132 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
About 1598, Sir John Davies in a satirizing sonnet-epigram 
gives the first evidence. Here the gallant is conceived as at the 
Blackfriars, on the stage (1. 3) ; or at the public theatre, over the 
stage (1.4). 
Ben Jonson twice in Every Man out of is Humour (ca. Aug., 
1599,” at the Globe) satirizing the fashionable courtier, gallant, 
and would-be gentleman, gives this practice a caustic touch? In 
the Induction to Cynthia’s Revels at Blackfriars the following 
year (ca. April, 1600*) Jonson uses “one of your genteel audi- 
tors” of the unfriendly sort (not on the stage) to break a jest 
over, and follows it up with a dialogue flattering to the well- 
wishing stage-patron of the house.° 
- In RuFUM. 
Rufus the Courtier at the theatre 
Leauing the best and most conspic- 
uous place, 
Doth either to the stage himselfe 
transfer, 
Or through a grate doth show his 
doubtful face. 
For that the clamorous frie of Innes 
of court, 
Filles vp the priuate roomes of 
greater prise: 
And such a place where all may 
haue resort, 
He in his singularitie doth despise. 
Yet doth not his particular humour 
shunne, 
The common stews and brothels of 
the towne, 
Though all the world in troupes do 
thither runne 
Cleane and vncleane, the gentle and 
the clowne: 
Then why should Rufus in his 
pride abhorre 
A common seate that loues a com- 
mon whore. 
—Sir John Davies, Epigram 3 (be- 
fore 1599), in Isham Reprints (ed. 
Charles Edmonds, 1870), sig. 3. 
This careful reprint differs from 
the partial quotation of the same 
offered in Malone, op. cit., III, 81. 
\ 
*See infra, Plays, complete work, 
vol. II. 
*Boorish Sogliardo, characterized 
by Jonson as being “so enamored 
of the name of gentleman that he 
will have it though he buys it,” finds 
himself in tow of Carlo Buffone :— 
Carlo. . when you come to 
plays, be humorous, look with a. 
good starched 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 
special grace you must observe. 
Sogliardo.—I warrant you, sir. 
Car.—Ay, and sit on the stage 
and flout, provided you have a good 
suit. 
Sog.—O, I’ll have a suit only 
for that, sir. 
—Every Man out of his Humour, 
in Jonson’s Works (ed. Gifford- 
Cunningham), I, i, p. 72. 
Fastidious Brisk—Why, assure 
you, signior, rich apparel has strange 
virtues: it makes him that hath it 
without means, esteemed:for an ex- 
cellent wit: . takes possession 
of your stage at your new play.— 
Idem, II, ii, p. 940. 
* Supra, 75. 
°3 Child [Sal Pavy].—Stay; you 
shall see me do another now, but 
a more sober, or better-gathered 
gallant; that is, as it may be 
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