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in Cambises, King of Persia — Preston, Thomas

Metadata

PlayCambises, King of Persia
AuthorPreston, Thomas
Year (catalogued)1570
First performance1561
Decade1570s
GenreTragedy
Play typeInterlude
Speech prefix(es)Lob.
Words241
Characters1157
Typicality0.47 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA10041
BritDrama no.480
ClusterCluster 11 — Tosspots & tavern railers

Important excerpts

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Full speech

Gods Vast Naybor zay you so? The Clock hath stricken vive ich think by laken: Bum Vay vrom sleep cham not very well waken. But Naybor Hoh, Naybor Hob, what have you to zel? Chaue a score of Eggs, and of Butter a pound: Yesterday a nest of goodly yung Rabbits I bound. Chaue vorty things more, of more and of less: My brain is not very good them to express. But Gods Hat Naybor, wotst what? Bum vay Naybor, master king is a zhrode lad So God help me and holidam, I think the vool he mad. Zome zay he deal cruelly his Brother he did kill: And also a goodly yung lads heart blood, he did spil, It were a good deed zome body would break his head: And thou callest me knave thou art and other: My name is Lob and Hob my next Naybor. By God a what Goose chil give Thee. I think no hurt by my Vathers soul I zweare: A foul evil on Thee Hob, who bid Thee on it treat? Warrant it was thou that first did him name. Speak many words and by cods nails I vow: Upon thy pate my staff I will lay. Bum vay thou Hob. a little would make me you trim. Give Thee a zawp on thy nose till thy heart ache: I had not cared I swear by Gods mother. I am content agreed neighbour Hob.

Plot summary

Plot — Cambises, King of Persia
Gamibyses leaves Sisamimes in charge of his kingdom while he conquers Egypt. After a comic incident in which soldiers going to the war are beaten by a prostitute, the deputy, encouraged by AlmibiGextér, grows corrupt and takes bribes. Cambyses returns victorious and has him executed and flayed in the presence of Sisamnes’ son @tiaii, whom he appoints as his father’s successor. Praxaspes criticizes Cambyses’ drunkenness, so the King demonstrates his steady hand by shooting the courtier’s son dead. SHIEFAIE is also critical, but bides his time awaiting Cambyses’ death and his own succession to the throne; but Cambyses grows fearful of his ambition and has him murdered. After another comic incident in which Ambidexter first entraps two rustics into speaking ill of the King and then denounces them as traitors, Menus and @upid induce Cambyses into an_ incestuous marriage with a kinswoman. She criticizes him for the murder of Smerdis and he has her killed too. ===== PAGE 46 ===== Finally Cambyses accidentally impales himself on his own sword when leaping onto his horse, and dies. This is interpreted as divine punishment for his tyranny.