Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love · chunk 44 of 66
Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1600 [1600-1601] (Annals) satire · Children of the Chapel (second) unassigned nearest T35 Fools, wit and railing · 491 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T35: fool, wit, aristippus, achilles, wise, fools, patroclus, thersites, master, men.
Nay, but intend me. Fear me not, I warrant you, sir. Render not yourself a refractory, on the sudden. I can allow well, you should repute highly, heartily (and to the most) of your own endowments; it gives you forth to the world the more assured: but with reservation of an eye, to be always turned dutifully back upon your teacher. Nay, good, sir, leave it to me. Trust me with trussing all the points of this action, I pray. 'Slid, I hope we shall find wit to perform the science, as well as another. I confess you to be of an aped, and docible humour. Yet, there are certain punctilioes, or (as I may more nakedly insinuate them) certain intrinsicate strokes, and wards, to which your activity is not yet amounted. As your gentile dor, in colours. For supposition, your mistress appears here in prize, ribbanded with green, and yellow; now it is the part of every obsequious servant, to be sure to have daily about him copy, and variety of colours, to be presently answerable to any hourly, or half-hourly change in his mistress revolution.— (I know it, sir. Give leave, I pray you) which if your Antagonist, or player-against-you shall ignorantly be without, and yourself can produce; you give him the dor. ay, ay, sir. Or, if you can possess your opposite, that the green your mistress wears, is her rejoicing or exultation in his service; the yellow, suspicion of his truth, (from her height of affection:) and that he (greenly credulous) shall withdraw thus, in private, and from the abundance of his pocket (to displace her jealous conceit) steal into his hat the colour, whose blueness doth express trueness, (she being nor so, nor so affected) you give him the dor. Do not I know it, sir? Nay, good— swell not above your understanding. There is yet a third dor, in colours. I know it too, I know it. Do you know it too? what is it? Make good your knowledge. Why it is— no matter for that. Do it, on poene of the dor. Why? what is't, say you? Lo, you have given yourself the dor. But I will remonstrate to you the third dor; which is not, as the two former dors, indicative, but deliberative: As how? As thus. Your Rivalis, with a dutiful, and serious care, lying in his bed, meditating how to observe his mistress, dispatcheth his lackey to the chamber, early, to know what her colours are for the day; with purpose to apply his wear that day, accordingly: You lay wait before, preoccupy the chambermaid, corrupt her, to return false colours; He follows the fallacy; comes out accoutred to his believed instructions; your mistress smiles; and you give him the dor. Why, so I told you, sir, I knew it. Told me? It is a strange outrecuidance! your humour too much redoundeth. Why, sir, what, do you think you know more?
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Nay, but intend me. Feare me not, I warrant you, sir. Render not your selfe a refractarie, on the sodaine. I can allow well, you should repute highly, heartily (and to the most) of your own endowments; it giues you forth to the world the more assur'd: but with reseruation of an eye, to be alwaies turn'd dutifully back vpon your teacher. Nay, good, sir, leaue it to mee. Trust mee with trussing all the points of this action, I pray. S'lid, I hope we shall find wit to performe the science, as well as another. I confesse you to be of an aped, and docible humour. Yet, there are certaine puntilioes, or (as I may more nakedly insinuate them) certaine intrinsecate strokes, and wardes, to which your actiuitie is not yet amounted. As your gentile dor, in colours. For supposition, your mistris appeares heere in prize, ribbanded with greene, and yellow; now it is the part of euery obsequious seruant, to be sure to haue daily about him copie, and varietie of colours, to be presently answerable to any hourely, or half-hourely change in his mistris reuolution.— (I know it, sir. Giue leaue, I pray you) which if your Antagonist, or player-against-you shall ignorantly be without, and your selfe can produce; you giue him the dor. I, I, sir. Or, if you can possesse your opposite, that the greene your mistris weares, is her reioycing or exultation in his seruice; the yellow, suspicion of his truth, (from her height of affection:) and that he (greenly credulous) shall withdraw thus, in priuate, and from the aboundance of his pocket (to displace her jelous conceit) steale into his hat the colour, whose bluenesse doth expresse truenesse, (shee being nor so, nor so affected) you giue him the dor. Doe not I know it, sir? Nay, good—swell not aboue your vnderstanding. There is yet a third dor, in colours. I know it too, I know it. Doe you know it too? what is it? Make good your knowledge. Why it is—no matter for that. Doe it, on poene of the dor. Why? what is't, say you? Loe, you haue giuen your selfe the dor. But I will remonstrate to you the third dor; which is not, as the two former dors, indicatiue, but deliberatiue: As how? As thus. Your Riualis, with a dutifull, and serious care, lying in his bed, meditating how to obserue his mistris, dispatcheth his lacquay to the chamber, early, to know what her colours are for the day; with purpose to apply his weare that day, accordingly: You lay wait before, preoccupie the chamber-maide, corrupt her, to returne false colours; He followes the fallacie; comes out accoutred to his beleeu'd instructions; your mistresse smiles; and you giue him the dor. Why, so I told you, sir, I knew it. Tolde mee? It is a strange outrecuidance! your humour too much redoundeth. Why, sir, what, doe you thinke you know more?