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JACKE JUGELER 
 
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JACKE JUGELER 
 
 Edited with Introduction and Notes by 
 W. H. WILLIAMS, M.A. 
 
 Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge 
 
 Professor of Classics and English Literature in the 
 
 University of Tasmania 
 
 Cambridge : 
 
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 1914 
 
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Camtrtlrge: 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Introduction ..... 
 
 Text of the Play .... 
 
 Notes ...... 
 
 Appendix : Fragment of a later edition 
 Index to the Notes .... 
 
 PAGE 
 
 vii 
 
 47 
 69 
 
 73 
 
INTRODUCTION\ 
 
 § I. Text. The text of the present edition is taken from 
 the unique original in the collection of His Grace the Duke of 
 Devonshire, K.G. 
 
 § 2. Date. In vol. i. p. 202 of Arber's Transcript of the 
 Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640 A.D., 
 (corresponding to fol. 85 b of Register A), occurs the following 
 entry : 
 
 Recevyd of William Copknde for his lycense for pryn tinge of an 
 interlude intituled Jack Juggeler and mistress Boundgrace . . iiij'* 
 
 The part of the Register in which this occurs extends from 
 fol. 84 a-92 a, and is headed ' fFor Takynge of fFynes for Copyes 
 as folowethe.' This again is part of the 'accompte made by... 
 Wardens of the Companye of Stacioners of all such sommes of 
 monye as hathe comme to theare handes from the xxij* Daye of 
 July Anno 1562 vnto the xxij of July Anno 1563 which ys by 
 the space of one hole yere as folowethe.' 
 
 The 'accompte' for the 12 months fills fol. 82a-fol. 96 b. 
 
 The entry of the payment for Jack Juggeler is 36th out of 
 124. Five entries back is one ' Recevyd of garrard Dewes for his 
 lycense for pryntinge of a pycture of [a] monsterus pygge at 
 Hamsted iiijd.' Arber's note on this is, 'the broadside is 
 entitled The description of a monstrous pig, the which was farrowed 
 at Hamsted besyde London, the xvi day of October, the present yeare of 
 our Lord God, MDLxij.' 
 
 ' Part of this Introduction was published in The Modern Language Revieiu, 
 July 19 12. 
 
 W. J. J. b 
 
viii Jacke Jugeler 
 
 This, and the comparatively early occurrence of the entry 
 about Jack Juggeler (the lists are not alphabetical), suggest that 
 the entry was still in 1562. No. 53 was a payment in respect of 
 Crestenmas Carroles. This again points to 1562. It may be 
 added that William Copland issued books with his imprint from 
 1548 to 1 561 {D.N.B.). 
 
 We may therefore conclude that an edition of Jack Juggeler 
 was probably published in the year 1562. The two loose leaves, 
 which by the courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire are 
 here reproduced, may have belonged to this edition, as the spelling 
 is much later than that of the complete copy, which we shall see 
 reason to believe was written before 1552. 
 
 The probability of this assumption depends upon the relation 
 of Jacke Jugeler (as we will spell it when referring to the older 
 edition), and Ralph Roister Doister, 
 
 We may assume that Ralph Roister Doister was written in 
 1552. It is not necessary to discuss the question here, but the 
 reasons may be found in the preface to the edition of the play 
 in the Temple Dramatists (ed. Williams-Robin), pp. v-vii. 
 
 ' What reasons are there for believing that Jacke Jugeler was 
 written before Ralph Roister Doister ? 
 
 Whether written by the same person or not, there is evidently 
 a close connexion between the two plays in method, characters, 
 and language. 
 
 {a) Method. Both adapt episodes from Latin comedy to 
 the environment of Tudor London, and embody more or less 
 literal transcripts from Plautus. The prologue of Ralph Roister 
 Doister is either a condensed paraphrase of the prologue of 
 Jacke Jugeler, or that is an expansion of the main points of the 
 other. 
 
 {b) Characters. Mayster Boungrace corresponds to Gawyn 
 Goodlucke, Dame Coye to Christian Custance, Jacke Jugeler to 
 Mathewe Merygreeke, Jenkyn Careawaye to Truepenie, Ales 
 trype and go to Tibet Talk apace. 
 
Introduction 
 
 IX 
 
 (f) Language. Among the more obvious resemblances of 
 language may be noted: 
 
 Jacke Jugeler 
 69. you shal here a thing y' onlie 
 
 Ralph Roister Daister 
 I. i. 59. I can when I will make 
 
 
 shal make you merie & glad. 
 
 
 
 him mery and glad. 
 
 137- 
 
 my cosune Careawaie. 
 
 in. 
 
 i. 4. 
 
 my cousin Roister Bols- 
 ter, 
 by cocks precious pot- 
 
 148. 
 
 by cokes prceious {sic) potstike. 
 
 III. 
 
 . iv. 127. 
 
 
 
 
 
 sticke. 
 
 228. 
 
 she swimmeth to and fro. 
 
 II. 
 
 iii. 46. 
 
 ye shall see hir glide 
 and swimme. 
 
 317- 
 
 saint Gorge y« boroue. 
 
 IV. 
 
 viii. 45. 
 
 sainct George to borow. 
 
 318. 
 
 ieopard a ioynt. 
 
 IV. 
 
 viii. 17. 
 
 ieoparde my hande. 
 
 3+8. 
 
 who lustith to feale shall find 
 his hart creping out at his 
 heele. 
 
 Ill 
 
 . iii. 96. 
 
 I might feele your soule 
 departing within an 
 inche of your heele. 
 
 430. 
 
 In nomine patris. 
 
 I. 
 
 iv. 49. 
 
 Nomine patris. 
 
 486. 
 
 Truce for a whyle. 
 
 IV. 
 
 viii. 33. 
 
 truce for a pissing while 
 or twaine. 
 
 496. 
 
 beate on mee, tyll I stinke. 
 
 IV. 
 
 iii. 120. 
 
 I shall cloute thee tyll 
 thou stinke. 
 
 593- 
 
 by gods precious. 
 
 IV. 
 
 viii. 40 
 
 by cocks precious. 
 
 61S. 
 
 well curryed. 
 
 I. 
 
 iii. 77. 
 
 a curried cote. 
 
 640. 
 
 let me alone. 
 
 I. 
 
 ii. 175. 
 
 lette me alone. 
 
 726. 
 
 this wagepastie. 
 
 III. 
 
 . ii. 10. 
 
 a little wagpastie. 
 
 731- 
 
 the matter lyeth gretylie me a 
 pon. 
 
 I. 
 
 iv. 9. 
 
 this lieth vpon his pre- 
 ferment. 
 
 861. 
 
 I shall rape thee. 
 
 III. 
 
 V. 93. 
 
 rappe you againe. 
 
 976. 
 
 hence to Jherusalem. 
 
 IV. 
 
 vii. 60. 
 
 hennes to grece. 
 
 1013. 
 
 cal y^ other his good maister. 
 
 IV. 
 
 vii. 100. 
 
 be good maister to her. 
 
 If these resemblances are allowed to establish a prima facie 
 probability of connexion between the two plays, whether written 
 by the same person or not, which of the two was more likely to 
 be written before the other ? 
 
 Jacke Jugeler is a one-act farce on the lines of Heywood's 
 interludes, with three scenes (vv. 84-601, 602-773, 774-992), 
 and five characters, needing only three or four performers (if the 
 
 b2 
 
X Jacke Jugeler 
 
 prologue and the epilogue were recited by one), the parts being 
 distributed thus : — i. Careawaye, 2. Jugeler and Dame Coye, 
 3. Ales and Mayster Boungrace ; or, i. Careawaye, 2. Jugeler 
 and Ales, 3. Dame Coye, 4. Mayster Boungrace. The time of 
 the action is only an hour, and the place is unchanged. 
 
 Ralph Roister Doister is a regularly constructed comedy of five 
 acts subdivided into numerous scenes, with 13 characters requiring 
 as many as 10 actors even if some of the minor parts are combined. 
 The time required for the action is two days. The place, as in 
 Jacke Jugeler, need not be changed, the scene being laid before 
 Custance's house, but the characters are more elaborated and 
 individualised than their somewhat sketchy and conventional 
 counterparts. 
 
 Which of these then is likely to have preceded the other in 
 order of time, the outline or the finished work ? If they were both 
 written by the same person, probability almost amounts to absolute 
 certainty. In that case Ralph Roister Doister can no more have 
 preceded Jacke Jugeler than the full corn in the ear can precede 
 the blade, or the fruit the blossom. Was then Jacke Jugeler 
 written by the author of Ralph Roister Doister ? 
 
 § 3. Author. The verbal resemblances between /«ci^ /a^«/fr 
 and Ralph Roister Doister would not by themselves prove that the 
 two pieces were composed by the same hand. The author of the 
 one play may have copied from the other. But if we find 
 striking similarities of language between Jacke Jugeler and the non- 
 dramatic works of the author of Ralph Roister Doister the 
 identity of authorship becomes vastly more probable. Such are : 
 
 Jacke Jugeler Udall's prose works 
 
 42. And Cicero Tullius Apophthegfties, f. 279, 'Marcus 
 
 in that his fyrst boke which Tullius in y* thirde booke of that his 
 
 he wrot, and entytulid, of an honest werke entitleed, de officiis, (that is to 
 mans office. saie, of honeste behauour, or, how 
 
 eche manne ought to vse and to 
 demeane hymselfe).' 
 
Introduction 
 
 XI 
 
 Jacke Jugeler 
 85. Rest you merye. 
 
 108. god before. 
 
 Udall's prose works 
 
 Floures, ' Amice salue. Good felow 
 god lyou saue, or, o louynge frend 
 god rest you mery." 
 
 Apoph. f. 152, 'For the grekes 
 saien <tvv Bfois, with the Goddes, 
 for that we saye in englyshe, Goddes 
 pleasure beeyng so, or, by the wyll 
 and grace of God, or, and God 
 before, or, God saiyng amen.' 
 
 Apoph. f. 105, 'yea and for a faire 
 touche.' 
 
 Floures, ' ego perierim, I am vtter- 
 lye vndone, or 1 may gyue my lyfe 
 for an halfepeny.' 
 
 Erasm. Par. Luke xiii. 1 1, ' Araied 
 with a disease.' Apophth. f. 315, 
 ' eiuill araied.' 
 
 Apoph. f. 137, 'estemed the fruite 
 to bee no poyncte the more polluted.' 
 
 Floures, ' ferberibus casum te, &c. 
 I woU all to currie the, &c.' 
 
 Apoph. {. 154, 'geuen no bodye a 
 corrosif.' 
 
 Erasm. Par. Luke, Pref. 6b. 'So 
 should I in this matier stand in a 
 streight brake.' 
 
 Floures, ' Scin ad te attinere hanc 
 omnem rem ? Doest thou remembre 
 that all this matter perteyneth to the ? 
 or lyeth the vppon ? ' 
 
 Floures, ' tibi parce, fauour or 
 spare your selfe.' 
 
 If in addition to these resemblances of language we find in Jacke 
 Jugeler obviously autobiographical allusions which may be explained 
 by known facts in the life of Udall the probability of his author- 
 ship is still further increased. 
 
 The facts are as follow. Certain silver images and other 
 plate were alleged to have been stolen from Eton when Udall was 
 
 145. oon faire toche. 
 
 249. I may giue my life for halpenis 
 three. 
 
 293. arayed. 
 
 482. no poynt. 
 
 615. curryed. 
 
 657. as sholde be to him a corrasiue. 
 
 674. breched in suche a brake. 
 
 731. the matter lyeth gretylie me 
 apon. 
 
 908. fauoure your fyste. 
 
xii Jacke Jugeler 
 
 head-master. The matter came before the Privy Council at 
 Westminster on the I2th of March, 154 1/2, when William 
 Emlar, a goldsmith of London, was examined on the charge of 
 buying them, ' and beying suspected to have used hym self lewdly 
 in the handlyng of the matter was committed to the porter's 
 warde ' (Nicolas, Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, 
 vol. 7, pp. 152-3). John Hoorde and Thomas Cheney, late 
 scholars of Eton, were also examined for the same robbery, 
 and confessing the fact in writing were committed to the custody 
 of the clerk of the check of the King's guard. Lastly, on the 
 14th of March — 
 
 ' Nycolas Uvedale scoolemaster of Eton beyng sent for as suspect to be 
 counsail of a robbery lately committed at Eton by Thomas Cheney John 
 Horde, scolers of the sayd scole, and Gregory a servant to the sayd 
 scolemaster, and having certain interrogatories ministred unto hym toching 
 the sayd fact and other felonious trespasses wherof he was suspected did 
 confess that he did comitt a heinous offence vfith the sayd Cheney sundry 
 tymes hertofore and of late the vj"" day of this present monethe in this 
 present yere at London : wherupon he was committed to the Marshalsey.' 
 
 In consequence of this Udall was summarily dismissed 
 from his mastership. Yet in spite of his confession there are 
 good reasons for believing that he was innocent of the graver 
 charges brought against him. Had they been true he would have 
 been ruined for life. Instead of which we find him still vicar of 
 Braintree in 1544, bearer of the Lord Privy Seal's letter to the 
 Bishop of Carlisle, then resident at Eton, and soon in high favour 
 at court, and associated in literary work with the Princess Mary 
 (Cooper, Ralph Roister Doister, p. xxiv). A letter is extant from 
 Udall to some unknown patron who has been unsuccessfully 
 endeavouring to procure his restitution to the mastership of Eton 
 {Letters of Eminent Literary Men, Camden Society, pp. I -7). 
 From this we gather that his influential friend has ' susteined 
 gret travaill, peines, and trouble in that behalf,' and that Udall 
 wished to recover the position 'only of an honest purpose to 
 
Introduction xiii 
 
 discharge my debtes, and by litle and litle as I might to paye every 
 man his own.' He craves to be bestowed to 'suche condition 
 where I maye by sobre livyng bee recovered to sum state of an 
 honest man.' He admits that he has deserved his patron's dis- 
 pleasure and indignation, but trusts that his offences *■ humana 
 quidem esse et emendari posset If received to grace and favour he 
 hopes that ' this your correpcion shall bee a sufficient scourge to 
 make me, during my lif, more wise and more ware utterly for 
 ever to eschewe and avoid all kindes of all maner excesses and 
 abuses that have been reported to reigne in me.' He admits that, 
 the more tenderly his benefactor had favoured and loved him, the 
 more grievously he must take his ' lewdnes and foly,' but he hopes 
 for the mercy and forgiveness due ' to all suche as with wholl 
 herte and purpose of emendemente without dissymulation returne to 
 the holsome pathe of honestee, from whiche by youth or frailtee 
 thei have chaunced for a tyme to swerve.' He speaks of his 
 patron's clemency making ' of an unthrifte an honest man,' and 
 gives examples of young men who, after being 'of a veray 
 riottous and dissolute sorte of livynge ' in youth, have become 
 monuments ' of all frugalitee, religion, sobrietee, and holynes.' 
 Lastly, in a sentence which seems to sum up the situation, he 
 begs his patron to ' accepte this myn honest chaunge from vice to 
 vertue, from prodigalitee to frugall livyng, from negligence of 
 teachyng to assiduitee, from playe to studie, from lightness to 
 gravitee.' 
 
 In this letter, while there is the fullest and even the most abject 
 acknowledgement of extravagance, laxity, and neglect of duty, there 
 is no admission of the graver offences with which he was charged. 
 
 We are confronted then with two apparently conflicting con- 
 clusions, (i) that Udall confessed his guilt before the Privy 
 Council, (2) that he was probably innocent. How are these to 
 be reconciled ? 
 
 If Jacke Jugeler was written by Udall the explanation is given 
 in the epilogue. 
 
xiv Jacke Jugeler 
 
 In the first stanza of the epilogue we are pointedly invited to 
 look for some ulterior significance in the play. Though the cat 
 in the proverb had lost her eye there was some meaning in her 
 wink ; in other words, though one cannot speak out one may 
 hint and suggest. No tale can be told ' but that sum Englyshe 
 maye be piked therof out,' i.e. some modern application may be 
 discovered (v. note on 1. 996). 'As this trifling enterlud...may 
 signifie sum further meaning if it be well serched.' Could 
 anything be plainer ? 
 
 It is the fashion nowadays — 
 
 'That the symple innosaintes ar deluded 
 
 And an hundred thousand diuers wayes 
 
 By suttle and craftye meanes shamefullie abused 
 
 And by strength force and violence oft tymes compelled 
 
 To beliue and saye the moune is made of a grene chese 
 
 Or ells haue great harme, and parcace their life lese.' 
 
 It is an old saying that might, force, strength, power, and 
 colourable subtlety oppress, debar, overrun and defeat right. The 
 poor simple innocent that has had wrong and injury must call the 
 other his ' good maister ' for showing him such mercy. [Cf. such 
 phrases in Udall's letter as, ' right worshipfull and my singlar 
 good Maister ' ; ' sens the tyme that your maistership, at the 
 intercession of my good frendes, promised upon myn honest 
 demeanure fromthensforthe to be my good MaUter ' ; ' bee good 
 maister to me this 00ns ' ; ' I trust ye wold become better maister 
 unto me.' The title ' your maistership ' occurs 1 8 times in the 
 letter.] 
 
 'And as it is daylie syne for fere of ferther disprofite 
 
 He must that man his best frende and maister call 
 
 Of whome he neuer receiued any maner benefite 
 
 And at whose hand he neuer ban any good at all 
 
 And must graunt, affirme, or denie, whatsoeuer he shall 
 
 He must saye the Croue is whight, yf he be so commaunded 
 
 Ye and that he himselfe is into another body chaunged.' 
 
Introduction xv 
 
 The next stanza is still more significant if it was written by 
 
 Udall— 
 
 'He must saye he dyd amysse, though he neuer dyd offend 
 
 He must aske forgeuenes, where he did no trespace 
 
 Or ells be in troble, care and meserye without ende 
 
 And be cast in sum arrierage, without any grace 
 
 And that thing he sawe done before his owne face 
 
 He must by compulsion, stifelie denye 
 
 And for feare whether he woll or not saye tonge you lye.' 
 
 The reference to being * cast in some arrearage ' would be 
 explained by passages of the letter in which Udall speaks of his 
 ' honest purpose to discharge my debtes,^ and says that if his patron 
 should reject and cast him ofF, ' though I wer in noo manns daunger, 
 yet noo man of honor or honestee woll either receive me, or dooe 
 for me, or favour me, or looke on me.' Again, at the end of the 
 letter he says, ' where percase aeris alieni magnitude animum tuum 
 deterret I doubte not, havyng your maistershippes favour and good 
 helpe, to bee hable to shake it of within two or three yeres at 
 the uttirmust by suche meanes as I shall declare unto your 
 maistership if it maye please the same to heare me.' 
 
 The epilogue continues in the same marked strain — 
 
 ' He that is stronger and more of power and might 
 
 Yf he be disposed to reuenge his cause 
 
 Woll sone pike a quarell be it wronge or right 
 
 To the inferior _ and weker for a cople of straues 
 
 And woll agaynst him so extremelie lay the lawes 
 
 That he wol put him to the worse, other by false iniurie 
 
 Or by some craft and subtelete, or ells by plaine teranie." 
 
 From all this we gather that some simple innocent person has 
 been beguiled by subtlety and forced by violence to accept and 
 afHrm obvious impossibilities. Some influential personage has 
 picked a quarrel with him and ruined him by the dishonest or 
 arbitrary exercise of the laws. He has been compelled to call his 
 oppressor benefactor for sparing him, and to 'hold up his yea 
 and nay ' even to denying his own identity. Under penalty of 
 endless trouble and misery, of being arrested for debt, and being 
 
xvi Jacke Jugeler 
 
 imprisoned without hope of release, he has had to confess and to ask 
 forgiveness for an oflFence of which he was guiltless, to deny what 
 he saw done before his eyes, and to give himself the lie. 
 
 May we not fairly conjecture that this is Udall's own account 
 of the circumstances of his dismissal ? It is a significant fact that 
 his place was filled immediately by a temporary successor, and 
 subsequently by a Mr Tyndall, whom the Bishop of Carlisle in 
 acknowledging the letter conveyed by Udall from the Lord Privy 
 Seal calls ' your own true scholere and bedman.' Did the Lord 
 Privy Seal want to get Udall out in order to put his own true 
 scholar and bedeman in ? Failing to inculpate him in the 
 alleged robbery of plate, did he, partly by threats, partly by 
 promises of paying his debts, induce him wrongfully to confess 
 other offences which would be enough to justify his summary 
 dismissal ? Did Udall, some seven years after, finding all these 
 promises vain, and feeling himself strong enough in court favour 
 to defy his oppressor, resolve in this allegorical way to repudiate his 
 fictitious confession and rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the public ? 
 
 § 4. Udall's dramatic works. Bale, in the Catalogus (1557), 
 states that Udall wrote comoedias plures. In the Loseley Manuscripts 
 (ed. Kempe, pp. 62-3), we have a warrant dormer from Queen 
 Mary to the ' maister and yeoman of the office of our Revells for 
 the time being ' beginning : — ' Wheras our welbeloved Nicolas 
 Udall hath at soondrie seasons convenient heretofore shewed, and 
 myndeth hereafter to shewe, his dilligence in setting foorth of Dia- 
 logues and Enterludes before us fo' ou' regell disporte and recreacion 
 ...we will and comaunde you. ..that ye deliver. ..to the said Udall 
 . . .out of our office of revelles, such apparell for his use as he shal 
 thinke necessarie and requisite for the furnisshinge and condigne 
 setting forthe of his devises before us.' This is dated ' the iii daye of 
 Decembre, in the seconde yere of ou' reigne.' 
 
 Again [ib. p. 90) among extracts from accounts relating to the 
 Office of the Revels, we find under the date X'mas, i and 2 
 Phil, and Mary, an item, ' certen plaies made by Nicholas Udall 
 
Introduction xvii 
 
 and ther incydents.' In Nichols's Progresses of Elizabeth^ ill. 177 
 (Cooper, R.R.D. p. xxxiii), under the year 1564 it is recorded 
 that one of Udall's works was performed before Elizabeth on her 
 visit to Cambridge: — '1564. This day (Aug, 8) was nothing 
 done publique, save that at 9 of the clocke at night an English 
 play called Ezekias, made by Mr Udall, and handled by King's 
 College men only.' 
 
 § 5. Performance of Jacke Jugeler. There are two passages in 
 the play which enable us to fix with tolerable certainty the time 
 of year at which Jacke Jugeler was performed. When the actor 
 who took the part of Jacke Jugeler enters (vv. 84-7), he greets 
 the audience in the following words : 
 
 ' Our lord of Heuen and swete sainte Jhone 
 Rest you merye my maisters euerychone 
 And I praye to Christ and swete saint Steuen 
 Send you all many a good euine.' 
 
 Again, the epilogue ends with the line : 
 
 'I praye god graunt, and send many a good newe yere.' 
 
 Now, as the festival of St Stephen falls on the 26th of December 
 and that of St John on the 27th, the conclusion is irresistible that 
 the play was written to be performed on some day or days between 
 December 26th and 31st. 
 
 That it was written to be acted by boys is evident from 
 vv. 75-6 : 
 
 ' For this maker shewed vs that suche maner thinges 
 Doo neuer well besime litle boyes handelinges.' 
 
 § 6. Sources. The episode of Jacke Jugeler and Careawaye, 
 vv. 331-637, is based upon the scene between Mercurius and 
 Sosia in the Amphitruo of Plautus (Act i. Sc. i.), vv. 263-462 
 (ed. Goetz-Schoell). The dialogue between Boungrace and Care- 
 awaye, vv. 774-924, is an imitation of that between Amphitruo 
 and Sosia (Act 11. Sc. i.), vv. 551-632. The rest of the play 
 seems to be original. 
 
xviii Jdcke Jugeler 
 
 § 7. Spelling. The spelling of the unique copy in His Grace 
 the Duke of Devonshire's collection shows certain marked and 
 consistent peculiarities which prove that it belongs to an earlier 
 edition than that represented by the two loose leaves which are 
 contained in that copy and reproduced by the courtesy of his 
 Grace (we believe for the first time) in the present edition. It 
 will be noticed that the spelling of the fragment is comparatively 
 modern and contemporary with the period at which the later 
 edition was licensed for publication (v. § 2). 
 
 The following is a summary of the chief peculiarities of 
 spelling in the original edition : 
 
 a > e. emongs (13, 258); couerd (353); luhilberoiv (4.17); remembrence 
 
 (729) ; gethered (902) ; cheryte (939) ; 'vncomperable (952). 
 a > o. any (597). 
 e > a (before r). sartayne (171) ; parchaunce (297) ; hard (352, 598, 878, 
 
 884) ; marcy (471, 911) ; marchent (759) ; sarue (796) ; saruetk (819) ; 
 
 maruael (825) ; parcace (977, 1006). 
 e>ea. leasone (100) ; leat (109) 5 feache (143, 718) ; featche (151) ; 
 
 rekeaninges (171) ; geate (356, 419) ; heare (481, 575) ; make (577) ; 
 
 sleaping (609) ; cheare (646) ; meat (722) ; meaue (826). 
 e > ei. theim (535, 641, 754). 
 e > i. nides {niddes) (17, 141, 730, 801) ; besime (76) ; euine (89) ; reckine 
 
 (91) ; nedithe (97) ; diuellith (xii) ; cumitke (137, 639, 6S9, 695) ; 
 
 maisteris (151, 184, 202, 636) ; gatherid (155) ; spokine (190) ; 
 
 simithe (191) ; pice (217) ; simperitk, prankith (226) ; tredith (229) ; 
 
 quauerith, luardelith (231) ; 'wike (274, 297) ; spid (276) ; tokine 
 
 (283) ; folimiid (286) ; standith (325) ; thiues (346) ; beginnitk (347) ; 
 
 makith, lustith (348) ; spedith (355) ; Aunderid {^^g) ; nuashith (368) ; 
 
 chise (382) ; nueighith (383) ; luaghtth (384) ; luhilberonu (417) ; 
 
 drunkin (441) ; maisterlis (479) ; sike (541, 860) ; entendith (586) ; 
 
 shakin (592) ; heuine (602) ; monethis (651) ; seruithe (669) ; disposid 
 
 (687) ; handelid (710, 987) ; besiche (732, 937) ; bitwine (754) ; 
 
 darist (774) ; knoivith (777) ; //am (787) ; commaundiment (809) ; 
 
 •whither (829) ; <ir?»i!V (834) ; binche (871) ; beliue (874, 1005) ; euin 
 
 (875) i speakith (884) j scaterid (901) ; j'luzV? (925) ; Aa//i»« (953). 
 e>y. byliue (178); my (191, 258); nyde (194); myruayllus (259); 
 
 commaundyd {z6o) ; dyd {dyde) (293, 620, 958) ; byne (609, 610, 709, 
 
 761, 767, 931, 932, 935) ; lyse (619) ; pryue (621) ; byhauiore (663) ; 
 
Introduction xix 
 
 handelyd (760) ; belyue (827) ; euyn (876) ; blyssyd (879) ; faryd 
 
 (935) i hytwene (974). 
 ee>i. bet<wine (119); misdime (291); luine (708); Mry (746) ; sine 
 
 (821). 
 i > e. luhether (183, 628) ; hether (510) ; J^/ (645) i '"'«' (652) i be (687, 
 
 723) ; maruael (825) ; meserye (1023). 
 i > ey. theyther (Tii). 
 i > ie. _/£««(/ (250). 
 o > a. corrasiue (6$y). 
 o >e. yender (256, 689) ; buttens (348). 
 o > i. tuantin (255). 
 o > u. furtune (62) ; cumpanie (cumfany) (92, 859) ; seasune (270) ; reasutie 
 
 (271) ; undune (767). 
 u > a. apon (175, 566, 600, 731). 
 u>au. haungrie [^^io). 
 u>e. tred^ng {i^zf). 
 u > i. this (751). 
 u > o. lake (180) ; soffred (727). 
 y > e. me (199) ; ay/j'/f (725) ; teranie (1048). 
 
 Other peculiarities of spelling are : 
 
 scentence (65) ; compasced (no) ; shurlie (206) ; getteth \^jettet}i\ (226) ; 
 dought (498) ; dubtles (637) ; rt^//? (722) ; poumile (725) ; hehalphe (762) ; 
 calphe (763) ; /«o^? (804, 805, 812) ; stoke (813) ; troiest (822) ; shadoo 
 (822-3) > iMaight {% ^if) ; at tonce {S60) ; snought {i6i) ; scacelye{g^;) j Muay 
 (956) ; sertaine (966) ; innosainies (looi) ; suttle (1003) ; moune (1005) ; 
 iMhight (1019) ; matiers (1038) ; caple (1045). 
 
 Words afterwards compounded are frequently printed apart, 
 e.g.: 
 
 ixjitk in (6, 330, 344, 553) ; with out (28, 300, 526, 1023) ; her 0/(29) i 
 luho so {^$) ; in too {Sz) j •with al {116) ; a late {iig) ; albe it (izz) ; gentle 
 man (124) ; a luaye (140, 421, 601, 606, 877, 955) ; sumeixshat (150, 642) ; 
 too moronu (197) ; « nother (201, 541, 627, 783, 1020) 5 after noons (219) 5 
 after noone (525) ; a lurye (229) ; a non (240, 260, 762) ; luher nipon (264) ; 
 a lone (279) ; a loon (601) ; no nother (328) ; a fier (354) ; a curste (354) j 
 me thinketh (364) ; a sleepe (365) ; a mendes (395, 869) ; a gayne (461, 466, 
 667. 697> 956) ) « "y"^ (472. 1021) ; a bout (479, 569, 725) ; a pan (566, 
 731) ; a 'voyde (590) ; heretofore (598) ; noo bodie {63^) ; euery chone (641) ; 
 a 'vou (708) ; a paied (735) ; a mse (742) ; straight ivayes (779) ; -vnder 
 stood (838) ; a brod (964) ; »oau a dayes (1000). 
 
XX 
 
 Ja'cke Jugeler 
 
 § 8. Fragment of later edition. One leaf of the fragment 
 corresponds to fol. D. ii. a (vv. 696-7 1 8) and to fol. D. iii. b (vv. 
 775-802) of the complete copy ; the other to fol. D. ii. b and D. 
 iii. a (vv. 719-774). (See Appendix.) 
 
 The followring differences of reading, other than spelling, may- 
 be noted : 
 
 
 Complete Copy 
 
 Fragment 
 
 711. 
 
 ' beat me ' 
 
 ' beaten ' 
 
 7»5- 
 
 
 omits ' misteris ' 
 
 717. 
 
 'is' 
 
 'was' 
 
 718. 
 
 'was' 
 
 • wast ' 
 
 723. 
 
 'Buf 
 
 ' By ' [a misprint.] 
 inserts ' first ' before ' he ' 
 
 724. 
 
 
 inserts ' present ' after ' were ' 
 
 725. 
 
 ' wold ' 
 
 ' could ' 
 
 726. 
 
 ' drunken ' 
 
 ' drunck ' 
 
 736. 
 
 ' I knew verie well ' 
 
 ' this mischaunce also fel ' 
 
 747- 
 
 ' And I charge thee cum in my 
 presens no more ' 
 
 ' And come no more in my presence ' 
 
 756. 
 
 ' haue with me parte ' 
 
 ' with me haue part ' 
 
 7S8. 
 
 (head-line) ' Jacke iugler ' 
 
 ' Jugler - 
 
 764. 
 
 ' angered ' 
 
 ' an angred ' 
 
 768. 
 
 ' But now I haue reuenged my 
 
 ' Wei, sith that now reuenged is my 
 
 
 quarell ' 
 
 quarel ' 
 
 769. 
 
 
 omits ' this ' 
 
 774- 
 
 ' darist ' 
 
 ' dare ' 
 
 776. 
 
 
 inserts ' you ' after ' tolde ' 
 
 777- 
 
 ' folkes knowith ' 
 
 ' foike knowe ' 
 
 784. 
 
 (head-line) ' Boungrace ' 
 
 ' Maister Boungrace ' 
 
 789. 
 
 ' I shreue ' 
 
 ' Beshrew ' 
 
 798. 
 
 (head-line) ' Boungrace ' 
 
 ' Maister Boungrace ' 
 
 802. 
 
 ' said ' 
 
 ' saydst ' 
 
 From this it is evident that the fragment represents a careful 
 revision of the original edition so as to bring it up to modern 
 requirements in the matters of punctuation, spelling, grammar and 
 metre. The punctuation has been corrected, but an unfortunate 
 convention has been adopted, by wrhich a colon has been put at 
 
Introduction xxi 
 
 the end of the first line of each couplet and a full stop at the end 
 of the second, without reference to the sense. Constructions that 
 had become archaic have been modernised, e.g. ' was thou ' becomes 
 'wast thou'; 'thou said' becomes 'thou saydst.' The metre 
 has been normalised by changing the order of the words, or by 
 the addition or omission of expletives. These are all printer's 
 corrections, and merely imply that the original copy was carefully 
 ' edited ' for later publication. 
 
 § 9. Modern editions. In 1820 The Interludes of Jack 
 Jugler and Thersytes were edited for the Roxburghe Club by 
 Joseph Haslewood. Jacke Jugeler was included in Four Old Plays 
 (ed. Child, 1848), and in Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley's Old English 
 Plays (1874). Dr Grosart reprinted it directly from the original, 
 adding an introduction and notes, in vol. iv of his Miscellanies of 
 the Fuller Worthies Library (printed for private circulation, 
 1872-1876). 
 
 The editor desires to acknowledge his obligation to the Duke 
 of Devonshire for permission to photograph the pages of the 
 unique original in the Chatsworth Library ; to the late Duke of 
 Devonshire for similar courtesy in respect of the two loose leaves 
 of anothei^ edition, contained in the unique copy and here repro- 
 duced as an appendix ; also to Mrs S. Arthur Strong, formerly 
 Librarian and Keeper of the Duke of Devonshire's Collections, 
 for taking the two leaves to Oxford to be photographed at the 
 Clarendon Press ; also to Professor E. Bensly for extracts from 
 Arber's Transcript of the Stationers' Register, and to Professor 
 Bang for the suggestion that Jacke Jugeler was written by Nicholas 
 Udall. 
 
XXll 
 
 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 Irregular, Doubtful and Erroneous Readings. 
 The following are the readings of the original edition : 
 
 25. industruis 
 
 494- 
 
 iacke iugler (misplaced) 
 
 Instie 
 
 5'5- 
 
 ye(yt;) 
 
 28. with out 
 
 527- 
 
 And 
 
 41. Ppilosophers 
 
 590. 
 
 slinking 
 
 104. yers ? 
 
 658. 
 
 maisterishps 
 
 105. yon 
 
 713. 
 
 lytle (broken t) 
 
 148. prceious 
 
 73S- 
 
 full (broken f) 
 
 171. Sartayde 
 
 742. 
 
 bete (broken t) 
 
 207. sumpretie 
 
 777- 
 
 I (inverted) 
 
 217. gingerlte 
 
 798. 
 
 knane 
 
 228. Se 
 
 825. 
 
 maruael 
 
 231. wardelith 
 
 861. 
 
 knanes 
 
 239. tael 
 
 870. 
 
 befound 
 
 310. stoding 
 
 878. 
 
 a other 
 
 427. lynes 
 
 925. 
 
 swite 
 
 438. Caerawaye 
 
 934- 
 
 hane 
 
 452. thyne ? 
 
 968. 
 
 waister 
 
 464. Careawaye (misplaced) 
 
 985. 
 
 1 
 
 465. ehauug 
 
 997- 
 
 yfso 
 
 466. see (thee ?) 
 
 1005. 
 
 aud 
 
 481. r(y'?) 
 
 1044. 
 
 woUsone 
 
 486. one 
 
 1060. 
 
 gidau 
 
 thy 
 
 
 
 490. cae (contraction of Care- 
 
 
 awaye ?) 
 
 
 
€m^m to plape,namet)31ac6e ^ustuv,mb 
 
 mmmpt n (Btntemomtai 
 
 3|en fttn cawatoap ai Xackm 
 
 Slacke Sutler. 
 
 W. J. J. 
 
VC THE PROLOGUE 
 
 INterpone tuis interdum gaudia curis 
 Ut possis animo quemues sufFerre laborem 
 Doo any of you knowe what latine is this 
 Or ells wold you haue, an expositorem 
 To declare it in Englyshe, per sensum planiorem 5 
 
 It is best I speake Englyshe, or ells with in a whyUe 
 I may percace myne owne selfe, with my latin begile. 
 
 The two verses, which I rehersid before 
 
 I finde written, in the boke of Cato the wyse 
 
 Emongs good precepts, of lyuing a thousand more 10 
 
 Which to folowe there, he doth all men auise 
 
 And they may be Englyshed, breflie in this wyse 
 
 Emongs thy earful busines, vse sume time mirth and ioye 
 
 That no bodilye worke, thy wyttes breke or noye. 
 
 For the mynd (saith he) in serious matters occupied 15 
 
 Yf it haue not sum quiet mirthe, and recreacion 
 Interchaungeable admixed, must niddes be sone weried 
 And (as who should saye) tried, through continual operacion 
 Of labour and busines, without relaxacion 
 Therfore intermix honest mirthe, in suche wise 20 
 
 That your streght may be refreshid, and to labours suffise 
 
Jacke Jugeler 3 
 
 For as meat and drinke, naturall rest and slepe 
 
 For the conseruacion, and helth of the bodye 
 
 Must niddes be had, soo the mynd and wittes to kepe 
 
 Pregnant, freshe industruis, quike and Instie 25 
 
 Honest mirthe, and pastime, is requisite and necessarie 
 
 For, Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est 
 
 Nothing may endure (saith Ouyd) with out sum rest. 
 
 Example, proufe her of in erth is well founde 
 
 Manifest open and verie euident 3° 
 
 For except the husbandman suffer his grounde 
 
 Sum tymes to rest, it wol bere no frute verament 
 
 Therfore they lett the filde lye, euerie second yeare 
 
 To the end that after rest, it may the better corne beare. 
 
 Thus than (as I haue sayed) it is a thyng naturall 35 
 
 And naturallie belonging to all lyuing creatures 
 
 And vnto man especiallie, aboue others all 
 
 To haue at times cOueniet pastaUce, mirthe, and pleasurs 
 
 So thei be ioyned wt honestie, and keapt wt in due measurs 
 
 And the same well allowed not onlye the said Cato 4° 
 
 But also ye Ppilosophers, Plutarke, Socrates and Plato 
 
 And Cicero Tullius, a man sapient and wyse 
 
 Willeth the same, in that his fyrst boke 
 
 Which he wrot, and entytulid, of an honest mans office 
 
 Who so is disposid therupon to looke 45 
 
 Wher to define, and offirme, he boldlie on him tooke 
 
 That to here Enterluds, is pastime conuenient 
 
 For all maner men, and a thing congruent. 
 
 I — 2 
 
4 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 He rekeneth that namelie, as a verie honest disport 
 And aboue al other thinges, commendeth ye old comedie 50 
 The hearing of which, may doo the mynd cumfort 
 For they be replenished with precepts of Philosophie 
 The conteine mutch wisdome and teache prudet poUecie 
 and though thei be al write of mattiers of non iportaace 
 Yet the shew great wit, and mutch pretie conueiaunce. 55 
 
 And in this maner of making, Plautus did excell 
 
 As recordeth the same TuUius cOmending him bi name 
 
 Wherfore this maker deliteth passinglye well 
 
 Too folowe his argumentes, and drawe out the same 
 
 For to make at seasuns coueniet pastims mirth and game 60 
 
 As now he hath do this matter not worth an oyster shel 
 
 Except percace it shall furtune too make you laugh well 
 
 And for that purpose onlye this maker did it write 
 
 Taking the ground therof out of Plautus first cOmedie 
 
 And the first scentence of ye same for higher things endite 65 
 
 In no wise he wold, for yet the time is so quesie 
 
 That he that speaketh best, is lest thanke worthie 
 
 Therfore, sith noting but trifles maye be had 
 
 you shal here a thing yt onlie shal make you merie and glad. 
 
 And suche a trifling matter as when it shalbe done 70 
 
 Ye may report and saye ye haue hearde nothing at all 
 
 Therfore I tell you aU, before it be begone 
 
 That noman looke to heare of matters substancyall 
 
 Nor mattiers of any grauitee either great or small 
 
 For this maker shewed vs that suche maner thinges 75 
 
 Doo neuer well besime litle boyes handelinges. 
 
Jacke Jugeler 5 
 
 Wherfore yf ye wyl not sowrelie your broues bende 
 
 At suche a fantasticall conceite as this 
 
 But can be content to heare and see the ende 
 
 I woll go shew the Players what your pleasure is 80 
 
 Which to wait vpon you I know bee redie or this 
 
 I woll goo sende them hither in too your presence 
 
 Desiryng that they may haue quiet audience. 
 
 Vtf Jake Jugler 
 
 OUr lord of Heuen and swete sainte Jhone 
 Rest you merye my maisters euerychone 85 
 
 And I praye to Christ and swete saint Steuen 
 Send you all many a good euine 
 And you to syr, and you, and you also 
 Good euine to you an hundered times and a thousand mo 
 Now by all thes crosses of fleshe bone and blod 90 
 
 I reckine my chaunce right maruaylus good 
 Here now to find all this cumpanie 
 Which in my mynde I wyshed for hartylie 
 For I haue labored all daye tyll I am werie 
 And now am disposed too passe the time, and be merie 95 
 And I thinke noon of you, but he wolde do the same 
 For who wol be sad, and nedithe not, is foule to blame 
 And as for mee, of my mother I haue byn tought 
 To bee merie when I may, and take no thought 
 Which leasone, I bare so well awaye 100 
 
 That I vse to make merye oons a daye 
 And now if all thinges happyn right 
 You shall see as mad a pastime this night 
 
6 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 As you saw this seuen yers ? and as propre a toye 
 
 As euer yon saw played of a boye 105 
 
 I am called Jake Jugler, of many an oon 
 
 And in faith I woll playe a iugling cast a non 
 
 I woll cunger the mouU, and god before 
 
 Or elles leat me lese my name for euer more 
 
 I haue it deuised, and compasced hou no 
 
 And what wayes, I woll tell and shew to you 
 
 you all know well Maister Boungrace 
 
 The gentilman that dwellith here in this place 
 
 And Jenkine Carreawaie, his page as cursed a lad 
 
 And as vngracious as euer man had 115 
 
 An vnhappy wage, and as folishe a knaue with al 
 
 As any is now, within London wall 
 
 This Jenkine and I been fallen at great debate 
 
 For a mattier, that fell betwine vs a late 
 
 And hitherto of him I could neuer reuenged be 120 
 
 For his maister mantaineth hi, and loueth not me 
 
 Albe it the very truth to tell 
 
 Nother of the both, knoweth me not verie well 
 
 But against al other boies, the sayd gentle man 
 
 Maynteyneth him, all that he can 125 
 
 But I shall set lytle by my wyte 
 
 If I do not Jenkine this night requite 
 
 Ere I slepe Jenkine shall bee mete 
 
 And I trust to cume partlye out of his dete 
 
 And whan we mete againe, if this do not suffise 130 
 
 I shall paye Jenkine the residue, in my best wyse 
 
 It chanced me right now in the other end of ye next stret 
 
 With Jenkine and his mayster, in the face to met 
 
Jacke Jugeler 7 
 
 I aboed ther a whylle, playng for to see 
 
 At the Buklers, as welbecommed mee 13S 
 
 It was not longe tyme, but at the last 
 
 Bake cumithe my cosune Careawaie, homward ful fast 
 
 Pricking, Praunsing, and springynge in his short cote 
 
 And pleasauntlie synginge, with a mery note 
 
 Whyther a waye so fast, tary a whyle sayed oon 140 
 
 I cannot now sayd Jenkine, I must nides bee goon 
 
 My maister suppeth herbye, at a gentylmans place 
 
 And I must thither feache my dame, maistres boQgrace 
 
 But yet er I go, I care not motche 
 
 At the bukelers to playe, with thee oon faire toche 145 
 
 To it they went, and played so long 
 
 Tyll Jenkine thought he had wrong 
 
 By cokes precious potstike, I wyll not home this night 
 
 Quod he, but as good a stripe oon thie hed lyght 
 
 Within halfe an houre, or sume what lese 150 
 
 Jenkine lefte playng, and went to featche his maisteris 
 
 But by the waye he met with a Freuteres wyfe 
 
 There Jenkine and she fell at suche strife 
 
 For snatching of an Apple, that doune he cast 
 
 Her basket, and gatherid vp the apples fast 155 
 
 And put them in his sleue, the came he his waye 
 
 By an other lane, as fast as he maye 
 
 tyll he came at a corner, by a shoops stall 
 
 Where boyes were at Dice, faryng at all 
 
 When Careawaie with that good cumpany met 160 
 
 He fell to faryng, withouten let 
 
 Forgettyng his message, and so well did he fare 
 
 that whan I came bye, he gan swere and stare 
 
8 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 And full bitterlye, began to curse 
 
 As oone that had lost, almost all in his purse 165 
 
 For I knowe his olde gise, and condicion 
 
 Neuer to leaue, tyU all his mony bee goon 
 
 For he hath noo mony, but what he doth stell 
 
 And that woU he playe, awaye euery dell 
 
 I passed by, and then called vnto my mynd 17° 
 
 Sartayde old rekeaninges, that were behynd 
 
 Bitwen Jenkine and me, who partlie to recopence 
 
 I trust by gods grace, ere I goo hence 
 
 This garments, cape, and all other geare 
 
 That now you see, apon me here 175 
 
 I haue doon oon, all lyke vnto his 
 
 For the nons, and my purpose is 
 
 To make Jenkine, byliue yf I can 
 
 That he is not him selfe, but an other man 
 
 For except he hath better loke, than he had 180 
 
 He woU cum hyther, starke staryng mad 
 
 Whan he shall cum, I wol handle my captine so 
 
 That he shal not weU wot, whether too goo 
 
 His Maisteris I know, she woll him blame 
 
 And his Mayster also, wyll doo the same 185 
 
 Because that she, of her supper deceiued is 
 
 For I am sure they haue all supped by this 
 
 But and if Jenkine, wold hither resort 
 
 I trust he and I, should make sum sport 
 
 Yf I had sooner spokine, he wold haue sooner been here 190 
 
 For my simithe, I do his voyce heare. 
 
Jacke Jugeler 9 
 
 C Careawaye 
 A syr I may saye, I haue been at a fest 
 I haue lost .ii.s. and syxpence at the lest 
 Mary syr, of this gaynes I nyde make no host 
 But the dyuell goo with all, more haue I lost 195 
 
 My name is Careawaie, let all sorow passe 
 I woU ere too morow night be as rich as euer I was 
 Or at ye forthest within a day or twaine 
 Me Maysters purse, shall paye me agayne 
 Therfor hogh careawaie, now wol I sig. hei hei 200 
 
 But bi ye lorde now I remembre a nother thing 
 By my faith Jenkine my Maisteris and thou 
 Ar lyke to gree, god knoweth hou 
 That thou comest not, for her incontinent 
 To bryng hir to supper, when thou were sent 205 
 
 And now they haue all supped, thou wolt shurlie abye 
 Except thou imagine, sumpretie and craftye lye 
 For she is as all other weomen bee 
 A verie cursed shrew, by the blessid Trinitie 
 And a verye Dyuell, for yf she 00ns begyne 210 
 
 To fyght, or chyde, in a weke she wol not lyne 
 And a great pleasure she hath, specyally now of late 
 To gette poore me, now and then by the pate 
 For she is an angrye pece of fleshe, and sone displeasyd 
 Quikely moued, but not lyghtlye appesed 215 
 
 We vse to call her at home, dame Coye 
 A pretie gingerlie pice, god saue her and saint Loye 
 As denty and nice, as an halpeny worth of siluer spoons 
 But vengable melancolie, in the after noons 
 She vseth for hir bodylie helth, and safegard 220 
 
lo Jacke Jugeler 
 
 To chyd daylie oone fite, too supperward 
 
 And my Mayster him selfe, is worse then she 
 
 If he ons throughlye angeryd bee 
 
 And a mayd we haue at home, Aulsoon tripe and goo 
 
 Not all London can shewe, suche other twoo 225 
 
 She simperith, she prankith and getteth with out fayUe 
 
 As a pecocke that hath spred, and sheweth hir gaye taile 
 
 Se minceth, she brideleth, she swimmeth to and fro 
 
 She tredith not one here a wrye, she tryppeth like a do 
 
 Abrode in the strete, going or cumming homward 230 
 
 She quauerith, and wardelith, like one in a galiard 
 
 Euerye ioynt in her bodye and euerie part 
 
 Oh it is a ioylie wenche to myns and deuyd a fart 
 
 She talketh, she chatteth like a Pye all daye 
 
 And speaketh like a parat Poppagaye 235 
 
 And that as fine, as a small silken threede 
 
 Ye and as high as an Eagle can fle for a neade 
 
 But it is a spitfull lying girle, and neuer well 
 
 But whan she may sum yll tael by me tel 
 
 She woU I warrant you, a non at the first 240 
 
 Of me immagine, and saye the worst, 
 
 And what soeuer she to my maisteris doth saye 
 
 It is writen in the gosspell of the same daye 
 
 Therfore I woU here with my selfe deuise 
 
 "What I may best say, and in what wise 245 
 
 I may excuse this my long taryeng 
 
 That she of my negligence may suspect nothyng 
 
 For if the faulte of this be found in mee 
 
 I may giue my life for halpenis three 
 Hie cogitabundo simills sedeat. 
 
Jacke Jugeler 1 1 
 
 Let me stodie this monethj and I shall not fiend 250 
 
 A better deuise then now is cume to my mynd 
 
 Maistries woU I saye, I am bound by my dutie 
 
 To see that your womanhod haue no iniurie 
 
 For I heare and see, more then you now and then 
 
 And your selfe partlie know the wantin wyles of men 255 
 
 When wee came yender, there dyd I see 
 
 My mayster kisse gentilwomen tow or three 
 
 And to come emongs others my thought bysye 
 
 He had a myruayllus great phantasye 
 
 A non he commaundyd me to run thens for you 260 
 
 To cume supe there if you wold but I wot not how 
 
 My hart grudgid mistrusting lest that I being awaye 
 
 My maister wold sum light cast playe 
 
 Wher vpon maistries, to se the ende 
 
 I tarried halfe supper time so god me mende 265 
 
 And besydes that there was such other compainye 
 
 As I know your maistrisship setteth nothing by 
 
 Gorges dames of the corte and galaunts also 
 
 With doctours, and other rufflers mo 
 
 At last whan I thought it tyme and seasune 270 
 
 I cam too certifie you as it was reasune 
 
 And by the way whome should I mete 
 
 But that most honest Gentilman in the stret 
 
 Which the last wike was with you here 
 
 And made you a banket, and bouncing cheare 275 
 
 Ah Jenkin quoth he good spid how fkrest thou 
 
 Mary wel god yld it you maister quoth I how do you 
 
 How dothe thy maisteris is she at home 
 
 Ye syr quoth I and suppeth all alone 
 
12 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 And but she hath noo maner good chere 280 
 
 I am sure she wold gladlye haue you there 
 
 I cannot cum now sayd he I haue busines 
 
 But thou shalt carie a tokine from me to thy maistreis 
 
 Goo with me too my chaumbre at yone lane end 
 
 And I woU a dishe of costerds vnto hyr send 285 
 
 I folowid him, and was bolde by your leaue 
 
 To receiue and bring them here in my sleue 
 
 But I wold not for all Englond by Jhesu Chryst 
 
 That my maister Boungrace herof wyst 
 
 Or knew that I should any such geare to you bring 290 
 
 Lest he misdime vs both in sum worse thyng 
 
 Nor shew him nothyng of that I before sayed 
 
 For then in dyd syr I am arayed 
 
 Yf you doo I may nothing herafter vnto you tell 
 
 whether I se mi master doo ill or well 295 
 
 That if you now this counsaile kepe 
 
 I wol ease you parchaunce twise in a wike 
 
 you may saye you wer sike and your hed did ake 
 
 that you lusted not this night any supper make 
 
 Speciallye with out the dores but thought it best 300 
 
 too abyde at home and take your rest 
 
 And I wyll to my maister too bryng hym home 
 
 For you know he wolbe angrie if he come alone 
 
 this woU I saye and face it so well 
 
 That she shall beleue it euerye dell 305 
 
 Hou saye you frinds, by the armes of Robyn hood 
 
 Wol not this excuse be resonable good 
 
 To muse for any better, great foly it is 
 
 For I may make sure rekenning of this 
 
Jacke Jugeler 13 
 
 That and if I wold sit stoding this .vii. yere 310 
 
 I shall not ells find how to saue me all clere 
 
 And as you see for the most part our witts be best 
 
 When wee be takyne most vnrediest 
 
 But I wol not giue for that boye a flye 
 
 That hath not al tymes in store one good lye 315 
 
 And cannot set a good face vpon the same 
 
 Therfore saint Gorge ye boroue, as it wol let him frame 
 
 I woU leopard a ioynt, bee as bee maye 
 
 I haue had many lyke chaunces, before this daye 
 
 But I promise you I do curstlie feare 320 
 
 For I feel a vengeable burning in my left ere 
 
 And it hath byn a saying, of tyme long 
 
 That swete mete woll haue soure sauce among 
 
 And surelye I shall haue sum ill hape 
 
 For my here standith vp vnder my cape 325 
 
 I would knocke but I dare not by our ladye 
 
 I feare hanging where vnto no man is hastie 
 
 But seing there is no nother remedie 
 
 Thus to stand any longer it is but folye. 
 
 Hie pulset ostium. 
 They bee soo farre with in, the cannot heare 330 
 
 C Jacke Jugler 
 Soft thy knoking saucie knaue, what makest thou there 
 
 Jenkene Careawaie 
 
 What knaue is that ? he speaketh not too me I trowe 
 And we mete the one of vs is lyke to haue a blowe 
 For nowe that I am well chafed, and sumwhat hote 
 
14 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 twentye suche could I hewe as small as fleshe to pote 335 
 
 And surelie if I had a knyfe 
 
 This knaue should escape hardelye with his lyfe 
 
 To teache him to aske of me any more 
 
 What I make at my owne maistirs doore 
 
 <r Jacke Jugler 
 
 But if thou come from that gate thou knaue 340 
 
 I woll fet thee by the swet lookes so god me saue 
 
 V<f Jenkine Careawaie 
 
 Woll the horesoon fyght in dede by myn honestie 
 
 I know no quarell he hath too me 
 
 But I wold I were with in the house 
 
 And then I wold not set by hym a louse 345 
 
 For I feare and mistrust suche quareling thiues 
 
 See how he beginnith to strike vp his sleues 
 
 C[ Jacke iugler 
 
 His arse makith buttens now, and who lustith to feale 
 
 Shall find his hart creping out at his heele 
 
 Or ells lying hiden in sum corner of his hose 350 
 
 Yf it be not alredie dropped out of his nose 
 
 For as I doubt not but you haue hard beforne 
 
 A more dastard couerd knaue was neuer borne 
 
 'H Jenkin Careawaie 
 
 The diuell set the house a fier, I trowe it is a curste 
 When a man hath most hast he spedith worst 355 
 
 Yf I bee robed, or slayne, or any harme geate 
 
Jacke Jugeler 15 
 
 The fault is in them that dothe not me in lete 
 
 And I durst ieoperd, an hunderid pounde 
 
 That sum bauderie might now within be founde 
 
 But except sum of them come the soner 360 
 
 I shall knocke suche a peale, that al englond shal woder 
 
 C Jake iugler 
 Knoke at the gate hardelye agayne if thou dare 
 And seing thou wolt not bye faire words beware 
 Now fistes, me thinketh yesterdaye .vii. yers past 
 That four men a sleepe at my fete you cast 365 
 
 And this same day you dyd no maner good 
 Nor were not washen in warme blod 
 
 ifif Jenkin Careawaie 
 What whorson is this that washith in warme blod 
 Sum diuell broken loose, out of hell for wood 
 Four hath he slayne, and now well I see 370 
 
 That it must be my chaunce the fift to bee 
 But rather then thus shamfuUye too be slayne 
 wold Christ my frends had hanged me being but yers .ii 
 And yet if I take good hart and be bolde 
 Percace he wolbe more sobre and coulde 375 
 
 C Jake iugler 
 Now handes bestur you about his lyppes and face 
 And streake out all his teth without any grace 
 Gentelman are you disposed to eate any fist mete 
 
 ii Jenkin Careawaye 
 I haue supped I thanke you syr and lyst not to eate 
 Geue it to them that are haungrie if you be wyse 380 
 
1 6 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 Yet shall do a man of your dyet no harme to suppe twise 
 This shalbe your Chise, to make your met digest 
 For I tell you thes handes weighith of the best 
 
 TJSp Jenkin Careawaye 
 I shall neuer escape see how he waghith his handes 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 with a stroke they wyll lay a knaue in our ladye boons 385 
 And this day yet they haue done no good at all 
 
 Tflf Jenkine Careawaye 
 Ere ye assaye the on mee, I praie thee lame the on ye wal 
 But speake you all this in earnest, or in game 
 Yf you be angrie with me trulye you are to blame 
 For haue you any iust quarell to mee 390 
 
 <r Jake iugler 
 Eer thou and I parte that wol I shew thee 
 
 Vtf Jenkin Careawaye 
 Or haue I doone you any maner displeasure 
 
 <E Jake iugler 
 Ere thou and I parte thou shalt know, ye maist besure 
 
 V<f Jenkin Careawaye 
 By my faith yf thou be angrie without a cause 
 You shall haue a mendes made with a cople of straus 395 
 By thee I sette what soeuer thou arte 
 But for thy displeasure I care not a farte 
 May a man demaund whose seruant you bee 
 
Jacke Jugeler 17 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 My maisters seruaunt I am for veritle 
 
 ^ Jenkin Careawaye 
 what busynes haue you at thys place now 40° 
 
 Jacke iugler 
 Nay mary tell me what busynes hast thou 
 For I am commaunded for to watche and giue diligence 
 That in my good maister Boungraces absence 
 Noo misfortune may happen to his house sertayne 
 
 ^ Jenkin Careawaye 
 
 well now I am cume, you may go hens agayne 4°5 
 
 And thanke them yt somuch for my maister hath doone 
 Sewing them yt the seruants of yr house be cume home 
 For I am of the house, and now in woll I goo 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 I cannot tell whether thou be of the house or noo 
 But goo no nere, lest I handle thee like a strainger 410 
 
 Thanke no man but thyselfe, if thou be in any daunger 
 
 C Jenkine Careawaye 
 Marye I defye thee, and planly vnto thee tell 
 That I am a seruaunt of this house, and here I dwell 
 
 Jacke iugler 
 Now soo god me snache, but thou goo thee waies 
 Whille thou mayest, for this fortie dayes 415 
 
 I shall make thee not able to goo nor ryde 
 But in a dungcart or a whilberow liyng on on syde 
 
 w. J. J. 3 
 
1 8 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 C Jenken Careawaie 
 I am a seruaunt of this house by thes .x. bons 
 
 ^ Jacke iugler 
 Noo more prating but geat thee hens at towns 
 
 Jenkin Careawaye 
 Why my mayster hath sent me home in his message 420 
 
 Tpf Jacke iugler 
 Pike and walke a knaue, here a waye is no passage 
 
 C Jenkin Careawaie 
 "What wilt thou let me from my nowne maistirs house 
 
 ^ Jacke iugler 
 Be tredging, or in faith you bere me a souse 
 Here my mayster and I haue our habitacion 
 And hath continually dwelled in this mansyon 425 
 
 At the least this doosen yers and od 
 And here wol we end our lyues by the grace of god 
 
 Cl Jenkin Careawaye 
 Why then where shall my maister and I dwell 
 
 TJIf Jacke iugler 
 At the Dyuell yf you lust, I can not tell 
 
 C Jenken Careawaye 
 In nomine patris, now this geare doth passe 430 
 
 For a litel before supper here our house was 
 And this day in ye morning I wol on a boke swer 
 That my maister and I both dwelleyd here 
 
Jacke Jugeler ig 
 
 C Jake iugler 
 
 Who is thy mayster tell me with out lye 
 
 And thine owne name also let me knowe shortlie 435 
 
 For my maysters all, let me haue the blame 
 
 Yf this knaue kno his master or his owne name 
 
 ^ Caerawaye 
 
 My maisters name is maister Boungrace 
 
 I haue dwelled with him a longe space 
 
 And I am ienkin Careawaye his page 440 
 
 C Jake iugler 
 
 What ye drunkin knaue begin you to rage 
 Take that, art thou maister Boungracis page 
 
 ^ Careawaie 
 Yf I be not, I haue made a verye good viage 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 Darest thou too my face saye thou art I 
 
 ^Careawaye 
 
 I wolde it were true and no lye 445 
 
 For then thou sholdest smart, and I should bet 
 Where as now I do all the blowes get 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 And is maister Boungrace thy maister doest ye then saye 
 
 ^V Careawaye 
 I woll swere on a booke, he was ons this daye 
 
 2 — 2 
 
20 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 And for that thou shalt sumwhat haue 450 
 
 Because thou presumest, like a saucye lying knaue 
 To saye my maister is thyne ? who is thy maister now ? 
 
 TJIf Careawaie 
 By my trouthe syr who so euer please you 
 I am your owne, for you bete me soo 
 As no man but my mayster sholde doo 455 
 
 Jake iugler 
 I woU handle thee better if faut be not in fyst 
 
 Careawaie 
 Helpe saue my life maisters for ye passion of christ 
 
 Jacke iugler 
 Why thou lowsy thefe doest thou crye and rore 
 
 Careawaye 
 No fayth I woU not crye one whit more 
 Saue my lyfe helpe, or I am slaine 460 
 
 Jacke iugler 
 Ye doest thou make a romeringe yet a gayne 
 Dyd not I byde the holde thy peace 
 
 ^ Careawaie 
 In faith now I leaue crieng, now I sease helpe, helpe, 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 Who is thy maister Careawaye 
 
 Mayster Boungrace 
 
Jacke Jugeler 2i 
 
 <r Jacke lugler 
 I woll make the chaung yt song, ere wee pas this place 465 
 For he is my maister, and a gaine to see I saye 
 That I am his ienkin Careawaye 
 Who art thou now tell me plaine 
 
 ^ Careawaye 
 Noo bodye, but whome please you sertayne 
 
 Jacke iugler 
 Thou saydest euen now thy name was Careawaie 47° 
 
 ^ Careawaye 
 
 I crye you marcy syr, and forgiuenes praye 
 
 I said a mysse because it was soo too daye 
 
 And thought it should haue continued alwaies 
 
 Like a fole as I am and a dronken knaue 
 
 But in faith syr yee se all the wytte I haue 475 
 
 Therfore I beseche you do me no more blame 
 
 But giue me a new maister, and an other name 
 
 For it wold greue my hart soo helpe me god 
 
 To runne about the stretes like a maisterlis nod 
 
 C[ Jake iugler 
 I am he that thou saydest thou were 480 
 
 And maister boungrace is my maister ye dweleth heare 
 thou art no poynt Careawaye thi witts do thee faylle 
 
 TJ!f Careawaye 
 Ye mary syr you haue bette them doune into my taylle 
 But syr myght I be bolde to saye on thyng 
 Without any bloues, and without any beatynge 485 
 
2,2 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 C Jake iugler 
 Truce for a whyle say one what thy lust 
 
 Careawaye 
 May a man too your honeste by your woord trust 
 I pray you swere by the masse you woll do me no yll 
 
 C lacke iugler 
 By my faith 1 promise pardone thee I woll 
 
 Careawaye 
 What and you kepe no promise. Ja iugler, then vpO cae 49° 
 I praie god light as much or more as hath on ye to daye 
 
 Careawaye 
 Now dare I speake so mote I thee 
 Maister boungrace is my maister, and the name of mee 
 is ienken careaway, iacke iugler. What saiest thou soo 
 
 careawaye 
 And yf thou wilt strike me, and breake thy promise, doo 49s 
 And beate on mee, tyll I stinke, and tyll I dye 
 And yet woll I still saye that I am I 
 
 C iacke iugler 
 This bedlem knaue without dought is mad 
 
 €1 Careawaye 
 
 No by god for all that I am a wyse lad 
 
 And can cale to rememberaunce euery thynge 500 
 
 That 1 dyd this daye, sithe my vprisynge 
 
 For went not I wyth my mayster to daye 
 
 Erly in the morning to the Tenis playe } 
 
Jacke Jugeler 23 
 
 At noone whyle my maister at his dynner sate 
 
 Played not I at Dice at the gentylmans gate 505 
 
 Did not I wayte on my maister to supperward 
 
 And I thike I was not changed ye way howard 
 
 Or ells if thou thinke I lye 
 
 Aske in the stret of them that I came bye 
 
 And sith that I cam hether into your presens 510 
 
 what man lyuing could carye me hens 
 
 I remember I was sent to fetche my maisteris 
 
 And what I deuised to saue me harmeles 
 
 Doo not I speake now is not this my hande 
 
 Be not these my feet ye on this ground stand ? 515 
 
 Did not this other knaue her knoke me about ye hede ? 
 
 And beat me tyll I was almost dede ? 
 
 How may it then bee, that he should bee I ? 
 
 Or I not my selfe it is a shamfull lye 
 
 I woU home to our house, whosoeuer say naye 520 
 
 For surelye my name is ienkin Careawaye 
 
 C Jacke Jugler 
 I wol make thee say otherwise ere we depart if we can 
 
 C Jenkin Careawaye 
 Nay that woll I not in faith for no man 
 Except thou tell me what I thou hast doone 
 Euer syth fiue of the cloke this after noone 525 
 
 Reherse me all that with out anye lye 
 Aud then I woll confesse that thou art I 
 
 ^ Jacke iugler 
 When my maister came to the gentylmas place 
 He comaunded me too rune home a great pace 
 
24 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 Too fet thyther my maisteris and by the waye 63o 
 
 I dyd a good whyle at the bukelers playe 
 
 Then came I by a wife that did costerds sell 
 
 And cast downe hir basket fayre and well 
 
 And gathered as many as I could gete 
 
 And put theim in my sleue here they bee yet 535 
 
 <r Careawaie 
 
 How the diuell should they cume there 
 
 For I dyd them all in my owne sleue bere 
 
 He lyeth not a worde in all this 
 
 Nor dothe in any one poynt myse 
 
 For ought I se yet betwene erneste and game 540 
 
 I must go sike me a nother name 
 
 But thou mightest see al this, tel the rest that is behind 
 
 And there I know I shal thee a Iyer fynd 
 
 ^ Jacke iugler 
 
 I ran thence homeward a contrarye waye 
 
 And whether I stoped there or naye 545 
 
 I could tell if me lusteth a good token 
 
 But it may not very well be spoken 
 
 Jenkin Careawaye 
 
 Noo may I praye thee let no man that here 
 But tell it me priuelye in mine ere 
 
 ;|lf Jacke iugler 
 
 I thou lost all thy mony at dice christ geue it his curse 550 
 wel and truelye pycked before out of an other mas porse 
 
Jacke Jugeler 25 
 
 C! Jenken Careawale 
 Godes bodye horeson thefe who tolde thee that same 
 Sum cunning diuell is with in thee payne of shame 
 In nomine patris, god and our blessed ladye 
 Now and euermore saue me from thy cumpanye 555 
 
 €E Jacke iugler 
 How now art thou Careawaye or not 
 
 ^ Careawaye 
 By the lorde I doubte, but sayest thou nay to that 
 
 Jacke iugler 
 Ye mary I tell thee care awaye is my name 
 
 <r Careawaye 
 And by these tene bones myne is the same 
 Or ells tell me yf I be not hee 560 
 
 What my name frome hensforth shall bee 
 
 T|!f iacke iugler 
 By my fayth the same that it was before 
 Whan I lust too be Careawaye no more 
 Looke well vpon me, and thou shalt see as now 
 That I am ienkyne Careawaye and not thou 565 
 
 Looke well a pon me, and by euerye thyng 
 Thou shalt well know that I make no leasing, 
 
 Careawaye 
 I se it is soo without any doubte 
 But how the dyuell came it a boute 
 
 Who soo in England lokethe on him stedelye 570 
 
 Sail perceiue plainlye that he is I 
 
26 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 I haue sene my selfe a thousand times in a glasse 
 
 But soo lyke my selfe as he is neuer was 
 
 He hath in euerye poynt my clothing and mi geare 
 
 My hed, my cape, my shirt and notted heare 57 S 
 
 And of the same coloure, my yes, nose and lyppes 
 
 My chekes chine, neake, feete, leges, and hippes 
 
 Of the same stature, and hyght and age 
 
 And is in euery poynt maister Boungrace page 
 
 That if he haue a hole in his tayle 580 
 
 He is euen I myne owne selfe without any faile 
 
 And yet when I remembre I wot not how 
 
 The same ma yt I haue euer bine me thinkith I am now 
 
 I know mi maister, and his house, and my fiue witts I haue 
 
 Why then should I giue credence to this folishe knaue 585 
 
 That nothing entendith but me delude and mooke 
 
 For whom should I feare at my masters gate to knoke 
 
 Jacke iugler 
 
 Thinkest thou I haue sayde all this in game 
 
 Goo or I shall send the hens in the dyuills name 
 
 A voyde thou lousye lurden and precious slinking slaue 590 
 
 that nether thi name knowest nor canst ani maister haue 
 
 wine shakin, pilorye pecpours, of lice not wtout a pecke 
 
 Hens or by gods precious I shall breake thy necke 
 
 <E Careawaye 
 
 Then mayster I besiche you hartylye take the payne 
 
 Yf I be found in any place too bringe me to me againe 595 
 
 Now is not this a wonderfuU case 
 
 That no man should lease him selfe soo in ony place 
 
Jacke Jugeler 27 
 
 Haue any of you harde of suche a thyng here to fore 
 No nor neuer shall I dare sale from hensforth any more 
 
 C Jacke iugler 
 
 Whyle he museth an iudgeth him selfe apon 600 
 
 I woU stele a waye for a whyle and let him a loon 
 
 Vtf Careawaie 
 
 Good lorde of heuine, where dyd I my selfe leaue 
 
 Or who did me of my name by the waye bereue 
 
 For I am sure of this in my mynde 
 
 That I dyd in no place leue my selfe byhinde 605 
 
 Yf I had my name played a waye at dyce 
 
 Or had sold my selfe to any man at a pryce 
 
 Or had made a fray and had lost it in fyghtyng 
 
 Or it had byne stolne from me sleaping 
 
 It had byne a matter and I wold haue kept pacience 610 
 
 But it spiteth my hart to haue lost it by suche open negligence 
 
 Ah thou horesone drousie drunken sote 
 
 Yt were an almes dyde to walke thy cote 
 
 And I shrew him that wold for thee be sorye 
 
 Too see thee well curryed by and by 615 
 
 And by Chryst if any man wold it doo 
 
 I my selfe wold helpe there too 
 
 For a man may see thou horesone goose 
 
 Thou woldest lyse thyne arse if it were loose 
 
 Albeit I wolde neuer the dyde beleue 620 
 
 But that the thing it selfe doth shewe and pryue 
 
 There was neuer Ape so lyke vnto an Ape 
 
 As he is to me in feature, and shape 
 
28 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 But what woU my maister say trow ye 
 
 When he shall this geare here and see 625 
 
 Wyl he know me thinke you, when he shal se me 
 
 Yf he do not a nother woll as good as he 
 
 But where is that other I ? whether is he gon 
 
 To my mayster by cockes precius passion 
 
 Eyther to put me out of my place 630 
 
 Or too accuse me to my maister Boungrace 
 
 But I woll after as fast as I can flee 
 
 I trust to be there as soone as hee 
 
 That yf my mayster be not redye home to come 
 
 I woll be here agayne as fast as I can rune 635 
 
 In any wyse to speake with my maysteris 
 
 Or ells I shall neuer escape hanging dubtles 
 
 Dame Coye 
 
 I shall not suppe this night full wel I see 
 
 For as yet noo bodie cumithe for to fet mee 
 
 But good ynough let me alone 640 
 
 I woll bee euen with theim euery chone 
 
 I saye nothing, but I thinke sum what I wis 
 
 Sum ther bee that shall here of this 
 
 Of al vnkind and churlishe husbands this is ye cast 
 
 To let ther wyues set at home and fast 645 
 
 While they bee forth and make good cheare 
 
 Pastime, and sporte, as now he doth there 
 
 But yf I were a wyse woman, as I am a mome 
 
 I shold make my selfe as good chere at home 
 
 But if he haue thus vnkindlye serued mee 650 
 
 I woll not forget it this monethis three 
 
Jacke Jugeler 29 
 
 And if I west ye fault were in him, I pray god I be ded 
 
 But he shoulde haue suche a kyrie, ere he went too bed 
 
 As he neuer had before in all his lyfe 
 
 Nor any man ells haue had of his wyfe 655 
 
 I wolde rate him and shake him after such a sorte 
 
 As sholde be to him a corrasiue, full lytle to his cumforte 
 
 Alis trippe and goo 
 Yf I may be so bolde by your maisterishps lycens 
 As too speake and shew my mynde and sentence 
 I thinke of this you may the boye thanke 660 
 
 For I know that he playeth you many a lyke pranke 
 And that wolde you saye, yf you knew as mutch as wee 
 That his daylye conuersacion and byhauiore see 
 For yf you commaund him to goo speake with sum one 
 Yt is an houre ere he wolbe gone 665 
 
 Then woU he rune forth, and playe in the strete 
 And cume a gaine and say that he cannot with him mete 
 
 Dame Coye 
 Naye, naye, it is his maisters playe 
 He seruithe me soo almost euerye third daye 
 But I wolbe euen with him as god geue me ioy 670 
 
 And yet the fault may bee in the boye 
 As vngracious a graft so mot I thriue 
 As any goeth on goddes ground a lyue 
 
 Careawaye 
 My witte is breched in suche a brake 
 
 That I cannot deuise what way is best to take 675 
 
 I was almost as fare as my maister is 
 But then I begane to remember this 
 
30 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 And to cast the worst as on in fere 
 
 yf he chaunce to see mee and kepe me there 
 
 Til he cum him selfe, and speake with mi masteris 680 
 
 Then am I lyke to bee in shrewd dystres 
 
 yet were I better thought I to turne hom again 
 
 And fyrst speake with her certayne 
 
 Cockes bodie yonder she standeth at the dore 
 
 Now is it wourse then it was before 685 
 
 Wold Christ I could get againe out of hir sight 
 
 For I see be her looke she is disposid to fyght 
 
 Bi ye lord she hath ther an angrie shrewes loke 
 
 Dame coye 
 Loe yender cumithe that vnhappye hooke 
 
 T|lf Careawaye 
 God saue you maysteris doo you know me well 690 
 
 Dame coye 
 
 Cume nere hither vnto mee, and I shall thee tell 
 
 Why thou noughtie vyllan is that thy gyse 
 
 To gest with thy maisteris in suche wise 
 
 take that to begyne with, and god before 
 
 When thy maister cumith home thou shalt haue more 695 
 
 For he told me when he forth wente 
 
 That thou shouldest cume bake a gaine incontinente 
 
 To brynge me to supper where he now is 
 
 And thou hast plaid by the waie, and thei haue don bi this 
 
 But no force I shall thou mayst trust mee 700 
 
 Teache all naughtie knaues to beware by thee 
 
Jacke Jugeler 31 
 
 "^ Careawaye 
 
 For sothe maisteris yf you knew as much as I 
 
 ye woulde not be with me halfe so angrie 
 
 For the faulte is neither in mi maister nor in me nor you 
 
 But in an other knaue that was here euen now 705 
 
 And his name was ienkin Careawaie 
 
 Dame coye 
 
 What I see my man is disposid to playe 
 
 I wine he be dronken or mad I make god a vou 
 
 C Careawaie 
 
 Nay I haue byn made sobre and tame I now 
 
 I was neuer so handelid before in all my lyfe 710 
 
 I would euery man in England had so beat me his wife 
 
 I haue forgotten with tousing by the here 
 
 What I deuised to say a lytle ere 
 
 Dame coye 
 Haue I lost my supper this night through thi negligece 
 
 C Careawaye 
 Nay then wer I a knaue misteris, sauing your reuerece 715 
 
 Dame coye 
 Why I am sure that by this time it is doone 
 
 ^ Careawaye 
 Ye that it is more then an our agone 
 
32 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 Dame coye 
 And was not thou sent to feache mee theyther 
 
 Careawaye 
 Yes and had cume right quiklie hither 
 But that by the waye I had a gret fall 720 
 
 And my name, body shape legges and all 
 And meat with one, that from me did it stelle 
 But be god he and I sum bloues dyd deale 
 I wolde he were now before your gate 
 For you wold poumile him ioylile a bout the pate 725 
 
 Dame Coye 
 Truelye this wagepastie is either drunken or mad 
 
 V<f Careawaye 
 Neuer man sofFred so mutche wrong as I had 
 But maisteris I should saye a thinge to you 
 Tary it wol cum to my remembrence euen now 
 I must niddes vse a substanciall premeditacion 730 
 
 For the matter lyeth gretylie me a pon 
 I besiche your maisterishipe of pardon and forgiuenes 
 Desyering you to impute it to my simple and rude dulines 
 I haue forgotten what I haue thought to haue sayed 
 And am therof full ill a paied 735 
 
 But whan I lost my selfe I knew verie well 
 I lost also that I should you tell 
 
 Dame Coye 
 Why thou wrechid villen doest thou me scorne and moke 
 To make me to these folke a laufyng stocke 
 
Jacke Jugeler 33 
 
 Ere thou go out of my handes ye shalt haue sum thynge 74° 
 And I woll reklne better in the mornynge 
 
 VSf Careawaie 
 And yf you bete mee maysteris a vise you 
 For I am none of your seruaunts now 
 That other I is now your page 
 And I am no longer in your bondage 745 
 
 Dame Coye 
 Now walke precious thife get thee out of my syght 
 And I charge thee cum in my presens no more this night 
 Get thee hens and wayte on thy maister at ons 
 
 <E Careawaie 
 Mary syr this is handeling for the noons 
 I wold I had byn hanged before yt I was lost 750 
 
 I was neuer this canuased and tost 
 That if my maister on his part also 
 Handle me as my maisteris and the other 1 do 
 I shall surelye be killed bitwine theim thre 
 And all the diuels in hell shal not saue me 755 
 
 But yet if the other I might haue wt me parte 
 All this wold neuer greue my harte 
 
 VSp Jacke iugler 
 Hou saye you maisters I pray you tell 
 Haue not I requited my marchent well 
 Haue not I handelyd hym after a good sort 760 
 
 Had it not byne pytie to haue lost this sporte 
 A none his maister on his behalphe 
 You shall see how he woll handle the calphe 
 
 w. J. J. 3 
 
34 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 yf he throughlye angered bee 
 
 He woll make him smart so mot I thee 7^5 
 
 I wold not for the price of a new payre of shone 
 
 That any parte of this had bynne vndune 
 
 But now I haue reuenged my quarell 
 
 I woll go do of this myne apparell 
 
 And now let Careawaye be Careawaye againe 7 7° 
 
 I haue done with that name now certayne 
 
 Except perauenture I shall take the selfe same wede 
 
 Sum other tyme agayne for a like cause and nede 
 
 Boungrace 
 
 Why then darist thou to presume too tell mee 
 
 That I know is no wyse possible for to bee 775 
 
 ^ Careawaye 
 Now by my truth master I haue told you no lie 
 And all these folkes knowith as weU as I 
 I had no sooner knoked at the gate 
 But straight wayes he had me by the pate 
 Therfore yf you bet me tyll I fart and shyt againe 780 
 
 you shall not cause me for any payne 
 But I woU affirme as I said before 
 That when I came nere a nother stode at ye dore 
 
 Boungrace 
 
 Why ye naughtye villaine darest ye affirme to me 
 
 that which was neuer sene nor hereafter shalbe 785 
 
 That one man may haue too bodies and two faces 
 
 And yt one man at on time may be in too placis 
 
 Tell me drankest thou any where by the waye 
 
Jacke Jugeler 35 
 
 it Careawaie 
 I shreue me if I drake any more the twise to day 
 Tyll I met euen now with that other I 790 
 
 And with him I supped and dranke truelye 
 But as for you yf you gaue me drinke and meat 
 As oftentymes as you do me beat 
 I were the best fed page in all this Cytie 
 But as touchyng that, you haue on me no pitye 795 
 
 And not onlye I but all that do you sarue 
 For meat and drynke may rather starue 
 
 Boungrace 
 
 What you saucye malypert knane 
 
 Begine you with your maister to prat and raue 
 
 your tonge is lyberall and all out of frame 800 
 
 I must niddes counger it and make it tame 
 
 wher is yt other Careawai yt thou said was here 
 
 Careawaye 
 Now by my chrystendome syr I wot nere 
 
 Boungrace 
 Why canst thou fynde no man to moke but mee 
 
 CT Careawaye 
 I moke you not maister soo mot I thee 805 
 
 Euerye word was trew that I you tolde 
 
 Boungrace 
 
 Nay I know toyes and pranke of olde 
 And now thou art not satisfyed nor content 
 Without regarde of my biddinges and commaodiment 
 
 3—2 
 
36 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 To haue plaied by the waie as a leude knaue and negliget 810 
 
 When I thee on my message home sent 
 
 But also woldest willinglye me delude and moke 
 
 And make me to all wyse men a laughyng stoke 
 
 shewing me suche thinges as in no wise be maie 
 
 To ye intent thy leudnes mai turne to iest and play 815 
 
 Therfore if yu speake any such thing to me agaie 
 
 I promyse it shalbe vnto thy payne 
 
 Careawaye 
 
 Loo is not he in myserable case 
 
 That sarueth suche a maister in any place 
 
 that with force wol compel him yt thing to denie 820 
 
 That he knoweth true, and hath sine wt his ye 
 
 Boungrace 
 Was it not troiest thou thine owne shadoo 
 
 €1 Careawaye 
 My shadoo could neuer haue beten me soo 
 
 Boungrace 
 Why by what reason possible may suche a thyng bee 
 
 C Careawaye 
 Nay I maruael and wonder at it more than ye 825 
 
 And at the fyrst it dyd me curstelye meaue 
 Nor I wold myne owne yes in no wyse belyue 
 Untyll that other I beate me soo 
 That he made me beliue it whither i wold or no 
 And if he had your selfe now within his reache 830 
 
 He wold make you say so too or ells beshite your breach 
 
Jacke Jugeler 37 
 
 C Maister Boungrace 
 I durst a good mede, and a wager laye 
 That thou lalest doune and sleppest by the waie 
 And dremid all this that thou haste me tolde 
 
 C Careawaie 
 Naye there you lye master if I might be so bold 835 
 
 But we ryse so erlye that yf I hadde 
 I hadde doone well and a wyse ladde 
 yet mayster I wolde you vnder stood 
 That I haue all wayes byn trusty and good 
 And flye as fast as a here in a cage 840 
 
 When so euer you sende me in your message 
 in faythe as for this that I haue tolde you 
 I sawe and felte it as waking as I am nowe 
 For I had noo soner knocked at the gate 
 But the other I knaue had mee by the pate 845 
 
 And I durst to you one a boke swere 
 That he had byn watching for mee there 
 Longe ere I came hyden in sum pryuye place 
 Euen for the nons too haue me by the face 
 
 Maister boungrace 
 Why then thou speakest not with ray wyfe 850 
 
 <E Careawaye 
 No that I dyd not maister by my lyfe 
 Untyll that other I was gone 
 And then my maisteris sent me after a none 
 To waight on you home in the dyueUes name 
 I wene the dyuell neuer so beate his dame 855 
 
38 Jacke Jugekr 
 
 Maister boungrace 
 And where became that other Careawaye 
 
 ^ Careawaye 
 
 By myne honestie syr I cannot saye 
 
 But I warrant he is now not far hens 
 
 He is here amonge this cumpany for .xl. pens 
 
 Maister boungrace 
 
 Hence at tonce sike and smell him out 860 
 
 I shall rape thee on the lying Icnanes snought 
 I woll not bee deludyd with such a glosing lye 
 Nor giue credens tyll I see it with my oune iye 
 
 V<P Careawaie 
 
 Trulye good syr by your maistershipps fauoure 
 
 I cannot well fynd a knaue by the sauoure 865 
 
 Many here smell strong but none so ranke as he 
 
 A stronger sented knaue then he was cannot bee 
 
 But syr yf he be happelye founde anone 
 
 what a meds shal I haue for yt you haue me don 
 
 Maister boungrace 
 If he may befound I shall walke his cote . 870 
 
 ^ Careawaie 
 
 Ye for our ladi sake syr I bisiche you spare hi not 
 
 For it is sum false knaue withouten doubt 
 
 I had rather the .xl. pens we could find him out 
 
 For yf a man maye beliue a glase 
 
 Euin my verie oune selfe it was. 875 
 
Jacke Jugeler 39 
 
 And here he was but euyn right now 
 And steped a waye sodenlie I wat not how 
 Of such a other thig I haue nether hard ne sene 
 By our blyssyd lady heauen quene 
 
 Maister boungrace 
 
 Plainelye it was thy shadow that thou didest se 880 
 
 For in faith the other thyng is not possible to be 
 
 ^ Careawaye 
 
 Yes in good faith syr by your leaue 
 
 I know it was I by my apples in my sleue 
 
 And speakith as like me as euer you harde 
 
 Suche here, such a Cape, such Hose and cote 885 
 
 And in eueri thing as iust as .iiii. pens to a grot 
 
 That if he were here you should well see 
 
 That you could not discern nor know hi fro me 
 
 For thinke you that I do not my selfe knowe 
 
 I am not so folishe a knaue I trowe 890 
 
 Let who woll looke him by and by 
 
 And he woll depose vpon a boke that he is I 
 
 And I dare well say you woll saye the same 
 
 For he called hym selfe by my owne name 
 
 And tolde me all that I haug done 895 
 
 Sith fyue of the cloke this after none 
 
 He could tell when you were to supper sete 
 
 you send me home my maisteris to fete 
 
 And shewed me al thinges that I dyd by ye waie 
 
 Boungrace 
 What was that 
 
40 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 ^ Careawaie 
 
 How I dyd at the Bukelers playe 900 
 
 And wha I scaterid a basket of apples fro a stal 
 And gethered them into my sleue all 
 And how I played after that also 
 
 Boungrace 
 
 Thou shalt haue by therfore so mote I go 
 
 Is that the guise of a trustie page 905 
 
 To playe when he is sent on his maisters message 
 
 Dame coye 
 
 Laye on and spare not for the loue of chryst 
 
 JoU his hed to a post, and fauoure your fyste 
 
 Now for my sake swete hart spare and fauoure your hand 
 
 And lay him about the rybbes with this wande 910 
 
 CL Careawaye 
 
 Now marcy that I aske of you both twaine 
 
 Saue my lyfe and let me not be slayne 
 
 I haue had beting ynough for one daye 
 
 That a mischife take the other me Careawayne 
 
 That if euer he cume to my handes agayne 915 
 
 I wis it shalbe to his payne 
 
 But I maruayll greatlye by our lorde Ihesus 
 
 How he I escapid, I me beat me thus 
 
 And is not he I an vnkind knaue 
 
 That woll no more pytie on my selfe haue 920 
 
Jacke Jugeler 41 
 
 Here may you see, euidentlye ywis 
 That in him me no drope of honestie is 
 Now a vengaace light on suche a churles knaue 
 That no more loue toward my selfe haue 
 
 Dame coye 
 
 1 knew verye wel swite hart and saied right now 925 
 
 That no fault therof should be in you 
 
 Boungrace 
 
 No truelye good bedfelow, I were then mutch vnkinde 
 yf you at any tyme should be out of my mynde 
 
 Dame Coye 
 
 Surelye I haue of you a great treasure 
 
 For you do all thinges which may be to my pleasure 930 
 
 Boungrace 
 
 I am sory that your chaunce hath now byne so yll 
 
 I wolde gladly byne vnsupped, soo you had your fyU 
 
 But goo we in pigesnie that you may suppe 
 
 you hane cause now to thanke this same hange vppe 
 
 For had not he byne you had faryd very well 935 
 
 Dame Coye 
 
 I bequeth him wt a hot vengaunce to the diuell of hell 
 And hartelye I besiche him that hanged on the rode 
 That he neuer eate nor drynke, that may do him good 
 And that he dye a shameful! dethe sauing my cheryte 
 
4-2 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 C Careawaie 
 
 I pray god send him suche prosperitie 940 
 
 That hath caused me to haue all this busines 
 
 But yet syrs you see the charitye of my maistris 
 
 She liueth after a wonderfuU charitable facion 
 
 For I assure you she Is alwayes In this passion 
 
 And scacelye on daye throughout the hole yere 945 
 
 She woU wyshe any man better chere 
 
 And sum tyme yf she well angred bee 
 
 I pray god (woU she saye) ye house may sinke vnder mee 
 
 But maysters yf you happen to see that other I 
 
 As that you shall It Is not verye likelye 950 
 
 Nor I woU not desyre you for him purposelye to looke 
 
 For It Is an vncomperable vnhappye hooke 
 
 And If It be I, you might happin to seeke 
 
 And not fynd me out In an hole weeke 
 
 For whan I was wonte to rune a waye 955 
 
 I vsed not to cum a gayne In lesse tha a moneth or tway 
 
 Houbelt for all this I thinke It be not I 
 
 For to shew the matter in dyde trulye 
 
 I neuer vse to rune awaye In wynter nor In vere 
 
 But all wayes in suche tyme and season of the yere 960 
 
 "When honye lyeth in the hiues of Bees 
 
 And all maner frute faUeth from the trees 
 
 As Apples, Nuttes, Peres, and plummes also 
 
 Wherby a boye maye Hue a brod a moneth or two 
 
 This cast do I vse I woU not with you fayne 965 
 
 Therfore I wonder if he be I sertalne 
 
 But and if he be, and you mete me a brod by chaunce 
 
Jacke Jugeler 43 
 
 Send me home to my waister with a vengaunce 
 
 And shew him if he cume not ere to morowe night 
 
 I woll neuer receyue him agayne if I myght 97° 
 
 And in the meane time I woll glue him a grote 
 
 That woll well and thryftelye walke his cote 
 
 For a more vngracious knaue is not euen now 
 
 Bytwene this place and Calycow 
 
 Nor a more frantike mad knaue in bedelem 975 
 
 Nor a more folic hence to Iherusalem 
 
 That if to cume agayne, parcace he shall refuse 
 
 I woll continew as I am and let hym choose 
 
 And but he cum the soner by our lady bright 
 
 He shall lye without the dores all nyght 980 
 
 For I woll shit vp the gate, and get me to bede 
 
 For I promisse you I haue a very gydie hede 
 
 I nede no supper for this nyght 
 
 Nor wolde eate no meat though I myght 
 
 And for you also maister I thinke I best 985 
 
 you go to bede, and take your rest 
 
 For who of you had byn handelid as I haue ben 
 
 wold not be long out of his bede I ween 
 
 No more woll I but stele out of syght 
 
 I praye god geue you all good nyght 990 
 
 And send you better hape, and fortune 
 
 The to lesse your selfe homeward as I haue don 
 
 Sumwhat it was sayeth the prouerbe olde 
 
 That the Catte winked when here iye was out 
 
 That is to saye no tale can be tolde 995 
 
 But that sum Englyshe maye be piked therof out 
 
44 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 yfso to serche the laten and ground of it men wil go aboute 
 As this trifling enterlud yt before you hath bine rehersed 
 May signifie sum further meaning if it be well serched 
 
 Such is the fashyon of the worlde now a dayes looo 
 
 That the symple innosaintes ar deluded 
 
 And an hundred thousand diuers wayes 
 
 By suttle and craftye meanes shamefuUie abused 
 
 And by strength force, and violence oft tymes compelled 
 
 To beliue aud saye the moune is made of a grene chese 1005 
 
 Or ells haue great harme, and parcace their life lese 
 
 And an olde saying it is, that most tymes myght 
 Force, strength, power, and colorable subtlete 
 Dothe oppresse, debare, ouercum and defeate ryght 
 Though ye cause stand neuer so greatlye a gainst equite 10 10 
 and ye truth therof be knowe for neuer so pfit certantye 
 ye & the pore semple innocent ye hath had wrong & Iniuri 
 Must cal ye other his good maister for shewing hym such 
 marcye 
 
 And as it is daylie syne for fere of ferther disprofite 
 
 He must that man his best frende and maister call 10 15 
 
 Of whome he neuer receiued any maner benefite 
 
 And at whose hand he neuer han any good at aU 
 
 And must graunt, affirme, or denie, what soeuer he shall 
 
 He must saye the Croue is whight, yf he be so comanded 
 
 ye and that he him selfe is into a nother body chaunged 1020 
 
 He must saye he dyd a mysse, though he neuer dyd offend 
 He must aske forgeuenes, where he did no trespace 
 Or ells be in troble, care and meserye with out ende 
 
Jacke Jugeler 45 
 
 And be cast in sum arrierage, without any grace 
 
 And that thing he sawe done before his owne face 1025 
 
 He must by compulsion, stifelie denye 
 
 And for feare whether he woU or not saye tonge you lye 
 
 And in euerye faculte, this thing is put in vre 
 
 And is so vniuersall that I nede no one to name 
 
 And as I fere is like euermore to endure 1030 
 
 For it is in all faculties a commyn sporte and gaine 
 
 The weker to saie as ye stroger biddeth, or to haue blam 
 
 As a cunning sophist woU by argument bring to passe 
 
 That the rude shal confesse, and graunt him selfe an asse 
 
 And this is ye daylie excersise and practise of their scoles 1035 
 And not emongs them onlie, but also emong all others 
 The stronger to compell and make poore symple foles 
 To say as they commaund them in all maner matiers 
 I woU name none particular, but set them all togithers 
 with out any exception, for I praye you shewe me one 1040 
 Emonges al in the worlde that vsethe not suche fasion 
 
 He that is stronger and more of power and might 
 
 Yf he be disposed to reuenge his cause 
 
 woUsone pike a quarell be it wronge or right 
 
 To the inferior and weker for a cople of straues 1045 
 
 And woU agaynst him so extremelie lay the lawes 
 
 That he wol put him to the worse, other by false iniurie 
 
 Or by some craft and subtelete, or ells by plaine teranie 
 
 As you sawe right now, by example playne 
 
 An other felowe being a counterfeat page 1050 
 
 Brought the gentylmans seruaunt out of his brayne 
 
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 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 And made him graunt yt him selfe was fallen in dotage 
 
 Baryng him selfe in hand that he dyd rage 
 
 And when he could not bryng that to passe by reason 
 
 He made him graunt it, and saye by compulsyon 1055 
 
 Therfore happy are they that can beware 
 
 Into whose handes they fall by any suche chaunce 
 
 which if they do, they hardlye escape care 
 
 Troble, Miserye, and wofuU greuaunce 
 
 And thus I make an end, comitting you to his gidaa 1060 
 
 That made, and redemed vs al, and to you yt be now here 
 
 I praye god graunt, and send many a good newe yere. 
 
 V< Finis 
 
 C Imprinted at London in Lothbury by me 
 
 Wyllyam Copland 
 
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47 
 
 NOTES 
 
 Title. Jacke Jugeler. Cf. Piers the Plonjoman A-text, vii. 65, 'Jacke 
 the iogelour' 5 B-text, vi. 72, 'Jakke the iogeloure' ; C-text, ix. 71, 'Jack 
 the iogelour.' 
 
 I. Interpone tuis, &c. Cf. Piers tie Plonuman, B-text, xii. 21, 'Catoun 
 conforted his sone • that, clerke though he were, To solacen hym sum tyme • 
 as I do whan I make ; Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis, etc' From 
 Dionysii Catonis Disticha de Moribus ad Filium, iii. 7. 
 
 7. percace. A favouritelword with Udall. Occurs five times in this play, 
 1. 7, 62, 375, 977, 1006 ; nine times in 'Has Apophthegmes ; eight times in the 
 Flouresfor Latine Speiynge, where it is used to translate ^rja« {i), fortasse (3), 
 firte, and at enim ('marye but percase'). Used twice by Heywood. Variants 
 are ' put case,' ' par case,' ' set case.* 
 
 9. boke of Cato, the ' so-called Catonis Disticha, a school collection of 
 moral maxims, each consisting of two hexameters, in four books.' TeufFel- 
 Schwabe, Hist. Rom. Lit. § 398. 
 
 10. emongs. Cf. 1. 13, 258, 1036, 1041. 
 
 17. niddes, needs. O.E. nled. Cf. 1. 24, 141. 
 
 25. industruis, a misprint for industrius, which Grosart reads. 
 
 27. Quod caret, &c. Ovid, Heroides, IV. 89. 
 
 28. Ouyd. Grosart misreads as D«^4 <iii<l expl^ii^s ^=^'ivid. 
 
 32. 'verament, truly. Chaucer, C. T., B. 1903. Greene, Friar Bacon, 
 VII. 73. This stanza is defective by a line. 
 
 42. Cicero Tullius. Cf. Udall, Apophthegmes, f. 279, ^Marcus Tullius in 
 ye thirde booke of that his werke entitleed, de officiis, (that is to sale, of 
 honeste behauour, or, how eche manne ought to vse and to demeane 
 hymselfe.' 
 
 46. offirme, affirm. 
 
 50. commendeth ye old comedie. Cicero, de Officiis, i. § 104. 
 
 53. The, they. Cf. 1. 55. 
 
 55. conueiaunce, artful management. See the soliloquy of Crafty 
 Conueyaunce in Skelton, Magnyfycence, 1343 — 1390. Cf. Kmter Doister, iv. 
 vi. 16. 
 
48 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 61. not txiorth an oyster shel. A common form of expression. We find, 
 ' not worth-ams ase, bean, blewe point, brass pin, button, Childe of Bristowe, 
 cockly fose, crakt nut, cue, cowpyll of onyons, cress, chip, fable, Flanders pin, 
 gnat, grote, grey grote, haddock, halfpeny knyfe, halfpenyworth of ale, his 
 two ears, hen, leke, lekys blade, louse, myteyng, makerell, onion, plukked 
 hen, preine, rottyn wardon, shyttel cocke, sowre calstocke, straw, three 
 halfpence, thre skyppes of a pye, torde, two butterflies, ii kues, two plummis, 
 tail of a fly, whystle, wyteyng.' 
 
 64. Plautus first comedie, i.e. the Amphitruo. The plays of Plautus are 
 arranged in the MSS. in nearly alphabetical order. 
 
 65. scentence, Cf. scent, scythe, scite, scituation. 
 
 66. quesie. Palsgrave, ' Quaisy as meate or drinke is — dangereux.' 
 
 69. merie & glad. Cf. Roister Doister, i. i. 59, 'I can when I will make 
 him mery and glad.' Tales and Quicke Ansiveres (ed. Hazlitt, p. 108), 'He 
 sayde they were merye and gladde.' 
 
 76. besime. Prompt. Parv. {ed. Way), 'BscnuYN. Decet.' 
 
 litle boyes. Cf. The Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt (1569), 
 quoted by Steevens on Hamlet II. ii. 327, 'Euen in her maiesties chapel do 
 these pretty upstart youthes profane the Lordes day.. .in feigning bawdie 
 fables gathered from the idolatrous heathen poets.' Machyn's Diary (ed. 
 Camden Society, p. 206), Aug. 5th 1559, 'and a play of the chylderyn of 
 Powlles and ther master Se[bastian], master Phelypes, and master Haywod.' 
 
 81. or, ere. In Piers the Ploiuman the C-text (vili. 66) has 'or daye,' 
 the B-text (v. 459) 'er day,' the A-text (v. 232) 'ar day.' 
 
 84. sainte Jhone. From the mention of 'saint Steuen ' (1. 86), and the 
 last line of the play, ' I praye god graunt, and send many a good newe yere,' 
 it may be inferred that it was written to be acted on or about the festival of 
 St Stephen (Dec. 26), or St John (Dec. 27). 
 
 85. Rest you merye. Udall, Floures for Latine Spekynge, ^ Amice salue. 
 Good felow god you saue, or, o louynge frend god rest you mery.' 
 
 ' 90. crosses offieshe bone and blod, i.e. his fingers. Cf. 1. 418, 'by thes x. 
 bons' ; 1. 559, 'by these tene bones.' 
 
 107. iugling cast. Cf 1. 263. Udall, Preface to the Translation of the 
 Paraphrase of Erasmus upon Luke, fol. Ii (A), ' a jugleying cast.' So in fol. 
 clxxviii. 
 
 108. cunger, i.e. conjure, 'afi^ect by invocation or incantation, charm, 
 bewitch ' (N.E.D.) ' I beleiue m' Juggler yo" haue mette w* one will Coniure 
 yo" now.' The Birth of Hercules (Malone Society), 2170. 
 
 moull, i.e. mole. 'These Beasts are all blinde and want eyes, and therefore 
 came the proverb Talpa caecior, Tuphloteros aspalacos, blinder then a Mole ; 
 
Notes 49 
 
 to signifie a man without all judgement, wit or foresight ; for it is most 
 elegantly applyed to the minde.' TopseU, History of Four-footed Beasts, p. 389. 
 
 god before. Cf. I. 694. Udall, Apophthegmes, f. 152, 'For the grekes saien 
 avv 6€ois, with the Goddes, for that we saye in englyshe, Goddes pleasure 
 beeyng so, or, by the wyll and grace of God, or, and God before, or, God 
 saiyng amen.' Heywood, TAe Pardoner and the Friar (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 236), 
 ' I will never come hither more, While I live, and God before.' 
 
 114. Jenkine, diminutive of 'John.' Spelt ' lanekin,' ' lankin ' in 
 Chaucer. 
 
 Carreaivaie. Prompt. Parv. 'Care-awev, sorowles. Tristicia procul.' 
 
 cursed. Cotgrave, ' Mauvais : m. aise : i. Naughty, bad, lenud, ill ; 
 shre'wd, mischievous, hurtful, unhappy, knaniish, curst, churlish, cross, froiuard, 
 stubborn, obstinate, onierthiuart ; malicious ; deprceved, corrupt, mard.' 
 
 116. 'vnhappy luage. Cf The Famous History of Doctor Faustus, Ch. viii., 
 ' Faustus kept a boy with him, that was his scholar, an unhappy wag, called 
 Christopher Wagner.' In the Faustbuch ' ein verwegener Lecker.' 
 
 'vnhappy. Cf. I. 689, 952, 'vnhappye hooke.' Palsgrave, 'Unhappy of 
 maners — m. mauluays, i. mauluaise s' In Wice Wanton (Hazl. Dodsl. n. 
 166), ' unhappy children' are said to be 'unthrifty and disobedient.' Thersites 
 (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 412), 'thou unhappy beast' [of the snail]. Hickscorner 
 (ib. 163), 'unhappy company.* A Supplycacion &c. (E. E. T. S. p. 40), 
 ' vnhappy dronckerdes.' Lindesay, Ane Satyre, 4226, 4232, ' curst vnhappie 
 wyfe.' Cf 1. 963, i860. Barclay, Ship of Fools (ed. Jamieson, 11. 159), 
 'vnhappy vyce.' 
 
 luage. Cotgrave, ' Goinfre : m. A luag, slipstring, inavish lad.' 'Sagoin, 
 & Sagouin. A little Marmoset) and thence a little crackrope, slipstring, kna'vish 
 •wag, unhappy lad.' 
 
 135. the Buklers. 'The youthes of this citie also have used on holy 
 dayes after evening prayer, at their maysters dores, to exercise their wasters 
 and bucklers.' Stowe's London, p. 70. [Quoted by Nares, s.v. Wasters."] 
 See englraving 89 in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes (ed. 1834, p. 262). Cf 
 The World and the Child (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 261), 'And thereto a curious 
 buckler-player I am.' GifFord, A Posie of Gilloftoiuers (Miscellanies of the 
 Fuller Worthies' Library, ed. Grosart, i. 148), ' To tosse the buckler and 
 the blade.' Tell-trothes Neiu-yeares Gift (New Shakespeare Society, p. 30), 
 ' Others builde their knauery on other mens misfortune, that are matched with 
 loone, communis omnibus, that could play at bucklers so soone as she was past 
 her cradell.' 
 
 137. my cosune. Cf. Roister Doister, in. i. 4, 'my cousin Roister Doister.' 
 Of course Jacke Jugeler is no more cousin of Jenkine Careawaie than Mathewe 
 Merygreeke is of Roister Doister. 
 
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 145. faire toche. Cf. The World and the Child (Hazl. Dodsl. I. 262), 
 'How sayest thou now, Folly, hast thou not a touch ?' [i.e. at buckler-play]. 
 Udall, Apophthegmes, f. 105, 'yea and for a faire touche, by deceiuyng & 
 begnylyng their prince.' 
 
 147. had lurong. Palsgrave, 'I haue wronge, a person doth me wronge 
 or iniurye. On me fait tort.' Cf. Heywood, Epigrammes njpon Prouerbes 
 (ed. Spenser Society, p. 135), 'Thou art at an ebbe in Newgate, thou hast 
 wrong.' 
 
 148. cokes prceious potstike. Cf. Roister Doister, iii. iv. 127, 'By cocks 
 precious potsticke.' Palsgrave, 'Potstycke — batton s., m.' 'The precious 
 potstick is probably the rod on which the sponge was lifted up, a common 
 symbol of the Passion.' {Skeat.) Cf 593. ' prceious ' is of course a misprint 
 for ' precious.' Grosart explains potstike as ' potsick ' = tipsy. 
 
 152. Freuteres. Palsgrave, ' Frutrer that selleth frute — -fruyctier s., ra.' 
 
 159. faryng. Palsgrave, 'I fare, I playe at a. game so named, "at the 
 dyse." le joue aux de%.' Grosart says=' fairing or gift-purchases, as at a 
 Fair.' 
 
 at all. Cf The Nice Wanton (Hazl. Dodsl. 11. 171), 'eleven at all.' 
 Skelton, Boivge ofCourte, 348, 'Now haue at all.' Cf. 391. 
 
 163. siuere and stare. A common phrase. Cf. Skelton, Boivge of 
 Courte, 381, 'Thou muste swere and stare, man, al daye longe.' Magnyfy- 
 cence, 419, ' counterfet lye, Swere and stare, and byde therby.' Why Come 
 Ye &c., 100, 'With swerynge and starynge.' Like Will to Like (Hazl. 
 Dodsl. III. 324). Terence in English (Phormio v. viii.), 'swearing and 
 staring like caualleers. Hi gladiatorio animo ad me adfectant uiam' Nashe, 
 Pierce Penilesse (ed. McKerrow, i. 170), 'sweares and stares after ten in the 
 hundreth.' 
 
 169. euery dell. Cf. 1. 305. Palsgrave, 'Every deale, tout tant quil 
 ya.' 
 
 171. Sartayde, misprint for 'sartayne' = certain. 
 
 behynde, unpaid. Palsgrave, 'I am behynde, as money that remayneth 
 onpayed of a somme.' Skelton, Magnyjycence, 2322, 'behynde of thy rente.' 
 
 174. TOii= these. Cf. 1. 194. Piers the Plonuman, Prol. A-text, 59, 
 B-text 62, C-text 60, 'this maistres.' 
 
 177. For the nons, purposely, intentionally. Prompt. Parv. 'For the 
 NONYS. Idcirco, ex proposito.' Horman, falg. ' for the nonis, dedita opera.' 
 Also, 'de industria.' M.E.^r pan anes. 
 
 181. Starke staryng mad. Cf. Heywood, Epigrammes (Spenser Society, 
 p. 113), 'Starke staryng blinde.' Skelton, Agaynst the Scottes, 143, 'starke 
 mad.' Barclay, Ship of Fools (ed. Jamieson, i. 96), 'starynge mad.' 
 ^ 183. 'vohether=vi\a\}asr. 
 
Notes 5 1 
 
 191. my «OTJ>A^=meseemeth. (Grosart says =simathin= partiality or 
 liking.) 
 
 198. farthest. Cf. Chaucer, Boethius (ed. Skeat), iv. pr. vi. 86, 91. 
 
 200. hei hei. Q.i. The Trial of Treasure (Hazl. Dodsl. iii. 273), 'Hey, 
 lusty lad, how fresh am I now ! ' Shirburn Ballads (ed. Clark), p. 271, 'His 
 talke is never sorrowfull, But Heigh ! at every word.' 
 
 205. luere, O.E. wsere. 
 
 206. abye. Palsgrave, 'I abye, I forthynke or am punished for a 
 thynge.' Cf Roister Doister, 11. iv. 21, 'full truly abye thou shalt.' 
 
 207. sumpretie, lead sum pretie. 
 
 211. lyne, cease. Cf. Udall, Apophthepnes, f. 77, 'He neuer lynned 
 rehatyng.' lb. f. 226, 'would in no wyse lynne pratyng therof The Rare 
 Triumphs of Lome and Fortune (Hazl. Dodsl. vi. 234), 'I would never lin.' 
 O.E. linnan. 
 
 217. pngerlie. Cf. The Interlude of Youth, 411, 'iwis ye go ful 
 gingerlie* (with Bang's note). Skelton, Garlande of Laurell, 1203, 'With, 
 Gingirly, go gingerly !...go she neuer so gingirly.' The Four Elements 
 (Hazl. Dodsl. I. 47), 'I can dance it gingerly.' Udall, Floures for Latine 
 Spekynge, ' Tenero ac molli passu suspendimus gradum. We staye and prolonge 
 our goinge with a nyce or tendre and softe, delicate, or gingerly pace.' 
 Nashe, Pierce Penilesse (ed. McKerrow, i. 173), ' Mistris Minx.. .that lookes 
 as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and lets it as gingerly as if she were 
 dancing the Canaries.' 
 
 saint Loye. Cf. Chaucer, C. T., Prol. 120, 'Hir gretteste 00th was but by 
 seynt Loy' (with Skeat's note). The Conflict of Conscience (Hazl. Dodsl. vi. 
 75), ' Sent Loy save your horse.' Bale, Kynge Johan (ed. Camden Society), 
 p. 75. Early English Popular Poetry (ed. Hazlitt), in. 236. Nashe, 
 Lenten Stuffe (ed. McKerrow, p. 148). 
 
 218. halpeny ixiorth ofsiluer spoons. Heywood, Proverbs (Spenser Society, 
 p. 81), 'Yet was she nowe, sodeinly waxen as nyse As it had bene a halporth 
 of syluer spoones.' 
 
 219. 'uengable. As adverb in Udall, Apophthegmes, f. 7; Heywood, 
 Epigrammes (ed. Spenser Society, pp. 103, 155, 180). As adjective in 1. 321 ; 
 Gammer Gurton's Needle, in. ii. 10; Trial of Treasure (Hazl. Dodsl. iii. 
 273) ; Locrine, 1. ii. (ed. Tauchnitz, p. 140) ; Udall, Apophthegmes, f. 49. 
 
 224. Aulsoon, spelt 'Ales' on the title-page, 'Alis,' 1. 658. Cf Chaucer, 
 C. T., D, 530, 548. 
 
 tripe and goo. Cf. Touo angrie Women ofAbingfon (Malone Society), 1979, 
 ' Nay then trip and go.' 
 
 226. simperith. Cotgrave, 'Faire la petite bouche. To mince or 
 simper it.' 
 
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 prankitk. Cf. The Four Elements (Hazl. Dodsl. I. 47), 'I can prank it 
 properly.' Appius and Virginia {ib. iv. 124), 'farewell, go prank ye.' Nashe, 
 Pierce Penilesse (ed. McKerrow, p. 173), 'spends halfe a day in pranking her 
 selfe.' 
 
 getteth, jetteth. This is the M.E. spelling. Prompt. Parv. 'Gettyn. 
 Femo, lassi'vo, gesticulo.' See also Iettvn, with Way's note. Palsgrave, ' I 
 get, I use a proude countenaunce and pace in my goyng. Je braggue. 
 Heywood, Play of the Weather (Early English Dramatists, p. 121), 'Then 
 would we jet the streets trim as a parrot.' Roister Doister, in. iii. 121, 'Then 
 must ye stately goe, ietting vp and downe.' 
 
 228. minceth. Cotgrave, 'AUer k pas menu. To tread gingerly, to 
 mince it like a maid.' The Disobedient Child (Hazl. Dodsl. 11. 290), 'this 
 mincing trull.' Preface to Bernard's Terence in English, 'the minsing 
 mynion.' Isaiah iii. 16 (Authorised Version), 'mincing as they go.' 
 
 brideleth. Cf. Skelton, Against Garnesche (ed. Dyce, i. 122), ' Sche 
 seyd how ye ded brydell, moche lyke a dromadary.' Nashe, Ha'ue 'with you 
 to Saffron Walden (ed. McKerrow, III. 70), ' some little coy bridling of the 
 chin and nice simpring.' Cotgrave, ' Se rengorger. To hold dovm the head, 
 or thrust the chin into the neck, as some do in pride, or to make their faces look the 
 fuller; nxie say, to bridle it.' 
 
 sivimmeth. Cf. Roister Doister, 11. iii. 46, 'ye shall see hir glide and 
 swimme.' Gascoigne, Supposes (ed. Hazlitt, i. 206), 'They swimme in silke, 
 when others royst in ragges.' Overbury, Characters (ed. Rimbault, p. 50), 
 ' Her lightnesse gets her to swim at top of the table.' Tivo Noble Kinsmen, 
 III. V. 28, ' Swim with your bodies.' Massinger, The Bondman, in. iii., 
 ' Carry your bodies swimming.' Shirley, The Ball, 11. iii., ' Carry your body 
 in the swimming fashion.' 
 
 229. tredith...a nurye. Cotgrave, ' Mesmarcher. To tread, or go aijury, 
 to set the steps amiss.' 
 
 here, hair. M.E. heer, her. 
 
 tryppeth like a do. Cf Peile, Daniid and Bethsabe, i. i. 92, ' Now comes 
 my lover tripping like the roe.' 
 
 231. "loarj/^/jM, a misprint for ' warbelith Cotgrave, ' Gringoter. To 
 •warble, qua'ver, shake ivith the 'voice' 
 
 galiard, 'a quick and lively dance in triple time.' {N.E.D.) Titielfih 
 Night, I. iii. 112 ; Much Ado, 11. i. 69. Orchestra (Arber, English Garner, v. 
 40, §§ 67, 68), 'Oft does she make her body upward flyne With lofty turns 
 and caprioles in the air.' 
 
 234. chatteth like a Pye. Cf. Skelton, Phyllyp Spanive, 397, 'The 
 fleckyd pye to chatter.' 
 
 235. parafPoppagaye. Ci. Siidton, Speke Parrot, 108, 'Parrot, Parrot, 
 
Notes 5 3 
 
 Parrot, praty popigay ' ! lb. \ 72, ' Parrot the popagaye.' Cotgrave, ' Papegay : 
 m. A Parrot, or Popingay.' 
 
 236. Cf. Roister Doister, iii. iv. 4, *Hir talke is as fine as she had learned 
 in schooles.' 
 
 ^37- fle, fly. M.E.fleen. 
 
 239. tael, misprint for ' tale.' 
 
 by, against. 
 
 244. Therfore I luoll here &c. Plautus, Amphitruo, 201, 'Wyao vtoi^a 
 et uerbis quibus me deceat fabularier, | prius ipse mecum etiam uolo hie 
 meditari.' 
 
 249. 7 may giue my life, &c. Udall, Floures fir Latine Spefynge, ' ego 
 perierim, I am vtterlye vndone, or I may gyue my lyfe for an halfepeny." 
 Apophthe^es, f. 162, 'farewell his life for an haUjpenie." 
 
 257. totxi, misprint for ' two.' 
 
 258. my thought, methought. Cf 1. 191. 
 
 bysye, i.e. [he was] busy. Hazlitt unnecessarily changes to ' I see.' 
 
 262. grudgid. Palsgrave, ' I Grutche, I repyne agaynst a thyng.' 
 SIcelton, Why Come Ye, 249, ' They grugyd, and sayde Theyr wages were nat 
 payde.' 
 
 263. light cast play e. Cf. 1. 107. 
 
 267. setteth nothing by. Palsgrave, ' I set by, or have in estymacyon. 
 Jaconte, or, jaccompte' 
 
 269. rufflers. Manipulus Vocabulorum, 'a Ruffler, elatus, a, lasciuus.' 
 
 275. bouncing. 'Often also (like "thumping, whacking, whopping, 
 strapping," and other words meaning vigorous striking), used with the sense 
 of " big," esp. " big rather than elegant or graceful." ' N.E.D. 
 
 277. godyldityou. Palsgrave, ' But, for God yelde you, whiche we use 
 by maner of thankyng of a person, they use Grant mercy, or grans mercys, 
 understandynge y^ njous rens grans mercys.' Macbeth, i. vi. 13. 'How you 
 shall bid God-eyld vs for your paines.' 
 
 285. costerds. Pro»j/f. far^. ' Costard, appuUe.' Cath. Angl. ' Costekv ^ 
 querarium.' 
 
 293. sjir, used in addressing a woman, as 'brother' in Roister Doister, i. 
 ii. 120. Cf. 'sirs' in Love's Labour's Lost, iv. iii. 211 ; Antony and Cleopatra, 
 IV. XV. 85. 
 
 arayed. ' Array. To put into a (sore) plight, trouble, afflict.' N.E.D., 
 which quotes Udall, Erasm. Par., Luke xiii. 1 1, ' Araied with a disease both 
 incurable and peiteous to see.' Add Apophthegmes, f. 315, ' eiuill araied with 
 Cicero his iestyng.' 
 
 304. face it. Palsgrave, ' I face one with a lye, I make hym byleve a lye 
 is trewe.' 
 
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 308. mme. Cotgrave, ' Muser. To muse, dream, study, bethink himself 
 of; to paijuse, or linger about a matter.' 
 
 310. stoding, studying. Prompt. Tarv. ' Stodyyn'. Studeo.' Piers the 
 Plowman, A-text, xii. 6, ' loth for to stodle.' Hazlitt reads ' stewing ' without 
 comment. 
 
 314. ^ue...aflye. Cf. Thersites (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 400), 'set not by them 
 a fly.' Nice Wanton {ib. 11. 167), 'By your malice they shall not set 
 a fly.' 
 
 317. saint George ye boroue, i.e. 'St George [be] the surety.' The usual 
 expression is ' Saint George to borow.' Cf. Roister Doister, iv. viii. 45, 'sainct 
 George to borow, our Ladies knight.' Skelton, Howe the Douty Duke of 
 Albany, Sff. 506 (ed. Dyce, 11. 83), 'And thus, Sainct George to borowe.' 
 
 318. leopard. Palsgrave, '/ Jeparde, I adventure.' Roister Doister, iv. 
 viii. 17, 'I durst ieoparde my hande.' Jacob and Esau (Hazl. Dodsl. 11. 252), 
 ' I dare jeopard a groat.' Cf. 1. 358. 
 
 bee as bee maye. Heywood, Epigrammes (Spenser Society, p. 166), 'Be as 
 be may is no bannynge.' 
 
 323. siuete mete, &c. Heywood, Proverbs (Spenser Society, p. 16), 
 ' Sweete meate will haue sowre sawce.' Ib. Epigrammes, fp. 1 s^ — 9. Skelton, 
 Colyn Cloute, 450, ' Yet swete meate hath soure sauce.' Harman, Caveat 
 for Cursetors (ed. Hindley, p. 95), 'according to the proverb, that sweet meat 
 will have sour sauce.' Bernard, Terence in English, p. 93, 'Aegritudo 
 gaudio intercesserit. Sorrow is mixt with ioy. Sweet meat hath a sowre 
 sauce.' Camden, Remaines (ed. 1637, p. 305), 'sweet meate will have sowre 
 sauce.' 
 
 325. cape, cap. ' The words cap, cape, cope were all the same originally.' 
 (Skeat.) 
 
 331. soft, from the imperatival use of the adverb='hold, stop,' came 
 to be used as a verb. Grosart misreads as ' holt.' 
 
 334. chafed. Palsgrave, 'I chafe with the heate of fyre, or I provoke 
 and move to anger. Jeschauffe.' Grosart says, 'it may be chased,' which is 
 not the case. 
 
 341. lookes, misprint for 'lockes.' 'Lokkes' is used as equivalent to 
 'head ' in Piers the Plowman, A-text, 11. 84, ' serwe on thi lokkes.' 
 
 by the sivet lookes. Cf. Heywood, The Pardoner and the Friar (Hazl. 
 Dodsl. I. 231), ' Ish lug thee by the sweet ears.' Gosson, Schoole of Abuse (ed. 
 Arber, p. 33), 'placed Apelles the player by his own sweete sides.' Ib. p. 54, 
 ' we lay holde on his locks, turn him away with his backe full of stripes.' 
 
 345. set by hym. Palsgrave, 'I set by one, I estyme hym, or regarde 
 hym. Je tiens compte' Cf. Thersites, quoted on 1. 314. 
 
 347. See hoiu he beginnith, &c. Amph. 308, ' cingitur.- certe expedit se.' 
 
Notes 
 
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 348. makith buttem. Amph. 295, ' timet homo.' Cf. Like luill to Like 
 (Hazl. Dodsl. in. 317), 'My buttock made buttons of the new fashion.' 
 Grim, the Collier of Croydon (Hazl. Dodsl. viii. 435), 'Alas, my breech makes 
 buttons.' Ray, English 'Proverbs (ed. 1768), p. 179. 
 
 349. out at his heele. Roister Doister, iii. iii. 96, ' I might feele Your 
 soule departing within an inche of your heele.' 
 
 353. A more dastard, &c. Amph. 293, ' nullust hoc metuculosus 
 aeque.' 
 
 355. Ray, English Proverbs (ed. 1768), p. 117. 
 
 362. hardefye. Cf Roister Doister, t. ii. 44, 'Let them hardly take 
 thought.' Et passim. 
 
 364. NoiAi fistes, &c. AmTph. joz, ' agite pugni ! iam diust quom uentri 
 uictum non datis. | iam fridem uidetur factum, heri quod homines quattuor | in 
 soporem collocastis nudos.' 
 
 369. for ivood, madly, furiously. Prompt. Parv. 'Woode, or madde. 
 Amens, firiosus, insanus.' Cf Chaucer, Hous of Fame, 1747, ' wimmen loven 
 us for wood.' Legend of Good Women, 2420. 
 
 370. Four hath he slayne, Sfc. Amph. 304, '■formido male, \ ne ego hie 
 nomen meum commutem et Quintus fiam e Sosia. | quattuor uiros sopori se dedisse 
 hie autumat .- | metuo, ne numerum augeam ilium.' 
 
 373. yers .ii. The rime shows that this should be read as 'twain.' 
 
 378. fist mete. Amph. 309, 'quisquis homo hue profecto uenerit, pugnos 
 edet.' Cf Thersites (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 405), 'knocked bread.' 
 
 379. / haue supped, &c. Amph. 310, ' apage, non placet me hoc noctis 
 esse : cenaui modo .• | proin tu istam cenam largire, si sapis, esurientibus.' 
 
 381. Tet. Hazlitt reads 'It,' which is possible (=yt). Is 'it' absorbed 
 in the t of ' yet ' i 
 
 383. nveighithof the best. Axaph. ■^iz,' haud malum huic est ponduspugno.' 
 
 384. luaghith, misprint for 'weghith '=weigheth. Amph. 312, 'perii, 
 pugnos ponderat.' M.E. ixieghen. Hazlitt prints 'waggeth' without 
 comment, and Grosart, who prints 'waghith,' glosses it as 'waggeth.' 
 
 385. ivith a stroke, &c. Amph. 318, ' exossatum os esse oportet, quern 
 probe percusseris.' 
 
 our ladye boons. The rime shows that the right reading is 'bandes' 
 = bonds. ' Our Lady's bonds ' = parturition, travail. N.E.D. quotes ' Will of 
 W. Pryor (1504), App., I Alys beyng in the bondis of owr lady. Bp. White 
 in Strype, Eccl. Mem. in. ii. bond. 286. To dye in the bond, as they call it, 
 of our Lady, and travail of child.' ' Ladye ' is of course the M.E. form for 
 'lady's,' representing the O.E. weak genitive hlaefdigan. Cf Chaucer, C.T., 
 Prol. 88, 'in his lady grace.' 
 
 The corruption of ' bandes ' into ' boons ' is curious, and seems to suggest 
 
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 that the transcriber or the printer, not understanding the expression * our 
 ladye bandes,' turned for guidance (which some of our modern editors might 
 have done with advantage) to the original, and finding there exossatum os, 
 regardless of rime or sense turned 'bandes' into 'bones.' He may have been 
 influenced by the fact that final n often takes a parasitic d after it. 
 
 387. Ere ye assaye the, fife. Amph. 324, 'K in me exercituru's, quaeso in 
 parietem ut primum domes' 
 
 388. in earnest, or in game. Cf. Tales and Quicke Ansiueres (ed. Hazlitt, 
 p. 27), 'between earnest and game.' 
 
 395. a cople of Straus. Cf. 1. 1045, 'for a cople of straues.' 
 
 398. May a man demaund, fife. Amph. 346, 'possum scire, quo profectus 
 quoins sis aut quid ueneris ?' 
 
 399. My maisters seruaunt, fife. Amph. 347, ' hue eo, eri sum seruos.' 
 
 400. 'what busynes, fife. Amph. 350, 'quid apud hasce aedis negpti est 
 tibt?' 
 
 401. Nay maty, &c. Atn^h. j^o, 'immo quid tibist ?' 
 
 402. For I am commaunded, fife. Amph. 351, 'ME. rex Creo uigiles 
 nocturnes singulos semper locat. | SO. bene facit: quia nos eramus peregri, tutatust 
 domi.' 
 
 405. lAiell novo I am cume, fife. Amph. 353, ' at nunc abi sane, aduenisse 
 familiares dicito.' 
 
 407. ■S'^ouin^, shewing. The A has fallen out. 
 
 409. I cannot tell, &c. Amph. %^^., ' nescio quam tu familiaris sis : nisi 
 actutum hinc abis, | familiaris accipiere faxo haud familiariter' 
 
 410. nere, nearer. O.E. near, comparative of tieah. Sh. R. 11, m. 
 ii. 64 ; V. i. 8 ; Mcb. II. iii. 146. 
 
 41 2. planly, plainly. The i has dropped out. 
 
 413. That 1 am a seruaunt, &c. Amph. 356, 'hie inquam habito ego atque 
 horunc seruos sum.' 
 
 414. soo god me snache. Cf. Jacob and Esau (Hazl. Dodsl. 11. 253), 'Ye 
 shall run apace then, I ween, so God me snatch.' 
 
 but thou goo thee luaies, fife. Amph. 357, 'faciam ego hodie te superbum, 
 nisi hinc abis. SO. quonam modo ? \ ME. auferere, non abibis, si ego fiistem 
 sumpsero.' 
 
 418. 1 am a seruaunt, fife. Amph. 359, ' quin me esse huius familiai 
 familiarem praedico' 
 
 by thes .x. bons, i.e. the fingers, more frequently called ' the ten command- 
 ments.' Cf 1. 559. Heywood, The Four P.P. (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 381), 'Yet, 
 by these ten bones, I. could right well, &c.' Thersites {ib. 429), 'By this ten 
 bones. She served me once &c.' Sh. 2 Hen. VI, i. iii. 193; Digby 
 Mysteries (ed. Furnivall), p. 4. 
 
Notes 57 
 
 419. Noo more prating, &c. Amph. 360, ' uide sis quam mox uapulare 
 uis, nisi actutum hinc abis' 
 
 at touuns, taken by Hazlitt and Grosart as='at once' {attones), and this is 
 probable, as the Latin has actutum, and the word rimes with bans. 
 
 421. Pike. Udall, Apophthegmes, f. 127, '£ ^ive rvpivvois cKiroSav 
 KoBiiTTaiTo. Stand utter ye geast unbidden, picke you hens, Abacke, out of 
 our sight & regall presence.' Roister Doister, iv. iii. 90, 'Auaunt lozell, 
 picke thee hence.' Damon and Pythias (Hazl. Dodsl. iv. 34), 'pick, rise, and 
 walk.' Palsgrave, ' I pycke me forth out of a place, or I pycke me hence. 
 Je me tyre auant, je me suis tyri auant, tyrer auant.' 
 
 lualke. Tales and Quicie Ans'weres (ed. Hazlitt, p. 64), 'walke knaue 
 with a myschiefe.' Skelton, Ho'we the Douty Duke of Albany, &c., 1 54, 
 'Walke, Scot.' Heywood, Epigrammes (ed. Spenser Society, p. 106), 'walke 
 foole.' Wealth and Health (ed. Malone Society), 415, 'ye shall walke 
 a fleming knaue.' 
 
 422. What luilt thou let me, &c. Amph. 361, ' tun domo prohibere peregre 
 me aduenientem postulas ?' 
 
 my notvne. Roister Doister, 1. iii. 32, 'my nowne Annot.' The n of the 
 possessive is improperly prefixed to the following word. 
 
 423. bere me a souse. Gammer Gurton's Needle, iv. ii. 74, 'She bare 
 me two or three souses behind in the nape of the necke.' 
 
 430. In nomine patris. Cf 1. 554. Roister Doister, i.iv. ^i), ' A ■^c\ie} 
 Nomine patris, have ye so much spare ?' Heywood, Proverbs (ed. Spenser 
 Society, p. 91). 
 
 432. onaboke siuer. Tales and Quicke Ansiveres, xvit. {ed. Hsaiitt, f. zy), 
 'thou shall swere so vpon this boke ; and held to her a boke....So she toke 
 the boke in her hande and sayd : By this boke, &c.' Gammer Gurton's Needle, 
 II. i. 67 ; Nashe, Pierce Penilesse (ed. McKerrow, i. p. 165). Cf. 1. 449, 
 892. 
 
 434. Who is thy mayster, &c. Amph. 362, 'juis erus est igitur tibi ?' 
 
 435. And thine oiune name, &c. Amph. 364, 'quid nomen tibist ?' 
 
 441. rage, sport. Sir Beues of Hamtoun (E.E.T.S. p. 4), 'He With not 
 with me to rage.' Chaucer, C. T., A, 257, 'And rage he coude, as it were 
 right a whelpe.' lb. 3273, 'rage and pleye *; ib. 3958, 'rage or ones pleye.' 
 Skelton, Why Come Ye, 3 3, ' age cannat rage.' The Four P. P. (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 
 343), 'Nay, fore God, then did I rage.' 
 
 442. Take that. Amph. 370, ' nunc profecto uapula ob mendacium.' 
 
 444. Barest thou, &c. Amph. 373, 'tun te audesSosiam esse dicere, I qui 
 ego sum ? ' 
 
 445. / ivolde, &c. Amph. 380, 'ita di faciant, ut tu potius sis atque ego 
 te ut uerberem.' 
 
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 446. bet, beat. The M.E. form. 
 
 452. luho is thy maister noiu ? AmYih. 37$, 'quoius nunc es ?' 
 454. I am your oivne, &c, Amph. 375, ' tuos .• nam pugnis usu fecisti 
 tuom.' 
 
 457. Helpe saue my life, &c. Amph. 376, 'pro fidem, Thebani 
 dues' 
 
 45 8. Why thou lotusy thefe,&c. Arci^Yi. ■i'jS,' etiam clamas, carnufex ?' 
 461. Ye doest thou make, &c. AmTph. 3S1, ' etiam muttis?' 
 romeringe, mutteriag { = muttis), for 'romelinge.' Prompt. Parv. 'RoME- 
 
 LYNGE, or privy mysterynge (preuy mustringe, P.) Ruminacio, mussitaciot 
 
 CATH.' 
 
 463. In faith notu, &c. Amph. 381, 'iam tacebo.' There is no 
 suggestion in the original of the humour of promising to cease and immediately 
 crying, 'helpe, helpe !' 
 
 466. to see, probably a misprint for ' to thee.' 
 
 468. Who art thouno'iu ? Amph. 382, 'quid igitur ? qui nunc uocare ?' 
 
 469. Noo bodye, fife. Amph. 382, 'neTno nisi quern iusseris.' 
 
 470. Thou saydest, &c. Amph. 383, • Amphitruonis te esse aiebas Sesiam.' 
 
 47 1 . / cryeyou marcy. A common expression of apology for a mistake. 
 Lyly, Mother Bombie, I v. ii. 28, 'I crie you mercy, I tooke you for a ioynd 
 stoole.' Shakespeare, Lear, iii. vi. 50. 
 
 472. I said a mysse. Amph. jS 3, 'peccaueram.' 
 
 473. alivaies. The rime shows that this should be ' alwaie.' 
 
 479. nod, noddy. Minsheu, 'a Noddie, because he nods 'when hee should 
 speake. Vi. FooLE, Dizard.' 
 
 480. / am he, &c. Amph. 387, 'ego sum Sosia ilk, quem tu dudum esse 
 aiebas mihi.' 
 
 482. no poynt, not at a.11. Cotgrave, 'Point. {An Adverb) not, no one jot, 
 by no means, in no manner, not at all.' UdaU, Apophthegmes, f. 137, 'estemed 
 the fruite to bee no poyncte the more polluted.' The Rare Triumphs of Love 
 and Fortune (Hazl. Dodsl. vi. 203), 'Ah, no point good!' Hazlitt, not 
 understanding the phrase, puts a comma after ' poynt.' 
 
 thi ivitts do theefaylle. Amph. 386, 'fiigit te ratio.' 
 
 484. But syr myght I be bolde, fife. Amph. 388, ' obsecro ut per pacem 
 liceat te alloqui, ut ne uapulem.' 
 
 486. Truce for a luhyle, Sff. Amph. 389, ' immo indutiae parumper fiant, 
 siquid uis loqui.' Cf. Roister Doister, IV. viii. 33, ' truce for a pissing while or 
 twaine.' 
 
 thy for the ( = thee). So nyde (194), tny (191, 258), myruayllus (259), com- 
 maundyd (260), dyd (293). 
 
 487. May a man, &c. Amph. 391, 'tuaefidei credo ?' 
 
Notes 59 
 
 490. What and you kepe, fife. Amph 392, 'quid, si falles ? ' 
 
 then 'vpS cae, &c. Amph. 392, ' turn Mercurius Sosiae iratus siet.' 
 
 cae. the last letter looks like a broken r or e. Grosart pronounces it 
 
 ' unintelligible,' but the rime might have suggested the explanation. 
 
 492. Nmu dare I speake, &c. Amph. 393, ' nunc licet mihi libere quiduis 
 
 loqui. I Amphitruonis ego sum seruos Sosia.' A colon or full stop should be 
 
 read after 'speake.' 
 
 so mote I thee, so may I thrive. Prompt. Farm. 'Theen, or thryvyn'. 
 
 Vigeo: Cf. 1. 765, 805. The World and the Child (Hazl. Dodsl. l. 264) ; 
 
 The Four P.P. {ib. i. 355); Interlude of Youth {ib. 11. 23, 35); Heywood, 
 
 Epiff'ammes (ed. Spenser Society, p. 109) ; A Mery Flay (ed. Whittingham, 
 
 p. 31) ; Bale, Kynge Johan (Camden Society, p. 45). 
 
 494. What saiest thou soo. Amph. 394, ' etiam denuo ?' 
 
 495. And yf thou <wilt, &c. Amph. 396, ' ut lubet, quid tibi lubet 
 Jac' 
 
 496. beate on mee, tyll I stinke. Cf. Roister Doister, iv. iii. 120, 'I shall 
 cloute thee tyll thou stinke.' Heywood, A Mery Play (ed. Whittingham, p. 3), 
 ' Bete her, quotha .' yea, that she shall stynke.' Ib. p. 4, ' she Vfyll stynke 
 without any betyng.' The World and the Child (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 264), 
 'I should so beat him with my staff. That all his stones should stink.' 
 
 497. And yet luoll I, &c. Amph. 399, ' certe edepol tu me alienabis 
 numquam quin noster siem.' 
 
 498. This bedlem knaue, &c. Amph. 40Z, 'hie homo sanus non est.' Cf. 
 Skelton, Why Come Ye, 652, 'Suche a madde bedleme.' 
 
 514. Doo not I speake noiu. Amph. 407, '«o« /oyaor ?' 
 
 is not this my hande. Amph. 406, ' non mist lanterna in manu ? ' 
 
 516. Did not this other knaue, &c. Amph. 407, ' nonne hie homo modo me 
 
 pugnis contudit ? ' 
 
 520. / ijuoll home, &c. Amph. 409, 'cur non intro eo in nostram 
 
 domum ?' 
 
 524. / thou hast. Hazlitt unnecessarily omits the 'I.' 'I-thou'is 
 
 a compound to express the dual personality, like ' he-I,' 11. 9 1 8 — 19 ; ' him-me,' 
 
 1. 922. Cf 1. 550. 
 
 538. He lyeth not a moorde, &c. Amph. 423, ' argumentis uicit.' 
 
 540. betiuene erneste and game. Cf. Tales and Quicke Ansioeres (ed. 
 Hazlitt, p. 27), 'A certeyne man, whiche vpon a tyme in company betwene 
 ernest and game was called cuckolde.' 
 
 541. / must go sike me, &c. Amph. 423, ' aliud nomen quaerundumst 
 mihi.' 
 
 550. / thou. Hazlitt unnecessarily changes ' I ' to 'Ay.' See note on 
 1. 524. 
 
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 551. pane. Spelt 'pors' in furs the Ploivman, A-text, v. no ; C-text, 
 VII. 199. 
 
 552. Codes bodye. Cf. Barclay, Ship of Fools (ed. Jamieson, p. 96), 
 ' Some swereth armys nayles herte and body, Terynge our lord worse than 
 the Jowes hym arayed.' 
 
 556. Ho'w nonu art thou, &c. Amph. 433, • quid nunc? uincon argumentii, 
 te non esse Sosiam ? ' 
 
 557. sayest thou nay to that. Amph. 434, 'tu negas med esse ?' 
 
 558. Ye mary, &c. Amph. 434, ^quid ego ni negem, qui egomet 
 stem p ' 
 
 559. by these tene bones, &c. Amph. 435, 'per louem iuro med esse.' 
 
 560. Or ells tell me, &c. Amph. 438, 'quis ego sum saltern, si non sum 
 Sosia ? te interrogo.' 
 
 562. By my fayth the same, &c. , Amph. 439, ' ubi ego Sosia nolim esse, tu 
 esto sane Sosia.' 
 
 572. / haue sene my selfe, &c. Amph. 442, ' saepe in speculum inspexi .• 
 nimis similest mei.' 
 
 574. He hath in euerye poynt, &c. Amph. 443, 'itidem habet petasum ac 
 uestitum .• tam consimilest atque ego. \ sura, pes, statura, tonsus, oculi, nasum, uel 
 labra, \ malae, mentum, barba, collus .- totus' 
 
 575. notted, closely cut, cropped. Palsgrave, • I notte ones heed, 
 I clyppe it. Je tons' Cooper, TMaaraj (1578), 'Tondere. To notte his heare 
 shorte.' See Skeat's note on 'not-heed,' Chaucer, C. T., Prol. 109. Hazlitt, 
 without comment, changes to ' knotted.' 
 
 580. That if he haue, fife. Amph. 446, 'n tergum cicatricosum, nil hoc 
 similist similius.' 
 
 582. And yet nuhen I remembre, fife. Amph. 447, ' sed quom cogito, 
 equidem certo idem sum qui semper fiA. \ noui erum, noui aedis nostras .- sane sapio 
 etsentio. \ non ego illi optempero quod loquitur : pultabo foris.' 
 
 584. fiue nuitts, i.e. the five senses, hearing, sight, speech, smelling, feeling, 
 according to Grosseteste, Castle of Love. ' But for speech we commonly have 
 tasting.' Skeat, Piers the Plowman, B-text, 1. 15. Cf. xiv. 53, 'of sy3te and 
 of tonge, In etynge and in handlynge • and in alle thi fyue wittis.' 
 
 586. mooke, misprint for 'mocke.' 
 
 590. precious, ' often used ironically, implying worthlessness.' (HalliweU.) 
 
 slinking. Cotgrave, ' Regnarder. To play the Fox ; to steal, slip, or slink, 
 aside, upon a guilty conscience, or fear to be taken in the manner.' Grosart and 
 Hazlitt read ' stinking ' without comment. The alliteration supports the 
 reading 'slinking.' 
 
 592. ixiine shakin, i.e. 'wind-shaken.' D is often lost after n. Cf 
 Skelton, Against Gamesche (ed. Dyce, i. 117), 'Your wynde schakyn 
 
Notes 6 1 
 
 shankkes.' Harman, Cceveat (ed. Hindley, p. 84), 'This ill-favoured wind- 
 shaken knave.' So 'rain-beaten,' in Skelton, Mapiyjycence, zzi8, 'rayne 
 beten iauell'; Why Come Ye, 602, ' Ye raynbetyn beggers.' 
 
 pecpours, pick-pocket. Palsgrave, ' I pycke a puree. Je fiuille en nine 
 bource.' Nice Wanton (Hazl. Dodsl. 11. 169), 'I must have some of the 
 money Thou hast picked out of thy father's purse.' Hazlitt erroneously reads 
 the original as ' peepours,' and explains 'pillory-peeper.' 
 
 593. gods precious, a common oath, some word like 'blood,' 'bones,' 
 ' body,' or ' passion,' (cf. 1. 629) being understood. Cf. Roister Doister, iv. 
 viii. 40, ' by cocks precious.' The Disobedient Child (Hazl. Dodsl. 11. 304), ' By 
 God's precious.' Chapman, Monsieur D'Oli'ue, v. i. (ed. Pearson, i. 246), 
 ' Gods precious.' 
 
 / shall breake thy necke. Amph. 454, ' lumbi/ragium hinc auferes.' 
 
 602. Good lorde of heuine, &c. Amph. 455, ' di inmortales, obsecro 
 uostram fidem, \ ubi ego perii ? ubi inmutatus sum ? ubi ego formam perdidi ? \ 
 an egomet me illic reliqui, si forte oblitusfui ? ' 
 
 613. ivalke, beat. Cf 11. 870, 972. Heywood, A Mery Play (ed. 
 Whittingham, p. 3), ' Walke her cote.' lb. p. 33, 'I have walkyd them well.' 
 Heywood, The first hundred of Epigrammes, 86 (ed. Spenser Society, p. 117), 
 'Thou wilt foole (quoth one) by [be?] walkt with a waster.' Shirburn 
 Ballads (ed. Clark, p. 358), 'let blowes be walkinge.' 
 
 615. curry ed. Palsgrave, 'I cURRY or beate. Je has, battre.' Udall, 
 Flouresfor Latine Spekynge, ' Ferberibus casum te, &c. I woll all to currie the. 
 Sec' Roister Doister, 1. iii. 77, 'a curried cote.' Siielton, Magnyficence, 1641, 
 ' coryed, beten, and blyst.' 
 
 622. There 'was neuer Ape, &c. Amph. 458, 'nam hicquidem omnem 
 imaginem meam, quae antehac fiierat, possidet.' 
 
 626. Wyl he knotu me, &c. Amph. 461, 'nisi etiam is quoque me 
 ignorabit.' 
 
 629. codes precius passion. Cf. The Four Elements (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 25), 
 'Gog's passion.' Lindsay, Three Estates, 'Cokis passioun' {passim); Hickscorner 
 (Hazl. Dodsl. I. 155, 156), 'Cock's passion.' 
 
 637. dubtles. Cf Roister Doister, 1. ii. 106, ' I am sorie God made me so 
 comely doubtlesse.' 
 
 640. let me alone. Cf. Roister Doister, i. ii. 175, 'Yea now hardly lette 
 me alone.' 
 
 648. mome. Cf Roister Doister, ill. ii. 86, &c. Florio,f. 81, 'A gull, 
 a ninny, a mome, a sot.' Comedy of Errors, iii. i. 32, 'Mome, malt-horse, 
 capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch ! ' 
 
 653. itjinV, = ' kyrie eleison ' (icupie eXe'ijo-oi'). Cf. Heywood, Pronierbs 
 (Spenser Society, p. 64), ' She beginneth first with a cry a leysone ' [i.e. a kyrie 
 
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 eleison]. Bale, Kynge Johan (Camden Society, p. 98), 'He hath pipys and 
 belles, with kyrye, kyrye, kyrye.' A Supplycacion, &c. (E.E.T.S. p. 69). 
 Skelton, fhyllyf S-parmue, 379 ; Colyn Chute, 755. Nashe, Hwue lu'tth you 
 (ed. McKerrow, p. 132), 'like a Crier, that when he hath done kire-elosoning 
 it, puts of his cap, and cries God saue the Queene.' lb. Prayse of the Rid 
 Herring, p. 209. Hazlitt unnecessarily emends to 'curry,' and Grosart 
 explains as ' = kyrre, quarry, — a hunting term = to cut up the deer.' 
 
 657. corrasiue. Cf. Udall, Afop/tt&egmes, f. 15+ b, 'What laude or 
 thanke is he woorthie, saied Diogenes, that hauyng been so many yeres 
 a studente contynually occupied in philosophic, hath yet hitherto geuen no 
 bodye a corrosif ? ' 
 
 658. maisterishps, i.e. maisterisships, = ' mistress-ships.' 
 
 659. sentence. Cf. Barclay, Ship of Fools (ed. Jamieson, I. 137), 'his 
 wordes, theyr sentence or intent.' 
 
 672. graft. Cf. Nice Wanton (Hazl. Dodsl. II. 173), 'Two graffs of 
 an ill tree.' Gascoigne, Supposes (ed. Hazlitt, i. 206), ' grafts of such a stock.' 
 Cf 'imp.' 
 
 674. breched, literally 'put into breeches,' a metaphor for being put into 
 the stocks. Cf. Lear, 11. iv. 10,' when a man's over-lusty at legs, then he wears 
 wooden nether-stocks.' JV?M«r-rfoc^/= stockings, as a/i/?r-rfociti= breeches. 
 Cf Heywood, Epigrammes (Spenser Society, p. 204), ' Thy vpper stocks be they 
 stufte with sylke or flocks, Neuer become the lyke a nether payre of stocks ' 
 [i.e. being put in the stocks]. 
 
 brake, i.e. the stocks. Cf. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke, Pref. 6 b, 'So should 
 I in this matier stand in a streight brake.' Shirley, The Opportunity, 11. i., 
 'He is fallen into some brake, some wench has tied him by the legs.' 
 {N.E.D.) 
 
 689. 'vnhappye hooke. Cf 11. 116, 952. Skelton, Magny^cence, 1390, 
 'For all hokes vnhappy to me haue resorte.' Heywood, A Dialogue, &c. 
 (Spenser Society, p. 36), 'sens thou art crosse saylde, auale vnhappie 
 hooke.' 
 
 700. no force, no matter. Roister Doister, iv. iii. 94 ; iv. vi. 44. 
 
 708. I ivine. Cf. Roister Doister, I. iii. 100, ^chwine' — I yfeen. 
 
 I make god a 'vou. Prompt. Parv. ' A-vowE. Cotum.' ' A-wowYN, or to 
 make a-wowe. Vmieo' 
 
 711. beat me. No need to change to 'beaten,' with Hazlitt.. 
 
 712. tousing. Cotgrave, 'Heruper. To dischervel, tonuse, or disorder the 
 hair ; to make it stare, or stand ill-fa'vouredly.' ' Housepillement : m. A 
 'violent pulling, dragging, lugging, tugging, toiusing.' 
 
 725. poumile. Palsgrave, ' I pomell, I beate one aboute the eares. Je 
 torche.' 
 
Notes 63 
 
 ioyliU. 'loyly' is a favourite word with Udall. It occurs twice in 
 Roister Doister, and i6 times in the Apophthegmes. 
 
 726. luagepasHe, scapegrace. Cf. Roister Doister, in. ii. 10, 'a little 
 wagpastie.' Heywood, The ffise-nvoman ofHogsdon, v. iv. (ed. Pearson, vol. v. 
 P- 350)) 'tliE wild vagaryes of this wanton wag pasty, a wild-oates I warrant 
 him.' Cf. 'waghalter,' 'wagstring,' ' crackhalter,' 'crackrope.' 
 
 731. lyeth gretylie me a fan. Udall, Floures for Latine Spekynge, 'Scin 
 ad te attinere hanc otnnem rem? Doest thou remembre that all this matter 
 perteyneth to the ? or lyeth the vppon .> ' Roister Doister, i. iv. g, ' For this 
 lieth vpon his preferment in deede.' 
 
 733. dulines, misprint for ' dullnes.' Cath. Angl. 'a Dullnes ; ebitudo, 
 decliuitas' 
 
 735. apaied, satisfied, pleased. Cf Golding, Ovid's Met. iv. 86, 'The 
 sunne full ill appaid.' {N.E.D.) 
 
 736. luhan, the M.E. form. 
 
 751. canuased and tost. Cotgrave, ' Berner. To 'vanne or 'winno'w corn f 
 also, to cawvass, or toss in a Si've ; {a punishment inflicted on such as commit gross 
 absurdities). 
 
 759. marchent, rogue. Udall, Apophthegjnes, f. 252, 'lustie young 
 rufBeers and vfylde merchauntes.' Heywood, Proverbs (Spenser Society, p. 26), 
 'Ye marchant, what attempth you, &c.' For the character of merchants, 
 V. Lindesay, Ane Satyre (E. E.T. S.), 'W. 4034 — 4087 ; The Three Ladies of 
 London (Hazl. Dodsl. vi. 275 — 8) ; Piers the Plonximan, B-text, vii. 18 — 22. 
 The word occurs also in this sense in The History of Jacob and Esau (Hazl. 
 Dodsl. II. 255); NeiM Custom (ib. iii. 8) ; Marriage of Wit and Science {ib. 11. 
 383) ; Conflict of Conscience {ib. vi. 54). 
 
 763. calphe. Cf. Roister Doister, 11. iv. 10, 'You great calfe'; in. iii. 
 17, 'Ye are such a calfe, such an asse, such a blocke.' v. Cotgrave s.v. veau. 
 
 777. The ' I ' at the end of the line is inverted. 
 
 781. payne. Hazlitt unnecessarily inserts a semicolon. 
 
 784. Why ye naughty e 'uillaine, &c. Amph. 566, ^tune id dicere audes, 
 quod nemo umquam homo antehac \ uidit nee potest fieri, tempore uno \ homo idem 
 duobus locis ut simul sit?' 
 
 788. drunkest thou, &c. Amph. 576, 'ubi bibisti ?' 
 
 789. / shreue me. Palsgrave, 'I shrewe one, I beshrewe him. Je 
 mauldis.' 
 
 791. dranke. Palsgrave, ' I drinke, I suffer correctyon for a faulte. Je 
 compaire.' Roister Doister, i. iii. 29, 'drink without a cup.' The History of 
 Jacob and Esau (Hazl. Dodsl. 11. 254), 'ye shall drink of the whip.' Lyly, 
 Mydas, I. ii. ad fin., ' drinke of a drie cuppe.' Thersites (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 411), 
 'I will make thee drink worse than good ale.' Gascoigne, Steel Glas (ed. 
 
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 Arber, p. 68), 'drinke vpon the whippe." Cf. Heywood, Epigrammes (ed. 
 Spenser Society, p. 215). 
 
 798. What you saucye, Sff. Amph. 565, 'tun me, uerben, audes erum 
 ludificari ?' 
 
 800. your tonge is lyberall, &c. Amph. 556, ' iam quidem hercle ego tibi 
 islam I scelestam, scelus, linguam abscidam.' 
 
 lyberall. Cf. Hamlet, iv. vii. 171. 
 
 801. counger. Cf. 1. 108. 
 
 803. chrystendome, baptism. Cath. Angl. 'a Crystendam ; baptismus, 
 baptisma, christianitas, christianismus.' Wyclif, Works, iii. 285, speaks of the 
 sacrament of 'cristendom' (Herrtage). Piers Plo'wman, B-text, xi. 120, 'For 
 though a Crystene man coueyted his Crystendome to reneye.' 
 
 807. toyes. Read ' thy toyes.' 
 pranke. Read 'prankes.' 
 
 808. And noiu thou art, &c. Amph. 585, ' sequere sis, erum qui ludificas 
 dictis delirantibus .• \ qui quoniam e,rus quod imperauit neglexisli persequi, | nunc 
 uenis etiam ultro inrisum dominum : quae neque fieri | possunt neque fando 
 umquam accepit quisquam, profers, carnufex 1 \ quoius ego hodie in tergumjaxo 
 ista expetant mendacia.' 
 
 818. Loo is not he, &c. Amph. 590, ' Atnphitruo, miserruma istaec 
 miseriast seruo bono, | apud erum qui uera loquitur, si id ui uerum uincitur.' 
 
 825. Nay I maruael, &c. Amph. 596, 'nilo, inquam, mirum magis tibi 
 istuc quam mihi .• \ neque, ita me di ament, credebam primo mihimet Sosiae, \ 
 donee Sosia me ille egomet fecit sibi uti crederem.' 
 
 826. meaue. Prompt. Parv. 'Mevyn, or steryn. Moveo.' Palsgrave, 
 ' I MEVE or styrre by anger. Je esmeus.' 
 
 833. That thou laiest doune, &c. Amph. 620, 'num obdormiuisti dudum?... 
 ibi forte istum si uidisses quendam in somnis Sosiam.' 
 
 sleppest. The verb ' to sleep ' was originally strong, and the past tense 
 ' slep ' is still used in dialects. 
 
 840. as fast as a bere in a cage. Cf. DtgA;' Myrfmw (ed. Furnivall, p. i o), 
 'as fers as a lyon in a cage.' Heywood, Vrwerbs (Spenser Society, p. 43), 
 ' As comely as is a cowe in a cage.' Nashe, Have 'with You (ed. McKerrow, 
 in. 43). In the Ancren Riiule, p. 198, the bear is the type of sloth. 
 
 840 — I. Amph. 622, 'non soleo ego somniculose eri imperia persequi.' 
 
 843. / satxie and felte it as ixiaking, Sfc Amph. 623, ' uiplans uidi, 
 ttigilans nunc uideo, uigilans fabulor, | uigilantem ille me iam dudum uigilans 
 pugnis contudit.' 
 
 844. soner, the M.E. form. 
 
 850. Why then thou speakest not, &c. Amph. 616, 'sed uidistin uxorem 
 meam ? ' 
 
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 851. f!o that I dyd not, &c. Amph. 617, 'quin intra ireinaedis numquam 
 It ci turns t.' 
 
 855. the dyuell neuer so beate his dame. Cf. Grim the Collier of Crayden; 
 or. The Devil and his Dame (Hazl. Dodsl. viii. 400), 'Now is Belphegor, an 
 incarnate devil, Come to the earth to seek him out a dame.' lb. 452, 'He 
 [i.e. Belphegor] thinks to overcrow me [i.e. his dame] with words and 
 blows.' 
 
 856. And lohere became, &c. Amph. 619, 'quis istic Sosiast ?' 
 
 inhere became. Udall, Apophthegmes, f. 66, ' where is now that your 
 greate high frendship become ?' Hiciscorner (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 176), 'Where 
 be the traitors become now .' ' The Three Ladies of London (Hazl. Dodsl. vi. 
 360), 'thou knowest where they are become.' 
 
 859. for .xl. pens. A C. Merji Talys, Ixvi. (ed. Hazlitt, p. 94), 'John 
 
 Dawe layde with his curate for a wager xl. pence.' The Turnament of 
 
 Totenham (Hazlitt's Early Popular Poetry, iii. 90), 'An hors for xl. penys.' 
 
 861. rape thee. Roister Doister, in. v. 93, ' Yea and rappe you againe.' 
 
 870. lAialke his cote. Cf. 11. 613, 972. 
 
 871. ladi. Cf. 'ladye,' 1. 385. 
 
 873. I had rather thl .xl. pens. Ci. Trial of Treasure {ilizX.'DoAsX. lU. 
 281), 'I had rather than forty pence that he were come.* 
 
 878. a other. Read ' a other.' 
 
 879. heauen quene. Cf. Chaucer, An A.B.C., 24, ' blisful hevene quene.' 
 lb. 149, 'O hevene queen.' O.E. heqfena. 
 
 884. A line has been lost before this. 
 
 886. as iust as .iiii. pens to a grot. Amph. 601, 'neque lac lactis ma^s 
 est simile quam ille ego similest mei.' Ray, English Proverbs (ed. 1768, p. 224), 
 'As like as fourpence to a groat.' 
 
 8gi. looke him. Cf. Lindesay, Ane Satyre (E.E.T.S.), 3417, 'gif zow 
 list cum and luik it.' Beues of Hamtoun (E.E.T.S.), 1439, ' ffor all the 
 tresoure, That I myght in this toure loke.' 
 
 894. he called hym selfe by my onvne name. Amph. 600, ^formam una 
 abstulit cum nomine.' 
 
 895. tolde me all that I haue done. Amph. 599, ' ordine omne, uti 
 quicque actumst, dum apud hostis sedimus, | edissertauit.' 
 
 S98. you send me home, &c. Amph. 602, 'nam ut dudum ante lucem a 
 portu me praemisisti domum.' 
 
 goo. Bukelers. Cf. 1. 135. 
 
 904. Thou shalt haue by therfore. Read 'abye.' Cf. 1. 206, 'thou wolt 
 shurlie abye.' Baister Doister, 11. iv. 21, 'full truly abye thou shalt.' Or, 
 read 'why' for 'by.' Cf. Johan the Euangelyst (ed. Malone Society), 61, 
 ' Ye shulde haue well why.' 
 
 w. J. J. 5 
 
66 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 907. Laye on, Sfc. Cf. the Host's wife in Chaucer, C. T., B, 3083 — 
 3090, 'By goddes bones ! whan I bete my knaves, She bringth me forth the 
 grete clobbed staves. And cryeth, "slee the dogges everichoon, And brek 
 hem, bothe bak and every boon." ' 
 
 908. J oil. Palsgrave, ' I JOLLE one aboute the eares. Je souffiette, ■piim. 
 conj. I jolled hym aboute the eares tyll I made my fyste sore ' [which explains 
 ' fauoure your fyste ']. 
 
 fauoure. Udall, Floures, ' tibi parce, fauour or spare your selfe.' 
 
 913. / haue had hetyng, &c. Amph. 606, 'nam sum obtusus fugnis 
 pessume.' 
 
 914. Careaiuayne, influenced by the terminations of 11. 911 — 12, 
 915—16. 
 
 918. / me beat me thus. Amph. 607, ' egomet memet' \sc. uerberaui], 
 
 919. he I. Amph. 625, 'Sosia, inquam, ego ille.' 
 
 923. churles knaue. Cf. Chaucer, C. T., A, 3169, 'cherles tale.' /A. D, 
 Z2o6, ' cherles dede.' 
 
 925. nierye luel. Hazlitt omits 'wel.' 
 
 933. pigesnie. Roister Doister, i. iv. 42 ; III. iv. 32. Chaucer, C. T., A, 
 3268, 'She was a prymerole, a pigges-nye' (with Skeat's note). The Rare 
 Triumphs of Love and Fortune (Hazl. Dodsl. vi. 222). Locrine, i. ii. (ed. 
 Tauchnitz, p. 141). Cf. 'O my sweet birds-nie,' The City Nightcap (Hazl. 
 Dodsl. XIII. 124; ib. 141, 142). Cf. Plautus, Poen. %66 ' meus ocellus.' 
 
 934. hange vppe. Cf. Gammer Gurton's Needle, III. iii. 11, 'Give thee 
 thy right and hang thee up.' The Pardoner and the Friar (E.E.D.S. p. 15), 
 ' I had liever thou were hanged up with a rope.' 
 
 952. 'unhappy e hooke. Cf. 1. 689. 
 
 959. 'vere, spring. Skelton, On Tyme, 24 (ed. Dyce, i. p. 138), 'The 
 rotys take theyr sap in tyme of vere.' 
 963. Peres. The M.E. spelling. 
 
 968. ixiaister, cudgel. See Nares, s.nj. 'Waster.' Hazlitt and Grosart 
 print ' master ' without comment. 
 
 969. ere. Hazlitt changes to ' here.' 
 972. lualke his cote. Cf. 11. 613, 870. 
 
 974. Calyco'ui. Cf. Sidney, Apologiejor Poelrie {ed. Shudahuigh, f. ^i), 
 ' I may speake (though I am heere) of Peru, and in speech digresse from that 
 to the description of Calicut.' Bailey, ' Calicoe, a sort of Cloth made of 
 Cotton brought from Calicut, a Town of the Kingdom of Malibar, in the 
 East Indies.' 
 
 975. bedelem. Cf. 1. 498. 
 
 976. hence to Iherusalem. Cf. Roister Doister, iv. vii. 60, ' the best 
 hennes to grece.' Heywood, A Mery Play (ed. Whittiogham, p. 9), 'the 
 
Notes 67 
 
 most bawde hens to Coventrie.' Proverbs (Spenser Society, p. 25), 'Not a 
 more gagglyng gander hense to Chester.' 
 
 981. shit'vp. Cf. Udall, f hurts, 'Shit faste the doore with bothe the 
 boltes.' 
 
 985. maister. Read ' maisters.' 
 
 / best. Read ' it best.' The misprint i due to the ' I ' immediately 
 above. 
 
 992. lesse, lose. Read 'leese.' 
 
 994. the Catte nuinied luhen here iye ixias out. Cf. Heywood, Proverbs 
 (Spenser Society, p. 50), ' But somwhat it is, I see, when the cat wynkth. 
 And bothe hir eyne out, but further stryfe to shonne. Let the cat winke, and 
 leat the mouse ronne.' The World and the Child (Hazl. Dodsl. i. 265), 'Ah, 
 ah, sirs, let the cat wink.' Appius and Virginia (Hazl. Dodsl. iv. 152), 'Nay, 
 stay, I pray you, and let the cat wink.' Skelton, Colyn Cloute, 459, 'With, 
 Let the cat wynke.' 
 
 996. sum Englyshe maye be piked therofout, i.e. some modern application 
 may be discovered. Cf Nashe, Prayse of the Red Herring (ed. McKerrow 
 in. 195), 'Many of you haue read these stories, and coulde neuer picke out 
 any such English.' 
 
 1005. moune is made of a grene chese. Cf Hazlitt, English Proverbs, ed. 
 1882, p. 392. 
 
 loii. pfit. The stroke through the tail of the/ is an abbreviation of 
 -er. Sometimes the symbol stands for par. 
 
 1 01 3. good maister. Cf Roister Doister, iv. vii. 100, 'Be good maister 
 to her.' Skelton, Magny£icence, 808, 'Why dost thou not supplye, And 
 desyre me thy good mayster to be .' ' Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, v. ii. 
 ad fin. 
 
 1017. han, is found in Chaucer and Langland as a present plural but 
 not singular. 
 
 1019. the Croue is luhight. Cf Heywood, Proverbs (Spenser Society, 
 p. 56), 'Were not you as good than to say, the crow is whight.' GiiFord, 
 A Posie ofGilloflovDers (Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library, i. 369) 
 'I cannot say the crow is white. But needes must call a spade a spade.' 
 Andrew, Anatomie of Basenesse (ib. 11. 27), 'Haue I not heard one tell the 
 crowe shee's white?' Juvenal, iii. 30, ^maneant qui nigrum in Candida 
 uertunt.' Ovid, Met. xi. 314. Xcukoj Kopa^ was proverbial. 
 
 1024. arrierage. Cf Langland, Piers the Ploiuman, C-text, x. 274, 
 ' Redde rationem uillicacionis tue ■ other in arerage falle.' Chaucer, C T., A, 
 602, ' Ther coude no man bringe him in arrerage.' 
 
 1028. put in vre. Palsgrave, 'I put in ure. Je mets en experience, or 
 je mets en trayn.' 
 
68 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 103 1, galne. Read 'game.' 
 
 1039. topthers. So 'togideres' in Piers the Plonvman, B-text, i. 195, 
 II. 83. 
 
 1053. Baryng him selfe in hand. Palsgrave, ' I beare in hande, I threp 
 upon a man that hath done a dede or make him byleve so.' ' I beare hym 
 in hande he was wode.' Je luy metz sus la raige, ox je luy met% sus quil estoyt 
 enragi.' 
 
 1060. gidaU. The final -ce is omitted. 
 
 1068. neixieyere. See note on 1. 84. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 FRAGMENT OF A LATER EDITION 
 
 (11. 696—802.) 
 
 For he tolde me when he foorth went : 
 
 That thou shouldst come back again incontinent. 
 
 To bring me to supper where he now is : 
 
 And thou hast played by the way and they haue doon by this 
 
 But no force I shall thou maist trust me : 
 
 Teache all naughtie knaues to beware by thee. 
 
 €L Careaway. 
 
 Forsooth mistres if you knew as muche as I ; 
 
 You would not be with me halfe so angry. 
 
 For the fault is neyther in my maister, nor in me, nor you 
 
 But in another knaue that was heer euen now. 
 
 And his name was Jenkin Careaway. 
 
 €[ Dame Coy. 
 What ? I see my man is disposed to play. 
 I ween he be druncken or mad I make God a vow : 
 
 IE Careaway. 
 
 Nay I haue been made sober and tame I now. 
 
 I was neuer so handled before in all my life : 
 
 I would euery man in England had so beaten his wife. 
 
 I haue forgotten with tousing by the hear: 
 
 What I deuised to say a little ere. 
 
 C Dame Coy. 
 Haue I lost my supper this night through thy negligece : 
 
 9L Careaway. 
 Nay then were I a knaue sauing your reuerence. 
 
 CC Dame Coy. 
 Why > I am sure that by this time it is doon : 
 
 5—3 
 
70 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 C Careaway. 
 Yea that it was more then an houre agone. 
 
 €[ Dame Coy. 
 And wast not thou sent to fetche me thither : 
 
 C[ Careaway. 
 Yes and had come right quickly hither. 
 But that by the way I had a great fall : 
 And my name, body, shape, legges and all. 
 And met with one that from me did it steal : 
 By by God first he and I some blowes did deal. 
 I would he were present now before your gate : 
 For you could pummel him ioylyly about the pate. 
 
 C Dame Coy. 
 
 Truly this wagpastie is eyther drunck or mad : 
 
 C Careaway. 
 
 Neuer man sufFred so muche wrong as I had. 
 
 But mistres I should say a thing to you : 
 
 Tary it wil come to my remembrance euen now. 
 
 I must needs vse a substantial! premeditation : 
 
 For the matter lyeth greatly me vpon. 
 
 I beseeche your mistreship of pardon and forgiuenes : 
 
 Desyring you to impute it to my simple and rude dulnes. 
 
 I haue forgotten what I haue thought to haue said : 
 
 And am therof fui il apaid. 
 
 But when I lost my self this mischaunce also fel : 
 
 I lost also that I should you tel. 
 
 C Dame Coy. 
 
 Why thou wretched villain doost thou me scorn and mock : 
 To make me to these folke a laughing stock. 
 Ere thou go out of my hands thou shalt haue some thing 
 I wil recken better in the morning. 
 
 C Careaway. 
 
 beat me maistres aduise you : 
 none of your seruants now. 
 er I is now your page : 
 longer in your bondage. 
 
Appendix 7 1 
 
 €[ Dame Coy. 
 Now walke precious theef get thee out of my sight : 
 And come no more in my presence this night. 
 Get thee hence and wait on thy maister at once : 
 
 C Careaway. 
 Mary sir this is handling for the nonce. 
 I would I had been hanged before that I was lost : 
 I was neuer this canuased and tost. 
 That if my maister on his part also : 
 Handle me as my mistres and the other I doo. 
 I shall surely be kiUed between them three : 
 And all the deuils in hel shall not saue me. 
 But yet if the other I might with me haue part : 
 All this would neuer greeue my hart. 
 
 C Jugler. 
 
 How say you maisters I pray you tel : 
 
 Haue not I requited my marchant wel ? 
 
 Haue not I handled him after a good sorte : 
 
 Had it not been pittie to haue lost this sporte. 
 
 Anon his maister on his behalfe : 
 
 You shall see how he wil handle the Calfe. 
 
 For if he throughly an angred be : 
 
 He wil make him smart so mote I thee. 
 
 I would not for the price of a new pair of shoon : 
 
 That any parte of this had been vndoon. 
 
 Wel, sith that now reuenged is my quarel : 
 
 I wil go doo of mine apparel. 
 
 And now let Careaway be Careaway again : 
 
 I haue doon with that name now certain. 
 
 Except peraduenture I shall take the self same weed 
 
 Some other time again for a like cause and need. 
 
 C Boungrace. 
 
 Why then dare thou to presume to tel me : 
 That I knowe is no wise possible for to be .' 
 
 C Careaway. 
 
 Now by my truthe maister I haue tolde no lie. 
 And all these folke knowe as wel as I. 
 
72 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 I had no sooner knocked at the gate : 
 
 But straight wayes he had me by the pate. 
 
 Therfore if you beat me til I fart and shite again : 
 
 You shall not cause me for any pain. 
 
 But I wil affirm as I said before : 
 
 That when I came neer another stood at the door. 
 
 ([ Maister Boungrace. 
 
 Why thou naughtie villain darest thou affirm to me ? 
 That whiche was neuer seen nor heer after shalbe ? 
 That one man may haue two bodies and two faces ? 
 And that one man at one time may be in two places .' 
 Tel me, drankest thou any where by the way ? 
 
 C Careaway. 
 
 Beshrew me if I dranck any more then twise to day : 
 
 Til I met euen now with that other I : 
 
 And with him I supped and drank truly. 
 
 But as for you if you gaue me drinck and meat : 
 
 As oftentimes as you doo me beat. 
 
 I were the best fed page in all this Cittie. 
 
 But as touching that you haue on me no pittie. 
 
 And not onely that doo. you serue : 
 
 For meat and drinck may rather starue. 
 
 C Maister Boungrace. 
 What you saucy malapart knaue : 
 Begin you with your niaister to prate and raue ? 
 Your tung is liberall and all out of frame : 
 I must needs coniure it and make it tame 
 Wher is that other Careaway that thou saydst was heer 
 
 Note. Where lacunae occur the original is torn or rubbed. 
 
INDEX TO THE NOTES 
 
 abye zo6 
 alone, let me 640 
 apaied 735 
 arayed 293 
 arrierage 1024 
 at towns 419 
 Aulsoon 224 
 avou 708 
 
 baryng in hand 1053 
 bedlem 498, 975 
 behynde 171 
 bere in a cage 840 
 besime 76 
 bet 446 
 
 boke, swere on 432 
 bons, by thes .x. 418 
 boroue 317 
 boyes 76 
 bouncing 275 
 brake 674 
 breched 674 
 brideleth 228 
 buklers 135, 900 
 buttens, makith 348 
 
 calphe 763 
 
 canuased 751 
 
 cape 325 
 
 Carreawaie 114 
 
 Cato 9 
 
 catte winked 994 
 
 chafed 334 
 
 chatteth 234 
 
 chrystendome 803 
 
 churles 923 
 
 Cicero 42, 50 
 
 cockes precius passion 629 
 
 cokes 148 
 
 conueiaunce 55 
 
 cople of Straus 395 
 corrasiue 657 
 costerds 285 
 cosune 137 
 crosses 90 
 
 croue is whight 1019 
 cunger 108, 801 
 curryed 615 
 cursed 114 
 
 dell, euery 169 
 dranke 791 
 dubtles 637 
 dyuell's dame 855 
 
 earnest, in 388 
 emongs i o 
 
 Englyshe piked out 996 
 erneste and game 540 
 
 face it 304 
 
 faire toche 145 
 
 faryng 159 
 
 fauoure 908 
 
 fist mete 378 
 
 flye 314 
 
 force, no 700 
 
 forthest 198 
 
 forty pens 859, 873 
 
 four pens to a grot 886 
 
 freuteres 152 
 
 galiard 231 
 getteth 226 
 gingerlie 217 
 God before 108 
 God me snache 414 
 God yld it 277 
 Godes bodye 552 
 Gods precious 593 
 
74 
 
 good maister 1013 
 George, saint 317 
 graft 672 
 grudgid z6z 
 
 halpeny worth of slluer spoons 218 
 
 hange vppe 934 
 
 hardelye 362 
 
 haue by therfore 904 
 
 he-I 919 
 
 heauen quene 879 
 
 heele, out at 349 
 
 hei hei zoo 
 
 hooke 689 
 
 I-thou 524, 550 
 leopard 318 
 ioU 908 
 ioylile 725 
 iugling cast 107 
 
 Jenkine 114 
 Jhone, sainte 84 
 
 kyrie 653 
 
 ladye boons, our 385 
 laye on 907 
 life, giue my Z49 
 looke him 891 
 lookes 341 
 lyberall 800 
 lyeth apon 731 
 lyne z 1 1 
 
 marchent 759 
 
 marcy, crye you 471 
 
 meaue 8z6 
 
 merie and glad 69 
 
 minceth 228 
 
 mome 648 
 
 moull 108 
 
 moune made of grene chase 1005 
 
 muse 308 
 
 my simithe 191 
 
 my thought 258 
 
 nere 410 
 
 Jacke Jugeler 
 
 niddes 1 7 
 no poynt 48 z 
 nod 479 
 nomine fatrU 430 
 nons, for the 177 
 notted 575 
 nowne 4ZZ 
 
 ofiirme 46 
 
 or 81 
 
 our ladye boons 385 
 
 Ouyd 28 
 
 oyster shel 61 
 
 parat Poppagaye 235 
 pecpours 592 
 percace 7 
 pigesnie 933 
 pike 42 1 
 Plautus 64 
 potstike 148 
 poumile 725 
 prankith Z26 
 precious 148, 590 
 
 quesie 66 
 
 rage 441 
 
 rape 861 
 
 rest you merye 85 
 
 romeringe 461 
 
 rufflers 269 
 
 scenten'ce 65 
 
 sentence 659 
 
 set by 267, 345 
 
 shit vp 981 
 
 shreue, I 789 
 
 simperith 226 
 
 sleppest 833 
 
 slinking 590 
 
 snache, God me 414 
 
 soft 331 
 
 souse 423 
 
 spoons, halpeny worth of siluer z 1 S 
 
 Starke staryng 181 
 
 Steuen, saint 86 
 
 stinke, beate tyU I 496 
 
Indt 
 
 Straus, cople of 395 
 stoding 310 
 swere and stare 163 
 swete mete 323 
 swimmeth 228 
 syr 293 
 
 thee, so mote I 492 
 togithers 1039 
 tousing 7 1 2 
 tredith 229 
 truce for a whyle 486 
 tryppeth 229 
 
 vengable 219 
 verament 32 
 
 ex 
 
 vnhappy 116,689 
 vre, put in 1028 
 
 wage 116 
 wagepastie 726 
 waghith 3 84 
 waike 421, 613, 870 
 wardelith 231 
 where became 856 
 whether 183 
 wine, I 708 
 wine shakin 592 
 witts fiue 584 
 wood 369 
 wrong, had 147 
 
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