Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 22 (broom, tiff, loathsome, snakes, hercles, dismal…). Matches are highlighted.
breast, Virginia may imbace: If case your ears be dead and deaf, the Feende and sprites beloe: You careless arl of Limbo Lake, your forced mights do shoe. Thou Caitiff King of darksome den, thou Pluto plagued knave: Send forth thy sacred vengeance straight, consume them to the graven: That will not aid my case, From contrit Conscience
Full speech
O help you Gods, we members require. When gain is no gransier, And gaudes nought set by: Nor Puddings, nor Pie meat, Poor knaves will come nigh: Then hap and Haphazard, Shall have a new coat: And so it may happen. To cut covetousness throat: Yea then shall Judge Apius. Virginia obtain: And Geese shall crack Mussels, Perhaps in the rain: Lerkes shall be Leverets, And skip to and from: And chourles shall be codshead, Perhaps and also: But peace for men body, Haphazard be mum, Fie prattling noddy, Judge Apius is come. The furies fell of Lymbo Lake. my Princely days do short: All drowned in deadly woes I live, that once did joy in sport, I live and languish in mylyse, as does the wounded Dear: I thirst, I crave, I call and cry, and yet am nought the mere: And yet I have that me so match, But Tantalus amids my care, I hunger starve and pine: As Sissifus I roll the stone, in vain to top of Hill: That evermore uncertainly, revolving slideth still: O, as if to her it were to me, what labours would I fly? What raging seas would I not blow, to her commodity? But out alas I doubt it soar, lest drousy Morpheus: His slumbry kingdoms granted hath, with Dews and bewtious: O Gods above that rule the Skies, you Babes that brag in bliss: You Goddesses, you Graces you, what burning brunt is this? Bend down your Ire, destroy me quick: or else to grant me grace, No more but that my burning breast, Virginia may imbace: If case your ears be dead and deaf, the Feende and sprites beloe: You careless arl of Limbo Lake, your forced mights do shoe. Thou Caitiff King of darksome den, thou Pluto plagued knave: Send forth thy sacred vengeance straight, consume them to the graven: That will not aid my case, From contrit Conscience pricked on, By member of thy life, Inforced for to cry and call, And all to end our strife. Ah Gods, what wits does rame, and yet to you unknown? I die the death, and soul does sink, this filthy flesh hath sown. Oh clear unspotted gifts of Love, How haps thou art refused? O Conscience clear, what cruel mind Thy truth hath thus misused? I spotted am by wilful will, By lawless love and Lust By dreadful danger of the life. By faith that is unjust. Not flesh nor filthy lust I am: But secret conscience I, Compelled to cry with trimbling soul, At point never hand to die.
Plot summary
Plot — Appius and Virginia
Virginius is thankful for his good wife and virtuous daughter. Judge Appius falls in love with Virginia. Instigated by the vice Haphazard, he induces Claudius to help him in a scheme to get her. Claudius lays perjured testimony that Virginia is his own daughter, stolen by Virginius when she was a baby. Appius rules that she must be placed in his own custody until the matter is resolved; once she is under his roof, he will be able to seduce or rape her. Summoned by Appius, Virginia asks for death rather than dishonour, and her father beheads her; he is about to kill himself too when Comfort prevents him. He brings her head to Appius, who calls on Justice and Reward to execute him, but on arrival they accuse Appius himself. He commits suicide in prison. Claudius has his death sentence commuted to banishment at Virginius’ request. Haphazard is hanged. Virginius and the virtues celebrate the memory of his daughter’s chastity.