Neither lear ning nor money. | Neit. learn. nor mon.
Words
301
Characters
1527
Typicality
0.40 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A06480
BritDrama no.
621
Cluster
Cluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices
Important excerpts
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Full speech
¶ For Christ's sake I suffer this poverty meekly, The cross of Christ I embrace most willingly: The rich for the most partly be so hard hearted That nothing I can get wherewith to be relieved, Yet God doth open the hearts of the poor sort That I have always sufficient my self to comfort: It is a world to see how greedy they be of money, For having and hundredth pound they will not partly with a penny But they will not stick vainly to consume and spend A noble at a shot upon a feigned friend: Gods grace I fear me from such hard hearts is passed That will not give the four score partly of that they spend in wast. Neither learning nor money I am called where ever I go, Whereby I do suffer much pain, hunger and woe: Therefore good gentleman I beseech you of your goodness Give me your charity my body to refresh: And though I be not able God will pay it certain At the last day with Triple foulde again. ¶ What pains and troubles so ever we bide here, I pray God we be patient, and the living God fear: No pains we do suffer of heaven can be worthy, The joys be so great no tongue can express: Therefore I care not for living never so painfully, For repenting in Christ I shall have joys endless: God reward you good gentleman for your good almose deeds, I have sufficient three days my hungry corpse to feed. ¶ Good honest man, relieve me I ask it for Christ's sake, If you knew my need you would then some pity take: Give me of your abundance but one groat or penny And you shall receive it with gain at the last truly.
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.