EQ.  It shall be done, madam.

SHER.  Then, madam, I pray you, appoint some officer to take the money,
That I may return again with Equity.

VIR.  Let it be delivered to my steward Liberality.

[Exeunt.

LIB.  What, Money? how come you to be so fat and foggy?

MON.  Surely, sir, by the old chuff, that miser Tenacity.

LIB.  How so?

MON.  He would never let me abroad to go,
But lock’d me up in coffers, or in bags bound me fast,
That, like a boar in a sty, he fed me at last,
Thus Tenacity did spoil me for want of exercise: 
But Prodigality, clean contrariwise,
Did toss me and fleece me, so bare and so thin,
That he left nothing on me but very bone and skin.

LIB.  Well, Money, will you bide with him that can devise
To rid you and keep you from these extremities?

MON.  Who is that?

LIB.  Even myself, Liberality.

MON.  Sir, I like you well, and therefore willingly
I am contented with you to remain,
So as you protect me from the other twain.

LIB.  I warrant thee. 
First, from thy bands I’ll set thee free,
And after thy sickness cured shall be.

MON.  Thanks and obedience I yield and vow to Liberality.

[Exit MONEY.

Enter CAPTAIN WELL-DONE [and other SUITORS.]

CAP.  W. My lord, according to your appointment and will,
I come to attend your pleasure.

LIB.  Have you brought your bill?[416]

CAP.  W. Yea, my lord.

LIB.  Give it me. 
I’ll be your mean unto the prince, that it may despatched be: 
The while take here these hundred crowns, to relieve ye.

CAP.  W. God save the queen, and God save Liberality!

2D SUITOR.  Sir, I have long served the prince at great expense, And long have I been promised a recompense:  I beseech you consider of me.

LIB.  What, do you serve without fee?

2D SUITOR.  Yea, truly, sir.

LIB.  Hold, pray for the queen. [Gives him money.]

2D SUITOR.  It shall be my prayer day and night truly:  God save the queen, and God save Liberality!

3D SUITOR.  Now, good my lord, vouchsafe of your charity
To cast here aside your faithful eye
Upon a poor soldier, naked and needy,
That in the queen’s wars was maimed, as you see.

LIB.  Where have you served?

3D SUITOR.  In France, in Flanders; but in Ireland most.

LIB.  Under whom?

3D SUITOR.  Under Captain Well-done.

CAP.  W. He was my soldier indeed, sir, until he lost his leg.

LIB.  Hold, pray for the queen. [Gives him money.]

3D SUITOR.  God save the queen, and God save Liberality!

SCENE V.

    Enter TIPSTAVES, LIBERALITY, SHERIFF, CLERKS,
    CRIER, PRODIGALITY, [to whom] the JUDGE.