Day, John · published 1608 · first performed or written 1608 [1607-1608] (Annals) comedy · Children of the King's Revels T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint typicality 0.74 · 481 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.
Tut, lovers oaths, like toys writ down in sands Are soon blown over, contracts are common wiles, Tintangle fools, Ioue himself sits and smiles At lovers perjuries, bawd, strumpets hence, My bosom's charged, give way to violence: Come do not mind them. How? not mind them father? When in your Court you courted us to love, You red another lecture, women then Were angels. True, but that was before Angels Had power to make them devils; they were then Fiends to themselves, and Angels unto men. When upon Po thou find'st a coal-black swan, thoust found a woman constant to a man. And not afore? Never afore. Your tongue unspeaks your former speech. It doth; new themes Must have new change of Rhetoric; all streams Flow not alike one way; when I spoke like a lover, it was to break you from your soldiers humour; Having made you lovers, ay, like Envy, speak To make you hate love; Art still strives to break Bad to make better: You have your wish. Then onward to the Court, Make us of love, as Schoolboys do of sport. Call out the jailor boy, yet do not; haste got a beard like Hortensio? Yes, madam, I have got his hair, if I could come as easily by his wit. Wouldst rob him of his wit? If I should, he could not hang me for't: 'tis not worth thirteen pence half penny, but what shall I do with it? Put it on boy. That shall I madam, O forward age, I am a man already: how do you like me Lady? Very ill, and my plot worse. Then leave't of, if you be grounded in the plot, You will but mar the Comedy. I purposed, thou in the habit of Hortensio, shouldst under pretence of removing Aspero to a new prison, have freed him out of the old one. Tut, I can tell you a trick, worth two of that: madam, your ear, take some care in the managing, and let me alone to prepare it. udsfoot break prison my Lord, 'tis but swimming the River. Break prison? 'twere both dishonour to my name, and treason to my love, what benefit were't for me to free my body, & leave my heart in bondage? i'll die, ere i'll harbour a disloyal thought. it bears no relish of disloyalty: being in prison you live as far from love as liberty: being abroad, you may by letters, or a thousand means purchase her company, and compass your content. Shalt be my Lawyer boy and counsel me. I'll look for my Fee then. If thy Counsel prospers. That's an exception Lawyers never respect, but come my lord, leap, as we have risen together, we'll fall together, Blame me not love, udsfoot your jailor my lord. Am I prevented? Yes faith, there had been a Counsellors fee cast away now.
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Tut, louers othes, like toyes writ down in Are ſoone blowne ore, contracts are common wiles, Tintangle fooles, Ioue himſelfe ſits and ſmiles At louers periuries, bawd, ſtrumpets hence, My boſome's chargde, giue way to violence: Come doe not mind them. How? not minde them father? When in your Court you courted vs to loue, You red another lecture, women then▪ Were angells. True, but that was before Angells Had power to make them diuells; they were then Fiend to themſelues, and Angells vnto men. VVen vpon Po thou find'ſt a cole-black ſwan, Th'aſt found a woman conſtant to a man. And not afore? Neuer afore. Your tongue V ſpeaks your former ſpeech. It doth; new theames Muſt haue new change of Rhetorique; all ſtreames Flow not alike one way; when I ſpake like a louer, Jt was to breake you from your ſouldiers humour; Hauing made you louers, I, like Enuy, ſpeak To make you hate loue; Art ſtill ſtriues to breake Bad to make better: You haue your wiſh. Then onward to the Court, Make vs of loue, as ſchoole-boyes do of ſport. Call out the iaylor boy, yet doe not; haſt got a beard like Hortenſio? Yes, madam, J haue got his hayre, if I coulde come as eaſily by his wit. VVouldſt rob him of his wit? If I ſhold, he could not hang me for ▪ tis not worth thirteen pence halfe penny▪ but what ſhall I do with it? Put it on boy. That ſhall J madam, O forward age, I am a man already: how do you like me Lady? Very ill, and my plot worſe. Then leaue't of, if you be grounded in the plot, You will but marre the Comedy. I purpoſde, thou in the habit of Hortenſio, ſhouldſt vnder pretence of remouing Aſpero to a new priſon, haue freed him out of the old one. Tut, J can tell you a trick, worth two of that: madam, your eare, take ſome care in the managing, and let me alone to prepare it. Vdſfoot breake priſon my Lorde, tis but ſwimming the Riuer. Breake priſon? twere both diſhonour to my name, and treaſon to my loue, what benefit wer't for me to free my body, & leaue my heart in bondage? ile die, ere ile harbour a diſloyall thought. Jt beares no relliſh of diſloyaltie: being in priſon you liue as far from loue as liberty: being abroad, you may by letters, or a thouſand meanes purchaſe hir company, and compaſſe your content. Shalt be my Lawyer boy and counſell me. Ile looke for my Fee then. If thy Counſell proſpers. Thats an exception Lawyers neuer reſpect, but come my lord, leape, as we haue riſen togither, weele fall togither, Blame me not loue, Vdſfoot your iaylor my lord▪ Am I preuented? Yes faith, there had bin a Counſellors fee caſt away now.