Loe this is the man that tooke not god for his strenght but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches and strengthen'd himselfe in his wickedness P s 52 7 * Ieroboam Regno Regnaâ—i 〈◊〉 Sis Sine regno Sold at the greyhound in St Pauls Church yeard 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 2 KING XI 12. And he brought forth the Kings Son and put the Crown upon him and gave him the Testimony and they made him King and Anointed him and clapt their hands and said God save the KING LONDON Printed in the year of Grace for James Davis and are to be sold at the Greyhound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. To His EXCELLENCY The Lord General MONCK Heroick Sir THE present affairs of this Kingdom are so providentially managed by God so prudentially by You and so happily opportunely for the building up the Ruins and repairing of the Breaches both in Church and State that the Factionist malignes the Temporist admires and Royallist congratulates so hopeful a beginning Let it not then displease my Lord if now one of those poor grateful Royallists hath in this spring of hope so cheerful a boldness as to beg the favour of your Excellency to Patronize this Peece This Peece I confess is Theatrical New and Strange Strange but yet Pertinent New but yet Serious and Theatrical but yet Sacred Nor am I in This either singular or affected while Apollinarius and Nazianzen two antient Fathers of the Primitive Church are known to be exemplary in this very way The truth is I am now upon the well-tun'd Put with my Palm and my Psalm to chant an Hosanna for the Kings Reception I am now upon the joyful Stage to play the devout Comaedian and by a new Triumphal to court the affections of the most Disloyall Upon the Stage I am that as by a true reflection to shew the radiancy of my divine zeal so I might by congruous Divinity render Corah notwithstanding his holy Plea Rebellious and Treason notwithstanding Garnet's Straw and Becket's Canonization in the Abstract hateful both to God and man Religion and Allegience are the wings of the soul to mount her unto Heaven and the present Masque is but to preserve the Beauty of so fair an Allegation and to attest before the world my utter abhorrency of the least Confederation against the Higher Powers Oh Sir may the Higher Powers be as safe as sacred and may That SaCRed Person into whose hands God by his Grace Nature by Descent and the Law by Right have successively given the Globe and the Scepter may He ah may He be as happy as He is Good and as Good as He is Great the Best of Men crowned with the Best of Blessings Sir your Excellency is now the Renowned Instrument of wonderful Transactions In the name of God go on and prosper Certainly my Lord if your auspicious self shall with this hopefully-happy Parliament go on to Act for God and the good of his distressed People By Enthroning The most Illustrious Prince And Our Lawful King Charles the Second For the Setling of the State For the Reforming of the Church For the Establishing of the Lawes And the Maintaining our Reiigion That most true Protestant Religion Of the Church of England I am confident You shall as surely Prosper in having The Holy Spirit of God to be Your Guid The holy Angels of God to be Your Guard Here to be Famous and Hereafter to be Glorious as there is a God in Heaven So Believeth and Affirmeth Ever Devoted To God His Prince And Countrey Anthony Sadler TO THE Candid Reader THis is the Month this is That Month of Marth Which Tunes our Noats to sing our Princes Birth This is that Month this is The Month of May Which Loyall London cals her Holy-day The Prince as now new Born from the wombe Of Hardest Travail is Deliver'd Come The Midwifery of Heaven doth Present A saCRed Monarch to the Parliament And That to Us and We to Heaven again Present our Thanks and Bless our Soveraign Rejoyce my soul to see the Prince of Worth The Worlds wonder brought so Timely forth Rejoyce Blest Prince thy Throne is blest with Peace Thy welcome Income makes our Wars to cease Rejoyce my Fellow-Subjects All as One Congratulate the Rising of This Sonne Whose Royall Lustre hath dispell'd our Fears And Clouds of Grief to drop with Joyful Tears Anthony Sadler In this MASQVE are 6. Shewes 10. Speeches 3. Songs The Persons in the several Shews Speaking the several Speeches Are Psyche King David King Abijah His Queen-Mother Two Dukes his Brothers The High Priest The Lord General The Prophet Shemaiah The Scene For the Land is Canaan For the Place is Bethel For the Person is Jeroboam A Divine Masque The private Speech OF The AVTHOR In Society with his Friends to entertain the Time before the Masque begun YOu know Dear Friends That Video Vindico is God's Motto upon Traitors but it is our duty to wait Gods time for he that shall come will and he that will come is to the help of his Anointed God hath in mercy made his people to return return to their duty of Praying for the King His very Name now is pretious his Presence long'd for and a General joy attends the hope to see him in his Throne So that now seeing the Royal Son begin to rise and my Loyal fancy to be as lucky as divine My heart reviv'd my Muse rejoyc'd to bring Her Off-spring out to welcome in the King Two Virgins dress'd in Print with blest accord To give a Salve unto our Soveraign Lord. The Elder is a Sybillian and to acheer the King doth by a Prophetick Pen write a Praediction in a Lamentation The Younger is a Masquer and she also to acheer the King doth by pretty Scenes praesagingly-praeact his just Inauguration They are Both the Issue of one Parent Legitimate and Loyal but upon the very Conception of the Masquer much troubled I was on whom and where and how to lay the Scene I once thought to have made England the Nation Westminster the Place and then My purpose was the Powder-traitors Plot For to have made my Subject and their Lot To Ruine cast have shewn I had thought T o've made their way a Warning and had brought Examples pertinent prophane but ture To make their shame as fearful as its due But this not fully reaching to the aim Of what I would I then begun again Consulted God and took my Object higher I made my Subject sacred and came nigher To shew a Traitors Doom from Scripture then I pitch'd on Zedekiah Knowing well That Zedekiah when he did Rebell Against th' Covenant made and Oath he took To be the King of Babels Vice-Roy look Oh how the faithful God did take to heart The wrong thus offer'd unto Either Part His 1 Name the Heathens 2
all the workers of wickedness do flourish then shall they be Destroyed for ever For saith Ignatius Martyr Nemo qui se contra Epis 3. Praestantiorem extulit impunitus unquam abiit With that he going off the Stage a young Prince Enters wearing a Purple Robe and his head Crown'd in the one hand holding an Olive branch in the other a Palm and speaks The Prologue What means this Dress He walks stately and looks upon himself And to what purpose thus Am I Attir'd The manners ominous A true Praesage of strange Events to come On After Ages by a Present Doome What means this Place What Persons do I see I see great Persons and their Places be Upon Sesostris wheele My Soveraign's Crown In 's Grand-child's time 's usurpt and Rebels own I see again By Scripture and by Reason An End both Sad and sure attends on Treason His Sin is Fatal who his Fall laments not His Fall is Final who his Sin repents not Traitors as Witches are And Witches never Become Converted but Condemned ever When Loyal Subjects Howsoere they Fare As Blessed Angels Angels blessed are Their hope and love espouse And faith doth ty Their true Allegiance fast to Soveraignty 'T is not the Tempest of the roughest Crosses Can shipwrack their Obedience with their Losses It 's so observ'd And Psyche by the way Is Staid and Pray'd their Banner to display And here it 's done in a Triumphant Story Which flouts and routs all traitors shameful-glory This is the Subject of the Sequel Masque Which Psyche now makes Mine and I your Task I to resume and You for to revolve And Each by Application to resolve That this Sad-Sacred-pleasing-Scene is laid To make the Good rejoyce the Bad afraid But hark The Musick sounds To my preventing May All have Mirth and Psyche True contenting Exit The loud Musique sounds And The First Shew's Presented Being A Landskip in form of a Square having in the one Angle a Promontory whereon the rural Nymphs were sporting and under it the Sea wherein was a gallant Navy sayling In another Angle was a Garden giving all the delight that dainty flowers pleasant walks and Musical water-works could yeild In the Third Angle was a Castle strongly and bravely fortified in the face whereof was an Army compleatly Armed marching in Aray In the fourth Angle was a Park well-wooded and stor'd with Deer Gallants a hunting and the Hounds upon a full Cry In the middle of this Quadrangle was a Grove of Cedars out of which came a Shepherdess in a green Gown and a Garland on her Head attended by a Swain in a Shepherds Coat and a Pipe in his Hand Each then saluting other the One Playes and Both Dance which done they pull off their Disguises and discover themselves to be an Angel and Psyche Psyche then instructed by the Angel making an humble Address and due Observance to R. A. the King Kneels down and Speaks The first Speech Dread Sir I crave your Pardon Which if You Shall please to grant I crave your Patience too Which if you promise Then I crave your Ear Which if you deign Then let your Highness hear What was that Heathen that he should out-brave Galiah God's Cause and Army and a Challenge crave Or what 's this Traitor that the Gauntlet throwes In scorn of God and doth the King oppose Jeroboam At length Abijah A Youth but with a Stone and Sling David Answer'd and Conquer'd that fell Phylistine And so ere long As mean a Meanes may Be The Scenes to Act this Villaines Tragedie Believe it ' King Abijah You shall find The fall of Jeroboam is design'd Not from that Giant but this Rebell I Foresee the Sequel by Imparitie For True that Monster was And his Strange Pride Did Vaunt but 's Valour to advance his Side But This Was monstrous False And 's frantick Zeal To turn a Kingdom to a Common-weal Prayes and Betrayes Swears and Forswears to further The King in 's Throne The King at 's Gate to Murder Corah's was nothing if compar'd to This This perjur'd Changling's Metamorphosis The Way was worse And may a worser Fate Then Corah's or Goliah's Antedate the Transformation Prodigious Stars portend his Fall By Famine Plague or Wars May Loyalty be blest Your Highness Crownd And God Convert or else your Foes Confound May you obtrude Intruders from the Keyes And keep them Sacred to Divine Decrees May Aarons Rod still flourish and You be A Nursing Father both to It and Me. Still may the Lord your Majesty defend And Peace or Patience to your Subjects send Long may you live And live so long to Reign Till Treason be Reveng'd and Traitors slain This This I ask Which granted I 'le give ore And Bless my God and You And ask no more The King then drew off his Glove and holding out his hand Psyche rose up and kneeling down again she kiss'd it The Queen then observing Psyche to have a curious Voyce desired her to Sing and without denial or reply her good Angel standing by her playing on a Lute she sung The first Song 1. No more no more to ask Of God and King Too sad's a Task In this glad Masque To undertake and sing 2. But since my Loyal tongue Hath Royal greeting 'T were double wrong A single Song For to deny this Meeting 3. Angels and Men shall know And All hold forth The Zeal I ow And love I show Unto my Princes worth 4. And now in grateful-wise I 'le kneel agen She kneels To Sympathize The Peoples Cryes God save the King Amen With that an Acclamation being made the Scene upon a suddain chang'd and then the loud Musique sounding a second time The Second Shew's presented being A pleasant Plain encompassed with Hills in the middle of which Plain was a fair City and in the City a glorious Temple and in the Temple a goodly Jerusalem King David Person Which Person having on a Robe of fine linnen and a curious Ephod upon the Robe and a golden Girdle upon the Ephod walketh into the Sanctum Sanctorum with the Book of the Law in his hand and thus speaks The Second Speech In this Asytum Doth for certain dwell God and my Devotions Oracle Hence am I Taught And Here I am to know The Reason why the wicked Prosper so I know the Lord is Just But yet his wayes Seem very strange and many doubtings raise For he fulfils the wicked man's request And more then 's Vote doth correspond his Brest He fears not Death Nor doth his Body feel The darts of Sickness or the Sword of Steel His Arm is brawny And his Army 's stout And bravely Valiant when he Marches out They deck themselves with Pride as with a chain And as a Garment so they wear Disdain They Drink they Drab And live licentious Lives They mock at God And yet their Doing thrives They kill their King Their Brethren they Enslave They Rob
and Spoil and no Religion have As Beasts of Prey they have devouring Paws As bloody Tyrants they have broke all Laws The Laws of God Of Nature And the Land And Crown'd their Treason with Supreme Command Yet God's not mov'd Except it be to Bless Such Ill Proceedings with a good Success At night He guards them in their safe Reposes And when 't is Day He trims their Heads with Roses This makes them bragg Their Cause is most Divine And Stately Fortune makes their Cause to Shine This makes Me grieve For This I come to know The Reason why the wicked Prosper so With that Asoft-small-voyce deep silence brake And thus This Answer to the Question spake The Oracle Let God be true and every man a Lyar The Bramble-bush is but at best a Bryar It cannot be a Cedar The wicked may Walk in the broader but not safer way To stand upon a Pinacle in pride Is very vain and perilous beside The more the wicked have the more 's their score Upon the Audit-Book to reckon for They are the less excus'd in having thus All as they would exceeding prosperous Their prosperous State is as a Chance that 's cast And lucky Chances do not alwayes last Their only Portion on the Earth is given Excluded ever from a part in Heaven They are the Rods of God and when his turn Is serv'd upon his Children he will burn Their seeming Chrystall is but reall Ice They slide and fall and perish in a trice Their former Honour shall be quite forgot And Jeroboam with his fame shall rot He and all Rebells do ride post to Hell And this for Truth the Oracle doth tell Then let thy Faith and Hope and Love be firm Whoere's aboard it 's God that sits at th'Stern He will thee guide with Councell If thou lov'st him And never fail thee Whensoere thou prov'st him Continue constant in thy fervent praying Hee 'l Crown thy Expectation And my saying Then was a noyse of chearfull Musique heard And sights of Joy and Angels seen appear'd And therewithall The Third Shew's presented being A stately Pallace wherein was a Room of Alablaster hang'd with Cloth of Gold richly and curiously Embroydered with the lively and Emboss'd Imagery of David and Solomon with the History of both in the Hangings were severall Rowes of Jewels whose Lustre was irradiant and as so many Starres enlightened all the Room whereinto attended by Fifty Persons all cloth'd alike in Coats of Crimson Velvet with green Sattin sleeves their Stockings green Silk with Garters and Roses of Gold and Crimson came The King of Judah The Queen his Mother Two Dukes his Brothers The High-Priest The Levites The Generall of the Army And the Captain of the Guard The King Queen and Princes sate in their Chairs of State All the rest at a distance sate bare-headed Then the King lifting up his Eyes and Hands to Heaven smote upon his Breast and thus his minde express'd in The Third Speech It makes us sport to play with Easie Cares When Heavier make us Dumb. The Greater Fears Put Speech it self to silence and the Ears To hear no Language but the Voyce of Tears Yet I Th' unhappy Grand-Sonne of that King Whose Wealth and Wisedome Power and Peace do ring With Everlasting Fame I I am Hee Must hear such Fame blasphem'd by Obloquie Must Hear 't and doe And Speak on 't too Was ever Grief like mine I am the Object wrongfully displac'd Of Honour sham'd and Majesty debas'd Of Favour much despis'd of Power made weak Of SaC Red Peace made Civil Peace to break Was ever Case like mine My Kingdome 's Ravisht Aud my Virgin Throne Basely's Deflowr'd by Rebellion My Royall Robe is rent My Scepter broke My Crown is fallen And the Loyall Yoak Of Legall Tribute to my greater crosse With scorn is torn to my greatest losse Was ever wrong like mine The Traytors fury is without respect Of Persons and of Duty Their neglect Doth know no Bounds They will doe as they say Their Will 's their Law and with their Swords they sway Were ever Foes like mine These With their Old Projector to our woe Have caus'd our grief and grievous overthrow These Fought to kill my Father And can I Expect good Quarter from such Soldiery Alas they are in human And no means Of Princely Favour Shining from the Beams Of Majesty it self Can make them know Or once acknowledge They subjection owe To any but the stronger These be they Whom self-advantage turns any way Were ever Foes like mine And such as these Or rather just the same Were some that fled and to our Party came Came but as Spies And so it prov'd at length We lost their duty when we lost our strength Were ever Friends like mine This In my Fathers Reign was sadly true And what can I against so false a Crue They have disclaim'd my Right And few or none But only God 's my Consolation I am by SaCRed and by Civill claim To all the Tribes the Lawfull Soveraign Yet I their KING Must see my Right made Voyd And all Allegiance to my Crown destroy'd Was ever Realm like mine What shall I say I am an Exile driven To Forrein parts And of my Home bereaven What shall I doe Alas wherere I goe My Life 's in danger by a cruel Foe I know not whom to trust And all my care Is how my Subjects in my Fate will fare Ah me forsaken and forlorn Nor Realm nor Wrongs Nor Case nor Grief Nor Foes nor Friends Were ever like to mine With that he sigh'd and ceas'd And then begun The Mother Queen And thus bespake her Son in The Fourth Speech My dearest Son and Soveraign Hear I pray A Mothers Counsell and her words obey It 's true Your Case so sad and Grief so deep O'reflowes the tears of Mourners hir'd to weep Your Verball Friends but Reall Foes in Deeds The deepest Grief and saddest Case exceeds Your Realm's in Common And in Chief your wrong Outvyes the Cryes of Hadadrimmons tongue Yet May'nt base Fear your Noble heart surprize For we do'nt know nor may the mysteries Of God's permissive Providence Oh no His winding Feet upon the Waters goe There is no Tract nor Line nor Rule whereby His Paths to finde or Footsteps to descry Yet In an hopefull wonder see 't is Day Although the Sun 's Eclips'd His Lightsome Ray Will pierce ere long the darkest Clouds Your Crown And Throne and Scepter may be hurled down Your Forces beaten And your Self made flie With dreadfull speed for your security In outward shew past Help Admit yet then The Lord of Hosts can Rally up agen By Him Kings Reign And upon whom he please He Crowns the Issues of his close Decrees His Prescience is a Secret And we must Submit in Duty to His Will And trust his Word Reveal'd For why we cannot tell How soon the Traitor shall be dragg'd to Hell God hath his Time Then use what means you can To Repossesse your