![]() #12 LABOURS OF HERCULES 4 BIRDS AND HO SERIES#Eurystheus would present a series of tasks to Herakles. The priestess of Delphi ordered Herakles to serve his cousin King Eurystheus of Tiryns as a penance for this crime. Hera caused Herakles to go mad and to kill his family. They became the parents of several children. Herakles married Megara, the daughter of a king. He lived in spite of Hera's persecution and hatred, and did many great deeds as a young man. She tried many times to kill him, even when he was a baby. She hated Herakles because he was one of her husband's bastards. Zeus' wife Hera was the goddess of marriage. His father was the god Zeus and his mother was the mortal Alkmene. I would to God some scholar would conjure her, for certainly, while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary, and people sin upon purpose, because they would go thither so indeed all disquiet, horror, and perturbation follows her.Įnter Claudio and Beatrice, Leonato and Hero.Mortals die, but gods live forever. Come, talk not of her you shall find her the infernal Ate in good apparel. She would have made Hercules have turn’d spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. ![]() I would not marry her, though she were endow’d with all that Adam had left him before he transgress’d. If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the Prince’s jester, that I was duller than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. My very visor began to assume life, and scold with her. O, she misus’d me past the endurance of a block an oak but with one green leaf on it would have answer’d her. (152 lines)Įnter Leonato, Antonio his brother, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his niece, Margaret, Ursula, and a Kinsman. After she leaves, the four left behind decide that for their own amusement and to occupy the time until Claudio and Hero’s wedding, they will try to make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other. ![]() Beatrice rejects the idea of a husband for herself. Claudio, Leonato, Beatrice and Hero come in, and Don Pedro reveals that he has obtained Hero for the Count. Don Pedro comes looking for Claudio, but is distracted by chatting with Benedick and egging him on to discourse on Beatrice. ![]() Claudio is quite convinced and decides to have nothing more to do with Hero, and is surly when Benedick tries to joke with him, soon leaving him. Don John sidles up to Claudio, pretending to mistake him for Benedick, and tells him that Don Pedro is actually wooing Hero on his own account. Beatrice and Benedick, both masked, converse, and Beatrice badmouths him, knowing perfectly well who she’s speaking to, though he does not realize that she knows. Don Pedro’s masked party enters, and he quickly takes Hero aside, while Borachio attempts to dance with Margaret and Antonio tries to deny to Ursula that it is he behind the mask. ![]() Hero is reminded to say yes if Don Pedro asks her to marry him. (Leonato Antonio Hero Beatrice Margaret Ursula Kinsman Prince Don Pedro Claudio Benedick Don John Borachio)Īs they wait for the guests to arrive at the masked ball, Leonato, Antonio, Hero, and Beatrice discuss Don John and Benedick, Beatrice seizing the first opportunity to engage in yet more mocking of the latter, to the men’s amusement. ![]()
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