Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 3 (numps, numpes, blastfield, wares, parson, nidden…). Matches are highlighted.
fashion, and 'twere pity One with so good a face, should be the precedent, Of such superfluous modesty. We take it of our selves, Pages and waiting women are apt by nature To understand their office, you may be confident, My Lord means honorably, and as becomes A Gentleman of high blood, he will visit Your Ladyship. And the jewel
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Who commends to your Fair hand these Jewels Madam. I would not be corrupted with the one, To betray tother so, they cannot fright When you examine, if you knew his Lordship So well, as I would wish, you would accept And cherish these presentments, you're the first Lady within my observation, That has took time, to ask her conscience The meaning of a Jewel, sent by a Lord, A young and handsome Lord too; it's a thing At Court, is not in fashion, and 'twere pity One with so good a face, should be the precedent, Of such superfluous modesty. We take it of our selves, Pages and waiting women are apt by nature To understand their office, you may be confident, My Lord means honorably, and as becomes A Gentleman of high blood, he will visit Your Ladyship. And the jewel too. My Lord commanded me present you his best service, And with it, these: he bade me say, they are Prologue to that reward he hath designed Your virtue, I was glad to hear him say so, And never went more nimbly on his message. Yes. Madam, Although the narrow tie of duty bind me, To the discharge of his commands, which it Becomes no servant to dispute, I meet Honest employments with more cherefullnesse. When I go upon Lascivious errands, Madam, I take money, There is no other benefit belongs to they, But good ones pay themselves, I am rewarded, I shall have cause to thank you for my Lord, If he preserve this temper. I apprehend, And wish you a morning fair as your own beauty, My humblest duty. She is and excellent woman, If't be no wrong to her goodness that I spend My childish character. I do not Like this soldads Embassage: A challenge! some young Gentlemen that have Strong purses and faint souls, do use to fine for't, As Citizens do for Sheriffs: the Town swashbucklers Practice these feats, and live by't; but my Lord Hath beaten that opinion out of some, It should appear, all are not yet converted.
Plot summary
Plot — The Example
Money troubles have driven Sir Walter Peregrine to go to war in Europe to keep him away from his creditors in England. In his absence, his wife Bellamia is being pursued by Lord Fitzavarice, who plies her with rich gifts. She chastely refuses him, but he feels that, since he is known to have courted her, it is a matter of honour that the seduction should succeed. He pursues her to her chamber and offers to surrender her husband’s mortgage if she will sleep with him, then pay off his debts £100 a time in return for subsequent nights of passion. When she still refuses him, he threatens rape, and she faints. The experience converts him from his louche ways: he is relieved to learn that she is not dead, and returns the mortgage anyway, impressed with her virtue. A captain comes from the Netherlands on a recruiting mission. Sir Walter takes the opportunity to accompany him and pays a flying visit to his wife. She proposes to pay his debts with Lord Fitzavarice’s gifts, but he assumes that these are the rewards of adultery and challenges the Lord to a duel. Fitzavarice, recognizing that he is obliged to answer the challenge, appoints Confident as his second. But Confident’s reputation for valour is undeserved: rather than have to prove it by fighting, he tips off Sir Walter’s creditors and has him arrested for his debts before the duel can take place. Lord Fitzavarice disowns the ploy and secures Sir Walter’s release by paying his debts. Sir Walter realizes that his suspicions must be false—an adulterer would find it more convenient to keep him in jail—but the Lord insists on going through with the duel. Both men are slightly wounded, and honour is satisfied. In the sub-plot, Vainman and Pumicestone have both borrowed heavily to finance their courtship of Bellamia’s sister, Jacintha. They agree that whichever of them wins her will cover the other’s expenses. Jacintha is not disposed to marry anyone, but asks them to demonstrate which of them loves her best. Rather than send them to do dangerous deeds, she imposes difficult conditions: they must both visit her every day for six months, during which time Vainman must not speak a word and Pumicestone must do the opposite of everything she asks. She then contrives a situation in which their compliance is embarrassing. At her instigation they also visit her uncle, the plot-obsessed Sir Solitary, and pretend to be agents of a foreign power; Jacintha also arranges for servants to pose as officers come to arrest them.…