Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John · published 1607 · first performed or written 1604 (Annals) comedy · Children of Paul's (second) T6 Money, debt and credit typicality 0.78 · 515 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
Sargent Ambush issue forth, Monopoly I'll cut off your convoy mayst, sergeant Ambush, I charge you as you hope to receive comfort from the smell of Mace speak not like a sergeant, but deal honestly, of whom had you the diamonds. Of your wife Sir if I'm an honest man. Of me you pewter-buttoned rascal. Siria you that live by nothing but the carrion of poultry. School Master hark hither. Where are my gems and precious stones that were my bale. Forth coming Sir though your money is not, your creditor has hem. Excellent; peace, why M. Tenterhook, if the diamonds be of the reported value, I'll pay your money receive 'em, keep 'em till Maist. Monopoly be fatter i'th' purse: for Maist. Monopoly I know you will not be long empty Mast. Monopoly. Let him have 'em good Tenterhooke, where are they. At home, I locked 'em up.— No indeed forsooth, I locked 'em up, & those are they your wife has, and those are they your husband (like a bad liver as he is) would have given to a niece of mine, (that lies in my house to take physic) to have committed fleshly treason with her. I at your house— you old— You pardie, and that honest bachelor, never call me old for the matter. Motherly woman he's my husband and no Bachelors buttons are at his doublet 'las, I speak Innocently and that lean gentleman set in his staff there: But as I'm a sinner, both I and the young woman had an eye to the mayne chance, & though they brought more a bout 'em than captain Candish's voyage came to, they should not, nor could not (unless I had been a naughty woman) have entered the straits. Have we smelled you out foxes. Do you come after us with hue and cry when you are the thieves yourselves. Murder I see cannot be hid, but if this old Sibyl of yours speak oracles, for my part, I'll be like an Almanac that threatens nothing but foul wether. That bawd has been damned. 500 times, and is her word to be taken. To be damned once is enough, for any one of her coat. Why Sir. what is my coat that you fit thus upon my skirts. Thy Coat is an ancient Coat, one of the seven deadly sins, put thy coat first to making; but do you hear, you mother of Iniquity, you that can lose and find your ears when you list go, sail with the rest of your bawdy-traffickers to the place of sixpenny Sinfulness the suburbs. I scorn the Sinfulness of any suburbs in Christendom 'tis well known I have uprisers and down-liars within the City, night by night, like a profane fellow as thou art. Right, I know thou hast, I'll tell you Gentlefolks, there's more resort to this Fortune-teller, then of forlorn wives married to old husbands, and of green-sickness Wenches that can get no husbands to the house of a wise-Woman. She has tricks to keep a vaulting house under the laws nose.
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Length
515 words · 700 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T6 — Money, debt and creditcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.777 (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)
Sargent Ambush issue forth, Monopoly Ile cut off your conuoy maist, Sargant Ambsh, I charge you as you hope to receaue comfort fom the smell of Mace speake not like a Sargent, but deale honestly, of whome had you the dyamondes. Of your wife Sir if Ime an honest man. Of me you peuter-buttoned rascall. Siria you that liue by nothing but the carion of poulty. Schoole Master harke heither. Where are my lems and pretious stones that were my bale. Forth comming Sir tho your mony is not, your crediter has hem. Excellent; peace, why M. Tenterhooke, if the dyamondes be of the reported value, Ile paie your mony receaue em, keepe 'hem till Maist. Monopoly be fatter ith purse: for Maist. Monopoly I know you wil not be long empty Mast. Monopoly. Let him haue 'hem good Tenerhooke, where are they. At home, I lockt hem vp.— No indeed for-sooth, I lockt 'hem vp, & thos are they your wife has, and those are they your husband (like a bad liuer as he is) would haue giuen to a of mine, (that lies in my house to take phisick) to haue committed sleshly treason with her. I at your house—you old— You perdy, and that honest batchiler, neuer call me old for the matter. Motherly woman hees my husband and no Batchelers buttons are at his doublett las, I speake Innocently and that leane gentleman set in his staffe there: But as Ime a sinner, both I and the yong woman had an eye to the mayne chance, & tho they brought more a bout 'hem than capten Candishis voiage came to, they should not, nor could not (vnles I had bin a naughty woman) haue entred the straytes. Haue we smelt you out foxes. Doe you come after vs with hue and cry when you are the theeues your Selues. Murder I see cannot be hid, but if this old Sybill of yours speake oracles, for my part, Ile be like an Almanacke that threatens nothing but foulewether. That bawd has bin dambd. 500 times, and is her word to be taken. To be dambd once is enough, for any one of her coate. Why Sir. what is my coat that you fitt thus vpon my Scirts. Thy Coat is an ancient Coat, one of the seauen deadly sinnes, put thy coat first to making; but do you heare, you mother of Iniquity, you that can loose and find your eares when you list go, saile with the rest of your baudie-traffikers to the place of sixe-penny Sinfulnesse the subvrbes. I scorne the Sinfulnesse of any subvrbes in Christendom tis wel knowne I haue vp-rizers and downe-lyers within the Citty, night by night, like a prophane fellow as thou art. Right, I know thou hast, Ile tell you Gentle-folkes, theres more resort to this Fortune-teller, then of forlorne wiues married to old husbands, and of Greene-sicknesse Wenches that can get no husbands to the house of a wise-Woman. Shee has tricks to keepe a vaulting house vnder the Lawes nose.