The Spanish Bawd (Calisto and Meliboea) (Celestina) · chunk 60 of 205
Mabbe, James / Rojas, Fernando de · published 1631 · first performed or written 1631 (Annals) tragicomedy; literary play T3 Sickness, physic and doctors typicality 0.71 · 425 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T3: doctor, master, cure, disease, pray, physic, physician, mr, sick, lady.
Troy stood out more stoutly, and held out longer. And many fiercer Dames have I tamed in my days; Tush? No storm lasteth long. You mine enemy, what say you? Speak out, I pray, that I may hear you. Hast thou any thing to say in thy excuse, whereby thou mayst satisfy my anger, and clear thyself of this thy error and bold attempt? Whilst your choler lives, my cause must needs die. And the longer your anger lasteth, the less shall my excuse be heard. But wonder not that you should be thus rigorous with me: For a little heat will serve to set young blood a boiling. Little heat, say you? Indeed thou mayst well say little; because thyself yet lives, whilst I with grief endure thy great presumption. What words canst thou demand of me for such a one as he is, that may stand with my good? Answer to my demand, because thou sayst thou hast not yet concluded. And perhaps thou mayst pacify me for that which is passed. marry, a certain Charm, madam, which (as he is informed by many of his good friends) your Ladyship hath, which cureth the toothache; as also that same admirable Girdle of yours, which is reported to have been found and brought from Cumae the Cave there, and was worn, 'tis thought, by the Sibilla, or Prophetess of that place; which Girdle they say, hath such a singular and peculiar property and power, with the very touch to abate and ease any ache or anguish whatsoever. Now this Gentleman I told you of, is exceedingly pained with the toothache, and even at death's door with it. And this was the true cause of my coming: But since it was my ill hap to receive so harsh and unpleasing an answer, let him still for me continue in his pain, as a punishment due unto him, for sending so unfortunate a messenger. For since in that muchness of your virtue I have found much of your pity wanting; I fear me, he would also want water, should he send me to the Sea to fetch it. And you know (sweet Lady) that the delight of vengeance, and pleasure of revenge endureth but a moment, but that of pity and compassion continueth for ever and ever. If this be that thou wouldst have, why didst thou not tell me of it sooner? Why went'st thou about the bush with me? What needed all those circumstances? Or why didst thou not deliver it in other words?
nodes 396–401 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 60 of 205 in this edition
Length
425 words · 539 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T3 — Sickness, physic and doctorscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.707 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: unassigned · seed 44: unassigned — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Troy stood out more stoutly, and held out longer. And many fiercer Dames haue I tamed in my dayes; Tush? No storme lasteth long. You mine enemy, what say you? Speake out, I pray, that I may heare you. Hast thou any thing to say in thy excuse, whereby thou maist satisfie my anger, and cleare thy selfe of this thy errour and bold attempt? Whilest your choler liues, my cause must needes dye. And the longer your anger lasteth, the lesse shall my excuse be heard. But wonder not that you should be thus rigorous with mee: For a little heate will serue to set young bloud a boyling. Little heate, say you? Indeed thou maist well say little; because thy selfe yet liues, whilst I with griefe indure thy great presumption. What words canst thou demand of me for such a one as he is, that may stand with my good? Answer to my demand, because thou sayst thou hast not yet concluded. And perhaps thou maist pacifie me for that which is past. Mary, a certaine Charme, Madame, which (as hee is informed by many of his good friends) your Ladiship hath, which cureth the tooth-ache; as also that same admirable Girdle of yours, which is reported to haue beene found and brought from Cumae the Caue there, and was worne, 'tis thought, by the Sibilla, or Prophetesse of that place; which Girdle they say, hath such a singular and peculiar property and power, with the very tutch to abate and ease any ache or anguish whatsoeuer. Now this Gentleman I told you of, is exceedingly pained with the tooth-ache, and euen at deaths doore with it. And this was the true cause of my comming: But since it was my ill hap to receiue so harsh and vnpleasing an answer, let him still for me continue in his paine, as a punishment due vnto him, for sending so vnfortunate a messenger. For since in that muchnesse of your vertue I haue found much of your pity wanting; I feare mee, hee would also want water, should he send mee to the Sea to fetch it. And you know (sweet Lady) that the delight of vengeance, and pleasure of reuenge endureth but a moment, but that of pity and compassion continueth for euer and euer. If this be that thou would'st haue, why did'st thou not tell me of it sooner? Why went'st thou about the bush with mee? What needed all those circumstances? Or why did'st thou not deliuer it in other words?