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A92753	The Scottish politike presbyter, slaine by an English independent. Or, The independents victory over the Presbyterian party. The rigour of the Scotch government, their conniving and bribing: the lewdnesse and debaucherie of the elders in secret. A tragi-comedie.		1647 (1647)	Wing S2097; Thomason E407_20; ESTC R203529	8,205	16

THE Scottish politike Presbyter Slaine by an English Independent OR The Independents Victory over the Presbyterian Party The rigour of the Scotch Government their conniving and bribing the lewdnesse and debaucherie of Elders in secret A Tragi-Comedie Diruo aedifico muto quadrata rotundis Printed in the Yeere 1647. The Persons DIrectory the Scotch Presbyter Sargus Luxurio two lewd Elders Anarchie an Independent Priscilla his Wife Liturgie an Episcoparian Moneylesse a Courtier A Pursevant Officers Mutes Prologue PResbyterie and Independencie Have long time strove for the precedencie Here one kills t'other when ye see him die Wish his destroyer fell by Liturgie The Scotch politike Presbyter A Tragi-Comedie Act 1. Scene 1. Enter Directory Sargus Luxurio two Elders Direct IT must be so Sar. If that hee 'l not comply have you heard nothing from him Lux. No he seems to sleight our Summons Direct Let him smart for 't Luxurio denounce him to the horn after excommunication ipso facto what madnesse doth possesse him that hee 'l not buy his peace Sar. I sent one of my Agents to him who gave him timely notice there was no way but punishment except a Fee Dir. Have you already fram'd the Warrant S●r. Yes Dir. Read it Sargus reads B●shops Liturgie WE the Elders of the Congregation Demoniack upon information and notice of some scandalls that you have g●ven whereof we are to take notice do hereby as Officers of the Church requ●re and command you to appeare before us on Tuesday the seventh day of February Anno 1644. to a●swer such things as shall be objected against you Directory Sargus Luxurio Dir. Send it away with speed fond man doth he not know that we have scourged Lords and trod on Kings that temporall force will aid our spirituall plots Knox and Melvill have left power to us ample as that Romes Bishop claimes I le make my selfe as great as him if I get foot in England I hug my Genius that doth prompt me on No dull and heavie fancie clogs my soule 'T is purest fire extracted from the Pole If that I can perswade the Englishmen to let me noose them as their Brethren I le spread my pennons further yet And like a Comet in the evening skie Strike with amazement every wondring eye Let 's be gone Exeunt SCENE 2. Enter Liturgie Dipwell Litur And why new Jordan Dip. If we give credit to the Card 't will tell us like to that river through which once Levites did beare the holy Ark. New River ●lowes Litur But can those tender Virgins that resort there for to be rebap●i●ed endure the bitter blasts of Boreas and Hyems frostie breath and not be much impaired in their health Dip. The water without doubt is sanctified and as the holy Martyrs girt with flames sang cheerfully as if they nothing felt so compassed about with ice and cold those that we there do dip receive no harme Litur Strange delusions Enter a Pursevant with Officers Pur. By the command o' th' ruling Presbyterie Demoniack Sir I arrest your person Litur Where 's your Warrant Pur. Here. Litur Ha my inveterate foes have all conspir'd to work my ruine Look here friend because I did refuse to come when summoned nor sent a Fee for my discharge so to Shews Dipwell the Warrant maintain their lust and luxury who by their daily prodigality consume their aurum Tholosanum in riotousnesse adulterie and fornication O England Wilt thou be slave to these vermine the vulgar do not know what will ensue should they accept of a Presbyterie those that do sit at helme will not discover it for that it tends to uphold their pride and wantonnesse good men are vassalls to the vile The Crowne stoopes to the mace The noble to the base While that the Fathers of the Church do walk like men dejected and forlorne Mourning like dolefull Pelicans and howle In desart places like Minervas Owle Who would have thought so flourishing a State As England was but seven yeeres ago Should now become the patterne of all woe Calamity and comfort comes and goes From State to State as Neptune ebbs and flowes With humane things a thing divine doth play Nothing arriv'd at height but doth decay Earths ioyes are false they bid us soon adieu Her during sorrowes are most certain true Come I le along Sir with you M. Dipwell will you be witnesse of my usage with me Dip. Sir do not go 't is madnesse for a man to put himselfe into their hands that hate him Litur Should I not go they 'l give me over to the temporall sword and in the Market-place proclaime me rebell confiscate my estate and send me into banishment Dip. Will English men put on this Scottish yoke I have a hope the Independents may send hence this government to be abhor'd from England to Genevah where 't was born Litur Pray heaven it prove so Now to my adversaries my soule contemnes their most usurped power though now it overflowes in teares whose current overflowes its banks Where griefs Virago upon either hand Worser t●en Scilla or Charybdis stand Exeunt Act 2. Scene 1. Enter Anarchy Priscilla his wife Pris I 'Le none of this same lowsie learning to make my son a Whoremaster e're he hath seen the age of eighteen yeares for when they once come but to conster Ovid de Arte Amandi their bowells earne to occupy the nine Anar Away thou foole doth not even nature tell us that learning doth support the world and taught the rustick Clowne the way to till the ground to bind the corne in sheaves and weild the flaile Pris I say I will not make my son a beggar expose him to contempt and scorne send him to Oxford send him to Cairfax rather and see him caper in a string no no we in this age of ours the heavens be praised have little use of learning if he can read his Psalter and cast up his accounts for bread and salt he 's a sufficient Scholler besides heaven blesse the Parliament for their most pious Acts in generall and in particular that they have reduc'd those t●pp … g Black-coats to a new modell'd garbe that where before they drank too much and eat too little they now shall neither eat nor drink what shall we doe with such Lobcocks that must sit all the week in Taverns or Ale-houses and on the Saturday bellow two houres in study which when they utter the next day there 's none can understand it Anar The b●ind cares not if Sol ne're shine they still can grope their way my son shall be a Scholler and let the worldlings wallow in the dung while he the Indies beares about him none knowes the learneds blisse but those that learned are I do looke on Plato's D … i●y next unto Moses writings fam'd Aristotles lear●ed Philosophy next unto Jesseis sonnes rare Proverb Livies large booke next to the Chronicles of Israels Kings and Homers Deathlesse Verse next unto Davids Laies may hell conspire