Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
Yes, Sir. You shall, Sir, but i'saith let no body else. It will get you the dangerous name of a Poet in Town, Sir, beside me a perfect deal of ill will at the Mansi on you wot of, whose Lady is the Argument of it: where now I am the welcomest
Full speech
Yes, Sir. You shall, Sir, but i'saith let no body else. It will get you the dangerous name of a Poet in Town, Sir, beside me a perfect deal of ill will at the Mansi on you wot of, whose Lady is the Argument of it: where now I am the welcomest thing under a man that comes there. No faith, I'll confess before, Sir. The Gentlewomen play with me, and throw me of the bed; and carry me into my Lady; and she kisses me with her oiled face; and puts a Per ruke of my head; and asks me and I will wear her Gown; and I say, no: and then she hits me a blow of the ear, and calls me Innocent, and lets me go. Why, Sir! he hath chosen a street to lie in, so nar row at both ends, that it will receive no Coaches, nor Carts, nor any of these common noises: and therefore, we that love him, devise to bring him in such as we may, now and then, for his exercise, to breath him. He would grow resty else in his ease. His Virtue would rust without Actium. I en treated a Bearward, one day, to come down with the Dogs of some four Parishes that way, and I thank him, he did; and cried his Games under Master Morose's windore: till he was sent crying away, with his head made a most bleeding Spectacle to the multitude. And, another time, a Fencer, marching to his Prize, had his Drum most tragi cally run thorough, for taking that street in his way, at my request. The Gentleman is here below, that owns that name. With a Truncheon, Sir?
Plot summary
Plot — Epicene, or The Silent Woman
Dauphine's obsessively noise-hating uncle, Morose. has threatened to disinherit him by taking a wife and begetting a son and heir. He has engaged a gen ts to seek a silent woman for his bride, and the barber, Cutbeard, seems to have found him one, Mistress Epicoenc. Truewit goes to him in disguise and tries to dissuade him from marriage; but this makes him the more determined to go ahead with it straight away. He inspects Epicoene, is pleased by her silence, and marries her. Almost at once he learns that she is able to speak loudly. Sir Amorous La Poole is holding a dinner for the members of a college of ladies, but the gallants divert the collegians to Morose's house, to celebrate his wedding. They persuade La Poole that Sir John Daw has arranged this to dishonour him. La Foole dresses up as a sewer to serve the meat. Mistress Otter comes along with him, and the gallants arrange for her to witness her henpecked husband criticizing her behind her back - which earns him a beating. The collegians hold her up as an example to Epicoene: she must establish her dominance in the household. The gallants persuade Dauphine that the two knights have slandered him, and tell each of the knights in turn that the other intends to fight him. Both are so anxious to avoid a duel that each agrees to be beaten by the other; Dauphine does the beating and takes their swords from them. The ladies witness the event, and see the knights' unworthiness; they transfer their affections to Dauphine and begin to compete for his favours. Morose intends to procure a divorce, but cannot find a lawyer in the noise of the courts. Truewit supplies a lawyer and a divine to deal with the case; they are really Cutbeard and Otter in disguise. They delineate the legal grounds for divorce, but none seems to fit the case. The two knights are persuaded to admit that they deflowered Epicoene - but this doesn't count because it happened before the marriage. Morose is forced to claim that he is impotent- but that will only be grounds for .ii:picoene to divorce him, not vice versa. Dauphine offers to free his uncle from the marriage in return for an annual income and a guarantee that he ·will inherit the E_m tire estate. Once Morose has signed the papers, Dauphine reveals that Epicoene is really a boy.