Day, John · published 1608 · first performed or written 1608 [1607-1608] (Annals) comedy · Children of the King's Revels T22 Shepherds, flocks and Pan typicality 0.83 · 489 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T22: shepherd, pan, shepherds, love, sheep, flocks, fair, shepherdess, swain, away.
And see your discourse has conjured up beauty in the likeness of two country-maids, but you shall not come in the circles of their arms if I can keep you out. These are too mean for love, brother let's leave them. What? speechless? will you make dumb virgins of them? Oh we are sons of a great father. So is the sun of heaven, yet he smiles on the bramble as well as the Lily, kisses the check of a beggar as lovingly as a gentlewoman, and 'tis good to imitate, him 'tis good. Say sister, had we not fine sport today? We had, if death may be accounted play. Why 'tis accounted pleasure to kill fish. A pleasure nothing pleasant to the fish. Yet fishes were created to be killed. Cruel creation then to have lives spilled. Their bodies being food, maintain our breath. What bodies then have we to live by death? Come, come, you vainly argue, it is good. What is it good to kill? oh god oh god? If it be sin, than you yourself's a sinner. I thank proud fortune for't, my woes beginner. Foot are ye not ashamed to stand by like idle ciphers, & such places of account void? and they had been rich offices and you poor Courtiers, you would have been in them in half the time. Though against stomach.— Nothing against stomach and you love me. Fair maids if so you be you are well met. shepherds or be what else you are well met. 'tis well, if that well met we be to you. If not to us you are unto yourselves. We did not meet, you saw us come together. whate'er we saw, you yet ere you came hither. We did, we met in kindred, we are brothers. So shepherds we did meet for we are sisters. Then sisters, let vs brothers husbands e. So brothers without our leaves you well may be. Say we desire to husband it with you. Know we desire no husbands such as you. A shepherd is an honest trade of life. Yet honest shepherd has with honest trade some strife. He seldom swears but by his honesty. So honest men do too as well as he. But will you trust a shepherd when he vows, No never, if his oath be that he loves. Yet if I swear, that needs must be mine oath, Swear not, for we are misbelievers both. Let us persuade you to believe we love you. First we entreat you give us time to prove you. Take time, mean time we'll praise ye to our powers. Oh time, sometime shepherds have idle hours. I'll say thy cheek no natural beauty lacks, Good, if it had been spoke behind our backs. I'll say this is the heaven of heavenly graces. O heaven, how they can flatters to our faces. Exeunt. Brother the last is fairest in my eye.
nodes 480–528 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 10 of 28 in this edition
Length
489 words · 625 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T22 — Shepherds, flocks and Pancross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.830 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T24 · seed 44: T25 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
And ſee your diſcourſe has coniurd vp beauty in the likeneſſe of two countrimaides, but you ſhall not come in the circles of their armes if J can keepe you ou. Theſe are too meane for loue, brother lets leaue them. What? ſpeechles? will you make dumbe virgins of them? Oh we are ſonnes of a great father. So is the ſun of heauen, yet hee ſmiles on the bramble aſwell as the Lilly, kiſſes the checke of a beggar as louingly as a gentlewoman, and tis good to imitate, him tis good. Say ſiſter, had we not fine ſport to day? VVe had, if death may be accounted play. VVhy tis accounted pleaſure to kill fiſh. A pleaſure nothing pleaſant to the fiſh. Yet fiſhes were created to be kild. Cruell creation then to haue liues ſpild. Their bodies being food, maintaine our breath. What bodies then haue we to liue by death? Come, come, you vainely argue, it is good. What is it good to kill? oh god oh god? If it be ſin, then you your ſelf's a ſinner. I thank proud fortune fort, my woes beginner. Foot are yee not aſhad to ſtaud by like idle iphers, & ſuch places of account voyde? and they had bin rich offices and you poore Courtiers, you would haue bin in them in ale the time. Though againſt ſtomack.— Nothing againſt ſtomack and you loue me. Faire maids if ſo▪ you be you are well met. Shepheards or be what els you are well met. Tis well, if that well met we be to you. If not to vs you are vnto your ſelues. We did not meet, you ſavs come togither. VVhat ere we ſaw▪ you et ere you came hither. VVe did, we mtn kindred, we are brothers. So ſhepheards we did meet for we are ſiſters. Then ſiſters, let vs brothers husbands e. So brothers without our leaues you well may be. Say we deſire to husband it with you. Know we deſire no husbands ſuch as you▪ A ſhepheatd is an honeſt trade of life. Yet honeſt ſhepheard has with honeſt trade ſome ſtrife. He ſeldome ſweares but by his honeſty. So honeſt men do too aſwell as he. But will you truſt a ſhepheard when he vowes, No neuer, if his oath be that he loues. Yet if I ſweare, that needs muſt be mine oath, Sweare not, for we are misbeleeuers both. Let vs perſwade you to beleeue we loue you. Firſt we intreat you giue vs time to proue you. Take time, meane time weele praiſe yee to our powers. Oh time, ſometime ſhepheards haue idle howers. Ile ſay thy cheek no naturall beauty lacks, Good, if it had bin ſpoke behind our backs. Ile ſay this is the heauen of heauenly graces. O heauen, how they can flatters to our faces. Exeunt. Brother the laſt is fayreſt in my eie.