Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

RHENISH

in The Bride

Metadata

PlayThe Bride
Year (catalogued)1640
First performance1640
Decade1640s
GenreComedy
Play typeBoys Professional;Professional
CompanyBeeston's Boys
TheaterPhoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Rhen. | Rhe.
Words150
Characters802
Typicality0.28 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07970
BritDrama no.576
ClusterCluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit

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Full speech

We come to witness your solemnities. And Rhenish the swan hath none better: yet ther's that will make the crookedst horner in the lane speak Latin with the Bedle of Vintiners hall. Could I but remove him? What you dare ir. Let us salute him then. If your name be Horten sir? You are learned likewise in antiquities. pray sir what are the rarities and antiquities you have? But it's my sudden wonder what accident should guide her this way. She is sure a light heeled wench, and if— I will attempt her. Please her to be my charge. They strive which should lend Bride If you could sir. And thou art a otten herring Jackalent Spaniard. I will not fail you. We have differed finely about a woman in a cloud. Saw you a gentlewoman sir? I'll home and be drunk, and then perhaps grow friends with you. Exeunt.

Plot summary

Plot — The Bride
Wit is charged by his father to woo and marry Wisdom, or lose his inheritance, Ignorance sends her son Idleness to mislead him. Posing as Honest Recreation, he introduces Wit to Wantonness, who gives him a fool's headdress and steals his money. Good Nurture restores him to sense and introduces him to the true Honest Recreation, whom Wit finds boring. Two sailors blindfold Idleness and rob him of the money he stole from Wit. Wit rescues Idleness and fights Irksomeness, who leaves him for dead. Wisdom revives him and promises to be his lady if he will kill Irksomeness. She gives him a sword, Perseverance, which he uses to behead the monster. Idleness is proclaimed an outlaw, and is arrested after he steals Mother Bee’s porridge pot while Doll and Lob are kissing in the barn. Wit falls into Fancy’s clutches and is imprisoned. Good Nurture releases him and takes him to be married to Wisdom. Idleness also intends to go to the wedding, disguised as a priest.