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I beseech your Grace to pity my distress, There is and unknown thief that robs the common wealth, And makes me and my poor wife and children beg for mainte nance, The time hath be (my Lord) in diebus illis, That the Plowman's coat was of good homespun russet cloth, Whereof neither I nor my servants had no want, Though now both they and I want, And all by this unknown Farmer: For there cannot be and aker of ground to be sold, But he will find money to buy it: nay my Lord, he hath money to buy whole Lordship's, and yet but a Farmer, I have kept a poor house where I dwell this four score year, Yet was I never driven to want till now: I beseech your Grace, as you have still be joust, To seek redress for this oppression I beseech your Grace read my humble petition.
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.