Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John · published 1607 · first performed or written 1604 (Annals) comedy · Children of Paul's (second) T6 Money, debt and credit typicality 0.79 · 464 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
Welcome good mistress Tenterhook. Sergeant I must needs have my cousin go a little Way out of Town with me and to secure thee, here are two Diamonds, they are worth two hundred pound, keep them till I return him. Well 'tis good security. Do not come in my husbands sight in the mean time Welcome Gallants. How now Monopoly Arrested? O my little Honysuckle art come to visit a Prisoner? Yes faith as Gentlemen visit Merchants, to fare well, or as poet's young quaint Revellers, to laugh at them. Sirrah if I were some foolish justice, if I would not beg thy wit never trust me. Why I pray you? Because it hath been concealed all this while, but come shall we to boat, we are furnished for attendants as Ladies are, We have our fools, and our Ushers. I thank you madam, I shall meet your wit in the close one day. Sirrah, thou knowest my husband keeps a Kennel of hounds? Yes. Doth thy husband love venery? Venery? ay, hunting, and venery are words of one signification. Your two husband, and he have made a match to go find a Hare about Busty Causy. they'll keep an excellent house till we come home again. O excellent, a Spanish dinner, a Pilchard, and a Dutch supper, butter and Onions. O thou art a mad wench. Sergeant carry this ell of cambric to mistress Bird. tell her but that it is a rough tide, and that she fears the water, she should have gone with us. O thou hast an excellent wit. To Boat hay? Sir Gozlin? I do take it your legs are married. Why mistress? They look so thin upon it. Ever since I measured with your husband, I have shrunk in the calf. And yet you have a sweet tooth in your head. O well dealt for the calves head, you may talk what you will of legs, and rising in the small, and swelling beneath the garter. But 'tis certain when lank thighs brought long stockings out of fashion, the courtier's Leg, and his slender tilting staff grew both of a bigness. Come for Brainford. Good morrow mistress Luce: how did you take your rest tonight? how doth your good worship like your lodging? what will you have to breakfast? A pox of the Knight that was here last night, he promised to have sent me some wild foul; he was drunk I'll bestowed else. Why do not you think he will send them? Hang them: 'T no more in fashion for them to keep their promises, then 'tis for men to pay their debts. He will lie faster than a Dog trots: what a filthy knocking was at door last night; some puny Inn-a-court-men, I'll hold my contribution.
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Length
464 words · 606 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T6 — Money, debt and creditcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.789 (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)
Welcome good mistris Tenterhooke. Sergeant I must needs haue my Cosin go a little Way out of Town with me and to secure thee, here are two Diamonds, they are worth two hundred pound, keepe them til I returne him. Well tis good securitie. Do not come in my husbandes sight in the meane time Welcom Gallants. How now Monopoly Arrested? O my little Honysuckle art come to visit a Prisoner? Yes faith as Gentlemen visit Marchants, to fare wel, or as Poets young quaint Ruellers, to laugh at them. Sirrha if I were some foolish Iustice, if I woulde not beg thy wit neuer trust me. Why I pray you? Because it hath bin conceald al this while, but come shal we to boat, we are furnisht for attendants as Ladies are, We haue our fooles, and our Vshers. I thanke you Madame, I shall meete your wit in the close one day. Sirra, thou knowest my husband keeps a Kennell of hounds? Yes. Doth thy husband loue venery? Venery? I, hunting, and venery are words of one signification. Your two husband, and hee haue made a match to go find a Hare about Busty Causy. Theile keepe an excellent house till we come home againe. O excellent, a Spanish dinner, a Pilcher, and a Dutch supper, butter and Onions. O thou art a mad wench. Sergeant carry this ell of Cambrick to mistris Bird. tel her but that it is a rough tide, and that she feares the water, she should haue gone with vs. O thou hast an excellent wit. To Boat hay? Sir Gozlin? I doe take it your legs are married. Why mistris? They looke so thin vpon it. Euer since I measurd with your husband, I haue shrunk in the cale. And yet you haue a sweet tooth in your head. O well dealt for the Calues head, you may talke what you will of legs, and rising in the small, and swelling beneath the garter. But tis certain when lank thighes brought long stockings out of fashion, the Courtiers Legge, and his slender tilting staffe grew both of a bignesse. Come for Brainford. Good morrow mistris Luce: how did you take your rest to night? how doth your good worship like your lodging? what will you haue to breakfast? A poxe of the Knight that was here last night, he promist to haue sent me some wilde foule; hee was drunk Ile bestewed else. Why do not you think he will send them? Hang them: s no more in fashion for them to keepe their promises, then tis for men to pay their debtes. He will lie faster then a Dog tros: what a filthy knocking was at doore last night; some puny Inn-a-court-men, Ile hold my contribution.