Princeps rhetoricus or Pilomachia· ye combat of caps. Drawn forth into arguments, general and special. In usum Scholæ Masonensis : et in gratiam totius auditorii mercurialis.

ACT. I.

Princeps legitimè inauguratus, or, The Instalment. The Argument Historicall.

SCENA I.

A Curtain is displaied, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the prime School mo∣nitor appears in a studying posture: is interrupted by the entrance of the 2 Text-bearers, inducing 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the wandring schollar Lose-Cap to the sight and speech of the Monitor, with a Petition tendered de recuperand•• Parso∣nuli Pilco, for recovery of his Cap, defunct; the Petition is ac∣cepted by Phylophylax the Monitor; with promise to be presen∣ted in Court, and to have fair audience in the businesse (for his Office is not only School-Superintendent, but also libellorum custos, Master of request and complaints) And here is the first stone laid in the Arch-fabrick of the counterplot.

SCENA II.

LOrd of mis-rule enters with his bonny fresh men, undertakes their protection, contra gentes & jura; and against the im∣perious wand of Custos Tyronum, his main Antagonist and theirs. And this is the second trick of wit in the crosse plot, so to dis∣turb the main plot.

SCEN. III.

HEre the maine plot begins. The Master of Ceremonies ap∣pears with the Keeper of the Fresh-men: Tis consulted De Curiâ rectè curandâ, that things be done in Place, Time and Or∣der. Exit Ceremonius. Custos induces his Fresh charge, pearch∣eth them up at the Bar: succeeds again Ceremonius with his whole Court-traine. And first, marshalleth his fourth Classis, next his fift; then fall in the Officers, Seniors, Attendants, Prince, in ce∣remoniall order. Ceremonius leads the way, next him, Lord Mis-rule, then two Monitors abrest. Singly succeeds them Monitor Monitorum; next, Praeco Fecialis, the Mercuriall Herauld at Armes, Princeps Rhetoricus in the midst. After him the two Text-bearers; then the other two Monitors abrest, the Cap of Main∣tenance after them, and last, Custos▪ Tyronum, Proclaimer and Guards-man Generall.

They proceed to Election, on a fourefold Ground; 1. Sucessi∣on, 2. Merit, 3. Suffrages, 4. Lawes and Customes.

Invenitur Caduceo Habilis & Idoneus, proclaimed fit for the Mercuriall Scepter.

The Quaeries are ten: As first, whether he hath orderly as∣cended from Classis to Classis, non faciens saltum, not making a skip.

2. Whether he be patiens inediae, frigoris, & sudoris. An multa tulit, fecit{que} sudavit & alsit: whether he be Snow-proofe, able to endure Heats and Colds, and to watch by the Lamp of Cleanthes.

Againe, whether he hath learned obedire & imperare, to obey and command, as Junior and Senior; and whether well verst in the Lawes appertaining to the Chaire Mercuriall: whether be∣ne moratus, Bene linguatus, Religiosus, & Humilis.

And being approved by the Register generall, proclaimed Prince by the Herauld, and voiced by the rest, he ascends the Chaire of Eloquence.

Then followes the citement of Officers; after that, the Canto or Hymne of Congratulation••; the Speeches Encomiasticall ad Principem.

After the Citement, the Indictment is read against the Tyroes, whose penalties are imposed in way of severall Theames, and li∣berty to speak for themselves, par poenae culpa. Their Patron is Lord of mis-rule.

SCEN. IV.

EX Improviso, abruptly breaks in Sir Shone, Molestus Interpella∣tor Curiae, in a great fume, impatient of longer attendance, a blunt, unbred, rude, insulse Scholar, and as roughly entertain'd by the Guards-man: they chop Logick at staves end dilemmati∣cally; Here I can have ye, & there; but pates find mediums. Ma∣ster Keeper assaults the Parson, Argumento Baculino, with Halberd Eloquence, the Parson indoctrinates the Keeper with Crab-tree Logick, but is foyled at his owne weapon; till Misrule, and the Schoole-monitor, his Fratres fraterrimi, complotters and sworn partners, step in to his rescue; by whose provision and request, his Petition is heard, registred, and deliberated on, but deferred till the next Court Sessions Mercuriall.

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The humble Partishon of Sir Shone of Wales, in formâ paperis following.

BE it knowne to all and some, that her hath a partishon in her packets, ad hunc venarabilem collegium, propter facere Huc and Cry, post cappum sumum (misere defunctum, & lostum) per omnes Chamberos, Studies, & Corneros. And also her desires to

enter her Actions, or rather her Passions in te Law, for a scire facias, through te six mercuriall classes, with a non est Inventus, as touch∣ing her Pileus; and a Quare Latitat, amongst all her cozen Scholers, and her shall be pound to pray, for her six venerable said Monitors while her may, for ever and a day, and longer too, when her hath nothing else to do.

The Morall Argument of this Act, for want of roome, wee passe by.

The Authors, like so many flourie fields, Campi Rhetorici, were Tacitus, Justine, Justinian, Quintilian, Eutopia Mori, Atlantis Verulamei, Apuleius: The Greeks, Homer, Aristophanes, Plu∣tarch, Zenophon de Cyropaedia, Longinus, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Aristotles Rhetorick, Plato, Aeschylus, &c. The language chiefly Greek; but Auditorii gratiâ, translated here and rhere into English.