in Eastward Ho — Chapman, George; Jonson, Ben; Marston, John
Metadata
Play
Eastward Ho
Author
Chapman, George; Jonson, Ben; Marston, John
Year (catalogued)
1605
First performance
1605
Decade
1600s
Genre
Comedy
Play type
Boys Professional
Company
Children of the Queen's Revels
Theater
Blackfriars;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Bram. | Bra ̄ .
Words
294
Characters
1540
Typicality
0.28 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A18407
BritDrama no.
1473
Cluster
Cluster 14 — Law & judgment
Important excerpts
No keyword-matching excerpt could be extracted (the cluster label doesn't share vocabulary with this character's speech).
Full speech
And you foreright winds Sir, and a fortunate voyage. Exit. Enter a Messenger. And they pray to God Bacchus. Sir Petronel and his honourable Captains in these young services, we old Servitors may be spared: We only came to take our leaves, and with one health to you all, I'll be bold to do so. Here neighbour Security, to the health of Sir Petronel, and all his Captains. But is not that your wife, Neighbour? Ah-my faith, her garments are exceeding Like your wives. Good Fortune brave Captains; fair skies God send ye. She is now at my house, Sir, and desired me that I would come to Visit you and inquire of you your Case, that we might work some means to get you forth. Why but what is't you are in for, Sir? Sir, for Securities Case, I have told him; Say he should be condemned to be carted, or whipped, for a Bawd, or so, why I'll lay and Execution on him o'two hundred pound, let him acknow ledge a Judgement, he shall do it in half and hour, they shall not all fetch him out, without paying the Execution, o'my word. Hardly, there are none of the Judges in Town, else you should remove your self (in spite of him) with a Habeas Corpus: But if you have a Friend to deliver your tale sensibly to some Justice o'the Town, that he may have feeling of it, (do you see) you may be bailed. For as I understand the Case, 'tis only done, In Terrorem, and you shall have and Actium of false Imprisonment against him, when you come out: and per haps a thousand pound Costs. Enter M. Wolf. I would speak with one Security, that is prisoner here.
Plot summary
Plot — Eastward Ho
The goldsmith [owehstone has two apprentices, the rebellious prodigal QUIEKSIWVEF and the virtuous Golding, and two daughters, the proud Gertrude and the modest Mildréd. Mistress Touchstone insists that Gertrude should marry above her rank to Sim@PéetronelFlash, while Touchstone bestows Mildred on Golding. Quicksilver is sacked after appearing for work drunk; Golding is also released from his indentures to become his former master’s son-in-law. Quicksilver considers becoming a merchant, then conspires with Security to entrap Sir Petronel Flash into debt to finance the secret expedition to Virginia he is planning. While Gertrude travels to her new husband’s fictitious country castle, Sir Petronel plans a _ - sexual liaison with [Winifméd| Security’s wife. Quicksilver and Sir Petronel both set sail, each in a different vessel, with the jealous S€@uirity following in a third, but a storm wrecks all three boats at Cuckold’s Haven. Winifred convinces Security that his suspicions are groundless. Quicksilver and Sir Petronel are arrested and sent to prison by Golding, now a deputy alderman, on suspicion of stealing from Touchstone. They and Security become penitent in their incarceration, but Touchstone is determined to prosecute them. Golding wishes to be more forgiving, and feigns his own imprisonment to bring his father-in-law to the jail. There Touchstone sees and accepts the sincerity of the miscreants’ repentance; Quicksilver, Sir Petronel, and Security are released, and Quicksilver promises to marry Sindefy, his punk.