Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 1 (nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa…). Matches are highlighted.
hood is Like marriage know a days, which thought be ho noarable amongst all men, yet it beg lie with a great ma nigh: but come shall's go to dinner and see what stomach I have to my victuals, for y faith I have none to a husband: I would not taste a morsel of a men for any money. Mass here he come , lets stand close. Morrow
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And I am in grace too Lady, what my souls sweet secretary! you are fairly met indeed, how does old Ven ter thy father? Nay then yowl make a Courtier a Thief: Indeed and so I think, for not to flatter you, many of your Country men have proved good thieves ever since: but I pray tell me, is it the fashion of your north wales, to suffer your beards to grow upwards thus, in spite of your nose? Nay, believe it, a would have done it with all his heart, but he could not. Why Knights? I have herd, most of you are great Travellers. What are these hose made of the newest fashion you have at Court? I pray accorst her anon sir, and lets stand close and trouble not true iellousie in the picture of Hieronimo, in a little volume. Oh no good sir, though it be a thing much given to your name, yet let not us break out, let us not show such childish parts. How does your good Lady Knight, how does she? What means he by that? Light Huswife, hang him dogged Cinicke. Hast thou thy Maiden head yet? Come, prithee do not lie, for they say 'tis lost lie king and by the strength of my little virtue, I wonder (for mine own partly) to see how this foolish virginity is esteemed when there is such danger in the keeping it, for who doth not know that the barren womb is cursed? and all know vir begins have no children: beside, Women shall be saved by he bearing of Children, how thinkest thou, are they? Indeed they say 'tis good to try before one trust. And what's that? I, thou wouldst have him dreaming but not uva king I am sure. Nay, since I have refused a Lord, by this light I scorn to marry any under the degree of a Knight. Nay I then see you are deceived, why woman, they have most of them taken and order that they will never be forgotten, for they have booked themselves down a purpose, I know above three & twenty in one Mercers books in Cheap side: that n judge thou how many are in all their books, and there is that will be a witness I war rant you to after ages, what their before athers have been. Faith thou sayest true, I must needs say, Knight hood is Like marriage know a days, which thought be ho noarable amongst all men, yet it beg lie with a great ma nigh: but come shall's go to dinner and see what stomach I have to my victuals, for y faith I have none to a husband: I would not taste a morsel of a men for any money. Mass here he come , lets stand close. Morrow Wages. peace, speak soft, persuade, persuade. Nay I would he did so by me, for I protest I love him beyond my thoughts, I covet nothing Like his company, and yet he hates me, loathes my sighed, but then comes the welch man your love, and he hangs on my lips Like a Padlock on a Pedlars Budget. Come Madam, do not grieve at that which grief can no way mend. But he will not confess before witness will he? But did I not kill ye then? Passing well, isle assure you Madame. What's this, a shirt that you wear? else 'tis a mock beggar with strips. What, did you make this Doublet new, or else you new made it? Believe me sir but the livings are old. Hunting: why a man need not hunt far for game, whats this? You! always making glisters, I hold my life he is a Portecarie, do you never make no suppositors sir? I, for all the world Like the Denmark Drummer. Come, thou hast such a running wit, 'tis Like and Y rish foot boy I fear 'twill rob thee of all thy and then run from thee and leave thee. But I pray thee tell me one thing, 'Tis true, so he was, but he had no leisure to keep me comp y a worky days for crying what do you lack, and a Holy days he would be at stoolball amongst the boys when I had most need of him: but to tell thee the true cause of my coming away; I should have marry ed a young unthrifty Lord, one that will give his very soul to a fair woman, and faith sometime though she be never so foul, yet he will lend her his body: he had never a hair on his beard this that ee or four , but might a been and utter barrester, for they have moulted all five or six times: he's Like death, he spares none, young nor old, rich nor poor, fair nor foul, he takes all. 'Tis true indeed, a little bit would my belly. Madam, your man would make and ill suitor, that is a shamed to speak in his suit. Well Wages well, I did not think you would have used us thus. It more for my credit then to have be your light friend. La, la, la, la, la, they marched out manly by three, and by three, and the foremost in Battle, was Marry Han brie. Will you hear of a Spanish Lady, how she wooed and Englishman: hum, hum, hum. What news. Thats all one, he's but one man, and one witness can never prove her act, but prithee on with thy speech. Respect her most, that most of all loves you. Oh! do not turn away those Eyes, whose radiant beams first nursd my flame. I, dost thou hate me then? Oh brightest Venus, Now or never make thy blind Son see; and his heart, whose hate hath wounded me. Nay, I thought he would woo me dreaming ike a Welshman. Why thou art very well dressed too, but basted and mirably: for the threads fit in thy Gown, Marry thou wantest a little Cramming. Nay then thou art for the Servingmen, for your Gall lants (I can assure you) ride altogether with a snaffle. Indeed I had, before I spent it amongst such un thankful persons as you are Peg; but I prithee pin, my Gown close before: for it. Faith I, I wear my clothes as your Gallants we are their wits, the best side inward, I scorn to show it. Tut, hang fashion, I love it in nothing but my cloa these. Our faces! why our faces I hope do: not show us to be with child, 'tis out bellies shows that, and I hope thou art quick flesh and not dead fish, thou wilt not turn up the white of thy belly, wilt? but prithee tell me, was I not married yesterday? Because, Like a young married woman that's poiso ned before she is baud, I begin to long already. No Nan, then marry a Londoner, for then thou shalt live a life & it a Lady, wear thy gold necklace, and go in thy Velvet cap every day. Why if they have but a plague amongst them one week they all cry out of a dead time straight, beside, if they receive but a little lose at sea, they break straight, and where the husband breaks, you know the wife can no longer hold out, she must down too for want of mainte nance. Oh no, by no means, for most of their posterity have ill luck, for what their father's get by baudie courts, they commonly spend it all again in baudie houses, No and ever marry again, isle marry and Irish Merchant, because they all speak Latin, and indeed are most of them Philo sophers by fortune: Omniam meam mecum porto, for they carry all their beware in their breech: but come, let us make hast away, I fear out lovers do our coming stay. Forgiveness wife. Now by my chaste thoughts which I was mother of at nine years old, I here swear, never to be in love: yet Master Nuecome the Courtier thinks with the wearing of a neat boot, and a clean band, to catch my love nap ping as Morse catch this Mare, but Venus be my good speed, and Cupid send me good luck, for my heart is very light, and I fear 'tis but Like a Candle, burned into the Socket, which lightens a litt before it goes out. Your Jealousy sprung from your own unworthy ness. Nay then he is a dead man already. Sir how peart thou art, why look woman, your love a mad woes me, and to me sent this ring. This chain: for ever may he linked be to woe, that hates my love, and woes another so. Yet again dreaming, isle talk no more, but be gone; for fear I wake him. Faith to be a bed with my husband. Nay, but my longing yet me thinks st etches a great deal longer, for I long to be a Widow, that I might have a new Husband: yet not for any concupis ent desires, that I have in the world. Let me see, I would be a— No not a Londoner by no means. Mistook of you, but such is woman's fantasy, Constant in nothing but unconstancy: For I that first you most abhorred, Loved you a slave, and hated you a Lord. Oh! I repent it not, this match is double made, and twice hath holy Hymen's Oh then sir 'tis a friend of yours. But tell me good Madam, why are you so melan cholly? To thee, I to thee, go thy ways, thou shalt be a Lady, I ever thought thou wouldst come to some promotion, as the boy did that had a bag and a staff and begged for him self, but how dost thou know he is in love with her. I marry sir, would we had more such tokens of his love. Nay, then that will be a strong proof indeed.
Plot summary
Plot — Cupid's Whirligig
Cupid comes to London to wreak some mischief, unseen by the inhabitants. This entails making three men abandon their mistresses and court other women. Alderman Venture is trying to arrange a marriage between his daughter Nan and the son of Lord Nonsuch, but the old lord thinks both parties are too young to get married. Young Nonsuch is one of many men trying to seduce Lady Troublesome; she is chaste, but her husband is obsessively afraid of being cuckolded. When Young Nonsuch writes importuning her for an assignation, she tells her husband. He plans to intercept the would-be adulterer by bribing the person sent ahead to prepare the way. In the event, the plan goes awry: Nonsuch comes in disguise as his own herald, and gets some time alone with the lady before Sir Timothy realizes what is happening. Convinced that he is now a cuckold, the knight castrates himself. For his second attempt on Lady Troublesome, Young Nonsuch poses as a begging soldier, Slack, and gets himself hired as Sir Timothy’s household servant. The lady proves just as resistant as when he courted her in his own identity. Sir Timothy’s other servant, Wages, overhears the attempted seduction, but ‘Slack’ assures him that it was merely a test of chastity authorized by their master. ‘Slack’ tells Sir Timothy that his wife is pregnant, and encourages him to seek a divorce; Wages tries to persuade him otherwise. _ Having failed with two identities, Young Nonsuch tries a third, ‘Captain Woodley. When Lady Troublesome warns him that her husband is coming and intends violence, he hides. In fact, the caller is another would-be seducer, Exhibition. She sees him off, but Sir Timothy passes him on the way out, and arrives to find ‘Woodley’ in his wife’s room. She explains that she was hiding him from Exhibition, but Sir Timothy is not satisfied and sends ‘Slack’ to procure a divorce. This will leave him free to marry Lady Troublesome’s kinswoman, Peg, while Young Nonsuch will-be able to have Lady Troublesome. Meanwhile, the courtier Newcome, who should be wooing Peg, has transferred his affections to Nan. ‘Wages arranges a triple wedding, but plans that each lady will be disguised as another, so that the three will end up married to the ‘right’ man: Lady Troublesome to Sir Timothy, Nan to Young Nonsuch, and Peg to Newcome. After the wedding, the couples visit Old Lord Nonsuch in a wedding masque, and, upon unmasking, realize whom they have married. In the confusion, Correction the clergyman has…