The Royal King and the Loyal Subject · chunk 28 of 39
Heywood, Thomas · published 1637 · first performed or written 1602 [1602-1618] (Annals) romance · Unknown T8 Captains, gallants and cheats typicality 0.80 · 480 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T8: captain, master, money, gentleman, little, lieutenant, rogue, pray, minos, honest.
Questionless that;. for now those that before despised us, and our company, at meeting give us the bonjour. Oh Heaven, thou ever art virtue's sole Patron, And wilt not let it sink: all my known fortunes I had engaged at home, or spent abroad: But in the wars, when I was held quite bankrupt Of all good hap, it was my chance to quarter In such a house when we had sacked a Town, That yielded me inestimable store Of gold and jewels, those I kept till now Unknown to any, pleading poverty, Only to try the humour of my friends; Which I have proved, and now know how to find Fixed upon wealth, to want unnatural. See Sir, yonder are my old fellows, Match and Touch box; I do not think but they come to offer their service to you. Save thee noble Captain, hearing of thy good fortunes, and advancement, I am come to offer myself to be partaker of the same, and to follow thee in the same colours that thou hast suited the rest of thy servants. God-a-mercy horse, you shall not stand to my livery. You see our old clothes stick by us still, good Captain see us new moulded. You are flies, away; they that my Winter fled, Shall not my Summer taste: they only merit A happy harbour, that through stormy Seas Hazard their Barks, not they that sail with ease. You taste none of my fortunes. Corporal, you see this Livery? if you had stayed by it, we had been both cut out of a piece: Match, if you had not left us, you had been one of this guard: Go, away, betake you to the end of the Town; let me find you between Woods close-stile and Islington, with will it please your Worship to bestow the price of two cans upon a poor soldier, that hath served in the face of the Sultan, and so forth, Apage, away, I scorn to be fellow to any that will leave their Masters in adversity: if he entertain you, he shall turn away me, that's certain. Then good your Worship bestow something upon a poor soldier, I protest— lo, I have taught him his lesson already; I knew where I should have you? There's first to make you beggars; for to that all such must come that leave their Masters poor. begone, and never let me see you more. God be with you good Captain: come Match, let us betake us to our rendezvous at some out end of the City. He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not Usurers make more beggars where they live, Than charitable men that use to give. Here comes a Lord. I am glad to see you Sir. You know me now? your Worship's wondrous wise, You could not know me in my last disguise.
nodes 1407–1440 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 28 of 39 in this edition
Length
480 words · 599 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T8 — Captains, gallants and cheatscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.801 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T11 · seed 44: T14 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Questionlesse that;. for now those that before despis'd us, and our company, at meeting give us the bonjour. Oh Heaven, thou ever art Vertues sole Patron, And wilt not let it sinke: all my knowne fortunes I had ingag'd at home, or spent abroad: But in the warres, when I was held quite bankrupt Of all good happ, it was my chance to quarter In such a house when we had sack't a Towne, That yeelded me inestimable store Of gold and jewells, those I kept till now Vnknowne to any, pleading poverty, Onely to try the humour of my friends; Which I have proov'd, and now know how to finde Fixt upon wealth, to want unnaturall. See Sir, yonder are my old fellows, Match and Touch boxe; I doe not thinke but they come to offer their service to you. Save thee noble Captaine, hearing of thy good fortunes, and advancement, I am come to offer my selfe to be partaker of the same, and to follow thee in the same colours that thou hst suited the rest of thy servants. God-a-mercy horse, you shall not stand to my livery. You see our old clothes sticke by us still, good Captaine see us new moulded. You are flies, away; they that my Winter fled, Shall not my Summer taste: they onely merit A happy harbour, that through stormy Seas Hazard their Barkes, not they that sayle with ease. You taste none of my fortunes. Corporall, you see this Livery? if you had stay, d by it, we had beene both cut out of a peece: Match, if you had not left us, you had beene one of this guard: Goe, away, betake you to the end of the Towne; let me finde you betweene Woods close-stile and Iflington, with will it please your Worship to bestow the price of two Cannes upon a poore souldier, that hath serv'd in the face of the Souldan, and so forth, Apage, away, I scorne to be fellow to any that wil leave their Masters in adversity: if he entertaine you, he shall turne away me, that's certaine. Then good your Worship bestow something upon a poore souldier, I protest— Loe, I have taught him his lesson already; I knew where I should have you? There's first to make you beggers; for to that all such must come that leave their Masters poore. Begon, and never let me see you more. God be with you good Captaine: come Match, let us betake us to our randevous at some out end of the Citty. Hee makes a begger first that first relieves him; Not Vsurers make more beggers where they live, Than charitblemen that use to give. Here comes a Lord. I am glad to see you Sir. You know me now? your Worship's wondrous wise, You could not know me in my last disguise.