Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 16 (nat, ningle, chould, numps, terry, dery…). Matches are highlighted.
born a Lord, I had been no servant. Proceed my little wit In decim sex e. True. Most rare infant, Where learnedest thou this morality? We wait on you. Thou art a child and dost not understand on what strong bases this frindship's raised between this Mountrevile and our Lord Monsieur. Malefort, but isle teach thee from thy years
Full speech
Heres music In this bag shall wake her, though she had drunk Opium, Oraaten Mandrakes, let commanders talk Of cannons to make breaches, give but fire To this petarde, it shall blow open Madam The iron doors of a judge, and make you entrance, When they (let them do what they can) with all Their mines, their culverins, and Basiliscos Shall cool their feet without, this being the pickelocke That neverfailes. Commodities boy Which you may know hereafter. Hear's a crack, I think they suck this knowledge in their milk. I am out of breath With running to deliver first. We are all made, My Lord has wont the day, your brother's slain, The pirates gone, and by the governor, And states, and all the men of war he is ought home in triumph, nay no musing, pay me For my good news hereafter. Give thanks at leisure, make all hast to meet him I could wish I were a horse that I might bear you To him upon my back. Peace you crackrope. Would I had been born a Lord Why had I been born a Lord, I had been no servant. Proceed my little wit In decim sex e. True. Most rare infant, Where learnedest thou this morality? We wait on you. Thou art a child and dost not understand on what strong bases this frindship's raised between this Mountrevile and our Lord Monsieur. Malefort, but isle teach thee from thy years they have been joint purchasers, in furs, & waterworks, and trucked together. Peace infant, Tales out a school take heed you will be britchd else. This would do better a bed, the business ended, they are the lovingest Couple. Yonder he walks sir, In much vexation: he hath sent my Lady His daughter weeping in, but what the cause is Rests yet in supposition. I am gone, sir.
Plot summary
Plot — The Unnatural Combat
Malefort Junior, son of the Admiral, has committed treason by allying himself with pirates and threatening the ruin of Marseilles. The Admiral is suspected of complicity and imprisoned. Theocrine, his daughter, reluctantly offers herself to Beaufort Junior, son of the Governor of Marseilles, if he will only persuade his father to allow hers a hearing. Beaufort Senior can refuse his son nothing, so the Admiral gets his opportunity to protest his innocence. Malefort Junior ‘challenges his father to a duel over a wrongdoing which he will not specify. The Admiral refuses to be held accountable by his son, and accepts the challenge. Malefort Junior is killed: the threat to Marseilles is over, and Admiral Malefort is lauded a hero. Malefort suggests that Theocrine should marry Beaufort Junior; Beaufort Senior half-heartedly agrees and invites them to a nuptial feast. The Governor's table is open to any former soldier who needs a free ~ meal, a custom regularly invoked by Belgarde, who is unemployed in peacetime and angry at being denied - his -back pay. Fearing embarrassment at the feast, Beaufort Senior has his steward discourage Belyarde with the suggestion that he is underdressed for the ===== PAGE 200 ===== occasion; but the upshot is that Belgarde turns up in a suit of armour and declares his worthiness. His plain- speaking wins him respect and a gift of money from the Governor. He spends it all on new clothes, but the signs of prosperity attract his creditors, and he is still unable to pay them. People are noticing Malefort’s excessive solicitude towards his daughter. This comes to a head when Beaufort Junior takes her off to woo her in private, with a priest ready to perform the marriage. Malefort reacts by calling off the marriage and taking Theocrine home. He harbours an incestuous passion for his daughter, who is very like his dead second wife. Struggling to conquer the urge, he confesses to his friend Montreville and asks him to abduct her: he cannot be tempted if he never sees her again. Beaufort Junior realizes something is wrong and has Belgarde muster troops to besiege Montreville’s fort. Montreville demands sexual favours from Theocrine, and reveals her father’s secret. Meanwhile Malefort reasons from classical precedent that incest is not wicked after all, and goes to fetch his daughter back. Montreville denies him access and reveals that he has.a long-standing grudge: Theocrine’s mother was his mistress before Malefort stole her, poisoning his…