Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Westward Ho

Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John, published 1607 · comedy · Boys Professional;Professional

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TitleWestward Ho
AuthorDekker, Thomas / Webster, John
Publication year (edition)1607
Genre (British Drama)comedy
Genre group (comparison)comedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: comedy
Play typeBoys Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 257 · edition 602 · TCP A20100 · DEEP 501
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1604
First performance (BritDrama)1604
Company (BritDrama)Children of Paul's (second)
Company (Annals)Children of Paul's (second)
Title-page companyChildren of Paul's (second)
PrinterJaggard, William
PublisherJaggard, William
FormatQuarto
STC6540
Greg257a
Genre (Annals)Comedy
Genre (BritDrama)Comedy
BritDrama no.1450
Title pageWEST-WARD HOE.
Title-page performance noteAs it hath beene diuers times Acted by the Children of Paules.
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10–19497unassignedStay Taylour, This is the House, pray thee look the gown be not ruffled: as for the jewels and Precious Stones…
220–42505unassignedO no, she's acquainted well enough with my knavery. She comes. How do you sweet Lady? Lady. By God's me I hope…
343–56511unassignedDo not I know these tricks, That which thou makest a colour for thy sin, Hath been thy first undoing? painting…
457–75452unassignedSir, by my soul I will be plain with you. Except the forehead dear wife, except the forehead. The Gentleman yo…
576–99505T27 Uncles, nephews and cousins: kinship and0.73So, farewell the acquaintance of all the mad Devils that haunt jealousy, why should a man be such an ass to pl…
6100–123508unassignedLittle Moll, send away the fellow? Phill. Philip. Here forsooth. Go into Bucklersbury and fetch me two ounces …
7124–148483unassignedHow stale good Mistress nimble-wit? Why as stale as a Country Ostes, an Exchange Sempster, or a Court Laundres…
8149–163507unassignedIt makes fat Calves in Rumny Marsh, and lean knaves in London: therefore Boniface keep your ground: Gods my pi…
9164–186482unassignedBoth Wives, Maids, and Daughters: and I thank God, the very worst of them lie by very good men's sides: I pick…
10187–207485unassignedA small fault: most of my scholars do so: look you sir, do not you think your wife will mend: mark her dashes,…
11208–220491unassignedWhy should I long to eat of baker's bread only, when there's so much Sifting, and bolting, and grinding in eve…
12221–239462unassignedI'll come. The hour. Two: the way-through Paul's: every wench take a pillar, there clap on your Masks: your me…
13240–263503unassignedOh? I thought I should fetch you: you can Ha at that: Ile make you Hem anon. As I'me a sinner I think youl fin…
14264–301500T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.80I wonder lust can hang at such white hairs. You give my love ill names, It is not lust: Lawless desires well t…
15302–323530unassignedPoverty, thou bane of Chastity, Poison of beauty, Broker of Maidenheads, I see when Force, nor Wit can scale t…
16324–353509unassignedWitch: thus I break thy Spells: Were I kept brave, On a king's cost, I am but a king's slave. I see, that as F…
17354–385512T44 Drinking: wine, ale and taverns0.78If I be, I'll build Chimneys with Tobacco but I'll smoke some: and be sure Bird. I'll stick wool upon thy back…
18386–412501unassignedAh thou ungodly master. I did but make a false fire, to try your valour, because you cried let 'em come. By th…
19413–437499unassignedI'm bold to press myself under the colours of of your company, hearing that Gentlewoman was in the room: A wor…
20438–449500T6 Money, debt and credit0.78No lamb, baa sheep, if a woman will be free in this intricate labyrinth of a husband, let her marry a man of a…
21450–475471T6 Money, debt and credit0.74So now they are gone you may take him. Sir I arrest you? Arrest me, at whose suit you varlets? At master Tente…
22476–489513unassignedHonest Sergeant, Conscionable Officer, did I forget myself even now, a vice that sticks to me always when I am…
23490–510506unassignedYes, dost thou dwell there? That I do, the Child is wondrous sick: I was wild to acquaint thy master and Mistr…
24511–534473unassignedThe time of our meeting? Come? seven. The place. In Blackfriars, there take Water, keep a loof from the shore,…
25535–567464T6 Money, debt and credit0.79Welcome good mistress Tenterhook. Sergeant I must needs have my cousin go a little Way out of Town with me and…
26568–598496unassignedYes in troth were they, civil gentlemen without beards, but to say the truth, I did take exceptions at their k…
27599–620496unassignedWhat the last of all your Clients. O how dost thou good cousin. I you have many cousins. Faith I can name many…
28621–652484unassignedGood honest Wench. Nay in troth, she's now entering into bond for 5. pounds more, the Scrivener is but new gon…
29653–689479T6 Money, debt and credit0.74Gallants with them! I de laugh at that. four Gallants by this light, Mai▪ Monopoly is one of them. Monopoly? I…
30690–741507unassignedOne that put me into pitiful fear, master Justiniano here hath laid lurking like a sheep-biter, and in my know…
31742–781514T26 Devils, hell and fiends0.80Fair! be not doubly masked: with that and night, Beauty (like gold) being used becomes more bright. will it pl…
32782–838487T1 Death, grief and revenge0.81Oh God thou hast undone thyself and me, None live to match this piece, thou art to bloody, Yet for her sake, w…
33839–866498unassignedThe jewels which I gave you: wear: your fortunes, I'll raise on golden Pillars: fare you well, Lust in old age…
34867–895505T13 Knights, squires and ladies0.78The troth is sir, one of the poor instruments caught a sore mischance last night: his most base bridge fell do…
35896–918488T13 Knights, squires and ladies0.75Nay he can do't. All supper time, my New-minted knight, made Wine the wagon to his meat, for it ran down his t…
36919–938489unassignedPrithee good mistress Tenterhooke, I'll ha' done in a trice. Do you long to have me swoon? I'll use but half a…
37939–961481unassignedO 'twill be excellent. But how shall we shift 'em off? Not as ill debtor do their Creditors (with good words) …
38962–987472unassignedLook to her good wenches. I so we will, and to you too: this was excellent. This is strange. Villainous spitef…
39988–1018476unassignedDost come to keep the door Ascapart. My reparations hither is to speak with the Gentlewoman here that drunk wi…
401019–1040487unassignedIf I must needs play the Fool in my old days, let me have the biggest instrument, because I can hold that best…
411041–1056492unassignedAn uproar! will you make the Townsmen think, that Londoners never come hither but upon Saint Thomas's night? S…
421057–1078508unassignedAn excellent harvest, this, you shall hear the poor mousetrapped-guilty-gentlemen call for mercy; your wives y…
431079–1113510unassignedParenthesis we will enter and set upon 'em. Well do so: but enter not so that all the country may cry shame of…
441114–1137515T6 Money, debt and credit0.78Sargent Ambush issue forth, Monopoly I'll cut off your convoy mayst, sergeant Ambush, I charge you as you hope…
451138–1166510unassignedThou dost the laws nose wrong to belie me so. For either a cunning woman has a Chamber in her house or a Physi…