Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T3: doctor, master, cure, disease, pray, physic, physician, mr, sick, lady.
Nor in her weeds alone is she so nice, But rich perfumes she buys at any price. Storax and spikenard she burns in her Chamber, And daubs herself with Civit, Musk and Amber. With limbecks, viols, pots, her Closet's filled, Full of strange liquours by rare art distilled: She hath Vermilion and Antimony, Ceruse and sublimated Mercury. Waters she hath to make her face to shine; Confections eke to clarify her skin; lipsalves, and clothes of a pure scarlet die She hath, which to her cheeks she doth apply: Ointments wherewith she pargets o'er her face, And lustrifies her beauty's dying grace. She waters for the morphews doth compose, And many other things, as strange as those; Some made of Daffodils, some of lees, Of scarwolf some, and some of rinds of trees, With Centory, sour Grapes, and Tarragon, She maketh many a strange lotion: Her skin she can both supple and refine, With juice of Lemons and with Turpentine: The marrow of the hearnshaw and the deer, She takes likewise to make her skin look clear: Sweet waters she distils, which she composes Of flowers of Oranges, Woodbine or Roses: The virtue of jasmine and three-leaved grass, She doth imprison in a brittle glass, With Civet, Musk, and odours far more rare, These liquours sweet incorporated are: Lees she can make which turn a hair that's old Or coloured ill, into a hue of gold. Of horses, bears, cats, camels, coneys, snakes, Whales, Herons, bitterns, strange oils she makes, With which dame natures errors she corrects, Using arts help to supply all defects. She in the milk of Asses baths her skin, As did the beautiful Poppea, when She tempted Nero to forsake the bed Of great Octavia, and herself to wed. If there be any Gentlewoman here, That will with gracious acceptation use The service of a tattling Chambermaid, I would advise her to make choice of this Frisketta, That is as chaste as Helen, or Corinthian Lais, As chary of bewraying secrets as was Echo: Oh she would prove a rare Privy counselor In some great lady's privy Chamber. The perpetual motion for which Artists have so laboured Is discovered nowhere so plainly as in her tongue, Which scarce finds any leisure to rest, No not when she is asleep: But of her courtesy she is so charitable, And so heroically magnificent, That she will both vouchsafe to commiserate The low estate of an humble groom of the stable, And also satisfy the desire Of a high and mighty Gentleman-usher In a kiss or any other amorous encounter: Gentlemen believe me in few, she is a pearl, Whose worth the age cannot value. If there be any Gentleman here That will bestow a small pension upon her, With a kiss or two once a fortnight, To make her his intelligencer of state In his wife's commonwealth; I will undertake he shall be able to make good A faction against his wife, Had she an Amazons stomach, a Zenobia's, Or a Xanthippes tongue.
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Length
505 words · 709 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T3 — Sickness, physic and doctorscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.609 (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)
Nor in her weeds alone is she so nice, But rich perfumes she buyes at any price. Storax and Spiknard she burnes in her Chamber, And daubes her selfe with Civit, Muske and Amber. With limbecks, viols, pots, her Closet's fill'd, Full of strange liquors by rare art distill'd: She hath Vermilion and Antimony, Cerusse and sublimated Mercury. Waters she hath to make her face to shine; Confections eke to clarifie her skin; Lipsalues, and cloathes of a pure scarlet dye She hath, which to her cheekes she doth apply: Oyntments wherewith she pargets ore her face, And lustrifies her beauties dying grace. She waters for the Morphewes doth compose, And many other things, as strange as those; Some made of Daffadils, some of lees, Of scarwolfe some, and some of rinds of trees, With Centory, sower Grapes, and Tarragon, She maketh many a strange lotion: Her skin she can both supple and refine, With iuyce of Lemons and with Turpintine: The marrow of the Hernshaw and the Deere, She takes likewise to make her skin looke cleere: Sweet waters she distils, which she composes Of flowers of Oranges, Woodbine or Roses: The vertue of Iesmine and three-leav'd grasse, She doth imprison in a brittle glasse, With Civet, Muske, and odours farre more rare, These liquors sweet incorporated are: Lees she can make which turne a haire that's old Or colour'd ill, into a hue of gold. Of horses, beares, cats, camels, conies, snakes, Whales, Herons, bittours, strange oyles she makes, With which dame natures errours she corrects, Vsing arts helpe to supply all defects. She in the milke of Asses bathes her skin, As did the beautifull Poppea, when She tempted Nero to forsake the bed Of great Octavia, and her selfe to wed. If there be any Gentlewoman here, That will with gracious acceptation use The service of a tatling Chambermaid, I would aduise her to make choice of this Frisketta, That is as chaste as Helen, or Corinthian Lais, As chary of bewraying secrets as was Echo: Oh she would prove a rare Privie Councellour In some great Ladies privie Chamber. The perpetuall motion for which Artists have so labor'd Is discover'd no where so plainly as in her tongue, Which scarce finds any leisure to rest, No not when she is asleepe: But of her curtesie she is so charitable, And so heroically magnificent, That she will both vouchsafe to commiserate The lowe estate of an humble groome of the stable, And also satisfie the desire Of a high and mighty Gentleman-usher In a kisse or any other amorous encounter: Gentlemen beleeue me in few, she is a pearle, Whose worth the age cannot value. If there be any Gentleman here That will bestow a small pension upon her, With a kisse or two once a fortnight, To make her his intelligencer of state In his wives common-wealth; I will undertake he shall be able to make good A faction against his wife, Had she an Amazons stomacke, a Zenobia's, Or a Xanthippes tongue.