Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 11 (tospot, rees, ralph, soch, tout, oundes…). Matches are highlighted.
come for the rest of the same price master Quo modo. I will sir. I have seen the cloth sir. I am but a young setter up, the uttermost I dare vent ture upon it's threescore pound. I Attend you good Segeant Shortyard. Enough sweet Sergeant, I hope I understand thee. I'll not be long behind you. My sweet Master, dead! Thei'r all
Full speech
I am nimble. I never failde it yet. I have descried my fellow Short-yard, alias Blastfield, at hand with the Gentleman. You near feared me: I'm near out 'athe shop sir. Sir. I'll remember that sir. By your leave a little Gentlemen. As fast as I can sir—All the clothes come back a gen. The passage to Middle borrow is stopped, and there before neither Master Still yard-downe, nor Master Beggar land, nor any other Mercha ̄ to will deliver present money up pon't. Over your head sir. I am come for the rest of the same price master Quo modo. I will sir. I have seen the cloth sir. I am but a young setter up, the uttermost I dare vent ture upon it's threescore pound. I Attend you good Segeant Shortyard. Enough sweet Sergeant, I hope I understand thee. I'll not be long behind you. My sweet Master, dead! Thei'r all at Master Stilyard downs by this time. If it be for me, so, I am for it: if not, you have your does and I have my money. But how if he should go to prison, were in a mad state then, being not Sergeants. I have no great stomach too't, it will appear in us more pity then wisdom.
Plot summary
Plot — Michaelmas Term
Rearage and Andrew Lethe are rivals for the hand of Quomodo’s daughter: her mother favours Rearage and her father Lethe. Lethe has assumed gentry status, and is concerned when his plebeian mother arrives from the country; but she does not recognize him, and he employs her as a go-between. Hellgill brings a country wench to London, promising to pass her off as a gentlewoman. He dresses her up and she begins to attract gallants, including Lethe. Her father comes looking for her, and, not recognizing him, she takes him on as a servant. A third visitor from the country is Richard Easy, who is entrapped by Shortyard and Falselight, the agents of Ephestian Quomodo. Shortyard gambles with Easy, persuading him to keep on betting in the hope of breaking his losing streak. In consequence, he needs money to fund his social life, and seeks to borrow it from Quomodo. He is induced to take the loan in cloth, which he can sell on to realize the money; ===== PAGE 155 ===== 1604 posing as the fictitious ‘Blastfield’, Shortyard also signs the bond. Quomodo and his accomplices engineer a downturn in the market: the cloth has to be sold for less than half its true value. When the bond falls due for repayment a month later, Blastfield cannot be found, and Easy is arrested. Quomodo’s accomplices pose as wealthy citizens and stand bail for Easy, so long as he signs over all his possessions to them. When Blastfield still cannot be found, the bailsmen give Quomodo Easy’s lands in lieu of the bail they owe him. Easy is ruined, but Quomodo’s wife Thomasine, who has witnessed the cozenage, takes pity on him and lends him money. Concerned about his son Sim’s possible prodigality, Quomodo feigns his own death to see how people will take it. He attends his own funeral disguised as a beadle, but nobody has a good word to say about him. Thomasine quickly marries Easy, who learns how he was duped. Shortyard cozens Sim of Easy’s lands, but is forced to restore them to Easy to cover himself; but Easy still has him arrested. Still in disguise, Quomodo collects his fee for attending the funeral; Thomasine has him sign a document renouncing any further claim on the household, and for a joke he signs his own name. When this is noticed, he reveals his identity and institutes legal proceedings against Thomasine and Easy. On the day of his marriage to Susan, Lethe is arrested for lewd behaviour with the country wench. All the cases come before a judge, who will only accept Quomodo’s identity when…