Shakespeare, William · published 1623 · first performed or written 1599 [1598-1599] (Annals) comedy · Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour typicality 0.83 · 477 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T0: duke, lord, duchess, love, court, madam, prince, honour, grace, lady.
Welcome young man: Thou offerest fairly to thy brother's wedding: To one his lands withheld, and to the other A land itself at large, a potent Dukedom. First, in this Forest, let us do those ends That here weet well begun, and well begot: And after, every of this happy number That have endured shrewd days, and nights with us, Shall share the good of our returned fortune, According to the measure of their states. Mean time, forget this newfallen dignity, And fall into our Rustic Revelry: Play Music, and you Brides and Bridegrooms all, With measure heaped in joy, to ' th' Measures fall. Sir, by your patience: if I heard you rightly, The Duke hath put on a Religious life, And thrown into neglect the pompous Court. He hath. To him will I: out of these convertites, There is much matter to be heard, and learned: you to your former Honour, I bequeath your patience, and your virtue, well deserves it. you to a love, that your true faith doth merit: you to your land, and love, and great allies: you to a long, and well-deserued bed: And you to wrangling, for thy loving voyage Is but for two months victualled: So to your pleasures, I am for other, then for dancing meazures. Stay, Iaques, stay. To see no pastime, I: what you would have, I'll stay to know, at your abandoned cave. Proceed, proceed: we'll begin these rights, As we do trust, they'll end in true delights.— It is not the fashion to see the Lady the Epilogue: but it is no more unhandsome, then to see the Lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needs no Epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes: and good plays prove the better by the help of good Epilogues: What a case am I in then, that am neither a good Epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play? I am not furnished like a Beggar, therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to conjure you, and I'll begin with the Women. I charge you (O women) for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this Play, as please you: And I charge you (O men) for the love you bear to women (as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them) that between you, and the women, the play may please. If I were a Woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defi'de not: And I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
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Welcome yong man: Thou offer'ſt fairely to thy brothers wedding: To one his lands with-held, and to the other A land it ſelfe at large, a potent Dukedome. Firſt, in this Forreſt, let vs do thoſe ends That heere vvete well begun, and wel begot: And after, euery of this happie number That haue endur'd ſhrew'd daies, and nights with vs, Shal ſhare the good of our returned fortune, According to the meaſure of their ſtates. Meane time, forget this new-falne dignitie, And fall into our Ruſticke Reuelrie: Play Muſicke, and you Brides and Bride-groomes all, With meaſure heap'd in ioy, to' th Meaſures fall. Sir, by your patience: if I heard you rightly, The Duke hath put on a Religious life, And throwne into neglect the pompous Court. He hath. To him will I: out of theſe conuertites, There is much matter to be heard, and learn'd: you to your former Honor, I bequeath your patience, and your vertue, well deſerues it. you to a loue, that your true faith doth merit: you to your land, and loue, and great allies: you to a long, and well-deſerued bed: And you to wrangling, for thy louing voyage Is but for two moneths victuall'd: So to your pleaſures, I am for other, then for dancing meazures. Stay, Iaques, ſtay. To ſee no paſtime, I: what you would haue, Ile ſtay to know, at your abandon'd caue. Proceed, proceed: wee'l begin theſe rights, As we do truſt, they'l end in true delights. — It is not the faſhion to ſee the Ladie the Epilogue: but it is no more vnhandſome, then to ſee the Lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. Yet to good wine they do vſe good buſhes: and good playes proue the better by the helpe of good Epilogues: What a caſe am I in then, that am neither a good Epilogue, nor cannot inſinuate with you in the behalfe of a good play? I am not furniſh'd like a Begger, therefore to begge will not become mee. My way is to coniure you, and Ile begin with the Women. I charge you (O women) for the loue you beare to men, to like as much of this Play, as pleaſe you: And I charge you (O men) for the loue you beare to women (as I perceiue by your ſimpring, none of you hates them) that betweene you, and the women, the play may pleaſe. If I were a Woman, I would kiſſe as many of you as had beards that pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defi'de not: And I am ſure, as many as haue good beards, or good faces, or ſweet breaths, will for my kind offer, when I make curt'ſie, bid me farewell.