Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Supposes

Gascoigne, George / Ariosto, Ludovico, published 1575 · comedy · Translation;Nonprofessional;University/Inns of Court · other editions of this work: 103 (1573) · other edition — not in the analysis

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TitleSupposes
AuthorGascoigne, George / Ariosto, Ludovico
Publication year (edition)1575
Genre (British Drama)comedy
Genre group (comparison)comedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: comedy
Play typeTranslation;Nonprofessional;University/Inns of Court
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 60 · edition 104 · TCP A01514 · DEEP 5007.02
Edition roleOther edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics; its chunks carry the topic they were placed in, for browsing
First performance / composition (Annals)1566
First performance (BritDrama)1566
FormatQuarto
Greg60b
Genre (Annals)Comedy
Genre (BritDrama)Comedy
BritDrama no.419
Title page[HT; (AB)2r] SVPPOSES: A Comedie
Title-page performance noteand there presented. 1566.
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10–7477unassignedI Suppose you are assembled here, supposing to reap the fruit of my travails: and to be plain, I mean presentl…
28–22505unassignedAnd I pray you whom may I thank but gentle nurse? that continually praising him, what for his parsonage, his c…
323–39509unassignedI promise' you of my honesty, say on. Well hear you me then: this young man whom you have always taken for Dul…
440–66495unassignedHow can it be otherwise? you are but young. I am fifty years old. He tells ten less than he is. What sayst tho…
567–100493unassignedYea, I had rather have lost all the goods in the world. Alas, alas: by God and grafts of such a stock are very…
6101–115538unassignedO Miserable covetous wretch, he findeth an excuse by S. Nicolas fast, because I should not dine with him, as t…
7116–117579T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.78You were best so. Hard hap had I when I first began this unfortunate enterprise: for I supposed the readiest m…
8118–144477unassignedERostrato? marry he is in his skin. Ah whoreson boy, I say, how shall I find Erostrato? Find him? how mean you…
9145–162470unassignedStay a while, you will understand me before you hear me. Well, say on. I answered to that, I was ready to make…
10163–180497T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.72I answered him in this sort: Gentleman, because I have heretofore found very courteous entertainment in your c…
11181–202512unassignedI think, of as little as may be: but best of all for our purpose, and good adventure it was, that I met with s…
12203–221514T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.74I speak not of that. O you mean the foul way that we had since we came from this Padua, I promise' you, I was …
13222–259473unassignedMaster, what the Devil mean you to go seek guests at this time of the day? the majors officers have dined ere …
14260–287472unassignedYea, but amongst honest men it is more worth than gold. Yea marry sir, but where be they? but will you needs h…
15288–317465unassignedAnd he saith, that you desire this young gentle woman, as much for other men's pleasure as for your own. What …
16318–343474T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.78If I be a beast, yet I am no horned beast. Is it even so? is the wind in that door? If I were unloaden I would…
17344–350486T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.69THis amorous cause that hangeth in controversy between Domine doctor & me, may be compared to them that play a…
18351–351590unassignedAlas how shall I be revenged of this extreme despite? if I punish my servant according to his devilish deserts…
19352–370570unassignedSIr, we have done as you had us, and here is the key. Well, go then Nevola and seek master Casteling the jaile…
20371–380589unassignedEven now when you told it to Damon, I both saw you and heard you, though you saw not me: a good part I promise…
21381–405543unassignedHOnest woman, you gossip, thou rotten whore, hearest thou not old witch? A rope stretch your young bones, eith…
22406–422509unassignedNay, that was not the matter, for I had rather have him give over his study altogether and come home. Why? if …
23423–467521unassignedIf you think to lodge here, you are deceived I tell you, for here are guests enough already. A good fellow, an…
24468–492507unassignedSir, you offer me great wrong with these injurious words. Nay, I will do more than I have yet proffered to do,…
25493–516512unassignedWhy, have you spoken with him? when saw you him I pray you? Look you where he stands, why go you not too him? …
26517–527464unassignedIf there be many such witnesses in this country, men may go about to prove what they will in controversies her…
27528–541483T6 Money, debt and credit0.80Then shall I give myself, as it were a pray to the Lawyers, whose insatiable jaws I am not able to feed, altho…
28542–564448unassignedTWo good news have I heard to day already: one that Erostrato prepared a great feast this night: the other, th…
29565–565484unassignedI Was glad to rid him out of the way, lest he should see me burst out of these swelling tears, which hitherto …
30566–581445T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.78YEa dress them, but lay them not to the fire, till they will be ready to sit down. This gear goeth in order: b…
31582–616442unassignedHe shall give you a halter, knave and villain that thou art. I know I am a knave, but no villain. I am your se…
32617–643458unassignedSo they boarded them, & in the end overcame them, & brought the goods to Palermo, 〈◊〉 whence they came, and am…
33644–665441unassignedWell, I will tell you then, my name you know already: my wife his mother's name was Sophronia, the house that …
34666–680507unassignedAlas, alas, what shall I do then? in at doors old whore, I will pluck that tongue of thine out by the roots on…
35681–697506unassignedWhy, did she tell you so? Yea: But I thought it but a tale. Well, it is a true tale: and here they will be wit…
36698–708511unassignedWE are come unto you sir, to turn you sorrow into joy and gladness: the sorrow, we mean, that of force you hav…