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A nevve comedy or enterlude, concernyng thre lawes of nature, Moises, and Christe, corrupted by the sodomytes, Pharysies, and papistes: compyled by Iohn Bale: and nowe newly imprynted.; Comedy concernynge thre lawes
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Bale, John, 1495-1563.
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STC 1288; ESTC S104458
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are also commendable In holy dayes garmeÌtes temples consectaâions Sacryfices vowes with offerynges and expiâacions Which are vnto Christe as fygures types shadowes As Paule doth declare in his Epistle to the Hebrues These are onely fygures and outwarde testymonies No man is perfyght by suche darke ceremonyes Onely perteyne they vnto the thyrde coÌmaundement Of the Sabboth daye tyll Christ the lorde be present In his death endynge the whole Iudiciall presthode Infidelitas Good dayes myghte ye haue ye speake full well by the roode I am a poore lad and by my trouth bent earuesâlye ⪠To wayte vpon ye and to be your very lackye Moseh lex What art thou called I praye the hartelye Infidelitas Graye fryer am I none by the Messe I can not flatter I am Infydelytie to tell the truth of the matter Moseh lex And hast thou so longe dyssembled thus with me Infidelitas Yea for aduauntage to smellout your subtyltie Moseh lex Auoyde hens I saye thou false Infydelyte Infidelitas Naye that I wyll not by yngham Trynytie Moseh lex Wylt thou not in dede thaÌ wyll I fet hyther the poure Of Iudges kynges to subdue the within this houre Exit Infidelitas Suche knyghtes wyll I haue as shall coÌfounde theÌ al ⪠Is Sâdduces scrybes with the secâ pharysaycalâ By helpe of my chyldren Idolatrye and Sodomye The lawe of Nature I cast ones in a leprye I haue yet two more Ambycion Coneytousnes Whiche wyll do as moche to the lawe of Moyses Where are my whorsons that they come not awaye Iutisconsuâtus Auaritia Yea whorson on thy face euen in thy best araye I wyll thou knowe it I am a worshypfull Doctour A Scrybe in the lawe and a profytable proctour Infidelitas Guppe with a vengeaunce howe comest thou so alofte Auaritia I shall tell the man yf thou wylt comen more solte By fayned flatteryâ and by coloured adulation Ambycion here also âose of a lyke foundacion Infidelitas Come are me blessynge pretye boyes apace Ambitio I wyll not bowe sure ⪠to suche a folysâhe face Infidelitas Axe blessynge I saye and make me no more ado Ambitio Unsemely were it we Prelates shulde do so Auaritia For no compuâsyon wyll I do it by swete Marye Infidelitas I must fatche ye in there is no remedye A noughty horsons haue I brought ye vp hytherto And know not your father ye shall drynke both ere I go Ambosimul No more at this tyme forsoth we crye amercye Infidelitas Downe on your knees than axe me blessynge shortly Ambosimul Blesse me gentell father for swete saynt charytie Infidelitas Aryse noughtyknaues God let ye neuer to the Though among our selues we muâmurâ brag face Somtyme for lucre somtyme for the hygher place Yet for aduauntage in this we all agree To blynde the rulers and deceyue the comâynaltie Auaritia Art aduysed of that by the Messe we are in dede Yet of our knaueryes the foâle wyll neuertake hede To labour with a spade Our colour wolde it fade We maye not with that trade We loue so moche our ease We must lyue by theyr sweate And haue good drynke and meate Whan they haue not to eate The substaunce of a pease We leade them in the darke And so theyr conseyence marke That stutdye they are and starke In euery wycked euyll We teache Idolatrye And laught full merelye To se eche companye Ronne headlonges to the deuyll Ifwe maye haue the tythynges And profytable offeryages We caâe not to what doynges They customablye fall We are suche mercenaryes And subtyle propryetaryes As from the flocke all carryes The wâlle skynne flesshe and all In our perambulacyons We looke for commendacions And lowly salutacions In temple howse and strete Our lowsye latyne howres In borowes and in bowres The poore people deuoures And treade them vnder fete Ambitio I am Ambycion whose bysposycyan Is honour to appete I gape for empyre and worshyp desyre As Mynos dyd in Crete I loke vp Aloft and loue to lye softe Not carynge for my flocke Haue Iones the flese with pygges lambes and gese They maye go turne a Socke Lucifer I made so hyghly to wade To God he wolde be equall Of Adam and Eue I slewe the beleue And caused them to fall What nede I rehearce the gyauntes most fearce With the buylders of Babell Nemrod the tyrraunt with them there applyaunt Agreed to my counsell From me wolde not go cruell Pharao No more wolde Amalech Saul Achitophell Absoloâ Iesabel Nor Adonisedech I made Roboam and Hierobeam With Nabuchodouosor Triphon Alchmius and Simon magus To abuse them euermore Inpryde I excede and no people fede But with lyes for aduauntage As Mantuane tell to leade men to hell Is my most common vsage Hyghe thynges I attempt and wyll in exempt From prynces iurisdition A am suche an enyll as brynge men to the deuyll Without any contradiction Infidelitas Here is a prelate euen for myne owne toth Suche an other is not in the whole South Clappe thou somwhat more as thou hast begunne I lyke wele your taâkynge by the holy Nunne Auaritia I Coutyse am the beuyll or his dam For I am insacyate I rauysshe and plucke I drawe and I sucke After a woluys she raâe Father nor mother Syster nor brother I spare not in my moode I feare neyther God nor his ryghtfull rod In gatherynge of goode But howse and medowe from the poore wydowe I spare not forto take Ryght heyres I rob and as bare as Iob The fatherles I make With me toke Nadab Nabal and Achab With all the clergye of Bell Iudas and Giezi with the soÌnes of Helâ And the sonnes of Samuell Iannes and Iambres also Diotrephes Wrought wylfull wyckednesse So dyd Menelaus with false Andronicus And all for Coueytousnesse Ambicio With vyces seuen I close vp heauen And speare vp paradyce I oppen hell by my counsell Mayntaynynge euery vyce Auarititia For Syluer and golde with falsehed I holde Supportynge euery euyll I haue it in awe for to thoke the lawe And brynge all to the deuyll Infidelitas By the blessed Trynytie no men more fyt for me To do my busynes Ambycion to begyle and Auaryce to defyle The lawe of Moyses Tell me fyrste of all what wylte thou do Ambycyon Ambitio I am thyne owne chylde thou knowest my dysposycion I wyll sure do as dyd the Phylystynes Infidelitas Why what dyd those knaues Ambitio They stopped vp AbrahaÌs pyttes as Genesis diffynes With mudde and with myre lâfââ them full vnclene Infidelitas By the same practyse tell me what thou dost meane Ambitio With fylthy gloses and dyrtye exposytion Of Goddes lawe wyll I hyde the pure dysposycions The keye of knowledge I wyll also take awaye By wrastynge the text to the scriptures sore decaye Infidelitas And what wyâte thou my felowe Coueytousnes Auaritia A vayle wyll I sprede vpon the face of Moyses That none shal perceyue the clerenes of his couÌtenauÌce Whiche is the
accordynge to our wyll Omnes simue At your commaundement we are most blessed lorde Deus pater Approche nyghar than and ye shall be restorde Thou lawe of Naturewe fyrste begyn with the Restorynge the agayne to thy first purytie Auoyde Idolatrye Auoyde vyle Sodomye We charge ye no more this lawe to putryfye Kepe styll that same hart for a sygne perpetuall That thou wert written in mannes hart firste of all Thou lawe of Moses ⪠gyue me that vayle from the No longer shalt thou neyther blynde nor croked be Hence thou Ambycion and cut sed Coueytousnâs I here banysche you from this lawe euer doubtles Lose not those tables whiche are a token ture That thou in the flesche shalt euer more contynue Thou lawe of the Gospell thoughe thou be last of all In operation yet thou art the pryacypall From the I exyle hypoetysye and false doctryne With all that depende vpon the papisticallâyne Reserue the came boke for a sygne of heauenly poure For y e boke thou art that Iohn froÌ headueÌ dyd deuoure Nature lex Euerlastyng prayse to thy gloryous maiestie Moseh lex Our heauenly gouernour great is thy gracious pytie Christi lex Of mankynde thou art the eternall felycitie Nature lex Nowe leauest thy seruauntes in thy perpetuall peace To do the seruyce from hence wyll we notcease Moseh lex For your eyes haue seâe what thou hast nowe prepared For thy peoples health which hath benhere declared Christi lex A lyght thou hast sent whiche is thy ioyous Gospell To the consolacion of the howse of Israell Nature lex In reioyce of this make we some melodye Moseh lex The name of our God to prayse and magnyfye Christi lex I assent therto and wyll synge very gladly Hic ad Dei gloriaâ cantaâunt In exitu Israel de Aegipto ââl aliud simile Deus Pater Nowe haue we destroyed the kyngdome of Babylon And throwen the great whore into the bottomles pyt Restorynge agayae the true fayth and relygyon In the Christen churche as we haue thought it fyt Depurynge these lawes so to contynue it Man is our creature and hath grace in our syght To dwell with hym now is our whole hartes delyght Man is our people his God we are agayne With hym wyll we haue contynuall resydence A waye wyll we wype from all sorowe and payne He shall no longer dyspayre for his offence Nor haue in his soule any carefuldoubte of conscience The olde popyshnes is past whiche was dampuacion We haue nowe reâued our Christen congregation Stande forth Christen faith and take our aduertismeÌt We here appoynt the to gouerne our congregacion Se thou do nothynge without the admonysshement Of these thre lawes here Imprynt theyr declaration Of my swete promyses and than make thou relation To my folke agayne that they maye walke to me Without popysshe dreames in a perfyght lybertie Fidââ Christiana Most heauenly maker in it thoudoest coÌmaunde me Euermore wyll I full prompt and dylygent be Deus Pater Thou lawe of Nature shalt ââache man God to knowe And thatto refuse wherby any yll maye growe Nature lex From this your precepte shall I not varye I crowe ⪠Deus Pater Teache thou hym also to worshyp one God about And his proper neyber to persecute with loue Moseh lex I hope blessed lorde to do as me shall behoue Deus Pater And thou shalt teache hym to loue God in his hart And those to forgyue by whom he sufferethsmarte Christi lex In your appoyntmentes wyll I do also my part Deus Pater Worke thou in the harte a knowledge necessarye In the flesshe worke thou by outwarde Ceremonye Change thou notto the spâet ⪠â workynâs of these âwo And cause our people in a perfyght waye to go Take hede christeÌ fayth to the techynges of these thre And moue our people to walke in the verytie The promyses we made in all these thre are Gospell We wolde thou shouldest so to our Congregation tell Our euârlastynge bâestynge be with you euer more Omnes simul To thy swete name lord be prayse perpetuall honour ⪠Fides Christiana It hath pleased God to put me in this offyce To gouerne his churche and christen Congregation And theriâ do as ye shall me entyce Gyue me I praye you suche holsome exhortation As maye be to Man aclere edyfication And I wyll be glad to take your adurttyshment As it shall become any chylde obedyent Christi lex Ye speake it full wele than marke what shal be sayde And dylygently looke that it be obeyed Nature lex The effecte of me is for to knowe the lorde Euerlastynge stronge most gracyous and godlye And as touchynge Man to haue fraternall concorde F ãâ¦ã r to norysshe and to do non iniurye To ãâ¦ã ââuenasites made and loue true matrymonye Tâese noble effectes so temper you in Man That them to fulfyll he do the best he can Moseh lex The effect of me is for to worshyp the lorde As one God alone and to flye from Idolatâye Not to flee nor stele nor yet to beare false recorde To shewe what is synne and to seke the remedye Publyque peace to hold ⪠and sore to punysshe the gyltie From these good effectes se that man neuer sooârue Thau shall he be sure that God wyll hym preserue Christi lex The effecte of me is for to worshyp the lorde In the inwarde spyryte and to fauoure frende eumye And in all poyntes els with Gods wyll to accorde To preache remyssyon to saue and to iustyfye In Christ all to seâelyfe iustyce peace and merâyâ These heauenly effectes in man so incorporate That he maye in spyryte be newly regenerate Fides Christiana More swete than honye are your thre exhortacions And regestred they be in my memoryall Nowe wyll I forwarde to all the Christen nations And se in effecte these lawes obserued all To the abolyshment of the dreames papisticall Nowe the lyght is come the darkenes dyeth awaye I truste in the lorde men wyll walke in the daye Good Christen people to these thre lawes applye First knowe that ye haue a lyuynge God aboue Than do hym honour and his name magnyfye Worshyp hym in spryte as the Gospell you doth moue Than obey your quenâ lyke as shall you behoue For she in her lyfe that lorde doth represent To sauegardâ of the iust and fynners punysshement Se that ye regarde suche lawes as she doth make For they are of God as Salomon doth reporte Of these lawes doubteles those lawes theyr groundynges take To the publyque wealth to gyue ayde strength and comforte For preseruacion of all the christen sort In no case folowe the wayes of âeygnolde Pole To his dampnacion he doubtles playeth the foole Haue â due respecte vnto your countrey natyue Whiche hath brought ye vp and gyuen ye noryshment Euen from your cradelles to these dayes nutrytyue Do that ye maye do to her wealth and preferment Mynyster to bet no hatefull detryment A dogge to his frende wyll