The Two Merry Milkmaids, or The Best Words Wear the Garland · chunk 46 of 54
Cumber, John · published 1620 · first performed or written 1619 [1619-1620] (Annals) comedy · Red Bull (Revels) Company (first) · before the Court T32 Rings and jewels as tokens typicality 0.88 · 479 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T32: ring, ti, gave, finger, jewel, lady, lord, love, invisible, away.
Prithee sweet no more, ask any thing but that, Let Law be of no force then in my Land, If I forgive such Traitors. O where is Dorilus? That innocent and excellent good man: If he be living, let him be brought to me That I may honour him, if dead lament, And wash him with my tears, sit on his Hearst And ask forgive of his gentle spirit, lest it do haunt me being his murderer. justice, justice, my Sovereign. What art thou com'st for justice? One that under your authority performs it upon others. Perform it upon me for I am a murderer. My Lord. A murderer of my friends, of virtuous men, Virtue herself did very hardly scape me. Good my Lord. I must see Dorilus alive or dead, To view how big the wound was that I gave him, For I will have grief dig one in my breast, As deep as it is, and as mortal too. Why here is Dorilus. Prayers of Princes fall on thee, dost thou live To tell me that my sword doth want an edge, But when it strikes offenders, rise Dorilus: And thus unto thy Mistress I present thee, As the best jewel that I have to give her, For a true Servant is of that esteem. Sir, I thank you, but I return him back, As fittest for your service. here's giving and taking as if they'd both be rid of him. Why I thank thee, and I receive him gladly. Now where's he that would have justice? Here my Liege. Against whom wouldst thou have justice? Against the President of Wittenberg. Who falling foul with the learned Landoff Tutor unto my son, is thought by most And of the wisest of the University, To have by some treacherous plot made them away, He nor my son having been seen ere since. Why here is Landoff sir, your poor friend in safety. Landoff, where is my son? Here sir, with a daughter to boot. Now God's blessing a'thy heart, if thou hast conferred me thus. e'en thus Sir. Rise with my blessing on you both. So they are owned, nobody calls upon me, nor regards me, nor to say the truth, I regard nobody: the loss of my invisible Ring has broke my heart, now when I knew the virtue of it, to lose it, and to an idiot, an innocent, that deserves not to understand the virtue of it, what dainty devices might I have had in every Chamber of the Court, seen such a Lord kiss such a Lady the wrong way, such a Knight, lie with his Chambermaid, and his Lady with her Groom, the Usher with the waiting-Gentlewoman, and the page with all. Phoebus himself must ha' come short of those things, I should ha' seen, for one invisible Ring would discover another.
nodes 2297–2345 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 46 of 54 in this edition
Length
479 words · 614 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T32 — Rings and jewels as tokenscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.876 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T33 · seed 44: T32 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Prithee sweete no more, aske any thing but that, Let Law be of no force then in my Land, If I forgiue such Traytors. O where is Dorilus? That innocent and excellent good man: If he be liuing, let him be brought to me That I may honor him, if dead lament, And wash him with my teares, sit on his Hearst And aske forgiue of his gentle spirit, Least it do haunt me being his murtherer. Iustice, iustice, my Soueraigne. What art thou com'st for iustice? One that vnder your authority performes it vpon others. Performe it vpon me for I am a murtherer. My Lord. A murtherer of my friends, of vertuous men, Vertue herselfe did very hardly scape me. Good my Lord. I must see Dorilus aliue or dead, To view how big the wound was that I gaue him, For I will haue griefe dig one in my brest, As deepe as it is, and as mortall too. Why heere is Dorrilus. Prayers of Princes fall on thee, dost thou liue To tell me that my sword doth want an edge, But when it strikes offenders, rise Dorilus: And thus vnto thy Mistresse I present thee, As the best Iewell that I haue to giue her, For a true Seruant is of that esteeme. Sir, I thanke you, but I returne him back, As fittest for your seruice. Heeres giuing and taking as if thei'd both be rid of him. Why I thanke thee, and I receiue him gladly. Now wher's he that wud haue Iustice? Heere my Leige. Against whom wud'st thou haue Iustice? Against the President of Wittembergh. Who falling foule with the learned Landoff Tutor vnto my sonne, is thought by most And of the wisest of the Vniuersity, To haue by some trecherous plot made them away, He nor my sonne hauing bin seene ere since. Why heere is Landoff sir, your poore friend in safetie. Landoff, where is my sonne? Heere sir, with a daughter to boote. Now Gods blessing a'thy heart, if thou hast consen'd me thus. E'ne thus Sir. Rise with my blessing on you both. So they are own'd, no body calls vpon me, nor regards me, nor to say the truth, I regard nobody: the losse of my inuisible Ring has broke my heart, now when I knew the vertue of it, to lose it, and to an ideot, an innocent, that deserues not to vnderstand the vertue of it, what dainty deuices might I haue had in euery Chamber of the Court, seene such a Lord kisse such a Lady the wrong way, such a Knight, lie with his Chambermaid, and his Lady with her Groome, the Vsher with the waiting-Gentlewoman, and the page with all. Phoebus himselfe must a come short of those things, I shud aseen, for one inuisible Ring wud discouer another.