Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

BOULT

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)Boult. | Boul • . | Bo ••• . | Bo.
Words866
Characters4429
Typicality0.43 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA12024
BritDrama no.1555
ClusterCluster 1 — Wives, widows & intimate counsel

Important excerpts

Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 1 (nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa…). Matches are highlighted.

shee'le disfurnish us of all our Cavalereea, and make our swearers priests. Were should have both Lord and Lown, if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers. I am glad to see our in good health. For flesh and blood Sir, white and read, you shall see a rose, and she were a rose indeed, if she had but. Oh Sir, I can

Full speech

Sir. I to eleven, and brought them down again, but shall I search the mark to? I, she quickly poupt him, she made him roaste-meate for worms, but I'll go search the market Come your ways my masters, you say she's a virgin. Master, I have gone through for this piece you see, if you Like her so, if not, I have lost my earnest. She has a good face, speaks well, and has ex cellent good clothes: theres no farther necessity of quam lities can make her be refuz'd. I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces. Performance shall follow. Faith they listened to me, as they would have hearkened to their father's testament, there was a Spaniards mouth watered, and he went to bed to her very description. To night, to night, but Mistress do you know the French knight, that cowres ethehams? I, he, he offered to cut a caper at the proclama cion, but he made a groan at it, and swore he would see her to morrow. Oh take her home Mistress, take her home, these blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practice. Faith some do, and some do not but Mistress if I have bargained for the joint. I may so. I by my faith, they shall not be changed yet. I warrant you Mistress, thunder shall not so a wake the beds of E less as my giving out her beauty stirs up the lewdly inclined, I'll bring home some to night. Faith I must ravish her, or shee'le disfurnish us of all our Cavalereea, and make our swearers priests. Were should have both Lord and Lown, if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers. I am glad to see our in good health. For flesh and blood Sir, white and read, you shall see a rose, and she were a rose indeed, if she had but. Oh Sir, I can be modest. I beseech your Honour one piece for me. He makes our profession as it were to, a before the face of the gods The Nobleman would ave dealt with her Like a Noble man, and she sent him away as as a S owe ball, saying his prayers too. And if she were a thornyer of ground then she is, she shall be plowed. Come now your one thing. Why, I could wish him to be my master, or ra there my mistress. But can you teach all this you speak off Well I will see what I can do for thee: if I can place thee I will. Faith my acquaintance lies little amongst them. But since my master and mistress hath bought you, theres no going but by their consent: therefore I will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I'll do for thee what I can, come your ways. Marina thus the Brothel escapes, and chances Into and Honest-house our Story says: She sings Like one immortal, and she dances As Goddess-like to her admired lays. Deep clerks she dumb's, and with her needle compo ses, Nature's own shape, of bud bird, branch, or berry. That even her art sisters the natural Roses Her Inckle, Silk Twine, with the rubied Cherry, That puples lacks she none of noble raze, Who pour their bounty on her: and her gain She gives the cursed Bawd, here we her place, And to his Father turn our thoughts again, Where we left him on the Sea, we there him left, Where driven before the winds, he is arrived Here where his daughter dwells, and on this coast, Suppose him now at Auc r: the City's striu'de God Neptune's Annum ll feast to keep, from whence our Tyrian Ship espics, Him banners Sable, trimmed with rich expense, And to him in his Barge with fervor hies, In your supposing once more put your sighed, Of heavy Pericles, think this his Bark: Where what is done in Actium, more if might Shall be discou rd, please you fit and hark. I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs, I have drawn her picture with my voice. Well, if we had of every Nation a traveller, we should lodge them with this sign. How's this? we must take another course with you? if your peevish chastity, which is not worth a breakfast in the cheapest cou trey under the coap, shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded Like a spaniel, come your ways. I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the continued ̄ mon would ̄ g-man shall execute it, come our way, weel have no more Gentlemen driven away, come your ways I say. Come mistress, come your way with me. To take from you the Jewel you hold so deer . Worse and worse is, she has here spoken holy words to the Lor . What would you have me do? go to the wars, would you? where a man may serve 7. years for the lose of a leg, & have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one?

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…