Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 11 (tospot, rees, ralph, soch, tout, oundes…). Matches are highlighted.
Alchemy is a pretty kind of Game, Somewhat Like Tricks o'the Cards, to cheat a man, With charming. What else are all your Term , Whereon no one o'your Writers grees with other? Of your Elixir, your Lac virginis, Your Stone, your Medicine, and your Chrysosperme, Your Sal, your Sulphur, and your Mercury, Your Oil of height, your
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What, and turn that too? No faith. Yes, when I see't, I will. But, if my eyes do cossen me so (and I Giuing'hem no occasion) sure, I'll have A Whore, shall pisse'hem out next day. No doubt hee'is that already. The decayed Vestal's of Pickthatch would thank you, That keep the fire alive, there. And I'll Be bound, the Players shall sing your pra ses, then, Without their Poets. As he that built the Waterwork, dos with water, Faith, I have a humour, I would not willingly be gulled. Your Stone Cannot transmute me How! Did Adam write, Sir, in high Dutch? What Paper? Oh that, indeed (they say) Will last against worms. And do'you think to have the Stone, with this? Why, I have herd, he must be Homo frugi, A pious, holy, and religious man, One free from mortal sin, a very Virgin. What a brave language here is? next to Canting? Your Cockscomb's, is to not? Oh, I looked for this. The hay is a pitching. Oh, this Ferret Is rank as any Polecat. I, are you bolted? Yes twenty, and be cossend, Do. We shall have a salad. I believe you, in that. And Dripping-pans, and Pot-hangers, and Hooks? Shall he not? To be and Ass. And little hope, Sir, But, much less charity, should I gull my self. But your whole work, no more. That, you should hatch gold in a Furnace, Sir, As they do eggs in Egypt. That cannot be. The Egg's ordained by Nature, to that end: And is a Chicken, in Potentiam. I, what is that? Pray you, Sir, stay. Rather, then I'll be brayed, Sir, I'll believe, That Alchemy is a pretty kind of Game, Somewhat Like Tricks o'the Cards, to cheat a man, With charming. What else are all your Term , Whereon no one o'your Writers grees with other? Of your Elixir, your Lac virginis, Your Stone, your Medicine, and your Chrysosperme, Your Sal, your Sulphur, and your Mercury, Your Oil of height, your Tree of life, your Blood, Your Marchesite, your Tutie, your Magnesia, Your Toad, your Crow, your Dragon, and your Panthar, Your Sun, your Moon, your Firmament, your Adrop, Your Lato, Azoch, Zernich, Chibrit, Heautarit, And then your Read man, and your white ; With all your Broathes, your M nstrues, and Materials, Of Piss, and Egge-shells, Women's terms, Men blood, Hair o'the head, burned Clouts, Chalk, Merds, and Clay, Poulder of bones, scalings of Iron, glass. And world's of other strange Ingredients, Would burst a man to name. Heart, this is a baudy-House. I'll be burned else. Be not gulled, Sir Mammon. Yes, as you are. And trust confederate Knaves, and Bawds, and Whores. Sir Epic re, Your friend to use. Yet, still, loath to be gulled. I do not Like your Phil sophicall bawds. Their Stone is lechery enough, to pay for, Without this bait And yet, you never saw her Till now? A very treacherous memory. Tut if you ha'it not about you pass it, Till we meet next. Heart! Can it be, That a graven Sir, a rich, that has no needs, A wise Sir, too, at other times should thus With his own oaths, and arguments, make hard means To gull himself? And, this be your Elixir, Your Lapis M neralis, and your Lunary, Give me your honest trick, yet, at Primero, Or Gleek; and take your Lutum sapientis, Your Menstruum simplex: I'll have Gold, before you, And, with less danger of the Quicksilver; Or the hight Sulphur. Sir, I will. But, by Attorney, and to a second purpose. Now, I am sure, it is a Bawdyhouse; I'll swear it, were the Marshal here, to thankeme. The naming this Commander, does confirm it. Done Face! Why, h'is the most authentic dealer I'these Commodities! The Superintendent To all the queinter Traffickers, in town. He is their Visiter, and do's appoint Who lies with whom; and at what hour; what price; Which gown; and in what smock; what fallen; what tire. Him will I prove, by a third person, to find The subtleties of this dark Labyrinth: Which, if I do discover, deer, Sir Mammon, You'll give your poor Friend leave, though no Philosopher, To laugh: for you that are, it's thought, shall weep. I will not, Sir. Sir Epicure, I shall leave you. Peuter, and Brass, Andirons, and Kitchen beware, Metals, that we must use our medicine on: Wherein the Brothers may have a penn'orth. For ready money. Sennores, beso las manos, à vuestras mercedes. Gratiam. Por dios, Sennores, muy lindam Casa! Ent endo. Con licencia, see puede for à esta Sennorà? Entiendo, que la Sennora es tan her mosa, Q tan à for la, common la bien de mi vida, , p r que see tàrdatànta? Puede, sir, de haz r burla de miamor. Por estas barbas. Tiengo dùd , Sennores, Que no me hágan algunatraycion. Que es èsto See oars, que non seven Gam? Esta tardanza me mata! Por todos los dioses, la mass acabada Hermosùra, que he visto en mivìda! El Solha perdido sum lumbre, con el Resplandor, que tràe esta dama. Valga me dio ! Por que no see acùde? Por el amor de dios, que es esto, que see tàrda? Sennora mia, mi personam muy indignaesta All gar àtànta Hermosura. Sennora, si sera seruida, entremus. And for these Household-rogues, let me alone. To treat with them. Will you, Done Baud, and Pickpurse? How now? Reel you? Stand up Sir, you shall find since I am so heavy, I'll give you aequal weight. No Sir. There's no such thing intended. A good Cart, And a clean Whip shall ease you of that fear. I am the Spanish Done, that should be cossened, Do you see? cossened. Where's your Captain Face? That parcel-broker, and whole-bawd, all Rascal. Oh, make your approach, good Captain. I'haue found, from whence your Copper Rings, and Spoons Come now, wherewith you cheat abroad in Taverns. 'Twas here, you learned to anoint your boot with Brimstone, Then rub men's Gold on't, for a kind of touch, And say 'twas nought, when you had changed the colour, That you might have't for nothing. And this Doctor, Your sooty, smoky-bearded Compear, He Will close you so much Gold, in a Bolthead, And, on a turn, convey (i'the stead) another With sublimed Mercury, that shall burst in he heat, And fly out all in fumo. Then weeps Mammon. Then swoons his Worship. Or he is the Faustus, That casts figures, and can conjure, cures Plague, Piles, and Pox, by the Ephemerides, And holds intelligence, with all the Bawds, And Midwives of three Shires. While you send in— Captain, (what is he gone?) Dam'sells with child, Wives, that are barren, or, the waiting-maid With the Greensickness. Nay Sir, you must tarry Though he be scaped; and answer, by the ears, Sir. I should be loath, Sir, To confess so much. How? Sir you are abused. You are indeed. Will you hear me, Sir? This's strange! Lady, do you inform your Brother. Sir, all is truth, she says. You are valiant out of Company. Hydra of villainy! Why this is madness, Sir, Not valour in you: I must laugh at this. You'll hear me Sir? New Rascals! I must give way. But isle take A course with you— Captain, and Doctor. The happy word, Be rich — Should be to day pronounced, to all your friends. And where be your Andirons now? And your Brass Pots? That should ha'beene Golden Flaggons, and great Wedges? I, now, it's Holiday with them. Your word, Groom arrogant? This's a new Face! You Rascal. This is one OF the Confederacy. Come let's get Officers! And force the door. No, Sir, wee'll come with warrant. Down with the door. And my Captain Face? That are Birding in men's purses. And the Captain Pandar. How! Have I lost her then? Must I needs cheat my self, With that same foolish vice of Honesty! Come let us go, and Harken out the Rogues. That Face I'll mark for mine, if ere I meet him. If I should?
Plot summary
Plot — The Alchemist
With his master absent to avoid the plague in London, Face has set up an occult consultancy in his house in association with the formerly itinerant rogues Subtle and Doll Common: Face fetches in the clients and Subtle poses as the alchemist. They quarrel over the relative merits of their contributions to the enterprise, but resolve to collaborate competitively in the day’s ===== PAGE 80 ===== business. They are visited by successive clients: Dapper, who wants a familiar to help him win at gambling; Drugger, who wants advice on the most auspicious layout for his shop; Sir Epicure Mammon, who seeks the philosopher’s stone to fulfil his fantasies of wealth, luxury, and voluptuousness, and who brings along with him the sceptic Surly; and the religious sectarians Ananias and Tribulation, who want both the stone and Subtle’s claimed expertise in counterfeiting foreign coins. Dapper is persuaded that he is the Fairy Queen’s nephew and heir, and is promised an introduction to her. Mammon brings various domestic articles for aurification, which Subtle then sells on to Ananias and Tribulation, saying they belong to orphans. Clients come thick and fast. Drugger introduces his neighbours, Kastril (who wants te learn how to quarrel) and the wealthy widow Pliant (who wants her fortune told and whom Face and Subtle both want to marry). They are sent away so that the tricksters can deal with Dapper, who in his turn is secreted in the privy while they attend to Mammon. The knight courts Doll, who is presented to him as a lord’s sister prone to religious mania, which he activates by ill-chosen words; but he is then told that his lust has caused a setback in the alchemical process, which demands moral purity. Meanwhile, Surly returns, disguised as a Spanish count seeking sexual favours; but, since Doll is busy with Mammon, he is foisted on Dame Pliant, who is tempted with the chance of becoming a Spanish countess. His attempt to tell her the truth is outmanoeuvred when Face and Subtle convince her that he is an impostor and that the real Count is on his way; Drugger is persuaded to impersonate him and sent off to borrow a Spanish suit for the role. Lovewit, the master of the house, returns to hear Tumours of strange goings-on. Face’s explanation is confuted by the cries of Dapper, forgotten in the privy, so he confesses everything. Dapper is presented to the Fairy Queen (impersonated by Doll) and goes away the owner of an imaginary magical fly, with instructions not to look…