Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John · published 1607 · first performed or written 1605 (Annals) comedy · Children of Paul's (second) T8 Captains, gallants and cheats typicality 0.79 · 499 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T8: captain, master, money, gentleman, little, lieutenant, rogue, pray, minos, honest.
You know 'tis not for a Gentlewoman to stand with a knave, for a small matter, and so I would not strive with him, only to be rid of him. If I take Master pricklouse ramping so high again, by this Iron (which is none a God's Angel) i'll make him know how to kiss your blind cheeks sooner: mistress Dorothy Hornet, I would not have you be a hornet, to lick at Cowsherds, but to sting such shreds of rascality: will you sing a Tailor shall have me my joy? Captain, i'll be led by you in any thing! a tailor! foh. Of what stature or size have you a stomach to have your husband now? Of the meanest stature Captain, not a size longer than yourself, nor shorter. By god, 'tis well said: all your best Captain in the Low-countries are as taller as I: but why of my pitch Mistress Dol? Because your smallest Arrows fly farthest; ah you little hard-favoured villain, but sweet villain, I love thee because thou'lt draw a my side, hang the rogue that will not fight for a woman. Uds blood, and hang him for vrse than a rogue that will slash and cut for an oman, if she be a whore. prithee good Captain Jenkins, teach me to speak some Welsh, methinks a Welshman's tongue is the neatest tongue!— As any tongue in the urld, unless Cramacrees, that's vrse. How do you say, I love you with all my heart. Mi cara whee, en hellon. Mi cara whee, en hellhound. hell-hound, o mondu, my cara whee, en hellon. O, my cara whee en hellon. Oh! and you went to writing school twenty score year in Wales, by Sesu, you cannot have better utterance, for Welsh. Come tit me, come that me, come throw a kiss at me, how is that? By gad I know not, what your tit mees and that mees are, but me uatha— 'sblood I know what kisses be, aswell as I know a Welsh hook, if you will go down with Shropshire carriers, you shall have Welsh enough in your pellies forty weeks. Say Captain that I should follow your colours into your Country how should I fare there? Fare? by Sesu, O there is the most abominable seere! and wider silver pots to drink in, and softer beds to lie upon & do our necessary pusines, and fairer houses and parks, & holes for coneys, and more money, besides toasted Sees and buttermilk in North-Wales diggon: beside, haps, & Welsh Freeze, and Goats, and cow-heels, and Metheglin, ouh, it may be set in the chronicles, will you march thither? Not with your Shropshire carriers, Captain. Will you go with Captain Ienkin and see his cousin Maddoc upon Ienkin there, and i'll run headlongs by and by, & batter away money for a new Coach to jolt you in. Bestow your Coach upon me, & two young white Mares, and you shall see how I'll ride.
nodes 358–380 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 13 of 42 in this edition
Length
499 words · 701 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T8 — Captains, gallants and cheatscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.790 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T11 · seed 44: T14 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
You know tis not for a Gentlewoman to stand with a knaue, for a small matter, and so I wud not striue with him, onelie to be rid of him. If I take Maister prick-louse ramping so hie againe, by this Iron (which is none a gods Angell) ile make him know how to kisse your blind cheekes sooner: mistris Dorothy Hornet, I wud not haue you bee a hornet, to licke at Cowsherds, but to sng such sheds of rascallity: will you sing a Tailor shall haue mee my ioy? Captaine, ile bee lead by you in any thing! a Taylor! foh. Of what stature or sise haue you a stomach to haue your husband now? Of the meanest stature Captaine, not a sze longer than your sefe, nor shorter. By god, tis wel said: all your best Captaine in the Low-coutres are as taller as I: but why of my pitch Mistris Dol? Because your smallest Arrowes flie farthest; ah you little hard-fauord villaine, but sweete villaine, I loue thee beecause thou't draw a my side, hang the roague that will not fight for a woman. Vds blould, and hange him for vrse than a roague tha will slash and cut for an oman, if she be a whore. Pree the good Captaine Iynkis, teach mee to speake some welch, mee thinkes a Welchmans tongue is the neatest tongue! — As any tongue in the vrld, vnlesse Cramacrees, that's vrse. How do you say, I loue you with all my heart. Mi cara whee, en hellon. Mi cara whee, en hel-hound. Hel▪ hound, o mondu, my cara whee, en hellon. O, my cara whee en hellon. Oh! and you went to wryting schoole twenty score yeare in Wales, by Sesu, you cannot haue better vttrance, for welch. Come tit mee, come tat mee, come throw a kisse at me, how is that? By gad I kanow not, what your tit mees and tat mees are, but mee uatha — Sbloud I know what kisses be, aswel as I know a Welch hooke, if you will goe downe with Shrop-sheere cariers▪ you shal haue Welch enough in your pellies forty weekes. Say Captaine that I should follow your collours into your Country how should I fare there? Fare? by Sesu, O there is the most abominable seere! and wider siluer pots to drinck in, and softer peds to lie vpon & do our necessary pusines, and fairer houses and parkes, & holes for Conies, and more money, besides tosted Sees and buttermilke in Northwales diggon: besides, harpes, & Welch Freeze, and Goates, and Cow-heeles, and Metheglin, ouh, it may be set in the Kernicles, wil you mach thither? Not with your Shrop-sheire cariers, Captaine. Will you go with Captaine Ienkin and see his Couzen Maddoc vpon Ienkin there, and ile run hedlongs by and by, & batter away money for a new Coach to iolt you in. Bestow your Coach vpon me, & two young white Mares, and you shall see how Ile ride.