Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1609 (Annals) comedy · Children of the Queen's Revels T8 Captains, gallants and cheats typicality 0.87 · 482 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T8: captain, master, money, gentleman, little, lieutenant, rogue, pray, minos, honest.
Captain hee-OTTER, your shee-OTTER is coming, your wife. Wife! Buz. Titivilitium. There's no such thing in nature. I confess, gentlemen, I have a cook, a laundress, a house-drudge, that serves my necessary turns, and goes under that title: But he's an ass that will be so uxorious, to tie his affections to one circle. Come, the name dulls appetite. Here, replenish again: another bout. Wives are nasty sluttish animals. O, Captain. As ever the earth bare, tribus verbis. Where's master TRVE-WIT? he's slipped aside, sir. But you must drink, and be jovial. Yes, give it me. And me, too. Let's be jovial. As jovial as you will. Agreed. Now you shall ha' the bear, cousin, and sir JOHN DAW the horse, and I'll ha' the bull still. Sound Tritons o' the Thames. Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero— Villains, murderers, sons of the earth, and traitors, what do you there? O, now the trumpets have waked him, we shall have his company. A wife is a scurvy clogdogdo; an unlucky thing, a very foresaid bear-whelp, without any good fashion or breeding: mala bestia. Why did you marry one then, Captain? A pox— I married with six thousand pound, I▪ I was in love with that. I ha' not kissed my fury, these forty weeks. The more to blame you, Captain. Nay, mistress OTTER, hear him a little first. She has a breath worse than my grandmothers, profecto. O treacherous liar. Kiss me, sweet master TRVE-WIT, and prove him a slandering knave. I'll rather believe you, lady. And she has a peruke, that's like a pound of hemp, made up in shoo-thrids. O viper, mandrake! A most vile face! and yet she spends me forty pound a year in mercury, and hogs-bones. All her teeth were made i' the Black- Friars: both her eyebrows i' the Strand, and her hair in Siluer-street. Every part o' the town owns a piece of her. I cannot hold. She takes herself asunder still when she goes to bed, into some twenty boxes; and about next day noon is put together again, like a great german clock: and so comes forth and rings a tedious 'larum to the whole house, and then is quiet again for an hour, but for her quarters. Ha' you done me right, gentlemen? No, sir, I'll do you right with my quarters, with my quarters. O, hold, good Princess. Sound, sound. A battle, a battle. You notorious stinkardly bearward, does my breath smell? Under correction, dear Princess: look to my bear, and my horse, gentlemen. Do I want teeth, and eyebrows, thou bull-dog? Sound, sound still. No, I protest, under correction— I, now you are under correction, you protest: but you did not protest before correction, sir. Thou JUDAS, to offer to betray thy Princess! I'll make thee an example— I will have no such examples in my house, lady OTTER. Ah—
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Length
482 words · 731 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T8 — Captains, gallants and cheatscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.872 (cosine to the topic centroid)
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seed 43: T11 · seed 44: T14 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Captaine hee-OTTER, your shee-OTTER is comming, your wife. Wife! Buz. Titiuilitium. There's no such thing in nature. I confesse, gentlemen, I haue a cook, a laundresse, a house-drudge, that serues my necessary turnes, and goes vnder that title: But hee's an asse that will be so vxorious, to tie his affections to one circle. Come, the name dulls appetite. Here, replenish againe: another bout. Wiues are nasty sluttish animalls. O, Captaine. As euer the earth bare, tribus verbis. Where's master TRVE-WIT? Hee's slipt aside, sir. But you must drinke, and be iouiall. Yes, giue it me. And me, too. Let's be iouiall. As iouiall as you will. Agreed. Now you shall ha' the beare, cousin, and sir IOHN DAW the horse, and I'll ha' the bull still. Sound Tritons o' the Thames. Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero— Villaines, murderers, sonnes of the earth, and traitors, what doe you there? O, now the trumpets haue wak'd him, we shall haue his companie. A wife is a sciruy clogdogdo; an vnlucky thing, a very foresaid beare-whelpe, without any good fashion or breeding: mala bestia. Why did you marry one then, Captaine? A poxe—I married with sixe thousand pound, I▪ I was in loue with that. I ha' not kist my furie, these fortie weekes. The more to blame you, Captaine. Nay, mistris OTTER, heare him a little first. Shee has a breath worse then my grand-mothers, profecto. O treacherous lyar. Kisse mee, sweet master TRVE-WIT, and proue him a slaundering knaue. I'll rather beleeue you, lady. And shee has a perruke, that's like a pound of hempe, made vp in shoo-thrids. O viper, mandrake! A most vile face! and yet shee spends me fortie pound a yeere in mercury, and hogs-bones. All her teeth were made i' the Blacke-Friers: both her eye-browes i' the Strand, and her haire in Siluer-street. Euery part o' the towne ownes a peece of her. I cannot hold. She takes her selfe asunder still when she goes to bed, into some twentie boxes; and about next day noone is put together againe, like a great Germane clocke: and so comes forth and rings a tedious larum to the whole house, and then is quiet againe for an houre, but for her quarters. Ha' you done me right, gentlemen? No, sir, I'll do you right with my quarters, with my quarters. O, hold, good Princesse. Sound, sound. A battell, a battell. You notorious stinkardly beareward, do's my breath smell? Vnder correction, deare Princesse: looke to my beare, and my horse, gentlemen. Doe I want teeth, and eye-browes, thou bull-dog? Sound, sound still. No, I protest, vnder correction— I, now you are vnder correction, you protest: but you did not protest before correction, sir. Thou IVDAS, to offer to betray thy Princesse! I'll make thee an example— I will haue no such examples in my house, lady OTTER. Ah—