Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

AEQUIPOLLENCY

in The Sophister (Fallacy, or The Troubles of Great Hermenia) — Zouche, Richard

Metadata

PlayThe Sophister (Fallacy, or The Troubles of Great Hermenia)
AuthorZouche, Richard
Year (catalogued)1639
First performance1614
Decade1630s
GenreComedy
Play typeUniversity
Speech prefix(es)Aequip. | Aequi. | Equip.
Words259
Characters1457
Typicality0.27 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA15873
BritDrama no.1922
ClusterCluster 11 — Tosspots & tavern railers

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Full speech

Who I Conversion? I can suffer any thing, in-faith ther's nothing that I cannot suffer. Prithee be ruled by me, stand to the present. So it seems, thou art rather a Pythagorian Peripate tick, thy very essence is mutability. Thy soul could walk through more Sects then some honest bodies have chan'd suits: methinks thou mightest do well at home by temporizing. Read Lipsius Constancy, let that consirme thee. Take heed you come not back by Quinborow there is a groom with a currycomb will rub your sides. But if you may be persuaded, it is as easy to lay down your stomach at home, as feed your self abroad by making buttons; you may So ner be preferred to the Inquisition then to the Conclave. Sir they added, As they found ease amid their vomiting, Pouring forth curses against Fallacy, How for his sake they had thrust the worthy Brother's, Topicus and Demonstration, into their desperate fury. Nay, I'll rather profess the making of Aurum potabile, and credit it with some two leaves of reasons, and ten of authority, for all diseases, griefs, and maladies. But which way art thou bent? I will. Now let him be brought hither, fear not stirring him, I warrant he's secure. Invention You shall do well, if against his waking you provide some show, And Music, which may welcome home his wandering senses. You hope at your return to get a Doctership the chea per, or a benefice with less ado, but you may be deceived, I will expect your reconversion, adieu.

Plot summary

Plot — The Sophister (Fallacy, or The Troubles of Great Hermenia)
. . The envious bastard Fallacy Sat to Sdtiinintent a oo to his father, Discourse, which will drive him-mad. His eager servant, Ambiguity, provides two options, one of |. - which will only induce drunkeriness. During. a’ - telling-off, Fallacy slips his father the drug and Discourse’s attitude changes: Fallacy becomes his. favourite son. The madness disables Discourse from being the ruler of Hermenia, so a regent must be _ appointed. Fallacy bribes Opposition to support his claim against his legitimate younger brothers, Topicus and Demonstration. He also tells Invention and ~ Judicium that Intellect has left. the kingdom, and persuades them to go looking for him; in fact, he has Intellect under lock and key. The counsellors debate. - the three brothers’ claims, and Topicus fights a duel : ar with Demonstration in which both are. wounded. -. Fallacy becomes Regent, appoints Opposition his chief -. counsellor, and banishes the others who supper’ Bs ' ' brothers. Hermenia declines ehder Fallacy’s jindtighbened. x rule. He locks up Scientia and Opinion, his brothers’ fiancées, and their mother, Truth. His attempts to woo © - Scientia are rebuffed, but he tricks Opposition into thinking that the lady is willing but unable to accepthis ©. proposal because Judicium knows her secret vows to... - _.the- contrary. ls Judicium. Fallacy then persuades Opposition’s son, Contradiction, to fight a duel ‘with an unknown. ~°0° | opponent. Father and son fight. and wound one Tae ‘another with poisoned _rapiers. we Opposition -undertakes to murder. Ambiguity gets his enemy, Distinction, dusk: steals ~ his clothes, and leaves him to pay the alehouse bill. . Distinction is left in Ambiguity’s clothes, and, mistaking his identity, Fallacy gives him the-insanity ~ - drug to put away. Entrusted with the keys, Distinction discovers Intellect and the imprisoned ladies. ‘He tests the drug on a dog, then administers it to Fallacy’s followers, who duly go mad. The two. wounded - - ‘brothers are cured by the surgical ministrations of __Analysis, and Equipolence. the apothecary brings Opposition and Contradiction back from the brink of death to tell their story of Fallacy’s $ perfidy. Analysis. a also cures Discourse. . - oo Realizing that the game is up, vi Putlagy swaps. clothes BS with Ambiguity, ostensibly to. practice making. his _ excuses when called-to account by Discourse, but in _ fact to procure a disguise in which to escape. Ambiguity - is arrested. Discourse pronounices…
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