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._ Has a very sufficient name, and is a man has done God and
his Country as good and as hot Seruice (in conquering this vile
Monster-Poet) as euer did S. George his horse-backe about the Dragon.
|2480| _Tuc._ I sweate for’t, but Tawsoone, holde thy tongue, Mon
Dieu, if thou’t praise mee, doo’t behinde my backe: I am my weighty
Soueraigne one of thy graines, thy valliant vassaile; aske not what I
am, but read, turne ouer, vnclaspe thy Chronicles: there thou shalt
finde Buffe-Ierkin; there read my points of war; I am |2485| one a thy
Mandilian-Leaders; one that enters into thy royall bands for thee;
_Pantilius Tucca_; one of thy Kingdomes chiefest quarrellers; one a thy
most faithfull--fy--fy--fy----
_Sir Vau._ Drunkerds I holde my life.
_Tuc._ No _whirligig_, one of his faithfull fighters; thy drawer ô
|2490| royall _Tamor Cham_.
_Sir Vau._ Goe too, I pray Captaine Tucca, giue vs all leaue to doe our
busines before the King.
_Tuc._ With all my heart, shi, shi, shi shake that _Beare-whelp_ when
thou wut.
|2495| _Sir Vau._ Horace and Bubo, pray send an answere into his
Masesties eares, why you goe thus in Ouids Morter-Morphesis and strange
fashions of apparrell.
_Tuc._ Cur why?
_Asini._ My Lords, I was drawne into this beastly suite by head |2500|
and shoulders onely for loue I bare to my Ningle.
_Tuc._ Speake Ningle, thy mouth’s next, belch out, belch, why----
_Hor._ I did it to retyre me from the world;
And turne my _Muse_ into a _Timonist_,
Loathing the general Leprozie of Sinne,
|2505| Which like a plague runs through the soules of men:
I did it but to----
_Tu._ But to bite euery Motley-head vice by’th nose, you did it Ningle
to play the Bug-beare Satyre, & make a Campe royall of fashion-mongers
quake at your paper Bullets; you Nastie Tortois, |2510| you and your
Itchy Poetry breake out like Christmas, but once a yeare, and then you
keepe a Reuelling, & Araigning, & a Scratching of mens faces, as tho
you were Tyber the long-tail’d Prince of Rattes, doe you?
_Cri._ Horace.
|2515| _Sir Vaughan._ Silence, pray let all vrdes be strangled, or held
fast betweene your teeth.
_Cri._ Vnder controule of my dreade Soueraigne,
We are thy Iudges; thou that didst _Arraigne_,
Art now prepar’d for condemnation;
|2520| Should I but bid thy Muse stand to the Barre,
Thy selfe against her wouldst giue euidence:
For flat rebellion gainst the Sacred lawes
Of diuine Poesie: heerein most she mist,
_Thy pride and scorne made her turne Saterist,
|2525| And not her loue to vertue_ (as thou Preachest)
Or should we minister strong pilles to thee:
What lumpes of hard and indigested stuffe,
Of bitter _Satirisme_, of _Arrogance_,
Of _Selfe-loue_, of _Detraction_, of a blacke
|2530| And stinking _Insolence_ should we fetch vp?
But none of these, we giue thee what’s more fit,
With stinging nettles Crowne his stinging wit.
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