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 shall sweare, by _Phœbus_ (who is your Poets good |2580|
Lord and Master,) that heere-after you will not hyre Horace, to giue
you poesies for rings, or hand-kerchers, or kniues which you vnderstand
not, nor to write your Loue-letters; which you (in turning of a hand)
set your markes vpon, as your owne: nor you shall not carry Lattin
Poets about you, till you can write |2585| and read English at most;
and lastlye that you shall not call Horace your Ningle.
_Asin._ By _Phœbus_ I sweare all this, and as many oathes as you will,
so I may trudge.
_Sir Vau._ Trudge then, pay your legs for Fees, and bee dissarg’d.
|2590| _Tuc._ Tprooth----runne Red-cap, ware hornes there.
_Exit Asi._
_Sir Va._ Now Master Horace, you must be a more horrible swearer, for
’your oath must be (like your wittes) of many collours; and like a
Brokers booke of many parcels.
_Tuc._ Read, read; th’inuentory of his oath.
|2595| _Hor._ Ile sweare till my haire stands vp an end, to bee rid of
this sting, oh this sting!
_Sir Vau._ Tis not your sting of conscience, is it?
_Tuc._ Vpon him: _Inprimis_.
_Sir Vaugh._ _Inprimis_, you shall sweare by _Phœbus_ and the |2600|
halfe a score Muses lacking one: not to sweare to hang your selfe, if
you thought any Man, Ooman or Silde, could write Playes and Rimes, as
well-fauour’d ones as your selfe.
_Tuc._ Well sayd, hast brought him toth gallowes already?
_Sir Vaugh._ You shall sweare not to bumbast out a new Play, |2605|
with the olde lynings of Iestes, stolne from the Temples Reuels.
_Tuc._ To him olde Tango.
_Sir Va._ Moreouer, you shall not sit in a Gallery, when your Comedies
and Enterludes haue entred their Actions, and there make vile and bad
faces at euerie lyne, to make Sentlemen haue |2610| an eye to you, and
to make Players afraide to take your part.
_Tuc._ Thou shalt be my Ningle for this.
_Sir Vau._ Besides, you must forsweare to venter on the stage, when
your Play is ended, and to exchange curtezies, and complements with
Gallants in the Lordes roomes, to make all the |2615| house rise vp in
Armes, and to cry that’s Horace, that’s he, that’s he, that’s he, that
pennes and purges Humours and diseases.
_Tuc._ There boy, agen.
_Sir Vau._ Secondly, when you bid all your friends to the marriage of a
poore couple, that is to say: your _Wits and necessities, |2620| alias
dictus, to the rifling of your Muse: alias, your Muses vp-sitting:
alias a Poets Whitson-Ale_; you shall sweare that within three dayes
after, you shall not abroad, in Booke-binders shops, brag that your
_Vize-royes_ or _Tributorie-Kings_, haue done homage to you, or paide
quarterage.
|2625| _Tuc._ Ile busse thy head Holofernes.
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