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Title:  A new play call'd The Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd a comedy / by Richard Carpenter.
Author: Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?
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heard, by Lady Devotion, to render you to the place where I first receiv'd you. We all hope, that you will retain the scarlet Dye wherewith you are imbued: Besides, It is our order, that as we sing the Introit of him that enters, so we give a Musical Farewel to him agreeably in his dismission. I take my leave, and leave you to your attention.Exit Fear.Arist.I am humbly thankful.A Song.Scholar: although you do depart, One sings.Carry us with you in your heartFor after practise: Have a careThat you remember who you are,What you have learn'd, and how you mayStand ever stedfast in the way,Which we have taught: Those gradual stairsWell practis'd, will adorn your hairsWhen white with Age, and bring your headWith solace to your earthy Bed.Then will the joyful Angels Three sing, one af∣ter anotherThen will the joyful AngelsThen will the joyful Angels meet you They joyn voicesAnd with their Songs of triumph greet you.Then will the joyful AngelsThen will the joyful AngelsThen will the joyful Angels sayWelcom t'our endless Holyday.Snares will be laid on every side:Be sure that Prudence be your guideIn all your motions. Look beforeYou place your foot on any shore.In every place the Net is near:It will be needful that you fear.In every place HypocrisieSeeming far off, is then most nighIn real Truth. By a right lineYou shall attain to things Divine.Then will the joyful Angels—The real Good must first be known,Then the apparent to disownEvil compleatly, and assentTo Vertues crown us innocentIn perfect Morals. When you spieThe first approaches of a Lie,Step back, then flie for Vertues sake,As if y' had trod upon a Snake.Go on with Courage: and your youth,As with a Gemme, enrich with Truth.Then will the joyful Angels—Arist.The blessed Angels constellate here: Yea Heaven it self is translated hi∣ther: Nothing sublunary is more divine: I owe my true life, and all that is conse∣quent to it, to this place: I must now think my self the last, and least, and lowest of all men: Speak in the abstract from the Lists, Lines, and Limits of all Hypocrisie; and act agreeably to the Commutations and Di∣stributions of Aristotelical Justice: It re∣mains, that I wait continually the falling of the Dew: The Shell wherein the Orient Pearl is born, opens it self towards Heaven, begging as it were, one clean drop of proli∣sical and procreating Dew: which having obtained, it presently shuts, keeps the door against all outward things, and secretly transforms and ripens that heavenly drop into a precious Margarite.May all my Reason owns, hereafter shewThe Orient Pearl born of Celestial Dew.Exit.Act 2. Scen. 2.Enter Lucifer as a Jesuit, Madam Hypocrisie, Pretty, Lucifuga.Lucifer.Devotion has been long filing and polishing him: Madam, you must needs intend and bend your utmost skill to reduce him.0