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Sir I hope how far soever you make it off, you remem ber too well for me, that this is the day wherein I should pay you money that I took up of you alate in a commodity. I sir it was your devise that, to colour the Statute, but your conscience knows what I had. Then there is no favour sir? No covetous Caterpillar, know, that I have made ex treame shift rather then I would fallen into the hands of such a ra uening panthar, and therefore here is thy money and deliver me the recognisance of my lands. Come sir will you dispatch and tell your money. Why sir, I hope you do but jest, why 'tis but four, and will you for a minute take forfeit of my bound, if it were so sir, I was here before four. Why but thou covetous churl, wilt thou not receive thy money and deliver me my recognisance? And so I will insatiable peasant. What meanest thou by that fellow? Well fellow, go with me, and isle help thee to a Law year. I needs not sir discourse unto you the duty of Lawyers in tendering the right cause of their Clients, nor the conscience you are tied unto by higher command. Therefore suffice the Usum rer hath done me wrong, you know the Case, and good sir, I have strained my self to give you your fees. Sir, I am the other plaintiff and this is my Council lour, I beseech your honour be favourable to me in equity. Is the wind in that door, why then my Lord thus, I took upon this cursed Usurer, for so I may well term him, a commodity of forty pounds, whereof I received ten pound in money, & thirty pound in Lute-strings, whereof I could by great friendship make but five pounds: for the assurance of this bad commodity, I bound him my land in recognisance, I came at my day and tendered him his money and he would not take it, for the redress of my open wrong, I crave but justice. That was sir, but a devise of him to colour the Sta tute. Sir, I was there before four, & he held me with brab ling till the Clock struck, and then for the breach of a minute he refused my money, and keep the recognisance of my land for so small a trifle: Good Signor Mizaldo speak what is law, you have your fee, you have herd what the case is, and therefore do me ju stice and right, I am a young Gentleman and speak for my pa trimony. Oh execrable bribery. Oh inspeakeable injustice. Oh miserable time wherein gold is above God. And I will go with Thee and entreat him for my Case. Fear not, lets go, I'll quiet her shalt see. I'll get me gone, though woe begun with grief, No hope remains, come Alcon let us weened. Loathed is the life that now enforced I lead, But since necessity will have it so, (Necessity it does command the ̄ Gods) Through every coast and corner now I pry, To pilfer what I can to buy me meat. Here have I God a cloak not over old, Which will afford some little sustenance, Now will I to the broaking Usurer, To make exchange of beware for ready coin. Here are my partners in my poverty, Enforced to seek their Fortune's as I do. Ah-lasse that few men should possess the wealth, And many souls be forced to beg or steal. Alcon well met. To the Usurer to get gold on commodity. How catch the fishermen fish? My conscience cries that I have done amiss. Exet. Truly sir this time was so short, the commodity so bade, and the promise of friends so broken, that I could not provide it against the day, wherefore I am come to entreat you to stand my friend and to favour me with a longer time, and I will make you sufficient consideration. Have patience Samia, weight your weal from heaven, Though Gods have raised your son I hope for this, To succour innocents in their distress. Lo where he comes from the imperial Court, Go let us prostrate us before his feet. I weight no hope of succours in this place, Where children hold their father's in disgrace. And what through want from others I purloined, Behold Oh King, I proffer before thy throne: To be restored to such as owe the same.
Plot summary
Plot — A Looking Glass for London and England
Triumphant over the King of Jerusalem, the Assyrian king Rasni declares himself divine and marries his sister, Remilia; a viceroy who objects is banished and the flatterer Radagon given his place. Inordinately proud of her beauty, Remilia is struck by lightning. Rasni is unable to revive her, and buries her in state; but is encouraged by Radagon to think of the living rather than the dead, and to take Alvida, wife of the King of Paphlagonia. When her husband objects to the adulterous liaison, she poisons him. Alvida continues to be unfaithful: her ambition attracts her to Rasni, but her sexual appetite favours the Viceroy of Cilicia, so she takes both. Thrasybulus and Alcon are both cheated by a usurer to whom they are trying to repay money: he keeps them talking beyond the due hour and then secures possession of Thrasybulus’ farm and Alcon’s cow as a penalty for non-payment. They attempt to sue him, but he bribes both the judge and their lawyer, and they lose their cases. Alcon appeals to Radagon, his son, to help his starving family, but Radagon is too proud to acknowledge his parent, and Rasni has him ejected from the court. Radagon’s mother curses him, and: he is swallowed by subterranean fire. Thrasybulus ard ===== PAGE 473 ===== 1589 Alcon turn to begging and theft in their destitution, and try to pawn stolen clothes to the usurer. Adam, a smith’s man, goes off with some ruffians to get drunk. After a drunken quarrel over a woman, one of them is killed. Rasni finds Adam in a stupor by the body, but decides that murder is ordinary drunken behaviour, and takes no judicial action. Adam and his mistress are having an illicit affair. The smith catches them canoodling, but when he attempts to take reprisals, Adam argues that he is the one who should be beaten for the sin of jealousy. An angel orders Jonah to preach against Nineveh’s wickedness. He is reluctant, and takes a ship to Tarshish instead. The ship encounters a storm, which Jonah identifies as a sign of divine displeasure at his disobedience. He has himself thrown overboard, and the storm abates. A whale swallows him, then belks him up on shore. He goes to Nineveh as ordered. These events are watched and commented on by the prophet Hosea, brought from Jerusalem by an angel. The angel removes him before the Ninevites’ corruption receives its due reward in the city’s destruction, and he returns to preach to the Jews of Nineveh’s wickedness. ‘The city is troubled by apparitions and portents, but…