PHILOLOGUS.
He spake the word likewise, when he said, "I am the door,"
Was his body transformed into timber therefore?
CARDINAL.
Nay, if thou beest obstinate, I will say no more.
Have him hence to prison, and keep him full sure:
I will make him set by my friendship more store.
But hearest thou, Zeal? go first and procure
Some kind of new torment which he may not endure.
TYRANNY.
I am here in readiness to do your commandment,
And will return hither again incontinent.
HYPOCRISY.
At thy return bring hither Sensual Suggestion,
That, if need be, he may us assist,
Lest that both I and Careful Provision
The zeal of Philologus may not fully resist;
But he in his obstinacy doth still persist:
To put him to death would accuse us of tyranny;
But if we could win him, he should do us much honesty.
TYRANNY. I hear you, and will fulfil your words speedily. [Exit TYRANNY.
HYPOCRISY.
Good Master Philologus, I pity your case,
To see you so foolish yourself to undo:
I durst yet promise to purchase you grace,
If you would, at length, your errors forego.
Therefore, I pray you, be not your own foe.
PHILOLOGUS.
Call you those errors which the gospel defends?
I know not, then, whence true d[o]ctrine descends.
CARDINAL.
Nay, Master Hypocrisy, you spend time in vain
To reason with him: he will not be removed.
AVARICE.
Had I so much to live by, as he hath certain,
I would not lose that which I so well loved.
CARDINAL.
He stands in his reputation: he will not be reproved;
And that is the cause that he is so obstinate:
[To Phil.] But I shall well enough thy courage abate.