Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

JUPITER

in The Play of the Weather — Heywood, John

Metadata

PlayThe Play of the Weather
AuthorHeywood, John
Year (catalogued)1544
First performance1528
Decade1540s
GenreComedy
Play typeInterlude
Speech prefix(es)¶Iupyter, | ☜Iupyter. | ¶Iupyter. | ☞Iupiter. | ☜Iupiter. | ☞Iupyter. | ¶Iupiter. | ❧ Iupyter.
Words1795
Characters9366
Typicality0.39 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA03181
BritDrama no.2
ClusterCluster 2 — Allegory, Nature & pageant voices

Important excerpts

Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 2 (horestes, quha, weill, bohor, sysimethres, griselda…). Matches are highlighted.

so have been as truth it is in deed Beyond the compass of all comparison Who could presume to show for any mede So that it might appear to human reason The hie renown we stand in at this season For sins that heaven and earth were First create Stood we never in such triumphant estate. ❧ As we now do where of we would report Such

Full speech

R Yght far to long as now were to recite The ancie ̄ to estat wherein our self hath reined What honour what laud given us of very right What glory we have had duty vnfai ̄ worser Of eke creature which duty hath continued ̄ strained For above all goods sins our father's tale We Iupyter were ever princypale. ☞If we so have been as truth it is in deed Beyond the compass of all comparison Who could presume to show for any mede So that it might appear to human reason The hie renown we stand in at this season For sins that heaven and earth were First create Stood we never in such triumphant estate. ❧ As we now do where of we would report Such part as we see meet for time present Chiefly concerning your perpetual Comfort As the thing self shall prove in experymente Which hyely shall bind you on knees lowly beute Soolly to honour our hyenes day by day And now to the mater gyve ear and we shall say. ☞Before our presens in our hie parliament Both gods and goodesses of all degrees Hath late assembled by come assent For the redress of certain enormytees Bred among them thorough extremytees Abusede in eke to other of them all Namely to purpose in these most special. ¶Our foresaid father's Saturny and Phebus Eolus and Phoebe these four by name Whose nature's nat only so far contraryous But also of malice eke other to defame Have long time abused right far out of frame The dew course of all their constellations To the great damage of all yerthly Nations. ¶Which was debated in place said before And First as became our feather most ancient With beard e White as snow, his locks both cold & hight Hath entered such mater as served is intent Lauding his frosty mansyon in the firmament To air and earth as thing most precious Purging all humours that are contagyous. ¶How be if he allegeth that of long time past Little hath prevailed his great dilygens Full oft upon earth his fair frost he hath cast All things hurtful to banish out of presens But Phebus intending to keep him in sylens When he hath laboured all night in his powers His glaring beams maryth all in two hours, ☞Phebus to this made no manner answering Where upon they both then Phoebe defied Eke for his part laid in her reproving That by her showers superfluous they have tried In all that she may their powers be denied Where unto Phoebe made answer no more Then Phebus to Saturn had made before. ☞Anon upon Eolus all these did fle Complaining their causes eke one a row And said to compare none was so even as he For when he is disposed his blasts to blow He suffers neither son shine, rain nor snow They eke against other, and he against all three Thus can these four, in no manner agree. ¶Which seen in them self and further considering The same to the redress was cause of their assemble And also that we evermore being Beside one puissant power of deite Of wisdom and nature so noble and from From all extremytees the mean deuydynge To peal and Plenty eke thing attempering. ☞They have in conclusion holly sundryd Into our hands as much concerning All manner of wethers by them engendered The full of their powers for term everlasting To set such order as stands with our pleasing Which things of our part no part required But of all their parts right humble desired. ☞To take upon us whereto we did assent And so in all things with one voice agreeable We have clearly finished our foresaid parleamente To your great wealth which shall be firm and stable And to our honour far inestimable For sing their powers as ours added to our own Who can we say know us as we should be known. ☞But now for fine the rest of our entente Wherefore as now we hither are descended. Is only to satisfy and content All manner people which have been offended By any weather meet to be amended Upon whose complaints declaring their grief We shall shape remedy for their relief. ¶And to gyve knowledge for their hither resort We would this afore proclaimed to be To all our people by some one of this sort Whom we list to chosen here amongst ally Wherefore eke man advance and we shall see Which of you is most meet to be our eryer. ¶Bring him before our presens soon hardly ☜As long as discretion so well does you guide Obediently to use your duty Doubt you nat we shall your savete provide Your greuys we have harden wherefore we send for you To receive answer eke man in his degree And First to content most reason it is The First man that sued wherefore mark you this Oft shall you have the weather elere and Still To hunt in for recompense of your pain Also you merchants shall have much your will For oft times when no wind on land does remain Yet on the see pleasant cools you shall obtain And sins your Hunting may rest in the night Oft shall the wind then rise and before day light. ❀It shall ratell down the wood in such case That all you rangers the better live may And you water millers shall obtain this grace Many times the rain to fallen in the valley When at the self times on Hills we shall purvey Fair weather for your windmills w to such cools of wind As in one instant both kinds of mills may grynde. ☜And for you fair women that close weather would have We shall provide that you may sufficiently Have time to walk in and your beauty save And yet shall you have that liveth by laundry The hight son oft enough your clothes to dry Also you pretty child shall have both frost and snow Now mark this conclusion we charge you arrow. ¶Much better have we now devised for you all Then you all can perceive or could desire Eke of you sued to have continual Such weather as his craft only does require All wethers in all places if men all times might higher Who could live by other what is this negligence Us to attempt in such inconvenience. ¶Now on the other side if we had granted The full of the some one suit and no more And from all the rest the weather had forbid Yet who so had obtained had won his own woe There is no one craft can preserve man so But by other crafts of necessity He must have much part of his commodity. ¶All to serve at ones and one destroy and other Or else to serve one and destroy all the rest Neither will we do the tone nor the other But serve as many or as few as we think best And where or what time to serve most or lest The dyrectyon of that doubtless shall stand Perpetually in the power of our hand. ❀Wherefore we will the hold world to attend Eke sort on such weather as for them does fallen Now one now other as liketh us to send Who that hath it ply it and sure we shall So guide the weather in course to you all That eke with other you shall hold remain. In pleasure and plentiful wealth certain. ¶All that we know very well, but what I. ¶What manner man art thou show quyckely. ¶Thou art no meet man in our business. For thine appearance is of to much lightness. ❀To none of all we have devotion. ¶My son say on let us here thy mind. ¶Right well we do perceive your hold request Which shall not fail to rest in memory Wherefore we will you set your self at rest Till we have harden eke man indifferently And we shall take such order vnyuersally As best may stand to our honour infinite For wealth in continued ̄ mune and eke man's singular profit Right well have you said and we accept it so And so shall we reward you or we go hens But you must take paciens till we have harden more That we may indifferently gyve sentens There may pass by us no spot of negligence But justly to judge eke thing so upright That eke men part may shine in the self right ❧ Well son considering thine indyfferency And partly the rest of thy declaration We make the our servant and immediately Well would thou depart and cause proclamation Publishing our pleasure to every Nation Which thing ones done with all deligens Make thy returns again to this presens. ❀Here to receive all sewters of eke degree And such as to the may seem most metely We will thou bring them before our majesty And for the rest that be nat so worthy Make thou report to us effectually So that we may here eke manner sewte at large Thus see thou depart, and look upon thy charge. ☜Son that is nat the thing at this time meant If her suit concern no cause of our hither resort Send her out of place, but if she we bent To that purpose, he are her, and make us report. ❧ Son thou hast best diligent and done so well That thy labour is right much thank worthy But be thou sure we need no whyt thy counsel For in our self we have forseen remedy Which thou shalt see but First depart hens quickly To the gentleman and all other suitors here And command them all before us to appear ☞Why what art thou that approchest so nigh. ☞A gentleman thy self bringeth witness nay Both in thy light behaviour and array But what art thou called where thou dost resort. ¶Now sins we have thus far set forth our purpose A while we will withdraw our godly presens To enbolde all such more plainly to disclose As here will attend in our foresaid pretens And now according to your obediens Rejoice you in us with joy most joyfully And we our self shall joy in our own glory ❧ Such debate as from above he have harden Such debate beneath among your selves you see As long as heads from temperance be defarde So long the bodies in distemperance be This perceive you all but none can help save we But as we there have made peace concordantly So will we here now gyve you remedy. ☞What so ever his mind be, let him appear.

Plot summary

Plot — The Play of the Weather
Discord between the four gods responsible for snow, sun, rain, and wind is making the weather inconsistent. Jupiter calls a parliament to settle the matter and sends Merry Report to summon any suitors. Eight representatives of various professions and occupations ask for different kinds of weather to suit themselves. Jupiter declares the need for compromise: all their jobs are mutually interdependent despite their differing needs, so the weather will continue to be inconsistent. The suitors all praise the decision.