_Zel._ Old delusions, new repeated, Shews them born but to be cheated, As their fathers were before. _Six Sectaries begin a formal affected Dance; the two gravest whisper the other four, and draw them into the Plot; they pull out and deliver Libels to them, which they receive._ _Dem._ See friendless Albion there alone, Without defence But innocence; Albanius now is gone. _Tyr._ Say then, what must be done? _Dem._ The gods have put him in our hand[5]. _Zel._ He must be slain. _Tyr._ But who shall then command? _Dem._ The people; for the right returns to those. Who did the trust impose. _Tyr._ 'Tis fit another sun should rise, To cheer the world, and light the skies. _Dem._ But when the sun His race has run, And neither cheers the world, nor lights the skies, 'Tis fit a common-wealth of stars should rise. _Aseb._ Each noble vice Shall bear a price, And virtue shall a drug become; An empty name Was all her fame, But now she shall be dumb. _Zel._ If open vice be what you drive at, A name so broad we'll ne'er connive at. Saints love vice, but, more refinedly, Keep her close, and use her kindly. _Tyr._ Fall on. _Dem._ Fall on; e'er Albion's death, we'll try, If one or many shall his room supply. _The White Boys dance about the Saints; the Saints draw out the Association, and offer it to them; they refuse it, and quarrel about it; then the White Boys and Saints fall into a confused dance, imitating fighting. The White Boys, at the end of the dance, being driven out by the Sectaries, with Protestant Flails.[6]_ _Alb._ See the gods my cause defending, When all human help was past! _Acac._ Factions mutually contending, By each other fall at last. _Alb._ But is not yonder Proteus' cave, Below that steep, Which rising billows brave? _Acac._ It is; and in it lies the god asleep; And snorting by, We may descry The monsters of the deep. _Alb._ He knows the past, And can resolve the future too. _Acac._ 'Tis true! But hold him fast, For he can change his hue.[7] _The Cave of_ PROTEUS _rises out of the Sea; it consists of several arches of Rock-work adorned with mother-of-pearl, coral, and abundance of shells of various kinds. Through the arches is seen the Sea, and parts of Dover-pier; in the middle of the Cave is_ PROTEUS _asleep on a rock adorned with shells, &c. like the Cave._ ALBION _and_ ACACIA _seize on him; and while a symphony is playing, he sinks as they are bringing him forward, and changes himself into a Lion, a Crocodile, a Dragon, and then to his own shape again; he comes forward to the front of the stage, and sings._ SYMPHONY. _Pro._ Albion, loved of gods and men, Prince of peace, too mildly reigning, Cease thy sorrow and complaining; Thou shall be restored again: Albion, loved of gods and men. II.