Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 3 (numps, numpes, blastfield, wares, parson, nidden…). Matches are highlighted.
rich distress. Then Dorcas, how much more are we to prize Our mean estate, which they so much despise? Considering that we do enjoy thereby, The dearest thing in nature, Liberty. And are not tortured with those Hope's and fears, Th'afflction laid on superfluities, Which make them to obscure, and serve the times: But are content
readily afford And therewithal furnish our homly board. Those unbought cates please our unlearned throats That understand not dainties, even as well As all their delicates, which do but stuff And not sustain the stomach: and indeed A well observing belly does make much For liberty; for he that can but live, Although with roots, and
Full speech
Well, so they do; but Dorcas if you mark How oft they do miscarry in their love, And how disloyal these fine herdsmen prove; You shall perceive how their aboundaut store Pays not their expectation, nor desires. Witness these groves wherein they oft deplore The miserable passion they sustain: And how perfidious, wayward, and unkind, They find their loves to be; which we, who are The eyes, and ears of woods, oft see and hear. For hither to these groves they much resort, And here one wails apart the usage hard Of her disordered, wild, and wilful mate: There mourns another her unhappy state, Held ever in restraint, and in suspect: Another to her trusty confident, Laments how she is matched to such a one As cannot give a woman her content. Another grieves how she hath God a fool, Whose bed although she loath, she must endure. And thus they all unhappy by that means Which they account would bring all happiness; Most wealthely are plagued, with rich distress. Then Dorcas, how much more are we to prize Our mean estate, which they so much despise? Considering that we do enjoy thereby, The dearest thing in nature, Liberty. And are not tortured with those Hope's and fears, Th'afflction laid on superfluities, Which make them to obscure, and serve the times: But are content with what the earth, the woods And rivers near do readily afford And therewithal furnish our homly board. Those unbought cates please our unlearned throats That understand not dainties, even as well As all their delicates, which do but stuff And not sustain the stomach: and indeed A well observing belly does make much For liberty; for he that can but live, Although with roots, and have no Hope's, is free Without the verge of any sou'raintie. And is a Lord at home, commands the day As his till night, and then reposes him At his own hours. thinks on no stratagem But how to take his game, hath no design To cross next day: no plots to undermine. But that would not become your manliness, Montanus, it were shame for valiant men To do unworthily.
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.