Chapman, George · published 1606 · first performed or written 1602 [Sep 18] (Annals) comedy · Children of the Chapel (second) unassigned nearest T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint · 508 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.
Your Lordship might well make that division if you knew the plain song. O Sir, and why so I pray? First because the heart, is the more worthy entrail, being the first that is borne, and moves, and the last that moves, and dies; and then being the fountain of heat too, for wheresoever our heat does not flow directly from the heart to the other Organs, there, their action must of necessity cease, and so without you I neither would nor could live. Well Sir for these reasons I may be the heart, why may you be the liver now?. I am more than ashamed, to tell you that my Lord. Nay nay be not too suspicious of my judgement, in you I beseech you: ashamed friend? if your love overcome not that shame, a shame take that love I say. Come sir why may you be the liver? The plain and short truth is (my Lord) because I am all liver, and turned lover. Lover? Lover i'faith my Lord. Now I prithee let me leap out of my skin for joy why thou wilt not now revive the sociable mirth of thy sweet disposition? wilt thou shine in the world a new? and make those that have slighted thy love, with the Austerity of thy knowledge, dote on the again with thy commanding shaft of their humours? A 'las my Lord they are all far out of my aims and only to fit myself a little better to your friendship, have I given these wilful reins to my affections. And i'faith is my sour friend to all worldly desires overtaken with the heart of the world? Love I shall be monstrous proud now, to hear she's every way a most rare woman that I know thy spirit, & judgement hath chosen, is she wise? is she noble? is she capable of thy virtues? will she kiss this forehead with judicial lips? where somuch judgement & virtue deserves it? Come brother twin, be short I charge you, & name me the woman. Since your Lordship will shorten the length of my folly's relation, the woman that I so passionately love, is no worse Lady than your own Niece, the too worthy Countess Eugenia. Why so, so, so, you are a worthy friend are you not to conceal this love-mine in your head, and would not open it to your heart, now beshrew my heart, if my heart dance not for joy though my heels do not, & they do not, because I will not set that at my heels that my friends set at his heart, what? friend and Nephew? both nephe is a far inferior title to friend I confess, but I will prefer the backwards (as many friends do) & leave their friends worse than they found them, But my noble Lo. it is almost a prodigy, that I being only a poor Gentleman and far short of that state and wealth that a Lady of her greatnesses in both will expect in her husband.
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Your Lordship might well make that diuision if you knew the plaine song. O Sir, and why so I pray? First because the heart, is the more worthy entraile, being the first that is borne, and moues, and the last that moues, and dies; and then being the fountaine of heate too, for wheresoeuer our heate does not flowe directly from the hart to the other Organs, there, their action must of necessitie cease, and so without you I nether would nor could liue. VVel Sir for these reasons I may be the heart▪ why may you be the liuer now?. I am more then ashamde, to tell you that my Lord. Nay nay be not too suspitious of my iudgemēt, in you I beseech you: asham'd friend? if your loue ouercome not that shame, a shame take that loue I saie. Come sir why may you be the lier? The plaine and short truth is (my Lord) because I am all liuer, and tournd louer. Louer? Louer y faith my Lord. Now I prethee let me leape out of my skin for ioy why thou wil not now reviue the sociable mirth of thy sweete disposition? wilt thou shine in the world a new? and make those that haue fleighted thy loue, with the Austeritie of thy knowledge, doate on the againe with thy commaunding haft of their humors? A las my Lord they are all farre out of my aimes and onely to fit my selfe a little better to your friendshippe, haue I giuen these wilfull raygnes to my affections. And y faith is my sower friend to all worldlie desires ouertaken with the hart of the world? Loue I shall be monstrous proud now, to heare shees euerie way a most rare woman that I know thy spirit, & iudgement hath chosen, is she wise? is she noble? is she capable of thy vertues? will she kisse this forehead with iudiciall lipps? where somuch iudgement & vertue deserues it? Come brother Twinn, be short I charge you, & name me the woman. Since your Lordship will shorten the length of my follies relation, the woman that I so passionateli loue, is no worse Ladie then your owne Neece, the too worthi Countesse Eugeia. VVhy so, so, so, you are a worthie friend are you not to concele this loue-mine in your head, and would not open it to your hart, now beshrow my hart, if my hart dance not for ioy tho my heees do not, & they doe not, because I will not set that at my heeles that my friends set at his heart, what? friende and Nephew? both nephewis a far inferior title to friend I confesse, but I wil preferre the backwards (as many friends doe) & leaue their friends woorse then they found them, But my noble Lo. it is almost a prodegie, that I being onely a poore Gentleman and farre short of that state and wealth that a Ladie of her greatnesses in both will expect in her husband.