Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 16 (nat, ningle, chould, numps, terry, dery…). Matches are highlighted.
even through any danger to embrace. Prithee observe.. Did ease Ever before produce such acts of shame? How does he Like this softness? it agrees not With his rough nature. They are my Lord Most absolute. Whom have we to sighed with? Led us again to Actium, we'll express A courage doubled by this little rest: And from the Hope's
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HEre's the right use of victory, to tame Our furies with soft case and wantonness, After so many travels. Had our Hannibal Possessed himself of Room without a Capva, The conquest had been poor. Pleasures only storehouse! Were I and Hannibal? and conquest quiet me As fair as daylight spreads his crystal wings. One Capva should ransom all. Now by my Sword. Indeed it's true Their bloody use hath been so long neglected, And for my partly I am so cloyed with women, Mine must be filled to powder, and prepared To be their Physic: the greensickness else Will not be cured by me. Nay, stands upon nice for his reward; And must be hired to pleasure, such as some Would even through any danger to embrace. Prithee observe.. Did ease Ever before produce such acts of shame? How does he Like this softness? it agrees not With his rough nature. They are my Lord Most absolute. Whom have we to sighed with? Led us again to Actium, we'll express A courage doubled by this little rest: And from the Hope's of such another conquest We will act wonders, to make victory Dote on our valours. She's of Salapia. So my Lord! Example shall direct us: we may well, If Hannibal turn Courtier. Whence speaks your hast? and what? It's not in Virgo sure. O miracle! that Capva Hath honest women in't. Nay, to have such change Of ; as if their inventions , busy to make our delights The object of their care. Here we are feasted With Chalcedonian Tuning; Rhodian gilded heads, And more than Samian gluttony. We drink No wine, but of Campania's Mascicus, Or grape crowned Aulon. Boys more fair than he That bears Jove's Cup, rapt on the dusky wings Oh is sky-borne Eagle, serve the banquet up In golden dishes, or Corinthian plate, Luxuries chiefest. Then to be clothed In silks of Tyrian die; tosleepe on down, And waking clasp a Goddess in ones arms, Lovely as Cytharea; revel sometime, And dance to mermaids music, Till the night Is made one artificial day, inverting The course of time and's actions: o delights, Beyond weak comprehension! We begin To taste them without sense, did not diversity Whet appetite anew?
Plot summary
Plot — Hannibal and Scipio
rebukes them, but finds himself attracted to one of the A MESSENGER, who brings news from Spain (1.5) local ladies. News from Spain snaps him out of it: BOMILCAR, Hannibal's kinsman Scipio has taken several Carthaginian cities. He decides SYPHAX, King of Numidia, a young, unmarried man; to attack Rome, but is recalled to Carthage before he later Sophonisba's first husband can do so. Carthage has recently lost an African ally, Masinissa, who has been wooed to the side of Rome. In an effort to counterbalance him, Hannibal goes to Numidia to seek an alliance with its king, Syphax. He also finds Scipio there, and suspects Syphax of treachery, but makes the offer anyway: Syphax's military support in return for marriage to Sophonisba, who was previously promised to Masinissa. The lady herself is reluctantshe still loves Masinissa and thinks herself above a petty king like Syphax-but Syphax is agreeable and the marriage goes ahead. The alliance does not help the Carthaginians: Masinissa defeats Syphax's forces in battle, takes Sophonisba prisoner, and marries her (even though Syphax, her husband, is still alive). Scipio wants her to be sent to Rome, but she takes poison rather than be handed over. Hannibal meets with Scipio and offers him a peace, but Scipio refuses, and Hannibal is routed in the ensuing battle. When he returns to Carthage, the Senate rebukes him for initiating unauthorized peace negotiations, and also suspects him of attempting to set himself up as a king. He leaves Carthage in disgust. When Scipio arrives in triumph, the senators order a pre-emptive announcement that Hannibal has been banished, but their disloyalty to their general only wins Scipio's contempt. Hannibal takes refuge at the court of King Prusias in Bithynia, and offers his services in a policy of resistance to Rome's territorial ambitions. Prusias refuses, preferring not to jeopardize his diplomatic relations with the Romans. A legation arrives from Rome, with Scipio on its personnel. Hannibal learns that the exits from the palace are being guarded, and infers that he is about to be surrendered to the Romans. He forestalls this by taking poison. Scipio plans to retire to country seclusion.