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A34526 A new play call'd The Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd a comedy / by Richard Carpenter.; Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? 1665 (1665) Wing C624; ESTC R10248 71,535 72

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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 ●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 gu●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