Children of the Queens Revels (Children of the Whitefriars) (?)
Theater
before the Court;Whitefriars;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Page. | Boy | Boy. | Page
Words
397
Characters
1989
Typicality
0.30 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A00725
BritDrama no.
1599
Cluster
Cluster 17 — Intriguers & schemers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
angry; why look you, I am my Lords Page, and you are my Ladies Gentle woman, we should agree better, and I pray whither are you riding with this burden in your Dosser. You have answered me I promise you, but who put it in I pray. I, alas, I know that by my Talon; for I remember thus much Philosophy of my Schoolmasters, Ex
Full speech
Ah Gods will, are you at it, you have acted your Name too much, sweet Mistress is Wagtail, this was witti lie, though somewhat knavishly followed on me. She has a shroud reach, I see that, what a casting she keeps, marry my Comfort is, we shall hear by and by, who has given her the Casting Bot tle. A hight Knight by my Faith, Dootwell and Burnit too. And so shee'le come down to the footmen. By this light I have herd enough, shall I hold your belly too, fair Maid of the fashion? O fie, ill Mutton, you are too angry; why look you, I am my Lords Page, and you are my Ladies Gentle woman, we should agree better, and I pray whither are you riding with this burden in your Dosser. You have answered me I promise you, but who put it in I pray. I, alas, I know that by my Talon; for I remember thus much Philosophy of my Schoolmasters, Ex nihilo nihil fit ; but come, setting this Duello of wit aside, I have overheard your Confession, and your casting about for a Father, and intruth in mere Charity, came in to re lieve you. In the scroll of Beasts, Horses, and Asses, that have fed upon this Common of yours, you nam one Pendant, Faith Wench let him be the Father, he is a very handsome Gentleman I can tell you, in my Lords favour, I'll be both secret and your friend, to my Lord, let it be him, he shall either reward thee bountifully, or marry thee. Did not I say so, Come this is but a trick to send me off Sir. Exit Page. No my Lord. No. I you may thank his Lordship indeed. Heel praise himself in trust with my Lords taylor, For the next S. Georges suit. There's all his reading. Now you shall taste the means by which he eats. Marry therefore my Lord. Exit Boy. Good morrow your Lord and Master you might say, for brevity sake. They were all one my Lord. For nothing, no, he would be loath it should. How if they will not admit me my Lord: My Lord has sent him to call me, now I hold a wager ont, if thou be'st not a Fool, as most weighting Women are, thou'lt use him in his kind.
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…