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Lady Conscience, what shall we say to our estates, to whom shall we complain? Oh how shall we avridge such fates, as heapeth up our pain? 'Tis Lucar now that rules the rout, 'tis she is all in all, is she that holds her head so stout, in fine 'tis she that works our fall. O Conscience, I fear, I fear a day, that we by her and Usury shall quite be cast away. For Lucar men come from Italy, Barbary, Turkey, From Jury: nay the Pagan himself, Endangers his body to gape for her pelf. They forsake mother, prince country, religion, kiffe and kin, Nay men care not what they forsake, so lady Lucar they win. That we poor ladies may sighs to see our states thus turned and tossed, and worse and worse is Like to be, where Lucar rules the rost. And grant Oh God that Love be found in city, town & country, which causeth wealth and peace abound, and pleases God almighty. I'll no such servants so ill of behaviour: Servants more fitter for Lucar than Love, And happy are they which refrain for to prove: Shameless, pitiless, graceless, and quite passed honesty, then who of good conscience but will hate your company. Yes simplicity thou shalt be my man. Yea my good man indeed. No, Love may not marry in any case with Simplicity, But if thou wilt serve me, isle receive it willingly, And if thou wilt not, what remedy. Come lady Conscience, will you walk home from this company? My grief alas I shame to show, because my bade intent Hath brought on me a joust reward, and eke a strange event. Shall I be counted Love, nay rather lascivious Lust, Because unto Dissimulation I did repose such trust? But now I moan too late, and blush my hap to tell, My head in monstrous sort alas, does more and more still swell. Were it not for lucar, sure Love had lost her joys, Lady Lucar. I cannot choose but yield, confounded by Conscience.
Plot summary
Plot — The Three Ladies of London
Lady Love and Lady Conscience are concerned that Lady Lucre now rules in London, but Fame assures them that she and her adherents will meet their due punishment in the end. Four knaves and Simplicity, a penurious miller, go to London in the hope of employment by one of the ladies. Conscience rejects their applications, but Love agrees to take on Simplicity; the knaves find positions in Lucre’s household. Out of work because foreigners have taken all the jobs, Artifex also seeks a place with Lucre. Simplicity procures a testimonial from Conscience for his cousin Sincerity, who seeks a benefice; but he is unable to get anything from Simony because he has no bribe to offer. Dissimulation fobs him off with the parsonage of St Nihil — nothing - and an invitation to dine with Nemo — nobody — is likewise worthless (though Simplicity has _ difficulty understanding this). Simony employs Sir Peter Pleaseman, who can be either Protestant or Catholic as it suits his circumstances, as Lucre’s chaplain. Conscience is forced to sell her cottage to Lucre, but hopes to stay on as a sitting tenant. Usury threatens eviction; there is a proposal to pack the house with foreigners who will require less living space than English tenants. Eventually he relents and quadruples the rent instead. Love and Conscience are reduced to sending Usury their clothes in lieu of payment, but Dissimulation gives Simplicity money to redeem one of the gowns. He intended it to be Love’s, since he cares nothing for Conscience, but Simplicity returns Conscience’s clothes and delivers Love’s to Usury. Lucre enters an agreement with the Italian merchant Mercadore, whereby he will export essential materials and foodstuffs from England, and import foreign trinkets for gentlewomen. Mercadore goes to Turkey to procure knick-knacks, and encounters the Jew Gerontus. Two years ago, he borrowed a lot of money from Gerontus and avoided paying it back by skipping the country. Gerontus is happy to help in the supply of 1581 worthless tat to England, but eventually loses patience with Mercadore’s promises to pay his debt, and has him arrested. Mercadore proposes converting to Islam, which will legally void all his past obligations. Fearing that he might be blamed for a Christian’s apostasy, Gerontus cancels the debt, whereupon Mercadore’s Muslim convictions evaporate. Usury murders Hospitality and goes into hiding with a rich man, who protects him; his pardon is eventually procured by a courtier. Conscience and…