CONVERSION

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

Metadata

Play	The Sophister (Fallacy, or The Troubles of Great Hermenia)
Author	Zouche, Richard
Year (catalogued)	1639
First performance	1614
Decade	1630s
Genre	Comedy
Play type	University
Speech prefix(es)	Conv.
Words	342
Characters	1993
Typicality	0.17 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id	A15873
BritDrama no.	1922
Cluster	Cluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit

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Full speech

Can Aequipolency endure all this? Can all this be en dured by Aequipolency? I am no Stoic. O these Climates are too cunning, I must seek further. Faith he will led the next way from Leyden to Doway, That it may be I may make use of him, Did not these troubles banish me: I would go voluntary: Your finest wits are thought insipu'd till They have passed the salt water. Our homespun learning's of a courser thread, It's stained and smoked in dressing. The Germanes vates drenched in a deeper grain, Venice and Padua will return them richer; And I begin to pity thy wilfulness. What course intendest thou? 'Twere thy best, being skilled in tempering Confections, to proclaim some Paracelsian Oil, or Angelical pills. I will to Flushing, Midleborough, Amsterdam, peradven ture thence to Antwerp, and so to see Rheims and Room. Well, except the morrow Sun display more comfort, I am gone believe it. This fellow thinks himself as cunning as a tumbler that walks upon ropes, and with his level keeps himself upright, but his steps are dangerous, I had rather walk on the Alps, though sleeper, where I may have sure footing. I, who my restless wits have daily tied, In searching choicest objects of delight: Though none more grateful, none more tedious Then that most blessed content which they enjoy, Who underneath the courteous Laurel shade, In muses laps do rest their weary heads; But now alas, what proud ambition, What jealous envy, greedy avarice, Hath cast infection on those purer springs? They whose kind steel was sometime only proud In giving waxed tablets, some cured wounds, In their own ireful, and all hardened breasts, Imprint the tragic characters of death Hight in pursuit of lost lord Intellect; I am informed by Definition, My best esteemed loving Topicus Lies desperate hurt by Demonstration. So betwixt my deer affection to him And bounden duty to my absent Lord, My hearts divided with convulsions, But pardon me great Amina, thy son Commands my service, this one duty done.

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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