Day, John · published 1633 · first performed or written 1606 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Queen's Revels · Blackfriars unassigned nearest T28 Marriage-making: weddings, brides and ma · 498 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T28: married, marriage, wedding, day, bride, father, wife, luce, love, husband.
Goodly ones indeed: but leaving this highway of circumstance; I sent you for Manasses. The learned Scribe attends you. Will you fall off sir? Like an Apple at Michaelmas, without shaking. Exit. Welcome Manasses: I have present employment for thee, in which I must borrow— Pardon me Madam, I learned of my Lord, to lend nothing without security and pawns. 'Tis not money (Manasses) but counsel and furtherance that we desire. Good counsel is worth good money Madam. Thou shalt be well considered; there's twenty Crowns in earnest. Nay Madam, this hand is like a fellow that takes every thing in jest; if you be in earnest, let me feel it here: So Lady, now betwixt earnest and jest, if your Will be ready drawn, before your friend delivered as your deed, and put me in trust to execute it. Take it this, in a word honest Shepherd, and thy Lord's daughter Madam Mopsa, are man and wife. Man, and woman perhaps, but not man and wife: for though most women have a will to be Ladies, like my Lord's wife; yet every Lady hath not wit to be a wife, as my Lord's Daughter. But what good can I do in this? O very much: for though they be man and wife by oath and protestation, the chiefest ceremony of all; namely Marriage is yet unperformed, and hearing that you have tane orders. That I have: I have ta'en order for the making away of a hundred Maidenheads in my time, and not so few: but I am in the mind of you now, these two beagles, Dorus and Mopsa, have run themselves breathless in the chase of love, you would ha' me couple them up in the leases of Matrimony. You are in the right. And you in the wrong, i'll keep your jest, but in any case take back again your earnest: i'll not purchase my Lord's displeasure with your gold. Thy Lord shall never know't. Oh sir! though my Mahath but bad eyes, he hath exceeding long ears: and though a Foreigner may play with a Citizens wooden Dagger, I would not wish any to jest with a Courtiers steeled Sword; 'tis seldom drawn but it draws blood. Tush man, be not so timorous, my credit shall countenance thee: be not an Ass, make use of thy time: thy master's service is no heritage; the world knows he gets under the Duke, thou art a fool, and thou wilt lose under him: there's a hundred Crowns for thee; tush man, thy betters will strain courtesy with allegiance for a bribe Madam, could you to every one of these Crowns give me a Kingdom? What then? I should have more ground then half the Kings in Christendom: here's my hand, I'll do't: my M. is my M. and I love him; but my gold's my God, and I honour it: I'll do't; the time and place? Soon in the evening at Adonis' Chapel. Art resolute?
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Goodly ones indeed: but leaving this high-way of circumſtance; I ſent you for Manaſſes. The learned Scribe attends you. Will you fall off ſir? Like an Apple at Michaelmas, without ſhaking. Exit. Welcome Manaſſes: I haue preſent employment for thee, in which I muſt borrow— Pardon me Madam, I learned of my Lord, to lend nothing without ſecuritie and pawnes. 'Tis not money (Manaſſes) but counſell and furtherance that we deſire. Good counſell is worth good money Madam. Thou ſhalt bee well conſidered; there's twenty Crownes in earneſt. Nay Madam, this hand is like a fellow that takes every thing in jeſt; if you be in earneſt, let me feele it here: So Lady, now betwixt earneſt and jeſt, if your Will be ready drawne, before your friend delivered as your deed, and put me in truſt to execute it. Take it this, in a word honeſt Sheepheard, and thy Lords daughter Madam Mopſa, are man and wife. Man, and woman perhaps, but not man and wife: for though moſt women haue a will to bee Ladies, like my Lords wife; yet every Lady hath not wit to bee a wife, as my Lords Daughter. But what good can I doe in this? O very much: for though they bee man and wife by oath and proteſtation, the chiefeſt ceremony of all; namely Mariage is yet unperformed, and hearing that you haue ane orders. That I haue: I haue tane order for the making away of a hundred Maidenheads in my time, and not ſo few: but I am in the mind of you now, theſe two beagles, Dorus and Mopſa, haue runne themſelues breathleſſe in the chaſe of loue, you would ha' me couple them up in the leaſes of Matrimonie. You are in the right. And you in the wrong, ile keepe your jeſt, but in any caſe take backe againe your earneſt: ile not purchaſe my Lords diſpleaſure with your gold. Thy Lord ſhall never know't. Oh ſir! though my Mhath but bad eyes, hee hath exceeding long eares: and though a Forrayner may play with a Citizens wooden Dagger, I would not wiſh any to jeſt with a Courtiers ſteeld Sword; tis ſeldome drawen but it drawes blood. Tuſh man, be not ſo timerous, my credite ſhall countenance thee: bee not an Aſſe, make uſe of thy time: thy maſters ſervice is no heritage; the world knowes hee gets under the Duke, thou art a foole, and thou wilt looſe under him: there's a hundred Crownes for thee; tuſh man, thy betters will ſtraine curteſie with aleagence for a bribe Madam, could you to every one of theſe Crownes giue me a Kingdome? What then? I ſhould haue more ground then halfe the Kings in Chriſtendome: here's my hand, ile do't: my M. is my M. and I loue him; but my gold's my God, and I honour it: ile do't; the time and place? Soone in the evening at Adonis Chapell. Art reſolute?