Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Grill. | Gril.
Words
397
Characters
2088
Typicality
0.44 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A01055
BritDrama no.
2259
Cluster
Cluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
place, weapon. Yes forsooth, and no forsooth, is not this fine, I pray, your blessing Gaffer, here, here, here did he give me a shough, and cut offs tail: buss, buss Nuncle, and ther's a pum for Daddee. I never sucked that I remember. Thanks most egregiously. You're too perstreperous, Saucebox. I think now— Most abominable: out upon
Full speech
They are here, forsooth. A sounder of some such wind instrume ̄ to forsooth. That will be fine indeed. Dee think so? Even do your pleasure with me, Sir. Bless us, what a strange Creature this is? There's a cursey for you, and a cursey for you. I must confess— A very foulmouthed, and misshapen Cocks comb A Magot, most unworthy to creep in— —To the least wrinkle of a Gentlewoman's (What d'ee call) good conceit, or so, or what You will else.—Were you not refined by Courtship And education, which in my blear eyes Makes you appear as sweet as any nosegay, Or savoury cod of Musk new fallen from cat. This will doo't, if we will hear. Even as the snuff of a candle that is burned in the socket, goes out, and leaves a strong perfume behind it; or as a piece of toasted cheese next the heart in a morning is a restorative for a sweet breath: so, even so the odoriferous savour of your love does perfume my heart, (Hay ho) with the pure sent of and intolerable content, and not to be endured. Thus I walk by, hear and mind you not. I know how to present a big Lady in her own cue. But pray in earnest, are you in love with all these? A rare man you are, I protest. A gross untruth; I'll justify it, Sir, At any time, place, weapon. Yes forsooth, and no forsooth, is not this fine, I pray, your blessing Gaffer, here, here, here did he give me a shough, and cut offs tail: buss, buss Nuncle, and ther's a pum for Daddee. I never sucked that I remember. Thanks most egregiously. You're too perstreperous, Saucebox. I think now— Most abominable: out upon him. As rare and old Youth as ever walked cross-gartered. I stand for Kala, do your best and your worst. You are— To speak you right, a very scurvy fellow.— Keep off, poor fool, my beams will strike thee blind: Else if thou touch me, touch me but behind. In Palaces, such as pass in before, Must be great Princes; for at the back door Tatter-demallians wait, who know not how To get admittance: such a one—art Thou. Fool, Fool, Fool, catch me and thou canst. Tosspot? Oh base! Tosspot? I'll turn him away, he shall be my Master no longer.
Plot summary
Plot — The Lover's Melancholy
Menaphon returns home to Cyprns after a year's travel, bringing with him Parthenophill, a young man he met in Greece. Neither his love-Life nor that of his friend Amethus is going well: Amethus' love Oeophila is too preoccupied with her father's illness to entertain his suit. and Menaphon 's love Thamasta seems uninterested in men - at least until she meets Parthenophill. She sets her maid Kala to woo the newcomer, to avenge a slight, Kala courts him for herself, but Parthenophill rejects them both. Prince Palador has also been unlucky in love : two years before, during his father Agenor's lifetime, he was to have married Erodea, daughter of the principal minister, Meleander; but Agenor wooed her for himself and attempted to have her kidnapped; Mdeander rescued her and she disappeared, leaving the disgraced Meleander to sink into insanity under house arrest. Now Palador is melancholy, and affairs of state are neglected. The court physician Corax undertakes to tind the cause of Palador's malady, and presents a masque of mdancholy, representing various types of mental disorder: lycanthropia, hydrophobia, delirium, phrenitis, and St Vitus' dance, but not love-mdancholr, v.,-hich is represented by a sizeable blank in the masque's paper programme. Palador's angry reaction to Co-ra."l'.'s commentary on the omission reveals that this is his malady . Menaphon becomes jealous of the attentions Thamasta pays to Parthenophill, but her persistenct: leads the young man to reveal the truth: 'he' is a1..-tually a woman: Thamasta writes to tell CleophUa. Palador also takes an interest in Parthenophill, who stirs something in his memory: she is in fact Erode-a, who was spirited away to Athens by her uncle , a.nd lived there in protective male disguise . \\'ith his love restored to him. Palador now devotes himself to curing her father 's madness . Cora..." drug s Mdeander and has him shaved and dressed dt!\:ently in his sleep; he wakes to sanity , is rew1ited with En.idea , and is restored to his old office and given some new ones. He gives his blessing to Erodea 's marriage lo Palador. Encouraged by Thamasta, Cleophila agrees to marrv Amethus, and Thamasta accept.,; i\-knaphon. In 'the sub-plot, the courtier Peli.is supplie<l Cuculus with a page, Grilla, and leads hii:n tCl believe that tht · boy is actually a girl. CucuJus think.-. he is setting a new court fashion for temalc pages . He learns the truth ah1:r Grilla punches hin1 on the nose.