| 1 | 0–3 | 495 | unassigned | | RIGHT noble and worthy Assembly: It hath been a very ancient and laudable custom, in the best governed commonw… |
| 2 | 4–22 | 494 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.70 | Then you are welcome into England. Thanks gentle Simplo. What news? And what company came over with you? News … |
| 3 | 23–33 | 470 | unassigned | | But if I were his man, if he kept no better cheer at his chamber, I would make the cheese fry until the butter… |
| 4 | 34–45 | 472 | unassigned | | Alas! not yet, I am not able to endure it, I faint. He is even that is to say. Ha. Ha. Hae. O my heart: not ye… |
| 5 | 46–58 | 475 | T54 Antony and Cleopatra: love, death and mo | 0.66 | This is a very plain trick, and needs no such encomions, and Epithets of commendation as you bestow on it. Is … |
| 6 | 59–68 | 515 | unassigned | | Thou mak'st a large offer, & a rash, which full soon (I doubt) thou wilt revoke: but i'll try thee. Before tho… |
| 7 | 69–82 | 534 | unassigned | | I will not tell thee, thou hast already more than thou canst well bear: thou art almost drunk with the very sm… |
| 8 | 83–96 | 521 | T39 Profit, conscience and dishonest dealing | 0.78 | Faith not I, not much, saving that I have heard many years ago that he was a reasonable honest man but for's r… |
| 9 | 97–109 | 529 | T39 Profit, conscience and dishonest dealing | 0.74 | Well, this is agreed: and if you will have 3000l speak but the word, and give three days warning, we'll come a… |
| 10 | 110–115 | 482 | unassigned | | Thou didst well. I know some of them would gladly catch me in a trip. But I'll watch them well enough. No man … |
| 11 | 116–126 | 487 | unassigned | | In very deed Sir, every aught to yield his best help to such works. And although I have already recorded my ap… |
| 12 | 127–137 | 513 | unassigned | | Nay Sirrah, if any man hit the nail on the head, it should be you, because you are a Smith; but soft, you are … |
| 13 | 138–145 | 534 | unassigned | | Reason me no reasons. I speak as I think, I protest from my heart I had rather do any work in the world then d… |
| 14 | 146–164 | 514 | T50 Fleets, armies and generals: war by sea | 0.69 | He is welcome. Have you given him any principles, such as you know are necessary? and is he docible? He is rea… |
| 15 | 165–194 | 503 | unassigned | | That I will be sure to do. Thus then. Hi-sto-ri. Stay there. Now gape (he gapes & Hortano looks in his mouth) … |
| 16 | 195–204 | 503 | unassigned | | Hortano: you have been a great while prating with that pricking fellow and make no reckoning of my neighbour R… |
| 17 | 205–209 | 532 | unassigned | | Now it shall appear how short you are with want of Logic. But I'll teach thee a little. He that was the last y… |
| 18 | 210–220 | 479 | unassigned | | Go to then: if you be such a scholar I will not dispute with you about the Holy days, but my neighbour Acuto h… |
| 19 | 221–225 | 485 | unassigned | | Sir, our business is not worldly, though it concern worldly men, even as your life is not worldlike, though bo… |
| 20 | 226–240 | 494 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.84 | Thou told me so? what care I for thy telling? If thou told me my father were dead (though I knew he be buried)… |
| 21 | 241–250 | 512 | unassigned | | Sir I have brought the linen, she lent it willingly. So I saved the lie; she desires you to sup with her tonig… |
| 22 | 251–264 | 508 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.81 | Stay awhile, you shall hear more to his face. Come hither Simplo. This honest man tells me, he is in speech wi… |
| 23 | 265–275 | 491 | unassigned | | Your Comparison is too general. Had you excepted hunting I might have joined hands with you against all others… |
| 24 | 276–280 | 492 | unassigned | | It is almost eleven. I doubt it be no more indeed. I am so sleepy still: go see if Monsieur Parvagracio be sti… |
| 25 | 281–294 | 508 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.69 | I have cast up these accounts exactly, and your share is to pay 200l, and no more. I have often visited them, … |
| 26 | 295–304 | 487 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.77 | Sir, the writings are done, when you please I am ready to seal. I think the Lawyer is a very honest man, he ha… |
| 27 | 305–310 | 534 | unassigned | | 'tis a marvelous toil and trouble that we courtiers are put to, and little considered by the world abroad: for… |
| 28 | 311–324 | 465 | unassigned | | Nay, let that alone until another time. I understand already as much as I need for that matter: I must be gone… |
| 29 | 325–335 | 507 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.75 | I have had such a stir with this same beggar Pohssib, his wife, and his friends: and so many complaints they h… |
| 30 | 336–347 | 492 | T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy | 0.81 | Fear nothing of that Sir, I can tell you news. They say now your title to it is as good as any man hath to his… |
| 31 | 348–358 | 509 | unassigned | | even as you may if you will take the course that I do. I have a wife, the best creature that ever you saw in t… |
| 32 | 359–365 | 505 | unassigned | | How doth she bring up thy son Jack? Admirably well: for lest he should prove an idolater she will not let him … |
| 33 | 366–380 | 509 | unassigned | | What wife; and I not there? Alas man, why should you trouble yourself with these matters which be so far out o… |
| 34 | 381–391 | 501 | unassigned | | Yes: but what, shall women do it? Who else I pray you? shall beast's do it? Although women may not speak in th… |
| 35 | 392–411 | 504 | unassigned | | A martyr. How canst thou be a martyr? O yes, and I shall die so patiently, that I dare not call for a posset h… |
| 36 | 412–418 | 499 | unassigned | | In any case hold him in, let him not scape, he shall pay for his expedition. I'll about it, and I'll have it f… |
| 37 | 419–428 | 511 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.78 | O, I could fit these fellows to a hair. I could devise them a crest as fit as a fan for a forehorse. Proberio:… |
| 38 | 429–436 | 496 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.78 | I marvel what will satisfy your greedy desires. have you not the whole kingdom at your service & beck? what Lo… |
| 39 | 437–448 | 537 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.80 | Who can endure this filthy Farmer to rail as he doth at us two Mureto? Let us set upon him. Are you so free wi… |
| 40 | 449–463 | 527 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.86 | In lodging? I am ashamed to hear such a word, (though you be not to allege so base a reckoning) I had always m… |
| 41 | 464–476 | 526 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.78 | Will you have my oath? No. Will you refer it to friends? No. To your own brother? No. I protest upon my faith … |
| 42 | 477–491 | 503 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.74 | Believe me Master Mureto, this Farmer hath made for himself a reasonable good Apology, and put us a hard case.… |
| 43 | 492–505 | 505 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.75 | Yes, with all my heart. And I'll be good before both you if you mend not the faster. Content. Let us all amend… |
| 44 | 506–527 | 500 | T39 Profit, conscience and dishonest dealing | 0.66 | No. But you have good security: for you have the thing itself in your hand, which you may keep. Yes, I have, a… |
| 45 | 528–546 | 514 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.70 | O this; this. none like to this. Now I like this riddle excellent well that yields so many, & so witty constru… |
| 46 | 547–559 | 504 | T57 Ships, merchants and pirates | 0.76 | Sir, a kinsman of yours and mine, a knight, when he went to travail had no money to spare, but bestowed on me … |
| 47 | 560–567 | 494 | unassigned | | Yes to your state. do you kick already? nay I'll gale you better yet. with thy borrowed bravery thou perkest, … |
| 48 | 568–582 | 525 | unassigned | | Sir Hermito. If you be not. I am weary with hearing such variety of vice. The soldier that was wont to be the … |
| 49 | 583–591 | 509 | unassigned | | So am I Sir, now I shall be quiet. An you marked Sir, I never entreated you for conscience sake to give her an… |
| 50 | 592–602 | 477 | unassigned | | There are yet two other things objected, but both of our nature therefore though it were a huddle, it makes bu… |
| 51 | 603–615 | 519 | unassigned | | No. I am sure he did not ask you. I brought a cozen of mine other day to him that gave him a fee. Indeed I tol… |
| 52 | 616–638 | 526 | unassigned | | ay, but then you know interest will run on it is no good husbandry to take it so long before the time it may b… |
| 53 | 639–652 | 502 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.83 | Why sir, 'tis but your fancy. And now you cannot go back: here is witness enough you engaged your honour to ha… |
| 54 | 653–673 | 509 | unassigned | | First bring me a crusty manchet, and a single pot of beer. It shallbe done Sir here's a hot guest I perceive b… |
| 55 | 674–688 | 507 | T6 Money, debt and credit | 0.85 | I hear the knave well enough, but I'll watch you for both. My horses shall have but little provender. I'll cal… |
| 56 | 689–713 | 519 | unassigned | | A woman? 'tis not a woman. The head is a dog. 'tis a mermaid, half a dog, half a woman. No 'tis but the hair o… |
| 57 | 714–725 | 512 | T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy | 0.81 | If you had, yet must you use discretion in it, and divide none but such as are indeed no marriages at first, b… |
| 58 | 726–741 | 473 | unassigned | | Indeed Sir, it seems you have been well bred, else you had never grown to this stature. Did not I tell you wha… |
| 59 | 742–752 | 481 | unassigned | | It was not the newest fashion the last year, and no Chronicle make▪ mention of it. Therefore if any man had wr… |
| 60 | 753–772 | 474 | unassigned | | If I were fit to receive one of your sort, how could you serve me and the king too? can you serve two masters?… |
| 61 | 773–786 | 497 | T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint | 0.69 | Bonds? I am in bonds enough I think, bound hand, foot, heart, mind, wit and will. He that is in love needs no … |
| 62 | 787–794 | 508 | unassigned | | Come on, since 'tis done, let them go: but I cannot ride my journey contentedly until I have these eggs. Simpl… |
| 63 | 795–814 | 483 | unassigned | | But do you eat any of this dainty trash with him? Or else I must go hungry to bed, and ride empty the next day… |
| 64 | 815–824 | 504 | unassigned | | Your questions sir (if I forget not) were, what was my name, and what order I purpose to enter. My name is Lev… |
| 65 | 825–830 | 523 | unassigned | | I dare undertake (Lady Levitia) he means justly by you: for I have seen him in a dangerous passion when you le… |
| 66 | 831–850 | 473 | unassigned | | Ha may lively Levitia, we cannot choose but thrive if thou hast these trades. But is thy portion in sure hands… |
| 67 | 851–862 | 498 | unassigned | | marry to have as little as she. And if I were as you I would serve her so, teach her to come empty handed to a… |
| 68 | 863–870 | 483 | unassigned | | But there he shall meet with his craft's master. What? master my master in craft? that were somewhat strange, … |