The Merry Devil of Edmonton

Anonymous, published 1608 · comedy · Adult Professional;Professional

23chunks

11,640words

4topics

70 %unassigned

Metadata

Title	The Merry Devil of Edmonton
Author	Anonymous
Publication year (edition)	1608
Genre (British Drama)	comedy
Genre group (comparison)	comedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: comedy
Play type	Adult Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEP	work 264 · edition 617 · TCP A21136 · DEEP 511
Edition role	Representative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)	1602 [1599-1604]
First performance (BritDrama)	1603 [1602-1604]
Company (BritDrama)	Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Company (Annals)	Lord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Theater	Globe;Outdoor Professional
Theater type	Outdoor
Title-page company	King's Men
Printer	Ballard, Henry
Publisher	Johnson, Arthur
Format	Quarto
STC	7493
Greg	264a
Genre (Annals)	Comedy
Genre (BritDrama)	Comedy
BritDrama no.	1392
Title page	THE MERRY DEVILL OF EDMONTON.
Title-page performance note	As it hath beene sundry times Acted, by his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe, on the banke-side.
Corpus build	corpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 1203 · witness single

Topic composition (share of words)

unassigned

69.6 %

T15 Friars and holy orders in plot

13.0 %

T13 Knights, squires and ladies

8.8 %

T26 Devils, hell and fiends

4.4 %

T41 Household service: masters, doors and po

4.2 %

Chunks in order

#	nodes	words	topic	typ.	opening
1	0–70	532	unassigned		YOur silence and attention worthy friends, (sense, That your free spirits may with more pleasing Relish the li…
2	71–136	512	T26 Devils, hell and fiends	0.87	Why comest thou in this stern and horrid shape? Not in familiar sort as thou wast wont. Because the date of th…
3	137–189	518	T13 Knights, squires and ladies	0.84	'tis correspondent or so, there's not a Tartarian Nor a Carrier, shall breathe upon your geldings, They have v…
4	190–236	509	unassigned		Treason to my heart's truest sovereign, How soon is love smothered in foggy gain? But how shall we prevent thi…
5	237–304	509	unassigned		Command me sir, I am affected to you For your Mounchensey's sake. Alas for him, I not respect whether he sink …
6	305–364	500	unassigned		Come boy and make me this same groaning love, Troubled with stitches, and the cough a'th' lungs, That wept his…
7	365–409	511	unassigned		Frank Ierningham, thou art a gallant boy, And were he not my pupil I would say, He were as fine a mettled gent…
8	410–437	501	unassigned		No oaths, no oaths, good neighbour Smug, we'll wet our lips together in hug; Car rouse in private, and elevate…
9	438–503	512	unassigned		Too good for thee, and knight thou know'st it well, I fawned not on thee for thy goods, not I, 'twas thine own…
10	504–565	495	unassigned		And I must take a twelvemonth's approbation, That in mean time this sole and private life, At the years end ma…
11	566–626	485	unassigned		How sweet! I'll be thy votary, we'll often meet, This kiss divides us, and breathes soft adieu, This be a doub…
12	627–692	515	unassigned		First a mornings take your book The glass wherein yourself must look, Your young thoughts so proud and jolly M…
13	693–763	501	T15 Friars and holy orders in plot	0.79	A plague on you both for a couple of Jews. How now Frank, what say you to that? Let me alone, I warrant thee: …
14	764–830	517	T15 Friars and holy orders in plot	0.83	Do my good plump wench, if all fall right, I'll make your sisterhood one less by night: Now happy fortune spee…
15	831–861	516	unassigned		Come, come how does she noble capuchin? She may be poor in spirit, but for the flesh 'tis fat and plump boys: …
16	862–904	512	unassigned		I will serve the Duke of Christendom, and do him more credit in his cellar than all the plate in his buttery, …
17	905–963	500	unassigned		I will Sir. How now? by the mass my hound stays upon something, hark, hark, Bowman, hark, hark there. Brother …
18	964–981	501	unassigned		My dear. Where is Mountchensey? Where's my Buck. I will complain me of thee to the King. I'll complain unto th…
19	982–1020	492	unassigned		By the Lord there are some watchmen; I hear them name Master Constable, I would to God my Mill were an Eunuch …
20	1021–1072	499	T15 Friars and holy orders in plot	0.86	there's one went for the Friar an hour ago; Comes he not yet! 'sfoot if I do find knavery unde'rs cowl; ay! ti…
21	1073–1111	484	T41 Household service: masters, doors and po	0.79	Did not you send your novice Benedic, To persuade the girl to leave Mountchensey's love, To cross that Peter F…
22	1112–1151	513	unassigned		Were you my noble Romans? why you shall share, the venison is a footing, Sine Cerere & Baccho friget Venus: Th…
23	1152–1202	506	T13 Knights, squires and ladies	0.80	He speaks like a Bachelor of music all in Numbers; knights if I had known you would have let this covy of Part…

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