Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 20 (ithimore, nat, invisible, notary, glycerie, humfrey…). Matches are highlighted.
show one cheerful look on Valingford ? I am Valingford thy love and friend. What aileth thy eyes? But is it possible you should be taken on such a sudden? Infortunate Valingford to be thus crossed in thy love. Fair Em, I am not a little sorry to see this thy hard hap: Yet nevertheless, I am acquainted with a learned Physician,
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We go and wish thee private conference, Public affects in this accustomed peace. Go William Conqueror and seek thy love. Seek thou a Minion in a foreign land Whilst I draw back and court my love at home, The millers daughter of fair Manchester Hath bound my feet to this delight some soil: And from her eyes do dart such golden beams, That holds my heart in her subjection. So chosen he you, therefore I marvel much That both of us should linger in this sort. What may the king imagine of our stay? The Like did I: in friendship then resolve What is the cause of your unlooked for stay? But may this be? But this it is that makes me wonder most: That you and I should be of one conseite In such a strange unlikely passion. I would I did: then were my grief the less. Content say I, and what so ere befall, Shake hands my Lord and fortune thrive at all. Exeunt. No? not the thing will do thee so much good? Sweet Em, hither I came to parley of love Hoping to have found thee in thy wonted prosperity. And have the gods so unmercifully thwarted my expectation? By dealing so finisterly with thee sweet Em ? Yet sweet Em accept this jewel at my hand Which I bestow on thee in token of my love. Zounds, what a cross is this to my conceit? But Valingford, search the depth of this devise. Why may not this be feigned subtlety, By Mountneies invention, to the intent That I seeing such occasion should leave off my suit, And not any more persist to solicit her of love. I'll try the event, if I can by any means perceive The effect of this deceit to be procured by his means, Friend Mountney the one of us is Like to repent our bargeine. Exit. And Mountney, had not my revenging wrath Incensed with more than ordinary love been such for to deprive thee of thy life, Thou hadst not lived to brave me as thou dost wretch as thou art, wherein hath Valingford offended thee? That honourable bound which late we did confirm In presence of the Gods, When with the Conqueror we arrived here For my partly hath been kept inviolably Till now too much abused by thy villainy, I am enforced to cancel all those bans, By hating him which I so well did love. But hath she Mountney used thee as thou sayest? Then I perceive we are deluded both. For when I offered many gifts of Gold and Jewels To entreat for love, she hath refused them with a coy disdain, Alleging that she could not see the Sun. The same conjectured I to be thy drift, That feigning so she might be rid of me. Thus it is father, we are come to crave your friendship in a matter. If ir be? it is cunningly contrived of all sides. Go my Lord I'll follow you. Well, now Mountney is gone I'll stay behind to solicit my love, For I imagine that I shall find this but a feigned invention Thereby to have us leave off our suits. The gentleman that parted from you, was he not Of Manchester, his father living there of good account. O gentlewoman I cry you mercy, He is your husband that shall be. If it please you to go in I'll follow you presently. Exit Elner and her father. Now shall I be revenged on Manuile, And by this means get Em to my wife. And therefore I will Straight to her father's And inform them both of all that is happened. Exit. Father Miller, thy daughter shall have honour By granting me her love: I am a Gentleman of king Williams Court, And no mean man in king Williams favour. Why fair Em, Manuile hath forsaken thee, And must at Chester be married, which, If I speak otherwise than true, Let thy father speak what credibly he hath herd. Farewell good father. Exit Valingford. My Lord this gentleman when time was Stood some thing in our light, And now I think it not a miss To laugh at him that sometime scorned at us. Then thus. Sir may a man be so bold, As to crave a word with you? I say, this maid will have thee to her husband. The Fox will eat no grapes, and why? Sir Thomas Goddard hight this reverent man, Famed for his virtues and his good success: Whose fame hath been renowned through the world. Love my Lord? of whom. It is given us to understand that your daughter Is suddenly become both blind and deaf. See how Fortune presents me with the hope I looked for. Fair Em ? Will not Em show one cheerful look on Valingford ? I am Valingford thy love and friend. What aileth thy eyes? But is it possible you should be taken on such a sudden? Infortunate Valingford to be thus crossed in thy love. Fair Em, I am not a little sorry to see this thy hard hap: Yet nevertheless, I am acquainted with a learned Physician, That will do any thing for thee at my request. To him will I resort, and inquire his judgement, As concerning the recovery of so excellent a fence. With right good will. We will straight unto her father, And there to learn whither it be so or no. Exeunt. God speed sir, might a man crave a word or two with you And I say this: whereon I will lay as much. In my conjecture merely counterfeit: Therefore lets join hands in friendship once again, Since that the jar grew only by conjecture. I have been acquainted in times passed, But through his double dealing, I am grown weary of his company. For be it spoken to you: He hath been acquainted with a poor millers daughter, And diverse times hath promised her marriage. But what with his delays and flouts, He hath brought her into such a taking, That I fear me it will cost her her life. Father miller: such is the entire affection to your daughter, As no misfortune whatsoever can altar. My fellow Mountney thou seest gave quicly over, But I by reason of my good meaning Am not so soon to be changed Although I am born off with scorns and denial. None can content me but the fair maid of Manchester. Here be two women, may it please your grace, that are contracted to one man, And are in strife whither shall have him to their husband.
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.