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 Va._ You lye sir varlet sir villaine, I am sir Salamanders,
ounds, is my man Master Peter Salamanders face as vrse as |1970| mine?
Sentlemen, all and Ladies, and you say once or twice Amen, I will lap
this little Silde, this Booby in his blankets agen.
_Omnes._ Agree’d, agree’d.
_Tuc._ A blanket, these crackt Venice glasses shall fill him out, they
shall tosse him, holde fast wag-tailes: so, come, in, take |1975|
this bandy with the racket of patience, why when? dost stampe mad
Tamberlaine, dost stampe? thou thinkst th’ast Morter vnder thy feete,
dost?
_Ladies._ Come, a bandy ho.
_Hor._ O holde most sacred beauties.
|1980| _Sir Vau._ Hold, silence, the puppet-teacher speakes.
_Ho._ Sir Vaughan, noble Capten, Gentlemen,
Crispinus, deare Demetrius ô redeeme me,
Out of this infamous---- by God by Iesu----
_Cri._ Nay, sweare not so good Horace, now these Ladies,
|1985| Are made your executioners: prepare,
To suffer like a gallant, not a coward;
Ile trie t’ vnloose, their hands, impossible.
Nay, womens vengeance are implacable.
_Hor._ Why, would you make me thus the ball of scorne?
|1990| _Tuc._ Ile tell thee why, because th’ ast entred Actions of
assault and battery, against a companie of honourable and worshipfull
Fathers of the law: you wrangling rascall, law is one of the pillers
ath land, and if thou beest bound too’t (as I hope thou shalt bee)
thou’t prooue a skip-Jacke, thou’t be whipt. Ile tell |1995| thee why,
because thy sputtering chappes yelpe, that Arrogance, and Impudence,
and Ignoraunce, are the essentiall parts of a Courtier.
_Sir Vau._ You remember Horace, they will puncke, and pincke, and pumpe
you, and they catch you by the coxcombe: on I |2000| pray, one lash, a
little more.
_Tuc._ Ile tell thee why, because thou cryest ptrooh at worshipfull
Cittizens, and cal’st them Flat-caps, Cuckolds, and banckrupts,
and modest and vertuous wiues punckes & cockatrices. Ile tell thee
why, because th’ast arraigned two Poets against all |2005| lawe and
conscience; and not content with that, hast turn’d them amongst a
company of horrible blacke Fryers.
_Sir Vau._ The same hand still, it is your owne another day, M. Horace,
admonitions is good meate.
_Tuc._ Thou art the true arraign’d Poet, and shouldst haue been |2010|
hang’d, but for one of these part-takers, these charitable Copperlac’d
Christians, that fetcht thee out of Purgatory, (Players I meane)
Theaterians pouch-mouth, Stage-walkers; for this Poet, for this, thou
must lye with these foure wenches, in that blancket, for this----
|2015| _Hor._ What could I doe, out of a iust reuenge,
But bring them to the Stage? they enuy me
because I holde more worthy company.
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