Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
feeble sex? Amazement and the giddy thought of fear Run and unsteady circuit through my brain: Thy fear and trembling does proclaim thy gilded. The time importunates and craves sudden counsel. Guard cease him safe, some bear this body hence, We'll unto Borgias chamber, him we'll wake, Acquaint him with the ground of our suspicion:
guard, a guard. Who speaks that word? Error of darkness in what Labyrinth Our souls are plunged: raise the Court: Julia ? Thy death shall be her freedom infidel. Damnation on thy soul. What means these clamours: Borgias ? Wonder of admiration: what distraction is this? Amazement! Where is Ferrara ? Madame our duties joy your life
Full speech
These apparitions do import more weight Then our distracted judgements can yet poize, Yet mighty Duke suspend a while all fear If both my power in state and worth in honour May be sufficient gage to be your Guard Then think you are in safety. Ignoble villain, could thy coward-arme Presume the least wrong to her feeble sex? Amazement and the giddy thought of fear Run and unsteady circuit through my brain: Thy fear and trembling does proclaim thy gilded. The time importunates and craves sudden counsel. Guard cease him safe, some bear this body hence, We'll unto Borgias chamber, him we'll wake, Acquaint him with the ground of our suspicion: Mean time be safe in me: nor love nor life Shall turn mine honours current: I'll be your guard: This hand seems your person, or my sword Shall in the Traitors heart make good my word. Exeunt. A guard, a guard. Who speaks that word? Error of darkness in what Labyrinth Our souls are plunged: raise the Court: Julia ? Thy death shall be her freedom infidel. Damnation on thy soul. What means these clamours: Borgias ? Wonder of admiration: what distraction is this? Amazement! Where is Ferrara ? Madame our duties joy your life And wish your happiness. Not without Justice brave Venecian She is herself and free. Heavens seal it for the the good of both our states. She bears the image of Timocl Wife hnto Borgias.
Plot summary
Plot — The Turk (Muleasses the Turk)
Julia, the under-age Duchess of Florence, has been promised by her uncle, Borgias, in marriage to the Duke of Ferrara; but the Senate has promised her to the Duke of Venice. The rival dukes lay siege to Florence, but Borgias gets them to raise the siege by hiding Julia and telling them that she is dead. To supply a body for the funeral, he has his wife Timoclea poisoned by the Turk Muleasses. Borgias intends to marry his daughter Amada to Muleasses, marry Julia himself now that he is a widower, and make himself King of Italy; Muleasses will help him in order to secure Turkey a foothold in Christendom. They also plot to murder Venice and Ferrara, using a poison with a thirty-day time delay, so that they will not die until after they have left Florence. But Borgias still has another dead body to find, to stand in for Timoclea at her funeral, and he asks Eunuchus to help supply one. Eunuchus inveigles Bordello into a false assignation with Timoclea, intending to leave him instead in Borgias’s bedchamber to be killed. In fact, Timoclea is not dead: Muleasses only gave her a sleeping draught, and when she wakes he releases her from Julia’s tomb and promises to help her take revenge on her husband. She appears to Venice posing as Julia’s ghost, and denounces Borgias as her murderer. Bordello sees her en route to his assignation, and is scared off. Eunuchus is also haunted, flees, and ends up running into Ferrara’s dagger, with fatal consequences. After overhearing Muleasses express his passion for Amada, Timoclea jealously kills her. Muleasses encourages her to haunt and kill Borgias too. She tells her husband that she has been having an affair with the Turk, and he pretends to commit suicide by throwing himself off a balcony. This frees her to enjoy Muleasses, but he rejects her, intending that she 1607 should take her own life in despair. Muleasses calls for Eunuchus to remove Borgias’s body, but it is Ferrara who comes, in disguise, having substituted himself for the dead eunuch. Borgias, who is not really dead, stabs him; Ferrara lives long enough to reveal his true identity. In order to touch his wife’s conscience, Borgias poses as an echo, then as his own ghost; finally he strangles her with her own hair. Borgias plans to pin the murders of both Ferrara and Timoclea on Muleasses, but Bordello comes upon Timoclea’s body and is caught with it by Venice. Muleasses attempts to rape Julia, but Venice saves her. Muleasses explains Borgias’s plot; the two…