Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 8 (massinissa, yaw, league, renown, quasi, apud…). Matches are highlighted.
this is the properest wench. Might I advise thee, take her unto thy wife. Why theres the spite. He will ask but her good will, and all her friends. If this be all renowned Conqueror: Advance your drooping spirits, and revive The wonted courage of your Conquering mind, For this fair picture painted on my shield Is the true counterfeit
Therefore her virtues I resign to thee, Already shrinde in thy religious breast, To be advanced and honoured to the full. Nor bear I this and argument of love: But to renown fair Blanch my Sovereigns child, In every place where I by arms may do it. That same is Blanch daughter to the King, The substance of the shadow that you saw. How
Full speech
WHat means fair Britain's mighty Conqueror So suddenly to cast away his staff? And all in passion, to forsake the tylt. Let William but bethink what may avail, And let me die if I deny my aid. Duke William, you know it is for your cause, It pleases thus the King to misconceive of me, And for his pleasure does me injury. In mine eyes, this is the properest wench. Might I advise thee, take her unto thy wife. Why theres the spite. He will ask but her good will, and all her friends. If this be all renowned Conqueror: Advance your drooping spirits, and revive The wonted courage of your Conquering mind, For this fair picture painted on my shield Is the true counterfeit of lo Blanch Princes and daughter to the King of Danes : Whose beauty and excess of ornaments Deserves another manner of defence Pomp and high person to attend her state, Then Marks Lubeck any way presents. Therefore her virtues I resign to thee, Already shrinde in thy religious breast, To be advanced and honoured to the full. Nor bear I this and argument of love: But to renown fair Blanch my Sovereigns child, In every place where I by arms may do it. That same is Blanch daughter to the King, The substance of the shadow that you saw. How now Sir Robert ? in a study man? Here is no time for contemplation. How Like you Blanch ? I partly do perceive The little boy hath played the wag with you. Sir Robert, you mistake your counterfeit. This is the Lady which you came to see. In seeking that which is and others right. These jars becomes not our familiarity, Nor will I stand on terms to move your patience. To Love Sir Robert ? but whom? not she I Love? Nor stands it with the honour of my state, To brook corrivals with me in my love. With all my heart. Come Ladies will you walk? Exit. Gramercy Madam: but it is not great: Only a thrust, pricked with a Rapiers point. Sweet Lady, for thy sake. There was this last night two masks in one company, My self the foremost: The other strangers were: Amongst the which, when the Music began to found the Measures, Eke Masker made choice of his Lady: And one more forward than the rest stepped towards thee: Which I perceiving thrust him aside, and took thee my self. But this was taken in so ill part, That at my coming out of the court gate, with justling together, It was my chance to be thrust into the arm. The doer thereof because he was the original cause of the disorder At that inconvenient time, was presently committed, And is this morning sent for to answer the matter: enters Sir rr of for with lor. And I think here he comes. What Sir Robert of Windsor how now? Hurt the last night by mischance. Yes trust me there. And I you for my hurt, if it were so? Keeper away, I discharge you of your prisoner. Exit the Keeper. Sir I knew you not, and therefore you must pardon me And the rather it might be alleged to me of Mere simplisitie, to see another dance with my Maistris disguised, and I my self in presence: but seeing it Was our haps to damnify each other unwillingly, Let us be content with our harms, And say the fault where it was and so become friends. Not content that I have it, but content To forget how I came by it. With good will, Lady you will stay? Lady, since that occasion forward in our good Presents place and opportunity: Let me entreat your wonted kind consent And friendly furtherance in a suit I have. Free are my thoughts from such base villainy As may in question Lady call your name: Yet is the matter of such consequence Standing upon my honourable credit, To be effected with such zeal and secrecy, As should I speak and fail my expectation I would redound greatly to my prejudice. No Mariana, that is non it. His love to Blanch was then extinct When first he saw thy face. 'Tis thee he loves: yea, thou art only she That is masters and commander of his thoughts. Mariana, I not dissemble on mine honour: Nor fails my faith to thee. But for my friend, For princely William, by whom thou shalt possess The title of estate and Majesty, Fitting thy love and virtues of thy mind, For him I speak, for him do I entreat, And with thy favour fully do resign To him the claim and interest of my love. Sweet Mariana then deny me not. Love William, love my friend and honour me Who else is clean dishonoured by thy means. Sweet Lady seance, let my intreaty serve To pacify the passion of thy grief, Which well I know proceeds of ardent love. Even as my life, so love I Mariana. He is my friend, and I do love the man. No as his life Mariana he does love. In loving him you shall content us both. Me, for I crave that favour at your hands: He for Hope's that comfort at your hands. My gracious Lord, conjecture not I pray Worse of Lubeck than he does deserve. Your highness knows Mariana was my love, Sole paragon and mistress of my thoughts. Is it likely I should know of her departure, Wherein there is no man injured more than I. Knew I thereof, or that there was intent In Robert thus to steal your highness daughter: Let heavens in Justice presently confound me. That is my love. Sir Robert you do wrong me. Mariana, do not misconstrue of me: I not mistrust thee, nor thy secrecy, Nor let my love misconstrue my intent, Nor think thereof but well and honourable. Thus stands the case: Thou knowest from England Hither came with me Robert of Windsor, a noble man at Arms, Lusty and valiant, in spring time of his years, No marvel then though he prove amorous. So do I Madam, for he and I am one. Hard hap to break us of our talk so soon, Sweet Mariana do remember me. Exit Lubeck,
Plot summary
Plot — Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester
Ata tilt, William the Conqueror falls in love with the portrait on his opponent’s shield. The subject is the Danish princess Blanche, and he travels incognito to Denmark to woo her. In the flesh she is a disappointment, outshone by the captive princess Mariana. At a masque, William unwittingly picks a fight with his friend the Marquis of Litbeck, and spends a night in prison. He sends a love-letter to Mariana, which Blanche intercepts and tears up in Mariana’s face. Mariana has no interest in William anyway: she asks him to rescue her from Denmark, but substitutes Blanche when the plot is carried out. William returns to England to find his regents fighting one another, and the Danes threaten war if he does not return Blanche to her father. In the sub-plot, meanwhile, the Norman Conquest has forced many of the English gentry into hiding, among them Sir Thomas Goddard and his daughter, Em. He disguises himself as a miller, and she is wooed by three suitors: the local boy Manvile, whom her father favours, and the Normans Mountney and Valingford. The miller’s man Trotter also fancies his chances: he persuades Em to promise to do anything to ease his sickness before telling her that it is love- sickness. Manvile becomes jealous of the other suitors, and Em tries to put them off by pretending to be blind and deaf. This only succeeds in alienating Manvile, who lays plans to marry another woman, Elinor. Suspecting a stratagem, Valingford is harder to yet rid of: he learns of Manvile’s intentions and tells Em and her father, Em admits her deception and wants revenge on Manvile. The Danes invade England. William still believes it was Mariana who left Denmark with him, but she and Liibeck are with the Danish troops as prisoners, accused of abetting Blanche’s abduction. When William realizes the truth, Sueno offers him Blanche’s hand in marriage, but Mariana’s deception has made him a misogynist. Em and her suitors now arrive, and Em explains her stratagem. Relieved, Manvile renews his willingness to marry her, but she won't have him - and neither will Elinor. William decides to accept Blanche after all, and, once Goddard’s true identity is revealed, Em is bestowed on Valingford.