item: #1 of 26 id: 1191 author: Congreve, William title: The Double-Dealer: A Comedy date: None words: 28265 flesch: 93 summary: [_To_ LADY FROTH.] SIR PAUL PLYANT _and_ LADY PLYANT. keywords: brisk; care; careless; cynt; lady; lady froth; lady plyant; lady touch; lord; lord froth; lord touch; love; mask; mel; mellefont; nay; paul; scene; sir; sir paul; tis cache: 1191.txt plain text: 1191.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 19094 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: Magic A Fantastic Comedy date: None words: 15361 flesch: 92 summary: Enter_ CONJURER, _carrying his bag, and cloaked for departure. PATRICIA _walks up to_ CONJURER. keywords: conjurer; doctor; duke; fairies; garden; good; hastings; man; morris; patricia; room; silence; smith; tell; things; trick cache: 19094.txt plain text: 19094.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 21334 author: Farquhar, George title: The Beaux-Stratagem date: None words: 30352 flesch: 95 summary: _Dor_. _Dor_. keywords: aim; aimwell; arch; archer; bon; brother; cher; count; dear; dorinda; exit; farquhar; foi; gentleman; gib; good; husband; lady; lord; love; madam; man; mrs; scrub; sir; sister; squire; sul; sullen; tis; way; woman cache: 21334.txt plain text: 21334.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 2906 author: Galsworthy, John title: The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts date: None words: 19373 flesch: 96 summary: MRS. JONES. MRS. JONES. keywords: barthwick; box; course; jack; jones; magistrate; man; marlow; mrs; roper; sir; snow; yes cache: 2906.txt plain text: 2906.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 32419 author: Farquhar, George title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip to the Jubilee: A Comedy, in Five Acts date: None words: 21518 flesch: 95 summary: Sir H._ Sir H._ keywords: ang; colonel; colonel s.; dicky; exit; jun; lady; lady l.; love; madam; man; parly; sen; sir h.; sir harry; tis; tom; vizard; wildair; woman cache: 32419.txt plain text: 32419.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 3418 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Captain Brassbound's Conversion date: None words: 29122 flesch: 88 summary: They would perjure themselves out of pure spite against poor Captain Brassbound. RANKIN (amazed). LADY CICELY (beaming on him). keywords: brassbound; cadi; captain; captain brassbound; door; drinkwater; eah; english; gavner; good; hands; house; johnson; kearney; kepn; lady cicely; law; lidy; look; man; marzo; men; naow; osman; people; rankin; redbrook; right; sheikh; sidi; sir howard; thet; think cache: 3418.txt plain text: 3418.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 3480 author: Knowles, James Sheridan title: The Hunchback date: None words: 22668 flesch: 100 summary: No thanks, good Master Walter, owe you me! No; but I have certified to his agent, Master Walter, the Hunchback, my existence, and peculiar propinquity; and momentarily expect him here. keywords: clif; clifford; cousin; fath; good; hand; heart; helen; julia; know; lady; lord; love; man; master; mod; sir; thee; thomas; thou; thy; tis; town; wal; walter cache: 3480.txt plain text: 3480.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 3485 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress date: None words: 5197 flesch: 91 summary: You have your orders, General Strammfest: save the Revolution. STRAMMFEST. Schneidekind takes a little longer than Strammfest, who comes to the table. STRAMMFEST. keywords: duchess; general; man; revolution; schneidekind; sir; strammfest cache: 3485.txt plain text: 3485.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 3486 author: Shaw, Bernard title: The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta date: None words: 8396 flesch: 89 summary: It is for you to accept without question or demur the assurance of your Inca that the brooch is a masterpiece. ERMYNTRUDE. The Inca had never shed a drop. ERMYNTRUDE. keywords: archdeacon; captain; ermyntrude; highness; inca; madam; manager; perusalem; princess; war; world cache: 3486.txt plain text: 3486.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 3487 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce date: None words: 7220 flesch: 90 summary: Are you Lord Augustus Highcastle? AUGUSTUS The great Lord Augustus? AUGUSTUS. keywords: augustus; clerk; country; german; lady; list; madam; office; war cache: 3487.txt plain text: 3487.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 3488 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) date: None words: 14107 flesch: 87 summary: Do you think the Prince will see the captain, little darling? PATIOMKIN. The English captain wants you, little darling. keywords: captain; catherine; claire; darling; edstaston; empress; english; father; great; little; majesty; man; mother; naryshkin; patiomkin; sergeant; varinka cache: 3488.txt plain text: 3488.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 3544 author: Shaw, Bernard title: How He Lied to Her Husband date: None words: 8768 flesch: 89 summary: Mrs Bompas, with a scream, rushes into the room between the sprawling champions, and sits down on the floor in order to get her right arm round her husband's neck. SHE. I never think of you as Mrs Bompas: it is always Cand-- I mean Aurora, Aurora, Auro-- SHE. keywords: aurora; bompas; henry; husband; mrs; play; poems; teddy; think cache: 3544.txt plain text: 3544.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 3612 author: Shaw, Bernard title: John Bull's Other Island date: None words: 38059 flesch: 90 summary: Mr Broadbent spends his life inefficiently admiring the thoughts of great men, and efficiently serving the cupidity of base money hunters. But I tell you plump and plain, Mat, that if anybody thinks things will be any better now that the land is handed over to a lot of little men like you, without calling you to account either, they're mistaken. keywords: aunt; broadbent; cornelius; course; dempsey; doran; doyle; england; english; father; good; haffigan; hodson; home; ireland; irish; judy; keegan; larry; like; look; man; matthew; mind; miss; mr broadbent; nora; patsy; people; reilly; right; sir; think; tim; time; want; way cache: 3612.txt plain text: 3612.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 3694 author: Jonson, Ben title: Every Man in His Humour date: None words: 46658 flesch: 87 summary: Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Francis Meres -- well known for his Comparative Discourse of our English Poets with the Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets, printed in 1598, and for his mention therein of a dozen plays of Shakespeare by title -- accords to Ben Jonson a place as one of our best in tragedy, a matter of some surprise, as no known tragedy of Jonson from so early a date has come down to us. keywords: bia; bob; brother; clem; cob; comedy; cousin; day; doctor; exit; faith; fellow; gentleman; giu; giuliano; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; house; humour; jonson; kind; life; lor; lorenzo; love; man; marry; master; mat; matheo; men; mus; musco; nay; piso; play; pros; prospero; sblood; shakespeare; signior; sir; sirrah; sister; soldier; spirit; stand; step; sweet; term; thee; tho; thorello; thou; thy; tib; time; warrant; wife; word cache: 3694.txt plain text: 3694.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 3695 author: Jonson, Ben title: Every Man out of His Humour date: None words: 60022 flesch: 82 summary: In good time, sir: nay, good sir, house your head; do you profess these sleights in tobacco? SHIFT. Content: good sir, vouchsafe us your pleasance. keywords: brisk; brother; car; carlo; come; comedy; company; cor; court; deli; deliro; dog; exit; face; fair; faith; fal; fast; fastidious; fellow; fung; fungoso; gentleman; george; god; good; hand; hath; head; heaven; house; humour; jonson; kind; knight; lady; let; life; like; look; lord; love; maci; macilente; man; marry; master; men; mit; money; nay; new; place; play; punt; puntarvolo; rest; sav; scene; shakespeare; shift; signior; sir; sog; sogliardo; speak; stay; suit; sweet; tell; term; thee; think; thou; time; tis; tobacco; turn; use; wife; wit; woman; world; worth cache: 3695.txt plain text: 3695.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 37012 author: Farquhar, George title: The Recruiting Officer date: None words: 21586 flesch: 98 summary: The Market Place._ _Enter_ PLUME _and_ WORTHY. _Enter_ PLUME _and_ WORTHY. keywords: bal; brazen; captain; dear; fellow; good; kite; lucy; madam; man; mel; plume; rose; sir; syl; sylvia; tis; wor; worthy cache: 37012.txt plain text: 37012.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 37195 author: Farquhar, George title: The Beaux-Stratagem: A comedy in five acts date: None words: 22379 flesch: 97 summary: _Enter_ BONIFACE _and_ CHERRY. _Bon._ _Enter_ ARCHER. keywords: aim; arch; archer; bon; brother; cher; dear; foig; gentleman; good; know; lady; love; madam; man; mrs; saying; scrub; sir; sister; sul; sullen; way cache: 37195.txt plain text: 37195.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 3771 author: Jonson, Ben title: Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love date: None words: 55356 flesch: 85 summary: And good men, like the sea, should still maintain Their noble taste, in midst of all fresh humours That flow about them, to corrupt their streams, Bearing no season, much less salt of goodness. 'Slud, I'll give out all he does is dictated from other men, and swear it too, if thou'lt have me, and that I know the time and place where he stole it, though my soul be guilty of no such thing; and that I think, out of my heart, he hates such barren shifts: yet to do thee a pleasure and him a disgrace, I'll damn myself, or do any thing. keywords: amo; amorphus; ana; anaides; arete; aso; asotus; child; come; comedy; company; court; cri; crites; cup; cynthia; day; doth; excellent; face; fair; faith; fellow; gentleman; good; grace; hand; hath; head; hedon; horse; humour; jonson; jove; kind; ladies; lady; leave; life; light; love; man; master; men; mer; mercury; monsieur; moria; nay; page; pha; phi; philautia; place; play; presence; self; shakespeare; sir; speak; stage; stay; sweet; term; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; use; water; way; wit; word; worth; year cache: 3771.txt plain text: 3771.txt item: #19 of 26 id: 3830 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Overruled date: None words: 13779 flesch: 86 summary: MRS. JUNO. MRS. JUNO. keywords: gregory; husband; juno; love; lunn; man; mrs; people; right; sex; stage; want; wife; woman cache: 3830.txt plain text: 3830.txt item: #20 of 26 id: 38759 author: Destouches, Néricault title: Next Door Neighbours: A Comedy; In Three Acts date: None words: 13098 flesch: 91 summary: [_Taking_ SIR GEORGE _aside_. [SIR GEORGE _looks at him with a careless familiarity_--BLUNTLY _leaves the room_. keywords: blackman; bluntly; caroline; door; eleanor; father; henry; lady; lucre; manly; sir george; willford cache: 38759.txt plain text: 38759.txt item: #21 of 26 id: 4003 author: Shaw, Bernard title: Androcles and the Lion date: None words: 16645 flesch: 87 summary: But when men who believe neither in my god nor in their own--men who do not know the meaning of the word religion--when these men drag me to the foot of an iron statue that has become the symbol of the terror and darkness through which they walk, of their cruelty and greed, of their hatred of God and their oppression of man--when they ask me to pledge my soul before the people that this hideous idol is God, and that all this wickedness and falsehood is divine truth, I cannot do it, not if they could put a thousand cruel deaths on me. Good old lion! keywords: androcles; brother; caesar; captain; centurion; christian; editor; emperor; ferrovius; lavinia; lion; man; megaera; men; passage; spintho cache: 4003.txt plain text: 4003.txt item: #22 of 26 id: 4011 author: Jonson, Ben title: Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman date: None words: 50494 flesch: 87 summary: EPI: O me, most unfortunate, wretched gentlewoman! HAU: Will sir Dauphine do this? EPI: Good sir, have some compassion on me. Good sir, depart, and let her do it alone. keywords: art; captain; cen; cler; clerimont; come; comedy; company; court; cut; cutbeard; daup; dauphine; daw; day; doctor; epi; exit; faith; fellow; foole; friends; gentlemen; god; good; hand; hau; head; hope; house; humour; jonson; kind; ladies; lady; leave; life; love; madam; man; marry; master; mav; mavis; mistress; mor; morose; mrs; mute; nay; night; ott; otter; page; play; set; shakespeare; sir; sir dauphine; sir john; term; thee; thing; thou; thought; time; tis; truewit; way; wife; woman; year cache: 4011.txt plain text: 4011.txt item: #23 of 26 id: 4039 author: Jonson, Ben title: Volpone; Or, The Fox date: None words: 50076 flesch: 86 summary: Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Francis Meres--well known for his Comparative Discourse of our English Poets with the Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets, printed in 1598, and for his mention therein of a dozen plays of Shakespeare by title--accords to Ben Jonson a place as one of our best in tragedy, a matter of some surprise, as no known tragedy of Jonson from so early a date has come down to us. keywords: art; avoc; ben; bon; care; cel; coin; come; comedy; corb; corbaccio; corv; corvino; court; day; exeunt; exit; eyes; face; faith; father; fellow; fool; forth; gifford; gold; good; grave; hand; hath; head; heir; house; humour; jonson; kind; know; lady; lady p; life; look; love; man; mark; master; men; mos; mosca; nano; nay; patron; place; play; poet; scene; set; shakespeare; signior; sir; sir p; state; term; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; use; volp; volpone; volt; voltore; wife; woman cache: 4039.txt plain text: 4039.txt item: #24 of 26 id: 4081 author: Jonson, Ben title: The Alchemist date: None words: 49390 flesch: 89 summary: FACE, the Housekeeper. ENTER FACE, IN A CAPTAIN'S UNIFORM, WITH HIS SWORD DRAWN, AND SUBTLE WITH A VIAL, QUARRELLING, AND FOLLOWED BY DOL COMMON. FACE. keywords: ana; ananias; art; ben; boy; brother; captain; coin; come; comedy; company; court; dap; day; doctor; dol; don; door; drug; exit; face; faith; fellow; game; gifford; god; gold; good; grace; hand; head; house; humour; jonson; kas; kind; king; lady; leave; life; light; long; look; love; mam; mammon; man; master; means; men; money; nab; nature; nay; nei; play; shakespeare; sir; spanish; spirit; stone; sub; sur; surly; term; thee; thing; thou; time; tis; tri; turn; way; widow; word; work; worship; year cache: 4081.txt plain text: 4081.txt item: #25 of 26 id: 4766 author: Galsworthy, John title: Windows date: None words: 19525 flesch: 101 summary: For instance, it has been formalised by MRS MARCH but the grass has not been cut by MR MARCH, and daffodils have sprung up there, which MRS MARCH desires for the dining-room, but of which MR MARCH says: For God's sake, Joan, let them grow. About half therefore are now in a bowl on the breakfast table, and the other half still in the grass, in the compromise essential to lasting domesticity. MRS MARCH sits at the dining-table with her back to the windows, MARY opposite the hearth, and MR MARCH with his back to it. keywords: cook; door; faith; girl; good; johnny; look; man; mary; mother; mr bly; mr march; mrs; right; sir; things cache: 4766.txt plain text: 4766.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 5333 author: Jonson, Ben title: Every Man in His Humor date: None words: 47828 flesch: 87 summary: Now I pray you to accept this; such wherein neither the confession of my manners shall make you blush; nor of my studies, repent you to have been the instructor: and for the profession of my thankfulness, I am sure it will, with good men, find either praise or excuse. Another of these precocious little actors was Salathiel Pavy, who died before he was thirteen, already famed for taking the parts of old men. keywords: bob; brai; brainworm; brother; captain; cash; city; clem; cob; comedy; company; cousin; dame; day; dow; downright; e. know; exit; faith; fellow; form; friend; gentleman; good; hand; head; heart; house; humour; jonson; justice; kind; kit; kitely; know; knowell; life; love; man; marry; master; mat; mathew; men; money; nay; play; shakespeare; sir; sister; soldier; step; stephen; term; thee; thomas; thou; thy; tib; time; tis; warrant; wel; wellbred; wife; worship; young cache: 5333.txt plain text: 5333.txt