Scene 12.
Enter Widow, Tabitha, Cutter in a Puritanical habit.
Joll.Niece, go in a little, I'l come t' you presently and examine this matter further; Mr. Puny, lead in your wife for shame.
Luc.Villain, come not near me,
[Exit.I'l sooner touch a Scorpion or a Viper.
[Exit.I'l sooner touch a Scorpion or a Viper.
Pun.She's as humerous as a Bel-rope; she need not be so cholerique, I'm sure I behav'd my self like Propria quæ maribus.
Aur.Come in with me, Mr. Puny, I'l teach you how you shall handle her.
Exeunt Aur. Pun.
Exeunt Aur. Pun.
Joll.Mr. Truman, pray take your son home, and see how you can work upon him there; speak fairly to him.
Trum. s.Speak fairly to my son? I'l see him buried first.
Joll.I mean perswade him———
Trum s..Oh! that's another matter; I will perswade him, Colonel, but if ever I speak fair to him till he mends his manners——— Come along with me, Jack-sawce, come home.
[Exeunt Trum. sen. Trum jun.Trum. j.I Sir, any whither.
Wid.What's the matter, brother Colonel, are there any broils here?
Joll.Why, Sister, my Niece has married without my consent, and so it pleases, it e'en pleases Heaven to bestow her Estate upon me.
Wid.Why, brother, there's a Blessing now already; If you had been a wicked Cavalier still she'd ha' done her duty, I warrant you, and defrauded you of the whole Estate; my brother Cutter here is grown the Heavenliest man o'the sudden, 'tis his work.
Cut.Sister Barebottle, I must not be called Cutter any more, that is a name of Cavalero darkness, the Devil was a Cutter from the beginning, my name is now Abednego, I had a Vision which whisper'd to me through a Key-hole, Go call thy self Abednego.
Tab.The wonderful Vocation of some Vessels!
Cut.It is a name that signifies Fiery Furnaces, and Tribulation, and Martyrdom, I know I am to suffer for the Truth.
Tab.Not as to death, Brother, if it be his will.
Cut.As to death, Sister, but I shall gloriously return.
Joll.What, Brother, after death? that were miraculous.
Cut.Why the wonder of it is, that it is to be miraculous.
Joll.But Miracles are ceas'd, Brother, in this wicked Age of Cavalerism.
Cut.They are not ceas'd, Brother, nor shall they cease till the Monarchy be establish'd.
I say again I am to return, and to return upon a Purple Dromadary, which signifies Magistracy, with an Ax in my hand that is called Reformation, and I am to strike with that Ax upon the Gate of Westminster-hall, and cry, Down Babylon, and the Building called Westminster-hall is to run away and cast it self into the River, and then Major General Harrison is to come in Green sleeves from the North upon a Sky-colour'd Mule, which signifies heavenly Instruction.
Tab.Oh the Father! he's as full of Mysteries as an Egg is full of meat.
Cut.And he is to have a Trumpet in his mouth as big as a Steeple, and at the sounding of that Trumpet all the Churches in London are to fall down.
Wid.O strange, what times shall we see here in poor England!
Cut.And then Venner shall march up to us from the West in the figure of a Wave of the Sea, holding in his hand a Ship that shall be call'd the Ark of the Reform'd.
Joll.But when must this be, Brother Abednego?
[Exit.Cut.Why all these things are to be when the Cat of the North has o're-come the Lion of the South, and when the Mouse of the West has slain the Elephant of the East. I do hear a silent Voice within me, that bids me rise up presently and declare these things to the Congregation of the Lovely in Coleman-street. Tabitha, Tabitha, Tabitha, I call thee thrice, come along with me, Tabitha.
Tab.There was something of this, as I remember, in my last Vision of Horns the other day. Holy man! I follow thee; farewell, forsooth, Mother, till anon.
[Exeunt.Joll.Come, let's go in too, Sister.