Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Aglaura · chunk 12 of 30

Suckling, John · published 1638 · first performed or written 1637 (Annals)
not in BritDrama
T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint typicality 0.86 · 478 words

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Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.

And would not you prove false too then? By this— and this— loves breakfast: by his feasts too yet to come, by all the beauty in this face, divinity too great to be profaned— O do not swear by that; Cankers may eat that flower upon the stalk, (for sickness and mischance, are great devourers) and when there is not in these cheeks and lips, left red enough to blush at perjury, when you shall make it, what shall I do then? Our souls by that time (Madam) will by long custom so acquainted be, they will not need that duller truchman Flesh, but freely, and without those poorer helps, converse and mingle; mean time we'll teach our loves to speak, not thus to live by signs, and action is his native language, Madam, this box but opened to the Sense will do't. I undertake I know not what, Thine own safety (Dearest) let it be this night, if thou dost; love thyself or me. That's very sudden. Not if we be so, and we must now be wise, For when their Sun sets, ours begins to rise.— Then all my fears are true, and she is false; false as a falling Star, or Glow-worms fire: This Devil Beauty is compounded strangely, It is a subtle point, and hard to know, whether't has in't more active tempting, or more passive tempted; so soon it forces, and so soon it yields— Good Gods! she seized my heart, as if from you she'd had Commission to have used me so; and all mankind besides— and see, if the just Ocean makes more haste to pay to needy rivers, what it borrowed first, than she to give, where she ne'er took; me thinks I feel anger, Revenges harbinger chalking up all within, and thrusting out of doors, the tame and softer passions;— It must be so: To love is noble frailty, but poor sin When we fall once to Love, unloved again. 'Twere fit your Justice did consider, (Sir) what way it took; if you should apprehend the Prince for Treason (which he never did) and which, unacted, is unborn; (at least will be believed so) lookers on, and the loud talking crowd, will think it all but water colours laid on for a time, and which wiped off, each common eye would see, Strange ends, through stranger ways: Think'st thou I will compound with Treason then? and make one fear another's Advocate? Virtue forbid Sir, but if you would permit, them to approach the room (yet who would advise Treason should come so near?) there would be then No place left for excuse. How strong are they? Weak, considering the enterprise; they are but few in number, and those few too, having nothing but their resolutions considerable about them. A Troop indeed designed to suffer what they come to execute.
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Metadata, position in the edition, topic in the other seeds
PlayAglaura
AuthorSuckling, John
Publication year (edition)1638
First performance / composition (Annals)1637
Genre (British Drama)not in BritDrama
Play typeAdult Professional;Professional
Edition / TCP / DEEPedition 1078 · TCP A13125 · DEEP 902
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
Positionnodes 712–778 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 12 of 30 in this edition
Length478 words · 627 tokens
Topic (seed 42)T4 — Love-longing and the lover's complaint cross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.862 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seedsseed 43: T2 · seed 44: T3 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
And would not you prove false too then? By this—and this—loves break-fast: by his feasts too yet to come, by all the beautie in this face, divinitie too great to be prophan'd— O doe not sweare by that; Cankers may eat that flow'r upon the stalke, (for sicknesse and mischance, are great devourers) and when there is not in these cheeks and lips, lft red enough to blush at perjurie, when you shall make it, what shall I doe then? Our soules by that time (Madam) will by long custome so acquainted be, they will not need that duller truch-man Flesh, but freely, and without those poorer helps, converse and mingle; meane time wee'll teach our loves to speake, not thus to live by signes, and action is his native language, Madam, this box but open'd to the Sense will doe't. I undertake I know not what, Thine owne safetie (Dearest) let it be this night, if thou do'st; love thy selfe or mee. That's verie sudden. Not if wee be so, and we must now be wise, For when their Sunne sets, ours begins to rise.— Then all my eares are true, and shee is false; false as a falling Star, or Glow-wormes fire: This Devill Beautie is compounded strangely, It is a subtill point, and hard to know, whether't has in't more active tempting, or more passive tempted; so soone it forces, and so soone it yeelds— Good Gods! shee seiz'd my heart, as if from you sh'ad had Commission to have us'd mee so; and all mankinde besides—and see, if the just Ocean makes more haste to pay to needy rivers, what it borrow'd first, then shee to give, where shee nere tooke; mee thinks I feele anger, Revenges harbenger chalking up all within, and thrusting out of doores, the tame and softer passions;— It must be so: To love is noble railtie, but poore sin When wee fall once to Love, unlov'd agen. 'Twere fit your Justice did consider, (Sir) what way it tooke; if you should apprehend the Prince for Treason (which hee never did) and which, unacted, is unborne; (at least will be beleev'd so) lookers on, and the loud talking croud, will thinke it all but water colours laid on for a time, and which wip'd off, each common eye would see, Strange ends, through stranger wayes: Think'st thou I will compound with Treason then? and make one feare anothers Advocate? Vertue forbid Sir, but if you would permit, them to approch the roome (yet who would advise Treason should come so neare?) there would be then No place left for excuse. How strong are they? Weake, considering the enterprize; they are but few in number, and those few too, having nothing but their resolutions considerable about them. A Troope indeed design'd to suffer what they come to execute.