+liberty.+ Let me heare what ye do say
Then ye are about to cast me away 210
How happes this? mary then I may
Goe pyke strawes and take me rest.
I pray you tell me whom I haue offended
yf I haue made a faute it shalde amended
with so shorte warning let me not be voyded
I crow yet ye do but iest.
+Helth.+ Why do ye make this cauelacion
we entende to make no alteracyon
welth and I haue had communication
He is my freende of olde. 220
+liberty+ What was the matter, I pray you tell
Me thinkes I ought to be of counsel
Or els I promyse you ye doo not well
With you I should beholde.
+Welth.+ The matter is doone we are agreed
To reason it more it shall not neede
O brother helth, thou art in deede
More preciouser than golde.
+liberty.+ Gods bodi how commeth this gere to pas
I am cast out at the cartes arse 230
The worlde is nothing as it was
For I am here refused
+Health+ Why be you angry that we doo agree
Then are ye not wyse, for ifye loue me
I will loue hym agayne, so it should be
Or els I were mysaduised
+yllibert+ Then of my loue ye set no store
My company I see well ye looked notfore
Farewell I wyll get me out of the doore
yet I am your betters and so am I called. 240
+wealth+ Such presumptuouse wordes wyll haue a fall
your comparyson is but feble and small
What can ye do nothyng at all
As you haue reputed.
+liberti.+ What were ye both two, were not I.
Wretches and caytyfes, looke not so hye
Thinke no scorne hardly
For I may be your peare
yf welth haue neuer so much lubstaunce
Lacking Libertye and werr in durance 250
Within a whyce, I am in assurance
ye woulde pray me come nere.
Yf Helth be neuer so lust and stronge
yet if Lyberty were kept from him longe
Then sorow and care wolde be his songe.
yt would abate your cheare.
Fye of welth which lacketh lybertye
Fye of H elth and be in captiuitie
Fye of riches and lack good company
Lyberty hath no pere, 260
+Helth.+ Wyll ye heare how he doth clatter?
What neede ye to rehearse all this matter.
ye know that we twayne afore any other.
Lyberty must nedes haue styll.
Lybertie on vs is glade to wayte
ye stande to farre in your owne conceyte
I wys lybertye ye ran make no bayte
To catche vs at your will.
+liberty.+ Now there ye lye, I can suffer no longer
Welth for Lybertye doth loboure euer 270
And helth for Libertye is a great store
Therfore set me not so lyght
+wealth+ Libertye I pray the reason no more
ye are welcome to vs as ye were before
In dede ofliberty it is great suter
Therfore welcome by this lyght
+liberty,+ Now I thanke you both full kindly
your strange wordes alytle did greue me
And now at your coma[=u]dement I am redy
And at your owne wyll. 280
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