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
_Asi._ Mas it smels of Rose-leaues a little too.
|540| _Hor._ Then it must needs be a sweet booke, he would faine
perfume his ignorance.
_Asi._ I warrant he had wit in him that pen’d it.
_Cris._ Tis good yet a foole will confesse truth.
_Asi._ The whoorson made me meete with a hard stile in two or |545|
three places as I went ouer him.
_Dem._ I beleeue thee, for they had need to be very lowe & easie
Stiles of wit that thy braines goe ouer.
_Enter_ Blunt _and_ Tucca.
_Blun._ Wher’s this gallant? Morrow Gentlemen: what’s this |550| deuise
done yet Horace?
_Hor._ Gods so, what meane you to let this fellow dog you into my
Chamber?
_Blun._ Oh, our honest Captayne, come, prethee let vs see.
_Tuc._ Why you bastards of nine whoores, the Muses, why doe |555| you
walk heere in this gorgeous gailery of gallant inuentions, with that
whooreson poore lyme & hayre-rascall? why--
_Cris._ O peace good Tucca, we are all sworne friends.
_Tuc._ Sworne, that Iudas yonder that walkes in Rug, will dub you
Knights ath Poste, if you serue vnder his band of oaths, the |560|
copper-fact rascal wil for a good supper out sweare twelue dozen of
graund Iuryes.
_Blun._ A pox ont, not done yet, and bin about it three dayes?
_Horr._ By Iesu within this houre, saue you Captayne Tucca.
_Tuc._ Dam thee, thou thin bearded Hermaphrodite, dam thee, |565| Ile
saue my selfe for one I warrant thee, is this thy Tub Diogines?
_Hor._ Yes Captaine this is my poore lodging.
_Asin._ _Morrow Captaine Tucca_, will you whiffe this morning?
_Tuc._ Art thou there goates pizzel; no godamercy Caine I am |570|
for no whiffs I, come hether sheep-skin-weauer, s’foote thou lookst
as though th’adst beg’d out of a Iayle: drawe, I meane not thy face
(for tis not worth drawing) but drawe neere: this way, martch, follow
your commaunder you scoundrell: So, thou must run of an errand for mee
Mephostophiles.
|575| _Hor._ To doe you pleasure Captayne I will, but whether.
_Tuc._ To hell, thou knowst the way, to hell my fire and brimstone, to
hell; dost stare my Sarsens-head at Newgate? dost gloate? Ile march
through thy dunkirkes guts for shooting iestes at me.
|580| _Hor._ Deare Captaine but one word.
_Tuc._ Out bench-whistler out, ile not take thy word for a dagger Pye:
you browne-bread-mouth stinker, ile teach thee to turne me into Bankes
his horse, and to tell gentlemen I am a Iugler, and can shew trickes.
|585| _Hor._ Captaine Tucca, but halfe a word in your eare.
_Tuc._ No you staru’d rascal, thou’t bite off mine eares then, you must
haue three or foure suites of names, when like a lowsie Pediculous
vermin th’ast but one suite to thy backe: you must be call’d Asper, and
Criticus, and Horace, thy tytle’s longer a |590| reading then the Stile
a the big Turkes: Asper, Criticus, Quintus, Horatius, Flaccus.
_Hor._ Captaine I know vpon what euen bases I stand, and therefore--
_Tuc._ Bases? wud the roague were but ready for me.
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