Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 13 (tanner, kate, topas, harry, henry, george…). Matches are highlighted.
for stealers are abroad to night, My hound stayed on her, and so found her out. Which way took they? A plague vpon't, thats that damned Priest, & Blague of the George, he that serves the good Duke of Norfolk. Zownds you suspected them, and now they are here indeed. If you go to the lodge you are surely taken, Strike down the
Full speech
Ralph hearst thou any stirring. When went your fellows out into their walks? 'Slife is there stealers abroad, and they cannot hear of them! where the devil are my men to night! sirrah go up the wind towards Buckleyes lodge. I'll cast about the bottom with my hound, and I will meet thee under Conyocke. How now? by the mass my hound stays upon some thing, hark, hark, Bowman, hark, hark there. Peace, thats a woman's voice, stand, who's there, stand or I'll shoot. Speak, who are you? The very same, sure I should know her voice, Mistress Milliscent. God for his passion, what make you here alone, I looked for you at my lodge and hour ago, what means your compa nigh to leave you thus? who brought you hither? M. Clare. Whoes that? M. Jerningham, you are a couple of hight shots, does a man commit his wench to you, to put her to grass at this time of night? Seeking for stealers are abroad to night, My hound stayed on her, and so found her out. Which way took they? A plague vpon't, thats that damned Priest, & Blague of the George, he that serves the good Duke of Norfolk. Zownds you suspected them, and now they are here indeed. If you go to the lodge you are surely taken, Strike down the wood to Enfeild presently, And if Mounchensey come, I'll send him the: Let me alone to bussle with your father, I warrant you that I will keep them play, Till you have quit the chase: away, away. Whoes there? Stand or I'll shoot. I am the keeper that do charge you stand, You have stolen my Worser You are arrant thieves, and you have stolen my Dear. The more your shame that Knights should be such thiefs. My name is Brian, keeper of this walk. You have stolen the best Dear in my walk to night, my Dear. What make you in my walk? you have stolen the best Buck in my walk to night. My Dear. Where my Buck. I'll complain unto the King you spoil his game: 'Tis strange that men of your account and calling, will offer it, I tell you true, Sir Arthur and sir Ralph, that none but you have only spoiled my game. I charge you both you get out of my ground. Is this a time for such as you, men of place and of your gravity, to be abroad a thieving! 'tis a shame, and a before God if I had shot at you, I had served you well enough. But where be they?
Plot summary
Plot — The Merry Devil of Edmonton
The magician Peter Fabell’s bargain with the devil falls due, and Coreb comes to collect his soul; but Fabell traps him in a magic chair and demands another seven years as the price of freedom. Millicent Clare loves her fiancé, Raymond Mounchensey; but her father Sir Arthur, unsure of Sir Richard Mounchensey’s financial stability, plans to break off the match and place her as a novice in a nunnery for three months while he arranges an alternative marriage with young Jerningham. Feeling sorry for Raymond, his friend and one-time fellow student, Fabell, tells him what Sir Arthur has in mind, and the young men plot to frustrate the old man’s plans. Millicent is entered in the nunnery, and is dismayed at her new life of abstinence, prayer, and flagellation. Posing as the Abbot of Waltham, Fabell substitutes Raymond for one of the friars, Benedick. Taking him for the novice he seems, Sir Arthur tells Raymond everything, and takes him to hear Millicent’s confession. This enables him to plan Millicent’s escape. The young men succeed in getting Millicent out of the nunnery, but are separated from her when they encounter some locals on a poaching expedition: assuming them to be Sir Arthur, they lead the locals off the scent. Millicent is found by the keeper. The poachers rendezvous in Enfield churchyard and scare the sexton into thinking he has seen a ghost. Sir Arthur complains to the real Abbot of Waltham about Millicent’s abduction, but is discomfited when the Abbot produces the real Friar Benedick. Sir Arthur and Sir Richard return to their inn, but spend the night in the wrong one after the signs are switched. In their absence, Raymond and Millicent are married. Sir Arthur accepts the fait accompli.