The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again) · chunk 29 of 41
Kyd, Thomas · published 1592 · first performed or written 1587 [1585-1589; revised c.1597(?) and 1601-2] (Annals) tragedy · Unknown T1 Death, grief and revenge typicality 0.75 · 504 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T1: death, life, dead, die, blood, revenge, soul, father, heart, heaven.
Therein your highness highly shall content, His Majesty, that longs to hear from hence. On then, and hear you Lord Ambassador. Vindicta mihi. ay, heaven will be revenged of every ill, Nor will they suffer murder unrepaid: Then stay Hieronimo, attend their will, For mortal men may not appoint their time. Perscelus semper tuinm est sceleribus iter. Strike, and strike home, where wrong is offered thee, For evils unto ills conductors be. And death's the worst of resolution. For he that thinks with patience to contend, To quiet life, his life shall easily end. Fata si miseros iwant habes salutem: Fata si vitam negant, habes sepulchrum. If destiny thy miseries do ease, Then hast thou health, and happy shalt thou be: If destiny deny thee life Hieronimo. Yet shalt thou be assured of a tomb: If neither, yet let this thy comfort be, Heaven covereth him that hath no burial, And to conclude, I will revenge his death, But how? not as the vulgar wits of men, With open, but inevitable ills. As by a secret, yet a certain mean, Which under kinship willbe cloaked best. Wise men will take their opportunity, Closely and safely fitting things to time: But in extremes advantage hath no time. And therefore all times fit not for revenge: Thus therefore will I res i'm in unrest, Dissembling quiet in unquietness, Not seeming that I know their villainies: That my simplicity may make them think, That ignorantly I will let all slip: For ignorance I wot, and well they know, Remedium malorum iners est. Nor aught avails it me to menace them, Who as a wintry storm upon a plain, Will bear me down with their nobility. No, no, Hieronimo, thou must enjoin Thine eyes to observation, and thy tongue To milder speeches, than thy spirit affords, Thy heart to patience, and thy hands to rest, Thy Cap to courtesy, and thy knee to bow, Till to revenge thou know when, where, and how. How now, what noise, what coil is that you keep? Here are a sort of poor Petitioners, That are importunate and it shall please you sir, That you should plead their cases to the King. That I should plead their several actions, Why let them enter, and let me see them. Enter three Citizens and an old Man. So I tell you this for learning and for law, There's not any advocate in Spain, That can prevail, or will take half the pain, That he will in pursuit of equity. Come near you men that thus importune me, Now must I bear a face of gravity, For thus I used before my Marshalship, To plead in causes as corregidor. Come on sirs, what's the matter? Sir an Action. Of Battery? Mine of debt. Give place. No sir, mine is an action of the case. Mine an Ejection firma by a Lease. Content you sirs, are you determined, That I should plead your several actions? ay sir, and here's my declaration, And here is my band.
nodes 1814–1886 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 29 of 41 in this edition
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504 words · 688 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T1 — Death, grief and revengecross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.753 (cosine to the topic centroid)
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seed 43: unassigned · seed 44: T1 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Therein your highnes highly shall content, His Maiestie, that longs to heare from hence. On then, and heare you Lord Embassadour. Vindicta mihi. I, heauen will be reuenged of euery ill, Nor will they suffer murder vnrepaide: Then stay Hieronimo, attend their will, For mortall men may not appoint their time. Perscelus semper tuinm est sceerius iter. Strike, and strike home, where wrong is offred thee, For euils vnto ils conductors be. And death's the worst of resolution. For he that thinks with patienco to contend, To quiet life, his life shall easily end. Fata si misrs iuuant habes salutem: Fata si vitam negant, habes sepulchrum. If destinie thy miseries doe ease, Then hast thou health, and happie shalt thou be: If destinie denie thee life . Yet shalt thou be assured of a tombe: If neither, yet let this thy comfort be, Heauen couereth him that hath no buriall, And to conclude, I will reuenge his death, But how? not as the vulgare wits of men, With open, but ineuitableils▪ As by a secret, yet a certain meane, Which vnder kindeship wilbe cloked best. Wise men will take their oportunitie, Closely and safely fitting things to time: But in extreames aduantage hath no time. And therefore all times fit not for reuenge: Thus therefore will I res ime in vnrest, Dissembling quiet in vnquietnes, Not seeming that I know their villanies: That my simplicitie may make them think, That ignorantly I will letall slip: For ignorance I wot, and ell they know, malorum iners est. Nor ought auailes it me to menace them, Who as a wintrie storme vpon a plaine, Will beare me downe with their nobilitie. No, no, Hieronimo, thou must enioyne Thine eies to obseruation, and thy ung To milder speeches, then thy spirit affoords, Thy hart to patience, and thy hands to rest, Thy Cappe to cutteie, and thy knee to bow, Till to thou know when, where, and how. How now, what noise, what coile is that you keepe? Heere are a sort of poore Petitioners, That are importunate and it shall please you sir, That you should plead their cases to the King. That I should plead their seuerall actions, Why let them enter, and let me see them. Enter three Cittizens and an olde Man. So I tell you this for learning and for law, Theres not any aduocate in Spaine, That can preuaile, or will take halfe the paine, That he will in pursuite of equitie. Come neere you men that thus importune me, Now must I beare a face of grauitie, For thus I vsde before my Marshalship, To pleade in causes as Corrigedor. Come on sirs, whats the matter? Sir an Action. Of Batterie? Mine of debt. Giue place. No sir, mine is an action of the case. Mine an Eiectione firma by a Lease. Content you sirs, are you determined, That I should plead your seuerall actions? I sir, and heeres my declaration, And heere is my band.