CONTRADICTION

in The Sophister (Fallacy, or The Troubles of Great Hermenia) — Zouche, Richard

Metadata

Play	The Sophister (Fallacy, or The Troubles of Great Hermenia)
Author	Zouche, Richard
Year (catalogued)	1639
First performance	1614
Decade	1630s
Genre	Comedy
Play type	University
Speech prefix(es)	Contra. \| Cont. \| Con.
Words	260
Characters	1426
Typicality	0.37 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id	A15873
BritDrama no.	1922
Cluster	Cluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques

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Full speech

Now brave spirits, Why suffer you our State unmanaged, Your selves dishonoured? You are slothful Lords. Now let your noble courage show it self, If you neglect this so fair-offered place, You worthy are to live in dishonour. Should I through mine own fault be hindered In such attempts, o I should kill my self, And on my self I would take just revenge. What fitter place than this? where be the weapons? Fie, fie, how dare you go so unprovided? Breathless and wounded both of them I left, And ere my coming from them, they began To faint with bleeding. Exceedingly. Well, so their streaming veins Shall serve as Conduits dropping Clarret wine, To solemnize my Coronation: And now I cannot but applaud my wits, And hug my happy Genius that hath thus Inspight of selfe-conceited honesty, Found forth this passage to my sweet desires. I never did any thing more willingly. If he understand my blows so 'tis, He gets no word of me. What, this is not the place where base Judicium and I should meet, thinks he to prevent me, I will requite his diligence, but stay, he hath no weapons: now the Coward Rogue would yield my prisoner, but he shall not escape me so; i'll Baftinado him at least. Is this Sientia's Chaplain? he's very still, now what ails him! i'll see for the blow I gave him. They should not eat, nor drink, nor rest on minute. Nay, I would torture, and torment them all, Till they did yield submissly to my pleasure.

Plot summary

Plot — The Sophister (Fallacy, or The Troubles of Great Hermenia)

. . The envious bastard Fallacy Sat to Sdtiinintent a oo to his father, Discourse, which will drive him-mad. His eager servant, Ambiguity, provides two options, one of |. - which will only induce drunkeriness. During. a’ - telling-off, Fallacy slips his father the drug and Discourse’s attitude changes: Fallacy becomes his. favourite son. The madness disables Discourse from being the ruler of Hermenia, so a regent must be _ appointed. Fallacy bribes Opposition to support his claim against his legitimate younger brothers, Topicus and Demonstration. He also tells Invention and ~ Judicium that Intellect has left. the kingdom, and persuades them to go looking for him; in fact, he has Intellect under lock and key. The counsellors debate. - the three brothers’ claims, and Topicus fights a duel : ar with Demonstration in which both are. wounded. -. Fallacy becomes Regent, appoints Opposition his chief -. counsellor, and banishes the others who supper’ Bs ' ' brothers. Hermenia declines ehder Fallacy’s jindtighbened. x rule. He locks up Scientia and Opinion, his brothers’ fiancées, and their mother, Truth. His attempts to woo © - Scientia are rebuffed, but he tricks Opposition into thinking that the lady is willing but unable to accepthis ©. proposal because Judicium knows her secret vows to... - _.the- contrary. ls Judicium. Fallacy then persuades Opposition’s son, Contradiction, to fight a duel ‘with an unknown. ~°0° | opponent. Father and son fight. and wound one Tae ‘another with poisoned _rapiers. we Opposition -undertakes to murder. Ambiguity gets his enemy, Distinction, dusk: steals ~ his clothes, and leaves him to pay the alehouse bill. . Distinction is left in Ambiguity’s clothes, and, mistaking his identity, Fallacy gives him the-insanity ~ - drug to put away. Entrusted with the keys, Distinction discovers Intellect and the imprisoned ladies. ‘He tests the drug on a dog, then administers it to Fallacy’s followers, who duly go mad. The two. wounded - - ‘brothers are cured by the surgical ministrations of __Analysis, and Equipolence. the apothecary brings Opposition and Contradiction back from the brink of death to tell their story of Fallacy’s $ perfidy. Analysis. a also cures Discourse. . - oo Realizing that the game is up, vi Putlagy swaps. clothes BS with Ambiguity, ostensibly to. practice making. his _ excuses when called-to account by Discourse, but in _ fact to procure a disguise in which to escape. Ambiguity - is arrested. Discourse pronounices…

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