Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

A Fine Companion

Marmion, Shackerley, published 1633 · comedy · Adult Professional;Professional

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TitleA Fine Companion
AuthorMarmion, Shackerley
Publication year (edition)1633
Genre (British Drama)comedy
Genre group (comparison)comedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: comedy
Play typeAdult Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 481 · edition 1004 · TCP A07024 · DEEP 818
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1633 [1632-1633]
First performance (BritDrama)1632 [1632-1633]
Company (BritDrama)Prince Charles's Men (second)
Company (Annals)Prince Charles's Men (second)
Theaterbefore the Court;Salisbury Court;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Theater typeIndoor
Title-page companyPrince Charles's Men (second)
PrinterMathewes, Augustine
PublisherMeighen, Richard
FormatQuarto
STC17442
Greg481a
Genre (Annals)Comedy
Genre (BritDrama)Comedy
BritDrama no.2378
Title pageA Fine Companion.
Title-page performance noteActed before the King and Queene at WHITE-HALL, And sundrie times with great applause at the private House in SALISBVRY Court, By the Prince his Servants.
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10–71531T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe0.84ARe you the Author of this Play? What then? Out o' this Poetry, I wonder what You do with this Disease, a seed…
272–136493T51 Parents and children: blessing, birthrig0.88he's grown contemptuous, & flings away In a rapture; for this, when I am in, If I can't laughed at's play, I'l…
3137–204533T1 Death, grief and revenge0.75On how have I deserved that you should think So ill of me? you may divorce the luy, The Vine from her embraces…
4205–223527unassignedhowe'er I speed, comfort attend thee still, And so my best Valeria farewell. ne'er tell me on't, a Gentleman m…
5224–239476unassignedI see yet in his good nature a reluctancy against ill courses, he has not quite shaked off his humanity, there…
6240–260493T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.78Yes, and presume upon't, and think whatever injury you do a man, you can be saved by your Book This is true, a…
7261–290495unassignedYou shall swear to be silent then. As close as that covering. Then look you, I will participate the mystery; t…
8291–310503unassignedI took your lodging by the way, I am going to dazzle the eyes of the Ladies with my apparition. I am not so co…
9311–333504unassignedI would my brother had been better advised, than to give his Land to a Prodigal. Fitter indeed the right Heir …
10334–380494T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.87Oh uncle, that you should thus carp at my happiness, and traduce my Cameradoes, men of such spirit and valour.…
11381–449502T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.89Oh my heart, my heart. Would you would rip it up, that you might see yourself enthroned, and all my faculties …
12450–494488unassignedHad I known that, I'd have condemned them both, To silence and obscurity. You had then, robbed nature of her b…
13495–512497unassignedWhy sir, your Citizens widows are the only rubbish of the kingdom, to fill up the breaches of decayed houses. …
14513–540494unassignedOh me, what shall I do? would my life were a sacrifice. I'll tell you what you shall do, be advised; refuse no…
15541–560498unassignedI would first demand your opinion of me. Truly I have no skill to make any conjecture by the outward appearanc…
16561–578478unassignedWell she may play with the line, I'll give her scope enough, but when I have her fast, I'll twitch her, and dr…
17579–641493unassignedOh me, I can endure it no longer, that word strikes cold to my heart: were I an enemy, and she had vanquished …
18642–660493unassignedI made such sport with him, and terrified him, how I would use him if I were his wife, That he is frighted hen…
19661–672500unassignedYes when 'tis too late; and the custom of rusticity is grown into another nature with him, when his mind is se…
20673–684504unassignedNay, I will uphold it beside, though my father be a Citizen, yet I am a Gentleman's son by the mother's side. …
21685–742499unassignedStay husband, I'll go with you: but hark you son Lackwit, do you know to what purpose this gold was given you?…
22743–812507T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.85It is a happy spirit, That rules in you, I would I had one like it. Like me; thou hast not studied thyself so …
23813–880532unassignedWell you may jest with mortals, but I am not So blind, but I can see through all your mists: Were I a goddess,…
24881–946503T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.85You could not do an office more deserving, Or grateful to my soul, than to bring tidings How my love fares, ea…
25947–1011502unassignedSulphur of Styx, Can you not see? Death where be your eyes? You'd have me wash them in the channel, would you?…
261012–1052503unassignedWhat is he gone? ay, and as glad he has escaped from me, As from the Syrtes. How he bore it out With impudence…
271053–1079492unassignedWhat have you there? I have here a Syngraphus, a writing with articles, that must be drawn between us, before …
281080–1140521unassignedLast of all, when she is ready to go to bed, she shall not put out the candle to walk up and down in her smock…
291141–1191502T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.81'twere a mad jest: but is this all your plot? No, this is not the main one, there's another Of greater consequ…
301192–1210508T52 Prodigals, portions and poor kin0.76You have no other way then this, to render you worthy of society. What, he may turn stinkard, and live in the …
311211–1233501T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.84Pray explain that rule to me, I do not understand you. Why thus; this Hat is mine, and that yours, as you conc…
321234–1268511T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.90Sir you have built a sconce since you came in of thirty pounds, and before you have any more, my Master intend…
331269–1333510unassignedbelieve't? She is a close Adulteress, Of most strange exercise, a Fricatrice Insatiable: and has she none but …
341334–1391506unassignedGive no faith to their brow: for in that green And flourishing field of seeming virtue, lurks A Snake of lust,…
351392–1416508T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.82Nay but show us the manner of it. Why forsooth I came at the latter end of the feast, and the beginning of the…
361417–1435515unassignedDeath to my honour, do not question it, but do as I bid you. I have not sixpence in the world, the Cobbler had…
371436–1462494T8 Captains, gallants and cheats0.87Then you disclaim to have any hand in the action. By the passion of valour, Gentlemen I'll tell you, I love a …
381463–1535491T1 Death, grief and revenge0.79Look you: t' unfold your heart sir with this sword, And read the falsehood that is written in it. Come I must …
391536–1560504T11 Siblings, kin and confidants0.79Very dreadfully: like a Citizen in a fray, as fear full as Priapus in a garden. Well, and thou art sure there …
401561–1606493T33 Fathers, daughters and marriage negotiat0.90Let's bind him fast, and then lay him upon his back, and geld him. A match. Let's lay hold on him; what is he …
411607–1668503T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.76And why would you sir, knowing this before, Suffer your daughter to be abused by him? Now by my life, I think,…
421669–1689515T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.74Only with two or three sentences out of Picus Mirandula, in confutation of the act; and as many out of Corneli…
431690–1716488unassignedSir, you will do an office, that will not more deserve honour then reward. Sir, I shall desire nothing but my …
441717–1741492T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.84That would have married her in his stead, and carried her away, if I had not prevented them. Whether it be a s…
451742–1767476T44 Drinking: wine, ale and taverns0.77And what shall my Nephew Careless do? Why Master Littlegood shall give him his Land again. If he will do one, …