Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Aret.
Words
271
Characters
1565
Typicality
0.22 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A01055
BritDrama no.
2259
Cluster
Cluster 17 — Intriguers & schemers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
Passion of violent nature, by degrees Are easiliest reclaimed. There's something hid Of his distemper, which we'll now find out. You come on joust appointment: welcome, Gentlemen, Have
Full speech
Passion of violent nature, by degrees Are easiliest reclaimed. There's something hid Of his distemper, which we'll now find out. You come on joust appointment: welcome, Gentlemen, Have you wone Rhetias (Corax?) It'll be Courtly. These near parts Of Syria that adjoin, muster their friends: And by intelligence we learn for certain, The Syrian will pretend and ancient interest Of tribute intermitted. I think you dote (with pardon let me speak it) Too much upon your pleasures, and these pleasures Are so wrapped up in selflove, that you covet No other change of fortune: would be still What your birth makes you, but are loath to toil In such affairs of State as break your sleeps. 'Tis fit we should—Sir, we approve you learned, And since your skill can best discern the humours That are predominant, in bodies subject To alteration: tell us (pray) what devil This Melancholy is, which can transform Men into Monsters. There are sundry kinds Of this disturbance. You are a Noble Scholar. We both will pledge our truth. By any means, men singular in Art, Have always some odd whimsy more then usual. We must look for nothing but sadness, here then. The Prince is thoroughly moved. What should this young man be, Or whither can he be conveyed? Nor I. Most honoured Lord Meleander, our great Master, Prince Palador of Cyprus, hath by me Sent you this Patent, in which is contained Not only confirmation of the Honours You formerly enjoyed, but the addition Of the Marshalship of Cyprus, and ere long He means to visit you. Excuse my haste, I must attend the Prince.—
Plot summary
Plot — The Lover's Melancholy
Menaphon returns home to Cyprns after a year's travel, bringing with him Parthenophill, a young man he met in Greece. Neither his love-Life nor that of his friend Amethus is going well: Amethus' love Oeophila is too preoccupied with her father's illness to entertain his suit. and Menaphon 's love Thamasta seems uninterested in men - at least until she meets Parthenophill. She sets her maid Kala to woo the newcomer, to avenge a slight, Kala courts him for herself, but Parthenophill rejects them both. Prince Palador has also been unlucky in love : two years before, during his father Agenor's lifetime, he was to have married Erodea, daughter of the principal minister, Meleander; but Agenor wooed her for himself and attempted to have her kidnapped; Mdeander rescued her and she disappeared, leaving the disgraced Meleander to sink into insanity under house arrest. Now Palador is melancholy, and affairs of state are neglected. The court physician Corax undertakes to tind the cause of Palador's malady, and presents a masque of mdancholy, representing various types of mental disorder: lycanthropia, hydrophobia, delirium, phrenitis, and St Vitus' dance, but not love-mdancholr, v.,-hich is represented by a sizeable blank in the masque's paper programme. Palador's angry reaction to Co-ra."l'.'s commentary on the omission reveals that this is his malady . Menaphon becomes jealous of the attentions Thamasta pays to Parthenophill, but her persistenct: leads the young man to reveal the truth: 'he' is a1..-tually a woman: Thamasta writes to tell CleophUa. Palador also takes an interest in Parthenophill, who stirs something in his memory: she is in fact Erode-a, who was spirited away to Athens by her uncle , a.nd lived there in protective male disguise . \\'ith his love restored to him. Palador now devotes himself to curing her father 's madness . Cora..." drug s Mdeander and has him shaved and dressed dt!\:ently in his sleep; he wakes to sanity , is rew1ited with En.idea , and is restored to his old office and given some new ones. He gives his blessing to Erodea 's marriage lo Palador. Encouraged by Thamasta, Cleophila agrees to marrv Amethus, and Thamasta accept.,; i\-knaphon. In 'the sub-plot, the courtier Peli.is supplie<l Cuculus with a page, Grilla, and leads hii:n tCl believe that tht · boy is actually a girl. CucuJus think.-. he is setting a new court fashion for temalc pages . He learns the truth ah1:r Grilla punches hin1 on the nose.