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Full speech
Arts bonae ubique sunt in praecio, nec possunt à fortuna erip Good arts are every where esteemed, and had in price And can not be taken away by Fortune truly. My name is called Art, wherein is used much vice: All occupations and arts which daily now are wrought By me are represented throughout the whole earth, Every one for money me daily have sought: And all for private gain as plainly appears, Who doth embrace me, thereby to suppress death, For a common wealth few use me in deed And to bring up their household godly, and the poor to feed. What husband man is he that abates the price of corn? Nay he rather buys and keeps his own in store. Many merchant man that is right simple born, With unsatiable gains increases more and more: He will not abate his price for helping of the poor. Who will not prevent his neighbour with buying things over his head All this is for money, so that love and charity are dead. But do I not see here the most worthy Theology, And also Science, and knowledge next him in degree? ¶ And again it is written the second de finibus, Pecuniam voluptatis perimitur maximae, The meaning whereof I may thus discuss Most great pleasures be brought forth for money: Then if money bring pleasure, pleasure brings forth sin And sin brings damnation unless Gods grace we win. ¶ And as you both have said, I am pleased therewith: Oh Lord keep thy people in thy faith, love and truth.
Plot summary
Plot — All for Money
The play satirizes the domination of money in a sequence of discrete episodes. Theology, Science, and Art lament that they are now primarily studied out ofa desire for money. Money becomes ill and vomits up Pleasure, who in turn gives birth to Sin in the same manner, whose progeny in turn is Damnation. Satan is pleased that Money’s wide popularity will consign so many souls to hell, and asks Sin to assist in the process. The relative values of money and learning are assessed in an encounter between four characters who have or lack them in various permutations: learning is shown to be superior to money, and poverty in this world carries the promise of a heavenly reward in the next; the clinching point is that Learning with Money gives alms to the poor where Money without Learning refuses. Money feels overworked and Sin gives him an associate, All for Money, who presides over a corrupt court: he pardons theft and assault, infanticide, and bigamy, but hangs a poor thief who is unable to bribe him. He also advises two suitors to procure false witnesses to support their causes, and protects a corrupt and incompetent cleric. Judas and Dives, two souls damned for monetary sins, lament their situation; Damnation drives them off to hell. Godly Admonition warns the audience not to repent too late, and to give up cupidity.