Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
Cruel homicide. Ungrate ull wr tch. Tyrant. Meet hilts in's guts. First let his own hands take that Mantle off. Help? why? From whom? Is not thy Guard about thee. One word more damnes thee. (To feed on Hope's is but a slender
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Cruel homicide. Ungrate ull wr tch. Tyrant. Meet hilts in's guts. First let his own hands take that Mantle off. Help? why? From whom? Is not thy Guard about thee. One word more damnes thee. (To feed on Hope's is but a slender diet) It's short, but full of weight: to feed on hope Is but a slender diet. Let it be. I'll mend my table though no feast with me. How prettily he began to talk (Fair opportunity is bald behind) It's true indeed Mes these. Never fear I'll twist my fingers in her golden hair. What speaks the third? This writes more at large, And comments on the prefixed principals. (Your Father did proclaim who should succeed Public denials nullified his deed, Your hast will be convenient; things concur To bless your Hope's, Fate bids you not demur) Of sin and pardon. Bajazet behold Here stands a man mild, honoured, gracious, Valiant, and faithful; gentle in command, At home beloved, and feared amongst our oes, Yet hath thy hand of cruelty assayed The hated murder of so de re a friend: Blush you pale heavens at this abhorred fact, That he may see his crimes, and be ashamed Of this new bloudinesse. Wicked Bajazet These admonitions fit the teacher well. First set Achmetes free, then speak thy fill. And quickly too. We cannot brook to see him stand thus clothed.
Plot summary
Plot — The Raging Turk, or Bajazet the Second
Bajazeth’s youngest son Corcutus has _ himself crowned Emperor, but quickly repents and resigns the crown to his father. Understanding Bajazeth to have promised him the succession, he retires to academic life. Bajazeth’s younger brother Zemes also covets the crown and plots with the King of Armenia to seize it. The Armenian army is mobilized, but routed by the Turks under Achmetes. In battle, Achmetes encounters Zemes and fights him; Zemes pretends to have been killed, then flees to Rome, where he takes refuge with Pope Alexander. Achmetes divorces his wife for adultery and so offends her father, the Pasha Isaac. Isaac tells Bajazeth that Achmetes negligently allowed Zemes to escape and then boasted of killing him. At a banquet, Bajazeth gives Achmetes a robe, which turns out to be black. In Turkish practice, giving a black robe signifies that the recipient is condemned to death without recourse to law, but Achmetes is rescued by the janissaries, who threaten Bajazeth and force him to rescind the sentence. Bajazeth fetches home the Turkish army to counter Achmetes’ control of the janissaries, and buys time by proposing a war with Rome for harbouring Zemes. In fact, he has written asking the Pope to kill Zemes, and Alexander has agreed to do so at a convenient time; he is spared the labour when Zemes drops dead of guilt. Meanwhile Bajazeth’s plans for war are opposed by two of his sons; he has them strangled and stabs Achmetes himself, but soon regrets the murders. Bajazeth’s son Selimus is ambitious and buys the pashas’ support for his plans to depose Bajazeth; he then leaves the court and goes to Tartary. Tired of the cares of state and the danger of assassination, Bajazeth declares his intention to abdicate in favour of one of his sons, and seeks the people’s opinion as to which they prefer. Privately he intends to give the crown to his second son, Achomates, and plots to dispose of the rivals: Mahomates must be murdered and Selimus killed in battle; Corcutus, ensconced in academe, is considered to be of no account. With Mahomates duly assassinated, Bajazeth proclaims Achomates his successor, but the people declare they will have no emperor but Bajazeth himself. With the ===== PAGE 21 ===== 1617 help of the King of Tartary, Selimus musters troops, declaring his objective to be the conquest of Hungary. His real intention is to attack Bajazeth. Father and son confront one another with their armies; Bajazeth is victorious, but Selimus regroups. Upon…