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The comicall satyre of euery man out of his humor. As it was first composed by the author B.I. Containing more than hath been publickely spoken or acted. VVith the seuerall character of euery person; Every man out of his humor
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
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gallants where at your first apparance 't were good you turnd foure or fiue hundred acres of your best land into two or three trunkes of apparell you may doe it without going to a Coniurer and be sure you mixe your selfe still with such as flourish in the spring of the fashion and are least popular studie their carriage and behauior in all learne to play at Primero and Passage and euer when you loose ha' two or three peculiar othes to sweare by that no man else sweares but aboue all protest in your play and affirme Vpon your credite As you are a true gentleman at euery cast you may do it with a safe conscience I warrant you Sog. O admirable rare hee cannot chuse but bee a gentleman that ha's these excellent gifts more more I beseech you Car. You must endevour to feed cleanly at your Ordinarie sit melancholy and pick your teeth when you cannot speake and when you come to Plaies bee Humorous looke with a good starch't face and ruffle your brow like a new boot laugh at nothing but your own jests or else as the Noblemen laugh that 's a speciall grace you must obserue Sog. I warrant you sir Car. I and sit o' the stage and flout prouided you haue a good suit Sog. O I 'le haue a suit only for that sir Car. You must talke much of your kinred and allies Sog. Lies no Signior I shall not need to doe so I haue kinred i' the cittie to talke of I haue a neece is a merchants wife and a nephew my brother Sordidos sonne of the Innes of court Car. O but you must pretend alliance with Courtiours and great persons and euer when you are to dine or suppe in any strange presence hire a fellow with a great chaine though it be copper it 's no matter to bring you letters feign'd from such a noble man or such a knight or such a Ladie To their worshipfull right rare and noble qualified friend or kinsman Signior Insulso Sogliardo giue your selfe stile enough And there while you intend circumstances of newes or enquirie of their health or so one of your familiars whome you must carrie about you still breakes it vp as 't were in a jeast and reads it publikely at the table at which you must seeme to take as vnpardonable offence as if hee had torne your mistresse colours or breath'd vpon her picture and pursue it with that hot grace as if you would enforce a challenge vpon it presently Sog. Stay I doe not like that humor of challenge it may be accepted but I 'le tell you what 's my humor now I will do this I will take occasion of sending one of my suites to the Taylors to haue the pocket repaired or so and there such a letter as you talke of broke open and all shall be left O the Taylor will presently giue out what I am vpon the reading of it worth twentie of your Gallants Car. But then you must put on an extreame face of discontentment at your mans negligence Sog. O so I will and beate him too I 'le haue a man for the purpose Mac. You may you haue land and crownes O partiall Fate Car. Masse well remembred you must keepe your men gallant at the first fine pied Liueries laid with good gold lace there 's no losse in it they may rip 't off and pawn it when they lacke victuals Sog. By r Ladie that is chargeable Signior 't will bring a man in debt Car. Debt why that 's the more for your credit sir it 's an excellent pollicie to owe much in these daies if you note it Sog. As how good Signior I would faine be a Polititian Car. O looke where you are indebted any great summe your creditor observes you with no lesse regard than if he were bound to you for some huge benefit and will quake to giue you the least cause of offence least hee loose his money I assure you in these times no man has his servant more obsequious and pliant than gentlemen their creditors to whome if at any time you pay but a moiety or a fourth part it comes more acceptedly than if you gaue 'hem a new yeares gift Sog. I perceiue you sir I will take up aud bring my selfe in credit sure Car. Marry this alwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts or poore needie Ludgathians they are impudent creatures turbulent spirits they care not what violent tragedies they stirre nor how they play fast and loose with a poore gentlemans fortunes to get their owne marry these rich fellowes that ha' the world or the better part of it sleeping in their countinghouses they are ten times more placable they either feare hope or modestie restraines them from offering any outrages but this is nothing to your followers you shall not run a pennie more in arrerage for them and you list your selfe Sog. No how should I keepe 'hem then Carl. Keepe 'hem Sbloud let them keepe themselves they are no sheepe are they VVhat you shall come in houses where plate apparrell rewels and diverse other prettie commodities lie negligently scattered and I would ha' those Mercuries follow me I trow should remember they had not their fingers for nothing Sog. That 's not so good me thinkes Car. VVhy after you have kept 'hem a fornight or so and shew'd 'hem ynough to the world you may turne 'hem away and keepe no more but a boy it 's ynough Sog. Nay my humor is not for boies I le keepe men and I keepe any and I le giue coats that 's my humour but I lacke a Cullisen Car. VVhy now you ride to the citie you may buy one I le bring you where you shall ha' your choise for money Sog. Can you sir Car. O I you shall haue one take measure of you and make you a Coat of armes to fit you of what fashion you will Sog. By word of mouth I thank you Signior I le be once a little prodigal in a Humor in faith and haue a most prodigious Coat Mac. Torment and death breake head and braine at once To be deliuer'd of your fighting issue VVho can endure to see blind Fortune dote thus To be enamour'd on this dustie Turfe This clod a horson Puckefist O God God God God c. I could runne wild with greefe now to behold The ranknesse of her bounties that doth breed Such bullrushes these Mushrompe Gentlemen That shoot vp in a night to place and worship Car. Let him alone some stray some stray Sog. Nay I will examine him before I goe sure Car. The Lord of the soile ha's all wefts and straies here ha's he not Sog. Yes sir Car. Faith then I pittie the poore fellow he 's falne into a fooles hands Sog. Sirah who gaue you commission to lie in my Lordship Mac. Your Lordship Sog. How my Lordship doe you know me sir Mac. I doe know you sir Car. S'heart he answeres him like an Eccho Sog. VVhy who am I Sir Mac. One of
you shall see it done better than I can shew it Car. So it had need 't will scarse poize the obseruation else Sog. Faith I remember all but the manner of it is quite out of my head Fast. O withdraw withdraw it cannot be but a most pleasing object Enter Puntarvolo a Huntsman with a greyhound Pun. Forrester giue wind to thy Horne Inough by this the sound hath toucht the ears of the enclosed Depart leaue the dogge and take with thee what thou hast deseru'd the Horne and thankes Carl. I mary there 's some tast in this Fast. It 's not good Sog. Ah peace now aboue now aboue The waiting Gentlewoman appeares at the window Punt. Stay mine eye hath on the instant through the bountie of the window receiu'd the forme of a Nymph I will step forward three paces of the which I will barely retire one and after some little flexure of the knee with an erected grace salute her 1 2 and 3. Sweet Ladie God saue you Gent. No forsooth I am but the waiting Gentlewoman Carl. He knew that before Punt. Pardon me Humanum est errare Carl. He learn'd that of a Puritane Punt. To the perfection of Complement which is the dyall of the thought and guided by the Sunne of your beauties are requir'd these three Projects the Gnomon the Puntilio's and the Superficies the Superficies is that we call Place the Puntilio's Circumstance and the Gnomon ceremonie in either of which for a stranger to erre 't is easie and facile and such am I Carl. True not knowing her Horizon hee must needs erre which I feare he knowes too well Punt. VVhat call you the Lord of the castle sweet Face Gent. The Lord of the castle is a knight sir Signior Puntarvolo Punt. Puntarvolo O. Car. Now must he ruminate Fast. Does the wench know him all this while then Carl. O doe you know me man why therein lies the sirrup of the jeast it 's a Project a designment of his owne a thing studied and rehearst as ordinarily at his comming from hawking or hunting as a jigge after a Play Sog. I e'en like your jigge sir Punt. 'T is a most sumptuous and stately edifice what yeers is the knight faire Damsell Gent. Faith much about your yeeres sir Punt. VVhat complexion or what stature beares hee Gen. Of your stature and very nere vpon your complexion Punt. Mine is Melancholly Carl. So is the dogges just Pun. And doth argue constancie chiefly in loue VVhat are his endowments Is he courteous Gent. O the most courteous Knight vpon Gods earth sir Punt. Is he magnanimous Gent. As the skin betweene your browes sir Pun. Is he bountifull Carl. Sbloud hee takes an Inuentorie of his owne good parts Gent. Bountifull I sir I would you should know it the poore are seru'd at his gate early and late sir Punt. Is he learned Gen. O I sir he can speake the French and Italian Punt. Then he is trauail'd Gen. I forsooth he hath been beyond-sea once or twise Carl. As far as Paris to fetch ouer a fashion and come backe againe Punt. Is he religious Gent. Religious I know not what you call Religious but he goes to Church I am sure Fast. S'hd me thinkes these answeres should offend him Carl. Tut no he knowes they are excellent and to her capacitie that speakes 'hem Punt. VVould I might see his face Carl. Shee should let downe a glasse from the window at that word and request him to looke in 't Punt. Doubtlesse the gentleman is most exact and absolutely qualified doth the castle containe him Gen. No Sir he is from home but his Ladie is within Punt. His Ladie what is shee faire splendidious and amiable Gent. O Iesu sir Punt. Pr'y thee deare Nymph intreat her beauties to shine on this side of the building Exit Gent. from the window Carl. That he may erect a new dyall of complement with his Gnomons and his Puntilio's Fast. Nay thou art such another Cinique now a man had need walke vprightly before thee Carl. Heart can any man walke more vpright than hee does Looke looke as if hee went in a frame or had a sute of wanescot on and the dogge watching him least he should leape out on 't Fast. O villaine Carl. VVell and e'er I meet him in the cittie I 'le ha' him joynted I 'le pawne him in East-cheape among butchers else Fast. Peace who be these Carlo Enter Sordido with his sonne Fungoso Sord. Yonder 's your godfather do your dutie to him sonne Sog. This sir a poore elder brother of mine sir a yeoman may dispend some seuen or eight hundred a yeere that 's his sonne my nephew there Punt. You are not ill-come neighbour Sordido though I haue not yet said welcom what my god-sonne is growne a great Proficient by this Sord. I hope he will grow great one day sir Fast. VVhat does he studie the law Sog. I sir he is a gentleman though his father be but a yeoman Car. VVhat call you your nephew Signior Sog. Mary his name is Fungoso Car. Fungoso O hee lookt somewhat like a spunge in that pinckt doublet me thought well make much of him I see he was neuer borne to ride vpon a moile Gen. My Ladie will come presently sir Enter Gent. aboue Sog. O now now Punt. Stand by retire your selues a space nay pray you forget not the vse of your hat the aire is piercing Sordido and Fungoso withdraw at the other part of the stage meane time the Ladie is come to the window Fast. VVhat will not their presence preuaile against the current of his humor Carl. O no it 's a meere floud a Torrent carries all afore it Punt. What more than heauenly pulchritude is this What Magazine or treasurie of blisse Dazle you organs to my optique sence To view a creature of such eminence O I am planet-strooke and in yond Sphere A brighter starre than Venus doth appeare Fast. How in verse Carl. an Extasie an Extasie man Lady Is your desire to speake with me sir Knight Carl. He will tell you that anon neither his Braine nor his Bodie are yet moulded for an answere Punt. Most debonaire and Luculent Ladie I decline me as low as the Basis of your Altitude GREX Cord. Hee makes congies to his wife in Geometricall proportions Mit. Is 't possible there should be any such Humorist Cor. Very easily possible Sir you see there is Punt. I haue scarse collected my spirits but lately scatter'd in the admiration of your Forme to which if the bounties of your mind be any way responsible I doubt not but my desires shall find a smooth and secure passage I am a poore Knight-errant Ladie that hunting in the adjacent Forrest was by aduenture in the pursuit of a Hart brought to this place which Hart deare Madame escaped by enchantment the euening approching my selfe and seruant wearied my suit is to enter your faire Castle and refresh me Lady Sir Knight albeit it be not vsuall with me chiefly