Chapman, George · published 1605 · first performed or written 1601 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Queen's Revels · before the Court T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy typicality 0.80 · 524 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T23: wife, husband, cuckold, jealousy, woman, jealous, mistress, love, house, honest.
Suspicion is (they say) the first degree Of deepest wisdom: and however others ygh against this mood of Ielousy, For my part I suppose it the best curb, To check the ranging appetites that reign In this weak sex: my neighbour's point at me For this my jealousy; but should I do As most of them do; let my wife fly out To feasts and revels, and invite home Gallants, Play Menelaus, give them time and place, While I sit like a well-taught waiting-woman, Turning her eyes upon some work or picture, Read in a Book, or take a feigned nap, While her kind Lady takes one to her lap? No, let me still be pointed at, and thought A jealous Ass, and not a wittolly Knave. I have a show of Courtiers haunt my house, In show my friends, and for my profit too: But I perceive 'em, and will mock their aims, With looking to their mark, I warrant 'em: I am content to ride abroad with them, To revel, dice, and fit their other sports; But by their leaves i'll have a vigilant eye To the mayne chance still. See my brave Comrades. Well, wag, well, wilt thou still deceive thy father, And being so simple a poor soul before him, Turn swaggerer in all companies beside? Hadst thou been rested, all would have come forth. Soft, sir, there lies the point; I do not doubt, But t'have my penny worths of these Rascals one day: I'll smoke the buzzing Hornets from their nests, Or else i'll make their leather jerkins stay. The whoreson hungry Horseflies; Foot, a man Cannot so soon, for want of Almanacs, Forget his day but three or four bare months, But straight he fees a sort of Corporals, To lie in Ambuscado to surprise him. Well, thou hadst happy fortune to escape v. But they thought theirs was happier to scape me. I walking in the place, where men's law suits Are heard and pleaded, not so much as dreaming Of any such encounter, steps me forth Their valiant foreman, with the word, I rest you. I made no more ado, but laid these paws Close on his shoulders, tumbling him to earth; And there sat he on his posteriors, Like a Baboon; and turning me about, I straight espied the whole troup issuing on me. I stepped me back, and drawing my old friend here, Made to the midst of them, and all unable T'endure the shock, all rudely sell in rout, And down the stairs they ran with such a fury, As meeting with a troup of Lawyers there, manned by their Clients: some with ten, some with twenty, Some five, some three; he that had least, had one: Upon the stairs they bore them down afore them: But such a rattling then was there amongst them Of ravished Declarations, Replications, Rejoinders and Petitions; all their books And writings torn and trod on, and some lost, That the poor Lawyers coming to the Bar, Could say nought to the matter, but instead, Were fain to rail and talk besides their books Without all order.
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Length
524 words · 689 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T23 — Husbands, wives and jealousycross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.804 (cosine to the topic centroid)
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seed 43: T26 · seed 44: T28 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
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Suspition is (they say) the st degree Of deepest wisedome: and how euer others ygh against this mood of Ielousy, For my part I suppose it the best curb, To check the ranging appetites that raigne In this weake sexe: my neighbours poynt at me For this my ielousy; but should I doe As most of them doe; let my wife fly out To feasts and reuels, and inte home Gallants, Play Menelaus, giue them time and place, While t like a well-taught wayting-woman, Turning hr eyes vpon some worke or picture, Read in a Booke, or take a fayned nap, While her ind Lady takes one to her lap? No, let me still be poynted at, and thought A ielouse Asse, and not a wittally Knaue. I haue a shew of Courtyers haunt my house, In shew my friends, and or my profit too: But I perceiue vm, and will mock their aymes, With looking to their marke, I warrant vm: I am content to ride abroad with them, To reuell, dice, and fit their other sports; But by their leaues ile haue a vigilant eye To the mayne chaunce still. See my braue Comrades. Well, wag, well, wilt thou still deceiue thy father, And being so simple a poore soule before him, Turne swaggerer in all companies besides? Hadst thou bin rested, all would haue come forth. Soft, , there lyes the poynt; I do not doubt, But t'haue my penny worths of these Rascals one day: Ile smoke the buzzing Hornets from their nests, Or else ile make their lether kins stay. The whorson hungry Horse-flyes; Foot, a man Cannot so soone, for want of Almanacks, Forget his day but three or foure bare moneths, But strait he fees a sort of Corporals, To lye in Ambuscado to surprize him. Well, thou hadst happy fortune to escape v. But they thought was happier to scape me. I walking in the place, where mens law suites Are heard and pleaded, not so much as dreaming Of any such encounter, steps me forth Their vaant fore-man, with the word, I rest you. I made no more adoe, but layd these pawes Close on his shoulders, tumbling him to earth; And there sate he on his posteriors, Like a Baboone; and turning me about, I pyed the whole troope issuing on me. I stept me backe, and drawing my olde friend heere, Made to the midst of them, and all vnable T'endure the shock, all rudely sell n rout, And downe the stayres they ranne with such a fury, As meeting with a troope o Lawyers there, Man'd by their Clyents: some with ten, some with twenty, Some fiue, some three; he that had least, had one: Vpon the stayres they bore them downe afore them: But such a rattling then was there amongst them Of Declarations, Replications, Reioynders and Petitions; all their bookes And writings torne and trod on, and ome lost, That the poore Lawyers comming to the Barre, Could say nought to the matter, but instead, Were fayne to rayle and talke besides their bookes Without all order.