Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
enough: No, here's all I have (Captain) some five and twenty. pray Sir, will you present, & accommodate it unto the Gentle man: for mine own partly, I am a mere stranger to his Hu mour: beside, I have some business invites me hence, with Master Asinius Lupus, the Tribune. Oh, I warrant you, Captain: and spitefully enough too;
Full speech
Nay, sweet Captain, be confined to some reason; I protest. I saw you not, sir. If I have exhibited wrong, I'll tender satisfaction, Cap taine. When you please, by Jove, Captain, most will lingly. No, I assure you, Captain. Not we, by Phœbus, Captain: do not do us im putation without desert. I, an't please your worship. Nay, good Captain. Troth, I think I have not so much about me, Cap taine. No, I assure you Captain, not we. They are on the other side of Tiber: we have as much Ribaldry in our Plays, as can be, as you would wish, Captain: All the sinners, i'the Suburbs, come, and applaud our Actium, daily. Well, well, jest on, jest on. pray, sweet Captain, let one of them do a little of a Lady. Yes: what will you ask for them a week, Cap taine? Yes Captain: Jupiter, and the rest of the Gods confine your modern delights, without disgust. Oh Sir, his dubblet's a little decayed; he is otherwise a very simple honest fellow, Sir: one Demetrius, a dresser of Plays about the town, here; we have hired him to abuse Horace, and bring him in, in a Play, with all his Gallants: as, Ti bullus, Mecoenas, Cornelius Gallus, and the rest. Oh, it will get us a huge deal of money (Captain) and we have need on't; for this Winter ha made us all Po rer, then so many starved Snakes: No body comes at us; not a Gentleman, nor a— Faith, not much, Captain: but our Author will devise enough: No, here's all I have (Captain) some five and twenty. pray Sir, will you present, & accommodate it unto the Gentle man: for mine own partly, I am a mere stranger to his Hu mour: beside, I have some business invites me hence, with Master Asinius Lupus, the Tribune. Oh, I warrant you, Captain: and spitefully enough too; he ha one of the most overflowing villainous wits, in Room. He will slander any man that breathes; If he disgust him. Marry Sir, they directed a Letter to me, and my fellow Sharers. Yes, sir; to hire some of our Properties; as a Sceptre, and a Crown, for Jove; and a Caduceus, for Mercury: and a Petasus —
Plot summary
Plot — Poetaster, or The Arraignment
Ovid’s father wants him to be a lawyer, but he prefers poetry. He attends an assignation of poets and their loves at Albius’ house. Crispinus, wishing to cuckold the jeweller, observes how taken his wife Chloé is with poets, and determines to become a poet himself. He forces his company on Horace, who escapes when an apothecary tries to arrest Crispinus for debt. Tucca intervenes to save him, and arranges for him to contribute to the controversial play satirizing poets which the players, anxious to attract audiences after a poor winter’s playing season, have hired Demetrius to write. Julia hosts a drunken banquet at court for the poets and ladies, who all dress as gods and goddesses, hiring appropriate props from the players, including a crown and sceptre. Lupus hears about this and, mistakenly believing that treason is plotted, brings the Emperor to interrupt the banquet. Appalled at the poets’ impiety and abuse of their talents, and at his daughter’s wantonness, Augustus banishes Ovid and imprisons Julia. A poetry reading by Virgil is interrupted by Lupus, who thinks he has detected more treason, and is exposed as a fool. Crispinus and Demetrius are tried for defamation of Horace and found guilty. Horace gives Crispinus a purge, and he vomits his obscure vocabulary. 1601 B-Text After the play has finished, two critics visit the author in his study and debate the play’s origins and the controversy over its personal satire; the author proposes that his next play will be a tragedy.