Day, John · published 1606 · first performed or written 1606 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Queen's Revels · Blackfriars T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy typicality 0.87 · 486 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T23: wife, husband, cuckold, jealousy, woman, jealous, mistress, love, house, honest.
His foil will appear the more palpable, and your conquest the more applausable, where shall we receive the Ladies. Be that our care, but on your lives be heedful of your safeties. More than of our own my lord, Enough whilst you attend we'll to the Duke, and play all gulls or none. All Gulls indeed since you had follies whip, No gulls, to all gulls, fools love fellowship. Look well to mine Ass there, lord how I sweat with anger; this same's the house sure, and now like a wise Lady let me count my hurts, and see how I shall be revenged: it shallbe so, i'll have 'em both carted, and manasses shall go afore like a whiffler and make way with his horns, where be these whores: open the door, where be these pan dear: O that I were not a lady: I could scold like a butter-whore, whose's there a God's name, lord for his mercy is the woman mad. yes I thank ye for't: horn mad, where's your companion whets the old lecherous goat my husband, open the door I say. Iesus for thy mercy sake madam, what do I want. what do I want, the chief implement a woman should have I want that as a woman cannot be without, I mean my husband, I want. your husband, I saw him not as I am an honest woman. not as you are an honest, so I think, but as you are an arrant whore you did, you must have your Crevices with a pox cannot City Manchet and fresh codserve your turn, but you must have Court cakebread and Crevishes with a vengeance, but come give me my husband, or i'll have him out of the flesh on thee, and yet I will not scold neither. Pray Madam ha patience: what should your husband do here That which he should do at home with his wife, and he were worth his ears. Lady I protest I do not know him, Not know him thou liest in every vain i'th' heart thou liest, thou knowest him, and as Adam knew Eue thou knowest him, he hath been as inward with thee, as ever he was with me, he hath by his own confession he hath, & thou deniest it, thou liest in thy throat like a Puritanical whore as thou art, O that I were a butter-whore for an hour I might scold a little. Madam they are no honest men that bring these tales to you Men bring tales to me, I defy thee in thy guts, I defy thee, men bring tales to me, thou takest me to be one of thine own church dost: they are no honest men that bring tales to thee and ha wives of their own, and my husband's one of them, go thy ways now. I beseech you madam do but hear me.
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Length
486 words · 626 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T23 — Husbands, wives and jealousycross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.871 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T26 · seed 44: T28 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
His foile wil appeare the more palpable, and your conqueſt the more applauſable, where ſhall we receiue the Ladies. Be that our care, but on your liues be heedful of your ſafe ties. More then of our own my lord, Inough whilſt you attend weele to the Duke, and play all guls or none. All Guls indeed ſince you had follies whip, No guls, to all guls, fooles loue fellowſhip. Looke well to mine Aſſe ther, lord how I ſweat with anger; this ſames the houſe ſure, and now like a wiſe Lady let me count my hurts, and ſee how I ſhal be reuengd: it ſhalbe ſo, ile haue em both carted, and manaſſes ſhal go afore like a whifler and make way with his horns, where be theſe whores: open the dore, wher be theſe pan ders: O that I were not a lady: I could ſcold like a butter-whore, whoſe there a gods name, lord for his mercy is the woman mad. yes I thanke ye fort: horn mad, wheres your companion whetes the old leacherous goat my husband, open the doore I ſay. Ieſus for thy mercie ſake madam, what do I want. what do I want, the chiefe implement a woman ſhold haue I want that as a woman cannot be without, I mean my husband, I want. your husband, I ſawe him not as I am an honeſt woman. not as you are an honeſt, ſo I think, but as you are an arrant whore you did, you muſt haue your Creuiſhes with a pox cannot Citty Maunchet and freſh cod-ſerue your turne, but you muſt haue Court cake-bread and Creuiſhes with a vengeance, but come giue me my husband, or ile haue him out of the fleſh on thee, and yet I will not ſcold neither. Pray Madam ha patience: what ſhould your husband do here That which he ſhould do at home with his wife, and he were worth his eares. Lady I proteſt I do not know him, Not know him thou lieſt in euery vaine ith hart thou lyeſt, thou knoweſt him, and as Adam knew Eue thou knoweſt him, hee hath bene as inward with thee, as euer he was with me, he hath by his own confeſſion he hath, & thou denieſt it, thou lieſt in thy throat like a Puritanicall whore as thou art, O that I were a butter-whore for an houre I might ſcold alittle. Madam they are no honeſt men that bring theſe tales to you Men bring tales to me, I defie thee in thy guts, I defie thee, men bring tales to me, thou takeſt me to be one of thine own church doſt: they are no honeſt men that bring tales to thee and ha wiues of their own, and my husbands one of them, go thy waies now. I beſeech you madam do but heare me.