University; Private (Nonprofessional); Adult Professional
Company
King's Men
Theater
before the Court;Blackfriars;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Ros. | Rosc.
Words
446
Characters
2343
Typicality
0.24 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07367
BritDrama no.
2553
Cluster
Cluster 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.
That he hath shown thus. One God him twenty pound. Why the Captain kept him, Sir, A whole week drunk, and showed him twice a day. Faith I do grant This is the strangest fish. you I have hung His other picture into fields, where some Say 'tis and oregrowne Porcpisce; others say 'Tis the fish caught in Cheshire; one to whom The
Full speech
Good Captain. Murder, murder, help. O! I am killed. Good, 'tis very good. Away be quiet, Mill. Well, Sir, there is law; J say No more, but there is law. Yes, your Arms Cap taine, None else. Still I say there is law. You did indeed, And never paid for't. I do not deny, But you have been my Customers these two years, My Jack went not, nor Chimney smoked without you. I will go farther; your two mouths have been Two as good eating Mouths as needs to come Within my doors, as curious to be pleased As if you still had eaten with ready money: Had still the meats in season; still drunk more Then your Ordinary came to. Surely so I take it. Do you inform. Yet surely, Cap taine. No man had cheaper reckonings then your self, And M r Salewit here. I say No more good Captain; not to pay is cheap, A man would think. Right, perfumed Air, Captain. A new way, Captain. Pinched Napkins, Captain, and laid Like Fish, Fowls, or Faces. Yes, M r Salewit, salads Taken from Euclid, made in Diagrams, And to be eaten in Figures. Or you are damned, Good Captain, you have sworn to pay this twelvemonth. Ask The Captain why I am sad. Sir, I Do keep the Ordinary. Please you enter, dinner Shall straight be set upon the board. Gentlemen Enter Roseclap. The company are sat. Oh Sir He is used to it; this is the fifth fish now That he hath shown thus. One God him twenty pound. Why the Captain kept him, Sir, A whole week drunk, and showed him twice a day. Faith I do grant This is the strangest fish. you I have hung His other picture into fields, where some Say 'tis and oregrowne Porcpisce; others say 'Tis the fish caught in Cheshire; one to whom The rest agree, said 'twas a Mermaid. Th'are here. Yonders your Uncle at the field door talking With Baneswright, as hight, and earnest for a wench, As a recovered Monsieur. I see You have herd of her, Sir; Indeed she has Done penance thrice. The Marshal had her, Sir. She's of known practice, Sir: the clothes she wears Are but her quarters sins, she has no linen But what she first offends for. Another by a Dutch. She has been lain with far there Then ever Coryat travailed, and lain in By two parts of the Map, Afrique, and Europe. As if the State maintained her to allay The heat of Foreigners. God help you then. Alas good Gentleman. She's married to another man, Sir. Yes, Sir, And should have suffered—
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…