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I am the admiredst in Boeotia, By honouring me thou shalt obtain preferment. I am of power more than all the Gods To fit and rule the hearts of all degrees. They have in me content, as thou shalt see A present instance in these entering men. Oh Mass scholar be patient, for though you Like not my name, you love my nature: and therefore Gentlemen forward with the discourse intended at our last meeting: and in that con ference this Gentleman a soldier, I presume will make one. Be quiet Cobbler, lets hear the Scholar speak! Has a proud heart though a beggars habit. Prithee Ralph stay a little. Wilt thou serve me, and do as I will thee, and thou shalt not want. Sweet Venus be assure, I have that care But you perchance will coily scorn the place. Why gentle Venus I entreat ye be not over nice, What think you as the Proverb goes that beggars have no lice? Proctors them selves in every Spittle house, Have things as neat, as men of more account. Why Gentlemen, no farewell to your little God. Now soldier, what wilt thou do? Then Sateros thou art no mate for me Away thou strumpet, scandal of the world, Cause of my sorrow, author of thy shame, Follow me not, but wander where thou wilt, In uncouth places loathed of the light, Fit shroud to hide thy lustful body in, Whose fair's distained with foul adulterous sin. Shape of continued lusion, mirror of deceit, Fair form with foul deformities defiled. Know that I am Contempt in nature scornful, Foe to thy good, and fatal to thy life That while ioyde in glory and account, Disdainde all virtue, and contemned all vice. Good, bade were held with me of equal price. And now the waning of my greatness comes, Occasioned by thy love, whom Mars aspected, And I that all despised am now rejected. For which I thee reject, disdain and hate, Wishing thee die a death disconsolate. Your disputation being done Gentlemen, which hath highly contented me? what will you now do? 'Tis enough, fare ye well. Even as the child does wormseed hid in Raisons, which of it self he cannot brook: so thou canst not abide my name, but love my nature: for proof, wanting living ra st on the Ci ty, greeust at the country, yea grudgest at the King himself: thou sayest thou art going to thy Patron Mars with a supplication for bettering thy estate, and how, by war: where how many rapes, wrongs and murders are committed, thy self be judge, all which thou esteemest not off, so thy own want be supplied. Come Lady Love, now boar we Mars, thou mine I thine beloude. No they abound with much hypocrisy. Too much resort would there bewray your being. Neither of these, a Spittle lovely Love. It must be as we may, I'll go provided And spy my time slyly to steal thee hence. Venus agreed, play us a Galliard. Lightness of lightest things that vaunt of life, Sprung from the frothy bubbles of the sea: Leave to solicit him that loathes thy looks, Spitting upon thy f ces painted pride I with l forsake thee, and in silence shroud This loathed trunk despised and abhorred,
Plot summary
Plot — The Cobbler's Prophecy
Security has bred social ills in Boeotia, including impiety and disrespect for age. Meanwhile Venus scandalizes heaven with her adulterous liaison with Mars. Mercury selects Ralph Cobbler at random to prophesy to both Mars and Boeotia, and strikes his wife Zelota mad. A courtier, landlord, scholar, and soldier debate the relative merits of their different estates; Sateros the soldier, who is seeking employment from Mars, is obviously the worthiest. He visits the Muses to seek directions to Mars’s court, while Ralph tries to ride there with Charon. On arrival, they are sent on to Venus’ court by a dangerous route, and find Mars engaged in sexual dalliance with Venus. Mars recommends Sateros to the Duke of Boeotia, but is ===== PAGE 168 ===== infuriated by Ralph’s prophecy and quarrels with Venus. When he learns that she has another sexual partner, Contempt, he becomes jealous and misogynistic, and returns to his proper concern with warfare. Venus bears Contempt’s illegitimate child, Ruina. She is deprived of her godhead and banished from heaven; Contempt also abandons her. The Duke hires Sateros and learns from Ralph that the courtier Emnius is plotting to assassinate him while they are out hunting. Under questioning, Emnius confesses, but pretends to repent under threat of being shot with his own pistol. Spared but determined to take revenge, he assaults Ralph and is stabbed to death by mad Zelota. Both Ralph and Zelota are imprisoned for the killing. Boeotia is invaded by foreign powers, and Sateros musters the army; prisoners, including Ralph, are released to serve as soldiers. The invasion is understood to be a punishment from the gods for disregarding Ralph’s prophecies, and in penance the Duke has Contempt’s cabin burnt. News arrives of victory, granted by the gods. Ralph returns to shoemaking, Zelota is cured and pardoned, and Sateros and the scholar unite in support of the Duke’s regime.