Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
Surgery, but in vain; his last Breath did forgive you: but you must expect No safety from the Law: my service sir. I am sorry sir, Your resolution carries so much danger. Exit. May it please you understand, he has killed A Gentleman, one Marwood, in our Park, I found him wounded mortally, though before He died, he did confess.
Full speech
These whoreson Rabbet suckers Will never leave the ground. So we may chance to keep no Dear. Whose that? Would? How cam you hurt si ? no, Not speak? if he be not passed h pe, let us Cany him to my lodge my wife is a Pe ce of a Sum g on, has been fortunate In some cures: tear a piece of thy shirt Ralph, To bind his wound quickly: —so, so, alas Poor Gentleman, he may hue to be dressed, and tell Who has done this misfortune: gently Exe. carry him in. Honest Ralph, he has some breath yet: Would had my bloodhound here. He died this morning: A friend of his and yours did practice on him A little Surgery, but in vain; his last Breath did forgive you: but you must expect No safety from the Law: my service sir. I am sorry sir, Your resolution carries so much danger. Exit. May it please you understand, he has killed A Gentleman, one Marwood, in our Park, I found him wounded mortally, though before He died, he did confess. He has slain a Gentleman. And old Cony stops a knaves mouth sometime. That else would be gaping for Venison.
Plot summary
Plot — The Wedding
Beauford is to marry Sir John Belfare’s daughter, Gratiana, but on the eve of the wedding his kinsman Marwood tells him that she is unchaste: he himself has slept with her. Beauford fights a duel with him in the park; Marwood is wounded, but still insists that his story is true. Beauford sends a surgeon to him, but the body disappears before he arrives, taken away for treatment by the park gamekeeper’s wife. Beauford accuses and jilts Gratiana on the day of the wedding. Questioned by. Beauford’s friend Captain Landby, Gratiana insists that she is a virgin, and he offers to help vindicate her. At his instigation, she writes to Beauford pretending to have drowned herself, and shuts herself away in the house of Landby’s uncle, Justice Landby. Milisent, a boy servant, tells Gratiana that Marwood has died insisting on the veracity of his accusation: he slept with Gratiana with the connivance of her guardian Cardona. Milisent then tells Beauford that Marwood was mistaken: Gratiana is innocent, and Cardona is to blame. The boy also claims to have brought him Marwood’s body, but the coffin actually contains the living Gratiana, and the lovers are reconciled. Beauford is arrested for Marwood’s murder arid brought before Justice Landby. Belfare rushes to the judge's house to lay an additional accusation for the rourder of the missing Gratiana, only to find her there alive. The other murder charge proves. equally iiitounded: Marwood too is present in disguise. Cardona admits that she arranged an -assignation between Marwood and Gratiana, but substituted her 1626 own daughter Lucibel, who subsequently disappeared. She too is present: she took on a male identity and became Milisent. Marwood agrees to marry her, and Beauford and Gratiana resume their engagement. In the sub-plot, Justice Landby encourages his daughter Jane to consider two inappropriate suitors, the thin Rawbone and the obese Loadum, in order to test her judgement. She is already in love with Haver, who has got himself a job as Rawbone’s servant in order to have access to her. Loadum and Rawbone consider fighting a duel over Jane; Rawbone agrees when Haver offers to fight in his place, while Loadum is persuaded upon learning that Rawbone is not considered to be much of a duellist - so he gets a surprise when his opponent, Haver in disguise, proves ready and able to fight. Justice Landby finds a love- letter from Haver in Jane’s prayer book and, disapproving of a marriage to the impecunious Haver, decides…