Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 14 (madestee, welse, enormity, bench, peopill, worshipful…). Matches are highlighted.
I will be a Dominus fac miserecordian Instead of your Totums: People shall not wish To see my spurs filled off, it does me good To take a merciful nap upon the Bench, Where I so sweetly dream of being pitiful, wake the better for it. It does not please me Sir, to hear of any That do offend; I would the world were innocent! Yet
pitiful, wake the better for it. It does not please me Sir, to hear of any That do offend; I would the world were innocent! Yet to express my mercy you may read them. Accused, is that enough? if it be gilded To be accused, who shall be innocent? Discharge him Parum. Alas it was for needs, bid him take warning, And so discharge him too;
Full speech
But I will be a Dominus fac miserecordian Instead of your Totums: People shall not wish To see my spurs filled off, it does me good To take a merciful nap upon the Bench, Where I so sweetly dream of being pitiful, wake the better for it. It does not please me Sir, to hear of any That do offend; I would the world were innocent! Yet to express my mercy you may read them. Accused, is that enough? if it be gilded To be accused, who shall be innocent? Discharge him Parum. Alas it was for needs, bid him take warning, And so discharge him too; It's the first time. Parum, let him go, He is our Neighbour. A stranger! o'tis pity To hurt a stranger, we may be all strangers, And would be glad to find some mercy Parum ̄ . How! So often punished? nay, if no correction Will serve his turn; even let him run his course. A Citizens wife! Perchance her husband is grown impotent, And who can blame her then? No: inquire First if he have no wife, for if the Bachelor Have not a wife of his own, 'twas but frailty; And Justice counts it venial. How cam't to pass. They shall be friends I'll reconcile'em Parum. Is he not buried yet? Why then I say they shall shake hands.
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…