Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

PERTILLO

in Two Lamentable Tragedies — Yarington, Robert

Metadata

PlayTwo Lamentable Tragedies
AuthorYarington, Robert
Year (catalogued)1601
First performance1594
Decade1600s
GenreTragedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyUnknown
Speech prefix(es)Per.
Words280
Characters1483
Typicality0.35 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA15814
BritDrama no.1015
ClusterCluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices

Important excerpts

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Full speech

Ah my deer mother, is my father dead? Because he taught me how to say my prayers, To ride a horse, to start the fearful Hare, He gave this dagger to me yester night, This little Ring, and many pretty things: For which, kind cooze, I rest your true debtor, And one day I will make you recompense. Cease my kind cooze, I cannot choose but weep, To see your care of my security. Farewell good Uncle, Aunt, and loving cooze. I am so weary in this cumbrous wood, That I must needs go fit me down and rest Wherefore? because I slept without your leave? Forgive my fault, I'll never sleep again. Why should Falleria seek to have my life. O needy treasure, harm begetting good, That safely should procure the lose of blood. Sweet, sour, kind, cruel, hold thy murdering knife, And here me speak, before you murder me. First here me speak, thou map of Butchery, 'Tis but my goods and lands my Uncle seeks, Having that safely, he desires no more, I do protest by my dead parents souls, By the deer love of false Fallerios son, Whose heart, my heart assures me, will be grieved, To hear his father's inhumanity: I will forsake my country, goods, and lands, I and my self, will even change my self, In name, in life, in habit, and in all, And live in some far moved continent, So you will spare my weak and tender youth, Which cannot entertain the stroke of deat In budding years, and very spring of life. O I am slain, the Lord forgive thy fact, And give thee grace to die with penitence. Dyeth.

Plot summary

Plot — Two Lamentable Tragedies
MOmicide is frustrated at finding the town so virtuous, but AWaige recommends two men as suitable agents of violence. [Filth overhears them and introduces the stories. In one plot, MRGM@SIMERY, who would like to be richer, notices how well off B&BGh is. He lures Beech to his inn and murders him there with a hammer. The other members of his household quickly discover what has happened; his man MWilli@fhs leaves his service rather than condone the crime, but nevertheless agrees to keep it a secret. Merry is concerned that BEGeh’sIBSy may know too much, and murders him too. Thinking there are thieves in Beech’s shop, a Maid gives the alarm, and the dying boy is found with the hammer still embedded in his head. Beech comes under suspicion. Merry wants to get the other body out of his inn before it starts to putrefy, and chops it up to facilitate disposal. The various parts of the body are found around London; the torso is in an identifiable sack, but when a house-to-house search is instigated, its vendor fails to recognize M@PySisister as the woman who bought it. Merry begins to feel secure, but the melancholy Williams finally reveals the secret after close questioning by a friend. Merry and his sister are arrested and hanged; Williams is allowed benefit of clergy. In the other plot, ——- —f% die, leaving him in the custody of his uncle, , who will inherit everything should the boy die. Fallerio plans murder, but when his son All@H8o will not co-operate, he hires two ruffans instead. The assassins are to escort Pertillo to university at Padua, and kill him on the way; Allenso follows in secret to see that his cousin is safe. In the event one of the ruffians proves to have a conscience, and tries unsuccessfully to buy off his colleague. Perfillo dies, and the two murderers then kill one another. The bodies are found by the Dike, and Allenso is arrested; the virtuous rufhan survives just long enough to exonerate him and name Fallerio as the guilty man. Allenso brings home the news of Pertillo’s murder, which causes his mother to drop dead. Suicidally guilt-stricken, Allenso disguises himself as his father in order to be executed in his place. He is convicted, but Fallerio follows him to court and admits the truth. Both father and son are sentenced to death. Truth insists that Homicide and Avarice will never get away with their crimes in Eliza’s realm, but they leave the stage threatening more covetousness and murder to come.