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¶ Who may be compared to me in degree? Who is more happy then Learning with money? Learning at the first to riches me preferred: And money is the cause that I am now honoured, Learning with money I am of all men called Who is not desirous my favour to win, For my money and riches my learning is esteemed: Very few or none but at my table have been. The learned Seneca these words hath expressed Iners malorum remedium ignorantiam est. Then if you counterpoise me Learning with money, Of all evils and mischief I am the best remedy. ¶ Well, if you lack living be bold to come to me For I can be content to bestow where is need: And especially upon such as godly learned be, I thank God I have wherewith the poor to feed. What Learning with money I am glad to see you here, I stand need of your counsel in diverse cases: Wherefore if you will help me I will recompense you I swear I have many forward matters in hand in sundry places I have money enough to defend me in maugre their faces Many beggarly knaves have good matters against me, But here is one will do well enough, mine old friend money. ¶ Your wise words have brought this sentence to mind Written in terrio Tusculanorum where you may it find, Omnes, cum secundae, tum maximè secum meditari oporter, quo pa cto adversam aerumnam ferant. It is meet for all men when they be in prosperity To meditate how to suffer trouble in adversity. ¶ For that I am partaker with either of you both, To disallow any of you I would be very loath: But learning before riches ought to be preferred, Although the most partly money more regard. ¶ And Sallust in few words thereof writeth thus, In regno voluptatis, virtuti non est locus: In the kingdom of pleasure there is no place for virtue, For pleasure brings loathsomeness as Pliny doth show, Nullam est adeo quae non assiduitate sui fastidium pariat voluptas. ¶ Horace doth verify your saying I am sure Saying, Crescentem pecuniam curam sequitur. And eloquent Cicero sayeth in this phrase Virtuti qui pra diti sunt Soli sunt divites: They are only rich that with virtue are adorned So that without virtue a man can not be enriched: Were it not for my learning I should be more covetous, Therefore learning is to be preferred before any thing, Literae pulcherrimae sunt divitiae hominis The most fair riches of man is knowledge and learning. ¶ God forbid I should from the poor withdraw my hand, For then I should not be able before the Lord to stand: What we give to the poor that we give to Christ, To give to the needy poor God grant us always pressed. ¶ I thank God of such riches as I have, But so long as I live it shall be my servile slave: To lend to the needy, to give to the poor, To suffer none go empty that comes to my door. To bring up my household in gods fear and faith And to be and example to such as Like hath: And if you will be content ho j with me to come, You shall not want living as long as I have some That we do live wantonly and out of Gods fear, But learning doth cause us to bridle our affection: Therefore learning rules my riches every where. ¶ Yea surely he is learned of whom it is great pity, He hath no certain living nor yet any money.
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.