Chapter CXXIII: Epilogue

_Als._ All we can do to comfort one another,
To stay a brother’s sorrow for a brother,
To dry a child from the kind father’s eyes,
Is to no purpose, it rather multiplies: 225
Your only smiles have power to cause relive
The dead again, or in their rooms to give
Brother a new brother, father a child;
If these appear, all griefs are reconcil’d. _Exeunt omnes._

A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS

BY PHILIP MASSINGER

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

[LORD] LOVELL, an English Lord.
SIR GILES OVERREACH, a cruel extortioner.
[FRANK] WELLBORN, a Prodigal.
[TOM] ALLWORTH, a young Gentleman, Page to Lord Lovell.
GREEDY, a hungry Justice of Peace.
MARRALL, a Term-Driver; a creature of Sir Giles Overreach.
ORDER [Steward], }
AMBLE [Usher], }
FURNACE [Cook], } Servants to the Lady Allworth.
WATCHALL [Porter],}
WILLDO, a Parson.
TAPWELL, an Alehouse Keeper.
Three Creditors, Servants, &c.

The LADY ALLWORTH, a rich Widow.
MARGARET, Overreach his daughter.
FROTH, Tapwell’s Wife.
Chambermaid.
Waiting Woman.

[SCENE.—_The Country near Nottingham._]