Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
the Stilliard fair Ladies. Why yowl let me call to em but at the keyhole. Well Sir, you shall be our doorkeeper. Thou art so troubled with Monopolies, they so hang at thy heart strings. Content the Greyhound by eight? Sfoot weel dance to Norwich, and take it there, if yowl stay till we return again? Heeres a stir, yowl ill
Full speech
Welcome to the Stilliard fair Ladies. Why yowl let me call to em but at the keyhole. Well Sir, you shall be our doorkeeper. Thou art so troubled with Monopolies, they so hang at thy heart strings. Content the Greyhound by eight? Sfoot weel dance to Norwich, and take it there, if yowl stay till we return again? Heeres a stir, yowl ill abide a fiery face, that cannot endure a smoky nose. Why faith to morrow at night. Lets to mine host Dogbolts at Brainford then, there you are out of eyes, out of ears private rooms, sweet Lie nen, wink king attendance, and what cheer you will? You are for no Actium to night. Oh thou art a mad wench. Where mine host? what Chamberlin. Yes by my faith is't. No faith they are drunk too, what shals do therefore. Walk up and down a little. Villainous spiteful luck: no matter, that, other two hold yas. I'll somon a parlee to one of the Wenches, and see how all goes.
Plot summary
Plot — Westward Ho
Through the bawd Birdlime, an earl is trying to corrupt Mistress Justiniano, but despite her husband’s jealous suspicions she has so far resisted his advances and remained chaste. He pretends bankruptcy, and tells her he is going abroad; but in fact he remains in London disguised as a writing teacher, Parenthesis. Meanwhile his wife, feeling the force of her poverty, is tempted by the Earl The wives of three citizens, Tenterhook, Wafer, and Honeysuckle, have a tavern assignation (arranged by ‘Parenthesis’) with Sir Gosling Glow-worm and friends; there they plan a journey westward by boat for a sexual night out in Brentford, with the wives’ absence explained by a ruse. ‘Parenthesis’ agrees to report that they have gone to visit Wafer’s sick child, and does so disguised as a collier. Mistress Tenterhook arranges for her kinsman Monopoly to be arrested for an unpaid debt to her husband, then bribes the arresting officer to free him so that he can join the party going to Brentford. ‘While their wives are away, the three citizens all try fo visit the same prostitute; Birdlime tries to juggle 1604 them, but they discover each other’s identities. Justiniano reveals himself and tells them where their wives really are, then takes his wife’s place, cross- dressed, at her assignation with the Earl. Discovering the substitution, the Earl thinks he has been visited by a succubus. Justiniano pretends he has poisoned his wife and shows the dead body; this is only a ruse, but the Earl is duly struck with conscience. At Brentford, the wives resist the gallants’ plans to seduce them, and Sir Gosling Glow-worm induces the local fiddlers to disturb the neighbourhood with bawdy songs. When the husbands arrive expecting to catch their wives in the act of adultery, they find them chaste. Monopoly’s debt is discharged through Justiniano’s intervention, and Sir Gosling attacked by outraged locals. The party returns home to London.