PLEASURE.
What pleasure can be fostered without cost?
POMP.
What pomp or port without respect of gain?
POLICY.
What policy without preferment lives?
PLEASURE.
Pleasure must have Lucre.
POMP.
Pomp hath need of Lucre.
POLICY.
Policy merits Lucre.
PLEASURE.
Pleasure dies without Lucre.
POMP.
Pomp decays without Lucre.
POLICY.
Policy droops without Lucre.
NEMO.
Thus, lords, you show your imperfections,
Subject to passions, straining honour's bounds.
Be well-advis'd: you promised to be rul'd,
And have those dames by me disposed to you,
But since I see that human humours oft
Makes men forgetful of their greater good,
Be here a while: Dame Lucre shall be brought
By me to choose which lord she liketh best,
So you allow her choice with patience.
PLEASURE.
Go: we abide thy doom till thy return. [_Exit_.
POMP.
If Lucre be not mad, she will be mine.
POLICY.
If she regard her good, she will be mine.
PLEASURE.
If she love happy life, she will be mine:
Women love Pleasure.
POMP.
Women love Pomp.
POLICY.
Women use Policy: and here she comes that must decide the doubt.
_Enter_ NEMO, _with_ CONSCIENCE _all in white_.
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