Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Vex.
Words
346
Characters
1793
Typicality
0.21 (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
Sir I bes changed your worship, deal not so severely with me. Indeed sir, the Captain informed me of her; and said he would be here ready to accuse her. Good sir. Good your worship, hold your hand. For my poor family sake. Sir it's the first time that ever I offended in this kind. I pray your worship be of a better mind towards me. Ah, would, would. Ah, would, would, would— Mistri , I will go no further in this business, then you have limb ed me in your directions: it'll be revenge enough for my disgrace to make him see his error. Mistress, I will not watch more truly at Midnight, then I will pray for you for this Lisc very. I will instantly call my priuy-search, guard, and catch a bird, of Justice in the lime-twigs of his own Warrant.— And English Spaniard sir, And therefore the verier knave: as will be proved I doubt not, to his shame, and my re noun in the Common . By your Worships leave. Spanish news sir. With to please your Worship to exa mine the virtue of my Warrant, and then these Persons a cordingly? And please your worship, the best University for this pur pose will be Bridewell. I am acquainted with the best Tutors there, Master Cleanewhip, Master Dri lash, and diverse others. No such matter sir. But in my right mind, and Midlesex fear it not. O, he's rarely vexed. Oh have I found you Mistress? Sir this is the Gentlewoman I brought before your worship to day. As I am in my right mind and Midlesex, it is she sir. I had not matter enough then to lay to her charge; for which I thank your worship I kissed Newgate. But now I have sir; she has lest a Child upon our Parish, I am sure God by and unknown fa there; and has been a lose Liven, both at Duke Humphrey's, and most of the winked it houses about the Town these four years: which I can sufficiently prove.
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…