The School of Compliment (Love Tricks) · chunk 6 of 44
Shirley, James · published 1631 · first performed or written 1625 [licensed for stage, Feb 11] (Annals) comedy · Lady Elizabeth's Men · Phoenix/Cockpit T3 Sickness, physic and doctors typicality 0.67 · 476 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T3: doctor, master, cure, disease, pray, physic, physician, mr, sick, lady.
Possible? oh yes, there's no question, for we see by experience, Stags cast their old horns, and prove vigorous, Snakes cast off their old coats, Eagles renew their age, your plants do it familiarly, the Phoenix when she is old, burns herself to ashes, from thence revives a young Phoenix again. Possible? I have heard some old men have been twice children sir,— therefore' this not impossible. 'tis very strange: I am not yet confident. There be receipts in Physic, sir, to keep them young, saving that time runs on a little beforehand with 'em: yes, and to make young, since it is harder to make alive when they are dead, than to make young when they are alive, and Physic doth revive some out of all question, though not so familiarly as kill, for that they do with a little study; marry I think, if it were as gainful to the Physician to restore as to destroy, he would practise the Art of recovery very faithfully. Why, do you think it would not prove as gainful? Oh! by no means, for where an old man would give a hundred pound, to have forty or fifty years wiped off the old score of his life, his wife or next heir would join rather than fail, to outbid him half on't, to put him out of debt quite, and to send his old leaking vessel into mare mortuum. Well, well, but if I be young, I have took no Physic for't. If nay, 'tis past if, and, and too, you are certainly restored, let me see, you look like one of four, or six and thirty, not a minute above, and so much a man may take you for. Well, I know not what to say to't, there is some power in love has blessed me: now Selina, be thou gracious. Are you in love? nay, the wonder is not so great; who can express the power of Love? I have read of a Painter named Pygmalion, that made the Picture of a woman so to the life, that he fell in love with it, courted it, lay in bed with it, and by power of Love, it became a soft-natured wench indeed, and he begot I know not how many children of her. Well sir, Selina cannot choose but be mad for you. Not mad, Gasparo, I would be loath to be troubled with her and she be mad. Yes, and she be mad in love, there is no harm in't, she cannot be too mad in love, your Cornucopia may be abated at pleasure, besides sir, the best moral men say, Love itself is a madness, and the madder your wife is, the more sure you may be she loves you. No, no, I love no madness on any condition, for fear of being horn-mad.
nodes 160–171 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 6 of 44 in this edition
Length
476 words · 615 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T3 — Sickness, physic and doctorscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.667 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T3 · seed 44: T4 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Possible? oh yes, theres no question, for we see by experience, Stagges cast their old hornes, and proue vigorous, Snakes cast off their old coates, Eagles renew their age, your plants doe it familiarly, the Phoenix when she is old, burnes herselfe to ashes, from thence reuiues a young Phoenix againe. Possible? I haue heard some old men haue beene twice children sir,—therefore' this not impossible. Tis very strange: I am not yet confident. There be receites in Physicke, sir, to keepe them young, sauing that time runnes on a little beforehand with em: yes, and to make young, since it is harder to make aliue when they are dead, then to make young when they are aliue, and Physicke doth reuiue some out of all question, though not so familiarly as kill, for that they doe with a little study; mary I thinke, if it were as gainefull to the Phisicion to restore as to destroy, hee would practise the Art of recouery very faithfully. Why, doe you thinke it would not proue as gainefull? Oh! by no meanes, for where an old man would giue a hundred pound, to haue forty or fifty yeeres wiped off the old score of his life, his wife or next heire would ioyne rather then faile, to out-bid him halfe on't, to put him out of debt quite, and to send his old leaking vessell into mare mortuum. Well, well, but if I bee young, I haue tooke no Physicke for't. If nay, 'tis past if, and, and too, you are certainly restor'd, let me see, you looke like one of foure, or sixe and thirty, not a minute aboue, and so much a man may take you for. Well, I know not what to say too't, there is some power in loue has blest me: now Selina, be thou gracious. Are you in loue? nay, the wder is not so great; who can expresse the power of Loue? I haue read of a Painter named Pigmalion, that made the Picture of a womā so to the life, that he fell in loue with it, courted it, lay in bed with it, and by power of Loue, it became a soft-natur'd wench indeed, and he begot I know not how many children of her. Well sir, Selina cannot choose but be mad for you. Not mad, Gasparo, I would be loth to be troubled with her and she be mad. Yes, and shee be mad in loue, there is no harme in't, she cannot be too mad in loue, your Cornucopia may be bated at pleasure, besides sir, the best morall men say, Loue it selfe is a madnesse, and the madder your wife is, the more sure you may be she loues you. No, no, I loue no madnesse on any condition, for feare of being horne-mad.