in Like Will to Like (Quoth the Devil to the Collier) — Fulwell, Ulpian
Metadata
Play
Like Will to Like (Quoth the Devil to the Collier)
Author
Fulwell, Ulpian
Year (catalogued)
1587
First performance
1568
Decade
1580s
Genre
Moral
Play type
Interlude
Speech prefix(es)
Haunce. | Haunce
Words
336
Characters
1531
Typicality
0.49 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A01353
BritDrama no.
472
Cluster
Cluster 16 — Errand servants & brief parts
Important excerpts
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Full speech
¶ Be go go gogs nouns cham cham drunk so so much to day: That be be be mass I cham a most drunk ich Dam Dam dare zay. Chud spe spe spend a goo goo good groat: than that ich cud vi vinde my Can Can chaptain to to tom tospot. ¶ Ma ma master to to tom cham cham cham glad by mass. Can Can carouse to to thee goo goo good tom, he drinketh. ¶ Ta ta tarry good velow, a woe woe word or twain: If though though thou Thy self do do do not come again, By by bid Philip Fleming cum cum cum hither to me, Vo vo warrant he must led me home now ich do zee. ¶ Omni po po potenti, all the po po pot is empty. ¶ Ich le le lernd zome la la Latin when ich was a la la lad, Ith Can Can can zay tu es nebulo ich learned of my dad. And ich did once he he help the pre pre Priest to zay mass, By Jesu ma man ich would been cunning when it. ‡ Yes by by God ich cud once dance, ‡ Than than that Can Can can ich do full trimly. ‡ By by mass changed changed changed was almost down I think verily, * Domine dominus noster: Me think I cham spied three knaves in a cluster. Sanctum benedicitum what have I dreamed? By gogs nouns chad thought ich had been in my bed. Cham dreamed such a dream that thou wilt marvel to here, Me thought ich was drowned in a barrel of Beer. And by and by the Barrel was turned to a Ship: Which me thought the wind made lively to skip. And ich did sail therein from Flanders to France: At last ich was brought hither among a sort of knaves by chance ¶ I pray thee good Vilip led me away, ‡ Go go God a mercy Tom with all my heart:
Plot summary
Plot — Like Will to Like (Quoth the Devil to the Collier)
The devil commissions the vice Nichol Newfangle to tempt men into a preoccupation with new fashions, which will lead them to hell. The ensuing action turns on the recurrent introduction of similar characters to one another. The vice introduces a dishonest collier to the devil, then Tom Tosspot to Rafe Roister; ina ~ mock trial he judges which is the bigger wastrel ===== PAGE 35 ===== 1568 (the prize, unknown to them, is to be hanged), but considers them equal. A comic drinking scene follows with Tosspot’s followers. He also sets in motion a plot to cozen two cutpurses over an inheritance of land. The vicious characters are driven off stage by the arrival of Virtuous Life, who is enthroned and crowned. Tosspot and Roister lose all their possessions: Roister gambles his away, and Tosspot has to leave his as security for his alehouse bill. Newfangle gives them the equipment to start a mew career as beggars, and they assault him. He is found injured by a judge, Severity, and betrays the two cutpurses; they are led away to execution, and Nichol and the hangman share their clothes. Tosspot’s followers end up in hospital suffering from gout. Lucifer carries the vice away on his back. The virtuous characters pray for the Queen, the Lords, and commons.