Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

PIAMENTELLI

in All's Lost by Lust — Rowley, William

Metadata

PlayAll's Lost by Lust
AuthorRowley, William
Year (catalogued)1633
First performance1619
Decade1630s
GenreTragedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyPrince Charles's Men (first)
TheaterPhoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Pia.
Words213
Characters1151
Typicality0.33 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA11155
BritDrama no.1895
ClusterCluster 6 — Battlefield messengers & soldiers

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Full speech

Not I, my Lord. Your prisoners must be sent too my Lord. To morrow I must return. Music Sir! 'tis all untunde, Remember your proud enemies approach, And your unreadiness to entertain um. Rouse you Like a Lion, And fright this herd of Foxes, Wolves, and Bears, From daring to come near you: a Kings eye. Has Magical charms in't to bind treason down, They fight Like thieves for spoil, you for your own; For what! a Meidenhead! Pray be your self, and justify the act, Stand on your guard, and royalize the fact By your own dispensation. This I dread more then all our enemies, If good proceed from this, no Magic Art Shall fright me. What ails you Sir? Coming they are, but yet a league distant, Sir, Your fancies trouble you, they are but coming, Too near in that, make up to your soldiers, Full twenty thousand now will follow you and more. Fly, fly my Lord. With wings of speed. Your foes, Sir, conquer, and your souldies bleed, The barbarous More is titled by your name, The Spanish King; therefore your safest speed Will be to Biscany, there you may find New friends, new safety, and new kingly minds. They'le you relieve. A . While I am Pia telli.

Plot summary

Plot — All's Lost by Lust
Spain is threatened by an invasion of Moors, but an ancient curse prevents King Roderick from opening his treasury to pay his troops. Julianus is appointed general and goes to the war. Roderick’s intention is to get Julianus out of the way while he attempts to seduce Jacinta, his daughter; Lothario engages a professional bawd to help. Jacinta resists Roderick’s advances, so he rapes her. She is then imprisoned in Lothario’s custody, but she escapes while he is asleep. Meanwhile, Antonio is in love with the base-born Margaretta, and procures her family’s consent to marry her before he leaves for the war. At the front, the Moors are reluctant to give battle, and seem undermanned. Antonio is attracted to Dionysia, the Castellan’s pugnacious daughter, and she encourages his advances. Lazarello advises him to keep quiet about his existing marriage, and pay Margaretta off. Margaretta learns that Antonio has married Dionysia bigamously, and sends her brother to the wars with a letter for him. Antonio is in a dilemma: he loves both women. Lazarello proposes that he should take Antonio’s place at the consummation of his marriage with Margaretta: she will mistake him for Antonio in the dark, and afterwards will be too ashamed to claim her husband. The plan is successful only to the extent that Lazarello is taken to be Antonio by the vindictive Margaretta: she strangles him in his bed. Julianus returns from war victorious, but Roderick orders him to stay away from court, and demands that he give up his prisoners. Jacinta tells him about the rape, and he allies with his generals.and Moorish prisoners to seek revenge. To cement the alliance, the Moorish King Muly Mumen asks for Jacinta as his wife; Julianus will not force her against her will, but gives him permission to woo her. With his army in revolt, Roderick needs to hire mercenaries, and breaks open the cursed treasury. There he sees a vision of his own defeat and deposition by the Moors. Lothario persuades Jaques the clown to hang him, and, after the battle goes against him, Roderick flees. Muly Mumen becomes King of Spain. Antonio criticizes Julianus for allowing the Moors in, and Julianus kills him. He leaves two grieving widows: Margaretta stabs herself and, not to be outdone, Dionysia wills herself to die too. Jacinta refuses to marry Muly Mumen, so he has her tongue cut out and Julianus blinded. He agrees to meet Julianus in single combat, giving the blinded man the advantage of a ‘weapon; but in the fight…