Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 16 (nat, ningle, chould, numps, terry, dery…). Matches are highlighted.
service to reform bade manners As your proud whip, with all his ferks, and jerks. The Spartans when they strove express the loath somnesse Of Drunkenness to their Children, brought a slave, Some captive, Helot, overcharged with wine Reeling in thus;—His eyes shot out with staring, A fire in his nose, a burning redness Blazing
Full speech
Found Satire why to thee? How more worthy? When men through sins were grown unlike the Gods, Apes grew to be Like men; therefore I think My Apish imitation, Brother Beadle, Does as good service to reform bade manners As your proud whip, with all his ferks, and jerks. The Spartans when they strove express the loath somnesse Of Drunkenness to their Children, brought a slave, Some captive, Helot, overcharged with wine Reeling in thus;—His eyes shot out with staring, A fire in his nose, a burning redness Blazing in either cheek, his hair upright, His tongue and senses faltering, and his stomach Oreburden'd ready to discharge her load In each men face he met. This made'em see And hate that sin of swine, and not of men. Would I express a complemental youth, That thinks himself a spruce and expert Courtier, Bending his supple hams, kissing his hands, Honouring shoestrings, S ving his writhed face To several postures of affection, Dancing and entertainment to his friend, Who would not think it a ridiculous motion? Yet such there be that very much please themselves In such Like Antique humours. To out own sin S We will be Moles, even to the grossest of they, But in another's life we can spy forth The least of faults, with eyes as sharp as eagles, Or the Epidaurean serpent: Now in me, Where selflove casts not her Egyptian mists, They find this misbecoming oppishnesse, And afterwards apply it to themselves: This ( Satire ) is the use of Mimic Elves. It's my care.
Plot summary
Plot — The Muses' Looking Glass
Bird and Mistress Flowerdew, Puritan residents of Blackfriars, bring their wares to the theatre, but are appalled when Roscius tells them they have been ordered for use as props in a filthy stage play. Roscius argues that they themselves make a living from the vice of vanity, and invites them to see the play before they condemn it; he will give them a running commentary on its moral import. Despite Roscius’ high claims, Comedy and Tragedy seem initially more concerned about the order of their precedence; they agree to spend a year in competition, staging examples of their respective genres, and whichever is adjudged the better will thereafter have the theatre to herself. The play is a series of episodes showing specific virtues to be the mean: an excess or a deficiency constitutes a vice. A lack of courtesy makes Dyscolus churlishly ready to pick quarrels, whereas too much of it makes Colax sycophantic, to such an extent that he hangs around for the rest of the play flattering all the other vices. Aphobus is over-confident and Deilus cowardly, afraid of his own shadow: they have respectively too much fortitude and too little. Temperance is the next example, illustrated by Acolastus the epicure and Anaisthetus the ascetic, followed by liberality, missing in Aneleutherus the miser and carried to excess in Asotus the prodigal. The over-ostentatious Banausus, full of extravagant schemes for public works, overdoes magnificence, whereas Microprepes balks at replacing a church steeple. (The Puritans in the audience 1630 approve.) Chaunus overvalues himself, and seeks inappropriate high offices, whereas Micropsychus thinks himself unsuited to even the meanest position. Meekness is quite absent from quarrelsome Orgylus, who persistently tries to provoke patient Aorgus to a fight, without success. The arrogant Alazon and the modest Eiron deviate from truth: one falsely claims personal qualities he lacks, the other denies those he does have. Philotimia is unduly fastidious about her appearance, whereas her slovenly husband Luparus would rather clothes had never been invented. The impudent bawd Anaiskyntia brings Kataplectus to visit Philotimia, but he is too bashful to speak to her in English. Philotimia appoints him her gentleman usher, and they go off together; it looks as if Luparus is going to be cuckolded, but he doesn’t care. The extremes of justice are next: Nimis is worldly and prone to accept bribes, adjudicating between litigants according to which can…