Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 5 (griselda, mephastophilis, rsini, zelmane, hapless, orgalio…). Matches are highlighted.
Doctor, This infant Lady, and present us all, To your safe conduct: obetray our lives, Bonner will give you gold, woe to that good That bade men get, by selling guiltless blood, If any such thought have possessed your heart, Make Merchandise of mine, let these escape, For these are precious in the eyes of heaven, Let them depart,
Full speech
Be uncovered Gentlemen. The County Palatine, now king of Poland. He stays your graces leisure, Accompanied with the Earl of Arundel. Oh, take my answer as the general voice, For from my mouth breathes their opinions: She lessens not her honours in your choice, But makes you Lord of her affections, And them we serve not, but her royalties, Which, as they are not lessened, why should we Shrink from their service; whom her love does hon May challenge from us special reverence, And so shall you, as homage for that love, Whose sovereignty commands our services. Madam. I am glad he stayed no , to piece out our mon see your greatness struck with envies Dam Her highn sse servants have attached your goods, Discharging all your household officers. I will not line to see that. With a winged speed: To cure your sorrows this manly heart shall bleed. Neither my tongue, nor shoes, can reach and ear Oh that the poison of this fear were once remove How will you find that way you yet never w Then what pale trembling cowards heart would faint, To wade through danger with so pure a saint? Madam, they call it Wezill. Doubt not of that, the powerful hand of hea In such extremities is ever strong. Doubtless he's of a most pernicious spirit, But he that hath restrained his envious rage, And hitherto repulsed him, still will curb him. The kings-bench Madam, where all these prisoners, Are detained for debt. How mean you Madam? When it tires in service of your Grace, May I never more have being on the earth, Were you to pass th'extreamest of all woe, Might I be worthy, I would share with you. Madam, this storm, the cold, and my deep wounds, May well excuse me, till my hurts are dressed. Madam. Madam. Who goes there? Nurse? Madam. It is the place where you appointed us. They call for their passengers to Gravesend. How you resolve of me, I know not, try, And when I shrink, brand me with infamy. Cousin Goseling 'moungst a world of other men The providence of heaven chosen out you, Either to be made famous for true faith, Or by disloyal deam king infamous, Presuming on your perfect honesty, I brought my noble mistress, this graven Doctor, This infant Lady, and present us all, To your safe conduct: obetray our lives, Bonner will give you gold, woe to that good That bade men get, by selling guiltless blood, If any such thought have possessed your heart, Make Merchandise of mine, let these escape, For these are precious in the eyes of heaven, Let them depart, lead me to Bonner first, Happy my blood, to quench his raging thirst. Thou knowest us Fox, we have been fellow vam Confer the years passed, with the present times, And it will make thy flinty heart relent. Oh Fox, she hath been the most honoured Mistress That ever servant served, stay me, And while their bloody hands are busied, With ceising me, let her, and these escape. Wilt thou not know her in extremity, Ungrateful villain. Alas I have scanted of my duty much, My liberal will's joined with unable power, With my true service I do join my life, And owe them both, unto your princely Wife. Madam, you see what strictness, we are forced to. Lets wing our feet, till we can get to Santon, Slaves, you have murdered me. But sorely hurt, and I am near to death. Lend me your hand deer sir, get I once up, I'll spend the remnant of my blood thats left, In search of my young Mistress. O I am lost, sink body to the earth, Ascend my soul, amongst Saints receive new birth. Now cheer your self deer sir, here is a time, To breath a space, this town's a quiet port, From the tempestuous gusts of Bonners hate. Thy friendship will I bear unto my graven. Withal my heart, I humbly tender a true sub iects Yet might it please her royal Majesty, Since I have served my Lady in distress, Endured so many troubles for her sake That I may live, and die in serving her. This is the Prison of the Marshalsea, Chiefly pretended for her Highness household, But there are diverse other prisoners. It is my kinsman Madam, now I know him, What cause hath brought thee to this hard distress. And hark I here the officers within If we be known, we are but dead.
Plot summary
Plot — The Duchess of Suffolk
King Edward VI orders the widowed Duchess of Suffolk to marry the Count Palatine, newly elected the . King of Poland. Other aristocratic suitors present themselves, but she contracts herself to her servant Bertie. Bishops Gardiner and Bonner are imprisoned, and Bonner swears revenge when the Duchess insults him. Queen Mary succeeds to the throne, releases the imprisoned bishops and appoints them commissioners to exterminate heresy. Bonner has Bertie arrested, but permits him to go abroad; he then has the Duchess arrested and her household broken up. Forced to choose which of its members will remain in her service, she selects Cranwell above Fox, who takes it badly. Bonner’s men have little success in detaining the Duchess and her associates: Dr Sandys escapes by impersonating a workman, and the Duchess also sneaks out of London with Cranwell, her baby daughter, and its nurse. The workmen are arrested and brought before Bonner, who orders them burned, but forgets about them when he hears news of the Duchess’s whereabouts. He goes with Fox to Leigh, where she and her remaining household have assembled in disguise at Gosling’s house, but Fox helps them to escape by ‘accidentally’ knocking Bonner into a well. The Duchess and Bertie meet at Emden. Still wanted by the English authorities, they decide to travel separately, but Bertie is concerned for his wife’s safety and is on hand to rescue her from being raped when her party is attacked by thieves. The nurse first flees with the baby and then abandons it, but the wounded Cranwell finds it by chance. As the Duchess’s pregnancy nears full term, they take refuge in a church porch from the foul weather. The sexton tries to evict them, but Erasmus takes them in. She gives birth to a son, and is smuggled past the English search parties in a hearse. In Oxford, Bonner and Gardner supervise the burning of the Protestants Latimer and Ridley; the knowledge of their martyrdom makes Cranmer, who had apostatized to save his life, return to Protestantism. Travelling to Poland, the Duchess and Bertie are accosted by the Palsgrave’s soldiers. In the affray, they are separated from their children, and Bertie kills the captain, for which they are arrested. The Count Palatine recognizes and releases them, and protects them against the pursuing English forces. The search is then called off after Queen Mary dies; the Duchess is recalled to England, and reunited with her children, whom Fox has saved. The imprisoned Protestants are…