Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 21 (gar, shillings, alii, yongrave, ogenes, nat…). Matches are highlighted.
touch while we. Say on fair cuz. How proud thou speakest! I tell thee Duke, the blasts Of the swollen cheeked winds, nor all the breath of kings Can puff me out my native seat of birth. The earth's my bodies, and the heaven's my souls Most native place of birth, which they will keep: Despite the menace of mortality. Why Duke:
birth. The earth's my bodies, and the heaven's my souls Most native place of birth, which they will keep: Despite the menace of mortality. Why Duke: That's not my native place, where I was rocked. A wise men home is wheresoever he is wise. Now that, from man, not from the place does rise. Murder. From above and beneath. Why cuz?
wise. Now that, from man, not from the place does rise. Murder. From above and beneath. Why cuz? why should it not be hoarse & cracked, When all the strings of nature's symphony Are cracked, & jar? why should his voice keep tune, When ther's no music in the breast of man? I'll say and honest antic rhyme I have; (Help me good
Full speech
True man, true: why, wherefore should I weep? Come fit, kind Nephew: come on: thou and I Will talk as Chorus to this tragedy Entreat the music strain their instruments, With a slight touch while we. Say on fair cuz. How proud thou speakest! I tell thee Duke, the blasts Of the swollen cheeked winds, nor all the breath of kings Can puff me out my native seat of birth. The earth's my bodies, and the heaven's my souls Most native place of birth, which they will keep: Despite the menace of mortality. Why Duke: That's not my native place, where I was rocked. A wise men home is wheresoever he is wise. Now that, from man, not from the place does rise. Murder. From above and beneath. Why cuz? why should it not be hoarse & cracked, When all the strings of nature's symphony Are cracked, & jar? why should his voice keep tune, When ther's no music in the breast of man? I'll say and honest antic rhyme I have; (Help me good sorrow-mates to give him graven.) Death, exile, plaints, and woe, Are but men lackeys, not his foe. No mortal escapes from Fortune's war, Without a wound, at least a scar. Many have led these to the graven: But all shall follow, none shall save. Blood of my youth, rot and consume, Virtue, in dirt, does life assume: With this old saw, close up this dust; Thrice blessed man that dyeth joust. Those streamers bear his arms. I, that is it. It is, my Lord.
Plot summary
Plot — Antonio's Revenge (2 Antonio and Mellida)
The war between Venice and Genoa is over, and peace is to be sealed with a marriage between Antonio and Mellida, the children of the two dukes; Antonio's mother Maria is on her way to Venice to attend the wedding. But Duke Piero's commitment to peace is not sincere: he secretly murders Felice and Duke Andrugio, and hides Felice's body in Mellida's bedroom. When Antonio comes to wake her on the wedding morning, he finds the body hanging in the window, and Piero claims that he killed Felice in rage upon finding him and Mellida fornicating; Mellida herself is imprisoned. Andrugio in tum is reported to have died of joy. Piero's plan is to kill Antonio, marry Mellida to the heir to the duchy of Florence, and marry Maria himself, thereby extending his dominion across three Italian states. To this end, he plans to frame Antonio and establish Mellida's innocence. Antonio visits Andrugio's tomb and sees his ghost, who calls on him to avenge his death, assures him of Mellida's chastity, and warns him that Maria is going to marry Piero. Antonio murders Piero's son. The day before Maria's intended wedding, the ghost appears to her in her bedroom and reproaches her for disloyalty in widowhood. He further tells her that he was poisoned by Piero, and insists that Antonio should flee the court in order to seek revenge. Instead, Antonio stays at court disguised as a fool, and has it put about that he is dead. Mellida is put on trial, and Strozzo makes a false confession vindicating her and implicating Antonio in his father's death; Piero strangles him. On hearing that Antonio is dead, Mellida falls ill and dies herself. Letters are found in Strozzo's study which establish Piero's guilt, and opposition to him gathers head. With Maria's collusion, Antonio and his allies present a masque, which serves as cover to assault Piero: they remove his tongue, serve him a banquet of his dead son's limbs, and kill him. Contrary to expectations, the Venetian senators approve and applaud the murder, but even so the revengers declare their intention to retire to a religious order.