The Spanish Bawd (Calisto and Meliboea) (Celestina) · chunk 89 of 205
Mabbe, James / Rojas, Fernando de · published 1631 · first performed or written 1631 (Annals) tragicomedy; literary play unassigned nearest T11 Siblings, kin and confidants · 417 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T11: sister, brother, love, friend, heart, father, mother, woman, lord, hear.
What sayst thou, my honest Parmeno? My son, nay, more than my son. I say, How should it come to pass, that my mother should have this advantage of you, being the words which she and you spoke, were both one? How? Make you this so great a wonder? Know you not, the Proverb tells us: That there is a great deal of difference betwixt Peter and Peter? Trust me truly, we cannot all be alike in all. we cannot all of us attain to those good gifts and graces of my deceased Gossip. And have not you yourself seen amongst your Artisans some good, and some others better than they? So likewise was it betwixt me and your mother. she was the only woman in our Art, she had not her fellow: and for such a one was she of all the world both known and sought after, as well of Cavaleroes, as married men, old men, young men, and children, beside, Maids and Damsels, who did as earnestly pray for her life, as for that of their own fathers and mothers. she had to do with all manner of persons; she talked with all sorts of people. If we walked the streets, as many as we met, they were all of them her Godsons. For her chiefest profession for some sixteen years together, was to play the Midwife: so that albeit thou knew'st not these secrets, because thou wast then but young, now it is fit that thou shouldst know them, sithence that she is dead, and thou grown up to be a man. Tell me, mother: When the justice sent Officers to apprehend you, at which time I was then in your house, was there any great acquaintance between you? Any great acquaintance? You are disposed to jest. Our cases were both alike; they took us both alike; they accused us both alike; and they did punish us both alike, which (if I be not deceived) was the first punishment that ever we had. But thou wast a little one then. I wonder how thou▪ shouldst remember it; For, it is a thing of all other, the most forgotten, that hath happened in this City; so many, and so daily in this world are those new occurrents, which obliterate the old. If you go but out into the marketplace, you shall every day see, Peguey Pague; the Peccant and his punishment. It is true, but the worser part of wickedness, is the perseverance therein.
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What sai'st thou, my honest Parmeno? My sonne, nay, more then my sonne. I say, How should it come to passe, that my mother should haue this aduantage of you, being the words which shee and you spake, were both one? How? Make you this so great a wonder? Know you not, the Prouerbe tels vs: That there is a great deale of difference betwixt Peter and Peter? Trust mee truely, wee cannot all be alike in all. Wee cannot all of vs attaine to those good gifts and graces of my deceased Gossip. And haue not you your selfe seene amongst your Artizans some good, and some others better then they? So likewise was it betwixt mee and your mother. Shee was the onely woman in our Arte, she had not her fellow: and for such a one was she of all the world both knowne and sought after, as well of Caualleroes, as marryed men, old men, young men, and children, besides, Maides and Damsels, who did as earnestly pray for her life, as for that of their owne fathers and mothers. Shee had to doe with all manner of persons; shee talked with all sorts of people. If wee walked the streetes, as many as we met, they were all of them her God-sonnes. For her chiefest profession for some sixteene yeeres together, was to play the Mid-wife: so that albeit thou knew'st not these secrets, because thou wast then but young, now it is fit that thou should'st know them, sithence that she is dead, and thou growne vp to be a man. Tell mee, mother: When the Iustice sent Officers to apprehend you, at which time I was then in your house, was there any great acquaintance betweene you? Any great acquaintance? You are disposed to iest. Our cases were both alike; they tooke vs both alike; they accused vs both alike; and they did punish vs both alike, which (if I be not deceiued) was the first punishment that euer we had. But thou wast a little one then. I wonder how thou▪ shouldst remember it; For, it is a thing of all other, the most forgotten, that hath hapned in this Citie; so many, and so dayly in this world are those new occurrents, which obliterate the old. If you goe but out into the market-place, you shall euery day see, Peguey Pague; the Peccant and his punishment. It is true, but the worser part of wickednesse, is the perseuerance therein.