Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
few words. What means these wretched miscreants, To make a spoil of their own country men: Unnatural Rebels what so ere, By foreign foes may seem no whit so strange. As Englishmen to trouble England thns Well may I term it insest to the Land. Like that fowl lawless force and violence, Which Cyneris did offer to his child.
never come in field, Before this mutanie did call them forth: And for security of my back return, Upon this message which I showed the King, They keep my wife and children for a pledge, And hold me out from forth my Castle at Rochester, And swore me there to come unto your Majesty, And having told you their minds, I hope your
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The Commons of Kenned salute your Majesty, And I am made their unhappy messenger: My Lord, a crew of Rebels are in field, And they have made commotions late in Kenned, And drawn your people to a mutiny: And if your Grace see not to it in time, Your Land will come to ruin by their means, Yet may your Grace find remedy in time, To qualify their pride that thus presume. No my good Lord, they be men of no great account, For they be none but Tylers, Thatchers, Millers, and such Like. That in their lives did never come in field, Before this mutanie did call them forth: And for security of my back return, Upon this message which I showed the King, They keep my wife and children for a pledge, And hold me out from forth my Castle at Rochester, And swore me there to come unto your Majesty, And having told you their minds, I hope your Grace will pardon me for all: In that I am inforced thereunto. I think my Lord about twenty thousand men, But if your Grace would follow my advice, Thus would I deal with these Rebellious men, I would find time to parley with some of them, And know what in their minds they do intend, For being armed with such treacherous thoughts, They may perform more than your Grace expects. We shall fulfil your graces mind in this, And thus I take my Congé of your Majesty, Wishing your Grace thrice Nestor's years to reign, To keep your Land, and guard your Royal Train, Me thinks you might do well to answer the King, In the name of the whole company: Some dossen or twenty men for the nonce, that may deli ver the minds of you all in few words. What means these wretched miscreants, To make a spoil of their own country men: Unnatural Rebels what so ere, By foreign foes may seem no whit so strange. As Englishmen to trouble England thns Well may I term it insest to the Land. Like that fowl lawless force and violence, Which Cyneris did offer to his child. Oh happy time from all such troubles free, What now alas is Like to be the end of this attempt, But that so long as they are glutted all with blood, they both therein. Sirrah here it is set down by our Captains that as many of you as cannot say bred and cheese, in good and perfect English, you die for it, & that was the cause so many stran gers did die in Smithfield. Let me hear you say bred and cheese. Brock and Keyse. Away with the Rebels suffer them not to speak, His words are poison in the ears of the people, Away villain, stain to thy country and thy calling. And in recompense I will help to set your head on a pole. Away with the Rebels. As gave your Grace in charge I have delivered, Your highness pleasure amongst the prisoners, And have proclaimed your Graces pardon amongst the ̄ all Save only those two unnatural Englishmen, Oh might I say no English nor men, That Ball and Tyler cursed Rebels both, Whom I commanded to be executed: And in your highness name have freed all the rest, Whose thankful hearts I find as full repleat, With signs of joy and duty to your Grace, As those unnatural Rebels hateful mouths Are full of foul speeches, and unhonourable.
Plot summary
Plot — Jack Straw
MHENKING is gathering taxes to finance war in France. After a EARN@OM@Gfr attempts an intimate physical examination of JaeRMStawSMdaughter to establish whether or HOMISHEMISNSIEMEnSughtoNbeMliazble forltaxatiomjastraw loses his temper and kills him. ParSOHMBAll speaks out against social abuses and inequality, inciting the men of Kent to rise in rebellion under Straw and MW&@HllTyi@F; they are joined by men of Essex, and send their demands to the King through Sir J@HBMIMG@EHGh, holding his family hostage. The King agrees to meet them at Greenwich, but breaks the appointment when he sees their disorderly conduct. The rebels advance on London, freeing prisoners, burning legal documents, despoiling their fellow countrymen, and murdering immigrants who cannot speak English properly. The King makes a second attempt to parley, meets the rebels at Smithfield, and hears their grievances. The issue of a general pardon induces the Essex men to go home, but the Kentish rebels remain in arms under Tyler and Straw. At the third encounter with the King, Straw demands a courtier’s sword, and the BOFaIMA¥ar of London stabs him. The rebellion is put down, but the King is reluctant to order mass executions; only the ringleaders, Tyler and Ball, are to die. The Lord Mayor is rewarded with a knighthood.