^ibid.f p. 41.
8 It is possible that this may refer to Jonson, although there is no passage in
Every Man in his Humour to which it is an allusion. Dekker in Satiromastix
(1601) makes Crispin us say of Horace, " he calles himselfe the whip of men," in
allusion, probably, to the following lines in the Induction to Every Man out of his
Humour : —

I *11 strip the ragged follies of the time

Naked as at their birth — and with a whip of steel,

Print wounding lashes in their iron ribs.
36



THE WAR OF THE THEATRES.
he flings about his epigrams.'*^ If Chrisoganus is Jonson, Mr.
Fleay's suggestion that the high-minded old scholar is a com-
plimentary representation gains great weight from the following
evidently sincere reply of Mavortius : —

Chrisoganus, Follow, and He instruct you what I can.
Mavortius. We followed beasts before, but now a man.^

A passage which is, with some show of reason, thought to
refer to Jonson is the following, in which the players are bar-
gaining with Chrisoganus for a play, with the result that he is
rejected and Post hast retained as poet of the company : —



Belch,

Chrisoganus,
Gulch,
Chrisoganus,



Clout.
Gut.
Chrisoganus,



Chrisoganus, faith, what's the lowest price?
You know as well as I ; tenne pound a play.
Our companie 's hard of hearing of that side.
And will not this booke passe ? alasse for pride !
I hope to see you starve and storme for books ;
And in the dearth of rich invention,

■

When sweet smooth lines are held for pretious,
Then will you fawne and crouch to Poesy.
Not while goosequillian Posthast holds his pen.
