S. Rafe, | S. Kafe. | S. Rafe. | S. Ra. | Sir Rafe. | S. Raf. | S Raf.
Words
552
Characters
2969
Typicality
0.39 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A21411
BritDrama no.
1577
Cluster
Cluster 17 — Intriguers & schemers
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Full speech
And mine the other. And bridegroom. Your gallant daughters will be next. But 'twill not serve, The big avouchment of my promises Controls you all, and all men's else, you all, Under degrees of Earls, Lords, or as Potent To toule them on I echo these large sums. Unvalued must your sums be to such choice, Honour looks high above such petty price. It was a promise in you to be kind. Is't not enough to scandal thy true word? But are we slighted thus with santasies, Impossibilities, dead and alive again, Manhood infuzd in woman: 'tis not generous. Then art thou stable in my thoughts, but let me whisper to thee boy, young Towers in a Tanckers habit hath her stolen, to whom his hearty adorations were to this hour consecrate, she's gone, and her old doting father God to complain him at the court, how 'twill work I know not. Certainly even so. sleep in my house then, so my word shall make your answer stronger, I have a son, I wish him so possessed, but not with violence, yet say he do climb high, and reach the top bough with a stricter course, I knowing not the manner nor the means, acquites me, and God give, them joy, my oath is clear, and that's my warrant. but if the Earl know of my sons discharge, signed by his careless answer, would allay his hight endeavours with a cold responsall; but cease that, the time shall come—— Not well sir, but by guess, he is indifferent rich, has broke three times, made his head hold by means, & that say I, as this world shapes, is secure policy, what think you sir? Let me alone to make the way, follow you son. How ever girl, thou art my daughter now, What thou shalt lose in father, from thy own, Thou uncontrolled shalt find as much in his, And I am he. What will you do? I will home. Besecke you pardon me. That your disguise is known, come juggle not, call you this Nurse? Oh thou dissembling boy. I am abused. Of marriage passed, betwixt us in our promises. Son feest thou young Towers? Upon my soul I think it. I did wind him subtly as hounds the game, New God on foot, for instance he lamented oft his sons proceedings, neglecting his own house, lest you in quest of her should search it, believe me sir I tell you what I know. I will, excusing your departure till anon, Filbon follow us, be you more temperate. You see what hurry threatenings this misdeed Wounds deep are dangerous, though they hardly bleed Son, you see to what a happy issue this disguise Speaks fair, you know the plots, boldly proceed, 'Tis ours in Actium, but your own the deed, I must Shun all suspicion by my presence, look to't boy. If thou failest now, for ever lose thy joy. Sir Rober Morgan, o sir, such a one, whose reputati on reaches to the best, merits a good conjunction, were't my daughter, she should have him, o beware when majesty shines in a men estate. They long stand firm, spread wide regenerate And though base born, yet honour makes them swell, Like clusterd grapes, till mature sweetness brings, Lussio us conclusion.
Plot summary
Plot — The Two Maids of More-Clacke
Before the action, James Humil wrote to his wife from what he took to be his deathbed. Believing herself widowed, she made swift arrangements for her remarriage to Sir William Vergir, with the support of her son, who hoped to marry one of Sir William’s daughters, Now, on her way back from the wedding, she sees James in the street. She loses her glove, and offers a reward for its discovery: the person who finds . it will have the honour of deciding the festivities in celebration of her second marriage. This is a ruse to enable her to see James, who has found the glove. She tells him that, though she genuinely thought him dead, she contracted her second marriage as a means of paying his debts and securing a desirable match for ===== PAGE 471 ===== 1608 their son. She takes on James as a servant, and tells her second husband that she will only consummate the marriage once Young Humil is married to his elder daughter, Mary. Since both daughters are already engaged, Sir William tries to put off the fiancés by setting impossible conditions: Toures will only be allowed to marry Mary after she has died and come back to life; Young Filbon will get Tabitha only if he becomes a woman. Filbon sends a letter to Tabitha via Touch, Sir William’s servant, but the letter is found and Touch dismissed; Tabitha becomes estranged from her father. Toures visits Mary disguised as a tinker, and they go off to Putney to get married. Tabitha has two other suitors ~ Auditor, Toures’s father, and the Welsh knight Sir Robert, who is really Touch in disguise — but she tells them she is only interested in Filbon. The creation of Sir Robert is a ruse to allow Filbon access to her, despite her father’s opposition: when he releases her to be married to the Welsh knight, Touch hands over the role to Filbon. Toures and Mary are married, and escape by ship, but Mary falls ill during a storm at sea. She appears to die and is buried with all her possessions in a trunk on the beach in the Scilly Isles. The Governor of the Scillies digs up the trunk, thinking it booty, and finds her inside, still alive; he happens to be her uncle. Humil finds his mother in bed with James, and tells Vergir. He is unable to substantiate the charge of adultery because, by the time Vergir arrives to see for himself, James has left the bed (but is still in the room). Vergir suggests that Humil has slandered his mother, but is secretly impressed with his fidelity to his stepfather. However, he then discovers that his…