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)
Tire.
Words
279
Characters
1556
Typicality
0.31 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A02284
BritDrama no.
1298
Cluster
Cluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit
Important excerpts
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Full speech
To you I come for news, yet bring you news How oft blind eyes do aid the inward sighed, The while the mind untraveled with wild sights, Withdraws into it self, and Linceus eyes Does set a work in sightless senses blind. We may not Montane pass so lightly over The unexpected things, that heavenly mixture temps with hu mane, Because the Gods do not converse on earth, Nor partly hold with mortal men at all. But all these works so great, so wonderful, Which the blind world to blinder chance ascribes, Is nothing but ce'estiall counsel talk, So speak th'eternall powers amongst themselves, Whose voices though they touch not deafened ears, Yet do they owned to hearts that understand. Oh four, o six times happy he that understands it well. The good Nicander as thou didst command, Stays to conduct the holy sacrifice, But I retained him by and accident That's newly fallen: the which (I know not) all Unwonted and confused, betwixt hope and fear. Dulleth my sense. I cannot understand, and yet the less I comprehend, the more I do conceive. If (son) the use divine of light prophetical Were nature's gift, and not the gift of heaven, Then mightest thou see as well as I, that Fates Secrets sometime deny our working minds, This only 'tis that makes me come to thee, That I might better be informed who 'tis That is discovered father to the youth That's doomed to die (if I Nicander understand.) You father of our Goddess sacrifice? Of that same faithful shepherd, that to give Life to and other, gives himself to death? And is this true? And who art thou?
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…