Sharpham, Edward · published 1607 · first performed or written 1607 (Annals) comedy · Children of the King's Revels T16 Gallantry: ladies, lordships and complim typicality 0.85 · 489 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T16: lady, madam, gentleman, lordship, ladies, honour, mistress, sweet, court, servant.
Hold mistress, spend that for my sake, and it shall not be long ere I will come and visit your house. I thank your worship, sir, i'll be so bold as to take my deliverance out of your company. Farewell. God be with you mistress Correction. The like to you good Master Wages, but do you hear sir, I hope if your worship come to my house, if there be nobody at home but myself, though I am an old woman, yet I hope your worship will not despise age. No, no, fear not that. I thank ye heartily sir. With all my heart, Wages farewell, and bring but an answer of my letter; and I will be thy paymaster, not thy debtor. I understand so much by your name good Master Newcome. And I am in grace too Lady, what my souls sweet secretary! you are fairly met indeed, how doth old Venter thy father? O how perfumed your courtier's phrases are: I left him in health sir. O ay, they speak in print I can tell you, and though it be a sin, to rob a man of his learning yet Courtiers are very seldom blamed for getting out of any men's books. Yet I have known them steal out of them ere now. Nay then you'll make a Courtier a Thief: ay, such a one as the good thief was. Mass I wonder what Country man that good thief was? O, a was my countryman Lady, he was a borderer on North wales, I can assure you. Indeed and so I think, for not to flatter ye, many of your Country men have proved good thieves ever since: but I pray tell me, is it the fashion of your north wales, to suffer your beards to grow upwards thus, in spite of your nose? Yes Lady, all of us that are Courtiers: marry before when we were poor country fellows, we suffered our beards carelessly to grow downward, and then they grow into our mouths in spite of our teeth, now you know hair is but excrement, & for mine own part, I had rather have my excrement in my nose, then in my teeth. I have heard most of your Country men are very active men. O Lady, I have seen a youth of eighteen years in our Country, would a capered ye, thus high! 'T as been in a string then. Is it possible? Nay, believe it, a would have done it with all his heart, but he could not. They say to, most of your Countrymen are very valiant O ay, they terrify their enemies with patience. O, we make the excellentest Soldiers in the world. ay, but they say, they cannot press a man to the wars though, in all your country. yes Knights: Why Knights? To save our Landed men at home. I have heard, most of ye are great travailers.
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Hold mistresse, spend that for my sake, and it shall not be long ere I will come and visit your house. I thank your worship, sir, ile bee so bold as to take my deliuerance out of your company. Farwell. God be with you mistresse Correction. The like to you good Maister Wages, but doe you heare sir, I hope if your worship come to my house, if there be no body at home but my selfe, though I am an old woman, yet I hope your worship will not dispise age. No, no, feare not that. I thanke ye heartily sir. With all my heart, Wages farwell, and bring but an answere of my letter; and I will be thy pay-maister, not thy debter. I vnderstand so much by your name good Maister Nuecome. And I am in grace too Lady, what my soules sweet secretarie! you are fairely met indeed, how doth old Venter thy father? O how perfum'd your Courtiers phraisies are: I left him in health sir. O I, they speake in print I can tell you, and though it be a sinne, to rob a man of his learning yet Courtiers are verie sildome blamde for getting out of any mens bookes. Yet I haue knowne them steale out of them ere now. Nay then youle make a Courtier a Theefe: I, such a one as the good theefe was. Masse I wonder what Country man that good theef was? O, a was my countryman Lady, hee was a borderer on North wales, I can assure you. Indeede and so I thinke, for not to flatter ye, manye of your Country men haue prooued good theeues euer since: but I pra'y tell me, is it the fashion of your north wales, to suffer your beards to grow vpwards thus, in spite of your nose? Yes Lady, al of vs that are Courtiers: marrie before when we were poore countrie fellowes, wee suffered our beardes careleslie to growe downeward, and then they growe into our mouths in spite of our teeth, now you know haire is but excrement, & for mine owne part, I had rather haue my excrement in my nose, then in my teeth. I haue heard moste of your Country men are verry actiue men. O Lady, I haue seene a youth of eighteene yeares in our Countrie, would a caper'd ye, thus hye! 'T as bin in a string then. Is it possible? Nay, beleeue it, a would haue done it with all his heart, but hee could not. They say to, moste of your Countriemen are verie valiant O I, they terrifie their enemies with patience. O, we make the excellent'st Souldiers in the world. I, but they say, they cannot presse a man to the warres though, in all your countrie. yes Knights: Why Knights? To saue our Landed men at home. I haue heard, moste of ye are great Trauailers.