Essay about Lord and Broke Beggar

Submitted By TheShoe69
Words: 762
Pages: 4

Induction I you rogue!- you pair of stocks

thy- your bed

I charge thee- look after

my Lord- my lord or owner

Thou art a- Your a fool

Sirrah- A term or address to a social interfere

How now!- Well

Bid them come near- have them come in

Tis- Yes

Exeunt- time

1.
1. Induction is the beginning and the introduction to the story.
2. Alehouse is the ale.
3. Heath is to manage.
4. Train is to bring
5. Page is the “wife” of sly and is a man disguised as a women.
6. Wanton is vengeance.

2. The hostess threatens Christopher Sly, by bringing the headborough or constable which were a piece of wood with two hole where the person could put his feet, head, or hands in to be locked.

The brief between the Hostess and the beggar establishes the tone for the play because it shows that sly is a drunk broke beggar and that he screams and it shows his lifestyle.

The beggar reference’s to his family tree could foreshadow his future change in social status because that should show that he is a wealthy and gentleman but instead he is a drunk beggar.

The Lord personifies death in line 38 while looking at the beggar by thinking to bring him to his home and put him in a bed and tell him he has been gone for many years and they thought he was dead.

The steps taken in order to help the beggar forget himself is bring him to the Lord home, put him in a bed, wrap him in sweet clothes, rings upon his fingers, with a most delicious banquet by his bed, and brave attendants near him when he wakes up.

The irony in the beggars name is that his family was brought in with Richard Conqueror who is a loyal man. The play-within-the-play is Christopher sly who is tricked in to believing he is a wealthy lord when he is a broke beggar and while this is happening to him he is watching a play called Taming of the shrew.

Induction II
Will't please your lordship- Would your lordship prefer

Ne'er- never

would you make me mad- are you trying to trick me

thee- them

Thou hast- they have

the tears that she hath shed for thee- the crying she cried for me

bring our lady hither to our sight- Let me see the lady

How fares my noble lord?- how is that my lord?

Melancholy- Justice

They sit and mark- They sit and judge

The setting in Induction I compares to Induction II because in Induction I he is found on the ground after arguing with the hostess and getting kicked out and gets picked up and brought to