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Most gracious Prince, vouchsafe to hear me speak, I cannot but confess (most gracious Sovereign) That I have erd in being obstinate in wilful disobedience to my sire Wherein I have wronged nature and your Maies y But I am not the first whom oversight Hath made forgetful of a Father's love: But Father's love shall never be forgotten, If he but dame to pardon my amiss: But if your wrath will no ways be appeased, Rip up this breast where is incl sde that heart, That bleeds with grief to think on my amiss. Ah Father pardon, sweet Father pardon me. Thanks, gracious King, for this great favour shown, And may I never live, if I forget, Your Graces kind and unexpected love, In favouring him, whom all the world forsook: For which my Orisons S all still he spent: Heavens may protect your princely Majesty. And loving Father, here upon my knee, Sorry for my amiss, I take my leave, Both of your self, my King, and countrymen England, farewell, more dearer unto me, Than pen can write, or heart can think of thee. My life (dear father) that sentence were too hard, Let me be banished from my countries bounds, And live as exiled in some wilderness, Barred from society and sighed of men, Or let me hazard fortune on the seas, In setting me aboard some helmless ship, That either I may split upon so me rock, Or else be swallowed in the purple Main, Rather than die in presence of my King, Or bring that sorrow to your aged years: If this suffice not, then let me be armed, And left alone ousand foes, And if my weapon cannot set me free, Let them be means to take my life from me.
Plot summary
Plot — A Knack to Know a Knave
. . Concerned for the good order of his kingdom, King Edgar commissions Honesty to seek out and expose knaves. The dying Bailiff of Hexham advises his four sons to live by fraud and deceit in their various: professions, and to enrich themselves at the expense of the commonweal and the poor..He dies and is carried off by the devil. While Edgar deals with the case of 1592 Philarchus, a courtier who has abused his father, Honesty observes the corrupt dealings of the Bailiff’s sons: Cuthbert, a cony-catcher, who bears false witness in an attempt to take possession of a farm; Walter, a farmer, who oppresses his neighbours and exports corn to feed the enemy; John, a priest, who refuses to give to charity; and Perin, a courtier, who misuses the royal seal and sells Walter an export licence for his corn under pretext of raising revenues for the crown. Meanwhile honest members of the state, from knight to ploughman, complain of their economic decline. Edgar sends Ethenwald to woo Alfrida by proxy, but Ethenwald falls in love with her himself and marries her. The King forgives him and visits the couple (receiving a petition from the mad men of Gotham on the way), but the jealous Ethenwald is convinced that Edgar plans to cuckold him, and has Alfrida and the kitchen maid swap identities during the royal visit. An outraged Edgar sees through the subterfuge and plans to take revenge, but Bishop Dunstan, with the help of the devil, persuades him to pardon Ethenwald instead. Honesty exposes the various knaves he has observed, and, with royal permission, sentences them all to gruesome and unusual punishments.