Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Non. | N •• . | Nons. | N • n.
Words
531
Characters
2543
Typicality
0.38 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A16924
BritDrama no.
2277
Cluster
Cluster 21 — Old fathers & plain counsel
Important excerpts
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Full speech
You say very well sir. And never credit me as you knew my Father, I would be very ready, as you know how duty binds: for because it is a usual thing in these days, desiring the love and friendship, I protest and vow sir. I sh uld— Never credit me sir, if I have her, or have her not to my knowledge. Never credit me, but I for sooth am of that opinion, that it is as it were. I protest and vow—I should be as sor ry as any Man.— N ver credit me pretty Gentlewoman— You are a L sse indeed. I pro st and vow, and such ne, as I would be very rry to appear any way, or in the least , as it were please you to understand me: for I'll be sworn, he e is not in the World. If you will believe me Lady. There is not in the world I say— There is not in the world any Gentlewoman— Yes Lady, I am sir Philip. Never credit me sir, if you will believe me but— If I put her to't or ever offer to put any Woman to't again, never credit me: let me never be trusted, I protest and Gentlewoman she has used me— I cannot put her to't, nor she will not be put to't. Sing. If mine be, you can best read'hem, t'is your own handwriting. I see I am not such and Ass, I would I might never stir but I am—Wh r is S r Paull If I do not tell him— Nothing but what I can ans ere in a sort dee see me as well as—never credit I had warrant under his hand S ee und stands nothing that I can speak. I thank you sir. H you any Whitpots? To try is he would forget it or no? But what must I say to them? Only salute them, bid' hem welcome. Tell'hem Sir Paul was hast lie called forth on his Majesties affairs. Entreat their patience till his return, which you know will be very sudden, although you know not where he is. And so forth as occasion serves. No I protest and vow. I do but speak as they say.— What you said I have and ill verbatim else. No sir. I will take your own words for this matter. Only salute them. Bid them welcome— Tell them Sir Paul was hastily called forth on his Ma iesties affairs— Entreat their patience till his return, which you know. Will be very sudden, although you know not where he is— And so forth as occasion serves. By word of mou h sir. I tit not speak with Sir Paul then, it seems, to know the reason why I am subdoodled thus, In I protest and vow a kind of ooles Paradise. Never credit me but I have had sport en ugh'o conscience, and if I do not make a Stage phyen't, when I come into Cornwall: I protest and vow then say there was Nonsense in this. Never credit me, but I will spowt some Cornish at him. Peden brass vidne whee his cregas.
Plot summary
Plot — The Northern Lass
Against the advice of his kinsman Triedwell, Sir Philip Luckless has contracted to marry Mistress Fitchew, a rich lawyer’s widow. He has second thoughts when he meets his future brother-in-law, the idiot Widgeon, and realizes that he may have allied himself to bad stock. Mistress Trainwell comes to remind him that he is already committed to marry the northern lass Constance, but he is unco-operative, calling Constance a whore and Trainwell a bawd. It later emerges that Constance sent Trainwell in the naive belief that a kiss from Luckless at a fleeting encounter was a binding offer of marriage. Triedwell attempts to save Luckless by dissuading Fitchew from the match. His arguments about the discontents of wifely obedience make no headway: Fitchew has already had her own dominance written into the marriage contract. Moreover, Triedwell falls 1629 in love with her himself. Fitchew suspects Luckless is trying to wriggle out of his obligations. When Luckless proposes having the marriage solemnized early, she takes it to be a bluff, and calls it; by that evening, they are married. They are presented with a wedding masque of forsaken lovers; Triedwell wears the willow for Fitchew and Constance for Luckless. This so offends Fitchew that she refuses to sleep with her new husband; Luckless regrets his hasty marriage. Constance falls into a melancholy over her lost love. Her uncle, the justice Sir Paul Squelch, tries to induce her to marry Nonsense, but she sees through an attempt to pass him off as Luckless. Squelch decides to get himself another heir by pursuing a more active sex life. Triedwell arranges for Holdup, a whore, to be brought before him in his official capacity; instead of punishing her, he adopts her as his mistress and, to ensure free access without suspicion, passes her off as Constance. Fitchew is persuaded to divorce Luckless, but she will only do so after Constance is already engaged. Triedwell induces Widgeon to woo the false Constance, which he does posing as Luckless. The real Constance is taken to see a doctor, who prescribes sex with Luckless as the cure for her melancholy; if that is questionable medical advice, it is because the ‘doctor’ is really Pate, Luckless’s servant. Squelch sees her leaving in Luckless’s coach and is told that she is eloping with Widgeon. The news of her brother’s success with ‘Constance’ fulfils Fitchew’s condition and the divorce goes through. Squelch is arrested as he goes to visit Holdup, and tries to pass…