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Full speech
Oh Snaphance, have I found you. Do you see your workmanship, Nay turn not from it, nor offer to escape, for if you do, I'll cry it through the Streets, and follow you. Your name may well be called Tuchwood, a Pox on you, You do but touch and take, thou hast undone me, I was a Maid before, I can bring a Certificate for it, From both the Churchwardens. Thou shalt have more thou Villain, nothing grieves me, but Ellen my poor cousin in Darbishiere, thou hast cracked her marriage quite, she'll have a bout with thee. A Law bout Sir I mean. No, thou shalt find Villain It hath right shape, and all the Nails it should have. Nothing, thou hast too much thou lying villain Unless thou Wertenberg more thankful. Where I find manly dealings I am pitiful, This shall not trouble you. Soft, let it be God first. This is the fifth, if ever I venture more Where I now go for a Maid, may I ride for a Whore. Women had needs of wit, if they'le shift here, And she that hath wit, may shift anywhere. Oh sweet Gentlemen, I am a poor Servant, Let me go. Oh you undo me Sir, It's for a wealthy Gentlewoman that takes Physic Sir, The Doctor do's allow my Mistress Mutton, Oh as you tender the deer life of a Gentlewoman, I'll bring my Master to you, he shall show you A true authority from the higher powers, And I'll run every foot. Will you swear then to me, To keep it till I come. What say you Gentleman? Nay then I run Sir.
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…