_Thras._ How catch the fishermen fish? Master, take them as you think them worth: we leave all to your conscience.
_Usurer._ Honest men, toward men, good men, my friends, like to prove good members, use me, command me; I will maintain your credits. There's money: now spend not your time in idleness; bring me commodity; I have crowns for you: there is two shillings for thee, and six shillings for thee. [_Gives money._
_Alc._ A bargain.--Now, Samia, have at it for a new smock!--Come, let us to the spring of the best liquor: whilst this lasts, tril-lill!
_Usurer._ Good fellows, proper fellows, my companions, farewell: I have a pot for you.
_Jonas._ Repent, ye men of Nineveh, repent! The day of horror and of torment comes; When greedy hearts shall glutted be with fire, Whenas corruptions veil'd shall be unmask'd, When briberies shall be repaid with bane, When whoredoms shall be recompens'd in hell, When riot shall with vigour be rewarded, Whenas neglect of truth, contempt of God, Disdain of poor men, fatherless and sick, Shall be rewarded with a bitter plague. Repent, ye men of Nineveh, repent! The Lord hath spoke, and I do cry it out; There are as yet but forty days remaining, And then shall Nineveh be overthrown: Repent, ye men of Nineveh, repent! There are as yet but forty days remaining, And then shall Nineveh be overthrown. [_Exit._
_Usurer._ Confus'd in thought, O, whither shall I wend? [_Exit._
_Thras._ My conscience cries that I have done amiss. [_Exit._
_Alc._ O God of heaven, gainst thee have I offended!
_Samia._ Asham'd of my misdeeds, where shall I hide me?
_Cles._ Father, methinks this word "repent" is good: He that punisheth disobedience Doth hold a scourge for every privy fault. [_Exit with_ ALCON _and_ SAMIA.
_Oseas._ Look, London, look; with inward eyes behold What lessons the events do here unfold. Sin grown to pride, to misery is thrall: The warning-bell is rung, beware to fall. Ye worldly men, whom wealth doth lift on high, Beware and fear, for worldly men must die. The time shall come, where least suspect remains, The sword shall light upon the wisest brains; The head that deems to overtop the sky, Shall perish in his human policy. Lo, I have said, when I have said the truth, When will is law, when folly guideth youth, When show of zeal is prank'd in robes of zeal, When ministers powl[117] the pride of commonweal, When law is made a labyrinth of strife, When honour yields him friend to wicked life, When princes hear by others' ears their folly, When usury is most accounted holy, If these shall hap, as would to God they might not, The plague is near: I speak, although I write not.