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
|1125| _Sir quin._ All’s one for that, she has a vizard in a bagge,
will make her looke like an Angell; I wod I had her, vpon condition, I
gaue thee this chaine manlie Tucca.
_Tuc._ I? saist thou so Friskin? I haue her ath hip for some causes, I
can sound her, she’ll come at my becke.
|1130| _Sir quin._ Wod I could sound her too Noble commaunder.
_Tuc._ Thou shalt doo’t; that Lady ath Lake is thine Sir Tristram, lend
mee thy chaine, doe, lend it, Ile make her take it as a token, Ile
lincke her vnto thee; and thou shalt weare her gloue in thy Worshipfull
hatte like to a leather brooch; Nay and thou |1135| mistrusts thy
coller, be tyed in’t still.
_Sir quin._ Mistrust Captaine? no, heere tis, giue it her if she’ll
take it, or weare it thy selfe, if shee’ll take mee, Ile watch him well
enough too.
_Tuc._ No more, Ile shoote away yonder Prickshaft, and then |1140|
belabour her, and flye you after yonder Cucko: dost heere me my noble
Gold-finch?----
_Sir qui._ No more.
_Tuc._ How dost thou my smug Belimperia? how dost thou? hands off my
little bald Derricke, hands off: harke hether |1145| Susanna, beware a
these two wicked Elders, shall I speake well or ill of thee?
_Min._ Nay, eene as you please Captaine, it shal be at your choise.
_Tuc._ Why well said, my nimble Short-hose.
|1150| _Sir quin._ I heare her, I heare her.
_Tuc._ Art angry father time? art angrie because I tooke mother-Winter
aside? Ile holde my life thou art strucke with Cupids Birde-bolt, my
little prickshaft, art? dost loue that mother Mumble-crust, dost thou?
dost long for that whim-wham?
|1155| _Sir Ada._ Wod I were as sure to lye with her, as to loue her.
_Tuc._ Haue I found thee my learned Dunce, haue I found thee? If
I might ha my wil, thou shouldst not put thy spoone into that
bumble-broth (for indeede Ide taste her my selfe) no thou shouldst not;
yet if her beautie blinde thee, she’s thine, I can doo’t, thou |1160|
heardst her say eene now, it should bee at my choice.
_Sir Ada._ She did so, worke the match and Ile bestow--
_Tuc._ Not a silke point vpon mee, little Adam shee shall bee thy Eeue,
for lesse then an Apple; but send, bee wise, send her some token,
shee’s greedie, shee shall take it, doe, send, thou |1165| shalt sticke
in her (Prickeshaft) but send.
_Sir Adam._ Heer’s a purse of golde, thinke you that wil be accepted?
_Tuc._ Goe to, it shall bee accepted, and twere but siluer, when that
Flea-bitten Short-hose steppes hence: vanish too, and let |1170| mee
alone with my Grannam in Gutter-Lane there, and this purse of golde
doe, let me alone.
_Sir quint._ The King, gods Lord, I doe forget the King; Widdow, thinke
on my wordes, I must be gone To waite his rising, Ile returne anone.
|1175| _Sir Ad._ Stay Sir Quintilian, Ile be a waiter too.
_Sir quinti._ Widdow wee’ll trust that Captaine there with you.
_Exeunt._
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