in Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will — Haughton, William
Metadata
Play
Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will
Author
Haughton, William
Year (catalogued)
1616
First performance
1598
Decade
1610s
Genre
Comedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men
Speech prefix(es)
Poſt. | Post.
Words
219
Characters
1073
Typicality
0.18 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A02800
BritDrama no.
1120
Cluster
Cluster 3 — Citizens, tradesfolk & neighbors
Important excerpts
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Full speech
God bless your worship. God save your worship, a littlemony and so forth. I marry sir that were a merry world indeed, I would hope to get more money of your worship in one quarter of a year, then I can do now in a whole twelvemonth. Mass, this man hath the luck on't, I think I can scarce ever come to him for money, but this a vengeance on, and that a vengeance on't, does so trouble him, that I can get no Coin: Well, a vengeance on't for my partly; for he shall fetch the next Letters him self. Next week, sir. What though he had not sir? but he had, how then? You have said sir; but I am no mere for his more king, nor yours neither: If I had you in place where, you should find me tough enough in digestion, I warrant you. Idem teach him a Gentle trick and I had him of the burse; but I'll watch him a good turn I warrant him. I beseech your worship to consider me. Marry God bless your Worship; I came in happy time: What, a French crown? sure he knows not what he does: Well, I'll begun, least he remember himself, and take it from me again. I sir; Why ask you that?
Plot summary
Plot — Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will
The usurer Pisaro intends to marry his daughters to three foreigners, while also using them to acquire wealth from their English suitors. Anthony, their tutor, is sacked for acting as a go-between for the Englishmen, but he disguises himself and is hired in as his own replacement. The daughters encourage their suitors to borrow more money from Pisaro, in the expectation that the debt will be cancelled when they marry. Pisaro, distracted by rumours that his ships have been ambushed in the Mediterranean by Spanish pirates, mistakenly invites the English suitors to dinner. They take up the invitation, meet their foreign rivals, and arrange a nocturnal assignation with the sisters. Learning of this, Pisaro plans to substitute the foreigners, but Anthony forewarns the sisters, so that the Englishmen are able to misdirect the foreigners in the darkness. One of them is actually the clown Frisco, who has taken the Dutchman’s place, and who now leads the two foreigners even further astray. The Dutchman himself finds his way to Pisaro’s house, and the sisters trap him in a basket. The lovers arrive, ready to marry and then sleep with the sisters, but Pisaro intervenes. It seems that the daughters are to be married against their will in the morning, but Anthony devises three schemes: Walgrave impersonates a woman and spends the night with Mathea; Laurentia impersonates Anthony and escapes from the house to- marry Heigham; and Harvey pretends to be mortally ill, forcing Pisaro to let him marry Marina rather than lose the mortgage on his lands. ===== PAGE 28 ===== 28 | 1120.A Woman Will Have Her Will