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The Muses assist you sir, what at your study so early. Indeed I understand not Latin sir. That shows your more learning sir, but I pray you is that small matter done I entreated for. Oh lord sir, I would it had but half the taste of garlic. Oh lord sir, far be it from us, to debar any worthy writer of his merit; but I pray you sir, what is the title you be stow upon it? I pray let me see the beginning of it, I hope you have made no dark sentence in't, for I'll assure our audience come monly very simple idleheaded people, and if they should hear what they understand not, they would quite forsake our house. Me think the end of this staff is a foot too long. Why hear you, And you that delight in truls and minions, Come buy my four ropes of hard S. Thomas onions: Look you there S. Thomas might very well have been left out, beside, hard should have come next the onions, Well as you please, I pray you sir what will the gratuity be, I would content you as near hand as I could. You say well, look you sir, theres a brace of angels, beside much drink of free cost if it be liked. Nay, I pray sir be not angry, for as I am a true stage trotter, I mean honestly and look you, more for your love then otherwise, I give you a brace more. Troth I am sorry I gave you such cause of impatiency, but you shall see hereafter if your invention take, I will not stand off for a brace more or less, desiring I may see your works before another. I am your man for't, I pray you command all the kind ness belongs to my function, as a box for your friend at a new play although I procure the hare of all my company. I care not, I would played a Kings partly any time these ten years, if I cannot command such a matter it poor i'faith. I pray sir when this new invention is produced let not me be forgotten. What would then Cresus list to fill Some mortals coffers up with gold, Changing the silver it does hold: By that pure mettle ift be so, By the infernal gates I swear, Where Radamanth does dominere: By Cresus name and by his castle, Where winter nights he keepeth wassell; By Demogorgon and the fates, And by all these low country states; That after knowledge of thy mind, Ascarion Like the swift paced wind, Will fly to finish thy command. Swifter in course then does the Sun.
Plot summary
Plot — The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl
Haddit has spent all his money and mortgaged his lands to Hog the usurer, and now ekes out a living selling jigs to players. He aims to solve his financial problems by marrying Rebecca, Hog’s daughter, whose affections he had previously refused in the belief that she was too low-born for him. Hog intends Rebecca to marry young Lord Wealthy, but she refuses, and helps Haddit trick her father. Haddit’s uncle, Lightfoot, helps to get the servant Peter out of the way by picking a quarrel, to give him a pretext for making peace with a drinking contest; Peter imbibes himself insensible in the cellar. Rebecca steals Hog’s keys, giving Haddit and his accomplices access to his bedroom, where he keeps his gold. Lightfoot appears to Hog as the ghost of Croesus, come to make the usurer rich: a spirit will ===== PAGE 291 ===== 1613 take his gold and transform it into pearl, which is even more valuable; in reality, Haddit steals the money and retrieves his mortgage, then absconds with Rebecca and marries her. Hog goes to complain to old Lord Wealthy, but his supernatural experiences induce a conversion: he renounces avarice and gives the couple his blessing. In the sub-plot, Carracus plans to elope with young Lord Wealthy’s sister Maria, and entrusts his friend Albert with the arrangements. Albert visits Maria early, posing as Carracus, and has sex with her; she then leaves with Carracus as planned, and marries him: Albert suffers remorse and decides to leave human society. Some time later, Carracus notices that Maria is wearing Albert’s ring, which he gave her on the night of the elopement. Both realize what Albert did; Maria faints and Carracus is told that she has died of shame. In fact, she disguises herself as a page and flees to the woods, where Albert has carved penitential verses on every tree. Posing as a hermit, Albert finds her almost dead from starvation; he takes her to his cave; and feeds her. Carracus also goes to the woods, where an echo tells him that Maria is alive and innocent. They meet up, and revelations ensue: the page is chaste Maria and the hermit is penitent Albert. Carracus and Maria forgive him, and make their peace with Maria’s family.