Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 20 (ithimore, nat, invisible, notary, glycerie, humfrey…). Matches are highlighted.
father has promised me. Faith, I have no Manors, but a Pretty homestall, and we have great store of Oxen, and Horses, and Carts, and Plows, and household stuff abomination: And great flocks of sheep, and flocks of Geese, and Can pons, and Hens, and Ducks; Oh, we have a fine yard of Pullen. And thank God: heres a fine weather for
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Pray you Sir is your name Robin Goodfellow? Marry Sir I hear yare a very cunning man Sir; And sirreuerence of your worship Sir, Jam going a woe king to one M. Lelia a Gentlewoman here hard by, Pray you Sir tell me how I should be have my self, to get his to my wife. For Sir there is a Scholar about his: Now if you can tell me, how I should wipe his nose of his, I would bestow a fee of you. Shall I trouble you so far to take some pains with me? I am loath to have the dodge I needs not do so, for I may say and say true, I have lands and living enough for a country fellow. Well Sir, then I'll be bold to trust your cunning, And so I'll bid you farewell and go forward, I'll too his, thats flat. That I will Sir. Mistress Lelia, God speed you. I were as good say a good word as a bade. My purpose is to wive you. Belike, yare in love with some body else. Call you this a rifle? its a good back word. Nay, I must speak with Mistress Lelia before I go. Marry, I have herd very well of you, and so has my father too. And he has sent me to you a woeing, And if you have any mind of marriage, I hope I shall maintain you as well as any husbandman's wife in the Country. Marry, with my Lands and livings my father has promised me. Faith, I have no Manors, but a Pretty homestall, and we have great store of Oxen, and Horses, and Carts, and Plows, and household stuff abomination: And great flocks of sheep, and flocks of Geese, and Can pons, and Hens, and Ducks; Oh, we have a fine yard of Pullen. And thank God: heres a fine weather for my father's Lambs. Its no matter what you say. For my father told me thus much before I came, that you would be some nice at first: but he bade me Like you never the worse foe for I were the liker to speed. Will you? I'll take my leave of you, and if I may hear from you, I'll pay the messenger well for his pains. But stay: Gods death, I had almost forgotten my self. Prayee let me kiss your hand over I go. Mistress Lelia, God be with you. By your leave master Gripe. Faith I Like his well, and I have broken my mind to his, and she would say neither I nor no; But, thank God Sir, we parted good friends, For she let me kiss his hand and bade Farewell Peter. And therefore I think I am Like enough to speed: how think you Master Churms? No not a whit Sir. Faith father, I see him not this two days; but I'll seek him out: for I know heel do the deed, and were twenty Lelias. For father he's a very cunning man: for, give him but ten groats, and heel give me a powder, that will make Lelia come to bed to me: And when I have her there: I'll use her well enough. Nay, heel do more then that too, For heel make himself Like a devil; and fray the Scholar that hankers about her, out ons wits. Why William, what company do you mean to have? Would you played the Devil bravely, and scared the scholar out ons wits? Hear you, will you give me the powder you told me of? I, or have his ears nailed to the Pillory: Comes lets go. Sirrah, Foul manners, do you know to whom you speak?
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.