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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P><FIGURE>
<HEAD>Princeps Rhetoricus or <GAP DESC="foreign"> y^e Combat of Caps.</HEAD>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>Drawn forth into ARGVMENTS, GENERAL and SPECIAL.</P>
<P><HI>In u&s;um Scholae</HI> MASONENSIS: ET <HI>In Gratiam totius Auditorii Mercurialis.</HI></P>
<Q>VENI, VIDE.</Q>
<P>Nella <GAP DESC="foreign"> la <GAP DESC="foreign">.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>H. R.</HI> at the three Pigeons in S. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard. 1648.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>DUCI RHETORICO, Et toti Decentiarum Satellitio, <GAP DESC="foreign">.</HEAD>
<OPENER><GAP DESC="foreign">.</OPENER>
<P><HI>_SAlve peculium dulce-tri&s;te me|um, &s;uavi&s;sima Maceries; Egovobis commendo haec Prin|cipis Rhetorici Argumenta; qua&s;i multum in parvo;</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> <HI>Nam de integra Fabul&acirc; conclamatum e&s;t. Ne igitur totus pereat</HI> Princeps <HI>no&s;ter, decerp&s;i (qua&s;i rediviva Principis Hippolyti mem|bra) Haec quae &s;equuntur collectanea, ut fiat</HI> Virbius <HI>Quid plura? &s;tate vos in pro|cinctu virtutis, Nobilitatis, Eloquentiae &amp; Religionis. Fiat. Valete.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="3">
<PB N="1" REF="3">
<HEAD><HI>Chori Princeps Rhetorici.</HI> THE SCHOOLE MODERATOR: OR, <GAP DESC="foreign">. THE COMBAT OF CAPS, <HI>Decemb.</HI> 21. 1647.</HEAD>
<P>_THe whole draught of the Invention moves upon two principall Hinges:</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. The maine Plot, <HI>or</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The Counter-plot, <HI>or</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The fir&s;t de&s;ignes forth the Orders of the Place in point of Government; the other, the Didacticall part, in way of Method, thus, in order following.</P>
<P N="1">1. The Maine Plot repre&s;ents the Fundamentall di&s;cipline <HI>in ordine ad Regimen u&s;itatum Loci:</HI> and is wrapt up in the fir&s;t part of the Title, <HI>(Princeps Rhetoricus)</HI> In relation to the Autho|rity of the Schoole Prince, his five Seniors, and twelve Sub-&s;eniors or Keepers, throughout the whole yeere, and con&s;i&s;teth of two Dramaticall parts:</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Citement.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Inditement.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The Citement &s;ummons the Officers, Seniors, Sub-&s;eniors, and Juniors in the five fir&s;t Cla&s;&s;es, at the In&s;talment of their Prince. The Inditement belongs to the Fre&s;h-men and Sub-juniors of the
<PB N="2" REF="4">
fift and &s;ixt Forme, according as they &s;tand &s;everally charged by their Seniors.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Counter-plot layes forth (<GAP DESC="foreign">) our Methodicall Exerci&s;e, <HI>alternis diebus,</HI> three dayes a week, <HI>i. e.</HI> Grammatically and Rhetorically on <HI>Tue&s;day;</HI> Poetically on <HI>Thur&s;day;</HI> Logically on <HI>Saturday, viz.</HI> upon &s;ome <HI>Thema &s;implex,</HI> &s;ome one word Pro|blematically given forth upon Munday morning: As <HI>Cubus, Aera, Sphaera, Annus,</HI> &s;everall weeks, &s;everall words, can|va&s;ed Philologically through the Grammarians, Lexicons, Glo&s;|&s;aries, Nomenclators, Criticks, Hi&s;torians, <HI>qua&s;i opus Philologicum:</HI> and al&s;o hunted through the Arithmeticians and Co&s;mographers <HI>qua&s;i Exercitium Mathematicum:</HI> and forthwith out of the pre&s;ent Re&s;ult the Declamers come forth, <HI>qua&s;i Praxis Rhetorica:</HI> this for <HI>Tue&s;day perennit&egrave;r:</HI> the Books being laid by the Librarie keepers <HI>prae manibus, in ordine ad Cla&s;&s;es;</HI> and the Exerci&s;e re|corded in three &s;everall Books, and kept by <GAP DESC="foreign">, the kee|per of the weekly Papers.</P>
<P>Now the <HI>The&s;is</HI> or Controver&s;all word for the pre&s;ent was <HI>Pileum,</HI> a Cap, being the garbe of the place. But occa&s;ionally at this time <HI>&egrave; re naet&acirc;;</HI> For a negligent young Student of the Hou&s;e had lo&s;t his Colledge Bonnet, who&s;e name, together with his lo&s;&s;e, renewed the old Schoole-game, <HI>The Par&s;on has lo&s;t his Cap,</HI> and &s;o fell in accidentally to be the <HI>Ba&s;is</HI> of the Counter-plot, and gave the Title <GAP DESC="foreign">. The &s;ubject of the &s;econd, third, fourth Acts, debated Academically. And thus the two Plots interweave all the yeare <HI>Schola&s;tic&egrave;, Methodi grati&acirc;.</HI> And to day <HI>Drama|tic&egrave;, Compendii cau&s;a, ut mundus in Tabellula,</HI> The E&s;&s;ay of a Fort|nights &s;tudy. And thus much for the Argument at large.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="4">
The <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> of the Rhetoricall <HI>Drama,</HI> are the &s;ame with the Dome&s;ticall Students, di&s;tingui&s;hed by a three-fold degree:
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="3"><HI>In ordine ad</HI></CELL>
<CELL>1. <HI>Officia.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">Their</CELL>
<CELL>Titles and Offices.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2. <HI>Cla&s;&s;es.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Formes and places.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3. <HI>Aetates.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Ages.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P N="1">1. The Office is two-fold: 1. <HI>Schoole-Officers, 2. Court-Officers;</HI> yet both Mercuriall: Onely the fir&s;t more properly at|tend the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the Publique Weale, or Schoole; the other the plea&s;ure of the Prince, or Moderator. That re&s;pects Sub|&s;tance, this Ceremony.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Cla&s;&s;es are ever &s;ix, with an Entrance, termed <HI>Ve&s;tibulum.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The Ages were not here much materiall to the Plot; yet the Plot is materiall to the Ages. <HI>Fiat Aemulatio, &amp; Pudor.</HI></P>
<P>Now as for the termes of the di&s;tinct Titles and Places, they will hardly admit of Engli&s;h; being originally impo&s;ed, and &s;till u&s;e in Greek or Latine, which are the indi&s;pen&s;able dialect of the province; and yet we will venture here to rank them in a triple Paralles</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>1. <GAP DESC="foreign">, or <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Seniores.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Old &s;tanders.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Juniores.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Succeeders.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3. <GAP DESC="foreign"></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Tyrones.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Fre&s;h-men.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>The two fir&s;t, in order to their Charge, are called <GAP DESC="foreign">, Keepers, or Guards-men; but in another &s;en&s;e, <GAP DESC="foreign">, or <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>qua&s;i e &s;pecula decernentes:</HI> in a Grammaticall Ac|ception, Over&s;eers, Watchmen, Spies. For in this <HI>&V;topia,</HI> the main bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Cu&s;todia, Tuitio, Excubatio.</HI> Watch and Ward, <GAP DESC="foreign">, where every Officer &s;tands Centinel in the de|fence of Decencie, and defiance of Rudene&s;&s;e: for as <GAP DESC="foreign">, decent ofder, is <GAP DESC="foreign">, &s;o it is the <GAP DESC="foreign">, the guarded trea&s;ure, the golden Apple of our He&s;perian Garden. <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">do Ani|ma rerum,</HI> and needs many watchfull eyes to guard it; <HI>Tot Argi oculati, vigile&s;&abque; Dracones.</HI> And thus in order following &s;tands the
<PB N="4" REF="5">
Po&s;ture of our Schoole Model, <GAP DESC="foreign">: And therefore in Rank and File, &s;ee them here upon their march, fa|cing the Spectators.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD><HI>Officiorum Tituli Specifici:</HI> The Officers in their Three-fold Order.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">1. Office.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">2. Cla&s;&s;is.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">3. <HI>Aetat. Anno.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Princeps Rhetoricus.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>School-Moderator.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="foreign"></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Moderator Mercurialis.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Decider of Contro|ver&s;ies.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="foreign">. &amp;</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Monitor Monitorum.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Keeper of Keepers.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">1.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">13.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><GAP DESC="foreign"></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Legum&abque; Cu&s;tos.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Defender of the Laws, and Mr. of Reque&s;ts.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>The foure prime Monitors.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>1. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Prae&s;es &s;uccelli.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Pre&s;ident of the Chappel.</CELL>
<CELL><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</CELL>
<CELL>13.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Decentiarum explorator.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>que&s;t-man of Decencie.</CELL>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>12.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Linguarum Cu&s;tos.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Monitor of Language.</CELL>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>13.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Ingenii &s;pe|culator.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Ob&s;erver of Invention.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>13.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="5">
<TABLE>
<HEAD><GAP DESC="foreign">. The twelve Sub-officials, or &s;ubordinate Monitor or Keepers.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Offic.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Cla&s;&s;.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Aetat.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Praefectus Scrinii Rhetorici.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Chiefe Regi&s;ter of Exerci&s;e.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Librarius.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Producer of Auth. Keeper of the three School Libraries.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>O&s;tiarius.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Commander of the keyes and hatches.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4. <GAP DESC="foreign">, &s;ive <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Nolae Curator.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>The Timer of the Bell &amp; hourgla&s;&s;e.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Lucifer.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Orderer of the lights.</CELL>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>6.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Cubiculorum de|curio.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Chief Chamberlain and &s;earcher of &s;tudies.</CELL>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>7.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Prae&s;es limitaneus.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Marque&s;&s;e of the Bounds.</CELL>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Aulae men&s;or.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Controller of the Hall.</CELL>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>9.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Silentarius.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>V&s;her of the Peace.</CELL>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>13</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>10.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Ambulantion du|ctor.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Leader of the Field|walks.</CELL>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>11.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Sigillorum procu|rator &amp; produ|ctor.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Over&s;eer of the <HI>Si|gillums.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>12. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Pileorum monitor.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Over&s;eers of Gowns and Caps.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="6">
<TABLE>
<HEAD>The Court-Officers. <HI>In&s;ignium</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Offic.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Cla&s;.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Ae t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1. <HI>Ceremoniarum, Rituum&abque; Cu&s;tos, Ordinuni&abque; magi|&s;ter Urbanus.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Ma&s;ter of Ceremonies.</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2. <HI>Nequitiarum Regulus, five Atlas minor, Tyronumque patronus.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Ma&s;ter of Mi&s;rule.</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3. <HI>Caducifer, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eciali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Her|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">cticus.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Mace-bearer, and Herauld at Armes.</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="2">4. <HI>Aman<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">cu&s;es Rhetorici.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">The two Rhetoricall Text bearers, <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> on the right hand, <HI>quintilian</HI> the left.</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5. <HI>Diademifer.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>The cap of Rhetoricall Maintenance.</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>6. <HI>Tyro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters"></HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL>Ma&s;ter-Keeper of the Fre&s;h-men.</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Per&s;onae per&s;onantes Orche&s;tri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">s.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>1. <GAP DESC="foreign">.</CELL>
<CELL>Sir <HI>Sh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ulus</HI></CELL>
<CELL>The Par&s;on, or Cap-lo&s;er.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Merlins Chori&s;ta</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Merlins</HI> Chori|&s;ter, or Fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d Hope.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Eccho.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Empty Fame.</CELL>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The Fre&s;h-men and Sub-juniors of the 6. Forme.</HEAD>
<ITEM>1. <HI>Sir</HI> Antonio Draggle-gowne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Sir</HI> Henrico Srud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e-hawke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> le Card-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ummer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> le Tittle-tattle.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mon&s;ieur</HI> le Incongruo.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Ve&s;tibulum,</HI> or <HI>Petty Tyrones.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<HEAD>The Habit.</HEAD>
<P>THe habit was uniform, <HI>pro more loci,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, Gown and Cap, differing in the colour of the <HI>Phancy, qua&s;i &s;ignifi|cator officii,</HI> the en&s;igne of office. Onely the Prince and &s;ix prime Seniors wore Beavers, to &s;hew the priviledge of their long &s;tan|ding, with Brims al&s;o rever&s;t, in token of freedome above the re&s;t; and deckt with &s;tars of &s;everall magnitudes; having in their right hands <HI>Trunchions</HI> of &s;everall colours, &amp; &s;ilk Bends ore their &s;houlders, <HI>Emblemata Honorum, Types</HI> of their <HI>calling.</HI></P>
<P>All white Gloves. white Pumps, Linnen Stockins, knots diffe|ring in colour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Symbolicall Properties.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. A Mercuriall Mace Argent. <HI>Caduceus,</HI> with two Snakes, in|terwinding, and plumed Argent. &s;ignifying the power of Serpentine eloquence. This is the <HI>Fexanima Pytho,</HI> in&s;inuating <HI>per&s;wa&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. A Mercuriall Bonnet, plumed Argent, Edged Or; typifing the gallant rationall Head-piece, a Princely Pre&s;ence, and a free-borne Speaker, who&s;e braines are laid with Gold, and his tongue tipt with Silver. <HI>Aurum Argentum&abque; loquitur.</HI></P>
<P>Againe, the Snakes have re&s;pect to the <HI>will,</HI> the Cap to the the <HI>Intellect,</HI> the wings to the <HI>fancy,</HI> and the Colours to the <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. A <HI>Scutchion</HI> or Mercuriall <HI>Sheild,</HI> which bore Gules, three Keyes, Or. on the dexter hand; but on the &s;ini&s;ter, a Bend Azure charged with foure Stars of equall <HI>radii;</HI> over them <HI>Sol,</HI> under that a Cube, Triangle, and Circle, all Or. the Cre&s;t or Ro&s;e with <HI>wings</HI> Argent. <HI>qua&s;i Ro&s;a volans.</HI></P>
<P>Ob&s;erve farther, that the allu&s;ion was Mathematicall, and chiefly A&s;tronomicall, from beginning to the end, as thus: The two de&s;ignes are as the Artick and Antartick Poles, bearing the Axis of the maine worke. The five <HI>Strophae, Anti&s;tropta,</HI> or Acts, doe bear the number and office of the Zones; the &s;even chiefe <HI>Seniors</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
wander as the Planets through the <HI>Zodiack,</HI> the Planets proper &s;tage; the twelve Sub-monitors, as the twelve <HI>Signes,</HI> fixt to the Zodiack, The intire <HI>number</HI> of Actors, the &s;ame with the Con|&s;tellations; &s;ome Southerne, &s;ome Northerne moving, all accor|ding to their Longitude, latitudes, and altitudes, according to their place &amp; magnitudes, in the upper &amp; lower divi&s;ion of the School place. All in time and order of vici&s;&s;itude, moving through the degrees of the Zodiack, till they have reacht to the <GAP DESC="foreign">, the highe&s;t pitch of Schoole Honour, viz. <HI>Princeps Rhetoricus,</HI> the <HI>Sol &s;cholae;</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Mercuriall Moderator of the whole Regiment; for it is <HI>Sceptrum &s;ucce&s;&s;ivum, in ordine ad me|ritum A&s;cen&s;ionis.</HI></P>
<P>The Prologue two-fold:<LIST>
<ITEM>1. The mock-Prologue.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. And the Serious.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. THe fir&s;t layes the contrivance of the Anti-plot or counter|de&s;igne: <HI>Vbi con&s;ulitur de inductione Pilei in Scenam &amp; Curiam Principis Rhetorici.</HI> The Contrivets five, <HI>Mi&s;rule, Cori&s;ter, Cu&s;tos pileorum, O&s;tiarius,</HI> and <HI>Monitor Scholae.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;econd gives the argument of the maine plot or fixt <HI>work</HI> in hand. Being two-fold.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. In Greek Iambic, <HI>Ad Doctos.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Ad populum.</HI> In Engli&s;h.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LG>
<HEAD>The Engli&s;h Prologue.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>All haile thrice faire A&s;&s;embly.</HI></L>
<L>VVHat Orders, Laws, Rights, Con&s;titutions, here</L>
<L>Run yearly round in this <HI>Schoole</HI> Hemi&s;phere:</L>
<L>And what <HI>Our</HI> Elders, and <HI>Our</HI> Cla&s;&s;es doe,</L>
<L>Are this day tendred to your publique view.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our Prince is King of Bees; who&s;e well-mann'd throne,</L>
<L>No peevi&s;h VVa&s;pe can clime, nor lazie drone.</L>
<L>Under who&s;e VER GE our new <HI>Atlantis</HI> lies,</L>
<L>And comes well-neere th'Utopian Paradi&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="9" REF="7">
<L>As for the &s;cene that lies in Grecian-Rome,</L>
<L>A piece new weaved ith <HI>Greek</HI> and <HI>Latian</HI> lome;</L>
<L>Yet for your &s;akes (&s;weet Ladies) all along,</L>
<L>The work's imbroder'd in our Mother Tongue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Sirs, you are wi&s;e, accept what is not ill,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who are not wi&s;e, let them do what they will.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The expre&s;&s;ion of the Mercuriall Coat-Armour.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe Scutchion is al&s;o allu&s;ive every way; by the Plumed Ro&s;e in the Cre&s;t is declared, that <HI>fragrancy</HI> and <HI>celerity</HI> are the top-work of eloquence: &s;wiftne&s;&s;e, and &s;weetne&s;&s;e, are the la&s;t and highe&s;t parts of this &s;cience: again, Invention mu&s;t not drag low, language mu&s;t fly high.</P>
<P N="2">2. The 3 Golden <HI>Keys</HI> lay open this Conceipt; that Logick, Rhetorick, and Grammar, are by way of entrance, taught funda|mentall in Schools; but the work is left to be crowned and matured in the Academies: therefore as we the 3 Keys, <HI>Oxford</HI> gives the 3 Crowns, which al&s;o decypher the 3 principall Scien|ences, 1. Theology, 2. Law, 3. Phy&s;ick: And why may not we here have a Key for them al&s;o?</P>
<P N="3">3. By the Cube, Arithmetick; by the Triangle, Geometry; by the Circle, Co&s;mography are here intended, and &s;tand Quartered under the 4 Stars, as taught in a different place and manner from the other three Arts before.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Bend of <HI>Stars</HI> with eight <HI>Radii,</HI> repre&s;ent the prime 4 Seniors or Mini&s;ters, each man being Keeper of 8 di&s;tinct Laws or Canons; Him&s;elf &s;hining among&s;t his fellows as a Star in his place: Again, the&s;e Stars denote the 4 cardinall qualities here (under this Prince) profe&s;&s;ed, attained, kept, 1. Language, 2. Invention, 3. Manners, 4. Religion, each con&s;i&s;ting of eight &s;everall branches, cleare and &s;tarlike.</P>
<P N="5">5. The Sun hath the chief influence, as the glory and light of the re&s;t; <GAP DESC="foreign">, and &s;tands mounted in the highe&s;t
<PB N="10" REF="8">
angle above the bend of &s;tars, <HI>locus Principis Rhetorici,</HI> the Princes place; but by the Sun is chiefly intended Religion, without which, all Arts are but meer darkne&s;&s;e, or at lea&s;t, <HI>Ignis fatuus.</HI> Yet our <HI>Sol</HI> appears quartered in a &s;ini&s;ter &s;ide, becau&s;e the Pul|pits doth challenge the upper hand of the Schools, and Theolo|gy the wall of Philologie.</P>
<P>But if the Par&s;on at any time &s;hall lo&s;e his Cap, and turn <HI>Ti|tyre tu patulae,</HI> a <HI>Coridon</HI> of our <HI>Arcadia;</HI> then will we Quarter our <HI>Sol</HI> upon the right, and his Cap upon the left; for then he is our Junior: his Sheep-hook hath done Homage to our Rod; Divinity hath &s;truck Top &s;ayle to Grammar, and the Liturgy in Syntacticall obey&s;ance hath vayled his bonnet to the Accidence.</P>
<P N="6">6. The two fields, <HI>Gules</HI> on the right hand, <HI>Azure</HI> on the left in a Philo&s;ophicall acception lively depaint the <HI>Will</HI> and the <HI>Wit,</HI> the <HI>Heart</HI> and the <HI>Brain,</HI> the two fixt &s;eats of our fourfold learning.</P>
<P>Thus much for the Blazounrie in brief,
<Q>Sed aliquid latet, quod non patet, qui nucleum vult nacem frangat.</Q></P>
<P>And now we come to the Argument in &s;peciall, and Correla|tive to each Act.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Princeps Rhetoricus,</HI> The &s;choole Captaine.</HEAD>
<P>BUt why <HI>Princeps,</HI> and why <HI>Rhetoricus?</HI> that fals in next to be &s;cand, for <HI>non e&s;t in promptu ubique O Edipus,</HI> all teeth are not nut-crackers. Therefore ob&s;erve, that the whole allu&s;ion bran|cheth it &s;elf, into five &s;trains of Rhetorick, or Acts Oratoricall di&s;tringued here by 5 titles:</P>
<LG>
<L>The fir&s;t Act we call <HI>Inauguratio,</HI> the In&s;talment,</L>
<L>The &s;econd, <HI>Pompa,</HI> the Entertainment.</L>
<L>The third, <HI>Criticus,</HI> the Lingui&s;t.</L>
<L>The fourth, the Di&s;putant.</L>
<L>The fifth, the Judge or Moderator.</L>
</LG>
<P>And in order to the&s;e is per&s;onated a Prince thus qualified: <NOTE PLACE="marg">Princeps.</NOTE></P>
<LG>
<L>In the fir&s;t, <HI>Princeps legitime inauguratus.</HI></L>
<L>In the &s;econd, <HI>Princeps Pompaticus.</HI></L>
<L>Third, <HI>Philologicus.</HI></L>
<L><PB N="11" REF="8">
Fourth, <HI>Philo&s;ophicus.</HI></L>
<L>Fifth, <HI>Judicialis.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P>And in the Cata&s;trophe of the &s;cene, <HI>Princeps Religio&s;us:</HI> and through the whole Acts, <HI>Princeps Heroic&egrave; moratus:</HI> of noble de|portment; alluding to the &s;even fold buckler of <HI>Ajax,</HI> under which <HI>&V;ly&s;&s;es</HI> lay protected. <HI>Homers</HI> Prince of Eloquence: and thus much for our Prince, <HI>Quaten&ugrave;s Princeps:</HI> inve&s;ted with Title, Authority, Quality; now view him <HI>quatenus Rhetoricus.</HI></P>
<P>His Prince-part was a notion a&s;&s;umed, faigned, and allegori|cally <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rhetoricis.</NOTE> borrowed: but the Rhetorick part and title are in earne&s;t, <HI>&amp; (ex profe&s;&s;o) opus loci &amp; Per&s;onae.</HI> For now <HI>One</HI> was to make good in him&s;elf (by way of pre&s;ident to the re&s;t) the Character of a compleat Rhetorician, and that by the exact <HI>Te&s;t</HI> of our two Rhetoricall Text-men, <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> and <HI>Quintilian:</HI> for one while he cunningly in&s;inuates; as at his fir&s;t <HI>A&s;cent</HI> to the Chaire. <HI>Detur, ait, Dignori, ego enim (comparativ&egrave;) non merui.</HI></P>
<P>Like <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> in <HI>Tacitus,</HI> waving finely his new impo&s;ed dignity; and yet at the &s;ame in&s;tant, <HI>policetur abund&egrave;,</HI> promi&s;eth moun|tains, to rule like an Angel. Again, &s;ometimes his &s;peech be|comes <HI>demon&s;trative,</HI> prai&s;ing and inveigling: &s;ometimes <HI>delibe|rative,</HI> pondering the future good: &s;ometime <HI>Juciciall;</HI> accor|ding as the Lo&s;t-Cap finds Argument through the five Acts, oc|ca&s;ionally, <HI>&amp; ex An&s;&acirc; dat&acirc;:</HI> for &s;till the matter is before the Iudge, <HI>coram Judice lis.</HI> And &s;till the Par&s;ons Cap makes work for all. <HI>Argumentativ&egrave;.</HI></P>
<P>Then next, touching tho&s;e three Ari&s;totelian Requi&s;ites, 1. <HI>Na|tura, 2. Ars, 3. Exercitatio.</HI> they were better there &s;een, then here &s;poken. As candid &s;pectability, a Tongue well hung, firm &s;ides, retentive memory, fancy clear, a princely undanted pre|&s;ence, <HI>&amp; cujus ex ore melle dulcior &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">uebat Oratio, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But to compleat the matter, after &s;ome faire E&s;&s;ayes of 1. In|vention, 2. Di&s;po&s;ition, 3. Elocution, and 4. Pronunciation, he falls upon the moderating part of Oratory; and exhibits a Rhe|toricall skill in the Bee-like u&s;e of Authours, culling out for his own Hive, the flowers in&s;ervient to his pre&s;ent purpo&s;e, <HI>mutatis mutandis 3 t&egrave;r,</HI> i. e. <HI>Alterum, Alteratum, or Aliud.</HI></P>
<P>Sometimes again he leaves moderating, and falls to debating,
<PB N="12" REF="9">
<HI>&s;yllogy&s;tic&egrave;,</HI> upon the Argument, till being victor in the truth, he concludes by a double power,
<HI>Argumento</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. recti.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. &s;ceptri.</ITEM>
</LIST>
And &s;o becomes in fine, both <HI>Princeps</HI> and <HI>Rhetoricus,</HI> co-incident in nature and title, the Rhetoricall Prince&s;&s;e: for, <HI>in vero conve|niunt Rex &amp; lex.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Arguments of the 5 Acts &s;everally and particu|larly; and the&s;e in twofold notion, 1. <HI>Hi&s;torical. 2. Morall.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. I.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Princeps legitim&egrave; inauguratus, <HI>or, The In&s;talment.</HI> The Argument Hi&s;toricall.</HEAD>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENA I.</HEAD>
<P>A Curtain is di&s;plaied, <GAP DESC="foreign">, the prime School mo|nitor appears in a &s;tudying po&s;ture: is interrupted by the entrance of the 2 Text-bearers, inducing <GAP DESC="foreign"> the wandring &s;chollar Lo&s;e-Cap to the &s;ight and &s;peech of the Monitor, with a Petition tendered <HI>de recuperand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Par&s;o|nuli Pilco,</HI> for recovery of his Cap, defunct; the Petition is ac|cepted by <HI>Phylophylax</HI> the Monitor; with promi&s;e to be pre&s;en|ted in Court, and to have fair audience in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e (for his Office is not only School-Superintendent, but al&s;o <HI>libellorum cu&s;tos,</HI> Ma&s;ter of reque&s;t and complaints) And here is the fir&s;t &s;tone laid in the Arch-fabrick of the counterplot.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCENA II.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd of mi&s;-rule enters with his bonny fre&s;h men, undertakes their protection, <HI>contra gentes &amp; jura;</HI> and again&s;t the im|perious wand of <HI>Cu&s;tos Tyronum,</HI> his main Antagoni&s;t and theirs. And this is the &s;econd trick of wit in the cro&s;&s;e plot, &s;o to di&s;|turb the main plot.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<PB N="13" REF="9">
<HEAD>SCEN. III.</HEAD>
<P>HEre the maine plot begins. The Ma&s;ter of Ceremonies ap|pears with the Keeper of the Fre&s;h-men: Tis con&s;ulted <HI>De Curi&acirc; rect&egrave; curand&acirc;,</HI> that things be done in Place, Time and Or|der. <HI>Exit Ceremonius. Cu&s;tos</HI> induces his Fre&s;h charge, pearch|eth them up at the Bar: &s;ucceeds again <HI>Ceremonius</HI> with his whole Court-traine. And fir&s;t, mar&s;halleth his fourth Cla&s;&s;is, next his fift; then fall in the Officers, Seniors, Attendants, Prince, in ce|remoniall order. <HI>Ceremonius</HI> leads the way, next him, Lord Mi&s;-rule, then two Monitors abre&s;t. Singly &s;ucceeds them <HI>Monitor Monitorum;</HI> next, <HI>Praeco Fecialis,</HI> the Mercuriall Herauld at Armes, <HI>Princeps Rhetoricus</HI> in the mid&s;t. After him the two Text-bearers; then the other two Monitors abre&s;t, the Cap of Main|tenance after them, and la&s;t, <HI>Cu&s;tos&punc; Tyronum,</HI> Proclaimer and Guards-man Generall.</P>
<P>They proceed to Election, on a fourefold Ground; 1. Suce&s;&s;i|on, 2. Merit, 3. Suffrages, 4. Lawes and Cu&s;tomes.</P>
<P><HI>Invenitur Caduceo Habilis &amp; Idoneus,</HI> proclaimed fit for the Mercuriall Scepter.</P>
<P>The <HI>Quaeries</HI> are ten: As fir&s;t, whether he hath orderly a&s;|cended from Cla&s;&s;is to Cla&s;&s;is, <HI>non faciens &s;altum,</HI> not making a skip.</P>
<P>2. Whether he be <HI>patiens inediae, frigoris, &amp; &s;udoris. An multa tulit, fecit&abque; &s;udavit &amp; al&s;it:</HI> whether he be Snow-proofe, able to endure Heats and Colds, and to watch by the Lamp of <HI>Cleanthes.</HI></P>
<P>Againe, whether he hath learned <HI>obedire &amp; imperare,</HI> to obey and command, as <HI>Junior</HI> and <HI>Senior;</HI> and whether well ver&s;t in the Lawes appertaining to the Chaire Mercuriall: whether <HI>be|ne moratus, Bene linguatus, Religio&s;us, &amp; Humilis.</HI></P>
<P>And being approved by the Regi&s;ter generall, proclaimed Prince by the Herauld, and <HI>voiced</HI> by the re&s;t, he a&s;cends the Chaire of Eloquence.</P>
<P>Then followes the citement of Officers; after that, the <HI>Canto</HI> or Hymne of Congratulation<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">; the <HI>Speeches</HI> Encomia&s;ticall <HI>ad Principem.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="14" REF="10">
After the Citement, the Indictment is read again&s;t the <HI>Tyroes,</HI> who&s;e penalties are impo&s;ed in way of &s;everall Theames, and li|berty to &s;peak for them&s;elves, <HI>par poenae culpa.</HI> Their Patron is Lord of mi&s;-rule.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="4" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>SCEN. IV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>EX Improvi&s;o,</HI> abruptly breaks in Sir <HI>Shone, Mole&s;tus Interpella|tor Curiae,</HI> in a great fume, impatient of longer attendance, a blunt, unbred, rude, in&s;ul&s;e Scholar, and as roughly entertain'd by the Guards-man: they chop Logick at &s;taves end dilemmati|cally; Here I can have ye, &amp; there; but pates find mediums. Ma|&s;ter Keeper a&s;&s;aults the Par&s;on, <HI>Argumento Baculino,</HI> with Halberd Eloquence, the Par&s;on indoctrinates the Keeper with Crab-tree Logick, but is foyled at his owne weapon; till Mi&s;rule, and the Schoole-monitor, his <HI>Fratres fraterrimi,</HI> complotters and &s;worn partners, &s;tep in to his re&s;cue; by who&s;e provi&s;ion and reque&s;t, his Petition is heard, regi&s;tred, and deliberated on, but deferred till the next Court Se&s;&s;ions Mercuriall.</P>
<LG>
<HEAD><GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Ode Acclamatoria.</HI>
The Congratulatory Canto.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="foreign">,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="foreign">,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="foreign">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="foreign">,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="foreign">,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="foreign">.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<DIV5 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The humble Parti&s;hon of Sir <HI>Shone</HI> of Wales, <HI>in form&acirc; paperis</HI> following.</HEAD>
<P><HI>BE it knowne to all and &s;ome, that her hath a parti&s;hon in her packets,</HI> ad hunc venarabilem collegium, propter facere <HI>Huc and Cry,</HI> po&s;t cappum &s;umum (mi&s;ere defunctum, &amp; lo&s;tum) per omnes Chamberos, Studies, &amp; Corneros. <HI>And al&s;o her de&s;ires to
<PB N="15" REF="10">
enter her Actions, or rather her Pa&s;&s;ions in te Law, for a</HI> &s;cire facias, <HI>through te &s;ix mercuriall cla&s;&s;es, with a</HI> non e&s;t Inventus, <HI>as touch|ing her</HI> Pileus; <HI>and a</HI> Quare Latitat, <HI>amongst all her cozen Scholers, and her &s;hall be pound to pray, for her &s;ix venerable &s;aid Monitors while her may, for ever and a day, and longer too, when her hath nothing el&s;e to do.</HI></P>
<P>The Morall Argument of this Act, for want of roome, wee pa&s;&s;e by.</P>
<P>The Authors, like &s;o many flourie fields, <HI>Campi Rhetorici,</HI> were <HI>Tacitus, Ju&s;tine, Ju&s;tinian, Quintilian, Eutopia Mori, Atlantis Verulamei, Apuleius:</HI> The Greeks, <HI>Homer, Ari&s;tophanes, Plu|tarch, Zenophon de Cyropaedia, Longinus,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>Aristotles</HI> Rhetorick, <HI>Plato, Ae&s;chylus, &amp;c.</HI> The language chiefly Greek; but <HI>Auditorii grati&acirc;,</HI> tran&s;lated here and rhere into Engli&s;h.</P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. II.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Princeps Pompaticus: <HI>or,</HI> The Entertainment. The Argument Hi&s;toricall.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ATlas minor,</HI> alias <HI>Mi&s;rule,</HI> a&s;cends his A&s;tronomical Ca|binet. A Scematicall figure is erected at the command of the Prince <HI>de pileo re&s;taurando.</HI> His cen&s;ure upon A&s;tro|logie. This cour&s;e failing, by the con&s;ent of the Court, a Hue and Cry is voiced. Sir <HI>Shone</HI> the Proclaimer. An Eccho an&s;wers within; he runs in after the Eccho, his &s;uppo&s;ed coun|triman; in&s;tead of him, fals upon <HI>Merlins</HI> Chori&s;ter, the old welch Bard; who by the Harmonious power of his voice, &s;um|mons in (in three &s;everall dances) 18 Caps di&s;tinct.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="song">
<HEAD>The Song between <HI>Chori&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Eccho.</HI></HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chori&s;.</SPEAKER>
<L>ECcho, O Eccho; thou Oracle, O Eccho, Eccho tel.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eccho.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;hall the Eccho, Eccho tell?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chori&s;.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Scholars Cap is lo&s;t, how &s;hal't be found?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eccho.</SPEAKER>
<L>Charm Atlas, Charme the Caps from under ground;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<L>By &s;ix and &s;ix, &s;o &s;hall the Cap be found.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="16" REF="11">
<SPEAKER>Chori&s;.</SPEAKER>
<L>Caps all, O Caps all, appeare at Ecchoes call,</L>
<L>Six great, &s;ix &s;mall.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eccho.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here, here we ri&s;e at Ecchoes call.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chori&s;.</SPEAKER>
<L>When you the Viols heare, brave Sprights appeare.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eccho.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sound Viols &s;ound, for at your &s;ound we'l venter.</L>
<L>Roome, roome for Caps, by &s;ix and &s;ix we enter.</L>
</SP>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="1" TYPE="dance">
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Dance, con&s;i&s;ting of the &s;ix Gram|maticall Per&s;ons.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>6.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>I.</CELL>
<CELL>Thou.</CELL>
<CELL>He.</CELL>
<CELL>We.</CELL>
<CELL>Ye.</CELL>
<CELL>They.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>After the Dance they impeach each other <HI>De furto Pilei. I</HI> puts it off to <HI>Thou, Thou</HI> to <HI>He,</HI> &s;o the re&s;t alternative; but neither <HI>I, Thou,</HI> nor <HI>He, We, Ye,</HI> nor <HI>They: Ergo tandem Nemo, Nemo</HI> is the man, <HI>No body</HI> has it.</P>
<P>Morally alluding to the depraved nature of children; accu&s;ing and excu&s;ing; peevi&s;h lyars: the Tutors taske to cure.</P>
<P>And al&s;o implies, that men them&s;elves act the Childrens Scean; In&s;tead of vindicating, often recriminating, wa&s;pi&s;h, &s;erpentine, childi&s;h, &s;aying, un&s;aying, gain-&s;aying. <HI>Quis enim non ab Ovo mendax?</HI></P>
<P>And thirdly, it alludes to the Academians contradictory hu|mour, <HI>Affirmo, Nego.</HI></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="dance">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Dance con&s;i&s;ted of &s;ix Gip&s;ies, Cap-men, of &s;everall Colours.</HEAD>
<P>THe intent of this, was like the other, but in a higher way. <HI>Suggere jam Quintiliane Colorem;</HI> every man hath &s;ome co|lour for what he &s;ayes, or does; in a &s;everall ca&s;t of naturall Rhetorick.</P>
<P>But by the&s;e colours is primely intended the principles and depth of my&s;ticall Philo&s;ophie: in which the idle Scholars Cap is &s;eldome found.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="3" TYPE="dance">
<PB N="17" REF="11">
<HEAD>The third Dance was of the chiefe Faculties, per&s;onated lively.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>1 A Cardinall.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>A Miter.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="6"><HI>Signifying</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Degrees of preferment.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2 A Ma&s;ter of Arts</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Square Cap.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Degrees of Learning.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3 The Falkner.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Montero.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Degrees of Gentry.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4 Seaman.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Saylors Thrum.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Degrees of travell. &amp; Forrain.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5 Souldier.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>An Helmet.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Degrees of Martial Officers.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>6 Smith.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Fuddle-cap.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Degrees of Trades.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<LG>
<HEAD>MORALL.</HEAD>
<L>Thus every Cap what ere it be, </L>
<L>Is &s;till a &s;ign of &s;ome degree.</L>
</LG>
<P>The Dance ends merily. <HI>Lo&s;e-Cap</HI> breaks his confining Circle, and chops in among the Caps, dancing; is defended from their Battouns by the Souldiers buckler, and carried away upon his &s;houlders; the Seamen advancing one leg, fuddle-Cap the other, &s;hooing him in the <HI>exit.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;um of the intendment, belongs to oratoricall practice; the&s;e 6 be &s;ubjects of eloquence; work for a wi&s;e head, and a win|ning tongue. A &s;ight propo&s;ed to the Prince, what manner of men he has to deal with; that will be great or wi&s;e.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>ACT. II. SCENA II.</HEAD>
<P>After that all vani&s;h and nothing effected, <HI>Atlas</HI> demands fur|ther of the <HI>Merlins</HI> Chori&s;ter whats to be done. He an|&s;wers again in SONG.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cho.</SPEAKER>
<L>Eccho, O Eccho, for <HI>Merlins</HI> &s;ake O Eccho, once more tell,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eccho.</SPEAKER>
<L>What &s;hall the Eccho once more tell?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cho.</SPEAKER>
<L>Tell who the Cap doth weare, and who goes clear,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eccho.</SPEAKER>
<L>No figure ca&s;t by Spel, or Charm, or Magick:</L>
<L>But Scholar-like, by Grammar, Wit, and Logick.</L>
</SP>
<P><HI>Atlas</HI> interprets the Oracle, the Prince likes and con&s;ents; and commands a preparation Schola&s;ticall, <HI>de Pilei di&s;qui&s;itione Etymologica.</HI></P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="act">
<PB N="18" REF="12">
<HEAD>ACT. III.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Princeps Rhetoricus, <HI>or,</HI> Criticus <HI>the Lingui&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P><LABEL>The Argument.</LABEL>
THe Philologicall Books are fetcht forth from the <HI>Trino-Mu&s;aeum;</HI> the Triple Library, 1. Grammaticall, 2. Phi|lo&s;ophicall, 3. Mathematicall; the <HI>Grammarians</HI> are fir&s;t &s;cann'd; then the <HI>Glo&s;&s;aries</HI> &amp; <HI>Dictionaries,</HI> then the De|clamers <HI>ex tempore</HI> deliver their Cap-verdit Etymologically. The Prince in his Chair moderating; <HI>Monitor &s;cholae,</HI> and two head Monitors maintaining the Table in the middle, the other two at Desks <HI>ex oppo&s;ite,</HI> and <HI>Formes ex adver&s;o</HI> to <HI>Forms.</HI> This way al&s;o proving invalid, command is given by his Highne&s;&s;e ele|gance; for an Academicall <HI>Certamen,</HI> logically controverted.</P>
<STAGE>Exeunt omnes.</STAGE>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. IV.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Princeps Academicus, <HI>or, The Di&s;putant.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Authours &s;cientificall, and in order to the 7 Arts are produced. Then a &s;et <HI>di&s;pute</HI> between the three main &s;ciences; <HI>de melioritate Praerogativ&acirc; Pilei;</HI> the que&s;tion is &s;tated two waies, 1. Which is guilty of the Par&s;ons Cap. 2. Which mo&s;t worthy among them&s;elves of the three: Next intervenes a Que&s;tion between the two Princes, <HI>Rhetorick</HI> and <HI>Mi&s;rule, de prioritate Galeri &amp; Pilei,</HI> the preheminence of the Hat and the Cap; but while the di&s;putes grew hot, enters a me&s;|&s;age from the <HI>Cantabrigian</HI> Fellow-Commoners, de&s;iring of the Court a conference touching the new lo&s;t Cap, as a maine ca&s;e concerning their Coppy-hold, 'Tis conde&s;cended to, and the Court di&s;&s;olves for the pre&s;ent.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>ACT. V.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P>Princeps Judicialis, <HI>or, The Judge.</HI></P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>HEre is a &s;et form of a Se&s;&s;ions; a Court of Judicature, <HI>more Judiciali.</HI> The Tyroes declame: the Theams five, 1. Horn-book, 2. the Hawke, 3. Long Tayle, 4. Knave of Clubs, 5. A Noune is the Name of a Thing.</P>
<P><PB N="19" REF="12">
Before the Declamation each fre&s;h Declamer takes his Briny <HI>Dos</HI> of <HI>water</HI> and <HI>&s;alt;</HI> from the hand of the <HI>Tyro-guardian:</HI> at every &s;tand, or dead lift, they are helpt out, by their Sugge&s;ter, and nimble-tongu'd Patron <HI>Mon&s;eiur de la Mi&s;rule;</HI> and at la&s;t by his mediation, <HI>Annuit Princeps,</HI> the Bils of Indictment are expunged; <HI>Et donantur Pileo Tyrones:</HI> made free of the Col|ledge. <HI>Exit Mi&s;rule.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mi&s;rule</HI> within &s;ends Me&s;&s;age to the <HI>Monitor Monitorum;</HI> He craves excu&s;e for his ab&s;ence a while; A flouri&s;h of Cornets. Forthwith return in form of a pontificall Train the 5 Counter-plotters; <HI>Mi&s;rule</HI> in the mid&s;t as a Prince; and the <HI>Schollars Cap</HI> advanced upon a Trunchion, <HI>more triumphali:</HI> He is made to give account of his device, that no offence be given or taken; and after &s;ome Que&s;tions problematically propounded by the Prince; He and his &s;eniors are invited to an A&s;tronomicall dance in reference to the Planets, with Laurels, each bearing a &s;tar advan|ced frontwi&s;e. After this the Prince returns to his Chaire, gives his charge to the <HI>Tyrones, Juniors,</HI> and <HI>Seniors</HI> in their turns, con|cluding that <HI>Religion</HI> is the <HI>finis ultimatus,</HI> the ultimate End of all our Sudies; and <HI>Humility</HI> the la&s;t work of Religion, ending with this Motto, <HI>Quant&ograve; doctior, tant&ograve; &s;ubmi&s;&s;ior;</HI> withall couching briefly in a fourfold di&s;tinction, the four Ends of all mens Aca|demicall labours, 1. <HI>Mechanicall,</HI> dite&s;cere, 2. <HI>Sophi&s;ticall,</HI> cla|re&s;cere, 3. <HI>Philo&s;ophicall,</HI> cogno&s;cere, and 4. <HI>Angelicall,</HI> videre Deum. i. e. <HI>Practic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s, &s;e abnegando.</HI></P>
<DIV4 TYPE="questions">
<HEAD>The Que&s;tions in this ACT accidently emergent were the&s;e.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. WHether the Mercuriall Cap be more injured by the Fa|thers indulgence, the Sons negligence, or the Masters in|&s;ufficience?</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Whether a <HI>lying</HI> humour be rather &s;uckt from the dugs of the Nur&s;e; or the paps of custome, or rather, <HI>An mendacium</HI> be <HI>ex traduce?</HI> Hereditary?</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Whether the Par&s;ons Cap hath received more cuts and blows, from the blunt <HI>weapons</HI> of <HI>Bacchus,</HI> or the &s;harp <HI>&s;word</HI> of <HI>Mars?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="20" REF="13">
4. Whether a-wel-bred Rhetorician did ever want a <HI>Mocenas,</HI> or his Cap <HI>mendicant?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Whether every Noble and great Gentlemen ought to be <HI>princeps Rhetoricus,</HI> a prime good &s;peaker?</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Whether every Ma&s;ter of Arts be <HI>princeps Rhet. Et e contra?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7. Whether the greate&s;t enemy to the <HI>Cap,</HI> be not the <HI>Cap?</HI> Science again&s;t Science more per&s;ecuting then Ignorance?</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. An pileum Sir-Shonnuli fit ex Lana Caprina?</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. An fiat Pileorum tran&s;migratio?</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. <HI>Pileus</HI> An tandem fataliter&mdash;<HI>Exeat omnis?</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epilogue">
<HEAD>EPILOG&V;S.</HEAD>
<P>AS &s;oon as the<HI> Court-&s;cene </HI>clo&s;ed, and had as it were bid good-night to<HI> Action </HI>and<HI> Invention, Prince-Mi&s;rule-Atlas </HI>(now left &s;ingly on the Stage) pre|&s;ents the<HI> Audience </HI>with a<HI> Caution </HI>or two, by the Horarie Advi&s;e of his<HI> Quadrant; </HI>which being elevated to a ju&s;t height, he calculates the howrs of the day, 3 of clock, 33 min. and 3 digits. Then warns them,<HI> Maturare Reditum, im|minet ur&s;a; </HI>to ha&s;ten homewards, le&s;t<HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> </HI>the Keeper of the great Bear meet with them after All. The Beare be|ing a &s;tarting-enemy to the Coach-Hor&s;e; and Twilight a dangerous time for Caps.<HI> Venit He&s;perus ite.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>So <HI>Atlas</HI> bids his Star-like Gue&s;ts Adieu, </L>
<L>As you have &s;hin'd on <HI>&V;s</HI> this <HI>Day,</HI></L>
<L>With friendly <HI>Influence:</HI> So may </L>
<L>The New year &s;hine on <HI>You.</HI></L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>E fonte Cambrino,
<DATE>Jan. 19. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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