Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John · published 1607 · first performed or written 1605 (Annals) comedy · Children of Paul's (second) T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy typicality 0.86 · 492 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T23: wife, husband, cuckold, jealousy, woman, jealous, mistress, love, house, honest.
How say you by that goody Sentence, look you sir; you gallants visit citizens houses, as the Spaniard first sailed to the Indies, you pretend buying of wares or selling of lands: but the end proves 'tis nothing but for discovery & conquest of their wives for better maintenance why look you, was he aware of those broken patience when you met him at Ware, & possessed him of the downfall of his wife: you are a cuckold you have pandered your own wife to this gentleman better men have done it, honest Tom (), we have precedents for't, hie you to London: what is more Catholick i'th' City then for husband's daily for to forgive, the nightly sins of their bedfellows: if you like not that course but to intend to be rid of her: rifle her at a Tavern, where you may swallow down some fifty wisacres sons and heirs to old tenements, and common gardens: like so many raw yolks with muscadine to bedward. O filthy knave, dost compare a woman of my carriage to a horse. And no disparagement; for a woman to have a high forehead: a quick ear, a full eye, a wide nostril, a sleek skin, a straight back, a round hip, and so forth is most comely. But is a great belly comely in a horse sir. No Lady. And what think you of it in a woman I pray you. Certainly, I am put down at my own weapon; I therefore recant the rifling? no there is a new trade come up for cast gentlewomen, of periwig making: let your wife set up i'th' Strand, and yet I doubt, whither she may or no, for they say, the women have got it to be a corporation; if you can you may make good use of it, for you shall have as good a coming in by hair (though it be but a falling commodity) & by other foolish tiring, as any between Saint Clement's and Charing. Now you have run yourself out of breath, hear me: I protest the gentlewoman is honest, and since I have wronged her reputation in meeting her thus privately, I'll maintain her: wilt thou hang at my purse Kate, like a pair of barbary buttons, to open when 'tis full, and close when 'tis empty? I'll be divorced by this Christian element, and because thou thinkst thou art a Cuckold, lest I should make thee an infidel, in causing thee to believe an untruth, I'll make thee a Cuckold. Excellent wench. Come, let's go sweet: the Nag I ride upon bears double, we'll to London. Do not bite your thumbs sir. Bite his thumb! I'll make him do a thing worse than this, Come love me where as I lay. What Kate! He shall father a child is none of his, O the clean contrary way. O lusty Rate. methought he said, even now you were a tailor.
nodes 980–999 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 39 of 42 in this edition
Length
492 words · 635 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T23 — Husbands, wives and jealousycross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.865 (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)
How say you by that goody Sentence, looke you sir; you gallāts visit cittizēs houses, as the Spaniard first sailed to the Indies, you pretēd bying of wares or selling of lāds: but the end proues tis nothing but for discouery & cōquest of their wiues for better maintenance why looke you, was he a ware of those broken patience when you met him at Ware, & possest him of the downfal of his wife: you are a Cockcold you haue pāderd your own wife to this gentleman better men haue don it, honest Tom ( ), wee haue presidents for't, hie you to London: what is more Catholick ith Citty then for husbands daily for to forgiue, the nightly sins of their bedfellowes: if you like not that course but to intend to be rid of her: rifle her at a Tauerne, where you may swallow downe some fifty wisacres sonnes and heires to old tenements, and common gardens: like so many raw yeolkes with Muskadine to bed-ward. O filthy knaue, dost compare a woman of my cariadge to a horse. And no disparagment; for a woman to haue a high forhead: a quick eare, a full eye, a wide nostrell, a sleeke skin, a straight back, a round hip, and so forth is most comely. But is a great belly comly in a horse sir. No Lady. And what thinke you of it in a woman I pray you. Certainly, I am put downe at my owne weapon; I therefore recant the riflying? no there is a new trade come vp for cast Gentlewemen, of peeriwip making: let your wife set vp ith Strand, and yet I doubt, whither she may or no, for they say, the womē haue got it to be a corporatiō; if you can you may make good vse of it, for you shall haue as good a comming in by haire (tho it be but a falling commodity) & by other foolish tyring, as any betweene Saint Clements and Charing. Now you haue run your selfe out of breath, here me: I protest the gentlewoman is honest, and since I haue wrong'd her reputation in meeting her thus priuately, Ile maintaine her: wilt thou hang at my purse Kate, like a paire of barbary buttons, to open when tis full, and close when tis empty? Ile be diuorc'd by this Christian element, and because thou thinkst thou art a Cockold, least I should make thee an infidell, in causing thee to beleeue an vntrueth, Ile make thee a Cockold. Excellent wench. Come, lets go sweete: the Nag I ride vpon beares double, weele to London. Do not bite your thumbes sir. Bite his thumbe! Ile make him do a thing worse than this, Come loue me where as I lay. What Kate! He shall father a child is none of his, O the cleane contrary way. O lusty Rate. Me thought he sayd, euen now you were a Taylor.