Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 16 (nat, ningle, chould, numps, terry, dery…). Matches are highlighted.
and a hideous form, His fomie Jaw with tusks Like Javelins strikes, And all parts in deformity conform, His back hath bristles Like to iron Pikes. This Monster of Nature, wonder of Men, The Forests tyrant, and the Countries terror, Tears all to death, and draws them to his Den, That chance into his way by fatal error. While tender-hearted
Full speech
Sir, our estate some speedy help requires, In Misia near unto the famous Mountain Of great Olympus that the World admires, There haunt's a Boar by Diana's Fountain Of a big body, and a hideous form, His fomie Jaw with tusks Like Javelins strikes, And all parts in deformity conform, His back hath bristles Like to iron Pikes. This Monster of Nature, wonder of Men, The Forests tyrant, and the Countries terror, Tears all to death, and draws them to his Den, That chance into his way by fatal error. While tender-hearted Mother's do bewail The gored Infants toiling in their blood, Th'abhominable beast them does assail, And in his bowels buries both for food. Then when we fly the field where he soiournes, To have his hunger or his rage alayde, He wastes the fruits, and ruins all the corns, Thus the poor husbands Hope's are all betrayed. Ere this, of true Repose we were the types, And pastured on each plain our fleecy flocks, And made a consort of our warbling pipes, With moving crystals th'issue of the rocks. And sometime to refresh us after travel, With flowery garlands shielded from Sunbeams We gazed upon Pactolus golden gravel, Glassed, bathed, and quenchd our thirst with his pure streams: While we preferred, the River seemed amazed, Unto his golden bed, his grassy bank, And lay and looked whereas our cattle grazd, Without all envy of a greater rank. That to repress oppression you take care, This rest of ours is and effectual token, Your Laws Like Spiders webs do not ensnare The feeble flies, and by the Bees are broken. For we by them are fenced from great men's pride, The Heavens perpetuate your prosperous reign, And suffer not this savage Boar abide, To turn that ease which men have spared to pain.
Plot summary
Plot — Croesus
Alexander the Great is dead, poisoned by Cassander. He leaves behind a pregnant widow but no definite heir. Unable to get into the underworld because as yet unburied, his ghost returns to earth and recounts his life story, a tale of escalating atrocity as power progressively divorced him from ordinary humanity. He decides to inspire his captains with ambition and bloodlust. The captains are unable to agree on how best to secure the Macedonian Empire, and various proposals are advanced: to await the birth of Alexander's posthumous child, and appoint a regent in the interim; to crown either Alexander’s bastard brother or his elder son, who is half-barbarian and so unacceptable to the people; to split up the empire between themselves. The only thing they can agree on is that the common foot-soldiers should have no say in the decision. Lysimachus and Seleucus decide to bide their time, let their fellow captains wear themselves out with wrangling, and then step in to take the empire for themselves. Meleager tries to have Perdiccas, his rival, murdered, but the plot fails and Perdiccas responds in kind with more success. When Alexander’s child is born, it is a son. Perdiccas and others become his joint regents, but Perdiccas schemes for personal supremacy. He removes his two colleagues in the regency, gives the other captains their own kingdoms in an effort to secure their loyalty, and plans to marry into the royal family. Two of his new subject kings, Antigonus and Ptolemy, ally themselves against him. He accepts the advice of Eumenes to deal with the rebels first before engaging with dynastic matters, but is murdered by his own soldiers during the campaign. Olympias, Alexander’s mother, plots against Cassander, but Cassander besieges her and, starving, she has to give herself up. She refuses his mercy and is executed. Cassander then procures the murder of Alexander’s remaining family. Antigonus secures the support of Eumenes, but then has him treacherously killed. The four remaining captains (Cassander, Ptolemy, Lysimachus, and Seleucus) agree to unite against Antigonus. Philastrus prophesies continuing strife: Cassander will die in disgrace, Seleucus will kil Lysimachus and then die himself, and Ptolemy’s line will ultimately end with a lustful queen who will see his empire fall into the hands of the enemy.