_Fireb_. Ha! do you doubt it! nay, if you doubt that, I will prove nothing. But my zeal inspires me, And I will tell you, madam, you yourself Are a most deadly enemy to the Sun; And all his priests have greatest cause to wish You had been never born. _Q. C. S_. Ha! sayest thou, priest? Then know, I honour and adore the Sun: And when I see his light, and feel his warmth, I glow with flaming gratitude towards him; But know, I never will adore a priest, Who wears pride's face beneath religion's mask, And makes a pick-lock of his piety To steal away the liberty of mankind: But while I live, I'll never give thee power. _Fireb_. Madam, our power is not derived from you, Nor any one: 'twas sent us in a box From the great Sun himself, and carriage paid: Phaeton brought it when he overturn'd The chariot of the Sun into the sea. _Q. C. S_. Shew me the instrument and let me read it. _Fireb_. Madam, you cannot read it, for, being thrown Into the sea, the water has so damaged it That none but priests could ever read it since. _Q. C. S_. And do you think I can believe this tale? _Fireb_. I order you to believe it, and you must. _Q. C. S_. Proud and imperious man, I can't believe it. Religion, law, and physick, were design'd By heaven the greatest blessings on mankind; But priests, and lawyers, and physicians, made These general goods to each a private trade; With each they rob, with each they fill their purses, And turn our benefits into our curses. [_Exit_. _Fust_. Law and Physick. Where's Law? _Enter_ PHYSIC. _Phys_. Sir, Law, going without the playhouse passage, was taken up by a lord chief-justice's warrant. _Fireb_. Then we must go on without him. _Fust_. No, no, stay a moment; I must get somebody else to rehearse the part. Pox take all warrants for me! if I had known this before I would have satirized the law ten times more than I have. ACT V. SCENE I.--_Enter_ FUSTIAN, SNEERWELL, Prompter, FIREBRAND, LAW, PHYSICK. _Fust_. I am glad you have made your escape; but I hope you will make the matter up before the day of action: come, Mr Firebrand, now if you please go on; the moment Common Sense goes off the stage Law and Physick enter. _Fireb_. Oh! my good lords of Physick and of Law, Had you been sooner here you would have heard The haughty queen of Common Sense throw out Abuses on us all. _Law_. I am not now To learn the hatred which she bears to me. No more of that--for now the warlike queen Of Ignorance, attended with a train Of foreigners, all foes to Common Sense, Arrives at Covent-garden; and we ought To join her instantly with all our force. At Temple-bar some regiments parade; The colonels, Clifford, Thavies, and Furnival, Through Holborn lead their powers to Drury-lane, Attorneys all compleatly armed in brass: These, bailiffs and their followers will join, With justices, and constables, and watchmen.