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Encouraged by their haughty mother, Lady Frugal, both Anne and Mary reject their suitors Sir
Maurice Lacy, son of Lord Lacy, and Mr. Plenty, a country gentleman. They feel ridiculed and complain to Sir John Frugal about his wife and daughters' vanity and pretentiousness. Lady Frugal is angry towards
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Sir John Frugal is a merchant whose brother, Luke Frugal, has been to prison and has no money left. Out of charity, Sir John Frugal has invited him to live in his house. Luke is employed there as an under-apprentice, a mere servant who is scorned by Sir John Frugal's wife, Lady Frugal, the eponymous
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The characters then learn from Lord Lacy that Master John Frugal has left his house to go to a monastery and that he has bestowed all his goods to his brother Luke, who is surprised by such a reversal of fortune. Lord Lacy also tells Luke that his brother has requested him to welcome in his house
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John Frugal's debtors, Hoist, Fortune and Penury, come to his house to ask for his clemency and with the help of Luke Frugal, who waxes lyrical on the benefits of charity, they convince him into granting them a new delay to pay him back. Luke then convinces his brother's apprentices to steal from
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All of John Frugal's former debtors come back to Master Luke and tell him they might soon be able to pay him back. Master Luke says that he will give money to both apprentices
Goldwire and Tradewell and implies that he would like to meet Shave'em. He is welcomed as a munificent benefactor among
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Shave'em the whore is visited by two of her customers, Ramble and
Scuffle, but she rejects them, pretending that she has become a lady. Both men laugh at her and when Shave'em threatens them with a knife, Ramble draws his sword. Goldwire comes to her rescue dressed up as a Justice of the Peace
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them. Goldwire even proposes to procure Shave'em to him. But Master Luke reveals his plot by having Shave'em, Ding'em, the apprentices and his debtors all arrested. He treats Lady Frugal and her daughters with disdain and obliges them to wear coarse clothes in order to teach them humility.
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Sir John, disguised as an Indian, proposes to his brother to sacrifice Lady Frugal and her daughters in a
Satanic ritual (Indians were supposed to worship the devil in Jacobean England). Master Luke agrees to send them to Virginia to be sacrificed in a Satanic ritual. He then receives his
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their master by forging his accounts. They agree to cheat him out of his money because they would like to become city gallants. Goldwire Junior has an affair with a prostitute called Shave'em and wants to buy clothes for her by swindling his master.
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Indians from Virginia whom he could convert to Christianity. Sir John Frugal, Sir Maurice Lacy, and Plenty, painted and disguised as Indians and talking gibberish, are then introduced to Master Luke.
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apprentices' fathers, Goldwire Senior and
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