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Well do I Like your reasoning Gentlemen, You for your learning, Sa eros for Act, The learned is preferrde, the soldier shall not want, But Sateros, ye must forbear a while, I cannot yet employ you as I would: Mean time attend the Court you shall have pay To my ability and your content. Suppose there were a traitorous foe of mine, What wouldst thou do to rid me from my fear? I am right joyous you are so resolved, Such Courtiers should become a noble Prince. But tell me Emnius had I any foe, That secretly attempted my distress, what secret weapon have ye to prevent? Scholar led him in. Be kind to him he is a soldier. Attend upon us to our hunting Sateros, We must have pleasant war anon with beasts. Emnius they must attend a while, For I have secrets to impart with thee: Thou wit we must unto the wood. But tell me Emnius, didst thou see a tree, That boar fair fruit delighting to the eye, And by the straightness of the trunk they grow too High wouldst thou oppose thy self against the tree, And work the downfall ere the fallen should be. And have you not a Dag to help me too. For that sweet voice offered to us by man, Cast sweetest incense into holy fires, And while they burn, tell on thy happy news, That we may ear and honour heavenly Powers. To heavens and Sateros return we thanks, For thy reward receive this recompense: Our selves will forward to salute our friends, That fought for honour of Booetia. Found Drum and Trumpet notes triumphantly, Heavens have the honour for this victory. Welcome brave soldier, welcome to you all, Joy stops my words, I cannot speak my mind, But in this triumph pass we to the Court, Where you shall all receive your endue de eits. I will provide for thee, and pardon her. Come Sateros let me yet honour thee, To whom the heavens have given great victory, And took in worth our worthless sacrifice, Wherein Contempt and L st with old ingratitude, Have perished Like Fume that flies from fire. March forward brave and worthy man at Arms Thy deeds shall be rewarded worthily: Embrace the Scholar, live you two as friends, For Arms and Learning may not be at jar, counsel prevents, counsel prevails in war. Then with endue praise to heaven let us depart, Our State supported both by Arms and Art. Depart my friends, I have a little business With this poor man that does attend to speak with me. Fellow what is it thou wilt now reveal? I manned j it not, I know you have a Dag prepared for me. Yes Emnius pour thy self into thy self, And let thy own eyes be thy hearts true witness. wearest thou this Dag to injure any beast? Bearest thou these bullets for a foeman's life? Or art thou bent against thy loyal Lord, oh reave his life that gives thee life and breath? Heavens pardon thy intent, and so do I, Be true hereafter, now thou shalt not die. Come follow us Emnius, learn to know this lore, Murder of meanest men brings shame, of Princes more. Well, God a mercy fellow, go thou in. His presence breeds me no offence. Why what acquaintance hast thou with this woma ̄ ? Commit them both, but she has long been mad, It may be heaven reserved her to this end. I do not guess the woman guilty of this crime, But the joust heavens in their severity, Have wrought this wreak for Ennius treachery. What are they fellow, let us hear the ̄ speak. Spare not I will provide as far as heavenly powers, And our abilities shall give consents; I'll to the temple and pour forth my prayers, Mean while let Sateros be called for, To muster up the people with all speed, So smiles Hiena, when she will be guile, And so with tears deceives the Crocodile. Are not these tools prepared for my end? Speak ill intending man, Ah Emnius? Have I for this maintained thy estate, Afforded all the favours I could yield, To be rewarded with ingratitude, with murder, treachery, and these attempts? And all in hope to win my realm and child. I will not show thy sin unto the world, But as thou didst intend, so shalt thou fallen. Receive thy death, desertful man of death, And perish all thy treacherous thoughts with thee. Lay hold on them, what violence is this, To have one murdered even before our presence?
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.