The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The Puritan Widow) · chunk 9 of 37
Middleton, Thomas · published 1607 · first performed or written 1606 (Annals) comedy · Children of Paul's (second) T8 Captains, gallants and cheats typicality 0.78 · 469 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T8: captain, master, money, gentleman, little, lieutenant, rogue, pray, minos, honest.
Oh, I shall sown! Corporal, he starts already! I know it to be worth three hundred Crowns, & with the half of that, I can buy my life at a broker's, at second hand, which now lies in pawn toth' Law, if this thou refuse to do, being easy and nothing dangerous, in that thou art held in good opinion of thy Master, why 'tis a palpable Argument thou hold'st my life at no price, and these thy broken & unjointed offers, are but only created in thy lip, now borne, and now buried, foolish breath only? what; wilt do't? shall I look for happiness in thy answer? Steal my masters chain quotha? no, it shall near be said that Nicholas Saint Saint-Antlings committed Bird-lime! Nay, I told you as much; did I not; though he be a Puritan yet he will be a true man? Why Cousin? you know 'tis written, thou shalt not steal? Why, and fool, thou shalt love thy Neighbour, and help him in extremities? Mass I think it be indeed, in what Chapter's that Cousin? Why in the first of Charity, the 2. verse. The first of Charity, quotha than, that's a good jest, there's no such Chapter in my book! No, I knew 'twas torn out of thy Book, & that makes so little in thy heart. Come, let me tell you, you're too unkind a Kinsman i'faith; the Captain loving you so dearly, ay, like the Pomwater of his eye, and you to be so uncomfortable, fie, fie. Pray do not wish me to be hanged, anything else that I can do, had it been to rob, I would ha' done't, but I must not steal, that's the word the literal, thou shalt not steal, and would you wish me to steal then? No faith, that were to much, to speak truth: why wilt thou nim it from him. That I will? Why enough bully; he shall be content with that, or he shall ha' none; let me alone with him now! Captain, I ha' dealt with your Kinsman in a Corner; a good, kind-natured fellow, methinks: go to, you shall not have all your own asking, you shall bate somewhat on't he is not contented absolutely as you would say to steal the chain from him,— but to do you a pleasure he will nim it from him. ay, that I will, Cousin. Well seeing he will do no more, as far as I see I must be contented with that. Here's no notable gullery? Nay I'll come nearer to you Gentleman? because we'll have only but a help and a mirth on't, the knight shall not lose his chain neither, but be only laid out of the way some one or two days? ay, that would be good indeed? Kinsman?
nodes 169–189 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 9 of 37 in this edition
Length
469 words · 637 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T8 — Captains, gallants and cheatscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.780 (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)
Oh, I shall sowne! Corporal, he starts already! I know it to be worth three hundred Crownes, & with the halfe of that, I can buy my life at a Brokers, at second hand, which now lies in pawne to 'th Lawe, if this thou resuse to do, being easie and nothing dangerous, in that thou art held in good opinion of thy Mster, why tis a palpable Argument thou holdst my life at no price, and these thy broken & vnioynted offers, are but only created in thy lip, now borne, and now buried, foolish breath onlie? what; woult do't? shall I looke for happinesse in thy answere? Steale my Maisters chane quo 'the? no, it shal nere bee sayd that Nicholas Saint Tantlings committed Bird-lime! Nay, I told you as much; did I not; tho he be a Puritaine yet he will be a true man? Why Cozen? you know tis written, thou shalt not steale? Why, and foole, thou shalt loue thy Neighbour, and helpe him in extremities? Masse I thinke it bee indeede, in what Chapter's that Couzen? Why in the first of Charity, the 2. verse. The first of Charity, qua tha, that's a good iest, there's no such Chapter in my booke! No, I knew twas torne out of thy Booke, & that makes so little in thy heart. Come, let me tell you, ya're too vnkinde a Kinsman yfaith; the Captaine louing you so deerely, I, like the Pomwater of his eye, and you to be so vncomfortable, fie, fie. Pray do not wish me to bee hangd, any thing else that I can do, had it beene to rob, I would ha don't, but I must not steale, that's the word the literall, thou shalt not steale, and would you wish me to steale then? No faith, that were to much, to speake truth: why woult thou nim it from him. That I will? Why ynough bulhe; hee shall bee content with that, or he shall ha none; let mee alone with him now! Captaine, I ha dealt with your Kins-man in a Corner; a good—kinde—naturde fellow, mee thinkes: goe too, you shall not haue all your owne asking, you shall bate somewhat on he is not contented absolutely as you would say to steale the chaine from him,— but to do you a pleasure he will nim it from him. I, that I will, Couzen. Well seeing he will doe no more, as far as I see I must bee contented with that. Here's no notable gullery? Nay Ile come neerer to you Gentleman? because weele haue onely but a helpe and a mirth on't, the knight shall not loose his chaine neither, but be only laide out of the way some one or two daies? I, that would be good indeed? Kinsman?