Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Apollo Shroving · chunk 29 of 46

Hawkins, William · published 1627 · first performed or written 1627 [Feb 6] (Annals)
comedy
T62 The courtier as a type: fashion, affecta typicality 0.65 · 477 words

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Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T62: courtier, shrug, face, court, italian, monsieur, scholar, fashion, french, courtiers.

Paris Garden? O fine Paris they say is a one City in France. I am glad he will send me thither. No man can be a complete Gentleman till he have learned their cringes and crinkling i'th' hams: which is in excellent request to the heavens now adays. Good sir, I hope myself, and such men of worth as I, have transported thence already plentiful loads of this French ware, that you shall save the labour and cost of living there at their dear Ordinaries and precious dancing-schools, you must therefore in your stipend to me allow me, for that which I spent among Counts, Nobles, Knights and monsieurs there; sometime i'th' five pound Ordinary, I tell you. An horrible profitable lie My Master ne'er dined there but with O●llers and vintner's boys. I tell you it cost me sour Nobles to the Usher of the dancing school to learn one trick, which they call Le Tourne fuseau It wheels a man about, as a boy does a stone in a ho●pe, and makes him appear as round and uniform, as a joiners turned bed post. I pray you learn me that whirligig trick. You are not come to that. Be not so hasty, you are yet but in the Rudiments, and to tell you plain, you must refund to me some charge for other proficiency before we aspire so high. There was another vaulting trick called the our. The base vulgar in English call it the hoister. It lifts a man up till he grow less and less like a Hawk after a Heron. Shaw. It cost me. Let me see. how much? Upon mine honour thirty Crowns. I think it was but twenty. By your leave master, I know better than you. Do not I keep your Count Book? I'm sure 'twas that week that you bought the jewellers rich Diamond that was refused by so many Nobles. They could not reach the price of it. O it was the late Queen Mother's jewel. Thou didst still thou forgetful brat to leave it behind. I should have worn it at this public show. All Parnassus would have admired it. Master, you lost the key of your Cabinet. I durst not break it ope (The devil a jewel we have, but one that was bought of a Pedlar, and in the Country Towns he makes a great show with it at Bear. baitings, but in such civil places as this is, he durst not be seen with it.) I pray you when I am i'th' humour of buying jewels, let me have the refusal of it. Thou shalt, because thou art an ingenious Gentleman 〈◊〉 Imp. Remember to set down a caveat in the Margin of my Inventory, that no man else ●y so much as look on it or have any price set of it.
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PlayApollo Shroving
AuthorHawkins, William
Publication year (edition)1627
First performance / composition (Annals)1627 [Feb 6]
First performance (BritDrama)1627 [Feb]
Genre (British Drama)comedy
Play typeBoys Nonprofessional/School;Nonprofessional
Edition / TCP / DEEPedition 907 · TCP A02827 · DEEP 730
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
Positionnodes 703–719 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 29 of 46 in this edition
Length477 words · 610 tokens
Topic (seed 42)T62 — The courtier as a type: fashion, affectation and foreign manners cross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.651 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seedsseed 43: T60 · seed 44: unassigned — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Paris Garden? O sinl Paris they say is a ne City in France. I am glad he will send mee thither. No man can be a compleat Gentleman till he haue learnt their cringes and crinkling i'th hams: which is in excellent request to the heauens now adayes. Good sir, I hope my selfe, and such men of worth as I, haue transported thence already plentifull loads of this French ware, that you shall saue the labour and cost of liuing there at their deare Ordinaries and pretious dancing-schooles, you must therefore in your stipend to me allow me, for that which I spent among Counts, Nobles, Knights and Monsiers there; sometime it'h fiue pound Ordinary, I tell you. An horrible profitable lye My Master ne're dyn'd there but with Ollers and Vintners boyes. I tell you it cost me soure Nobles to the Vsher of the dancing schoole to learne one tricke, which they cal Le Tourne fuseau It wheeles a man about, as a boy does a stone in a hope, and makes him appeare as round and vniforme, as a loynes turn'd bed post. I pray you learne me that whi legig tricke. You are not come to that. Be not so hasty, you are yet but in the Rudiments, and to tell you plaine, you must refund to me some charge for other proficiency before we aspire so high. There was another vaulting tricke called the ur. The base vulgar in English call it the hoister. It lifts a man vp til he grow lesse and lesse like a Hawke after a Heron. Shaw. It cost me. Let me see. how much? Vpon mine honour thirty Crownes. I thinke it was but twenty. By your leaue master, I know better then you. Doe not I keepe your Count Booke? I'me sure 'twa that weeke that you bought the Iewellers rich Diamond that was refused by so many Nobles. They could not reach the price of it. O it was the late Queene Mothers Iewell. Thou didstill thou forgetfull brat to leaue it behinde. I should haue worne it at this publike show. All Parnossus would haue admired it. Master, you lost the key of your Cabinet. I durst not breake it ope (The diuell a Iewell we haue, but one that was bought of a Pedlar, and in the Country Townes he makes a great show with it at Beare. baitings, but in such ciuill places as this is, he durst not be seene with it.) I pray you when I am i'th humour of buying Iewels, let me haue the refusall of it. Thou shalt, because thou art an ingenious Gentleman Imp. Remember to set downe a caueat in the Margent of my Inuentary, that no man ele y so much as looke on it or haue any price set of it.