Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools · chunk 25 of 68
Anonymous · published 1619 · first performed or written 1619 [1613-1619] (Annals) satire; dialogue T6 Money, debt and credit typicality 0.69 · 508 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T6: money, master, pound, law, lawyer, chain, gentleman, gold, pay, pray.
I have cast up these accounts exactly, and your share is to pay 200l, and no more. I have often visited them, and put them to such a plunge as you never saw: for they say you ought to pay 400l. and yet they cannot avoid but they must pay 800l. They have lost their notes, their servants be changed: and they are so puzzled as you never knew men: they desire respite a week. I gave it them, and so it rests. Ha, ha, he. And did the fat Knight fret so? let him fry too. I will stick close to my counterbands. Sir I thought good to put you in mind of one thing. You have my bonds of eight or nine score pounds in your hands, discharged ten years since, I pray you let me have them up. O, take no care, they shall never hurt you. But I wish I had them up, we are all mortal. The next time, I light on them I will cancel them. Simplo go you to Mistress Boe, desire her to lend me half a dozen eggs until market day, look you choose the fairest. Proberio, I would fain do somewhat for you. A friend of mine wants a good Steward, I will help you with the place: or there is a widow worth 400l. I think I can make the march for you. I thank you Sir, either of them I will accept. This is like his 100l. offer which his messenger ran away withal. It will come to nothing; but now I know he hath some business for me. I would fain have your opinion in a bargain of land I have made with one Pohssib, to the value of 7000l. drawn into articles with both our hands to it. The chief motive of our bargain is a marriage between two young children. I pray you calculate whether the bargain be gainful or no. If you have bargained already, it is too late for me to deliver my opinion. Not a whit too late. There is nothing done but the land assured to me, and 3000l. of money paid. If I find It not fit for me, I'll rend the bargain all to shivers. What? two words to a bargain. Why. I know you can do it if you list, you can play fast and lose as well as any man. Well, you shall soon know how I like it. I never finished any bargain yet, nor do I mean this shallbe the first. Go to the Lawyer, and ask if the writings be ready for your land, that you may receive your 100ˡ. I have a couple of followers most unfit for my humour. Proberio is so full of scrupulosity, that nothing passes his fingers that savours not of conscience. Such a man would I deal withal, but not dwell withal. Such a man would I have deal with me, but not deal for me. Simplo, he is diligent, but alas his brains want salt.
nodes 281–294 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 25 of 68 in this edition
Length
508 words · 653 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T6 — Money, debt and creditcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.692 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T9 · seed 44: unassigned — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
I haue cast vp these accompts exactly, and your share is to pay 200•, and no more. I haue often visied them▪ and put them to such a plunge as you neuer saw: for they say you ought to pay 400•. and yet they cannot avoide but they must pay 800•. They haue lost their notes, their seruants be chang'd: and they are so pusled as you never knew men: they desire respite a weeke. I gaue it them, and so it rests. Ha, ha, he. And did the fat Knight fret so? let him fry too. I will sticke close to my counterbands. Sir I thought good to put you in mind of one thing. You haue my bonds of eight or nine score pounds in your hands▪ discharg'd tenne yeares since, I pray you let me haue them vp. O, take no care, they shall never hurt you. But I wish I had them vp, we are all mortall. The next time, I light on them I will cancel them. Simplo goe you to Mistris Boe▪ desire her to lend me halfe a dozen egges vntill market day, look you chuse the fairst. Proberio, I would faine do somwhat for you. A friend of mine wants a good Steward, I will helpe you with the place: or there is a widow worth 400•. I thinke I can make the march for you▪ I thanke you Sir, either of them I will accept. This is like his 100•. offer which his messenger ranne away withall. It will come to nothing; but now I know he hath some busines for me. I would faine haue your opinion in a bargain of land I haue made with one Pohssib, to the value of 7000•. drawn into articles with both our hands to it. The chiefe motive of our bargaine is a mariage betweene two yong children. I pray you calculate whether the bargaine be gainefull or no. If you ha bargained alreadie, it i too late for me to deliuer my opinion. Not a whit too late. There is nothing done but the land assured to me, and 3000•. of mony payd. If I finde It not fit for me, Ile rend the bargaine all to shivers. What? two words to a bargaine. Why. I know you can doe it if you list, you can play fast and loose aswell as any man. Well, you shall soone know how I like it. I neuer finish'd any bargaine yet, nor doe I meane this shalbe the first. Goe to the Lawyer, and aske if te writings be ready for your land, that you may receiue your 100•. I haue a couple of followers most vnfit for my humour. Proberio is so full of scrupulosity, that nothing passes his fingers that savers not of conscience. Such a man would I deale withall, but not dwell withall. Such a man would I haue deale with me, but not deale for me. Simplo, he is diligent, but alas his braines want salt.