Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 10 (earine, jarbus, alack, vapours, mishap, hapless…). Matches are highlighted.
men wretchedness That learns his errors but by their success, And when there is no remedy; and now We can but wish it had been otherwise. Alas Medorus, dreams are vapours, which Engendered with day thoughts, fallen in the night And vanish with the morning; are but made Afflictions unto man, to the end he might Not rest in rest, but
Full speech
But will he not impart to you the cause? Not to be had? Palaemon, if his love beregular, Is there in all Arcadia any she, Whom his ability, his shape, and worth May not attain, he being my only son? How may that be, Palaemon? tell me plain. What was this creature could possess him so? Is that his grief? alas, I rather thought It appertained unto another's partly To wail her death: Alexis should do that To whom her father had disposed her, And she esteemed only to be his. Why should my son afflict him more for her, Then does Alexis, who this day does wed Fair Galatea, and forgets the dead? And here the shepherd's come to celebrate His joyful nuptials with all merriment, Which does increase my cares, considering The comforts other parents do receive: And therefore good Palaemon work all means You can to win him from his peevish will, And draw him to these shows, to companies, That others pleasures may inkindle his. And tell him what a sin he doth commit, To waste his youth in solitariness, And take a course to end us all in him. Indeed I have a son; but yet to say he lives, I cannot; for who lives not to the world, Nor to himself, cannot be said to live: For ever since that you your daughter lost, I lost my son: for from that day he hath Imbrak worser in shades and solitariness, Shut himself up from sighed or company Of any living: and as now I herd, By good Palaemon, vows still so to do. Medorus, thus we see men wretchedness That learns his errors but by their success, And when there is no remedy; and now We can but wish it had been otherwise. Alas Medorus, dreams are vapours, which Engendered with day thoughts, fallen in the night And vanish with the morning; are but made Afflictions unto man, to the end he might Not rest in rest, but toil both day and night. But see here comes my solitary son: Let us stand close Medorus out of sighed, And note how he behaves hlmselfe in this Affliction, and distressed case of his. You see, Medorus, how no counsel can Prevail to turn the current of his will, To make it run in any other course Then what it does; so that I see I must Esteem him irrevocably lost. But hark, the shepherd's festivals begin, Let us from hence, where sadness were a sin.
Plot summary
Plot — Hymen's Triumph
Hymen has come to Arcadia incognito to promote married love; but Envy, Avarice, and Jealousy have also come to try and cross his objectives. Thyrsis mourns for his dead love Silvia, while his friend Palaemon tries to persuade him to forget her, but he has been told by the oracle that he wil] be happy again on the day he dies. Cloris sends her boy Clarindo to Thyrsis as a messenger of her unrequited love, remarking that he is rumoured to be in love with another nymph. This distresses Clarindo, who is actually Silvia: though deemed dead, she was in fact abducted by pirates, and has now returned in disguise in order to avoid a forced marriage to her father's preferred suitor (who is now to marry another woman). Meanwhile Phyllis, who once scorned love, has fallen in love with ‘Clarindo’. Her encounter with the ‘boy’ is witnessed by Montanus, who loves her, but when he jealously confronts her, he is persuaded that his eyes deceived him; as penance, he is asked to frighten the ‘boy’. Having witnessed Thyrsis’ grief, Silvia plans to reveal her true identity to him. First she leaves a message carved on a tree, then, at his request, tells him a story based on her own life: how one Sulia, beloved by Syrthis, was taken by pirates, entered the service of the pirate captain’s wife in Egypt dressed as a boy, and after two years was rescued and brought home by Corinthian merchants. Montanus stabs her, and is arrested; Thyrsis, tending to the body, realizes her identity and determines to die with her, but both lovers are restored to life by the medical skill of Lamia.