Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 8 (massinissa, yaw, league, renown, quasi, apud…). Matches are highlighted.
not; But I have found him a poor baffled snake: Sir, I have writ him, and proclaimed him coward On every post i'th' City. Lepanto, The valour sir that you so much renown. Cry you mercy! Then the Lepanto that I meant, it seems Was but that Lepanto's namesake. I can Find that you are well skilled in History. Believe me sir, and that
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I hear you're wondrous valiant. The world speaks it. I am indeed the Hector of the age; But she calls you Achilles. Next to my valour, Which but for yours could never hope a second, Yours is reported. Valour in Lepanto? He might be thought so sir, by them that knew him not; But I have found him a poor baffled snake: Sir, I have writ him, and proclaimed him coward On every post i'th' City. Lepanto, The valour sir that you so much renown. Cry you mercy! Then the Lepanto that I meant, it seems Was but that Lepanto's namesake. I can Find that you are well skilled in History. Believe me sir, and that Stows Chronicle is very good Greek; you little Think who writ it! Do you not see him? are You blind? I am the man. Sir, the rest too are mine, but that I venture ' m With other names, to shun the opinion Of arrogance; so the subt'le Cardinal Calls one book Bellarmine, another Tostatus, Yet one men labour both. You talk of numbering; You cannot choose but hear how loud fame speaks Of my experience in Arithmetic: She says you too grow near perfection. Very likely. You have a pretty pittance in the Tongues; But Eiron, I am now more general; I can speak all alike, there is no stranger Of so remote a nation hears me talk But confidently calls me Countryman- The witty world giving my worth her endue Surnames me the Confusion I but want And Orator Like you to speak my praise. Your modesty Eiron speaks but truth in this. I do urpasse All Orators. How Like you my Orations? Those against Catiline; I account them best, Except my Philippicks; all acknowledge me Above the three great Orators of Room. Then all is one. Were those three names three men. I should excel them all. And then for Poetry! Alas it writith' nonage of my Muses. You understand th'Italian? The Verses sir are excellent, but your friend Approves himself a thief. A Plagiary I mean, the verses sir Were stolen. From me, beleeu't I made they. Nay, they may be yours: I told you That you come near me sir. Yours they may be. Good wits may jump: but let me tell you, Eiron, Your Friend must steal them if he have them. I know that. 'Tis confessed. Who dares deny it? I ' have herd it often. Marcus, Tullius, And Cicero, the best of all the three. And Torquato too? I find you very skilful. Eiron, I err only to found your judgement. You are a Poet too. Pray do my eyes the favour sir to let me read they. Excellent good, proceed. So I have. 'Tis stolen.
Plot summary
Plot — The Muses' Looking Glass
Bird and Mistress Flowerdew, Puritan residents of Blackfriars, bring their wares to the theatre, but are appalled when Roscius tells them they have been ordered for use as props in a filthy stage play. Roscius argues that they themselves make a living from the vice of vanity, and invites them to see the play before they condemn it; he will give them a running commentary on its moral import. Despite Roscius’ high claims, Comedy and Tragedy seem initially more concerned about the order of their precedence; they agree to spend a year in competition, staging examples of their respective genres, and whichever is adjudged the better will thereafter have the theatre to herself. The play is a series of episodes showing specific virtues to be the mean: an excess or a deficiency constitutes a vice. A lack of courtesy makes Dyscolus churlishly ready to pick quarrels, whereas too much of it makes Colax sycophantic, to such an extent that he hangs around for the rest of the play flattering all the other vices. Aphobus is over-confident and Deilus cowardly, afraid of his own shadow: they have respectively too much fortitude and too little. Temperance is the next example, illustrated by Acolastus the epicure and Anaisthetus the ascetic, followed by liberality, missing in Aneleutherus the miser and carried to excess in Asotus the prodigal. The over-ostentatious Banausus, full of extravagant schemes for public works, overdoes magnificence, whereas Microprepes balks at replacing a church steeple. (The Puritans in the audience 1630 approve.) Chaunus overvalues himself, and seeks inappropriate high offices, whereas Micropsychus thinks himself unsuited to even the meanest position. Meekness is quite absent from quarrelsome Orgylus, who persistently tries to provoke patient Aorgus to a fight, without success. The arrogant Alazon and the modest Eiron deviate from truth: one falsely claims personal qualities he lacks, the other denies those he does have. Philotimia is unduly fastidious about her appearance, whereas her slovenly husband Luparus would rather clothes had never been invented. The impudent bawd Anaiskyntia brings Kataplectus to visit Philotimia, but he is too bashful to speak to her in English. Philotimia appoints him her gentleman usher, and they go off together; it looks as if Luparus is going to be cuckolded, but he doesn’t care. The extremes of justice are next: Nimis is worldly and prone to accept bribes, adjudicating between litigants according to which can…