Excerpts from A Mad World, My Masters


Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
Folly w. Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…]
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] to be short, and cut off a great deale of durty way; Ile downe to my Grandsire like a L.
Lieft. How Captaine?
Folly-w. A French ruffe, a thinne beard, and a strong perfume will doo’t: I can hire blew coats for you all by Westminster clocke, and that colour will be soonest beleeued.
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
Sir Boun. My L. Owe-much! I haue heard much speech of that L. h’as great acquaintance i’th Citie; that L. has bin much followed.
Foot.1 And is still sir; he wants no company when hee’s in London: hee’s free of the Mercers, and theres none of e’m all dare crosse him.
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
Sir Boun. Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] but come, come, bind me, I haue neede on’t; I haue beene too liberall to night, keepe in my hands: nay, as hard as you list; I am too good to beare my L. company, you haue watcht your time my Masters; I was Knighted at Westminster, but many of these nights will make me a Knight of Windsor; Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…]
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
M. Pent. When it is almost exsiccate or drie, I adde thereto olei Succini, olei Masi, & Sinamoni.
Sir Boun. So Sir, olei Masi, that same oyle of Mase is a great comfort to both the Counters.2
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
Curtiz. And to my vncle Winchcombe, and to my Aunt Lipsalue, and to my cosen Falsetop, and to my cosen Lickit, and to my cosen Horseman, and to all my good cosens in Clearken well, and Saint Ioneses.
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
Folly. Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)[…] well, as I am a Queane, you were best haue a care of me, and guard me sure, I giue you warning before hand, tis a monckie taylde-Age. Life, you shall goe nye to haue halfe a douzen blythe fellowes surprize me cowardly, carry me away with a payre of owers, and put in at Putney.
Left. We should laugh at that yfaith.
Folly. Or shoote in vppo’th coast of Cue.
Left. Two notable fit landing places for Leachers, P. and C. Putney and Cue.
Folly. Well, say you haue faire warning on’t, the hayre about the hat is as good as a flag vppo’th pole at a common Playhouse to wast company, and a chin-cloute is of that powerfull a traction I can tell you, twill draw more Linnen toot?
Left. Feare not vs Captaine, there’s none here but can fight for a whore as well as some Innes a Court-man?
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
Gum. Faith y’are too nice Lady: and as for my secrecy you know I haue vowd it often to you.
Folly. Vowd it? no, no, you men are fickle,—
Gum. Fickle?—sfoote bind me Lady—
Folly. Why I bind you by vertue of this chayne to meet me tomorrow at the Flowredeluce yonder, betweene Nine and Ten.
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)
Folly. Not so neither sir & that you may be seriously assured of my herafter stablenesse of life, I haue took another course.
Sir Boun. What?
Folly. Tooke a wife.
Sir Boun. A wife? sfoot, what is she for a foole would marry thee a madman? when was the wedding kept in Bedlam?
Gap in transcription. Reason: (KL)

Notes

  1. I.e., Footman. (KL)
  2. I.e., Wood Street Counter and Southwark Counter. (KL)

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Middleton, Thomas. Excerpts from A Mad World, My Masters. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/MADW1.htm.

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Middleton, Thomas. Excerpts from A Mad World, My Masters. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/MADW1.htm.

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Middleton, T. 2022. Excerpts from A Mad World, My Masters. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/MADW1.htm.

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