Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

FUB

in The Knave in Grain, New Vamped — D., J.

Metadata

PlayThe Knave in Grain, New Vamped
AuthorD., J.
Year (catalogued)1640
First performance1625
Decade1640s
GenreComedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyUnknown
TheaterFortune;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Fub.
Words687
Characters3485
Typicality0.49 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA19750
BritDrama no.2199
ClusterCluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers

Important excerpts

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Full speech

Master, as you are a man stand and tickle her. Nay, let her come I'll give her Heart belly full. By no means, it'll make they drunk to hear it. Will you walk sir? will you munch? I believe you: will you feed sir? So I guessed, ever since you knew the Gentlewoman that beat you. Why she is able to make any body pocky melan choly. But would you would snap a bit sir. Would I were sure of that. And if you please, let it go to the Punks delight; it's your only sweet tune: for women do love the Punks delight. I can make a scurvy shift: But to say truth I am no good Querister. After my manner. That's nothing but your conceit sir. Oh that your love were any thing but Common: then might she be.— Nay what you will i'faith. Prick it quickly then: But Hark you Signior, shall you not needs my help? I believe yowl find the tied turned, 'tis ebbing uva ter there, would I might be begged, as he had Like to have been, if his foolery do not vex my discretion, but he gives me means, and I could do little if I could not smile. All hail. Gentiles, good speed. No, you, and you please, Marona to your self. So says his backside. I can resolve you: She cannot. No, I'll assure you, It's a token of good will of my Master's, there's no brain guilty ont but his own: if you Like it you may, and you will not, the laws in your own hands, you may choose. He has penned a Song too, which I should have tickled, if I had not been hoarse with drinking Flap-Dra gons last night. Fub. Will not you be Fubb'd Sir. Nay, but will you not indeed? I am glad I know't,—be with you. Absurd and gross. I will assure you he's wandering to Pusse, or as a man would say, to deal with Mistress Clariflora. Than a Stockfish. I think you are mad: What shall I prove? That's and easy question, because most of them get Follies wings, and grow so light there's no ho with them: they must fly out. I do not Like this. Good gentlemen give me leave to laugh: would, would, would, the Doctors wife, and the Madman: the madman, and the Doctors wife. Why sir, the fits upon him, and he's upon her, and younder's such sport, would, would, would. Run: beware horns. Follow the Doctor, believe your eyes. I thank you sir, I would I had it. No I pray you be not monstrous merry till you are married. As a Crow in a Gutter. Run there she goes. You'll have reason to pledge this shortly. Yes faith he has said it, and I swear it, from better to worse indeed. Undoing he means. She were no good Bawd else. Shall I be your Usher? will you follow your lea der sir? The Drawers have drawn him out Sir. What Time? As you see, in perfect memory, when shall we ride the hogsheads? What Will? See, see. Wherefore ring those bells? Lack a couple, what serve Time and I for? Truly, you shall learn then. Yes, sir, but do not spit your venom. So I think. A link good Time, a link. Good night Time, remember Friday. Hark you, sir, take my counsel; though store be no soar, meddle with no more of them, lest you make me a Prophet, and get many a soar head by the match: have you not herd the and cient saying, No man can serve two Master's? And serve their turns well. Hark you Master Lodwick, you or any man may think he does well, and yet come short. I speak by proof. Hold your peace, there's more in the company. It's not worth it, though I should say as much by you. If we might see all that comes by marriage, there would be old butting abroad? If not for company, for mirth's sake, take heed before there. The Horne-cutter is come, sir.

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…