Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 16 (nat, ningle, chould, numps, terry, dery…). Matches are highlighted.
adds more terreur. Let Hala's wicked heart (for all ill births a womb) By violence of passion, make for many vices room. Let ill example in to stain the Christian Nation; The same excess destroys at last, which first gave reputation. Conspire against the truth, you have and easy foe: For in the world all that are hers can never
excess; Yet shall your masked arts, and horns, your cloven feet ex press. Whereby your beauty's be so prized among your own; As they will blush for yours, by name, or nature to be known. Again, take all the world, if it one soul content; Then freely let Mankind believe you are omnipotent. But if your Legions here do in their glories
Full speech
What can you win of us, that must be as we were? Whereas you, exiles out of heaven, can hope for nothing there. That you have first destroyed your selves, and are ordained To scourge, curse, and corrupt that earth, which you boast to have gained. What have you won by this, but that cursed under Sin, You make, and mar; throw down, and raise; as ever to begin? Like Meteors in the air, you blaze but to burn out, And change your shapes (Like Phantom'd clouds) to leave weak eyes in doubt. Not truth, but truthlike grounds is that you work upon, Varying in all but this, that you can never long be one, Then play here with your art; false miracles devise; Deceive, and be deceived still; be foolish, and seem wise; In peace erect your Thrones; your delicacy spread, The flowers of time corrupt soon spring, and are as quickly dead. Let war, which (tempest-like) all with it self over throws, Make of this diverse world a stage for blood-enammeld shows. Successively both these yet this fate follow will, That all their glories be no more than change from ill, to ill. So as with peace, or war, if you adorn one realm, In both, through other Climes again, you run with barren stream. Rest no where therefore, but still wander, as you do, And restless be they, as you are, that shall receive you too. Give Alaham more scope to multiply his error, With parents blood adorn his Throne; more gilded still adds more terreur. Let Hala's wicked heart (for all ill births a womb) By violence of passion, make for many vices room. Let ill example in to stain the Christian Nation; The same excess destroys at last, which first gave reputation. Conspire against the truth, you have and easy foe: For in the world all that are hers can never currant go. Under the next good, shadow your deformed excess; Yet shall your masked arts, and horns, your cloven feet ex press. Whereby your beauty's be so prized among your own; As they will blush for yours, by name, or nature to be known. Again, take all the world, if it one soul content; Then freely let Mankind believe you are omnipotent. But if your Legions here do in their glories rave, Tormented while they live on earth, and much more in the graven; If to be nothing be the best that could be fallen; Your subtle Orbs, to real beings, then must needs be thrall. And so prove to the good but Like those showers of rain, Which, while they wet the husbandman, yet multiply his gain. What is your scope vain Ghosts? would you o'rebuild the sky? Were not men's Many tongues, and minds their Babel -destiny? Your beings discords are; and what can they create, But disproportion, which is still the fairest mark of fate?
Plot summary
Plot — Alaham
Before the start of the action, an oracle foretold that the kingdom’s security depended on the death of the King’s eldest son, Zophi; but the pashas, ruling during the King’s senility, merely banished him. Hala, wife of the younger son, Alaham, has had a series of affairs with pashas: first Muhammad, who was forced into exile as a result, then Cain. Seeking to secure his position, Alaham has recalled Muhammad, ===== PAGE 189 ===== 1600 but Muhammad has recalled Zophi in turn, cutting Alaham out of the succession. Hala seeks to make Cain king, and persuades him to murder Muhammad; but he changes his mind after Muhammad warns him of Alaham’s ambition: Cain will tell Alaham that Muhammad is dead, but in reality he will go into hiding. Meanwhile Alaham corrupts the guard, blinds his father and brother, and seizes power. When Cain tells him of Muhammad's death, he is sent for execution — if not for murder then for lying about it, as he is told when he tries to save himself. Alaham’s sister Caelica helps Zophi and their father to take sanctuary in the temple. Alaham has the city searched, finds Caelica, and arrests her. Her cries bring the old King out of hiding, and he too is arrested. The King, Caelica, and Zophi are all burned to death; as they die, their souls call out for vengeance. Seeking to avenge Cain’s death, Hala sends Alaham a poisoned robe, and plans to kill their son before his face, so that the other child, Cain’s bastard, will inherit the kingdom; but she mistakenly kills the wrong infant. The robe kills Alaham; Hala intends to kill herself too.