[Enter Archy.]

LAUD: Hazlerig, Hampden, Pym, young Harry Vane, Cromwell, and other rebels of less note, Intend to sail with the next favouring wind For the Plantations.

ARCHY: Where they think to found A commonwealth like Gonzalo’s in the play, Gynaecocoenic and pantisocratic.

NOTE: _363 Gonzalo’s 1870; Gonzaga Boscombe manuscript.

KING: What’s that, sirrah?

ARCHY: New devil’s politics. Hell is the pattern of all commonwealths: Lucifer was the first republican. Will you hear Merlin’s prophecy, how three [posts?] ‘In one brainless skull, when the whitethorn is full, Shall sail round the world, and come back again: Shall sail round the world in a brainless skull, And come back again when the moon is at full:’— When, in spite of the Church, They will hear homilies of whatever length Or form they please.

[COTTINGTON?]: So please your Majesty to sign this order For their detention.

ARCHY: If your Majesty were tormented night and day by fever, gout, rheumatism, and stone, and asthma, etc., and you found these diseases had secretly entered into a conspiracy to abandon you, should you think it necessary to lay an embargo on the port by which they meant to dispeople your unquiet kingdom of man?

KING: If fear were made for kings, the Fool mocks wisely; But in this case—[WRITING]. Here, my lord, take the warrant, And see it duly executed forthwith.— That imp of malice and mockery shall be punished.