Kal, | kal. | Ka. | Kal: | Kal. | 1 Cap. | 1 Capt. | 1 Cap, | 1 cap:
Words
462
Characters
2464
Typicality
0.15 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A19976
BritDrama no.
1491
Cluster
Cluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit
Important excerpts
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Full speech
But dares Dorus being but Dametus servant so abuse his mad master thus grossly. Pray God it be good he stays so long, Ridiculous enough, and good enough. What countreimen is his Ass he speaks so familiarly to him. And excellent come dyan, what life he puts into his partly. Theres is a simple cloak to cover his villainy. Has a been at any cost of all this invocate for a coxcomb and a bel. Hide your heads, the terrible curse comes Like a ston upon you Now Captain Observation, times bawd, thou that hast kept the Ages door, while upstart baseness crept into the bed of greatness, what dost thou think of this change? Thats no partly of my meaning, yet would I gladly be bet ter instructed why the Duke broke up his Court in Archadea, and removed it into this Island? Your words throw sense into me, and thats the cause the Island is so surely guarded with watch-towers, over which our selum and other Captains have the charge. If inquisitiveness be not too bold a guest, what do you think of Dametas. Your comparison holds, for by report, his avarice has un made many to make him up. As some do upon offices, by fortune and flattery, or as truth says, the Prince having one day lost his way, wandering in the woods found this Dametas, affected his discourse, took him along to the Court, and Like great men in love with their own doings, countenanct his defects, gave him offices, titles, and all the additions that g e to the making up of a man worshipful. Your thoughts and mine are twins in that: but I hear the warning bell, some strangers are arrived. A couple of petitioners, ant Like your worship. That fellows pocket is Like a Tailors hell, it eats up partly of every men endue: 'tis and Executioner, and makes away more inno cent petitions in one year, then a redheaded hang man cuts ropes in and age. The next way to make it the I'll of fools. Cry your worship mercy, I had forgotten your authority. Cry your authority mercy, will you discharge us of these passengers? Bade fate, that wrong should set his foot on right, And true born Eagles stoop to this base kite. No matter for reason theirs rhyme enough and that be good. Sure he had some reason to make this rhyme, and a man could pick it out, A passing strange curse and no question he has traveled far for some of the rhymes, But where the wag that invited us to this banquet of mirth shrunk in the wetting? that or some knavery else upon my life, I had the boy in shroud suspicion at the first.
Plot summary
Plot — The Isle of Gulls
Three members of the audience ask the Prologue about the play they are to see, The Isle of Gulls. They prove to have irreconcilable tastes in drama: one wants satire, one bawdy, and one bombast, but all eventually agree to give the play a chance. Concerned about his daughters’ unsuitable suitors, Basilius retires with them for a year to an uninhabited, fortified island, leaving his brother to rule Arcadia in his stead. A proclamation challenges royal would-be suitors to win the princesses by stealth. This attracts Julio and Amintor to the island, alerted by Basilius’ unworthy favourite Dametas; and also Lysander and Demetrius, respectively disguised as Zelmane, an Amazon, and Dorus, a woodman. ‘Zelmane’ becomes Violetta’s companion, and Demetrius enters Dametas’ service. Dametas arranges an opportunity for Julio and Amintor to rape the princesses by isolating them during a hunt. They kidnap the girls, but ‘Zelmane’ and ‘Dorus’ rescue them. ‘Dorus’ is rewarded with an appointment as Hippolita’s attendant, but the incident also casts doubt on ‘Zelmane’s’ gender, so Lysander loses his access to Violetta. Basilius and Gynecia are both enamoured of Lysander (each believing him to be a different sex), and each persuades him to accept the other’s advances for sport. Meanwhile Dametas’ daughter Mopsa falls in love with ‘Dorus’. Amintor and Julio continue to have ill success: they pose as envoys from Basilius’ brother, appealing for him to deal with an outbreak of abuses, corruption, and crime, but they are denied their promised reward by the avaricious Dametas. ‘Dorus’ gets rid of Dametas and his family by sending each of them on a wild-goose chase: Dametas to find buried treasure, his jealous wife Miso to Dametas’ supposed mistress, and Mopsa to the chapel in Adonis’ bower where a priest will marry them. ‘Zelmane’ similarly disposes of Basilius and Gynecia by arranging assignations with each at the same chapel, with the priest Manasses standing in for the Amazon. This frees Lysander and Demetrius to elope with the princesses; but their plans are overheard by Amintor and Julio, whom they then employ to smuggle the girls off the island. Digging for the gold, Dametas finds only a scornful poem directing him to Adonis’ bower, and he curses 1606 poets. Everyone meets up at the bower, and the knot of identity confusion is unravelled. Lysander and Demetrius present themselves to Basilius as his new sons-in-law; but Amintor and Julio have double- crossed them and kept…