No keyword-matching excerpt could be extracted (the cluster label doesn't share vocabulary with this character's speech).
Full speech
All sorts of men beware by us, whom prese ̄ to death assaults, Look in your conscience what you find, & sorrow for your faults: Example take by our fresh harms, see here the fruits of pride, I for my partly deserved death, long ere my theft was spied. Oh careless youth, led, led awry, with every pleasing toy, Note well my words, they are of Worth, y e cause though my annoy. Shun to be pranked, in peacocks plumes, for gaze which only are. Hate, hate, the dice, even as the devil, of wanton Dams beware: I was intist by lawless men, on thievish spoils to feed. And nusled once in wicked deeds, I feared not to offend, From had, to worse, and worst I fell, I would at leisure mend. But o presuming over much, Still to escape in hope, My faults were found, and I adiudgde, to totter in a rope: To which I go with these my mates, likewise for breach of laws. For murder some, for thievery some, and some for little cause.
Plot summary
Plot — 1 Promos and Cassandra
The King of Hungary appoints Lord Promos as his deputy in the city of Gyula. Believing in the efficacy of judicial severity, Promos re-enacts legislation against promiscuity. The brothel business instantly goes from prosperity to disaster, and Cassandra’s brother, Andrugio, who has had premarital sex with Polina, is condemned to death. Cassandra pleads with Promos, and, attracted to her, he grants a temporary stay of execution to allow her to plead further, At this meeting, ===== PAGE 167 ===== 1577 he offers her a reprieve in return for her love: the price of her brother's life is her participation in the very crime for which he was condemned, She refuses, but he gives her two days to think about it; if she changes her mind, she is to come to court at night dressed as a page. When she visits her brother to tell him to prepare for death, they dispute which is the lesser of two evils, and he persuades her to submit to Promos. Phallax, Promos’s corrupt deputy, is busy making himself rich by taking bribes. His accomplices bring in the courtesan Lamia, but he dismisses them and tries to seduce her. She invites him to her house the following night. Lamia can now live with impunity, and her servants lay in food to entertain Phallax. Grimball is keen to seduce Dalia, the maid, but when he goes to clean himself up, Rosko arranges for him to be robbed while being barbered. Cassandra submits to sex with Promos, but not before extracting from him a promise of marriage. Promos double-crosses her and orders Andrugio secretly beheaded. Cassandra is presented with a severed head; she determines to bury the head and expose Promos’s corruption to the King. In fact, however, Andrugio has been saved by the Jailer, and he goes into exile, leaving Polina to mourn him and Cassandra to seek the King’s justice.