Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Pel.
Words
509
Characters
2805
Typicality
0.18 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A01055
BritDrama no.
2259
Cluster
Cluster 6 — Battlefield messengers & soldiers
Important excerpts
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Full speech
From Travails (noble Sir.) As I am modest, I protest it's strange: But is it possible? To bestride The frothy fomes of Neptune's surging waves, When blustering Boreas tosses up the deep, And thumps a thunder bounce? Indeed, is't true, I pray? I this language? Alas, Sir, we that study words and forms Of compliment, must fashion all discourse, According to the nature of the subject. But I am silent, now appears a Sun, Whose shadow I adore. Your creature, and your Servant. Rhetias, I sought thee out to tell thee news, New, excellent new news. Cucolus, Sirrah, That Gull, that young old Gull, is coming this way. Prithee hear me: In stead of a fine guarded Page, We have God him A Boy, tricked up in neat and handsome Fashion; Persuaded him, that 'tis indeed a Wench; And he has entertained him, he does follow him, Carries his sword and buckler, waits on his trencher, Fills him his Wine, Tobacco, whets his knife, Lackeys his letters, does what service else He would employ his man in: being asked, Why he is so irregular in Courtship? His answer is, that since great Ladies use Gentlemen Ushers to go bore before them, He knows no reason, but he may reduce The Courtiers to have women wait on them, And he begins the fashion; he is laughed at Most complementally. Thou'lt burst to see him. I have read Pamphlets dedicated to me: Dost call him Agelastus ? why did he laugh? Thou hast a Patent to abuse thy friends: Look, look, he comes, observe him seriously. Noble accomplished Cuculus. That's well, he's and honest blade, though he be blunt. I'll be at charge of a banquet on thee for a sighed of her. My nurse was a woman-surgeon. Corax, the Princes chief Physician; What business speeds his haste— Are all things well, Sir? Let'em alone. I will not slack my partly. Prithee hold thy tongue, the Lords are in the presence. Oh the Prince: stand and keep silence. May it please your Grace, I think you do contain within your self The great Elixer, soul and quintessence Of all divine perfections: are the glory Of mankind, and the only strict example For earthly Monarchies to square out their lives by: Times miracle, Fame's pride, in Knowledge, Wit, Sweetness, Discourse, Arms, Arts— In amorous contemplation on my life; Courting his Page by Hell. con. I will hang they all, and burn my wife: was I not and Emperor; my hand was kissed, and Ladies lay down be before me. In triumph did I ride with my Nobles about me, till the mad-dog bit me, I fell, and I fell, and I fell. It shall be treason by Statute for any man to name uva ter, or wash his hands throughout all my Dominions; break all the looking-glasses, I will not see my horns; my wife Cuckolds me, she is a whore, a whore, a whore, a whore. Thou'st straight to execution. Good Sir. Some certain blows have passed, an't Like your Highness.
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.