Gascoigne, George / Ariosto, Ludovico · published 1573 · first performed or written 1566 (Annals) comedy unassigned nearest T57 Ships, merchants and pirates · 484 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T57: ship, sea, master, sail, home, money, pisaro, life, ships, till.
HOnest woman, you gossip, thou rotten whore, hearest thou not old witch? A rope stretch your young bones, either you must live to be as old as I, or be hanged while you are young. I pray thee look if Dulipo be within. Yes that he is I warrant him. Desire him then to come hither and speak a word with me, he shall not tarry. Content yourself, he is otherwise occupied. Yet tell him so gentle girl. I tell you he is busy. Why is it such a matter to tell him so, thou crooked Crone? A rope stretch you marie. A pocks eat you marry. Thou wilt be hanged I warrant thee, if thou live to it. And thou wilt be burnt I warrant thee, if the canker consume thee not. If I come near you hempstring, I will teach now to sing sol fa. Come on, and if I get a stone I will scare crows with you. Go with a mischief, I think thou be some devil that would tempt me. Crapine: hear you? come away, let her go with a vengeance, why come you not? Alas look where my master Philogano cometh: what shall I do? where shall I hide me? he shall not see me in these clothes, nor before I have spoken with the right Erostrato. HOnest man it is even so: be you sure there is no love to be compared like the love of the parents towards their children, it is not long since I thought that a very weighty matter should not have made me come out of Sicilia, and yet now I have taken this tedious toil and travail upon me, only to see my son, & to have him home with me. By my faith sir it hath been a great travail in deed and to much for one of your age? Yea be you sure: I came in company with certain gentlemen of my country, who had affairs to dispatch as far as to Ancona, from thence by water to Ravenna, and from Ravenna hither, continually against the tide. Yea, & I think that you had but homely lodging by the way. The worst that ever man had, but that was nothing to the stir that the searchers kept with me when I came aboard the ship, Iesus how often they untrussed my male & ransacked a little capcase that I had, tossed & turned all that was within it, searched my bosom, yea my breeches, that I assure you I thought they would have flayed me to search between the fell and the flesh for farthings. Sure I have heard no less, and that the merchants bob them some times, but they play the knaves still. Yea be you well assured, for such an office is the inheritance of a knave, and an honest man will not meddle with it.
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HOnest woman, you gossip, thou rotten whore, hearest thou not olde witche? A rope stretche your yong bones, either you muste liue to be as old as I, or be hanged while you are yong. I pray thée loke if Dulipo be within. Yes that he is I warant him. Desire him then to come hither and speake a word with me, he shall not tarie. Content your selfe, he is otherwise occupied. Yet tell him so gentle girle. I tell you he is busie. Why is it suche a matter to tell him so, thou crooked Crone? A rope stretche you marie. A pockes eate you marie. Thou wilt be hanged I warant thée, if thou liue to it. And thou wilt be burnt I warant thée, if the canker consume thée not. If I come néere you hempstring, I will teache nowe to sing sol fa. Come on, and if I get a stone I will scare crowes with you. Goe with a mischiefe, I thinke thou be some deuill that woulde tempte me. Crapine: heare you? come away, let hir goe with a vengeance, why come you not? Alas loke where my maister Philogano commeth: what shall I doe? where shall I hide me? he shall not sée me in these clothes, nor before I haue spoken with the right Erostrato. HOnest man it is euen so: be you sure there is no loue to be compared like the loue of the parents towards their children, it is not long since I thought that a very waightie matter shoulde not haue made me come oute of Sicilia, and yet now I haue taken this tedious toyle and trauaile vpon me, only to sée my sonne, & to haue him home with me. By my faith sir it hath bene a great trauaile in dee and to much for one of your age? Yea be you sure: I came in companie with certaine gentlemen of my countrey, who had affaires to dispatche as far as to Ancona, from thence by water to Rauenna, and from Rauenna hither, continually against the tide. Yea, & I think y• you had but homly lodging by ye way. The worst ye euer man had, but that was nothing to the stirre that ye serchers kept with me whē I came aborde y• ship, Iesus how oftē they vntrussed my male & ransacked a litle capcase that I had, tossed & turned all that was within it, serched my bosome, yea my bréeches, that I assure you I thought they would haue flayed me to searche betwene the fell and the flshe for fardings. Sure I haue heard no lesse, and that the marchantes bobbe them some times, but they play the knaues still. Yea be you well assured, for suche an office is the inheritance of a knaue, and an honest man will not meddle with it.