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¶ Sir Laurence liuingles without either living or mansion. ¶ I am none of the best learned it is but a folly to flatter, ¶ Marry I did so answer him that he did depose me From all my benefices and livings with his power and might, He would not once suffer me to serve a cure by this light: Therefore good my Lord I heartily you require To help me to some living according to my desire. ¶ Now God reward your Lordship in heaven may you it find, But one thing I had forgotten which now comes to my mind: At every visitation when I shall be aposed, For want of sufficient learning I shall be then discharged. ¶ The proudest of them all shall not make me now to shrink, The pots shall walk anon, I will full merely drink. ¶ Nay I know how many cards I have when I have played all seven. ¶ Marry one and all his fellows, that I can quickly resite. ¶ Would you fain know the truth, you were best ask that wall, ¶ No nor the other Gospels but a little I have studied, In other things much more I have be occupied. ¶By the mass he writ to many, I would they were all burned, For had not they be and the new Testament in English, I had not lacked living at this time I wiss: Before the people knew so much of the Scripture Then they did obey us and loved us out of measure: And now we can not go in the streets without a mock, The little boys will say, Yonder goes Sir John smell smock. A boy called me so once amongst twenty people and more, And in deed I smelled his mother's not two hours before. And other boy called a priest so, and the priest spoke again quickly, I never smelled thy mother's smock but when I begat thee. ¶ Sir I have a petition to your Lordship to make, Trusting you will be good to me for master moneys sake. ¶ I have a present here not worthy for you to receive, But I give you with all my heart even such as I have: And hundredth Dirige grotes they be good silver and old, I have kept them so long they begin for to mould.
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.