in Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts — Holyday, Barten
Metadata
Play
Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts
Author
Holyday, Barten
Year (catalogued)
1618
First performance
1618
Decade
1610s
Genre
Academic Comedy
Play type
University
Theater
at University;
Speech prefix(es)
Phlegmatico. | Phleg.
Words
492
Characters
2617
Typicality
0.42 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A03496
BritDrama no.
1860
Cluster
Cluster 16 — Errand servants & brief parts
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Before love most Meteorological Tobacco! He takes Tobac continued, drinks, and then spawles. (again) Pure Indian! (again) Not a lot Sophisticated (a gain) A Tobacco-pipe is the Chimney of perpetual Hospi talitie (again) Before love most Metropolitan Tobacco! He drinks a gain and Sings, while Logicus, and Causidicus privately with draw to the side of the Stage. TObacco's a Musician And in a Pipe delights; It descends in a Close, Through the Organ of the nose, With a Relish that inviteth. This makes me sing So ho, ho, So ho ho boys, Ho boys found J loudly; Earth never did breed Such a jovial weed Whereof to boast so proudly. Tobacco is a Lawyer, His pipes do love Long Cases: When our brains it enters, Our feet do make Indentures, Which we Seal with stamping paces. This makes me sing, So ho, &c. Tobacco's a Physician Good both for Found and Sickly: T'is a Hight Perfume That expels Cold Rhewme, And makes it flow down quickly. This makes me sing, &c. Tobacco is a Traveler Come from the Indies Hither; It passed Sea and Land Ere it came to my hand, And scaped the Wind, and Weather. This makes me sing, &c. Tobacco is a Critic, That still Old Paper Turns; Whose Labour, and Care Is as Smoke in the Air, That ascends from a rag when it burns. This makes me sing, &c. Tobacco's and Ignis fatuus, A Fat and Firy vapour; That leads men about Till the Fire be Out, Consuming Like a Taper, This makes me sing, &c. Tobacco is a Whiffler, And cries Huff Snuff with fury; His Pipe's his Club and Link; He's the visor that does drink; Thus armed I fear not a Jury. This makes me sing So ho ho, So ho ho boys, Ho boys found I loudly: Earth never did breed Such a Jovial weed, Whereof to boast so proudly. My Master, and I saw him not! It would, if you would have let it alone, Sir. Why, ho! Why, ho! They leave figh ting. Nay, give him his handkercher, I saw you take it: there, there is thy handkercher, Melancholico: why I thought thou hadst been no fighter. I thought 'twas Choler, and Sanguis, they still are provoking one another: What hast thou in thy bottle, Mu sica? Nepenthe to reconcile the Gods? Come, Musicam, do you begin, and wee'll all dance after thy pipe. Sanguis, here's to thee. Tell me mine next. Sirrah, I saw you steal before, and now I hear you lie, you rogue. And waste-coats, and napkins? I have hurt my breast. I but there's one odd: what shall he do? fit out every time? Let's hear the first. A pox on't, I long to know. Prithee what is't Melancholico? A rope, if he had never proposed it, it would ne ver have angered me. Will you tell, Melancholico? I shall dream on't all night. That do I.
Plot summary
Plot — Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts
Astronomia has several suitors: Geographus (whom her mother dislikes), Geometres (whom her friends favour), and Poeta (who has recently jilted Historia to pursue her). Against her kinsman Polites’ advice, Historia still wants to marry Poeta, consummating the long-standing association between history and the poetic imagination. Poeta quarrels with Grammaticus, and Logicus becomes involved in the ensuing affray. Unsure whether to fight a duel with Poeta or sue him for assault, Logicus sets both courses in train. Hearing that Poeta has been hurt in the fight, Historia sends to Medicus for help, but Magus, who is helping Geometres, sees an opportunity to dispose of one of his client’s rivals, and persuades Medicus to send poison instead. Medicus’ man, Sanguis, delivers the poison, but spots that it isn’t medicine. Poeta infers Historia's treachery, but persuades himself out of absolute misogyny by thinking of Astronomia. To reconcile Poeta with Logicus and Grammaticus, Ethicus arranges a banquet. Several of the wooers use magical help in their suits. Poeta meets two gipsies, who pick his- pocket and foretell that he will marry Astronomia. Using sieve- divination, Magus predicts that Geometres will marry Astronomia, and will achieve this mainly through hypnotism, with a little pharmaceutical help. (Geometres finds the third option, conjuration, too frightening to try.) However, when Astronomia drinks the supposed love philtre at Ethicus’ feast, it poisons her. Meanwhile, Poeta seems reconciled to his former adversaries, but gets drunk and tries to pick fights with Geographus and Grammaticus; Magus charms him to sleep. Causidicus accepts fees from both Logicus and Poeta, so when the case comes to trial, Polites dismisses him and forces the parties to speak for themselves. The trial is adjourned when news arrives that Astronomia, burning up with the poison, has fallen into a coma. Medicus attends her, and cures her by administering an enema. Meanwhile the gipsies and servants indulge themselves in country pastimes: morris dancing, barley-break, and riddles. Polites takes up Geographus’ and Historia’s love- suits: he persuades Astronomia’s mother that Geographus will be a worthy son-in-law, so long as he gets rid of his servant Phantastes, and the couple are married. Polites tries the miscreants, and purges the body politic of dangerous corruption: the gipsies are branded, Magus sentenced to be broken on the wheel, and his wife Astrologia to imprisonment — but,…