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A new play call'd The Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd a comedy / by Richard Carpenter.; Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd
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Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?
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1665
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Wing C624; ESTC R10248
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Forsooth the Truth is the Nation is like a Forrest on the Coasts of Barbary where every Beast proudly forrageth for himself according to the latitude of his strength and combates with every living thing he comes near either upon the account of Offence or Defence So that forsooth this may truly be called and in civil terms as the Civilians speak Religio Deserti the Religion of the Forrest or Wilderness or the wild Boar's and Bear 's Religion Arist Sir I find you are knowing Hither I subscribe to your Discourse And indeed I would steer any Discourse that I might be set in as much distance from Hypocrisie as the Globe of the earth would permit But you know how harshly and untuneably change sounds in the ears of all men Lu. Pray forsooth courteously lend an ear Then only Change is a Defect when it is opposite or fals cross to the well-being or perfection of the thing changed and is in some kind a degradation of it This is forsooth as the Rhetoritians speak ipsa luce lucidius clearer than the light or Sun because the Heavens and heavenly Bodies are incessantly changed in their motions We are changed for the better in our growings outward and inward Every season of the year revels and causes many changes in the world which forsooth cannot be imputed to the things changed as defects but adhere to them as legitimate perfections of their Natures and Beings Arist Holy Sir I do most highly value your Holiness and your Learning and humbly require of you more particular Information Lucifer Child give me leave forsooth to call you so For now forsooth you are and shall be my Ghostly Child I see forsooth you are ingenious I will send you first to Flanders afterwards to Spain then to Italy to sublimate and heighten your Learning and Experience and that you may learn the Arts and Sciences where they are best taught More of this betwixt us in private Exeunt Lucifug The Field is ours We have at last wrought him to us Open Hypocrisie Strumpet-like is too palpable I am now visible to you The Stratagem is then exalted high When th' Hypocrite reviles Hypocrisie Exit Act 2. Scene 3. Enter Agrippa Agrip. I have bound him by Command and by Promise I my self am bound to secure with my presence the execution Anguilla est elabitur If we give him his head he slips My Presence will keep him fixt Enter an Orange-Maid like those in the Pit What seeks this Maid here Fie on you so bold 'T is a Spirit and I must lay it Maid The Affair refers me to you and you are here Agrip. Be thou Spirit or Flesh thou hast no part in the Comedy Maid But I have Sir No long part you would say but a necessary part I have Agrip. Your place is the Pit and your Business is to wait there Maid And from thence I came The Gentlemen there are perplex't and troubled They complain that your Jesuit sends a chief Actour beyond the Seas and that either your Scene must be preposterously chang'd or they shall be deprived of the principal Occurrences which happen to him Agrip. Neither by vertue of my first and fundamentel Promise my power shall bring him hither at due times to act over again the most remarkable Occurrences and he shall neither know where he is nor what befals him Return this Answer with my devoutest Respects She was going forth and returns Maid I shall If you will civilly take your leave of me I shall present you with a Sevil-Orange Agrip. Is this your custom He salutes her Exit Maid Maid No Sir but it was in my desires to teach you manners Agrip. The Matter partly travels you shall find As Friends all brought before you to your mind Exit Act 2. Scen. 4. Enter Lucifer Lucifuga Madam Hypocrisie Pretty Mr. Complement Mr. Demure Gaffer Highshooe Galen Junior Ignore Magnifico See Senior Signior See Mr. Kickshaw Lucifer Well Madam I have dispatcht my Scholar to St. Omers you may now enter your whole Tribe Every one shall receive his Charge and I will discharge you of their persons Mr. Complement your charge is that you stow fire in the Court Speak every where of Abuses and of a singular discerning Spirit and a Holiness which you have but others are naked of as prophane Turn up the white of your eye and shew it as if that were the outside of your Soul according to the Naturalist Profectò in oculis animus inhabitat truly the Soul dwels in the eyes Draw every word through your Nose as if it past through a middle sort of crack't Organ-Pipe and lift up your hands towards that which scrupulous men call Heaven and close them when they are extended as if you had fast hold of Heaven Pretend alwaies like an Apton in the first onset true things and such as are in use with holy men those delude irrefragably The people regard not the tayl of the Business The Snake having past his head draws his body after him into the Faction Tell the people that by how much an Element is more near to Heaven it is by so much the more pure â—ctive noble that the Water is more pure than the Earth the Ayr than the Water and Elementary Fire than the Ayr That the higher the Ayr is it is the purer still and more subtile That in a Limbeck the things of greatest purity and vertue are sublimated that is hast to the top of the Limbeck the drossy matter fals Let there be a new shap't Achates in every period It is not necessary that one experiencing if Sea-water be salt should drink up the whole Sea nor that I should foot it over every particular your own Genius will direct you forward There is no more excellent manner of cozening and guâ—ling the simple Herd of people than with the specious Mantle of Religion because Religion out-powers and overswaies all in mankind Mr. Demure and Gaffer High-shooe you for the City and you for the Countrey are charged accordingly Galen junior when you are call'd to sick persons and find that their sicknesses lay close siege to their bodies first prepare them by some eloquent Preamble Say if you see the water in a calm Ser troubled and rise high into the Ayr take heed ther 's a Whale near Turn it homwards thus Sickness disturbing so highly the peace and tranquility of the Body Death is imminent Then make reverend mention of the Society and recount the numerous Conversions that we have wrought in the world and press it home to their Consciences that they leave us honourable Legacies according to their Conditions yea though they beggar and leave succourless their own dear children We are not their Heirs at Common Law but upon a higher account Tell them otherwise they are near to a Gulf a Precipice Then while the Iron is hot and upon the Anvile send for us If need urge we shall use you in Deletories vulgarly call'd poysons when we
black idle Web the Silk-Worm a rich fair Silken Substance The conclusion falls thus The Spiders work is swept and swept swept down and swept away the work of the Silk-Worm is a Courtier and acceptable to Princes I deal in Thousands I work for the Religious Brethren in our Abby of Lambspring and in our Monasteries of Doway Paris Dulewart St. Malloes These will feed fat and pray for me when I am lean and rotten Enter L. Liberal with a staff in his hand and a Page after him L. Lib. A walk to the Royal Exchange and home again will beget me a good appetite to my supper Now Friend what 's your business here Lucifer My very good Lord no great business But if it please you my Lord that is if it be not offensive to your Lordship that is if your good Lordship thinks it convenient that is if your Honour deem honourably of it that is L. Lib. Speak friend leave shaking of thy head and speak Lucifer That is L. Lib. Away with that That is do not retard your business Lucifer I would make your Honours Servants a little Pastime my Lord I and my bonny Beast here An old Ape has an old eye my Lord. L. Lib. Well well if this be all we shall agree The Times are now quiet again I thank Heaven and my House is a house of singular freedom and of Entertainment as free as Noble But what can you and your Ape do Lucifer Do Rather what can we not do my Lord We can Dance Caper Curvet shew Tricks of all sorts fashions conditions drink whole Boles play at Cards Dice Tables fight at back-Sword single-Rapier at Sword and Dagger quarter-Staff my Ape 's an expert Fencer my Lord run a Tilt sing Prick't-Song shew you a Maid and that 's a wonder my Lord and shew you a Maid that goes for a Maid and is not a Maid and my Lord that 's no wonder at all If your Lordship has a Thief or a Drunkard amongst your Servants my Ape will bring him forth An old Ape has an old eye my Lord. L. Lib. A nimble-pated Fellow Go in Friend Tell my Servants I gave you leave to enter my house I intended a walk but if I hear my Servants are pleas'd with your Pastime I 'le come and be your Spectator my self Lucifer My Lord your more than thrice humble servants I and my Ape An old Ape has an old eye my Lord. Exit Lucifer L. Lib. Go thy way thou dost out-wit the Ape I warrant thee O my poor Nice if she were reduc'd I should be mertier more debonnaire and more delighted with such sights than I am Men have learned the way of changing bitter Almond-trees into sweet ones which is they pierce them near to the root and let forth the bitter juyce so these bitter-hearted Romanists should let their perverse and sower inclinations forth at the root of their Hearts and become of bitter better The Priests whose actions are as dirty as their thoughts are foul have wrought this irrecoverable mischief in my house The Physitians that they may draw the vapours from the head of the Patient apply Pigeons to the soles of his feet If these seven-hill'd Saints would walk innocently and with Pigeons at their feet they would not be troubled with such gross and idle fumes in their Brains as they are They do not consider that the Life of man is a very Bubble A Bubble puts on the form of an Hemisphere And shadowing half the world as being an Hemisphere it accordingly consists of two Elements It is Air within which is invisible for its Rarity and without a thinne-shap'd Skinne of Water and there is all the Bubble The Air deciphers our soul and the watery skin our body the skin presently breaks the Aire as presently breaks loose and there is a present end of the Bubble A shouting and laughing within of men and women There 's my invitation I would not let desire loose to range through the world like a wilde-Ass in the Arabian Desert but honest recreations are the Didacticks of humane providence Exit L. Liberal Page The servants are all met to view the Sport which the Ape and his Master make and I must be their Ape imitate them and adde to the number Enter Mrs. Dorothy Dor. This idle Page obstructs my way Page Mrs. Dorothy with your faire leave you know that all the Servants are charg'd to acquaint my Lord if you stir out of the house as now you have or beyond the Garden Dor. Pretty Boy hold thy peace thou wert alwayes my friend there 's a piece for thee Delay the search after me till I have pass'd this street and the next Page Madam I shall not be wanting to your design Exit Mrs. Dor. She 's gone I must keep silence now or go too A loud laughing within My Lord Liberal at the Door L. Lib. Page where are you Page Here my Lord. L. Lib. Call my Nice down tell her here 's very pretty sport He disappears Page I go my Lord I move as quick as lightning I have read in an English Author of a melancholy-she that thought she could break to pieces the whole world with the motion of one short finger and crush it into a Miscellany with the clintching of her little hand Mrs. Dorothy thinks now that she has the great world in her little maiden hands to dispose of as she list Liberty is sweet especially after a long and tedious time of restraint The Bird out of the Cage is like the Bird that saw the Sea turn'd and made a long flight the clean contrary way she wings it in the Air at length weary pearches upon a Bough and sings for joy she is not bounded Alaughing within yet lowder Lord Within Page why Page Page I say Page My Lord. Lord Where 's my Nice why comes she not Page She is not in her Chamber my Lord. I am going to the Garden she 's there my Lord I think Lord Make hast Page Page All the hast I make shall not overtake Mrs. Dorothy And hast thou given me a twenty shilling piece sweet Virgin I 'le keep it for thy sake and it shall conserve the Idea of thee in my thoughts She must be now out of reach or in some nearness to it Laughing and shouting within Lord within Page Page Let him call again 't will open his pipes Lord Page you Rogue Page I will not answer to the name of Rogue let him call once more Lord Page my Nice Page My Lord I cannot see her in the Garden The Privy door is shut But I shut it Enter Lord Liberal L. Lib. How is she not in her Chamber nor to be seen in the Garden She never staid so long in the little House there Servants search all the house Go page kick forth that rascal-fellow with the Ape O my Nice my Nice A noise within of searching Exit Page Servants search every corner every Ratand Mouse-hole Enter Lucifer and the