You help him ftraight: there you have made a friend. Another has the palfie, or the dropfie, He takes of your incombustible stuff, He's young again: there you have made a friend. Tho' not of mind, and hath her face decay'd A knight that has the bone-ach, or a squire You increase your friends. Tri. I, 'tis very pregnant. Sub. And then the turning of this lawyer's pewter To plate at christmass Ana. Chrift-tide, I pray you. Sub. Yet Ananias? Ana. I have done. Sub. Or changing His parcel gilt to maffie gold. You cannot The king of France out of his realms, or Spain Against lords fpiritual or temporal, That fhall oppone you? Tri. Verily, 'tis true. We may be temporal lords ourfelves, I take it. Sub. You may be any thing, and leave off to make Long-winded exercifes: or fuck up Your ha, and hum, in a tune. 1 not deny, But fuch as are not graced in a state, May, for their ends, be adverse in religion, You cannot But raife YOUR friends ] So the laft edition; the others more truly as it ftands above. VOL. III. E And And get a tune to call the flock together: Sub. All fhall perish. I have spoke it. Tri. Let me find grace, fir, in your eyes; the man He ftands corrected: neither did his zeal (But as your felf) allow a tune fomewhere. Which now, being to'ard the stone, we shall not need. 2 Or whether matrons of the holy affembly May lay their hair out, or wear doublets; Or have that idol farch about their linen.] The puritans of our author's days affected all these, and other fcruples of equal confequence; and wou'd have reform'd the dreffes of the age, as well as the conflitution and language of the kingdom, by fcripture precedents, and fcripture expreffions. In the dominion of grace all was to be pure fimplicity. There cannot be an exatter copy of the principles and practice of the fanatics in that time, than what is given us in this fcene: the pamphlets and writings of that period, as well as the troubles that followed in the next reign, corroborate all that Jonfon hath here faid. Ana. Ana. It is indeed an idol. Tri. Mind him not, fir. I do command thee, fpirit (of zeal, but trouble) Sub. Nor fhall you need to libel 'gainst the prelates, And shorten fo your ears against the hearing Of the next wire-drawn grace. Nor of neceffity Rail against plays, to please the alderman, Whofe daily cuftard you devour. Nor lie With zealous rage till you are hoarse. Not one Of these fo fingular arts. Nor call your felves By names of Tribulation, Perfecution, Reftraint, Long-patience, and fuch like, affected Only for glory, and to catch the ear Of the disciple. Tri. Truly, fir, they are Ways that the godly brethren have invented, As very notable means, and whereby also 3 And fuch like, affected By the whole family or wood of you.] We have had this expreffion before in the Silent Woman, act 2. sc. 2. Wood is used to fignify any mifcellanous collection, or stock of materials, hence fome poets intitle their miscellaneous works filvarum libri; and our poet, alluding to this antient practice, calls his the Foreft. As to the names here mentioned, every one knows the affectation of the puritans in giving them: the vanity of these new names is taken notice of by Camden, which, faith he, have been lately given by fome to their children with no evil meaning, but upon fome fingular and precife conceit. As if the puritans imagined the name fanctified the man; and thought with the Spaniards, that it conveyed to the perfon fome mark of grace agreeably to that which was fignified by it. And this was the reafon, as the hiftorian tells us, why fuch pompous names became fo common in Spain: La cuftome eftoit de bailler voluntiers à leurs infans, des noms ou furnoms bien founans, eftimans que cela leur acquevroit grace envers les hommes, & que un beau nom revenoit à la perfonne quelque marque ou impreffion conforme à ce que par icelui efloit fignifié. Hift. d'Espagne, de Meyerne Turquet. p. 236. Sub. Sub. O, but the ftone, all's idle to it! nothing! The art of angels, nature's miracle, The divine fecret that doth fly in clouds Ana. I hate traditions : Ana. They are popish all. I will not peace. I will not Ana. Please the prophane, to grieve the godly, I [may not. Sub. Well, Ananias, thou fhalt over come. Tri. It is an ignorant zeal that haunts him, fir. But truly, elfe, a very faithful brother, A botcher, and a man, by revelation, That hath a competent knowledge of the truth. Sub. Has he a competent fum there i' the bag To buy the goods within? I am made guardian, And muft, for charity and confcience fake, Now fee the most be made for my poor orphan: Tho' I defire the brethren too, good gainers, There they are within. When you have view'd, and bought 'em, And ta'en the inventory of what they are, They are ready for projection; there's no more As there is tin there, fo much gold as brafs, Tri. But how long time, Sir, muft the faints expect yet Sub. Let me fee, How's the moon now? eight, nine, ten days hence, He will be filver potate; then three days Before he citronife: fome fifteen days The magifterium will be perfected. Ana. About the fecond day of the third week, In In the ninth month? Sub. Yes, my good Ananias. Tri. What will the orphans goods arife to, think you? Sub. Some hundred marks, as much as fill'd three cars, Unladed now you'll make fix millions of 'em. But I must ha' more coals laid in. Tri. How! Sub. Another load, And then we have finifh'd. We must now increase Fimus equinus, balnei cineris, And all thofe lenter heats. If the holy purfe To melt the pewter, you fhall buy now, inftantly, Tri. Can you fo? Sub. I, and fhall 'bide the third examination. Tri. I, but stay, I, but flay, This act of coining, is it lawful? Ana. Lawful? This's FOREIGN COIN.] Counterfeiting of foreign coin, was first made high treason, by the firft, of Queen Mary, feff. 2. chap. 6. "Coining of any foreign coin of gold, or filver, current by the king's "proclamation is high treafon." Wood's inflitutes of the laws of England, p. 344. 3d. edit. I think Mr. Hearn, in his argument at archbishop Laud's trial, mentions this. Dr. GREY. It is well known the puritans rejected all human forms of government as carnal ordinances; and were for establishing a plan of policy, in which the fcripture only was to be the civil code: E 3 Tri. |