The Interlude of Wealth and Health | Page 3

'f' doubtful) ... lenger

780. tiberty
782. Health (opposite l. 781)
785. nof (?)
787.
affirmity
790. Health (opposite l. 791)
791. maladi (the 'l' doubtful)

796. ye t
798. people (the second 'e' doubtful) ... detelt

799.
theroffor (?)
801. A mendes

(catchword cropt)
803. doone (the 'd' doubtful)
804. helfe a mendes

807. neceslitie (?)
820. thinketh (the second 't' doubtful)
821.
herc
822. ve
823. eafe ano
826. warre
828. boyde
830. weae ...
uhat hrlth
831. saw saw
833. tste
834. (catchword cropt)
836.
liuingl
838. abouf (?)
841. blam
842. Co staunder
vndesrrued
843. drpart
846. spy&nardo
847. folse chefe ... Health

849. wiltel
850. ia
851. peca (the 'e' doubtful)
853. meae
856.
fhese
861. contra
863. three
864. I Iyfgo ... them
(there is no lead between Wyll. and Wytte.; the speakers' names to ll.
862-3 are half a line too low, those to ll. 865-7 half a line too high)

866. Remd[i]
867. abd ... (signature and catchword cut off?)
868.
ful
871. fpeake
873. feason
881. Remdt
882. thete (?)
887. in
continent
888. wif
889. lake
891. behanged
893. shals
901.
shrew de
903. althre
907. shaibe ... warding
alonge
909. wel

912. remãbre ... a nother
917. displesur
918.
vngrocious
919. dissulation
923. devyl
924. liberty= (the '='
doubtful; opposite l. 923)
925. ymanginacien
927. myscef
928.
prison
933. (catchword cropt)
940. yfye (?)
941. rcstore
954.
Thar (?)
955. remdy
956. deuer
958. riagne
960. rontinue
961.
w ([with])
FACSIMILES BY HORACE HART, M.A., AT THE OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
An enterlude of Welth, and Helth, very mery and full of Pastyme,
newly att his tyme Imprinted
¶ The Names of the players.
Welth.
Helth,
Lybertie.
Ilwyll.
Shrowdwyt.
Hance.
Remedy
Foure may easely play this Playe.

¶ Here entreth Welth, and Helth synging together
a balet of two
partes, and after speaketh
Welth.
Why is there no curtesy, now I am come
I tcowe that all the people be
dume
Or els so god helpe me and halydum
They were almost a
fleepe.
No wordes I harde, nor yet no talking
No instrument went
nor ballattes synging
What ayles you all thus to syt dreaming 10 Of
whom take ye care?
Of my coming ye may be glad
Therefore I pray
you be nof sad
For all your desyre shall be had
I can amende your
cheare
By God I thinke ye haue forgotten me
I am welth of this
realme looke upon me
For I am to euery man louing and freendly

For welth hath no pere.
+Helth.+ Brother welth haue ye not yet doone? 20 ye prayse your selfe
aboue the moone
Euery man may perceyue therby soone
That you
lacke discresyon
+Weith.+ Wherfore, by god I cannot say to much
Iam so welthy of
substaunce and rych
In all the worlde where is one such
As I am
ofcomparison.
+Helth.+ Welth is good I cannot denay
Yet prayse your selfe so
muche ye may
For welth oftentimes doth decay 30 And welth is
nothing sure.
+Welth.+ Welth hath ben euer in this countrey
And here I purpose
styll for to be
For this is the lande most mete for me
And here I
wyll endure.
+Health+ Therin ye speake full louingle
For in this realme welth
should be
yeth no displeasure I pray you hartely
But in the way of
communicacion.
And for pastyme I would speake some wayes 40 Of
no comparison, nor to you no dyspayre,
I doo not intende that maner
alwayes,
But for a recreation,

+Wealth+ Brother what soeuer ye say to me.
I wyll heare you
paciently
I am content and I thanke you hartely
Begyn and say your
pleasure
+Health+ I thanke you hartely then wyll I
Some what unto my
purpose apply
Though welth be praised marualufly 50 Yet to myne
understanding.
Welth is mutable, and that iu shame
And welth is
hauty and proude of name
Welth is cruell, and in great blame
For
welth ts euer wauerynge.
+Wealth.+ To whom haue I doone any harme can ye say,
Ye stander
me nowe, yet I trust I may
Aunswere for my selte in euery maner way

Ye wyl not deny that?
+Health+ God forbyd but ye should do so 60 And ye may doo it
whether I wyl or no
Inlykewise, I must answer you also
Wh en ye
say not true.
Though I be but to you a poore man
yet helth I height,
the same I am
That is desyred vniuersally than
Some calles me as
good as you
+Welth.+ As I, mary ther in deede ye do compare.
Such wordes
myght brynge you soone in care
Lewde parson, thouart not ware 70
Of what substaunce I am
+Health.+ Yes I can tell what you are, be not dyspleased
welth is of
great substaunce, that cannot be denyed
yet shew your comodities,
and ye shalbe answerrd
I promyse you wellh is fugitiue.
+wealth+ What sayst thou, am I a fagetyue
I was neuer so taken vp in
my lyfe
Nor called vnsure, well I wyll make no stryfe
yet where as
thou dost say,
Thai I should show my commodityes alwayes 80 The
best for my selfe wherof I aske prayse
yf I shoulde stand her all my
lyfe dayes
yet I coulde not say.
Nor halfe the benefites that
commeth of me
yt cannot be tolde nor resyted shortly
Welth is the
floure of althing earthly
That you cannot denye.
Ferste god saue,

our soueraine Ladye the Queene
With all the counsel and all that with
them bene
Am not I welth with them euer at ene 90 Who should be
there but I?
Men of