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A29238
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Mercurius Britanicus, or, The English intelligencer a tragic-comedy at Paris : acted with great applause.; Mercurius Britannicus. English
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Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
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Wing B4270; ESTC R16567
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small a portion would content old age your care for earthly things would be abated and your desires would be wholy fixed upon heaven for you who were so eminent in the studies of the Law are most severely to bee punished especially having so cleare so excellent a mirrour as Curvus Acilius a man of extreme age but a vigourous minde an inviolate conscience Him you had for an example but although your steps were Curva vestigia refusing to follow Curvus you have turned the right into oblique you know you well knew to the aggravation of your censure those golden sentences of Periander most worthy your memory that nothing must be done for moneys sake and that favour is an enemy to Iudgement For Iudgement faileth where it becomes matter of affection Too much love and too much hatred pervert the truth Nor did Ioachimus lately deceased deserve any lesse but by paying his debt to nature the destinies have made him their perpetuall debtor For though hee were intricall and knotty in his arguments yet this Oedipus with his riddles the Fates had not prevented had involved himselfe in a Gregorian knot Democ. Its shamefull for an old man to play the knave hah hah hah Herac. And this for the most part happens when old men place their happinesse upon earth Prim. But let us withdraw that with more mature counsell we may proportion our sentence to every mans offence Exeunt Enter Arietus and Priscilla Citizens of Smyrna Herac. Whether flocke these presse of women Democ. Thou mayst easily coniecture by their habits they are citizens wives delicate ducks who come hither to heare Iudgment past upon the Iudges Herac. Alas can their tender eares heare these things without teares Democ. Thinke you all are composed of your tendernes you are far out these are women of a more coragious spirit For they can with dry eyes or at lest counterfeitly wet bid farwell to their husbands iourneying to the nether world yea they can see them laid in their graves with a sower looke but a merry heart and before the funerall tapers are extinguished entertaine new fires in their minds Herac. But I wonder why they they come here more this day then on any other Democ. Know you not the cause the former were dayes of examination but this of finall judgement you know women do alwaies love execution more then iudgement Prisc. I will go in for if Capreolus the Courtier sit in the house I am certaine hee will soone give me entrance as I have often given unto him Ariet. Pish pish my litle mouse my hony what wilt thou doe in the Court Prisc. What will I doe in the Court hold you peace Arietus hold your peace Cornelius you and I are not friends if I have not not a standing in the Court Ariet. In good troth you shall not have a standing with the Courtier in his owne place Prisc. But I have had and will have my small friend if you anger me Ariet. God forbid my cony that such a blot should bee cast upon my family such a marke upon my forehead Prisc. Why so doe you thinke your selfe the first man of the row Ariet. By no meanes yet I would not willingly weare my night-cap after the new city fashion with broad eares nor sleepe with my pillow stuft with shavings of horne Prisc. Let not this trouble you you may sooner foresee your fortune then prevent it if such ensignes be your destiny withstand it not it is vaine to strive against your destiny Ariet. O headstrong licentiousnes am not I descended of the Arietarian stock the most ancient Cornelian family of the citie Prisc. What then there is no family so worshipfull but it is subiect to this fate But I pray what availe these trifles ho Titillus Titillus Ariet. What would you have with Titillus that lacivious Courtier Prisc. That I may have entrance the sooner Ariet. It will be hardly granted in these publique assemblies there is no place for women Prisc. Why not for women as if wee were not capeable enough they shall finde yea they know that we are capable I will get up where I may better see and heare Ariet. What wouldest thou see and heare whether my cony doth thy minde carry thee Prisc. I greatly desire to see the Iudges for they say and I would know the truth that they have no more beard upon their chins then an ape hath taile Ariet. They will appeare subtle enough without haire but they are shaven that they may seeme the more terrible in their places Prisc. I like these young men with soft downy chins I love not these old men whose haire is like prickly bristles what are these Ariet. The Iudges whom thou so much longest to see Prisc. Alas what cold husbands would they make they have perpetuall I sickles upon their beards Areit. Hold thy peace my Leveret since thou art come hither and gotten into a place heare what will become of them Prisc. Let them be hang'd it shall never trouble mee I scarcely thinke they are of the masculine gender They are neutralls traiterous beasts enemyes of generation Let them perish with their Iudgements Ariet. Holy my sweet duck least thou be noted Prisc. Pish they are blind and deafe and can neither see nor heare me they Act the third The Curtaine drawne enter the Chosen Speakers the Iudges Euchrisis Clerk of the Court Roderigo Sergent Clerk Ho Rodorigo bring forth your Prosoners Democ. What ague fits they have gotten hah hah hah Manil. Stand forth stand forth Sir Iudges of a miserable condition You have not denyed but that you are guilty of the crime for which you are indited Nor can you produce any defence of your desperate cause which is worthy our hearing you know you wel know that a Iudg is to be iudged in none of those things which he is provided to iudge in another In which I say how wretchedly have you erred For you were Iudges censurers of the selfe same crime whereof you were the Authors For a Iudge to take a bribe was a capitall thing But if so great so heavy a sentence was pronounced for one fault that extending but to a particular subiect what punishment must be inflicted on them who have beene so iniurous to the subiects of a whole flourishing Iland by making the Prince suspicious of his subiects the Subiects of their Prince by declaring new opinions against the evident testimonys of their consciences by perturbing the Halcyon days of a peacefull king an obedient state yea by bringing all according to their power into flames and ashes If such a fire whereof you were the true Incendiarys do not deserve death what it better deserveth I cannot tell The law was first ordained to be a publike benefit but by you it is made the very plague of the common weale You have all very well acted the part of Midas Being Commissaryes of trust between Prince people which you should not violate for