Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

TUTOR

in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside — Middleton, Thomas

Metadata

PlayA Chaste Maid in Cheapside
AuthorMiddleton, Thomas
Year (catalogued)1630
First performance1613
Decade1630s
GenreComedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyLady Elizabeth's Men
TheaterSwan;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Tut.
Words172
Characters1014
Typicality0.42 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07493
BritDrama no.1715
ClusterCluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit

Important excerpts

Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 7 (sicut, istis, quasi, crites, animal, quatuor…). Matches are highlighted.

they flow naturally from him. No ideo sa . And eat them heartily, thanks to your Worship. I'll go kiss the lower end the whilst. Probo tibi Pupil, stultus non est animal rationale. Quaso v taceas, probo tibi. Stultus non habet rationem, ergo non est animal rati onale. Argumentum itterum probo tibi domine, qui non par ticipat de
participate de ration, ergo stultus nullo modo potest dicere rationalis. Sic disputus, qui participate quomodo participate. Hunc probam. Sic disputus, stultus est homo sicut tu & ego sum homo est animal rationale, sicut stultus est animal rationale. Nay he shall do't forsooth. Some three or four. How now Pupil, would, Quid est Gramatica

Full speech

Yes surely Lady, I am the man that brought him in League with Logic, and read the Dunces to him. That can he Mistress, for they flow naturally from him. No ideo sa . And eat them heartily, thanks to your Worship. I'll go kiss the lower end the whilst. Probo tibi Pupil, stultus non est animal rationale. Quaso v taceas, probo tibi. Stultus non habet rationem, ergo non est animal rati onale. Argumentum itterum probo tibi domine, qui non par ticipat de ration nullo modo potest vocari rationalibus, but stultus non participate de ration, ergo stultus nullo modo potest dicere rationalis. Sic disputus, qui participate quomodo participate. Hunc probam. Sic disputus, stultus est homo sicut tu & ego sum homo est animal rationale, sicut stultus est animal rationale. Nay he shall do't forsooth. Some three or four. How now Pupil, would, Quid est Gramatica ? Come, Quid est Gramatica? I give great approbation to your conclusion. Is't possible? Verum poeta dicit. How shall we do for Weapons? Prithee Time be patient.

Plot summary

Plot — A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Sir Walter Whorehound lives high on the expectation of an inheritance: unless Sir Oliver Kix produces an heir, his estate will pass to Sir Walter — and Sir Oliver is impotent. Sir Walter maintains Allwit and his wife, paying for everything, in return for exclusive sexual access to Mistress Allwit: he is the true father of the children presumed to be Allwit’s. But Sir Walter is ===== PAGE 327 ===== 1613 planning to discontinue the arrangement and get married: the goldsmith Yellowhammer has agreed to marry his son Tim to a Welsh gentlewoman whom Sir Walter has introduced as his niece, and Sir Walter hopes himself to marry Tim’s sister Moll. Moll has other ideas: her sweetheart Touchwood plans to elope with her, and has Yellowhammer himself make the wedding ring, umaware of the bride’s identity. The elopement is foiled, however: Yellowhammer and Sir Walter intervene just as Touchwood is putting the ring onto Moll’s finger, and Moll is taken home and locked up. Touchwood’s elder brother is poor but virile, and cannot afford to cohabit with his wife for fear that she may produce a legitimate child he will not have the means to support. He has fathered a prolific number of bastards, and refuses to acknowledge one of them when a former paramour, a country wench, brings it to him. She then disposes of the baby by duping two corrupt promoters set to prevent the illicit trade in meat during Lent: she hides the child in a basket and allows them to confiscate it as contraband. Lady Kix’s maid suggests that Touchwood Seniors excessive fertility might solve Sir Oliver’s problems in begetting an heir; Sir Oliver agrees to pay him £400 for the job. Mistress Allwit gives birth to another of Sir Walter’s children. Tim Yellowhammer arrives home from Cambridge and is sent to see his mother at the christening party; he is priggish about being in female company, contrary to university rules, and the women are drunkenly embarrassing. Encouraged to woo his fiancée, Tim finds it heavy going: he tries to converse with her in Latin, she with him in Welsh. Allwit learns of Sir Walter’s plans for Moll, and tries to forestall them by telling Yellowhammer that his prospective son-in-law is a notorious whoremonger, but Yellowhammer is unconcerned by this. Moll disappears from home: she and Touchwood Junior have eloped again, with the help of the London watermen; but her mother drags her home by the hair. Yellowhammer decides to accelerate matters: the wedding is to be tomorrow, and Moll…