Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1598 (Annals) comedy · Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men T8 Captains, gallants and cheats typicality 0.85 · 475 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T8: captain, master, money, gentleman, little, lieutenant, rogue, pray, minos, honest.
What TIB, show this gentleman up to the Captain. O, an' my house were the Brazenhead now! faith, it would e'en speak, Mo fools yet. You should ha' some now would take this Mr. MATTHEW to be a gentleman, at the least. His father's an honest man, a worshipful fishmonger, and so forth; and now does he creep, and wriggle into acquaintance with all the brave gallants about the town, such as my guest is: (O, my guest is a fine man) and they flout him invincibly. He useth every day to a Merchant's house (where I serve water) one master KITELY'S, i' the old Iewry; and here's the jest, he is in love with my master's sister, (mistress BRIDGET) and calls her mistress: and there he will sit you a whole afternoon sometimes, reading o' these same abominable, vile, (a pox on 'em, I cannot abide them) rascally verses, poetry, poetry, and speaking of interludes, 'twill make a man burst to hear him. And the wenches, they do so gear, and ti-hee at him— well, should they do so much to me, I'd forswear them all, by the foot of PHARAOH. There's an oath! How many waterbearers shall you hear swear such an oath? O, I have a guest (he teaches me) he does swear the legiblest, of any man christened: By St. GEORGE, the foot of PHARAOH, the body of me, as I am gentleman, and a soldier: such dainty oaths! and withal, he does take this same filthy roguish tobacco, the finest, and cleanliest! it would do a man good to see the fume come forth at 's tunnels! Well, he owes me forty shillings (my wife lent him out of her purse, by sixpence a time) besides his lodging: I would I had it. I shall ha' it, he says, the next Action. helter-skelter, hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat, up-tails all, and a louse for the hangman. hostess, hostess. What say you, sir? A cup o' thy small beer, sweet hostess. Sir, there's a gentleman, below, would speak with you. A gentleman! 'ods so, I am not within. My husband told him you were, sir. What a plague— what meant he? Captain BOBADILL? Who's there? (take away the basin, good hostess) come up, sir. He would desire you to come up, sir. You come into a cleanly house, here. 'Save you, sir. 'Save you, Captain. Gentle master MATTHEW! Is it you, sir? Please you sit down. Thank you, good Captain, you may see, I am somewhat audacious. Not so, sir. I was requested to supper, last night, by a sort of gallants, where you were wished for, and drunk to, I assure you. Vouchsafe me, by whom, good Captain. marry, by young WELL-BRED, and others: Why, hostess, a stool here, for this gentleman. No haste, sir, 'tis very well.
Other edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics
Position
nodes 266–283 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 9 of 53 in this edition
Length
475 words · 723 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T8 — Captains, gallants and cheatscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.851 (cosine to the topic centroid) · placed after the fit (approximate_predict), not counted in the topic statistics
Other seeds
seed 43: T11 · seed 44: T14 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
What TIB, shew this gentleman vp to the Captayne. O, an' my house were the Brasen-head now! faith, it would eene speake, Mo fooles yet. You should ha' some now would take this Mr. MATTHEW to be a gentleman, at the least. His father's an honest man, a worshipfull fishmonger, and so forth; and now dos he creepe, and wriggle into acquaintance with all the braue gallants about the towne, such as my guest is: (Ô, my guest is a fine man) and they flout him invincibly. Hee vseth euery day to a Merchants house (where I serue water) one master KITELY'S, i' the old Iewry; and here's the iest, he is in loue with my masters sister, (mistris BRIDGET) and calls her mistris: and there hee will sit you a whole after-noone some-times, reading o' these same abominable, vile, (a poxe on 'hem, I cannot abide them) rascally verses, poyetrie, poyetrie, and speaking of enterludes, 'twill make a man burst to heare him. And the wenches, they doe so geere, and ti-he at him—well, should they do so much to me, Ild for-sweare them all, by the foot of PHARAOH. There's an oath! How many water-bearers shall you heare sweare such an oath? Ô, I haue a guest (he teaches me) he dos sweare the legiblest, of any man christned: By St. GEORGE, the foot of PHARAOH, the body of me, as I am gentleman, and a souldier: such daintie oathes! and withall, he dos take this same filthy roguish tabacco, the finest, and cleanliest! it would doe a man good to see the fume come forth at 's tonnells! Well, he owes mee fortie shillings (my wife lent him out of her purse, by sixe-pence a time) besides his lodging: I would I had it. I shall ha' it, he saies, the next Action. Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat, vp-tailes all, and a louse for the hang-man. HOstesse, hostesse. What say you, sir? A cup o' thy small beere, sweet hostesse. Sir, there's a gentleman, below, would speake with you. A gentleman! 'ods so, I am not within. My husband told him you were, sir. What a plague—what meant he? Captaine BOBADILL? Who's there? (take away the bason, good hostesse) come vp, sir. He would desire you to come vp, sir. You come into a cleanly house, here. 'Saue you, sir. 'Saue you, Captayne. Gentle master MATTHEW! Is it you, sir? Please you sit downe. Thanke you, good Captaine, you may see, I am some-what audacious. Not so, sir. I was requested to supper, last night, by a sort of gallants, where you were wish'd for, and drunke to, I assure you. Vouchsafe me, by whom, good Captaine. Mary, by yong WELL-BRED, and others: Why, hostesse, a stoole here, for this gentleman. No haste, sir, 'tis very well.