Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 3 (numps, numpes, blastfield, wares, parson, nidden…). Matches are highlighted.
offices for another. They call him the Secretary, but he serves no body. A great friend of the Ballad-mans they are never asunder. A very quick hand, Sir. Very passionate, Mistress, one on'hem has wept out and eye. Master Arthur of Bradley is melancholy, here, no body talks to him. Will you any tobacco Master Arthur? He's studying
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pray you be not angry, Mistress, I'll have it widened anon. Oh Lord! do you not know him, Mistress, it's mad Ar thur of Bradley, that makes the Orations Brave Master, old Arthur of Bradley, how do you? welcome to the Fair, when shall we hear you again, to handle your matters? with your back again a Booth, would? I have been one o'your little disciples, i'my days! Is't Ale, or Beer? Master Arthur? What mean you by that, Master Arthur? Oh Lord, Sir! far from it. This is Master Dan. Knock hum: Jordan the Ranger of Turnebull. He is a horse-courser, Sir. Like enough, Sir, shee'll do forty such things in and hour (and you listen to her) for her recreation, if the toy take her i'the greasy kerchief: it makes her fat you see. She battens with it. A civil young Gentleman, Master Arthur, that keeps company with the Roarers, and disburses all, still. He has ever more ney in his purse; He pays for them; and they roar for him: one do's good offices for another. They call him the Secretary, but he serves no body. A great friend of the Ballad-mans they are never asunder. A very quick hand, Sir. Very passionate, Mistress, one on'hem has wept out and eye. Master Arthur of Bradley is melancholy, here, no body talks to him. Will you any tobacco Master Arthur? He's studying for and Oration, now. By and by, the bottle is almost off Mistress, here Ma ster Arthur. Nay, good Master Dan: Knockhum, respect my Mistress Bower, as you call it; for the honour of our Booth, none o'your vapours, here. Good Mistress, 'twas in the behalf of your Booth's credit dit, that I spoke. Mistress! Run you for some cream, good mother Joan. I'll look to your basket. A body may read that i'their small printed ruffs. Here, Mistress. 'Slight, who be these?
Plot summary
Plot — Bartholomew Fair
Bartholomew Cokes has two objectives in life: to visit the fair which shares his name, and to marry Grace Wellborn, who, as a ward, faces a financial penalty should she refuse. He sends his servant Wasp to Littlewit the proctor to obtain a marriage licence, but then, impatiently, comes himself. He brings Grace with him, and she attracts the interest of Winwife, present with his friend Quarlous as a suitor to Littlewit’s mother-in-law, Dame Purecraft. Littlewit is more interested in Cokes’s talk of the fair, having secretly written one of the puppet plays to be performed there. The only snag is that the puritanical Dame Purecraft will disapprove of their visit, thinking fairs profane. Busy, an elder of Purecraft’s church, advises the family that fairs may lawfully be visited for good reason, and comes along with them to partake of the pork. After some unfortunate experiences involving mistaken identity, Justice Overdo no longer trusts informers and has decided to do his spying personally. He visits the fair in disguise to seek out ‘enormities’ perpetrated by the fairground folk. He is impressed by one young man, Edgeworth, and decides to rescue him from the clutches of the cheaters; but he does not know that Edgeworth is a cutpurse. While Overdo is busy telling him about the wickedness of tobacco, Edgeworth steals Cokes’s purse; Overdo gets the blame. When it happens a second time, Overdo is arrested and put in the stocks. There he encounters the madman Trouble-All, who persistently demands Overdo’s warrant for any action; it transpires that he was a court official driven out of his mind by Overdo’s own actions. The watchmen, concerned to get better authority, release Overdo from the stocks for the time being. Meanwhile, the Littlewits arrive at the fair, but Busy becomes over-excited in his condemnation, attacks the fairground booths, and is arrested; Dame Purecraft goes after him, leaving Littlewit and Win free to enjoy themselves. Edgeworth tricks Wasp into making affidavit so that, at Quarlous’s instigation, he can steal Cokes’s marriage licence. Wasp too is arrested and put in the stocks, but escapes by a ruse when Overdo and Busy are put in beside him. The women visitors to the fair are separated from the men. Littlewit leaves Win in the care of two fairground bawds while he goes off to check the arrangements for his puppet show. Cokes abandons Grace and Mistress Overdo to try and get back his stolen property. Desperate for the toilet, Mistress…