liberti. | liberty. | liberty • | liberty | libert | •• libert | lib • r • y
Words
659
Characters
3100
Typicality
0.15 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A04052
BritDrama no.
259
Cluster
Cluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit
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Full speech
What were you both two, were not I. Wretches and caitiffs, look not so hie Think no scorn hardly For I may be your pear if wealth have never so much substance Lacking Liberty and we r in durance Within a White, I am in assurance you would pray me come never. If Health be never so lust and strong yet if Liberty were kept from him long Then sorrow and care would be his song. that would abate your cheer. Fie of wealth which lacketh ybertye Fie of Health and be in captivity Fie of riches and lack good company Liberty hath no peer, In deed as he Say it may well be For will ever longeth unto lybrtye Therefore good Friend welcome to me I pray you all be good to him If we should refuse will and wit we were to blame or they be fit Therefore by my well they shall not lie They be welcome to me, Good remedy forsooth I the S me if I oh bold I would pray you har ely To sh we us apart of you great ac oritie, Let me hear what you do say Then you are about to cast me away How haps this? marry then I may Go pike straws and take me rest. I pray you tell me whom I have oh fended if I have made a fault it shalde amended with so short warning let me not be voided I crow yet you do but jest. Gods Body how comes this gere to pass I am cast out at the carts arse The world is nothing as it was For I am here refused This is a strange saying unto me My will, your will, and his will, this cannot be For in our wiles is great diversity For one is not like another, Beware of that, what does he say? Beguile us all, yet I charge you ay You shall not beguile us if I may I will beware betime. Now there you lie, I can suffer no lo her Wealth for Liberty does lobo re ever And health for Liberty is a great store Therefore set me not so light Now I thank you both full kindly your strange words a little did green me And now at your continued ̄ mau ̄ dement I am ready And at your own will. ill will is nought, but worse is shrewd wit For he contryueth all subtle ymanginacien that were unpossible for a man else to do it shrewd wit breweth myscef & false conspyracion He hath put me liberty in prison, a ̄ worser great at tribulation if it had not be for your good remedi & fortherau ̄ ce I other y to hath liberty, should have be ̄ in durance. What was the matter, I pray you tell Me thinks I ought to be of counsel Or else I promise you you do not well With you I should behold. S r to know wherefore you come we are desyrons Sir now we will depart hence with the r licence Why what cause have you to go your way you shall abide which us though you say nay I will follow will, and wit always And so I have ever done Why tarry sirs whither are you going I see well you looked not for my commi g Lo, out of sight out of remembry g Abse ce is cause of strau gnes, What look you on werwhy are you so strange From your fellow liberty, does your minds chau ̄ ge I your company I was wont to range What needs all this business, Then of my love you set no store My company I see well you looked notfore Farewell I will get me out of the door yet I am your betters and so am I called. Sir I pray you sing and you ran
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.