Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

RODERIGO

in The Maid of Honor — Massinger, Philip

Metadata

PlayThe Maid of Honor
AuthorMassinger, Philip
Year (catalogued)1632
First performance1621
Decade1630s
GenreTragicomedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyQueen Henrietta Maria's Men
TheaterPhoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Rod. | Roder. | Roderig. | • oder.
Words327
Characters1726
Typicality0.38 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07240
BritDrama no.2291
ClusterCluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques

Important excerpts

Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.

However startled, where you led, we'll follow But here's one fashioned in another mould, And made of tougher mettle. Pray you speak Our language. I must make my market As the commodity cost me. How? it well appears You are no soldier. Desert in these days? Desert may make a Sergeant to a Colonel, And

Full speech

However startled, where you led, we'll follow But here's one fashioned in another mould, And made of tougher mettle. Pray you speak Our language. I must make my market As the commodity cost me. How? it well appears You are no soldier. Desert in these days? Desert may make a Sergeant to a Colonel, And it may hinder him from rising higher, But if it ever get a company, company, pray you mark me, without money Or private service done for the Generals Mistress, With a commendatory Epistle from her, I will turn Lansprizadoe. Do do If you are ours again, you know your price. But it needed not, For famine had so humbled they and took off The care of their sexes honour, that there was not So coy a bea y in the town, but would For half a mouldy biscuit fell her self To a poor besognion, and without shrieking A hindrance to The brave revenge you have vowed If he speak that After midnight it's remarkable. To the point then. Prisoners are not taken every day, and when We have they we must make the best use of they. Our pay is little to the partly we should bear, And that so long a coming, that it's spent Before we have it, and hardly wipes off scores At the Tavern, and the Ordinary. We desire no better. And I will eat it With bacon, if I have not speedy ransom. To no purpose, Though their mouths were there, They would have the same name for they. Exeunt. Amazed! I am thunderstrooke! Grown up in a moment A favourite! There's not a man Dares hew himself upon the wall Ours are finished Peace, thou smo ke vermin. Discover commanders, secrets! In a word, Sir, We have required, and find our prisoners rich: Two thousand crowns a piece, our companies cost us, And so much each of us will have, and that In present pay.

Plot summary

Plot — The Maid of Honor
Before the start of the action, Aurelia, Duchess of Siena, refused a marriage proposal by Ferdinand, Duke of Urbino. In reprisal, Ferdinand attacked Siena, conquered it, but then found himself trapped inside the city by the regrouped Sienese troops. To raise the siege, he invokes a defensive treaty with Sicily, but King Roberto refuses to honour it because Ferdinand was the aggressor and has brought his troubles on himself. However, he allows his bastard half-brother Bertoldo to go to war with a volunteer army. The court favourite Fulgentio takes advantage of Bertoldu: absence to woo his fiancée, Camiola. But she misses Bertoldo and refuses Fulgentio; his mpaste 1s to produce Roberto’s ring and make it a reval order that she accept him. She wishes Bertoldo were present to defend her honour: another suitor. Adurni. steps in. fights a duel, and wounds Fulgentio, which gets him into trouble with the King. Far trom raising the siege. Bertolde is routed by Gonzaga, Aurelia’s general. Both men are kKrughts «1 Malta, and Gonzaga is affronted to find Bertalds: unmindtul of chivalry as to be leading an ara searnst a lady’s interests. Roberta seuds Astutio te ransens: the Sicilian prisoners of war, but Bertoldo from the payment of his ransam by any private cen © aiid, expressly crcbeudhe + a ' torbnds ihe arrangement and ignores the order and sends Adurnt Go pay the ratsern Bertoldy is released. abligation to marry Camtola: bat Aurelia asks 1) him, falls in love with huni. arranges a dispersaticn redoubling his ctstrae tee ered toe release him from his vow to marry © cate to Sicily with him to arrange Chere ortreniss wetunal intervenes, apparently to stop the weddtap. but tars: out that she has taken helv orders aed ab safer nunnery.