Hercules Furens (Mad Hercules) (Seneca's First Tragedy) · chunk 17 of 28
Heywood, Jasper / Seneca, Lucius Annaeus · published 1581 · first performed or written 1561 (Annals) tragedy; literary play T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm typicality 0.78 · 490 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T36: hell, earth, gods, death, ghosts, blood, bloody, heaven, night, ghost.
And spares his soul, he having long led forth the lingering days Of happy age, at length to heaven doth either find the ways, Or joyful happy places else of fair Elysius wood. Thou then that here must be a judge abstain from man his blood, Who so thou be that raygnest king: our guilts are there acquit In greater wise. Doth any place preseript of limit shit The guilty Ghosts, and as the fame reports, doth cruel pain The wicked men make tame that in eternal bonds remain? Ixion rolled on whirling wheel is tossed and turned high: Upon the neck of Sisyphus the mighty stone doth lie. Amid the lake with thirsty jaws old Tantalus therein Pursues the waves, the water stream doth wet and wash his chin, And when to him now oft deceived it doth yet promise make, Straight flits the flood: the fruit at mouth his famine doth forsake. Eternal food to fleeing foul doth Tytius' heart give still: And Danaus' daughters do in vain their water vessels fill. The wicked Cadmus daughters all go raging every way: And there doth greedy ravening bird the Phiney table's fray. Now of my son declare to me the noble worthy fight. Brings he his willing uncles gift, or Pluto's spoils to sight? A dire and dreadful stone there is the slothful fords fast by, Where sluggish fret with wave astoned full dull and slow doth lie: This lake a dreadful fellow keeps both of attire and sight, And quaking Ghosts doth over bear and aged ugly wight: His Beard unkempt, his bosom foul deformed in filthy wise A knot binds in, full loathsome stand in head his hollow eyes: He ferry man doth steer about his Boat with his long oar. He driving now his lightened Ship of burden toward the Shore, Repairs to waves: and then his way Alcides doth require, The flock of Ghosts all giving place: aloud cries Charon dire, What way attemptest thou so bold? thy hastening pace here stay. But Nathales Alcmena's son abiding no delay, Even with his own pole bet he doth full tame the shipman make, And climes the ship: the bark that could full many peoples take, Did yield to one: he sat, the boat more heavy like to break Whith shivering joints on either side the lethey flood doth leak. Then tremble all the monsters huge, the centaurs fierce of might, And Lapithes, kindled with much wine to wars and bloody fight. The lowest Channels seeking out of Stygian pool a down, His Lerney labour sore affright his fertile heads doth drown. Of greedy Ditis after this doth then the house appear. The fierce and cruel Stygian dog doth fray the spirits there, The which with great and roaring sound his heads upshaking three, The kingdom keeps his ugly head with filth full foul to see The serpents lick: his hairs be foul with vipers set among,
Other edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics
Position
nodes 753–798 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 17 of 28 in this edition
Length
490 words · 656 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T36 — Hell, Furies and the language of punishmentcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.781 (cosine to the topic centroid) · placed after the fit (approximate_predict), not counted in the topic statistics
Other seeds
seed 43: T32 · seed 44: T26 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
And ſpares his ſoule, he hauing long led forth the lingring dayes Of happy age, at length to heauen doth eyther finde the wayes, Or ioyfull happy places ells of fayre Elyſius woode. Thou then that here muſt be a iudge abſtayne from man his bloode, Who ſo thou be that raygneſt kyng: our gyltes are there acquit In greater wyſe. Doth any place preſeript of lymite ſhit The gylty Ghoſts, and as the fame reportes, doth cruell payne The wicked men make tame that in'eternall bondes remayne? Ixion roll'de on whyrling wheele is toſt and turned hye: Vpon the necke of Siſyphus the mighty ſtone doth lye. Amyd the lake with thyrſty Iawes olde Tantalus therein Purſues the waues, the water ſtreame doth wet and waſhe his chin, And when to him nowe ofte deceyu'de it doth yet promiſe make, Straight flits the floud: the fruicte at mouth his famyne doth forſake. Eternall foode to fleeing foule doth Tytius hart geue ſtill: And Danaus daughters doe in vayne theyr water veſſells fill. The wicked Cadmus daughters all goe raging euery way: And there doth greedy rauening byrde the Phiney tables fray. Nowe of my ſonne declare to me the noble worthy fight. Brings he his willing vnckles gyft, or Plutocs ſpoyles to ſight? A dyre and dredfull ſtone there is the ſlouthfull foordes faſt bye, Where ſluggiſh freat with waue aſton'd full dull and ſlowe doth lye: This lake a dredfull fellow keepes both of attire and ſight, And quaking Ghoſts doth ouer beare and aged vgly wyght: His Bearde vnkempt, his boſome foule deform'de in filthy wyſe A knot byndes in, full lotheſome ſtand in head his hollowe eyes: He Feary man doth ſteare about his Boate with his long Ore. He driuing nowe his lightned Ship of burden towarde the Shore, Repayres to waues: and then his way doth requyre, The flocke of Ghoſts all geuing place: alowde cryes Charon dyre, What way attempteſt thou ſo bolde? thy haſtening pace here ſtay. But Nathales Alcmenaes ſonne abyding no delay, Euen with his owne poale bet he dothe full tame the ſhipman make, And clymes the ſhip: the barke that coulde full many peoples take, Did yelde to one: he ſat, the boate more heauy like to breake Whih ſhyuering ioyntes on eyther ſyde the lethey floud doth leake. Then tremble all the monſters huge, the Centaures fierce of myght, And Lapithes, kindled with much wyne to warres and bloudy fight. The loweſt Chanelles ſeeking out of Stygian poole a downe, His Lerney labour ſore affright his fertile heads doth drowne. Of greedy Ditis after this doth then the houſe appere. The fierce and cruell Stygian dogge doth fray the ſpirites there, The which with great and roaring ſounde his heads vpſhaking three, The kingdome keepes his vgly head with filth full foule to ſee The ſerpentes licke: his hayres be fowle with vypers ſet among,