servant Mosca tries to take all his property. To save his property, Volpone tells the truth in court. The Avocatori (the judges) realize everything and punish the greedy evildoers. Volpone is ordered to be imprisoned and to be in chains. All his property will be given to hospitals.

Mosca’s Punishment: Mosca is Volpone’s parasite servant. He helps his master to scam others. He even tries to betray Volpone and lies to the court. So, Mosca is whipped and sent away to a ship as a slave.

Punishment of the Legacy Hunters: Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino lie and do evil things to be Volpone's heir. After Volpone’s attempt to rape Celia, Voltore lies to the court to save him. Corbaccio disinherits his own son, Bonario, and gives his property to Volpone to gain his favour. Corvino sends his wife, Celia, to Volpone’s bed. So, these legacy hunters are punished by the court.

Voltore's licence to practise law is cancelled. He is banished from the state. Corbaccio is sent to the monastery, and his property is given to his son. Corvino is ordered to return three times more dowry, which Celia brought with her at the time of her marriage. He must also dress like a donkey and walk around the city in shame.

Finally, this punishment gives us a moral lesson: avarice (excessive greed) always leads to punishment. Earlier in the play, Volpone actually told this when he was punishing the legacy-hunters for their avarice, by saying: “What a rare punishment is avarice to itself.”