The Play of the Weather

Heywood, John, published 1544 · comedy · Interlude;Nonprofessional

21chunks

10,522words

6topics

71 %unassigned

Metadata

Title	The Play of the Weather
Author	Heywood, John
Publication year (edition)	1544
Genre (British Drama)	comedy
Genre group (comparison)	comedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: comedy;interlude
Play type	Interlude;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEP	work 15 · edition 22 · TCP A03181 · DEEP 18
Edition role	Representative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)	1528 [1519-1528]
First performance (BritDrama)	1528 [1519-1528]
Printer	Middleton, William
Publisher	Middleton, William
Format	Quarto
STC	13305.5
Greg	15b
Genre (Annals)	Comic Interlude
Genre (BritDrama)	Comedy
BritDrama no.	2
Title page	The play of the wether. A new and a very mery enterlude of all maner wethers
Title-page performance note	[in single column] The players names. \| Iupiter a god. \| Mery reporte the vyce. \| The gentylman. \| The marchant. \| The ranger. \| The water myller. \| The wynde myller. \| The gentylwoman. \| The launder. \| A boy the lest that can play.
Corpus build	corpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 1242 · witness single

Topic composition (share of words)

unassigned

71.5 %

T54 Antony and Cleopatra: love, death and mo

4.9 %

T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint

4.9 %

T26 Devils, hell and fiends

4.8 %

T13 Knights, squires and ladies

4.7 %

T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses

4.7 %

T51 Parents and children: blessing, birthrig

4.6 %

Chunks in order

#	nodes	words	topic	typ.	opening
1	0–62	493	T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses	0.74	Right far to long as now were to recite The ancient estate wherein ourself hath rained What honour what laud g…
2	63–125	491	unassigned		Which seen in themself and further considering The same to the redress was cause of their assemble And also th…
3	126–184	484	unassigned		And as for my seure your servant to be Might ill have been mist for your honesty For as I be saved if I shall …
4	185–248	525	unassigned		Now sirs take heed for here cometh god's servant Avaunt cartely keytyfs avaunt Why ye drunken horesons will it…
5	249–308	495	T13 Knights, squires and ladies	0.73	What so ever his mind be, let him appear. Now good master horner I pray you come near, I am no horner knave I …
6	309–372	554	unassigned		By god sins ye came hither I can set my heed and my tail together This head shall save money by saint Mary fro…
7	373–429	507	unassigned		Right well have ye said and we accept it so And so shall we reward you or we go hens But ye must take paciens …
8	430–487	495	unassigned		Very well said I set by your charity As much in a manner as by your honesty I shall set you some what in ease …
9	488–545	490	unassigned		Nay by my troth nor with none other man Yet I saw you well when I first began how be it so help me god and hal…
10	546–603	505	unassigned		Come on and assay how you twain can agree A brother of yours a miller as ye be. By mean of your craft we may b…
11	604–662	501	unassigned		On my faith I think the moon be at the full For frantic tansyes be then most plenty full Which are at the prid…
12	663–719	509	unassigned		It ye lack water what could ye drink or eat Without water could live neither man nor beast For water preservet…
13	720–777	504	unassigned		In corner together a couple of mills Standing in a mars between two hills Nat of wherytaunce but by my wife Sh…
14	778–834	513	T54 Antony and Cleopatra: love, death and mo	0.73	Stand ye still a while and I will go prove Whether that the god will be brought in love My lord how now look u…
15	835–892	513	T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint	0.75	Yet where ye will I swear by saint quintine Ye passed them all both in your own conceit and mine If we had wet…
16	893–952	509	unassigned		Then lean not to much to gender gyglet For here desire contrary to mine is set I heard by her tale she would b…
17	953–1010	502	T26 Devils, hell and fiends	0.82	Sir if ye medyll remember me first Then in this meddling my part shallbe the worst. Now I beseech our lord the…
18	1011–1070	486	T51 Parents and children: blessing, birthrig	0.78	Forsooth sir my mind is this at few words All my pleasure is in catsing of vyrdes And making of snow bails and…
19	1071–1125	486	unassigned		And be delivered of my simple offes Now lord according to your commandment Attending suitors I have been dilig…
20	1126–1185	479	unassigned		Son thou hast best diligent and done so well That thy labour is right much thank worthy But be thou sure we ne…
21	1186–1241	481	unassigned		Much better have we now devised for ye all Then ye all can perceive or could desire Each of you sued to have c…

Grace · generated by 13_site.py from run runs_Qwen_Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B_masked_hdb10, seed 42. Texts: EEBO-TCP / EarlyPrint (CC BY-NC 3.0). Metadata: DEEP, Wiggins & Richardson.