Prince Charles's Men (second) (?); King's Revels Company (?)
Theater
Salisbury Court;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Tap. | Tapst. | Tapster.
Words
393
Characters
2267
Typicality
0.45 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07978
BritDrama no.
2405
Cluster
Cluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
of Cream, twelvepence. Pray mark me sir, I'll make it more. Twelvepence Sugar. You had bred sir. It's granted sir. A pound of sausedges, and other things, nine shillings and threepence. Our Bar never erres. Gone Sir. The reckoning first Sir. You're welcome Sir. Some profit comes from hence: I have over-reckoned one and twenty-pence.
worth more sir, beside the feathers that are in it. But to do you a pleasure. Here's a Totenham-Court project translated over the water from Holland. Cakes two shillings. Ale as much. A quart of mortified Claret eight pence. Stewd pruins twelve pence. Not if you consider how many Carriers eggs miscarried in the making of it; and
Full speech
You're welcome Gentlemen. None of your acquaintance but Mr. Changelove. I shall sir; By and by. Some stewed pruines for the two costive Citiz ns in the Bulls head; and more rolls for the three Tailors in the Smithfield -Lion. And kill anon, anon sir. But cold rewards. Had none any better; Panders would never purchase. Exit. A quest of inquiry is sent all the house over to look you Mistress. The gentlewoman's maid was in a swoon: they wanted your assistance. Will you discharge the reckoning Mr. Changelove? Nine and threepence sir. Truly, they cost a penny the pound of the one-handed Costermonger, out of his wives fish-basket. A quart of Cream, twelvepence. Pray mark me sir, I'll make it more. Twelvepence Sugar. You had bred sir. It's granted sir. A pound of sausedges, and other things, nine shillings and threepence. Our Bar never erres. Gone Sir. The reckoning first Sir. You're welcome Sir. Some profit comes from hence: I have over-reckoned one and twenty-pence. Exeunt. The best in the house sir. Exit. With convenience Mistress. This way Mistress. I smell the reward of a knaves office: howsoever sin thrives by wickedness. Froth filled Cans and over-reckonings will hardly raise a stock to set up with. Now will I inform the Gallants. Exit. The Gentlewoman hath withdrawn her self. She in the satin gown. You know my meam ning sir, she's as right— I must thank you sir. The gentlewoman is retired sir. You know my meaning. She's as right— How now sir? I wonder what quantity of mai den modesty went to your making up. Few gentlemen of your complexion would have been angry with and honest Tapster for such intelligence. The gentlewoman's gone into another cham ber Sir. She in the satin gown. There's a bed: you know my meaning. She's as right— Good sir, what mean you? Be careful Porter of your carriage. The trunk is worth more sir, beside the feathers that are in it. But to do you a pleasure. Here's a Totenham-Court project translated over the water from Holland. Cakes two shillings. Ale as much. A quart of mortified Claret eight pence. Stewd pruins twelve pence. Not if you consider how many Carriers eggs miscarried in the making of it; and the charge of Ising-glasse and other ingredients to cremifie the sour milk. You're welcome Gentlemen.
Plot summary
Plot — Tottenham Court
Worthgood and Bellamie intend to marry, and have absconded to London with her uncle in pursuit. Bellamie is separated from Worthgood in Marylebone Park. She meets the censorious Cicely, and faints when Cicely voices her suspicions of sexual impropriety. She dreams that she will have Worthgood that very day, and is revived by Cicely's father, the park-keeper, who takes her home and seems interested in the name Worthgood. Worthgood meets the keeper, who promises to reunite him with Bellamie; but she and Cicely have already left for London, exchanging clothes to deceive any pursuers. Worthgood and the keeper follow them. Bellamie and Cicely arrive at an alehouse in Tottenham Court. Bellamie unexpectedly meets her brother, Sam, but denies her identity when recognizes her; he infers that she has become a common prostitute. Also at the alehouse is Cicely's unwanted admirer, Frank, who intends to seduce the tailor's wife, Mistress Stitchwell, and has piqued her interest by posing as a misogynist. Mistress Stitchwell intends to cuckold her husband in his presence, but the first attempt backfires: alone in the alehouse bathroom with her, Frank's friend George hides in the tub when Stitchwell arrives, and has water poured over him. Sam's friend James visits Cicely, thinking her a prostitute too, but hides in a trunk when others arrive. Importuned by Frank, Cicely proposes having herself smuggled to his room in the trunk; she and Bellamie then send it there, with the sleeping James locked inside. Intending to enjoy Cicely himself, George diverts the trunk to his own room. He and Frank fight over it, only to find that it contains James, not Cicely. Changelove woos Mistress Stitchwell while her husband is in a drunken stupor, but Stitchwell dreams he is being cuckolded and assaults Changelove. The gallant leaves the tailor to pay an inflated alehouse bill when he wakes up. Mistress Stitchwell assures him she was only amusing herself with the gallants, not committing adultery. Sam tries to engage Bellamie's supposed professional services and, shocked, she admits her identity. Rebuked by her brother, she faints. Worthgood and the keeper locate her, and she wakes to the sound of his voice. Bellamie's uncle also traces her to the alehouse, but when he arrives he finds not only his niece but his nephew planning marriage: Bellamie has interested Sam in Cicely, and he has approved Worthgood as a brother-in-law. The keeper reveals that Cicely is Worthgood's sister, and so of…