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God morrow to yourself good master Bagot, And whats the news you are so early stirring: It is for gain, I make no doubt of that. I promise you, I have not seen the man, This two months day, his poverty is such, As I do think he shames to see his friends. Mistress Banister, I envy not your husband, Nor willingly would I have used him thus: But that I here he is so lewdly given, Haunts wicked company, and hath enough, To pay his debts, yet will not be known thereof. Go to, I see thou art and envious man, Good ministers Banister kneel not to me, I pray rise up, you shall have your desire. Hold officers be gone, theres for your pains, You know you owe to me a thousand pound, Here take my hand, if ear God make you able, And place you in your former state again, Pay me: but if still your fortune frown, Upon my faith I'll never ask you crown: I never yet did wrong to men in thrall. For God does know what to my self may fallen. I thank you both, I pray go dinc with me, Within these three days, if God give me leave, I will to Florence to my native home, Bagot hold, theres a Portague to drink, Although you ill deserved it by your merit, Give not such cruel scope unto your heart, Besure the ill you do will be requited, Remember what I say, Bagot farewell, Come Master Banister, you shall with me, My fare is but simple, but welcome heartily. And what are you my friend. I see you have been met by the Bandetto, And therefore need not ask how you came thus But Friskiball why dost thou question them, Of their estate and not relieve their need, Sir the coin I have about about me is not much: Theres sixteen Ducats, for to cloth yourselves, Theres sixteen more to buy your diet with, And the sixteen to pay for your horse hire: 'Tis all the wealth you see my purse possesses, But if you please for to inquire me out, You shall not want for ought that I can do, My name is Friskiball a Florence Merchant, A man that always loved your nation. It is not worth such thanks; come to my house, Your want shall better be relieved then thus. I'll be no hinderer to so good and act, Heaven prosper you, in that you go about; If Fortune bring you this way back again, Pray let me see you: so I take my leave, All good a man can wish, I do bequeathe. I thought your usage would be as the rest, That had more kindness at my hands then you, Yet looked asconce, when as they saw me poor: All other parts hath left me succorlesse, Save only this, because of debts I have, I hope to gain for to relieve my want. I never made my brain a calendar of any good I did, I always loved this nation with my heart. Arrest him at my suit, you were to blame, I know the men misfortunes to be such, As he's not able for to pay the debt, And were it known to some he were undone. If it be so, he hath deceived me much, And to deal strictly with such a one as he, Better severe then too much lenity, But here is Master Banister himself, And with him as I take the officers. Whats here? two Englishmen robbed by the Bandetto, One of them seems to be a gendeman: 'Tis pity that his fortune was so hard, To fallen into the desperate hands of thieves, I'll question him of what estate he is, God save you sir, are you and Englishman? Oh Friskiball, what shall become of thee? Where shalt thou go, or which way shalt thou turn, Fortune that turns her too unconstant wheel, Hath turned thy wealth and riches in the Sea, All parts abroad where ever I have been, Grows weary of me, and denies me succour, My debtors they, that should relieve my want, Forswears my money, says they owe me none: They know my state too mean, to bear out law, And here in London, where I oft have been, And have done good to many a wretched man, Am now most wretched here, dispisd my self, In vain it is, more of their hearts to try, Be patient therefore, say thee down and die. I wonder what this Lord would have with me, His man so strictly gave me charge to stay: I never did offend him to my knowledge, Well, good or bade, I mean to bide it all, Worse then I am, now never can befall. The same that brought you to your misery. Not yet I cannot, for the Lord Chancellor, Hath here commanded me to weight on him, For what I know not: pray God 'tis for my good. Withal my heart: but whats become of Bagot. A joust reward for one so impious, The time draws on, sir will you go along. My name was Friskiball, till cruel fate, Did rob me of my name and of my state.
Plot summary
Plot — Thomas Lord Cromwell
So devoted is young Thomas Cromwell to his studies thathe tries to stop his father's workmen from making a noise. Old Cromwell is concerned at his ambitious son's lavishness with money: he seems not to understand the economic realities of life. He is making a living by working as a copyist, but accepts a job as a secretary in Antwerp. Banister owes Friskiball £1,ooo. Bagot has him arrested in Friskiball's name, and hardens the creditor's heart by telling him that Banister has enough money to pay his debts, if he were willing to do so. Frisk.iball relents after Mistress Banister pleads for her husband, and defers the debt until the couple have become prosperous; but the vindictive Bagot buys Banister's debts in order to oppress him. Banister flees to Antwerp, but Bagot pursues and arrests him. Cromwell agref!S to help the Banisters, and speaks to Bagot; but fails to move pity in him. Bagot negotiates with the Governor of Antwerp over some jewels, w:hich turn out to be stolen. Bagot is arrested and sent back to England; Banister is released, and awarded his confi.s.cated property. Cromwell goes to Florence with his servant Hodge, but they are robbed of their clothes. Following Italian custom, they set up bills describing their misfortune, and the anglophile Friskiball gives them money. They travel on to Bologna to relieve the Earl of Bedford, who is trapped in a house surrounded by French troops. Cromwell rescues the Earl posing as a Neapolitan hired by the French to abduct him: Hodge and Bedford exchange clothing, and Hodge is arrested in the Earl's place, but released after news arrives that Bedford is safe in Mantua. Declining the invitation to join the Ead's retinue, Cromwell completes his European tour with a trip to Spain, then returns to England, where he enters the household of Sir Thomas Hales. Im.pressed by Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey appoints him his solicitor. After Wolsey dies, accused of treason, Croli;lwell surrenders his papers for the King's perusal. A grateful Bedford introduces him to the King; he is knighted and showered with public offices, and sets about reforming the church by confiscating ecclesiastical property. Despite his elevation, he acknowledges the lowly people he knew in his youth and pays the debts he accrued then. Meanwhile Friskiball returns to London in poverty: his debtors have defaulted, and Bagot has been hanged; only Banister acknowledges him. He waits on Cromwell, who remembers him from Florence and repays his…