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Doe we not see fooles laugh at heaven? and mocke The Makers workmanship? With great emphasis, Crispinus admonishes Horace not to swear that he did not intend whipping the private vices of his friends while his 'lashing jestes make all men bleed. Crispinus concludes his mild, conciliatory speech with the words:
He made shoes for the poor from materials stolen from the rich. Crispinus approaches Horace quite as a 'Johannes Factotum, as Greene had designated Shakspere in 1592. Jonson makes him assert that he, too, is a scholar, a writer conversant with every kind of poetry, and a Stoic.
But the cripple was now out of sight, lost amidst those labyrinths of squalid homes which, in great towns, are thrust beyond view, branching off abruptly behind High Streets and Market Places, so that strangers passing only along the broad thoroughfares, with glittering shops and gaslit causeways, exclaim, "Ah here do the poor live?" Ecce iterum Crispinus!
'Alas, Sir, Horace! he is a mere sponge; nothing but humours and observation; he goes up and down, sucking from every society, and when he comes home, squeezes himself dry again. Tucca adds: 'He will sooner lose his best friend than his least jest. Crispinus is found guilty of having composed a libel against Horace, of which the following may serve as a specimen:
Besides Domitian, he numbered Silius Italicus, Pliny, Stella the friend of Statius, Regulus the famous pleader, Parthenius, Crispinus, and Glabrio, among his influential friends. It is curious that he never mentions Statius. The most probable reason for his silence is the old one, given by Hesiod, but not yet obsolete: kai kerameus keramei koteei kai aoidos aoido.
The full name given by Jonson to Crispinus is RUFUS LABERIUS CRISPINUS. John Marston already, in 1598, designates Shakspere with the nickname 'Rufus. Everyone can convince himself of this by first reading Shakspere's 'Venus and Adonis, and immediately afterwards John Marston's 'Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image. We do not know whether it has struck anyone as yet that this poem of Marston is a most evident satire, written even in the same metre as Shakspere's first, and at that time most popular, poem.
After that, traces of hostility only are to be discovered between the two poets. Even when Horace, in the 'Satiromastix, has again broken the peace, the gentle Crispinus says to him: Were thy warpt soule put in a new molde, I'd weare thee as a jewell set in golde.
Marcellus maintained the unequal struggle as he had fought forty years before against Hamilcar and fourteen years before at Clastidium till he sank dying from his horse; Crispinus escaped, but died of his wounds received in the conflict . Pressure of the War It was now the eleventh year of the war.
29: Shakspere was already then the proprietor of a house New Place, in Stratford. In this scene Horace also asks Crispinus: 'You have much of the mother in you, sir? Your father is dead? John Shakspere, the father, died in the year when The Poetaster was first performed in September, 1601. 30: Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 2.
En iterum Crispinus! I am still alive, and getting on in the world, ay, and honestly too; I am no longer spending heedlessly; I am saving for my debts, and I shall live, I trust, to pay off every farthing. First, for my debt to you I send an order, not signed in my name, but equally valid, on Messrs. Drummond, for 250 pounds. Repay yourself what the boy has cost.
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