Mal. • en. | Mal. Ge. | Mal. G. | Mal G. | Ma. G. | Ma, G.
Words
353
Characters
2002
Typicality
0.41 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07975
BritDrama no.
2543
Cluster
Cluster 17 — Intriguers & schemers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
thither will I go, And if all fail try what despair can do. He's here. Now my copartners In this black fellowship, is it successful? I come t'accuse Physander. Why dost quake so? He's come Now use your utmost skill in plea, For fear our cause miscarry. My malice burst me. I have toiled in vain: And mine own torment is my only
Full speech
Harken then to me. Leave this strict Bride that curbs licentious will, And rain's it with her temperance. Liberty Makes delight full and swelling: it must feed On several objects, else it'll glut it self Into a loathing. You must suffer for't. Pleasures whose means are easy, in the end Do loose themselves. Things only are esteemed And valued by their acquisition. Should you win her delights without some pains, They would not relish. While your expectation Labours with the event, prepare your self To court it bravely. She's high-spirited; And will not stoop to every common bait That catches easy wantonness. Servants to Sensuality That wait her will, and with a diligence Becoming duty do prepare her pleasures. The'r sent to entertain you. She comes: these sounds forerun her. Would, would, he. It must not be; his glory is my shame. Mischief attempted if it want success, Is the contrivers punishment. As darts Shot at resisting walls, in their return May light on him that did direct them. Malice Suggests a new attempt. I'll practice all That hell can teach me, but I'll work his fallen. Who's here? to accuse Physander, thither will I go, And if all fail try what despair can do. He's here. Now my copartners In this black fellowship, is it successful? I come t'accuse Physander. Why dost quake so? He's come Now use your utmost skill in plea, For fear our cause miscarry. My malice burst me. I have toiled in vain: And mine own torment is my only gain. Exit. It's! That triumph in thy ruin. I contrived to, And caused divorce betwixt thee and thy wife: Whom now! will torment. Exit. Will nothing prosper! Lend me Erinnis adders, That from their poison my infected envy May swell until it break, venting a sea Of mischief to overwhelm him. One birth more My malice labours with. If that miscarry I'll in content of heaven that gum rds his bride Eat mine own heart, and never be satisfied. The Judge is entering. Is the court ready to fit? Never before. What officer art? Fear often cur's it.
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.