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<A RANDOLPH><T DRINKING ACADEMY> ((The Persons.)) Worldly an old doting vser Knowlittle his prodigall sone Chaualero Whiffe master of the drinking Academy Simple Knowlittle's man Timothy Sheirke a cheater Tom Nimmer a cutpurse Jack Bidstand a heigh-way man Pluto the God of riches, madam Pecunias ghost, Alecto, a ballat singer, persons assum'd by the 3 cheaters to cosen Worldly, Knowlittle and Caualero Whiffe. Maddam Pecunia, my Lady Inconstantia Fortunes eldest daughter a person only mentioned. <S PROLOGUE> Ile warrant you expect a Prologue? but by my troath ther is no such matter ye are nether like to haue Prologue or Epelogue, head or foot in this play. our Poet to excuse it says Melpomine hath taken cold of late. but the trouth is articles of treason haue bin brought to Apollo against him the least of wch his accusers count capital. the cheifest crime and for wch Apollo hath foreuer banish'd him the company of the thrice three learned sisters (so that he can neuer hope againe to . . .
