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
_Tucca._ Gentlemen, Gallants, and you my little Swaggerers that fight
lowe: my tough hearts of Oake that stand too’t so valliantly, and are
still within a yard of your Capten: Now |2680| the Trumpets (that set
men together by the eares) haue left their Tantara-rag-boy, let’s part
friends. I recant, beare witnes all you Gentle-folkes (that walke i’th
Galleries) I recant the opinions which I helde of Courtiers, Ladies,
& Cittizens, when once (in an assembly of Friers) I railde vpon them:
that Hereticall |2685| Libertine Horace, taught me so to mouth it.
Besides, twas when stiffe Tucca was a boy: twas not Tucca that railde
and roar’d then, but the Deuill & his Angels: But now, Kings-truce, the
Capten Summons a parlee, and deliuers himselfe and his prating company
into your hands, vpon what composition you |2690| wil. Are you pleas’d?
and Ile dance Friskin for ioy, but if you be not, by’th Lord Ile see
you all----heere for your two pence a peice agen, before Ile loose your
company. I know now some be come hyther with cheekes swolne as big with
hisses, as if they had the tooth-ach: vds-foote, if I stood by them,
Ide bee |2695| so bold as----intreate them to hisse in another place.
Are you aduiz’d what you doe when you hisse? you blowe away Horaces
reuenge: but if you set your hands and Seales to this, Horace will
write against it, and you may haue more sport: he shall not loose his
labour, he shall not turne his blanke verses into |2700| wast paper:
No, my Poetasters will not laugh at him, but will vntrusse him agen,
and agen, and agen. Ile tell you what you shall doe, cast your little
Tucca into a Bell: doe, make a Bell of me, and be al you my clappers,
vpon condition, wee may haue a lustie peale,
|2705| this colde weather: I haue but two legs left me,
and they are both yours: Good night
my two penny Tenants
God night.
_FINIS._
TEXT-NOTEN.
{ A₁ = beide Exemplare im Brit. Museum
A =
{ A₂ = Exemplare d. Dyce-Libr. und d. Bodleiana.
=42.= A: haue haue bin,
=73.= A: pa
=113/4.= A: to deckei th’ nuisible
=338.= A: this;
=360.= A: it:
=377.= A: I adorn’d [cf. Ad Lectorem, Z. 61.]
=389.= A: _Asi._ Why
=409.= A: Ile starte thence poore [cf. Ad Lectorem, Z. 63.]
=412.= A: Comedies
=413.= A: ranke
=419.= A: it:
=429.= A: yet;
=464.= A: doe struie
=497.= A: with her dregs [cf. Ad Lectorem, Z. 65.]
=502.= A: off the head [cf. Ad Lectorem, Z. 67.]
=514.= A: fiue hundred, foure hundred fiue, [cf. Ad Lectorem, Z. 69.]
=557.= A: friends,
=575.= A: whether
=591.= A: Flacucs.
=607.= A: Coale come?
=633.= A: vauward
=677.= A: then:
=682.= A: _Exeunt:_
=696.= A: Vanghan,
=704.= A: _Sir. Vaug._
=765.= A: _Sir quin_
=773.= A₁: he Ladyes.... come-
tye.
=810.= A: _Vaugh;_
=831.= A: feauer:
=846.= A: meete;
=863.= A₁: Short-hose
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