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
_Rem._ As touching my first purpose, hither I am come again.
I trow ye know me; Good Remedy is my name;
That every day doth take great labour or pain
To amend all faults: I am chosen to the same.
If any man's conscience here doth grudge or shame,
Having in himself remorse, and mends in time and space,
I am Good Remedy, and God is full of mercy and grace.
Therefore I will stand aside, and a little while remain,
Of Wealth, Health, and Liberty for to inquire
How they be ordered; and if any man complain
I will be glad to show my remedy--methink I see one appear!
[HANCE _cometh in_.
_Hance._ Be Got's drowse! ic myself bin cumpt heye scon lansman;
Ic mot in ander land lopen, all is quade dan.
_Rem._ Thou Fleming! from whence comest thou, and what dost thou here?
_Hance._ Ic myself cumt from sent Katryn's doxe, mot ic skyne de
can beer.
_Rem._ Get thee thither again, and tarry here no longer!
_Hance._ Sir! ic mot mid ye spreken; ic myself be en scomaker.
_Rem._ What and thou be? therewith I have nothing ado.
_Hance._ Ic dest al forlore; copin is dod, ic maght not do thereto.
_Rem._ I pray thee, go hence, for thou dost trouble me ill.
_Hance._ Nen ic seker, ic wil not gon, ic wold fain live hore stil.
_Rem._ There is too many aliants in this realm; but now I,
Good Remedy, have so provided that Englishmen shall live the
better daily.
_Hance._ What segt ye? by Got's drowse! dai is de quade man;
Be de moro goi, ic myself love de scone Englishman.
_Rem._ Fie on thee, flattering knave! fie on you aliants all, I say!
Ye can, with craft and subtle figure, Englishmen's wealth away.
_Hance._ O, skon mester! ic heb hore bin this darten yeore.
Ic can skote de culverin, and ic can be de beare broer.
[_A line (or lines) apparently missing here_.
[_Rem._] Trust see so provide that Wealth from you have I shall.
D2,_r._
_Hance._ Ic seg to you dat Wealth is lopen in an ander contry;
Wat hebegy dar brough forstan ye net, segt me.
_Rem._ I understand thee well; yet, thou liest, like a knave.
Wealth is here in England, and Wealth still I trust we shall have.
_Hance._ Ic ment no quad, ic love de English man, by min bere!
Cump by sent Katrin, and ic shal ye geven twe stope bere.
_Rem._ Get thee hence, drunken Fleming! thou shalt tarry no
longer here.
_Hance._ Mot it net mare herebin woder sal ic gewest kiskin;
Ic wil to de kaizer gan, dar sall ic wal skinkin.
[_And goeth._
_Rem._ Is he gone? I pray God the devil go with him!
Where is Wealth, Health, and Liberty? I would see them come in.
[HEALTH _cometh in with a kercher on his head_.
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