Halyna D. Malyk Speech Acts and Events

William Archer. Three Plays. (WATP)³

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1. 
   De Flores: I have done the work and now I claim wages.
   

Beatriz: Alcohol is yours

My brave Flores – with whatever more

A friend can do for your advancement see!

Take you this packet – find some messenger –

Some one who knows you not – to bring it to me

Tomorrow morning.

Do as I bid you.

Trust me – ‘tis for our safety. So, farewell.

A prosperous voyage to you!

De Flores: Farewell, lady (WATP, 130)

2. 
   Lidia: Oh, Givanni,
   

What have you done! Sir, be a prince indeed

And pardon –

Duke: Stop, I order you. (to Giovanni)

I take you at your word – I banish you,

Dissmiss you from the order of succession

And leave you to your fate. (WATP, 264).

3. 
   Marchesa: Dafne, stay!
   

I order you.

Count: I seek no pardon –

I only beg you to restrain your wrath

A little space, until you understand

This strange fatality that urged me on,

And made me seem disloyal. (WATP, 239).

4. 
   Duke: Linda, sit here and listen – I, your prince, command it (WATP, 261).
   
5. 
   Giovanni: I will excuse your tarring to the Duke.
   

Count: I thank Your Highness. (WATP, 213).

6. 
   Count: Your grace is kind –
   

But pray reflect –

Duke: Is this your grattitude

For honours heaped on you?

Count: No, not – I pray you – very gladly

To serve you would I make this – sacrifice (WATP, 232).

7. 
   Duke: Her heart is set
   

On wedding Dafne to Giovanni. You,

Marrying this girl, remove the obstacle

To that dear dream.

Count: True, true!

Duke: You hesitate?

I ask too much of you?

Count: No. I consent,

On the condition – that you undertake

To make my peace with Marchesa (WATP, 233)

8. 
   Lidia: You, Captain Moro!
   

Count: I entreat your pardon (WATP, 241).

9. 
   Giovanni: Lidia, let us fly,
   

Now, - on the instant! I renounce all claim to sovereignty, inherence – (WATP, 244).

10. 
    I bid Your Grace adieu! I humbly beg
    

your license to return at dawn tomorrow

to Caromonte. (WATP, 252).

11. 
    I beg of you, Señor,
    

Your license to examine that same toy

That dagger (WATP, 191).

12. 
    Beatriz: I am his widow, and I claim for him
    

An honourable grave… (WATP, 192).

13. 
    Pray you. Pardon me,
    

My lord, - if I mistake not, I address

The Prince Giovannyi (WATP, 199).

14. 
    Dafna: Uncle, I confess
    

I loved the jest. (WATP, 255).

15. 
    Lidia: I beg you, sir,
    

To pass your judgement on me and dismiss me.

Duke: My judgement?

Lidia: Yes.

Duke: You challenge it?

Lidia: I do. (WATP, 260).

16. 
    Lidia: You have further commands for me?
    

Duke: Yes, I command you

To lend a patient hearing to my suit,

And answer it in sober earnestness,

As I, believe me, urge it.

Lidia: You are merciless.

Well, since no less contents you, I will feign

To take your suit in earnest and I will feign

To give it answer no less solemnly,

Thus: “With all tudiful submission, I