Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 1 (nony, tailors, butler, mall, jesu, massinissa…). Matches are highlighted.
WHat? my Lord of the Palace? Why, this was done Like a beaten Soldier. Is't come to that? why Tomasin. Did not one of the Countesses Servingmen tell us that this Gentleman was sped? And brought him down stairs her self. Nay more, that he had already possessed
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WHat? my Lord of the Palace? Why, this was done Like a beaten Soldier. Is't come to that? why Tomasin. Did not one of the Countesses Servingmen tell us that this Gentleman was sped? And brought him down stairs her self. Nay more, that he had already possessed her sheets. Oh my sweet kilbuck. Use me? For term Sir. I Mistress. You shall bind me to your service Lady. I Lady. Mistress Sthenio, tell her Honour, if I get not ac cease to her, and that instantly she's undone. Pray her for her Honours sake to give me instant access to her. Our Cyprian Goddess save your good Honour. Because, Madam, I have been moved by your Ho nours last most chased admonition, to leave the offensive life. I led before. I, I assure your Honour, unless it be for the pleasure of two or three poor Ladies, that have prodigal Knights to their husbands. Alas Madam, we would all be glad to live in our callings. I beseech your good Honour mistake me not, I boast of nothing but my charity, that's the worst. In care of that Madam, I have presumed to offend your chasteies with my presence. Hearing it reported for truth and generally, that your Honour will take to husband a young Gentleman of this City called Tharsalio. If your Honour does, you are utterly undone, for he's the most incontinent, and insatiate Man of Woe men that ever VENUS blessed with ability to please them. Madam, the report of it is so strongly confident, that I fear the strong destiny of marriage is at work in it. But if it be Madam: Let your Honours known virtue resist and defy it for him: for not a hundred will serve his one turn. I protest to your Honour, When (WE NUS pardon me) I winckt at my unmaidenly exer cise. I have known nine in a Night made mad with his love. Then is your good Honour joust as I pray for you, and good Madam, even for your virtues sake, and come fort of all your Dignities, and Possessions; fix your whole Womanhood against him. He will so inchant you, as never man did woman: Nay a Goddess (say his light huswives) is not worthy of his sweetness. Dear Madam, your Honours most perfect admo nitions have brought me to such a hate of these imperfe ctions, that I could not but attend you with my duty, and urge his unreasonable manhood to the fill. Nay Beastly-hood, I might say, indeed Ma dam, but for saving your Honour; Nine in a night said I? No more Madame? that's enough one would think. Alas Madam, your Honour is the chief of our Ci tie, and to whom shall I complain of these inchastities, (being your Ladyships reformed Tenant) but to you that are chastest? I humbly thank your good Honour, that was first cause of it. I beseech your good Honour think upon him, make him and example. All my duty to your Excellence. Exit. Ars. Admitted? I, into her heart, I'll able it; never was man so praised with a dispraise; nor so spoken for in being railed on. I'll give you my word; I have set her heart upon as tickle a pin as the needle of a Dial; that will never let it rest, till it be in the right position. Because I saw Cupid shoot in my words, and open his wounds in her looks. Her blood went and came of errands betwixt her face and her heart; and these changes I can tell you are shrewd telltales. Well, 'twas a villainous invention of thine, and had a swift operation, it took Like sulphur. And yet this for tuous Countess hath to my ear spun out many a tedious lecture of pure sisters thread against concupiscence. But e ver with such and affected zeal, as my mind gave me, she had a kind of secret titillation to grace my poor house sometime; but that she feared a spice of the Sciatica, which as you know ever runs in the blood. No, but because they did not purge that sin. Nay if you take me unprovided. So her old grudge, stand not betwixt her and me.
Plot summary
Plot — The Widow's Tears
Renouncing Fortune and devoting himself instead to the goddess Confidence, Tharsalio intends to woo the widowed Countess Eudora. His wooing technique is grossly sexual, and he also quarrels with a rival, Rebus. Rebuffed and mocked by his family, he seeks out Arsace and bribes her to advise Eudora not to marry him, but when he returns to her and throws out Rebus, he is rejected a second time. Finally, however, she accepts him, and their wedding is marked by a masque. ===== PAGE 180 ===== Lysander is concerned about his wife Cynthia’s constancy, and plans to test it by faking his own death: with the help of Lycus he undertakes a journey and sends back a report that he has been murdered by mountain bandits. His body is interred in the family monument; Cynthia and her waiting-woman go to live in the tomb in order to be near him. Lysander returns incognito, disguised as a soldier assigned as the sentinel of the cemetery. He successfully seduces Cynthia, but she insists that their liaison be conducted privately to avoid compromising her reputation. Tharsalio sees them kissing inside the tomb and takes revenge on the ‘sentinel’ by stealing one of the crucified bodies he is supposed to be watching. When this is discovered, Cynthia suggests disinterring Lysander’s body and substituting it for the stolen one. Lysander goes to fetch a crowbar, removes his disguise, and meets Tharsalio, who deduces what is happening and informs Cynthia. She is thus able to pretend that she knew who the ‘sentinel’ was all along. Lycus is arrested for Lysander’s murder, and the tomb is opened to test whether his presence will make the corpse’s wounds bleed; but the coffin proves to be empty, and the ‘sentinel’ is found hiding in the tomb. Both men are sent for trial by the Governor, recently appointed with a hard-line law-and-order policy. Eudora intervenes to explain the truth, and Lycus is released; after Tharsalio replaces the stolen body, so is Lysander. Tharsalio allows him to believe that Cynthia was never tempted to infidelity.