Barry, Lording · published 1608 · first performed or written 1603 [c.1603-1607] (Annals) comedy · Children of the King's Revels T6 Money, debt and credit typicality 0.72 · 468 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
How, where, when, speak? mine ears are quick to hear, I stand on thorns already to be there. At Dryfats house the Merchant, there's our Scene, Whose sequel (if I fail not in intent,) Shall answer our desires, and each content: But when sawst thou Lipsalve and gudgeon our two gallants? They are here in the house: so handled by mine uncle, that they are the pitifullest patients that ever you beheld. No matter, he serves them in their kind, they were infamous in the Court & now are grown as notorious in the City: they may happily prove particles in our sport, & fit subjects for laughter: Time calls me hence, adieu, prepare to meet. I shall outstrip the nimblest in my feet. Come Club come, there's a merry Fray towards, we shall see the death of melancholy, wherein thou and I must call a grand Jury of jests together, and pass upon them with the Club Law. Now as I am O, the Crier, & yet but a young Club, I have not yet practised that Law, you have a whole dry-fat on't, I pray you instruct me? Why 'tis a Law enacted (by the common counsel of Statute Caps) to qualify the rage of the Time, to follow, to call back, and sometimes to encounter gentlemen when they run in arrearages, I tell thee there's no averment against our Book Cases: 'tis the Law called make peace, it makes them even, when they are at odds, it shows 'em a flat case, as plain as a pack staff, that is, knocks 'em down without circumstance I marry I like that law well, 'tis studied with the turning of a hand: there's no quiddits, nor peddlers French in't, there needs no book for th' exposition o'th' terms; 'tis as easily learned as the felling of wood, and getting of Children, all is but laying on load the down right blow. I and by the way of exhortation it prints this moral Sentence on their Costards, in Capital Letters Agree? for the Law is costly. Good good; but all this while there's no Doctor thought on, we must have one to arbitrate; Why (master Gerardine) man, has his name for the purpose, he shall be called Doctor Stickler, Lupus est in Fabula, here he comes. How now lads does our Conceit cotton, ha' you summoned your wits from wool gathering? Are you fraughted with matter for this merriment? Full full, we are in labour man, and we shall die without midwifery. We are ravished with delight like the wench that was got with child against her stomach— O but if we could wrest this smock law (now in hand) to our Club law, it were excellent. Easily, easily, all shall be called the Club law. As how?
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Length
468 words · 628 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T6 — Money, debt and creditcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.718 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T9 · seed 44: T10 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
How, where, whē, ſpeake? myne eares are quick to heare, I ſtand on thornes already to be there. At Dryfats houſe the Marchant, ther's our Scene, Whoſe ſequell (if I fail not in intent,) Shall anſwer our deſires, and each content: But when ſaw'ſt thou Lipſalue and Gudgin our two gallants? They are heere in the houſe: ſo handled by myne vncle, that they are the pittifulleſt patients that euer you beheld. No matter, he ſerues them in their kind, they were infamous in the Court & now are grown as notorious in the City: they may happily proue particles in our ſport, & fit ſubiects for laughter: Tyme calls me hence, adieu, prepare to meet. I ſhall outſtrip the nimbleſt in my feet. Come Club come, thers a merry Fray towards, we ſhall ſee the death of melancholy, wherein thou and I muſt call a grand Jury of ieſts together, and paſſe vpon them with the Club Law. Now as I am O, the Crier, & yet but a yong Club, J haue not yet practizd that Law, you haue a whole dryfat on't, I pray you inſtruct me? Why tis a Law inacted (by the common counſell of Statute Caps) to qualify the rage of the Time, to follow, to call back, and ſometimes to encounter gentlemen when they run in arrerages, I tell thee thers no auerment againſt our Booke Caſes: Tis the Law call'd make peace, it makes them euen, when they are at ods, it ſhews 'hem a flat caſe, as plaine as a pack ſtaffe, that is, knocks 'hem downe without circumſtance I marry I like that law well, tis ſtudyed with the turning of a hand: ther's no quiddits, nor pedlers French in't, there needs no book for th' expoſition o'th tearmes; tis as eaſily learned as the felling of wood, and getting of Children, all is but laying on loade the downe right blow. I and by the way of exhortation it prints this morall Sentence on their Coſtards, in Capitall Letters Agree? for the Law is coſtly. Good good; but al this while ther's no Doctor thought on, we muſt haue one to arbitrate; VVhy (maiſter Gerardine) man, has his name for the purpoſe, he ſhall be call'd Doctor Stickler, Lupus est in Fabula, heere hee comes. How now lads do's our Conceit cotten, ha you ſummond your wits from wool gathering? Are you frought with matter for this merryment? Full full, wee are in labor man, and we ſhall die without midwiferie. We are rauiſht with delight like the wench that was got with child againſt her ſtomach—O but if we could wreſt this ſmock law (now in hand) to our Club law, it were excellent. Eaſily, eaſily, all ſhall be called the Club law. As how?