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Shakespeare of Stratford beget Tales, Tempests, and suchlike drolleries—to mix his head with other men’s heels.

. It is virtually certain that ‘servant-monster’ is an allusion to Caliban; and it is probable that by ‘a nest of antics’ and ‘suchlike drolleries’ Jonson means the tricks of Autolycus and the anti-masks introduced into both The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest. Another gibe at the popularity of Caliban is probably found in a line of the Prologue (1616) to Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour:

‘You that have so graced monsters, may like men.’