in Blurt, Master Constable, or The Spaniard's Night Walk — Anonymous
Metadata
Play
Blurt, Master Constable, or The Spaniard's Night Walk
Author
Anonymous
Year (catalogued)
1602
First performance
1601
Decade
1600s
Genre
Romance
Play type
Boys Professional
Company
Children of Paul's (second)
Speech prefix(es)
Doit. | Doy. | Doyt.
Words
240
Characters
1235
Typicality
0.25 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07492
BritDrama no.
1311
Cluster
Cluster 6 — Battlefield messengers & soldiers
Important excerpts
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Full speech
That at the sign of the brown Bill. Slid Dandiprat, this is the Spanish curtal that in the last battle, fled twenty miles ere he looked behind him. What meat eats the Spaniard? Gentlemen to the dresser. Is to throw her down. Oh Lord Sir; and have so perfect a Master. O Sir, the freckle check Madonna, I know her Signior, as well— No Sir I de be loath to have such inward acquaintance with her as you have. Indeed Sir she loves to have her chamber hung with the pictures of men. And she's for you all, were you and Army. Now sirrah where's thy Master? What, for a Soldier? I wonder thy master does not slice thee, and swallow thee for and Anchoues. Amid of S. Marks street Sir? One that will knock thy coxcomb if he do not enter. Why then I'll knock thee when I do enter. to hang you with Jewels, sweet and gentle; that's Fris coes meaning, and that's my coming. And I. Wouldst thou not leap at a piece of meat? Frisco I am Doyt Hypollitoes Page: I have a Jewel to deliver to thy Mistress. Thick, thick thick. At your service. This painted Iyntleman to you. If their vizards hold, here you shall see all their blind cheeks; this is the night, nine the hour, and I the lack that gives warning. You shall not need, I can set out my self.
Plot summary
Plot — Blurt, Master Constable, or The Spaniard's Night Walk
Camillo and Hippolito return home to Venice after a war with France. Camillo brings the French lord Fontinelle as a prisoner, and presents him to his love Violetta. She falls for the Frenchman, so Camillo sends him to prison. Hippolito takes charge of the situation. He makes the courtesan Imperia dote on Fontinelle by sending her his picture; but Fontinelle refuses to accept her love and is taken back to his dungeon. Meanwhile Camillo’s attempts to woo Violetta back are met with rejection. Fontinelle escapes by changing clothes with Frisco, and, using Violetta’s page as a go-between, makes an assignation at a chapel, where they are secretly married. Afterwards, though, he takes up with Imperia. Camillo swears revenge on all three and leads a party of armed men to kill them and hang out their dead bodies. Violetta also goes to find her husband at Imperia’s, and is invited to join him in bed. Camillo’s men, the watch, and the Duke all arrive simultaneously at the brothel. The Duke prevents murder being done, but has Fontinelle arrested for adultery, which is a capital crime in Venice. Violetta denies that infidelity has occurred: it was all a plot laid by her and Fontinelle. In the sub-plot, Lazarillo also arrives in Venice from the wars and gets lodgings with Blurt the constable. He goes to Imperia’s house to lecture the ladies on Spanish marital conduct, and makes a nocturnal assignation with Imperia. Simperina makes another assignation with old Curvetto, but when he tries to attract her attention he is doused with water. Lazarillo is equally unlucky in his date: he falls through a trapdoor. Curvetto returns and is climbing up a rope ladder let down by Frisco when his foot slips; Frisco accuses him of trying to burgle the house, and he is arrested by Blurt. Lazarillo climbs out and he too is doused, with urine, and then arrested by Blurt. Curvetto refuses to 1601 marry Imperia to escape the death penalty, but the Duke pardons him and Lazarillo anyway, and agrees to pay the money the latter owes Blurt.