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A68683
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The honest lavvyer Acted by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants. Written by S.S.
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S. S., fl. 1616.; Sheppard, S. (Samuel), attributed name.
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on a bond Whiles the receiuer did deferre his comming We gaue this coozening woman being Hostice The whole summe to lay vp and straightly charg'd her Not to deliver 't but to vs all together She sayes one of vs three demanded it Of her in haste and ranne away and thus We lost our money and the bond lies forfeit Ben. Your Lordships leaue T is true she not denies But they so charg'd her and she was so coozend Therefore she yeelds to paiment Let 'hem come All three together they shall haue the money Grif. Vpon my faith a prettie quillet Abb. Wittie and iust How say you heere produce The other two your satisfaction 's ready Ben. The widdow 's cleard but master Valentine Nay man come neerer you 'd haue present pay Val. No Sir let it euen goe Ben. So must not you You gaue 300. pound to her t is true Which like a subtle Quacksaluer you robd My father of Sprites Fairies Val. I am cob'd Grip. It 's true my lord this is one of the Fairies Iustice Iustice Val. Well if there be no remedie I hope I shall not dance alone vpon the rope My lord here 's the other Fairie Abb. O Sir haue I found you Pull off that borrowd habite from his backe O that such foule deeds should be hid in blacke Gripe My Lord this Widow 's accessary too She plotted she receiu'd Iustice iustice Ab. But late thy song was mercy now all iustice Here 's all the goodnes of an Vsurer She sau'd his life he would now hang her Gripe She has robb'd me vndone me Val. It is most true my lord she plotted all Curf. Your villanie Ostice we shall now retort You cheated vs and we will hang you for 't Ben. How doe these mischiefes grow like Hidra's heads faster by cutting off Vast. Prodigious villaines will they thus cast away an innocent woman Yet I most vile of all that thus stand by And for my fault behold my poore wife dye Ben. My lord vpon my soule this woman's cleare And only malice thus accuseth her Ab. Speake woman art thou guilty Wife My lord I begge a word with my Confessor Then I shall answere Sir a word in priuate To Vaster Now Vaster ope thy vnbeleeuing eyes Lo thy deuoted wife for thy sinne dyes Yeeld but this kindnesse to my latest breath Thou hate'st me liuing loue me yet in death Farewell My lord I will not say I 'm guilty Do as your euidence and wisedome leades you Ab. This knot is hard to vndo Vast. My lord I le help you Loe I am that third Fairy that pronounce This woman cleare and those two periur'd knaues We three are guilty let your sentence come I haue deseru'd will not despaire my doome Wife My lord he sayes not true hee 's innocent I guilty Ab. Speake on your soules which of these tongues speak truth Val. Curf. My lord the woman's cleare Ab. Pernicious Villaines hopelesse to be good That thus haue stroue to spill the guiltlesse bloud Widow y' are quitted Sir waite you your doome Vast. With patience Beniamin Gripe I here accuse you for murdering Richard Vaster Ab. How Vast. My lord I found that Vaster dying bury'd him Saw him receiuing death by this mans sword Theft 's a great sin but murder most abhorr'd Ab. Speake is this possible Ben. We met in single combate in the field It seemes his life vnto my sword did yeeld Ann. Ay me my father slaine Rob. And by his friend Fate whither will thy proiects tend Ann. My husbands hand my fathers life vndoes For this fact he must dye thus both I lose Ben. Forgiue me all by me you all haue lost The wife a Husband children a deare Parent Thus I returne you all some recompence Nan thou shalt lose a husband An. Heauens defend Ben. Mother you lose a son brother a friend Wife Can nature so degenerate that a man should liue stand by and see another suffer for murdering him Vast. Once againe off disguise My lord thus I preuent this fear'd disaster My second case pull'd off I am plaine Vaster Rob. My father Wife My deare husband Vast. Most most deare friend My loue to you doth beyond bounds extend My Lord first to this honourable Bench I' here present the Kings most gracious pardon For vs three here heauen no lesse pardon vs Now to my wife see wench I am new borne Rench'd from the plague of a suspected horne Blacke Iaundeys of the minde thou fained spirit That haunts mens quiet thoughts with troubling shades Pernicious Ielousie that like needlesse Physicke Divertest health to voluntary sicknesse I brush thee off like dust See I am now New marry'd to my loue and to my life Neuer could man boast a more constant wife Deare Beniamin now Sonne what I haue left Of all my shipwrack'd fortunes shall be thine Ben. Resume your former state my father yeelds it Vast. Thankes to your honestie not his yet thus Some meanes of satisfaction I haue found I le pay him backe his lost three hundred pound The fairie money which was iust the price Of my redeemed lands Ben. Now master Bromley That vniuersall mercie to our guilt May be affoorded and no blood be spilt Surrender vp your lease for the three liues To Sagers wife and children and I le quit you Brom. I do most freely yeeld it Sag. Sager liues And hartie thankes for your forc'd kindnesse giues Abb. Happy delusions in such waies of ill I wish men may be thus mistaken still Nic. Rauens and Sprites and Fairies and Hares and diuels-Thus haue I lost my wench lost my money lost my watch lost my wits I doe here renounce the faith of all Almanackes Physiogmoners Palmists Fortune-tellers Erra Pater was an Asse and so are Prognosticators his children from generation to generation Grip. I haue drunke powerfull physicke and the Dropsie Of my till now nere quenched auarice Dries vp like dew at the ascending Sunne Vaster take back your lands and for the money Giue it my sonne in portion with your daughter Hencefoorth I le study to requite the wrongs Which I haue done poore men by vsurie And vomit vp th' extortions that doe lie As vndigested crudities on my conscience My future life shall bee in mercie spent I 'm Gripe no more that name I doe repent Abb. All Chronicles be fill'd with this and let it Be as a wonder to all eares imparted England had once an Vsurer conuerted EPILOGVE Ben. THe Session now dissolues each Iustice rises No hurt is done this is the milde Assises We haue scap'd faire thus farre yet there remaines A stronger iudgement to passe on our paines Too much to hope or doubt we must not dare We humbly then stand at your censures barre If the worst comes that may be yet I looke For this grace to be saued by my booke But if with your applause our merit stands Faith then be friends with vs and giue 's your hands FINIS
why am I so timorous when charitie Bids me go on shall a Rauen hinder me I le keep aloose and passe oh a spirit a spirit Rob. flashes powder The Widdowes Ghost Bromley Lawyer Vncle hang Take all your fortunes I 'le no further gang It 's an vnhallow'd place a dismall day Betide what will I l'e backe againe some way Exit Rob. Come downe Rauen Thirst. Come out Spirit Rob. Blind credulous foole He that shall trust at need Such nice and tottring cockscombes shall thus speed Should his sicke father send him for some drugges Hee would turne backe at such imagin'd bugges Enter Beniamin Sager VVife Anne Ben. Come mother friend and wife take these back places Where you may heare vnseene that when time serues I may produce you Works and houres are spent Then well when we doe good or ill preuent Wif. I cannot iudge what is this dayes successe All-ruling powers the doubtfull sequele blesse Enter Curfew with other assistants Vaster in a Priests habit Valentine like a Physician the Iaylor with Gripe Bromley Griffin c. Curf. My Lord whose place I personate being sicke Hath thus design'd mee both to heare and censure The criminall causes which offend the peace Of our dread Soueraigne and his subiects weale Whiles we launce Vlcers we the body heale The charge I giue in short you of the Iury Looke to your Oath and conscience let not fauour Shut vp your eyes nor malice open them Too wide You vnderstand our lawes are good T is pitie that they should be writ in blood But since conniuence at vnlawfull deeds Giues but encouragement and wee cannot strike With sword of Iustice the deseruing faults Except you giue the persons to our hands All on your vigilant information stands Proceede to the Inditements Grip. We are all cast away Sir Bare is not come Enter Abbot with guide Ab. Pull downe that counterfeit proud arrogant puffe Could your intrusion not content it selfe T' vsurpe my office but you must abuse The Kings deputed Iudge All Downe with him downe with him Abb. Iaylor receiue him to your custodie Till our iust censure giue him punishment Foxe I shall hunt you out Curf. Do 't with a poxe The goose sometimes must sit and iudge the Fox Abb. Proceed the day hastens Clark Marian Sorrow widow yeeld thy body and saue thy baile Ben. Sir shee is dead her felonie is answer'd Before a higher Court Clarke That is the woman that Gripe is suspected to haue poyson'd Godfrey Gripe stand to the Barre You are indited for the murther of Marian Sorrow widdow guilty or not Grip. Not guilty my Lord let all the world testifie of my honest carriage I haue liued all my dayes in good name and fame Abb. Stand not vpon your credit and good deeds Your haruest would be small if like your seeds If all that know thee stood about this place And had free liberty to speake their thoughts Round ecchoing curses would amaze thy soule And with hells damned crue thy name enroule But when the Widdow Orphane call for plagues On thy blacke life thou hy'st vnto thy bagges There dost applaud and hugge thy wretched selfe As solace 'gainst all woes lay in thy pelfe Thou hast no god but gold that Deitie Thou shouldst adore and would still succour thee Is quite reiected And that Idol money Which beares away thy confidence and heart When thou art plagued aggrauates thy smart Thou art the Deuils Executioner His rankest plague on earth 's an Vsurer Spirits in hell whip soules extorting slaues Torment poore bodies so before their graues Thou art a gulfe poore mens estates to drinke A quagmire none passe ore thee but they sinke Vnlesse Strepsiades-like men could deuise To plucke the Moone by Sorcerie from the skies Thy moneth and gaine will come Like some at sea Yet dangerlesse of shipwracke more then they Thou slumbrest in a base lethargicke swoone Let others toyle thy iournye 's done as soone Ben. Will not this moue him Abb. Nature in all inferiour things hath set A pitch or terme when they no more shall get Increase and off-spring Vnrepayred houses Fall to decay old Cattell cease to breed And sappelesse trees deny more fruite or seed The earth would hart-lesse and infertile be If it should neuer haue a Iubile Only the Vsurers money genders still The longer lustier Age this doth not kill He liues to see his moneys moneys money Euen to a hundred generations reach He whiles his interest money in do's troule Cares not to lose the principall his Soule He like a cleanly Alchymist can soke And draw much siluer yet waste none in smoke Thou lendst like water powr'd on sea-cole fire Or on a lode of Lime a showre of rayne It seemes to coole heate but doth more enflame Ben. His conscience has deafe eares Abb. When all is done And thou hast swel'd thy heapes to say no more Thy coffer 's onely rich and thou art poore This common plague is on all Vsurers showne Th'haue much yet are not masters of their owne One day thy stintlesse mind shall haue enough When the diuided peeces of thy selfe Shall in their seuerall doomed mansions dwell Enough of mould in graue of fire in hell But I spend breath in vaine come let 's proceed Gripe No further You haue made my conscience bleed I heere confesse my selfe guilty of all Euen of this murder too Abbot Let mercie fall on thy distressed soule Now to the rest Clark Nicholas Bromley you are indited for the murther of William Sager c. Guilty or not Brom. Not guilty Who testifies against me Ab. In case of Murder should we neuer iudge By circumstanciall likelihoods and presumptions No life could be secure Enter Nice Nic. Puffe shift for your selues Sir Bare Notwithstanding dares not be seene Brom. O I am lost My Lord I 'm guilty so is Griffin too He did conceale the fact that I did doe We shar'd the Lands together Abbot Powerfull truth Murder will out though by the Actors mouth Gripe O Beniamin I haue vndone My life my state my credite and my Sonne But I 'm resolu'd to dye so Monarchs must Rich men as well as poore must turne to dust Ben. Me thinkes I could preuent all this Gripe Alas thou lov'st me but t is not possible Ben. Sir I haue here a booke already drawne Seale to it freely and I le saue your life You shall confirme me your vndoubted heire And then surrender Vasters morgag'd lands Grip. T is done seales Ben. My Lord and all this bench be witnesse to it Then thus I quit you widdow appeare in Court In earnest see she liues that dy'd in sport Wife Sir thanke your Drugster else I had dy'd by you And you for me receiu'd a murderers due Grip. So I am cousen'd finely finely Val. My Lord I challenge this widdow for cheating me of 300. pounds This is one of her old trickes Abb. How 's this Val. My Lord my selfe and two intrusted friends Came hither to pay money