_Dor._ I'll hear no more of him; nay, and your friend the author, the composer, the _What You Will_, seems so fair in his own glass, so straight in his own measure, that he talks once of squinting critics, drunken censure, splay-footed opinion, juiceless husks, I ha' done with him, I ha' done with him. 82 _Phi._ Pew, nay then---- _Dor._ As if any such unsanctified stuff could find a being 'mong these ingenuous breasts. _Atti._ Come, let pass, let pass; let's see what stuff must clothe our ears. What's the play's name? _Phi._ _What You Will._ _Dor._ Is't comedy, tragedy, pastoral, moral, nocturnal, or history? 90 _Phi._ Faith, perfectly neither, but even _What You Will_,--a slight toy, lightly composed, too swiftly finish'd, ill plotted, worse written, I fear me worst acted, and indeed _What You Will_. _Dor._ Why, I like this vein well now. _Atti._ Come, we strain the spectators' patience in delaying their expected delights. Let's place ourselves within the curtains, for good faith the stage is so very little, we shall wrong the general eye else very much. _Phi._ If you'll stay but a little, I'll accompany you; I have engaged myself to the author to give a kind of inductive speech to his comedy. 102 _Atti._ Away! you neglect yourself, a gentleman---- _Phi._ Tut, I have vow'd it; I am double charged; go off as 'twill, I'll set fire to it. _Dor._ I'll not stand it; may chance recoil, and be not stuffed with saltpetre: well, mark the report; mark the report. _Phi._ Nay, prithee stay; 'slid the female presence, the Genteletza, the women will put me out. 110 _Dor._ And they strive to put thee out, do thou endeavour to put them. _Atti._ In good faith, if they put thee out of countenance, put them out of patience, and hew their ears with hacking imperfect utterance. _Dor._ Go, stand to it; show thyself a tall man of thy tongue; make an honest leg; put off thy cap with discreet carriage: and so we leave thee to the kind gentlemen and most respected auditors. [_Exeunt, all but_ PHILOMUSE. [393] "_Se courroucer._ To fret, fume, chafe, be angrie, _take_ pet, or _pepper in the nose_."--_Cotgrave._ [394] See note, vol. i. p. 77. [395] Cat-calls.--See Middleton, iv. 9. [396] A short blunt arrow, for killing birds without piercing them. [397] Judgment.--Marston is here plainly referring to the truculent attitude assumed by Ben Jonson towards the audience. [398] Old eds. "not."