Wilson, Robert · published 1592 · first performed or written c.1581 (Annals) moral · Leicester's Men T6 Money, debt and credit typicality 0.86 · 492 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
Tush sir, I can make black white, and white black again, Tut he that will be a Lawyer, must I ave a thousand ways to feign, And many times we Lawyers do one befriend another, And let good matters slip, tut we agree like brother and brother, Why sir, what shall let us to wrest and turn the law as we list, Seeing we have them printed in the palms of our fist? Therefore doubt you not, but make bold report, That I can, and will plead their ill cause in good kind of sort. Of troth how likest thou this fellow Dissimulation? marry I like him well, he is a cunning clerk, and one of our profession. But come sir, go with us and we will prefer you. Good M. Fraud remember me. Leave thy prating, I will I tell thee. Good M. Dissimulation think on me. Thou art too importunate and greedy. Come after dinner, or some other time when we are at leisure. Come after dinner, or some other time indeed, For full little do they think of a poor man's need: These fellows will do nothing for pity and love, And thrice happy are they that hath no need them to prove. God he knows the world is grown to such a stay, That men must use Fraud and Dissimulation too, or beg by the way. Therefore i'll do as the most doth, the fewest shall laugh me to scorn, And be a fellow amongst good fellows to hold by S. Luke's horn. Good cousin Simplicity do something for me. Yes faith cousin Sincerity, i'll do any thing for thee? What wouldst thou have me do for thee canst tell that? Mass I cannot tell what shouldst do for me, except thou wouldst give me a new hat. Alas I am not able to give thee a new. Why then I marvel how thou dost do: Dost thou get thy living amongst beggars from door do door? Indeed cousin Sinceretie, I thought thou wast not so poor. Nay cousin Simplicity I got my living hardly but yet I hope just And with good Conscience too although I am restrained from my lust. But this it is cousin Simplicity, I would request you do for me: Which is, to get Lady Love, and Lady Conscience hand to latter: That by their means I may get some benefice to make me live the better Yes I'll do so much for thee cousin, but hast thou any here? I behold they are ready drawn, if assigned they were. Let me see cousin, for I can read: Mas 'tis bravely done, didst thou it indeed? Mistress Conscience, I have a matter to bequest you too. What be't? I doubt not but 'tis some wise thing if it be for you, marry my cousin Sincerity, wad bestre to scribe these papers here That he may get some preferment, but I know not where.
nodes 461–505 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 11 of 37 in this edition
Length
492 words · 621 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T6 — Money, debt and creditcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.864 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: unassigned · seed 44: T10 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Tush sir, I can make blacke white, and white blacke againe, Tut he that will be a Lawyer, must I aue a thousand waies to faine, And many times we Lwyers do one befreend another, And let good matters slip, tut we agree like brother and brother, Why sir, what shall let vs to wrest and turne the law as we list, Seeing we haue them printed in the palmes of out fist? Therefore doubt you not, but make bold report, That I can, and will plead their ill cause in good kind of sort. Of troth how likest thou this fellow Dissimulation? Mary I like him well, hee is a cunning Clarke, and one of our profession. But come sir, go with vs and we will prefer you. Good M. Fraud remember me. Leaue thy prating, I will I tell thee. Good M. Dissimulation thinke on me. Thou art too importunate and greedy. Come after dinner, or some other time when we are at leysure. Come after dinner, or some other time indeed, For full little do they thinke of a poore mans need: These fellowes will do nothing for pittie and loue, And thrise happy are they that hath no need them to proue. God he knowes the world is growne to such a stay, That men must vse Fraud and Dissimulation too, or beg by the way. Therefore ile do as the most doth, the fewest shall laugh me to scorne, And be a fellow amongst good fellows to hold by S. Lukes horne. Good coossen Simplicitie do something for me. Yes faith coossen Sinceritie, ile do any thing for thee? What wouldst thou haue me do for thee canst tell that? Mas I cannot tell what shouldst do for me, except thou wouldst giue me a new hat. Alas I am not able to giue thee a new. Why then I maruell how thou doest doe: Doest thou get thy liuing amongst beggars from doore do doore? Indeed coossen Sinceretie, I thought thou wast not so poore. Nay cossen Simplicity I got my liuing hardly but yet I hope iust And with good Conscience too although I am restrained from my lust. But this it is coosen Simplicitie, I would request you do for me: Which is, to get Lady Loue, and Lady Conscience hand to latter: That by their menes I may get some benefice to make me liue the better Yes Ile do so much for thee coosen, but hast thou any heere? I behold they are ready drawne, if assined they were. Let me see coossen, for I can read: Mas tis brauely done, didst thou it indeed? Mistris Conscience, I haue a matter to bequest you too. What ist? I doubt not but tis some wise thing if it be for you, Mary my cossen Sincerity, wad bestre to scribe these papers here That he may get some preferment, but I know not where.