Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
do any thing: Send his tuth market with eggs: sheele fell them and spend the money, Set his to make a pudding, sheele put in no suet, Sheele run out of nights a dancing, and come no more home till day peep: Bid his come to bed, sheele come when she list. Ah 'tis a nasty shame to see his bringing up. Nay sheele camp (I warrant
Full speech
I'faith Marget you must eene take your daughter Peg home again, For sheele not be ruled by me. Faith she neither did nor does, nor will do any thing: Send his tuth market with eggs: sheele fell them and spend the money, Set his to make a pudding, sheele put in no suet, Sheele run out of nights a dancing, and come no more home till day peep: Bid his come to bed, sheele come when she list. Ah 'tis a nasty shame to see his bringing up. Nay sheele camp (I warrant you) Oh she has a tongue. But Marget eene take his home to your Mistress, and there keep his: for He keep his no longer. Faith at thy request, I'll take his ho try his a week longer. Come follow us good Wench. What Peg? what ho? what Peg I say? what Peg my wench? Why where art thou trow? Marry out upon him: what a Friday faced slave it is! I think in my conscience, his face never keeps Holiday That we will i'faith Peg: weel have a whole noise of fiddlers there: Come Peg lets High us home, weel make a bag-pudding to supper And William shall go and sup with us. Marry gods be niso l to oath thy good heart, fort: Would, that I were you again! I was and old doer at these love songs when I was a Marry well said old master: eene God give them joy indeed, for by my vay, they are a good sweet young couple. What makest here this twatter light? I think thart in a dream, I think the fool haunts thee. Nay William pray you be not angry, you must bear with old folks, They be old and tasty, hight and hasty: set not your wit against mine William, For I thought you no harm by my troth. I, and beshrowe thy good heart and thou dost not. Come, and weel have a piece of a barley bagpudding or something, And thou shalt be very heartily welcome that thou shalt, And Peg shall bid thee welcome too: pray you maid bid him welcome and make much on him, for by my vay he's a good proper springold William, prithee go home to my house with us, and taste a cup of our beer, and learn to know the way, again another time. Marry, Jesus bless us: why prithee? Why William, we are talking of Rob Goodfellow: What think you of him? Marry I will give Peg a pot and a pan, Two platters, a dish and a spoon, a dog, and a cat: I trow sheele prove a good huswife, And love his husband well too. Come Peg, bestir your stumps: make thy self smug, wench; thou must be married to morrow: Lets go seek out thy sweet heart, To prepare all things in readiness.
Plot summary
Plot — Wily Beguiled
Grip the usurer wants to marry his daughter Lelia to the foolish son of his neighbour, Ploddall, in order to gain control of Ploddall’s extensive land-holdings. For her part, Lelia loves the scholar Sophos, but Grip doesn’t think him rich enough and warns the young man off. The fathers agree and Churms the lawyer is engaged to draw up the marriage contract. Churms persuades Grip to let him visit her to intercede for Peter Ploddall, and also agrees to act as an intermediary woeer for Sophos; but all the while his objective is to win Lelia for himself. Meanwhile he engages Robin Goodfellow to provide Peter with a fake love-philtre for Lelia, and to frame Sophos for rape so that Lelia will fall out of love with him. Robin in turn plans to cozen Churms of Lelia and Grip of his money; but his plotting is overheard by Grip’s son, Fortunatus, who has just returned from the wars. Fortunatus finds the despairing Sophos sleeping in the woods, and listens to his woes. It becomes clear that Churms is double-crossing Sophos, so Fortunatus lays a plot. At her brother's behest, Lelia arranges to abscond with Churms, who capitalizes Grip’s debts at less than their true value in order to finance the elopement. While Fortunatus and Sophos are waiting ===== PAGE 368 ===== to.intercept Churms, Robin tries to frighten Sophos by dressing up as the devil, but Fortunatus beats him and forces him to admit his misdeeds. When the eloping ‘couple’ arrive, Fortunatus intervenes and asks Lelia to choose between Sophos and Churms; she chooses Sophos. They take up temporary residence in a hermitage while Fortunatus straightens things out with their father. Grip learns independently of Churms’s treachery - both amatory and financial - and despairs. Fortunatus offers to prevent the elopement and bring Lelia back, provided that Grip agrees to her marrying Sophos. He does, and Fortunatus fetches the happy couple home.