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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29968	Tyrannicall-government anatomized, or, A discovrse concerning evil-councellors being the life and death of John the Baptist : and presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty by the Author.; Baptistes. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5298; ESTC R4582	22,804	31

Tyrannicall-Government ANATOMIZED OR A DISCOVRSE Concerning EVIL-COUNCELLORS BEING The Life and Death of JOHN the Baptist AND Presented to the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY by the Author Die Martis 30. Januarii 1642 IT is Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons concerning Printing That this Book be forthwith printed and published Iohn VVhite London Printed for JOHN FIELD 16•• The Collocutors and Complaynants or Persons speaking Malchus Pharise Gamaliel Pharise Iohn the Baptist Chorus or a company of Iewes King Herod The Queene Herodias The Queens Daughter Nuntius or the Messenger The life and death of JOHN the BAPTIST The first part Malchus Gamaliel Rabines Malchus O This old wretched Age the neighbouring bounds of our last breath and you unhappy Fates long life on us have you bestowed for this or for these uses That we should behold our Temples lewdly cursedly defil'd our holy things prophan'd our Country slav'd the Reliques of our Fame which none might enter broken before me and the sacred gold rent from the posts what ere the greedy will of stern Gabinius could by Rapine gaine or Anthonies luxurious power exhaust all's lost and we have been a mocking stock which I abhorre to heare much more to speake to Cleopatra's gluttonous desires and lest we should not be in every part disgrac'd and vilified we now are brought under a cruell King the Nephews Son of halfe Arabian Artipater Iudaea serves an Idumaean Tyrant while an Arabian Lord in Sion Reigns Gods people and Ierusalem a man prophane and impious yet in this distresse among so many wounds of raging chance some sparks of ancient honor did remain a pattern of our Countries Discipline such as it is which by our foes themselves is to be reverenc'd the furious Victor and no small number of his purpled Court began to dignifie the Jewish Lawe• We w••h t•is h•pe •efresht though well neere tyr'd with misery had hardly taken heart to re-advance our heads when out alas a hainous matter which we never fear'd did suddenly arise a new Baptizer whose Pa•entage is holy who was bred among strange worships but by Nation ours by Stock a Levite given unto God even from his infant cradle being Son of an High-Priest and shortly to receive that dignity himself unlesse he chuse rather to taste false glories bitter fruit then honors harvest in due time to reape He therefore keeping in the desert soyle deceives with shew of sanctity severe the simple people cloath'd in skins of beasts his haire uncomb'd and feeding Savage like by which delusions he draws the lookes of all men towards him the common sort being poss•st with ignorant beliefe that a new Prophet to the world is sent And now unto himselfe he hath reduced an Army of the vulgar following him Him only now the people all admire leaving their Cities Noblemen and Kings honor and feare him where he past with pride through the madnesse of the multitude new laws gives like another Moses cleansing crimes with water and presumes our ancient laws with new Rites to adulterate and rends the Fathers with reproaches to enjoy the peoples mad affection with more ease who give him gentle hearing but if none himself oppose against this theifes attempts raging and ranging with bold insolence That sanctity throughout the world renown'd will soon expire nay it expireth now or rather hath expired Gam Men of our calling must do nothing rashly mildnesse becomes milde Fathers to young men if through temerity they go astray a pardon may be given but a fault by one of us committed no excuse to vaile it can pr•vaile Be calme a while this rage appease and let your sorrow slaked Ma•ch Then you Gamaliel as it seems approve this cursed Caitiffs actions Gam Malchus no I neither do approve nor yet condemn• before I know the matter that concerns this new-come Prophet who is not a man so far as I can hear so full of ill nor to be so opprest with publick hate Malch O Stars O Heaven O Earth that wicked wretch wants not a Patron here that can uphold his manners to be good Gam Who vice reproves good manners teaching leads the way himself which unto others plainly he directs can you perswade me that this man is naught Malch He that our Laws contemnes new Sects doth teach besides new Ritts reviles our Magistrates and our high Priests with calumny pursues can you perswade me that this man is good Gam If we were equally against our selves Judges austere and milder towards others then we are oftentimes our heynous crimes would lye more open unto publike view and sharpe reproaches howsoever we flatter our selves and are proclaimed bles• reputed by the common people Saints chast pious and upright but of us all none from t•e greatest fault was ever free Malch Gamaliel that these things may be true is•t lawfull for a vulgar man to rayle against a Prelate Let the people hear yielding obedience and sober live refuse no reyns by him upon them cast he can reduce the vulgar if they are to the right way let him be as a law unto himselfe but if in ought he chance to go astray the wicked God doth see and sharply punish Gam And do you conceive this Law is j•st Malch I do indeed Gam And why blind ignorance and want of skill Malch Because rashnesse and error commonly are found as proper and peculiar to the vulgar Gam He that to Prin•es wisdom gives not place is often taken from the vulgar thrung Malch But give we place then in this chair to shepheards Gam Moses a shepheard was and David too Malch They were taught all things by the spirit of God Gam He that taught them can also tutor this Malch Will God instruct him and relinquish us Gam God neither Scepter parents noble stock beauty nor Kingly riches doth respect but hearts that no contagion of deceit of lust or cruelty doth once pollute The holy spirit in this Temple rests Malch Surely Gamaliel to confesse a truth you seeme to me of •ate by your opinion a plain approver of that wicked Sec• I can no longer smother what I think seeing you do such things as are unworthy both of your Ancestors and of your selfe you that of all the rest ought to defend do chiefly our authority offend and that in favour of a mad young man For Gods sake tell me Whats your tryalls hope what profit do you seeke to get by this Perhaps hee'l give you honor or great wealth who •tterly destroyes our orders honor and labours to undoe us Gam Truely Malchus you shoot far from the marke that you suppose we can defend our dignity with pride and arrogancy or with strength of Arms our parents were not by such means advanced Malch Our ancient Laws and Orders more bec•me us that are ancient and let each one live according to the manner of his time Gam But rather good things good men still become Malch If wee had any of our fathers spirit Gam Our fathers

manners should our lives direct Malch This wicked fellow by a speedy death not threatnings had beene punished Gam •or our order cruelty is unmeet Malch Whats done for God holy and pious is Gam To put to death without desert is impious piety Malch Deserves not he to dye that all subverts Gam If he transgresse why do you not confute him in publicke view with arguments and reasons Why do you not shew there your light of wit you being expert learned and so old set upon one thats rude unlearned so young to the right way perhaps you may reduce him and glory to your selfe mongst all men gain Malch That wound is never to be gently cur•d but with •ord sword and fire or if you know any thing more to •ormenting Gam Be he such as you expresse him or worse if you will yet one thing to your selfe you ought to give that first you freely and in gentle wise admonish him least any one do think that you would rather cast him headlong down doubtfull of heaven then extend your hand to save him falling It concernes you much that all your Enemies may understand your will is good to save all none destroy but such a one as with a mind perverse precipitates himselfe one thing at least I crave ere you by wrath be further drawn consider by this obstinate condition what you may gaine Malch Why this confound a foe comfort the good and terrifie the shamelesse confirm the wavering mind and with this blood our Countries Laws establish Gam Rather this you shall obtaine to be accounted one that with all power of tyranny hath rom'd untill you did a holy man confound one whom by reason you could not convince Malch Then let him bee as holy as he will and grave Gods spirit doth not him direct who does neglect the Fathers ancient Rules and seeing no redresse with you I find I'le seeke the Kings assistance against Ruine Chorus Gamaliel in my judgement councells well obey him therefore but I speak in vain since wrath the enemy of Gods advise darkens his minds cleer sight who stops his ears to wholsome admonitions Gam Hee's gone in wrath and swelling with disdain for my part what was lawfull to my power I earnestly advised him with mild words endeavouring to asswage his raging spirits I gave him faithfull counsell but so far is he ingrate from giving any thanks that he even hates me for my good desert Such is the common course a great fault in our degree is this that we deceive with shew of sanctitie the common sort that safely we Gods precepts may despise but if against our customes ought they dare we practise to subvert them with our gold or witnesses suborn'd and cut them off by secret poyson filling Herods ears with feigned utterance what our mind offends revenging with false rumors while his breast with rage affected we the more incense and arm the violence of cruell wrath with calumnies But Malchus now is gone unmindfull of all modesty to Court where he will feigne the rising of new Sects deserting of the Fathers holy Rites and that the Kings Prerogative and power lyes open to derision to conclude what ere he holds commodious to himself masking his wickednesse with honest names if these he finds the King but little move another dart more cruell hee'l invent hee'l cry the sworne Bands that attend the King do secretly conspire some wicked plot preparing they digest Troops meet by night their private wealth by •actions to augment these he will feign or worse into his •ars these poysons of his wit he will instill And this in Princes is a common fault gently to hearken unto secret Tell-tales whereby what is most cruell though but feigned they easily beleeve and feign vain fears unto themselves pursuing the light ayre of moveable Report where he that gives faithfull advertisement is holden dull torped and •merous We change the name of quondam vertue now now not adorued with any vertue but with glorious titles proudly preferrd the Vulgar we beguile As for this Prophet with my soule I wish our Order with more modesty and wisdom and would bear themselves if hither he be sent by •ods appointment there's no power of man that can withstand him but if he devise mischief by fraud concealed with his sword hee'l soon confound himself •et every man interprete as his own condition guides him If any here my sentence do allow his hands he may keep cleer of guiltlesse bloud Nor let us be profuse of holy blood least those examples that in cruell sort wee make for others afterwards return on our own heads dwells not in Herods heart immanitie enough unlesse his rage by firebrands added to his wrath increase Cho O what a night of darkenesse doth possesse the minds of mortalls what Cymerian•ave do we inhabite while this brittle life doth swiftly fleet away False mod•sty doth skreen the brazen face pieties vale the impious doth conceale Litigious men peace in their looks do feigne and the decei•full veritie in words The Vissage where sad gravity did dwell the only Symbole of a modest life now turnes to cruelty with boyling wra•h and healdong estautes with furious •its Even as the vapours of hot Et•a's Furnace with a swift rolling turnes the stones about or into embers flames Vesveus burn so the blind fury of revenge excites this Malchus on a guiltlesse man to fall and falsly to accuse poor naked truth Oh thou desire of glory swo•n with pride mother of •o great mischiefe glittering praise of goodnesse coloured with a shew divine when the minds Kingdom thou hast once possest with flattering poison thou inchauntst our thoughts and reason bani•ht thou disturbst the Court the Court within us Piety and truth with shamefa•tnesse and faith are fled from thee Faith of the better Age a common Guest hath lastly left the vice-dishonor'd earth If there were any Artist that could set the foreheads clouds remov'd our cares to sight the brest being made transparent and disclose our minds dark inner parts you might perceive monsters there varied into wondrous forms and those all stabled in a little Cell being more than in remote and forreign parts Nilus and Ganges beare or all the births that Affrick• yeelds with furious portents and those that hored Caucasus affords in his darke Dens the cruell Tygers rage would not be wanting there nor the fierce wildnesse of the deep shining yellow Lyonesse nor the dire gluttony of ranging Wolves whose appetites no slaughter can asswage nor the fell Basalisk with poisoning breath or stinging Aspe that brings long lasting ••eepe or Scorpion dreaded for his hooky tayle or Crocodile whose voice with feigned tears so sound through the seaweeds nor the Foxes wiles or the Hyenaes •alse play Counter feit piety doth often cloak mercilesse Tyrants and the guarded stol•impiou• natures in a homely weed under the Cottage shadow of a swain vertue obscured lyes nor sells her selfe for haughty titles laughing as in scorn at

bounds of a long iourney and the Gate that leads to the beginning of a longer life that sends us rather born againe then dead unto a glorious house of endlesse light This is to man from prison a relcase and a free passage to life wanting death this way the whole flock of the Fathers went and all must follow them what man is he that having once begun a race to run desires not instantly the goale to gaine who by night wandring in the stormy Sea refuseth shelter in a quiet Port What exile straying or'c the Desert Hills of a strange Countrey will bee discontent into his own to make a quick returne I therefore having overpast my way suppose my selfe come to the very goale Now almost quitted from the sea of life I view the Haven from a forraign soyle home I return to see my heavenly father that father who with waters bounds the earth invested earth with Heaven he that rules the certain courses of the moving Sphear who only all things made guides and preserves to whom all things both quick and dead doe live even as the flame it's Globes doth upwards roll waters perpetually downw•rd• fall and all things do proceed to their own foment my 〈◊〉 from heavendeso•nded labours now a habitation in eternall light 〈◊〉 gaine with him that all things did create whom not to see is death life to behold If Caucasus rough-growne with hoary frost the Ayre with Tempests and the Sea with stormes and the whole Region with excessive heate should all resist me thither I would goe to see so many Leaders Prophers Kings and pious Iudges shall I not make way though with a thousand deaths I be oppos'd My spirit therefore from this body freed this carnall prison thither longs to flye Even whither all the world betimes or late shall be dispatch'd For long life I conceive is nothing but a gentle Servitude in a hard painfull prison O sweet death that art of heavy Toyles the sole Release the Haven where all grief and trouble cease yet unto few men profitable known Receive this shipwrackt body in thy bosome and bring it where eternall peace abides whither no impious violence deceit or ealumny shall follow it Chor. O thou thrice happy in this constancy of mind O wretches that we are whom foolish feare debarres the sweet Society and sight of true felicity Then since thou hold it what's needfull to be done to thee we wish eternall health and Farwell How are the minds of men in wayes unlike turn'd by discordant strite of no offence he that is guilty doth not feare to dye he that deserves to dye if with vaine threats death lightly greet him with degenerate feare growes pale and trembles As the wicked wight shunnes death with heavy heart so he that's good of death des••ous thorough flames and flouds o're deveous Rocks all dangers and E•••remes freely precipitates his noble Soule For sundry benefits to death belong to evill men unknowne a happy life is Fates Associate neither doe the Good totally dye but still their better part contemnes the greedy fire and Mounts aloft to its own Country Heaven Amongst the Saints a certain Habitation doth attend soules that are harmlesse but the guilty G••ost by snake haird Furies in a brimstone lake with greedy C•rberus his hungry I• wes and Tan•alus with plenty never fill'd is evermore affrighted gnawne and whipt from hence comes feare to evill men from thence good hope to good men even while their mindes appeating prodigall of brittle breath hasten to prosecute unfading life O •yren potent in bewitching baits Life that abhorring goodnesse dost affect what's fraudulent and with thy flattering might precludst the neighbout passage of our sinnes and shutst the Haven of perperuall peace Where neither Martiall clamor doth affright nor Trumpets with hoarse clangor doe 〈◊〉 nor pilling pi••tes terifie by •e• nor cruell theives beset the silent grove nor my one made 〈…〉 Felix that alone with pleasant case he may himselfe besot the poore and weakeore-whelmes with bloudy flaughter neither he that for vaine Titles may exchange the lives of the rude Commons but where simple vertue with faire prosperity and tranquill rest possesseth all and day can never learne to end in darknesse nor life ever know of any fi•erall nor Ioy of griefe O thou sweet freindship of this carnall house and thou too lovely prison of our life Now now at length free from bewitching Bonds the heaven-borne soule of man which too unmindefull of her owne Country joyfull in the yoke of her d•generate foule nuptiall bed and with somniferous I ethe• poysoning sloth inebriated in thy lapthou huggst O thou deceitfull covering of day into thy ashes vanishing returne That to her country Heaven the soule reslord may fill it selfe with becames of purest light So from all sorrow shee shall be enlargd And of all troubles thou by death dischargd The Fifth part The Queene The Rabine Malchus hath my hopes beguilde and Herod hath himself with mee his Queene fearing the rumors of the babling crew through his owne yanity alike betrayd Next for my daughter what shee may effect I greatly feare the King did promise herat his great banquet that he would reward her danceing feates which gave him high content with whatsoever shee of him should aske Now unto mee the girle hath past her word that shee would aske of him none other boone but in a dish to have the Baptists head And she will have it certainly shee will If Horods mind be not to me unknown The peoples hatred I conceive on mee hee will divert himselfe remaining free And I will beare it when the deed is done and with willing heart with joy of my revenge weighing their hate and with my gaine my staine For women to be cruell 'tis a shame a shame indeed unlesse more shame it were that of such nature there are many Kings But H•rod and my daughter doe appeare the ncor•r my hope is my feare the 〈…〉 doth burne Herod Daughter Queene Her And hast thou 〈◊〉 sufficiently 〈…〉 Daught 〈…〉 enough and royal Her• Never fear things that are 〈◊〉 establish• with my faith and before witnesses aske halfe my kingdome it shall be thine no power can avert him that is willing Daugh We shall shortly see what thing it i• Hero 'Tis certain ask it now Daugh Your Kingdome Sir I need not which I deeme even as mine own while you possesse the Crown as if I held the Scepter but I aske a thing both meet and easie Hero Thou thy selfe not I art in the fault thou hast it not Daugh Give me the Bapists head then in this Charger Hero What words are these by thee so rashly vented Daugh Not rashly neither Hero Thou demand'st a gift that ill become a Virgin Daugh To destroy an enemy is no uncomly deed Hero Is therefore he an enemy and worthy of a Kings wrath Daugh He's worthy of such wrath who by his crimes deserves it Hero What redresse may I then