Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 12 (signor, sal, zelmane, handkerchief, absolon, dissemble…). Matches are highlighted.
mean, whose stately looks seemed to amaze the grea test Lords, stoopeth, yields, and fauneth on the strange boy in the Woods. My self (with blushing I speak it) am thrall to that boy, that fair boy, that beau tifull boy. Nor you Eurota. So says Clymene, and she will have Him. I care not, my sweet Tyterus though he seem proud, I impute
Full speech
I am sent to seek others that have lost my self. Can there be no heart so chased, but love can wound? nor vows so holy but affection can violate. Vain art thou virtue, & thou chastity but a by word, when you both are subject to love, of all things the most abject. If Love be a God, why should not lovers be virtuous? Love is a God, and Lovers are virtuous. What are you come so near me? If my self felt only this infection, I would then take upon me the definition, but being incident to so many, I dare not my self describe it, but we will all talk of that in the Woods. Diana stormeth that sending one to seek another, she loses all. Servia of all the Nymph's the coyest, loves deadly, and ex claimeth claimeth against Diana, honoureth Venus, detesteth Vesta, and makes a common scorn of virtue. Cly mean, whose stately looks seemed to amaze the grea test Lords, stoopeth, yields, and fauneth on the strange boy in the Woods. My self (with blushing I speak it) am thrall to that boy, that fair boy, that beau tifull boy. Nor you Eurota. So says Clymene, and she will have Him. I care not, my sweet Tyterus though he seem proud, I impute it to childishness: who being yet scarce out of his swath-clouts, cannot understand these deep conceits; I love him. Would Tyterus were no boy. Madame, if love were not a thing beyond reason, we might then give a reason of our doings, but so divine is his force, that it works effects as contra rye to that we wish, as unreasonable against that we ought. Nor I. Why how now? you tie the knots faster. That falls in sunder of it self. Why do you lay that knot aside. Come Cupid, Diana hath devised new la bours for you that are God of loves, you shall weave Samplers all night, and lackey after Diana all day. You shall shortly shoot at beasts for men, because you have made beasts of men, & weight on Ladies trains, because thou intrappest Ladies by trains. All the sto rises that are in Diana's Arras, which are of love, you must pick out with your needle, & in that place sow Vesta with her Nuns, and Diana with her Nymph's. How Like you this Cupid.
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.