Rab. Did ever hoo hear such a civil well bred Prince why hoo call'd us all Gentlemen at the very first word Well hoo shall have my Vote to be King Philod I am come here to fight for the Christian Religion and I hope you 'll all stick by me Omnes Yes yes we 'll all fight for the Chursten Religion and Prince Philodemy Philod Do ye love your Wives Rab. Yes yes we love our Wives as long as we can stand First Rab. No no I don't love my Wife for I caught her a mowing with Jacob in the Barn so I don't love my Wife but I love the Chursten Religion and young Philodemy Philod And you would not have them taken away and ravished by the cruel Pagans Omnes Udsbud No hoo's have many a broken head first Second Rab. Udsfish an they ravish my Wife hoo would sub poena 'm into the Bishops Court and let'n take what follows Philod And you would not have your Children murthered before your Faces Omnes Ah lack no no. here they fall a wouling Fourth Rab. Alack I would not have my Tommy kill'd for the best Cow in my Landlords stall ah Neighbour you know his God mother would almost cry her Eyes out for him Philod Well Gentlemen if you have a value for your Wives your Children and Estates if you wish well to the Christian Religion as Establish'd by Law if you would keep your Churches undefiled with the Heathenish Idolatry of the Pagans and your Daughters with their Beastly Lusts why then Gentlemen stick close by me and I shall endeavour to preserve you in your Religion your Laws your Liberties and over and above reward every one of you for your kindness and love to me Therefore Gentlemen if you do resolve to espouse this Cause with me let us be resolute and valiant and oppose our Enemies to the utmost drop of our Blood We shall not have many of these opportunities to do our selves good therefore we must strike now or never and indeed if we gain this we need fear no more our Enemies will never stand again no they will run like Hares before us First Rable Run away says he Will they so Udsbud then I 'll be after them full drive I always lov'd an Enemy that would run away without any more ado Oh! I fight like a Lyon always when they run away Philod Pray Gentlemen bring what Fire Arms you can with you and I 'll take care to have you Regimented and well disciplined and so I bid you heartily farewel Second Rab. But heark you me I pray your the D. is going Worship one word with you before you go Philod Speak Friend Rab. Mun we be all Officers Offic. Oh! yes yes all Officers Ex. D. cum suis Third Rab. Why then heark you me neighbour I 'll be a Collonel and look ye me because you are my friend you shall be he scratches what do'n you call that is the next Maun after me Fourth Rob. Pugh pugh I 'll be the place of a Justice law ye now Fifth Rab. Why hoo's a Fool we mu'n be all Collonels or Captains why there never is any Iustice in the Kings Army Sixth Rab. Come come le ts us make our selves ready for these Pagan Rogues and so let us pray ownes God bless the Chursten Religion and Prince Philodemy Exeum Rable SCENE III. The Scene changes to Alba Regalis Enter Barbarossa Pietro Bar. No News from the Camp yet Pietro Pie The King has not a word but that the Rebels increase daily He has sent other strict orders to the General to fight them without delay Enter Remarquo Bar. 'T was a desperate attempt of the Duke of Monumora's to invade a Kingdom at time of peace with so small a handful of Men. He had certainly great hopes of Friends in the Country and I begin to fear the worst B. Well you and I must follow the same fate we must stick close together Rem I hope to see you close hang together aside My Lord your Servant Bar. Honest Remarquo how goes it Well I have considred your affair and design you a kindness assoon as this Plaugy business of the West is over R. My good Lord your Servant thanks you perhaps his own business may be over by that time Aside Pie Well Remarquo what News from the Rebels I have not been at Court to day Rem Now will I heat 'um aside Why Sir matters appear to be much more dangerous than we thought at first The Country comes in strangely to them they all cry up for the Chursten Religion and Prince Philodemus whom they now call King Barbarossa startles B Good lack Remarquo but is it so Rem He has put out a Proclamation of Pardon to all that will submit with some few exceptions only and I think he has had the Confidence to put in your Lordship and this Gentleman more for two Bar. fumes and muses Bar. Udslife this is very hard to fall thus from the very prick of preferment this must not be Aside He muses and looks hard at Pietro And is the Reverend Pietro excepted too 't is unjust Let me see I must contrive some way or other to save my bacon aside what if I should betray Pietro into the Dukes hands aside Nay King Queen all should go if I could save but Barbarossa the great Barbarossa I 'd assoon hang as go to my old trade of Petryfogging again Aside Enter Messenger M. My Lord the King commands both your attendance Ex Barb. Piet. Rem Oh! The tortures of a guilty Conscience See how he fum'd and trembled at my News The sound of a Post-boys horn's as troblesom To him as that of a Passing-Bell And there 's not a Messenger comes from the Camp But he fancies he has a present of a Halter to make him Well he has been the boldest Sinner that ever Hungary knew For whereas most Vices covet to lurk under the disguise of Vertues he has made it his sole business to expose his bare faced as if it was not sufficient for the World to know without they saw him commit them Yes Barbarossa I will do this right What e'r thou art thou art no Hypocrite Ex Remarque Scene the Camps Enter the Duke of Monumora leading his Army over the Stage Duke Halt give the Word softly Sold. Halt halt Duke Gentlemen we must march with all the silence imaginable the Night favours us and we may take them knapping When we come upon them we must fall on without any good morrows one hours good work and the day is our own Bill-men succeed the Shot and fall on pell mell 't will be time enough to give Quarter at Sun-rise when we can know who and who 's together Now march Sold. March march Exeunt Noise of Drums Trumpets shouts cryes of Dying Men clashing of Swords c Enter Officer with Souldiers re-treating Offi. Stand stand and charge the Rogues some Villian betrayed us they were prepared for us Come come charge flying
the good natur'd Pietro and the Generons Barbarossa are I have not seen them at Alba Regalis all this Evening I 'll warrant you one is consulting the good of the Christians Souls as the other did of their Bodies in the West and are as calm in their Consciences as the meek suffering Martyrs and as little disturb'd at the News as a Hare at the first opening of the Kennel Well I 'll go in and visit some of their Active Brethren who at this time now are wonderful busie in forging false Reports to scatter amongst the People Had who have we yonder Oh there 's He is going forward the Jebusites private Cabal now they are preparing business to be offer'd in Council a Company of true State-Tinkers who under the pretence of mending one Fault make twenty Well I must be incognito I 'll stand up here and listen I may edifie upon it perhaps Pie We have no time Gentlemen to make long Speeches let us each offer our Sentiments and from thence we 'll pick out matter for the fittest Proposals to be made to Cullydada 1 Jeb What are the Heads of the Prince Lysander's Declaration Bar. I am afraid the Reverend Pietro's and mine are two of them Rem Ay And I hope he 'll have better hold of them that in his Declaration aside 2 Jeb Does our Danger proceed from the Person of the Prince Pie Oh! He 's the Primum Mobile of the Faction 2 Jeb Why then can we want a Zealous Brother that will venture to give him a gentle touch under the Fifth Rib 'T is the way of the Pagans and according to the Instructions of Mother-Church Pie I confess 't is lawful but not at this time seasonable we must use Lenitives yet a while we may have a time yet Rem Yes yes I may see them all take their turns in good time aside Bar. The Plaguy Christian Nobles advise the King forthwith to call the Sanhedrim They all start at the Word Rem Oh! how they wince at the very name of it aside Omnes Vdsbud a Sanhedrim Why the very thought of one's as dreadful as the sight of a Death's Head and there 's a Memento mori to us included in the very Words Pie Alack my Breath smells of Hemp ever since you mention'd it Why prithee what was our business here for these many long years but to stave off Sanhedrims unless now and then to let them come together for matter of Form and to fill the Kings Coffers which we always made sure to employ against themselves Bar. Nay I had as lief take a Lion by the Paw as look a House of Commons in the Face they have such a plaguy way of making a Man dancing the Somerset before 'em and turning him inside outward I should not be my self again while I liv'd Rem Nay o' my Conscience there must be a great dearth of Halters here if you liv'd long after aside Jeb But how do the People behave themselves Rem Ay there 's the sting aside Pie Why to be plain As Malefactors at the Gallows when they see a Reprieve come an unusual blithness in the face of the better sortst and an insulting boldness in the Rabble I walkt the Streets last Night in Disguise on purpose to hear their Sentiments where you should see at every other Door private Caballers and publick Mutineers At one place they stop'd me and made me Drink Confusion to Pietro and his Holy Colleague the Chancellor at another I saw a company of Boys were busie in twisting of Wattles I ask'd what they were for They presently return'd to hang the Iebusites together and make a present of them to the Prince Lisander Now this is our Distemper Brother Barbarossa what do you prescribe Bar. Why I am at a stand I have a plaguy Crick in my Neck of a suddain and that 's very ominous Oh that I had but two or three State Days in the West again Oh 't would be an infallible remedy R. Nay your Worship need not doubt of making one Holy-day before you dye yet aside Enter Messenger Mess My Lord the King sends for you both with all speed Bar. What 's the News prithee Mess The Prince Lysander is landed in the West with a formidable Army and the Country pour in like Hail to him some of the King's Troops have already entirely joyn'd him and all the people declare unanimously for him B. Oh poor Chancellor P. Ah-poor Pietro They run off clapping and wringing their Hands Scene III. Alba Regalis Enter Queen tearing her Hair and wringing her Hands with Dadamore the Nurse with the pretended Prince and Mazato Sycophante and Remarquo at a distance Qu. Oh Villains Rebels Traytors thus to betray their King and me Are these their Christian Principles Foh she spits Rem Why there 's the business these ill-natur'd Christians Out upon 'em that two or three Millions of Souls should so unanimously conspire to save their ancient dear bought Laws from being subverted their Religion from being violated and their Throats from being Cut when her Majesty had such a longing desire for it Indeed it was ill manners Qu. Oh if Barbarossa and the General had followed Pietro's advice and mine they should not have left either Hive or Bee in that cursed West Rem Ay but the Soldiers are wiser now for to save shedding of Blood they are all gone over to one side aside Dad. Dear Hautefelia do not so immoderately grieve but think thy loving Dadamore shall still supply all that envious Fortune can take from thee Qu. Dear Dadamore I must confess thou art the prop and stay of all my hopes but Enter Messenger Speak What 's the News make no preamble be plain and short Mess The King sends word his Army is revolted his very Friends Relations all are gone and he 's returning with all speed for fear of being surprized by the Enemy Qu. Oh! Tortures Plagues and Curses seize them Come come my Friends for you must share my Fate Mess Alack if I should lose my Tommy now in this hurly burly aside she howles Manet Remarq Solus Exit Qu. cum suis Rem Oh the hard Hearts of People grown in Sin She 's sensible of the Plague that follows her But thinks not of the cause her Coward Soul Essential to the wicked now can pine and howl At the apprehension of due punishment But with unimitable boldness she Could run through all the dreadful Catalogue Of hainous Sins without a doubt or scruple Nay she does yet even refuse to own Or to repent her Crimes against the Nation Her Crown her State her Grandeur are the things That cause her Tears and Curses but better far Some watry drops from her should singly go Than Streams of Blood shou'd from the Nations flow Exit Rem Enter King Pietro Barbarossa Philanax Messenger King Does he design so suddenly to come Mess Some of his Troops will quarter here to night King pawses a while I 'le answer all by
a Messenger of mine Exit Mess King Well my Friends you see how Fate and Time press me I have told you my designs and this Night resolve to put them in execution the Queen and Child are safe gone off and Pietro she has left her Casket of Jewels to your care and charge Pie I 'le be her faithful Carrier humh the Iewels to my charge Nay there 's a little comfort then I find I shall not go empty handed Yes yes I shall take care of them aside King It begins to grow late we must separate Well my good Friends farewel we may meet again Ex. K. Bar. Pie Enter Rabble with Links and Staves shouting and hollowing 1 Rab. Come come away Boys away the King has slip'd away but we 'll claw his Pagans off 2 Rab. Ay ay let 's pull down their Houses they have abundance of Crosses and Beads in them Oh I hate Crosses there 's none but Heathens love Crosses 3 Rab. Ay let 's pull down Count what de call'ems house Oh he 's a devilish Pagan there 's abundance of Gold and Money there 4 Rab. Nay then it deserves to be pull'd down I 'le warrant you they worship it there 5 Rab. Ay and there 's Goodman Fangum he 's a Plaguy Fellow Iowe him for two Suits of Cloaths indeed but he rayl'd so sadly against Prince Lysander that I have no mind to pay him 6 Rab. Come come we will lay down our Lives for the Christian Religion and so 't is unreasonable these Pagans should have such a deal of Money come away Boys away Enter Pietro disguis'd like a Tinker with a Budget at his Back 1 Rab. So honest Brother come along with us Efack you shall have Brass enough to mend Pie Ay Ay come away God bless the Christian Religion and hang the Pagans Omnes Amen Amen 2 Rab. Come along Old Bay we 'll make thee for ever Pie O' my Conscience they 'll make me out of my Wits if they keep me much longer aside 3 Rab. Come old Boy throw away that Budget thou shalt have a purse full of Brass and Iron Pie No hang it I 'll keep it because 't was my Fathers Uds-be as black as the Case appears there 's a heavenly lustre within O my Heart akes for my Jewels 7 Rab. Oh! I love this gutting of Houses dearly my Father was brought up to the Trade 8 Rab. I had a Brother liv'd and dy'd in 't 9 Rab. Ay Tom I remember him very well I saw him cut down 10 Rab. Away away Boys holloo holloo They shout and go off with Pie Enter Guard with Barbarossa in a Tarpawlins Disguise follow'd by the Rabble Bar. For Heavens sake Sir's keep me from the Mob and do else what you please with me 1 Rab. Do you hear the Villain abuses us he calls us plain Mob without an M. to it 2 Rab. Ay ay a Rogue he hang'd my Brother in the Wâ—â— without ever a Letter in the whole Criss Cross Row He would not let him speak one word or tittle for himself 3 Rab. Hey day why is this the Chancellor Why he look as if he had been at Sea 4 Rab. No he looks as if he would have been at Sea but hang him he was never born to be drown'd 5 Rab. Why here 's a strange alteration here 's the Judge turn'd Executioner he 's like the Hangman in the West 6 Rab. O the Villain he hang'd my Father for giving a handful of Hay to one of the Lord of Monumora's Horsemen Oh his tear him to pieces Guard stand off there Exeunt omnes Scene IV. The Palace of St. Jacques Enter Prince Lyfander attended with the Nobility and Gentry of Hungary and Guards in a magnificent manner with Drums beating Trumpets sounding Colours flying the People shouting and the Guns round the great Tower firing at which the Stars clear up the Sun shines and all the inchanted Pagan Mosques Priests Jebusites Crosses Beads Quo Warranto's Dispensators Ecclesiastick Commissioners c. vanish in a moment FINIS