The Merchant of Venice (The Jew of Venice) · chunk 26 of 39
Shakespeare, William · published 1600 · first performed or written 1596 [1596-1598] (Annals) comedy · Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men unassigned nearest T51 Parents and children: blessing, birthrig · 467 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T51: esau, iacob, father, son, isaac, god, love, birthright, parents, thing.
Madam, I go with all convenient speed. Come on Nerrissa, I have work in hand That you yet know not of; we'll see our husbands before they think of us? Shall they see us? They shall Nerrissa: but in such a habit, that they shall think we are accomplished with that we lack; I'll hold thee any wager when we are both accoutered like young men, i'll prove the prettier fellow of the two, and wear my dagger with the braver grace, and speak between the change of man and boy, wi'h a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps into a manly stride; and speak of frays like a fine bragging youth: and tell acquaint lies how honourable Ladies sought my love, which I denying, they fell sick and died. I could not do withal: then i'll repent, and wish for all that, that I had not killed them; And twenty of these puny lies i'll tell, that men shall swear I have discontinued school above a twelvemonth: I have within my mind a thousand raw tricks of these bragging lacks, which I will practise. Why, shall we turn to men? Fie, what a question's that, if thou wert near a lewd interpreter: But come, i'll tell thee all my my whole device when I am in my coach, which stays for us at the Park gate; and therefore hast away, for we must measure twenty miles to day Yes truly, for look you, the sins of the Father are to be laid upon the children, therefore I promise you, I fear you, I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter: therefore be a good cheer, for truly I think you are damned, there is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither. And what hope is that I pray thee? Marry you may partly hope that your Father got you not, that you are not the Iewes daughter. That were a kind of bastard hope in deed, so the sins of my mother should be visited upon me. Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and mother: thus when I shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother; well, you are gone both ways. I shall be saved by my husband, he hath made me a Christian? Truly the more to blame he, we were Christians enough before, in as many as could well live one by another: this making of Christians will raise the price of Hogs, if we grow all to be pork eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money. I'll tell my husband Launcelet what you say, here he come?
seed 43: unassigned · seed 44: unassigned — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Madam, I goe with all conuenient ſpeede. Come on Nerriſſa, I haue worke in hand That you yet know not of; weele ſee our husbands before they thinke of vs? Shall they ſee vs? They ſhall Nerriſſa: but in ſuch a habite, that they ſhall thinke we are accompliſhed vvith that we lacke; Ile hold thee any wager vvhen we are both accoutered like young men, ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, and weare my dagger with the brauer grace, and ſpeake betweene the change of man and boy, vvi'h a reede voyce, and turne two minſing ſteps into a manly ſtride; and ſpeake of frayes like a fine bragging youth: and tell quaint lyes how honorable Ladies ſought my loue, vvhich I denying, they fell ſicke and dyed. I could not doe withall: then ile repent, and wiſh for all that, that I had not killd them; And twenty of theſe punie lies ile tell, that men ſhall ſweare I haue diſcontinued ſchoole aboue a twelue-moneth: I haue within my minde a thouſand raw tricks of theſe bragging lacks, vvhich I will practiſe. Why, ſhall we turne to men? Fie, what a queſtion's that, if thou wert nere a lewd interpreter: But come, ile tell thee all my my whole deuice vvhen I am in my coach, which ſtayes for vs at the Parke gate; and therefore haſt away, for we muſt meaſure twenty miles to day Yes truly, for looke you, the ſinnes of the Father are to be laid vpon the children, therefore I promiſe you, I feare you, I was alwaies plaine with you, and ſo now I ſpeake my agitation of the matter: therefore be a good chere, for truly I thinke you are damnd, there is but one hope in it that can doe you any good, and that is but a kinde of baſtard hope neither. And what hope is that I pray thee? Marry you may partly hope that your Father got you not, that you are not the Iewes daughter. That were a kind of baſtard hope in deede, ſo the ſinnes of my mother ſhould be viſited vpon me. Truly then I feare you are damnd both by father and mother: thus when I ſhun Scilla your father, I fall into Caribdis your mother; well, you are gone both wayes. I ſhall be ſau'd by my husband, he hath made me a Chriſtian? Truly the more to blame he, we were Chriſtians enow before, in as many as could well liue one by another: this making of Chriſtians will raiſe the price of Hogs, if we grow all to be pork eaters, we ſhall not ſhortly haue a raſher on the coles for mony. Ile tell my husband Launcelet what you ſay, here he come?