Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

ROBIN

in Doctor Faustus — Marlowe, Christopher; Anonymous (?)

Metadata

PlayDoctor Faustus
AuthorMarlowe, Christopher; Anonymous (?)
Year (catalogued)1604
First performance1592
Decade1600s
GenreTragedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyUnknown
Speech prefix(es)Robin | Clo. | Clow. | Ro. | Rob. | Clo:
Words841
Characters4175
Typicality0.47 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07009
BritDrama no.810
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.

this is admirable! here I would stolen one of doctor Faustus conjuring books, and faith I mean to some circles for my own use now will I make all the in our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked before me, and so by that means I shall see more then ere I , or awe yet. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are dismembered

Full speech

Oh this is admirable! here I would stolen one of doctor Faustus conjuring books, and faith I mean to some circles for my own use now will I make all the in our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked before me, and so by that means I shall see more then ere I , or awe yet. Keep out, keep out, or else you are blown up, you are dismembered Rafe, keep out, for I am about a roaring piece of work. Yes, my master and mistress shall find that I can read, he for his forehead, she for her private study, she's born to bear with me, or else my Art fails. What book? why the most intolerable book for conjuring that ere was invented by any brimstone devil. I can do all these things easily with it: first, I can make Thee drunk with ipocrase at any taberne in Europe for nothing, thats one of my conjuring works. True Rafe, and more Rafe, if thou hast any mind to Nan Spit our kitchen maid, then turn her and wind his to thy own use, as often as thou wilt, and at midnight. No more sweet Rafe, lets go and make clean our boots which lie foul upon our hands, and then to our conjuring in the devils name. Come Rafe, did not I tell thee, we were for ever made by this doctor Faustus book? ecce signum, héeres a sim ple purchase for horsekeepers, our horses shall eat no hay as long as this lasts. Hush, I'll gul him supernaturally: Drawer, I hope all is paid, God be with you, come Rafe. I a goblet Rafe, I a goblet? I scorn you: and you are but a &c. I a goblet? search me. How say you now? I'll tell you what I mean. Sanctobulorum Periphrasticon: nay I'll tickle you Vintner, look to the goblet Rafe, Polypragmos Bel eborams framanto pa cost phos tostu Mephastophilis, &c. Misericordiam pro nob what shall I do? good devil forgive me now, and I'll never ob thy Library more. How, from Constantinople? you have had a great journey, will you take six pence in your purse to pay for your supper, and be gone? I faith thy head will never be out of the potage pot. How, boy? swowns boy, I hope you have seen ma nigh boys with such pickadevaunts as I have. Boy quotha? I, and goings out too, you may see else. How, my soul to the Devil for a shoulder of mut tun though it blood raw? not so good friend, byr'lady I had need have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear. How, in verse? how, how, knaves acre? I, I thought that was all the land his father eft him: Do ye hear, I would be sorry to rob you of your living. Oho, oho, staves acre, why then belike, if I were your man, I should be full of vermin. Do you hear sir? you may save that labour, they are too familiar with me already, swowns they are as bold with my flesh, as if they had paid for my meat and drink. Gridyrons, what be they? Mass but for the name of french crowns a man were as good have as many english counters, and what should I do with these? No, no, here take your gridirons again. Truly but you shall. Bear witness I give them you again. Let your Balio and your B lcher come here, and I'll knock them, they were never so knocked since they were di uels, say I should kill one of them what would folks say? do you see yonder tall fellow in the round flop, he has killed the di well, so I should be called devil all the parish over. But do the hear? if I should serve you, would you up Banios and Belcheos? ? a Christian fellow to a dog or a cat, a no, no sir, if you turn me into any thing, of a little pretty frisking flay, that I and there and every where, Oh I'll tickle the be amongst them faith. But do you hear Wagner? Oh Lord I pray sir, let Ban oh and Belcher go sleep. what, are they gone? a vengeance on them, they have v lde long nails, there was a he devil and a she di well, I'll to ll you how you shall know them, all he devils has , and all she devils had cliffs and cloven feet. You lie Drawer, 'tis afore me: sirrah you, I'll teach you to impeach honest men stand by, I'll scour you for a goblet, stand aside you had best, I charge you in the name of Belza bub: look to the goblet Rafe. How, into and Ape? thats brave, I'll have fine sport with the boys, I'll get nuts and app es enough. God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian: well, I'll follow him, I'll serve him, thats flat.

Plot summary

Plot — Doctor Faustus
DrFaustls is dissatisfied with the limited rewards and power offered by traditional academic disciplines, including logic, medicine, law, and divinity, and instead turns to magic. He conjures up a devil, Mephistopheles. Partly confident that this act has already damned him, and partly out of disbelief in Hell, Faustus proposes a bargain: 24 years of guaranteed life and pleasure, with Mephistopheles as his servant, in exchange for his soul. Mephistopheles secures Lucifer’s agreement, and Faustus writes out a deed of gift in his own blood; Mephistopheles distracts him from his doubts with a show of Ganeinglaevils. Faustus’ first request is for a wife, but Mephistopheles brings him a cross-dressed devil and persuades him to embrace promiscuity rather than marriage. He discourses with Mephistopheles about astronomy, but the devil refuses to answer his theological questions. When Faustus seems ready to repent, DWGifEH arrives and distracts him with a show of Hi@§S@VenuDeadly Sins. Faustus journeys into space in a chariot drawn by dragons, to study astronomy at close quarters. He next ===== PAGE 422 ===== travels to Rome, where Mephistopheles makes him invisible. At a papal banquet, he snatches the Pope’s food and boxes his ears; the clerics take him for a ghost and attempt an exorcism. RObin steals one of Faustus’ magic books and attempts to impose his will on Rafe. He conjures up Mephistopheles, who is not pleased to be summoned all the way from Constantinople, and turns Robin into an ape. Faustus becomes famous, and the Emperor invites him to demonstrate his magic at court. He is mocked bya knight, who doubts his powers. After conjuring up the spirits of Alexanderithe!Great and his paramour to -the Emperor’s satisfaction, Faustus punishes the knight by giving him horns. On his way home, he sells his horse to @j@ealér, but tells him not to ride the animal through water. The horse-dealer ignores this injunction, and the horse turns into a bundle of hay in mid-stream, so that the dealer gets a. ducking. Attempting to wake Faustus to get his money back, the dealer pulls off his leg (which alarms him more than it does Faustus). Faustus also has Mephistopheles fetch out-of-season grapes from the other side of the world to satisfy HREUDUCHESSIORAMNAIE’s pregnancy craving. Back in Wittenberg, Faustus uses his magic to show Heleniof Troy to a group of his fellow scholars. An old man persuades him to repent, but Mephistopheles restores his allegiance to Lucifer with…