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GLASCO

in The Valiant Scot — W., J.

Metadata

PlayThe Valiant Scot
AuthorW., J.
Year (catalogued)1637
First performance1626
Decade1630s
GenreHistory
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyUnknown
Speech prefix(es)Glaſ. | Gla. | Gla,
Words240
Characters1360
Typicality0.24 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA14599
BritDrama no.2189
ClusterCluster 20 — Conjurers, witches & physicians

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Full speech

Calm your spleen, For now speaks mercy, if your Countries wrongs Grow from abuse in Edwards substitutes, You shall have equal hearing, and the wrongs Punished in the deservers. What answers Walace? Ahlas I want my eyes, but have a tongue, He sees, but cannot speak. Are you a Scotch man Sir? 'Tis the head of a young murdered gentleman. No law was ere so cruel as Wallas is. No, but we have met with villains worse then traitors. Walace your countryman, that bloody hangman Mangled us all three thus. Twold be a glorious fight there. Of charity lead us to the English Camp, You shall beside thanks be most royally paid. I cannot judge. A cat go beyond a lawyer? how? I'm blind indeed, Conduct us to the Lords i'th' English Camp. Hear and in hearing wish the found unheard, Youthful Sebastian nephew to the Queen Longing to see the man famed for the excess Or goodness and of badness, seeing unjoined In honoured Embassy disguised attempted The rebel Wallaces presence. Our message told, The traitor newly set on fire with madness, Showing the mangled bodies of a Fryer, His wife and father, burst out into flames High hight and violent, In which fierce rage Revolted Grimsby knew Sebastian (Though Herald Like he went disguised) and seized Him and us for three intelligencing spies, Cut off his head, his tongue, and Glascots eyes. He has no tongue indeed sir.

Plot summary

Plot — The Valiant Scot
PLOT Scotland is under English rule. An attempt is made to dispossess Old Wallace of his office and lands; but Old Wallace partially circumvents it by transferring ownership of the land to his son. King Edward plans to make war on France, and appoints Bruce his general. Scotland is left in the charge of Queen Elinor and a panel of commissioners. Young Selby, son of one of the commissioners, abducts Peggy Graham, intending to marry her by force. Wallace intervenes and kills Young Selby in a duel. Commissioner Selby arrests Peggy and threatens her with execution for the murder. Wallace gives himself up, and Peggy is released. His own execution is forestalled when the Queen orders him brought to court for interrogation. He escapes en route, marries Peggy, and becomes a rebel. Friar Gertrid prophesies that he will be victorious until betrayed by his own blood. The English capture Peggy, Gertrid, and Old Wallace, and Selby has them killed. King Edward sends Wallace an ultimatum: if he will surrender and beg for mercy, he may be spared. Wallace sends an alternative ultimatum back: if Edward will admit himself to be a tyrant, he may be spared. Upon discovering that one of the ambassadors, the Queen’s nephew, has no diplomatic accreditation, he puts the young man to death. He then cuts out an ambassador’s tongue and blinds another, and accompanies them back to King Edward disguised as a lame soldier. The English plan to entice Wallace into a trap, and send another messenger to invite him to a parley; but the stratagem fails because the man appointed to escort the messenger to the Scottish camp is the lame soldier — Wallace himself. Wallace sails to seek help from France, but his ship is wrecked. On the shore, he meets first Bolt, from whom he forcibly takes possession of a washed-up chest of provisions, then Selby, who is now banished from England and penurious, and regrets the execution of Old Wallace. Wallace decides not to take revenge, but while he is away fetching food, another of the fallen commissioners turns up and kills Selby in an argument. Bolt returns and kills the murderer, taking him for Wallace. He is presented to King Edward and rewarded, but later discredited when Wallace turns out to be alive. The Scots prepare to fight, but Wallace is offended to be placed in the rearguard, and withdraws his services. He watches the battle from a hill, and finally intervenes after the Scottish general is killed. On the battlefield he meets Bruce, the rightful…