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Me thinks, Sir, there should dwell some pity in your look. O, cast and eye of mercy on the woes, Of two most wretched Orphans; doubly lost, First in their Parents Misery's: but, o! most In their untimely death's; for we doubt soar, We never shall behold their faces more. O do not mock me. How can I think, you to such Fortune's born. Will look upon a Maid, so poor, forlorn? Good Sir, forget your strength; and do not triumph over the prostrate Fortune's of two wretches, Exposed to unresisted tyranny. Behold a Maiden begging on her knee— Now brother with are, undone. The damned father will pervert the son. Dear brother, yield possession: we 'l beg rather, Then this our worthy friend should loose his father. Sweet brother. since we must both suffer, think it some comfort, that we share and equal fortune. Grief has less power to work on our sad hearts; Where mutual loves contend to bear their parts. Good Sir, a word— Sir, remember we are the miserable children of lost Ʋ a ster; whom once you served. I hope, Sir, you can spare somewhat to us distressed. Good Sir, show mercy on two wretched Orphans. Sir, you have undone our Parents; pity us. Sir, raise our prostrate Fortune's with some help: Some little help, you know us. O pure quintessence of thy profession. How many hast thou robbed, thus to make up Thy perfect godnesse! as if wiser nature Had made and extract of ten thousand Lawyers, And thrice refined it with immortal fires: Then set it Like a sanctified Lamp On the Altar of thy soul; to give exemplar light, In the dull darkness of this sinne-borne night. Ay me, my father slain? My husbands hand my father's life undoes: For this fact he must die: thus both I loose. Sir, dwells there any mercy in your heart? True, but that time is passed, And in her service now I would be placed. Heavens defend.
Plot summary
Plot — The Honest Lawyer
Richard Vaster’s lands are mortgaged to Gripe the usurer for £300. Jealously believing himself to have been cuckolded, he sells his wife Florence to the bawd and innkeeper Marmaid, claiming her to be his sister. He then challenges Benjamin Gripe, the usurer’s son, to a duel, and pretends to be killed; the remorseful Benjamin is determined to make amends by looking after Vaster’s family. Valentine sets himself up as a phoney doctor and is asked to cure Gripe’s gout, which entails driving a large nail through the affected toe. While Gripe is inconvenienced by the nail, Valentine steals his purse and keys. Gripe also sends Benjamin to foreclose on Vaster’s mortgage; when Benjamin asks him to give the bereaved family a three-month respite, he is disinherited. Surprisingly, the nail does indeed drive out the gout. Curfew has passed himself off as the deputy Abbot of Newnham after the death of the real deputy, his brother, and he uses the abbey as a base for highway robbery. His first two victims are Valentine and the disguised Vaster, who both prove as rascally as he; the three of them end up going into partnership. They proceed to rob travellers: Vaster happily relieves Gripe of his money, but lets Benjamin off with an injunction to be good to the Vaster family. Whenever they leave anyone tied up on the road, Florence comes out of the nearby inn and releases them. She is proving a 1614 disappointment to Marmaid ~ all her clients seem to end up with a new moral outlook on prostitution — so the bawd allows Benjamin, the landlord, to take her away. He lodges her at his father’s house under an assumed name, Widow Sorrow. Valentine makes an affray at the inn, and is arrested. The justice before whom he is brought happens to be Gripe, who lets him off, because he has developed another medical complaint: inability to urinate. Valentine proposes using gunpowder to blow open the urinary tract, and again the treatment is surprisingly successful. Robert and Anne, Vaster’s son and daughter, are destitute, but nobody will give them any money, not even Bromley, Vaster’s former steward who owes everything to the family. Benjamin sends Robert to see ‘Widow Sorrow’, and falls in love with Anne. Robert soon identifies the widow as his mother, but suspects that her presence in the usurer’s household confirms his father’s suspicions of her adultery. When he threatens her with violence, Gripe has him committed to prison. The usurer attempts to seduce the widow, and gives her the…