The Spanish Bawd (Calisto and Meliboea) (Celestina) · chunk 197 of 205
Mabbe, James / Rojas, Fernando de · published 1631 · first performed or written 1631 (Annals) tragicomedy; literary play T1 Death, grief and revenge typicality 0.82 · 553 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T1: death, life, dead, die, blood, revenge, soul, father, heart, heaven.
Daughter Melibea, what make you there alone? what is it you would you have with me? shall I come up to you? No (good father) content you where you are, trouble not yourself▪ nor strive to come to me; you shall but disturb and interrupt that short speech which I am now to make unto you. Now, by and by shalt thou be suddenly wounded; thy heart shall presently be pricked with grief, and shall bleed abundantly, to see the death of thy only daughter. My end draws near; at hand is my, rest, and thy passion▪ my ease, and thy pain; my hour of keeping company and thy time of solitariness. You shall not need (my most honoured father) to seek out any instruments of music to assuage my sorrow; nor use any other sound, save the sound of bells, for to ring my knell, and bring my body to the grave. And, if thou canst hearken unto me for tears, if thine eyes will give thine cares leave to hear, thou shalt hear the desperate cause of this my forced, yet joyful departure; see thou neither speak nor weep; interrupt me not, either with tears or words, unless thou mean'st more hereafter to be tormented, in not knowing why I do kill myself, than thou art now sorrowful to see my death. Neither ask, nor answer me any thing; nor question me any further, then what of mine own accord I shall willingly tell thee; for when the heart is surcharged with sorrow, the ear is deaf to good counsel; and at such a time, good and wholesome words rather incense, then allay rage. Hear (my aged father) the last words that ever I shall speak unto you. And if you entertain them, as I hope you will, you will rather excuse, then condemn my error. I am sure, you both well perceive and hear that most sad and doleful lamentation, which is made throughout all this City; I am sure you hear this great noise and ringing of bells, the skriking and cryings out of all sorts of people, this howling, and barking of dogs, this noise and clattering of Armour. Of all this, have I been the cause; ay, even this very day, have clothed the greater part of the Knights, and Gentlemen of this City in mourning. ay, even this very day, have left many servants orphaned, and quite destitute of a Master. I have been the cause, that many a poor soul hath now lost it's alms and relief. I have been the occasion, that the dead should have the company of the most complete Gentleman, for his good graces and qualities that ever was borne. I have been the occasion, that the living have lost the only Pattern and Paragon of courtesy, of gallant inventions, of witty devices, of neatness and decency in his clothes, of speech, of gate, of kindness, and of virtue. I have been the occasion, that the earth doth now enjoy the most noble body, and the freshest flower of youth, that ever was created in this age of ours. And because you may stand amazed and astonished at the sound of these my unusual and unaccustomed crimes; I will open the business, and make this matter appear more clear unto you.
nodes 1315–1316 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 197 of 205 in this edition
Length
553 words · 698 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T1 — Death, grief and revengecross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.823 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T10 · seed 44: T1 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Daughter Melibea, what make you there alone? what is it you would you haue with mee? shall I come vp to you? No (good father) content you where you are, trouble not your selfe▪ nor striue to come to me; you shall but disturbe and interrupt that short speach which I am now to make vnto you. Now, by and by shalt thou be suddenly wounded; thy heart shall presently be prickt with griefe, and shall bleede abundantly, to see the death of thy onely daughter. My end drawes neere; at hand is my, rest, and thy passion▪ my ease, and thy paine; my houre of keeping company and thy time of solitarinesse. You shall not need (my most honoured father) to seeke out any instruments of musick to asswage my sorrow; nor vse any other sound, saue the sound of bels, for to ring my knell, and bring my body to the graue. And, if thou canst harken vnto mee for teares, if thine eyes will giue thine cares leaue to heare, thou shalt heare the desperate cause of this my forced, yet ioyfull departure; see thou neyther speake nor weepe; interrupt meot, eyther with teares or words, vnlesse thou mean'st more heereafter to be tormented, in not knowing why I doe kill my selfe, then thou art now sorrowfull to see my death. Neither aske, nor answer mee any thing; nor question me any further, then what of mine owne accord I shall willingly tell thee; for when the heart is surcharged with sorrow, the eare is deafe to good counsell; and at such a time, good and wholsome words rather incense, then allay rage. Heare (my aged father) the last words that euer I shall speake vnto you. And if you entertaine them, as I hope you will, you will rather excuse, then condemne my errour. I am sure, you both well perceiue and heare that most sad and doleful lamentation, which is made thorowout all this City; I am sure you heare this great noyse and ringing of bells, the skriking and cryings out of all sorts of people, this howling, and barking of dogges, this noyse and clattering of Armour. Of all this, haue I beene the cause; I, euen this very day, haue clothed the greater part of the Knights, and Gentlemen of this City in mourning. I, euen this very day, haue left many seruants orphaned, and quite destitute of a Master. I haue beene the cause, that many a poore soule hath now lost it's almes and reliefe. I haue beene the occasion, that the dead should haue the company of the most complete Gentleman, for his good graces and qualities that euer was borne. I haue beene the occasion, that the liuing haue lost the onely Patterne and Paragon of courtesie, of gallant inuentions, of witty deuices, of neatnesse and decency in his cloathes, of speech, of gate, of kindnesse, and of vertue. I haue beene the occasion, that the earth doth now inioy the most noble body, and the freshest flowre of youth, that euer was created in this age of ours. And because you may stand amazed and astonished at the sound of these my vnusuall and vnaccustomed crimes; I will open the businesse, and make this matter appeare more cleare vnto you.