Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 6 (armies, fleece, pestle, wonted, pikes, thundering…). Matches are highlighted.
Must speak with the Duke, I'll do neither, I come in haste with news, Would Milksop? know percullist gates Though kept with Pikes & Muskets, could never keep me out And dost thou think to shut me out with Wainscot? A Soldier, The Camp A mighty lose; a glorious victory 'Tis uncertain Sir: But
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Must speak with the Duke, I'll do neither, I come in haste with news, Would Milksop? know percullist gates Though kept with Pikes & Muskets, could never keep me out And dost thou think to shut me out with Wainscot? A Soldier, The Camp A mighty lose; a glorious victory 'Tis uncertain Sir: But will you hear the best or bade news first? Hear me then my Lord, We sack't the City after nine Months siege, Furnished with store of all wars furniture, Our (never to be praised enough) brave General Fought in the Cannons face, their number still Increased, but our diminished; their soldiers pay Doubled, and ours kept back: but we (brave spirits) The lose we had of Coin, the more we took Unto our selves of Courage, but when all Our furniture was spent even to one day, And that to morrow we must be enforced To raise a shameful siege, then stood our General (Our valiant General) up, and breathed upon us His own undaunted spirit, which spread through The Camp, returned it doubly armed again: For he did mean to lay upon one shot His state and fortune, and then instantly He bade us arm and follow: On then he went, We after him; o! 'twas a glorious sighed, Fit for a Theater of Gods to see, How we made up and maugre all opposure, Made way through raging storms of showering bullets; At last we came to hook our ladders, and By them to scale. The first that mounted, was Our bold courageous General: after him Ten thousand, so we instantly were made Lords of the City, purchased in two hours After a nine Months siege: all by the valour Of our approved General. O that, which ten such Conquests Cannot make good, your worthy General. Sword? No alas, No sword durst bite upon his noble flesh, Nor bullet raze his skin: he whom War feared, The Cannon spared, no steel durst venture on. No Duke, 'twas thy unkind ingratitude Hath slain brave Sforsa. I shall: This City seized, his purpose was the spoil To give his Soldiers; but when his sealed Commission He had unripped, and saw express command, To deal no farther then to victory, And that his great Authority was curbed, And given to others, that respect their profit More then the worth of soldiers: even for grief, That he could neither furnish us with pay Which was kept back, nor guerdon us with spoil, What was about him he distributed, Even to the best deservers, as his garments, His Arms, and Tent, then some few words spoke, And so oppressed with grief, his great heart brake. Pray on whom shall I attend? Who is't must pay me? You sir? tell me, Will it not cost me more the waiting for, Then the sum comes to when it is received? I do but ask the question. You are a cunning slave, And cowardly Courtier. Come will you pay me sir?
Plot summary
Plot — A Maidenhead Well Lost
Julia has given herself sexually to her flance, the Prince of Parma, but is now concerned that he mav have fost interest in her: she has been told of a dalliance between him and Lauretta. When lulia publicly strikes Eauretta, Parma breaks off the engagement. In fact, Julia’. informant, Stroza, was lying: he has a grudge agamoat ===== PAGE 406 ===== Lauretta’s father, General Sforza, and has also been working to secure his downfall by delaying the shipment of money and supplies to the front. News arrives that the war is won, but that Sforza, unable to pay his men, gave them everything he had and died of grief. His widow pays the soldiers’ arrears out of her estate and leaves Milan with Lauretta. Fearful of dishonour, Julia tries to persuade Parma to stay by telling him she is pregnant. He denies paternity — she consented so readily to pre-marital sex that, misled by Stroza, he believes she must also have had other men - and leaves anyway. Her father the Duke learns of the situation, and sends Stroza to fetch Parma back, dead or alive. Julia’s unborn child saves her from execution for her misdeed, and she goes into hiding until the baby is born. When it is, the Duke orders Stroza to dispose of it, and plans to conceal her shame with a hasty marriage to another foreign prince. Stroza leaves the baby in a grove to be found by passers-by; sure enough, when he returns a few hours later, it has gone, found by Parma and recognized as his own true issue. Lauretta and her mother are found in the forest by the Prince of Florence, and installed by him in a ducal hunting lodge. She falls in love with him, but, knowing herself too low-born, gives cryptic answers to his questions about her love-life. Stroza arrives in Florence as an ambassador to negotiate a marriage between the Prince and Julia. The Duke of Florence accepts, and the Prince is obliged to consent. When he tells Lauretta about it, she initially assumes herself to be the bride, and continues her cryptic answers, telling him that she too will be marrying a prince at the exact same time; on learning he is to wed Julia, she faints. The Prince receives a letter from Parma warning him that Julia is unchaste, and he interrupts the wedding to raise the matter; only on receiving assurances of the bride’s virginity does he allow the ceremony to be completed. To avoid the deception being exposed on the wedding night, Stroza plans to put a substitute bride in the Prince’s bed, and bribes Lauretta to undertake the…