Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 11 (tospot, rees, ralph, soch, tout, oundes…). Matches are highlighted.
Sweet, fear not that which thou desirest. Oh heavens thine own appointed time and place, thine, own sweet Cyclops, and can ravishment?— Speak on, here's none but trees, and thy true tie true Rimbombo. Not: to my mother: no not in my dream: say on A pretty piece of work, my hands do their office nimbly I have unfettered thee, come
Full speech
Thou speakest of thy Rimbombo, that myrtle groves which love the winding shores, deserve to be to Venus con secrate, as faster friend to lovers, then the woods and caves of all the Mounts of Sicily, whose Nymph do coily shun and mock our troops, What wight of bravest blood by sea and land dares share with me in Cosma's love? by Polypheme my sea-bred fire I vow, the sand on which he treads, is not so small, as shall this pestell make his pounded bones. I would he durst: I never yet but once did taste of fishers blood, 'tis jolly sweet: come fisher, this way or that way I am for you at both weapons, club or teeth: let's to the grove, see, every myrtle tree bids war to fishers peace, and joy to me. Why weeps my Cosma ? Sweet, fear not that which thou desirest. Oh heavens thine own appointed time and place, thine, own sweet Cyclops, and can ravishment?— Speak on, here's none but trees, and thy true tie true Rimbombo. Not: to my mother: no not in my dream: say on A pretty piece of work, my hands do their office nimbly I have unfettered thee, come put this sweet yoke on me. As close as thou wilt, Cosma ; I would your filthy fisher saw us now, it would make his teeth water. How long wilt thou be tying me? If I do, then ge worser me: hast thou done? When thou hast done, prithee come kiss me, Cosma, Conchylio steals away, leaving him bound to the tree where Cancrone is. I see thou art a pure virgin, thou never didst this office before, thou art no quicker at it. What Cosma ? what? no Cosma ! what a wooden wench? here's a true love knot with a witness. Oh faithless Cosma ! Oh witless Rimbombo ! Oh Nymph ! Oh fishers! Oh shepherd's! Oh Satyrs! Oh Cyclops ! Thou bitch, thou witch, thou spawn of a mermaid. The knots are so many, the girdle so strong, and the tree stands so fast. Oh anger! Oh shame! here shee'll bring in all the country to laugh me to death, hide yet thy face with some of these lower boughs. Away thou monstrous woman, o, o How now! what's that? what, have I another witness of my folly? what gobbet of men flesh grows upon this tree? Come down thou fished bit; my mouth shall catch thee. Gentle C sma, i'll forgive thee all, & love thee yet, if thou wilt help to reach my walking stick; i'll make my young Orke-ketcher believe he shall be his grandsires heir. Yet a little more to this hand: O o, my shoulder's thunderstruckk! While Rim bombo rea ches for his staff, Can crone leaps on's back, and lies on the ground. Oh coward Jove, to strike me on the back, but wast our fisher lubber? is he escaped our hands? I would I were there too, but that I should sink Charon's boat with a tree at my back. Sweet fisher, I will turn thy net maker if thou wilt undo me. Shame and scorn make me silent. This sport I Like worst of all: help, gods of the woods. The greater shame, and fouler scorn to me. Up to the hill, Rimbombo fly this shore, And never deal with fisher-Nymph-lad more. Exit.
Plot summary
Plot — Sicelides (The Sicilians)
A year before the start of the action, Olinda rejected the love of Thalander, a friend of her brother Perindus. Thalander pined away, but sent Atyches to her with a final message and gift. Since then, Atyches has wooed her with equal lack of success. Now an enchanter has framed her for the crime of picking fruit from Neptune’s tree, and she is to be sacrificed to a sea-monster, the Orca, unless a champion comes forward to fight it on her behalf. Atyches does so, and kills the monster. In accordance with custom, she is - obliged to marry him. Atyches reveals to Perindus that he is really Thalander in disguise. Perindus once loved Glaucilla, but now refuses her after an oracle foretold trouble associated with both his and Olinda’s marriages: Olinda would die when married, and either Perindus or his bride would be cast from a rock. Cosma has come from the city to the seaside, where she attracts a number of lovers, including the foolish Pas, the ancient Fredocaldo, and the local Cyclops Rimbombo. She in turn is interested in Perindus, who does not reciprocate. She gives Glaucilla a medicine to cure the pangs of love, which Glaucilla gives to Olinda, who is secretly grieving for Thalander’s death; the medicine is poisoned, and Olinda dies. Glaucilla is condemned to be thrown from a rock for the murder. The long-lost father of Perindus and Olinda returns home to learn that his daughter is dead. Moreover, Perindus chooses to sacrifice his own life to save Glaucilla’s, and is thrown off the rock in her place. Some mariners fish him out of the sea still alive, but his servants, who helped, are condemned to death for it and sent to be eaten by Rimbombo. The truth eventually emerges: Olinda is still alive, because Glaucilla substituted a sleeping potion for the poison, and Cosma is identified as the cause of all the trouble. The servants are pardoned and Cosma is sentenced to a lifetime of unrequited love, and to be loved only by fools.