Shirley, James · published 1633 · first performed or written 1633 [licensed for stage, Jun 21] [incorrect] (Annals) comedy · Queen Henrietta Maria's Men · Phoenix/Cockpit unassigned nearest T39 Profit, conscience and dishonest dealing · 495 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T39: conscience, lucre, usury, lucar, fraud, dissimulation, simony, london, lady, nemo.
Will your Grace have him punished for this insolence? No, his humour is good mirth to us; whence art? I am of no Country. How? I was borne upon the Sea. When? In a Tempest I was told— A blustering fellow. Thy Name. Rolliardo. And how long hast thou been mad thus? Your Highness may be merry and if you have no Employment for me, I am gone. Stay we command you, and bethink again, What to except in your bold undertaking. I except nothing, nothing Duke, it were no glory Not to be general, active in all, let me have Money Enough and I'll do any thing. You shall. Will your Grace set him a-work? Name the Action. What say you to a Lady? I will fall upon her, as Iupiter on Danae, let me have a shower of Gold, Acrisius brazen Tower shall melt again, were there an Army about it, I would compass her in a Month or die for't. Ha?— A Lady without guard would try your wit, and money to get her Love. A toy, a toy. Through a Credulity, you may too much Traduce the Sex, and merit such a justice No Money will buy off:— admit some Branches Grow not so straight and beautiful, as Nature Intended them, will you disgrace the stem Or for some woman's Levity, accuse That fair Creation? Money buy their Love Promise a Salary of that sacred flame Themselves cannot direct, as guided by Divine intelligence. Your highness' Pardon; if you prohibit I must not undertake, but let me have freedom, and Money enough (for that's the Circle I walk in) and if I do not conjure up a spirit hot enough to inflame a frozen Lucrece bosom: make Mummy of my flesh, and sell me to the Apothecaries: try me with some Master piece; A woman's Love is as easy as to eat dinner without saying Grace, getting of Children, or going to bed drunk: Let me have Money enough, and tax me to the purpose. He's constant. Admit there be a Lady, whom a Prince Might Court for her Affection; Of a Beauty, Great as her Virtue, add unto them Birth, Equal to both, and all three but in her Not to be matched— Suppose this Miracle (Too precious for man's Eye) were shut up, where A Guard more watch ul then the Dragons; did Forbid access to mankind:— Men picked out between whose Souls and Money were Antipathy Beyond that which we know; and you as soon Might bribe to be a Saint:— what would you do With your enough of money, were your life Engaged to win her Love? The sky may fall, and Aldermen cry Larks About the City. The fellow's impudent: Sirrah, thou hast landed thyself upon a Rock, you shall have sense of what you would contemn, a Life: put on a most fortified resolution, you shall need it; we have a daughter thus locked up—
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Will your Grace have him punisht for this insolence? No, his humor is good mirth to vs; whence art? I am of no Country. How? I was borne vpon the Sea. When? In a Tempest I was told— A blustering fellow. Thy Name. Rolliardo. And how long hast thou beene mad thus? Your Highnesse may be merry-and if you have no Employment for me, I am gone. Stay we command you, and bethinke agen, What to except in your bold vndertaking. I except nothing, nothing Duke, it were no glory Not to be generall, active in all, let me have Mony Enough and Ile doe any thing. You shall. Will your Grace set him aworke? Name the Action. What say you to a Lady? I will fall vpon her, as Iupiter on Danae, let me have a shower of Gold, Acrisius brazen Tower shall melt agen, were there an Army about it, I would compasse her in a Moneth or dye for't. Ha?—A Lady without guard would try your wit, and mony to get her Love. A toy, a toy. Through a Credulity, you may too much Traduce the Sexe, and merit such a Iustice No Mony will buy off:—admit some Branches Grow not so straight and beautifull, as Nature Intended them, will you disgrace the stemme Or for some womans Leity, accuse That fayre Creation? Mony buy their Love Promise a Salary of that sacred flame Themselves cannot direct, as guided by Divine intelligence. Your Highnesse Pardon; if you prohibite I must not undertake, but let me have freedome, and Mony enough (for that's the Cicle I walke in) and if I doe not conjure up a spirit hot enough to inflame a frozen Lucrec bosome: make Mummy of my flesh, and sell me to the Apothecaries: try me with some Master peece; A womans Love is as easie as to eate dinner without saying Grace, getting of Children, or going to bed drunke: Let me have Money enough, and taxe me to the purpose. He's constant. Admit there be a Lady, whom a Prince Might Court for her Affection; Of a Beauty, Great as her Vertue, adde unto them Birth, Equall to both, and all three but in her Not to be match'd—Suppose this Myracle (Too precious for mans Eye) were shut vp, where A Guard more watch ull then the Dragons; did Frbid accesse to mankind:—Men pick'd out Betweee whose Soules and Mony were Antipathy that which we know; and you assoone Mght bribe to be a Saint:—what would you doe With your enough of mony, were your life Ingag'd to winne her Love? The sky may fall, and Aldermen cry Larkes About the City. The fellow's impudent: Sirrah, thou hast landed thy selfe upon a Rocke, you shall have sence of what you would contemne, a Life: put on a most fortified resolution, you shall need it; we haue a daughter thus lock'd up—