Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

PLUMPORRIDGE

in The Inner-Temple Masque, or The Masque of Heroes — Middleton, Thomas

Metadata

PlayThe Inner-Temple Masque, or The Masque of Heroes
AuthorMiddleton, Thomas
Year (catalogued)1619
First performance1619
Decade1610s
GenreMasque
Play typeInns of Court; Occasional
Speech prefix(es)Plum.
Words234
Characters1217
Typicality0.48 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07503
BritDrama no.1881
ClusterCluster 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.

the Copy. He could not give away much, sir, his chil dren have so consumed him before hand. A sweet allowance for a second brother. And if ever they do, I'll be hanged. There's Knaves enough a conscience to coo zen one Fool. We thank him heartily. They will be good beware in Lent, when flesh is forbid by Proclamation. I have
Master Doctor, look quickly upon his Water, that I may break the Urinal about his pate. Never Master Doctor, with any Fastingday, persuade me not. On, thereby hangs a tale, my M. Kersmasses. It is his water, sir, he's drawing on. I, that's true, sir, but then he took his bane, With choosing King and Queen; Ha made his Will

Full speech

O killing cruel sighed, yonder's a Fasting day: A lean spiny Rascal with a Dog in's belly, his very Bowels bark with hunger; avant, thy Breath stinks, I do not love to meet thee fasting, thou art nothing but wind, thy Stomach's full of Farts, as if they had lost their way, and thou made with the wrong end upward, Like a Dutch Maw, that dischar ges still into 'th Mouth! Sweet Master Doctor, look quickly upon his Water, that I may break the Urinal about his pate. Never Master Doctor, with any Fastingday, persuade me not. On, thereby hangs a tale, my M. Kersmasses. It is his water, sir, he's drawing on. I, that's true, sir, but then he took his bane, With choosing King and Queen; Ha made his Will already, here's the Copy. He could not give away much, sir, his chil dren have so consumed him before hand. A sweet allowance for a second brother. And if ever they do, I'll be hanged. There's Knaves enough a conscience to coo zen one Fool. We thank him heartily. They will be good beware in Lent, when flesh is forbid by Proclamation. I have seen him shoe the Mare forty times over. I, so has given they all for ought I see. But now what think you of his Water, sir? I have never a gift to give him, I'll be gone.

Plot summary

Plot — The Inner-Temple Masque, or The Masque of Heroes
The Old Year is dead. After attending his funeral, Dr Almanac examines Christmas’s water, and finds that he too is dying. The Old Year’s servant, a Fasting Day, looks for a new employer, and gets Candlemas Eve. The New Year seeks the doctor’s advice for his health. A set of festival days come in an antimasque, seeking their places in the new year; so do the good, bad, and indifferent days. Harmony arrives and sings to New Year about the relationship between virtue and prosperity. Heroes, deified for their virtues, appear and dance.