[The printing of this play in the original is atrocious—à la Cock-Robin shop: type worn and battered; bad spelling; turned letters—b, d, f, long s, k, l—all long "stamps" used interchangeably; throughout a monument of bad Caxtonship.]


[Reduced Facsimile of the Title-page of "Impatient Poverty" from a copy now in the British Museum.]

[A New Interlude of]
IMPATIENT POVERTY
newly Imprinted, 1560

Four men may well and easily play this Interlude

Peace, and
Colhazard, and
Conscience
for one man

Abundance and
Misrule
for another man

Impatient Poverty
Prosperity, and
Poverty
for one man

Envy, and the
Sumner
for another man

Imprinted at London, in Paul's Churchyard at the Sign of the Swan, by John King