Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
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Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Interludes, English; Moralities, English
_Wealth._ Liberty! I pray ye, reason no more!
Ye are welcome to us as ye were before;
Indeed, of Liberty it is great suitor:
Therefore welcome, by this light!
_Lib._ Now, I thank you both, full kindly!
Your strange words a little did grieve me;
And now, at your commandment, I am ready,
And at your own will.
_Here entereth with some jest_ ILL-WILL.
_Ill-Will._ Marry! I am come at the first call:
Will, your own man, have me who shall;
For I am Will, servant to you all;
Ye shall not need to send for me.
_Wealth._ Who is acquainted with this man?
He is very homely, and little good he can B2,_v._
To come in here so boldly; then
Drive him away quickly!
_Ill-W._ Why, I came not till I was called.
Your own Will openly ye named;
Then I came apace, lest I should be blamed:
Therefore, I pray you, let me bide still.
_[H]eal[th.]_ Whose will, or what will, doth he mean?
Thou art not my will, I forsake thee clean;
My will and their wills is often seen:
Our wills can none ill.
_Ill-W._ Alas, good masters! I can none ill.
Yet, by my troth! I am your evil will--
Your will, and your will, and your will; therefore, keep me:
I love ye, by God's mother!
_Lib._ This is a strange saying unto me:
My will, your will, and his will--this cannot be;
For in our wills is great diversity;
For one is not like another.
_Ill-W._ Yet, by Christ! your own will I am;
The maddest will, and the merriest than.
For God's sake! now let me be your man
Till ye have better acquaintance.
_Wealth._ I perceive this fellow is kind,
And oweth to us good will and mind;
Some kinds again then let him find:
Let him have some furtherance.
_Ill-W._ By God, sir! and I durst be so bold,
Acquaintance of this man claim I would,
And kindred, too; if the truth were told
We be of one consanguinity.
_Health._ How so? let me hear that, I pray thee heartily!
_Ill-W._ Will and Liberty is of ancestry old: B3,_r._
Without Liberty, Will dare not be bold;
And where Will lacketh, Liberty is full cold;
Therefore, Will and Liberty must needs be of kin.
_Lib._ Indeed, as he saith, it may well be;
For Will ever longeth unto Liberty:
Therefore, good friend, welcome to me!
I pray you all be good to him. [_And goeth out._
_Wealth._ For your sake he is welcome to us all;
Let him come to our place, and then he shall
Have succour of us and help withal:
And now we will depart.
[_And_ WEALTH _and_ HEALTH
_goeth out_.
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