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Lord what strait keepers of poor maids are you, You are so chased you are the worse again: And I trusty servant. A mighty venture you shall be chronicled in Abram hams asses, Catalog of coxcombs for your resolution. A pretty moral work it in the sampler of your heart, I think so unless you have alone in your belly. Nay if you be so fine you will not name it now, We are all alone, you are much too nice. Do then Elimine. Why woman I dare. I'll warrant my self if I list, but come let it alone, Let us to Irus for our Fortune's. What skill for places, do we not all call sisters, A what you call it can you not name it. O he is a Count that is and Earl. I but my husband is the kings officer. And me thinks husband is worth ten oh Lord. Well Madam then and please your Ladishippe, What gowns and head tires will your honour wear. O brave God willing I will have the Like. I'll ask my husband when I am with child, And then I know I shall be sped I faith. Well time I hope and change of company, Will teach us somewhat to bear out the absence, Come on sweet husband fot my time draws near. I cry you mercy sir, yet do not stand all on the Trust our parents puts in you, but put us in a little to I pray. A maid and Idle why maids must be Idle but not and other thing. My fortune now sweet Irus, but I faith, I have some wrong to be the last of all, For I am old as they, and big enough, To bear as great a fortune as the best of them, I will sweet Irus nothing grieves me now, But that Elimine this night shall have, Her happy husband, and I S ay till morning. Well if my husband will not, let him not look for one good look of me.
Plot summary
Plot — The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (Irus)
Before the start of the action, Queen Aegiale proposed an adulterous liaison with Cleanthes, but was rebuffed. She then engineered his unjust banishment, but now wants to find him to renew her advances. To that end, she consults the blind beggar and fortune-teller Irus. who recommends that she publish his image throughout Egypt and offer a reward for his apprehension. What she doesn't know is that Irus is himself Cleanthes in disguise. He is maintaining a series of separate identities, passing the time by simultaneously wooing Elimine and Psamathis, while awaiting the opportunity to return and claim the Egyptian crown. The girls also consult lrus about their love-lives , and he makes predictions designed to facilitate his maJ:"riage to them both: Elirnine marries honouJ:" in the person of'Count Hermes', Psamathis marries money in the person of 'Leon', a usurer. and their friend Martia marries status in the person of the Burgomaster of Alexandria, who is really lrus ' clownish brother. lrus then uses his different personas to cuckold himself. As Leon, he seizes a nobleman's property for defaulting on a loan, even though the debt has been repaid, and produces both Hermes and lrus as witnesses in support of his version of events. Egypt is without a male heir after an enchantress transformed King Ptolemy's son into a mandrake. Now he plans to marry his daughter against her will to Prince Doricles, thereby fulfilling a prophecy that such a marriage will enable Egypt to conquer the four neighbouring kingdoms. To forestall such an eventuality, the four respective kings take advantage of the absence of Egypt's greatest general, Cleanthes, and mount an invasion. In his persona as Count Hermes, Irus murders Doricles and then, as Leon, reports Hermes' death; to defraud his clients, he then has his brother report that Leon has committed suicide. The invading kings give battle, and Cleanthes is sought when things go badly. Ptolemy is killed in battle, but Cleanthes leads the Egyptians to victory and is elected king. He accepts the defeated kings' surrender and submission, but refuses to take their crowns; he further arranges for his 'widows' to marry two of them, and promises the others Egyptian brides too.