Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T1: death, life, dead, die, blood, revenge, soul, father, heart, heaven.
Now quickly (Madam) to disclose you live Were dangerous, and prejudicial I doubt: Therefore expect on opportunity, lest you infringe the league of unity; Till I advise, live (as you do) secure: Safety's no less accepted of obscure And Country Peasants, then of Courted Kings: Place cannot change the nature of good things. THe Mountain echoes they shall catch his name And every nook reiterate the same; For I will teach the night-raven to repeat His pensive sound, the sleepy owl shall sing And happy news of lost Pheudippe bring: Awake dumb Ghost, Pheudippe, friend awake And now repair thy old mansion-place; Return Pheudippe but a while return And truly answer to my just demand I will resign a Kingdom to thy hand. hark you mad furies of eternal night: Boatman of Styx, by burning Phlegeton Secluded Angels, and superior aid I do conjure you to direct his soul Back to the bosom of that slaughtered Hearse Ah Charon, Charon, prithee Boatman bring His errant shadow to the place of rest, And Charon I will Canonize thy name Give thee a Queen to sleep in thy cold arms, To kindle moisture in thy rugged limbs And make thy waftage easy with her hymns: Bring but the soul of that ignoble man To ask forgiveness, and I will forgive. A foolish hope! (heaven knows) for he indeed He hath a haughty stomach full of rage Swollen-big with pride, begot of too much love, And my familiar usage makes him think (The more fault's mine) he should not now submit. O sir the final stab of mischiefs end Hath struck him dead; he cannot now amend. No! 'tis a language difficult to learn Though rules be frequent in our mother-tongue. O that a lesson of one word; not two, Should ask a life to learn, an age to do? Yes; though Pheudippe's age had been deferred Till a consumption of the Universe In hope of his amendment, I believe He would have purchased immortality Through vice and vicious acts. Damnation claps, Gaping for custom at man's new relapse. Right: Can the earth yield such a faithless man As false Pheudippe? O damnation laughs And winged mischief claps her dusky plumes, If proud ambition great men's hope consumes. What a continual clapping is there then? For daily hope consumes the greatest men: I do appeal to dead Pheudippe's shame Thou terror to my sense, a prodigy Of all remembrance never to be matched With any Ghost or man except thyself: Who through abortive hope didst match thyself: A man most worthy of all impious fame, Who Dan Pheudippe cleped was by name. Know (gallant sir) I did repose my life Upon the friendship of that foolish man; He kept my soul between his Tyrant's arms Nay (let me add) the value of my Crown, (For which some Kings would e'en exchange their soul) He kept both Soul and Crown betwixt his arms, Yet both lay open to excessive harms: O if I had election to dispend My favour upon such a Rogue as he But once, once more; I'd lock my counsel up And keep my bosom secrets to myself.
nodes 2828–2901 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 38 of 67 in this edition
Length
527 words · 718 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T1 — Death, grief and revengecross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.790 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: unassigned · seed 44: T1 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Now quickly (Madam) to disclose you liue Were dangerous, and preiudiciall I doubt: Therefore expect on opportunity, Least you infringe the league of vnity; Till I aduise, liue (as you doe) secre: Safety's no lesse accepted of obscure And Country Pezants, then of Courted Kings: Place cannot change the nature of good things. THe Mountaine ecchoes they shall catch his name And euery nooke re-terate the same; For I will teach the night-rauen to repeat His pesiue sound, the sleepy owle shall sing And happy newes of lost Pheudippe bring: Awake dumbe Ghost, Pheudippe, friend awake And now repaire thy old mansion-place; Returne Pheudippe but a while returne And truly answere to my iust demand I will resigne a Kingdome to thy hand. Heake you mad furies of eternall night: Boats-man of Stix, by burning Phlegeton Secluded Angels, and superiour aide I doe con-iure you to direct his soule Backe to the bosome of that slaughtered Hearse Ah Charon, Charon, prethee Boats-man bring His errant shadow to the plce of rest, And Charon I will Canonize thy name Giue thee a Queene to sleepe in thy cold armes, To kindle moisture in thy rugged limbes And make thy wastage easy with her hymnes: Bring but the soule of that ignoble man To aske forgiuensse, and I will forgiue. A foolish hope! (heau'n knowes) for hee indeed Hee hath a haughty stomach full of rage Swolne-big with pride, begot of too much loue, And my familiar vsage makes him thinke (The more fault's mine) hee should not now submit. O sir the finall stab of mischiefes end Hath strucke him dead; hee cannot now amend. No! 'tis a language difficult to learne Though rules be frequent in our mother-tongue. O that a lesson of one word; not two, Should aske a life to learne, an age to do? Yes; though Pheudippes age had beene defer'd Till a consumption of the Vniuerse In hope of his amendment, I beleeue Hee would haue purchas'd immortality Through vice and vitious acts. Damnation claps, Gaping for custome at mans new relaps. Right: Can the earth yeeld such a faithles man As false Pheudidippe? O damnation laughs And winged mischeife claps her dusky plumes, If proud ambition great mens hope consumes. What a continuall clapping is there then? For daily hope consumes the greatest men: I doe appeale to dead Pheudippes shame Thou terrour to my sence, a prodigy Of all remembrance neuer to be match'd With any Ghost or man except thy selfe: Who through abortiue hope didst match thy selfe: A man most worthy of all impious fame, Who Dn Pheudippe cleaped was by name. Know (gallant sir) I did repose my life Vpon the friend-ship of that foolish man; Hee kept my soule betweene his Tyrant's armes Nay (let mee adde) the value of my Crowne, (For which some Kings would eu'n exchange their soule) Hee kept both Soule and Crowne betwixt his armes, Ye both lay open to excessiue harmes: O if I had election to dispend My fauour vpon such a Rogue as hee But once, once more; I'de locke my counsell vp And keepe my bosome secrets to my selfe.