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B Oye? Lay by my conscience, give me my Gown, That weed is for the country, We must be civil now, and match out Evil, Who first made Civil, black; he pleased the Devil; So; now know I where I am, me thinks already I grasp best partly of the Autumnian blessing In my contentious fathom, my hand's free, From wronger and from wronged I have fee, And what by sweat from the rough earth they draw, Is to enrich this silver harvest, Law, And so through wealthy variance, and fat brawl, The Bairn is made but Steward to the Hall; Come they up thick enough? Why dost thou couple them? Such another and be my heir, I have no Child, Yet have I wealth would redeem beggary, I think it be a curse both here and foreign, Where bags are fruitful'st, there the womb's most barren, The poor ha all our children, we their wealth; Shall I be prodigal when my life cools, Make those my heirs whom I have beggared; Fools? It would be wondrous; rather beggar more, Thou shalt have heirs enough, thou keepest a whore, And here comes kindred too with no mean purses, Yet strive to be still blessed with Clients curses. What subtlety have we here? a fellow Shrugging for life's kind benefits, shift and heat, Crept up in 3. Terms, wrapped in silk and silver, So well appointed too with Page and Pandar, It was a happy gale that blue him hither. Your duty and regard hath moved us, Never till now we thought you loved us, Take comfort from our words, and make no doubt, You shall have suits come sixteen times about. With what a vassal—appetite they Gnaw, On our reversions; and are proud, Coldly to taste our meats, which eight returns Serve in to us as courses; One day our writs Like wildfowl fly abroad, And then return over Cities, Towns, and Hills, With Clients Like dried straws between their bills; And it's no few birds pick to built their Nests, Nor no small money that keeps Drabs and Feasts!
Plot summary
Plot — Michaelmas Term
Rearage and Andrew Lethe are rivals for the hand of Quomodo’s daughter: her mother favours Rearage and her father Lethe. Lethe has assumed gentry status, and is concerned when his plebeian mother arrives from the country; but she does not recognize him, and he employs her as a go-between. Hellgill brings a country wench to London, promising to pass her off as a gentlewoman. He dresses her up and she begins to attract gallants, including Lethe. Her father comes looking for her, and, not recognizing him, she takes him on as a servant. A third visitor from the country is Richard Easy, who is entrapped by Shortyard and Falselight, the agents of Ephestian Quomodo. Shortyard gambles with Easy, persuading him to keep on betting in the hope of breaking his losing streak. In consequence, he needs money to fund his social life, and seeks to borrow it from Quomodo. He is induced to take the loan in cloth, which he can sell on to realize the money; ===== PAGE 155 ===== 1604 posing as the fictitious ‘Blastfield’, Shortyard also signs the bond. Quomodo and his accomplices engineer a downturn in the market: the cloth has to be sold for less than half its true value. When the bond falls due for repayment a month later, Blastfield cannot be found, and Easy is arrested. Quomodo’s accomplices pose as wealthy citizens and stand bail for Easy, so long as he signs over all his possessions to them. When Blastfield still cannot be found, the bailsmen give Quomodo Easy’s lands in lieu of the bail they owe him. Easy is ruined, but Quomodo’s wife Thomasine, who has witnessed the cozenage, takes pity on him and lends him money. Concerned about his son Sim’s possible prodigality, Quomodo feigns his own death to see how people will take it. He attends his own funeral disguised as a beadle, but nobody has a good word to say about him. Thomasine quickly marries Easy, who learns how he was duped. Shortyard cozens Sim of Easy’s lands, but is forced to restore them to Easy to cover himself; but Easy still has him arrested. Still in disguise, Quomodo collects his fee for attending the funeral; Thomasine has him sign a document renouncing any further claim on the household, and for a joke he signs his own name. When this is noticed, he reveals his identity and institutes legal proceedings against Thomasine and Easy. On the day of his marriage to Susan, Lethe is arrested for lewd behaviour with the country wench. All the cases come before a judge, who will only accept Quomodo’s identity when…