University; Private (Nonprofessional); Adult Professional
Company
King's Men
Theater
before the Court;Blackfriars;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Ms Holl. | M s Holl. | Mr Holl.
Words
313
Characters
1581
Typicality
0.17 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07367
BritDrama no.
2553
Cluster
Cluster 23 — Gulls, fops & laughing-stocks
Important excerpts
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Full speech
We will not give't. Q. Make room For them that will then. We gave but a groat To see the last fish. Look Ms Seathrift here be Gentlemen. Sure 'tis a rare Fish. And so do I, his sister was my prentice. When will the Fish begin, Sir? Amen, she is my customer, And I Have sold her bonelace often. Oh strange look how it sleeps. How say you, a sleep. The song has wakened him, look, he stirs. Lord how J long To hear a little. Pray try him with some questions, Will you, my friend? Why, Sir, was he The first that was abused by Captains? Gossips? slight What Gossips, Sir? Just As your Sue left her Schoolmistress, my Pen Left me. I looked to find you abed, and a young Sheriff Begotten by this. My husband, when I came From Church, by this time had his Cawdle; I Had not a Garter left, nor he a point. We hear y'haue matched a Courtier, Sir, a Gallant; One that can spring fire in your Blood, and dart Fresh flames into you. You rather look as you had lost your Love. And they by their place, Do wait upon the Lady, but belong Unto the Lord. LOok Ms Scruple here's your husband. Lord how I long to see'em? I have at home The finest ravished Lucrece! Pray will you open they. Look they are pictured in their clothes. Two proper Gentlemen too. Lord that such Pictures might be sent to me. Lets have our money back. Look M S Seathrift, What claws he has. Nay mark his feet too. Pray can you read that? Sir, I warrant you, That tells where it was caught, and what fish 'tis. I warrant you this fish Will shortly be in a Ballad. Come Gossip let us go, the Fish is done. I release her, Sir.
Plot summary
Plot — The City Match
After his father’s bankruptcy, Plotwell has been forced to give up his riotous, hedonistic life as a law student and now lives soberly in the household of his uncle, Warehouse. He and his sister Penelope have also given up their plans to marry Susan and Timothy, the son and daughter of the merchant Seathrift. Now Penelope has absconded from her duties as a seamstress. Suspecting that his nephew’s reformation may be only an act, Warehouse pretends to go on a long voyage abroad in the company of Seathrift, who has similar doubts about Timothy: in their absence, the two heirs will reveal their true character, observed by the old men’s spies. No sooner has Warehouse gone than Plotwell meets up with two friends from the Inns of Court and arranges to visit a newly arrived lady, Aurelia, who is actually Penelope in disguise. Plotwell plans to revive her proposed marriage to Timothy; she in turn plans to get him married to Susan, who has disguised herself as Aurelia’s Puritan waiting-woman. London flocks to see a display of a strange fish caught in the New World. It turns out that some tricksters have dressed up the drunken Timothy as a sea creature, and when he wakes there is speculation about how the ‘fish’ can speak. (He learned human language from years of being on display, the tricksters explain.) Plotwell and Timothy learn that Warehouse and Seathrift have drowned. Noting that their heirs are insufficiently upset by the news, the merchants reveal themselves and disinherit the young men. Warehouse sends for the match-maker Bannswright to find him a wife so that he can beget a new son and heir with immediate effect. Bannswright proposes Aurelia as a suitable candidate, but helps Plotwell to circumvent the marriage. Timothy is sent in, posing as a knight, to woo and marry Aurelia, and Warehouse is offered Dorcas as a substitute. They are married by a French priest who is really one of the tricksters in disguise, using a text from Rabelais instead of a genuine marriage service. After Warehouse settles a portion of his estate on her, Dorcas refuses to sleep with her new husband or share his company, and insists on separate living arrangements within his house. Plotwell tells his uncle that she is a notorious whore who sleeps around and enjoys looking at pictures of men; he further arranges for the arrival of false news that Warehouse’s ships have been wrecked. The plan is that he will be the one who proves the marriage unsound and the ships safe, thereby…