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Full speech
'Tis a sign ye are not blind Sir. Well fellows, I never herd happier stuff, Here's no new luxury or blandishment, But plenty of old England's mother's words. I a to be played upon a good night—lets give it out for Friday. Jack of the Clockhouse, where's Master Posthaste? Peaceth? what peaking Page nter pend that? You wear the hansom'st compassed hilt I have seen; Fie how this Ingling troubles our rehearsal: say on. This Cockoldly coil hinders our rehearsal. Stay sirs, rehearse no farther then you are For here be huffing parts in this new book; Faith and I too: I'll rather fall to work. Our Company's hard of hearing of that side, Fie 'tis to much, too long ere it be told, Well, whilst occasion helps to climb alofft, We'll mount Promotions highest battlement. Thou hast near a good one out of thy partly; Well sirs, the gentlemen see into our trade, We cannot gull them with brown-paper stusse, And the best Poets grown so envious They'le starve rather then we get store of money. All they that can sing and say, Come to the Town-house and see a Play, At three a clock it shall begin, The finest play that ever was seen. Yet there is one thing more in my mind, Take heed you leave not your purses behind. Those were a cupple of Cunnicatchers that Cousin Majors, and have no consort but themselves, But we are a full company, and our credit with our Master known. I but how if they do not clap their hands. Well, I have a Brewer to my Ingle, Heel furnish me with a horse great enough. Must we be shipped in earnest, Or do you make us Sheep in jest, True, could our Actium answer your extempore. Why those are th'falsest subtle fellows lives. I Incle the Pedlar. Does this fashion Like my friend so well. I can deny thee nothing if I would. This Peace breeds such Plenty, trades serve no tu nes What parts would best become us (sir) I pray?
Plot summary
Plot — Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped
Under the benevolent rule of Peace, various orders of society turn to learning in their different ways: Mavortius and his fellow noblemen and gentlemen become students of the liberal arts, professional people appoint the scholar Chrisoganus as their lecturer, and some artisans organize themselves as a company of players, Sir Oliver Owlet’s Men. However, the new reign of Plenty tempts many of them away from their studies, leaving only Chrisoganus loyal. While the lawyers and merchants take advantage of the leisure of the vacation to go hunting, Mavortius entertains his guests with a play given by Owlet’s Men. Plenty is succeeded by Pride, who encourages a dedication to fashion and a neglect of proper decorum: the lawyers and merchants enrich themselves unjustly, Mavortius dismisses many of his servants to release more money to spend on pleasure, and both Chrisoganus (who has turned playwright) and Owlet's Men price themselves out of the market. Next, Envy comes to power, causing class resentment in the realm: the citizenry’s adoption of the latest fashions causes resentment among the nobility, envious behaviour disrupts the players’ rehearsal, and Mavortius becomes belligerent. The next ruler is War, under whom the players are conscripted as soldiers, Mavortius fights with his friends, the common people rise in rebellion against their social superiors, and the Spanish invade the realm. Out of this chaos comes Poverty, leading aristocrats, merchants. and peasants alike to debt, bankruptcy, and famine. Owlet’s men, unable to pay their taxes, are banished from the realm. Finally Poverty and her associates are expelled by the return of Peace and Plenty. Queen Elizabeth also appears, in the guise of Astraea, and the play ends with the five lesser rulers resigning their sceptres to Peace.