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RIOTER

in The English Traveller — Heywood, Thomas

Metadata

PlayThe English Traveller
AuthorHeywood, Thomas
Year (catalogued)1633
First performance1627
Decade1630s
GenreTragicomedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyLady Elizabeth's Men
TheaterPhoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Rio. | Ric.
Words570
Characters2936
Typicality0.24 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA03195
BritDrama no.2098
ClusterCluster 23 — Gulls, fops & laughing-stocks

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Full speech

What all in Tempest? What's the business? You charge me deeply, Come Friend, will you be Moved at women's Words, A man of your known judgement? Shall she beg, and be denied ought from you? It's not possible, Those Lips should move in vain, that two ways plead; Both in their Speech, and Silence. Speak, how's that? How man, how? Fear not Sir, You will have a fill Table. Best Consort in the City, for fix parts. Bith' ear. Yes bith' eic. We shall have such to bear you company, As will no doubt content you. But that the ship so totters: I shall fallen. Now I sink, And as I dive and drown, Thus by degrees, I'll pluck thee to the bottom. Yes, I am wake; How dry hath this Salt-water made me; Boy, Give me the other Glass. If he be come, Bid him be gone again. If now thou failest us, then we are lost for ever, No such thing; Yet I protest Thy fear did fright us all. Worthy Reignald. Whose without there? Gramercy Reignald, I love all those that wish it: You are the men Lead merry lives, Feast, Revel, and Carouse; You seel no tedious hours; Time plays with you, This is your golden age. Tell me Reignald, is he returned from Sea? Suspects thy Master any thing? Take my word; With other Neighbours make what peace you can, I'll not be your accuser. View of my House? Why it's not set to Sale, Nor bill upon the door; Look well vpon't: View of my House? What fancies Should at this age possess him; Knowing the cost, That he should dr of Building. Willingly; I will but order some few things within, And then attend his coming. Now as I live, all my best thoughts and wishes Impart with yours, in your so safe return; Your servant tells me, you have great desire To take surview of this my house within. None, enter boldly; With as much freedom, as it were your own. Will you enter? Or shall I call a servant, to conduct you Through every Room and Chamber? And cost me a good price Sir, Take your pleasure, I have business in the Town. Of him? None I assure you. But devise What to call less then nothing, and that sum I will confess received. You may do well to pay't then, for here's witness Sufficient of your words. I shall be as ready to receive it, and as willing, As you can be to pay't. But by your favour; Why should I yield seven hundred received Of them I never dealt with? Why? For what? What reason? What condition? Where or when Should such a sum be paid me? Madness all. I confess; Your servant told me you had found out a wife Fit for your son, and that you meant to built; Desired to take a friendly view of mine, To make it your example: But for selling, I tell you Sir, my wants be not so great, To change my house to Coin. Weel assist you. Why, challenge me receipt of Moneys, and to give abroad, That I had sold my House? What he did, Was but for his Young Master, I allow it Rather as sports of Wit, then injuries; No other pray esteem them. We will attend him. These are casualties That are not new, but common.

Plot summary

Plot — The English Traveller
Geraldine has recently returned from foreign travels, to find that, during his absence, a childhood friend, whom he was expected to marry, married old Wincott instead; she did not seek the marriage, but has no complaints. Having no children of his own, Wincott treats Geraldine as a close friend, and is trusting enough to leave the young man alone with his wife. Geraldine agrees with her that, should they both survive Wincott, he will be her second husband, and he agrees to remain single until then. Dalavill spreads rumours that Geraldine and Mistress Wincott are lovers. Concerned at the possible scandal, Old Geraldine tests his son by proposing that he should marry; Geraldine’s refusal is taken as confirmation of the affair. Geraldine protests his innocence, but to prove it, and silence the gossip, his father insists that he should never again visit the Wincotts. His absence grieves Wincott, and Geraldine agrees to explain himself at a secret midnight meeting. He is pressed by Wincott to stay the night but, unable to sleep, decides to pass the time looking innocently at Mistress Wincott in her bed. Outside her room he overhears her talking to Dalavill: they are lovers. Disillusioned, Geraldine plans to leave England. Wincott lays on a feast to mark his departure, and everyone is invited. At the party, Geraldine confronts Mistress Wincott with what he knows. She is mortified, rejects Dalavill, faints, and dies, having written to her husband a confession. Dalavill flees the house. Wincott confirms Geraldine as his heir. In the other plot, Young Lionel lives with riotous prodigality while his father is away, abetted by some of the servants, and fills the house with whores and drunken gallants. When Old Lionel returns unexpectedly, intending to stay at home in future, Young Lionel and his associates panic and hide inside the house - leaving themselves with the problem of how to get out before Old Lionel finds them. The steward Reignald takes matters in hand, and tells them to make no sound, and pretend the house is deserted. Old Lionel finds his house apparently shut up, and Reignald explains that it has been abandoned: a previous owner committed a murder there, and now the house is haunted. When the former owner denies this, Old Lionel attempts to have him arrested. Meanwhile, Reignald is harried by a usurer to whom Young Lionel owes money. Old Lionel overhears this, and Reignald explains that the money was borrowed to 1624 buy alternative accommodation.…