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

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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)	Descr. \| Desc. \| Des. \| Descrip.
Words	454
Characters	2469
Typicality	0.30 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id	A15873
BritDrama no.	1922
Cluster	Cluster 11 — Tosspots & tavern railers

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My Lord Division, it were best that you fate down if you are weary. It should seem so, for accidents are of a feminine nature, they cannot exist alone by themselves. Good Lord, what odds there is betwixt the men that were in those days, and the men that are now in this latter declining Age of the World. This Duke Substance was a monstrous, tall, huge, big man; he had a head greater than any Horse, a neck Like a Bull, larger sides than the Western Hog; Legs Like Windmill posts, and feet proportionable: His son Corpus was very Like unto him; the Aldermen of the Corporation, that are scarce able'to come in at our College-gates, might have shown tricks Like Tumblers in a hoop, through his Thumb-ring; King Ar thurs tallest Knight would have scarce trust his points. The Bullhide, that cut out in Thongs, compassed as much ground as the walls of Carthage, could not make him a Girdle. Oh sir ex pede Herculem. Indeed they say, Homer had seven Cities strove for his Birth, but none ever gave him place of abiding: but I thought Philosophers had more certain abided than a won dring Poet. But may it not be doubted, whither Socrates and Plato were of this Country; I could never hear that they had much to do with Substance. Hath Distinction got Ambiguities Linsy woolsey Coat? or Ambiguity Distinctions party-colour'd Cloak? My cunning is quite staggered; I know not whither I should believe mine eyes or mine ears. O, is it you? No wonder I mistook Ambiguity. They say a man may know the Devil by his cloven Foot; I am sure one may know thee by thy double hand. Nay, thou hast but one hand rather; thou art Ambo-dexter. But he would not have them double tongued, as you are. There is great difference. They many ways could speak one thing, thou one way speakest many things. Well met Invention, what have you found young Lord Intellect? Indeed he is hurt, but our fear was greater then their dan her, and it is happened better then they deserved. There is good hope of recovery. Was it not told us that Fallacy was here? Stay, here comes his Majesty. I think least of all in Quantity, for they are rather in number infinite; and I cannot tell whither they have Longitude and Latitude, I am sure they have no profound ness. Right, if the signification be single and true. That's impossible. I prithee, how camest thou by this Cloak? Nor dost thou ask what I intend to answer thee. Well, I will not come near him if he be mad. I thank you Sir, and will accompany you.

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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