in 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody (The Second Part of Queen Elizabeth's Troubles) — Heywood, Thomas
Metadata
Play
2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody (The Second Part of Queen Elizabeth's Troubles)
Author
Heywood, Thomas
Year (catalogued)
1606
First performance
1605
Decade
1600s
Genre
History
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Queen Anne's Men
Speech prefix(es)
2. Pren. | 1. Prent. | 1. Pren. | 1 Pren.
Words
232
Characters
1215
Typicality
0.54 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A03217
BritDrama no.
1433
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.
the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, and come again presently. And honest Customer Requested me, to drink a pint of wine. They are ready sorted. I have compared our wares with our receipt, And, sind sir, ten pounds difference.
my father, stand by, you are the yougest prentice, look you to the shop. Where be these varlets, bones a me, at Tavern? Knaves, villains, spend goods, foot my Customers Must either serve themselves, or pack unserved. Now they peep Like Italian pantelownes Hehind and Arras, but isle start you knaves, I have a shooing-horne to
be done sir, how much beware yould you have? Prithee fellow Goodman, set forth the beware, and look to the shop a little, I'll but drink a cup of wine with a Customer at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, and come again presently. And honest Customer Requested me, to drink a pint of wine. They are ready sorted. I have compared
Full speech
Foot I cannot, I must needs step to the Dagger in Cheap to send a Letter into the Country unto my father, stand by, you are the yougest prentice, look you to the shop. Where be these varlets, bones a me, at Tavern? Knaves, villains, spend goods, foot my Customers Must either serve themselves, or pack unserved. Now they peep Like Italian pantelownes Hehind and Arras, but isle start you knaves, I have a shooing-horne to draw on your liquour, What say you to a piece of a salt Eel? Come forth you hangdogs, bones a me the knaves Fleer in my face, they know me to too well, I talk and prate, and lay't not on their jacks, And the proud jacks care not a sigge for me: But bones a me, isle turn another leaf. Where have you been sir? At breakfast with a Dagger pie sir. Beseech you sir, pardon this first offence. It shall be done sir, how much beware yould you have? Prithee fellow Goodman, set forth the beware, and look to the shop a little, I'll but drink a cup of wine with a Customer at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, and come again presently. And honest Customer Requested me, to drink a pint of wine. They are ready sorted. I have compared our wares with our receipt, And, sind sir, ten pounds difference.
Plot summary
Plot — 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody (The Second Part of Queen Elizabeth's Troubles)
GhomasyGresham is in long legal dispute with Sir (homaspRamisay over a land deal: Gresham outbid Ramsay after contracts were exchanged, bought the land and built on it, so each man now claims ownership. DEINGWEll adjudicates fairly between them and makes them friends. Under the terms of the settlement, Gresham is to pay Ramsay £100, but his nephew John misappropriates the money and contrives ===== PAGE 115 ===== 1604 to get Timothy the factor arrested for debt. Caught out, Timothy admits that he has embezzled £500 from Gresham, and Gresham applauds John’s misbehaviour as an example of good financial management. Gresham sees the need for a dry place in London where merchants can do business; and, inspired by portraits of famous Londoners responsible for important civic buildings and institutions, he gets permission and funding to build it himself. He is unabashed by heavy losses through war and shipwreck (including a change of king in Barbary after the battle of Alcazar, which costs him his trade monopoly in Barbary sugar). Eventually an impressive Burse is built, and opened by Queen Elizabeth: she names it the Royal Exchange, and knights Gresham. Another strand of the action focuses on the comic eccentricities of old M@bSGH, who records an honest pedlar’s account under a nickname, Bawny2@oat, so that the man is unable to pay what he owes when he returns to the shop. “Tawny-Coat’ is ruined by his debts to Hobson and by his own charity, but Hobson takes pity when he finds him honest in poverty, and he eventually becomes a prominent and prosperous citizen. Hobson further shows his good nature by rushing off to save [im6thy, who is to be hanged for theft. Meanwhile, hoping to cure his prodigality, Gresham has sent J@HHi to work for Hobson, who in turn has sent the young man to France. There he cheats his master by taking his instructions literally, and, knowing that the English Channel is between him and Hobson, wastes time and money on prostitutes and riotous living. Hobson eventually hears of this and goes to France; but when he catches John with a courtesan, John turns the tables by pretending that the old man will himself be arrested if he is found in her company. Back in England, John finally seeks to rectify his desperate financial situation by marrying Ramsay's rich widow; she refuses him, but pays his debts. At court, Dr Parry, a convicted criminal whom the Queen has pardoned, has been induced by the Catholic church to assassinate her, but he cannot…