Children of the Chapel (second) or Children of Paul’s (second)
Speech prefix(es)
Ben. | Beue.
Words
421
Characters
2315
Typicality
0.29 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A18413
BritDrama no.
1377
Cluster
Cluster 2 — Allegory, Nature & pageant voices
Important excerpts
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Full speech
A chair. I hope not Madam, though not free from danger We cannot Lady, the forked head so fast Sticks in the bottom of his sollide rib. This only, my good Lord, to give your wound A greater orifice, and in sunder break The pierced rib; which being so near the mid iffe, And opening to the region of the heart, Will be exceeding dangerous to your life. I told you all that can be thought in Art, Which since your Lordship will not yield to use, Our last hope rests in Nature's secret aid, Whose power at length may happily expel it. That will become your lordship best indeed. Have patience good my Lord. How fares my worthy Lord? Why should it fallen out the seventh day my Lord? I wish it may, my Lord. How knows your Lordship? have you sent for him? How want of rest distempers his light brain? Brings my Lord any train? 'Tis strange, if this be true. If your good Lordship could but rest a while, I would hope well. Yes, it will, And good my Lord, lets help you in to try. So is it plain, and happily approved, In a right christian president, confirming What a most sacred medicine Patience is, That with the high thirst of our souls, clear fire Exhausts corpore humour; and all pain, Casting our flesh off, while we it retain. Spoke with the true tongue of a Nobleman: But noware all these excitations toys, And Hono fa S his brain with other joys. I know your true f iend, Prince Vincentio Will triumph in this excellent effect Of your late . Assist me Heaven, and Art, give me your Mask, Open thou little storehouse of great Nature, Use and Elixar drawn through seven years fire, That Like Medea's Cauldron, can repair The ugliest lose of living temperature: And for this princely pair of virtuous Turtles, Be lavish of thy precious influence Lady, t'attone your honourable strife, And take all let from your loves tender eyes Let me for ever hide this stain of Beauty, With this recureful Mask; here be it fixed With painelesse operation; of it self, (Your beauty having brooked three days eclipse) Like a dissolved cloud it shall fallen off, And your fair looks regain their freshest rays: So shall your Princely friend, (if heaven consent) In twice your suffered date renew recure, Let me then have the honour to conjoin Your hands, conformed to your constant hearts. Never was such and accident disclosed.
Plot summary
Plot — The Gentleman Usher (Vincentio and Margaret)
Duke Alfonso and his son Vincentio are rivals for the love of Lady Margaret. The court visits her father Lasso's house, and two dramatic entertainments are staged. First the Duke engages his resented new favourite, Medice, to perform a wooing speech in a masque. The illiterate Medice forgets his lines, but the Duke has anticipated this and primed an understudy: Strozza describes how the Duke was taken captive while hunting a boar, and can only be released by Margaret's love, which she duly grants. Lasso reciprocates with a pastoral about the discontents of virginity; Margaret is invited to watch it from the place of honour as if she were Duchess. Privately, however, Margaret prefers Vincentio, and makes an assignation with him. As go-between, she selects her father's gentleman usher, Bassiolo, whom she .considers easily corruptible: Vincentio suborns him with the expectation of advancement when he succeeds his father as Duke. and he carries a love-letter to Margaret; she gets him to draft a reply, but then writes her own letter instead. The lovers meet, and attempt to pre-empt their fathers' plans by taking an oath of marriage.Strazza. is shot while out hunting in a failed assassination attempt instigated by Medice. The doctor is unable to remove the arrow-head safely, but Strozza acquires precognitive vision and predicts that in seven days it will fall out of its own accdrd. Medice investigates Margaret's coyness. and enlists the help of her aunt Cortezza by getting her drunk. Foolishly enamoured of Medice, Cortezza searches the house and finds Vincentio's letter. Lasso pressurizes Margaret to accept the Duke's suit, and tries to enlist Ba.ssiolo's help, but Margaret blackmails him with the letter he wrote for her. With Cortezza's help, Alfonso witnesses an assignation between Margaret and Vincentio. The Dulce sends Medice to arrest Vincentio, but a fit of paternal feeling makes him send further instructions that the prince is not to be hurt. Strozza's prediction is fulfilled: the arrow-head falls out, and he plans to offer it as a relic in Rome. His foresight reveals that Vincentio is in danger: Medice has assaulted and wounded him. Meanwhile the despairing Margaret, imprisoned in a tower, anoints her face in an effort to destroy her beauty and discourage the Duke. Wounded Vincentio, however, reaffirms his commitment to her, and the doctor offers to cure her scarred face.. Alfonso accepts his son's marriage; Bassiolo is honoured for promoting it, and…