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PEGGIE

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)Peg.
Words521
Characters2773
Typicality0.37 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA14599
BritDrama no.2189
ClusterCluster 9 — Boon companions & bluff banter

Important excerpts

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Full speech

Why shield I hayd my Scots face, my Scots face is as Good as yare English feace, it's a true Scotties feace. Hang yare flee-flaps, nam Scots woman is a sheamed a that luck, that the master painter abuife guifes her, whare must I gang and now, faith, faith, faith, what lossell am I that am hurrand thus till and From with Swords and wapins, whay must backerd men gang fencing and flori shing about me, am I yare may-game? Are ye my jalor? what kin been you to the hang man? senu you? whare's he? wha is that foul loon a mang you, that must be my hangman? Wha then be you? I reckand much your luife, faith upon sike luife, the awed felon thief, luifand the true men siller as you luifand me, I'de rather be a Scutchmans whore, then and English men waif, and be dreave toth' Kirk with helters. Hang thee, hang thee foul meazel'd lown, What Scuttishman dares guiff my luif understood My case, on Gads deer earth you sud no farther gange As butchers kie tooth the ground he sud you bange. Oh my luife these Sotherne Carls much wrang against me warcke, and now would force me gang until the Kirk, and marry Selby, Wallace my Io not I. Uva is me, ligs my luife on the cawd ground, Let me come kiss his frosty mouth. Ize jocund and weel now. Hang me I reck not. Aye trow, you mean not Wallas his devoir, And dowty valour merits mare repute nor Sike fauve language. Faith, sa, not sea, my bunny Wllace luifes me. Hawd rherefor cherritie, and would ye give Him to his faes, that gave His blood to your protect? And what for Wallace? Raced been his name forth the Whayte book of life that speaks it. Dear Wallace, thoe ane shrude Hawd not our bans, wees meet in yander cloud, Whare nam fell Southern nowther can extrude, Nor bar nam From celestial pulchritude, Aid gange thy gate, till heaven, and as we flay, Like turtle Dowes weese bill & find Good play. Exit Peg. And thy waif. May luive. Alas, for uvae, What gars this Iewde? what ill intend you man? Pity my beauty. Revenge thy wait, Ay sea husband. Oh my deer Wallas for the luive waif, For siuve of awe sawles, and thy daying waif, Lift to my latter accens, and attend Of all thy joys the darn and dismawe end. Wallace is awake. I'll teach you how, Selby and Haslerigg been the fell bloodhounds Whae have hunted laife until thick toils of death, Religious cries, beauteous intreats, and reverend well-awayes Could not win grace or favour, Wallas revenge my death, And for a favour keep my hindmost breath. Die. Alace Scotland to wham salt thou complain, Alace, From mourning wha shall the refayne? I thee beseekand for him died on tree, Come not never Bruyce, yet Bruyce shall not hurt thee, Alace, alace, no man can stand against fate. The damp Due From the heaven does gyn to favu, I to my rest mim gange ere the Cock crawe.

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…