Aruns. | Aru. | Arun. | Ar. | Aru •… s. | A •… n. | Arn. | Ar •… . | Arnus | Arnu. | 〈◊〉 . [Aruns]
Words
491
Characters
2567
Typicality
0.25 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A03244
BritDrama no.
1558
Cluster
Cluster 8 — Martial kings & Roman gravity
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 8 (massinissa, yaw, league, renown, quasi, apud…). Matches are highlighted.
behold Prince Sextus. Tempt him again fair Priest, What means Brutus? Let the charge go round, It shall go hard but I'll prevent you Sextus. Where's our mother? Renowned Queen. Mother a kiss. Shall I loose my right? Through armed gates, and thousand swords il'e break To show my duty let my valour speak. That the great Gods to
Full speech
If a kiss will make me a king, Tullia I will spring to thee, though through the blood of Sextus. Being eldest in my birth i'll not be youngest In zeal to Tullia. That business is dispatched. Save mine. I would have hazsarded all my Hope's, my wife had not been so late a revelling. Lords all's lost. So are we all. 'Tis even ballanct, I interchanged with Brutus hand to hand, a dangerous encounter both are wounded, & had not the rude press divided us, one had dropped down to earth. I hope a glorious day, come Tuskan king, lets on the ̄ . It sparde the consuls life to end thy days in a more glorious strife. You are to atyricall cousin Brutus, but to the pur pose: the King dreamed a strange ominous dream last night, and to be resolved of the event, my brother Sextus and I must to the Oracle. Here I stand, what I would done to answer with this hand. I have a wife too, and I think, the most virtuous Lady in the world. If you compare the virtues of your wives, let me step in for mine. I should be frolic if my brother were but returned to the Camp, and in good time behold Prince Sextus. Tempt him again fair Priest, What means Brutus? Let the charge go round, It shall go hard but I'll prevent you Sextus. Where's our mother? Renowned Queen. Mother a kiss. Shall I loose my right? Through armed gates, and thousand swords il'e break To show my duty let my valour speak. That the great Gods to whom the potent king Of this large Empire, sacrificed by us. Applaud your reign, commend your sovereignty: And by a general Synod grant to Tarquin, Long days, fair Hope's, Majestic government. I Sextus, think this kiss to be a crown, thus would we tug fort. In Tarquin's crown thou hast now lost thy partly. We interchange a royal heart with Sextus & grafted us in your love. Arrival with my brother in his honours. Yet for her virtue not comparable to the wife of Ar ns. A hand on that. Stay, the wager was as well which of our wives was fairest too, it stretched aswell to their beauty as to their conti nence, who shall judge that? Why do you my Lord thus lose your hours, and neither profess war nor domestic profit? the first might beget you love, the other ri ches. Here is no room for fools. Soft, heeres Brutus, let us acquaint him with the news. Why how now whats the matter brother? And why so B tus, scorn you our all yance? We shall expect you. No they attend the King, farewell. Nay Brutus. Say Sextus loved her, was she not a woman, I, and perhaps was willing to beforced, Must you being private subject dare to Wars loud alarm gainst your potent King?
Plot summary
Plot — The Rape of Lucrece
Tired of being a subject, Tullia encourages her husband Tarquin to seize power from her father, King Servius, and make her Queen of Rome. Having gathered the support of a faction of peers, Tarquin takes the throne at the Senate. When Servius challenges this, a fight breaks out in which he is killed. Tullia treads his dead body underfoot, then drives over it in her chariot. She encourages Tarquin to rule by fear: he cancels Servius’ funeral, seizes his political opponents’ property, exiles people without trial, and sets about extending Rome’s power in Italy, both by alliances and force of arms. Servius’ former allies submit to the new regime, but cope with it in different ways: Brutus feigns idiocy, Scaevola laughs, Lucretius cries, Horatius adopts a habit of bitter speech, and Valerius sings incessantly. Tarquin has an ominous dream and sends his sons to the oracle to have it interpreted; they take Brutus along to entertain them. The oracle says that Rome must be purged of Tullia’s sins, and that, of the three Romans present, the first to kiss his mother will achieve power in Rome. Brutus kisses the earth, but the two brothers race home to kiss Tullia. Aruns gets there first, and Sextus swears enmity against him and flees to the Sabines, who make him their general. He leads them against Tarquin and wins twice, but is later reconciled with his father and brother. The Tarquins welcome Porsenna to Rome as an ally in the project of establishing military rule over the neighbouring Italian states. Sextus is put in charge of the Roman army, and lays siege to Ardea. Carousing in their tent, the Roman commanders compare the chastity of one another’s wives. Sextus derides them, so they agree on a bet: they will go home and catch their wives unawares; whoever’s wife is found to be most properly employed will be the winner. Collatine’s wife, Lucrece, is the only one who fulfils the conditions. Since the bet was also about the wives’ beauty, they refer the decision to Sextus, and he chooses Lucrece. But though Collatine has won the wager, it has been at the price of inflaming Sextus’ lust. On the way back to the siege, Sextus excuses himself and returns to Rome. Collatine gives him a ring to deliver to Lucrece; Sextus uses it to gain admittance to the house, and, after the household retires for the night, he creeps into Lucrece’s bedroom and rapes her. The dissident Roman lords return to Collatine’s house to find the raped Lucrece. She makes them swear vengeance, then…