Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1601 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Chapel (second) T8 Captains, gallants and cheats typicality 0.83 · 509 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.
Yes: what will you ask for 'em a week, Captain? No, you mangonizing slave, I will not part from 'em: you'll sell 'em for ingles you: let's ha' good cheer to morrow-night at supper, stalker, and then we'll talk, good capon, and plover, do you hear, sirrah? and do not bring your eating player with you there; I cannot away with him: He will eat a leg of mutton, while I am in my porridge, the lean POLUPHAGUS, his belly is like Barathrum, he looks like a midwife in man's apparel, the slave. Nor the villanous-out-of-tune fiddler AENOBARBUS, bring not him. What hast thou there? six and thirty? ha? No, here's all I have (Captain) some five and twenty. Pray, sir, will you present, and accommodate it unto the gentleman: for mine own part, I am a mere stranger to his humour: besides, I have some business invites me hence, with Master ASINIUS LUPUS, the tribune. Well: go thy ways: pursue thy projects, let me alone with this design; my POETASTER shall make thee a play, and thou shalt be a man of good parts, in it. But stay, let me see: Do not bring your Aesop, your politician; unless you can ram up his mouth with cloves: the slave smells ranker than some sixteen dunghills, and is seventeen times more rotten: Marry, you may bring FRISKER, my zany: he's a good skipping swaggerer; and your fat fool there, my MANGO, bring him too: but let him not beg rapiers, nor scarves, in his over-familiar playing face, nor roar out his barren bold jests, with a tormenting laughter, between drunk, and dry. Do you hear, stiff-toe? Give him warning, admonition, to forsake his saucy glavering grace, and his goggle eye: it does not become him, sirrah: tell him so. I have stood up and defended you ay, to gent'men, when you have been said to prey upon punies, and honest citizens, for socks, or buskins: or when they ha' called you usurers, or brokers, or said, you were able to help to a piece of flesh— I have sworn, I did not think so. Nor that you were the common retreats for punks decayed i' their practice. I cannot believe it of you— Thank you, Captain: JUPITER, and the rest of the gods confine your modern delights, without disgust. Stay, thou shalt see the Moore, ere thou goest: what's he, with the half-arms there, that salutes us out of his cloak, like a motion? ha? O, sir, his doublet's a little decayed; he is otherwise a very simple honest fellow, sir, one DEMETRIUS, a dresser of plays about the town, here; we have hired him to abuse HORACE, and bring him in, in a play, with all his gallants: as, TIBULLUS, Maecenas, CORNELIUS GALLUS, and the rest. And: why so, stinkard? O, it will get us a huge deal of money (Captain) and we have need on't; for this winter has made us all poorer, than so many starved snakes: nobody comes at us; not a gentleman, nor a—
Other edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics
Position
nodes 877–885 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 25 of 57 in this edition
Length
509 words · 760 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T8 — Captains, gallants and cheatscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.827 (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)
Yes: what will you aske for 'hem a weeke, Captaine? No, you mangonizing slaue, I will not part from 'hem: you'll sell 'hem for enghles you: let's ha' good cheere to morrow-night at supper, stalker, and then wee'll talke, good capon, and plouer, doe you heare, sirrah? and doe not bring your eating plaier with you there; I cannot away with him: He will eate a legge of mutton, while I am in my porridge, the leane POLVPHAGVS, his belly is like Barathrum, he lookes like a midwife in mans apparell, the slaue. Nor the villanous-out-of-tune fiddler AENOARBVS, bring not him. What hast thou there? sixe and thirtie? ha? No, here's all I haue (Captaine) some fiue and twentie. Pray, sir, will you present, and accommodate it vnto the gentleman: for mine owne part, I am a meere stranger to his humour: besides, I haue some businesse inuites me hence, with Master ASINIVS LVPVS, the tribune. Well: goe thy waies: pursue thy proiects, let mee alone with this desseigne; my POETASTER shall make thee a play, and thou shalt be a man of good parts, in it. But stay, let mee see: Doe not bring your AESOPE, your polititian; vnlesse you can ram vp his mouth with cloues: the slaue smells ranker then some sixteene dung-hills, and is seuenteene times more rotten: Mary, you may bring FRISKER, my zany: Hee's a good skipping swaggerer; and your fat foole there, my MANGO, bring him too: but let him not begge rapiers, nor scarfes, in his ouer-familiar playing face, nor rore out his barren bold iests, with a tormenting laughter, betweene drunke, and drie. Doe you heare, stiffe-toe? Giue him warning, admonition, to forsake his sawy glauering grace, and his goggle eie: it does not become him, sirrah: tell him so. I haue stood vp and defended you I, to gent'men, when you haue beene said to prey vpon pu'nees, and honest citizens, for socks, or buskins: or when they ha' call'd you vsurers, or brokers, or said, you were able to helpe to a peece of flesh— I haue sworne, I did not thinke so. Nor that you were the common retreats for punkes decai'd i' their practice. I cannot beleeue it of you— Thanke you, Captaine: IVPITER, and the rest of the gods confine your moderne delights, without disgust. Stay, thou shalt see the Moore, ere thou goest: what's he, with the halfe-armes there, that salutes vs out of his cloke, like a motion? ha? O, sir, his dubblet's a little decaied; hee is otherwise a very simple honest fellow, sir, one DEMETRIVS, a dresser of plaies about the towne, here; we haue hir'd him to abuse HORACE, and bring him in, in a play, with all his gallants: as, TIBVLLVS, MECOENAS, CORNELIVS GALLVS, and the rest. And: why so, stinkard? O, it will get vs a huge deale of money (Captaine) and wee haue need on't; for this winter ha's made vs all poorer, then so many staru'd snakes: No bodie comes at vs; not a gentleman, nor a—