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Why should not any man Bite his own thumb? That hurts not you. Had he bit yours, it had been some pretence To-have moved this anger—he may bite his own, And eat it too. Sir be patient. To what purpose is this impertinent madness? Pray be milder. Why should so slight a toy thus trouble you? When reason dorh in equal balance poize The nature of two injuries, yours to me Lies heavy, when that other would not turn And even scale; and yet it moves not me; My Anger is not up. I know it, and shall I Be angry for a truth? So are my betters sir. You may, or bite your thumb all's one to me. It's my wives fault, not mine, I have no reason Then to be angry for another's fin. Why if I had, I am so far from anger I would have e'ne fallen down upon my knees, And desired heaven to have forgiven you both. Why then I am the more beholding to them That they will call me father; it was lust Perchance, that did beget them, but I am sure It's charity to keep the Infants. To see how strange a course found wrath does go! You will be angry because I am not so. Alpha. Beta. Gamma. Delta. Epsylon. Zeta. Etam. Theta. Iota. Kappa. Lamda Mu. Nu. Xi. Omicron. Pi. Ro. Sigma. Tau. Upsilon. Phi. Chi. Psi. Omega. And antidote Against the poison, Anger: 'twas prescribed A Roman Emperor, that on every injury Repeated the Greek Alphabet, that being done His anger too was over. This good rule I learned from him, and Practice. Aleph. Beth. Gimel. The Hebrew Alphabet, that I use A second remedy. For ought I feel your toes have more occasion For to be angry with my Buttocks. A. B. C. Worser. E. F. G. H. I. K. L. M. N. Oh. P. Q. R. S. TO. V. W. X. Y. Z. Now sir, why now? Now you have done. Why should I sir be angry; if I suffer And injury, it is no gilded of mine; No, let it trouble them, that do the wrong; Nothing but peace approaches innocence. I am so far from anger in my self, That it's my grief I can make others so. Colax, I must believe, and therefore go; Who is distrustful will be angry too.
Plot summary
Plot — The Muses' Looking Glass
Bird and Mistress Flowerdew, Puritan residents of Blackfriars, bring their wares to the theatre, but are appalled when Roscius tells them they have been ordered for use as props in a filthy stage play. Roscius argues that they themselves make a living from the vice of vanity, and invites them to see the play before they condemn it; he will give them a running commentary on its moral import. Despite Roscius’ high claims, Comedy and Tragedy seem initially more concerned about the order of their precedence; they agree to spend a year in competition, staging examples of their respective genres, and whichever is adjudged the better will thereafter have the theatre to herself. The play is a series of episodes showing specific virtues to be the mean: an excess or a deficiency constitutes a vice. A lack of courtesy makes Dyscolus churlishly ready to pick quarrels, whereas too much of it makes Colax sycophantic, to such an extent that he hangs around for the rest of the play flattering all the other vices. Aphobus is over-confident and Deilus cowardly, afraid of his own shadow: they have respectively too much fortitude and too little. Temperance is the next example, illustrated by Acolastus the epicure and Anaisthetus the ascetic, followed by liberality, missing in Aneleutherus the miser and carried to excess in Asotus the prodigal. The over-ostentatious Banausus, full of extravagant schemes for public works, overdoes magnificence, whereas Microprepes balks at replacing a church steeple. (The Puritans in the audience 1630 approve.) Chaunus overvalues himself, and seeks inappropriate high offices, whereas Micropsychus thinks himself unsuited to even the meanest position. Meekness is quite absent from quarrelsome Orgylus, who persistently tries to provoke patient Aorgus to a fight, without success. The arrogant Alazon and the modest Eiron deviate from truth: one falsely claims personal qualities he lacks, the other denies those he does have. Philotimia is unduly fastidious about her appearance, whereas her slovenly husband Luparus would rather clothes had never been invented. The impudent bawd Anaiskyntia brings Kataplectus to visit Philotimia, but he is too bashful to speak to her in English. Philotimia appoints him her gentleman usher, and they go off together; it looks as if Luparus is going to be cuckolded, but he doesn’t care. The extremes of justice are next: Nimis is worldly and prone to accept bribes, adjudicating between litigants according to which can…