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A59357
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The subjects joy for the Kings restoration, cheerfully made known in a sacred masque gratefully made publique for His Sacred Majesty / by the author of Inqvisitio Anglicana.
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Sadler, Anthony, b. 1610.
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1660
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Wing S273; ESTC R7841
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Right and Israels 3 Law Made 1 Vain as 2 Void and 3 Vile by Zedekiah Treasons abhord and God would make him know it And maugre Egypt and all 's Force did show it The Caldee Army came at length to prove A Traitors tongue calls Vengance from Above And God and Man to right such wrongs doth move Jerusalem that strong and stately City Is close besieg'd without regard or pity Of either Place or Persons want within And Fear without makes every face look thin Within they faint without the walls they fall The City 's broken up the King and All Fly for their Lives but whither shall they fly Whom God pursues with 's Anger 's Hue and Cry King Zedekiah now the woful scorn Of the Chaldean Army is forlorn Pursude and taken he is Vilifi'd To Riblah hurried and there justly tri'd Tri'd by the Prince abus'd and the same King Who gave him leave to Rule as Underling He is his Judge and rightfully condemns His Treasons and his Traitrous stratagems He slayes his Sons before him makes him see His Sin hath ruind his Posterity Then puts he out his Eyes as having been The Visible Contrivers of that Scene At last he bound in Chains in Prison lies And living Poor and Blinde there wretched dies And here I stopt Two Subjects more more fit Courting my Fancy thus my Fancy writ Zimri would be King of Israel And so would Shallum too Two Subjects but Both Traitors Both Murderers and Murdered A wicked Pair well met and truly matcht For Fate and Fortune equal strangely hatcht Each was a King In Name but not by Right Not by Succession but by Trechery Not by Choyce but Usurpation Not by Conquest but Rebellion They matter'd not which way So the End were gotten But ah how soon Is the Head of Ambition turn'd round With what prodigious speed Doth the short time of their Tryumphing fly A certain shame Waits on their fickle glory And their deceitful Glass Of false-reflecting-Beauty While 't is but lookt upon 't is broken Though Presumption leads the Van Despair brings up the Rear Of all their Squadrons Zimri is scarce seated in the Throne But Vengeance follows him His seven dayes Reign is dearly bought And his End is as dreadful as his Treason He saves the Executioner a labour And by a Strange Device To put his Ashes in a Royal Urn He Fires the Pallace and Himself doth burn And was not Shallum haunted With as ill Success in as high a Fortune Past Grace past Shame He dares Heaven to defend the King While he conspires to Murder him Not because Zachariah was as Bad as Any But because He was Above All He had the Supremacy And Shallum longs for 't And now his Pride Admits no Obstacle as legal The Thirst of his Ambition Must be quench'd with Blood Not Popular but Royal Not of Any Prince but his Own Not a in Private but a Publique way Not by Others but his Own hands Thus he contrives to Kill And Kills to Reign And Reign he doth A Rebel but no Soveraign Yet now as arrogant as the Devil The Glory of the world 's His He won it by the Sword And by the Sword he 'le keep it A Traitors Plea right He that set him to this School Taught him his Lesson well But the Feet of wool have Hands of Iron God is Slow but Sure Shallum with a vengance findes it He findes it but Not so much Slow and Sure As Sure and Sudden Shallum kill'd his Lord And the Servant kill'd Shallum Zimri was destroyed by Himself Shallum by Another Zimri at a Weeks End And Shallum at a Months Thus he that Kills his Prince to wear his Crown To warm his Fingers burns a Pallace down Deludes destroyes himself and while he venters To round a seeming Heaven Hell concenters Villain forbear do'nt suck thy Princes Blood Forbidden meat is no fit meat for Food And here notwithstanding the time I had spent and model I had made and had as in a manner laid the Scene upon these Persons and this Peece of thus revenged Treason yet my minde was farther prest to take another and to begin a new At last the Needle left her trembling Round And my Magnetick Fancy fixt I found I found my Subject and when All is done My Subject's Jeroboam Nebat's Sonne Jeroboam Whose Hope though at the last it was deceived and his Policy defeated and his Pride debased and his Person destroyed for The Lord strook him and he died Yet this Catastrophe Of That Ominous Politician Was for many years as really Improbable as was the Settlement of Abijah seemingly Impossible But stay This ruder Peece is dedicated to the publick view and the contingency of censure I will therefore no longer detain you from your Places nor anticipate your fancy My good wishes wait upon your favour and the better Omen of the Masque upon your Persons and your Fortunes So we All arose and went into the Theater where we being Sate four Trumpeters did enter and having sounded a Victoria a Levite presents himself and speaks The Argument In the dayes of Rehoboam the Son of Solomon 1 King 11. 26. did Jeroboam the Son of Nebat rebel against his King In which Rebellion when he had continued 1 King 12. 19. 2 Chron. 13 â— eighteen years then began Abijah the Son of Rehoboam to reign over Juda. In the third year of whose Reign he waged war Ver. 2. and set the Battel in Aray against Jeroboam who when he had plaid Rex so long a time as two and 1 King 14. 20. twenty years and had an Army so Great as of Eight hundred Thousand chosen men being mighty 2 Chron. 13. 3. men of Valour yet then even then was the Lord pleased to make his Arm bare his Justice known the Truth prevalent and his Name glorious For this so successful Treason this numerous Army and unhappily-happy-Traitor were in their best Condition and their greatest Confidence totally 2 Chron. 13. 13. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. subdued and fearfully overthrown five hundred thousand of them slain their General enforc't to fly and as a Warning to all Rebels exemplarily struck dead by the Hand of the Lord. In a grateful Commemoration of which Signal Victory and in an holy Preomination of the years succeeding Fortunate to the Truth and Loyalty was this new-mysterious Masque first made wherein Abijah and King's Cause Jeroboam and the Rebels With the justice and success of Both are timously made obvious to The Comfort and Encouragement Of All Loyal Subjects I my self saith the Royal Prophet have seen Psal 37. 36 37. the Ungodly in great power and flourishing like a green Bay Tree And I went by and lo he was gone I sought him but his Place could no where be found An Unwise man saith the same Author doth not Psal 92. 6 7. well consider This and a fool doth not understand it When the Ungodly are green as the Grass and when