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Full speech
The feathers of a gluttonous bird show what the we rers be. Mine pierce too hard for your writing. To see a man come in this place, It is so strange to us, As we are to be held excused, That are amazed thus. But art thou a soldier? The better welcome unto me. Thus are we well rid of one that would have troubled our talk and this artificial echo, hath told thee what we are: certain muses dwelling in this wood, in number twice so many more as we be here. My pens are too too sharp to fit his style, I shall have time to use them in a while. Tisiphone is stepping to the stage, and she hath sworn to whip them. Walk hence a slight shoot up the hill, And thou shalt see his castle wall. Farewell poor soldier. I would it would. Mine Melpomine, hers Clio, this that writes Thalia. We will not deny thee three things, that can partici pate to thee thousands. Woe is the first word I must write, beginning where you end. I have ink enough and pens good store. Art thou a Prophet, whats thy name?
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.