Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Summer's Last Will and Testament

Nashe, Thomas, published 1600 · comedy · Boys Professional;Professional;Adult Professional

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TitleSummer's Last Will and Testament
AuthorNashe, Thomas
Publication year (edition)1600
Genre (British Drama)comedy
Genre group (comparison)comedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: comedy
Play typeBoys Professional;Professional;Adult Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 173 · edition 396 · TCP A08009 · DEEP 305
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1592
First performance (BritDrama)1592
Company (BritDrama)Unknown
Company (Annals)Unknown
PrinterStafford, Simon
PublisherBurre, Walter
FormatQuarto
STC18376
Greg173a
Genre (Annals)Comedy
Genre (BritDrama)Comedy
BritDrama no.941
Title pageA PLEASANT Comedie, called Summers last will and Testament.
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10–0304T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe0.72NOctem peccatis, & fraudibus obiice nubem. There is no such fine time to play the knave in, as the night. I am…
21–1416unassignedAT a solemn feast of the Triumuiri in Rome, it was seen and observed, that the birds ceased to sing, & sat sol…
32–14441T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe0.79How say you, my masters, do you not laugh at him for a Coxcomb? Why, he hath made a Prologue longer than his P…
415–65476unassignedA couple of pretty boys, if they would wash their faces, and were well breeched an hour or two. The rest of th…
566–100487unassignedBy my troth, they have voices as clear as Crystal: this is a pretty thing, if it be for nothing but to go a-be…
6101–110438T37 Riches, poverty and covetousness0.72A small matter. I know one spent in less than a year, eight and fifty pounds in mustard, and another that ran …
7111–125542T37 Riches, poverty and covetousness0.78Tell me, I pray, wherefore was gold laid under our feet in the veins of the earth, but that we should contemn …
8126–155456T37 Riches, poverty and covetousness0.74Heigh ho. Here is a coil in deed to bring beggars to stocks. I promise you truly, I was almost asleep; I thoug…
9156–194535unassignedI like thy moderation wondrous well: And this thy balance, weighing the white glass And black, with equal pois…
10195–261522T58 Gallant talk and courtship: an Epicene-c0.77My liege, what cravest thou at thy vassals hands? Hypocrisy, how it can change his shape! How base is pride fr…
11262–327521unassignedBut when to ripen harvest I was forced, To make my rays more fervent than I wont, For Daphne's wrongs and scap…
12328–331507unassignedWhat is eclipsed, will one day shine again: Though winter frowns, the Spring will ease my pain. Time, from the…
13332–393508unassignedVertumnus, call Orion. Orion, Urion, Arion; my Lord thou must look upon: Orion, gentleman dog-keeper, huntsman…
14394–460509unassignedAnd they will dive and swim when you bid them: Some butchers, and they worry sheep by night: Some cooks, and t…
15461–488447unassignedA broken staff, a lame right hand I had, If thou wert all the stay that held me up. Nihil violentum perpetuum.…
16489–514464unassignedSped well, or ill sir, I drink to you on the same: Is your throat clear to help us to sing, hooky, hooky? Hook…
17515–527488unassigneday, ay, nought seek, nought have: an ill husband is the first step to a knave. You object I feed none at my bo…
18528–550506unassignedPlough-swains are blunt, and will taunt bitterly. Harvest, when all is done, thou art the man, Thou dost me th…
19551–563513T44 Drinking: wine, ale and taverns0.66What, Bacchus: still animus in patinis, no mind but on the pot? Why, Summer, Summer, how wouldst do, but for r…
20564–600472T44 Drinking: wine, ale and taverns0.83Thou want'st no liquour, nor no flesh and blood. I pray thee may I ask without offence? How many tons of wine …
21601–608531T44 Drinking: wine, ale and taverns0.82Now on my honour, Sim Summer, thou art a bad member, a dunce, a mongrel, to discredit so worshipful an art aft…
22609–680529unassignedI'll call my servants to account said I? A bad account: worse servants no man hath. Quos credis sides effuge, …
23681–750542unassignedservos fideles liberalitaes facit: Where on the contrary, servitutem: Those that attend upon illiberal Lords, …
24751–816486unassignedFamamalum, quo non velocius ullum. Next them, a company of ragged knaves, Sun-bathing beggars, lazy hedge-cree…
25817–886486T35 Fools, wit and railing0.67And as it is the spittle-house's guise, Over the gate to write their founders names, Or on the outside of thei…
26887–923480unassignedBlessed is that government where no art thrives, Vox populi, vex Dei: The vulgars' voice, it is the voice of G…
27924–982453unassignedWinter, with patience unto my grief, I have attended thy invective tale: So much untruth wit never shadowed: '…
28983–1054488unassignedPleaseth your honour, all he says, is false. For my own part I love good husbandry, But hate dishonourable cov…
291055–1072503unassignedWhat sayst thou? hast thou made a good batch? I pray thee give me a new loaf. Christmas, how chance thou com's…
301073–1086487unassigneday, ay, such wise men as you, come to beg at such fools doors as we be. Thou shutst thy door, how should we be…
311087–1135479unassignedChristmas, I tell thee plain, thou art a snudge. And wert not that we love thy father well, Thou shouldst have…
321136–1177485unassignedMore I will use, if more I may prevail: backwinter comes but seldom forth abroad, But when he comes, he pinche…
331178–1220483T38 Death, parting and grief at court0.83To wait upon her till she be returned. Autumn, I charge thee, when that I am dead, Be priest and serviceable a…
341221–1223516unassignedUlysses a Dwarf, and the prolocutor for the Grecians, gave me leave that am a pigmy, to do an Embassage to you…