Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
And you shall know't, that you shall If my husband and Alupis were not here I'de rather pay him back his kiss again, Then be beholding to him. I know it is his custom; he was always Wont to abuse me, Like a knave as he is, But I'll endure't no more. Yes marry will I, that I will, you rascal you, I'll teach you to lay your frumps
Full speech
Nay good Duck, do not vex your self; what though he loves her? you know she will not have him. Of what place I pray? It's of some new discovered Country, is't not? I hope my husband and I have enough wisdom To govern our own child; if we want any It'll be to little purpose, I dare say, To come to borrow some of you. Do you hear? you are welcome. Go you're a paltry knave, I, that you are, To wrong and honest woman thus. You're a slandering knave, And you shall know't, that you shall If my husband and Alupis were not here I'de rather pay him back his kiss again, Then be beholding to him. I know it is his custom; he was always Wont to abuse me, Like a knave as he is, But I'll endure't no more. Yes marry will I, that I will, you rascal you, I'll teach you to lay your frumps upon me; You delight in it, do you? Well upon that condition. So there's enough, I'm half a weary, Farewell good Shepherd, I quake all over, worse then any fit Of the palsy which I have had this forty years Could make me do. What will become of me if he should see me? Truly he's a good proper Gentleman, If he were not mad, I would not be so afraid of him. Would, would, would, whom does he take me for! Law you there now,— I thought I was not so unhandsome, as they make me I for those few I have, I think they're white enough. Nay, I am but some fourscore years and ten And bear my age well; yet Alupis says I look Like January, but I'll teach the knave Another tune I'll warrant him. You have begged so handsomely. Now he's stark mad again upon the sudden; He had some sense even now. I will not be abused thus, that I will not My hair was bright even now, and my looks fresh: Am I so quickly changed? Thou liest; J, that thou dost, For these are honest apples, that they are; I'm sure I gathered them my self. What will you do? pray take them. It's false; for I know no such woman. I'm glad I am God from him, would J had My apples too, but it's no matter though, J'le have a better gift for Callidorus To morrow. I am going again to Callidorus, But I have God a better present now, My own ring made of good Ebony, Which a young handsome shepherd bestowed on me Some fourscore years ago, then they all loved me, I was a handsome Lass, J wosse in those days. Are you come To put your mocks upon me? Alas good soul I do forgive you truly; I would not have you weep for me, indeed I ever thought you would repent at last, I, I, withal my heart, But do you speak sincerely? Why, I am not So old as you imagined, I am yet But fourscore years. Am I a January now? How do you think? I always did believe You'd be of another opinion one day; I know you did but jest. O no! you flatter me, But I look something fresh indeed this morning. I should please Callidorus mightily, But I'll not go perhaps; this fellow is As handsome quite as he, and I perceive He loves me hugely, I protest I will not Aside Have him grow mad, which he may chance to do If I should scorn him. Do in Pans name, do; now, now. Alas good soul! I must seem coy at first, But not too long, for fear I should quite loose him. Alas good Shepherd! And in troth I feign would help you But I am passed those vanities of love. Well you should not win me But that I am loath to be held the cause Of any young men ruin, do not think it My want of chastity, but my good nature Which would see no one hurt. Well, let us then: IT were incivility to be your debtor, I'll give you back again your kiss, sweetheart, And come in afternoon, I'll see you; My husband will be gone to fell some kine, And Hylace tending the sheep, till then Farewell good Duck ( Offers to go. ) But do you hear, because you shall remember ( Turns back. ) To come I'll give thee here this Ebon ring But do not wear it, lest my husband chance To see't: Farewell Duck. Why do you call me Duck? Yes, you know I have. Why do you ask? I do. Rather then to see you perish in your flames. O, you're disposed to jest I see, Farewell. Base villain, is this your love? Give me my ring again? Pray hear me, command me any thing And be but silent of this, good Alupis ; Hugh, Hugh, Hugh. I'll do my best endeavour. Yes, yes, I do, I do; Do ye hear sweet heart? Are you mad to fling away a fortune That's thrust upon you, you know Aegon's rich. I Duck, he says he will. He will, he will; Duck. Why? are you not ashamed to abuse me thus, Before this company? It's false, 'twas Hylace that overheard you; She told me so; but they are married now. Alupis, give me. They two have God a kiss; Why should I loose it for want of speaking? You're welcome shepherd. Beshrew their heart that call this Gentleman mad, He hath his senses I'll warrant him, about him, As well as any fellow of them all. What am I? Leave off these tricks, I shall be angry else, And take away the favours I bestowed. What shall I do? Alupis, good Alupis, Stay but a little while, pray do but hear me. Alas! I am undone.
Plot summary
Plot — Love's Riddle
Before the start of the action, Callidora was the victim of an attempted rape when she was alone in her absent parents’ house. Aphron, who was obsessed with her, broke into the house, but she hid in a corner and evaded him. Afraid of a second encounter, she borrowed a suit of her brother’s clothes and fled into the forest. Aphron went mad, and initially believed every woman he met to be Callidora. In the forest, the cross-dressed Callidora becomes ‘Callidorus’. She meets Alupis, a shepherd who sold his inheritance to see the city and came home penniless but with a witty devotion to pleasure. She takes him on as her man, and asks him to teach her indifference to love. She sets up home in the country, only to find that, seeming to be a beautiful youth, she attracts the amorous attentions of the local women, young and old. Palaemon is interested in marrying Hylace, but her father Melarnus refuses the match, thinking him too poor. But Hylace has only been leading him on, more interested in his gifts than himself. Alupis encourages him to turn the tables: she will come to heel if he treats her with masterful disdain; but when this doesn’t bring about her immediate devotion, he loses his nerve and tells her it was all a joke. Alupis decides to recruit her mother, the ancient but amorously inclined Truga, to support Palaemon’s suit. Though infatuated with ‘Callidorus’, Truga transfers her affections to Alupis when he speaks politely to her, and gives him a ring as a lover’s token. Alupis uses the ring to blackmail her: he will show it to her husband, as evidence of adultery, if she doesn’t ensure that Palaemon and Hylace are married before the end of the day. When he brings Palaemon to Truga’s cottage to arrange the wedding, Hylace eavesdrops on the meeting and decides to cross the plan. Palaemon and Alupis meet with Melarnus. The problem of Palaemon’s relative poverty is resolved when Aegon pretends to adopt him as his heir, disinheriting his daughter Bellula for her unseemly interest in ‘Callidorus’; so Melarnus accepts Palaemon, though he still has reservations about the young man’s habit of writing poetry. Before the wedding, however, he changes his mind and pretends that Hylace is to marry someone else—Hylace has had a word with him. Florellus, Callidora’s brother, returns home after five years’ travel, and goes to look for his missing sister. In the forest, he sees Bellula and falls for her; but she is more interested in ‘Callidorus’, and urges the…