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The subjects joy for the Kings restoration, cheerfully made known in a sacred masque gratefully made publique for His Sacred Majesty / by the author of Inqvisitio Anglicana.
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Sadler, Anthony, b. 1610.
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Right and Israels 3 Law Made 1 Vain as 2 Void and 3 Vile by Zedekiah Treasons abhord and God would make him know it And maugre Egypt and all 's Force did show it The Caldee Army came at length to prove A Traitors tongue calls Vengance from Above And God and Man to right such wrongs doth move Jerusalem that strong and stately City Is close besieg'd without regard or pity Of either Place or Persons want within And Fear without makes every face look thin Within they faint without the walls they fall The City 's broken up the King and All Fly for their Lives but whither shall they fly Whom God pursues with 's Anger 's Hue and Cry King Zedekiah now the woful scorn Of the Chaldean Army is forlorn Pursude and taken he is Vilifi'd To Riblah hurried and there justly tri'd Tri'd by the Prince abus'd and the same King Who gave him leave to Rule as Underling He is his Judge and rightfully condemns His Treasons and his Traitrous stratagems He slayes his Sons before him makes him see His Sin hath ruind his Posterity Then puts he out his Eyes as having been The Visible Contrivers of that Scene At last he bound in Chains in Prison lies And living Poor and Blinde there wretched dies And here I stopt Two Subjects more more fit Courting my Fancy thus my Fancy writ Zimri would be King of Israel And so would Shallum too Two Subjects but Both Traitors Both Murderers and Murdered A wicked Pair well met and truly matcht For Fate and Fortune equal strangely hatcht Each was a King In Name but not by Right Not by Succession but by Trechery Not by Choyce but Usurpation Not by Conquest but Rebellion They matter'd not which way So the End were gotten But ah how soon Is the Head of Ambition turn'd round With what prodigious speed Doth the short time of their Tryumphing fly A certain shame Waits on their fickle glory And their deceitful Glass Of false-reflecting-Beauty While 't is but lookt upon 't is broken Though Presumption leads the Van Despair brings up the Rear Of all their Squadrons Zimri is scarce seated in the Throne But Vengeance follows him His seven dayes Reign is dearly bought And his End is as dreadful as his Treason He saves the Executioner a labour And by a Strange Device To put his Ashes in a Royal Urn He Fires the Pallace and Himself doth burn And was not Shallum haunted With as ill Success in as high a Fortune Past Grace past Shame He dares Heaven to defend the King While he conspires to Murder him Not because Zachariah was as Bad as Any But because He was Above All He had the Supremacy And Shallum longs for 't And now his Pride Admits no Obstacle as legal The Thirst of his Ambition Must be quench'd with Blood Not Popular but Royal Not of Any Prince but his Own Not a in Private but a Publique way Not by Others but his Own hands Thus he contrives to Kill And Kills to Reign And Reign he doth A Rebel but no Soveraign Yet now as arrogant as the Devil The Glory of the world 's His He won it by the Sword And by the Sword he 'le keep it A Traitors Plea right He that set him to this School Taught him his Lesson well But the Feet of wool have Hands of Iron God is Slow but Sure Shallum with a vengance findes it He findes it but Not so much Slow and Sure As Sure and Sudden Shallum kill'd his Lord And the Servant kill'd Shallum Zimri was destroyed by Himself Shallum by Another Zimri at a Weeks End And Shallum at a Months Thus he that Kills his Prince to wear his Crown To warm his Fingers burns a Pallace down Deludes destroyes himself and while he venters To round a seeming Heaven Hell concenters Villain forbear do'nt suck thy Princes Blood Forbidden meat is no fit meat for Food And here notwithstanding the time I had spent and model I had made and had as in a manner laid the Scene upon these Persons and this Peece of thus revenged Treason yet my minde was farther prest to take another and to begin a new At last the Needle left her trembling Round And my Magnetick Fancy fixt I found I found my Subject and when All is done My Subject's Jeroboam Nebat's Sonne Jeroboam Whose Hope though at the last it was deceived and his Policy defeated and his Pride debased and his Person destroyed for The Lord strook him and he died Yet this Catastrophe Of That Ominous Politician Was for many years as really Improbable as was the Settlement of Abijah seemingly Impossible But stay This ruder Peece is dedicated to the publick view and the contingency of censure I will therefore no longer detain you from your Places nor anticipate your fancy My good wishes wait upon your favour and the better Omen of the Masque upon your Persons and your Fortunes So we All arose and went into the Theater where we being Sate four Trumpeters did enter and having sounded a Victoria a Levite presents himself and speaks The Argument In the dayes of Rehoboam the Son of Solomon 1 King 11. 26. did Jeroboam the Son of Nebat rebel against his King In which Rebellion when he had continued 1 King 12. 19. 2 Chron. 13 â— eighteen years then began Abijah the Son of Rehoboam to reign over Juda. In the third year of whose Reign he waged war Ver. 2. and set the Battel in Aray against Jeroboam who when he had plaid Rex so long a time as two and 1 King 14. 20. twenty years and had an Army so Great as of Eight hundred Thousand chosen men being mighty 2 Chron. 13. 3. men of Valour yet then even then was the Lord pleased to make his Arm bare his Justice known the Truth prevalent and his Name glorious For this so successful Treason this numerous Army and unhappily-happy-Traitor were in their best Condition and their greatest Confidence totally 2 Chron. 13. 13. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. subdued and fearfully overthrown five hundred thousand of them slain their General enforc't to fly and as a Warning to all Rebels exemplarily struck dead by the Hand of the Lord. In a grateful Commemoration of which Signal Victory and in an holy Preomination of the years succeeding Fortunate to the Truth and Loyalty was this new-mysterious Masque first made wherein Abijah and King's Cause Jeroboam and the Rebels With the justice and success of Both are timously made obvious to The Comfort and Encouragement Of All Loyal Subjects I my self saith the Royal Prophet have seen Psal 37. 36 37. the Ungodly in great power and flourishing like a green Bay Tree And I went by and lo he was gone I sought him but his Place could no where be found An Unwise man saith the same Author doth not Psal 92. 6 7. well consider This and a fool doth not understand it When the Ungodly are green as the Grass and when
Loe this is the man that tooke not god for his strenght but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches and strengthen'd himselfe in his wickedness P s 52 7 * Ieroboam Regno Regnaâ—i 〈◊〉 Sis Sine regno Sold at the greyhound in St Pauls Church yeard THE SUBJECTS JOY FOR The Kings Restoration Cheerfully made known IN A Sacred MASQUE Gratefully made publique FOR His saCRed Majesty By the Author of INQVISITIO ANGLICANA 2 KING XI 12. And he brought forth the Kings Son and put the Crown upon him and gave him the Testimony and they made him King and Anointed him and clapt their hands and said God save the KING LONDON Printed in the year of Grace for James Davis and are to be sold at the Greyhound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. To His EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK Heroick Sir THE present affairs of this Kingdom are so providentially managed by God so prudentially by You and so happily opportunely for the building up the Ruins and repairing of the Breaches both in Church and State that the Factionist malignes the Temporist admires and Royallist congratulates so hopeful a beginning Let it not then displease my Lord if now one of those poor grateful Royallists hath in this spring of hope so cheerful a boldness as to beg the favour of your Excellency to Patronize this Peece This Peece I confess is Theatrical New and Strange Strange but yet Pertinent New but yet Serious and Theatrical but yet Sacred Nor am I in This either singular or affected while Apollinarius and Nazianzen two antient Fathers of the Primitive Church are known to be exemplary in this very way The truth is I am now upon the well-tun'd Put with my Palm and my Psalm to chant an Hosanna for the Kings Reception I am now upon the joyful Stage to play the devout Comaedian and by a new Triumphal to court the affections of the most Disloyall Upon the Stage I am that as by a true reflection to shew the radiancy of my divine zeal so I might by congruous Divinity render Corah notwithstanding his holy Plea Rebellious and Treason notwithstanding Garnet's Straw and Becket's Canonization in the Abstract hateful both to God and man Religion and Allegience are the wings of the soul to mount her unto Heaven and the present Masque is but to preserve the Beauty of so fair an Allegation and to attest before the world my utter abhorrency of the least Confederation against the Higher Powers Oh Sir may the Higher Powers be as safe as sacred and may That SaCRed Person into whose hands God by his Grace Nature by Descent and the Law by Right have successively given the Globe and the Scepter may He ah may He be as happy as He is Good and as Good as He is Great the Best of Men crowned with the Best of Blessings Sir your Excellency is now the Renowned Instrument of wonderful Transactions In the name of God go on and prosper Certainly my Lord if your auspicious self shall with this hopefully-happy Parliament go on to Act for God and the good of his distressed People By Enthroning The most Illustrious Prince And Our Lawful King Charles the Second For the Setling of the State For the Reforming of the Church For the Establishing of the Lawes And the Maintaining our Reiigion That most true Protestant Religion Of the Church of England I am confident You shall as surely Prosper in having The Holy Spirit of God to be Your Guid The holy Angels of God to be Your Guard Here to be Famous and Hereafter to be Glorious as there is a God in Heaven So Believeth and Affirmeth Ever Devoted To God His Prince And Countrey Anthony Sadler TO THE Candid Reader THis is the Month this is That Month of Marth Which Tunes our Noats to sing our Princes Birth This is that Month this is The Month of May Which Loyall London cals her Holy-day The Prince as now new Born from the wombe Of Hardest Travail is Deliver'd Come The Midwifery of Heaven doth Present A saCRed Monarch to the Parliament And That to Us and We to Heaven again Present our Thanks and Bless our Soveraign Rejoyce my soul to see the Prince of Worth The Worlds wonder brought so Timely forth Rejoyce Blest Prince thy Throne is blest with Peace Thy welcome Income makes our Wars to cease Rejoyce my Fellow-Subjects All as One Congratulate the Rising of This Sonne Whose Royall Lustre hath dispell'd our Fears And Clouds of Grief to drop with Joyful Tears Anthony Sadler In this MASQVE are 6. Shewes 10. Speeches 3. Songs The Persons in the several Shews Speaking the several Speeches Are Psyche King David King Abijah His Queen-Mother Two Dukes his Brothers The High Priest The Lord General The Prophet Shemaiah The Scene For the Land is Canaan For the Place is Bethel For the Person is Jeroboam A Divine Masque The private Speech OF The AVTHOR In Society with his Friends to entertain the Time before the Masque begun YOu know Dear Friends That Video Vindico is God's Motto upon Traitors but it is our duty to wait Gods time for he that shall come will and he that will come is to the help of his Anointed God hath in mercy made his people to return return to their duty of Praying for the King His very Name now is pretious his Presence long'd for and a General joy attends the hope to see him in his Throne So that now seeing the Royal Son begin to rise and my Loyal fancy to be as lucky as divine My heart reviv'd my Muse rejoyc'd to bring Her Off-spring out to welcome in the King Two Virgins dress'd in Print with blest accord To give a Salve unto our Soveraign Lord. The Elder is a Sybillian and to acheer the King doth by a Prophetick Pen write a Praediction in a Lamentation The Younger is a Masquer and she also to acheer the King doth by pretty Scenes praesagingly-praeact his just Inauguration They are Both the Issue of one Parent Legitimate and Loyal but upon the very Conception of the Masquer much troubled I was on whom and where and how to lay the Scene I once thought to have made England the Nation Westminster the Place and then My purpose was the Powder-traitors Plot For to have made my Subject and their Lot To Ruine cast have shewn I had thought T o've made their way a Warning and had brought Examples pertinent prophane but ture To make their shame as fearful as its due But this not fully reaching to the aim Of what I would I then begun again Consulted God and took my Object higher I made my Subject sacred and came nigher To shew a Traitors Doom from Scripture then I pitch'd on Zedekiah Knowing well That Zedekiah when he did Rebell Against th' Covenant made and Oath he took To be the King of Babels Vice-Roy look Oh how the faithful God did take to heart The wrong thus offer'd unto Either Part His 1 Name the Heathens 2