iudged mée to euerlasting payne Oh that my bodie buried were that it at rest might bée Though soule were put in Iudas place or Caines extremitie Gisbertus Oh Brother hast you to the Towne and tel Theologus What sodaine plague and punishment my Father hath befell Paphinitius I run in hast and will request him for to come with vs Gisbertus Oh Father rest your selfe in God and all thing shal be well Philologus Ah dredfull name which when I héere to sigh it mée compell God is against mée I perceiue he is none of my God Vnlesse in this that he will beat and plague mée with his rod And though his mercy doth surpasse the sinnes of all the worlde Yet shall it not once profit me or pardon mine offence I am refused vtterly I quite from God am whorld My name within the Booke of lyfe had neuer residence Christ prayed not Christ suffered not my sinnes to recompence But only for the Lordes elect of which sort I am none I féele his iustice towardes mée his mercy all is gone And to be short within short space my finall end shall bée Then shall my soule incurre the paines of vtter desolation And I shall be a president most horrible to sée To Gods elect that they may sée the price of abiuration Gisbertus To héere my Fathers dolefull plaints it bringeth preturbation Vnto my soule but yonder comes that good Theologus Oh welcome sir and welcome you good master Eusebius Acte fyfth Sceane 2 THEO PHI EVSE GIS PAPHI GOd saue you good Philologus how doo you by Gods grace Philologus You welcome are but I alas vile wretch am héere euill found Eusebius What is the chiefest cause tell vs of this your dolorus case Philologus Oh would my soule were sunke in hell so body were in grounde That angrie God now hath his will who sought mee to confounde Theologus Oh say not so Philologus for God is gracious And to forgiue the penitent his mercy is plentious Do you not know that all the earth with mercy doth abound And though the sinnes of all the world vppon one man were layde If he one only sparke of grace or mercy once had found His wickednes could not him harme wherefore be not dismayde Christes death alone for all your sinnes a perfect raunsome payde God doth not couet sinners death but rather that he may By liuing still bewaill his sinnes and so them put awaye Consider Peeter who thrée tymes his Maister did denye Yea with an oath and that although Christ did him warning giue With whome before tyme he had lyued so long familiarly Of whome so many benefits of loue he did receiue Yet when once Peeter his owne fault did at the last perceiue And did bewaile his former cryme with salt and bitter teares Christ by and by did pardon him the Gospell witnes beares The theefe lykewise and murtherer which neuer had don good But had in mischeefe spent his dayes yea during all his lyfe With lattest breth when he his sinnes and wickednes with stoode And with iniquityes of flesh his spirit was at strife Thorow that one motion of his heart and power of true beliefe He was receiued into grace and all his sinnes defaced Christ saying soone in Paradice with me thou shalt be placed The hand of God is not abridged but still he is of myght To pardon them that call to him vnfainedly for grace Againe it is Gods propertye to pardon sinners quight Pray therefore with thy heart to God here in this open place And from the very roote of heart bewaile to him thy case And I assure thée God will on thée his mercy show Through Iesus Christ who is with him our aduocate you knowe Philologus I haue no fayth the wordes you speake my hart doth not beléeue I must confesse that I for sinne am iustly throwne to hell Eusebius His monstrous incredulitye my very heart doth gréeue Ah dere Philologus I haue knowne by face and visage well A sort of men which haue bene vext with Diuels and spirits fell In farre worse state then you are yet brought into desperation Yet in the ende haue bene reclaimde by godly exhortation Such are the mercies of the Lorde he will throw downe to hell And yet call backe againe from thence as holy Dauid wrightes What should then let your trust in God I pray you to vs tel Sith to forgiue and doo vs good it chiefely him delightes What would not you that of your sins he should you cleane acquite How can he once denie to you one thing you doo request Which hath already geuen to you his best beloued Christ Lift vp your hart in hope therefore awhile be of good cheare And make accesse vnto his seate of grace by earnest prayer And God will surely you reléeue with grace stand not in feare Philologus I doo beléeue that out from God proceede these comfortes faire So doo the Diuels yet of their health they alway doe dispaire They are not written vnto mée for I woulde faine attaine The mercy and the loue of God but he doth me disdaine How would you haue that man to lyue which hath no mouth to eate No more can I lyue in my soule which haue no faith at all And where you say that Peter did of Christ soone pardon get who in the selfe same sinne with mée from God did greatly fall why I cannot obtaine the same to you I open shall God had respect to him alwaies and did mée firmly leue But I alas am reprobate God doth my soule reproue Moreouer I will say with tongue what so you wyll require My harte I feele with blasphemy and cursing is repleate Theologus Then pray with vs as Christ vs taught we doe you all desire Philologus To pray with lips vnto your God you shall mée scene intreate My spirit to Sathan is in thrall I can it not thence get Eusebius God shall renue your spirit againe pray onely as you can And to assist you in the same we pray ech Christian man Philologus O God which dwellest in the Heauens and art our father deare Thy holy name throwghout the world be euer sainctified The kingdome of thy word and spirit vppon vs rule might beare Thy will in earth as by thy saincts in heauen be ratified Our dayly bread we thee beseech O Lord for vs prouide Our sinnes remit Lord vnto vs as we ech man forgiue Let not tentation vs assayle in all euill vs releeue Amen Theologus The Lord be praysed who hath at length thy spirit mollified These are not tokens vnto vs of your reprobation You morne with teares and sue for grace wherfore be certified That God in mercy giueth care vnto your supplication Wherfore dispayre not thou at all of thy soules preseruation And say not with a desperat heart that God against thée is He will no doubt these paynes once past receiue you into blisse Philologus No no my friends you only heare and sée the outward part Which though you thinke
they haue don wel it booteth not at all My lyppes haue spoke the wordes in déede but yet I féele my heart With cursing is replenished with rancor spight and gall Neither do I your Lord and God in hart my father call But rather seeke his holy name for to blaspheame and cursse My state therfore doth not amend but ware still worse and worse I am secluded cleane from grace my heart is hardened quight Wherefore you do your labour loose and spend your breth in vayne Eusebius Oh say not so Philologus but let your heart be pight Vppon the mercyes of the Lord and I you assertayne Remission of your former sinnes you shall at last obtayne God hath it sayde who cannot lye at whatsoeuer time A sinner shall from heart repent I will remitt his cryme Philologus You cannot say so much to me as herein I do knowe That by the mercyes of the Lord all sinnes are don awaye And vnto them that haue true fayth aboundantly it flowe But whence do this true fayth procéede to vs I do you pray It is the only gift of God from him it comes alwaye I would therefore he would vouchsafe one sparke of fayth to plant within my breast then of his grace I know I should not want But it as easely may be done as you may with one spoone At once take vp the water cleane which in the seas abide And at one draught then drink it vp this shall ye doe as soone As to my brest of true beléefe one sparkle shall betide Tush you which are in prosperous state my paines haue not tried Doe think it but an easy thing a sinner to repent Him of his sinnes and by true faith damnation to preuent The healthfull néede not Phisicks art and ye which are all haile Can giue good counsell to the sick their sicknesse to eschew But here alas confusion and hell doth mée assaile And that all grace from me is reft I finde it to be true My hart is steele so that no faith can from the same insue I can conceiue no hope at all of pardon or of grace But out alas Confusion is alway before my face And certainly euen at his time I doo most playnly sée The deuils to be about me rounde which make great preparation And kéepe a stirre here in this place which only is for mee Neither doe I conceiue these thinges by vaine imagination But euen as truly as mine eyes beholde your shape and fashion Wherefore desired Death dispatch my body bring to rest Though that my soule in furious flames of fire be supprest Theologus Your minde corrupted dooth present to you this false illusion But turne awhile vnto the spirit of trueth in your distresse And it shall cast out from your eies all horror and confusion And of this your affliction it will you soone redresse Eusebius We haue good hope Philologus of your saluation doubtlesse Philologus What your hope is concerning mée I vtterly contempne My Conscience which for thousands stand as guiltie mée condemne Eusebius When did this horror first you take what think you is the cause Philologus Euen shortly after I did make mine open abiuration For that I did prefer my goods before Gods holy lawes Therefore in wrath he did me sende this horrible veration And hath me wounded in the soule with gréeuous tribulation That I may be a president in whom all men may view Those torments which to them that wil forsake the Lord are due Theologus Yet let me bouldly aske one thing of you without offence What was your former faith in Christ which you before did holde For it is saide of holy Paule in these same wordes in sence It cannot be that vtterly in faith he should bee colde Who so he be which perfectly true faith in hart once holde Wherfore rehearce in short discourse the sum of your beléefe In these pointes chiefly which for health of soule are thought most chéefe Philologus I did beleeue in hart that Christ was that true sacrifice Which dyd appease the fathers wrath and that by him alone We were made iust and sanctified I dyd beleeue lykewise That without him heauen to attaine sufficient meanes were none But to reknowledge this againe alas all grace was gone I neuer loued him againe with right and sincere harte Neither was thankfull for the same as was ech goodmans part But rather tooke the faith of Christ for lybertie to sinne And did abuse his graces great to further carnall lust what wickednesse I did commit I cared not a pinne For that that Christ discharged had any ransome I dyd trust wherfore the Lord doth now correct the same with torments iust My sonnes my sonnes I speake to you my counsell ponder well And practise that in déedes which I in wordes shall to you tell I speake not this that I would ought the Gospell derogate which is most true in euery part I must it néedes confesse But this I say that of vaine faith alone you should not prate But also by your holy lyfe you should your faith expresse Beléeue me syres for by good proofe these thinges I doo expresse Peruse the wrighting of S. Iames and first of Peters too which all Gods people holynesse of lyfe exhort vnto By sundrie reasons as for firste because we strangers are Againe sinne from the flesh procéede but we are of the spirit The third because the flesh alway against the spirit doo warre The fourth that we may stop the mouthes of such as would backbight The fifth that other by our lyues to God reduce we might Againe they sing a pleasant song which sing in déede and word But where euill life insue good words there is a foule discorde But I alas most wretched wight whereas I did presume That I had got a perfect faith did holy life disdaine And though I did to other preach good lyfe I did consume My lyfe in wickednesse and sinne in sport and pleasures vaine No neither did I once contende from them flesh to refraine Beholde therfore the iudgements iust of God doth mée annoy Not for amendement of my lyfe but mée for to destroy Eusebius We doo not altogether like of this your exhortation whereas you warne vs not to trust so much vnto our faith But that good workes we should prepare vnto our preseruation There are two kindes of righteousnesse as Paul to Romanes faith The one dependeth of good workes the other hangs of faith The former which the world allowes good counts it least of twaine As by good proofe it shall to you in words be proued playne For Socrates and Cato both did purchase great renowne And Aristides surnamed Iust this righteousnesse fulfilled Wherfore he was as iustest man erpelde his natiue towne Yet are their soules with Infydels in hell for euer spilled Because they sought not righteousnes that way that God thē willed The other righteousnes coms from faithe which God regards alone And makes vs seeme immaculate before his heauenly
was murthered by Nero his worde Domitian deuised a Barrell full of Oyle The body of Iohn the Euangelist to boile The Pope at this instant sondrie tormentes procure For such as by Gods holy word will indure By these former stories two thinges we may learne And profytably recorde in our remembraunce The fyrst is Gods Church from the Diuels to discerne The second to marke what manyfest resistaunce The Trueth of God hath and what incombraunce It bringeth vpon them that will it professe Wherfore they must arme them selues to suffer distresse Mathetes It is no new thing I doo now perceiue That Christes Church doo suffer tribulation But that the same crosse I might better receiue I request you to shew me for my consolation What is the cause by your estimation That God doth suffer his people be in thrall Yet helpe them so soone as they to him call Philologus The chiefest thing which might vs cause or moue With constant mindes Christes crosse for to sustaine Is to conceiue of Heauen a faithfull loue Wherto we may not come as Paul doth proue it plaine Vnlesse with Christ we suffer that with him we may raine Againe sith that it is our heauenly Fathers will By worldly woes our carnall lusts to kill Moreouer we do vse to loath that thing we alway haue And doo delight the more in that which mostly we doe want Affliction vrgeth vs also more earnestly to craue And when we once reléeued be true faith in vs it plant So that to call in eche distresse on God we will not faint For trouble bring forth pacience from pacience dooth insue Experience from experience Hope of health the ankor true Againe oftimes God doth prouide affliction for our gaine As Iob who after losse of goodes had twice so much therefore Sometime affliction is a meanes to honor to attaine As you may sée if Iosephes lyfe you set your eyes before Continually it doth vs warne from sinning any more When as we sée the iudgements iust which God our heauenly king Vpon offenders héere in earth for their offences bringe Sometime God doth it vs to proue if constant we will be As he did vnto Abraham somtime his whole intent Is to declare his heauenly might as in Iohn we may sée When the Disciples did aske Christ why God the blindnesse sent Vnto that man that was borne blinde to whom incontinent Christ saide neither for Parentes sinnes nor for his owne offence Was he borne blinde but that God might shew his magnificence Mathetes This is the summe of all your talke if that I gesse a right That God doth punnish his electt to kéepe their faith in vre Or least that if continuall ease and rest enioy they might God to forget through hautinesse fraile nature should procure Or els by feeling punishment our sinnes for to abiure Or els to proue our constancy or lastly that we may Be instruments in whom his might God may abroad display Now must I néedes confesse to you my former ignoraunce Which knew no cause at all why God should trouble his elect But thought afflictions all to be rewardes for our offence And to procéede from wrathfull Iudge did alway it susped As doe the common sort of men who will straightway direct And point their fingers at such men as God doth chastice héere Estéeming them by iust desert their punishment to beare Philologus Such is the nature of mankind himselfe to iustifye And to condemne all other men wheras we ought of right Accuse our selues especiall and God to magnfie Who in his mercy doth vs spare whereas he also might Sith that we doo the selfe same things with like plagues vs requight Which thing our Sauiour Christ doth teach as testifyeth Luke The thirtéenth Chapter where he dooth vaine glorious men rebuke But for this time let this suffice now le ts homeward goe And further talke in priuat place if néede be we will haue Mathetes With right good will I will attend on you your house vnto Or els goe you with mée to mine the longer iourney saue For it is now high dinner time my stomack meat doeth craue Philologus I am soone bidden to my friende come on let vs departe Mathetes Goe you before and I will come behinde with all my harte Acte second Sceane fyrst HYPOCRISIE GOD spéede you all that be of Gods beléefe The mightie Iehouah protect you from ill I beséeche the lyuing God that he would giue To ech of you present a harty good will With flesh to contende your lust for to kyll That by the aide of spyrituall assistance You may subdue your carnall concupisence God graunt you all for his mercyes sake The lyght of his word to your hartes ioy I humbly beséeche him a confusion to make Of erronious sectes whiche might you annoy Earnestly requiring eche one to imploye His whole indeuour Gods word to maintaine And from straunge doctrine your hartes to refraine Graunt Lord I pray thée such preachers to bée In thy congregation thy people to learne As may for Conscience sake and of méere sinceritie Being able twixt Corne and Cockle to discerne Apply their studie to replenish the Berne That is thy Church by their doctrines increase And make many heires of thine eternall peace Amen Amen But soft let mée sée who doth mée aspect First sluggish Saturn of nature so colde Being placed in Tauro my beames doo reiect And Luna in Cancro in sextile he behould I will the effect héereafter vnfoulde Now Iupiter the gentil of temperature meane Poore Mercury the turncote hée forsooke cleane Now murthering Mars retrogarde in Libra With amiable tryne apply to my beame And splendant Sol the ruler of the day After his Eclips to Iupiter will leane The Goddesse of pleasure Dame Venus I meane To me her poore seruaunt seme friendly to be So also doth Luna otherwise called Phebe But now I speake mischeuously I would say in a mistery Wherfore to interpret it I holde it best done For heere be a good sort I beléeue in this company That know not my meanyng as this man for one What blush not at it you are not alone Héere is an other that know not my mynde Nor hée in my wordes great sauour can fynd The Planet Mercurius is neither whot nor colde Neither good nor yet verie bad of his owne nature But doth alter his qualytie with them which doo holde Any friendly aspect to him euen so I assure We Mercurialists I meane Hypocrits cannot long endure In one condicion but doo alter our mynde To theirs that talke with vs thereby friendship to fynde The litle Camelyon by Nature can chaunge Her selfe to that colour the which she beholde Why should it then to any séeme straunge That we doe thus alter why are we controulde Sith onely the rule of nature we holde We séeke to please all men yet most doo vs hate And we are rewarded for friendship debate Saturnus is enuious how then can hée leue Adulation or Hipocrisie to him
ay well a neare ay swer bay the Sacrament Ay had rather han a cup af nale then a Testament Hypocrisie How can you without it your office discharge Cacon. It is the least thing ay car far bay may charge Far se lang as thea han Images wharon te luke What nede thea be distructed awt af a Buke Hypocrisie Tush that will nodisie them all well enowe As well a dead Image as a dumb Idole I make God avowe Cacon. Yai ay my sen bay experience thot con showe Far in may Portace the tongue ay de nat knowe Yet when ay see the great gilded letter Ay ken it sea well as nea man ken better As far Example on the day of Chraistes Natyuitie Ay sée a Bab in a Manger and two Beastes standing by The Seruice whilk to Newyeares day is assaygnd Bay the Paicture of the Circumcision ay faynd The Seruice whilk on Twalfth day mun be don Ay séeke bay the marke of the thrée kynges of Colon Bay the Deuill tentyng Chraist ay faind whadragesima Bay Chraist on the Crosse ay serch out gude frayday Pasch for his marke hath the Resurrection Ayenst Hally Thursday is pented Chraistes Assention Thus in mayn owne buke ay is a gude Clarke But gyf the Sents war gone the Cat had eate my mark Se the sandry mairacles while ilk Sent haue done Bay the Picttures on the walles sal appéere to them soone Bay the whilk thea ar lerned in euery distresse What Sent thea mun prea te far succour doubtles Sea that all Lepers te Syluester must prea That he wawd frée tham ther disease take away Layk wais thea that han the fallyng saicknes Te be eased therfre thea mun prea to St. Cornelis In contagious aier as in plague or pestilence Te hally Sent Ruke thea mun call far assistance Fra parill of drawning Sent Carp kéepe the Maryners Fra dayng in warfare Sent George gard the Soldiers Sent Iob heale the Poxe the Agew Sent Germayne Far te ease the toothache call te Sent Appollyne Gif that a woman be barren and childles Te helpe her herein she must prea to St. Nicolas Far women in trauayle call to Sent Magdalene Far lawlynes of minde call te Sent Katheryne Sent Loy saue your Horse Sent Anthony your Swyne Tyranny What this Parson séemeth connyng to be And as farre as I sée in a good vniformytie Yea he is well red in that golden Legend Cacon. Bay may trooth in readyng any other ne taym do I spend Far that ay ken bay general caūsell is canonized And bay the hely Pope hymselfe is authorized That Buke farther is wholly permytted Wharas the Bayble in part is prohibited And therfore gif it be lawfull to vtter my conscience Before the new Testament ays giue it credence Hypocrisie I allow his Iudgemnet before Ambrose Austin And for Hypocrisie a more conuenient Chapleyn Auarice It gréeueth me much that no fault we can spye For now of some bribe disappoynted am I Yet happily he may tell vs of some Heretykes Tiranny Is there M. Parson in your parish no Scismatikes Cacon. Yai mara is ther a vara busy bodye Whe will iest with me and call me fule and noddye And sets his Lads te spowt latin ayenst me But ay spose then with Deparfundis Clam aui And oftentimes he wil reson with me of the Sacarment And say he can prooue bay the new Tastament That Chraystss body is in Heauen placed But ays not beleue him ay woll not be awt faced He says besayd that the Pope is Anticraist Fugered of Iohn bay the seuen hedded beast And all awre religion is but mons inuention And with Gods ward is at vtter dissention And a plaguy déel mare af sayk layk talke That ay dar not far may nars bay his yate walke But ay wawd he wer brunt that ay mawght be whaiet Tiranny He must haue a cooler his tongue runnes at riat Auarice What is his name sir Iohn canst thou tell vs Cacon. Yai sir that ay ken he is cléped Phailelegoos Tyranny Wilt thou go show his house where he dwell Cacon. Yai or els ay wawd may sawl war in Hell Te de him a plesure ay wawd gang a whole yeare Gif it war but te make him a Fadocke te beare Tyranny Go with vs Auarice and beare vs company Auarice Nay if you go hence I will not here tary Hypocrisie Away sirs in your busines in a corner do not lurke That my Lord Legate when he coms may haue worke Tyranny Come on let vs go together sir Iohn Cacon. Ay sall follow after God boy you good Gentleman Hypocrisie Farewell thrée false knaues as betwéene this and London Tyranny What sayst thou Hip As honest men as the thrée Kings of Colon This geare goes round if that we had a fiddle Nay I must sing too heigh dery dery dery I can do but laugh my hart is so merry I wil be minstrel my selfe heigh didle didle didle But lay there a strawe I began to be wery But harke I héere a tramplyng of féete It is my Lord Legate I will him go méete Acte fourth Sceane 1. CAR. HYPO AVA. TYR PHILO GO to Master Zeale bring forth that Heretike Which doth thus disturb our religion Catholicke Hypocrisie Rowm for my Lords grate what no maner reuerence But Cap on head Hodge and that in a Lords presence Cardinall What Master Hypocrisie I haue stayed for you long Hypocrisie You were best crowd in and play vs amonge Cardinall Where haue you ben from me so long absent I appoynted to haue ben here thrée howres ago In my consistory to haue set in Iudgement Of that wretched Scismatike that doth trouble vs so Hypocrisie What haue you caught but one and no moe In fayth father Auarice you haue plied your chaps well Auarice I must néeds confesse that I am payd for my trauell Tyranny Rowme for the prisoner what rowme on ech hand Or I shall make some out of the way for to stand Lo héere my Lord is that seditious Scismatike That we haue layd waite for an arrant Heretike Cardinall Sit downe Master Hypocrisie to yéeld me assistance Hypocrisie I thank your Lordship for your courteous beneuolence I wil be the Noddy I should say the Notary To wright before my Lord Legate which is Comissary Cardinall Ah sirra be you he that doeth thus disturb The whole estate of our fayth Catholike Art thou so expert in Gods lawes and word That no man may learne thée thou arrant Heretike But this is the nature of euery Scismatike Be his errors neuer so false Doctrine He will say by Gods word he dare it examine Philologus With humble submission to your authoritie I pardon craue if ought amisse I saye For being thus fet in perill and extreamitie To me vnaquainted my tongue soone trip maye Wherefore excuse me I do your Lordship praye And I will answeare to euery
resist But he in his obstinacie doth styll persist To put him to death would accuse vs of Tirranny But if we could win him he should do vs much honesty Tyranny I heare you and wyll fulfill your wordes spedely Hypocrysie Exit Tyrran Good Maister Philologus I pittie your case To sée you so foolysh your selfe to vndoo I durst yet promys to purchase you grace If you would at length your errours forgoe Therfore I pray you be not your owne foe Philologus Call you those Errours whiche the Gospell defends I know not then whence true Doctrine descends Cardinall Nay Mayster Hypocrisie you spend tyme in vaine To reason with him he will not be remooued Auarice Had I so much to liue by as he hath certayne I would not loose that which I so well loued Cardinall He stands in his reputation he will not be reproued And that is the cause that he is so obstinate But I shall well enough thy corage abate Philologus I humbly beséeche you of Christian charitie You séeke not of purpose my bloud for to spill For if I haue displeased your authoritie In reasonable causes redresse it I will But in this respect I feare I should kill My soull for euer if against my conscience I should to the Popes lawes acknowledge Obedience Hypocrysie Ceace from those wordes if your safetie you loue As though no man had a soule more then you Suche nips perchance my Lords patience wyll mooue Then would you please him if that you wist how But if you wyll be ruled by my honestie I vow I will do the best herein that I can Because you séeme to be a good Gentleman Auarice Were it not better for you to lyue at ease And spend that merely whiche earst you haue got Then by your owne follie your selfe to disease And bring you to trouble whiche other men séeke not Hypocrisie In faith Philologus your zeale is too hote Whiche wyll not be quenched but with your hart blood If I were so zealous I would thinke my selfe wood Cardinall Tush it wyll not be he thinkes we do but iest Wherfore that some tryall of my minde he may haue That Carefull Prouision should goe I thinke best Into the towne and there assistance craue His House for to enter and his Goods for me saue Least when his wife know that they be confiscate Into other mens keepyng the same she doth dissipate Hypocrisie You speake very wisely in my simple Iudgement Therfore you were best to sende him away Cardinall Go too Carefull Prouision depart incontinent And fulfill the wordes whiche I to you say Auarice Of pardon herein I do your Lordshyp pray You doubt not I trust of my wyllyng minde Whiche herein most redy you alway shall finde For who is more redy by frawde to purloyne Other mens goodes then I am eche where But least some man at mée shoulde chaunce to faine And kill mée at once I greatly doo feare I had rather perswade him his folly to forbeare Cardinall Proue then if thou canst doo him any good He shall not say that we séeke his bloud Auarice Ah maister Philologus you sée your owne case That both life and goodes are in my Lords will Therefore you were best to sue for some grace And be content his wordes to fulfil If you neglect this hence straight way I wyll And all your goodes I will sure confiscate Then will you repent it when it is to late Philologus My case indéede I sée most miserable As was Susanna betwixt two euyls placed Either to consent to sinne most abhominable Or els in the worldes sight to be vtterly disgraced But as she her chastitie at that tune imbraced So will I now spirituall whoredom resist And kéepe mee a true Virgin to my louing spouse Christ Auarice Wilt thou then neglect the prouision of thy houshold Thou art therfore worsse then an Infydell is Philologus That you abuse Gods word to say I dare be bolde And the saying of Paule you interpret amisse Cardinall I neuer saw the like heretick that this is Away Carefull Prouision about your businesse Auarice Sith there is no remedie I am héere in redinesse Philologus Exit Aua. I beséeche your Lordship euen from the hart roote That you would vouchsafe for my contentation To approue vnto mée by Gods holy booke Some one of the questions of our disputation For I will heere you with hartes delectation Because I would gladly to your doctrine consent If that I could so my conscience content But my Conscience crieth out and bids me take heede To loue my lord God aboue all earthly gaine Wherby all this while I stande in great dread That if I should Gods statutes disdaine In wretched state then I should remaine Thus cryeth my Conscience to mée continually which if you can stay I will yéelde to you gladly Cardinall I can say nomore then I haue done already Thou heardest that I called the heretick and foole If thou wilt not consent to mée and that spéedily With a new maister thou shalt goe to schole Hypocrisie Thou hast no more wit I sée then this stoole Farre vnfit to dispute or reason with my Lorde He can subdue thée with fire sword quight with one word Tyranny Come follow apà ce sensuall Suggestion Or els I will leaue you to come all alone Suggestion You go in hast you make expedition Nay if you runne so fast I wil none This litle iournay will make mée to grone I vse not to trouble my selfe in this wise And now to beginne I doo not aduise Tiranny Haue not I plyed mée which am come againe so soone And yet haue finished such sundry businesse I haue caused many pretie toyes to be done So that now I haue eche thing in readinesse Cardinall What maister Zeale you are praise worthy doubtlesse Art thoou prepared this gentleman to receiue He will reste a Fagot or els he me deceiue Tyranny In simple manner I will him entertaine Yet must he take it all in good parte And though his diet be small he may not disdaine Nor yet contemne the kindenes of my heart For though I lacke instruments to put him to smart Yet shall he abide in a hellish blacke dungeon As for blocks stocks irons I warrant him want none Hypocrisie Well farewel Philologus you heare of your lodging I would yet do you good if that I wist howe Cardinall Let him go Hypocrisie stand not all day dodging You haue don to much for him I make God avowe Hypocrisie Staye for Suggestion doth come yonder nowe Come on lasy Lubber you make but small haste Had you staied awhile lōger your cōming had ben waste Suggestion You know of my selfe I am not very quicke Because that my body I do so much tender For Sensuall Suggestion will quickely be sicke If that his owne ease he should not remember Thus one cause of my tariaunce to you I do render Another I had as I came by the waye Which did me the longer from your company
Hypocrisie He that will séeke eche man to content Shall prooue him selfe at last most vnwise Your selfe to saue harmlesse think it sufficient And waigh not the peoples clamorous outcries Yet there mouthes to stop I can soone deuise Say that the reading of the workes of S. Selfloue And doctor Ambition did your errours remoue And harke in myne eare delay no more time The sooner the better in ende you will say We haue now caught him as Birde is in line Tyranny Come on sirs haue yée done I would faine away Hypocrisie Goe euen when you will we doo you not staie Philologus hath drunk such a draught of Hypocrisie That he minds not to die yet he wil master this malady Cardinall Come on master Philologus are you growne to a stay I am glad to heare that you become tractable Philologus If it please your Lordship I say euen what you say And confesse your relygion to be most allowable Neither will I gainsay your customes lawdable My former follyes I vtterly renownce That my selfe was an Heretick I doo héere pronownce Cardinall Nay Master Philologus goe with mée to my Pallace And I shall set downe the forme of recantation Which you shall reade on Sonday next in open place This done you shall satisfie our expectation And shall be set frée from all molestation Into the bosome of the Church we will you take And some high officer therein will you make Philologus I must first request your Lordships fauour That I may goe home my wife for to sée And I will attend on you within this howre Cardinall Nay I may not suffer you alone to goe frée Vnlesse one of these your suretie wil bée Suggestion I sensuall Suggestion for him will vndertake Cardinall Verie well take him to you your prisoner I him make Goe you maister Philologus and beare mée company Or els I am sure no meate I should eate And goe before Zeale to sée ech thing ready That when we once come we stay not for meate Hypocrisie With small sute héereto you shall mée intreate Cardinall Exit Tyr. Farewell Philologus and make small delay Perhaps of our dinners for you I will staie Exi Car. Hyp Suggestion Had not you bene a wise man your selfe to haue lost And brought your whole family to wretched estate Where now of your blessednesse your selfe you may bost And of all the countrie accompt your selfe fortunate Philologus Such was the wit of my foolish pate But what doo we stay so long in this place I shall not be well whilst I am with my Lordes grace Acte fourth Sceane 4. SPIRIT PHILO SVGGES PHilologus Philologus Philologus I say In time take héede goe not to farre looke well thy steps vnto Let not Suggestion of thy flesh thy Conscience thée betray Who doth conduct thée in the path that leadeth to all woe Waigh well this warning giuen from God before thou further goe And sell not euerlasting ioyes for pleasures temporall From which thou soone shalt goe or they from thée bereaued shall Philologus Alas what voice is this I héere so dolefully to sounde Into mine eares and warneth mée in time yet to beware Why haue not I the pleasant path of worldly pleasures founde To walk therein for my delight no man shall me debarre Suggestion Looke in this Glasse Philologus for nought els doo thou care What doost thou see within the same is not the Coast all cleare Philologus Naught els but pleasure pompe and wealth héerein to mée appeare Suggestion Giue mée thy hande I will be guide and leade thée in the way What doost thou shrink Philologus where I dare goe before Spirit Yea shrinke so still Philologus no time turne back I say In sensuall Suggestions steppes see that thou tread no more And though the frailtie of the flesh hath made the fall full sore And to denye with outward lyps thy Lord and God most deare The same to stablish with consent of Conscience stand in feare Thou art yet frée Philologus all torments thou maist scape Onely the pleasures of the world thou shalt awhile forbeare Renownce thy crime and sue for grace and do not captiuate Thy Conscience vnto mortall sinne the yoke of Christ doo beare Shut vp these wordes within thy brest which sound so in thine eare The outwarde man hath caused thee this enterprise to take Beware least wickednesse of spirit the same doo perfect make Philologus My hart doth tremble for distres my conscience pricks mée sore And bid mee cease that course in time which I would gladly runne The wrath of God it doth mée tell doth stand my face before Wherfore I hold it best to cease that race I haue begun Suggestion These are but fancies certainly for this way thou shalt shun All worldly woes looke in thy Glasse and tell me what it show Thou wilt not credit other men before thy selfe I trow Philologus Oh gladsome Glasse oh mirrour bright oh cristall cleare as sun The ioyes cannot be vttered which herein I beholde Wherefore I will not thee forsake what euill so euer come Spirit If néedes thou wilt thy selfe vndoo say not but thou arte tolde Philologus Hap what hap wyll I will not loose these pleasures manyfolde Wherfore conduct mee once againe heere take mée by the hande Suggestion That sensuall Suggestion doth leade him vnderstand Acte fourth Sceane 3. CONSCI PHILO SVGGES ALas alas thou wofull wight what furie dooth thée moue So willingly to cast thy selfe into consumyng fyre What Circes hath bewitched thée thy worldly wealth to loue More then the blessed state of Soule this one thing I desyre Waigh wel the cause with sincere hart thy Cōscience thee require And sell not euerlasting ioyes for pleasures temporall Resist Suggestion of the flesh who séekes thée for to spoile From which thou soone shalt goe or they from thee be reaued shall And take from thee which God elect true euerlasting soyle Sée where confusion doth attend to catch thée in his snare Whose handes if that thou goest on still thou shalt no way eschew Philologus What wight art thou which for my health doost take such earnest care Conscience Thy crased Conscience which forsée the plagues torments due Which from iust Iudge whom thou denyest shal by and by insue Suggestion Thou hast good triall of the faith which I to thée doo beare Commit thy safetie to my charge there is no daunger néere Conscience Such is the blindnesse of the flesh that it may not descrie Or sée the perrils which the Soule is ready to incurre And much the lesse our owne estates we can our selues espie Because Suggestion in our hartes such fancies often stirre Wherby to worldly vanities we cleaue as fast as burre Estéeming them with heauenly ioyes in goodnesse comparable Yet be they mostly very prickes to sinne abhomynable For proofe we néede no further goe then to this present man Who by the blessing of the Lorde of riches hauing store When with his hart to fancy them this worldlyng once began And had