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in Jack Drum's Entertainment (Katherine and Pasquil) — Marston, John

Metadata

PlayJack Drum's Entertainment (Katherine and Pasquil)
AuthorMarston, John
Year (catalogued)1601
First performance1600
Decade1600s
GenreComedy
Play typeBoys Professional
CompanyChildren of Paul's (second)
Speech prefix(es)Ellis. | El. | Ellis
Words422
Characters1950
Typicality0.25 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA20867
BritDrama no.1239
ClusterCluster 21 — Old fathers & plain counsel

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Full speech

I do not use to answer questions. As a hungry dog waits for a mutton bone, or as a tattered footboy for a cast suit, even so will I at tend on my Mistress. As the Jig is called for when the Play is done, even so let Mounsieur go. As the Country maid cries to her Cow to milk her, or as the Traveler knocketh with his Hosts for a reckoning, even so do I call to thee o Mistress. Sir, I have her good will, and please you now to give me your consent, and look you Sir, here I have I tem'd forth what I am worth. No indeed law, not I, I do not use to marry For even as black patches are worn, Some for pride, some to stay the Rhewme, and Some to hide the scab, even so John Else Scorn her, that hath scorned him. I do not use to think. I do not use to ask my Father blessing. Help, help, help, help, he boxes me that he does. Help, help. I in good deed law, and a my conscience, I think he hath made my nose bleed. I do not use to draw. And he be such a fool to give it me, why should not I be so wise as to take it. I in truth, for as the Itch is augmented By scratching, so is my love by seeing my mistress. I will sing, so you will bear my burden. Pray you let me go, for heel begin to square, And even as some do wear Muffs for warmth, some for wantonness, some for pride, some for neither, but to hide gouty fingers, so will I get your Father's consent, and marry you. Fare you well. Indeed law now; I thought so: by my troth You said you lou'de me, that you did indeed. Truly as a Mill-horse, is not a horse Mill, and as a Cart Jade, is not a Jade Cart, even so will I go hang my self. Not I, as I shall be saved, I am M. John Else I. I do not use to sing, and yet even as when the sky falls we shall have Larks, even so when my voice riseth, you shall have a Song. As soar eyes cannot endure the Sun, nor scabd hands abide salt water, so must I leave all, and see my mi stress, and as fair Ladies do use soul foils, even so do I bid you farewell.

Plot summary

Plot — Jack Drum's Entertainment (Katherine and Pasquil)
The liberal Sir Edward Fortune has two daughters, Katherine and Camelia, and numerous would-be sons- in-law; he is concerned that the girls should marry their own choice of husband. Katherine is pursued by the usurer Mammon, who criticizes Sir Edward for excessive generosity, and by Master Puff, but she © prefers Pasquil. Camelia loves Ned Brabant, but others, including the foolish John Ellis and the lustful ~ - Frenchman Monsieur John fo’ de King are interested in her. Witnessing an early-morning encounter between Pasquil and Katherine, Mammon engages _ ===== PAGE 217 ===== 1600 Monsieur John to murder Pasquil, but Pasquil pays him more to report the deed done without actually committing it. On hearing the rumours that Pasquil is dead, Katherine disappears. Camelia’s waiting-woman Winifred has been bribed to promote John Ellis’s suit, and Camelia duly transfers her affections to Ellis, jilting Ned Brabant. Outraged, Brabant’s friend Planet bribes Winifred to change her recommendation. Camelia changes her mind just as Ellis and her father are about to agree a marriage contract, and wants Planet instead. She sends a love- gift to Planet, but he rejects her, thereby avenging her treatment of Brabant. But Brabant does not know what Planet is up to, and becomes murderously jealous when he sees the offer of Camelia’s favour. He sends his page to shoot Planet, then takes Planet’s hat and coat in order to pose as him for an assignation with Camelia. Wer behaviour makes Planet’s intentions clear to him, and he attempts to stab himself in remorse, but is prevented by Sir Edward. It turns out that Planet is alive: the page disobeyed his murderous orders. Monsieur John and Jack Drum drunkenly pursue Winifred, who makes assignations with them both. She arranges for Jack Drum to be smuggled into her room in.a sack, then has the sack given to Monsieur John, on the understanding that she herself is inside; thus she disposes of both would-be lovers. Monsieur John continues his quest for an Englishwoman’s sexual favours, and Ned Brabant’s elder brother plays a joke on him: Monsieur John is introduced to Brabant Senior’s wife, and told that she is a prostitute. But the prank backfires, and Brabant Senior is cuckolded by Monsieur John. Wishing to join Pasquil in the afterlife, Katherine attempts to stab herself, but Pasquil stops her. Mammon finds her and she decisively rejects his advances; so he decides that nobody shall have her, and uses a poison to disfigure her face.…
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