Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

The Malcontent · chunk 19 of 28

Marston, John · published 1604 · first performed or written 1604 [1602-1604] (Annals)
tragicomedy · Children of the Chapel (second)
T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour typicality 0.82 · 522 words

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Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T0: duke, lord, duchess, love, court, madam, prince, honour, grace, lady.

A guard, a guard, we full of hearty tears, For our good father's loss, For so we well may call him: Who did beseech your loves, for our succession, Cannot so lightly over-jump his death. As leave his woes revengeless: * woman of shame, We banish thee for ever to the place, From whence this good man comes, Nor permit on death unto the body any ornament: But base as was thy life, depart away. Ungrateful. Away. Villain hear me. Be gone my Lords, address to public counsel, 'tis most fit, The train of Fortune is borne up by wit. Away, our presence shall be sudden, haste. Now you egregious devil, ha ye murdering politician, how dost duke? how dost look now? brave duke i'faith. How did you kill him? Slatted his brains out, then soused him in the briny sea. Brained him and drowned him too? O 'twas best, sure work: For he that strikes a great man, let him strike home, or else ware, he'll prove no man: shoulder not a huge fellow, unless you may be sure to lay him in the kennel. A most sound brain pan, I'll make you both emperors Make us christians, make us christians. I'll hoist ye, ye shall mount. To the gallows, say ye? O o me, Pranium incertum petit certum scelus. How stands the Progress? Here, take my ring unto the Citadel, Have entrance to Maria the grave Duchess Of banished Altofront. Tell her we love her: Omit no circumstance to grace our Person (do't) Iste make an excellent pandar: Duke farewell, due adieu Duke. Take Maquerelle with thee; for 'tis found, None cuts a diamond but a diamond. Hermit, thou art a man for me, my Confessor, O thou selected spirit, borne for my good, Sure thou wouldst make an excellent elder in a deformed church: Come, we must be inward, thou and I all one. I am glad I was ordained for ye. Goe to then, thou must knowe that Malenole is a strange villaine: dangerous, very dangerous, you see howe broade a speakes, a grose-jawde rogue, I would haue thee poison him: hees like a korne vpon my great oe, I cannot goe for him: hee must be kored out: he must, wilt doo't, h? Anything, any thing. Heart of my life, thus then to the Citadel, Thou shalt consort with this Malevole, There being at supper, poison him, It shallbe laid upon Maria, who yields love, or dies, Skud quick. Like lightning good deeds crawl, but mischief flies. Your devilship's ring haze no virtue, the buff-captain, the sallo-westfalian gamon-faced zaza cries stand out, must have a stiffer warrant, or no pass into the castle of Comfort. Command our sudden Letter: not enter? that, what place is there in Genoa, but thou shalt into my heart, into my very heart: come, let's love, we must love, we two, soul and body. How didst like the Hermit? A strange Hermit sirrah. A dangerous fellow, very perilous: he must die. ay, he must die. Thoust kill him: we are wise, we must be wise. And provident. Yea provident; beware an hypocrite.
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Metadata, position in the edition, topic in the other seeds
PlayThe Malcontent
AuthorMarston, John
Publication year (edition)1604
First performance / composition (Annals)1604 [1602-1604]
First performance (BritDrama)1603 [1602-1604]
Company (BritDrama)Children of the Chapel (second)
Genre (British Drama)tragicomedy
Play typeAdult Professional;Professional;Boys Professional
Edition / TCP / DEEPedition 468 · TCP A07071 · DEEP 359
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
Positionnodes 781–836 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 19 of 28 in this edition
Length522 words · 753 tokens
Topic (seed 42)T0 — Court life: dukes, favour and honour cross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.821 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seedsseed 43: T0 · seed 44: T0 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
A guard, a guard, we full of hartie teares, For our good fathers losse, For so we well may call him: Who did beseech your loues, for our succession, Cannot so lightly ouer-iumpe his death. As leaue his woes reuenglesse: woman of shame, We banish thee for euer to the place, From whence this good man comes, Nor permit on death vnto the bodie any ornament: But base as was thy life, depart away. Vngratefull. Away. Villaine heare me. Be gone my Lords, addresse to publique counsel, Tis most fit, The traine of Fortune is borne vp by wit. Away, our presence shal be sudden, haste. Now you egregious deuill, ha ye murthering polititian, how dost duke? how dost looke now? braue duke yfaith. How did you kill him? Slatted his brains out, then sowst him in the brinie sea. Braind him and drownd him too? O twas best, sure worke: For he that strikes a great man, let him strike home, or els ware, heele prooue no man: shoulder not a huge fellow, vnlesse you may be sure to lay him in the kennell. A most sound braine panne, Ile make you both Emperours Make vs christians, make vs christians. Ile hoist yee, yee shall mount. To the gallows, say ye? O ô me, Praium incertum petit certum scelus. How stands the Progresse? Here, take my ring vnto the Citadell, Haue entrance to Maria the graue Dutches Of banisht Altofront. Tell her wee loue her: Omit no circumstance to grace our Person (doo't) Iste make an excellent pandar: Duke farewell, due adue Duke. Take Maquerelle with thee; for t'is found, None cutts a Diamon but a Diamound. Hermit, thou art a man for me, my Confessor, O thou selected spirit, borne for my good, Sure thou wouldst make an excellent elder in a deformed church: Come, we must be inward, thou and I all one. I am glad I was ordayned for yee. Goe to then, thou must knowe that Malenole is a strange villaine: dangerous, very dangerous, you see howe broade a speakes, a grose-jawde rogue, I would haue thee poison him: hees like a korne vpon my great oe, I cannot goe for him: hee must be kored out: he must, wilt doo't, h? Anything, any thing. Heart of my life, thus then to the Citadell, Thou shalt consort with this Maleuole, There being at supper, poison him, It shalbe layde vpon Maria, who yeeldes loue, or dies, Skud quicke. Like lightning good deedes crawle, but mischiefe flies. Your diuelships ring haze no vertue, the buffecaptaine, the sallo-westfalian gamon-faced zaza cries stand out, must haue a stiffer wareant, or no passe into the castle of Comfort. Commaund our sodaine Letter: not enter? sha, what place is there in Genoa, but thou shalt into my heart, into my very heart: come, lets loue, we must loue, we two, soule and body. How didst like the Hermite? A strange Hermite sirrah. A dangerous fellow, very perillous: he must die. I, he must die. Thoust kil him: we are wise, we must be wise. And prouident. Yea prouident; beware an hypocrite.