Dominant work: Bartholomew Fair · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): comedy 70%; tragedy 9%; biblical play; moral 4%
54chunks
26,576words
37works
3works with ≥3 chunks
18 %dominant work
30 %top-3 works
Classificationcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · confirmed by the researcher Label (researcher): Drinking: wine, ale and tavernsOriginal AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: Drinking: wine, ale and taverns · pattern basis: thematic_discourse 54 chunks, 37 works, Bartholomew Fair 19 %. Drink and drinkers: wine, ale, pots, the tavern as rendezvous, the red-faced host, drunken songs; Jonson, Nashe, Heywood and Brome, Shirley, Lyly. Cross-work theme. chunks read for the draft: 971_00018;396_00019;1020_00011;235_00025;1000_00008;1077_00000;239_00013
Jonson, Ben, 1631 · comedy · 10 chunks of this work here
What do you lack, Gentlemen, what is't you lack? a fine Horse? a Lion? a Bull? a Bear? a Dog, or a Cat? an excellent fine Bartholmew-bird? or an Instrument? what is't you lack? 'Sl…
Nashe, Thomas, 1600 · comedy · 3 chunks of this work here
Thou want'st no liquour, nor no flesh and blood. I pray thee may I ask without offence? How many tons of wine hast in thy paunch? methinks, that, built like a round church, Should …
Heywood, Thomas / Brome, Richard, 1634 · comedy · 3 chunks of this work here
Nay sir if you please to stay, now that the many are frighted away, I have some good cold meats, and halfe a dozen bottles of Wine. And I will bid you welcome. Say you me so, but w…
Lodge, Thomas / Greene, Robert, 1594 · biblical play; moral · 2 chunks of this work here
But hearest thou fellow, who killed this man? I'll tell you sir, if you did taste of the Ale, all Niniveh hath not such a cup of Ale, it flowers in the cup sir, by my troth I spent…
Lyly, John, 1594 · comedy · 2 chunks of this work here
Nay the bodkin is here already, you must be the knife. I am the bodkin, look well to your ears, I must boar them. Mew thy tongue or we'll cut it out, this I speak representing the …
Porter, Henry, 1599 · comedy · 2 chunks of this work here
Drunk? he's a beast and he be drunk, there's no man that is a sober man will be drunk, he's a boy and he be drunk. No, he's a man as thou art. Thus 'tis when a man will not be rule…
Anonymous, 1609 · comedy · 2 chunks of this work here
Say on my sweet bully, mine Host will attend thee, speak roundly to the purpose and welcome my bully. Marry thus: there are are great revels & shows prepared to beautify the nuptia…
Anonymous, 1594 · comedy · 1 chunks of this work here
YOu whoreson drunken slave, you had best be gone, And empty your drunken paunch somewhere else For in this house thou shalt not rest tonight. Tilly-vally, by crisee Tapster I'll fe…
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
comedy
38 (70 %)
tragedy
5 (9 %)
biblical play; moral
2 (4 %)
romance
2 (4 %)
moral
2 (4 %)
tragicomedy
2 (4 %)
history
1 (2 %)
masque
1 (2 %)
This is the direction topic → genre, on the raw British Drama labels; the share of each genre group's text that falls in this topic is on the Genre page.
Bartholomew Fair (1631) · typ. 0.86 …? you Rogue. By and by, the bottle is almost of Mistress, here Master Arthur. I'll part you, and your playfellow there, i'the guarded coat, an you sunder not the sooner. Master Win-wife, you are proud (me thinks) you do not talk, nor drink, are you proud? Not of the company I am in, Sir, nor the place, I assure you. You do not except at t…
Bartholomew Fair (1631) · typ. 0.84 Cry you mercy, is the wind there? must not the widow be named? Do you hear Win, Win? What say you, Iohn? While they are paying the reckoning, Win, I'll tell you a thing Win, we shall never see…
The Late Lancashire Witches (1634) · typ. 0.84 …he Night too! And carry a Wench behind me too, and did something else too, but I must not speak of her lest I be devil-torn. And fill thy bottles too, and come home half drunk too, for so thou art, thou wouldst never a had such a fancy else! I am sorry I have said so much, and not let Lancaster have the credit o' the Wine. O are you so! a…
The Old Wives Tale (1595) · typ. 0.83 Yes Hosts, but it is my masters fashion to pay before he eats, therefore a reckoning good hostess. Marry shall you sir presently. Why Iack what dost thou mean, thou knowest I…
The Late Lancashire Witches (1634) · typ. 0.83 …iles a Night upon a Rawboned Devil, as in my heart it was a Devil, and then a Wench that shared more o' my back then the said Devil did o' my Bum, this is rank riding my Masters: but why had I such an itch to tell my Master of it, and that he should believe it; I do now wish that I had not told, and that he will not believe it, for I dare…
Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600) · typ. 0.83 …lood. I pray thee may I ask without offence? How many tons of wine hast in thy paunch? methinks, that, built like a round church, Should yet have some of Iulius Caesar's wine: I warrant, 'twas not broached this hundred year. Hear'st, thou dow-belly, because thou talk'st, and talk'st, & dar'st not drink to me a black Iack, wilt thou give m…
The Two Merry Milkmaids, or The Best Words Wear th (1620) · typ. 0.83 …d, and will persever. You are a welcome man, pray show how. Drink off your Wine, and he'll show you how. Prithee away. Pray Sir pledge me. I will pledge you. Did you not drink two, Sir? Yes marry did he, if I have two eyes, he drunk two. Prithee mine Host stand aside, thou hast ne'er an eye. How, ne'er an eye? that goes hard, if I have dr…
The Royal Slave (1639) · typ. 0.83 … dice then, and let fortune name the heir to the Cup? Or shall we drink our Mistresses names, and soak it Alphabetically? If we drink names, let not the Letters pass for single ones, but as they would in number: I do pronounce Alpha no letter till it begin to multiply. I never thought Drinking such a Mystery before; a blockhead can't be d…
The Royal King and the Loyal Subject (1637) · typ. 0.82 …? If he will not go out by fair means, Send for a Constable. And send him to Bridewell Ordinary; whipping cheer is best for him. Nay pray sir leave my house, you see the Gentlemen will not endure your company. Mine Host, thou knewst me in my flourishing prime: I was the first brought custom to thine house, Most of my means I spent here to…
Your Five Gallants (The Five Witty Gallants) (1608) · typ. 0.82 …this better than hazarding our reputations upon trifles, and in such public as a Tavern, such a questionable place. True. Faith it was well thought on. Nay keep your way Gentlemen: I have sworn master Bowcer, I will be last i'faith----- Rascal the goblet. Where sir? Peep yond sir under. Here sir. My husband is rode from home, make us dela…
The Elder Brother (1637) · typ. 0.82 It is enough, my best care shall attend ye. Are you come old Master? very good, your horse Is well set up, but ere ye part; I'll ride you And spur your reverend Justiceship such a question, As I shall make the sides o'your reputati…
Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600) · typ. 0.82 …chman within 20 mile, but he'll smell out & claim kindred of him. What a beastly thing is it, to bottle up ale in a man's belly, when a man must set his guts on a gallon pot last, only to purchase the alehouse title of a boon companion? Carouse, pledge me and you dare: S'wounds, i'll drink with thee for all that ever thou art worth. It is…
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