Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 18 (salic, caius, flewellen, coronel, mamon, crimes…). Matches are highlighted.
affliction Quomodo: Shortyard we banish, 'tis our pleasure. And that all Error from our works may stand, We banish Falslight evermore the land. Being ill God. What crimes have those brought forth? Why, 'tis she he means to matrye. In truth you do. Who for his wife his Harlot does prefer, Good reason 'tis, that he should martie her.
Full speech
His cousnages are odious, he the plaintiff, Not only framed deceitful in his life, But so to mock his funeral. How are we sure you're he? I'll try you. Are you the man that lived the famous cousner? Did you deceive this Gentleman of his right, And laid Nets over his land? Then you're not Quomodo but a counterfeit, Lay hands on him, and bear him to the whip. Then I dare swear this is no counterfeit. Let all doubts cease this man is Quomodo. But setting these thy odious shifts apart, Why did that thought profane, enter thy breast, To mock the world with thy supposed death? So. I think I shall anon. Did you profess wise cozenage, and would dare To put a woman to her two days choice, When of a minute do's it? After some penance, and the Deues of law I must acknowledge that. It should seem so, deceit is her own foe Craftily gets, and childishly lets go. But yet the lands are his. Craft once discovered shows her abject line. Rest content, He shall both marry and taste punishment. It and impious partly. Now what are you? In witness whereof I have set to mine own hand, Eph stian Quomodo. 'Tis firm enough your own sir. He's justly cursed, she loathes to know him now, Whom he before did as much loath to know, Wilt thou believe me woman? Thou art thine own affliction Quomodo: Shortyard we banish, 'tis our pleasure. And that all Error from our works may stand, We banish Falslight evermore the land. Being ill God. What crimes have those brought forth? Why, 'tis she he means to matrye. In truth you do. Who for his wife his Harlot does prefer, Good reason 'tis, that he should martie her. There's no removing of your punishment. Unless one here assembled Whom you have most unnaturally a busde, beget your par done. Then know him for a Villain, 'tis thy Son,
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…