An excellent new Commedie, Intituled : The Conflict of Conscience Contayninge, A most lamentable example, of the dolefull desperation of a miserable worldlinge, termed, by the name of Philologvs, who forsooke the trueth of Gods Gospel, for feare of the losse of lyfe, & wordly goods |
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 | An excellent new Commedie, Intituled : The Conflict of Conscience |  |
Sceane fyrst.
Hypocrisie.
God
speede you all, that be of Gods beleefe,
The mightie Iehouah protect you from ill:
I beseeche the lyuing God, that he would giue,
To ech of you present, a harty good will,
With flesh to contende, your lust for to kyll:
That by the aide of spyrituall assistance,
You may subdue your carnall concupisence.
The mightie Iehouah protect you from ill:
I beseeche the lyuing God, that he would giue,
To ech of you present, a harty good will,
With flesh to contende, your lust for to kyll:
That by the aide of spyrituall assistance,
You may subdue your carnall concupisence.
God graunt you all for his mercyes sake,
The lyght of his word to your hartes ioy:
I humbly beseeche him a confusion to make
Of erronious sectes, whiche might you annoy:
Earnestly requiring eche one to imploye,
His whole indeuour Gods word to maintaine,
And from straunge doctrine your hartes to refraine.
The lyght of his word to your hartes ioy:
I humbly beseeche him a confusion to make
Of erronious sectes, whiche might you annoy:
Earnestly requiring eche one to imploye,
His whole indeuour Gods word to maintaine,
And from straunge doctrine your hartes to refraine.
Graunt Lord I pray thee, such preachers to bee,
In thy congregation, thy people to learne:
As may for Conscience sake, and of meere sinceritie,
Being able twixt Corne and Cockle to discerne.
Apply their studie to replenish the Berne.
That is thy Church, by their doctrines increase,
And make many heires of thine eternall peace. Amen. Amen.
In thy congregation, thy people to learne:
As may for Conscience sake, and of meere sinceritie,
Being able twixt Corne and Cockle to discerne.
Apply their studie to replenish the Berne.
That is thy Church, by their doctrines increase,
But soft let mee see, who doth mee aspect,
First sluggish Saturn of nature so colde:
Being placed in Tauro, my beames doo reiect,
And Luna in Cancro in sextile he behould:
I will the effect heereafter vnfoulde.
Now Iupiter the gentil, of temperature meane,
Poore Mercury the turncote, hee forsooke cleane.
First sluggish Saturn of nature so colde:
Being placed in Tauro, my beames doo reiect,
And Luna in Cancro in sextile he behould:
I will the effect heereafter vnfoulde.
Now Iupiter the gentil, of temperature meane,
Poore Mercury the turncote, hee forsooke cleane.
Now murthering Mars retrogarde in Libra,
With amiable tryne, apply to my beame,
And splendant Sol the ruler of the day:
After his Eclips to Iupiter will leane,
The Goddesse of pleasure, Dame Venus I meane,
To me her poore seruaunt seme friendly to be,
So also doth Luna otherwise called Phebe.
But now I speake mischeuously, I would say, in a mistery
Wherfore to interpret it, I holde it best done,
For heere be a good sort I beleeue in this company:
That know not my meanyng, as this man for one,
What? blush not at it, you are not alone:
Heere is an other that know not my mynde,
Nor hee in my wordes, great sauour can fynd.
With amiable tryne, apply to my beame,
And splendant Sol the ruler of the day:
After his Eclips to Iupiter will leane,
The Goddesse of pleasure, Dame Venus I meane,
To me her poore seruaunt seme friendly to be,
So also doth Luna otherwise called Phebe.
But now I speake mischeuously, I would say, in a mistery
Wherfore to interpret it, I holde it best done,
For heere be a good sort I beleeue in this company:
That know not my meanyng, as this man for one,
What? blush not at it, you are not alone:
Heere is an other that know not my mynde,
Nor hee in my wordes, great sauour can fynd.
The Planet Mercurius, is neither whot nor colde,
Neither good nor yet verie bad of his owne nature,
But doth alter his qualytie, with them which doo holde:
Any friendly aspect to him, euen so I assure:
We Mercurialists I meane Hypocrits cannot long endure
In one condicion, but doo alter our mynde,
To theirs that talke with vs, thereby friendship to fynde.
Neither good nor yet verie bad of his owne nature,
But doth alter his qualytie, with them which doo holde:
Any friendly aspect to him, euen so I assure:
We Mercurialists I meane Hypocrits cannot long endure
In one condicion, but doo alter our mynde,
To theirs that talke with vs, thereby friendship to fynde.
The litle Camelyon by Nature can chaunge
Her selfe, to that colour, the which she beholde:
Why should it then to any seeme straunge?
That we doo thus alter, why are we controulde?
Sith onely the rule of nature we holde:
We seeke to please all men, yet most doo vs hate,
And we are rewarded for friendship debate.
Her selfe, to that colour, the which she beholde:
Why should it then to any seeme straunge?
That we doo thus alter, why are we controulde?
Sith onely the rule of nature we holde:
We seeke to please all men, yet most doo vs hate,
And we are rewarded for friendship debate.
Saturnus is enuious, how then can hee loue?
Adulation or Hipocrisie to him most contrarie,
The Iouists being good doo looke high aboue:
And doo not regard the rest of the companye:
Now Mars being retrogard, foretelleth miserie:
To tyrannicall practise, to happen eftsoone,
As shalbe apparant before all be done.
The Iouists being good doo looke high aboue:
And doo not regard the rest of the companye:
Now Mars being retrogard, foretelleth miserie:
To tyrannicall practise, to happen eftsoone,
As shalbe apparant before all be done.
Which Tirannie with flatterie is easely pacifyed,
Wheras Tom tell troth shall feele of his Sword,
So that with such men is fully verifyed,
That olde said saw, and common by word:
Obsequium amicos, by flateries friends are prepared:
But veritas ôdium parit, as commonly is seene,
For speaking the trueth, many hated haue beene.
Wheras Tom tell troth shall feele of his Sword,
So that with such men is fully verifyed,
That olde said saw, and common by word:
Obsequium amicos, by flateries friends are prepared:
But veritas ôdium parit, as commonly is seene,
For speaking the trueth, many hated haue beene.
By Sol vnderstand, Popish principalytie,
With whom full highly I am entertained,
But being eclipsed shall shew forth his qualytie:
Then shall Hipocrisie be vtterly disdained:
Whose wretched exile though greatly complayned:
And wept for of many, shalbe without hope,
That in such pompe shall euer be Pope.
With whom full highly I am entertained,
But being eclipsed shall shew forth his qualytie:
Then shall Hipocrisie be vtterly disdained:
Whose wretched exile though greatly complayned:
And wept for of many, shalbe without hope,
That in such pompe shall euer be Pope.
By Venus the riotus, by Luna the variable,
Betwixt whom and Mercury no variance can fall,
For they which in wordes be most vnstable:
Would be thought faithfull, and the riotous liberall:
So that Hipocrisie their doings cloake shall:
But whist not a word, for yonder come some,
step aside.
Betwixt whom and Mercury no variance can fall,
For they which in wordes be most vnstable:
Would be thought faithfull, and the riotous liberall:
So that Hipocrisie their doings cloake shall:
But whist not a word, for yonder come some,
While I know what they are, I will be dombe.
| An excellent new Commedie, Intituled : The Conflict of Conscience | |