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FLORIDA

in Love Crowns the End — Tatham, John

Metadata

PlayLove Crowns the End
AuthorTatham, John
Year (catalogued)1640
First performance1632
Decade1640s
GenrePastoral
Play typeBoys Nonprofessional/School
Speech prefix(es)FLORIDA.
Words167
Characters884
Typicality0.17 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA13393.1
BritDrama no.2374
ClusterCluster 14 — Law & judgment

Important excerpts

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Full speech

'Tis dangerous walking, every field Does nought but sounds of horror yield, And to my fancy does appear Poor slaughtered Maids; the Butchers bear The name of Lovers, and can find A way in killing to be kind. Lysander. O! Ah me, whence came that groan? Sure I've seen this face before! O it's Lysander the truest Swain, That ever breathed on Grove or Plain. No, there is Hope's of life: his breath I feel come coldly. Take him with they. Never. Yet I would gladly see him, did I know By what means to achieve it? You herd how Cloe came to our happy Cure. The Wood Nymphs brought her to our Cell, finding Her strayed where ever since sh'as been. On those conditions I will. No farther than with your consent, and if you please, the may go with us. Y'ave moved my heart that it dissolves to tears, Of blood, and water, for the strictness he Has undergone for me. Enter Cloe and Daphne's.

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.