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Full speech
Nor with you Soldier to be thus blunt after your rude fashion. What hath any man to do what I do with mine own? Sir you would make enough of it in yours to. No sir, not I, 'tis too deer by my faith. Hail to Contents divinest exelence. At my list can I rack their rends, set them to fines, bind them to forfeits, force them to what I please. If I built, they be my labourers: if bargain, on them I built: and for my good look they are content to endure any travel. Oh sir, I have been seeking you all day, And greatly do I praise my fortune thus to meet ye. Lord sir, and you be advised, I was one of them that reasoned before contempt, when you defended war, another a to, one the court, and I the country. Oh Lord sir yes, by that token we went afterwards to the Ordinary. It against my will I'faith: you saw I was anon there men guest. Marry sir there is wars towards, do you not hear on it? And I fear by reason of my wealth I shall be chosen for a Captain over some Companies. Why I have no skill, and therefore would hire you to serve in my place. I'll please you well. But I hope you will not deal so with me? Why what alife is this, that such as I must serve? Ashame on wars for me that ere they were. You do remember me I hope.
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.