in Il Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd — Dymoke, Tailboys, trans.; Guarini, Giovanni Battista
Metadata
Play
Il Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd
Author
Dymoke, Tailboys, trans.; Guarini, Giovanni Battista
Year (catalogued)
1602
First performance
1601
Decade
1600s
Genre
Pastoral
Play type
Closet (?) Translation
Speech prefix(es)
Cho Nim. | Cho. Nim. | Co. Nim.
Words
327
Characters
1651
Typicality
0.29 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A02284
BritDrama no.
1298
Cluster
Cluster 23 — Gulls, fops & laughing-stocks
Important excerpts
No keyword-matching excerpt could be extracted (the cluster label doesn't share vocabulary with this character's speech).
Full speech
Now look about triumphant pour, That the world's tribute dost devour. Now bearest thou mocks and many a bat, And Like and Owl th'art wondered at. About whom birds fl cke thick and round, Ut hilst them she strives in vain to wound. So art thou love this instant tide Laughed at and mocked on every side. Some hit thy back and some high face, Sparing thee neither time nor place. It will not boot thee spread thy wings, Nor that thy pi tons whistling stings. Catch how thou wilt thou geist not me, The reason is my heart is free. Him thou hast caught it is no wonder, For love holds all his senses under. IN faith Auglaura I have catched you now. Will you be gone? nay I'll hold you fast. Blind love I do not trust to thee, That makes desires full of obscurity. Thou hast S all sighed lesser troath, Unhappy they that trust thine oath. Blind or not blind thou tempest in vain, For I can shift me in this plain. Blind thou dost see through Arons eyes, Blind thou best sighted safely ties. Now that I am at liberty, I were a fool to trust to thee. In test nor earnest I'll not stay, Because thou killest when thou dost play. Free hearts have ever feet to fly, And so (enticing power) have I Yet will you tempt me in to train? In says (sweet) no: t's all in vain. The reason is my hearts is free, Therefore you cannot handle me. But you that blind and faithless prove, That calls me to play this hour, Behold I play and with my hand Hit your back and by you stand. I play and round about you run, And for I trust not you I shun. Here am I no and there again, While you take me strive in vain. The reason is my heart is free, Therefore you cannot handle me.
Plot summary
Plot — Il Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd
Years ago, AWAVRE, two-timed by DUST prayed to DiSNa for vengeance. She sent death to Arcadia, and the oracle decreed that her wrath could be appeased only when Lucrina is sacrificed at the hands of Amyntas. Lucrina was brought to the altar, but Amyntas took pity on her and killed himself; recognizing the truth of his love, Lucrina then herself committed a remorseful suicide in turn. But the curse was remitted only temporarily, and {i#@@nnualhuman SAGHHEES must continue; Diana will be permanently pacified only by a marriage between a couple, both of GivVi@NGSS2hH) and by the pity of a faithful shepherd. Such a couple has been identified: SHMSl and AMmamillis; but Silvio is uninterested in women, preferring to hunt the boar which has been ravaging the countryside. ; A chain of failed amours proceeds from. this. AMaHGS is loved by MEFGHG) who thinks himself too poor and lowly to be worthy of her. He has tried to get access to her by dressing as a nymph; in this disguise he became unwittingly involved in a Sapphic kissing contest, and was adjudged the winner by Amarillis. Returning home to tend to his sick father, he pined away, and an oracle reported that his only hope was to go t@NAIRGadial — so here he is. He in turn is both loved and hated by G&HiSE4) who has learned the amorous arts in the city: she loves him for his beauty, hates him for his interest in Amarillis. She offers to promote his suit to ABZ) in order to take revenge on them both. Corisca has led on a SatyiiBefore becoming engaged to GOHGGH; so the Satyr too is vengefully inclined. He catches her by her long hair, intending violent reprisals, but she escapes, because the hair is only a wig. She sets up a rendezvous enabling Miiffilllo to have a ‘chance’ encounter with AliiaMilliis: he finds her playing blind- man’s-buff with some other nymphs, and-is caught by her. He declares his love but is rejected. In fact, Amarillis loves Mirtillo, but knows that she will become a human sacrifice if she breaks her betrothal to Silvio. Corisca tells her that Silvio is seeing another woman; if she catches them together, she can legitimately annul the engagement. In reality, Corisca plans to have Amarillis caught meeting Coridon at a lovers’ cave, thus leaving Mirtillo free to marry her; but Mirtillo sees Amarillis going into the cave, and follows her in, intending to kill his rival. The Satyr sees him enter and assumes Corisca to be the woman he is meeting; he seals the cave mouth with a boulder and goes…