in The Conspiracy (Pallantus and Eudora) — Killigrew, Henry
Metadata
Play
The Conspiracy (Pallantus and Eudora)
Author
Killigrew, Henry
Year (catalogued)
1638
First performance
1635
Decade
1630s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Private; Adult Professional
Company
King's Men
Speech prefix(es)
Cap.
Words
396
Characters
2100
Typicality
0.30 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A04824
BritDrama no.
2459
Cluster
Cluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Leave your sad embraces, They'le bring no comfort to you, though you persisted in them till you were such as thus you hold. Death, Like a coy mistress, makes no return of love for all that is bestowed, you may wast your selves but not your sorrows here. This ground will afford a perpetual supply of moisture; which your eyes, Like two Suns, may draw up and pour down for ever. Let's to the Prince, and to him Offer up our lives and griefs together, Th'ones the only medicine for the other. His scape's as Strange as was his entrance We had power to hinder neither. Exeunt. Om. Oh hold my Lord, offer not up your self A sacrifice when there are so many That gladly would relieve you with their lives; Let that thought prevail with you, hat you ought To live for them, that so willingly would Die for you, you're the prop of thousands, and If you fallen, you sink a Kingdom with you. Take the Sword by the other end, and so Holding it, seek to appease this Sacred Ghost: such a will exceeds this performance If you can't confirm the Crown, yet confirm Your memory by the lose of it. This Object makes your grief a burden to your Honour. Lean on me my Lord, I'll bear you To the Camp. Exeunt Om. 'Tis the acclamation of the Camp, at the receiving of their fellows, this night they expected their other forces, and it seems they are now arrived. S r , These fellows came to kill us, one of the weakest on they, when he saw himself laid hold on for his other fault, sus pecting he was discovered out of mere guiltiness confessed, that unwillingly he was brought into the plot, by the persuasion of his fellows, who in hope of preferment from the enemy had decreed on all our death's, he says too that himself, and many more were attempted by some of the adverse party with promises, and threats to lay down their Arms, and that the Camp is full of such commotors. Sir, raise your self, can you endure such words as these? Soldiers on, and make them feel those evils she hath uttered. Sir, will you stay? there may be treachery in the place. Theres now one arrived Sir, who certainly hath brought us news.
Plot summary
Plot — The Conspiracy (Pallantus and Eudora)
Two foreign princes arrive on Crete after a storm. One is Clearchus, who is finding an excuse to land with a shipful of troops which he intends to use to rescue the Princess Hianthe from a forced marriage to the usurping King’s son, Timeus. The other is Pallantus, whose ship has been wrecked. Afterwards he discovers that this was a lucky escape: Timeus suborned the sailors to kill him. He disguises himself as a soldier and both he and Clearchus fall in with a group of courtiers who are conspiring to restore the rightful King, Cleander, to the throne. (Cleander disappeared in infancy when the present King seized power sixteen years ago, and was wrongly presumed murdered.) Timeus learns of the plot, but open rebellion breaks out before he can do anything about it: Clearchus’ troops storm the city, Hianthe is rescued, and Pallantus kills the usurping King. In the ensuing sack, Pallantus encounters the Princess Eudora, the King’s daughter, and falls in love with her. He later returns to her in his own person, and counters her objections to him as her father’s killer by producing the evidence that Timeus attempted to have him murdered. Meanwhile, Timeus and his associates take refuge in the fort. Pallantus is sent to parley with them, and succeeds in persuading him to abandon villainy and accept Cleander’s mercy. Timeus and Eudora are reunited, and Timeus shows remorse for the attempted murder of Pallantus. Eudora agrees to marry Pallantus, and the dead King is cremated.