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140 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
sible, more ridiculous and absurd than they already are.t The 
author mentions both public and private stages as places on which 
such gallant may display himself.? 
Dekker’s satire was apparently written while the Boys held the 
Blackfriars boards, for the author has constantly them and their 
performances in mind, and once shows how the quarrel with Jon- 
son in 1601 still rankles.* Yet he confuses throughout the chap- 
ter both private and public theatres.* 
Him, to be framed in Phantastes 
mold. 
Lo how he iets; how sterne he 
shewes his. face, 
Whiles from the wall he passen- 
gers doth chase. 
Muse touch not this man, nor his 
life display, ; 
.Ne with sharpe censure gainst his 
vice inuey: 
For, sith his humor can no iesting 
brooke, 
He will much lesse endure a Sa- 
tyre’s book. 
Beschrew me, sirs, I durst not 
stretch the streete, 
Gaze thus on conduits scrowls, base 
vintners beat 
Salute a Mad-dame with a french 
cringe grace, 
with God-dam-me, a con- 
fronting face, 
Court a rich widow, or my bonnet 
Greete 
vaile, 
Conuerse with Bankrupt Mercers in 
the Gaile, 
Nor i a Metro shew my Cupid’s 
re, 
Being a french-poxt Ladies apple- 
squire ; 
Least taxing times (such folly be- 
ing spide) 
With austere Satyres should my 
vice deride. 
Nere breath, I durst not vse my 
Mistrisse Fan, 
Or walke attended with a Hackney- 
man, 
Dine with Duke Humfrey in de- 
cayed Paules, 
Confound the streetes with Chaos 
of old brawles, 
Dancing attendance on the Black- 
friers stage, 
Call for a stoole with a command- 
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ing rage, 
Nor in the night time ope my Ladies 
latch, 
Lest I were snared by th’ all-seeing 
Watch: 
Which Critick knaves, with Lynxes 
pearcing eye, 
Into mens acts obseruently do prye. 
—Henry Hutton, Follie’s Anatomie, 
or Satyres and Satyrical Epigrams 
(1619), sign. A. 
*See How a Gallant should be- 
haue himself in a Play-house, chap- 
ter VI of The Guls Horne-book 
(1609), in The Non-Dramatic 
Works of Thomas Dekker (ed. 
Grosart, Huth Library, 1885), I, 
246-55. 
*“Whether therefore the gather-— 
ers of the publique or priuate Play- 
house stand to _ receiue 
afternoones rent, let our Gallant 
(hauing paid it) presently aduance 
himselfe vp to the Throne of the 
Stage. I meane.not into the Lords 
roome (which is now but the Stages 
Suburbs) : No, those boxes, by the 
iniquity of custome, conspiracy of 
waiting-women and Gentlemen-Ush- 
ers, that there sweat together, and 
the couetousnes of Sharers, are con- 
temptibly thrust into the reare, and 
much new Satten is there dambd, 
by being smothered to death in 
darknesse. 
where the Comedy is to daunce, yea, 
and vnder the state of Cambises 
himselfe must our feathered Es- 
the 
But on the very Rushes | 
tridge, like a piece of Ordnance, be — 
planted valiantly (because impu- 
dently) beating downe the mewes 
and hisses of the opposed rascal- 
ity.’—Idem, 247-48. 
8 Supra, 133°. 
‘““By sitting on the stage, you — 
