Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Maid. | Rosa.
Words
450
Characters
2210
Typicality
0.31 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A03190
BritDrama no.
2434
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.
Lady. Some Worser or Nobleman at least, he wore very good clothes. Then was he a very beggar to cheat for so poor a tri fle as a Ring. To give you my best attendance to that last minute, please you Ladyship accept it. Methinks your Dutch Cassock is a comely wear. Why for Courtiers? 'Tas been a good fashion, but it's old. Now
Full speech
Three days since, Lady. Not to my hands. The ditties done. How am I blessed: occasion I thank thee, Your pleasure madam? What Ring, Lady? Trust me madam, I saw none. Thrown out Madam, and with it I fear the Ring, but I'll— Nor ever shall I fear Madam. Your will's a law, which I intend not suddenly to infringe, and have I God thee my best happiness? now to my Done of Spain, the next news you hear of me, is a Ladyship at least; but fie on this idleness, I stand on thorns till I be in Actium. O, master Oracle, sweet master Oracle! Beyond hope or expectation, was there not a Done of Spain here, to speak with me? Yes, and so met him, sweet M. Oracle, I am bound to you for ever. And that's somewhat strange, in a gallant of your . Why, do not you know him? O strange! why it's M. Oracle man; trust him? and I had a Maidenhead to spare, I durst trust it naked in bed with him. Have I? have I not? the handsomest way I had or to. The Like purpose bring we Sir. For which take mine, and that Ring to boot: and M. Or by whom? Do you mistrust my honesty? Not the Ring? How, not the Ring? return it back then. The right on my faith, as I hoped to be a Lady, the right. But O master Oracle, how have you deceived me? The Labour in vain, a fire on the sign, and you too; my Donna turned to this? my preferment to this? a Lady in the Morning, and a beggar before noon? here's quick work indeed; a cunning man? a cunning Rogue If ere it be my luck to see thee preach through a pill ry, as one of the cast limbs of your cursed crew did not long since, the hangman sh l have you by the ears for this: but I 'le back and lay my case open to my Lady. Some Worser or Nobleman at least, he wore very good clothes. Then was he a very beggar to cheat for so poor a tri fle as a Ring. To give you my best attendance to that last minute, please you Ladyship accept it. Methinks your Dutch Cassock is a comely wear. Why for Courtiers? 'Tas been a good fashion, but it's old. Now they are methinks a little too great. That Pioke-devant that elbows next the Queen. That it's most false, And what my Lady here protests for true, That, noble fit, I'm witness, as a man To all his unjust actions accessary. I know him, it's the same.
Plot summary
Plot — A Challenge for Beauty
The marriage of Sebastian and Isabella unites the crowns of Portugal and Spain. Covetous of excessive praise, the proud Isabella solicits flattery from her courtiers. Two comply, but Bonavida criticizes her arrogant self-regard and is banished: he may return only when he can produce a woman who is Isabella’s equal in beauty, so he travels the world in search of one. Petrocella thinks she might be in with a chance, and is disappointed when her next caller is not Bonavida but her suitor Valladaura, who has returned injured from a sea-battle. She disparages his exploits and rejects him, but speaks well of the Englishman who wounded him. The soldier in question, Ferrers, has been captured by the Turks; Valladaura finds him in a slave market and buys him and his friend, Manhurst. Though Ferrers is suspicious of his motives, Valladaura frees them both: Manhurst goes back to England, and Ferrers is introduced to Petrocella, in the hope that he will testify to Valladaura’s bravery and court her on his behalf. In England, Bonavida finds the beautiful woman he is searching for: Helena. He proposes marriage, but plans to go home to have his banishment rescinded before bringing Helena there as his wife. They exchange tokens, and Bonavida takes his leave; but when he arrives in Spain, he is imprisoned for breaking his exile, having returned without the woman he was charged to find. Isabella sends her two flatterers to England to get the ring Bonavida left with Helena, and they trick her maid into stealing it. Pursued by his creditors, Manhurst enters Helena’s household in disguise, and tells her that her brother, Ferrers, is still in prison and must be ransomed; she sets off for Spain. Ferrers falls for Petrocella himself, declares his love for her, and finds that she loves him too. He tells her that he may only marry a woman who agrees unconditionally to his first request, and she swears to do so; he then asks her to love and marry Valladaura. At Valladaura’s request, he first disguises himself as a priest and performs the marriage, then substitutes himself for the bridegroom on the wedding night, observing Valladaura’s stipulation that there should be no sex. Valladaura tells his new father-in-law that Petrocella is spending the night with another man; but Petrocella has stabbed the man in bed with her, taking him for Valladaura. Or so it seems, for in fact Ferrers is not dead, and Valladaura can see his plan through: to test his friend’s fidelity and then (having…