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A89633 Princeps rhetoricus or Pilomachia· ye combat of caps. Drawn forth into arguments, general and special. In usum Scholæ Masonensis : et in gratiam totius auditorii mercurialis. [Mason, John, of Cambridge]. 1648 (1648) Wing M923A; Thomason E426_15; ESTC R20049 10,302 24

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Prince professed attained kept 1. Language 2. Invention 3. Manners 4. Religion each consisting of eight severall branches cleare and starlike 5. The Sun hath the chief influence as the glory and light of the rest {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and stands mounted in the highest angle above the bend of stars locus Principis Rhetorici the Princes place but by the Sun is chiefly intended Religion without which all Arts are but meer darknesse or at least Ignis fatuus Yet our Sol appears quartered in a sinister side because the Pulpits doth challenge the upper hand of the Schools and Theology the wall of Philologie But if the Parson at any time shall lose his Cap and turn Tityre tu patulae a Coridon of our Arcadia then will we Quarter our Sol upon the right and his Cap upon the left for then he is our Junior his Sheep-hook hath done Homage to our Rod Divinity hath struck Top sayle to Grammar and the Liturgy in Syntacticall obeysance hath vayled his bonnet to the Accidence 6. The two fields Gules on the right hand Azure on the left in a Philosophicall acception lively depaint the Will and the Wit the Heart and the Brain the two fixt seats of our fourfold learning Thus much for the Blazounrie in brief Sed aliquid latet quod non patet qui nucleum vult nacem frangat And now we come to the Argument in speciall and Correlative to each Act Princeps Rhetoricus The schoole Captaine BUt why Princeps and why Rhetoricus that fals in next to be scand for non est in promptu ubique O Edipus all teeth are not nut-crackers Therefore observe that the whole allusion brancheth it self into five strains of Rhetorick or Acts Oratoricall distringued here by 5 titles The first Act we call Inauguratio the Instalment The second Pompa the Entertainment The third Criticus the Linguist The fourth the Disputant The fifth the Judge or Moderator And in order to these is personated a Prince thus qualified In the first Princeps legitime inauguratus In the second Princeps Pompaticus Third Philologicus Fourth Philosophicus Fifth Judicialis And in the Catastrophe of the scene Princeps Religiosus and through the whole Acts Princeps Heroicè moratus of noble deportment alluding to the seven fold buckler of Ajax under which Vlysses lay protected Homers Prince of Eloquence and thus much for our Prince Quatenùs Princeps invested with Title Authority Quality now view him quatenus Rhetoricus His Prince-part was a notion assumed faigned and allegorically borrowed but the Rhetorick part and title are in earnest ex professo opus loci Personae For now One was to make good in himself by way of president to the rest the Character of a compleat Rhetorician and that by the exact Test of our two Rhetoricall Text-men Aristotle and Quintilian for one while he cunningly insinuates as at his first Ascent to the Chaire Detur ait Dignori ego enim comparativè non merui Like Caesar in Tacitus waving finely his new imposed dignity and yet at the same instant policetur abundè promiseth mountains to rule like an Angel Again sometimes his speech becomes demonstrative praising and inveigling sometimes deliberative pondering the future good sometime Juciciall according as the Lost-Cap finds Argument through the five Acts occasionally ex Ansâ datâ for still the matter is before the Iudge coram Judice lis And still the Parsons Cap makes work for all Argumentativè Then next touching those three Aristotelian Requisites 1. Natura 2. Ars 3. Exercitatio they were better there seen then here spoken As candid spectability a Tongue well hung firm sides retentive memory fancy clear a princely undanted presence cujus ex ore melle dulcior s●uebat Oratio c. But to compleat the matter after some faire Essayes of 1. Invention 2. Disposition 3. Elocution and 4. Pronunciation he falls upon the moderating part of Oratory and exhibits a Rhetoricall skill in the Bee-like use of Authours culling out for his own Hive the flowers inservient to his present purpose mutatis mutandis 3 tèr i. e. Alterum Alteratum or Aliud Sometimes again he leaves moderating and falls to debating syllogysticè upon the Argument till being victor in the truth he concludes by a double power Argumento 1. recti 2. sceptri And so becomes in fine both Princeps and Rhetoricus co-incident in nature and title the Rhetoricall Princesse for in vero conveniunt Rex lex The Arguments of the 5 Acts severally and particularly and these in twofold notion 1. Historical 2. Morall ACT. I. Princeps legitimè inauguratus or The Instalment The Argument Historicall SCENA I. A Curtain is displaied {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the prime School monitor appears in a studying posture is interrupted by the entrance of the 2 Text-bearers inducing {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the wandring schollar Lose-Cap to the sight and speech of the Monitor with a Petition tendered de recuperand● Parsonuli Pilco for recovery of his Cap defunct the Petition is accepted by Phylophylax the Monitor with promise to be presented in Court and to have fair audience in the businesse for his Office is not only School-Superintendent but also libellorum custos Master of request and complaints And here is the first stone laid in the Arch-fabrick of the counterplot SCENA II. LOrd of mis-rule enters with his bonny fresh men undertakes their protection contra gentes jura and against the imperious wand of Custos Tyronum his main Antagonist and theirs And this is the second trick of wit in the crosse plot so to disturb the main plot SCEN. III. HEre the maine plot begins The Master of Ceremonies appears with the Keeper of the Fresh-men T is consulted De Curiâ rectè curandâ that things be done in Place Time and Order Exit Ceremonius Custos induces his Fresh charge pearcheth them up at the Bar succeeds again Ceremonius with his whole Court-traine And first marshalleth his fourth Classis next his fift then fall in the Officers Seniors Attendants Prince in ceremoniall order Ceremonius leads the way next him Lord Mis-rule then two Monitors abrest Singly succeeds them Monitor Monitorum next Praeco Fecialis the Mercuriall Herauld at Armes Princeps Rhetoricus in the midst After him the two Text-bearers then the other two Monitors abrest the Cap of Maintenance after them and last Custos Tyronum Proclaimer and Guards-man Generall They proceed to Election on a fourefold Ground 1. Sucession 2. Merit 3. Suffrages 4. Lawes and Customes Invenitur Caduceo Habilis Idoneus proclaimed fit for the Mercuriall Scepter The Quaeries are ten As first whether he hath orderly ascended from Classis to Classis non faciens saltum not making a skip 2. Whether he be patiens inediae frigoris sudoris An multa tulit fecitque sudavit alsit whether he be Snow-proofe able to endure