Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 19 (piety, thalander, crimes, blessings, loathed, pretend…). Matches are highlighted.
were brought dead out a'th field, the Surgeons ready to have embalmed you. You are divinely informed sir. What aim you at by this rumour of your death? These are crimes that either must make work For speedy repentance, or for the Devil. This is a private way which I command, As her Confessor. I would not have you seen yet, Till
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For pities sake, you that have tears to shed, Sighs a soft Requiem, and let fallen a Bead, For two unfortunate Nobles, whose sad fate Leaves them both dead, and excommunicate: No Churchmans prayer to comfort their last groans, No sacred seed of earth to hide their bones; But as their fury wrought them out of breath, The Canon speaks them guilty of their own death. The Lord Ercole, and the noble Contarino, Both of them slain in single combat. Look up sir, you are preserved beyond natural reason, you were brought dead out a'th field, the Surgeons ready to have embalmed you. You are divinely informed sir. What aim you at by this rumour of your death? These are crimes that either must make work For speedy repentance, or for the Devil. This is a private way which I command, As her Confessor. I would not have you seen yet, Till I prepare her. Peace to you Lady. And I am come To bring you tidings of a friend not dead, Reserved to life again. One whom I dare presume, next to your children, You tendered above life. For he should have been Your son in Law, miraculously saved, When Surgery gave him over. Withal and you be wise, Remember what the mother has revealed Of Romelio's treachery. Having from Leonora's Waiting-woman, Delivered a most strange Intelligence Of Contarino's recovery, I am come To found Romelio's penitence; that performed, To end these errors by discovering, What she related to me. Peace to you sir, Pray Gentlemen, let the freedom of this Room Be mine a little. Nay sir, you may stay. Will you pray with me? Shall I pray for you? Oh you have a dangerous voyage to take. Pray tell me, do not you meditate of death? These things you know, are out of my practice. Were I in your case, I should present to my self strange shadows. I would make you a good Christian. Did you murder Contarino? Why sir? As one that feign would justle the devil Out of your way. But to give him the foil, goes not by strength. Here's food for you. Can you feed, and apprehend death? This confidence, If it be grounded upon truth, 'tis well. I am glad you so receive it. Why this is well: And now that I have made you fit for death, And brought you even as low as is the graven, I will raise you up again speak comforts to you Beyond your Hope's, turn this intended Duel To a triumph. Yes Madam, he is living, and Ercoles Second. Some evil Angel Makes him deaf to his own safety, we are shut Into a Turret, the most desolate prison Of all the Castle, and his obstinacy, Madness, or secret fate, has thus prevented, The saving of his life. To little purpose. O look upwards rather, Their deliverance must come thence: to see how heaven, Can invert men firmest purpose: his intent Of murdering Contarino, was a mean To work his safety, and my coming hither To save him, is his ruin: wretches turn The tide of their good fortune, and being drenched In some presumptuous and hidden sins, While they aspire to do themselves most right, The devil that rules ith ay re, hangs in their light. Madam, I shall. We have been prisoners too long: O sir, what mean you? Contarino's living. Behold him living. Not a scruple. I am sorry for your losses. O sir, yet consider, He that is without fear, is without hope, And sins from presumption; better thoughts attend you. But if you be supposed dead, The Law will strictly prosecute his life For your murder. Sir I shall. You are well employed, I hope; the best pillow i'th. World for this your contemplation, is the earth, And the best object heaven. Oh, I tremble for you: For I do know you have a storm within you, More terrible then a Sea-fight, and your soul Being heretofore drowned in security, You know not how to live, nor how to die: But I have and object that shall startle you, And make you know whither you are going.
Plot summary
Plot — The Devil's Law Case (When Women Go to Law the Devil Is Full of Business)
Contarino, who has been wooing Jolenta, asks her family’s permission to marry her, but her widowed mother Leonora misunderstands his oblique request and thinks she is herself the object of his interest. Meanwhile Jolenta’s brother, Romelio, would prefer her to marry Ercole; but she refuses him and Ercole takes offence. Contarino fights a duel with Ercole, and they wound one another. The bodies are sent to a 1618 monastery. Ercole recovers and decides to forgo his interest in Jolenta to Contarino, should he too survive. Concerned that he should not, Romelio visits the monastery disguised as a Jewish physician, and stabs Contarino’s body. He is seen by two surgeons, who plan to blackmail him; but ironically the stab clears Contarino’s wound and facilitates his recovery. Romelio’s financial situation is perilous: he has lost his mercantile carracks of spice. Contarino has named Jolenta his heir; Romelio plans to make her Ercole’s too, by fabricating the story that she is pregnant by him. Romelio himself will supply the eventual baby: he has got a nun, Angiolella, with child, and wants both to cover this up and ensure that his issue will inherit both suitors’ property. Jolenta, however, claims that she really is pregnant, by Contarino; so Romelio proposes that she should produce twins. Knowing of Leonora’s interest in Contarino, he fosters jealousy between mother and daughter. The Spanish judge Crispiano comes to Naples in disguise with three objectives: to observe his son’s lifestyle, to investigate reports of illegal gold-mining by Romelio, and to appoint the lawyer Ariosto as a judge. Blaming her son for Contarino’s death, Leonora brings a false law-case that will deprive him of his patrimony by establishing his illegitimacy: he was conceived, she claims, during his father’s absence. Crispiano sits as judge, and attributes the action to malice, but stands down when he becomes a party in the case: Leonora names him as Romelio’s natural father. Ariosto takes his place on the bench, and Crispiano demonstrates that he was not even in Europe at the time in question. To evade punishment, Leonora claims to have become a nun. Ercole, present in disguise, is arrested for killing Contarino, but accuses Romelio of the crime. In the absence of a witness, this is to be settled in a trial by combat. Contarino, incognito, agrees to fight on Ercole’s side. The news of Contarino’s survival reaches Leonora via her confessor, a Capuchin, but Romelio locks them in a tower on…