Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
confess My judgement wronged you by conceuing so. Her love turned shoemaker? I am glad of this. Be not so cruel sir. Come hither shoemaker. Where are they married? dost thou know the church? Does he not honest fellow? This, or what else. At Saint Faith's church thou sayest. Be secret on thy life. Yonders the lying varlet mocked
witnesses of the farewells which he gave, When I with weeping eyes bid him adieu: Dodger take heed. Is't even so. Dares he so carelessly venture his life, Upon the indignation of a King? Hath he despised my love, and spurned those favours, Which I with prodigal hand poured on his head? He shall repent his rashness with his soul, Since
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M Y Lord Mayor, you have sundry times Feasted my self, and many Courtiers more, Seldom, or never can we be so kind, To make requital of your courtesy: But leaving this, I hear my cousin Lacy Is much affected to your daughter Rose. Take heed my Lord, advise you what you do, A berier vnthrist lives not in the world, Then is my cousin, for I'll tell you what, 'Tis now almost a year since he requested To travel countries for experience, I furnished him with coin, bills of exchange, Letters of credit, men to wait on him, Solicited my friends in Italy Well to respect him: but to see the end: Scant had he journeyed through half Germany, But all his coin was spent, his men cast off, His bills imbezeld, and my jolly coze, Ashamed to show his bankrupt presence here, Became a Shoemaker in Wittenberg, A goodly science for a gentleman Of such dissent: now judge the rest by this. Suppose your daughter have a thousand pound, He did consume me more in one half year, And make him heir to all the wealth you have, One twelve month's rioting will waste it all, Then seek (my Lord) some honest Citizen To wed your daughter to. I but I have a better trade for him, I thank his grace he hath appointed him, Chief colonel of all those companies Mustered in London, and the shires about, To serve his highness in those wars of France: See where he comes: Lovel what news with you? Thanks my good Lord Mayor. To approve your loves to me? no subtlety Nephew: that twenty pound he does bestow, For joy to rid you from his daughter Rose: But cosens both, now here are none but friends, I would not have you cast and amorous eye Upon so mean a project, as the love Of a gay wanton painted citizen, I know this churl, even in the height of scorn, Does hate the mixture of his blood with thine, I pray Thee do thou so, remember coze, What honourable Fortune's wait on Thee, Increase the kings love which so brightly shines, And gilds thy Hope's, I have no heir but Thee: And yet not Thee, if with a wayward spirit, Thou start from the true bias of my love. Coze, for those words heres thirty Portugues And Nephew Askew, there's a few for you, Fair Honour in her loftrest eminence Stays in France for you till you fetch her thence, Then Nephews, clap swift wings on your dissignes, Be gone, be gone, make haste to the Guild Hall, There presently I'll meet you, do not stay, Where honour becomes, shame attends delay. Exit. It is so, nay sure it cannot be, I am at my wits end Dodger. Why my lord Mayor, think you it then a shame, To join a Lacy with and Otleys name? Go certify his grace it shall be done: Exit Lovel. Now cousin Lacy, in what forwardness Are all your companies? Not there? Dog. No, my good Lord. Trust me (sir Roger Otly) I did think Your counsel had given head to this attempt, Drawn to it by the love he bears your child. Here I did hope to find him in your house, But now I see mine error, and confess My judgement wronged you by conceuing so. Her love turned shoemaker? I am glad of this. Be not so cruel sir. Come hither shoemaker. Where are they married? dost thou know the church? Does he not honest fellow? This, or what else. At Saint Faith's church thou sayest. Be secret on thy life. Yonders the lying varlet mocked us so. Where is my Nephew married? True, and my Nephew. To hide his gilded, counterfeits him lame. Oh base wretch, Nay hide thy face, the horror of thy gilded, Can hardly be washed off: where are thy powers? What vattels have you made? Oh yes I see Thou fightest with Shame, and shame hath conquered Thee. This lameness will not serve. My gracious Lord, have care unto your self, For there are traitors here. Here he stands. This my deer liege: your grace to do me honour, Heaped on the head of this degenerous boy, Desertless favours, you made choice of him, To be commander over powers in France, But he. Is he not a traitor? I will not bear his shame upon my back. No my Liege. Yea but my gracious Lord, I do mislike the match far more than he, Her blood is too too base. And I my liege, since theres no remedy. But Dodger, prithee tell me in this fight, How did my cozen Lacy bear himself? Sure thou mistakest, I saw him shipped, and a thousand eyes beside Were witnesses of the farewells which he gave, When I with weeping eyes bid him adieu: Dodger take heed. Is't even so. Dares he so carelessly venture his life, Upon the indignation of a King? Hath he despised my love, and spurned those favours, Which I with prodigal hand poured on his head? He shall repent his rashness with his soul, Since of my love he makes no estimate, I'll make him wish he had not known my hate, Thou hast no other news? None worse I know thou hast: procure the king To crown his giddy brows with ample honours, Send him chief Colonel, and all my hope Thus to be dashed? but 'tis in vain to grieve, One evil cannot a worse relieve: Upon my life I have found out his plot, That old dog Love that fawnd upon him so, Love to that puling girl, his fair cheeked Rose, The Lord Majors daughter hath distracted him, And in the fire of that loves lunacy, Hath he burned up himself, consumed his credit, Lost the kings love, yea and I fear, his life, Only to get a wanton to his wife: Dodger, it is so. Thou art acquainted with my Nephews haunts, Spend this gold for thy pains, go seek him out, Watch at my Lord Majors (there if he live) Dodger, thou shalt be sure to meet with him: Prithee be diligent. Lacy thy name Lived once in honour, now dead in shame: Be circumspect. exit. How far the churls tongue wanders from his heart, Well, well sir Roger Otley I believe you, With more then many thanks for the kind love, So much you seem to bear me: but my Lord, Let me request your help to seek my Nephew, Whom if I find, I'll straight embark for France, So shall my Rose be free, your thoughts at rest, And much care die which now die in my breast. Upon my life, my Nephew Lacy walks In the disguise of this Dutch shoemaker. My cousin speaks the language, knows the trade. I'll his lameness cure. Lead home your daughter. What Hammon? Is this your daughter? Where is my nephew Lacy married? Villain, I'll have Thee punished for this wrong. Dares Eyre the shoemaker uphold the deed? But I'll prevent him come sir Roger Oteley, The king will do us justice in this cause, How ere their hands have made them man and wife, I will disjoin the match, or lose my life. exeunt. How now good Dodger, whats the news in France? He means not sir to woo you to his maid, But only does demand whose man you are. Sirrah, knowest thou one Hans a shoemaker? Canst thou in sadness? Do so good fellow, 'tis no hurt to Thee. Then (good my liege) forbid the boy to wed One, whose mean birth will much disgrace his bed. Yea my liege, I do.
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…