Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T1: death, life, dead, die, blood, revenge, soul, father, heart, heaven.
With that a young man straight slept forth, that hidden secret lay. And came to her right shamefully, and found her Venus' play. For us to see the end of this, in secret corner stood, The open sight of this foul deed, appalled our ancient blood. And when we saw with both our eyes, that they had lain together, Pretending for to take the wretch, ourselves we did discover. But when we laid our hands of him, we could not hold him still, His strength was of much fortitude, and ours very ill, This done, he hide him to the gate, and so from thence away, For reason sayth one lusty blood, two weak men cannot stay. Now when this woman thus we took, Dame (quoth we) what is he, That thus your husbands bed hath filled, as we with sorrow see, But she because that time would help, to frame a lie full well, And craftily then could hold her peace, and spared that to tell. So this the matter is in deed, and both we witness be, And as we mean to answer it, we say but what we see. How say you sir, I charge you now, by the oath that you did take, Is this conclusion but the truth, that this your friend doth make. True Sir, yea true in deed, I would there were no cause, For Ioachim her husbands sake, to punish her with laws. Susanna now thou seest here the evidence of these men, Speak for thyself it is high time, what hast thou to say then, Wherefore thou oughtest not to die, for I must sentence give, Speak forth or else I know not how, that longer thou shouldst live. Oh God, oh King, oh mighty one, oh everliving Lord, What secrets is there thou seest not, what sin is not abhorred, Before each thing do come to pass, thou knowest what it will be, Thou knowest good Lord these wicked men, have falsely blamed me. Because I would not to their lust, most shamefully consent, Against me Lord thou knowest they do, this matter thus invent. Behold my God I die therefore, through malice of their heart, Therefore my God receive my soul, none else can ease my smart. Susanna hold thee still a while, and hearken to my talk, Thy earthly days are almost past, now must thou change thy walk Thou seest here before thy face, how plain thy fault is seen, For as I do I must needs do, although thou wert a Queen, Be thou therefore attentive to, and hearken to thy doom, Repent the life is gone and passed, think on the life to come. Know that there is a God in deed, on whom I heard thee call, That were thy sins ten times as great, he would forgive them all, Well hence thou must and to the place, where then shalt end thy life, Lo, thus I end my sentence now, and thou shalt end thy strife.
nodes 1038–1079 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 21 of 29 in this edition
Length
503 words · 633 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T1 — Death, grief and revengecross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.796 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T7 · seed 44: T1 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
With that a yong man straight slept forth, that hidden secrete lay. And came to her right shamefullye, and found her Uenus play. For vs to see the ende of this, in secrete corner stoode, The open sight of this fowle deede, appalde our auncient bloode. And when we saw with both our eyes, that they had lyen togither, Pretending for to take the wretch, our selues we did discouer. But when we layde our handes of him, we could not hold him still, His strength was of much fortitude, and ours very ill, This done, he hyde him to the gate, and so from thence away, For reason sayth one usty blood, two weake men cannot stay. Now when this woman thus we tooke, Dame (quoth we) what is he, That thus your husbandes bed hath fyld, as we with sorrow sée, But she because that tyme would helpe, to frame a lye full well, And craftily then could hold her peace, and spared that to tell. So this the matter is in déede, and both we witnesse be, And as we meane to aunswere it, we say but what we sée. ¶How say you syr, I charge you now, by the oth that you did take, Is this conclusyon but the truth, that this your friend doth make. ¶True Syr, yea true in deede, I would there were no cause, For Ioachim her husbandes sake, to punish her with lawes. ¶Susanna now thou seest here the euidence of these men, Speake for thy selfe it is high tyme, what haste thou to say then, Wherefore thou oughtest not to dye, for I must sentence giue, Speake forth or else I know not how, that longer thou shouldste liue. ¶Oh God, oh King, oh mighty one, oh euerliuing Lorde, What secretes is there thou séest not, what sinne is not abhorde, Before eche thing doe come to passe, thou knowest what it will be, Thou knowest good Lorde these wicked men, haue falsly blamed me. Because I would not to their lust, most shamefully consent, Agaynst me Lorde thou knowest they doe, this matter thus inuent. Behold my God I dye therefore, through mallice of their harte, Threfore my God receaue my soule, none else can ease my smarte. ¶Susanna holde thée still a whyle, and harken to my talke, Thy earthly dayes are almost past, now must thou change thy walke Thou séest here before thy face, how playne thy fault is seene, For as I doe I must néedes doe, although thou werte a Quéene, Be thou therefore attentiue to, and harken to thy doome, Repent the life is gone and past, thinke on the life to come. Know that there is a God in déede, on whome I heard thée call, That were thy sinnes ten times as great, he would forgiue them all, Well hence thou must and to the place, where then shalt end thy life, Lo, thus I end my sentence now, and thou shalt end thy sryfe.