in The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again) — Kyd, Thomas
Metadata
Play
The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again)
Author
Kyd, Thomas
Year (catalogued)
1592
First performance
1587
Decade
1590s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Unknown
Speech prefix(es)
Ped. | Ped
Words
635
Characters
3186
Typicality
0.43 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A04942
BritDrama no.
783
Cluster
Cluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
knave? So then I must up. Yes, but there shall be for my coming down. How? be turned off. What do you hang by the hour, if you do, I may chance to break your old custom. Dost thou mock me hangman, pray God I be not preserved to break your knaves pate for this. Sirrah, dost see yonder boy with to e box in his hand? I that companion.
Full speech
Signior. Hath your Lordship any service to command me? What ere it be your Lordship shall demand, My bounden duty bids me tell the truth. If case it lie in me to tell the truth. Alas my Lord, since Done Andreas death, I have no credit with her as before, And therefore know not if she love or no. O stay my Lord. If Madame Bel-imperia be in love. Oh stay my Lord, she loves Horatio. Even him my Lord. She sent him letters which my self perused, Full fraught with lines and arguments of love, Preferring him before Prince Balthazar. I swear to both by him that made us all. What I have said is true, and shall for me, Be still concealed from Bel-imperia. Beside your Honours liberality, Deserves my duteous service, even till death. I will my Lord. In steed of watching isle deserve more gold. By fetching Done Lorenzo to this match. Now Hieronimo. I know not, heers my Lord. He asks for my Lady Bel-imperia. My Lord, I see it, and suspect it too. My Lord, he could not, it so lately done, And since he hath not lest my company. But how shall Serberine be there my Lord? It shall be done my L. it shall be done, And isle go arm my self to meet him there. Here comes the bird that I must cease upon, Now Pedringano or never play the man. For this Serberine, and thou shalt ha'te. So, there he lies, my promise is performed. Now by the sorrows of the souls in hell, Who first lays hand on me, isle be his Priest, Why, because he walked abroad so late. Hieronimo, carry me before whom you will, What ere he be isle answer him and you, And do your worst, for I defy you all. Gramercy boy, but it was time to come, For I had written to my Lord anew, A nearer matter that concerns him, For fear his Lordship had forgotten me: But sith he hath remembered me so well, Come, come, come on, when shall we to this gear. This is short work, well, to your Marshallship First I confess, nor fear I death therefore, I am the man, it I slew Serberine. But sir, then you think this shall be the place, Where we shall satisfy you for this gear? Now I think not so. To do what, my fine officious knave? So then I must up. Yes, but there shall be for my coming down. How? be turned off. What do you hang by the hour, if you do, I may chance to break your old custom. Dost thou mock me hangman, pray God I be not preserved to break your knaves pate for this. Sirrah, dost see yonder boy with to e box in his hand? I that companion. Dost thou think to live till his old doublet will make thee a new truss? What hath he in his box as thou thinkest? Why sirrah Hangman? I take it, that that is good for the body, is likewise good for the soul: and it may be, in that box is balm for both. Is your roaguery become and office with a knaves name? I prithee request this good company to pray with me. Nay, nay, now I remember me, let them alone till some other time, for now I have no great needs. Nay soft, no hast. Why I. Why Rascal by my pardon from the King. Oh sir, you are to forward, thou wouldst feign furnish me with a halter, to disfurnish me of my habit. So I should go out of this gear my raiment, into that gear the rope. But Hangman, now I spy your knavery, isle not change with out boot, thats fl to.
Plot summary
Plot — The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again)
Don Andrea) Beleimiperia’s secret lover, was separated from her by the war with Portugal and killed in battle by Baltazar Now the powers of hell have promised him vengeance, and he and R@Véfige sit down to watch it worked out in the play. In the course of the action Andrea expresses mounting impatience, while Revenge makes him wait, sleeps, and finally takes control of the action. Spain wins the war and Portugal agrees to pay tribute. Balthazar has been taken prisoner, and is committed to DGFSHZO!s custody. BElAImperia is wooed by Balthazar, and the King plans to settle the succession on their issue, thereby uniting Spain and Portugal. But Bel-Imperia cannot accept her dead love's killer, and opts for MGFatiG instead. Lorenzo learns of this by suborning her servant Pédfingafio, who then assists him and Balthazar in murdering MOratio! Miéroninie finds his son’s body hanging in his arbour and swears revenge, but his wife counsels patience while heaven puts matters right. In Portugal, Willipps falsely accuses AUSXandrS of murdering Balthazar in battle. At the last moment Alexandro is saved from burning at the stake by the arrival of the Ambassador from Spain with news that Balthazar is alive. Alexandro is released and Wiliippo condemned. Béleimpera is imprisoned by DGFeHZ6) but writes Hieronimo a letter in her own blood. Fearing a trap, Hieronimo investigates, but his suspicions alert Lorenzo. PR@HigaHG is persuaded to murder his accomplice]/Sérbenine] on promise of a pardon; but the box supposedly containing it is empty, and Pedritigane’s confident jesting on the gallows ends with his execution. An incriminating letter found on his body confirms the guilt of Lorenzo and Balthazar, but HigfonimiG is so far unhinged by grief that Lorenzo finds it easy to prevent him informing the King; his mental state also inhibits him from the efficient discharge of his judicial responsibilities. ISB@lla also goes mad and cuts down the arbour before killing herself, but Hieronimo rejects suicide, preferring revenge. Beleimperia is now to marry Balthazar, and the Micero6yMicomes from Portugal. for the ceremony. HieronimiG organizes his revenge under the pretext of the entertainment: a tragedy of SHISHA and PERSeda} in which he and Bel-Imperia kill Lorenzo and Balthazar ===== PAGE 372 ===== in earnest. Bél@lmipéria kills herself, and MieronimG bites out his tongue to avoid interrogation, then stabs the Duke of @aStilé and himself. DOnlNAKGEEd is avenged, and Revenge promises…