Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

BAWD

in Pericles, Prince of Tyre — Shakespeare, William; Wilkins, George

Metadata

PlayPericles, Prince of Tyre
AuthorShakespeare, William; Wilkins, George
Year (catalogued)1609
First performance1608
Decade1600s
GenreRomance
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyKing's Men
TheaterGlobe;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Ba • d. | Bawde. | Bawd. | Baud. | B • wd.
Words846
Characters4172
Typicality0.34 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA12024
BritDrama no.1555
ClusterCluster 1 — Wives, widows & intimate counsel

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Full speech

We were never so much out of Creatures, we h we but poor three, and they Can do no more then they can do, and they with continue ll , are even as good as rotten. Thou sayest true, 'tis not our bringing up of poor bastards, as I think. I hau brought up some . Boult, spend thou that in the town: repo what a soiourn r we have, yowl lose nothing by cum ome. When Nature framed this piece, he meant thee a good tur e, therefore say what a parrago she is, and thou hast the harvest out of thine own report. What else ma ? he stuff we have, a strong wind will blow it to pieces, they are so pittifu lie sudden. Why to give over I pray you? Is it a shame to get when we are old? Come other sorts offend as well as we. Boult has she any qualities? What's her price Boult ? Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her hair, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of her virginity and cry. He that will give most shall have her first, such a maidenhead were no cheap thing, if men were as they have been: get this done as I command you. Why lament you pretty one? Come, the Gods have done their partly in you. You are light into my hands, where you are Like to live. I, and you shall live in pleasure. Yes indeed shall you, and taste Gentlemen of all fashions, you shall fare well, you shall have the difference of all complexions, what do you stop your ears? What would you have me be, and I be not a woman? Marry whip the Gosseling, I think I shall have something to do with you, come you're a young foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have you Fie, f e, upon her, she's able to freze the God Pri pu , and undo a whole generation, we must either get her ra ished, or be rid of her, when she should do for Cly ents her fitment, and do me the kindness of our pro fession, she has me her quirks, her reasons her master rea sons, her prayers, her knees, that she would make a Puri taine of the devil, if he should cheapen a kiss of her. Faith ther's no way to be rid on' but by the way to the po . Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised. Now the Gods to bless your Honour. We have here one Sir, if she would, but there never came her Like in M to line. Here comes that which grows to the stalk, Never plucked yet I can assure you. Is she not a air creature? I beseech your Honour give me leave a word, And I'll have done presently. First, I would have you note, this is and Hono rabble man. Next he's the Governor of this country, and a man whom I am bound too. Pray you without any more virginal fencing, will you use him kindly? he will line your apron with gold. My Lord she's not pac'ste yet, you must take some pains to work her to your manage, come we will leave his Honour, and her together, go thy ways. Oh . hang her vpfor ver Boult take her away, use her at thy pleasure, cr ck the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malia le. She con ures, away with her, would she had ne ver come within my doors, Marry hang you: she born to undo us, will you not go the way of womenkind? Marry come up my dish of chastity with rosemary & ba S. If it please the Gods to defend you by men, then men must comfort you, men must feed you, men stir you up: Bolts returned. Now sir, hast thou cried her through the Market? And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the in clination of the people, especially of the younger sort? We shall have him here to morrow with his best ruff on. Who, Mounsieur Verollus? Well, well, as for him, he brought his disease him there, here he does but repair it, I know he will come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the Sun. Pray you come hither a while, you have Fortune's coming upon you, mark me, you must seem to do that fearfully, which you commit willing lie, despise profit, where you have most gain, to weep that you live as ye do, makes pity in your Lovers sell dome, but that pity begets you a good opinion, and that opinion a mere profit. Thou mayest cut a morsel off the spit. Who should deny it? Come young one, I Like the manner of your garments well. Come your ways, follow me. What have we to do with Diana, pray you will you go with us? Your Honour knows wha t'is to say well enough. How now, ats the atter?

Plot summary

Plot — Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Pericles comes to Antioch to woo the daughter and heir of King Antiochus. Her suitors must solve a riddle about her, or be executed. Pericles realizes that the riddle cryptically reveals that she and her father are an incestuous couple. Seeing that the game is up, Antiochus pretends that Pericles is mistaken, grants him a forty-day reprieve so that he can try again, and makes arrangements to have him poisoned. Pericles flees to Tyre, but the murderer, Thaliard, follows him. On realizing the danger, Pericles leaves his principality in the care of Helicanus; he has already gone by the ===== PAGE 413 ===== 1607 time Thaliard arrives. He goes to Tarsus, which has been stricken by a famine, and supplies corn to Cleon, the Governor. In Tyre, Thaliard’s murderous intentions are discovered, and Pericles is recalled home. In Antioch, the King and his daughter are destroyed by fire from heaven. On his way home, Pericles is shipwrecked on the coast of Pentapolis, where King Simonides is holding a tournament for the hand of his daughter, Thaisa. Some fishermen retrieve Pericles’ armour from the sea, and, though it is rusty, he is able to compete. He is victorious, and Thaisa falls in love with him. Simonides sends away the other knights, telling them that Thaisa has taken a vow to the goddess Diana not to marry for another year. She insists that she will marry Pericles, with or without her father’s consent. Simonides makes a show of disapproval, but in fact her choice accords with his wishes. The lords of Tyre believe that Pericles is dead, and attempt to elect Helicanus as his successor; Helicanus demurs, and asks them to wait another year and institute a search. A message reaches Pericles, and he sets sail for Tyre; Thaisa insists on going with him, even though she is pregnant. The ship is caught in a storm as she is giving birth to a baby girl, and she apparently dies. The superstitious sailors insist that her body cannot remain on board, and Pericles is forced to bury her at sea. He takes his daughter, Marina, to be brought up in Cleon’s court at Tarsus. Thaisa is washed up at Ephesus, and Cerimon brings her back to life. Believing herself lost to Pericles forever, she becomes a votaress of the goddess Diana. Fourteen years later, Cleon’s wife Dionyza becomes jealous that Marina outshines her own daughter, and hires Leonine to murder her. Before he can do it, she is carried away by pirates; even so, he reports that Marina is dead as ordered, and Dionyza poisons…