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
Saint and I do like my self I declare to you Fathers I love not the Prisoner because my Brother the Franciscan conspir'd with him in England professing that had he been enabled with his parts he would have turn'd heretick as he did Nels Fathers I am your Definitor let me define for you We will out-wait this hard Winter If there be not a settlement in England before the Summer visit us we will send him to the Inquisition at Rome and there burn him alive to vile ashes Rob. Father Bennet Nelson you speak like an Orthodox Brother rightly descended from Bishop Bonner I will procure in England sufficient provision of Monies from the Catholicks there for this godly purpose who will gladly contribute to such a meritorious work He is our deadly enemy he has wrought against us mischiefs without president beyond example above parallel He wrote a Book in England and entitled it The Serpent and the Dragon or The Jesuit and the Monk or Profession and Practice the Jesuite was but the Serpent and the Monk was the Dragon Now the Author is both Serpent and Dragon and deserves to be burnt beyond ashes if it were possible Plangenti nemo condolet Draconi No man condoles with a mourning Dragon And before this Book he set his Picture fetching the Devil out of a Monk in the form of a Pig Hog as he was Pri. I receiv'd a Letter from St. Malloes signifying that he with certain English Merchants visited our Fathers there every one bringing his Bottle of Wine otherwise as our Fathers there innocently call it of Crimson and our holy Fathers there drank so fully plentifully and rejoycingly of it that they told him in the extasie of their joy he did in very deed deserve to be Canonized by his Holiness for his charity towards them and yet both he and the Merchants reported the good men were drunk crimsonfac'd and drunk with crimson a very plot Nels Truly Father there was a noble Personage from England here in Paris that numbred this Varlet amongst his Friends he call'd him his Chaplain and one Winter night they congeal'd into company with a good Father here in Town he had an imperfection that he would be drunk every day in fine he was overtaken with drink that night and slept in a chair and presently they sent for a great Glass of Oyle sit down here Father Robert and I will shew the manner and powred it upon the bare bald and holyest part of his head saying O Priest we annoint thee King of drunkards and leave thee drunk with Wine and drown'd in Oyle Rob. Father Prior and Father Nelson I did but kiss a Woman in the Old-Baily at London and do a little something more to her and as you shall believe me to be a true child of the Church I had but one child by her a dainty Boy and as like my self as if I had spat him out of my mouth and this vile fellow set it going upon wheels through City and Countrey Pri. He is a most pernicious man Nels Fathers this our Convent of Paris excepted and he has been in Paris many times and once resided here four years together he has liv'd in all our Monasteries through the whole Christian world he liv'd in our Abby at Lambspring in Germany in our Monasteries at Doway in Artois at Dulewart in Lorain at St. Malloes in Britanny he knows all our secrets and all the secret conveyances betwixt the Rebels and us and has heard from us uncomely words lackying thereunto None of our Fathers in their Monasteries would receive him into the Habit lest he should know more of our inside and bemire us further Father Cressy whisper'd to him in his ear that he was sick of all our Monasteries and he presently talk't it abroad He fancies to himself a perfection according to the Primitive Model and he desires and seeks according to this his Platonical Idea F. Prior It is the setled doctrine of the Jesuites That he who threatens or intends to publish the secrets of a Religious-House may be lawfully kil'd Now there is a two-fold manner of killing we may kill directly as the Jesuites do which is too publick incurres too much upon the senses or indirectly as we Let those sufferances be multiplied upon him in the Bastille that no ordinary man can endure without death which is a kind of indirect killing If his body be of heart-oake and he scapes this to the fire and fagot with him at Rome Pri. Fathers I approve and sanctifie your counsel Here let us center The cause is good the end excellent the affair must and shall prosper Rob. One word in the by We have money of his which hath remained dormant in our hands these two years but he must not have it lest it should serve to manage him into England if he should break Prison And whereas he is upon our account unraveld three hundred pounds and upwards besides all sorts of cloathes and other goods which he gave us and of which we have milkt and gelded him hereticks would say defrauded him now the matter moves upon another hinge O the brave Goose-pies that we begg'd him out of Nels My brain is in labour Perhaps I shall bring forth another way a way more compendiary to shorten his life in the Bastille He is there the most part of his time in pitchy darkness a Spider in his salt and there entoomb'd in her own venome would be thought to destroy him casually and then we may exalt Providence Pri. Fathers It will not be cross to our design if we likewise inform the Chancellour that he is a Monk The Chancellour knows a Monk should not abide out of his Monastery This will fortifie and confirm the Chancellour in his honourable act of imprisoning him For set aside his Priapisme the Chancelour carries the face of a conscience Nels It would not be amiss Pri. Thus then We have decreed and the plot is modeliz'd let us proceed to performance and go on upon this Helix wider and wider Rob. O Father you have dignum caput cui posterit as devoveat capitolium anserinâ operâ praeservandum a reverend head to the which posterity may worthily devote a Capitol to be preserv'd afterwards by Geese Pri. F. Robert you are alwayes merry Come let us go and hammer the iron while it is incorporated with fire Nels The Monk that is most cunning and most queint Our Maxime saies must be declar'd a Saint Exeunt Act 4. Scene 3. Aristotle Junior lying on the ground in a Dungeon upon a little straw mingled with dirt Arist O Torment The pangs of Death cannot be more grievous and my pangs are notoriously more grievous to me than the pangs of Death because mine are continual The whole Fabrick of my body is so stifned and benum'd with cold so bruis'd and sor'd with the hardnesse of the rocky ground that I cannot use a limb without excessive pain and shaking of the whole frame They
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