_ picture (1672). 
clares it.? 
SITTING ON THE STAGE 
| the Swan (ca. 1596), the Roxana print (1632), and the Red Bulli 
Skialetheia or a Shadow of Truth (1598) de- 
The epigram already quoted from Sir John Davies 
135 
(ca. 1598) refers to the same,? and another epigram by him uses 
the same or same sort of person for ridicule* as is satirized in 
epigram 53 of Skialetheia, 
Jests to Make you Merry, by Thomas Dekker and George Wil- 
theatre in 1607.* 
fine dress, as numerous contempo- 
rary witnesses testify. 
c Or CorNELIUS 
See you him yonder who sits o’re 
the stage, 
With the Tobacco-pipe now at his 
mouth ? 
It is Cornelius that braue gallant 
youth, 
Who is new printed to this fangled 
age; 
He wears lIerkin cudgeled with 
gold lace, 
A profound slop, a hat scarce 
pipkin high, 
For boots, a paire of dagge 
. cafes; his face, 
Furr’d with Cads-beard: his 
poynard on his thigh. 
He wallows in his walk his slop to 
grace, 
Swears by the Lord, daines no sal- 
utation 
But to some iade that’s sick of his 
own fashion, 
As farewell sweet Captaine, or 
(boy) come apace: 
Yet this Sir Bewis, or 
fayery Knight 
Put vp the lie because he durst 
not fight. 
—[Edward Guilpin], Skialetheia or 
A Shadowe of Truth, in certaine 
Epigrams and Satyres (1598), epi- 
gram 53. 
* Supra, 132", 1. 4. 
: In SILLAM 
Who dares affirm that Silla dares 
not fight? 
the 
When I dare sware he dares ad- 
uenture more 
_ kins, testifies to the practice of this custom in some unidentifiable 
then the most braue, and most al- 
daring wight, 
that euer armes whith resolution 
bore, 
He that dare touch the most vn- 
wholsome whore, 
that euer was retirde 
spittle, 
And dares court wenches stand- ° 
ing at a dore, 
The portion of his wit being pass- 
ing little. ‘ 
He that dares giue his dearest 
friend offences, 
Which other valiant fooles 
feare to do, 
And when a feuer doth confound 
his senses, 
Dare eate raw biefe and drinke 
strong wine thereto. 
He that dares take Tobaco on 
the stage, 
Dares man a whore at noon-day 
through the street 
Dares daunce in Poules, and in 
this formall age, 
Dares say and doe what euer is 
vnmeete, 
Whom feare or shame could neuer 
yet affright, 
Who dares affirme that Silla dares 
not fight? 
—Sir John Davies, op. cit., epigram 
28. 
*“A wench hauing a good face, 
a good body, and good clothes on, 
but of bad conditions, sitting one 
day in the two-penny roome of a 
play-house, & a number of yong 
Gentlemen about her, against all 
whom she maintained talke, One 
that sat ouer the stage sayd to his 
into the 
doe . 
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