Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 10 (earine, jarbus, alack, vapours, mishap, hapless…). Matches are highlighted.
as if it meant To steal upon us without Times consent, And pry into our errors. I have been Searching in every Thicket, Wood, and Green To find my Lamb, and many doleful cries Entered my ears ever day. What's this that lies In such and obscure place, where none scarce tread, Unless the Ghosts of the disturbed dead? Bless me great
Full speech
HOW still the morning is, as if it meant To steal upon us without Times consent, And pry into our errors. I have been Searching in every Thicket, Wood, and Green To find my Lamb, and many doleful cries Entered my ears ever day. What's this that lies In such and obscure place, where none scarce tread, Unless the Ghosts of the disturbed dead? Bless me great Pan, I see it's Clitons face With a sword drawn; how happy was my chase This way! I hope his folly has not made Himself a Beast, as butchered with this Blade; IT may be he sleeps: I'll speak to him, and try; Yet I half doubt him because he here does lie. Cliton, awake, the Night's dislodged, and now Bright Morn is trimming of her Virgin brow, To court the Sun, when from the Western deep And Thetis lap his glimmering beams do peep T'ascend his glorious Car. Cliton — awake, And with thy sleep all dreams of horror shake That may affright thee. Walking those flowery banks, betwixt the green valley, and the place which we Have consecrated to Loves Deity: Seeking a strayed Lamb, I did hear sad moans Proceed from some Like peals of parting groans, Which I pursued, but in my search I found None but your self: you resting on this ground I wondered much to see you! For what offence? How? What urged thee to such inhumanity? Is the body gone then? Thy crime requires contrition; to that end, Thou shalt with me. Thy days to come shalt spend In holy uses; I'll prepare for thee, In the best form I can, each property Belonging to a pensive man. You must Forget all youthful pleasures, think on dust, And penitence the only means to bring Thy soul to rest after this wandering. Will you with me? I'm lost in losing her. Let us endeavour to find her,
Plot summary
Plot — Love Crowns the End
Three days before the start of the action, Cliton became suspicious that his girlfriend Florida was interested in Lysander, and attacked her, leaving her for dead. Since then he has repeatedly returned to the place he left her body, but it has vanished. Looking for a lost lamb, Alexis finds Cliton asleep, hears his story, and decides that he must spend the rest of his life expiating the murder in contrition and penitence. A lustful shepherd, who is so ugly that he cannot get a date, threatens to rape Chloe, but she is rescued by Lysander. She falls in love with him, but he is only interested in Gloriana: having been loved by many, Chloe is now rejected by the man she loves. She goes mad, but the wood-nymphs find her and take her to Claudia, who cures her. Francisco, Lysander’s rival for Gloriana’s love, ambushes the couple with the assistance of two villains; they stab Lysander and carry off Gloriana. Lysander is found groaning by Claudia and Florida, who was not killed as Cliton supposed; Claudia cures him. Meanwhile Gloriana, thinking him dead, goes mad. She meets Cliton, now a hermit, who promises to restore her to Lysander. The characters gravitate towards Cliton’s cell, where Gloriana and Lysander are reunited, as are Cliton and Florida. Gloriana’s father Leon turns out to be a banished courtier; Lysander and Francisco both followed him into exile for the love of Gloriana. The servant Scrub brings news that the Duke who banished Leon has died, and that his lands are to be restored. Francisco concedes Lysander’s victory.