Children of the Chapel (second) or Children of Paul’s (second)
Speech prefix(es)
Cyn. | Cy.
Words
630
Characters
3321
Typicality
0.29 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A18413
BritDrama no.
1377
Cluster
Cluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices
Important excerpts
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Full speech
This is your old valour nephew, that will fight slee ping as well as waking. Why how now nephew? turned Parnassus lately? Why how do you dream nephew? A point of much kindness I assure you. My Lord I fancy not these hunting sports, When the bold game you follow turns again, And stares you in the facel: et me behold A cast of Falcons on their merry wings, Daring the stooped prey, that shifting flies: Or let me view the fearful Hare or Hind, To to Like a music point with harmony Of well mouthed hounds. This is a sport for Princes, The other rude Boars yield fit game for Boors. My Lord, I know too well your virtuous spirit, Take heed for Gods love if you rouse the Boar, You come not near him, but discharge aloof Your wounding Pistol, or well aimed Dart. Pray pardon me for that: you know I love not These solemn meetings. Very good, my Lord. Then I must needs go fit me for that presence. I can expect no less in such a presence. Oh rarely, rarely. Fitter for you my Lord, than for your . Madam, I take my leave, and humbly thank you. How now? What bade news brings this man? where is my Lord? Shot, ay me! How is he shot? Oh me accursed, where is he? bring me, where? See the sad sighed, I dare not yield to grief, But force feigned patience to recomfort him: My Lord, what chance is this? how fares your lordship? Oh Doctor, is't a deadly hurt? Why pluck you not the arrow from his side? Oh no; sweet doctor think upon some help. Oh hold my Lord, this is no christian partly, Nor yet scarce manly, when your mankind foe, Imperious death shall make your groans his trumpets To summon resignation of life's Fort, To fly without resistance; you must force A countermine of Fortitude, more deep Than this poor Mine of pains, to blow him up, And spite of him live victor, though subdued: Pat ence in torment, is a valour more Than e er crowned TO ' Alcmenean Conqueror. Men do but cry, that rage in Misery's, And scarcely beaten children, become cries: Pains are Like women's clamours, which the less They find men's patience stirred, the more they cease. Of this 'tis said, afflictions bring to God, Because they make us Like him, drinking up Joys that deform us with the lustest of sense, And turn our general being into soul, Whose actions simply formed and applied, Draw all our bodies frailties from respect. Oh my deer Lord, what unlike words are these To the late fruits of your religious Noblesse? I'll be hewed from hence Before I leave you; help me gentle Doctor Dear Lord, resolve on humble sufferance. Oh never shall my counsels cease to knock At thy impatient ears, till they fl e in And salve with Christian patience, Pagan sin. How fares it now with my deer Lord and husband? I wish (deer love) I could deserve as much As your most kind conceit hath well expressed: But when my best is done, I see you wounded; And neither can recure nor ease your pains. Would God you were so; and that too much pain. Were not the reason, you felt sense of none. Would God it would my Lord, and leave you we How know you he is coming? Ay me, his talk is idle; and I fear, Foretells his reasonable Soul now leaves him. Alas, theres no Physician. The Prince I think, Yet knows not of your hurt. Where? or how? Make some religious vow then my deer Lord, And keep it in the proper memory, Of so Celestial and free a grace.
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…