Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

GUNOPHILUS

in The Woman in the Moon — Lyly, John

Metadata

PlayThe Woman in the Moon
AuthorLyly, John
Year (catalogued)1597
First performance1593
Decade1590s
GenreComedy
Play typeBoys Professional
CompanyChildren of Paul's (first)
Theaterbefore the Court;
Speech prefix(es)Gu. | Guno. | Gunop. | Gunoph. | Gun. | G. | Gunophil. | Gano.
Words1487
Characters7322
Typicality0.45 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA06629
BritDrama no.819
ClusterCluster 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.

Foolish and frantic, and I followed her. Only to save the goods and bring her back: Why think you I would run away with her? Nay stay a while and you shall see her dance. Speak gentle master and entreat her fair Why I brought you the ring thinking you and she should be married together. And being hurt as she told me. I had thought
foot. Be you as steadfast to me as I'll be to you, and we two will go to the world's end, and yet we cannot, for the world is round, and seeing tys round, lets dance in the cir cle, come turn about. What a sudden change is here? Lucretia totam sis licet usque die. Thaida nocte volo. Hate me a days, and love me in the night,

Full speech

And in the mean time you will be in love with him. I pray let me stay and bid him prepare the bauquet. Here in this place, for so she pointed me. Oh in this cave for over this theyle sit. Yet you may here what they say, if they kiss isle hol low, I'll answer it, shall I provide a banquet and be continued send of the best dish? I hope sir you have said grace, and now may I fallen too. Sir as base as I am I'll go for currant here. You loose your labour then, he is at his flock. If I should hollow they were all undone. Both of them are drunk. No body master. It for a cup of wine, they were all drunk. To seek you. Oh master I did for good will to you. Mistress 'tis true I hard them, venture not. I'll offer it Esculapius, but he shall not have him, for when he comes to him self I must answer it. Oh Master what have you done. Look how she winks. I will, and you shall see how cunningly I'll use them stay here and I will send them to you one after another, and then use them as your wisdom shall think good. Look, look she is writing to you again. All friends and so they kissed. No no Learchus, she does but say so. Come, come Pandora, we must make more hast, Or Stesias will overtake us both. We are almost at the the sea side I pray thee rise. Pandora if thou love me let us go. What are you angry with me. Did I not tell you I should have Larks, Any thing, what you will. what then? But you will love me when the sun is down Did you not promise me. Do you see me now. Belike I was a spirit all this while? Pardon me master she is Lunatic, Foolish and frantic, and I followed her. Only to save the goods and bring her back: Why think you I would run away with her? Nay stay a while and you shall see her dance. Speak gentle master and entreat her fair Why I brought you the ring thinking you and she should be married together. And being hurt as she told me. I had thought she had sent for you as a surgeon. Only to certify you that she was in health, As I was at the bringing hereof. And thus being loath to trouble you, I commit you to God. Yours as his own Gunophilus. I was, and all that they have said is true, She lo e not you, not them, but me alone, How oft hath she run up and down the lawns. Calling aloud where is Gunophilus. Oh Jove, let this be my punishment, to live still with Pandora. She spoke to you my masters, I am none of your company. This is the very passion of the heart, And melancholy is the ground thereof. Fair and dread Sovereign, Lady of the world, Even then when jealous Juno was in place: As I behold the glory of thy face, My feeble eyes admiring majesty, Did sink into my heart such holly fear, That very fear amazing every sense, Withheld my tongue from saying what I would: And freezd my joints from bowing when they should. Stay here until I know her further pleasure: Stesias & his fellows humbly crave access to your excel ̄ ce. Come on masters. What? is my mistress mankind on the sudden? Oh stay sweet mistress and be satisfied. Then I must have horns. But if they come not at all, or when they come do use themselves honestly, then come not out, least you see ming Jealous make her over hate you. Content, so you but fit with them. Here is a comment upon my words, I shall sir. I and for your self too, I am sure you will not beg by the way. I so I think, the world is so hard, that if ye beg ye may be sure to be starved. Oh this is but mirth, do you not know Comes facetus est tanquam vehiculus in via: A merry companion is as good as a Wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot. Be you as steadfast to me as I'll be to you, and we two will go to the world's end, and yet we cannot, for the world is round, and seeing tys round, lets dance in the cir cle, come turn about. What a sudden change is here? Lucretia totam sis licet usque die. Thaida nocte volo. Hate me a days, and love me in the night, I was never in love with her till now, Oh absolute Pandora, because foolish, for folly is women's perfection. To talk Idly, to look wildly, to laugh at every breach and play with a feather, is that would make a Stoyke in love, yea thou thy self. Oh Marcifili annum jam audientem Cratippum idque Athaenis. Gravity in a woman, is Like to a grey beard upon a breach king boys chin, which a good Schoolmaster would cause to be clipped, and the wise husband to be avoided. A catching a blue kings fisher. A gathering little pibles. No: but if she were here she would make mows at the proudest of you. She is a sleep, master shall I wake her? I so content me in this pleasant calm. That former storms are utterly forgotten. I will? but by your leave I'll stay a while. Mistress, the banquet. You have bid no body to it, Now she begins to love me. I know not where he is, but here heel be: I must provide the banquet, and be gone. Well in then, Wertenberg not a pretty jest to bury him quick, I warrant it would be a good while ear she would scratch him out of his graven with her nails, and yet she might too, for she hath dug such vaults in my face that you may go from my chin to my eyebrows betwixt the skin and the flesh, wonder not at it good people I can prove there hath be two or three merchants with me to hire Rome's to lay in wine, but that they do not stand so conue niently as they would wish, for indeed they are every one too near my mouth, and I am a great drinker, I had had a quar ters rend before hand. Well be it known unto all men that I have done this to cornute my master, for yet I could ne ver have opportunity. You would little think my neck is grown away with looking back as I have been a kissing, for fear he should come, and yet it is a fair example, beware of kissing brethren. What does the cave open? ere she and he have done heel pick the lock with his horn. Mistress my master is in this cave thinking to meet you and Learchus here. Oh look how my lips quiver for fear. He is in the woods and will be here anon. How so fair Mistress in your flowering youth, When pleasures joy should fit in every thought? These twain and I have Fortune's all alike. She is not tongue tied, that I know by proof. Whither now my masters in such post hast? Her excellence is not at leisure now. I go. Upon Learchus plain. And I his golden quiver and his bow. It may be they had, for I have not washed them this many a day. Oh that I were worthy you should be sick for me. Better you languish then I be beaten, Pardon me, I dare not love, because of my Master. But what if he come a hunting that way. Why he hath none, Ye say true, and of that condition I am yours. No, God forbid, then perhaps we should have Larks. Yowl love them then Sic vos non vobis, sic vos non vobis. Hollow, hollow. Too much with the man, too little with the wife. I all, but tell me which way shall we go? Well I am revenged at last of my Master, I pray God I may be thus even with all mine enemies: only to run away with their wives. I mean my mistress is become foolish. Oh you stand upon the weight, well if she were twenty grains lighter I would not refuse her provided always, she be not clipped within the ring. I will and that incontinently for indeed I cannot ab stein. A sour beginning: but no remedy, Nature hath bound me, and I must obey: I see that servants must have Merchants ears, To bear the blast and brunt of every wind. When will the shepherd's come?

Plot summary

Plot — The Woman in the Moon
When. the SHépheérds of Utopia protest that, unlike all other creatures, they have no mates, Nature produces one she made earlier: a female statue, which Goneord animates by joining spirit with flesh, and to which DiS€6rd gives a tongue; Nature names her Pandora. The seven planets are jealous of Pandora, and take it in turns to cross her. First Saturn makes her melancholy, and she rejects all her wooers. Then jupiter makes her ambitious, and woos her himself; her acceptance angers JMO!) She sets the shepherds a-love test, to kill a savage boar; she will love the one who brings her its head. Ma#§ supplants Jupiter and makes Pandora aggressive: when the shepherds fight over who killed the boar, she joins in and wounds Stésias} Next Sl is in the ascendant, inducing Pandora to love, chastity, and other feminine virtues: she remorsefully accepts Stesias as her husband, and speaks ambiguous Latin prophecies about their future happiness. Wenus rises and makes Pandora amorous, so she wantons with the other shepherds. Stesias tries to catch her in the act, but G@iH@philis double-crosses him and he is persuaded of her chastity. Mereuty takes over and makes Pandora cunning and dishonest, qualities which save her when the three shepherds tell Stesias that she has indeed been unchaste: she is able to convince him that this is merely the jealousy of disappointed rivals, then pays back her accusers by making further assignations, which Stesias keeps, dressed as a woman, and beats them; they then swear to abjure women and live a single life. Meanwhile she steals Stesias’ jewels and elopes with Gunophilus, but on the way the ascent of Bia drives her mad. Stesias is again persuaded that Pandora is unchaste and, despairing, plans to kill her, but the planets intervene to protect her. Nature proposes to set her in one of the planets’ spheres, and she chooses that of Luna, since she has proven to be fundamentally changeable. Stesias is forced to accompany her, and he becomes the man in the moon.