Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
if Hee'd overrun the whole world in a breath. Be my fears No Omen to the Kingdom, o ye Gods, But I suspect, this Comic folly will Sport our free Monarchy into a Nation Of cheated Slaves. But peace; the Queen. Do my Lords; And because you wish his State so well, pray see The Slaves provided of their clothes. Oh Madam! Your Sex
put in Actium; your Curiosity Would do as much harm in a Kingdom, as A Monkey in a Glass-shop; move and remove, Till you had broken all. Your Closet and your Senate would be one; You'd Gossip at the Council-table, where The grand contrivance of some finer Posset Would be a State affair. If he go still on thus, his three days
Now I see You have some man about you, now your bloods Run as they should do, high and full; you slept Merely till now. If that Cracander should Quit scores with Nature ever his time be out, The King must choose again; the dead you know Never goes for Sacrifice. There's no other way; The Gods themselves require't. You speak
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Whither tends the mind of this ambitious wretch? H'hath thoughts so hasty, and so large, as if Hee'd overrun the whole world in a breath. Be my fears No Omen to the Kingdom, o ye Gods, But I suspect, this Comic folly will Sport our free Monarchy into a Nation Of cheated Slaves. But peace; the Queen. Do my Lords; And because you wish his State so well, pray see The Slaves provided of their clothes. Oh Madam! Your Sex is too imperious to Rule; You are too busy, and too stirring, to Be put in Actium; your Curiosity Would do as much harm in a Kingdom, as A Monkey in a Glass-shop; move and remove, Till you had broken all. Your Closet and your Senate would be one; You'd Gossip at the Council-table, where The grand contrivance of some finer Posset Would be a State affair. If he go still on thus, his three days folly Will fill your Annals. He may Grow insolent else passed remedy: but yet Your Majesty hath a preventing eye. He may, when that his Channel's full, discharge His streams on all that's round him, rushing forth With a strong headlong Torrent, as mischievous As uncontrollable, the ungrateful waters Choking even that which gave him life; but yet You can kill evils by first seeing them. HE wears a serious look still; we may hope As soon to calm a Tempest with a song, As soften him. Boy come in. YOur last new song, that which I gave you Sirrah. Come begin You are no Statue Sir? or if you were, These yet methinks might melt you. Will you then let your days pass sluggishly, And reap no pleasure from your Power? Whence this deep silence? are you sacrificing To your dumb Gods of Greece? where are your Caps? Your Loves, your Madness? Can a breast of large And ample thoughts tamely endure the ring? And be led quietly by Patient Nose, When Licence is Religion? One whose dull And sluggish temper is called wisdom, one Whose indiscretion killed with some formality, As Quicksilver with fasting spittle, does pass For a grave governing Garb This heavy lump Dulls all your active fire. Now I see You have some man about you, now your bloods Run as they should do, high and full; you slept Merely till now. If that Cracander should Quit scores with Nature ever his time be out, The King must choose again; the dead you know Never goes for Sacrifice. There's no other way; The Gods themselves require't. You speak my Lord, as if'twere not so now They have no Sacrifice to perform, that I Can tell of, neither if they had, would they Take arms, that were t'invade the Deity. The Sword's no Instrument of their Devotion. Cratander, That damned Villain hath enticed they thither Merely to entrap they. Let us to the King; We'll on although against revolted Slaves We fought with Men before, but now with Vice; He calls for death that must be conquered twice. CAn you contain Sir? look how proudly he Sits in the amid, hemmed in on every side With Beauty's, which his wheeling eye runs over All in a Minute.
Plot summary
Plot — The Royal Slave
Five Greeks are taken prisoner by the Persians after a war with Ephesus. According to a local custom, one of these slaves must be given royal power for three days, but then killed as an offering to the sun god. Cratander, who denies the efficacy of human sacrifice, is selected, and has his fellow captives released to serve him at court. Cratander takes his royal responsibilities seriously. The lords fear that he will use his power to harm the state, and offer him the sensual pleasures of kingship, but he refuses to be distracted. Atossa, the Queen, is impressed by his self-control, and gives him a chain, exciting the jealousy of her husband, King Arsamnes. The other Greeks, however, enjoy a bibulous, lascivious good time, and are only prevented from raping Atossa’s women by the chance arrival of Cratander. Fearing further attempts, the women of Sardis take refuge in the castle. Two members of the Ephesian army who are still at liberty take the risk of coming to see Cratander at the palace. They ask him to use his power to send the Persian army back to war, with the intention that they will be massacred by the forewarned Ephesians. Cratander conscientiously refuses, but asks the Ephesian army to rendezvous with him at the castle. His plan is to allow them to be defeated in battle, but have Atossa intervene with her husband to spare them and free Ephesus. The other Greeks plan to ambush Cratander in the woods, disguised as beggars; but he recognizes them and sends them back to prison. He then joins the women in the castle. Arsamnes engages the Ephesians in battle, defeats them, and then demands that Atossa give up Cratander for sacrifice. Cratander accepts the rule of law. Reconciled with Atossa, Arsamnes attempts to pardon Cratander, but the priests are insistent that he must die. At the ceremony, however, the sun is eclipsed and a shower of rain puts out the fire: recognizing Cratander’s virtue, the sun god has refused to accept the sacrifice. Cratander accepts Arsamnes’ offer to allow him to retain his royal power, and agrees to divide his time and abilities between the affairs of Persia and Ephesus.