Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 1 (nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa…). Matches are highlighted.
seek him if you please: Although I fear his answer will return you little ease. What though he Love you first? you see his suit falls to the ground, And by this small pursuit, thinks you are as good lost as found. He stoopeth to Victoria's lure, but she hath cast him of, He bows, and creeps to her, she turns his labour too a
Full speech
¶I must. ¶To crave of courtesy, that he would stand my Mistress Friend. Mistress I may, and will once more go seek him if you please: Although I fear his answer will return you little ease. What though he Love you first? you see his suit falls to the ground, And by this small pursuit, thinks you are as good lost as found. He stoopeth to Victoria's lure, but she hath cast him of, He bows, and creeps to her, she turns his labour too a scoff. ¶Even yesterday I herd it of her maid: ¶Talk with my mistress Sir, and you shall know, ¶ Fedele, now behold thy cruelty, Her voice is stopped, and does for sorrow die. ¶This greeting answers unto his desert. Exeunt Verg. & Pam. ¶For reasoning so deeply, no Alms shall you have, Because I will not honour such a beggarly knave. Exit. ‡And have you any salve for love? ‡Whereof is it made? ¶Then if for love, or money, you will grant me my request, Let me once by your cunning see, my mistress have some rest. ¶Forsooth, I serve mistress Virginia. ¶My name is pamphila. ¶Nothing but love. ¶Sad, sick, and soar, with sorrow pinde, and disposseste of wit. ¶Fedele. ¶I know not, yet I guess, that she sickened a year ago. ¶My self, because unknown to her, I seek her health to gain. ¶What? ¶Then let's be gone. ¶The same. ¶Thats counsel unto you, I must not every thing bewray. And yet by her, so bitter is the taste of Love, I find: That gall were sweeter to the mouth, and better to the mind. ¶I have the Hare on foot. ¶Mistress it shall not need, Ent. Fedele. Lo where he walks as sad as though his heart within did bléde. ¶Master Fedele, if you knew as well To love: and her that loves you, to relieve, As you are skilful in deceit to dwell. And to torment whom you should never grieve. Happy were she that bears you in her breast, Happy were you of such a pearl posseste. ¶Him at his house, or walking in the street you shall not miss. ¶Yet find him not too soon: ¶ Medusa, if I did not fear my honour and my name, Would soon be lost hereby, and turn my credit into shame. I would become thy Scholar, but I blush to speak of it, ¶Why?
Plot summary
Plot — Fedele and Fortunia (Two Italian Gentlemen)
Bedelé and Bortunid, rivals for the affections of WWictoria, are both melancholy for love. Victoria once favoured Fedele, who still loves her; but he has been away, and she now loves Fortunio instead. A third would-be suitor is @aptain§@rmekstenée, whom Fortunio has asked for help. Fedele in turn is loved by Mirginia, his original love whom he jilted when he fell for Victoria. Victoria seeks M@@USA’s magical help to compel Fortunio’s love. Both Fedele and Crackstone see her going to raise spirits at night. They throw candles into a tomb, but Crackstone has hidden inside it; his emergence convinces them that they have raised the devil, and they run away, leaving behind a wax image which was to be used in the spell. Crackstone sends the incriminating image to Fedele, who confronts Victoria and tells Fortunio everything. Victoria engages Crackstone to kill Fedele. Meanwhile P@danté has been promoting Fedele’s cause through Victoria’s maid, Alttilia, and has fallen in love with her. He visits Victoria’s house disguised as a beggar. Fedele shows this to Fortunio, convincing him that Victoria has a lover. Attilia leaks the murder plot to Pedante, who tells Fedele. Crackstone pretends to kill Fedele, fighting with the air, with the intention of telling Victoria that he is dead and marrying her before she discovers the truth. However, Fedele catches him in a net, and Victoria mocks him and pours urine over him. Crackstone swears revenge, and Pedante offers to help; but for his part Fedele accepts that Victoria’s behaviour towards him is just retribution for his mistreatment of Virginia, with whom he now seeks to make his peace. However, Fortunio too now turns his attentions to Virginia, and enlists Medusa’s assistance: she arranges for him to be caught in her room half-naked, so that he will have to marry her to silence scandal. Fedele is content, not wanting a second-hand wife; and Medusa explains that there has been no sexual misconduct. Pedante arranges an assignation between Attilia and Crackstone, who expects to meet the mistress in the maid’s clothes, and wears the beggar’s disguise so that Attilia will take him for Pedante. The scheme goes wrong when Victoria has Attilia arrested on suspicion of theft, and the couple’s true identities are revealed. Crackstone tries to force Pedante to marry Attilia, but has to take her to wife himself. Victoria decides to accept Fedele after all, and he bestows Pedante on Medusa.