Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

ISMAEL

in Nice Wanton — Anonymous

Metadata

PlayNice Wanton
AuthorAnonymous
Year (catalogued)1560
First performance1550
Decade1560s
GenreMoral
Play typeInterlude
Speech prefix(es)ismael • | Ismae • | • smael | Ismael | • smael. | Isma ••
Words459
Characters2200
Typicality0.31 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA14713
BritDrama no.203
ClusterCluster 23 — Gulls, fops & laughing-stocks

Important excerpts

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Full speech

What will become of them? grace God them send, To apply their learning, and their manners amend. yea sir it shall cost you blows ere it be long, Spyn quod would, yea by y e mass, & w to your heles up wind For a good mouse hunt, is cat after king No sister no, your maiden head is sick: Peace whore, or you bear me a box and there, Then is he a good fellow, I would not pass, So that I might bear a rule in hell by the mass, to toss fierbrandes at these penyfathers pates, I would be porter and receive them at the gates, In boiling led & brimstone, I would seethe the ̄ each one The knaves have all y e money, good fellows have none yea, I thank that knave and such a whore as y u , 'Tis no martyr, I will have money or I will sweet, Bygogs blood I will rob the next I meet. yea, and it be my father. he goes out. Go get the hence, thy mouth full of horse dung. Now pretty sister, what sport shall we devise? Thus paltyng to scole, I think us unwise In summer die for thryst, in Winter for cold, And Still to live in fear of a churl, who would? No sister no, but I can tell, Where we shall have good chiere, Lusty companions two or three, At good wine, ale and bier. What is she now you have her? Though I be judged to die, I require respite, For the kings advantage in things I can recite, I will be lie no man, but this I may say, Here stands he that brought me to this way: Have with the Dalila, Fare well our scoole, heigh raste aye coheir kes. Away with book and all, I will set my heart, On a merry pynne, What ever shall be fallen. you lie falsely, she will play me no such touch, yea sister, you went to scole till you were passed grace If you use it long, your hear will grow brought your I defy you both whore and knave Come on, but First let us have a song, She macheth you sira. By the mass rather then .xl. pound brother. His naughty company and play at dice, Did me first to stealing entice. He was w to me at robberies, I say it to his face, yet can I say more in time & space, Then be you servant to a worshipful mon. Master Iniquity, a right name by saint John. Do you nycke us be knave your noly, Gup whore, and I at rest, Bigogs blood, I ween God & the devil be against me He loset

Plot summary

Plot — Nice Wanton
Barnabas goes to school, but his siblings Ismael and Dalilah prefer to spend their time on pleasure rather than learning. Their neighbour Eulalia complains to their mother about their behaviour, but Xantippe refuses to impose discipline through corporal punishment. Ismael and Dalilah gamble with Iniquity;Ismael loses all his money, but Dalilah tries to deceive beat her by way of reprisal, she leaves him. Iniquity about her winnings. When Iniquity tries to Later, diseased and destitute, she meets Barnabas, who presents her condition as God's punishment; she dies of venereal disease, but penitent. Ismael is tried and hanged for burglary and murder; Iniquity, whom he names as his accomplice, is also sentenced to death. A remorseful Xantippe tries to commit suicide, but Barnabas prevents her and enjoins her to repent. In the epilogue he encourages parents to bring their children up well.