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your meat should bee servd in w
th curious dances,
and set upon y
e boord w
th virgin hands,
tund to their voices; not a dish remoovd,
but to y
e musicke, not a drop of wine,
mixt, w
th his water, w
th out harmony.
By Cymbal,
in The Staple of News (3.2.230-234),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69
some hee dry- dishes, some
mossesmoates round w
th brothes
mounts marrow-bones, cuts fifty angled custards,
reares bulwarke pies, and for his outer- workes
he raiseth ramparts of immortall crust;
and teacheth all the tacticks in one dinner:
what ranks, what files, to put his dishes in;
y
e whole art military. then hee knowes
y
e influence of y
e stars upon his meates
hee has nature in a pot, bove all ye chymists
he is an architect an ingineer
a souldier, a phisitian, a philosopher,
a gerall mathematician.
By Lickfinger,
in The Staple of News (4.2.23-37),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 69v
59.
and your M
r Courtier w
th all your fly-blowne projects,
and lookes out of y
e politicks, your shut faces,
and reservud questions and answers that you game with as
ist a cleare buisinesse? will it mannage well?
my name must not bee used else. here, t’will dash,
your buisiness hath received a taint, give off,
I may not prostitute my selfe. tut, tut
y
t little dust i can blow of at pleasur's.
heres noe such mountaine, yet, ithe whole worke
but a light purse may level. I will tyde
this affaire / for you; give it freight and passage.
and such mint-phrase; as tis y
e worst of canting,
by how much affects y
e sense, it has not
By Canter,
in The Staple of News (4.4.63-75),
Ben Jonson
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 70