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The Deserving Favorite

Carlell, Lodowick, published 1629 · tragicomedy · Adult Professional;Professional

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TitleThe Deserving Favorite
AuthorCarlell, Lodowick
Publication year (edition)1629
Genre (British Drama)tragicomedy
Genre group (comparison)tragicomedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: tragicomedy
Play typeAdult Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 423 · edition 917 · TCP A17968 · DEEP 738
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1629 [c.1622-1629]
First performance (BritDrama)1629 [1625-1629]
Company (BritDrama)King's Men
Company (Annals)King's Men
Theaterbefore the Court;Blackfriars;Indoor Professional
Theater typeIndoor
Title-page companyKing's Men
PrinterStansby, William
PublisherRhodes, Matthew
FormatQuarto
STC4628
Greg423a
Genre (Annals)Tragicomedy
Genre (BritDrama)Tragicomedy
BritDrama no.2262
Title pageThe Deseruing FAUORITE.
Title-page performance noteAs it was lately Acted, first before the Kings Maiestie, and since publikely at the BLACK-FRIERS. By his MAIESTIES Seruants. [var.: "MAIESIES"]
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10–63513T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe0.76do not expect strong Lines, nor Mirth, though they justly the Town-wits, and the Vulgar sway: What hope have w…
264–123492T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.87He is now at liberty. It is true he hath his liberty, and greater honours Are proposed if he can win his Daugh…
3124–183502unassignedMy Lord Utrante, can you not then Persuade your Daughter to receive a Blessing, Which even the greatest Ladies…
4184–243479unassignedSir, she may torture me, and justly too, For my presumption: since I have dared To tell so much perfections th…
5244–288566unassignedWhat a dull Slave was I; had not I last night overheard their loving parley, I never once should have suspecte…
6289–349513unassignedYou are too thankful, and attribute that To my bounty, which was the wages of your true And faithful service. …
7350–414506T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.84Do not thus vainly strive to alter my opinion, Of your worth with words, which was so firmly grounded By your …
8415–477509unassignedI see I must allow you the lover's Phrases, Which is to call their Mistress St. and their affection Devotion: …
9478–539508unassignedI should account myself happy, were I So furnished: but my Lord, I must not look Upon myself in the flattering…
10540–605509unassignedI hope she will Sir, she doth hear me speak. How hear you speak? Of love I mean Sir. Fie, passionate man. Why …
11606–667478unassignedMy Lord, if you will with patience hear me, I will tell you whom. Speak quickly, give me that case. For I vow …
12668–725487unassignedIf thou wilt make thy fortune, Bring me where unseen, I may overhear them. So your Grace will not discover you…
13726–786489unassignedSlave that I was to trust that villain Iacomo, That told me she loved Lysander. Dear Lady You have in this com…
14787–843486T14 Royal love, favour and dynastic relation0.75She is a Lady of that noble Spirit, That she wants nothing but the person of a Man To be one, her heart being …
15844–906497T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85Though there were found one envious woman foolish And wicked to report it; (for both these she must be) There …
16907–956506T1 Death, grief and revenge0.84Lysander, why d'ye stare so and look pale? Your hair stands up an end, as if your sense Began to fail you sure…
17957–1018500T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85Clarinda, you have long been silent, What is it you consider of? if it be my words, You must needs find them f…
181019–1052464T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85Shall I still love one that neglects my faithful service? Alack I cannot help it now, I yielded up My heart at…
191053–1115495T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.82Good morrow Sir, I'll read them once more over, Few words, but I believe a Prologue to much mischief. I fear t…
201116–1180499unassignedI hope your Grace hath not long stayed for me. No, Lysander, you are come before My expectation, though not be…
211181–1245498T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.80Duke, be not deceived for after the discovery Of that secret which I will tell you, I'll give you an assurance…
221246–1310497T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.82We lose time; for since we cannot both Enjoy Clarinda, both must not live. Fortune, I thank thee, Now I am eve…
231311–1374488T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85Dear Brother, what was your quarrel? Come Sir, be of good comfort, neither your wounds Nor the cold hand of ju…
241375–1415471T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.86When rode your Lord abroad? Early this morning. How chances you then did not sooner Bring me this Letter? I wa…
251416–1446461T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.86I hope he never shall come back alive, he knows I am a villain, I was too forward in my offers to him, till I …
261447–1510473unassignedSir, pardon me you were yourself the cause By your excessive love to him; for that made me Dissemble my affect…
271511–1569470T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.86Lysander, she hath reason, were I your Mistress, I think I should love you better than myself: But tell me Lys…
281570–1627454unassignedWhat a strange alteration do I feel now! When I touch you, a certain coldness seizeth On my heart, and all my …
291628–1690488T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.86May I be miserable if ere I persuade you to 't; Yet I could wish that you did love me, And with a little passi…
301691–1751480T1 Death, grief and revenge0.79How do you know. Your Majesty shall hear, As I was gathering Roots within the Forest, The best part of my food…
311752–1815485T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.77Are you certain Sir that he is dead, or Who it was that killed him? Too certain of them both, It was Lysander …
321816–1882483unassignedO no, but I do fear he cannot escape Your hands. Why Lady, Can you hope that if he were taken I would pardon h…
331883–1948498unassignedI would have sent for you, To know what you would have given willingly, To one that would undertake to save Ly…
341949–2016494T14 Royal love, favour and dynastic relation0.86madam, your humble servant. How strange a tale is this! yet sure it's true, Why should the Princess say so els…
352017–2066486T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.88He was a fool then, And did not know his own advantage, Which you shall find I do, you that Denied me now a ki…
362067–2114501unassignedTush, they shall still believe me to be Honest Iacomo; Yet I will let the King know where Lysander is. Why vil…
372115–2182500unassignedYou are the most Courteous man that ere I met with: I am so weary that it is not possible For me to reach the …
382183–2246485T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85madam, it's true, She hath indeed the most deserving man That then did live, the Duke, given to her For a serv…
392247–2315482unassignedmadam, it were in me presumption To censure any of your actions. Lysander, Must you go today? Sure you do not …
402316–2383490T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.78I see poor Gerard bound, whom I Compelled to conceal me. How couldst thou compel him? Royal Sir, with patience…
412384–2449497T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.87O that you were no Brother to me, Nor my King, that I might satisfy mine anger By a brave revenge; by my life,…
422450–2504492T14 Royal love, favour and dynastic relation0.81How! Is the Princess so in love with him? Indeed they say she is. Come, and eat your meat, you shall Go to bed…
432505–2554501unassignedWhy, wouldst thou wish to live, After the untimely death of such a Brother? madam, we must not go until the Go…
442555–2609514T1 Death, grief and revenge0.82Though thou deniest this with a brazen brow, Yet thou canst not deny thou wouldst have ravished me, When I did…
452610–2673521unassignedLysander, do not think I grudge that part of Love You pay the Princess, her merits fair transcending mine, Bes…
462674–2740524T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.84It is a cruel Law that doth condemn the innocent. Why, is he innocent? Let me die for't if I do not prove He d…
472741–2802505unassignedGood Father tell us how you found him Wounded, and how you did preserve him. Sir, what I told you Concerning t…
482803–2871524unassignedO what a happy man's Lysander at this instant Compared with what he was half an hour since! Imagination cannot…
492872–2943517T11 Siblings, kin and confidants0.67Sir, I must beg a pardon for the saver of my life. What hath he done? I pardon him, be't what it will. Then Si…
502944–3002508T11 Siblings, kin and confidants0.73But what excuse then made they For their haste in dressing of it For the grave, that was not then Scarce cold.…
513003–3073506unassignedDear Clarinda, give me not a surfeit. I fear the King will here consent. But good Sir, What made you desire me…
523074–3140494T11 Siblings, kin and confidants0.84Sir, you know the greatness of her Spirit; If you will have her to live, you must Consent. Brother, you stand …