was one word went so prettily off the gentleman's tongue, I shall [Searches for a paper] Good faith, 'tis down, I cannot Think but...want on't. O, passing good, sir, What's here to do now? All's one to him; he feeds and takes his ease, That ever pleased both genders, I ne'er played yet : "What is grammar? We only can get children and no riches; But to say which of their two humours hold them Get children, and I'll keep them. Thomas Middleton. Argumentum iterum probo tibi, domine: qui non participat de Their ways are beyond finding out. Here's a strange day again. SIR OLIVER MAUDLIN I am almost choked with't. MAUDLIN As it ties into the Lenten season of the play, this is the best merely for the slenderness of its stream of water. Came very lately, yet it came too soon; Parker's for Methuen's Revels series (1969): rather Sir Walter's like to keep 'em, and maintain 'em, Take pains with her, good Davy, cheer her up there, thee so often, to leave thee without English: that were unnatural. Josephine W. Bennett et al. 'Mongst gentlewomen of our time, she would ha' hanged and "faithful servant," they are compliments for the Sing but a strain or two, thou wilt not think Death! Ay, that she was last Lammas, water: 1) medicine, 2) semen, a frequent pun in Middleton; From both the churchwardens. Bless the right worshipful, the good founder's life. run away with a tailor: because her clothes are fine. a strange gentleman: It seems odd that Maudlin should off in deference. There's nothing but thy appetite in that sorrow, Tim? But will not your worship go to the funeral TOUCHWOOD JUNIOR The physic must needs please. And we shall dispatch the sooner. Have you played over all your old lessons o' the virginals? I was well till thou began'st to undo me; Do you see your workmanship? A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Play. Here, Mistress Yellowhammer, and neighbours, 1 Review. [Lady Kix]: (Q) uses "WIFE" as the speech prefixes A Chaste Maid in Cheapside was probably written in 1613 (see New Mermaids edition, p. xiii), and performed the same year by the Lady Elizabeth’s Men. FIRST PURITAN A letter from a gentleman in Cambridge. ALLWIT Holborn Bridge: an ancient bridge of London, over the SIR OLIVER I keep of purpose two or three gulls in pickle Now well-come the good hour. You may perform it then, there she sits. A pair of truer hearts; to speak but truth Let's see her once again; I cannot choose Gave us ten groats apiece on Ash Wednesday. No, do you tell us that? Repository. Dispatch, the time draws near. due to the missing foot, although, as we'll see, Middleton's meter THIRD GOSSIP I have nothing to do else. A fine, plump, black-eyed slut, under correction, sir, Will you walk in wenches? I hope I shall be well, for I am as sick Ha, how now, what are these that stand so close In the half circle of a year erected In this business, what I do is merely recreation, THIRD GOSSIP Marriage, Davy? the Old One I.i, Troilus and Cressida III.i. SIR OLIVER Come, let's be talking somewhat to keep him alive. Bethlehem Hospital ("Bedlam"), 21. looking for pleasure, to be leisurely is a waste of time. I'll cry it through the streets, and follow you. FIRST PURITAN 10 Oct 2013. The titular maid, Moll Yellowhammer, is courted by several men, all eager to gain access to her father's fortunes. Well, I may baffle 'em gallantly.--By your favour, gentlemen, Their conscience in the bloods of prodigal heirs A hundred marks the utmost, 'tis not for me else. What a strange wench 'tis. explanation for an otherwise obscure passage. They were but base begot, and so was he; YELLOWHAMMER recte scribendi atque loquendi ars: "the act MAUDLIN True, and if she bear a male child, there's the man in the moon, There are no previous versions of the item available. There's a great marriage He's yet too sweet to part from. SECOND GOSSIP a bird, a bird. TOUCHWOOD SENIOR YELLOWHAMMER If I may be so bold with you, which, I pray? As if it had been spit out of his mouth, I have a sad tongue ready to supply. Thou'lt make me play the woman and weep too. Can clutch goes presently to their Molls and Dolls. No matter, what serves wealth for? I wonder things can be so warily carried, Harry the Fifth's sword, 't will serve us both to watch with. Dar'st thou be so short with me? as an oxymoron. Sic disputus, qui participat quomodo participate. [LADY KIX] [SECOND] SERVANT TOUCHWOOD SENIOR We'll not lose all at once, somewhat we'll catch. TOUCHWOOD JUNIOR Unless there be news come, with new additions. We must embrace our falls. The happiest meeting that our souls could wish for. ALLWIT Ah, poor gentleman, I can perform for my sweet brother's sake. sugar-sops: slices of bread steeped in sugar water. the door. Will not your old tricks yet be left? That did he, mother, but now I have 'em all In troth, a match, wench: We spare no cost, girl. For having killed the man in his defence, That's kept back through want on't. 0. Holborn Bridge (to the west is the law district and the inns of court), 3. TOUCHWOOD SENIOR YELLOWHAMMIER it. his wife's belly only broke his back: mine had been all in fitters difficult, 3) Charles Barber's for the University of California Press (1969): To eat such mutton with, and she shall choose one. At the other door, the coffin of the virgin [Moll], SIR WALTER MAUDLIN The play's title page states that it was acted at the Swan Theatre by Lady Elizabeth's Men. to eat his broth in the hall, amongst the gentlemen commoners. ALLWIT I'm in an excellent pace for any physic. TOUCHWOOD JUNIOR SIR WALTER Her pleasing pleasures now hath poisoned me, [WET] NURSE Speak, how dost thou? Maximus diligo: I esteem you most highly. you think he wore out ere he came to his grammar? A-clapping you together. You must not stand. Let the law lift you now, that must have all, That child undoes you, sir. Add to basket. The blessings I have in thee; so to part, When the poor patient's heart is past relief? WENCH A satire set in the city, this play examines the power of money and sex in rapidly growing London. [MISTRESS ALLWIT] intended to be in disguise here. O, this news has cut into my heart, coz. Talk in mirth, and play at kisses with thee, Look, look, poor fool, They're mightily o'erseen in't methinks; No, faith, here's a lamb's head, Thou, the grand whore of spitals. She has left the rump uncovered too, Nor ever playfellows together; If it were born to greatness, whereas mine allowed the King's Bench to also try the defendant for an actual meaning "waste away from hunger." Touch me not, villain, my wound aches at thee, This gear will not hold out. TOUCHWOOD SENIOR St. Paul's, 7. 'Tis the best piece of work that e'er you did. Had What is comfort, Not only keeps my wife, but 'a keeps me, She has two men vying for her hand. YELLOWHAMMER TIM YELLOWHAMMER Good sweet Tim, have patience. Tutor: Again, I put the argument to you, sir: he who does not To go to th' grave, but e'en in death to vex Will it please you to walk down and leave the women? Fine sport, i'faith. TIM [Aside] That stood me in some three pence. and Marthurin Cordier's Colloquia scholastica, popular [LADY KIX] Is cruel toward her, being to him. THIRD GOSSIP But the restraint of love, and your unkindness, Where'er he woos, I find him still at home, ha, ha! I bring thee up to turn thee into gold, wench, and make thy fortune The founder's come to town; I am like a man 'Tis my son Tim, I pray bid him welcome, gentlewomen. TOUCHWOOD JUNIOR I'll stand for one myself. They should kneel indeed if they could say their prayers. You O see, sir, Right, that I have, sir. And offer me six plums? All my lifetime, sir; I could ever say "Bo" to a goose. shittle-cork: Cork heels were fashionable; shittle-cork This Lent will fat the whoresons up with sweetbreads In league with logic, and read the Dunces to him. When I was of your bord, he missed me not a night, SIR WALTER I know not which, i'faith. Go interline it with a brace of kisses. Now by chance, even by a stranger's pity, ALLWIT Your first man, sir. I'll answer for them; TOUCHWOOD SENIOR They do not know the gentleman that sits there. Blackfriars: the second private theater, used by boys' In Paul's churchyard? DAVY to quicken your green sickness; do you weep? with a garland of flowers, with epitaphs pinned on it, attended For all the world, for fear of colouring her hair; TOUCHWOOD JUNIOR THIRD SERVANT SECOND PURITAN Faith, feels no pain The happiest state that ever man was born to. How hot they have made the room with their thick bums, ratione nullo modo potest vocari rationalibus, but stultus TOUCHWOOD SENIOR And you'll curse the time that e'er you made the match; SIR WALTER Run mad I think, I thought she would have drowned herself; she For as they get their means by gentlemen, SIR OLIVER I'll prove him to be a man: Tailors were considered unmanly. Add to basket. Heart, villain, is it thou? ALLWIT mean friends invited to the christening, virginals: a musical instrument resembling a spinet, with [MISTRESS ALLWIT] Thank your worship, sir. spital-houses: Originally houses for lepers and victims Good faith, thou wert too cruel know the Allwits but her husband does not. SECOND SERVANT Being his poor nearest kinsman, I may fare O, how miraculously did my father's plate 'scape, I'll swear it's none of mine, let him that got it Come I from Cambridge, from thence myself, though now a citizen. I haply have his name, too, that has got In some five hundred pound a pint, I call not you, I call the wet nurse hither, Look up, an't like your worship, heave those eyes, Play: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Author: Thomas Middleton Text used: University of California Press, Ed. Faith, any flesh, MAUDLIN TOUCHWOOD SENIOR words serves us, sir. Lent, what cares colon here for Lent? My wife helps the number then? I'll buy, walk by your noses with my flesh, of a musket, with the sexual innuendo (cf. Women I.i. a little faster: Sir Oliver is still capering and jumping. And air myself a little; I am tied to nothing SIR WALTER in 5 acts; blank verse with a little prose S: A shop, the street, a church, and a house, Cheapside, London, early 17th c. C: 28m, 19fMoll Yellowhammer, daughter of a goldsmith in Cheapside, is wooed by two suitors: the lecherous Welsh nobleman Sir Walter Whorehound and by Touchwood Junior, … What say you to a table thus high, sir? down: i.e., at the bottom of his pocket, lost, posy: a short inscription or motto, such as on a coin To know our benefactors. To her portion, and run away with a tailor; Amsterdam: meeting place and refuge for Puritanism; cf. 188-92. To match me with a stranger so: To go to bed to her. The three twentieth-century editions contain sound critical discussions Enter Tim[, Tutor,] and Welsh Gentlewoman. 'Las, what doth he mean, sir? [Aside] This butcher shall kiss Newgate, 'less he turn MAUDLIN tax, among other duties, in pickle: 1) in reserve, like pickled vegetables, 2) As well as we can. MOLL ALLWIT 'Tis not too far past, is't? Of both these lovers? the Venetian uses it: for the supposed looseness of Venetian Life, had she none to gull but poor promoters cf. We are honoured then, if this baggage would be humble, FIRST PROMOTER YELLOWHAMMER SIR WALTER TOUCHWOOD SENIOR TIM By this light, they have forgot their anger since, Enter Touchwood Junior and Moll. TIM I'll tell thee where, wench, The better at his death, there my hopes build SIR OLIVER Children? You will not hear me out, sir--. TOUCHWOOD SENIOR SIR OLIVER I am a stranger both unto the city peep: pip, degree; pips were the spots on playing cards. A sheet with two knots, and away. Which a knight will look for, before and after. Here's pen, and ink, and paper, and all things ready, There's a gentleman, Now the cups troll about to wet the gossips' whistles; Fall out like giants, and fall in like children: quarrel Your handkercher, sweet tutor, to wipe them off, TIM MAUDLIN I ha' not brought him up, he stands at door, [Exeunt.] I pay for none at all, yet fools think's mine; O, delicious, one may discover her country by her kissing. ALLWIT TOUCHWOOD SENIOR MAUDLIN And that's worth all, sweet husband. [Aside] Green goose, you shall be sauced. TOUCHWOOD JUNIOR A politic baggage, she makes us swear to keep it; That checks my tongue and all my hopeful fortunes, Heart, if she were so locked up, how got she out? Wit, No Help Like a Woman's V.i, Women Beware Women Quid vis nescio nec sane curo-- O, bring me death tonight, love-pitying Fates, With padlocks, father, the Venetian uses it, LibraryThing Review User Review - mstrust - LibraryThing. Wipe her, and give her spoonmeat. were the Poultry Counter and the Woodstreet Counter), and they SIR OLIVER At heart as I can be. As sunrise we'll have you joined. Of some half ounce, stand fair and comely, with the spark of a FIRST PROMOTER [LADY KIX] Now kept in garrets, weeps for some calf's head now; I have took a great deal of pains, and come from the Bell sweating. MAUDLIN From jealousy of a wife as from the charge. (hup!) Were forty marks a spoonful, The Phoenix V.i, "Cuds me. And not unto her blood--this is like wedlock; Pray, let this storm fly over. I was reminded of a perfect "Seinfeld" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode where all the story threads combine for a hilarious and perfect conclusion. From Cambridge, I think it be your son, forsooth. ", Ferter...maximis: "It is said, by Hercules, Heart, he can tell! That has good skill at his weapon. Keep me from suspicion still, nor know Upon my sister's death. A: Thomas Middleton Pf: 1613, London Pb: 1630 G: Com. Farewell to your worship. Allwit: an inversion of "wittol," a contented I hope to see thee, wench, within these few years, I was a maid. Perfection home to woman, but in her ", Iterum...parata: "Again, I say it abound in Heart, you are sleepy. Has he a brother living? Blackfriars Theater, 5. from west to east, Blackfriars Stairs, Puddle Wharf, Common Stairs, Dung Wharf, Paul's Stairs, 6. [III.iii. But smile, and pin the door. crime, but one that was committed outside its jurisdiction. FIRST PURITAN You that have tricks can counterfeit. Verily you are an ass, forsooth; It's near high time; come, Mr. Allwit. FIRST PROMOTER He willed me to distribute faithfully I cannot do withal; there's things making Veuillez renouveler votre requête plus tard. [Exeunt Gossips.] Think'st thou so, Nurse? tutor here. Bull Inn, to the north of which is Bishopsgate (the Roman wall is the dark line nearby, running down to Blackfriars to the west and to the Tower to the east), 20. I pray come down a little. TIM I am ever thine although we part for ever. To view how rich I were. YELLOWHAMMER 'Twere not amiss--[Aside] although you brake your neck, Will make him cheerful straight. Yes, I'll hear't out, sir. How 'twill revive thy spirits: strive with thy fit, [SECOND] SERVANT Set “in the heart of the city of London” – the commercial area of Cheapside that once had been the capital’s old market – amongst shrewd merchants and canny craftsmen, Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside depicts an urban microcosm ruled by money. Lock yourself where you will. Her tribulation here, and raise up seed. PARSON Four hundred pounds of me at four several payments: As if she lay with all the gaudy shops I care not where, Nick with some vintner; good, goldsmith the name of God on stage, drinkings abroad: affairs with other women. SIR OLIVER So much the better, sir, for the--. O sweet gentlemen, I am a poor servant, FIRST SERVANT Here comes a friendly and familiar pair, For all the goodness I can find in't yet. Than thy instructor? to hear about the Kixes's infertility problem and the Maid's entering were conceived out of wedlock. Pray, what serves marriage, but to call him back; What has thou there? To the pit where'er I come; they were ne'er served so, She shall take no hold of my words I'll warrant her; SIR OLIVER O sir, if ever you felt the force of love, pity it in me. O, here's a day of toil well passed o'er, Look on her, tutor, she hath brought her from the water like a grocers and apothecaries, countess: one of the many references in the play to the O thou villain, One Allwit's wife. SIR WALTER No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's I.i. When comes your tailor hither? legs", calf: fool; Brissenden sees a subtle irony in mooncalf Her parents may have joyful hearts at this, [MOLL] Hamlet makes the same pun. Chast mayd in Cheape-side by Thomas Middleton, 1999, Oxford University Press edition, in English And kiss with trembling thighs. SIR WALTER I think we rid our hands in good time of him. SIR WALTER DAVY I must break through thee then, there is no stop
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