Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
them Strews lavender, so strongly, that the owners Dare never smell them after; he's a broaker. More then my limbs lose; in one week he eat My wife up, and three children, this christian Jew did; Ha a long lane of hellish Tenements, Built all with pawns. He keeps a whore indeed, this is the Raven, Cried knock before you call,
Full speech
Cannons defend me, Gunpowder of hell, Whom dost thou blow up here? Was there ever called A devil by name from hell? then this is one. A City pestilence, A moath that eats up gowns, doublets and hose, One that with Bills, leads smocks and shirts together To linen close adultery, and upon them Strews lavender, so strongly, that the owners Dare never smell them after; he's a broaker. More then my limbs lose; in one week he eat My wife up, and three children, this christian Jew did; Ha a long lane of hellish Tenements, Built all with pawns. He keeps a whore indeed, this is the Raven, Cried knock before you call, he may be fired, His lousy wardropes are not; to this hellhound I pawned my weapons to buy brown bred To seed my brats and me; (they forfeited) Twice so much as his money him I gave, To have my Arms redeemed, the gripping slave Swore (not to save my soul) unless that I Laid down my stump here, for the Interest, And so hop home. This my Pitition was, which now I tear, My suit here was, When the next place did fallen, To be a Beadsman in your Hospital: But now I come most piteous complaining Against this three-pile rascal, widows decayer, The Orphans beggerer, and the poors betrayer; Give him the Russian law for all these sins. But one hundred blows on his bore shins I must bestir my stumps too. Justice; my Lord. That's his own usury. Follow thee thy curse, Wo'd blows might make all Brokers still disburse. I'll have those legs
Plot summary
Plot — The Wonder of A Kingdom
The Duke of Florence has betrothed his daughter, Fiametta, to the Prince of Pisa, and, to facilitate the political marriage, banished her lover, Angelo. Fiametta sickens for her absent love, and he returns to court disguised as a French doctor, offering the Duke his services to save her life. He diagnoses sexual frustration, and proposes a cure which requires the patient to drink a potion made from the beloved’s powdered heart: she will then hate him. In order to obtain the key ingredient, Angelo must be murdered. Angelo reveals his presence to Fiametta, but she insists on identifying him to her father, in the expectation that the Duke will relent. Angelo passes this off as an insane delusion, then flees to sanctuary. He is found and brought to court with a friar. He seems to reject Fiametta, and she agrees to marry Pisa the following day, but asks for the friar to hear her confession overnight. In fact, he secretly marries her to Angelo, pre-empting Pisa; the Duke and Prince are annoyed, but recognize there is nothing to be done about it. In the sub-plot, Lord Vanni has amorous inclinations younger than his physical age, and sends a love-letter and jewel to the chaste Alphonsina Neri. Meanwhile, Alphonsina’s brother Tibaldo has fallen sick for love of Vanni’s wife Dariene. He asks Alphonsina to accept Vanni’s advances, and Vanni duly excuses himself from Dariene’s bed. Tibaldo has arranged for himself to be present disguised as Alphonsina’s sister, and offers himself as an alternative, ‘female’ bedfellow for Dariene. His plan is aborted when he learns that Vanni’s daughter Alisandra loves Trebatio and Trebatio’s son. When Vanni pays his nocturnal visit, he is scared off by Trebatio’s lute-playing, then caught by his wife and blamed for the adultery he never committed. Alphonsina and Tibaldo marry Trebatio and Alisandra. In the third plot, the hospitable Jacomo has built a house in which to entertain his guests: his uncle, who is suspected of getting rich through supernatural agency, gave him a deathbed injunction to spend his inheritance virtuously. Torrenti envies Jacomo his new house, and plans a magnificent lifestyle of his own; but whereas Jacomo entertains the poor and needy, Torrenti is only interested in luxury and guests of a high social standing. When his brother arrives, ragged and dirty after escaping from slavery in a Turkish galley, Torrenti is appalled and turns him away. He entertains the Duke with a lavishness that bankrupts him. War…