FULVIA

in Phillis and Amyntas (Ivychurch) (Amyntas' Pastoral) — Fraunce, Abraham, trans.; Tasso, Torquato

Metadata

Play	Phillis and Amyntas (Ivychurch) (Amyntas' Pastoral)
Author	Fraunce, Abraham, trans.; Tasso, Torquato
Year (catalogued)	1591
First performance	1591
Decade	1590s
Genre	Pastoral
Play type	Closet Translation
Speech prefix(es)	Fuluia.
Words	563
Characters	3031
Typicality	0.17 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id	A01227.1
BritDrama no.	877
Cluster	Cluster 21 — Old fathers & plain counsel

Important excerpts

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Full speech

What? shall I then be the Crow, whose never-lucky resounding Still brings baleful news? shall I first bring death to the aged Father Montanus, whose gray-hairs now be deprived Of their chief comfort, fair Phillis, brave bony Phillis? Old Father, chyldles Father, nay, now not a Father. Know it he must and shall, that he may with speed be procuring, That those lovely relics of Phillis may be preserved; If those lovely relics of Phillis yet be remaining, Luckless Phillis. Amynt. Alas, what? yet more plagues for Amyntas? Oh Daphne. Daph. What's that? Say on, sweet Fulvia, what's that Which thou spakest to thyself? What made fair Fulvia still still After Phillis name our ears with sighs to be filling? How can I choose but sighs, so rueful a sighed to remember? Oh God, why shall I tell such dead news? and yet I must tell. Phillis came naked to my house, and told me the cause of Her coming naked: new dressed, she desired me of all loves Loving girl, that I would accompany her to the pleasant Yuychurches parck, and frame myself to the hunting. Both content, both went, and met with a company gallant Of flowering damsels waiting on Pembrokiana, With bows and arrows on prince Like Pembrokiana. Much time with pastimes was passed, sports drew to and ending, And on a soddayne lo, where erst no wolf was abiding, Ravening wolf runs forth with blood-red mouth from the bushes, And on a soddayne lo, while others bows be a bending, Phillis sent her shaft from her own ear unto the wolves ear: Soemuch wrought in her heart sweet sighed of Pembrokiana, Soemuch did she desire to be praised of Pembrokiana. Wounded wolf to the wood, stout Phillis runs to the wounded Wolf with a dart in her hand. Amynt. Oh dreadful dart to Amyntas, How can a pleasant end come from so deadly beginning? And with and other dart to the self same place I repaired; But Wolf and Phillis (grief spurred th'one, glory the other) Were quite out of sighed: yet I traced them both to the thickest And most desert place: there, (o deer dart to my Phillis ) There lay Phillis dart, and not far thence was a white lawn Wherein Phillis locks enwrapped were by my own hands. And as I turned about, seven other wolves by the naked Bones of a mangled corpse, gore blood were greedily licking: And as chanced (would God such chance had Phillis ) I saw them, Yet they saw not me, they were so greedily gorging, And so bent to the pray: So thence for fear I retired: And this is all that I know: and here's that lawn, that I spoke of. 'Tis but a swown; for he breath's; and lo, he's quickly revived. And would God my tongue had cloven to my roof, when I blabbed. What? shall I give or keep? Lewd cause wherefore he desir'es it Wills me to keep it still, least it bring fancy to fury. Yea, and runs so fast, that he is not Like to be outrun. Therefore better I were to my journeys end to be hasting: And yet I grieve myself, Montanus mind to be grieving, Least these news inflict as deadly a wound in a father, As they gave even now to the feinting heart of a Lover.

Plot summary

Plot — Phillis and Amyntas (Ivychurch) (Amyntas' Pastoral)

Cupid’s mother wants him to exercise his power at "court among lords, but he rebels and runs away to work in a pastoral setting disguised as a shepherd. The objects. of his attention are to be Amyntas and the - . loveless Phyllis: by making them fall for one another, he will demonstrate that he has power over rustics as well as over kings. . Three years ago, Amyntas ‘fell in love with his ‘neighbour and childhood friend Phyllis; but when he “declared his love, she rejected it and has refused his ‘ company ever since, despite others’ efforts to persuade __ her. Now that a soothsayer has told him there is no - hope, Amyntas is suicidally melancholy: he will kill himself, and then she'll be sorry. Phyllis has also attracted the attentions of a Satyr, but she scorns him too; so he plans to rape and murder her at the well ' where she washes. Thyrsis and Daphne plan to bring Amyntas to the well, too: seeing her naked will arouse his amorous propensities, and, in spite of herself, she will enjoy being raped by him. The Satyr gets there first, -and Amyntas finds Phyllis stark naked, tied to a tree “ with her own hair. He beats off the Satyr, but Phyllis is ungrateful and runs away when he releases her. - Phyllis flees to Fulvia, who clothes her and takes her hunting at Ivychurch. There she wounds a wolf, and pursues it into the forest. Fulvia follows her, and finds a pack of wolves devouring a corpse, and nearby a bloody hair-tire which she recognizes as Phyllis’s. She reports this to Amyntas, who faints on seeing the ribbon and runs off when he recovers. In fact there has been a misunderstanding: Phyllis explains that. the dead body was an animal, and that she ran away when recognized by the wolf she injured, leaving her ribbon behind when it became tangledinabranch. © © Amyntas attempts suicide: asking Ergastus to be a witness, he throws himself from a hilltop to join Phyllis in death. Ergastus grabs him by the girdle in an effort to save him, but it breaks and Amyntas falls. Hearing the story from Ergastus, Phyllis is sorry to have come to love Amyntas too late: she will find his body, bury it, and then hang herself with the broken girdle. But again there has been a misunderstanding: Amyntas landed in a heap of thorns, which broke his fall; he is bruised and scratched, but still alive. The lovers are reunited, and are to marry — but, despite Amyntas’ entreaties, Phyllis refuses to have sex with him until afterwards.

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