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| Maroccus Extaticus / DANDO John, 1595 | |||||
Maroccus Extaticus. Or, Banke’s Bay Horse in a Trance A Discourse set downe in a merry
Dialogue between Bankes and his Beast : Anatomizing some abuses and bad trickes of
this age. Written and intituled to mine Host of the Belsauage, and all his honest
Guests. By lohn Dando the wierdrawer of Hadley, and Harrie Runt, head Ostler of Bosomes
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« Gentle Readers, or Gentlemen Readers, which you will, though it past manners in vs to stand like a couple of eaues-dropping knaues, and steale awaie a discourse betwixt Banks & his bay horse from Belsauage without Ludgate, which in our conscience we must confesse is a kinde of coosning, & in a maner such a matter as if we should haue gone into a Cooks shop in Fleet lane, and with the smell of roast meat filled our bellies, not emptying our purses, a flat robberie, and by a figure such a peece of filching as is punishable with ribroast among the turne spits at pie corner, where a man of an ill minde may breake his fast with the sent of a peece of beefe puld piping hot out of the furnace. Yet considering the case as it concernes the commonwealth, and the nature of the subiect handled betwixt this horse & his master, which not anie in the world, I pro∣mise yee, heard or vnderstoode but our selues that came hether vpon other busi∣nes, wee could not choose but doo as wee huve done : verie pure loue to our countrie leading vs to lay our wits together, and present the worlde with this pamphlet, which if it bee not mistaken, may as well serue to driue away pastime & good companie, as the finest philosophical discourse you can light vpon. If it hang not wel to∣gether, thinke the fault is ours that carryed it not well awaie, for truly there was neuer horse in this world aunswered man with more reason, nor neuer man in this world reasond more sensibly with a horse than this man and this horse in this mat∣ter, as for example. And so committing you (not to prison) no, but to the reading of this Dialogue, we end our Epistle to the Reader. » Présentation de l’éditeur (1565)
« This celebrated trick horse is mentioned by several Elizabethan writers: Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour , IV. 6; Shakespere, Alls Well , II. 3 ; Jack Drum’s Entertainment , Sig. Bz. ; Dekker’s Wonderful Year 1603 ; Digby Hist. of Bodies , chap. 37, p. 393; Sir W. Rawleigh, Hist. of the World , Ist part, p. 178. See also L’Ane D’or , trad, de J. de Montlyard , Paris, 1623, pp. 250-254. » Huth (1887)