University of Virginia Library

Scena I.

A curtain is displaied, Φυλοφυλαξ, the prime School monitor appears in a studying posture: is interrupted by the entrance of the 2 Text-bearers, inducing Πλανοδιος, the wandring schollar Lose-Cap to the sight and speech of the Monitor, with a Petition tendered de recuperando Parsonuli Pileo, for recovery of his Cap, defunct; the Petition is accepted by Phylophylax the Monitor; with promise to be presented in Court, and to have fair audience in the businesse (for his Office is not only School-Superintendent, but also libellorum custos, Master of request and complaints) And here is the first stone laid in the Arch-fabrick of the counterplot.