Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 8 (massinissa, yaw, league, renown, quasi, apud…). Matches are highlighted.
It pleases you (my royal Father) to express My Commendations great, whose merit's less. A Knight of Sparta (my renowned father) And the device he bears upon his Shield, Is a black Ethyope reaching at the Sun: The word: Luxtu vi mihi. The third, of Antioch; and his device, A wreathe
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It pleases you (my royal Father) to express My Commendations great, whose merit's less. A Knight of Sparta (my renowned father) And the device he bears upon his Shield, Is a black Ethyope reaching at the Sun: The word: Luxtu vi mihi. The third, of Antioch; and his device, A wreathe of Chiually: the word: Me Pompey provexit apex. A burning Torch that's turned upside down; The word: Qui me alit me extingui . The fifth, and Hand environed with Clouds, Holding out Gold, that's by the Touchstone tried: The motto thus: Si sp cta a fides. He seems to be a Stranger: but his Present is A withered Branch, that's only green at top, The motto: In hac sp vivo. But you my Knight and guest, To whom this Wreathe of victory I give, And crown you King of this days happiness. Why sir, say if you had, who take offence? At that, would make me glad? Oh deer Dian , where am I? where's my Lord? What woe ld is this? A Prince of Macedon (my royal father) And the device he bears upon his Shield, Is and Armed Knight, that's conquered by a Lady: The motto thus in Spanish. Pue Per dolecra kee per orsa. What is't to me, my father? Alas my Father, it befits not me, Unto a stranger Knight to be so bold, He may my proffer take for and offence, Since men take women's gifts for impudenc . Now by the Gods, he could not please me better. The King my father (sir) has drunk to you. Wishing it so much blood unto your life. And further, he desires to know of you, Of whence you are, your name and parentage? He thanks your Grace; names himself Pericles, A Gentleman of Tyre: who only by misfortune of the seas, Bereft of Ships and Men, cast on this shore. Which to preserve mine honour, I'll perform. By Juno (that is Queen of marriage) All Viands that I eat do seem unsavoury, Wishing him my meat: sure he's a gallant Gentleman. To me he seems Like Diamond, to Glass. Yes, if you love me sir? Oh let me look if he be none of mine, my san ctitie will oh my sense bend no licentious ear, but curb it spite of seeing: Oh my Lord are you not Pericles? Like him you spoke, Like him you are, did you not name a tem pest, a birth, and death? That Thaisa am I, supposed dead and drowned. Now I know you better, when we with tears parted Penned polis, the king my father gave you such a ring. I know you not. Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit. Sir, my father's dead. Voice and favour, you are, you are, Oh royal Pericles. Blessed, and mine own. It then. Lord Cerimon, my Lord, this man through whom the Gods have shown their power, that can from first to last resolve you. It is my Lords, that I was shipped at sea I well remem ber, even on my learning time, but whither there deliue read, by the holy gods I cannot rightly say: but since King Pericles my wedded Lord, I never shall see again, a vastall livery will I take me to, and never more have joy.
Plot summary
Plot — Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Pericles comes to Antioch to woo the daughter and heir of King Antiochus. Her suitors must solve a riddle about her, or be executed. Pericles realizes that the riddle cryptically reveals that she and her father are an incestuous couple. Seeing that the game is up, Antiochus pretends that Pericles is mistaken, grants him a forty-day reprieve so that he can try again, and makes arrangements to have him poisoned. Pericles flees to Tyre, but the murderer, Thaliard, follows him. On realizing the danger, Pericles leaves his principality in the care of Helicanus; he has already gone by the ===== PAGE 413 ===== 1607 time Thaliard arrives. He goes to Tarsus, which has been stricken by a famine, and supplies corn to Cleon, the Governor. In Tyre, Thaliard’s murderous intentions are discovered, and Pericles is recalled home. In Antioch, the King and his daughter are destroyed by fire from heaven. On his way home, Pericles is shipwrecked on the coast of Pentapolis, where King Simonides is holding a tournament for the hand of his daughter, Thaisa. Some fishermen retrieve Pericles’ armour from the sea, and, though it is rusty, he is able to compete. He is victorious, and Thaisa falls in love with him. Simonides sends away the other knights, telling them that Thaisa has taken a vow to the goddess Diana not to marry for another year. She insists that she will marry Pericles, with or without her father’s consent. Simonides makes a show of disapproval, but in fact her choice accords with his wishes. The lords of Tyre believe that Pericles is dead, and attempt to elect Helicanus as his successor; Helicanus demurs, and asks them to wait another year and institute a search. A message reaches Pericles, and he sets sail for Tyre; Thaisa insists on going with him, even though she is pregnant. The ship is caught in a storm as she is giving birth to a baby girl, and she apparently dies. The superstitious sailors insist that her body cannot remain on board, and Pericles is forced to bury her at sea. He takes his daughter, Marina, to be brought up in Cleon’s court at Tarsus. Thaisa is washed up at Ephesus, and Cerimon brings her back to life. Believing herself lost to Pericles forever, she becomes a votaress of the goddess Diana. Fourteen years later, Cleon’s wife Dionyza becomes jealous that Marina outshines her own daughter, and hires Leonine to murder her. Before he can do it, she is carried away by pirates; even so, he reports that Marina is dead as ordered, and Dionyza poisons…