before the Court;Phoenix/Cockpit;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Curt.
Words
329
Characters
1703
Typicality
0.38 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A06991
BritDrama no.
828
Cluster
Cluster 1 — Wives, widows & intimate counsel
Important excerpts
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Full speech
It's silver, I disdain it. Tell me, how camest thou by this? Hide the bag. Pilia-borza, didst thou meet with Ithimore ? And didst thou deliver my letter? And what thinkest thou, will he come? Why so? And what said he? And where didst meet him? Is't not a sweet faced youth, Pilia ? Though woman's modesty should hale me back, I can withhold no longer; welcome sweet love. Whither so soon? Canst thou be so unkind to leave me thus? What shall we do with this base villain then? Now, gentle Ithimore, lie in my lap. Where are my Maids? provide a running Banquet; Send to the Merchant, bid him bring me silks, Shall Ithimore my love go in such rags? I have no husband, sweet, I'll marry thee. Whi her will I not go with gentle Ithimore ? It's not thy money, but thy self I weigh: Thus Bellamira esteems of gold; But thus of thee. — Kiss him. — Come my deer love, let's in and sleep together. Come Amorous wag, first banquet and then sleep. I'll pledge thee, love, and therefore drink it off. Go to, it shall be so. Love thee, fill me three glasses. Now to the Jew. I had not thought he had been so brave a man. You two alone. And fit it should: but first let's would more gold Come gentle Ithimore, lie in my lap. A French Musician, come let's hear your skill? Prethe, Pilia-borza, bid the Fiddler give me The posey in his hat there. How sweet, my Ithimore, the flowers smell. Musician, hast been in Malta long? Prethe sweet love, one more, and write it sharp. O bring us to the Governor. What ever I am, yet Governor hear me speak; I bring thee news by whom thy son was slain: Mathias did it not, it was the Jew. Strong proof, my Lord, his man's now at my Lodging that was his Agent, he'll confess it all.
Plot summary
Plot — The Jew of Malta
For ten years, Malta has failed to pay tribute to the Turks; now Séliml(@alymath comes to collect the arrears, but grants Bémeze, the Governor, a month to find the money. Ferneze requires the island’s Jews to contribute half their assets towards the sum, on pain of forcible conversion; but Bafabas, a wealthy merchant with trading links all over the east, refuses either to pay or to become a Christian. His entire estate is seized and his house converted to a nunnery. Unbeknown to the authorities, there is a cache of money and jewels hidden in the house; Barabas has his daughter, Abigail, become a nun in order to get access to it. After retrieving the gold, she leaves the convent, and Barabas buys a new house. The Spanish Vice-Admiral, Martin(§@elgposcs} arrives in Malta after routing the Turkish navy. He is granted permission to sell his prisoners as slaves on the island, even though this will be provocative to the Turks; Ferneze decides to keep the gold he levied to pay the tribute, and count on Spanish aid in the war that will follow. Barabas visits the slave market and buys [fiamiore; they swap stories about their exploits in villainy. A Turkish pasha comes to collect the tribute money, but Ferneze refuses to pay. War looms. Mathias and WEdGwiek both love Abigail. Barabas asks her to encourage Lodowick, even though she prefers Mathias; he doesn’t want her to marry either, but particularly wants to destroy Lodowick to get revenge on Ferneze, his father. He tells Mathias of Lodowick’s interest, and forges a challenge from Lodowick. The two young men fight and kill one another. When Abigail finds out what has happened, she rejoins the nunnery. Barabas adopts Ithamore as his heir and sends the nuns an anonymous gift of poisoned rice. They all die; Abigail’s last act is to confess to Friar Barnardine her 1589 father’s part.in the deaths of Mathias and Lodowick. Barmardine and Friarjacom try to exploit the power this knowledge gives them over Barabas, without explicitly revealing it (which is forbidden under canon law). Barabas sets enmity between them by pretending he wishes to join a religious order and give that order his money; the two friars vie with one another to offer him an easier life, and he promises himself to both. He and Ithamore strangle Barnardine with his own girdle and stand up the body as if alive; it falls down when Jacomo strikes it, and he is hanged for the murder. With fewer visitors coming to Malta, there has been a slackening in trade…