Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 11 (tospot, rees, ralph, soch, tout, oundes…). Matches are highlighted.
if you cannot discharge one good fellow, and I tell you true, I think you do more then you can answer, to presie a man within a year and a day of his marriage. Ralph, thart a gull by this hand, and thou goest. Ralph, I am heavy at parting, but heres a shil ling for Thee, God send Thee to cram thy slops with French crowns, and
Well, well, work apace, they say seven of the All dermen be dead, or very sick. Sibil, welcome i'faith, and how dost thou mad wench? Is't so? why then leave work Ralph, to breakfast, boy look to the tools, come Ralph, come Firk. Exeunt. Come Rafe, stand to it Firk: my Master's, as we are the brave bloods of the shoemakers, heirs
Full speech
Master, here be the captains. Why then you were as good be a corporal, as a colonel, if you cannot discharge one good fellow, and I tell you true, I think you do more then you can answer, to presie a man within a year and a day of his marriage. Ralph, thart a gull by this hand, and thou goest. Ralph, I am heavy at parting, but heres a shil ling for Thee, God send Thee to cram thy slops with French crowns, and thy enemies bellies with bullets. Oh master, good morrow, yare and early stirrer, heeres a fair morning, good morrow Firk, I could have slept this hour, héeres a brave day towards. Dame, before God if my master follow your con fell, heel consume little beef, he shall be glad of men and he can catch them. Before God a proper man, and I warrant a fine workman: master farewell, dame adieu, if such a man as he cannot find work, Hodge is not for you. offer to go. Hans, th'art welcome, use thy self friendly, for we are good fellows, if not thou shalt be fought with, Wertenberg thou bigger then a Giant. Portegues thou wouldst say, here they be Firk, hark, they jingle in my pocket Like S. Marry Queries bells. Nay stay Firk, thou shalt not go alone. And if I stay, I pray God I may be turned to a Turk, and set in Finsbury for boys to shoot at: come Firk. I am a making a pair of shoes for my Lord Ma iors daughter, mistress Rose. Well master, all this is from the bias, do you re member the ship my fellow Hans told you of, the Skipper and he are both drinking at the swan? here be the Portigues to give earnest, if you go through with it, you can not choose but be a Lord at least. Why now you look Like your selfmaster, I war rant you, ther's few in the city, but will give you the wall, and come upon you with the right worshipful. You shall. Well said my hearts, ply your work to day, we loitered yesterday, to it pell mell, that we may live to be Lord Majors, or Aldermen at least. Well said i'faith, how sayest thou Hans, does not Firk tickle it? Thou shalt Haims. Go Hans, make haste again: come, who lacks work? Not a rag Jane, the law's on our side, he that sows in another men ground forsets his harvest, get Thee home Rafe, follow him Jane, he shall not have so much as a busk point from Thee. Fell not thy wife Rafe, make her not a whore. Thart a gull by my stirrup, if thou dost not go, I will not have Thee strike thy gimblet into these weak bessels, prick thine enemies Rafe. Enter Dodger. How now, boy? Tell me sirs, are my cousin M. Priscilla's shoes done? How sayest thou Firk ? were Ford? Well, well, work apace, they say seven of the All dermen be dead, or very sick. Sibil, welcome i'faith, and how dost thou mad wench? Is't so? why then leave work Ralph, to breakfast, boy look to the tools, come Ralph, come Firk. Exeunt. Come Rafe, stand to it Firk: my Master's, as we are the brave bloods of the shoemakers, heirs apparent to saint Hugh, and perpetual benefactors to all good fellows thou shalt have no wrong, were Hammon a king of spades, he should not delve in thy close without thy sufferance: but tell me Rafe, art thou sure 'tis thy wife? Peace my bullies, yonder they come. No Rafe, let me: Hammon, whither away so early? I'll show you: Jane, dost thou know this man? 'tis Rafe I can tell thee: nay, 'tis he in faith, though he be lamde by the wars, yet look not strange, but run to him, fold him about the neck and kiss him. Hold, hold. Hark fellow Rafe, follow my counsel, set the wench in the amid, and let her choose her man, and let her be his woman. Come to the purpose, yonder's the Bride and Bridegroom you look for I hope: though you be Lords, you are not to bar, by your authority, men from women, are you? This matter is answered: come Rafe, home with thy wife, come my fine shoemakers, lets to our Master's the new lord Mayor and there swagger this Shrove Tuesday, isle promise you wine enough, for Madge keeps the seller. By the lord, my lord Mayor is a most brave man, how shall prentices be bound to pray for him, and the honour of the gentlemen shoemakers? lets feed and be fat with my lords bounty. How now mad lads, whither away so fast? And this shall continue for ever. My Lord, we are at our wits end for room, those hundred tables will not feast the fourth partly of them. Your lordship mistakes my man Firk, he means their bellies want meat, not the boards, for they have drunk so much they can eat nothing. The truth is Firk, that the merchant owner of the ship dares not show his head, and therefore this skipper that deals for him, for the love he bears to Hans, offers my ma ster Eyre a bargain in the commodities, he shall have a rea sonable day of payment, he may sell the wares by that time, and be and huge gainer himself. Master I hope yowl not suffer my dame to take down your journeymen. Why then Sibil, take heed of pricking. How, my hearts touch her Hamon? yea and more than that, weel carry her away with us. My masters and gentlemen, never draw your bird spittes, shoemakers are steel to the back, men every inch of them, all spirit. Sirrah, take up your pelf, and be packing. Stay, who comes here? Jane, on again with thy mask. As a cat out of a pillory, very well I warrant you mistress. Yes forsooth, at the poulterers in Gracious street. Why mistress, the next time I cut my beard, you shall have the shavings of it, but they are all true hairs. Mistress, will you drink a pipe of Tobacco? What fellow Rafe? Mistress look here, Janes husband, why how, lame? Hans make much of him, he's a brother of our trade, a good workman, and a tall soul dier. Limbs? hast thou not hands man? thou shalt ne ver see a shoemaker want bred, though he have but three fin gers on a hand. No forsooth. No faith Jane is a stranger here, but Rafe pull up a good heart, I know thou hast one, thy wife man, is in London, one told Me he saw her a while ago we rye brave and neat, weel ferret her out, and London hold her. Did not I tell you mistress? now I may boldly say, good morrow to your worship. But mistress, be ruled by me, and do not speak so pulingly. So you had need, to hide your wicked face. And sirrah Rafe, what news, what news in France? I forsooth dame (mistress I should say) but the old term so sticks to the roof of my mouth, I can hardly lick it off.
Plot summary
Plot — The Shoemaker's Holiday, or The Gentle Craft
Before the start of the action, Lacy went bankrupt on a Continental tour, and learned the cobbler's trade in Wittenberg. On his return to England, he fell in love with Rose Oatley, but they fall foul of disapproving relatives: the Earl of Lincoln contrives for Lacy to leave the country. as a commander in the French wars, and her father takes her away to his country house. The newly married shoemaker Ralph is recruited into the army and takes a sad leave of his wife, Jane, and his colleagues. Lacy, however, deserts after the troops take ship: he sends his cousin to war in his place, and returns to London in the hope of making contact with Rose. Disguised as a Dutch shoemaker, Hans, he seeks employment with Simon Eyre and, though the business does not need another journeyman, he is accepted because Eyre's other workmen like him. A Dutch ship arrives in London with a rich cargo of luxury items, which the skipper offers at a bargain price; Lacy helps Eyre to buy the goods, using the money Lincoln gave him for his expenses in France. Eyre grows prosperous and becomes first an alderman, then Sheriff, and makes over his shop to his foreman. Hodge. In the country, Rose meets Hammon during a hunt, and her father thinks him a suitable son-in-law; at the betrothal, however, she rejects him and declares that she will live a maid. Hammon decides to try his luck with a London shopkeeper instead. The English rout the French in battle with relatively few fatal casualties, but Ralph is injured and comes home lame. He finds that Jane, forced to make her own living in his absence, has disappeared.Eyre is invited to dine with Oatley in the country, and the shoemakers accompany him to provide musical entertainment. Oatley hopes that the Eyres will. talk some marital sense into Rose, but she recognizes one of the morris-dancing shoemakers as Lacy. She summons him the following day on the pretext of fitting her shoes, and they elope. Oatley and Lincoln are decoyed to wait at the wrong church, but the couple are married before they realize their mistake. Meanwhile Hammon courts Jane, who is working as a seaJnstress, and overcomes her lack of interest by showing her Ralph's name on a list of the war dead. He orders a new pair of shoes for her to wear at the wedding, and sends one of her old ones as a model; Ralph recognizes it and his fellow shoemakers help him to intercept the wedding party before they reach the church. Jane is delighted that her true love is still alive; Hammon…