The Arraignment of Paris

Peele, George, published 1584 · pastoral · Boys Professional;Professional

21chunks

10,426words

5topics

23 %unassigned

Metadata

Title	The Arraignment of Paris
Author	Peele, George
Publication year (edition)	1584
Genre (British Drama)	pastoral
Genre group (comparison)	pastoral — from the British Drama label · Annals: pastoral;classical legend
Play type	Boys Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEP	work 83 · edition 139 · TCP A09220 · DEEP 114
Edition role	Representative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)	1581 [c.1581-1584]
First performance (BritDrama)	1584 [early] [1581-1584]
Company (BritDrama)	Children of the Chapel (first) (Oxford's Boys)
Company (Annals)	Children of the Chapel (first) (Oxford's Boys)
Theater	before the Court;
Title-page company	Children of the Chapel (first)
Printer	Marsh, Henry (STC)
Publisher	Marsh, Henry
Format	Quarto
STC	19530
Greg	83a
Genre (Annals)	Classical Legend (Pastoral)
Genre (BritDrama)	Pastoral
BritDrama no.	751
Title page	The Araygnement of Paris A PASTORALL.
Title-page performance note	Presented before the Queenes Maiestie, by the Children of her Chappell.
Corpus build	corpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 1261 · witness single

Topic composition (share of words)

T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and

38.0 %

T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs

23.4 %

unassigned

23.4 %

T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses

5.6 %

T7 The Trojan war: conflict and its afterma

4.9 %

T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint

4.8 %

Chunks in order

#	nodes	words	topic	typ.	opening
1	0–58	512	T7 The Trojan war: conflict and its afterma	0.75	COndemned soul Ate, from lowest hell, And deadly rivers of the infernal love, Where bloodless ghosts in pains …
2	59–116	469	unassigned		sayst truly Faunus, I myself have given good ready lambs, To Mercurie may say to thee, to Phoebus and to Love:…
3	117–181	482	unassigned		Good Flora, by my flock 'twere very good, To dight her all in red resembling blood. Fair Venus of sweet Violet…
4	182–246	495	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.79	The God of shepherds and his mates, With country cheer salutes your states▪ Fair, wise, and worthy as you be, …
5	247–313	486	T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs	0.76	Well gentle Nymph although thou do me wrong, That can ne tune pipe unto a song, Me lift this once, This idle t…
6	314–361	490	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.80	Sweet shepherd, for Oenone's sake be cunning in this song, And keep thy love, and love thy choice, or else tho…
7	362–422	483	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.74	Then Iuno may it not enjoy, so every one says no, But I will prove myself the fairest, ere I lose it so. The b…
8	423–478	476	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.76	shepherd, abash not, though, at sudden thus, Thou be arrived by ignorance among us, Not earthly but divine, an…
9	479–536	450	T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs	0.80	Come shepherd, come, sweet shepherd look on me, These been to hot alarums these for thee: But if thou wilt giv…
10	537–588	505	T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs	0.80	O gentle love, ungentle for thy deed, Thou makest my heart A bloody mark With piercing shot to bleed. Shoot so…
11	589–641	499	T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint	0.72	So fair a face, so foul a thought to harbour in his breast, Thy hope consumed, poor Nymph, thy hap is worse th…
12	642–700	496	T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs	0.83	even wanton Cupid's dame. Why was thy love so lovely then? his beauty height his shame, The fairest shepherd o…
13	701–751	501	T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs	0.75	My boy, I will instruct thee in a piece of poetry, That haply erst thou hast not heard: in hell there is a tre…
14	752–809	497	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.86	To kill thy love with thy disdain. Cruel disdain so live thou named. Cruel disdain etc. And let me die of Iphi…
15	810–857	473	unassigned		Ye Vulcan, will ye so in deed may turn and tell him, trull, He hath a mistress of his own to take his belly fu…
16	858–919	495	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.77	Venus, that favour is denied him flatly, He is a man and therefore by out laws, himself, without his aid, must…
17	920–986	518	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.76	Now (for I must add reason for my deed) Why Venus rather pleased me of the three: First, in the entrails of my…
18	987–1047	506	T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and	0.84	And Iuno, I with them, and they with me, In law and right, must needfully agree: I grant ye may agree, but be …
19	1048–1112	508	unassigned		Because 'tis known, the quarrel is pretended. Mars. you have reason for your speech perdie: My dame (I trow) i…
20	1113–1192	580	T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses	0.77	Phoebe, chief Mistress of this sylvan chase, Whom gods have chosen to conclude the case, That yet in balance u…
21	1193–1260	505	unassigned		If this be she whom some Zabeta call, To whom thy wisdom well bequeathes the ball I can remember at her day of…

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