Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 21 (gar, shillings, alii, yongrave, ogenes, nat…). Matches are highlighted.
throb those hearts, which I must cleave With my keen piercing news. Andrugio's dead. The vast delights of his large sudden joys Opened his powers so wide, that's native heat So prodigally flowed, exterior parts, That thinner Citadel was left unmanned, And so surprised onsodaine by cold death. MY Lord, No. I'll weep. I'll beg
flowed, exterior parts, That thinner Citadel was left unmanned, And so surprised onsodaine by cold death. MY Lord, No. I'll weep. I'll beg a strangling, grow importunate Applaud my agonies, and penitence. Then clip me in your arms. Look here's a troop, a true rogues lips are mute I do not use to speak, but execute. In me convertite
Full speech
My Lord, 'tis firmly said that Duke, 'tis reported It had, so please Stroke not the head of infant speech? Go to? Why it had No. Yes. I would have told you, if the incubus, That rides your bosom, would have patience: It is reported, that in private state, Maria, Genous Duchess, makes to Court, Longing to see him, whom she never shall see, Her Lord Andrugio. Belike she hath received The news of reconciliation: Reconciliation with a death? Poor Lady shall but find poor comfort in't. WHITHER, Oh whither shall I hurl vast grief? Oh no; here throb those hearts, which I must cleave With my keen piercing news. Andrugio's dead. The vast delights of his large sudden joys Opened his powers so wide, that's native heat So prodigally flowed, exterior parts, That thinner Citadel was left unmanned, And so surprised onsodaine by cold death. MY Lord, No. I'll weep. I'll beg a strangling, grow importunate Applaud my agonies, and penitence. Then clip me in your arms. Look here's a troop, a true rogues lips are mute I do not use to speak, but execute. In me convertite ferrum, Oh proceres. Nihil iste, nec ista. I will not flinch. Death, hell more grimly stare Within my heart, then in your threatening brows. Record, thou threefold guard of dreadest power, What I here speak, is forced from my lips, By the pulsive strain of conscience, I have a mount of mischief clogs my soul, As weighty as the high-nol'd Apennine : Which I must straight disgorge, or breast will burst. I have defamed this Lady wrongfully, By instigation of Antonio: Whose reeling love, tossed on each fancies surge, Began to loath before it fully joyed. By his ambition, being only bribed, Feed by his impious hand, I poisoned His aged father: that his thirsty hope Might quench their dropsy of aspiring drought, With full unbounded quaff. Oh why permit you now such scum of filth As Strotzo is, to live, and taint the air, With his infectious breath! Now change your No. Oh what vast ocean of repentant tears Can cleanse my breast from the polluting filth Of ulcerous sin! Supreme Efficient, Why cleavest thou not my breast with thunderbolts Of winged revenge? How now? Fut, I'll not smother your speech. Yes.
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.