Scene 5.
Enter Cutter, Tabitha, a Boy.
Cut.And the Vision told me, sister Tabitha, that this same day, the first of the seventh month, in the year of Grace 1658. and of Revelation, and Confusion of Carnal Monarchies the tenth, that we two, who are both holy Vessels, should by an holy Man be joyned together in the holy Bond of sanctifi'd Matrimony.
Tab:I brother Abednego, but our friends consents———
Cut.Heaven is our friend, and, Sister, Heaven puts this into our thoughts; it is, no doubt, for propagation of the great Mystery; there shall arise from our two bodies, a great Confounder of Gogmagog, who shall be called the Pestle of Antichrist, and his children shall inherit the Grapes of Canaan.
Tab.My mother will be angry, I'm afraid.
Cut.Your Mother will rejoyce, the Vision says so, sister, the Vision says your Mother will rejoyce; how will it rejoyce her righteous heart to see you, Tabitha, riding behind me upon the Purple Dromedary? I would not for the world that you should do it, but that we are commanded from above; for to do things without the aforesaid Command is like unto the building of a Fire without the Bottom-cake.
Tab.I I, that it is, he knows.
Cut.Now to confirm to you the truth of this Vision, there is to meet us at a zealous Shoomaker's habitation hard by here, by the command of a Vision too, our Brother Zephaniah Fats, an Opener of Revelations to the Worthy in Mary White-chapel, and he is the chosen Vessel to joyn our hands.
Tab.I would my Mother knew't; but if that holy man come too by a Vision, I shall have grace, I hope, not to resist.
Cut.Sister, let me speak one word of Instruction to yonder Babe.
Tab.Oh how my bowels yern!
Cut.Sirra, is my little Doctor already staying for me at Tom Underleather my Shoomaker's house?
Boy.Yes, Sir, but he's in so strange a Habit, that Mr. Underleather's Boy Franck and I were ready to die with laughing at him.
[Exit Boy.Cut.Oh so much the better; go you little piece of a Rogue and get every thing ready against I come back.
Sister, that Babe you saw me speaking to is predestinated to Spiritual Mightiness, and is to be restorer of the Mystical Tribe of Gad———
Sister, that Babe you saw me speaking to is predestinated to Spiritual Mightiness, and is to be restorer of the Mystical Tribe of Gad———
Tab.Oh the Wonderous——— but, Brother Abednego, will you not pronounce this Evening tide before the Congregation of the Spotless in Coleman-street?
Cut.The will of the latter Vision is to be fulfilled first, as a Preparatory Vision; let us not make the Messenger of Mystery, who is sent by a Vision so far as from Mary White-chapel for our sakes, to stay too long from his lawful Vocation of Basket-making. Come, Sister Tabitha.
[Exeunt.Tab.Hei, ho! but I will not resist.