Greene, Robert · published 1594 · first performed or written 1589 [1586-1590] (Annals) comedy · Queen Elizabeth's Men T56 Magic, spells and conjuring typicality 0.74 · 479 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T56: magic, faustus, charms, charm, conjure, spirits, skill, ho, power, spells.
As it please lord Lacie, but loves foolish looks, Think footsteps Miles, and minutes to be hours. I'll hasten Peggy to make short return, But please your honour go unto the lodge, We shall have butter, cheese, and venison. And yesterday I brought for Margaret, A lusty bottle of neat claret wine, Thus can we feast and entertain your grace. 'tis cheer lord Lacie for an Emperor, If he respect the person and the place: Come let us in, for I will all this night, Ride post until I come to Bacon's cell. Trust me Plantagenet these Oxford schools Are richly seated near the river side: The mountains full of fat and fallow dear, The batling pastures laid with kine and flocks, The town gorgeous with high built colleges, And scholars seemly in their grave attire. Learned in searching principles of art, What is thy judgement, Iaquis Vandermast. That lordly are the buildings of the town, Spacious the rooms and full of pleasant walks: But for the doctors how that they be learned, It may be meanly, for aught I can here. I tell thee Germane, Haspurge holds none such, None red so deep as Oxenford contains, There are within our academic state, Men that may lecture it in Germany, To all the doctors of your Belgic schools. Stand to him Bungay, charm this Vandermast, And I will use thee as a royal king. Wherein darest thou dispute with me. In what a Doctor and a Friar can. Before rich Europe's worthies put thou forth The doubtful question unto Vandermast. Let it be this, whether the spirits of piromancie or Geomancy, be most predominant in magic. I say of Piromancie. And I of Geomancy. The cabalists that wright of magic spells, As Hermes, Melchre, and Pythagoras, Affirm that 'mongst the quadruplicitie Of elemental essence, Terra is but thought, To be a punctum squared to the rest: And that the compass of ascending eliments Exceed in bigness as they do in height. judging the concave circle of the son, To hold the rest in his circomference, If then as Hermes says the fire be greatest, Purest and only giveth shapes to spirits: Then must these Demons that haunt that place, Be every way superior to the rest. I reason not of elemental shapes, Nor tell I of the concave lattitudes, Noting their essence nor their quality, But of the spirits that Piromancie calls, And of the vigourof the Geomantic fiends, I tell thee Germane magic haunts the grounds, And those strange necromantic spells That work such shows and wondering in the world, Are acted by those Geomantic spirits, That Hermes calleth Terraefilii. The fiery spirits are but transparent shades, That lightly pass as Heralts to bear news, But earthly fiends closed in the lowest deep, Dissever mountains if they be but charged, Being more gross and massy in their power.
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479 words · 662 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T56 — Magic, spells and conjuringcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.740 (cosine to the topic centroid)
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As it pleaſe lord Lacie, but loues fooliſh looks, Thinke footſteps Miles, and minutes to be houres. Ile haſten Peggie to make ſhort returne, But pleaſe your houour goe vnto the lodge, We ſhall haue butter, cheeſe, and veniſon. And yeſterday I brought for Margret, A luſtie bottle of neat clarret wine, Thus can we feaſt and entertaine your grace. Tis cheere lord Lacie for an Emperour, If he reſpect the perſon and the place: Come let vs in, for I will all this night, Ride poſt vntill I come to Bacons cell. Truſt me Plantagenet theſe Oxford ſchooles Are richly ſeated neere the riuer ſide: The mountaines full of fat and fallow deere, The batling paſtures laid with kine and flocks, The towne gorgeous with high built colledges, And ſchollers ſeemely in their graue attire. Learned in ſearching principles of art, What is thy iudgement, Iaquis Vandermaſt. That lordly are the buildings of the towne, Spatious the romes and full of pleaſant walkes: But for the doctors how that they be learned, It may be meanly, for ought I can heere. I tell thee Germane, Haſpurge holds none ſuch, None red ſo deepe as Oxenford containes, There are within our accademicke ſtate, Men that may lecture it in Germanie, To all the doctors of your Belgicke ſchools. Stand to him Bungay, charme this Vandermaſt, And I will vſe thee as a royall king. Wherein dareſt thou diſpute with me. In what a Doctor and a Frier can. Before rich Europes worthies put thou forth The doubtfull queſtion vnto Vandermaſt. Let it be this, whether the ſpirites of piromancie or Geomancie, be moſt predominant in magick. I ſay of Piromancie. And I of Geomancie. The cabbaliſts that wright of magicke ſpel, As Hermes, Melchie, and Pithagoras, Affirme that mongſt the quadruplicitie Of elementall eſſence, Terra is but thought, To be a punctum ſquared to the reſt: And that the compaſſe of aſcending eliments Exceed in bigneſſe as they doe in height. Iudging the concaue circle of the ſonne, To hold the reſt in his circomference, If then as Hermes ſaies the fire be greatſt, Pureſt and onely giueth ſhapes to ſpirites: Then muſt theſe Demones that haunt that place Be euery way ſuperiour to the reſt. I reaſon not of elementall ſhapes, Nor tell I of the concaue lattitudes, Noting their eſſence nor their qualitie, But of the ſpirites that Piromancie calles, And of the vigourof the Geomanticke fiends, I tell thee Germane magicke haunts the grounds, And thoſe ſtrange necromantick ſpels That worke ſuch ſhewes and wondering in the world, Are acted by thoſe Geomanticke ſpirites, That Hermes calleth Terraefilii. The fierie ſpirits are but transparant ſhades, That lightly paſſe as Heralts to beare newes, But earthly fiends cloſd in the loweſt deepe, Diſſeuer mountaines if they be but chargd, Being more groſe and maſsie in their power.