SCENE IV.

A Lane, near Morose's House.

Enter TRUEWIT, DAUPHINE and CLERIMONT. True. Are you sure he is not gone by? Daup. No, I staid in the shop ever since. Cler. But he may take the other end of the lane.

Daup. No, I told him I would be here at this end: I appointed him hither.

True. What a barbarian it is to stay then!
Daup. Yonder he comes.

Cler. And his charge left behind him, which is a very good sign, Dauphine.

Enter CUTBEARD.

Daup. How now, Cutbeard! succeeds it, or

no?

Cut. Past imagination, sir, omnia secunda; you could not have pray'd to have had it so well. Saltat senex, as it is in the proverb; he does triumph in his felicity, admires the party! he has given me the lease of my house too! and I am now going for a silent minister to marry them, and away.

True. Slight! get one of the silenced ministers;' a zealous brother would torment him purely. Cut. Cum privilegio, sir.

respecting the Turkey company, established in the preceding reign.

Slight! get one of the silenced ministers:] Alluding, says Grey, to the non-conformist clergy silenced in the year 1604,

Daup. O, by no means; let's do nothing to hinder it now: when 'tis done and finished, I am for you, for any device of vexation.

Cut. And that shall be within this half hour, upon my dexterity, gentlemen. Contrive what you can in the mean time, bonis avibus.

[Exit.

Cler. How the slave doth Latin it!" True. It would be made a jest to posterity, sirs, this day's mirth, if ye will.

Cler. Beshrew his heart that will not, I pro

nounce.

Daup. And for my part. What is it?

True. To translate all La-Foole's company, and his feast thither, to-day, to celebrate this bride-ale.*

after the Hampton-court conference. Calderwood observes, "That in the second year of king James, three hundred ministers "were either silenced, or deprived of their benefices, or ex"communicated, or cast into prison, or forced to leave their "own country." But Dr. Heylin, and Mr. Foulis, in answer, tell us," that only forty-nine were deprived upon all occasions, "as appears by the rolls brought in to archbishop Bancroft "before his death; which in a realm containing nine thousand (C parishes, was no great matter."

This statement, which is abridged from a former note, though imperfect, and, I suspect, inaccurate, may yet suffice for a general view of Jonson's meaning. It may perhaps be added, that however great the number of silenced non-conformists might be, it was surpassed in a ten-fold degree by that of the deprived ministers of the church during the puritanical persecution which followed. Dissenters (of whatever denomination) have seldom "borne their faculties meekly," in the day of success, or thought it necessary to copy the moderation and forbearance which they experienced while yet the feebler party.

8 How the slave doth Latin it !] This is an artful preparation for the part which Cutbeard is destined to play in the last Act. See also what is said of captain Otter below.

*To celebrate this bride-ale.] This marriage festival. Our old writers frequently use ale, in composition, for a merrymeeting. Separately, it commonly stands for an ale-house.

Daup. Ay, marry; but how will't be done? True. I'll undertake the directing of all the ladyguests thither, and then the meat must follow.

Cler. For God's sake, let's effect it; it will be an excellent comedy of affliction, so many several noises.

Daup. But are they not at the other place already, think you?

True. I'll warrant you for the college-honours: one of their faces has not the priming colour laid on yet, nor the other her smock sleek'd.

Cler. O, but they'll rise earlier than ordinary to a feast.

True. Best go see, and assure ourselves.
Cler. Who knows the house?

True. I'll lead you: Were you never there yet?
Daup. Not I.

Cler. Nor I.

True. Where have you lived then? not know Tom Otter!

Cler. No for God's sake, what is he?

True. An excellent animal, equal with your Daw or La-Foole, if not transcendant; and does Latin it as much as your barber: He is his wife's subject; he calls her princess, and at such times as these follows her up and down the house like a page, with his hat off, partly for heat, partly for reverence. At this instant he is marshalling of his bull, bear, and horse.

Daup. What be those, in the name of Sphynx ?' True. Why, sir, he has been a great man at the

9 What be those in the name of Sphynx?] In the name of ignorance, says Upton, who is followed as usual, by Whalley. This is another instance of the inutility of learning without judgment. That Sphynx is sometimes typical of ignorance is certain, as Jonson himself has shewn in one of his Masques; but she is here introduced in the character by which she is vul

Bear-garden in his time; and from that subtle sport has ta'en the witty denomination of his chief carousing cups. One he calls his bull, another his bear, another his horse. And then he has his lesser glasses, that he calls his deer and his ape; and several degrees of them too; and never is well, nor thinks any entertainment perfect, till these be brought out, and set on the cupboard.

Cler. For God's love!-we should miss this, if we should not go.

True. Nay, he has a thousand things as good, that will speak him all day. He will rail on his wife, with certain common places, behind her back; and to her face

Daup. No more of him. Let's go see him, I petition you. [Exeunt.

ACT III. SCENE I.

A room in Otter's House.

Enter captain OTTER with his cups, and mistress OTTER.

Ott. Nay, good princess, hear me pauca verba. Mrs. Ott. By that light, I'll have you chain'd up, with your bull-dogs and bear-dogs, if you be not civil the sooner. I'll send you to kennel, i'faith. You were best bait me with your bull, bear, and horse. Never a time that the courtiers garly known, as a dealer in riddles, merely. Why should Dauphine invoke ignorance, when he was in quest of informa

or collegiates come to the house, but you make it a Shrove-tuesday! I would have you get your Whitsuntide velvet cap, and your staff in your hand, to entertain them; yes, in troth, do.

Ott. Not so, princess, neither; but under correction, sweet princess, give me leave.These things I am known to the courtiers by: It is reported to them for my humour, and they receive it so, and do expect it. Tom Otter's bull, bear, and horse is known all over England, in rerum natura.

Mrs. Ott. 'Fore me, I will na-ture them over to Paris-garden, and na-ture you thither too, if you pronounce them again. Is a bear a fit beast, or a bull, to mix in society with great ladies? think in your discretion, in any good policy,

Ott. The horse then, good princess.

Mrs. Ott. Well, I am contented for the horse; they love to be well horsed, I know: I love it myself.

Ott. And it is a delicate fine horse this: Poetarum Pegasus. Under correction, princess, Jupiter did turn himself into a-taurus, or bull, under correction, good princess.

Enter TRUEWIT, CLERIMONT, and DAUPHINE, behind.

Mrs. Ott. By my integrity, I'll send you over to the Bank-side; I'll commit you to the master of the Garden, if I hear but a syllable more. Must my house or my roof be polluted with the scent of bears and bulls, when it is perfumed for great ladies? Is this according to the instrument, when I married you? that I would be princess, and reign in mine own house; and you would be my subject, and obey me? What did