Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
God four grotes by her yet. Good Landlord, bestow her where you will. I am content to be rid of her, so I may hold your fouour— Fox pull your honesty. Is this the dancing maid? One more such purchase will undo my trade. Yonder Sir, talking with my Landlord, your Wor ships son. An't please your worship, the rude Raggamussin comes
Full speech
By that little honesty I have to swear by; a handsome wench. I must pay fifty pound for her: but if she were as young, as fair, I would get five hundred pound by her within this month. How old are you, fair sister? Enough, I long to employ her. Cousin, heres the money. She's mine. Whats your name? Florence. I Like the name well. Its a good lucky name to make a whore on. You'll stay with me, Florence. Now minion, you must be gadding. Cry you mercy, Landlord: if you'll have any sport, walk in, walk in. You shall take out your rend here, Landlord. She shall be your own Vaca cion and Term too, Landlord. O I am cast away; she cost me fifty pounds, I never God four grotes by her yet. Good Landlord, bestow her where you will. I am content to be rid of her, so I may hold your fouour— Fox pull your honesty. Is this the dancing maid? One more such purchase will undo my trade. Yonder Sir, talking with my Landlord, your Wor ships son. An't please your worship, the rude Raggamussin comes into my house, calls for drink; and when the Tapster came with a reckoning, he broke the pot about's head; because he had not a clean Apron on. Bless your worship: I am your Worships sons Tenant. I ha'brought a rogue to your worship, to be examined. Whose fault was it, to wipe out the score?
Plot summary
Plot — The Honest Lawyer
Richard Vaster’s lands are mortgaged to Gripe the usurer for £300. Jealously believing himself to have been cuckolded, he sells his wife Florence to the bawd and innkeeper Marmaid, claiming her to be his sister. He then challenges Benjamin Gripe, the usurer’s son, to a duel, and pretends to be killed; the remorseful Benjamin is determined to make amends by looking after Vaster’s family. Valentine sets himself up as a phoney doctor and is asked to cure Gripe’s gout, which entails driving a large nail through the affected toe. While Gripe is inconvenienced by the nail, Valentine steals his purse and keys. Gripe also sends Benjamin to foreclose on Vaster’s mortgage; when Benjamin asks him to give the bereaved family a three-month respite, he is disinherited. Surprisingly, the nail does indeed drive out the gout. Curfew has passed himself off as the deputy Abbot of Newnham after the death of the real deputy, his brother, and he uses the abbey as a base for highway robbery. His first two victims are Valentine and the disguised Vaster, who both prove as rascally as he; the three of them end up going into partnership. They proceed to rob travellers: Vaster happily relieves Gripe of his money, but lets Benjamin off with an injunction to be good to the Vaster family. Whenever they leave anyone tied up on the road, Florence comes out of the nearby inn and releases them. She is proving a 1614 disappointment to Marmaid ~ all her clients seem to end up with a new moral outlook on prostitution — so the bawd allows Benjamin, the landlord, to take her away. He lodges her at his father’s house under an assumed name, Widow Sorrow. Valentine makes an affray at the inn, and is arrested. The justice before whom he is brought happens to be Gripe, who lets him off, because he has developed another medical complaint: inability to urinate. Valentine proposes using gunpowder to blow open the urinary tract, and again the treatment is surprisingly successful. Robert and Anne, Vaster’s son and daughter, are destitute, but nobody will give them any money, not even Bromley, Vaster’s former steward who owes everything to the family. Benjamin sends Robert to see ‘Widow Sorrow’, and falls in love with Anne. Robert soon identifies the widow as his mother, but suspects that her presence in the usurer’s household confirms his father’s suspicions of her adultery. When he threatens her with violence, Gripe has him committed to prison. The usurer attempts to seduce the widow, and gives her the…