Plays

⊕    A Christian turned Turk
⊕    A Game at Chess: A Later Form
⊕    A Mad World, My Masters
⊕    A Maidenhead Well Lost
⊕    A Midsummer Night's Dream
⊕    A Yorkshire Tragedy
⊕    Aglaura
⊕    Albumazar: A Comedy
⊕    All Fools
⊕    All's Well that Ends Well
⊕    Antonio and Mellida
⊕    Antonio's Revenge
⊕    Antony and Cleopatra
⊕    As You Like It
⊕    Bartholomew Fair
⊕    Bird in a Cage
⊕    Brennoralt
⊕    Bussy d'Ambois
⊕    Caesar and Pompey
⊕    Campaspe
⊕    Catiline
⊕    Cleopatra
⊕    Comus
⊕    Contention for Honour and Riches
⊕    Coriolanus
⊕    Cymbeline
⊕    Cynthia's Revels
⊕    Dutch Courtesan
⊕    Epicoene
⊕    Every Man in his Humour
⊕    Every Man out of his Humour
⊕    Hamlet
⊕    Henry IV, part 1
⊕    Henry IV, part 2
⊕    Henry V (Q1)
⊕    Henry VI, part 1
⊕    Henry VI, part 2
⊕    Henry VI, part 3
⊕    Henry VIII
⊕    Hyde Park
⊕    Hymen's Triumph
⊕    Jack Drum's Entertainment
⊕    Julius Caesar
⊕    King John
⊕    King Lear
⊕    Locrine
⊕    Love In its Ecstasy: Or, the large Prerogative
⊕    Love Tricks, or The School of Compliments
⊕    Love's Labour's Lost
⊕    Loves Metamorphosis
⊕    Macbeth
⊕    Measure for Measure
⊕    Merry Wives of Windsor
⊕    Much Ado About Nothing
⊕    Mustapha
⊕    not in source
⊕    Othello
⊕    Pericles
⊕    Philaster
⊕    Philotas
⊕    Poetaster
⊕    Richard II
⊕    Richard III
⊕    Romeo and Juliet
⊕    Satiro-mastix: or, The Untrussing of the humorous poet
⊕    Sejanus His Fall
⊕    Sir Giles Goosecap
⊕    Sophonisba
⊕    Taming of the Shrew
⊕    The Atheist's Tragedy
⊕    The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
⊕    The Bondman
⊕    The Case is Altered
⊕    The Changes, or Love in a Maze
⊕    The Comedy of Errors
⊕    The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron
⊕    The Custom of the Country
⊕    The Devil's Law Case
⊕    The Elder Brother
⊕    The Fancies, Chaste and Noble
⊕    The Fawn
⊕    The Goblins
⊕    The Golden Age
⊕    The Grateful Servant
⊕    The Great Duke of Florence
⊕    The Gypsies Metamorphosed
⊕    The Honest Whore, Part I
⊕    The Insatiate Countess
⊕    The Lady of May
⊕    The Little French Lawyer
⊕    The Mad Lover
⊕    The Maid of Honour
⊕    The Malcontent
⊕    The Martyred Souldier
⊕    The Merchant of Venice
⊕    The Miseries of Inforc't Marriage
⊕    The Nice Valour
⊕    The Phoenix
⊕    The Puritan Widow
⊕    The Raging Turk
⊕    The Rival Friends
⊕    The Royal Master
⊕    The Royal Slave
⊕    The Sophy
⊕    The Spanish Curate
⊕    The Staple of News
⊕    The Tempest
⊕    The Tragedy of Nero
⊕    The Traitor
⊕    The Valiant Scot
⊕    The Virgin Widow
⊕    The Wedding
⊕    The White Devil
⊕    The Widow
⊕    The Wonder of a Kingdom
⊕    Timon of Athens
⊕    Titus Andronicus
⊕    Troilus and Cressida
⊕    Twelfth Night
⊕    Two Gentlemen of Verona
⊕    Volpone
⊕    What You Will
⊕    Winter's Tale

The Gypsies Metamorphosed - Results found: 1



Cook Lawrick invited the divell his guest
and bid once in the Peake to dinner
where never freind had such a feast
provided h yet at the cost of a sinner

His stomacke was queasy he came thither coacht
the jogging causd some cruditys to rise
to help him hee cald for a puritan poacht
that use to turne h up the eggs off his eyes

And soe recover'd himself to his wish
he sat him downe to his drincke and to eat
promoter in plumbroth was his first dish
his owne privet chicken had no such meat

Six picled heart tailors shred and cut
Seamsters faire women fit for his pallet
with feathermen and perfumers all put
some 12 in charger to make a grand sallet

A rich fat userer in his marrow
by him on lawer and greene sawce
which use to eat 2 legs of a scarrow
and then goe and his mony case

Ther carbonaded and cookt with paines
was brought up a cloven sergaints face
the sawce was made of a yeomans braines
that had been cloven out with his owne mace

Two wasted sherrifes came next to the board
the feast had nothing been without them
both living and dead they were foxt and furd
ther chaines like sawsages hung about them

The next dish was the maior of ther towne
with a puddin of maintenance put in his belly
like a gouse in his feathers drest in his newold gowne
and cupple of hinch boys boyld for ielly BM at the moment the fact that this extract runs over two folios is not showing up on DEx [same song cont'd; bottom of page non-dramatic]

A London cookold hot from the spit
and when the carver him broken
the divill chops up his head at a bit
but the hornes were very nigh to have chockt him

Yet though with the meat he was much taken
up on a sudden hee sheifted his treancher
as soon as he spyd the baud and bacon
by by which you may know the divill is a wencher

The chine of a leacher to ther was roasted
with a plumpe youg whore's hanch and garlicke
a pander patitoes that had boasted
himself for a captaine yt never was warlike

A lusty fat pasty of a midwife hot
and for a colde bake dish in the story
a reverent painted lady was brought
was coffind in crust till she was hory

To those a overgrowne justice of peace
with a clarke like gyzard thrust under each arme
with a warnent for syppits laid in his owne grease
set over a chafingdish to be kept warme

The joywle of a iailor served for fish
a counstable soust vist vinegar by
two alder men lobsters a sleepe in a dish
a debuty tart and a churchwarden pye

All which devoured he then for a close
Did for a full draught of darby aall call
and heaves the huge vessel in to his nose
and sceast not till hee had druncke up all

Then from the table he gan to start
When banquit and wine was nothing s?c
all which hee blew away with a fart
from whence it was cald the divill arse
By Jackman, in The Gypsies Metamorphosed (695-778), Ben Jonson
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry e. 14, f. 16