Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

CAPTAIN

in The Antipodes — Brome, Richard

Metadata

PlayThe Antipodes
AuthorBrome, Richard
Year (catalogued)1640
Decade1640s
Speech prefix(es)Cap. | Capt.
Words222
Characters1103
Typicality0.34 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA16923
ClusterCluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques

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And whats the issue pray sir? Your reason? I shall then recover nothing. How have you done sir? By this fair hilt, he did sir, and so bruised My arms, so crushed my ribs, and stich my sides, That I have had no heart to draw my sword since; And shall I put it up, and not his purse Be made to pay for't? Against all humane reason, for although I have bought feathers of him these four years, And never paid him a penny; yet he duns me So desperately to keep my money still, As if I ought him nothing; he haunts and breaks my sleeps. I swear sir, by the motion of this I wear now, Shakes it. I have had twenty better feathers of him, and as ill paid for Yet still he duns me to forbear my payment, And to take longer day. I ha'not said my prayers in Mine own lodging sir this twelvemonths day, For sighed or thought of him; and how can you Compound this Actium, or the other of That Russian Coachman that durst lift a hand against a Commander. Pray name no sum in marks, I have had too many Of's marks already. Beat me again? So I'll be satisfied, and help him to More customers of my rank. Thank you sir.