R. Wever's _Lusty Juventus_, written about 1550,[74] is of the dramatic kindred of _Mankynd_ and _Nature_. Its characters are allegorical in name but concrete in person; and one of them, Abhominable Living, passes, also, under the appellation of "litle Besse." The conversations are sprightly, and the songs show considerable lyric power. But the play is a protestant polemic, and its success must have depended to a large extent upon the bitterness of the satire against "Holy cardinals, holy popes, Holy vestments, holy copes," and various alleged hypocrisies and excesses of the Church of Rome. That this play had a long life is shown by its insertion, though under the designation of an interlude with which it had nothing in common,[75] as a play within a play in the tragedy of _Sir Thomas More_ (about 1590). The "merye Enterlude" _Respublica_, 1553, a children's Christmas play, sustains somewhat the same relation to political Catholicism as _King Johan_ to Protestantism--without the polemics of dogma. Here, as in the preceding political moral of _King Johan_, the Vice is used for a satirical purpose, and is not only the chief mischief-maker, but, also, the principal representative of the comic rôle. In this play, the Vice is so highly considered that the author, probably a priest, multiplies him by four, and, by way of foil, offsets the group with that of the four Virtues, daughters of God, whose presence in the eleventh Coventry play and in _Mankynd_ has already been noticed. I don't see how Collier can call the construction of _Respublica_ ingenious; it is childish, clumsy, and trite. The humour consists in old-fashioned disguises and _aliases_, equivoque, misunderstanding, and abuse. But the character of Avarice, who, with his money bags, anticipates the Suckdrys and Lucres of later comedy, is well conceived, the conduct natural, the language simple and colloquial. Of historical interest is the introduction of Queen Mary as Nemesis; of linguistic, the attempt to reproduce the dialect of the common people; of dramatic, the division into acts and scenes, which is to be found in but few other plays of the mid-century, such as _Roister Doister_, _King Johan_, _Jacob and Esau_, and the _Marriage of Witte and Science_. =11. Polytypic, or Fusion, Plays=