Day, John · published 1633 · first performed or written 1606 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Queen's Revels · Blackfriars T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe typicality 0.75 · 500 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T9: play, stage, poet, prologue, author, wit, plays, muse, scene, players.
HOW now gallants, what ist? what ist? The I'll of Guls. The I'll of Gulls, what should that be? A play by the name, but come shals quarter ourselves? If some had had the wit to do so in time, they might have saved the hangman a labour. But come boy, furnish us with stools. Pardon me sir, my office is to speak a Prologue, not to provide you stools. And you were the Epilogue to sir— Fie be not incivill: dost hear youth, prithee what's he that discovered your new found Land, the I'll of Gulls? what is he? A mere stranger sir. A stranger? the better welcome: comes he Eastward, Westward, or Northward ho? None of the three ways I assure you. Prithee where is he? Not on his knees in a comer to Apollo, praying that his play may hold in a good hand at Passage, nor on the stage amongst gallants, preparing a bespoke Plaudite; but close in his study writing hard, to get him a handsome suit against Summer. And where sit his friends? hath he not a prepared company of gallants, to applaud his jests, and grace out his play? None I protest▪ Do Poets use to bespeak their Auditory? The best in grace do, and but for that, some that I know, had never had their grace in Poetry till this day. Then must our Author looké for a certain disgrace, for he is altogether unfurnished of such a friendly audience. Then he must lay his trial upon God and good wits But why doth he call his play The I'll of Gulls? it begets much expectation. Not out of any dogged disposition, nor that it figures any certain state, or private government: far be that supposition from the thought of any indifferent Auditor: and the argument being a little string or rivulet, drawn from the full strain of the right worthy Gentleman Sir Philip Sydnies well known Arcadia, confirms it: only a Duke, to make trial of certain experiments, retires with his retinue into a nameless desert. Now as well for fashion sake, as that all those which have to do in that desert, are gulled in the reach of their hopes; therefore he calls it, (and as he presumes, not improperly) The I'll of Gulls. Out a question he hath promised thee some fee, thou pleadest so hard for him, but and he be a right Poet he will never perform it. But what method observes he in his Play, ist any thing Critical? Are Lawyers fees, and Citizens wives laid open in it? I love to hear vice anatomizd, and abuse let blood in the master vain, is there any great man's life charactered in't? None I protest sir, only in the person of Dametas, he expresses to the life the monstrous and deformed shape of vice, aswell to beget a loathing of abuse, as that his villainy may give the greater lustre to the virtuous dispositions of trueborn gentility.
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500 words · 653 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T9 — Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playerscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.751 (cosine to the topic centroid) · placed after the fit (approximate_predict), not counted in the topic statistics
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HOW now gallants, what iſt? what iſt? The Ile of Guls. The Ile of Guls, what ſhould that be? A play by the name, but come ſhals quarter our ſelues? If ſome had had the wit to doe ſo in time, they might haue ſau'd the hang-man a labour. But come boy, furniſh us with ſtooles. Pardon mee ſir, my office is to ſpeake a Prologue, not to provide you ſtooles. And you were the Epilogue to ſir— Fie be not incivill: doſt heare youth, prethee what's he that diſcovered your new found Land, the Ile of Guls? what is he? A meere ſtranger ſir. A ſtranger? the better welcome: comes hee Eaſt-ward, Weſt-ward, or North-ward hoe? None of the three wayes I aſſure you. Prethee where is he? Not on his knees in a comer to Apollo, praying that his play may hold in a good hand at Paſſage, nor on the ſtage amongſt gallants, preparing a beſpoke Plaudite; but cloſe in his ſtudy writing hard, to get him a handſome ſuite againſt Summer. And where ſit his friends? hath he not a prepared company of gallants, to applaud his jeſts, and grace out his play? None I proteſt▪ Do Poets uſe to beſpeake their Auditory? The beſt in grace doe, and but for that, ſome that I know, had never had their grace in Poetry till this day. Then muſt our Author looké for a certaine diſgrace, for he is altogether unfurniſht of ſuch a friendly audience. Then he muſt lay his triall upon God and good wits But why doth he call his play The Ile of Gulls? it begets much expectation. Not out of any dogged diſpoſition, nor that it figures any certaine ſtate, or private government: farre bee that ſuppoſition from the thought of any indifferent Auditor: and the argument being a little ſtring or ivolet, drawen from the full ſtraine of the right worthy Gentleman Sir Phillip Sydnies well knowne Arcadia, confirmes it: only a Duke, to make triall of certaine experiments, retires with his retinue into a nameleſſe deſert. Now as well for faſhion ſake, as that all thoſe which haue to doe in that deſert, are guld in the reach of their hopes; therefore he cals it, (and as he preſumes, not improperly) The Ile of Gulls. Out a queſtion he hath promiſed thee ſome fee, thou pleadeſt ſo hard for him, but and he be a right Poet he will never performe it. But what method obſerues he in his Play, iſt any thing Criticall? Are Lawyers fees, and Citizens wiues laid open in it? I loue to heare vice anatomizd, and abuſe let blood in the maſter vaine, is there any great mans life charactred in't? None I proteſt ſir, only in the perſon of Dametas, he expreſſes to the life the monſtrous and deformed ſhape of vice, aſwell to beget a loathing of abuſe, as that his villany may giue the greater luſter to the vertuous diſpoſitions of true-borne gentility.