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)
1. Flam. | 2. Flam. | 3. Flam. | Fla.
Words
171
Characters
940
Typicality
0.44 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A04824
BritDrama no.
2459
Cluster
Cluster 24 — Gods, cupids & celestial agents
Important excerpts
No keyword-matching excerpt could be extracted (the cluster label doesn't share vocabulary with this character's speech).
Full speech
Sacred Peans to Mars sing Notes of Triumph, not of woe, Hence your Ewe, and Cypress fling, Who adorns a Trophy so? These are the spoils of our great Enemy, Hang Garlands on them of the Laurel tree. Least our too partial favour this way bent, Excuse the ill, and blame the innocent. Hence impure and bloody voice, Far be from our Mysteries, Bidentalls are Jove's proper choice, Holier then the Sacrifice. Each unskillful hand, and rude, At his Altar dares obtrude. None hear after of thy faults, But that thou ought's To die, remembered be, The rest shall sleep with thee. Touch not then with lips profane What Heavens Fire hath purified, Whose tears have washd away his stain, Whose black deeds in his blood are died. He for his sins hath paid, with death and sorrow, His Credits more that pays, than does not borrow. It was a good and prosperous Omen; which prefag'd your quiet here. The gods would not suffer you to rest in a wrong place.
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.