Chapman, George · published 1605 · first performed or written 1601 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Queen's Revels · before the Court unassigned nearest T51 Parents and children: blessing, birthrig · 529 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T51: esau, iacob, father, son, isaac, god, love, birthright, parents, thing.
A passing kind construction; suffer this, You open him doors to any villainy, He'll dare to sell, to pawn, run ever riot, Despise your love in all, and laugh at you: And that knight's competency you have gotten With care and labour; he with lust and idleness Will bring into the stipend of a beggar; All to maintain a wanton whirligig, Worth nothing more than she brings on her back, Yet all your wealth too little for that back: By heaven I pity your declining state, For be assured your son hath set his foot, In the right pathway to consumption: Up to the heart in love; and for that love, Nothing can be too dear his love desires: And how insatiate and unlimited, Is the ambition and the beggarly pride Of a dame hoist from a beggars state, To a state competent and plentiful, You cannot be so simple not to know. I must confess the mischief: But alas Where is in me the power of remedy? Where? in your just displeasure: cast him off, Receive him not, let him endure the use Of their enforced kindness that must trust him For meat and money, for apparel, house, And every thing belongs to that estate, Which he must learn with want of misery, Since pleasure and a full estate hath blinded His dissolute desires. What should I do? If I should banish him my house and sight, What desperate resolution might it breed? To run into the wars, and there to live In want of competency and perhaps Taste th'unrecoverable loss of his chief limbs, Which while he hath in peace, at home with me, May with his spirit, ransom his estate From any loss his marriage can procure. Is't true? Ne let him run into the war, And lose what limbs he can: better one branch Be lopped away, than all the whole tree should perish: And for his wants, better young want then old, You have a younger son at Padua, I like his learning well, make him your heir, And let your other walk: let him buy wit at's own charge, not at's fathers, if you lose him, You lose no more than that was lost before, If you recover him, you find a son. I cannot part with him. If it be so, and that your love to him be so extreme, In needful dangers, ever choose the least: If he should be in mind to pass the Seas, Your son Rinaldo (who told me all this) Will tell me that, and so we shall prevent it: If by no stern course you will venture that, Let him come home to me with his fair wife: And if you chance to see him, shake him up, As if your wrath were hard to be reflected, That he may fear hereafter to offend In other dissolute courses: At my house With my advice and my sons good example, Who shall serve as a glass for him to see His faults, and mend them to his precedent: I make no doubt but of a dissolute Son And disobedient, to send him home Both dutiful and thrifty,
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A passing kinde construction; suffer this, You ope him doores to any villany, He'le dare to sell, to pawne, runne euer ryot, Despise your loue in all, and laugh at you: And that knights competency you haue gotten With care and labour; he with lust and idlenesse Will bring into the ypend of a begger; All to maintaine a wanton whirly▪gig, Worth nothing more then she brings on her back, Yet all your wealth too little for that back: By heauen I py your declining state, For be assu'd your sonne hath set his foote, In the right path-way to consumption: Vp to the heart in loue; and for that loue, Nothing can be too deare his loue desires: And how isatiate and vnlymited, Is the ambition and the beggerly pride Of a dame hoysed from a beggers state, To a state competent and plentifull, You cannot be so simple not to know. I must conesse the mischiefe: But alas Where is in me the power of remedy? Where? in your iust displeasure: cast him off, Receiue him not, let him endure the vse Of their enorced kindnesse that must trust him For meate and money, for apparrell, house, And euery thing belongs to that estate, Which he must learne with want of misery, Since pleasure and a full estate hath blinded His dissolute desires. What should I doe? If I should banish him my house and sight, What desperate resolution might it breed? To runne into the warres, and there to liue In want of competencie and prhaps Taste th'vnrecouerable losse of his chiefe limbes, Which while he hath in peace, at home with me, May with his spirit, ransome his estate From any losse his mariage can procure. Ist true? Ne let him nne into the warre, And lose what limbes he can: better one branch Be lopt away, then all the whole tree should perish: And for his wants, better young want then olde, You haue a younger sonne at Padoa, I like his learning well, make him your heire, And let your other walke: let him buy wit Att's owne charge, not at's fathers, if you loose him, You loose no more then that was lost before, If you recouer him, you finde a sonne. I cannot part with him. If it be so, and that your loue to him be so extreame, In needfull daungers, euer chuse the least: If he should be in minde to passe the Seas, Your sonne Rynaldo (who tolde me all this) Will tell me that, and so we shall preuent it: If by no sterne couse you will venture that, Let him come home to me with his faire wife: And if you chaunce to see him, shake him vp, As if your wrath were hard to be reflected, That he may feare hereafter to offend In other dissolute courses: At my house With my aduice and my sonnes good example, Who shall serue as a glasse for him to see His faults, and mend them to his president: I make no doubt but of a dissolut Sonne And disobedient, to send him home Both dutifull and thriftie,