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ENVY

in Hymen's Triumph — Daniel, Samuel

Metadata

PlayHymen's Triumph
AuthorDaniel, Samuel
Year (catalogued)1615
First performance1614
Decade1610s
GenrePastoral Tragicomedy
Play typeOccasional
Theaterbefore the Court;
Speech prefix(es)Enuie.
Words154
Characters803
Typicality0.24 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA19829
BritDrama no.1742
ClusterCluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques

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Full speech

Stay Hymen, stay; you shall not have the day Of this great glory, as you make account: We will herein, as we were ever wont, Oppose you in the matches you address, And undermine them with disturbances. Hymen, thou canst not chase us so away, For, look how long as thou makest marriages, So long will we produce encumbrances. And we will in the same disguise, as thou, Mix us among these shepherd's, that we may Effect our work the better, being unknown; For, ills show other faces then their own. SO to be reft of all the joys of life, How is it possible Palaemon, I Should ever more a thought retain Of the least comfort upon earth again? No, I would hate this heart, that hath received So deep a wound, if it should ever come To be recured, or would permit a room To let in any other thing then grief.

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.