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Oh sir Christopher you are too liberal, what a banquet to? Thanks to the kind master of the Rolls, Come and fit down, fit down sir Thomas More: 'Tis strange, how that we and the Spaniard differ, Their dinner, is our banquet after dinner, And they are men of active disposition, This I gather, that by their sparing meat: Their body is more fitter for the wars, And if that famine chance to pinch their maws, Being used to fast it breeds less palne. Sir Christopher is that your man. My friend come nearer, have you been a traveller. What do you think of the several states, And princes Courts as you have traveled. My Lord there dwells within that spirit, More then can be discerned by outward eye, Sir Cristopher will you partly with your man. What is thy name. Then Cromwell here we make thee Solliciter of our causes, And nearest next our self: Gardener give you kind welcome to the man. Sir Christopher hadst hadst thou given me, Half thy lands: thou couldst not have pleased me: So much as with this man of thine, My infant thoughts do spell: Shortly his fortune shall be lifted higher, True industry does kindle honours fire, And so kind master of the Rolls farewell.
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…