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Enter Dr: Psunodark and his Twoe men Limbeck and Searce.D. Sun.
Is Lawlesse master of the bark we came in
payd for his waftage?
Limb:
Yes I dropt ye Crownes
into his handes, I thinke ere this hees gone
I heard his bott swayne Sphiggen call away
D. Syn:
I would not had him soe soone quitt the cost
nor till I'd seene how my skill might pruaile
Goe limbeck bid him by all meanes to stay.
Exit Limbeck.
Searc:
Heel easily consent to your request
I boulted him soe farr the other daie
Limbeck reenters presently
Limb.
reent
He saith no winde or tyde shall steare him more
then your commands nor will he quit the Shore
D. Sun:
'Tis well, bring me a chaire to recollect in
my trauaild thoughts & being come home make them Soe.
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Searce
Are not your worshipps spiritts wearyed
after so hard and tedious a passage:
I sifted euery corner of the barke
to finde one dram of ease and could not haue itt.
Limb:
And I would faine haue laid my skill vppon
the rageing tempest and soe stilld the wyndes
but could not hold them
D. Syn:
Ye be merry knaues
and halfe perswade me to be fresh and gay
after this hard incounter, 'sides the ayre
suffitient is to signe me full repaire
for euery Country where on first did liue
proues to that party a restoratiue
soe this to me, nor longer doe the harms
of bannishment, nor of th'seas dandling arms
Continue minded sithence those mindes remayne
nothing could calme, saue my returne againe
which hath beene followed with such good successe
that Ile not doubt to restore happines
vnto this Ile if I can gett againe
my famous Potecary Rhadakein
whom I left here: Searse sift the multitude:
Exit Searse
to boult him out: noe preparations can
goe forward ('thout him) for the potian
Limbeck-
I stand on Coales till I dropp you some seruice
Docr. Synoda:
Thou art so free that I must spare thy spiritts
Searce Reenters and with him Rhodakein
Searce.
Looke Ser how quickly I haue found out Rhodakein
I did no sooner make enquiery
But euery one could tell me of him straite
He was in each mans mouth now's in your presence
Docr. Synoda:
Embraces him
Hayle Rhodakein well mett againe
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And I reioyce to see your worshipp well
and thus safely returnd to our blest shore
made soe by itt.
Docr: Syno:
Not soe my Rhodakein
But not the worse I hope, prethe what newes
furnishes now thes Coastes with whisperings
free speaking quit this ayre when I tooke sea.
Rhado:
They much cheare vpp vppon your faire release
and promise to themselues recouery
I must confesse the ayres infection
had causd soe generall a corruption
In almost euery vayne I was quite worne
and tyred out of my profession.
wher, 'fore you went some one or two were sick
Th'inferme doe now exceede Arithmatick
Nor can they, all, at once releiued be
wherefore Ile first present you but with three.
and as your practise takes affect on them
soe bringe you other patients
D. Syn
Whats their names
Rhad:
They are three Sisters fathered by that old
and well knowne Cavaller Senior Cosmos
D. Syn.
Hee of the howse of Medices
Rhad.
O noe Sr noe
This was a man when he was but a Child,
and though for courrage stout, beginns to stoope
vnder the burden of soe many daies,
And keepes his bed, yet when I saw him last,
Rowsing himselfe for the new hopes were voyc't
of your return he willd me t'recommend
his daughters to your Phisick whose impaires
In health brought sorrow to his swan lyke haires
D. Syn.
I must their waters cast and then Ile try
to suite to each diseas a remedy
Rhad:
Ile cause them to be brought
Exit Rhad:
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Searce, (thou shalt fann
and winnow the light chaff out of the corne)
obserue the thesis and the sedement
the colour, whether pale through ill concoction,
or too good, dide too deepe: the meane is best
And Limbeck you the quintessence extract
to frame new Spirrits in this latter act
Both
All shall be done as your commaunds direct
a house thats tottering needes such architect
Enter Rhodakein, and after him Will a Boy with a water.
Rhado:
Sir I haue fetcht though not with litle paines
from faire Albinia what you sent me for
Shee is the eldest of the three but's greeu'd
with such a Stoppedg in her Vriters
nay euery part, that I was fain to act
some part of you to make this small extraction
Limbeck
in fury:
Is any thinge extracted I not ther?
you wrong me Rhadokein extractions myne
and I will haue it, Tis by it I hold
the auntient tenure of Gentillity
and still the Herralds, when they'd new create me
Docr. Synoda.
Peace Ile noe discord here, our arts to send
cure to disorder for noe other end
But how didst worke this Rhadakein
Rhad.
Why thus;
when I parceiud obstructions tooke alarm
at your ariue, whereof they questiond me
yet bore faire weather, mustering vp their forces
to make resistance, I bore vp with them
marcht as they did, encampt within their workes
all but to know their force and discepline
The better to ore come their insolence
with their owne sword & when I h'd viewd them well
I found them in all simples to excell
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The better still theyl help to cure themselues,
Hand me the water. Heeres a cloud indeed
He guiues him ye water & ye Docr. reads vpon it
Swolne vp with so much vapour from the earth
that tis a load and must needs clogg the stomak
and corrupt appetite by adding spurrs
vntill disgestion it precipitate
Shee raues for foode Ile warrant you by this
Rhad.
Ser I haue heard and I dare say't againe
that though shee haue whateuer land or mayne
can from kinde natures hand to her present
her hunger still fosters this discontent
That 'les her dish from forraine costs be brought
it doth vnsatisfie and standes for nought
D. Syn
Such pallatist is wanton and doth ill
and needes good counsell to restraine her will.
Heer is a slimy viscus matters swymms
ye Docr reads again vpon ye water
and caps the water shews her kidneys hott
which too much exercise might be the cause of
Rhad
Shee hath beene very actiue in all kindes
of late to serue and suite her selfe to the fashion
of other Countries, dress as they doe dress
vse the like foode like speech and to be one
with them in all; haulfe tune deuotion,
to their key; halting betweene two opinions
D. Syn
Hath shee but two: this water tells me more,
reads vpon it again
for by the litle purles contracted are
and guard the middle, here is store of wynde
pride and conceipt to make a new plantacion
And people a whole Country with opinions:
Besides the sedements of such complexion
that without spectacles one may discerne
the seuerall ellements in her at odds;
Water to quench the heate of her desires
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And earth attempting with itts drosse to wyn
the Ayre to sollid loses ayme therein
thes are predominante and rule the rost
and quitt her from the feare of melancholly
I meane that lumpish earthy dull diseas
Shee may be mad, Ile not secure you that.
nor doe her humors run Podagricall
although shee seeme to swell, the Timpanys
of empty vayne conceipt cause that, and I
dare sware her bloods heate speakes a Pluresy
Flebottomy for this, Phisick for that
must be prepard, and quickly too that's flatt
Rhadokein.
Ile borrow but your man and boy heere ser
I shall not tell els how to mix the medson
turnes to Limb:
without good spirritts that must guiue it life
turnes to Searce.
nor yet prepare the powder 'thout a searce:
There is a Surgion skilfull in the trade
of letting bloode, wher S'ere your worshipp please
although his practis most be in the neck
I shall prepaire him to be ready too
Then Speedily return.
Docr. Synodark.
They shall goe with thee
and in the interim Ile stay and consult
my Ephimerides to finde the cause
as farr as nature with some helpe of art
will make discouery how this mischeefe came
that shee soe well once, nows growne sick and lame.
Bring me my Gloab celestiall e'ar yee goe
They Sett him his gloab.
Exeunt Rhadokin, Limbeck, Searce.
Docr. Syno.
reads vpon it—
I finde this girle by calculacon
was of a healthfull constitution
soe long as virgo and the goodly hayre
of Berenice in coniunction weere
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Did ouer warme Thuribulum preuaile
But when the scorching lyon did succeed
and kiss the crabb, diseases then gan breede
which by ye greate and lesser dogg starrs power
did multiply not euery day, but howre
And wher Eridanus should freely show
Th'examples of rash Phaetons ouerthrow
soe many damms and Sluces finde I on him
That Argo doth saile neere but not vppon him
and Mercury with Venus gouerns all
wher Phœbus Sister should be principall
thus if the heauens doe iarr less wonder much
the earth and those are one it should be such
Enter Rhadakein
Rhad:
Alls ready now, haue you your selfe informd
what 'tis shee ailds.
D. Syn
Why I want names to call them by
soe desperate and many her diseases
are growne through time whose softer breath and peace
had sowd such pillowes to her that through ease
shee' had giuen her selfe to all licentiousnesse
leaueing noe ston vnmoued nor craft vntride
to feed the same by all vnlawfull meanes.
Being Zenitht by that Constellation
famous for Iasons voyage shee did striue
To fetch the golden fleece by shipping in
(an vndue and vnproper way for itt)
which vnderstood, hindred concoction,
and choakt that proiect; then fair Poes aspect
inferd a dropsie which did cause by nature
A drouth and thirsting soe she still required
more water for to draine, more land to draine it
But that hath ouercoold her stomack soe
Shee can disgest noe more nor limit Poe.
as if her daies beene all canicular
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that in the hott pursute for to procure
wt s'ere shee would shee gott a Calenture:
Vnder the Lions rage, her bloud began
to haue a taint, but the Physitian
(I meane my selfe) did timely then foresee
and hinder ts growing int' extremity
her infancy was crownd with soe much bliss
that health it selfe might stile her mistris
Thus I doe find her state to be: againe
the cause of euery change, of euery wayne
Searce-
Your learning Ser hath quite out soard my pitch
for you the heauens sift to make you rich
in knowledg of Astrologie iudiciall
whilst my employments here below to finde,
malignities of body and of minde:
you saye shees feu'rish and yet dropsie could
subiect to quinsey and suffocatian
To Timpany (not gout for that speakes rich)
to pluresy and frensy wherein all
or Calentur
may be comprizd being the principall
cause of the rest, for by her foode 'tappeares,
she hath not beene her selfe this many yeares,
noe wine came in but shee soe largly quaft
as that shee needes must sett her selfe on fire
Pinns Cardes and Sope, starch raggs and such like trash
shee wont monopoliz vnto her belly
with greedines vnspeakable and Ships
that sayld by land like her triumphant sallet
she sought to swallow till the Ankers Hooke
stuck in her chopps and ready was to choake her
To thes shee would whole riuers at a draught
swill in, and lay large channells dry att once
Docr. Synodark.
Tis true indeed the last of all the signes
(added such fame vnto her plentiousnesse)
hath of late yeares beene soe discouraged
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they can afford a good aspect vnto her
Searce
pulls an Almaneck out of's pocket
Wt in the altitudes againe? nay here
I can goe with you Sr: my Booker bye
the fishes are the last signe in the Zodiack
if you begin at Cuckolds hauen Ser
which with thes doings are distroyed quite
those few remaine inlist themselues for souldiers
vnder all conquering flood their generall
some percht to officers at very first
others are picke men, there they passe their tyme
rather then to be choakt with mudd or Slyme.
Rhad:
Now heauen and earth the causes haue layd ope
of thes distempers, youle proceede I hope
To purg them out that soe th'effects may follow
A summers not made soe by seeing one swallow
I doe conceiue a vomit will doe good
at first, and afterwards to lesten blood
D. Syn
Thou hast most rightly iudgd, but I must add,
Close keeping and spare dyett when shees madd,
Goe bring the other waters to me too
Rhad.
They are soe forward to procure redresse
of greeuances their stomakes doe orepresse
Paterick & Sandy enter wt h 2. vrinalls
that here allready both their vrins are
sent to implore your skill, preuent your care.
Docr.
hand me yt glass.
Rhad.
This comes from Iberina
D. Syn
Her degree
Reads vpon ye first water
is vnder Lyra's vultur cruelty
the palenesse of her water too, doth say,
that her disgestians weake, and in decay:
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Nay soe low brought shee is, that euery one,
houlds her farr gon in a consumption,
begun through greife; her moderators were,
not of her owne, but from an other spheare
soe, sublunary, to those forraine wills
She sympothisd in all her Sisters ills
D. Syn
That which serues one for cure then may b' applyd
to both, and render either satisfide.
Guiue me ye. other ther.
Let me see, heers an appetite indeed:
Reads vpon it
this water guilded to the purpose, showes
the partie would be Midas could shee gett it;
to say shee were an Ostridg, would disgest
an Iron barr were too too much to wrong her,
for by a riseing cloud ambition filld
I doe parceiue shee will not liue one hard meale,
But vnder either bear whilst Clymated
Shee doth participate their natures somewhat,
and to cold discontent is lyable;
Nor's euer warme, but when shees hungar bitten,
for honours or promotians, nor feirce cruell,
but when prouoakt, and then noe tygar worse:
A Iewlipps poyson heere, and letting blood,
present distruction; Cordialls tempered soe,
may moderate th'excesse of heate and colde
and leaue her to her auntient constitutions
I iudge the best, the other two once well
sheel rest content vnder the same paralell.
Rises out of his chaire
the care of application of theis thinges,
and how to administer to each their due
As I prescribed haue, I shall commit
to your best dilligences, soe quit my chaire
to Rhadakein, from whom I will expect
to heere reported how all takes effect.
Exit Doc. Syn.
All:
All your commands by vs shalbe obeyd
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Searce
Bold Rhadakein the chaire becomes thee rarely
Limbeck
Thou hast a Spiritt of command and suitst it
point out our seuerall charges
Rhadokin.
Lymbeck you
with the sword salue can cure where Spiritts haue strayd
and wounded counsaile, rayse those spiritts may lay them:
and Searce shall canvace out that drosse and chaff
spoild the whole Cake, and make theirs dough yt bakt it;
dismiss the boyes
Searce
But first letts aske theire names
Will:
Why my names will, I serue Albinia
I'm not ashamed to tell.
Rhad:
This rogues her ruin
wee must haue him remooud giue waie to reason
and what are you Shock?
Patr:
Patrick andt: please you
poore Patrick, my mistris is soe sicke
of te new lawes, Shee cannot cloath me better,
then in tis mantle trous, and paire of broges,
soe tat ye officer did tinke me Rogue
Rhad.
This boy may pass and be returnd tos mistris
for hees as light as Corke and nimbly serues
himselfe, then her
But what saith Blew Capp there?
Sand:
My name is Sandy
Rhad:
Well that names a good one
it serues to scower wt hall, 't may be shee hath
neede on't,
as well as hath her neighbours;
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and soe we haue no order to molest her
He Speaks to ye Boyes
Returne and giue your mistresses to know
we will attend them with the Doctors prescripts
& recipes and if they take success
shall soone restore their former happines
Exeunt Boys.
He speaks to Limbeck & Searce
'Twill aske some time for to prepaire the drugs
wherefore to loose none, speedily be gon
to act your parts, while I doe myne alone.
Exeunt Sears & Limbeck.
He rises out of ye chair & lookes about him.
Is the coast clere: I may vnfold my dreame
which was that the most desperate malladies
Possest Albinia and her Sisters too
which seemd to rassell soe before with me,
Asking if Psunodarke were come againe
haue made vse of his bark and are fledd in it
not dareing to withstand our arts assault
which doth proclayme them guiltie of much fault.
Others me thought thinking our skill too short
to reatch their power stayd, till such pills were made,
As Paracellsus neuer could haue bettred
and then were soone remoud, and cause 'twas spring
the larke was put into a cage to singe.
soe I awakt and found soe many by
fled and were gon that 't seemd a volery
Thus from this slumber these good hopes I reape
that feare may saue vs many a weary stepp
for when diseases fly the patients breast
both Gallen and Hypocrates may rest
Exit Rhado:
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