...into such oily colors To fi.utcr vL-e nnd daub iniquity. Rut with .vi :.rnieJ am! resolved hand I Ml strip the ragged follies of the time Naked as at their birth, and with a whip of Meel Print wounding lashei on their iron ribs.'' But though he exhausts the whole rhetoric of railing,...

...Terence. This advocated that drama should 'instruct by pleasing', and in particular that comedy should 'strip the ragged follies of the time/ Naked as at their birth' (from the Induction to Everyman Out of his Humour). The exaggeration and satirizing of character was...

...Asper in the induction to Every Man out of his Humour, 16-20: But (with an armed, and resolued hand) He strip the ragged follies of the time, Naked, as at their birth: . . . . . . and with a whip of steele, Print wounding lashes in their yron ribs. And cf. Sat., I.ii.225-237. 129-130 Therefore be...

...infallibility of his own judgement of other people, his right to correct vice and folly by violent means, strip the ragged follies of the time, Naked, as at their birth . . . and with a whip of steele, Print wounding lashes in their yron ribs. (17-20) In Satiromastix, Dekker mocked Jonson for...

...Jonson's boast in the Induction to Every Man out of his Humour, 'With an armed and resolved hand, | I'll strip the ragged follies of the time | Naked as at their birth', is certainly similar in tone. There are other parallels not only in Jonson's work but also in Marston's....

...at amusing his audiences, Jonson never abandoned the aim, expressed through his mouthpiece Asper to "strip the ragged follies of the time / Naked as at their birth" (EMO "After the second sounding," 17-18). As we might expect, this obsessive urge to expose pretension,...

...into such oily colours, To flatter vice and daub iniquity: But (with an armed, and resolved hand) I'll strip the ragged follies of the time, Naked, as at their birth. ("AFTER THE SECOND SOUNDING," LL. 4~l8) In the character sketches added to the First Quarto of 1600,...