Microcosmus

Nabbes, Thomas, published 1637 · masque · Occasional;Adult Professional;Professional

21chunks

10,274words

3topics

67 %unassigned

Metadata

Title	Microcosmus
Author	Nabbes, Thomas
Publication year (edition)	1637
Genre (British Drama)	masque
Genre group (comparison)	masque — from the British Drama label · Annals: morality;masque
Play type	Occasional;Adult Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEP	work 514 · edition 1045 · TCP A07975 · DEEP 864
Edition role	Representative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)	1637
First performance (BritDrama)	1636 [spring] [1629-1637]
Company (BritDrama)	King's Revels Company (?)
Company (Annals)	Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
Theater	Salisbury Court;
Theater type	Indoor
Printer	Oulton, Richard
Publisher	Greene, Charles
Format	Quarto
Greg	514a
Genre (Annals)	Moral Masque
Genre (BritDrama)	Masque
BritDrama no.	2543
Title page	[A2r] Microcosmus. A MORALL MASKE,
Title-page performance note	PRESENTED WITH generall liking, at the private house in SALISBURY Court,
Corpus build	corpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 1219 · witness single

Topic composition (share of words)

unassigned

66.8 %

T16 Gallantry: ladies, lordships and complim

14.4 %

T3 Sickness, physic and doctors

14.2 %

T39 Profit, conscience and dishonest dealing

4.6 %

Chunks in order

#	nodes	words	topic	typ.	opening
1	0–73	488	unassigned		WHat horror wakes me! and disturbs the peace I sat enthroned in? shall dissension ruin Eternal acts? Hath the …
2	74–147	488	unassigned		Stubborn boys, I'll yoke ye In such a bondage. Gentle husband try Persuasions strength: Perhaps 'twill better …
3	148–216	439	unassigned		Straight I'll do it. Can Love deny if Nature woo it. The heavens first in tune I'll set; And from their music …
4	217–235	486	unassigned		My name is Choler. I was begot by Fire on Nature's Cookmaid in the time of a Festival. I was dry nursed by a l…
5	236–308	477	unassigned		He hath stirred me sir, and I will be angry. Then Phlegm must cool you. Phlegme's a fool. Or a Physician. Chol…
6	309–364	509	unassigned		Do not abuse them then, For my pure substance will admit no mixture With any thing that's earthy, lest it shou…
7	365–413	502	unassigned		Be not thus misled By her malicious envy. She but shows thee The easy path to ruin, whose broad entrance Paint…
8	414–432	487	T16 Gallantry: ladies, lordships and complim	0.80	The air me thinks begins upon a sudden To be perfumed, as if Arabian winds Scattered their spices loosely on t…
9	433–477	487	T16 Gallantry: ladies, lordships and complim	0.79	Now yours? Touching mine. I am my Lady's Gentleman-usher, and kill Spiders for her Monkey. I am always her for…
10	478–550	493	unassigned		You in throne me Lady In happiness, above the difference Of that my birth can boast. You make me perfect: And …
11	551–615	484	unassigned		'tis but her envy to me. Let not her Siren charms bewitch thee thus Unto a shipwreck. Every smile of hers Shad…
12	616–673	476	T3 Sickness, physic and doctors	0.84	Excellent amourist. Here's to thee Melancholy. What do I see? blush gray-eyed morn, and spread Thy purple sham…
13	674–739	491	unassigned		Hold I command ye: How dare ye insult Upon my weakness thus? Oh I am wounded. Perfidious villains, was this tr…
14	740–811	492	T3 Sickness, physic and doctors	0.80	fixed in that resolution, I'll bring her to thee. That's my good Genius. The horrors of a thousand nights made…
15	812–882	488	T3 Sickness, physic and doctors	0.82	Physander, Expire not yet: thy wounds are not so mortal. Help me to bear him yonder; gently raise His weakened…
16	883–955	517	unassigned		My heart's too narrow to contain the joys This reconciliation fills it with. Chain me again to misery, and mak…
17	956–1031	502	unassigned		That is reward To virtue, and to vice it's punishment. The thought of it hath horror in't. I fell From height …
18	1032–1087	465	unassigned		We are the daughters Of night and Acheron; our number three, Answering those three affects that bear then head…
19	1088–1125	476	T39 Profit, conscience and dishonest dealing	0.75	List to my charge. Conscience the judge of actions Is neither power, nor habit, but an act; To wit an applicat…
20	1126–1144	507	T16 Gallantry: ladies, lordships and complim	0.81	My Lady's ape, that imitated all her fashions; falling as she did, and running the same course of folly: the d…
21	1145–1218	520	unassigned		Thou art indicted by the name of Physander Lord of Microcosmus, for that being wedded to the fair and chaste B…

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