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
_Kin._ Onelie my heart takes measure of thy beautie.
_Sir quin._ Now by my hose I sweare, that’s no deepe oath,
|855| This was a fine sweet earth-quake gentlie moou’d,
By the soft winde of whispring Silkes: come Ladies,
Whose ioynts are made out of the dauncing Orbes,
Come, follow me, walke a colde measure now;
In the Brides Chamber; your hot beautie’s melt,
|860| Take euerie one her fan, giue them their places,
And waue the Northerne winde vpon your faces.
_Cælestine and all the Ladyes doing obeysance to the King, who
onely kisses her, Exeunt, Shorthose manning them, the Gallants
stand aloofe._
_Kin._ Sir Walter Terrill.
|865| _Ter._ My confirmed Leige.
_Ki._ Beautie out of her bountie, thee hath lent,
More then her owne with liberall extent.
_Ter._ What meanes my Lord?
_Kin._ Thy Bride, thy choice, thy wife,
|870| She that is now thy fadom, thy new world,
That brings thee people, and makes little subiects;
Kneele at thy feete, obay in euerie thing,
So euerie Father is a priuate King.
_Ter._ My Lord, her beauty is the poorest part,
|875| Chieflie her vertues did endowe my heart.
_Kin._ Doe not back-bite her beauties, they all shine,
Brighter on thee, because the beames are thine,
To thee more faire, to others her two lips
Shew like a parted Moone in thine Eclipse;
|880| That glaunce, which louers mongst themselues deuise,
Walkes as inuisible to others eies:
Giue me thine eare.
_Cri._ What meanes the King?
_Dem._ Tis a quaint straine.
|885| _Ter._ My Lord.
_King._ Thou darst not Wat.
_Ter._ She is too course an obiect for the Court.
_Kin._ Thou darst not _W_at: let to night be to morrow.
_Ter._ For shee’s not yet mine owne.
|890| _Kin._ Thou darst not Wat?
_Ter._ My Lord I dare, but----
_King._ But I see thou darst not.
_Ter._ This night.
_King._ Yea, this night, tush thy minde repaires not,
|895| The more thou talk’st of night, the more thou darst not;
Thus farre I tend, I wod but turne this spheare,
Of Ladies eyes, and place it in the Court,
Where thy faire Bride should for the Zodiacke shine,
And euery Lady else sit for a signe.
|900| But all thy thoughts are yellow, thy sweet bloud
Rebels, th’art iealous Wat; thus with proude reuels
To emmulate the masking firmament,
Where Starres dance in the siluer Hall of heauen,
Thy pleasure should be seasoned, and thy bed
|905| Relish thy Bride, But, but thou darst not Wat.
_Ter._ My Loord I dare.
_Kin._ Speake that agen.
_Ter._ I dare.
_King._ Agen kinde Wat, and then I know thou darst.
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