Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Grat. | Gratianus. | Gratian. | Gratian, | Gratianus: | Gratianu • . | Gr • t. | Gratianus •
Words
362
Characters
1858
Typicality
0.20 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07238
BritDrama no.
2333
Cluster
Cluster 24 — Gods, cupids & celestial agents
Important excerpts
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Full speech
She with security walks upon the heads Of the nobility, the multitude As to a Deity offr ng sacrifice, For her grace, and favour. Do not lose Your subjects hearts, You confine your sell e To that which strict Philosophy allows of, As if you were a private man. God's-light you live, as it Begets some doubt, whither you have or not Abilities of a man. Yet you have not Made choice of one, of all the ex, to serve you, In a Physical way of courtship. Offering our necks To be trod on, as a punishment for our late Presumption, and a willing testimony Of our subjection. And never presume to a ke What fits not you to give. This is put home, A pretender To the art I truly honour, and subscribe To your majesty's opinion. Even where you will, I know not what to think on to, The Emperors looks Promised a calm. The maies j of your fortune Should fly above the reach of grief. And this should yield you comfort. What hath his eye found out Be constant in it. God's-light, I think sheele keep him Her ward for ever, to her self engrossing The disposition of all the favors And bounties of the Empire. Here's a marriage Made up on the sudden! It is too apparent, She hath preferred a creature of her own, By whose means she may still keep to her self The government of the Empire. Are we come to praying again They must even off then, No ransone can redeem v . In the next room To his bedchamber, we watched, for he by signs Gave us to understand, he would admit Nor company, nor conference. Hall it's he. How were we Abused in our opinion of his temper? How his eye Is fixed upon her! Would it would leave me. I am sure I thrive not by it. Yes Sir, and the hounds and huntsmen ready. While you, To whom alone such reverence is proper, Pass unregarded by her, And I The lose of my place And kiss e the rod Of a proud Mistress? How's this? Whither will this clown?
Plot summary
Plot — The Emperor of the East
Paulinus agrees to introduce Athenais at court: she wants to petition the virtuous Protectress Pulcheria after being cheated of her inheritance by her brothers. Pulcheria adopts her as a handmaiden and arranges for her to be converted to Christianity; she also catches-the eye of the Emperor, Theodosius. Urged by his eunuchs, Theodosius declares that his minority is at an end, and takes the reins of power from Pulcheria. She encouragés him to marry, but when he refuses the two diplomatic offers which are under consideration, she presents a third option: Athenais, whom he had been thinking of all along. The eunuchs suspect a stratagem to enable Puicheria to hang onte power by proxy. Theodosius disregards their warnings and insists on marrying as soon as Athenais has been baptised, which also entails her taking 2 new name, Eudoxia. He celebrates the wedding with extravagant largesse. Pulcheria asks the new Empress to use her influence to discourage her husband from prodigality, but Eudoxia contemptuously refuses. Theodosius grants Pulcheria a boon, and he seals it without troubling to find out what it contains. [t turns out to be a deed of gift, conferring ownership of Eudoxia. Pulcheria uses this to teach them beth a lesson, Eudoxia about pride and Theedosius about the dangers of being unwisely bountiful; she then destroys the deed and gives Theodosius back his wife. A countryman presents Theodosius with the gitt of a splendid apple. He in turn sends it to Eudoxia, whe in turn sends it to Paulinus, who is ill. Paulinus decides that only one man is worthy to eat so fine a truit: the Emperor. On receiving the apple back again, Theodosius suspects that Eudoxia and Paulinus are lovers. When questioned. Eudoxia swears that she has eaten the apple, whereupon Theodosius produces it intact. Feeling confirmed in his suspicions, he orders Philanax to have Paulinus killed. Pulcheria argues that Eudoxia is innecent. and Theodosius worries that he might have ordered an uniust execution. He visits the penitent Eudoxia disguised ss a friar, and hears her confession - but it is a confession of perjury, not adultery. It also emerges thal Paulinus was secretly a eunuch, unable to be a woman's lover even if he wanted to. Fortunately Philanax disobeyed his orders and kept Paulinus alive, so no harm has been done. and mutual forgiveness can be the order of the day.