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Ill tidings for my Lady these. Faith she is a pure virgin indeed, For the child she had by Venus chaplin, Is a big boy and follows the Father. My Ladies child, begotten by contempt. Unto security. We two are they. Mine Ru and hers is Inam. Ingratitude that is likewise the grandfather. well for our maidenheads it skill not much. For in the world I know are many such. Ill news poor babe for thee. And so are you a maid too, are you not? For the girl you had by Mars his Captain, She's dead, and troubles not the Mother. I Mercury I pray let that go, we are fair Venus maids, no more but so. And in our Ladies cause we do entreat To know, if that be true thou didst proclaim? Or was it spoken but of policy, To fright us whom thou knewest to be her maids. Aim poor babe for thee. To nurse. A girl it is. Both hers and mine. 'Tis Mars, Oh let us fly.
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.