Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Informer. | Inf. | Inform.
Words
384
Characters
2006
Typicality
0.30 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07238
BritDrama no.
2333
Cluster
Cluster 23 — Gulls, fops & laughing-stocks
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 23 (rogues, crochet, shakbag, kicked, doister, tidle…). Matches are highlighted.
feasible, here are three arrant knaves Discovered by my Art: And with good reason, I must eat one a month, I cannot live else. In the begging Of their estates. Such Rogues In this kind will be herd, and cherished too. Fool that I was to offer such a bargain, To a spiced conscience chapman, but I care not What he disdains to taste
Full speech
Why should you droop, or hang your working heads? No danger is meant to you, pray bear up, For ought I know you are cited to receive Preferment endue to your merits. No; it may be you are The first example. Men of qualities, As I have delivered you to the protectress, Who knows how to advance them, cannot conceive A fitter place to have their virtues publish'de, Then in open Court: could you hope that the Princess Knowing your precious merits, will reward they In a private corner? no, you know not yet How you may be exalted. Fie, Nor yet depressed to the Galleys; in your names You carry no such crimes: your specious titles Cannot but take her: President of the Projectors! What a noise it makes? The master of the habit, How proud would some one country be that I know To be your first pupil? Minion of the suburbs, And now and then admitted to the Court, And honoured with the style of Squire of Dams, What hurt is in it? One thing I must tell you, As I am the State scout, you may think me and informer. Conceal nothing from her Of your good parts, it'll be the better for you, Or if you should, it matters not, she can conjure, And I am her ubiquitary spirit, Bound to obey her, you have my instructions, Stand by, heeres better company. Will your Lordship please to hear Your servant a few words? If your honesty Would give you leave, it would be for your profit. In the first tender Of a fresh suit never begged yet, It's feasible, here are three arrant knaves Discovered by my Art: And with good reason, I must eat one a month, I cannot live else. In the begging Of their estates. Such Rogues In this kind will be herd, and cherished too. Fool that I was to offer such a bargain, To a spiced conscience chapman, but I care not What he disdains to taste others will swallow. Loud Mus. The mignion of the suburbs. You or arraigned, your Lordship may speak too late ls They are your own, and I will be content With the fif partly of a share. Justify it man. And tell her in what thou art useful.
Plot summary
Plot — The Emperor of the East
Paulinus agrees to introduce Athenais at court: she wants to petition the virtuous Protectress Pulcheria after being cheated of her inheritance by her brothers. Pulcheria adopts her as a handmaiden and arranges for her to be converted to Christianity; she also catches-the eye of the Emperor, Theodosius. Urged by his eunuchs, Theodosius declares that his minority is at an end, and takes the reins of power from Pulcheria. She encouragés him to marry, but when he refuses the two diplomatic offers which are under consideration, she presents a third option: Athenais, whom he had been thinking of all along. The eunuchs suspect a stratagem to enable Puicheria to hang onte power by proxy. Theodosius disregards their warnings and insists on marrying as soon as Athenais has been baptised, which also entails her taking 2 new name, Eudoxia. He celebrates the wedding with extravagant largesse. Pulcheria asks the new Empress to use her influence to discourage her husband from prodigality, but Eudoxia contemptuously refuses. Theodosius grants Pulcheria a boon, and he seals it without troubling to find out what it contains. [t turns out to be a deed of gift, conferring ownership of Eudoxia. Pulcheria uses this to teach them beth a lesson, Eudoxia about pride and Theedosius about the dangers of being unwisely bountiful; she then destroys the deed and gives Theodosius back his wife. A countryman presents Theodosius with the gitt of a splendid apple. He in turn sends it to Eudoxia, whe in turn sends it to Paulinus, who is ill. Paulinus decides that only one man is worthy to eat so fine a truit: the Emperor. On receiving the apple back again, Theodosius suspects that Eudoxia and Paulinus are lovers. When questioned. Eudoxia swears that she has eaten the apple, whereupon Theodosius produces it intact. Feeling confirmed in his suspicions, he orders Philanax to have Paulinus killed. Pulcheria argues that Eudoxia is innecent. and Theodosius worries that he might have ordered an uniust execution. He visits the penitent Eudoxia disguised ss a friar, and hears her confession - but it is a confession of perjury, not adultery. It also emerges thal Paulinus was secretly a eunuch, unable to be a woman's lover even if he wanted to. Fortunately Philanax disobeyed his orders and kept Paulinus alive, so no harm has been done. and mutual forgiveness can be the order of the day.