Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 20 (ithimore, nat, invisible, notary, glycerie, humfrey…). Matches are highlighted.
together, but Like swaggerers, A fray being made up with a wound or so, The man whose throat before should have been cut, Is a sworn brother, now we have malled your Nation, Thei'le fawn on us Like Spaniels, will they not? We are all dead men, yet fight So long as legs and Arms last. Wound for wound. For honours sake come down,
upon her breast, And knowing that the only sword which gashes Her tender sides, is griped in Wallace hands, I in my love to peace, and to the safety Of two great Nations, am the man that laid Snares to entrap this monster, that devours So many thousand lives, the Rebel's taken. I have brought him to your English Camp, Force
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Away. But hear me. Not at sharp I think, but by your leave it's thought, She ha practised in private; put Wallace to foil, and made Him lie at his hanging ward many a time and oft. Shall we on? You bring from Longshanks some strange mes sage now. Gauntlet, no the English Fight not two days together, but Like swaggerers, A fray being made up with a wound or so, The man whose throat before should have been cut, Is a sworn brother, now we have malled your Nation, Thei'le fawn on us Like Spaniels, will they not? We are all dead men, yet fight So long as legs and Arms last. Wound for wound. For honours sake come down, and save thy Country. 'Tis Edwards, come rescue Our General, and the noble Grimsby. Our General and stout Grimsby are enclosed With quicksets made of steel, come fetch them off, Or all is lost. Lost, lost. 'Tis quite lost. Yes. Stay noble Grimsby, ere he further pass One of us certify our General, Perhaps he'll not admit him to his presence. Commonly, when English see at cuffs they are too weak, they fallen to fishing, and then bait the hook with mercy, and the Kings pardon, at which who bites ha his swallowing spoiled for ever, there's no Scot but scorns to hang his hope on your Kings promises, be it never so smoothly gilded. I warrant he would pawn half his Dominions to shake hands with Wallace, and be friends. Ten thousand Crowns. I could pick out five thousand heads, That I durst boldly fell him at that rate. I and Court windfalls too, Some English Earldom or so, here is none but friends, Should you betray the conference, I care not, I would deny it, and I would oversway Your proofs though near so massy. Shall we earn this English gold, ten thousand crowns? They are ours, he's dead. Come. Lets be partakers, deer sir. The happiest day that ever shone on Scotland. How meet him? Our lips are sealed. We'll pass the wood on foot. What face? he'll kill the Herald sure. For my partly, of ten thousand crowns by this hand, I do wish you there. Time may come, In his Exchequer we may share twice that sum. I have beside with Wallace sheriff of life, Held private conference, who in Longshancks name, Who swears to me we shall have good preferment, Beside the promised gold. Enter Wallace. Is the Bruyce come? Who came along with you? Him must I kill. I'll look if Bruce be in sighed yet— Exit. Be armed, Bruce with a force comes to betray thee, From some villains hand thy footboy is murdered. Common my countryman and I have brought A jewel to your Highness, which if 'twere right As it's known counterfeit, 'twere worth a kingdom, Wearied with war, and pitying the deep wounds Which fainting Scotland bears upon her breast, And knowing that the only sword which gashes Her tender sides, is griped in Wallace hands, I in my love to peace, and to the safety Of two great Nations, am the man that laid Snares to entrap this monster, that devours So many thousand lives, the Rebel's taken. I have brought him to your English Camp, Force would not doo't, but policy, we struck the Stag To the ground, and thought him dead, but heaven put back The blow of purpose, he's now come to life, From and astonishment when we thought him dead, To th'end the world may see the public shame Of and Archtraitor. It can, it does, and at far greater mischiefs. Yes of mine. Here or in Hell.
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…