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._ Wel said my Poeticall huckster, now he’s in thy handling rate
him, doe rate him well.
|2535| _Hor._ O I beseech your Maiesty, rather then thus to be netled,
Ile ha my Satyres coate pull’d ouer mine eares, and bee turn’d out a
the nine Muses Seruice.
_Asin._ And I too, let mee be put to my shiftes with myne Ningle.
_Sir Vau._ By Sesu so you shall M. Bubo; flea off this hairie skin
|2540| M. Horace, so, so, so, vntrusse, vntrusse.
_Tuc._ His Poeticall wreath my dapper puncke-fetcher.
_Hor._ Ooh----
_Sir Vau._ Nay your oohs, nor your _Callin-oes_ cannot serue your
turne; your tongue you know is full of blisters with rayling,
|2545| your face full of pockey-holes and pimples, with your fierie
inuentions: and therefore to preserue your head from aking, this Biggin
is yours,----nay by Sesu you shall bee a Poet, though not Lawrefyed,
yet Nettlefyed, so:
_Tuc._ Sirra stincker, thou’rt but vntruss’d now, I owe thee a |2550|
whipping still, and Ile pay it: I haue layde roddes in Pisse and
Vineger for thee: It shall not bee the _Whipping a’ th Satyre_, nor the
Whipping of the blinde-Beare, but of a counterfeit Iugler, that steales
the name of Horace.
_Kin._ How? counterfeit? does hee vsurpe that name?
|2555| _Sir Vau._ Yes indeede ant please your Grace, he does sup vp
that abhominable name.
_Tuc._ Hee does O King _Cambises_, hee does: thou hast no part of
Horace in thee but’s name, and his damnable vices: thou hast such a
terrible mouth, that thy beard’s afraide to peepe out: but, |2560|
looke heere you staring Leuiathan, heere’s the sweete visage of
Horace; looke perboylde-face, looke; Horace had a trim long-beard,
and a reasonable good face for a Poet, (as faces goe now-a-dayes)
Horace did not skrue and wriggle himselfe into great Mens famyliarity,
(impudentlie) as thou doost: nor weare the |2565| Badge of Gentlemens
company, as thou doost thy Taffetie sleeues tackt too onely with
some pointes of profit: No, Horace had not his face puncht full of
Oylet-holes, like the couer of a warming-pan: Horace lou’d Poets well,
and gaue Coxcombes to none but fooles; but thou lou’st none, neither
Wisemen nor fooles, but |2570| thy selfe: Horace was a goodly Corpulent
Gentleman, and not so leane a hollow-cheekt Scrag as thou art: No,
heere’s thee Coppy of thy countenance, by this will I learne to make a
number of villanous faces more, and to looke scuruily vpon’th world, as
thou dost.
|2575| _Cri._ Sir Vaughan will you minister their oath?
_Sir Vau._ Master Asinius Bubo, you shall sweare as little as you can,
one oath shall damme vp your Innocent mouth.
_Asin._ Any oath Sir, Ile sweare any thing.
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