soule ABEL about it Thou shalt know more anone Away be gone A miserable rogue and liues with cheese And has the wormes That was the cause indeed Why he came now He dealt with me in priuate To get a med'cine for 'hem SVB. And shall sir This workes FAC. A wife a wife for one on' vs my deare SVBTLE Wee 'll eene draw lots and he that failes shall haue The more in goods the other has in taile SVB. Rather the lesse For shee may be so light Shee may want graines FAC. I or be such a burden A man would scarse endure her for the whole SVB. Faith best let 's see her first and then determine FAC. Content But DOL must ha' no breath on 't SVB. Mum Away you to your SVRLY yonder catch him FAC. 'Pray god I ha' not stai'd too long SVB. I feare it Act III. Scene I. TRIBVLATION ANANIAS THese chastisements are common to the Saints And such rebukes we of the Separation Must beare with willing shoulders as the trialls Sent forth to tempt our frailties ANA. In pure zeale I doe not like the man He is a heathen And speakes the language of Canaan truely TRI. I thinke him a prophane person indeed ANA. He beares The visible marke of the Beast in his fore-head And for his Stone it is a worke of darknesse And with Philisophie blinds the eyes of man TRI. Good Brother we must bend vnto all meanes That may giue furtherance to the holy cause ANA. Which his cannot The sanctified cause Should haue a sanctified course TRI. Not alwaies necessary The children of perdition are oft-times Made instruments euen of the greatest workes Beside we should giue somewhat to mans nature The place he liues in still about the fire And fume of mettalls that intoxicate The braine of man and make him prone to passion Where haue you greater Atheists then your Cookes Or more prophane or cholerick then your Glasse-men More Antichristian then your Bell-founders What makes the Deuill so deuillish I would aske you Sathan our common enemie but his being Perpetually about the fire and boyling Brimstone and arsnike We must giue I say Vnto the motiues and the stirrers vp Of humours in the bloud It may be so When as the worke is done the stone is made This heate of his may turne into a zeale And stand vp for the beauteous discipline Against the menstruous cloth and ragg of Rome We must await his calling and the comming Of the good spirit You did fault t' vpbraid him With the Brethrens blessing of Heidelberg waighing What need we haue to hasten on the worke For the restoring of the silenc'd Saints Which ne'er will be but by the Philosophers stone And so a learned Elder one of Scotland Assur'd me Aurum potabile being The onely med'cine for the ciuill Magistrate T' incline him to a feeling of the cause And must be daily vs'd in the disease ANA. I haue not edified more truely by man Not since the beautifull light first shone on me And I am sad my zeale hath so offended TRI. Let vs call on him then ANA. The motion 's good And of the spirit I will knock first Peace be within Act III. Scene II. SVBTLE TRIBVLATION ANANIAS O Are you come 'T was time Your threescore minutes Were at the last thred you see and downe had gone Furnus acediae Turris circulatorius Lembeke Bolts-head Retort and Pellicane Had all beene cinders Wicked ANANIAS TRI. Sir be appeased he is come to humble Himselfe in spirit and to aske your patience If too mch zeale hath carried him aside From the due path SVB. This qualifies most Why thus it should be now you vnderstand Haue I discours'd so vnto you of our Stone And of the good that it shall bring your cause Shew'd you beside the mayne of hiring forces Abroad drawing the Hollanders your friends From th' Indies to serue you with all their fleete That euen the med'cinall vse shall make you a faction And party in the realme As put the case That some great man in state he haue the gout Why you but send three droppes of your Elixir You helpe him straight there you haue made a friend Another has the palsey or the dropsie He take of your incombustible stuffe Hee 's yong againe there you haue made a friend A Lady that is past the feate of body though not of minde and hath her face decay'd Beyond all cure of paintings you restore Withe the oyle of Talek there you haue made a friend And all her friends A lord that is a Leper A knight that has the bone-ache or a squire That hath both these you make 'hem smooth and sound With a bare fricace of your med'cine still You increase your friends TRI. I 't is very pregnant SVB. And then the turning of this Lawyers pewter To plate at Christ-masse ANA. Christ-tide I pray you SVB. Yet ANANIAS ANA. I haue done SVB. Or changing His parcell guilt to massie gold You cannot But raise you friends With all to be of power To pay an armie in the field to buy The king of France out of his realmes or Spaine Out of his Indies What can you not doe Against lords spirituall or temporall That shall oppone you TRI. Verily 't is true We may be temporall lords our selues I take it SVB. You may be any thing and leaue off to make Long-winded exercises or suck vp Your ha and hum in a tune I not denie But such as are not graced in a state May for their ends be aduerse in religion And get a tune to call the flock together For to say sooth a tune do's much with women And other phlegmatick people it is your bell ANA. Bells are prophane a tune may be religious SVB. No warning with you Then farewell my patience 'Slight it shall downe I will not be thus tortur'd TRI. I pray you sir SVB. All shall perish I haue spoke it TRI. Let me find grace sir in your eyes the man He stands corrected neither did his zeale But as your selfe allow a tune some-where Which now being to'ard the stone we shall not need SVB. No nor your holy vizard to winne widdowes To giue you legacies or make zealous wiues To rob their husbands for the common cause Nor take the start of bonds broke but one day And say they were forfeited by prouidence Nor shall you need ore-night to eate huge meales To celebrate your next daies fast the better The whilst the Brethren and the Sisters humbled Abate the stiffenesse of the flesh Nor cast Before your hungrie hearers scrupulous bones As whether a Christian may hawke or hunt Or whether Matrons of the holy assembly May lay their haire out or weare doublets Or haue that idoll Starch about their linnen ANA. It is indeed an idoll TRI. Mind him not sir I doe command thee spirit of zeale but trouble To peace within him Pray you sir goe on SVB. Nor shall you need to libell 'gainst the Prelates And shorten so your
VARGVNTEIVS LONGINVS CVRIVS LECCA BESTIA FVLVIVS GABINIVS To them _HAile LVCIVS CATILINE VAR. Haile noble SERGIVS LON. Haile PVB LENTVLâ¹ CVR. Haile the third CORNELIâ¹ LEC. CAIVS CETHEGVS HAILE CET. Haile sloth and words In steed of men and spirits CAT. Nay deare CAIVS CET. Are your eyes yet vnsee'ld Dare they looke day In the dull face CAT. Hee 's zealous for the'affaire And blames your tardy comming gentlemen CET. Vnlesse we had sold our selues to sleepe and ease And would be our slaues slaues CAT. Pray you forbeare CET. The north is not so starke and cold CAT. CETHEGVS BES. We shall redeeme all if your fire will let vs. CAT. You are too full of lightning noble CAIVS Boy see all doores be shut that none approch vs On this part of the house Goe you and bid The Priest he kill the slaue I mark'd last night And bring me of his bloud when I shall call him Till then wait all without VAR. How is 't AVTRONIVS AVT. LONGINVS LON. CVRIVS CVR. LECCA VAR. Feele you nothing LON. A strange vn-wonted horror doth inuade me I know not what it is LEC. The day goes back A darknesse coes ouer the place Or else my senses CVR. As at ATREVS feast FVL. Darknesse growes more and more LEN. The vestall flame I thinke be out GAB. What grone was that CET. Our phant'sies A grone of many people is heard under ground Another Strike fire out of our selues and force a day AVT. Againe it sounds BES. As all the citie gaue it CET. We feare what our selves faine VAR. What light is this A fiery light appeares CVR. Looke forth LEN. It still growes greater LEC. From whence comes it LON. A bloudy arme it is that holds a pine Lighted aboue the Capitoll and now It waues vnto vs CAT. Braue and omenous Our enterprise is seal'd CET. In spight of darknesse That would discountenance it Looke no more We loose time and our selues To what we came for Speake LVCIVS we attend you Cat Noblest Romanes If you were lesse or that your faith and vertue Did not hold good that title with your bloud I should not now vnprofitably spend My selfe in words or catch at empty hopes By ayrie wayes for solide certainties But since in many and the greatest dangers I still haue knowne you no lesse true then valiant And that I tast in you the same affections To will or nill to thinke things goode or bad Alike with me Which argues your firme friendship I dare the boldlier with you set on foot Or leade vnto this great and goodliest action What I haue thought of it afore you all Haue heard apart I then express'd my zeale Vnto the glorie now the neede enflames me When I fore-thinke the hard conditions Our states must vnder-goe except in time We doe redeeme our selues to libertie And breake the yron yoke forg'd for our necks For what lesse can we call it when we see The common-wealth engross'd so by a few The giants of the state that doe by turnes Enjoy her and defile her All the earth Her Kings and Tetrarchs are their tributaries People and nations pay them hourely stipends The riches of the world flowes to their coffers And not to Romes While but those few the rest How euer great we are honest and valiant Are hearded with the vulgar and so kept As we were onely bred to consume corne Or weare out wooll to drinke the cities water Vngrac'd without authoritie or marke Trembling beneath their rods to whom if all Were well in Rome We should come forth bright axes All places honors offices are theirs Or where they will conferre 'hem They leaue vs The dangers the repulses iudgements wants Which how long will you beare most valiant spirits Were we not better to fall once with vertue Then draw a wretched and dishonor'd breath To loose with shame when these mens pride will laugh I call the faith of gods and men to question The power is in our hands our bodies able Our mindes as strong o' th' contrary in them All things growne aged with their wealth and yeeres There wants but onely to beginne the businesse The issue is certaine CET. LON. On let vs goe on CVR. BES. Goe on braue SERGIVS CAT. It doth strike my soule And who can scape the stroke that hath a soule Or but the smallest aire of man within him To see them swell with treasure which they powre Out i' their riots eating drinking building I i' the sea planing of hills with valleyes And raysing vallies aboue hills whilst we Haue not to giue our bodies necessaries They ha' their change of houses mannors lordships We scarce a fire or poore houshold Lar They buy rare Atticke statues Tyrian hangings Ephesian pictures and Corinthian plate Attalicke garments and now new-found gemmes Since POMPEY went for Asia which they purchase At price of prouinces The riuer Phasis Cannot affoord 'hem fowle nor Lucrine lake Oysters enow Circei too is search'd To please the witty gluttony of a meale Their ancient habitations they neglect And set vp new then if the eccho like not In such a roome they pluck downe those build newer Alter them too and by all frantick wayes Vexe their wild wealth as they molest the people From whom they force it yet they cannot tame Or ouer-come their riches Not by making Bathes orchards fish-pooles letting in of seas Here and then there forcing 'hem out againe With mountaynous heaps for which the earth hath lost Most of her ribs as entrailes being now Wounded no lesse for marble then for gold We all this while like calme benum'd Spectators Sit till our seates doe cracke and doe not heare The thundring ruines whilst at home our wants Abroad our debts doe vrge vs our states daily Bending to bad our hopes to worse and what Is left but to be crush'd Wake wake braue friends And meet the libertie you oft haue wish'd for Behold renowne riches and glory court you Fortune holds out these to you as rewards Me thinkes though I were dumbe th' affaire it selfe The opportunity your needs and dangers With the braue spoile the warre brings should inuite you Vse me your generall or souldier neither My minde nor body shall be wanting to you And being Consul I not doubt t' effect All that you wish if trust not flatter me And you 'd not rather still be slaues then free CET. Free free LON. 'T is freedom CVR. Freedom we all stand for CAT. Why these are noble voyces Nothing wants then But that we take a solemne sacrament To strengthen our designe CET. And so to act it Differring hurts where powers are so prepar'd AVT. Yet ere we enter into open act With fauour 't were no losse if 't might be enquir'd What the condition of these armes would be VAR. I and the meanes to carry vs through CAT. How friends Thinke you that I would bid you graspe the winde Or call you to th' embracing of a cloud Put your knowne valures on
Of our wood-man but loe where His kingly image doth appeare And is all this while neglected Pardon lord you are respected Deepe as is the Keepers hart And as deare in euery part See for instance where he sends His son his heire who humbly bends Low as is his fathers earth To the wombe that gaue you birth So he was directed first Next to you of whom the thirst Of seeing takes away the vse Of that part should plead excuse For his boldnesse which is lesse By his comly shamefac'tnesse Rise vp sir I will betray All I thinke you haue to say That your father giues you here Freely as to him you were To the seruice of this Prince And with you these instruments Of his wild and Syluan trade Better not ACTEON had The bow was PHoeBES and the horne By ORION often worne The dog of Sparta breed and good As can ring within a wood Thence his name is you shall try How he hunteth instantly But perhaps the Queene your mother Rather doth affect some other Sport as coursing we will proue Which her highnesse most doth loue Satyres let the woods resound They shall haue their welcome crown'd With a brace of bucks to ground At that the whole wood and place resounded with the noyse of cornets hornes and other hunting musique and a brace of choise Deere put out and as fortunately kill'd as they were meant to be euen in the sight of her Maiestie This was the first nights shew Where the next day being Sunday shee rested and on Munday till after dinner where there was a speech sodainly thought on to induce a morrise of the clownes thereabout who most officiously presented themselues but by reason of the throng of the countrey that came in their speaker could not be heard who was in the person of No-body to deliuer this following speech and attyred in a paire of breeches which were made to come vp to his neck with his armes out at his pockets and a cap drowning his face IF my outside moue your laughter Pray IOVE my inside be thereafter Queene Prince Duke Earles Countesses you courtly Pearles And I hope no mortall sinne If I put lesse Ladies in Faire saluted be you all At this time it doth befall We are the Huisher to a Morrise A kind of Masque whereof good store is In the countrey hereabout But this the choise of all the rout Who because that no man sent them Haue got NO-BODIE to present them These are things haue no suspition Of their ill doing nor ambition Of their well but as the Pipe Shall inspire them meane to skip They come to see and to be seene And though they dance afore the Queene Ther 's none of these doth hope to come by Wealth to build another Holmby All those dauncing dayes are done Men must now haue more then one Grace to build their fortunes on Else our soles would sure haue gone All by this time to our feete I not deny where Graces meete In a man that qualitie Is a gracefull propertie But when dauncing is his best Beshrew me I suspect the rest But I am NO-BODIE and my breath Soone as it is borne hath death Come on clownes forsake your dumps And bestirre your hob-nail'd stumps Doe your worst I le vndertake Not a ierke you haue shall make Any Ladie here in loue Perhaps your Foole or so may moue Some Ladies woman with a trick And vpon it she may pick A paire of reuelling legs or two Out of you with much adoe But see the Hobby-horse is forgot Foole it must be your lot To supply his want with faces And some other Buffon graces You know how Piper play And let no bodie hence away There was also another parting Speech which was to haue beene presented in the person of a youth and accompanied with diuers gentlemens younger sonnes of the countrey but by reason of the multitudinous presse was also hindred And which we haue here adioyned ANd will you then Mirror of Queenes depart Shall nothing stay you not my Masters heart That pants to leese the comfort of your light And see his Day ere it be old grow Night You are a Goddesse and your will be done Yet this our last hope is that as the Sunne Cheeres obiects farre remou'd as well as neere So where so'ere you shine you 'le sparkle here And you deare Lord on whom my couetous eye Doth feed it selfe but cannot satisfie O shoot vp fast in spirit as in yeares That when vpon her head proud Europe weares Her stateliest tire you may appeare thereon The richest gem without a paragon Shine bright and fixed as the Artick starre And when slow Time hath made you fit for warre Looke ouer the strict Ocean and thinke where You may but lead vs forth that grow vp here Against a day when our officious swords Shall speake our action better then our words Till then all good euent conspire to crowne Your parents hopes our zeale and your renowne Peace vsher now your steps and where you come Be Enuie still strooke blind and Flatterie dumbe A PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT of the KING and QVEENE on May-day in the Morning At Sir WILLIAM CORNVVALLEIS his house at High-gate 1604 By the same Author THe king and queene being entred in at the gate the PENATES or household-gods receiued them attir'd after the antique manner with iauelines in their hands standing on each side of the porch with this speech PENATES 1. LEape light hearts in euery brest Ioy is now the fittest passion Double maiestie hath blest All the place with that high grace Exceedeth admiration 2. Welcome monarch of this Isle Europes enuie and her merror Great in each part of thy stile Englands wish and Scotlands blisse Both France and Irelands terror 1. Welcome are you and no lesse Your admired queene the glory Both of state and comelinesse Euery line of her diuine Forme is a beautious storie 2. High in fortune as in blood So are both and blood renowned By oft falls that make a flood In your veines yet all these streines Are in your vertues drowned 1. House be proud For of earth's store These two onely are the wonder In them shee 's rich and in no more Zeale is bound their prayse to sound As loud as fame or thunder 2. Note but how the ayre the spring Concurre in their deuotions Payres of Turtles sit and sing On each tree ore-ioy'd to see In them like loue like motions 1. Enter sir this longing dore Whose glad lord nought could haue blessed Equally I 'am sure not more Then this sight saue of your right When you were first possessed 2. That indeed transcended this Since which houre wherein you gayn'd it For this grace both he and his Euery day haue learn'd to pray And now they haue obtayn'd it Here the PENATES lead them in through the house into the garden where MERCVRY with a second speech receiued them walking before them MER. Retyre you houshold-gods and leaue these excellent