The AssemblyTerence Tobin edits and annotates this bitingly satirical play written in 1 692 and attributed to Dr. Archibald Pitcairne. Significant as the only known full-length drama written in Scotland between the Reformation and the eighteenth century, it is a vigorous attack on religious hypocrisy. |
Contents
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Act I Scene i | 37 |
Act II Scene i | 49 |
Act HI Scene i | 59 |
Act IV Scene i | 69 |
Act V Scene i | 81 |
Epilogue | 97 |
Notes | 99 |
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Page 3 - In the which, all thingis war so levely expressed, that the verray sempill people understood and confessed, that as the Preastis and obstinat Pharisyes persuaded the people to refuise Christ. Jesus, and caused Pilat to condampne him ; so did the Bischoppes, and men called Religious, blynd the people and perswaid Princes and Judgeis to persecute sick as professis Jesus Christ his blessed Evangell.
Page 4 - Dauidsone, an of our Regents, maid a play at the mariage of Mr Jhone Colvin, quhilk I saw playit in Mr Knox presence; wherin, according to Mr Knox doctrine, the Castell of Edinbruche was besiged, takin, and the Captan with an or twa with him hangit in effigie.
Page 14 - We offer to wait on these poor, for nothing, and bury them after dissection, at our own charges, which now the town does; yet, there is great opposition by the chief surgeons, who neither eat hay, nor suffer the oxen to eat it. I do propose, if this be granted, to make better improvements in anatomy, than have been made at Leyden these thirty years.
Page 36 - Our Authors gently, do bespeak and Play: Sure they have Reason; for the Scottish Wit, Is only giv'n to Censure, not to Writ. Criticks for Need; for there are many such, Whom Art and Nature hath not better'd much.
Page 3 - Eeligious, blynd the people and perswaid Princes and Judgeis to persecute sick as professis Jesus Christ his blessed Evangell. This plane speaking so enflammed the hartes of all that bare the beastis mark, that thei ceassed nott, till that the said Frear Kyllour, and with him Frear Beverage . . . (and others) who all togetther war cruelly murthered in one fyre, the last day of Februar in the zeir of (God) 1538.