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A new play call'd The Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd a comedy / by Richard Carpenter.; Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd
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Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?
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1665
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Wing C624; ESTC R10248
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Barnes All things fall out perpendicularly to my fears I shall be burnt here at Rome and I shall be damn'd hereafter in Hell These two like malevolous and malignant Planets are in conjunction I have oculos pumiceos eyes of Pumice-stone I cannot weep These desperate Tormentors have sunk me into desperation O! Exit Barnes Arist The wise Alchymist in the whole progress of his Art extracts things purer and purer from grosser things Exeunt Act 3. Scen. 5. Enter Lord Liberal and Sir John Wit-little S. John My Lord the Gentleman's Wife that yesterday was your Guest promist me the sight of a Quaker this day I have a great mind to see a Quaker Their outward appearance is highly commended L. Lib. Sr. John Toads and Serpents have been found in the midst and heart of the fairest-colour'd Stone or Marble being hollow I love to be like the Pearl which is united in it self and called Vnio If I should put my heart upon the Wheel to run round the sequel would be dangerous and perhaps like the famous or infamous rather motion of the Wheel which was first set on going and then carried about and about round and round with Bags of Sand tyde to the Wheel and falling still as the wheel mov'd more and more forcibly until the violent motion kindled fire in it and burnt it out of all Motion but what the sporting wind bestowed upon the cold ashes Enter Vain-glory Pretty Lucifer like a Quaker Lucifuga S. John Madam You are welcome to my Father-in-Law's house by that name I commonly stile him I see you stand close to your word Mad. Else I were not enstated in that Honesty which I pretend to S. John Is this your Quaker Mad. Yes Sr. John This is the Mufty and Head of the Sect. S. John My Lord pray speak to him I am not wife enough L. Lib. Friend What is your Judgment concerning Religion Lucifer Thou man who gave thee Authority thus to question me thy Fellow-Creature I am free and unquestionable in the matter of Religion S. John Quaker You should uncover your head This is a Lord. Lucifer Man thou art deceiv'd I will not put off my Hat though he be a Lord He is but a man as I am and my Fellow by Birth L. Lib. What is your Profession Lucifer I am a poor ingerant Countreyman a Cobler by Trade that profess the knowledge of Truth in a larger size than ordinary L. Lib. How attain'd you to this Knowledge of so large a Circumference if you be ignorant of Learning Lucifer By Inspiration Vaing. My Lord he is inspirited of entimes and speaks beyond a man L. Lib. The Comet is perfectly circular except where it blazes yet wants the Perfection and perfect Influence of a star though because it is neerer it seems fairer Besides it is an Upstare and risen out of gross Matter Our Quaker blazes only in the business of Religion Vaing. Now his Fit enters upon him Maid give him a Chair He trembles S. John This is fine sport L. Lib. The Ague shakes him Vaing. He returns to himself Exit Lucifuga Lucifer The Nightingale growing fat cannot sing I have long fasted According to the multitude of Operations be they of the same or a different nature in which the Soul doth busie her self she performeth each particular Operation with less obsequiousness and ability and therefore less perfectly Because the Soul being finite and limited her active virtue is also limited and finite and so fitting and applying her activity to divers operations she gives the cause that each participateth a less portion thereof It is not within the Sphere of humane power that one should at the same very time observingly contemplate the Feature of a mans face beheld with his eyes and judiciously bend his Thoughts to the curious and bewitching Strains of Musick intruding upon his Ears nor in the same instant attentively discern the Differences and several Garbs of Colour and Figure Had I a hundred Understandings and as many Tongues I have Matter wherewith to lade and load them Man there is yet Terra Incognita a Land unknown to thee with respect unto knowledge and Religion The truly knowing people wheresoever they are are infallible He that thinks such a People can fall fears the ruine of the Firmament and is more than somwhat like him who-being Galens Patient and very sick told him demanding in the morning how he did that he had been restless and without sleep all the nighâ— heaving himself from side to side and heavily groaning and had been grievously troubled in seriously thinking what should become of him sick man if Atlas weary now at last should steal away his out-worn shoulder and Heaven with all the Larks in the Ayr fall upon him lying weak in his Bed Without Infallibility there is no certainty no security And what are all Professors compar'd to us They are deckt like heathenish Indians with fine Feathers filch't from Birds that when they were alive flew near Heaven while these because their feathers are ascititious cannot fly can scarcely creep If they raise an old Truth like the shape of a fair plant or flower in a Glass they suddenly draw the flame or Candle away and let it fall to dull Ashes again Other men are petty Chapmen and Pedlers of Divinity Man if thou wilt know know that I am the knowing man And man thou maiest know it by this of a simple and ignorant man I am suddenly exalted above my self by Rapture Persons ill-affected in their eyes many times see two things when but one presents it self every man in their seeing hath two heads four eyes two Mouths two Bodies four hands as many feet and is twice himself and a double man Man thou maiest think me double and deceitful but the fault is in thy Eyes not in me He trembles again Vaing. Now he goes back to the simple man he was L. Lib. This begets wonder But he that is red through blushing cannot be said to have a red face He that is pale through fear cannot be said to have a pale Countenance As one good or evil Act renders not a man morally and throughly good or evil we being truly nam'd good or evil just or unjust from the Habits and the multiplication of Acts issuing from them so a Fit of Knowledge fits not a man for the Name of a knowing man Enter Mrs. Dorothy and Lucifuga S. John O Sweet-heart Had you been here you had seen a Quaker in his Fit He quakes and shakes like the Leaves of a tree in a fresh wind Dor. Such sights are not pleasant to me Sr. John Little-Wit Sr. John My Lord she speaks with the Quaker L. Lib. It matters not I had rather she were a Quaker than a Papist Tender Infants are most subject to fascination she has Age. Lucifer Madam Your Portion being in your own hands bagg it and I will find waies to fetch it Afterwards I shall convey you to a Nunnery Dor. You
Fear give you up into the chast hands of Innocency Innocency will innocently endear you to Simplicity Simplicity with an unleven'd Simplicity will resign you to Knowledge Knowledge will knowingly prefer you to Prudence and Prudence will prudently conduct you to the Lady Devotion who will devoutly receive you Arist. I most humbly desire admittance Fear What is your Name Arist Aristotle Junior I am a Graduate in the University intending by a right Line forward Fear You may enter But first with a reverent Fear hear your Welcom A Song Welcome Scholar whose Desire One sings in the musick room Kindled with Celestial Fire Prompts thee to a Pious Motion In quest of sublime Devotion And points with Pyramidal Love Flame-like to the things above Leave thy Body where thou art Enter thy Spiritual Part. Then shalt then be install'd Angelical These 4 Verses are the Burden and sung by many together Above thy mortal self Seraphical After the Vertues here compos'd into a Ring Shall all encircle thee and to thy Laurels sing First Fear layes thee in the dust And presents a Power just Which awes and commands thy Soul Not to act without controul Bends thee to a Law that binds And a chiding Conscience finds If ought b' indirect and so Humbles thee thy self to know Then shalt thou be After the Vertues Innocency stamps thee good Checks the Sallies of thy Blood Signes thee moral and refers Thee to him that never errs Moving him to recommend Thee to the sublimest End And the Meanes in their Degrees As he most expedient sees Then shalt thou be After the Vertues Simplicity states thee pure From false-dealing and the lure Of base Lucre singles Tongue Gesture Forehead Hands from wrong Tutours thy Life guards all free From taint of Hypocrisie Renders all thy doings even Clean as Flower untouch't of Leven Then shalt then be After the Vertues Knowledge doth adorn and clear The Soul in her highest Sphear Brings high things near to our sight Sees the darkest things in light Solves doubts and removes offences Our greatest of Goods commences Teaches us what should be done To end where we first begun Then shalt thou be After the Vertues Prudence salt-like seasons Life Parting as the Surgeons Knife Sound and unsound holds the Reins Of Vertues holds Vice in chains To Practicks allowance brings Prescribes manner measure things Enter then as you desire Exeunt Tow'rds the Queen your Thoughts admire Then shalt thou be After the Vertues Act 1. Scen. 3. Enter Galen Junior Ignoro a Lawyer Magnifico a Souldier Gal. Ignoro Our very knowing if I may so speak without prejudice to your Name and long-sleev'd Lawyer by Statute and Magnifico our magnifying and multiplying Souldier be not so readyfooted By Justice which you ought to maintain with your Tongue you defend with your Sword the Precedency belongs to me It is my part first to salute the Lady Ign. Gal. jun. I am the right owner though not in possession My very Vocation gives it me to have and to hold by firm Tenure I defend man and his Heire and his heirs heirs to the worlds end in their just and lawful Rights secundum aquum bonum with respect to all their outward Goods Gal. You deal abroad I come near to him I maintain him in his inward health and soulder up his Body in case of sickness Magn. And I defend and maintain the Common-wealth and general Good By how much therefore the General Good is more divine than a Good which is particular and private by so much is my Work and Employment more worthy more noble and more exceilent than yours or yours Upon this your Ground I challenge both the Place and him that claimes it before me And my Sword shall uphold my Right founded upon the publick Good Stand off Gal. The second Place is due to me I am sure I am the better man of the two Ignoro stand thou off Lawyers of all others are farthest from Devotion Ign. Gal. Jun. Unhand me Gentlemen bear witness A meer Action of Battery secundum statuta The next Water is brought to thee to be cast in my own defence I will break the Urinal about thy head yea though it contain the Poets Water For the present I am a Sufferer Magn. Within there Enter Fear Fear What demand you Gentlemen Magn. Hither we have march't to visit the Lady Devotion My name is Magnifico I am a Souldier Little Devotion will serve my turn Gal. My name is Galen junior I am a Physitian and though most of us be Atheists a little Devotion is a healthsom Ingredient in some kind of Medicine Ign. My name is Ignoro I am a Lawyer I desire to take all my Fees lawful or unlawful a little devoutly Fear Gentlemen True Devotion is not little But as Wheat passes through many hands and offices before it comes to the Table in pure Manchet So before ye can be admitted into the Royal presence of Lady Devotion ye must here imploy some time in learning and imbibing the directions and documents first of Fear afterwards of Innocency then of Simplicity then again of Knowledge and lastly of Prudence Magn. How Gentlemen Heard ye this Lecture Have we Novitiats and Pupillages to undergo We must be set back to School again A Souldier should not fear neither be innocent much less simple Ign. Sir Once more My name is Ignoro A Lawyer is the Phenix of his age if he be knowing above the common level of Noverint Vniversi and false Latine Gal. Nor should a Physitian be prudent I must kill unadvisedly and without justifying what I do with a Probatum est Magn. Adieu Friend Tell your Lady we return and go in search of another Mistress Exit Fear Gentlemen Let 's be Friends and hew out our way to better Fortunes Devotion does not become us It is not in fashion within our Territories Gal. The first thing I do shall be this I 'le take a Vomit and fetch her out of my Stomack that I may have no more appetite to her Ign. And thou shalt give me a scowring Purge and I 'le send her nimbly going 〈…〉 ther way that I may take Bribes cleanly nimbly and with activity Exeunt Act 1. Scene 4. Enter Madam Hypocrisie and Pretty her Maid Hyp. Pretty Prett Madam Hyp. Well and wittily answer'd That put together is Pretty Madam Thou art Pretty and witty too I know that I am beautiful and I know thee to be Pretty Prett I am your Servant Pretty Madam Hyp. Good again I am pretty outwardly and inwardly pretty I am pretty and holy too Prett Madam you are more than pretty and holy you are exceedingly holy Hyp. Girl thou sayest truth I exceed in my kind of Holiness or I should not be the Lady I am Madam Hypocrisie Well Call my three English Scholars forth that I may see what Progress they have made in my kind of Holiness Exit Pretty Yonder peevish Lady Devotion lives retired as if she