| 1 | 0–62 | 513 | unassigned | | I Tell you true Sir, but to every man I would not be so lavish of my speech, Only to you my dear and private f… |
| 2 | 63–128 | 511 | unassigned | | Nay I think so, I never looked for better; This 'tis to marry children when they are young, I said as much at … |
| 3 | 129–174 | 537 | unassigned | | But if we love their credits or their quiets we must go And reconcile them to their former love: Where there i… |
| 4 | 175–235 | 505 | unassigned | | Pipkin what said she when she sent for me? Faith master she said little, but she thought more, For she was ver… |
| 5 | 236–295 | 493 | unassigned | | Wonder of women: why hark you M. Arthur, What is your wife a woman or a Saint? A wife, or some bright Angel co… |
| 6 | 296–354 | 468 | T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint | 0.79 | Nay but hark you sir, will you not knock? Is't best to knock? I knock in any case. 'twas well you put it in mi… |
| 7 | 355–411 | 475 | unassigned | | Continue that opinion, and be sure To die a virgin chaste, a maiden pure. It was my chance once in my wanton d… |
| 8 | 412–472 | 490 | T33 Fathers, daughters and marriage negotiat | 0.80 | Nay if you say so, I'll not be against it; But sir you might have used my daughter better, Than to have beat h… |
| 9 | 473–534 | 488 | unassigned | | Fathers farewell, spend not a tear for me: But for my husband's sake let these woes be. For when I weep, 'tis … |
| 10 | 535–594 | 477 | unassigned | | Sir you may freely speak whate'er it be, So that your speech suiteth with modesty. To this now could I answer … |
| 11 | 595–647 | 488 | unassigned | | Que caceris Chartis deservisse decat, Torn from your book, I'll tear it from your breech, How say you Mistress… |
| 12 | 648–710 | 492 | unassigned | | Vitrum glass, spica grass, tu es Asinus, you are an Ass, Precor tibi felicem noctem. Claudite iam libros pueri… |
| 13 | 711–775 | 510 | unassigned | | And as I told you, my unruly son Once having bid his wife home to my house, There took occasion to be much agg… |
| 14 | 776–820 | 481 | unassigned | | The woman saith but reason M. Arthur, And therefore give her licence to depart. Here is dry justice not to bid… |
| 15 | 821–876 | 490 | T49 Wooing a mistress: suitors, go-betweens | 0.76 | Why nothing: heard you not as well as I What he confessed? I say write nothing down. Mistress we have dismisse… |
| 16 | 877–923 | 480 | unassigned | | O this same swaggerer is the bulwark of my reputation But Mistress Splay, now to your lecture that you promise… |
| 17 | 924–981 | 496 | unassigned | | O that my wife were dead, here would I make My second choice, would she were buried, From out her grave this M… |
| 18 | 982–1021 | 496 | unassigned | | When he comes next turn him into the streets, Now come let's dance the shaking of the sheets. Qui que quod, he… |
| 19 | 1022–1086 | 515 | unassigned | | That thou shalt. My mistress in an humour had protested, That above all the world she loved me best, Saying wi… |
| 20 | 1087–1153 | 528 | unassigned | | Sir what I think I think, and what I say I would I could enjoin you to believe. Faith mistress Arthur I am sor… |
| 21 | 1154–1210 | 473 | T3 Sickness, physic and doctors | 0.80 | I prithee Anselm but observe this fellow, Dost not hear him? he would die for love, That mishaped love thou wo… |
| 22 | 1211–1276 | 474 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.79 | A diew. Come let us go, I long to see What the event of this new jest will be. Good morrow gentlemen, saw you … |
| 23 | 1277–1328 | 486 | unassigned | | No in sooth, I'll try the sharpness of my tooth, In steed of poison, I will eat rabbits, Capons, and such meat… |
| 24 | 1329–1387 | 486 | T49 Wooing a mistress: suitors, go-betweens | 0.78 | Sweet Mistress Mary I'll invite myself: And there I'll frolic, sup, and spend the night. My Plot is currant, h… |
| 25 | 1388–1446 | 503 | unassigned | | According to the ancient Courtesy you are welcome: according to the time and place, you are heartily welcome: … |
| 26 | 1447–1513 | 493 | unassigned | | So, who gives thanks? Sir that will I. I pray you too it by and by, where's Pipkin, Wait at the board, let M. … |
| 27 | 1514–1572 | 501 | unassigned | | Sir, since you move speech of a Puritan, If you will give me audience I will tell ye As good a jest as ever yo… |
| 28 | 1573–1636 | 492 | unassigned | | ay, in the last words? ha, ha, ha, It was an excellent admired jest, To them that understood it. It was indeed… |
| 29 | 1637–1685 | 484 | unassigned | | Trust me the virtues of young Arthur's wife, Her constancy, modest humility, Her patience, and admired tempera… |
| 30 | 1686–1750 | 530 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.72 | What frantic humour doth thus haunt my sense, Striving to breed destruction in my spirit? When I would sleep, … |
| 31 | 1751–1812 | 520 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.80 | O who can tell me where I am become? For in this darkness I have lost myself, I am not dead, for I have sense … |
| 32 | 1813–1874 | 504 | unassigned | | Your mother is a virtuous Matron held, Her counsel, conference, and company, May much avail me, there a space … |
| 33 | 1875–1930 | 474 | T28 Marriage-making: weddings, brides and ma | 0.81 | Nay then I see thou lovest me, & I find By this last motion, thou art grown more kind. My love and kindness li… |
| 34 | 1931–1992 | 480 | unassigned | | Mistress, this gentleman hath news to tell ye, And as you like of it, so think of me. Your husband hath alread… |
| 35 | 1993–2050 | 488 | T58 Gallant talk and courtship: an Epicene-c | 0.86 | Why you Jack sauce, you Cuckold, you what not, What am not I of age sufficient To go and come still when my pl… |
| 36 | 2051–2085 | 466 | unassigned | | Who me? turn me out of doors? is this all the wages I shall have at the years end, to be turned out of doors? … |
| 37 | 2086–2145 | 470 | unassigned | | But more than fair, was she not virtuous Endued with the beauty of the mind? Faith so they said. Hark in thine… |
| 38 | 2146–2205 | 489 | unassigned | | Doth no man follow me? O how suspicious guilty murder is, I starve for hunger, and I die for thirst: Had I a k… |
| 39 | 2206–2259 | 492 | unassigned | | Why weep you Mistress? if you had the heart Of her whom you resemble in your face, But she is dead, and for he… |
| 40 | 2260–2313 | 503 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.83 | Old M. Arthur and M. Lusam, so it is, that I have heard both your complaints, but understood neither, for you … |
| 41 | 2314–2376 | 501 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.74 | But so the law must not be satisfied, Blood must have blood, and men must have death, I think that cannot be d… |
| 42 | 2377–2437 | 496 | T1 Death, grief and revenge | 0.69 | ay but who sold the poison unto him? That must be likewise known, speak schoolmaster. A man verbosus, that was… |
| 43 | 2438–2500 | 513 | unassigned | | Nay shun me not, be not ashamed at all, To heaven not me, for grace and pardon fall. Look on me Arthur, blush … |