Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1601 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Chapel (second) T8 Captains, gallants and cheats typicality 0.82 · 491 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? do you laugh, Owlglass? death, you presumptuous varlet, I am none of your fellows: I have commanded a hundred and fifty such rogues, I. ay, and most of that hundred and fifty, have been leaders of a legion. If I have exhibited wrong, I'll tender satisfaction, Captain. sayst thou so, honest vermin? Give me thy hand, thou shalt make us a supper one of these nights. When you please, by JOVE, Captain, most willingly. Dost thou swear? tomorrow then; say, and hold slave. There are some of you players honest gent'man-like scoundrels, and suspected to ha' some wit, as well as your poets; both at drinking, and breaking of jests: and are companions for gallants. A man may skelder ye, now and then, of half a dozen shillings, or so. Dost thou not know that PANTALABUS there? No, I assure you, Captain. Go, and be acquainted with him, then; he is a gent'man, parcel-poet, you slave: his father was a man of worship, I tell thee. Go, he pens high, lofty, in a new stalking strain; bigger than half the rhymers i' the town, again: he was borne to fill thy mouth, MINOTAURUS, he was: he will teach thee to tear, and rend, Rascal, to him, cherish his muse, go: thou hast forty, forty, shillings, I mean, stinkard, give him in earnest, do, he shall write for thee, slave. If he pen for thee once, thou shalt not need to travel, with thy pumps full of gravel, any more, after a blind jade and a hamper: and stalk upon boards, and barrel heads, to an old cracked trumpet— Troth, I think I ha' not so much about me, Captain. It's no matter: give him what thou hast: Stiff toe, I'll give my word for the rest: though it lack a shilling, or two, it skills not: Go, thou art an honest shifter, I'll ha' the statute repealed for thee. MINOS, must tell thee, MINOS, thou hast dejected you gent'mans spirit exceedingly: dost observe? dost note, little MINOS? Yes, sir. Go to then, raise; recover, do. Suffer him not to droop, in prospect of a player, a rogue, a stager: put twenty into his hand, twenty, sesterces, I mean, and let nobody see: go, do it, the work shall commend itself, be MINOS, I'll pay. Yes forsooth, Captain. Do not we serve a notable shark? And what new matters have you now afoot, sirrah? ha? I would feign come with my cockatrice one day, and see a play; if I knew when there were a good bawdy one: but they say, you ha' nothing but humours, revels, and satires, that gird, and fart at the time, you slave. No, I assure you, Captain, not we. They are on the other side of Tiber: we have as much ribaldry in our plays, as can be, as you would wish, Captain: All the sinners, i' the suburbs, come, and applaud our action, daily.
Other edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics
Position
nodes 809–824 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 23 of 57 in this edition
Length
491 words · 725 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T8 — Captains, gallants and cheatscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.817 (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? doe you laugh, Owleglas? death, you perstemptuous varlet, I am none of your fellowes: I haue commanded a hundred and fiftie such rogues, I. I, and most of that hundred and fiftie, haue beene leaders of a legion. If I haue exhibited wrong, I'le tender satisfaction, Captaine. Sai'st thou so, honest vermine? Giue me thy hand, thou shalt make vs a supper one of these nights. When you please, by IOVE, Captaine, most willingly. Doest thou 'sweare? to morrow then; say, and hold slaue. There are some of you plaiers honest gent'man-like scoundrels, and suspected to ha' some wit, as well as your poets; both at drinking, and breaking of iests: and are companions for gallants. A man may skelder yee, now and then, of halfe a dozen shillings, or so. Doest thou not know that PANTALABVS there? No, I assure you, Captaine. Goe, and bee acquainted with him, then; hee is a gent'man, parcell-poet, you slaue: his father was a man of worship, I tell thee. Goe, he pens high, loftie, in a new stalking straine; bigger then halfe the rimers i' the towne, againe: he was borne to fill thy mouth, MINOTAVRVS, he was: hee will teach thee to teare, and rand, Rascall, to him, cherish his muse, goe: thou hast fortie, fortie, shillings, I meane, stinkard, giue him in earnest, doe, he shall write for thee, slaue. If hee pen for thee once, thou shalt not need to trauell, with thy pumps full of grauell, any more, after a blinde iade and a hamper: and stalke vpon boords, and barrell heads, to an old crackt trumpet— Troth, I thinke I ha' not so much about me, Captaine. It's no matter: giue him what thou hast: Stiffe oe, I'le giue my word for the rest: though it lacke a shilling, or two, it skils not: Goe, thou art an honest shifter, I'le ha' the statute repeal'd for thee. MINOS, must tell thee, MINOS, thou hast deiected you gent'mans spirit exceedingly: do'st obserue? do'st note, little MINOS? Yes, sir. Goe to then, raise; recouer, doe. Suffer him not to droop, in prospect of a player, a rogue, a stager: put twentie into his hand, twentie, esterces, I meane, and let no bodie see: goe, doe it, the worke shall commend it selfe, be MINOS, I'le pay. Yes forsooth, Captaine. Doe not we serue a notable sharke? And what new matters haue you now afoot, sirrah? ha? I would faine come with my cockatrice one day, and see a play; if I knew when there were a good bawdie one: but they say, you ha' nothing but humours, reuells, and satyres, that girde, and fart at the time, you slaue. No, I assure you, Captaine, not wee. They are on the other side of Tyber: we haue as much ribaldrie in our plaies, as can bee, as you would wish, Captaine: All the sinners, i' the suburbs, come, and applaud our action, daily.