D., J. · published 1640 · first performed or written c.1625 [revised c.1632] (Annals) comedy · Unknown · Fortune T6 Money, debt and credit typicality 0.71 · 502 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
WHy how now Puss, what ails my Monkey to chatter out of tune thus? A whoreson senseless Coxcomb— but I am glad thouart come, I long for a pottle of wine and a Capon. Good provision for the present Monkey, but viderit futuritas, in the mean time, who lays up for futurity? Come you raise four hundred per annum, out of pottles of Wine and Capons? Yes my Granado, in this quality: they that come short of my breeding have done't. The first credit I won was in a Garrison. In Holland. No; and yet in the low Countries: I never sat foot in a leaguer yet. The reason of that? My hard fate nothing else, having as much impudence, and as many ways to manage it, receiving weekly Corantoes from Paris, Rotterdam, and Flushing, and having trade too in Middleborough, I have been house Lecturer three years together, and read Aretine, both in print and picture, and that is much for one of my years. 'T may be thou want'st acquaintance. No such matter, the old Exchange, the new Burse, and new Town, afford plenty; not a Prentice that can cry Bawd, nor a butcher's Dog that can say bow wow, but is of my acquaintance. Yet it may be they are precise, and will not be seen in't. That I know not, but most sure, I have feasted the Liberty twice at mine own charge, and helped their wives and daughters to the earning of many a fair pound: they will be seen in that. Well, I am sure I have furnished thy Library with all books of behaviour, and tables of entertainment. And I have culled out all my phrases as curiously & stuck my language with such enticing conveniences: and for intelligence, all the lawn women, lace women, box women, and to come nearer to the business, very hair women, periwig women, and candied Elicumpany lick halberds, come in twice a week like decoy Ducks, with whole shoals at the tail of them. Why, then there's a fault in your company. ay, ay, that villainous company undoes all, there's Lodowick Tomaso Valentine, high talkers, and deep drinkers, but they have wit in their wine, and too much honesty in their actions at all time, there's only on Gentleman— Stultissimo of a plain cut and square size, he runs just as you throw him; rub him a little against the grain now, and he will come off a great deal the smoother. You would not think, what charitable benefactors three or four such plush Colonels would be to the founding of a new honour. But hast thou such a purpose, indeed? Why should not I have purpose and effect as much as any: A leager, yes, so it lay in the I'll of plenty; I'd dig through the Alps with Hannibal, and fetch Theseus from Hell, with Hercules' purpose and practice, my precious Monkey, 'tis done. And shall I come to the honour to write Mistress of the Leaguer.
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Length
502 words · 671 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T6 — Money, debt and creditcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.711 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
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Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
WHy how now Puſs, what ayles my Monkie to chatter out of tune thus? A whoreſon ſenceleſſe Coxcombe— but I am glad th'art come, I long for a pottle of wine and a Capon. Good proviſion for the preſent Monkie, but viderit futuritas, in the meane time, who layes up for futurity? Come you raiſe foure hundred per annum, out of pottles of Wine and Capons? Yes my Granado, in this qualitie: they that come ſhort of my breeding have don't. The firſt credit I wonne was in a Garriſon. In Holland. No; and yet in the low Countries: I never ſate foot in a leaguer yet. The reaſon of that? My hard fate nothing elſe, having as much impudence, and as many wayes to manage it, receiving weekly Corantoes from Paris, Roterdam, and Fluſhing, and having trade too in Middleborough, I have beene houſe Lecturer three yeares together, and read Aretine, both in print and picture, and that is much for one of my yeares. 'T may be thou wantſt acquaintance. No ſuch matter, the old Exchange, the new Burſe, and new Town, afford plenty; not a Prentice that can cry Bawd, nor a Butchers Dog that can ſay bow wow, but is of my acquaintance. Yet it may be they are preciſe, and will not be ſeen in't. That I know not, but moſt ſure, I have feaſted the Liberty twice at mine owne charge, and helpt their wives and daughters to the earning of many a fair pound: they will be ſeen in that. Well, I am ſure I have furniſh'd thy Library with all books of behaviour, and tables of entertainment. And I have cull'd out all my phraſes as curiouſly & ſtuck my language with ſuch inticing conveniences: and for intellicence, all the lawn women, lace women, box women, and to come nearer to the buſineſſe, very haire women, perriwig women, and candied Elicumpany lick halbars, come in twice a week like decoy Ducks, with whole ſholes at the aile of them. Why, then there's a fault in your company. I, I, that villanous company undoes all, Ther's Lodowick Tomaſo Vallentine, high talkers, and deepe drinkers, but they have wit in their wine, and too much honeſty in their actions at all time, there's only on Gentleman— Stultiſſimo of a plain cut and ſquare ſize, he runs juſt as you throw him; rub him a little againſt the grain now, and he will come off a great deal the ſmoother. You would not thinke, what charitable benefactours three or foure ſuch pluſh Colonels would be to the founding of a new honour. But haſt thou ſuch a purpoſe, indeed? Why ſhould not I have purpoſe and effect as much as any: A leager, yes, ſo it lay in the Ile of plentie; Ide dig through the Alpes with Haniball, and fetch Theſeus from Hell, with Hercules purpoſe and practice, my precious Monkie, tis done. And ſhall I come to the honour to write Miſtris of the Leaguer.