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 0.79 · 535 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T3: doctor, master, cure, disease, pray, physic, physician, mr, sick, lady.
Husband, I see you are hoodwinked in the right use of feeling and knowledge, as if I knew you not then, as well as the Child knows his own father, look in the posy of my Ring: does it not tell you that we two are one flesh? and hath not fellow feeling taught us to know one another as well by night as by day? husband husband, will you do as the blind jade, break your neck down a hill because you see it not? ha' you no light of nature in that flesh of yours? Now (as true as I live master Doctor I had a secret operation, and I knew him then to be my husband e'en by very instinct. Impudence dost not blush? art not ashamed to lie so abominable. No husband, rather be you ashamed of your own weakness, for, for my part I neither fear nor shame what man can do unto me. Master Purge I see you have spent your pith; therefore best make a full point at the ring, and attend our pleasure, master Exigent proceed to the rest? Crier, call Doctor Glister? Doctor Glister, alias suppositar doctor of physic, appear upon thy purgation, upon the belly pain that may ensue therein. Here master Doctor. Who is his accuser? His clamorous wife, who seems to enforce a separation about a Bastard in the Country, which should be his, only fathered upon him. What proof of that? Proof unanswerable master Doctor, the Nurse's Letter: let it be read, but first observe his countenance? it may be his blushing will bewray his guilt. Now by this light, I thought it had indeed, but I see 'tis but the reflection of his beard, Read the Letter Master Exigent? After my hearty commendations remembered unto your worshipful doctorship, trusting in god that you are as well as I was at the making hereof thanks be to him therefore, The cause of my writing unto you at this time is, to let you understand that your little son is turned a ragged colt, a very stripling, for being now stripped of all his clothing, his backside wants a tailpiece commends itself to your fatherly Consideration. Woe worth the time that ever I gave suck to a child that came in at the window, god knows how. Yet if you did but see how like the pert little read headed knave is, to his Father: and how like a Cock sparrow he mouse's and touses my little Bess already, you would take him for your own, and pay me my hire, I write not of the want of one thing for I want all things, wherefore take some speedy order or else as naked as he came from the mother will I send him to the father. From Pis. the xxii of— Your poor nurse Thomasive Tweed es. Master doctor: Truth needs not the foil of Rhetoric, I will only in Monosillaba answer for myself, (as sometimes a wise man did) such and such things are laid to my charge, which I deny, you may think of me what you please, but I am as innocent in this, as the child new borne.
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535 words · 674 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T3 — Sickness, physic and doctorscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.794 (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)
Husband, I ſee you are hudwynck't in the right vſe of feeling and knowledge, as if J knew you not then, as wel as the Child knowes his owne father, looke in the poſye of my Ringe: does it not tell you that we two are one fleſh? and hath not fellow feeling taught vs to know one another as wel by night as by day? huſband huſband, will you do as the blind Iade, breake your neck downe a hill becauſe you ſee it not? ha you no light of nature in that fleſh of yours? Now (as true as I liue maiſter Doctor I had a ſecret operation, and J knew him then to be my huſband eene by very inſtinct. Impudence doſt not bluſh? art not aſham'd to lie ſo abhominable. No huſband, rather be you aſhamed of your owne weakneſſe, for, for my part J neither feare nor ſhame what man can doe vnto me. Maſter Purge J ſee you haue ſpent your pith; therefore beſt make a full point at the ring, and attend our pleaſure, maiſter Exigent proceed to the reſt? Crier, call Doctor Gliſter? Doctor Gliſter, alias ſuppoſitar doctor of phyſicke, appeare vpon thy purgation, vpon the bellie paine that may enſue therein. Here maſter Doctor. VVho is his accuſer? His clamorous wife, who ſeems to enforce a ſeparation about a Baſtard in the Countrie, which ſhould be his, only father'd vpon him. VVhat proofe of that? Proofe vnaunſwerable maſter Doctor, the Nurſes Letter: let it be red, but firſt obſerue his countenance? it may be his bluſhing will bewray his guilt. Now by this light, I thought it had indeed, but I ſee tis but the reflexion of his beard, Reade the Letter Maſter Exigent? After my harty commendations remembred vnto your worſhipfull doctorſhip, truſting in god that you are aſwell as I was at the making heereof thanks be to him therefore, The cauſe of my writing vnto you at this time is, to let you vnderſtand that your litle ſonne is turned a ragged colt, a verie ſtripling, for beeing now ſtript of all his cloathing, his backſide wants a tayle-peece commendes it ſelfe to your fatherly Conſideratiō. Wo worth the time that euer I gaue ſuck to a child that came in at the window, god knowes how. Yet if you did but ſee how like the peart little read headed knaue is, to his Father: and how like a Cock ſparrow he mouſes and touſes my little Beſſe already, you would take him for your owne, and pay me my hier, I write not of the want of one thing for I want all things, wherfore take ſome ſpeedy order or elſe as naked as he came from the mother will I ſend him to the father. From Piſ. the xxii of — Your poore nurſe Thomaſiue Tweed es. Maiſter doctor: Truth needes not the foyle of Rhetorick, I will onely in Monoſillaba aunſwere for my ſelfe, (as ſometimes a wiſe man did) ſuch and ſuch things are laide to my charge, which J deny, you may thinke of mee what you pleaſe, but I am as innocent in this, as the child new borne.