Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 19 (piety, thalander, crimes, blessings, loathed, pretend…). Matches are highlighted.
perfections are impos sible to be numbered, and therefore infinite, never to be matched, and therefore immortal. Farewell sweet Pa rends, yet to be mine, unfortunate Parents. How bles said had you been in barrenness? how happy had I been if I had not been. Farewell life, vain life, wretched life, whose sorrows are long, whose end doubtful,
Full speech
Miserable and accursed Haebe, that being neither fair nor fortunate, thou shouldst be thought most happy and beautiful. Curse thy birth, thy life, thy death, being born to live in danger, and having lived, to die by deceit. Art thou the sacrifice to appease Neptune, and satisfy the custom, the bloody cum stom, ordained for the safety of thy Country. I Haebe, poor Haebe, men will have it so, whose forces come maund our weak nature's, nay the Gods will have it so, whose powers dally with our purposes. The Egipti ans never cut their Dates from the tree, because they are so fresh and green. It is thought wickedness to pull Roses from the stalks in the Garden of Palestine, for that they have so lively a red: and who so cutteth the incense Tree in Arabia before it fall, committeth sa criledge. Shall it only be lawful amongst us in the prime of youth, and pride of beauty, to destroy both youth and beauty: and what was honoured in fruits and flowers as a virtue, to violate in a virgin as a vice? But alas destiny alloweth no dispute, die Haebe, Haebe die, woeful Haebe, and only accursed Haebe. Farewell the sweet delights of life, and welcome now the bitter pangs of death. Farewell you chased virgins, whose thoughts are divine, whose faces fair, whose Fortune's are agreeable to your affections, enjoy and long enjoy the pleasure of your curled locks, the amiableness of your wished looks, the sweetness of your tuned voices, the content of your inward thoughts, the pomp of your outward shows, only Haebe bids farewell to all the joys that she conceived, and you hope for, that she possessed, and you shall; farewell the pomp of Princes Courts, whose roofs are imbosst with gold, and whose pavements are decked with fair Ladies, where the days are spent in sweet delights, the nights in pleasant dreams, where chastity honoureth affection ons, and commandeth, yields to desire and conque reth. Farewell the Sovereign of all virtue, and God desk of all virgins, Diana, whose perfections are impos sible to be numbered, and therefore infinite, never to be matched, and therefore immortal. Farewell sweet Pa rends, yet to be mine, unfortunate Parents. How bles said had you been in barrenness? how happy had I been if I had not been. Farewell life, vain life, wretched life, whose sorrows are long, whose end doubtful, whose Misery's certain, whose Hope's innumerable, whose fears intolerable. Come death, and welcome death whom nature cannot resist, because necessity ru leth, nor defer because destiny hastes. Come Agar thou unsatiable Monster of Maidens blood, & douou rer of beauty's bowels, glut thy self till thou surfeit, & let my life end thine. Tear these tender joints with thy greedy jaws, these yellow locks with thy black feet, this fair face with thy foul teeth. Why abatest thou thy wonted swiftness? I am fair, I am a virgin, I am ready. Come Agar thou horrible monster, & fare well world thou viler Monster. Fortunate Haebe, how shalt thou express thy joys? Nay unhappy girl that art not the fairest. Had it not been better for thee to have died with fame, then to live with dishonour, to have preferred the safe tie of thy Country and rareness of thy beauty, before sweetness of life, & vanity of the world? But alas, destiny would not have it so, destiny could not, for it asks the beautifullest, I would Haebe thou hadst been beau tifullest.
Plot summary
Plot — Gallathea
Every five years, Lincolnshire’s fairest and chastest virgin is sacrificed to N&@ptumé; this ancient custom keeps the land safe from the monster Agat. The fathers of Galatea and PHyllidd independently attempt to preserve their respective daughters from selection for sacrifice by disguising her as a boy and sending her to hide in the woods. They meet: each takes the other for the boy she seems, and falls in love with ‘him’. Meanwhile, to make mischief among Diana’s nymphs, @upid cross-dresses too and gives them all amorous thoughts about the two disguised girls; but Galatea and Phyllida reject them all, each preferring the other. Cupid is captured, and set fiddly tasks by way of punishment. The day of the sacrifice arrives. M@be, the most suitable remaining virgin, is offered in sacrifice, but Neptune has seen through Galatea and Phyjllida’s disguises and will not take her; Hebe is relieved to-have survived and disappointed not to be the fairest virgin. WenGsS arrives to release her son, and appeals for Neptune’s help. He offers to discontinue the custom of sacrifice if Dia@iia will release Cupid, and, knowing it will save the lives of future virgins, Diana agrees. Galatea and Phyllida each discover the other's true gender, but Venus agrees to change one of them into a boy, but they are not to know which of them it is until they are married. In the sub-plot, three brothers are shipwrecked on the Lincolnshire coast, and seek their fortune by some other means than the sea. Raifé successively serves an alchemist and an astronomer, but ends up no richer than before; RGB too has little success, but Diek claims prosperity. The goddesses engage them to sing at the wedding of Galatea and Phyllida.