in The King's Royal Entertainment at Welbeck Castle (Love's Welcome) — Jonson, Ben
Metadata
Play
The King's Royal Entertainment at Welbeck Castle (Love's Welcome)
Author
Jonson, Ben
Year (catalogued)
1641
First performance
1633
Decade
1640s
Genre
Entertainment
Play type
Occasional
Theater
before the Court;
Speech prefix(es)
AN.
Words
212
Characters
1105
Typicality
0.27 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A72473.20
BritDrama no.
2404
Cluster
Cluster 17 — Intriguers & schemers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
Brother, and report Your graces from the Queens side to the Kings, In whose name I salute you. Oh be not jealous, Brother! What bough is this? Give me't. Antero snatched at the Palm, but Eros di vided it. I will this. So. This was right Brotherlike! The world will know By this one Act, both nature's. You are Love, I Love, again.
Full speech
Yes, your second self, A Son of Venus, and as mere and self, And wag as you. No, Anteros: Your Brother, Cupid, yet not sent to cross', Or spy into your favours, here, at Court. To serve you, Brother, and report Your graces from the Queens side to the Kings, In whose name I salute you. Oh be not jealous, Brother! What bough is this? Give me't. Antero snatched at the Palm, but Eros di vided it. I will this. So. This was right Brotherlike! The world will know By this one Act, both nature's. You are Love, I Love, again. In these two Spheres we move, Eros, and Anteros. I call to mind the wisdom of our Mother Venus, who would have Cupid have a Brother— Who would be always, planted, in your eye; For Love, by Love increases mutually. Shoot up, grow galliard— When one's away, it seems we both are less. But a bird of wing, Now, fit to fly before a Queen, or King. Then I am. Embrace. Confer, and whisper. And by this sweet Contention for the Palm, Unite our appetites, and make them calm. And so to move Affection in our Wills, as in our Love. The King, and Queens Court, which is circular, And perfect.
Plot summary
Plot — The King's Royal Entertainment at Welbeck Castle (Love's Welcome)
All nature greets the King as he arrives for dinner at Welbeck. As he is about to leave, the party is accosted by Accidence and Fitz-Ale. They present a post-wedding event at which Stub the bridegroom and the six Hoods tilt at a quintain. A bride-ale follows, with eating, drinking, singing, and dancing, until an officer rebukes them for detaining the King with unsolicited merriment, and offers a panegyric of the King and royal family.