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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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such Members to assist him He goes to Moses and doth thus resist him You you Sir Moses and your Brother too Corah Must All of Us be trampled on by You What is the Reason of Advancing thus Your selves above your Brethren God's with Us As well as You and All of Us as One Are Holy in the Congregation Wee 'l not be Fool'd into a Regal way And You Command and we forsooth Obey What have you done quoth Dathan thus to be Dathan The only Two for your Supremacy Is' t not enough that from a wealthy Land With Milk and Hony flowing thy Command Hath led Us hither to this barren Place To be the Food for Famine and Disgrace Except Thou be our Prince and make Us bow And yield our Necks to thy Subjuging too Yes quoth Abiram Abiram Where are those Fruitful fields That Milk and Honey and such plenty yeilds What wilt thou do Dost think we do not see Thy proud Intention what thou meanst to be No no wee 'l not come up call call agen Let Them come up that know no Stratagem We 'l make you know your Princedom's not so great But we are able to defeat your Feat There 's Corah come and tell Him truly now Or we will make you why ye make Us bow Thus what with words and mixing Threars withall Moses and Aaron on their Faces Fall As strangely sham'd or zealously affear'd To see the Lightning from such Thunder hear'd They could not speak as yet but ere awhile Moses doth tell them in a fair-foul Stile What they should do and should from thence infer VVhat Stars were fixt and what Erratique were They soon should know who were the good or bad That God Secluded or Selected had To Minister before him They should see VVho Holy were and who Unholy be The Rebels then they took as Moses said Censers and Fire and thereon Incense laid And then with Moses and with Aaron stood Before the Place where God his Glory shew'd Before their Prince and Priest and now the Lord They stand presuming upon Corah's word And dare Appeal as free from All Offence To God's strict Justice and Omniscience Thus damned Pride leads Traitors to the worst Of wilful Sins to make them most Accurst From One Sin to Another still they go And fear no Evil till they feel the Blow Which shall so Sudden and so Dismal be As by the Vengeance you their Sin shall see This God to Moses He the People shews VVho Corahs Tents and Congregation views They touch not ought is Theirs but agen Review for Separation Moses then Bespeaks them thus Now shall you hereby know Both who I am and whence and what I do Is all from God and what a Horrid Sin ReBellion is the way that Corah's in If you shall see the Earth in sunder cleave And all these men and whatsoe'er they have Be swallowed quick and go alive to Hell Then by the Vengeance you their Sin may tell And as he spake it was a dismal Grave Did them their Tents and all their Goods receave And nothing left the Earth did close agen To be awarning for Rebellious Men Who but for speaking though they did not Do The murderous Act of bloudy Treason too Yet see how strictly God in fury smites The mouthy Tauntings of the SaCRed Rites The Earth destroyes the Fire doth devour The bold Blasphemers of the Higher Power With that all the Levites stood up and having each of them an Instrument of Musique in his hand They make Obeysance to the King And then they Play and thus they sing The Second Song Sir wait awhile while God your Patience tries By suffering Traitors in their Villanies For there are woes For your Foes Prepared Not a Common Visitation shall Bold-bloody-Rebels at the last befall Then let not Those That Oppose Be fear'd Chorus Though Pharaoh Boast He 'l Israel confound Yet Pharoh's crost And he and 's Host are Drownd Sir be content as Moses was by you Moses foretold and may your Highness too That there are woes For your Foes Prepar'd As Moses did So shall your Highness see In Corah's Jeroboam's Destinie Then let not Those That Oppose Be fear'd Chorus Though Pharaoh boast He 'l Israel confound Yet Pharoh's crost And He and 's Host are Drownd Then as they made a Warbling Close both of their Song and Musique Behold The Fifth Shew's presented Being A spacious Field and two Armies in Aray the Kings and the Rebels and joyning Battel the Kings side prevails Whereupon all crying Victoria Victoria an Old man wearing a Mantle of Camels Hair girt about with a Lethern Girdle presents Himself before the King to whom being demanded who he was and what he would he said The Tenth Speech What needed Endors Witch by Magick Spell To make the Devil a Prophet and to tell The fatal State of Saul For first his cursed sparing Agag's Self 1. Then secondly his Lying for the Pelf 2. Thirdly his killing the Lord's Priests 3. And fourthly Hunting for 4. The pretious Life of David Whose worth the Virgins in a Dance did Sing And next to Saul was the Anointed King Fiftly despairing his presuming Folly 5. In Samuel's place to be unholy Holy Lastly from God unto a Witch he going Resolves the Question to his just Undoing That Vengeance waits on Sinners such as still Resist the Good and do persist in Ill Sin with delight and in their Spite Oppose God's way and Will God will at last Depose What needed Endors Witch By Magick Spell To make the Devil a Prophet This Truth this Day is with a Sun-beam writ And These and After-times shall witness it For th' bloud of many hundred thousands shed The hideous Cries of thousands almost dead The total-strange Defeat and direful Fate Of Jeroboam In his tenfold State His two and twenty years Possession His mighty Host Eight hundred thousand strong His cunning Ambush and his Forces double Flouted and routed to his treble trouble Then his sad Exit from the Stage of warre Shew what the Issues of Rebellion are See how the Field is staind with Blood and then Observe the number rally up agen Thy thankful thoughts don't wonder in such wayes Although so long permitted that their days At longest are but short and bad at Best Not all their Pomp can give one hour of Rest Their Guards are vain their strongest Bars are weak Their Sentinels by night and day do speak Their Guilt and Fear Where 's Jeroboam now The Old Commander unto whom did bow So many and they All The Sons of Belial Where 's his Calf Gods And Idol self-made Priests Where 's all his double-odds Oh how is Israel bewitcht with Treason Though God himself be Captain for his King And lead the van and Angels either Wing Yet joyn they Battel and their shooting to 't Till God draws out breaks through Horse Foot Disranks Disorders and Destroyes the Foe And gives at once an utter
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