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3,291 | 2258_act_i,_scene_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Henry VIII enters, with Cardinal Wolsey and Sir Thomas Lovell. The king ascends to his throne, thanks Wolsey for stopping the plots against him, and asks that Buckingham's estate manager be called in to speak. Just then, Queen Katharine enters with Norfolk and the Duke of Suffolk. Katharine kneels before the king,... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke at one doore. At the other, the Duke of\nBuckingham, and the Lord Aburgauenny.",
"Buckingham. Good morrow, and well met. How haue ye done\nSince last we saw in France?\nNorf. I thanke your Grace:\nHealthfull, and euer since a fresh Admirer\nOf what I saw there",
"Buck. An vntimely Ag... |
3,307 | 2258_act_1,_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lord Chamberlain and Lord Sands discuss the oddity of the nobles' behavior since they returned from the trip to France. New continental fashions taken up by these returning men from the French seem ridiculous, and the two lords make fun of their dandyish clothes and manners. Lovell enters, relating proposed reformation... | [
"L.Ch. Is't possible the spels of France should iuggle\nMen into such strange mysteries?\nL.San. New customes,\n Though they be neuer so ridiculous,\n (Nay let 'em be vnmanly) yet are follow'd",
"L.Ch. As farre as I see, all the good our English\n Haue got by the late Voyage, is but meerely\n A fit or... |
3,295 | 2258_act_ii,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the streets of London, a first gentleman meets a second gentleman. One asks the other where he is rushing; the second is on his way to the trial of the Duke of Buckingham. But the first gentleman has seen it, and the trial is already over. Buckingham has been found guilty and sentenced to death. The first gentleman ... | [
"Enter two Gentlemen at seuerall Doores.",
"1. Whether away so fast?\n2. O, God saue ye:\nEu'n to the Hall, to heare what shall become\nOf the great Duke of Buckingham",
"1. Ile saue you\nThat labour Sir. All's now done but the Ceremony\nOf bringing backe the Prisoner",
"2. Were you there ?\n1. Yes indeed was... |
3,292 | 2258_act_ii,_scene_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lord Chamberlain enters, reading a letter from one of his employees that tells how Cardinal Wolsey's men seized several of Lord Chamberlain's horses, claiming that they must be given to the king. Lord Chamberlain says he thinks Wolsey will end up taking everything from all the nobles. Norfolk and Suffolk enter, asking ... | [
"Cornets. Enter King Henry, leaning on the Cardinals shoulder, the\nNobles,\n and Sir Thomas Louell: the Cardinall places himselfe vnder the\n Kings feete\n on his right side.",
"King. My life it selfe, and the best heart of it,\n Thankes you for this great care: I stood i'th' leuell\n Of a full-ch... |
3,296 | 2258_act_ii,_scene_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne Bullen and her attendant, Old Lady, discuss the downfall of Queen Katharine outside the queen's quarters. Anne is saddened that Katharine lived for so long without reproach and knew of no plots against her, yet is nonetheless about to fall from grace. Anne thinks Katharine's demise will be all the more bitter bec... | [
"Enter Lord Chamberlaine, reading this Letter.",
"My Lord, the Horses your Lordship sent for, with all the\ncare I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and furnish'd.\nThey were young and handsome, and of the best breed in the\nNorth. When they were ready to set out for London, a man\nof my Lord Cardinalls, by Commiss... |
3,298 | 2258_act_ii,_scene_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Many official types enter a hall at Blackfriars, including bishops, dukes, scribes, then Cardinal Wolsey, Cardinal Campeius, and the king and queen. Wolsey calls for silence while the report from Rome is read, but Henry says it has already been read; there is no need to read it again. Queen Katharine kneels at Henry's ... | [
"Trumpets, Sennet, and Cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short\nsiluer\nwands; next them two Scribes in the habite of Doctors; after them,\n the\n Bishop of Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincolne,\n Ely,\n Rochester, and S[aint]. Asaph: Next them, with some small\n distance,\n followe... |
3,299 | 2258_act_iii,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The queen is in her apartment when the arrival of Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius is announced. The cardinals request that they speak in a private room, but the queen's conscience is clear, so she is content to converse in a public room. Wolsey says he has not come to accuse her but to learn her thoughts on the d... | [
"Enter Queene and her Women as at worke.",
"Queen. Take thy Lute wench,\n My Soule growes sad with troubles,\n Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst: leaue working.",
"SONG.",
"Orpheus with his Lute made Trees,\n And the Mountaine tops that freeze,\n Bow themselues when he did sing.\n To his Mus... |
3,300 | 2258_act_iii,_scene_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Norfolk, Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain, and Surrey enter. Norfolk urges for them to combine their complaints against Cardinal Wolsey, for Wolsey wouldn't be able to resist a united front. Lord Chamberlain says the only way to get at Wolsey is to bar his access to the king, but Norfolk says that the king has already become ... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke, Duke of Suffolke, Lord Surrey, and\nLord\nChamberlaine.",
"Norf. If you will now vnite in your Complaints,\n And force them with a Constancy, the Cardinall\n Cannot stand vnder them. If you omit\n The offer of this time, I cannot promise,\n But that you shall sustaine moe ... |
3,308 | 2258_act_4,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One gentleman meets another in the city street, where they wait to see Anne, now queen, pass on the way to her coronation. The last time they met in the street was for the sad event of Buckingham's trial, so they are glad for a return to the more usual pomp of the royalty. They discuss a list of those who are to be pro... | [
"Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another.",
"1 Y'are well met once againe",
"2 So are you",
"1 You come to take your stand heere, and behold\nThe Lady Anne, passe from her Corronation",
"2 'Tis all my businesse. At our last encounter,\n The Duke of Buckingham came from his Triall",
"1 'Tis very true. Bu... |
3,303 | 2258_act_v,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late at night, Gardiner and Lovell meet. Lovell is in a rush, and Gardiner asks why. Lovell reports that the queen is in labor. Gardiner says he wishes her well, but he thinks she may not be of the best stock to be the mother of the heir to the throne. Gardiner thinks the kingdom will not be safe until she is dead, al... | [
"Enter Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a Torch before\nhim, met\nby Sir Thomas Louell.",
"Gard. It's one a clocke Boy, is't not",
"Boy. It hath strooke",
"Gard. These should be houres for necessities,\n Not for delights: Times to repayre our Nature\n With comforting repose, and not for vs\n ... |
3,304 | 2258_act_v,_scene_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cranmer enters, hoping he is not late for the Council meeting. The doorkeeper says he must wait until he is called. Doctor Butts crosses the stage, noting that malice is afoot if the Council members are requiring Cranmer, himself a member, to wait outside. Cranmer sees Butts and hopes he will be kind to him. The king a... | [
"Enter Cranmer, Archbyshop of Canterbury.",
"Cran. I hope I am not too late, and yet the Gentleman\nThat was sent to me from the Councell, pray'd me\nTo make great hast. All fast? What meanes this? Hoa?\nWho waites there? Sure you know me?\nEnter Keeper.",
"Keep. Yes, my Lord:\nBut yet I cannot helpe you",
"C... |
3,309 | 2258_act_5,_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A porter and a large group of men enter the scene. The crowd has arrived to see Elizabeth's christening. One man and the porter converse about how to keep the rabble from blocking the entrance to the palace yard. The porter thinks the crowd is made up of the same louts who go to public executions or who cheer loudest a... | [
"Noyse and Tumult within: Enter Porter and his man.",
"Port. You'l leaue your noyse anon ye Rascals: doe\nyou take the Court for Parish Garden: ye rude Slaues,\n leaue your gaping",
"Within. Good M[aster]. Porter I belong to th' Larder",
"Port. Belong to th' Gallowes, and be hang'd ye Rogue:\n Is this a... |
3,290 | 2258_prologue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prologue is a direct address from the dramatist to the audience. He says that this is a sad play capable of arousing pity. He adds that those who have come to witness the historical truth or watch a good show will be satisfied. But those who have come expecting a senseless comedy will go away disappointed. The dramatis... | [
"I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now,\n That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,\n Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe:\n Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow\n We now present. Those that can Pitty, heere\n May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,\n The Subiect will deserue it... |
3,291 | 2258_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prologue is a direct address from the dramatist to the audience. He says that this is a sad play capable of arousing pity. He adds that those who have come to witness the historical truth or watch a good show will be satisfied. But those who have come expecting a senseless comedy will go away disappointed. The dramatis... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke at one doore. At the other, the Duke of\nBuckingham, and the Lord Aburgauenny.",
"Buckingham. Good morrow, and well met. How haue ye done\nSince last we saw in France?\nNorf. I thanke your Grace:\nHealthfull, and euer since a fresh Admirer\nOf what I saw there",
"Buck. An vntimely Ag... |
3,292 | 2258_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King his nobles and other dignitaries are gathered in the council chamber to carry out the proceedings of Buckinghams trial. The King expresses his gratitude to Wolsey for saving him from a conspiracy. The Queen enters with a petition for the King. She informs him of a new tax that is being levied on the people und... | [
"Cornets. Enter King Henry, leaning on the Cardinals shoulder, the\nNobles,\n and Sir Thomas Louell: the Cardinall places himselfe vnder the\n Kings feete\n on his right side.",
"King. My life it selfe, and the best heart of it,\n Thankes you for this great care: I stood i'th' leuell\n Of a full-ch... |
3,293 | 2258_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lord Chamberlain and Lords Sands are ridiculing the affectations acquired by the English nobles, who have just returned from France. Sir Thomas Lovell enters with the news that the noblemen who have been disrupting the court activities have been banished from it, by the Kings orders. Since these are the very men who ha... | [
"L.Ch. Is't possible the spels of France should iuggle\nMen into such strange mysteries?\nL.San. New customes,\n Though they be neuer so ridiculous,\n (Nay let 'em be vnmanly) yet are follow'd",
"L.Ch. As farre as I see, all the good our English\n Haue got by the late Voyage, is but meerely\n A fit or... |
3,294 | 2258_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lord Chamberlain and Lords Sands are ridiculing the affectations acquired by the English nobles, who have just returned from France. Sir Thomas Lovell enters with the news that the noblemen who have been disrupting the court activities have been banished from it, by the Kings orders. Since these are the very men who ha... | [
"Hoboies. A small Table vnder a State for the Cardinall, a longer\nTable for\nthe Guests. Then Enter Anne Bullen, and diuers other Ladies, &\nGentlemen,\n as Guests at one Doore; at an other Doore enter Sir Henry\n Guilford.",
"S.Hen.Guilf. Ladyes,\n A generall welcome from his Grace\n Salutes ye all;... |
3,295 | 2258_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shows two men discussing Buckinghams trial. They are sorry that the Duke has been found guilty. According to them the Duke is innocent and is the victim of Wolseys Conspiracy. Buckingham addresses the people gathered in the street and bids them an emotional farewell as he is being led to his execution. Word h... | [
"Enter two Gentlemen at seuerall Doores.",
"1. Whether away so fast?\n2. O, God saue ye:\nEu'n to the Hall, to heare what shall become\nOf the great Duke of Buckingham",
"1. Ile saue you\nThat labour Sir. All's now done but the Ceremony\nOf bringing backe the Prisoner",
"2. Were you there ?\n1. Yes indeed was... |
3,296 | 2258_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene occurs in the palace. Lord Chamberlain has just received a letter informing him that Cardinal Wolsey has seized the horses that Chamberlain had sent for. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk encounter Chamberlain in a palace antechamber and inquire about the King. Chamberlain informs them that the King is worrie... | [
"Enter Lord Chamberlaine, reading this Letter.",
"My Lord, the Horses your Lordship sent for, with all the\ncare I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and furnish'd.\nThey were young and handsome, and of the best breed in the\nNorth. When they were ready to set out for London, a man\nof my Lord Cardinalls, by Commiss... |
3,297 | 2258_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene shows Anne Bullen engaged in conversation with an old lady. They are discussing the Queens upcoming divorce. Anne says that a life of humble content is preferable to one where one has a high status but sullied by sorrow. Anne declares that she would never choose to be a queen. The old lady is not convinced, ... | [
"Enter Anne Bullen, and an old Lady.",
"An. Not for that neither; here's the pang that pinches.\nHis Highnesse, hauing liu'd so long with her, and she\nSo good a Lady, that no Tongue could euer\nPronounce dishonour of her; by my life,\n She neuer knew harme-doing: Oh, now after\n So many courses... |
3,298 | 2258_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King, the Queen and the clergymen, who are going to preside over the divorce, are all gathered in the hall of the 2Black-Friars. Before the proceedings begin, Katherine interrupts, appealing directly to the King for justice. She has been an impeccable wife and asks the King to explain his desire for divorce. She en... | [
"Trumpets, Sennet, and Cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short\nsiluer\nwands; next them two Scribes in the habite of Doctors; after them,\n the\n Bishop of Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincolne,\n Ely,\n Rochester, and S[aint]. Asaph: Next them, with some small\n distance,\n followe... |
3,299 | 2258_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The queen and her women are at work. The queen is depressed and asks one of her women to sing in the hope that it will uplift her spirit. Cardinal, Wolsey and Campeius come to the queen offering their counsels in her service. Katherine suspects their motives and at first doesnt accept their preferred help. She declares... | [
"Enter Queene and her Women as at worke.",
"Queen. Take thy Lute wench,\n My Soule growes sad with troubles,\n Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst: leaue working.",
"SONG.",
"Orpheus with his Lute made Trees,\n And the Mountaine tops that freeze,\n Bow themselues when he did sing.\n To his Mus... |
3,300 | 2258_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few courtiers are gathered in the antechamber to the Kings apartment plotting Wolseys downfall. Norfolk informs them the King had chanced upon a letter Wolsey wrote to the Pops entreating him to stop the divorce. Thus Wolsey is now out of favor with the King. Moreover, the King has married Anne Bullen. Furthermore, S... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke, Duke of Suffolke, Lord Surrey, and\nLord\nChamberlaine.",
"Norf. If you will now vnite in your Complaints,\n And force them with a Constancy, the Cardinall\n Cannot stand vnder them. If you omit\n The offer of this time, I cannot promise,\n But that you shall sustaine moe ... |
3,301 | 2258_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The two gentlemen of the earlier public scene once again encounter each other, this time in a street in Westminister. The whole place is agog with the excitement of Annes coronation and the two men wait to catch a glimpse of the new Queen. The Archbishop of Canterbury has finalized the Kings divorce to Katherine, now t... | [
"Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another.",
"1 Y'are well met once againe",
"2 So are you",
"1 You come to take your stand heere, and behold\nThe Lady Anne, passe from her Corronation",
"2 'Tis all my businesse. At our last encounter,\n The Duke of Buckingham came from his Triall",
"1 'Tis very true. Bu... |
3,302 | 2258_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Katherine, the princess dowager, is now in residence at Kimbolton and she is ailing. At her inquiry, Griffith, her gentleman usher, relates to her the manner in which Wolsey died. On hearing Katherines bitter words about Wolsey, Griffith tries to make her the dead mans human qualities and virtues. The musicians play fo... | [
"Enter Katherine Dowager, sicke, lead betweene Griffith, her\nGentleman\nVsher, and Patience her Woman.",
"Grif. How do's your Grace?\nKath. O Griffith, sicke to death:\nMy Legges like loaden Branches bow to'th' Earth,\n Willing to leaue their burthen: Reach a Chaire,\n So now (me thinkes) I feele a little ea... |
3,303 | 2258_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene occurs in the palace, in the early hour of the morning. As Lovell is on his way to the King, he encounters Gardiner and informs him that the Queen is in labor and it is feared that she may lose her life. Gardiner expresses his deep resentment against the Queen, Cromwell and Cranmer. When Lovell cautions her ... | [
"Enter Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a Torch before\nhim, met\nby Sir Thomas Louell.",
"Gard. It's one a clocke Boy, is't not",
"Boy. It hath strooke",
"Gard. These should be houres for necessities,\n Not for delights: Times to repayre our Nature\n With comforting repose, and not for vs\n ... |
3,304 | 2258_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cranmer comes to the council chamber. There the keeper that he must wait outside till he called for informs him. Dr. Butts observes this and departs to inform the King of the shabby treatment Cranmer is being subjected to. Cranmer resents being treated this way but resigns himself to wait patiently. Dr. Butts brings th... | [
"Enter Cranmer, Archbyshop of Canterbury.",
"Cran. I hope I am not too late, and yet the Gentleman\nThat was sent to me from the Councell, pray'd me\nTo make great hast. All fast? What meanes this? Hoa?\nWho waites there? Sure you know me?\nEnter Keeper.",
"Keep. Yes, my Lord:\nBut yet I cannot helpe you",
"C... |
3,305 | 2258_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The council is in session with the Lord Chancellor presiding over it. Cranmer is summoned inside and informed that he has been changed with spreading heresies in the kingdom. Since these may prove dangerous Gardiner proposes swift and strong action to deal with the situation. Cranmer denies the accusations and requests... | [
"Noyse and Tumult within: Enter Porter and his man.",
"Port. You'l leaue your noyse anon ye Rascals: doe\nyou take the Court for Parish Garden: ye rude Slaues,\n leaue your gaping",
"Within. Good M[aster]. Porter I belong to th' Larder",
"Port. Belong to th' Gallowes, and be hang'd ye Rogue:\n Is this a... |
3,306 | 2258_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The common people are crowding the palace court, eager to witness the new princes at her christening. The Porter and his man attempt vainly to bring the multitude to order. The people are imperious to authority and have overpowered those who tried to hold them back. An angry lord Chamberlain informs the porter that if ... | [
"Enter Trumpets sounding: Then two Aldermen, L[ord]. Maior,\n Garter,\n Cranmer, Duke of Norfolke with his Marshals Staffe, Duke of\n Suffolke, two\n Noblemen, bearing great standing Bowles for the Christening\n Guifts: Then\n foure Noblemen bearing a Canopy, vnder which the Dutchesse ... |
3,290 | 2258_the_prologue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Prologue enters and explains that he is not here to make the audience laugh, but to tell of serious and noble matters that will awaken their pity. Those who want a bawdy comedy will be disappointed. The Prologue asks the audience to imagine that the characters are alive, as the play will present only the truth. Tho... | [
"I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now,\n That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow,\n Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe:\n Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye to flow\n We now present. Those that can Pitty, heere\n May (if they thinke it well) let fall a Teare,\n The Subiect will deserue it... |
3,291 | 2258_act_1_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens in a room at the court of King Henry VIII, in London. The Duke of Norfolk meets the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Abergavenny. Buckingham asks Norfolk how he has been since they last met in France. Norfolk replies that he is well, and still admires what he saw there. They had accompanied the king to a grea... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke at one doore. At the other, the Duke of\nBuckingham, and the Lord Aburgauenny.",
"Buckingham. Good morrow, and well met. How haue ye done\nSince last we saw in France?\nNorf. I thanke your Grace:\nHealthfull, and euer since a fresh Admirer\nOf what I saw there",
"Buck. An vntimely Ag... |
3,292 | 2258_act_1_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The king, leaning on Wolsey's shoulder, thanks him for foiling Buckingham's treasonous plot. He asks for Buckingham's Surveyor, who had testified against his master, to be brought before him so that he can hear his evidence. Queen Katherine enters, with the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and kneels before the king. The ... | [
"Cornets. Enter King Henry, leaning on the Cardinals shoulder, the\nNobles,\n and Sir Thomas Louell: the Cardinall places himselfe vnder the\n Kings feete\n on his right side.",
"King. My life it selfe, and the best heart of it,\n Thankes you for this great care: I stood i'th' leuell\n Of a full-ch... |
3,307 | 2258_act_1_scene_3_-_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lord Chamberlain and Lord Sands are making fun of the odd fashions that have been brought back to the English court by nobles who went to France. Sir Thomas Lovell enters with the news that a proclamation has been issued at the court urging people to abandon the French fashions. The three men agree that this is a g... | [
"L.Ch. Is't possible the spels of France should iuggle\nMen into such strange mysteries?\nL.San. New customes,\n Though they be neuer so ridiculous,\n (Nay let 'em be vnmanly) yet are follow'd",
"L.Ch. As farre as I see, all the good our English\n Haue got by the late Voyage, is but meerely\n A fit or... |
3,295 | 2258_act_2_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two Gentlemen meet in the street. The Second Gentleman is on his way to see the trial of the Duke of Buckingham. The First Gentleman says that he is too late: it is over. Buckingham pleaded not guilty and spoke eloquently in his defense, but he was found guilty of treason. Those who testified against him included his S... | [
"Enter two Gentlemen at seuerall Doores.",
"1. Whether away so fast?\n2. O, God saue ye:\nEu'n to the Hall, to heare what shall become\nOf the great Duke of Buckingham",
"1. Ile saue you\nThat labour Sir. All's now done but the Ceremony\nOf bringing backe the Prisoner",
"2. Were you there ?\n1. Yes indeed was... |
3,296 | 2258_act_2_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lord Chamberlain is reading a letter from one of his employees. The letter tells how Wolsey's man stole some horses from him that he had purchased on the Lord Chamberlain's behalf, declaring that his master should have them, rather than a mere subject, or even the king himself. The Lord Chamberlain believes that W... | [
"Enter Lord Chamberlaine, reading this Letter.",
"My Lord, the Horses your Lordship sent for, with all the\ncare I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and furnish'd.\nThey were young and handsome, and of the best breed in the\nNorth. When they were ready to set out for London, a man\nof my Lord Cardinalls, by Commiss... |
3,297 | 2258_act_2_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne Bullen tells the Old Lady how sad it is to think of so good a lady as Katherine being put aside after so many years as queen. She thinks it is better to be low-born and never to have known power than to lose it in this way. She says that she would not want to be a queen. The Old Lady says she is being hypocritical... | [
"Enter Anne Bullen, and an old Lady.",
"An. Not for that neither; here's the pang that pinches.\nHis Highnesse, hauing liu'd so long with her, and she\nSo good a Lady, that no Tongue could euer\nPronounce dishonour of her; by my life,\n She neuer knew harme-doing: Oh, now after\n So many courses... |
3,298 | 2258_act_2_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Blackfriars, various bishops and officials have convened to decide the question of the king's marriage to Katherine. Wolsey asks for the decision from Rome to be read out, but the king says there is no need as it has already been read, and there is no need to do it again. Katherine goes directly to the king and knee... | [
"Trumpets, Sennet, and Cornets. Enter two Vergers, with short\nsiluer\nwands; next them two Scribes in the habite of Doctors; after them,\n the\n Bishop of Canterbury alone; after him, the Bishops of Lincolne,\n Ely,\n Rochester, and S[aint]. Asaph: Next them, with some small\n distance,\n followe... |
3,299 | 2258_act_3_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Katherine is sewing with her ladies-in-waiting. She asks one of them to sing. The woman sings a song about the power of music to heal sorrow. A Gentleman enters and tells Katherine that the cardinals want to speak with her. As Katherine asks him to show them in, she worries about what they want with her. Wolsey and Cam... | [
"Enter Queene and her Women as at worke.",
"Queen. Take thy Lute wench,\n My Soule growes sad with troubles,\n Sing, and disperse 'em if thou canst: leaue working.",
"SONG.",
"Orpheus with his Lute made Trees,\n And the Mountaine tops that freeze,\n Bow themselues when he did sing.\n To his Mus... |
3,300 | 2258_act_3_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and the Lord Chamberlain are discussing the problem of Wolsey. Norfolk believes that if they all unite against Wolsey, he cannot survive. The alternative, he says, is more disgrace. The Lord Chamberlain says that they must bar Wolsey's access to the king if they want to make any sort of attack ... | [
"Enter the Duke of Norfolke, Duke of Suffolke, Lord Surrey, and\nLord\nChamberlaine.",
"Norf. If you will now vnite in your Complaints,\n And force them with a Constancy, the Cardinall\n Cannot stand vnder them. If you omit\n The offer of this time, I cannot promise,\n But that you shall sustaine moe ... |
3,303 | 2258_act_5_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is one o'clock at night. Bishop Gardiner enters with his Page. Lovell rushes in. Gardiner asks why he is in haste, and Lovell reveals that Queen Anne is in labor, and it is feared that she may not survive. Gardiner says that he prays for the baby, but believes that Anne is not of good enough stock to provide the hei... | [
"Enter Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a Torch before\nhim, met\nby Sir Thomas Louell.",
"Gard. It's one a clocke Boy, is't not",
"Boy. It hath strooke",
"Gard. These should be houres for necessities,\n Not for delights: Times to repayre our Nature\n With comforting repose, and not for vs\n ... |
3,304 | 2258_act_5_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cranmer arrives at the council chamber, hoping he is not late. But the doorkeeper will not let him in, saying he must wait outside the door until he is called. Dr Butts, the king's physician, sees how Cranmer is being treated, and condemns it as malice, since Cranmer is himself a member of the council. Butts leaves to ... | [
"Enter Cranmer, Archbyshop of Canterbury.",
"Cran. I hope I am not too late, and yet the Gentleman\nThat was sent to me from the Councell, pray'd me\nTo make great hast. All fast? What meanes this? Hoa?\nWho waites there? Sure you know me?\nEnter Keeper.",
"Keep. Yes, my Lord:\nBut yet I cannot helpe you",
"C... |
3,310 | 35_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator recounts the explanation of two difficult ideas by a man he refers to as the Time Traveler to an after-dinner group. The group includes a Psychologist, a Medical Man, a Provincial Mayor, and a few other men. The TT explains that Time adds a fourth dimension to the three dimensions of space. We overlook the... | [
"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him)\nwas expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and\ntwinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The\nfire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent\nlights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles ... |
3,311 | 35_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator says the TT's audience remained skeptical of the TT, who always seems too clever and mysterious. They do not discuss time traveling until they reconvene next Thursday. But the TT is absent, having left a note for the men to have dinner without him if he is not back by seven. The new group consists of the P... | [
"I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time\nMachine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who\nare too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round\nhim; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in\nambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby s... |
3,312 | 35_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The TT shows his audience the Time Machine, now in slight disrepair, though it still works. That morning, he uses it and quickly jumps ahead over five hours. He gives it a second run and watches the world around him as the advance of time continues to speed up. After a while, the laboratory disappears--he assumes by de... | [
"'I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time\nMachine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the\nworkshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of\nthe ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of\nit's sound enough. I expected to finish it on F... |
3,313 | 35_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The creature comes up to the TT and laughs, then speaks in a "strange tongue" to two other creatures that have followed him. Soon a group assembles, and one addresses the TT. He indicates that he does not understand. The creature touches the TT's hand, and soon the others touch him to verify he is real. The TT is calme... | [
"'In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile\nthing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my\neyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at\nonce. Then he turned to the two others who were following him and\nspoke to them in a strange and very swe... |
3,314 | 35_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the TT thinks more on top of the crest, the full moon comes out, the creatures go into buildings, and he decides to find someplace to sleep. He looks at the garden with the White Sphinx and is shocked to find the Time Machine is gone. Scared he may be stranded in the future, he runs down to the garden. The one thoug... | [
"'As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the\nfull moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver\nlight in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move\nabout below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the\nchill of the night. I determined to descend a... |
3,315 | 35_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The TT is frightened by his discovery of the Morlocks, and cannot muster the courage to go underground and confront them about his stolen Time Machine. Instead, he explores the Upperworld more, one day happening upon a huge green structure which he calls the Palace of Green Porcelain. Finally he decides to descend into... | [
"'It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow\nup the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way. I felt\na peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the\nhalf-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in\nspirit in a zoological museum. And they wer... |
3,316 | 35_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The TT feels hopeless in his fight against the Morlocks, whom he despises. As the moon wanes and the nights have longer periods of darkness, Weena talks about the "Dark Nights. The TT begins to understand why the Eloi fear the darkness, though he does not know what kind of "foul villainy" the Morlocks practice at night... | [
"'Now, indeed, I seemed in a worse case than before. Hitherto,\nexcept during my night's anguish at the loss of the Time Machine,\nI had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was\nstaggered by these new discoveries. Hitherto I had merely thought\nmyself impeded by the childish simplicity of the l... |
3,317 | 35_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The TT finds the Palace of Green Porcelain falling into ruins. Inside, he finds a long gallery that functions as a museum, with skeletons of extinct creatures and a few surviving objects from the TT's time. After searching through other galleries which fail to interest him, he enters an enormous room with huge machines... | [
"'I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about\nnoon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiges of glass\nremained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had\nfallen away from the corroded metallic framework. It lay very high\nupon a turfy down, and looking north-eastw... |
3,318 | 35_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The TT treks with Weena through the woods, hoping to reach the White Sphinx by the next morning. They gather sticks for a fire that night. At night, about a mile before a safe clearing, the TT spots some hiding Morlocks. He decides to distract them by setting fire to the sticks and leaving them there. He takes Weena th... | [
"'We emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above\nthe horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the\nnext morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods\nthat had stopped me on the previous journey. My plan was to go as\nfar as possible that night, and then, buildin... |
3,319 | 35_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The TT returns in the morning to the hill he had perched on his first night, and reflects on how wrong his initial assumptions were. He thinks the human intellect had committed suicide by creating a perfect state in which the rich had "wealth and comfort" and the poor had "life and work. Such a perfect balance can exis... | [
"'About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of\nyellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of\nmy arrival. I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and\ncould not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence. Here\nwas the same beautiful scene, the same abundant f... |
3,320 | 35_chapters_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The TT notices that, in the confusion of his fight with the Morlocks, he accidentally sent himself into the future, rather than the past. Though he speeds up through time, the alternation of day and night slows down, as does the passage of the sun. Finally, the sun dully ceases to rise and set, and the earth rests with... | [
"'I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes\nwith time travelling. And this time I was not seated properly in the\nsaddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion. For an indefinite\ntime I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite\nunheeding how I went, and when I brought myself ... |
3,310 | 35_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel starts out with a bunch of guys hanging out after dinner, talking about the nature of time . They're in Richmond, Surrey . At this get-together are the narrator, the Time Traveller, the Psychologist, the Medical Man, the Provincial Mayor, the Very Young Man, and Filby. They're chilling - drinking and sitting ... | [
"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him)\nwas expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and\ntwinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The\nfire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent\nlights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles ... |
3,311 | 35_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator remarks that the Time Traveller is too clever for people to entirely trust him. The narrator meets the Medical Man at the Linnaean Society in the city. The Medical Man thinks the Time Machine thing was a trick, but he can't figure out how the Time Traveller did it. The narrator goes back the following week... | [
"I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time\nMachine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who\nare too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round\nhim; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in\nambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby s... |
3,312 | 35_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller begins his story, which will last until Chapter 12. Here's how it goes: He finishes his machine in the morning and travels a few hours into the future as an experiment. He feels dizzy, but it works. He decides to go farther. He travels faster and sees the world in fast-forward, like a time-lapse vide... | [
"'I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time\nMachine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the\nworkshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of\nthe ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of\nit's sound enough. I expected to finish it on F... |
3,313 | 35_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The little people of the future have sweet voices, but the Time Traveller can't understand their language. They touch him with their soft hands, but he's not worried. He realizes that he could beat them up if he had to. Just to be safe, he takes the levers off the Time Machine so no one else can take it for a joyride. ... | [
"'In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile\nthing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my\neyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at\nonce. Then he turned to the two others who were following him and\nspoke to them in a strange and very swe... |
3,314 | 35_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Night falls. The Time Traveller on the hill looks for the White Sphinx so he'll know how to get back. He can't see the Time Machine, which freaks him out. He runs to the Sphinx, but can't find the Machine anywhere. On his run, he startles a white animal that he thinks is a deer. He goes to the big grey building and sta... | [
"'As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the\nfull moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver\nlight in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move\nabout below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the\nchill of the night. I determined to descend a... |
3,315 | 35_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller knows that he should investigate the Morlocks, but he doesn't want to because they're disgusting. They are, he says, "filthily cold" . We're not entirely sure what that means, but it sure sounds gross. He avoids going underground by exploring the surface. He sees a large building far off that looks l... | [
"'It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow\nup the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way. I felt\na peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the\nhalf-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in\nspirit in a zoological museum. And they wer... |
3,316 | 35_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller feels worse - before, he just had to deal with the simplicity of the Eloi, but now he has to deal with the Morlocks, who he thinks of as "inhuman and malign" . Also, he's afraid of the dark and the new moon. Theory time! The Time Traveller first thought that the Eloi were kept in idiotic comfort by m... | [
"'Now, indeed, I seemed in a worse case than before. Hitherto,\nexcept during my night's anguish at the loss of the Time Machine,\nI had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was\nstaggered by these new discoveries. Hitherto I had merely thought\nmyself impeded by the childish simplicity of the l... |
3,317 | 35_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller and Weena reach the Palace of Green Porcelain, which is falling apart. It's also actually made of green porcelain, which might surprise you if you were getting used to the Time Traveller being wrong. The Palace reminds the Time Traveller of a museum, probably because it was a museum. The lobby has pa... | [
"'I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about\nnoon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiges of glass\nremained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had\nfallen away from the corroded metallic framework. It lay very high\nupon a turfy down, and looking north-eastw... |
3,318 | 35_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller and Weena start to travel back. On the way through the forest, the Time Traveller collects firewood so he can build a fire when they stop for the night. They don't get as far as he expected, and he needs a hand free in case he needs to chase off the Morlocks with a match. So he decides to light the f... | [
"'We emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above\nthe horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the\nnext morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods\nthat had stopped me on the previous journey. My plan was to go as\nfar as possible that night, and then, buildin... |
3,319 | 35_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller returns to the seat on the hill. He looks down on the Eloi, who don't realize that they are like cattle. He gets sad about the passing of human intelligence, calling it suicide: people were smart enough to make the world a more comfortable place - but as the world got more comfortable, people became ... | [
"'About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of\nyellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of\nmy arrival. I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and\ncould not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence. Here\nwas the same beautiful scene, the same abundant f... |
3,321 | 35_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now, if we had just gone through an adventure like that, we'd probably be ready to go back home - if only to get some more matches. But the Time Traveller decides to go even farther forward in time. He's traveling fast and the days are a blur, but then the days start to become more distinct because the earth is slowing... | [
"'I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes\nwith time travelling. And this time I was not seated properly in the\nsaddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion. For an indefinite\ntime I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite\nunheeding how I went, and when I brought myself ... |
3,322 | 35_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Traveling back in time, the Time Traveller sees things in reverse and slows down when he sees his laboratory. In Chapter 3 he saw his housekeeper zoom across the room, and now he sees her walk backwards across the room. For a flash, he sees someone named Hillyer. It's unclear who Hillyer is, though we suspect that's th... | [
"'So I came back. For a long time I must have been insensible upon\nthe machine. The blinking succession of the days and nights was\nresumed, the sun got golden again, the sky blue. I breathed with\ngreater freedom. The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and\nflowed. The hands spun backward upon the dials. At l... |
3,323 | 35_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller is in his home, speaking to a group of men that includes the narrator. He is lecturing on the fourth dimension. He tells them that a cube exists not only in space, but also in time. Time is the fourth dimension. Many of them are skeptical. The Time Traveller claims that one should be able to move abo... | [
"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him)\nwas expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and\ntwinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The\nfire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent\nlights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles ... |
3,324 | 35_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller gets on his machine and pushes the forward lever just a little. He feels a dizzying sensation, and when he looks at the clock in his lab he sees that five hours have passed. He then presses the forward lever a bit more. Night and day fly by in increasingly rapid succession. Soon the lab disappears. H... | [
"'I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time\nMachine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the\nworkshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of\nthe ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of\nit's sound enough. I expected to finish it on F... |
3,314 | 35_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the Time Traveller is reflecting on his theories, night begins to fall. He heads back to his time Machine. As he approaches the spot from a distance, the machine appears to be gone, and he breaks into a desperate run. It is gone. He is sure that no one travelled in time, because he took the levers, but someone has o... | [
"'As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the\nfull moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver\nlight in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move\nabout below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the\nchill of the night. I determined to descend a... |
3,325 | 35_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller concludes that in order to recover his machine he must enter into the world of the Morlocks. In the distance, he sees what he describes as the Palace of Green Porcelain. Instead of visiting it, he decides that he must descend into one of the wells. When Weena sees him descend, she is very worried. He... | [
"'It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow\nup the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way. I felt\na peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the\nhalf-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in\nspirit in a zoological museum. And they wer... |
3,326 | 35_chapters_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Weena and the Time Traveller enter the Palace of Green Porcelain, and find that just as it appears, it is made out of green porcelain. They also find that it is a ruined museum. Among a chemistry exhibit, the Time Traveller salvages some camphor, an inflammable substance often used in torches. He is thrilled to find so... | [
"'I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about\nnoon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiges of glass\nremained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had\nfallen away from the corroded metallic framework. It lay very high\nupon a turfy down, and looking north-eastw... |
3,320 | 35_chapters_11-12,_and_epilogue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Time Traveller flies into the future with a greater velocity than before. Although he is travelling thousands of years per second, he begins to notice day and night again. The sun grows larger and redder. Finally, it seems that the earth has stopped rotating, and is circling the dying sun as the moon used to circle... | [
"'I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes\nwith time travelling. And this time I was not seated properly in the\nsaddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion. For an indefinite\ntime I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite\nunheeding how I went, and when I brought myself ... |
3,327 | 2226_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kimball O'Hara, Kim for short, lives in the city of Lahore in the province of the Punjab. Even though Kim feels totally comfortable running around the city talking to the city kids in Urdu, he is white. His mother was a nursemaid and his father a low-ranking officer in an Irish regiment stationed in India, who also was... | [
"O ye who tread the Narrow Way\n By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,\n Be gentle when 'the heathen' pray\n To Buddha at Kamakura!",
"Buddha at Kamakura.",
"He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on\nher brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher--the Wonder House, as\nthe natives ca... |
3,328 | 2226_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the train station, a babu tries to cheat Kim when he goes to buy tickets for himself and the lama. Kim is too smart for the guy though, and insists on tickets that go all the way to Umballa. He also buys a ticket to Amritzar , which is another big city in the Punjab. The lama has never traveled by train before, and ... | [
"And whoso will, from Pride released;\n Contemning neither creed nor priest,\n May feel the Soul of all the East.\n About him at Kamakura.",
"Buddha at Kamakura.",
"They entered the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night;\nthe electrics sizzling over the goods-yard where they handle the heavy\n... |
3,329 | 2226_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An angry farmer tries to chase Kim and the lama off his property as they go looking for the River of the Arrow in one of his fields. But Kim quickly guilt-trips the farmer into worrying that harassing a holy man like the lama will bring him bad luck, so the farmer apologizes and offers the two of them a meal. As they c... | [
"Yea, voice of every Soul that clung\n To life that strove from rung to rung\n When Devadatta's rule was young,\n The warm wind brings Kamakura.",
"Buddha at Kamakura.",
"Behind them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole. He was a\nmarket-gardener, Arain by caste, growing vegetables and flowers for\nUmba... |
3,330 | 2226_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old soldier introduces Kim, "the Friend of the Stars" , to his son. His son confirms Kim's news of war. He is a member of a regiment, and he has come to his father to ask for money for a new horse and other helpful army stuff. The son throws Kim some money before the two men leave. A policeman at the side of the ro... | [
"Good Luck, she is never a lady,\n But the cursedest quean alive,\n Tricksy, wincing, and jady--\n Kittle to lead or drive.\n Greet her--she's hailing a stranger!\n Meet her--she's busking to leave!\n Let her alone for a shrew to the bone\n And the hussy comes plucking your sleeve!\n Largesse! Largesse, O ... |
3,331 | 2226_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the Kulu woman strikes camp early and Kim looks around for something to do. He and the lama go walking together. Kim spots something in the distance: white soldiers. Two advance scouts are looking for a good place to camp, and they plant a flag in the ground where they are going set up their tents. Kim st... | [
"Here come I to my own again\n Fed, forgiven, and known again\n Claimed by bone of my bone again,\n And sib to flesh of my flesh!\n The fatted calf is dressed for me,\n But the husks have greater zest for me ...\n I think my pigs will be best for me,\n So I'm off to the styes afresh.",
"The Prodigal Son.",... |
3,332 | 2226_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, the Colonel of the regiment receives a letter. It does indeed say that they have to march north to fight. Father Victor is deeply impressed. Everyone in the regiment is totally fascinated with Kim . When the soldiers of the regiment head north, Kim gets left behind with the women and children. A teach... | [
"Now I remember comrades--\n Old playmates on new seas--\n Whenas we traded orpiment\n Among the savages.\n Ten thousand leagues to southward,\n And thirty years removed--\n They knew not noble Valdez,\n But me they knew and loved.",
"Song of Diego Valdez.",
"Very early in the morning the white tents cam... |
3,333 | 2226_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kim dictates another letter, this time to the lama. He tells the lama where he will be going to school in Lucknow. Colonel Creighton spots Kim talking to this letter writer at the marketplace, and he asks Kim to bring him his "cheroot-case " , which he left on a table at Father Victor's, this evening. Kim asks where Cr... | [
"Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised\n With idiot moons and stars retracing stars?\n Creep thou betweene--thy coming's all unnoised.\n Heaven hath her high, as Earth her baser, wars.\n Heir to these tumults, this affright, that fraye\n (By Adam's, fathers', own, sin bound alway);\n Peer up, draw out t... |
3,334 | 2226_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mahbub Ali wants to know all about Kim's escape from St. Xavier's, and lets slip that Creighton has been spending money on Kim because he has a plan in mind. Kim knows all of this already--he knows that Creighton has some kind of job for him. Kim finally tells Mahbub Ali all about that night in Umballa with the message... | [
"Something I owe to the soil that grew--\n More to the life that fed--\n But most to Allah Who gave me two\n Separate sides to my head.",
"I would go without shirts or shoes,\n Friends, tobacco or bread\n Sooner than for an instant lose\n Either side of my head.'",
"The Two-Sided Man.",
"'Then in God's ... |
3,335 | 2226_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kim commits to the role of the Sahib. He calls to a small Hindu boy at the side of the road to demand directions to Lurgan's house; once there, Kim finds a man with a black beard and a green visor counting pearls and putting them on a string. His room is filled with Tibetan devil dance masks and Japanese suits of armor... | [
"S' doaks was son of Yelth the wise--\n Chief of the Raven clan.\n Itswoot the Bear had him in care\n To make him a medicine-man.",
"He was quick and quicker to learn--\n Bold and bolder to dare:\n He danced the dread Kloo-Kwallie Dance\n To tickle Itswoot the Bear!",
"Oregon Legend",
"Kim flung himself... |
3,336 | 2226_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kim keeps going on adventures with Mahbub Ali when Mahbub Ali is near Lucknow, and spends Christmas break with Lurgan learning more about the religions of India and taking care of himself on the road. The next Christmas, Kim practices his mapmaking skills with Mahbub Ali in the city of Jeysalmir . As a gift, Mahbub Ali... | [
"Your tiercel's too long at hack, Sire. He's no eyass\n But a passage-hawk that footed ere we caught him,\n Dangerously free o' the air. Faith! were he mine\n (As mine's the glove he binds to for his tirings)\n I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak\n Plumed to the very point--so manned, so weathered.... |
3,337 | 2226_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Kim sits in his disguise at the Benares train station, he feels alone in the world and wonders, "Who is Kim--Kim--Kim?" A Hindu holy man approaches Kim and he tells him that he is having a spiritual crisis. The holy man sympathizes: he has been looking for Enlightenment for years. The holy man assures Kim that we ar... | [
"Give the man who is not made\n To his trade\n Swords to fling and catch again,\n Coins to ring and snatch again,\n Men to harm and cure again,\n Snakes to charm and lure again--\n He'll be hurt by his own blade,\n By his serpents disobeyed,\n By his clumsiness bewrayed,'\n By the people mocked to scorn--\... |
3,338 | 2226_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | E23's disguise helps him to avoid the people who are looking for him, but he still needs to find a way to get out the information about where he buried the letter that caused all of this to-do. A white man appears--a District Superintendent of Police. E23 bumps into him and then shouts filthy abuse at him. The District... | [
"Who hath desired the Sea--the sight of salt-water unbounded?\n The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber\n wind-hounded?\n The sleek-barrelled swell before storm--grey, foamless, enormous,\n and growing?\n Stark calm on the lap of the Line--or the crazy-eyed hurricane\n blow... |
3,339 | 2226_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As they start climbing the foothills of the Himalayas, the lama could not be happier; he feels like he is on his own turf at last. Kim, meanwhile, is hungry, cold, and tired--definitely off his game. Still, as Kim keeps climbing and keeps breathing all this fresh mountain air, he gets stronger. The Babu follows them on... | [
"Who hath desired the Sea--the immense and contemptuous surges?\n The shudder, the stumble, the swerve ere the star-stabbing bowsprit\n merges--\n The orderly clouds of the Trades and the ridged roaring\n sapphire thereunder--\n Unheralded cliff-lurking flaws and the head-sails' low-volleying\n th... |
3,340 | 2226_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night, the bearers promise to bring the Europeans' papers to Kim and the lama. As the lama goes to sleep, he admits to Kim that he continues to feel that he has failed--in that split second after the Russian hit him, the lama wanted revenge on him. So the lama knows that this dark world still has a grasp on him. T... | [
"My brother kneels (so saith Kabir)\n To stone and brass in heathen wise,\n But in my brother's voice I hear\n My own unanswered agonies.\n His God is as his Fates assign--\n His prayer is all the world's--and mine.",
"The Prayer.",
"At moonrise the cautious coolies got under way. The lama, refreshed by\n... |
3,341 | 2226_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Babu leads the two Europeans on a long road back to Simla, all the while claiming that he is a loyal servant of Russia. They are taken in by all of his fine talk, and never suspect him of making their road harder than it has to be. Meanwhile, Kim and the lama travel down and out of the mountains. At every village a... | [
"I'd not give room for an Emperor--\n I'd hold my road for a King.\n To the Triple Crown I'd not bow down--\n But this is a different thing!\n I'll not fight with the Powers of Air--\n Sentry, pass him through!\n Drawbridge let fall--He's the Lord of us all--\n The Dreamer whose dream came true!",
"The Sie... |
3,342 | 3289_part_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson narrates the tale. He begins with Sherlock Holmes lost in thought, looking at a letter from 'Porlock'. Watson asks who Porlock is, and Holmes explains it is a nom-de-plume; Porlock is important in that he is connected to an influential man: Professor Moriarty. Moriarty is unknown as a criminal to the public, but... | [
"\"I am inclined to think--\" said I.",
"\"I should do so,\" Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.",
"I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll\nadmit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. \"Really, Holmes,\"\nsaid I severely, \"you are a little trying at times.\"",
"H... |
3,343 | 3289_part_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is the sort of moment Holmes lives for. He looks composed and interested, more intellectually excited than shocked or horrified. He explains the background of the cipher to MacDonald, and when MacDonald says they must find Porlock Holmes states that this is impossible. Porlock is connected to Moriarty, he explains... | [
"It was one of those dramatic moments for which my friend existed. It\nwould be an overstatement to say that he was shocked or even excited\nby the amazing announcement. Without having a tinge of cruelty in\nhis singular composition, he was undoubtedly callous from long\noverstimulation. Yet, if his emotions were d... |
3,344 | 3289_part_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson narrates the background of the mystery as it stood before they arrived. The village of Birlstone is small and old, but attracted some well-to-do residents who built stately villas in and on the outskirts of the woods. One of these is the Manor House, part of it as old as the First Crusade and other parts added i... | [
"Now for a moment I will ask leave to remove my own insignificant\npersonality and to describe events which occurred before we arrived upon\nthe scene by the light of knowledge which came to us afterwards. Only in\nthis way can I make the reader appreciate the people concerned and the\nstrange setting in which thei... |
3,345 | 3289_part_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson picks up the narrative of the present day. White Mason is a friendly, quiet, but capable man. He meets Holmes, Watson, and MacDonald at Birlstone and helps everyone get settled, all the while talking about the case. He explains to Holmes how he checked the hammer that was found near the body and the gun, which h... | [
"At three in the morning the chief Sussex detective, obeying the urgent\ncall from Sergeant Wilson of Birlstone, arrived from headquarters in a\nlight dog-cart behind a breathless trotter. By the five-forty train in\nthe morning he had sent his message to Scotland Yard, and he was at the\nBirlstone station at twelv... |
3,346 | 3289_part_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ames recounts his version of the events of the night of Douglas's murder. He had worked for Douglas for about five years and found him a friendly employer. Douglas never seemed very restless except for the day of his murder. That night Ames did not hear the shot because he was in the pantry at the time, but he did hear... | [
"\"Have you seen all you want of the study?\" asked White Mason as we\nreentered the house.",
"\"For the time,\" said the inspector, and Holmes nodded.",
"\"Then perhaps you would now like to hear the evidence of some of the\npeople in the house. We could use the dining room, Ames. Please come\nyourself first a... |
3,347 | 3289_part_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson decides to let the detectives talk amongst themselves and head back to the village inn. First, though, he decides to wander about the lovely and peaceful gardens around Manor House. As he comes across a clump of yew trees with a bench, he sees Barker and Mrs. Douglas. They seem very friendly: Mrs. Douglas's face... | [
"The three detectives had many matters of detail into which to inquire;\nso I returned alone to our modest quarters at the village inn. But\nbefore doing so I took a stroll in the curious old-world garden which\nflanked the house. Rows of very ancient yew trees cut into strange\ndesigns girded it round. Inside was ... |
3,348 | 3289_part_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | McMurdo moves to the Widow MacNamara's on the outskirts of town; Scanlan moves there as well. Shafter still lets McMurdo eat his meals at the boarding house, and thus his relationship with Ettie continues. McMurdo shows off his coining molds to his visitors; he says that he would do this full-time if the police weren't... | [
"On the day following the evening which had contained so many exciting\nevents, McMurdo moved his lodgings from old Jacob Shafter's and took up\nhis quarters at the Widow MacNamara's on the extreme outskirts of the\ntown. Scanlan, his original acquaintance aboard the train, had occasion\nshortly afterwards to move ... |
3,349 | 3289_part_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning McMurdo sees a newspaper report detailing the attack; it seems Mr. Stanger survived and recognized some of the men. A note arrives from the landlady. It is unsigned and asks McMurdo to meet Stanger up on Mason Hill. McMurdo has no idea who wrote it, but he walks to the hill out of curiosity. In the iso... | [
"When McMurdo awoke next morning he had good reason to remember his\ninitiation into the lodge. His head ached with the effect of the drink,\nand his arm, where he had been branded, was hot and swollen. Having his\nown peculiar source of income, he was irregular in his attendance at his\nwork; so he had a late brea... |
3,350 | 3289_part_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | McMurdo's reputation skyrockets even more. He is considered a good companion, a cheery fellow, a bloodthirsty and smart schemer, and impressive for getting out of trouble with the law. However, while things are going well in some areas of McMurdo's life, Shafter has forbidden him from coming to see Ettie. Ettie still l... | [
"If anything had been needed to give an impetus to Jack McMurdo's\npopularity among his fellows it would have been his arrest and\nacquittal. That a man on the very night of joining the lodge should have\ndone something which brought him before the magistrate was a new record\nin the annals of the society. Already ... |
3,351 | 3289_part_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the height of the Scowrers' reign of terror, and even the citizens are trying to arm themselves and push back against it. McMurdo continues to rise in the organization. One Saturday night before the lodge meeting, Morris comes to see McMurdo. He is visibly afraid and anxious and says he has a secret that is burni... | [
"It was the height of the reign of terror. McMurdo, who had already\nbeen appointed Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some day succeeding\nMcGinty as Bodymaster, was now so necessary to the councils of his\ncomrades that nothing was done without his help and advice. The more\npopular he became, however, with the... |
3,352 | 3289_part_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | McMurdo and McGinty speak about the trap they are setting. McGinty frets over whether or not McMurdo has already told anyone anything. He wonders if Morris is involved; McMurdo tells him it is unlikely, but they have to focus on Edwards right now anyway. He then proceeds to explain how the plan will work: Edwards comes... | [
"As McMurdo had said, the house in which he lived was a lonely one and\nvery well suited for such a crime as they had planned. It was on the\nextreme fringe of the town and stood well back from the road. In any\nother case the conspirators would have simply called out their man, as\nthey had many a time before, and... |
3,353 | 3261_chapters_1_-_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Discussion and Bed At a meeting of the Socialist League, men argue over the future of society. One man, a friend of the narrator, sat silent in the beginning but becomes involved in the arguing to the point of calling the others fools and leaving. He travels home by public transportation, discontent with society and th... | [
"Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk\nconversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the\nRevolution, finally shading off into a vigorous statement by various\nfriends of their views on the future of the fully-developed new society.",
"Says our friend: Considerin... |
3,354 | 3261_chapters_7_-_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Trafalgar Square Dick, William, and the man from Piccadilly continue on their way and come to a more residential area of houses with beautiful gardens full of flowers and fruit trees. As William takes in this view, he has the strange sensation of seeing this same place but with only tall, ugly houses and buildings. He ... | [
"And now again I was busy looking about me, for we were quite clear of\nPiccadilly Market, and were in a region of elegantly-built much\nornamented houses, which I should have called villas if they had been\nugly and pretentious, which was very far from being the case. Each house\nstood in a garden carefully culti... |
3,355 | 3261_chapters_13_-_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Concerning Politics William asks Old Hammond about politics, and Hammond replies little more than, "I will answer your question briefly by saying that we are very well off as to politics,--because we have none" and asks for that to be the end of the chapter. Chapter 14: How Matters are Managed William inquires about ho... | [
"Said I: \"How do you manage with politics?\"",
"Said Hammond, smiling: \"I am glad that it is of _me_ that you ask that\nquestion; I do believe that anybody else would make you explain yourself,\nor try to do so, till you were sickened of asking questions. Indeed, I\nbelieve I am the only man in England who wou... |
3,356 | 3261_chapters_18_-_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Beginning of the New Life William asks Old Hammond whether people were satisfied with the new order and Old Hammond replies that they were since their position only improved throughout the two-year struggle and especially after peace came. If anything, they did not know how to ask enough from the new society, but h... | [
"\"Well,\" said I, \"so you got clear out of all your trouble. Were people\nsatisfied with the new order of things when it came?\"",
"\"People?\" he said. \"Well, surely all must have been glad of peace when\nit came; especially when they found, as they must have found, that after\nall, they--even the once rich... |
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