Shakespeare, William · published 1623 · first performed or written 1605 [1605-1606] (Annals) tragedy · King's Men unassigned nearest T40 Sin, guilt and violent loss within famil · 488 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T40: brother, death, life, die, heaven, sin, live, father, blood, soul.
I do not well know my L. If it shall please you to suspend your indignation against my Brother, till you can derive from him better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course: where, if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great gap in your own Honour, and shake in pieces, the heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life for him, that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your Honour, & to no other pretence of danger. Think you so? If your Honour judge it mere, I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an Auricular assurance have your satisfaction, and that without any further delay, than this very Evening. He cannot be such a Monster. Edmond seek him out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the Business after your own wisdom. I would unstate myself, to be in a due resolution. I will seek him Sir, presently: convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal. These late Eclipses in the Sun and Moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus, and thus, yet Nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, Brothers divide. In Cities, mutinies; in Countries, discord; in Palaces, Treason; and the Bond cracked, 'twixt Son and Father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's Son against Father, the King falls from by as of Nature, there's Father against Child. We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our Graves. Find out this Villain, Edmond, it shall lose thee nothing, do it carefully: and the Noble & true-harted Kent banished; his offence, honesty. 'Tis strange. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfers of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters, the Sun, the Moon, and Stars, as if we were villains on necessity, Fools by heavenly compulsion, Knaves, thieves, and Treachers by Spherical predominance. Drunkards, Liars, and Adulterers by an enforced obedience of Planatary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of Whore-master-man, to lay his Goatish disposition on the charge of a Star, My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my Nativity was under Vrsa Maior, so that it follows, I am rough and Lecherous. I should have been that I am, had the maidenlest Star in the Firmament twinkled on my bastardising. Pat: he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedy: my Cue is villainous Melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.— O these Eclipses do portend these divisions. Fa, Sol, Lafoy, Me. How now Brother Edmond, what serious contemplation are you in?
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I do not well know my L. If it ſhall pleaſe you to ſuſpend your indignation againſt my Brother, til you can deriue from him better teſtimony of his intent, you ſhold run a certaine courſe: where, if you violently proceed againſt him, miſtaking his purpoſe, it would make a great gap in your owne Honor, and ſhake in peeces, the heart of his obedience. I dare pawne downe my life for him, that he hath writ this to feele my affection to your Honor, & to no other pretence of danger. Thinke you ſo? If your Honor iudge it meere, I will place you where you ſhall heare vs conferre of this, and by an Auricular aſſurance haue your ſatisfaction, and that without any further delay, then this very Euening. He cannot bee ſuch a Monſter. Edmond ſeeke him out: winde me into him, I pray you: frame the Buſineſſe after your owne wiſedome. I would vnſtate my ſelfe, to be in a due reſolution. I will ſeeke him Sir, preſently: conuey the buſineſſe as I ſhall find meanes, and acquaint you withall. Theſe late Eclipſes in the Sun and Moone portend no good to vs: though the wiſedome of Nature can reaſon it thus, and thus, yet Nature finds it ſelfe ſcourg'd by the ſequent effects. Loue cooles, friendſhip falls off, Brothers diuide. In Cities, mutinies; in Countries, diſcord; in Pallaces, Treaſon; and the Bond crack'd, 'twixt Sonne and Father. This villaine of mine comes vnder the prediction; there's Son againſt Father, the King fals from by as of Nature, there's Father againſt Childe. We haue ſeene the beſt of our time. Machinations, hollowneſſe, treacherie, and all ruinous diſorders follow vs diſquietly to our Graues. Find out this Villain▪ Edmond, it ſhall loſe thee nothing, do it carefully: and the Noble & true-harted Kent baniſh'd; his offence, honeſty. 'Tis ſtrange. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are ſicke in fortune, often the ſurfers of our own behauiour, we make guilty of our diſaſters, the Sun, the Moone, and Starres, as if we were villaines on neceſſitie, Fooles by heauenly compulſion, Knaues, Theeues, and Treachers by Sphericall predominance. Drunkards, Lyars, and Adulterers by an inforc'd obedience of Planatary influence; and all that we are euill in, by a diuine thruſtng on. An admirable euaſion of Whore-maſter-man, to lay his Goatiſh diſpoſition on the charge of a Starre, My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my Natiuity was vnder Vrſa Maior, ſo that it followes, I am rough and Leacherous. I ſhould haue bin that I am, had the maidenleſt Starre in the Firmament twinkled on my baſtardizing. Pat: he comes like the Cataſtrophe of the old Comedie: my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a ſighe like Tom o' Bedlam. — O theſe Eclipſes do portend theſe diuiſions. Fa, Sol, La, Me. How now Brother Edmond, what ſerious contemplation are you in?