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MALBY

in A Woman Killed with Kindness — Heywood, Thomas

Metadata

PlayA Woman Killed with Kindness
AuthorHeywood, Thomas
Year (catalogued)1607
First performance1603
Decade1600s
GenreTragedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyWorcester's Men
Speech prefix(es)Mal. | Malby. | Malbie.
Words229
Characters1218
Typicality0.32 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA03256
BritDrama no.1393
ClusterCluster 2 — Allegory, Nature & pageant voices

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Full speech

This is the Sessions day, pray can you tell me How young Sir Charles hath sped: Is he acquit, Oh must he try the Laws strict penalty? God give you joy of your delivery, I am glad to see you abroad Sir Charles. Methinks Sir Francis you are full revenged, For greater wrongs then he can proffer you, See where the poor sad Gentlewoman stands. Sir Francis, why Sir Francis, zounds in a trance, Sir Francis, what cheer man? Come, come, how is't? She was fair. Fair mistress as I understand, your grief Does grow from want, so I have here in store A means to furnish you, a bag of gold Whi h to your hands I freely tender you. This Gold Sir Francis Acton sends by me, And prays you &c. It is a sighed Begets in me much admiration. How fare you mistress Frankfurt? Yes mistress Frankfurt, diverse gentlemen, Your loving neighbours with that joust request, Have moved and told him of your weak estate, Who though with much ado to get belief. Examining of the general circumstance, Seeing your sorrow and your penitence And hearing there withal the great desire You have to see him ere you left the world, He gave to us his faith to follow us, And sure he will be here immediately. Nor flatters he that gives to her her endue.

Plot summary

Plot — A Woman Killed with Kindness
. : : marries Sir Francis -Acton’s sister Anne, to ‘much. celebration. Frankford. welcomes IWSHUGH into his household as his companion. but Wendoll seduces Anne. Nicholas tells Frankford of Anne's infidelity,so - he leaves the house on a pretext and returns to find her in bed with Wendoll. Eschewing violence, he ejects Wendoll and banishes Anne to another house, never again to see him or their children. Wendoll goes into voluntary exile for a time, planning to return to . England when his misdeeds are forgotten. Anne starves herself to death. but is reconciled with her _ husband before she d | a Wood E. 4, p. 10; Chambers, iv. 30; Edmund Gayton, — Sir Francie: ey a Shtiite wager, kills two “of his ===== PAGE 26 ===== retainers, and is arrested; he escapes execution but spends his inheritance in litigation, and accepts a loan from SHafton. He is reduced to farming to keep his little remaining property, but Shafton wants to acquire it and puts pressure on him by calling in the loan; when Sir Charles refuses to sell, he is arrested for debt. Sir Francis plans to further his revenge against the Mountfords by tempting SUiSaii to whoredom, but falls in love with her when she proves chaste. After he has Sir Charles released from prison, Sir Charles feels obliged to repay him by offering him Susan; the siblings plan to commit suicide after the rape, but Sir Francis ends the feud and accepts Susan as his wife.