Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
His name? My soul waits in my eyes, and leaves my body Senseless. I swear By beauteous eyes of Trincalo. Your worship sir! why do you flout your servant, Right worshipful Antonio, my reverend Master? It's desire and joy, To see my sweetest. Mock not your poor Maid, pray you sir. Oh sir by no means: but with my lovely Farmer I'de
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Trincalo. Trincalo. Trincalo, what price bear's wheat, and Saffron, that your band's so stiff and yellow? not a word? why Trincalo! what busi ness in Town? how do's all at Totnam? grown mute? What do you bring from the Country? To me these Titles? is your basket full of nothing else? My life on't, he scraped these compliments from his Cart, the last Load he carried for the Progress. What would you read that make you grow so eloquent? Come, give's your basket and take it. As it deserve's: what is't? Is this the end of all this business? Hence fool, hence. Mistress. Out Carter. Hence dirty whipstock, hence you foul clown: be gone, Or all the water I can make, or borrow, Shall once more drown you. Sir, it's your father's ghost, that strives by force To break the doors and enter. A husband, sir? Some young and lusty youth, or else I'll none. Signior Pandolfo's lusty Farmer? Most unexpected happiness! it's the man, I more esteem then my own life: sweet Master Procure that match, and think me satisfied For all my former service without wages. But aj I fear you jest. My poor unworthiness Hope's not so great a fortune as sweet Trincalo. No, wretched Armellina, in and despair: Back to thy mournful Dresser; there lament Thy flesh to Kitchen-stuff, and bones to ashes, For love of thy sweet Farmer. I say I see Antonio, and none other. Then must I wait, till old Antonio Be brought to bed of a fair Trincalo ; Or flay you, and strip you to yourself again. Not here in public. Enjoy too soon what pleases is unpleasant: The world would envy that my happiness. Go in, I'll follow you, and in my bedchamber We'll consummate the match in privacy. Thus have I caught m'a husband in a trap, And in good earnest mean to marry him. It's a tough Clown and lusty: he works day & night; And rich enough for me, that have no portion But my poor service. Well: he's something foolish; The better can I dominere, and rule him At pleasure. That's the mark, and utmost height We women aim at. I am resolved; I'll have him. Yes, as and Usurers purse. Notorious Clown! What want you, sir? Mistress let me have some sport too. Who's there? Soft, soft sir, You're too hasty. Good words, good words, I pray sir, In strangers houses! were the doors your own, You might be bolder. Are you so hight? we'll cool you. Since your late drowning, your grey and reverent head Is smeared with Oes, and stuck with Cockleshells, This is to wash it. SIgnior Antonio! My long expected Master! Sir it's too great a favour. I kiss your foot. What fallen? Alas! how feeble you are grown, With your long travel? Fie, and old man? how? cast my self away, And be no nurse but his? His name? My soul waits in my eyes, and leaves my body Senseless. I swear By beauteous eyes of Trincalo. Your worship sir! why do you flout your servant, Right worshipful Antonio, my reverend Master? It's desire and joy, To see my sweetest. Mock not your poor Maid, pray you sir. Oh sir by no means: but with my lovely Farmer I'de stay all night and thank him. To what end? I'll follow you. So, now you're fast enough. I will, sir.
Plot summary
Plot — Albumazar
The neighbours Pandolfo and Antonio, both widowers, have arranged to marry each other’s daughters; but before they can do so, Antonio is lost and presumed dead on an overseas voyage, and the plan goes into abeyance because his son Lelio disapproves of Pandolfo as a potential brother-in-law. Albumazar’s accomplice Furbo has gained access to Pandolfo’s household, posing as his daughter’s tutor, and has learned of his .- amorous aspirations, and also his credulity about. magic and astrology. Albumazar plans to trick him, and sets about demonstrating his occult power. Ronca shows Pandolfo some of the astrologer’s amazing inventions: a telescope and an ‘otacousticon’ (actually a pair of ass’s ears) which allow him to see and hear things at a distance. Albumazar then predicts Pandolfo’s marriage, and also a stabbing which his associates then enact in a brawl. Pandolfo asks the astrologer to raise Antonio’s ghost, but instead Albumazar undertakes to transform the tenant farmer Trincalo into Antonio’s likeness for one day, so that he can give Flavia in marriage to Pandolfo. Trincalo agrees because this will give him access to Antonio’s household, and therefore to the maid Armellina, whom he loves. Pandolfo is required to prepare a room for the metamorphosis, laid out with valuable possessions. When he begins to have second thoughts about paying Albumazar, his servant Cricca suggests that he should pretend to have been robbed of his valuables; but when they are indeed stolen, Albumazar pretends in turn that the transformed Trincalo has just locked them away for safe keeping. After undergoing the fake metamorphosis, Trincalo is told he may not look at himself in a mirror for fear of breaking the spell. Ronca and Harpax greet him as Antonio, and pretend to be his debtor and creditor respectively, but Trincalo pays Harpax less than he was ===== PAGE 445 ===== 1615 given by Ronca, who has to steal back the balance. To buy time to spirit away Pandolfo’s goods, the tricksters divert him with Bevilona the courtesan, who pretends to be a gentlewoman in love with Antonio, and hides him from her husband. The real Antonio returns unexpectedly, and is taken for the transformed Trincalo: he does not understand when Pandolfo asks after his missing property, and his son and daughter, forewarned of the planned trick, beat him out of his own house. He meets Trincalo, who is still posing as him, and a duel is proposed. Lelio and Cricca realize the truth when they see the two men…