Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 3 (numps, numpes, blastfield, wares, parson, nidden…). Matches are highlighted.
and incision Knife, Of which he told me you did stand in needs: Indeed I deal in such continued ̄ modities, And am acquainted what such parcels mean: For other wares or money endue for them, I know not what be longs to't. Willingly: my cloak boy, I'll along, yet am afraid That he who had professed himself thy Kinsman, and my
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As your self, Sir. Leave him to me, I'll persuade him that I knew him, ere I saw him. Very well, it hath been many a good men case. These claps are God by clapping. You show your self a Kinsman. And lotion must be used. It'll put him to some pain. Very good, sir? Make no doubt of that, sir. You are my friend indeed: and so I hope to keep you. Now good speed with you, good customers are thick sowed, and come up but thin. It is good to make much of them, when we have them. This should be the patient, that he talked off. You do: that owes your Master's money. Before you came. He hath indeed. But before he went, left order with me, you should be dispatched. I'll assure you that, and intends well towards you, I pray come near into the withdrawing Room. Yes youth, I know, wherefore you come: pray rest you in that chair, and I'll be for you presently; be not ashamed, you are not the first, nor shall be the last, that meet with these disa sters: and now come, pray show me your commodity. Are his in danger too? let him not fear, but if he have not let it run too far, there may be help found: nay, come, will you show? These parcels may in time grow great, come, will you be ruled, the Gentleman your Kinsman, told me before, how bashful you would be; and it becomes you well: but for your parcels, show them in time: for if delay be long, that little which perhaps you shall have left, in time will come to nothing: your Kinsman's loath that you should spoil your Marriage? But I pray say. By your favour, no more friend of mine, then you found him, to claim Kindred: my acquaintance with him, yet is scarce a full hour. My meaning was to give you a Sering, or and incision Knife, Of which he told me you did stand in needs: Indeed I deal in such continued ̄ modities, And am acquainted what such parcels mean: For other wares or money endue for them, I know not what be longs to't. Willingly: my cloak boy, I'll along, yet am afraid That he who had professed himself thy Kinsman, and my deer friend, will prove thy Master's Cousin.
Plot summary
Plot — The Knave in Grain, New Vamped
Jorezzo, banished after his father’s conviction for treason, has returned to Venice under the alias Julio, confiding his identity only to his old schoolfellow Franciscus. He plans to raise his fortunes by marrying Franciscus’ sister Phemone. Unfortunately for him, she is already in love with Antonio; so he tells Franciscus that Antonio is attempting to seduce his wife Cornelia. The jealous Franciscus fights a duel with Antonio, leaves him for dead, and goes into exile. Antonio is found and nursed bya shepherd. Franciscus’ property is seized by the state, and Cornelia’s father, believing the accusation of adultery, turns her out of his house; Phemone leaves Venice with her. They are given shelter by the disguised Antonio, but do not realize his identity. Antonio’s father Arbaces offers a reward for the capture of the fugitive Franciscus, who is living in disguise near Venice. Julio seeks him out, pretending remorse, but really intending to claim the «reward. Franciscus accepts his company, but sneaks off to fetch Arbaces and the watch. Franciscus is arrested and brought before the Duke. At first he is condemned for Antonio’s murder, but the judgement is reversed when Antonio himself comes to the court. Franciscus generously asks the court to spare Julio, but his plea backfires when he lets it slip that Julio is really Jorezzo, the son of a traitor. The Duke sentences him to be branded on the forehead with the word ‘knave’, then banished. In the sub-plot, Stultissimo comes off worst in a fight with Clariflora, Lodowick’s courtesan, and falls in love with her. He sends her amorous verses, takes his revenge by giving her a powerful laxative, and then marries her, only to regret it when he realizes this makes him a cuckold. Meanwhile Lodowick’s friend Valentius is enamoured of the physician Vanderman’s wife Sibylia. Lodowick gets him taken into the doctor’s care as a mental patient in order to have easier access to her. The stratagem is successful, and Valentius has his way with Sibylla. Vanderman discovers the adultery, so Valentius is pronounced sane and discharged. Both Vanderman and Stultissimo appeal to the Duke in connection with their wives’ adultery, but are merely mocked as cuckolds. B-Text In this version, Julio sets up a brothel called the Leaguer, in association with the whore and bawd, and sets out to live on his wits. Three new episodes are inserted in relation to this. In the first, he buys cloth from a mercer on credit, asking him to send 1626…