Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 19 (piety, thalander, crimes, blessings, loathed, pretend…). Matches are highlighted.
that are fled. Remove that sin, And hope with sorrow. Greatest faults are small, When that alone may make amends for all. I'll try him. Hells malice sometime does pretend that good Which Heaven instructs, to make distinguishable Their several acts. But Like a ball that bounds According to the force with which 'twas thrown: So in
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Be not thus misled By her malicious envy. She but shows thee The easy path to ruin, whose broad entrance Painted with falsest pleasures, ends in a point Of all the l S attend our misery Con racted into one. Though virtues way Be hard and straight to enter, yet the end Reaches to heaven, where her fair hand bestows Wreathe S of bright stars to crown deserving brows. Fix in that resolution, I'll bring her to thee. Exit. Wounded by the hands Of him worser stemper'd servants that are fled. Remove that sin, And hope with sorrow. Greatest faults are small, When that alone may make amends for all. I'll try him. Hells malice sometime does pretend that good Which Heaven instructs, to make distinguishable Their several acts. But Like a ball that bounds According to the force with which 'twas thrown: So in afflictions violence he that's wise, The more he's cast down will the higher rise. Exit. N w freely pass unto the blessed abodes, Where those heroes that do merit it In life, are crowned with glory, and enjoy Pleasures beyond all comprehension.
Plot summary
Plot — Microcosmus
The four elements, children of Nature and Janus, fight with one another. Janus' attempts to discipline them prove ineffectual, so Nature tries to persuade them to procreate. She invokes the help of Love, who creates concord between the elements through the music of the spheres. Earth gives birth to Physander, the perfect being. The four humours become his servants, and Love brings him Bellanima to be his wife. But Bellanima brings with her a good and bad genius, who can each influence Physander's moral actions. He succumbs to temptation, dismisses the good genius, and seeks out the whore Sensuality. The four humours suggest ways of wooing her: Choler proposes violence, Blood, dance, Phlegm, language, and Melancholy, pathos. The five senses, Sensuality's servants, conduct him to her, and she seduces him with the promise of luxury. Bellanima attempts to reclaim him, but he refuses her. After sleeping with Sensuality, Physander falls ill. The humours drunkenly attack him, and Sensuality disowns him. He feels ashamed at having left his wife for a whore. Bellanima summons Temperance to cure his wounds; she prescribes a simple life and frugal diet, and he is cured. The evil genius still maliciously seeks his destruction, and plans to drive him to suicide through remorse. He is tormented by Furies and accused before the court of Conscience; Despair prosecutes, andHope speaks for thedefence. Physander admits his marital crimes, but his penitence and commitment to future fidelity save him from punishment. With no further power over him, the evil genius can only torment herself; Sensuality, reduced to beggary, joins her on the road to Hell. Love accepts Physander and Bellanima into Elysium, and they are crowned with stars.