Marston probably refers to the attack made on him in the
"fustian" conversation between Clove and Orange,* when he
makes Planet say : —

By the Lord, fustian, now I understand it : complement is as much as
fustian.^

The adventure of Monsieur John fo de King, the licentious
Frenchman, with the wife of Brabant Senior, corresponds
almost exactly with the first of the "accidents strange*' which
Jonson related to Drummond.® It would be remarkable if,
with all the bitter personality of these dramatic satires, there
should be no allusion to Jonson's licentiousness, and it is
therefore more than likely that the character of Monsieur John
fo de King is an attack on Jonson.
It is possible that Jonson's duel and narrow escape from



1 Dr. Brinsley Nicholson says, in a note on Jack Drum (Notes and Queries^
Series 7, Vol. VII. p. 67), " I was happy to hear from my friend J. O. Halliwell-
Phillipps . . . that a MS. {circa 1620) gives unequivocal testimony to Marston*s
authorship oi Jack Drum's Entertainment.^*

'^Poetaster, V. i.
8 I. I. The references are to the play as printed by Simpson in The School of
Shakspere, II.
* Every Man out of his Humour ^ III. i.
6 III. 1. 87.
• See above, p. 40.
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