2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody (The Second Part of Queen Elizabeth's Troubles) · chunk 9 of 44
Heywood, Thomas · published 1606 · first performed or written 1605 [1604-1605; revised c.1632] (Annals) history · Queen Anne's Men unassigned nearest T6 Money, debt and credit · 490 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
God's precious, I have spent five hundred pound, And so have I. No matter. The judgement stands, only this verdict too, Had you before the law foreseen the loss, You had not now come home by weeping cross. Strifes may as well have end twixt honest men, Lawyers set fools to Law, then laugh at them. Fore God 'tis true: and now I think upon it, We might at first have ended it by friends, And made ourselves merry with the money: But being done, 'tis done, than sir Thomas Ramsey, Let's leave both losers, 'tis but a thousand pound, And if you be as well content as I, Here we'll shake hands and let our anger die. Shake hands, by the Marie god, sir Thomas what else, You show yourselves our friends, to make us friends, Then in good sooth i'll not be obstinate. Nay, M. Doctor Nowell join their hands, I know the reverent regard of you Hath tempered both their hearts. madam, 'tis true: I think to any but so good a man, We should have both been headstrong: but come. With all my heart, long may you live together, As friend should be to friend, brother to brother. Amen, amen, sir Thomas. Amen, amen, Master Gresham. Amen, amen, to you both. And is not 'tis better than every Term to trot after Lawyers? Good sooth 'tis true, if we could think it so, But 'tis man's nature, he desires his woe. Now passion of me sir Thomas, a cruel storm, And we stay long we shall be wet to the skin, I do not liked, nay and it angers me That such a famous City as this is, Wherein so many gallant Merchants are, Have not a place to meet in, but in this, Where every shower of rain must trouble them: I cannot tell but if I live: let's step into the pope's head, We shall be dropping dry if stay here: I'll have a roof built, and such a roof, That Merchants and their wives, friend and their friends Shall walk underneath it as now in Paul's. What day of the Month is this? Day M. Gresham, let me see: I took a fellows word for twenty pound The tenth of March, the tenth of March. The tenth of March, well if I live, I'll raise a work shall make our Merchants say, 'twas a good shower that fell upon that day. How now Jack? Sir, my M. here having preferred me to be his Factor into I am come to take my leave of you. (France I thank him for his care of thee: M. Hobson, My kinsman's come to take his leave of me, He tells me you are sending him for France. Bones a me knave, art there yet? I thought thou hadst been half way there by this. I did but stay sir, to take my leave of my Uncle.
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Gods precious, I haue spent fiue hundred pound, And so haue I. No matter. The iudgement stands, onely this verdite too, Had you before the law fore-seene the losse, You had not now come home by weeping crosse. Strifes may as well haue end twixt honest men, Lawyers set fooles to Law, then laugh at them. Fore God tis true: and now I thinke vpon it, We might at first haue ended it by friendes, And made our selues merry with the money: But being done, tis done, then sir Thomas Ramsey, Let's leaue both loosers, tis but a thousand pound, And if you be as well content as I, Here weele shake hands and let our anger dye. Shake hands, by the Marie god, sir Thomas what else, You shew your selues our friends, to make vs friends, Then in good sooth ile not be obstinate. Nay, M. Doctor Nowell ioyne their hands, I know the reuerent regard of you Hath tempred both their hearts. Madame, tis true: I thinke to any but so good a man, We should haue both beene headstrong: but come. VVith all my heart, long may you liue together, As friend should be to friend, brother to brother. Amen, amen, sir Thomas. Amen, amen, Master Gresham. Amen, amen, to you both. And is not tis better then euery Terme to trot after Lawyers? Good sooth tis true, if we could thinke it so, But tis mans nature, he desires his woe. Now passion of me sir Thomas, a cruell storme, And we stay long we shall be wet to the skinne, I doe not lik't, nay and it angers mee That such a famous Citie as this is, Wherein so many gallant Marchants are, Haue not a place to meete in, but in this, VVhere euery shoure of raine must trouble' them: I cannot tell but if I liue: lets step into the Popes head, We shall be dropping dry if stay here: Ile haue a roofe built, and such a roofe, That Marchants and their wiues, friend and their friends Shall walke vnderneath it as now in Powles. What day of the Month is this? Day M. Gresham, let me see: I tooke a fellowes word for twentie pound The tenth of March, the tenth of March. The tenth of March, well if I liue, Ile raise a worke shall make our Marchants say, T'was a good showre that fell vpon that day. How now Iacke? Sir, my M. here hauing preferd me to be his Factor into I am come to take my leaue of you. (France I thanke him for his care of thee: M. Hobson, My kinsman's come to take his leaue of me, He tels me you are sending him for France. Bones a me knaue, art there yet? I thought thou hadst been halfe way there by this. I did but stay sir, to take my leaue of my Vncle.