Tvcc. Now, thunder, firrah, you, the rumbling plaier. I. PYR. I, but fome bodie must crie (murder) then, in a small voice. Tvcc. Your fellow-fharer, there, fhall do't; Crie, firrah, crie. 1. PYR. Murder, murder. 2. PYR. Who calls out murder? lady, was it you? DEMET. HIST. O, admirable good, I protest. Tvcc. Sirrah, boy, brace your drumme a little ftraighter, and doe the t'other fellow there, hee in the -what fha' call him-and yet, ftay too. 2. PYR. Nay, and thou dallieft, then I am thy foe, And feare fhall force, what friendship cannot win; Thy death fhall burie what thy life conceales, Villaine! thou dieft, for more refpecting her 1. PYR. O, flay my Lord. 2. PYR. Then me: yet fpeake the truth, and I will guerdon thee: But if thou dally once againe, thou dieft. Tvcc. Enough of this, boy. 2. PYR. Why then lament therefore: damn'd be thy guts vnto king PLVTOES hell, and princely EREBVS; for fparrowes must haue foode. 255 260 265 270 HIST. 'Pray, fweet Captaine, let one of them doe a 275 little of a ladie. Tvcc. O! he will make thee eternally enamour'd of him, there: doe, firrah, doe: 'twill allay your fellowes furie a little. 1. PYR. Master, mocke on: the fcorne thou giueft me, 280 Pray Love, fome lady may returne on thee. 254 1. PYR.] 2 Pyr. G, N 262 straiter 1640, 1716, G, N 260 DEMET.] om. G Dem, and Hist. N 263 —and yet, stay' too. N W+ 269 Then me yet] Yet Q 275 Pray W + 2. PYR. No: you fhall fee mee doe the Moore: Master, lend mee your scarfe a little. Tvcc. Here, 'tis at thy feruice, boy. 2. PYR. You, master MINOs, harke hither a little. They with-draw to make themfelues ready. Tvcc. How do'ft like him? art not rapt? art not tickled now? do'ft not applaud, rafcall? do'st not applaud? HIST. Yes: what will you aske for 'hem a weeke, Captaine? 285 290 Tvcc. No, you mangonizing flaue, I will not part from 'hem you'll fell 'hem for enghles you: let's ha' good cheere to morrow-night at fupper, ftalker, and then wee'll talke, good capon, and plouer, doe you heare, firrah? and doe not bring your eating plaier with you 295 there; I cannot away with him: He will eate a legge of mutton, while I am in my porridge, [307] the leane POLVPHAGVS, his belly is like Barathrum, he lookes like a mid-wife in mans apparell, the flaue. Nor the villanous-out-of-tune fiddler ENOBARBVS, bring not him. 300 What haft thou there? fixe and thirtie? ha? HIST. No, here's all I haue (Captaine) fome fiue and twentie. Pray, fir, will you present, and accommodate it vnto the gentleman: for mine owne part, I am a meere stranger to his humour: befides, I haue fome 305 bufineffe inuites me hence, with Mafter ASINIVS LVPVS, the tribune. Tvcc. Well: goe thy waies: pursue thy proiects, let mee alone with this deffeigne; my POETASTER shall make thee a play, and thou shalt be a man of good 310 parts, in it. But stay, let mee fee: Doe not bring your ÆSOPE, your politician; vnleffe you can ram vp his mouth with cloues: the flaue fmells ranker then some fixteene dung-hills, and is feuenteene times more rot 282 No:] Now G make himself ready. G 312 Father Æsope Q 285 S.D.] Exeunt. Q [Exit with MINOS. N [Exit with Minos, to 292 ingles N ten: Mary, you may bring FRISKER, my zany: Hee's 315 a good skipping fwaggerer; and your fat foole there, my MANGO, bring him too: but let him not begge rapiers, nor scarfes, in his ouer-familiar playing face, nor rore out his barren bold iests, with a tormenting laughter, betweene drunke, and drie. Doe you heare, 320 ftiffe-toe? Giue him warning, admonition, to forfake his fawcy glauering grace, and his goggle eie: it does not become him, firrah: tell him fo. I haue stood vp and defended you I, to gent'men, when you haue beene faid to prey vpon pu'nees, and honeft citizens, for focks, 325 or buskins or when they ha' call'd you víurers, or brokers, or faid, you were able to helpe to a peece of flesh I haue fworne, I did not thinke fo. Nor that you were the common retreats for punkes decai'd i' their practice. I cannot beleeue it of you HIST. 'Thanke you, Captaine: IVPITER, and the rest of the gods confine your moderne delights, without difguft. 330 Tvcc. Stay, thou fhalt fee the Moore, ere thou goeft: what's he, with the halfe-armes there, that falutes 335 vs out of his cloke, like a motion? ha? HIST. O, fir, his dubblet's a little decaied; hee is otherwise a very simple honest fellow, fir, one DEMETRIVS, a dreffer of plaies about the towne, here; we haue hir'd him to abuse HORACE, and bring him in, in a play, with 340 all his gallants: as, TIBVLLVS, MECONAS, CORNELIVS GALLVS, and the reft. Tvcc. And: why so, ftinkard? HIST. O, it will get vs a huge deale of money (Captaine) and wee haue need on't; for this winter 345 ha's made vs all poorer, then so many staru'd snakes: No bodie comes at vs; not a gentleman, nor a 315 Friskin Q 323-330 I haue 321 ftiffe-toe] Rascall Q you-] om. Q 324 gentlemen G 331 'Thanke you] Yes Q 335 goest.-| Enter DEMETRIUS at a distance. | G halfe-armes] arms N 338 otherways N Tvcc. But, you know nothing by him, doe you, to make a play of? HIST. Faith, not much, Captaine: but our Author 350 will deuife, that, that shall ferue in some fort. Tvcc. Why, my PARNASSVS, here, fhall helpe him, if thou wilt: Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? HIST. O, I warrant you, Captaine, and spitefully 355 inough too; hee ha's one of the most ouer-flowing ranke wits, in Rome. He will flander any man that breathes, if he disgust him. [308] Tvcc. I'le know the poore, egregious, nitty rafcall, and he haue these commendable qualities, I'le 360 cherish him (stay, here comes the Tartar) I'le make a gathering for him, I: a purse, and put the poore flaue in fresh rags. Tell him fo, to comfort him: well faid, boy. The boy comes in on Minos fhoulders, who flalkes, as he acts. 2. PYR. Where art thou, boy? where is CALIPOLIS? 365 Fight earth-quakes, in the entrailes of the earth, And easterne whirle-windes in the hellish shades: Some foule contagion of th'infected heauens Blaft all the trees; and in their curfed tops The difmall night-rauen, and tragicke owle Breed, and become fore-runners of my fall. 370 Tvcc. Well, now fare thee well, my honest pennybiter: Commend me to feuen-fhares and a halfe, and remember to morrow- -if you lacke a feruice, you fhall play in my name, rafcalls, but you fhall buy your 375 owne cloth, and I'le ha' two fhares for my countenance. Let thy author stay with mee. DEME. Yes, fir. 351 deuife, 363 him. fort.] deuise inough: Q 357 ranke] villanous Q Re-enter MINOS, with 2. Pyrgus on his shoulders, and stalks backward and forward, as the boy acts. G Re-enter MINOS, with 2nd Pyrgus on his shoulders, and stalks as the boy acts. N 364 S.D.] om. Q 377 [Exit Histrio. G, N 367 the] om. N Tvcc. 'Twas well done, little MINOS, thou didst stalke well; forgiue me that I said thou ftunkft, MINOS: 380 'twas the fauour of a poet, I met fweating in the street, hangs yet in my noftrills. CRIS. Who? HORACE? Tvcc. I; he, do'st thou know him? CRIS. O, he forfooke me moft barbarously, I pro- 385 teft. Tvcc. Hang him fustie fatyre, he smells all goate; hee carries a ram, vnder his arme-holes, the flaue: I am the worse when I fee him. Did not MINOS impart? CRIS. Yes, here are twentie drachmes, he did 390 conuey. Tvcc. Well faid, keepe 'hem, wee'll fhare anon; come, little MINOS. CRIS. Faith, Captaine, I'le be bold to fhew you a miftris of mine, a iewellers wife, a gallant, as we goe 395 along. Tvcc. There spoke my Genius. MINOS, some of thy eringoes, little MINOS; fend: come hither, PARNASSVS, I must ha' thee familiar with my little locuft, here, 'tis a good vermine, they fay. See, here's HOR- 400 ACE, and old TREBATIVS, the great lawier, in his companie; let's auoid him, now: He is too well feconded. 387 Satyr 1692+ are] here's Q 390 here 389 [Aside to Crispinus. G, N 400 fay. Exeunt. Finis Actus Tertij. Q [Horace and Trebatius pass over the stage.] G, N 400-403 See, . . . . . feconded.] om. Q 403 Exeunt. G, N |