Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 1 (nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa…). Matches are highlighted.
Like a Sunbeam pierced unto my heart. Would I might teach thee! O that I had the guidance of thy tongue! private. But what would that avail thee foolish Girl? Small hope in those instructions I should find, To rule your tongue, if not to guide your mind. I doubt not of your valour. But resolve me And tell me one thing truly
Full speech
Fie stranger, can a skin so white and soft Cover and heart obdurate, hard a flint? Since I first saw thee floating on the waves, The fire of love flew from your radiant eye, Which Like a Sunbeam pierced unto my heart. Would I might teach thee! O that I had the guidance of thy tongue! private. But what would that avail thee foolish Girl? Small hope in those instructions I should find, To rule your tongue, if not to guide your mind. I doubt not of your valour. But resolve me And tell me one thing truly I shall ask you. I do believe you: Fair Knight do you love? I did not ask you if you love to ride. Some thing I mean ; which though my tongue deny, Look on me, you may read it in mine eye. But do you love? I know all this; your words are but delays. Could you not love a Lady that loves you? It's hard when women are enforced to woo. All this is from the matter gentle Knight: The Kings Commission may be signed at leisure. What say you to my question? Either speak true, or do not speak at all. To love a Lady, is with heart entire To make her Mistress of his whole desire: To sighs for her, and for her love to weep; As his own heart her precious favours keep: Never be from her, in her bosom dwell; To make her presence heaven, her absence hell. Write Sonnets in her praise, admire her beauty: Attend her, serve her, count his service duty. Make her the sole commandress of his powers, And in the search of love, lose all his hours. Go flint; strike fire upon thy enemies steel, While I descend one step from Fortune's wheel. Thou goest before, love bids me follow after: By thee, the King thy Lord must lose his daughter. Thus have I masked my bashful modesty Under the habit of a trusty Page, And now my servants servant am I made. Love, that transformed the Gods to sundry shapes, Hath wrought in me this Metamorphosis. My love and Lord, that honoured me a woman, Loves me a youth, employs me every where, I serve him, wait upon him, and he swears He favours both my truth and diligence: And now I have learned to be a perfect Page, He will have none to truss his points but me, At board to wait upon his cup but me: To bear his Target in the field, but me. Nay, many a thing, which makes me blush to speak, He will have none to lie with him but me, I dream and dream, and things come in my mind: Only I hide my eyes; but my poor heart Is bared and kept from loves satiety. Like Tantal S, such is my poor repast, I see the Apples that I cannot taste. I'll stay my time, and hope yet, ere I die, My heart shall feast as richly as my eye. Love whom you will say I: So ye affect not my beloved Guy. Speed they that list, so you repulsed be. My Lord is banished, what shall poor I do? There is no way, but I must after too. But ere I go, some cunning I must use, To make this Lady my Lords love refuse. Whither you please. Invention help me now, (apart) To bring her out of love with my sweet Lord, For should she love him I were quite undone. Madame, in faith, how many suitors have you? O God, I fear, I think I am accursed. She loves him best, because she names him first. And which of all these is the properes man? I, I, it's so. Upon my life sh loves him. I must devise some plot, or they will use Some means to meet, and m ry out of hand. Lady, he was my Master, but believe me, He is the most in e man for women, That ever breathed; nay, Madame, which is more, He loves var y, a worser delights in change. A worser I herd him say, should he be married, Hee'd make his wife a Cuck-quean. Upon my life they are made sure alr ady, She's pleased with any imperfections. W at should I do? My Guy is gone, and she would follow him: I must prevent it, or else lose my love. Madame I will. She loves him, and no wonder. I'll go, be't but to keep them still asunder. I wear a weapon that I dare not draw: Fie on this womanish fear, what shall I do. Page to the Prince of France. A good cause why I lead so chaste ali fe, A jealous man may trust me with his wife. Then let me change my habit, gentle sir, Least in this shape I chance to meet my Master. Then, if you please, I'll cloth me Like a Lady, And wait upon your sister in your Tent. My plot is good; well, howsoever it prove, IT will either end my life, or win my love. You know me then! Fie niggard, can you spend such precious breath, Speak to your self so many words apart; And keep their found from my attentive ear, Which save your words no music loves to hear? Fie, fie, you run quite from the by as elean, To love that dearly, which we hate so deadly. If love and I be one, you hate us both. Prince Robert is a gallant Gentlemen: But the French Lord uncomely, and unshaped. Tancred's a proper man, but the French Lord, He hath no making, no good shape at all. I could not love a man of his complexion: I would not we him if I were a Lady, Had he more Crowns then C ar conquered. A wondrous change! she that your Page hath been Is now at length transformed to be your Q eene. Pardon me ` Guy, ' my love drew me along, No hamelesse lust.
Plot summary
Plot — The Four Prentices of London
Deposed and banished by the King of France, the Earl of Bouillon flees to England, where he helped to put King William on the throne. Planning to end his life on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he takes his leave of his four sons, who have found work as London apprentices. Dissatisfied by their jobs and itching for the military life, the four brothers join Robert of Normandy's army embarking on a crusade; their sister Bella Franca follows them in disguise. The army is struck by a storm at sea, and the brothers are separated, variously washed up in Bouillon, France, Italy, and Ireland, each believing the others to be dead. Godfrey frees the town of Bouillon from its usurping Spanish occupiers, and the people acclaim him their earl. Guy is spotted on a raft by the Princess of France, who falls in love with him and persuades her father to make him a courtier - a dangerous situation, since the King is the enemy of Guy's father and would execute him if he knew his true identity. Uninterested in love, Guy joins the army which the King is sending to the crusade, but the princess follows him disguised as a page. In Ireland, Eustace acquires a servant. In Italy, Charles is set on by banditti, but kills their captain and becomes their leader. He attempts to impose civility on them, and discovers that they have captured his father. Charles releases him, tells him of his brothers' death, and gives him money for his continuing pilgrimage. The banditti appointed to escort the old Earl try to rob and murder him, but Eustace and his Irish servant intervene in his defence. Now the divided family begins to meet up, but the mutual assumption of death at sea prevents them from recognizing one another. Charles wants Eustace to join the outlaws, and challenges him to a fight, wagering their purses; Bella Franca runs between them and stops the battle. Both are attracted to her, not realizing that she is their sister. Prince Tancred leads soldiers to dispose of the banditti, but Charles and Eustace persuade him to deploy his forces in the crusade instead. Since both brothers want to marry Bella Franca, Tancred takes her into his custody until the end of the war; she is attracted to him. Godfrey rejoins Duke Robert's troops and meets Guy, now in command of the French army. They quarrel over precedence, but finally agree to go side by side. The combined army marches into Tancred's territory, and he sends Eustace to order them out. Rather than see a bloody battle between fellow…