Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
dead, hunting is for kings, not peasants. Such as you, are unworthy to be hounds, much less huntsmen, that know not when a hound is fleet, fair flewde, and well hanged, being ignorant of the deepness of a hounds mouth, and the sweetness. Spare your winds in this, or I'll wind your necks in a cord: but soft I herd my Master's
Full speech
Pretty coxcomb, a hound will swallow thee as easily, as a great pit a small pebble. I'll make thee cry. If I catch thee in the forest thou shalt be leashed. But speak in order or I'll pay you. This is worse than fustian, mumme you were best. Hunting is and honourable pastime, and for my partly, I had as leife hunt a deer in a park, as court a Lady in a chamber. Fecere dizardum. Leave off these toys, and let us seek out Midas, whom we lost in the chase. Treason to two brave sports, hawking & hun ting, thou shouldst say, start a hare, rouse the deer, spring the partridge. Well, remember all this. A bugle. What else? You be both fools, and beside, base-min dead, hunting is for kings, not peasants. Such as you, are unworthy to be hounds, much less huntsmen, that know not when a hound is fleet, fair flewde, and well hanged, being ignorant of the deepness of a hounds mouth, and the sweetness. Spare your winds in this, or I'll wind your necks in a cord: but soft I herd my Master's blast. Thy mother when such a fly blow was buzd out; but I must be gone, I perceive Midas is come. Ex.
Plot summary
Plot — Midas
Offered anything he wishes by way of reward for entertaining Baéehus) KingiMidas seeks advice. Two of his lords suggest that he request love and empire respectively; the third proposes gold, which can buy both, so Midas asks that everything he touches should turn to gold. The gift proves to be an inconvenience, turning Midas’s food and even his beard to gold. (A BaBE steals the golden beard from the FSyalibarber, but the barber gets his own back by giving him toothache.) Regretting his folly and his imperialistic designs on other nations, Midas seeks a remedy from the oracle, and washes off the golden touch in a nearby river. On the way home, Midas goes hunting in the woods, gets lost, and encounters Ajpoll6 and Pan ‘The two gods are in dispute over which is the best musician; Midas is asked to judge, and, perversely, chooses Pan. Apollo gives him ass’s ears in reprisal, and he becomes reclusive while rumours spread; even the reeds whisper about his ears. Meanwhile his empire begins to disintegrate and he is unable to achieve his overriding objective, the conquest of Lesbos. Finally he seeks a remedy from the oracle of Apollo, and also proclaims that any further talk about his ass’s ears will cost the speaker his own. The pages inveigle Motto the barber into flouting the edict, and thereby force him to return the golden beard. Midas makes his obeisance at Apollo’s oracle, and is ordered to give up his imperial ambitions; in particular, his ears will only get longer if he continues to covet Lesbos. He agrees, and promises to make annual sacrifices at the oracle. The ass’s ears fall off, and the play ends with praise for Apollo.