Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Troll. | Trol.
Words
382
Characters
1976
Typicality
0.47 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A01055
BritDrama no.
2259
Cluster
Cluster 16 — Errand servants & brief parts
Important excerpts
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Full speech
I forsooth: but he sleeps Like a Hare with his eyes open and that's no good sign. Hear it? I shudder, it was a strong blast, young Mistress, able to root up heart, liver, lungs and all. Lady Mistress, shall I fetch a Barbour to steal away his rough beard, while he sleeps in's naps? He never looks in a glass, and 'tis high time on conscience for him to be trimmed, has not been under the Shavers hand almost these four years. Sir, is your stomach up yet? get some warm porridge in your belly, it's a very good settle-brain. I am Trollia your honest implement. I beseech ye heartily Sir. I feel a horrible puking my self. No, no, you are but a little staring—there's difference between staring and stark mad. You are but whymsed, yet crotcheted, conundroun'd, or so. Who I? I will be monstrous and wise immedi ately. Welcome, Gentlemen, the more the merrier, I'll lay the cloth, and set the stools in a readiness, for I see here is some hope of dinner now. Worshipful Master Doctor, I have a great deal of I cannot tell what, to say t'ee; My Lord thun dears: every word that comes out of his mouth, roars Like a Cannon: the house shook once, my young Lady dares not be seen. There, there, there; look to your Right Wor shipfull, look to your self. Some few knocks of Friendship, some love-toys, some Cuffs in kindness, or so. He has mumbled his nose, that 'tis as big as a great Cod piece. I could clip the old Ruffian, there's hair enough to stuff all the great Codpieces in Switzerland. A be begins to stir, a stirs. Bless us how his eyes roll. A good year keep your Lordship in your right wits, I beseech ye. He has God a great Pole-axe in his hand, and fences it up and down the house, as if he were to make room for the Pageants. I have provided me a Murrion forfeare of a clap on the Coxcomb. The Physician is God as mad as my Lord.— Oh brave, a man of Worship. He vapours Like a Tinker, and struts Like a Juggler. Yes Sir, with all my heart.— Yes, and to scour it too.—
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.