Queen Elizabeth's Men (on tour); Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men (in London)
Theater
before the Court;
Speech prefix(es)
Cl: | Fidler. | Fidler: | Clowne: | Fid:
Words
267
Characters
1298
Typicality
0.66 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A02125
BritDrama no.
876
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.
dideldero. A sword? No no sir, thats my fiddle. Lord sir, yowl break my living. You told me your master was not mad. Oh Lord Sir, will you answer this? Two or three shillings, tush thou wot cossen me thou, but and thou canst tell where I may earn a groat, I'll give thee six pence for thy pains. Yea and scratch it too, March fair fellow
Full speech
No I warrant you, but I think I had best go back and shave my beard. Well you will give me the half crown you promised me. Sirrah, didst not see me serve the fellow a fine trick, when we came over the market place. Why he comes to me, and said; Gentlewo man, wilt please you take a pint or a quart. No Gen tlewoman said I, but your friend and Doritie. Well I thank you heartily. Yes forsooth. He makes a garden plot in my face. Yes, yes, with squibs and crackers braueiy. Yes marry am I. Orgalio, give me eighteen pence, & let me go. Marry sir he is drinking a pint or a quart. Come, come, you do not use me Like a gen tlewoman; and if I be not for you I am for another. Ho you would have me play Angelica a gain, would you not? At which side doth he use to give his re ward. Does he not use to throw the chamber pot sometime? Twould grieve me he should wet my fiddle strings. No sir, you should have said Shan the Fi dideldero. A sword? No no sir, thats my fiddle. Lord sir, yowl break my living. You told me your master was not mad. Oh Lord Sir, will you answer this? Two or three shillings, tush thou wot cossen me thou, but and thou canst tell where I may earn a groat, I'll give thee six pence for thy pains. Yea and scratch it too, March fair fellow frying-pan. Why he is mad still is he not.
Plot summary
Plot — Orlando Furioso
From all over the world, princes have come to Africa to woo |Amgeliga, the successful suitor will become her father Marsilis’ heir. Given a free choice, Angelica opts for OFlaHdG) offending his higher-ranking rivals. They plan to seize Angelica and despoil Africa, but Orlando lays siege to R@@aimant's castle and sacks it. Rodamant and Brandimart flee. _ . Ambitious for love and power, Sa@rapalit woos Angelica, but she loves only Orlando. Planning to make Orlando jealous, he hangs love poems on the trees in a grove where Orlando walks; his man disguises himself as a shepherd and tells Orlando that Angelica is in love with Orlando is driven out of his mind, and dismembers fi@lShepherd’, mistaking him for Medor. M@arSiiWS banishes Angelica, but his former enemy Manidmieard receives gracious treatment and becomes his companion. Convinced that both Medor and Angelica are dead, Orlando madly plans to pursue them to hell to continue his revenge. He recruits an army of rustics and kills SERS in battle. He meets Angelica, but does not know her. His page presents him with a false ABeliea - in reality a cross-dressed clown - whom he beats. Having heard of Orlando’s lunacy, the twelve peers of France come to seek reprisals against ey and are greeted by Marsilius. makes war on Marsilius. The vitbeli Melis8A cures Orlando’s madness and sends him to fight. Sacrapant is defeated in single combat by Orlando, disguised as a common soldier; he confesses Angelica’s innocence before he dies. Meanwhile, the peers have captured her and plan to execute her for adultery. Still disguised, Orlando fights them in her defence, and wins. His countrymen recognize him by his distinctive combat style, and he explains Sacrapant’s stratagem. Marsilius invests him with his crown, and he prepares to return with Angelica to France.