Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 1 (nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa…). Matches are highlighted.
complexion is quite altered. Once 'twas a comely brown, it's now of late A perfect green and yellow; sure prognosticates Of over flux o'th gall, and melancholy, Symptoms of love and jealousy, poor soul. Quoth she, the she, why hang thy looks Like bel-ropes Out of the wheels? thou flinging down thy eyes Low at her feet, replid'st,
goodee-madame May possibly be compassed; I resolve too, To put in for a share; come what can come on't. Let us consider, She's but a Merchant's leavings. It's a common custom amongst friends (they are not friends else) chiefly gallants, To trade by turns in such Like frail commodities. The one is but reversioner to tother. Most free
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Madam. For such duties, Are all their toil and labour, but their pleasures Flow in the beauty's they enjoy, which conquers All sense of other travail. We are creatures Made proud in your commands. Such news, Madam. Would overjoy my Lord your husband. Sweet fates forbid it. Here Madam—mark Vespuci, how the Wittol stares on his sometime wife! sure he imagines To be a cuckold, by consent, is purchase Of appprobation in a state. Most punctually. Could calhim by his name too, why it's possible, She ha not yet forgotten of was her husband. The tale Of Venus Cat (man) changed into a woman, Was emblem but to this, she turns. No more. So, so, This jeer twangs roundly, doe's it not Vespuci? Hence, hence you vermin. Away, away, That were a jest indeed; I caught? So Vespuci, This will not do, I read it on thy forehead, The grain of thy complexion is quite altered. Once 'twas a comely brown, it's now of late A perfect green and yellow; sure prognosticates Of over flux o'th gall, and melancholy, Symptoms of love and jealousy, poor soul. Quoth she, the she, why hang thy looks Like bel-ropes Out of the wheels? thou flinging down thy eyes Low at her feet, replid'st, because, o Sovereign The great bell of my heart is cracked, and never Can ring in tune again, till't be new cast By one only skilful Foundress.—hereat She turned aside, winked, thou stoodst still and stard'st I did observ't, be plain, what hope? I handsome? Alas, alas, a creature of heavens making, Ther's all! but sirrah, prithee let's be sociable; I do confess, I think the goodee-madame May possibly be compassed; I resolve too, To put in for a share; come what can come on't. Let us consider, She's but a Merchant's leavings. It's a common custom amongst friends (they are not friends else) chiefly gallants, To trade by turns in such Like frail commodities. The one is but reversioner to tother. Most free and proper, One Surgeon, one apothecary. With this addition Camillo (best of fairs) a man so bashful, So simply harmless, and withal so constant, Yet resolute in all! true rights of honour; That to deliver him in perfect character, Whereto detract from such a solid virtue As reigns not in another soul—he is Most readily on tother side, Unto the Lord her husband, talk as coursely Of one another as we can. Hope fair enough, Vespuci, now as ever: Why any Woman in her husbands presence Can say no less. Wink madam with that eye. The pain will quickly pass. Not the strain in ordinary. Here's another tang of sense, Vespuci. Put home roundly. Ves. We, Madam I My follies are acknowledged; you're a Lady Who have outdone example: when I trespass In ought but duty, and respects of service, May Hope's of joys forsake me. Else 'twere imposture. We are ignorant In gems which are not common.
Plot summary
Plot — The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Before the start of the action, Lord Julio was advised by his physicians that his malady could be cured b narriage to a particular woman, Flavia. He duly arranged to purchase her from her husband, Fabricio, who procured a divorce by pretending a pre-contract. Flavia's brother Romanello is outraged and refuses to see her. Flavia herself feels ashamed of the arrangement and, at her request, Julio pensions off Fabricio and sends him into exile; he goes to Bologna and becomes a Capuchin monk. The gallants Camillo and Vespucci pursue Flavia, hoping that her track record indicates a propensity to adultery, but later see the error of their ways. Troilo Savelli procures a place at court for his friend Livio; but the price is that he must bring his sister Castamela to join the Bower of Fancies, a group of chaste young women visited by the Marquess Octavio for recreational purposes, and debarred most other company. Livio complies, breaking off Castamela's liaison with Romanello. The situation is not what it may seem, however: Octavio is impotent. Romanello comes to court disguised as a mountebank and manages to see the Fancies. Left alone with Castamela while the Fancies have a singing lesson, Octavio asks for her love, but she refuses, and later vents her annoyance on her brother for bringing her to court. Livio decides after all to give his blessing to her marriage to Romanello. Octavio is annoyed that scandalous rumours are in circulation concerning his relationship with the Fancies. He invites the principal characters to supper and the truth emerges: the Fancies are his nieces, and he was charged by their dead mother to supervise their education. Now that this is complete, he allows the courtiers to woo them. Romanello renounces his claim on Castamela, and she accepts Troilo's offer of marriage. In the sub-plot, Secco the young barber, whom Octavio has married to the Fancies' ancient guardian Morosa, is persuaded by the eunuch Spadone that he has been cuckolded by Octavio's page Nitido. Troilo saves the boy from a thrashing, and Secco takes his revenge by trapping Spadone in his barber's chair. Spadone confesses that he is only pretending to be a eunuch, and that he is the one who cuckolded Secco.