The Interlude of Wealth and Health | Page 5

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 cõma[=u]dement I am redy

And at your owne wyll. 280
¶ Here entreth with some iest yllwyll
+Wyll..+ Mary I am come at the first call
Wyll, your owne man haue
me who shall
For I am will seruaunt to you al
Ye shall not neede to
sende for me.
+Welth.+ Who is acquanted with this man
He is very homely and
lytle good he can
To come in here so boldly, then
Dryue him away
quickly,
+Wy ll.+ Why, I cam not tyll I was called 290 your owne wyll openly
ye named
Then I came a pace lest I should be blamed
Therfore I
pray you let me byde styll,
+ealth+ Whole wyll, or what wyll, doth he meane
Thou art not my
wyl, I forsake thee cleane
My wyl and their wylles is often sene

Our wylles can none yll
+Wyll.+ Alas good masters I can none yll
yet by my trouth I am your
euyll wyll
your wil, & your will, & your will, therfore keepe me 300 I

loue ye by goddes mother,
+liberty.+ This is a straunge saying vnto me
My wyl, your wyll, and
his wyll, this cannot be
For in our wyles is a great diuersitie
For one
is not lyke another,
+Wyll.+ Yet by Christ your owne wyl I am
The maddest wyl, and the
meriest, than
For goddes sake now, let me be your man
Tyl ye haue
better acquaintaunce.
+wealth+ I perceyue this felow is kynde 310 And oweth to vs good wyl
and mynde
Some kindes agayne then let hym finde
Let him haue
some furderaunce
+Wyll.+ By god sir and I durst be so bolde
Arquaintance of this man
clayme I would
and kynred to, yf the trouth were tolde
we be of one
consanguynitie
+Health+ How fo? let me here that I pray thee hartly
+Wyll.+ Wyl and lybertyeis, of aunciterie olde
with out lyberfye, wili
dare not bebolde 320 And where wyl lacketh, lybertye is full colde

Thyrfore wyl and lybertye must nedes be of kyn.
+liberti.+ In dede as he saythe it may well be
For wyl euer longeth
vnto lybrtye
Therfore good freende welcome to me
I praye you al
be good to him And goeth out
+Welth.+ For your sake he is welcome to