Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 4 (loyalty, handmaid, spotless, blessings, hamilcar, moves…). Matches are highlighted.
zeal, Back to the world! Oh impious deed Nor by the Canon Law can it be done, Without a dispensation from the Church: Beside she is so prove unto this life, As sheele even shriek to hear a husband nam. Let me alone, I warrant thee: Sir aslurde that this motion does proceed, From your most kind and fatherly affection, I do dispose
Full speech
Raimond Mounchensey come be frolic friend, This is the day thou hast expected long. The wench is gone Harry, she is no more a woman of this world, mark her well, she looks Like a Nun already, what thinkest on her? Sirrah Hall, how does she hold his countenance? well, go thy ways, if ever thou prove a Nun, I'll built and Abbey. To her again mother. Oh God sir, you amaze me at your words, Think with your self sir what a thing it were, To cause a recluse to remove her vow, A maimed contrite, and repentant soul, Ever mortified with fasting and with prayer, Whose thoughts even as his eyes are fixed on heaven, To draw a virgin thus devoured with zeal, Back to the world! Oh impious deed Nor by the Canon Law can it be done, Without a dispensation from the Church: Beside she is so prove unto this life, As sheele even shriek to hear a husband nam. Let me alone, I warrant thee: Sir aslurde that this motion does proceed, From your most kind and fatherly affection, I do dispose my liking to your pleasure, But for it is a matter of such moment As holy marriage, I must crave thus much, To have some conference with my ghostly father, Friar Hildersham here by, at Uvaltham Abbey, To be absolude of things that it is fit None only but my confessor should know.
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.