1. King. | 1. King | 1 King. | 1 Ki. | 1. Ki. | 1. K •… ng.
Words
470
Characters
2556
Typicality
0.29 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A20092
BritDrama no.
1500
Cluster
Cluster 12 — Wooers, gallants & courtly love-talk
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 12 (signor, sal, zelmane, handkerchief, absolon, dissemble…). Matches are highlighted.
gone, Look Cheerfully; backs turn worser, no more thought upon. In that one word she expires Is not the good and politic Satyran (Our leagued brother, and your vassal sworn) Even now (this very minute) sucking close Their fairest bosoms if his train take well: They have strange workings (downwards) into hell. And that it shall
Full speech
By wh No mortal bosom Is so unsanctified. Say but the word, and weel turn home your wro ̄ gs, In torn and bloody colours. We are all pleased, so please you be the bride, Of three, we care not which two be denied. Will not you home with us? Fitter for us: yet fit they here Like doves. But is this all? shall we thus bend our sinews Only to empty quivers, and to shoot Whole sheaves of forked arrows at the Sun, Yet never hit him? All. I, all: Between the Transuersaries that do run Upon this cross staff, a dull eye may find In what degree we are, and of what height Your self (our brightest Ariad e) is, Being underneath that Tropic: as those jewels Of night and day are by alternate course Worn in Heavens forehead, So when Death's Winter comes, And shortens all those beams of Majesty, Which in this oblique and Zodiacal Sphere Move with Titania now, shall lose their heat, Where must the next Sun rise but here? from whence Shall Fairy land get warmth? merely from hence. Let but the taper of her life burn out, We have such torches ready in her land To catch fire from each other, that the flames Shall make the frighted people think earth burns, And being dazzled with our Copes of Stars, We shall their temples hallow with such ease, As 'twere in solemn gay procession. Invincible! go on. Our blood ran all to water, yea our souls Strove all (at once) t'expire, (when it was blown Hither from Fairy land, that all the darts Which ours here, and your arm delivered there, Fell either short, or lighted upon ice) Lest you had lost blood in the enterprise. These march to fill our Fleet. The Mace is in your hand, grind them to dust. Where's The ship of all our Medica ents is lost. Of yours: Oquendo burned, Pieme telli Slain, Pedro de Valdes taken, Attend. A League! The time! Oh blessed time! Derided to our faces! This must not be. Farewell. Peace there. Too near the heart, (Most royal Empress) these distempers fit, So please you, weel again assail her beauty In varied shapes, and work on sutler Charms, Again loves poisoned arrows weel let she. The earnest which he gives you (adored Empress,) Are three fit engines for us. As Traualers use them then, till they be gone, Look Cheerfully; backs turn worser, no more thought upon. In that one word she expires Is not the good and politic Satyran (Our leagued brother, and your vassal sworn) Even now (this very minute) sucking close Their fairest bosoms if his train take well: They have strange workings (downwards) into hell. And that it shall come fates the ̄ selves prepare. What fire? Holla.
Plot summary
Plot — The Whore of Babylon
WitaHid becomes Queen of Fairyland and restores respect to Truth and her book; friars, cardinals, and other ecclesiastical figures are expelled from the kingdom. All this infuriates theiBmpressioriBabylony who had banished Truth to the wilderness, claiming her to be an impostor. She sends three Kings to Fairyland to seduce Titania, while Cardinalg@omoG sends agents to convert the populace at grass roots level. The Kings woo Titania with a masque, but, advised by her fairy lords, she rejects them. Two of the Kings leave Fairyland, but the third, Satyrane} stays on to plot against her; one of his stratagems entails a magical attack via a wax effigy, but the conjurer is caught burying it in a dunghill and arrested. Titania pardons her physician, DejParidelly who has ~ been sentenced to death on a charge of attempted murder, but he secretly resents being beholden to her. He secures her permission to travel abroad, where he is recruited as an agent of Babylon. She refuses to receive the malcontented scholar @amMipeiis at court. He encounters Satyrane, who sympathizes with his annoyance at Fairyland’s treatment of academics, assures him that they are better used overseas, and persuades him to defect to Babylon. Since marriage overtures have failed, the Empress’s policy turns to assassination. She receives Campeius and the physician Ropus and sends them back to Fairyland. Traitors emerge out of the earth, summoned by Falsehood posing as Truth, but all are identified and arrested: Titania spots one whom her lords have overlooked, and Ropus is found out when he gives her a medication which turns out to be poison. Campeius too is captured. Meanwhile Paridell is also persuaded to undertake the murder, but he insists on having written authority for it from Cardinal Como. Como points out to the Empress that, even if Titania is killed, her successor will be just as hostile to Babylon. An even more aggressive policy is required, to lay waste the entire kingdom with an Armada. Paridell returns to Fairyland and tells Titania that he has acted as a double agent to discover Babylon’s plots; but he confides his true intentions to a kinsman. She grants him a private audience, and, after a struggle with his conscience, he draws his dagger and is caught in the act, betrayed by his kinsman. Meanwhile, the Armada ===== PAGE 297 ===== 1606 is under sail. Titania lays plans for the defence of Fairyland, and reviews the troops. After a sea battle, the Babylonian fleet is vanquished,…