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ACT. IV.

Princeps Academicus, or, The Disputant.

The Authours scientificall, and in order to the 7 Arts are produced. Then a set dispute between the three main sciences; de melioritate Prærogativâ Pilei; the question is stated two waies, 1. Which is guilty of the Parsons Cap. 2. Which most worthy among themselves of the three: Next intervenes a Question between the two Princes, Rhetorick and Misrule, de prioritate Galeri & Pilei, the preheminence of the Hat and the Cap; but while the disputes grew hot, enters a message from the Cantabrigian Fellow-Commoners, desiring of the Court a conference touching the new lost Cap, as a maine case concerning their Coppy-hold, 'Tis condescended to, and the Court dissolves for the present.