Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 8 (massinissa, yaw, league, renown, quasi, apud…). Matches are highlighted.
daughter here, Like a well fortified and lofty tower, I so repulsive and unapt to yield, The royal siege of your he oycke parts, In her acheeuement will be more renowned, And with the greater merit is imployde. The bewtious queen my wife her mother here Was so well manned and yet had never man, So main a rock of chased and cold
Full speech
Prince of Arcadia lovely Doricles, Be not discouraged that my daughter here, Like a well fortified and lofty tower, I so repulsive and unapt to yield, The royal siege of your he oycke parts, In her acheeuement will be more renowned, And with the greater merit is imployde. The bewtious queen my wife her mother here Was so well manned and yet had never man, So main a rock of chased and cold disdain. So madam I leave you now from our love sports, To Antistenes and his great ute with Le n, See the Burgomaister Antistenes and Leon. Comes together stay master Burgomaister. What reason made you use your office on the Lord Antistenes seizing on all his moveables, And goods at the suit of Leon. I thank you for you good opinion sir, But the reason of your office done upon this noble man And his lands. Why is he honest because he is rich. And will he say it. Well send him hither and it shall suffi . O I thank you sir. You are to witness betwixt Antistenes and wealthy Leon. Well say what you know of the matter, betwixt them. But say Count Hermes was the beggar by. I know not what to think in these affairs I cannot well condemn you my Lord, And your S fficient witness being a gentleman, Nor yet the other two, both men of credit, Though in his kind this Count be humorous, But stay we shall here straight what Irus will depose, I am here Irus and it was Count He mes. That was so rude to Interrupt thy prayers, But I suppose the end of thy repair, Being so weighty could not have displeased, For on thy witness does worser pend the living Of Lord Antistenes, who does affirm, That three days passed he tendered at thy stone, Four thousand pounds to Leon, and desired His mortgage quited which he promising On such assurance, more as he proposed, Received at that time his four thousand pounds. Farewell graven I S. This holy man no doubt speaks what he hard And I am sorry for Antistenes. But I'll relieve your low estate my Lord, And for your service done me gwerdon you, Master Burgoma ster let the Lord have liberty, And I will answer Leon what is endue. O tell no more in stead of tears, M beating heart dissolves in drops of blood, And from mine eyes that stares upon this corpse. Leaps out my soul and on it I will die, O Doricles o deer Arcam prince, The bulwark and supporter of my life. That by decree of fates was promised, To add four neighbour kingdoms to my crown, And shield me rome a most abhorred death, Now shall my kingdom leave me with my life, And suddenly look for some monstrous fate, Shall fallen Like thunder on my wretched state. Arm arm my Lord, my Lords to instant arms, Four mighty kings are landed in thy coast, And threaten death and ruin to thy land, Black the king, Comes marching first with twenty thousand men, Next Rhesus king of sweet Arabia, In warlike manner marches after him, In equal number and in battle ray, Next B n king of rich Phasiaca, And stern Bebritius of Bebritia, With each of them full twenty thousand strong All which hath vowed the death, of Ptolemy, and thus they he there bend their speedy feet. How suddenly is weather over cast, How is the face of peaceful Egypt changed, Like as the smiling flowers above the ground, By keenest edge of E ras breath is cut. All shall be done we may mean while, Bury the body of this slaughtered prince, Least with the view my senses follow his, Cursed be his hand that wrought the damned deed, Cold and uncovered may his body lie. Let stotmie hail and thunder beat on him And every bird and beast run over him, That robbed poor Ptolemy of such a hope, Pursue the desperate Count that murdered him, A thousand kingdoms shall not save his life A miracle a miracle, a dreadful miracle. What miracle, o what will heavens do more, To punish Egypt and her hapless king, Just are the heavens in his most dreadful end, But come my Lords let us to instant arms, To driven away more mischeiefes from our land. I pray you lets hear them.
Plot summary
Plot — The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (Irus)
Before the start of the action, Queen Aegiale proposed an adulterous liaison with Cleanthes, but was rebuffed. She then engineered his unjust banishment, but now wants to find him to renew her advances. To that end, she consults the blind beggar and fortune-teller Irus. who recommends that she publish his image throughout Egypt and offer a reward for his apprehension. What she doesn't know is that Irus is himself Cleanthes in disguise. He is maintaining a series of separate identities, passing the time by simultaneously wooing Elimine and Psamathis, while awaiting the opportunity to return and claim the Egyptian crown. The girls also consult lrus about their love-lives , and he makes predictions designed to facilitate his maJ:"riage to them both: Elirnine marries honouJ:" in the person of'Count Hermes', Psamathis marries money in the person of 'Leon', a usurer. and their friend Martia marries status in the person of the Burgomaster of Alexandria, who is really lrus ' clownish brother. lrus then uses his different personas to cuckold himself. As Leon, he seizes a nobleman's property for defaulting on a loan, even though the debt has been repaid, and produces both Hermes and lrus as witnesses in support of his version of events. Egypt is without a male heir after an enchantress transformed King Ptolemy's son into a mandrake. Now he plans to marry his daughter against her will to Prince Doricles, thereby fulfilling a prophecy that such a marriage will enable Egypt to conquer the four neighbouring kingdoms. To forestall such an eventuality, the four respective kings take advantage of the absence of Egypt's greatest general, Cleanthes, and mount an invasion. In his persona as Count Hermes, Irus murders Doricles and then, as Leon, reports Hermes' death; to defraud his clients, he then has his brother report that Leon has committed suicide. The invading kings give battle, and Cleanthes is sought when things go badly. Ptolemy is killed in battle, but Cleanthes leads the Egyptians to victory and is elected king. He accepts the defeated kings' surrender and submission, but refuses to take their crowns; he further arranges for his 'widows' to marry two of them, and promises the others Egyptian brides too.