Satiro-Mastix; or, the Vntrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas
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Satiro-Mastix; or, the Vntrussing of the Humorous Poet
Dekker, Thomas
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
_Sir quint._ Well sayd, heere, wryte them out agen, and put the men
from the women, and _Peeter_, when we are at Church bring |195| wine
and cakes, be light & nimble good _Flash_, for your burden will be but
light.
_Enter sir_ Adam _a light before him._
_Sir Adam Prickeshaft._ God morrow, god morrow: goe, in, in, in, to the
Bridegroome, taste a cup of burnt wine this morning, |200| twill make
you flye the better all the day after.
_Sir Adam._ You are an early styrrer Sir _Quintilian Shorthose_.
_Sir qui._ I am so, it behoues me at my daughters wedding, in, in, in;
fellow put out thy torch, and put thy selfe into my buttery, the torch
burnes ill in thy hand, the wine will burne better |205| in thy belly,
in, in.
_Flash._ Ware there, roome for Sir _Adam Prickeshaft_: your Worship--
_Exit._
_Enter_ Sir Vaughan _and Mistris_ Mineuer.
|210| _Sir quin._ Sir _Vaughan_ and Widdow _Mineuer_, welcome, welcome,
a thousand times: my lips Mistris Widdow shall bid you God morrow, in,
in, one to the Bridegroome, the other to the Bride.
_Sir Vaughan_. Why then Sir _quiontilian Shorthose_, I will step
into mistris Bride, and Widdow _Mineuer_, shall goe vpon M. |215|
Bridegroome.
_Mineu._ No pardon, for by my truely Sir _Vaughan_, Ile ha no dealings
with any M. Bridegroomes.
_Sir quin._ In widdow in, in honest knight in.
_Sir Vaug._ I will vsher you mistris widdow.
|220| _Flash._ Light there for Sir _Vaughan_; your good Worship--
_Sir Vaug._ Drinke that shilling Ma. _Peeter Flash_, in your guttes and
belly.
_Fla._ Ile not drinke it downe sir, but Ile turne it into that which
shall run downe, oh merrily!
_Exit Sir Vaughan._
|225| _Enter_ Blunt, Crispinus, Demetrius, _and others with Ladies,
lights before them._
_Sir quin._ God morrow to these beauties, and Gentlemen, that haue
Vshered this troope of Ladyes to my daughters wedding, welcome, welcome
all; musick? nay then the bridegroome’s |230| comming, where are these
knaues heere?
_Flash._ All here sir.
_Enter_ Terill, Sir Adam, Sir Vaughan, Celestine, Mineuer _and other
Ladies and attendants with lights._
_Teri._ God morrow Ladies and fayre troopes of gallants, that |235|
haue depos’d the drowzy King of sleep, _to Crowne our_ traine with your
rich presences, _I salute you all_;
Each one share thanks from thanks in generall.
_Cris._ God morrow M. Bride-groome, mistris Bride.
_Omnes._ God morrow M. Bride-groome.
|240| _Ter._ Gallants I shal intreate you to prepare,
For Maskes and Reuels to defeate the night,
Our Soueraigne will in person grace our marriage.
_Sir quin._ What will the king be heer?
_Ter._ Father he will.
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