Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

SQUIRE

in Britannia Triumphans — Jones, Inigo

Metadata

PlayBritannia Triumphans
AuthorJones, Inigo
Year (catalogued)1638
Decade1630s
Speech prefix(es)Squire.
Words195
Characters976
Typicality0.20 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA04599
ClusterCluster 6 — Battlefield messengers & soldiers

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Full speech

Oh Coward base! whose fear will never Lynne Till't shrink thy heart as small as head of Pynne! Lady, with pretty finger in her eye Laments her Lamkin Knight, and shall I fly? Is this a time for blade to shift for's self, When Giant vile, calls Knight a sneaking Else? This day, (a Day as fair as heart could wish) This Giant stood on shore of sea to fish, For Angling rod he took a sturdy Oak, For line a Cable that in storm n'er broke; His hook was such as heads the end of Pole, To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole. This hook was baited with a Dragons tail, And then on Rock he stood to bob for Whale: Which straight he caught and nimbly home did pack, With ten Cart load of dinner on his back: Thus homeward bent, his eye too rude and cunning, Spies Knight and Lady by and hedge a sunning. That Modicum of meat he down did lay (For it was all he eat on fasting day) Now look to't Knight, this such a desperate blade is, In Gaul he swinged the valiant sir Amadis!