Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John · published 1607 · first performed or written 1604 (Annals) comedy · Children of Paul's (second) T6 Money, debt and credit typicality 0.74 · 471 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
So now they are gone you may take him. Sir I arrest you? Arrest me, at whose suit you varlets? At master Tenterhooks. Why you varlets dare you arrest one of the Court. Come will you be quiet sir? Pray thee good yeoman call the gentlemen back again. There's a Gentleman hath carried a hundred pound of mine home with him to his lodging, because I dare not carry it over the fields, I'll discharge it presently. That's a trick sir, you would procure a rescue. Catchpole do you see, I will have the hair of your head and beard shaved off for this, and ear I catch you at Gray's Inn by this light law. Come will you march. Are you Sergeants Christians? Sirrah thou lookest like a good pitiful rascal, and thou art a tall man to it seems, thou hast backed many a man in thy time I warrant. I have had many a man by the back sir. well-said introth, I love your quality, 'las 'tis needful every man should come by his own▪ but as God mend me gentlemen I have not one cross about me, only you two. Might not you let a Gentleman pass out of your hands, and say you saw him not? Is there not such a kind of mercy in you now and then my Masters, as I live, if you come to my lodging to morrow morning, I'll give you five brace of Angels? good yeoman persuade your graduate here: I know some of you to be honest faithful Drunkards, respect a poor Gentleman in my case. Come, it will not serve your turn, Officers look to him, upon your peril. Do you hear sir, you see I am in the hands of a couple of Ravens here, as you are a Gentleman lend me forty shillings, let me not live if I do not pay you the forfeiture of the whole bond, and never plead Conscience. Not a penny, not a penny: God night sir. Well, a man ought not to sweat by any thing in the hands of Sergeants but by silver, and because my pocket is no lawful justice to Minister any such oath unto me, I will patiently encounter the Counter. Which is the dearest ward in Prison Sergeant! the knight's ward? No sir, the masters side. Well the knight is above the master though his Table be worse furnished: I'll go thither. Come sir, I must use you kindly the Gentleman's Wife that hath arrested you. I what of her. She says you are her aunt's son. ay, am? She takes on so pitifully for your Arresting, 'twas much against her will (good Gentlewoman) that this affliction lighted upon you. She hath reason, if she respect her poor kindred. You shall not go to prison.
nodes 450–475 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 21 of 45 in this edition
Length
471 words · 596 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T6 — Money, debt and creditcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.741 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: unassigned · seed 44: T10 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
So now they are gone you may take him. Sir I arrest you? Arrest me, at whose suite you varlets? At maister Tenterhookes. Why you varlets dare you arrest one of the Court. Come will you be quiet sir? Pray thee good yeoman call the gentlemen back againe. Theres a Gentleman hath carried a hundred pound of mine home with him to his lodging, becaus I dare not carry it ouer the fields, Ile discharge it presently. Thats a trick sir, you would procure a reskue. Catchpole do you see, I will haue the haire of your head and beard shaued off for this, and eare I catch you at Grayes Inne by this light law. Come will you march. Are you Sergeants Christians? Sirra thou lookest like a good pittyfull rascall, and thou art a tall man to it seemes, thou hast backt many a man in thy time I warrant. I haue had many a man by the backe sir. Welsaide in-troth, I loue your quality, las tis needfull euery man should come by his own▪ but as God mend m gentlemen I haue not one crosse about me, onely you two. Might not you let a Gentlemen passe out of your handes, and say you saw him not? Is there not such a kinde of mercy in you now and then my Maisters, as I liue, if you come to my lodging to morrowe morning, Ile giue you fiue brace of Angelles? good yeoman perswade your graduat heere: I know some of you to be honest faithfull Drunkards, respect a poore Gentleman in my case. Come, it wil not serue your turne, Officers looke to him, vpon your perril. Do you heare sir, you see I am in the hands of a couple of Rauens here, as you are a Gentleman lend me forty shillings, let me not liue if I do not pay you the forfeiture of the whole bond, and neuer plead Conscience. Not a penny, not a penny: God night sir. Well, a man ought not to sweat by anie thing in the hands of Sergeants but by siluer, and because my pocket is no lawful Iustice to Minister any such oath vnto me, I will patiently incounter the Counter. Which is the dearest warde in Prison Sergeant! the knights ward? No sir, the Maisters side. Well the knight is aboue the maister though his Table be worse furnisht: Ile go thether. Come sir, I must vse you kindly the Gentlemans Wife that hath arrested you. I what of her. She saies you are her Antes sonne. I, am? She takes on so pittifully for your Arresting, twas much against her wil (good Gentlewomā) that this affliction lighted vpon you. She hath reason, if she respect her poore kindred. You shall not go to prison.