Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
knavishly, and yet I hope foul uva ter will quench hight fire as soon as fair. I agree in hope that the hemp shall come to your wearing, a halfpenny halter may hang you both, that is, Halfpenny and you may hang in a halter. 'Twill when 'tis about your neck. Nor when your heads are in, as it is likely, they should not come out.
heads are in, as it is likely, they should not come out. But harken to my song, Cantant. Full hard I did sweat, When hemp I did beat. Then thought I of nothing but hanging, The hemp being spun, My beating was done, Then I wished for a noise Of crack-halter Boys, On Those hempen strings to be twanging. Long looked I about. The City
together. To whit to who, the Owl does cry, Phip, phip, the sparrows as they fly, The goose does hiss, the duck cries quack. A Rope the Parrot, that holds tack. The hanging yours, but the hemp mine. I believe to hanging, for I think you have all robbed your Master's, heres every man his baggage. Hold thy peace, or of mine honesty
Full speech
I believe unless it be better handled, we shall out of doors. Nay, if you set all on hazard, though I be a poor wench I am as hardy as you both I cannot speak La tine, but in plain English if any thing fallen out cross I'll run away, Why Halfpenny, there's no goose so grey in the lake, that cannot find a gander for her make. If you take your pleasure of me, I'll in and tell your practises against your Master's. You mean knavishly, and yet I hope foul uva ter will quench hight fire as soon as fair. I agree in hope that the hemp shall come to your wearing, a halfpenny halter may hang you both, that is, Halfpenny and you may hang in a halter. 'Twill when 'tis about your neck. Nor when your heads are in, as it is likely, they should not come out. But harken to my song, Cantant. Full hard I did sweat, When hemp I did beat. Then thought I of nothing but hanging, The hemp being spun, My beating was done, Then I wished for a noise Of crack-halter Boys, On Those hempen strings to be twanging. Long looked I about. The City throughout, Yes, at last coming hither, I saw four together. To whit to who, the Owl does cry, Phip, phip, the sparrows as they fly, The goose does hiss, the duck cries quack. A Rope the Parrot, that holds tack. The hanging yours, but the hemp mine. I believe to hanging, for I think you have all robbed your Master's, heres every man his baggage. Hold thy peace, or of mine honesty I'll buy and halfpenny purse with thee. And I'll ask for a silver spoon which was lost last day, which I must pay for. Nay gammer, I pray you tell me who stole my spoon out of the buttery. Body of me let me fetch the spoon, I remem ber the place. I but perchance the spoon will not. No sir boy, it was put to 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…