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death_n	body_n	fire_n	soul_n	4,333	5	5.0921	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04888	A most pleasant and merie nevv comedie, intituled, A knacke to knowe a knaue Newlie set foorth, as it hath sundrie tymes bene played by Ed. Allen and his companie. VVith Kemps applauded merrimentes of the men of Goteham, in receiuing the King into Goteham.; Knack to know a knave.	Kemp, William, fl. 1600.	1594 (1594)	STC 15027; ESTC S108088	34,481	56

thou him faire although in heart thou enuie him But who is next Priest That am I father that vse the word of God And liue only by the heauenly Manna Bayl. Who the Priest Giue eare my sonne I haue a lesson yet in store for thee Thou must my son make shew of holinesse And blinde the world with thy hipocrisie And sometime giue a pennie to the poore But let it be in the Church or market place That men may praise thy liberalitie Speak against vsurie yet forsake no pawnes So thou maist gaine three shillings in the pound Warne thou the world from sin and vile excesse And now and then speak against drunkennes So by this means thou shall be tearmed wise And with thy purenes blind the peoples eies But now my sonnes discourse to me in briefe How you haue liued and how you meane to die Conicatcher Then father thus liue I that vse me wit Unto my selfe I loue still to be wise For when I am driuen to shift for meat or coine Or gay apparell to maintaine me braue Then doe I flaunt it out about the change As if I were some landed Gentleman And falling in with some rich merchant there I take commodities for sixe months day The bill being made I must set to my hand Then if I pay not they may burne the band Farm Then father hark how I haue profited Walter your son that keeps the countrie I haue raised the markets and opprest the poore And made a thousand goe from dore to dore And why did I think you vse this extremitie Because I would haue corne ynough to feed the enemie Father you know we haue but a while to liue Then while we liue let each man shift for one For he that can not make shift in the world They say hee s vnworthy to liue in it And he that liues must still increase his store For he that hath most wealth of all desireth more Perin Brethren you haue spoken wel I must needs say But now giue eare to me to me that keeps the court Father I liue as Aristipus did vse my wits to flatter with the king If any in priuate conference name the king I straight informe his Grace they enuie him Did Sinon liue with all his subtiltie He could not tell a flattering tale more cunninglie Some tyme I moue the King to be effeminate And spend his tyme with some coy Curtizan Thus with the King I currie fauour still Though with my heart I wish him any ill And sometime I can counterfeit his hand and seale And borrow money of the communalty And thus I liue and flaunt it with the best And dice and carde inferiour vnto none And none dares speake against me in the court Because they know the King doth fauour me Priest And I among my brethren and my friends Doe still instruct them with my doctrine And Yea and nay goes through the world with vs Fie not an oath we sweare for twentie pound Brethren say we take heed by Adams fal For by his sinnes we are condemned all Thus preach we still vnto out brethren Though in our heart we neuer meane the thing Thus doe we blind the world with holinesse And so by that are tearmed pure Precisians Bayl. Full well and wisely haue you said my sonnes And I commend you for your forward mindes That in your liues bewray whose sonnes ye are Here haue I bene a Bayliefe three score yeares And vsde exaction on the dwellers by For if a man were brought before my face For cosenage theft or liuing on his wit For counterfeiting any hand or seale The matter heard the witnesse brought to me I tooke a bribe and set the prisoners free So by such dealings I haue got the wealth Which I would haue disburst among you al With this prouiso that you all shall liue And lead such liues as I haue set you downe Carue to your selues and care not what they say That bid you feare the fearfull Iudgment day Liue to your selues while you haue tyme to liue Get what you can but see ye nothing giue But hearke my sonnes me thinks I heare a noyse And gastlie visions makes me timerous Ah see my sonnes where death pall Death appeares To summon me before a fearfull Iudge Me thinks reuenge stands with an yron whip And cries repent or I will punish thee My heart is hardened I cannot repent Ah hark me thinkes the Iudge doth giue my doome And I am damned to euer burning fyre Soule be thou safe and bodie flie to hell He dyeth Enter Deuil and carie him away Conic. Brother why do you not read to my father Priest Trulie my booke of exhortation is at my place of Exercise and without it I can doe nothing Gods peace bee with him Exeunt Enter the King Philarchus his father Dunston and Attendants King FAther say on for now my leisure serues And Edgar giues thee leaue to tell thy minde For I perceiue thine eies are full of teares Which showes that manie inward passions troubles thee If anie here haue wronged thine aged yeares In keeping that from thee that is thy due Name but the man and as I am Englands King Thou shalt haue all the fauour I can shew Father Then vertuous Prince myrrour of curtesie Whose Iudgements and whose lawes for gouernment And punishing of euerie foule abuse Is like the iudgement of great Alexander Third of that name whom some tearmed the Seuere Or lyke Vaspasian Romes vertuous gouernour Who for a blowe his sonne did giue a Swaine Did straight commaund that he should loose his hand Then vertuous Edgar be Vaspasian once In giuing sentence on a gracelesse childe Know vertuous Prince that in my pride of yeares When lustfull pleasure prickt my wanton minde Euen in the April of my flourishing time I was betroth'd and wedded to a wyfe By whome too soone I had that vnkind boy Whose disobedience to his aged Syre The Lord will plague with torments worse than death This disobedient child nay base Abstranogant Whome I with care did nourish to this state Puft with a pride that vpstart Courtiers vse And seeing that I was brought to pouertie He did refuse to know me for his Syre And when I challenged him by Natures lawes To yeeld obedience to his Fathers age He told me straight he took it in great scorne To be begot by one so base as I My age that ill could brook his sharpe replie Did with this wand my Lord reach him a blow But he contrary lawes of God and men Did strike me such a blowe in vild disdaine That with the stroke I fel to earth againe Kin. Unkind Philarchus how hast thou misdon In wilful disobedience to thy Syre Art thou growne proud because I fauoured thee Why I can quicklie make thee bare againe And then I think being in thy former state Thou wilt remember who thy father was And gentle Sophocles in good tyme I recount Thy ancient saying not so old as true For saith

past he saw the mony tendered I must passe sentence then against you needs But wil you sweare on the bible this is true Coni. I sir and to that intent I came hether For I wil neuer refuse to swear a truth while I liue Dunston Yet ere thou speake vouchsafe to heare me speake Full three score Winters Gentle sir I haue past And age hath brought gray haires vpon my head Looke but vpon my face and thou shalt see The perfect patterne of humilitie Thou man of worth or citizen what ere thou be Weigh but my charge and then thou wilt not swear I haue fiue sonnes al pretie tender babes That liue vpon the farme that he would haue Twelue hundred sheep do feed vpon the plaines That year lie bring a great increase to me Besides a hundred Oxen fatly fed That euerie Winter feed within my stalles And twentie poore men liuing neere my house I daylie feed and all vpon my Farme Go but among my neighbours where I dwell And heare what good report they giue of me The poore man neuer yet went from my dore But to my power I did releeue his want I was no Farmer that inricht my selfe By raysing markets and oppressing poore But I haue sold my corne full manie tymes At better rate than I could wel affoord And all to help my needie brethren Then ere thou swearst cal al these things to mind And thou wilt weep and leaue to sweare vntrueths Confusion to thy bodie and thy soule Perin Wel if thou be wel aduised take thy oath But yet remember before whome thou swearest The God of trueth and perfect equitie Which will reuenge wrong to the innocent with thousand plagues and tortors worse than death Con. By the holy contents of this Byble And by that iust God before whome I stand I saw this man King Peace shamelesse villain execrable wretch Monster of nature degenerate miscreant Who euer knew or heard so vile an oath Uildly pronounc'd by such a damned slaue Haue I such monstrous vipers in my land That with their verie breaths infect the aire Say Dunston hast thou euer heard the lyke Dunst. My Liege such lothsome weeds must needs infect the corne Such Cankers perish both the root and branch Unlesse they be soone spied and weeded out Kin. I le be the husbandman to mowe such Tares Here Honesty let him be manacled And scar his forehead that he may be knowne As Cain for murder he for periurie Conicat. I beseech your Grace be good to me Hon. I you shal haue a cold yron clapt in your forehead A hot one I would say you are a slaue indeede Conicatcher Good Honesty Hone. Good villaine there 's no help for you Exeunt Enter Ethenwald alone Eth. My fancies thoughts lyke the labouring Spyder That spreads her nets to entrap the sillie Flie Or lyke the restlesse billowes of the seas That euer alter by the fleeting ayre Still houering past their woonted passions Makes me amazed in these extremities The King commands me on his embassage To Osricks daughter beauteous Alfrida The height and pride of all this bounding ill To poste amaine plead loue in his behalfe To court for him and woo and wed the maid But haue you neuer heard that theame Deceit in loue is but a merriment To such as seeke a riuall to preuent Whether distraught romes my vnruly thoughts It is the King I cosen of his choise And he nil brook Earl Ethenwald should prooue False to his Prince especially in loue Thē thus it shal be I le tel the king the maid is fair Of nut browne cullour comelie and fair spoken Worthie companion to an Earle or so But not a Bride for Edgar Englands King This will alay the strong effects in loue Fame wrought in Edgars mind of Alfrida Well I le to court and dalie with the King And worke some means to draw his mynde from loue Enter a Knight Squire and Farmer Knight NEighbour Walter I cannot but admire to see How housekeeping is decayed within this thirtie yeare But where the fault is God knowes I knowe not My father in his lyfe time gaue hospitality to all strangers and Distressed traueillers his table was neuer emptie of bread beefe And beere he was woont to keep a hundred tall men in his hall He was a feaster of all commers in generall And yet was he neuer in want of money I thinke God did blesse him with increase for his bountiful mind Farm Truly sir I am sorrie you ar fallen into decay In that you want to maintaine houshould charge And whereof comes this want I will tell you sir T is only throw your great housekeeping Be ruled by me and doe as I aduise you You must learne to leaue so great a traine of men And keepe no more than needs of force you must And those you keepe let them be simple men For they will be content with simple fare Keepe but a boy or two within your house To run of errants and to wait on you And for your kitchin keep a woman cooke One that will serue for thirtie shillings a yeare And by that means you saue two liueries And if ye will keep retainers towards you Let them be Farmers or rich husbandmen For you shal find great profit sir in keeping them For if you stand in need of corne or hay Send but to them and you may haue it strait And if you kill a Beefe let it be so leane The Butcher nor the Grasyer will not buy it Your drinke is too strong and tastes too much of malt Tush single beere is better far both for your profit and your seruants health And at a Christmasse time feast none at al But such as yeeld you some commoditie I meane such as will send you now and then Fat Geese and Capons to keep house withall To these and none els would I haue you liberall Knight Why neighbor my goods are lent me to no other end But to releeue my needie brethren but God I hope hath in store for me Far. I trust you to that you may hap die a begger Squ. Why sir if he should not trust in God in whom should he trust for God is the giuer of all good whatsoeuer Far. True and yet t is good for a man to trust to himselfe now and then for if you be downe and bid God help you vp and do not help your self you may fortune lie and perish and therefore serue God on Sundaies as you are appointed and thereby hope to be saued for by your almes deeds you cannot for if you giue to the poore there be manie wil say he thinks to bee saued by his almes deedes and thus you shal be ill thought on for your good wil and therfore learn to prouide for your self let God prouide for the pore Knig. I tel you neighbor my great grandfather all my predecessors haue bene held in good regard for their good housekeeping and God willing their good names shal