Children of the Queens Revels (Children of the Whitefriars) (?)
Theater
before the Court;Whitefriars;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Inno. | S. In. | S. Inno. | Sir.
Words
159
Characters
829
Typicality
0.47 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A00725
BritDrama no.
1599
Cluster
Cluster 14 — Law & judgment
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Indeed my Lord, with much cost and labour, we have God him Knighted; and being Knighted, under favour my Lord, let me tell you, he'll prove a soar Knight as ere run at Ring. He is the one and only Ninny of our house. Byr'lady his worship says well wise, we'll trouble him no longer; with your Honours leave, I'll in and see my old friend Sir John, your Father that shall be. Wife, my Lady Ninny, do you hear your Son, he speaks seldom, but when he speaks. O Guiniuer, as I am a Justice of peace and Counterfeit ram, t'were a good deed to commit thee, Fie, fie, fie. And where's Sir. Abraham ? I will assist you. How. how. Come, come, you shall not. Beware the last Statute of two Husbands. Nay but remember thou didst wish Strange living If ever thou didst tell, Sir all is true, And would my punishment would ease my Conscience.
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…