Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

FELLOWSHIP

in Lusty Juventus — Wever, R.

Metadata

PlayLusty Juventus
AuthorWever, R.
Year (catalogued)1565
First performance1550
Decade1560s
GenreMoral
Play typeInterlude
Speech prefix(es)Felow shyp | Fellow shyp. | Felow ship. | Felow ship | Felow shyp.
Words295
Characters1397
Typicality0.26 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA14846
BritDrama no.221
ClusterCluster 16 — Errand servants & brief parts

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Full speech

He promised to meet me here ear this time I beshrew his heart that this promise does mys, And then be you sure it shall not be mine yes feloshyp that it shall be thine Therefore I pray you let us be gone She will come her self a none For I told her before where we would stand. And then she said she would beck us with her hand To abide your coming. this thing is plain By the mass if you chide. I will be gone again For in faith friendship, I mai say to the I love not to be there, where chyders be I love him the better by gods precious bones, you are hartele welcome as I may say I shall desire you of better acquaintance That of your company be bold I may you may be sure if in me it lie, To do you pleasure, you should it find For by the mass I love you, both with heart and mind. Her promise shall be performed and paid, For I spoke with her since the time I rose And then she told me how the matter goes: We must be with her between eight and Nine, The ̄ old acquayntau ̄ ce is clea ̄ e out of favour. Lo friendship, this geargoth with aflleight He hath dreuen us twain out of conceit Let us depart, and if that we shall, Come on masters, we twain will go before. Merry quod would, we can not choose but be merry, For there is such a girl, where as we go, Which will make us be merry, whither we will or no This is and earnest fellow of gods word See I pray you, how he is disposed to fight

Plot summary

Plot — Lusty Juventus
Juventus accepts Good Counsel’s advice not to waste time but lead a pious life; Knowledge explains that he can be saved by faith alone, but that good works are also a necessary sign of his penitence. The Devil worries that his plans are going awry: although Hypocrisy has set up the Catholic church to further his cause, piety and respect for God’s word are rife among young people. Commissioned by the Devil, Hypocrisy intercepts Juventus on the way to a sermon and persuades him to go instead to breakfast with Abominable Living, who seduces him into a dissolute lifestyle. Good Counsel confronts Juventus and persuades him into repentance and despair. He is restored to hope by God’s Merciful Promises, and the play ends with prayers for the King and nobility.