News from the New World Discovered in the Moon · chunk 1 of 6
Jonson, Ben · published 1641 · first performed or written 1620 [Jan 7] (Annals) masque · before the Court unassigned nearest T6 Money, debt and credit · 465 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
News, news, news. Bold, and brave new! New as the night they are borne in; Or the Phantasy that begot'hem. Excellent news! Will you hear any news? Yes, and thank you too sir; what's the price of'hem? Price, Coxcomb! what price, but the price o' your ears? As if any man used to pay for any thing here. Come forward, you should be some dull tradesman by your pigheaded Sconce now, that think there's nothing good any where; but what's to be sold. Indeed I am all for sale Gentlemen, you say true, I am a Printer, and a Printer of News; and I do harken after'hem, where ever they be at any rates; I'll give any thing for a good Copy now, be't true or false, so't be news. A fine youth! And I am for matter of State Gentlemen, by consequence, story, my Chronicle, to fill up my great book, which must be three Ream of paper at lest; I have agreed with my Stationer aforehand to make it so big, and I want for ten choir yet. I ha' been here ever since seven a clock i'the morning to get matter for one page, and I think I have it complete; for I have both noted the number, and the capacity of the degrees here; and told twice over how many candles there are i'th' room lighted, which I will set you down to a snuff precisely, because I love to give light to posterity in the truth of things. This is a finer youth! Gentlemen, I am neither Printer, nor Chronologer, but one that otherwise take pleasure i'my Pen: A Factor of news for all the Shires of England; I do writ my thousand Letters a week ordinary, sometim twelve hundred, and maintain the business at some charge, both to hold up my reputation with mine own ministers in Town, and my friends of correspondence in the Country; I have friends of all ranks, and of all Religions, for which I keep an answering Catalogue of dispatch; wherein I have my Puritan news, my Protestant news, and my Pontificial news. A Superlative this! And I have hope to erect a Staple for news ere long, whether all shall be brought, and thence again vented under the name of Staple-newes; and not trusted to your printed Conundrums of the serpent in Sussex, or the witches bidding the Devil to dinner at Derbie: News, that when a man sends them down to the Shires where they are said to be done, were never there to be found. Sir that's all one, they were made for the common people; and why should not they ha' their pleasure in believing of lies are made for them, as you have in Paul's that make'hem for yourselves.
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Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
NEwes, newes, newes. Bold, and brave new! Newe as the night they are borne in; Or the Phant'ſie that begot'hem. Excellent newes! Will you heare any newes? Yes, and thanke you too ſir; what's the price of'hem? Price, Cocks-combe! what price, but the price o' your ears? As if any man uſed to pay for any thing here. Come forward, you ſhould be ſome dull tradeſman by your pigheaded Sconce now, that thinke there's nothing good any where; but what's to be ſold. Indeed I am all for ſale Gentlemen, you ſay true, I am a Printer, and a Printer of Newes; and I doe hearken after'hem, where ever they be at any rates; I'le give any thing for a good Copie now, be't true or falſe, ſo't be newes. A fine youth! And I am for matter of State Gentlemen, by conſequence, ſtory, my Chronicle, to fill up my great booke, which muſt bee three Reame of paper at leaſt; I have agreed with my Stationer aforehand to make it ſo big, and I want for ten quire yet. I ha' beene here ever ſince ſeven a clocke i'the morning to get matter for one page, and I thinke I have it compleate; for I have both noted the number, and the capacity of the degrees here; and told twice over how many candles there are i'th roome lighted, which I will ſet you downe to a ſnuffe preciſely, becauſe I love to give light to poſteritie in the truth of things. This is a finer youth! Gentlemen, I am neither Printer, nor Chronologer, but one that otherwiſe take pleaſure i'my Pen: A Factor of newes for all the Shieres of England; I doe write my thouſand Letters a weeke ordinary, ſometim twelve hundred, and maintaine the buſineſſe at ſome charge, both to hold up my reputation with mine owne miniſters in Towne, and my friends of correſpondence in the Countrey; I have friends of all rancks, and of all Religions, for which I keepe an anſwering Catalogue of diſpatch; wherein I have my Puritan newes, my Proteſtant newes, and my Pontificiall newes. A Superlative this! And I have hope to erect a Staple for newes ere long, whether all ſhall be brought, and thence againe vented under the name of Staple-newes; and not truſted to your printed Conundrums of the ſerpent in Suſſex, or the witches bidding the Devill to dinner at Derbie: Newes, that when a man ſends them downe to the Shieres where they are ſaid to be done, were never there to be found. Sir that's all one, they were made for the common people; and why ſhould not they ha' their pleaſure in beleeving of lies are made for them, as you have in Paules that make'hem for your ſelves.