Barry, Lording · published 1608 · first performed or written 1603 [c.1603-1607] (Annals) comedy · Children of the King's Revels T3 Sickness, physic and doctors typicality 0.87 · 519 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T3: doctor, master, cure, disease, pray, physic, physician, mr, sick, lady.
I cry you mercy, a close cover 'tis, To mistress Doctor I give a fair Bodkin of gold, with two orient Pearls attending the same: All which are in my Trunk to be delivered to the keeping of Maria, In witness, &c. Is this your Will? 'tis. To it with your hand and seal. How is it Chick, I must have the standing Cup, and mistress Glister the bodkin. Right sweet Duck. I pray gentlemen put to your hands. Come, your fists Gentlemen your fists. Mistress Glister, I have found you always more flexible to understand the estate of a poor gentleman, than your husband was willing, therefore I have thought it a point of charity to reveal the wrongs you sustained by your husband's looseness. Let me tell you in private, that the Doctor cuckolds Purgo oftener than he visits one of his patients: what a spares from you, a spends lavishly on her: These Pothecaries are a kind of panders, look to it, if a keep Maria long close, it is for some lascivious end of his own. She is his Niece. Tut, these Doctors have tricks, your niceness is such, that you can endure no polluted shows in your house, take heed lest a make you a Bawd before your time, look to it. Come, our hands are testimonies to thy follies, shall's now to supper, we'll have a health go round to thy voyage. I and to all that forswear marriage, and can be content with other men's wives. Of which consort you two are grounds, one touches the Base, and the other tickles the minikin. But to our cheer, come gentles let's away, The Roastmeat's in consumption by our stay. THe grey eyed morning Braves me to my face, and calls me sluggard, 'tis time for Tradesmen to be in their shops, for he that tends well his shop, and hath an alluring wife, with a graceful what de lack, shall be sure to have good doings, and good doings is that, that crowns so many Citizens, with the horns of abundance. My wife (by ordinary course) should this morning have been at the Family, but now her soft Pillow hath given her counsel to keep her bed, Master Doctor should (indeed) minister to her: to whose pills she is so much accustomed, that now her body looks for them as duly, as the Moon shakes off the old, and borrows new horns. I smile to myself to hear our Knights and gallants say, how they gull us Citizens, when indeed we gull them, or rather, they gull themselves: Here they come (in Term time,) higher Chambers, and perhaps kiss our wives: Well: what lose I by that: God's blessing on's heart I say still, that makes much of my wife, for they were very hard favoured, that none could find in's heart to love but ourselves: Drugs would be dog cheap but for my private well practised doctor, and such customers. Tut, jealousy is a hell, and they that will thrive, must utter their wares as they can, and wink at small faults.
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Length
519 words · 677 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T3 — Sickness, physic and doctorscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.872 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T3 · seed 44: T4 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
I cry you mercy, a cloſe couer tis, To miſtris Doctor I giue a fayre Bodkin of gold, with two orient Pearles attending the ſame: All which are in my Trunke to be deliuered to the keeping of Maria, In witneſſe, &c. Is this your VVill? Tis. To it with your hand and ſeale. How is it Chicke, I muſt haue the ſtanding Cup, and miſtris Gliſter the bodkin. Right ſweet Duck. I pray gentlemen put to your hands. Come, your fiſts Gentlemen your fiſts. Miſtriſſe Gliſter, I haue found you alwaies more flexible to vnderſtand the eſtate of a poore gentleman, then your huſband was willing, therefore I haue thought it a poynt of charity to reueale the wrongs you ſuſtained by your huſbands looſenes. Let me tell you in priuate, that the Doctor cuckolds Purgo oftener then he viſits one of his pacients: what a ſpares from you, a ſpends lauiſhly on hir: Theſe Pothicaries are a kind of panders, looke to it, if a keepe Maria long cloſe, it is for ſome laſciuious end of his owne. She is his Neece. Tut, theſe Doctours haue tricks, your nicenes is ſuch, that you can endure no polluted ſhowes in your houſe, take heede leaſt a make you a Bawde before your tyme, looke to it. Come, our hands are teſtimonies to thy follyes, ſhall's now to ſupper, wee'l haue a health goe round to thy voyage. I and to all that forſweare mariage, and can be content with other mens wiues. Of which conſort you two are grounds, one touches the Baſe, and the other tickles the minikin. But to our cheare, come gentles let's away, The Roaſtmeat's in conſumption by our ſtay. THe gray ey'd morning Braues me to my face, and calls me ſluggard, tis tyme for Tradeſmen to be in their ſhoppes, for he that tends well his ſhop, and hath an alluring wife, with a gracefull what de lacke, ſhall be ſure to haue good dooings, and good doings is that, that crownes ſo many Cittizens, with the hornes of aboundance. My wife (by ordinary courſe) ſhould this morning haue been at the Family, but now her ſoft Pillow hath giuen her counſell to keepe her bed, Maſter Doctor ſhould (indeed) miniſter to her: to whoſe pills ſhe is ſo much accuſtomed, that now her body looks for them as duely, as the Moone ſhakes off the ould, and borrowes new hornes. J ſmile to my ſelfe to heare our Knights and gallants ſay, howe they gull vs Cittizens, when indeede wee gull them, or rather, they gull themſelues: Here they come (in Terme tyme,) hyer Chambers, and perhaps kiſſe our wyues: Well: what looſe I by that: Gods bleſſing on's heart I ſay ſtill, that makes much of my wife, for they were very hard fauoured, that none could find in's heart to loue but our ſelues: Drugs would be dog cheape but for my priuate well practizd doctor, and ſuch cuſtomers. Tut, iealouſie is a hell, and they that will thriue, muſt vtter their wares as they can, and winke at ſmall faults.