Children of the Queens Revels (Children of the Whitefriars) (?)
Theater
before the Court;Whitefriars;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Cap. | Powts. | Ca.
Words
1144
Characters
5887
Typicality
0.31 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A00725
BritDrama no.
1599
Cluster
Cluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
standing. You are a Pedlar. Merchant, I would thou hadst and Iron Tale Like me. My Lord'san Ass, and you are another. Sirrah, I'll beat you with a pudding on the change. I will pray for Civil wars, to cut thy throat with out danger Merchant, I will turn Pyrate, but I'll be revenged on thee. Zoons, I will be revenged upon you all.
pray for Civil wars, to cut thy throat with out danger Merchant, I will turn Pyrate, but I'll be revenged on thee. Zoons, I will be revenged upon you all. The strange adventure th'art now to make In that small Pinnace, is more perilous Then any hazard thou couldst undergo, Remember a scorned Soldier told thee so. Are you married?
more able to pay't: What art? A counterset Rogue you are. How? Go Sirrah, and bespeak Supper at the Bear, and provide Oars, I'll see Gravesend to night. Exit. Strange murdered on the wedding day by you, At his own Brides appointment, for my sake? This sounds not well. I know the Ring, and I have seen the Ruff about his neck,
Paper. I see now how I am cheated, love him well, He has redeemed your honour with his sword. This cunning in her is exceeding good, Your Son, your husband, Strange is murdered. Sirrah, you have brought me to a Surgeon already, I'll be even with you. These women are as crafty as the Devil, Yes, I did speak of him, Sir John,
Sirrah, you have brought me to a Surgeon already, I'll be even with you. These women are as crafty as the Devil, Yes, I did speak of him, Sir John, my Lord, Know Strange is murdered by that Villains hand, And by his wives consent. Search presently the Closet and the Vault, There you shall find his body, 'tis too true, The reason
Full speech
Good Morrow to your honour, and all joy Spring from this match, and the first year a Boy, I commend these two verses a purpose, to salute your Ho nor. That's certain, he knows you. Is't he that looks Like and Italian Tailor? Out of the laced wheel, that wears a Bucket on's head? Has he money? Then Captain thou art cast, would I had gone for Cleveland; Wordly loves money better then I love his Daughter, I'll to some Company in Garrison, God b'wy. A hundred Sir were better. Is that Man and Wife? But did that little, old, dried Neats tongue, that Eele-skin get him. Methinks, he in his Lady, should show Like a Nee dle in a Bottle of Hay. Is your name Abraham ; Pray who dwells in your Mother's backside, at the sign of the Aquavitae bottle. I had well hoped she could not have spoke, she is so fat. Venison my Lord, Venison. Heart, she looks Like a black Bumbard, with a pint pot waiting upon it. Exeunt Lady Wag. You should be a Knocker then by the Mother's side. Sir, I use not to bite any man. Sir. So Sir, so. Where? Good Sir, good. Thou'rt and old fellow: Are you a Merchant Sir? Right Sir: and as many are Citizens that are no Cuckolds. I would be glad to see for my money, I have paid for my standing. You are a Pedlar. Merchant, I would thou hadst and Iron Tale Like me. My Lord'san Ass, and you are another. Sirrah, I'll beat you with a pudding on the change. I will pray for Civil wars, to cut thy throat with out danger Merchant, I will turn Pyrate, but I'll be revenged on thee. Zoons, I will be revenged upon you all. The strange adventure th'art now to make In that small Pinnace, is more perilous Then any hazard thou couldst undergo, Remember a scorned Soldier told thee so. Are you married? The Devil dance at your wedding: but for you I have something else to say, let me see, here are reasona ble store of people, know all my beloved Brothers, (I speak it in the face of the Congregation) this woman I have lyen with oftener. Yes, Good-morrow, God give you joy. Exit. Sir you may, he owes less peradventure: or if more, he is more able to pay't: What art? A counterset Rogue you are. How? Go Sirrah, and bespeak Supper at the Bear, and provide Oars, I'll see Gravesend to night. Exit. Strange murdered on the wedding day by you, At his own Brides appointment, for my sake? This sounds not well. I know the Ring, and I have seen the Ruff about his neck, This comes of enforced marriages; Where was't done? And how escaped you? You have showed some kindness to me, I must love you Sir, What did you with his body? Whence this blood? Where is the Maid? Sir, I will kill two men for you till then I owe my life to you, and if ever Racks, Strappadoes, wheel, or any torturous Engine, Even from the Roman Yoke, to the Scotch Boot, Force me discover you, or her, to Law, Pray God the Merchant may respire again, But what a Villain have I been ro wrong her? Did she not tell you how I injured her? Truth, was more false then Hell, & you shall see me, (As Well, as I can repent of any sin) Ask her forgiveness for wounding of her Name, and gainst the world recover her lost fame. Kind soul, would I could weep, to make amends Why I did slander her at the Church door. Would, what's the news? Heart, this is some railing Poet, why you Rogue? I'll kill the first, and in thy vital flood, Fight. Wash my hands clean of that young Merchant's blood. Zoons can you ward so well, I think you are one of the Noble science of Defence. O, now I understand you, and you stand over me, My hurts are not mortal, but you have the better, if your name be Wordly, be thank ll for your fortune. Godamercy, zoons methinks I see my self in Morefields, upon a wooden leg, begging three pence. What a Rogue are you, is this the Surgeon you would carry me to? Nay 'tis no matter, I'll cry quittance with you, Forgive me Mrs. Kate, and know all people I lied not with her, but beli'de her once, And to my recantation, that same Soldier Enforced my hand. They all look on the Paper. I see now how I am cheated, love him well, He has redeemed your honour with his sword. This cunning in her is exceeding good, Your Son, your husband, Strange is murdered. Sirrah, you have brought me to a Surgeon already, I'll be even with you. These women are as crafty as the Devil, Yes, I did speak of him, Sir John, my Lord, Know Strange is murdered by that Villains hand, And by his wives consent. Search presently the Closet and the Vault, There you shall find his body, 'tis too true, The reason all may guess, her husband wanting Spirit to do on me what he hath done, In hope to marry her, he hath murdered him. From his mouth. I but swore in jest. Go fetch a Surgeon. Heart, I was never sick before, help me now to a Surgeon, or I shall swoon instantly. As 2 leads him he speaks Thou were't born a Roman-Citizen, fare thee well, And farewell love, and Women, you diseases, My horse and sword shall be my Mistress's, My Horse I'll court, my sword shall lie with me. Exit Sir, I know your business, you are come to serve a warrant, ot a Scitation, I will not speak with you: and get you gone quickly too, or I may happen send a Bullet through your Mazzard. Exit. I have played the melancholy Ass, and partly the Knave, in this last business, but as the Parson said that God the wench with child, 'Tis done now Sir, it cannot be undone, and my purse or I must smart for it. I'll away, this Law is Like the Basilisk, to see it first, is the death ont this night: and noble London fare well, I will never see thee more, till I be knighted for my Virtues. Let me see, when shall I return; and yet I do not think but there are a great many dubbed for their For tues; otherwise how could there be so many poor knights, what att thou? whats thy news? Thou worse then slanderous Rogues, thou murderer Some wiser then some, I love my reputation well, yet I am not so valiant and ass, but I love my life better, the my
Plot summary
Plot — A Woman Is a Weathercock
Scudmore is in love with Bellafront, and his friend Nevill persuades him, with difficulty, to show the love- letter he has received from her. There is a slight complication: Nevill is on his way to .Bellafront’s wedding. She is to marry Count Frederick that morning. The whole family is mired in matrimonial competition. Bellafront’s sister Lucida also loves Frederick, and has sworn never to marry for his sake; but she is being courted by the foolish Sir Abraham Ninny, who has got himself knighted expressly to make himself a more eligible son-in-law. The youngest daughter, Katherine, is also to be married that morning, to Strange the merchant, but she too has another admirer, Captain Pouts. Unbeknown to Scudmore, Nevill impersonates the parson who is to officiate at the wedding. Scudmore tries to catch Bellafront at the church door, but she refuses him; this convinces him that all women are perfidious. After the wedding, Pouts publicly declares that Katherine has slept with him on many previous occasions. Strange seems reluctant to seek legal redress for this slander, but only because he doesn’t want anyone to stop him secretly taking a more immediate revenge. He tries to see Pouts at his lodging, but Pouts assumes he has come to serve a writ and will not let him in. Pouts then prepares to flee England and his creditors, but Strange intercepts him disguised as a soldier, claiming that Katherine engaged him to murder her new husband and that she loves only Pouts. Pouts admits that he slandered her; Strange wounds him in a fight and forces him to sign a document affirming her innocence. By a pretext, Scudmore gets in to see Bellafront, rebukes her, and returns her love-letters. She tells him that her father forced her to marry Frederick, and that she will kill herself rather than consummate the marriage. He mistrusts her, but Nevill arranges for him to participate in a wedding masque that evening. He and Bellafront sneak away during the dancing and are married, this time by the right parson. Suspicions of polyandry are dispelled when Nevill explains that the parson that morning was really him, so that the marriages are invalid. Strange brings Pouts to apologise to the gathering, but is almost arrested for his own murder until he reveals his identity. Pouts returns to the war, abjuring women. Strange is confirmed as Katherine’s husband, and Frederick will marry Lucida. In the sub-plot, Wagtail is pregnant, but wants to ensure that the child has a wealthier…