Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 15 (ang, hunc, fleire, shillings, chil, sblood…). Matches are highlighted.
the city walls My Lord was slain, & there perchance he lies. See, Madam, see The mortal wound yet gaping on his breast. Royal Ladies, The night grows old, and danger threatens us. Be speedy now: these obsequies performed, You may with more security enjoy Each others mutual love, and then discourse Of Thebes, and Argos; danger,
danger threatens us. Be speedy now: these obsequies performed, You may with more security enjoy Each others mutual love, and then discourse Of Thebes, and Argos; danger, and the time Will not permit it now; not far from hence Are many fragments left of funeral fire, Where Thebans have been burned; those let us use, And then retire
Full speech
Madam, the place is near; the noisome air, Which those unburied carcases exhale, Grows stronger still, and from that feeble shine, Which to the night halfe-clouded Cynthia lends, How large a shade the lofty Theban walls Spread over this field of death! those twinkling lights, Which we from hence discern, burn in the tower Of Creon's cruel watch. Madam this way, nearer the city walls My Lord was slain, & there perchance he lies. See, Madam, see The mortal wound yet gaping on his breast. Royal Ladies, The night grows old, and danger threatens us. Be speedy now: these obsequies performed, You may with more security enjoy Each others mutual love, and then discourse Of Thebes, and Argos; danger, and the time Will not permit it now; not far from hence Are many fragments left of funeral fire, Where Thebans have been burned; those let us use, And then retire from this unhappy place.
Plot summary
Plot — Antigone, the Theban Princess
Self-blinded and banished from Thebes, Oedipus wishes only for death. His daughter Antigone temporarily persuades him to give up such thoughts, but it is not long before he is dead. Thebes itself is at war: Eteocles has dishonoured a power-sharing agreement with his brother Polynices, and seven Greek champions have besieged the city in support of the latter’s claim. After sustaining heavy casualties, Polynices proposes settling the case in single combat with Eteocles. Both are killed. The new King, Creon, decrees that no Theban shall bury any enemy soldier, including Polynices. He also places Antigone under house arrest and refuses his son Haemon permission to marry her. In defiance of Creon, Antigone goes to the battlefield in search of Polynices’ body. There she meets his widow, Argia, and together they convey the corpse past the watchmen and give it a funeral. Creon too comes to the battlefield, to consult the witches who are gathering Parts of the dead bodies for magical use. They make a dead body tell his fortune: he will die soon, and disorder will come to Thebes. Antigone and Argia are arrested. Creon holds Argia, a foreign princess, for ransom, but sentences Antigone to be entombed alive and left to starve to death. By threatening to take his own life, Haemon persuades his father to allow her release, but it is too late: she has taken poison to hasten her death. Haemon kills himself. Thebes is attacked by Theseus, who has been summoned by another widow to intervene for the unburied. Argia is released and Creon killed, but Theseus allows him the burial he denied his enemies.