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
_Tuc._ Well said Cockrell out-crowe him: art hardy noble Huon? |1660|
art Magnanimious? licke-trencher; looke, search least some lye in
ambush; for this man at Armes has paper in’s bellie, or some friend in
a corner, or else hee durst not bee so cranke.
_Boy._ Capten, Capten, Horace stands sneaking heere.
_Tuc._ I smelt the foule-fisted Morter-treader, come my most |1665|
damnable fastidious rascall, I haue a suite to both of you.
_Asi._ O holde, most pittifull Captaine holde.
_Hor._ Holde Capten, tis knowne that Horace is valliant, & a man of the
sword.
_Tuc._ A Gentleman or an honest Cittizen, shall not Sit in your |1670|
pennie-bench Theaters, with his Squirrell by his side cracking nuttes;
nor sneake into a Tauerne with his Mermaid; but he shall be Satyr’d,
and Epigram’d vpon, and his humour must run vpo’th Stage: you’ll ha
_Euery Gentleman in’s humour_, and _Euery Gentleman out on’s humour_:
wee that are heades of Legions and |1675| Bandes, and feare none but
these same shoulder-clappers, shall feare you, you Serpentine rascall.
_Hor._ Honour’d Capten.
_Tuc._ Art not famous enough yet, my mad _Horastratus_, for killing
a Player, but thou must eate men aliue? thy friends? Sirra |1680|
wilde-man, thy Patrons? thou Anthropophagite, thy Mecænasses?
_Hor._ Captaine, I’m sorry that you lay this wrong
So close vnto your heart: deare Captaine thinke
I writ out of hot bloud, which (now) being colde,
I could be pleas’d (to please you) to quaffe downe,
|1685| The poyson’d Inke, in which I dipt your name.
_Tuc._ Saist thou so, my _Palinodicall_ rimester?
_Hor._ Hence forth Ile rather breath out _Solœcismes_
(To doe which Ide as soone speake blasphemie)
Than with my tongue or pen to wound your worth,
|1690| Beleeue it noble Capten; it to me
Shall be a Crowne, to crowne your actes with praize,
Out of your hate, your loue Ile stronglie raize.
_Tuc._ I know now th’ast a number of these _Quiddits_ to binde men
to’th peace: tis thy fashion to flirt Inke in euerie mans face; and
|1695| then to craule into his bosome, and damne thy selfe to wip’t off
agen: yet to giue out abroad, that hee was glad to come to composition
with thee: I know _Monsieur Machiauell_ tis one a thy rules; My
long-heel’d T_roglodite_, I could make thine eares burne now, by
dropping into them, all those hot oathes, to which, thy selfe |1700|
gau’st voluntarie fire, (whē thou wast the man in the Moone) that thou
wouldst neuer squib out any new Salt-peter Iestes against honest Tucca,
nor those Maligo-tasters, his _Poetasters_; I could Cinocephalus, but
I will not, yet thou knowst thou hast broke those oathes in print, my
excellent infernall.
|1705| _Ho._ Capten.
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