Dor. And they strive to put thee out, do thou endeavour to put them.
Atti. In good faith, if they put thee out of countenance, put them out of patience, and hew their ears with hacking imperfect utterance.
Dor. Go, stand to it; show thyself a tall man of thy tongue; make an honest leg; put off thy cap with discreet carriage: and so we leave thee to the kind gentlemen and most respected auditors.
[Exeunt, all but Philomuse.
[393] “Se courroucer. To fret, fume, chafe, be angrie, take pet, or pepper in the nose.”—Cotgrave.
[394] See note, vol. i. p. 77.
[395] Cat-calls.—See Middleton, iv. 9.
[396] A short blunt arrow, for killing birds without piercing them.
[397] Judgment.—Marston is here plainly referring to the truculent attitude assumed by Ben Jonson towards the audience.
[398] Old eds. “not.”