Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 21 (gar, shillings, alii, yongrave, ogenes, nat…). Matches are highlighted.
What for ever & Man. Accius, what else? I shall never be able to abide it, it will be so to dious. If you will not another will. And if you be so lusty lend me two shillings. Well father heeres my hand, strike the bar gain. I shall give her the humble bees kiss. I'll never believe it. Solt, I'll not swap my father for all this. Come
Full speech
What means my father to thrust me forth in another's boys coat? I'll warrant 'tis to as much pur pose as a hem in the forehead. I am almost come into mine nonage, and yet I never was so far as the proverbs of this city. I have yonder uncovered a fair girl, I'll be so bold as spur her, what might a body call her name? You need not be so lusty, you are not so ho nest. What do you give me the boots? I am taken with a fit of love: Have you any mind of marriage? This is pure lawn: What call you this, a pre face to your hair? Long may he so do. I could tell that these are not mine if I would blab it like a woman. Damsel, I pray you how old are you? My father is a scold, whats yours? In faith I perceive and old saw and a rusty, no fool to the old fool. I pray you wherefore was I thrust out like a scar crow in this similitude. Marry by the way from your house hither Will I, I faith sir no. I take her to be pregnant. Father, if my hands be tied shall I grow wise? What for ever & Man. Accius, what else? I shall never be able to abide it, it will be so to dious. If you will not another will. And if you be so lusty lend me two shillings. Well father heeres my hand, strike the bar gain. I shall give her the humble bees kiss. I'll never believe it. Solt, I'll not swap my father for all this. Come if you be my sister its the better for you. Take it as you list, you are in your own clothes. Your eloquence pass my recognoscence. My father, what needs you to care, I hope he was none of yours. Come sister, the best is, we shall have good I these four days. Upon what acquaintance? Much in my gascoins, more in my round hose, all my father's are as white as daisies, as and egg full of meat. That brave with bred. How chance Dromio bid me?
Plot summary
Plot — Mother Bombie
Menmiphio and Stellig each has a fool for his only child, — a son and a daughter respectively, but both have managed to conceal the fact from the neighbours. Each plans to marry his offspring to the other’s without disclosing the heir’s mental debility, and each tasks his servant to make the arrangements. Meanwhile, @amidiliis and [ivid are in love with one another, but their parents disapprove, wanting them to marry wealth instead: Candius is made to woo Stellio’s daughter Sil@mla, and Livia is intended for Memphio’s son Al@GiiS] The four fathers’ boy servants conspire to frustrate these various . marital plans, and go off to drink at the tavern. Candius meets Silena as she sneaks out to hear her fortune, and offers to read her palm. He is momentarily struck by her beauty, but quickly discovers that she is an idiot, a legitimate impediment to marriage. Mother Bomibié tells Silena’s fortune in cryptic terms: she is not the child of her parents. The fortune teller is also consulted by the siblings M@eStiiS and Sérénaj] who have developed an incestuous passion for one another; Mother Bombie tells them that they shall be married and each will displace a fool. The boys arrange for Candius and Livia to swap apparel with the two idiots, and they are married in disguise, with their own fathers as witnesses. Accius and Silena court one another in disguise, but their marriage prospects take a turn for the worse after each father identifies the other’s child as a fool. DE@Rilio is arrested for failing to feed a horse he hired; the other boys enter a bond to pay off his creditor, but then get the hackneyman, sergeant, and scrivener drunk, and pay for the wine by pawning the sergeant’s mace. Early the next morning, three fiddlers, advised of the wedding, struggle to identify the right house to serenade. Prisils and Spérantus discover that Candius ===== PAGE 465 ===== 1589 and Livia are married. The four servants confess their part in the affair, and the four fathers are content: Prisius and Sperantus accept the fait accompli, and Memphio and Stellio are willing to marry the fools to one another after all. Wi€inid intervenes to prevent an incestuous marriage: eighteen years ago, she swapped them for her own children, counterfeiting their distinctive birthmarks; the true heirs of Memphio and Stellio are Maestius and Serena. Mother Bombie has Predicted everything accurately. Nobody is to be punished or left dissatisfied: Vicinia is pardoned, the hackneyman paid, and the…