be Religious and then ye are look'd upon as all Plotters Traitors Conspirators and the like for under Religion the Pope acts all his Villanies and every one knows that he is the greatest Churchman in the World All. He is he is he is Brush But come Neighbours to make right use of this Holy-day let us go to the Ale-house and there drink till we are drunk come home and beat our Wives and so to Sleep Come come come Neighbours come As they are going out Enter two Cardinals Honey Ha What ha we got here two young Popes Brush No no They are Cardinals Tim. How Canibals Neighbours Ud'slud they look as if they were a hungry I had best have a care they don't eat me But now I think on 't Gentlemen Pray how dare you stay in London since King Elizabeth has Banished Popery out of England 1 Card. Why you know we ought to have Preach'd to you but Here they run upon 'um rudely All. But what But what 2 Card. Why ye are a company of Incorrigible Impenitent and Exorbitant Wretches Brush How 's that Neighbours Exorbitant Tim. Ay that 's a hard word Neighbours let me see Exorbitant is is is as much as to say Exorbitant Honey As much as to say we are all Whores Birds Tim. All Sons of Whores every Man and Mother's Child for now I think on 't an Exorbitant fellow is the Son of a Whore and the Son of a Whore is an Exorbitant fellow Therefore I think Neighbours these He Popes ought to be chastised All. They ought they ought Here they fall upon 'um with Broom-staves Card. Pray Gentlemen pray Gentlemen be civil Tim. Down on your Knees then down on your Knees we say and beg our Pardons and that quickly Card. O cursed Fate But better this than worse we do we do Gentlemen and are sorry for what we have said Aside Tim. Well now I know 'um that 's he that burnt my Neighbour Mole the Sexton for a Heretick who was of no Religion Brush And that sly Scarlet Rogue because I would not let him Ravish my Wife and Debauch my Daughter burnt them both for Hereticks Honey And that 's the Fellow that lay with my Wife behind the Buttery door and made me a Cuckold to my face but 't is no matter we 'll Plague 'um for it now we have got 'um in our clutches they had better have been at Rome I'faith Tuking off their Hats and Mantles they rudely force them out All. Come come Away with 'um away with ' um Force them out Tim. Thus like two Roman Hero 's handy dandy We 'll go to the Alehouse to be Drunk with Brandy Exeunt in the Cardinals Hats and other Ornaments SCENE III. The Scene draws off and discovers the Romish Conclave the Pope Cardinals and Bishops as in close Consult Pope Now let the Joy of Rome be great and let every individual Father cry Long live Religious Soul and Scourge of Heresie Mary of England Eldest Daughter to this Holy See read here Delivers a Paper to a Cardinal 1 Card. How 's this 300 burnt alive in a Church as they were Preaching Heresie and close Rebellion against this Holy Catholick and Apostolick See Ten more such Sacred Murthers would have made the haughty Turk and stubborn Flemming to have own'd you the Supreme Head of the Universal Church 2 Card 'T is great and Meritorious let him be Canoniz'd for a Saint that first invented this Religious way of sending Troops of Heretick to Hell together Pope Let it e done 't is my Command it be so for the Propagators of Religion ought to be cherished though in Blood and let our speedy thanks be sent to our best Daughter for taking such effectual care to blast the growing Heresie and keep it under foot 1 Card. She ought to be Sainted whilst on Earth and when wrapped up into the brighter Mansions far above this lower world be Enthroned a Goddess and adored who found her self uneasie in her Thoughts and restless till opportunity gave leave to throw her Self and Crown at your Sacred feet desiring to be received into your bosom Pope And by so doing has fenced her self within a Wall of Addamant too secure for Envy or the prying Fates to reach and her Ambassadors shall still have the preheminency in all our Courts 2 Card. Who dares dispute it if it pleases you when all the Glories of the Earth depend upon your Will Monarch's but a Name you lend to pleasure haughty Man withal and when you please to call it back Kings are as soon devested of their Honours as are your meanest Slaves Enter the Devil in the shape of a Jesuit as in great Consternation Pope Ha! Your Eyes speak wonders and forebodes some dismal Message to the See of Rome Devil Dismal indeed the Flower of Rome is gone the Star that lately shone so bright in your great Firmament is set The Sacred Empress of the Northern Isles the angry Power have snatched away Mary of England's Dead All rising come forwards All. How Devil Cold as the face of Ice and in her stead the haughty Magnanimous Sister 's Crown'd But Crown'd to make Religion and her Ancient Seat stagger and fall before her Pope Curs'd disafter Devil All of the Church of Rome she has Disgraced and the greatest Places of Trust about her Person are given to Hereticks no Roman is to be seen in London now but such as sculk in Corners or those of such puny Souls that swallow all the Execrable Oaths they lay before them Pope Let them swallow all they can Impose we make it Lawful we 'll grant them Dispensations for so doing no matter if the whole outside taste of Heretick so within they remain firm to us ' Devil Something must be done to