Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

ILL-WILL

in Wealth and Health — Anonymous

Metadata

PlayWealth and Health
AuthorAnonymous
Year (catalogued)1565
First performance1554
Decade1560s
GenreMoral
Play typeInterlude
Speech prefix(es)Wyll. | wyll. | W • ll. | w • ll. | wyll | • yll. | 〈◊〉 . [Ill-Will]
Words1514
Characters6855
Typicality0.25 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA04052
BritDrama no.259
ClusterCluster 20 — Conjurers, witches & physicians

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Full speech

Marry I am come at the first call Will, your own man have me who shall For I am will servant to you all You shall not need to send for me. Alas good Master's I can none ill yet by my troth I am your evil will your will, & your will, & yonr will, therefore keep m I love you by gods mother, By God ir and I durst be so bold A quaintance of this man claim I would and ky ted to, if the troth were told we be of one consangnynitie Will and liberty is, of aunci erie old with ont lyber you, will dare not be old And where will lacketh, liberty is full cold Thyrfore will and liberty must needs be of kin. Will you go hence. I thank you Master's with all my Heart I will S ke you out I warra to you fear not Now they be gone I am glad by saint marry A little while hear I purpose to tarry How to deceive wealth, health, and liberty Now must I devise. For I am a child that is pass grace I will I am called that in every place Does much mi chief this is a plain case Virtue I do utterly despise, But if they wist what I were Then of my purpose I should be never y ere I will keep my onge le e that I r. My whole intent and will. But now I marvel by this day Where shrewd wit is gone a stray Some crafty touch is in his way I here him, peace, stand Still ¶Dien vous guard plaisance On seven or no chance, what youkers dare avaunt To play a groat or twain. Lo hear I have in store Two or three grotes and no more I take great thought therefore For to keep it, it is much pain I come vow out of a place where is a company of small grace Thieves and hores that spends a pace They were drunken all the sort. One of their purces I did a spy Out of his sleeve where it did lie And one winked on me with his eye But there began the sport Their false falsehood, and I crafty wit God the purse lo, hear I have it I ran my way and let him fit Smoke and shitten arse together. And if that I had ill will here with this money we would make good cheer Gentle brother will, I pray the appear For thou art in some corner. Her you not worser onke ̄ hance how he be gius to pra e The ma low pert slemi ge is a lit le to cheek mate C pt hoar leyf with the r gound stand never that be ummes you better to handle a pot of bear Well coppin I pray the heartily tell us true Wherefore comest thou hither for any Thy g to sew We speak not to thee thou art a S one man But go thy way they be not here that promot y Can ̄ Be shrew your horson S eminges Heart therefore. in deed as he says, by war in lau ̄ dears theris wealth store I un thee thank, this is well devised And I ill will, would have every man despised B now another thing must be con rived Oh else all will be nought There is one they call good remedy I this realm, he hath gee to actor y He is a no le m and much worthy M nigh thiuges he hach wrought He is called l st, discreet and indifference Willing to fulfil his sooner I es commandment H is not fraide to do right punishment TO erfore of him I am afraid P ce no more words but M think I ear mast wealth Can K le do e devout orison TO to they may hear us pr y N w Wealth, He h, and L bertie. Liberty and health retur eth back with wealth Sir this do we use ever day F r w that health and liberty ray This sa is m brother, He is and hard honest man. God thank you mais ers all three you shall find us poor but we cannot be My tongue stom less, I cry you mercy We will be true I should ay, Sir be not angry I you pray he fool woteth not he does say He meaneth hat he will be profitable always And save you many things. By God I would I had the r gown And were a mile without the town Theron A would borrow a crown It is I that so said I will swear for him, as or this years twenty that he hath been ever as true as I yet sometime he will steal and make a He is of my alyaunce. What dost thou ail canst thou tell? Hast thou any thing with us to mell? By the mass thy hands does tykell Thou shalt bear me a blow. you be a g y with all that we have done Cum away brother let us go eus soon I know a n w m ister where we shall be welcum God be with ou gentle master And will is and ungracious stay Will hath done many things me say And if you let wit and will go his way you will repent it soon. Then let us go hence, with ki dnes my herye do kill Nay nay, there is no doubt By him I have reported all about Than he does not well, his good name to put out ylwyl cannot say well, Qury cicis quest is un malt ombre Me is un spy & nardo compoco pa lauere. I Iyf oh to fetch them quickly That on is John Irische and John S oler But full these be honest men all thr you lie falsely, I peak but right a worser reason And by the law of arms you must ned S be ane you a e called good remedy which a all feason Should leave to men life, and ma taine the same we be he e oath your prisoners wrongfully accused by de am Keep ou of us fast let him lie for all That other sor friends and witness goo shall. Hold thy tongue folis k ave I do not mean so No by gods body there shall none go but I Lock us up & keep us as fast as you can yet ill will and rued wit shall be with many a man. Is he gone, farewell hanykin House I pray God give him a hounded drouse For I trow a knave brought him to house But now brother wit. We must devo e how that we may Be in service with wealth alway Let me here what thou canst do or say To help for to contryue it. you sir they be all merry and glad With revel and out sometime they be mad Pipe whore bo to heef, every knave and drabe Is at our commaundeme to. What do you say, then e are to blame A worser we put you in trust for the same To keep such rule, it is a shame It is not for our honour Per amorde my as pi Can un poco Eo queris and a pour lag n creae so Lo false knave this is for thy crafty with . Now fast by the heals we are lake to fit. Why, I cam not till C was called your own will opeuly you nam Then I came a pace lest I should be blamed There over I pray you let me hide Still, Here is none of our acquaiutau ̄ ce will re our eth we have made to louge tar aunce that will y say perc unce And they begone home come away apar For I we surely hat h lth be dead I saw saw him go with a kercher on his head As he should go to hanging. Now will I begin Like a lusty blood than ̄ . Sirs now go your way of you I am glad As of any sir ants that ever I had For these can do does good oh bade We must needs have such men What were we if we lacked will: And without that we old live ill Therefore will and wit I will epe Still. I promise you I love them From thy company I cannot abide I must edes hold upon high side y will and shrewd wit who Can hide For they will be together. Yet by Christ your own will I am The maddest will, and the merriest, than For gods sake now, let me be your man Till you have better acquaintance. Cum in wit for here is no body We may we bold and talk largely Our hearts to ease and show plainly What we have done.

Plot summary

Plot — Wealth and Health
Wealth and Health enjoy a playful dispute about the relative value of material riches and spiritual health; Liberty also asserts his importance in the scheme of things. After sharing the spoils of a theft, Ill-Will and Shrewd Wit enter Wealth’s service, disguising themselves by suppressing the damaging parts of their names. Remedy, whose job is to protect prosperity and freedom in England, warns Health, Wealth, and Liberty against excess and prodigality. He recognizes Wit and Will as miscreants, and expels their confederate Hans as a parasitic foreigner draining England’s national substance. Wit and Will are retained as servants, with the result that Wealth is spent, Health grows sickly, and Liberty is imprisoned. Remedy apprehends the bad servants and sends them to prison. He restores Wealth, Health, and Liberty to their former condition and assures them that justice will ultimately prevail and deceit be exposed.