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 TWO ENTEELUDES : 
 
 I. JACKE JUGELER: 
 II. GODLY QUEENE HESTER : 
 
 FROM 
 
 THE UNIQUE ORIGINALS 
 
 IX THE POSSESSION OF 
 
 HIS GRACE THE DTJKE OF DEVONSHIRE, 
 
 E.G., 
 
 EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. ALEXANDER B. OROSART 
 
 ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE. 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 
 
 1873. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
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 I. Introduction 454 — 181 
 
 II. Jacke Jugeler 482 — 543 
 
 III. Godly Queene Hester 544 — 610 
 

 
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 T is like placing the flint-weapons and 
 rude utensils of our Forefathers, beside 
 il the splendid rifle and dainty work of 
 Worcester or Sevres, to resuscitate such rudi- 
 mentary dramatic productions as the ' ' Temptacyon ' ' 
 of Bishop Bale (in Vol. II. of these Miscellanies) 
 and the present Enterludes. The contrast is 
 almost grotesque between them and the like, and 
 the consummate Tragedies and Comedies of the 
 Elizabethan age, from Marlowe's "mighty line" 
 to all-in-one William Shakespeare. Xevertheless 
 as educated Thinking and Science find much to 
 interest and illustrate else dark epochs, in the 
 rudest memorials of our Ancestry, so the genuine 
 student of our Literature will not despise the least 
 and lowliest examples of its first putting forth of 
 the dramatic instinct and faculty. 
 
 458 
 
4 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In the " Temptacyon " of Bishop Bale, we 
 gave a somewhat notable specimen of the semi- 
 Miracle-plays which belong to the beginnings of 
 our dramatic Literature ; but more as an example 
 of the good Bishop's various productions in this 
 department than as typical of its class — a class 
 that avowedly sought to advance The Reformation 
 by ecclesiastical-political ' asides ' put into the 
 mouths of Scripture characters and by rough 
 and ready if sometimes covert rebuke of offenders 
 against morality in " high places ". 
 
 The two Enterludes now selected for repro- 
 duction we give as examples of this class of early 
 dramatic Literature — Enterlude or dialogue as 
 distinguished from the ' Play ' with less or more 
 of painted scenery and theatric paraphernalia. 
 There was the additional enducement that both 
 are known to exist in only solitary exemplars in the 
 possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. 
 
 I. JACKE JTTGELER. 
 
 The full title-page (at p 38) informs that it is " A 
 Enterlued for Chyldren to playe ", and character- 
 izes it as " both witte " [ = witty] " and very 
 playsant" [ = pleasant.] The former, viz., the 
 ' Chyldren 7 was a mere mask put on ; for the 
 speakers are vigorous enough, and eke experienced 
 
 459 
 
INTRODUCTION. O 
 
 enough in the ways of the world, to be regarded 
 as men and women not mere ' children ' (in our 
 sense at least). It was convenient then as it is 
 still o' times, to reach the elder through the 
 younger — just as it is told of John Foster the 
 Essayist that he was wont to administer repri- 
 mands to certain offenders visited by him, through 
 quaint scoldings addressed to the cat on the hearth 
 or poll in her cage. The latter, viz., " both witte 
 and very playsent ", may be credited to YTyllyam 
 Copland in Lothbury " the Printer and Publisher, 
 rather than to the anonymous and to-day altogether 
 untraced Author. As for the being " witte " it 
 is more 'salt' than refined; and for the " playsent" 
 it depends upon the taste of the Keader. Certainly 
 the characters are not ill-sustained, while the 
 Philosophy with which the Prologue starts is 
 sound, to wit that gravity ought to be lightened 
 with mirth ; or as the Earl of Buchan, put it, 
 that 
 
 " A little nonsense now and then 
 
 Is relished by the wisest meri." 
 
 " The Prologue " has this among other things on 
 the point : 
 
 " Emongs thy earful bnsines, use sume time mirth and 
 
 ioye 
 That no bodily e worke, thy wyttes breke or 'noye : 
 
 460 
 
6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 For the mynd (saith he) in serious matters occupied 
 Yf it hath not sum quiet mirthe and recreation 
 Interchaungeable admixed, must nides be sore weried, 
 And (as who should saye) tried, through continual oper- 
 
 acion 
 Of labour and busines, without relaxacion : 
 Therefore intermix honest mirthe, in suche wise 
 That your strength may be refreshid, and to labours 
 
 suffise" (pp 29-30). 
 
 Yet must not the mirth as in Burns' Tarn o' 
 shanter " wax fast and furious ;" the counsel is 
 
 " To haue at times convenient pastaunce, mirthe & 
 
 pleasurs 
 So thei be ioyned wt honestie, and keapt w* in due 
 measurs" : (p 31), 
 
 And then if the Enterlude fail to yield mirth, 
 here is the verdict : 
 
 " to make at seasuns convenient pastims, mirth and 
 game, 
 As now he hath don this matter, not worth an oyster shel 
 Except percace it shall fortune to make you laugh well. , ' 
 
 There's a spark of wit in that " not worth an 
 oyster shel" ; for what more worthless than it, 
 while the savoury morsel once within is an 
 aggravation. 
 
 There is no little verve in the way Iacke Iugeler 
 bounds before his audience : 
 
 461 
 
INTEODUCTIOX. 7 
 
 " Our lord of Heuen and sweet sainte Jhone, 
 
 Best you merye my maistirs euerychone, 
 
 And I praye to Christ and swete saint Steuen 
 
 Send you all many a good euine, even 
 
 And you too syr, and you, and you also, 
 
 Good euine to you a hundred times, & a thousand mo ; 
 
 Now by all thes crosses of fleshe, bone and blod, 
 
 I rekine my chaunce right maruaylus good, 
 
 Here now to find all this cumpanie, 
 
 Which in my mynde I wished for hartylie. 
 
 For I haue labored all daye tyll I am werie 
 
 And now am disposed to passe the time, and be merie : 
 
 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 me of my mother I haue byn tought, 
 
 To bee merie when I may, and take no thought : 
 
 Which leasone, I beare so well awaye, 
 
 That I yse to make merye oons a day." (p. 34). 
 
 The ' tiick ' of Jacke Jugeler is the 'jugglery ' 
 of disguising himself in the garments and facial 
 appearance of another, 'the page of Maister Eoun- 
 grace,' Jenkin Careaway — an ancient and a modern 
 bit of mischief which takes many shapes e.g. the 
 poor drunken Scotch 'Drover' who being put 
 a-bed at night oblivious and obfusticated, was 
 "shaven and shorn" to the bare pate by certain 
 wags and when aroused in early morning to go 
 with his 'flocks and herds' to the 'Fair ' or Tryst 
 [ = Market] of Falkirk and seeing himself in the 
 
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8 INTKODUCTIOtf. 
 
 looking-glass without one shred of his erewhile 
 bushy locks, exclaimed half-awake : " Och, och, 
 an' they've wauken'd [awakened] the wrang 
 [wrong] man." Jenkine Careaway is described 
 by Jacke Jugeler as 
 
 " as cursed a lad 
 And as ungracious as euer man had ; 
 An vnhappy wag and as folishe a knaue withal 
 As any is now, within London wall ". (p 35) 
 
 and Jacke had a quarrell with Jenkine, as thus : 
 
 " This Jenkine and I been fallen at great debate 
 For a mattier that fell betwine us late ; 
 And hitherto of him I could neuer reuenged be 
 For his maister maintaineth him and loueth not me " (p 35) 
 
 So the ' revenge ' is contrived as follows : 
 
 " I called vnto my mynd 
 Sartyne old rekeaninges, that were behynd 
 Bitwen Jenkine and me, whom partlie to recompence 
 I trust by God's grace, ere I goo hence : 
 Those garments, cape, and all other geare, 
 That now you see, apon me here, 
 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" (pp 37-8) 
 
 There are gleams of humour in the way Jacke 
 Jugeler keeps up his character as Jenkin Careawaye 
 
INTRODUCTION. 9 
 
 and still more in the self-portrayal of the real 
 Jenkin Careawaye's bewilderment and botheration, 
 spite of his consciousness — amid all badinage — 
 that he is Jenkin Careawaye. We are reminded 
 as we read of a recent muddle-headed nobleman 
 made immortal by the Actor's genius — Lord 
 Dundreary of Sothern 
 
 The insistence ultimately of Maister Boungrace 
 that his luckless ' page ' had mistaken his own 
 shadow for another man (i.e. another Jenkin 
 Careawaye) is specially droll and entertaining — 
 none the less that the actual Jenkin bears in his 
 beaten and bruised body (in its lower part) feeling 
 evidences of the unshadowy and most substantive 
 nature of his alter-ego. As the Dialogue proceeds 
 too there are grim touches as of a Eembrandt 
 etching, coarse perchance yet true. You have 
 the prototype of Bob Acres at page 46, and 
 at pp 45, 51 and 52 and 56, exceedingly graphic 
 description of the counterfeited Jenkin' s bewild- 
 erment. The "Yet woil I still sayethat I am I" 
 (p 65) in the hands of Lloyd the associate of 
 Murray, at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, would 
 have convulsed the House. 
 
 ' Mayster Boungrace,' ' Dame Coye,' and the 
 'rnayd ' — who is ridiculously named ' Ales trype 
 and goe ' [Always Trip and Go] — are very well 
 
 464 
 
1 INTEODUCTION. 
 
 sustained. Here is the vivid portrait of the last. 
 
 " She simperith, she prankith, and getteth without faylle 
 As a pecocke that hath spred, and show eth Mr gaye tayle : 
 She minceth, she hrideleth, she swimmeth to and fro, 
 She tredith not one hair awrye, she tryppeth like a do : 
 Abrode in the strete, going or cumming homward, 
 She quauerith, and wardelith, like one in a galiard, 
 Euerye ioynt m her body and euerie part : 
 Oh it is a ioylie wench to myns " (p 40) 
 
 Besides all this the Reader will find in Jacke 
 Jugeler much insight into the manners and cus- 
 toms of the Period, the wrongs and sufferings of 
 house-servants in their drudgery and late-and- 
 early hours, the insolence and oppression of those 
 holding " a little brief authority " and the loose 
 ongoings in domestic life when " bluff king Hal " 
 reigned. The long and closing speech of the 
 real Jenkine Careawaye is a drastic and telling 
 expose of the wrongs of his class and kindred 
 matters, and the sentiment ennobles alike thought 
 and wording and rhythm. Our Notes record some 
 words that may be of use to students of our 
 Language. 
 
 It only remains to be added of Jacke Jugeler 
 that I have had the privilege and advantage of 
 reprinting it directly from the single known 
 copy, by the kindness of his Grace the Duke of 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 1 1 
 
 Devonshire. This I naturally preferred to fol- 
 lowing Haslewood's reprint (25 copies only) 
 for the Roxburghe Club, albeit it is creditably 
 accurate. 
 
 It must also be noted here that loose in the 
 complete copy of " Jacke Jugeler " are two leaves 
 of another edition (undescribed). Mr. Hazlitt 
 (s. v.) states the variations of this Fragment are 
 only in the orthography. This is a mistake as 
 our note on page 88 of pp 65 et seqq shews. The 
 date assigned to Jacke Jugeler is 1563. 
 
 II. GODLY QUEEXE HESTER. 
 
 This Enterlude is also preserved in a solitary 
 exemplar and never has been reprinted until now. 
 It cost its noble purchaser £37/10. Again his 
 Grace the Duke of Devonshire was good enough 
 to allow me to print directly from his (biblio- 
 graphical) treasure. 
 
 Throughout we have reproduced literatim et 
 pimctatim our original, in order that one example 
 might be furnished of an Enterlude precisely as 
 it was given to the world in 1561 by " Willyam 
 Pickeringe " — of whom we know not whether he 
 were ancestor of a modern bearer of his name and 
 surname, scholarly and gracious William Pickering. 
 
 466 
 
12 IXTEODTJCTION. 
 
 As with Jacke Jugeler the Author of " Godly 
 Queene Hester " is still unknown. 
 
 The "Temptacyon" of Bishop Bale is taken 
 from the New Testament. " Godly Queene 
 Hester " is taken from the fine idyll of the Old 
 Testament, with pretty close adherence to the 
 pathetic story: but as in the " Temptacyon' ' 
 there are side glances at contemporary personages 
 and actings, and occasionally stinging sarcasms at 
 the expense of the supremest in the kingdom. 
 
 Take some instances of an interior significance 
 couched within the apparent meaning of the 
 Speakers. 
 
 ' Ambytion ' is directing his anger on Aman 
 [ = Haman] and he thus characterizes the self- 
 seeking ' chauncellore ' : 
 
 " For all rewlers and lawes, were made by fooles and dawes 
 
 He sayeth verely. 
 
 Ordynances and foundation, without consyderation 
 
 He sayeth were deuysed. 
 
 Therfore hys imagination, bringes all out of fashion 
 
 And so all is dysguised. 
 
 Sum tyme where was plenty, now ye barnes be empti 
 And many men lackes bread, 
 
 And wher somtyme was meat, there now is none to get 
 But all be gone and dead. 
 
 Beggersnow do banne, and crye out of Aman, 
 That euer he was borne. 
 
 467 
 
INTRODUCTION. 13 
 
 They swere by the roode, he eatyth vp all their foode, 
 
 So that they gett no good, neyther euen nor morne, 
 
 And many that be pore though not from doore to doore, 
 
 A begginge they dyd goe : 
 
 Yet had they releefe. bothe of breade and beefe, 
 
 And dryncke also 
 
 And nowe the dore standes shot, and no man can we get, 
 
 To worcke neither to fyghte." (pp 25 — 26). 
 
 Those who have read the ' History ' of Frotjde 
 will have no difficulty in recognizing the com- 
 plaints of the people as against Henry VIII. 
 and his ' ministers ' there. But the contemporary 
 reference is made the more unmistakable by the 
 queer forgetfulness of the Author that the scene 
 was Persia and not England and in a far-remote 
 age not the 16th century in an anachronistic 
 statement of the chronic threatenings of war that 
 belonged to the period e. g. 
 
 " Wherfore if warre should chaunce, eyther wyth 
 
 Scotland or Fraunce, 
 
 Thys geare would not go ryght." (pp 26 — 7) 
 
 Equally definite is this allusion to the ' Queenes ' 
 who had reigned in association with the Kings of 
 the Past : 
 
 " Breake not the course that queenes haue hadde 
 In this noble region most part of all, 
 
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14 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 They haue aye bene good, and none of theym badde, 
 To their prince euer sure, iust and substanciall 
 And good to the commons when they dyd call 
 By mekenes for mercye, to temper the fyre 
 Of Rigor's iustice in fume or in yre." (p 11) 
 
 That " They haue aye bene good" was intended 
 to sting. Again : 
 
 " And where goddes seruyce and hospitalitie 
 Doeth decaye, and almes to to the poor all, 
 There maye be wealth in places two or three 
 But I assure you the most part in generall, 
 Neither haue meate nor money, nor strength 
 
 substanciall, 
 Fytte to doe you seruice, when ye haue nede 
 Whiche is no good order, me thynkes in very dede. 
 Let God alwaye therfore haue hys parte 
 And the poore fedde by hospitalitie, 
 Eche man his measure, be it pynte or quarte, 
 And no man too muche, for that is great ieoberdie." 
 
 (pl8) 
 
 Throughout, there are similar keen and penetrative 
 hits at King and ' Ministers/ and though ( Aman' 
 be at once their chief subject and object, the 
 auditors must have readily caught up the gibes. 
 
 But the main interest to us at this later day 
 centres in the Fool named Hardy Dardy and in 
 the personifications of Pryde, Adulation and 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 15 
 
 Ambition. In Hardy Dardy there are things 
 that in their wise unwisdom and uncanny rash- 
 ness of speech to the King and Aman, recall the 
 Fools of Shakespeare. Not will the student of 
 the Fools of our early Drama lose his pains in 
 giving some quiet hours to master the conception 
 and emhodiment of this fool, Hardy Dardy, with 
 his smart rough tongue and ready phrase. 
 
 The speeches of Pryde and Adulation and 
 Ambition pleasantly surprise by their almost 
 lyrical condensation and passing vividness of 
 wording. They start from the ordinary low level 
 of rude and formless rhymed speech, in a very 
 arresting fashion. Take the following as a speci- 
 men, and for the time, let the intricate and 
 often-returning if somewhat imperfect rhyme, be 
 noted : 
 
 "Here entreth Pride syngynge, poorely arayed 
 To men that be heuy and wold faine be mery 
 Though they feel smarte : 
 Oft chance such reckning, yt with their mouth thei 
 
 sing 
 Though thei wepe in their hart. 
 Somtime thei daunce, with mery countenaunce, 
 "When they had leuer slepe : 
 
 Eke thei laugh and grin, when by this sunne I wyn 
 In the heart thei wepe. 
 
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1 6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Who so will accord, with the double world 
 
 Muste vse suche artes ; 
 
 Outwardly kinde, in his heart a fende, fiend 
 
 A knaue of two partes. 
 
 Outward honestie, inward infidelitie, 
 
 Both rydes on a mule : 
 
 In peace he is bolde, but in war he is colde, 
 
 That soonest wyll recoyle " (pp 19—20) 
 
 The remainder is equally pungent, and Adulation 
 and Ambition equally forceful and memorable. 
 
 The Wills of Pride and Adulation wherein 
 'they leave all their gifts and faculties — intention • 
 ally ignoble — is quaintly striking, and possibly 
 Dr. Donne saw them and had them in recollection 
 when he wrote his singular ' copy of Verses ' 
 entitled < The Will' (Our edn. Vol II.) 
 "We must briefly quote from the Wills of Pride and 
 Ambition : 
 
 Pryde. 
 Then by and by ye shall heare playnely, 
 wythout impedimente, 
 
 The tenour of my wyll, if ye take heede there vntyll 
 This is my testament. 
 
 Al my presumptuous pryde, whether he goe or ryde, 
 Nowe or elles than : 
 
 My heart and corage, for power and language 
 I geue it vnto Aman. 
 Let him kepe of my pryde what he wil, the rest deuide 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 1 7 
 
 amonge hys whole Garde : 
 
 and when they haue it all, what they wyll dooe withall. 
 
 aduyce them afterwarde, 
 
 If pryde haue a fall, let them be content withall 
 
 As I am nowe : 
 
 For as for Pryde, lasteth but a tide 
 
 I assure you. 
 
 If to it longe shame, let them a goddes name, 
 
 Take them bothe : 
 
 For as I feare mee, so muste it needes bee, 
 
 Be they neuer so lothe. 
 
 Adulation, 
 and I adulation, of the same fashion, 
 at thys tyme present, 
 To recorde euerye man, geue vnto aman, 
 By thys my testament. 
 All my subteltie, & forged fydelite, 
 To hym and hys espyes. 
 I wot they wyll it vse, trew men to confewse, 
 And that craftely. 
 
 And yf they do in dede, I praye god they may spede, 
 Euen as honestly, 
 
 As he that from steyling, goeth to sent thorn as watryng 
 In his yong age. [St, Thomas 
 
 So they from pytter pattour, may cume to tytter totur 
 Euen the same pylgrimage. (pp 28-30). 
 
 1 Queen e Hester/ though she necessarily gives 
 her name to the Enterlude is really subordinate. 
 Her qualifications and culture reflected the ideal 
 
 c 472 
 
1 8 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of dear old Roger Ascham's ' Scholemaster ', and 
 what we read of that ideal as actualized in Lady- 
 Jane Grey and other " faire and honorable 
 woemen ". Her (reputed) father 'Mardocheus' 
 is stern and economic of words, as is fitting. The 
 swift execution of the wicked Aman and the bold 
 matter-of-fact report of it impress— all the more 
 that the previous pictures of his ill-got wealth 
 and self-indulgence suggest the bitter and terrible 
 contrast between his palace and the ' gall-house ' 
 [ = gallows ]. We found a thrill go shivering 
 through us when as the king decrees off-hand the 
 merciless death- sentence, the ' Pursue vants ' 
 instanter step forward and announce themselves 
 as ' there ' to ' do ' his royal inexorable bidding. 
 The thing may h,ave been, perhaps, unstudied, 
 even unmeant ; but unless I greatly err it will be 
 recognized as one of those strokes of genius that 
 belong to the true Maker. 
 
 Our Notes as in Jacke Jugeler point out a 
 number of words unfrequent and suggestive. With 
 reference to Jacke Jugeler as designated "for 
 Chyldren to playe " — have we here the source of 
 our still living saying " Its no child's play " ? (as 
 noted on page 16). Again is not the use of 
 'namely' in "Godly Queene Hester" (p 7) eluci- 
 
 473 
 
INTRODUCTION. 19 
 
 dative of Shakespeare's mock-use of ' videlicet ' in 
 Mid. JN"ight's Dream (v. 1) " she moans, vide- 
 licet" ? There are other points that will reward 
 examination and invite commentary. 
 
 Altogether we believe that these Enterludes 
 intrinsically must be acceptable additions to our 
 meagre materials for getting at the rudimentary 
 forms of that Drama which within a few genera- 
 tions flashed out in the wonders and glories of the 
 Elizabethan age. Mr Collier and others have 
 reproduced the Miracle-plays and kindred ; but 
 this class of Enterludes remains very much 
 unrepresented. Hence we feel it to be no com- 
 mon privilege thus to make accessible to our 
 fellow book-lovers and book-students what else 
 should be un-available. 
 
 Perhaps too these selections may stimulate our 
 Readers to pursue the vein and turn their discov- 
 eries to use. Toward this I would, in conclusion, 
 give a condensed account of others of the same 
 class and character, nearly all of which are extant 
 in single or extremely few known copies. 
 
 Turning to Bale's " Temptacyon " (Vol. IT. 
 of these Miscellanies) , we are reminded that the 
 good old Bishop of Ossory wrote several others 
 after the like type in Comedy and Tragedy. 
 
 474 
 
20 INTRODUCTION'. 
 
 These are worthy of record here : 
 
 (a) A Comedye concernynge Thre Lawes of Nature, 
 Moses, and Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes 
 Pharisees, and Papystes most wycked.' ' 
 
 The Colophon runs : " Thus endeth thys Comedy 
 concerninge three lawes, of Nature, Moses and 
 Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Pharisees, 
 and Papytes most wycked. Compyled by Johan 
 Bale. Anno m.d.xxxviii, and lately imprented 
 per Mcolaum Bamburgensem." There was a 
 later edition (1562). 
 
 (b) "ABrefe Comedy or Enterlude of Johan Bap- 
 
 tystes preachynge in the "Wyldernesse. Com- 
 piled Anno m.d.xxxyiii. (4to.) 
 
 This was reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany 
 (I.) ed. Park. 
 
 (c) A Tragedy e or Enterlude manyfestyng the chefe 
 
 promysis of God vnto man by all ages in the 
 olde lawe, firm the fall of Adam to the incarna- 
 cyon of the lorde Iesus Christ. Compyled by 
 Johan Bale. Anno Domini m.d.xxxvjjj." 
 
 The Colophon, is as follows : " Thus endeth thys 
 Tragedy or enterlude manefestynge the chefe 
 promysis, &c. [as before] (4to). There was a 
 later edition (1577) which claimed erroneously to 
 be the first. 
 
 475 
 
INTRODUCTION. 21 
 
 Neither 'Comedy* nor ' Tradgecly ' nor 'Compiled ' 
 must be understood in their present meaning. 
 There is nothing of the ' comic ' in the Comedies, 
 little of the ' tragic ' in the Tragedy, and the 
 whole are the original products of Bale's own 
 mind. Perhaps ' compiled ' had reference to the 
 sources whence he fetched his different characters. 
 
 Turning next to " Jacke Jugeler " and " Godly 
 Queene Hester", they too are only specimens of 
 a somewhat considerable number which in very 
 much are identical with them, though each has 
 its own characteristics, evidential of different 
 authorship. 
 
 The earliest that I have myself seen is the 
 following, which has been reprinted by the 
 Percy Society : 
 
 "Anew Interlude and a mery of the nature of the 
 iiii elements dischargynge many proper poynts of philoso- 
 phy naturall and of dyuers strange landys and of dyuers 
 straunge effects and causis which interlude yf ye hole 
 matter be playde wyl conteyne the space of an houre and 
 a halfe but yf ye lyst ye may leue out muche of the sad 
 mater as the messengers pte and some of naturys parte 
 and some of experiens pte and yet the matter will be pend 
 conuenyently and than it wyll not he paste thre quarters 
 of an hour of length." 
 
 This is assigned by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt to " circa 
 
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22 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 1510" (5. v.) Another of probably the same 
 period is this : 
 
 " A new comodye in englysh in manner of an enterlude 
 ryght elygant & fall of craft of rethoryk wherein is shewd 
 & descrybyd as well as the bewte & good propertes of 
 women as theyr vycys & euyll codicios with a morall 
 coclusion & exhortacyon to vertew" 
 
 The Colophon runs thus : " Johes rastell me im- 
 primi fecit. Cum priuilegio regali." A copy is 
 preserved among Malone's books in the Bodleian. 
 Another is one of several printed by Wynkyn 
 de Worde ; as follows : 
 
 " Here begynneth a propre newe Interlude of the 
 Worlde and the chylde, otherwyse called (Mundus & 
 Infans) and it sheweth of the estate of Chyldehoode and 
 Manhoode." 
 
 The Colophon is : " Here endeth the Interlude of 
 Mundus & Infans. Imprynted at London, in 
 Metestrete, at the sygne of y e Sonne, by me 
 Wynkin de Worde. The yere of our Lorde 
 mccccc. and xxn. The xvn. day of July." (4to.) 
 
 The " Worlde and Chylde" was reprinted in 
 Dodsley's Old Plays (1825 edn.). 
 
 If in the former the "bewte and good proper- 
 tes " of Woman be somewhat gingerly "shewd 
 and deserved" while " their vycys and euill 
 
 477 . 
 
INTRODUCTION. 23 
 
 conditions " are self- evidently set forth con amore, 
 it must be conceded that there are touches and 
 epithets in the latter which evidence the " strength' ' 
 to win reverence and love ; of " Chyldehoode ' ' as 
 sung so long ago by the " sweet Singer" of Israel. 
 There are pleasant echoes of child-mirth by the 
 Author's own fireside in " Mundus & Infans " of 
 a charming kind if rather stammeringly worded. 
 
 Of the ' Enterludes ' taken from the Classics, 
 the following is a good example : 
 
 " A new Enterlude called Thersytes. Thys Enterlude 
 Folowynge Dothe Declare howe that the greatest boesters 
 are not the greatest doers. 
 
 The names 
 
 of the players. 
 
 Thersites 
 
 A boster 
 
 Mulciber 
 
 A smyth 
 
 Mater 
 
 A mother 
 
 Miles 
 
 A knyght 
 
 Telemachus 
 
 A childe.' 
 
 The Colophon is: "Imprinted at London, by 
 John Tysdale and are to be solde at hys shop in 
 the upper ende of Lvmbard streete, in Alhallowes 
 Churche yarde neare vntoo grace church." About 
 1550. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire owns 
 the only known exempler. Mr. Haslewood re- 
 printed it for the Roxburgh e Club. 
 
 478 
 
24 INTKODTTCIIOir. 
 
 A semi-classical one is the following : 
 
 " A Pretie new Enterlude both pithie and pleassaunte 
 Of the Story of King Daryus, Being taken out of the 
 third and fourth chapter of the thyrd booke of Esdras. 
 
 The names of the Players. 
 
 The Prolocutor. 
 
 Iniquities Charytie 
 
 Importunytie Parcyalytie 
 
 Equuytie Daryus King 
 
 Agreeable Perplexitie 
 
 Preparatus Curyosytie 
 
 Juda Persy a 
 
 Medey Aethyopia 
 
 Constancie Optimates 
 
 Auaquostes Stipator primus 
 Stipator Secudus Zorolabell. 
 
 Syxe persons may easily play it. Imprynted at London 
 in Flete streat beneath the Conduite, at the Sygne of S. 
 John Euangelyst by Thomas Colwell. Anno Domini 
 md.lxv. In October.' ' 
 
 One other nmst suffice : viz., 
 
 " A newe mery and witte Comedie or Enterlude newely 
 imprinted, treating vpon the Historie of Iacob and Esau, 
 taken oat of the xxxvij. Chap, of the first booke of Moses 
 intituled Genesis. The partes and names of the Players 
 who are to be consydered to be Hebrews and so should 
 be apparailed with attire. 
 
 479 
 
IXTEODUCTIOX. 25 
 
 1 . The Prologe, a Poete. 
 
 2. Isaac, an old man, father to Jacob & Esau. 
 
 3. Kebecca, an old woma wife to Isaac. 
 
 4. Esau, a yong man and a hunter. 
 
 5. Jacob, a yong ma of godly conuersation. 
 
 6. Zethar, a neighbour. 
 
 7. Hanan, a neighbour to Isaac also. 
 
 8. Eagan, seruaunt unto Esau. 
 
 9. Mido, a little Boy, leading Isaac. 
 
 10. Deborra, the nurse of Isaacs Tente. 
 
 11. Abra, a little wench, Seruat to Eebecca. 
 
 Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynne-man, dwelling in 
 Knightrider Streate, at the signe of the Mermayde. Anno 
 Domini, 1568, (4to). 
 
 The Student desirous to follow up the Inquiry- 
 will find various others in Air. Hazlitt's " Biblio- 
 graphy of Old English Literature " pp 463—466. 
 I close in the words of quaint, wise, delightful 
 old Edwaku Boteliee to my Eeaders : " Deigne 
 [these Enterludes] your protection ; they begg it, 
 they need it. I heard some whisperings as if I 
 were too tart ; I value it not, errour must needs 
 be the sore, where truth makes the smart. I 
 shall not so much as epistle the Eeader to be 
 
 480 
 
26 INTRODUCTION-. 
 
 courteous ; the candid and cleare brow'd will be 
 so : as for the tetricall and angry generation, let 
 them go : 
 
 Eumpatur, si quis rumpitur, invidia." 
 (IusPoli et Feril661.) 
 
 ALEXAKDEE B. GEOSAET. 
 
Jl neto (Enterlucb for 
 
 Chyldren to playe, named Jacke Jugeler, both 
 
 witte, and very playsent. Newly 
 
 Imprented. 
 
 ****** The Players names. 
 
 Mayster Boungrace A galant 
 
 Dame Coye A Gentelwoman 
 
 Jacke Jugler The vyce 
 
 Jenkin careaway A Lackey. 
 
 Ales trype and go A mayd. 
 
 [With wood-cut figures of Dame Coye, 
 Boungrace and Iacke Iugler.] 
 
 The Colophon : Imprinted at London in Lothbury by me 
 Wyllam Copland. 
 
%\vt ^rolmjitc, 
 
 Mlfterpone tuis inter dum g audi a cur is 
 Ut possis animo quemties suffer e laborem. 
 Doo any of you knowe what latine is 
 
 this? 
 Or ells wold you haue, an expositor em 
 To declare it in Englyshe, per sensum planiorem ? 
 It is best I speake Englyshe, or ells with in a 
 
 whylle 
 I may pereace myne owne selfe, with my latin 
 
 begile. 
 
 The two verses, which I rehersid before 
 I flnde written, in the boke of Cato the wyse, 
 Emongs good precepts of lyuing a thousand more 
 AYhich to folowe there, he doth all men auise : 
 And they may be Englyshed, brerlie in this wyse, 
 Emongs thy earful busines, use sume time mirth 
 
 & ioye 
 That no bodilye worke, thy wyttes breke or noye, 
 
 484 
 
30 AN ENTERLUED FOR 
 
 For the mynd (saith he) in serious matters occu- 
 pied 
 Yf it hath not sum quiet mirthe, and recreation 
 Interchaungeable admixed, must niddes be sone 
 
 weried, 
 And (as who should saye) tried, through continual 
 
 operacion 
 Of labour and busines, without relaxacion : 
 Therefore intermix honest mirthe, in suche wise 
 That your streght may be refreshid, & to labours 
 suffise. 
 
 For as meat and drinke, natural! rest and slepe, 
 For the conseruacion, and helth of the bodye 
 Must niddes be had, soo the mynd and wittes to 
 
 kepe 
 Pregnant, freshe, industrius, quicke and lustie, 
 Honest mirthe, and pastime, is requisite and 
 
 necessarie ; 
 For, Quod caret alterna requie durabih non est, 
 Nothing may endure (saith Duyd) with out sum 
 
 rest. [David f\ 
 
 Example, proufe her of in erth is well founde, 
 Manifest, open and verie euident : 
 For except the husbandman suffer his grounde 
 Sum tymes to rest, it w 7 il here no frute verament : 
 
 485 
 
CHYLDKEN TO PLATE. 31 
 
 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 natural! 
 And naturallie belonging to all lyuing creatures, 
 And unto man especiallie, aboue others all, 
 To haue at times coueniet pastauce, mirthe & 
 
 pleasurs 
 So thei be ioyned wt honestie, and keapt w* in 
 
 due measurs. 
 And the same ^vell allowed, not onlye the said 
 
 Cato 
 But also y e Philosophers, Plutarke, Socrates & 
 
 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 is so disposid thereupon to looke : 
 Wher to define, and ofnrme, he boldlie on him 
 
 tooke 
 That to here Enterluds, is pastime conuienient, 
 For all maner men, and a thing congruent. 
 
 486 
 
32 AN ENTERLUED EOR 
 
 He rekeneth that namelie, as a verie honest 
 disport 
 
 And aboue al other thinges, commendeth y 8 old 
 
 oomedie, 
 The hearing of which, may doo the mynd comfort, 
 For they be replenished with precepts of Philoso- 
 
 phie : 
 The[y] conteine mutch wisdome & teache prude t 
 
 pollecie, 
 and though thei be al write of mattiers of non 
 
 i[m]portatice 
 Yet the[y] shew great wit, and mutch pretie 
 
 conueiaunce. 
 
 And in this maner of making, Plautus did excell 
 As recordeth the same Tullius co mending 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 & 
 
 game, 
 As now he hath do this matter not worth an 
 
 oyster shel 
 Except percace it shall furtune too make you 
 
 laugh well 
 
 487 
 
CaYLDKEX TO PLAYE. 33 
 
 And for that purpose onlye this maker did it write, 
 Taking the ground therof out of Plautus first 
 
 comedie 
 And the first scentence of y e same, for higher 
 
 thinges endite, 
 In no wise he wold, for yet the time is so quesie 
 That he that speaketh best, is lest thanke worthie : 
 Therfore, sith not[h]ing but trifles maye be had 
 You shal here a thing y* onlie shal make you 
 
 merie & glad. 
 
 And suche a trifling matter as when it shalbe done 
 Ye may report and say ye haue hearde nothing 
 
 at all. 
 Therfore I tell you all, before it be begone 
 That noman looke to heare of matters substancyall : 
 Fur mattiers of any granite e either great or small. 
 For this maker shewed us that suche maner 
 
 thinges 
 Doo neuer well besime litle boyes handelinges. 
 
 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, 
 Which to wait upon you I knowe bee redie ; or 
 
 this, 
 
 c 488 
 
34 AK ENTEKLTJED EOE 
 
 I woll goo sende them hither in too your presence, 
 Desiryng that they may haue quiet audience. 
 
 lake lugler. 
 
 Our lord of Heuen and swete sainte Jhone, 
 
 Rest you merye my maistirs euerychone, 
 
 And I praye to Christ and swete saint Steuen 
 
 Send you all many a good euine, 
 
 And you to[o] syr, and you, and you also, 
 
 Good euine to you an hundred times & a thousand 
 
 mo, 
 Now by all thes crosses of fleshe, bone and blod, 
 I reckine my chaunce right maruaylus good, 
 Here now to find all this cumpanie, 
 Which in my mynde I wyshed for hartylie. 
 Eor I haue labored all daye tyll I am werie 
 And now am disposed too passe the time, and be 
 
 merie : 
 And I thinke noon of you, but he wolde do the 
 
 same, 
 Eor 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, 
 That I yse to make merye oons a daye. 
 
 489 
 
CHYLDREN TO PLATE. 35 
 
 And now if all thinges happyn right 
 
 You shall see as mad a pastime this night 
 
 As you saw this seuen yers : and as propre a toye 
 
 As euer you saw played of a boye. 
 
 I am called Jake Jugler, of many an oon 
 
 And in faith I woll playe a iugling cast a non. 
 
 I woll cunjer the moull, and god before, 
 
 Or elles leat me lese my name for euer more. 
 
 I haue it deuised, and compasced hou, 
 
 And what wayes, I woll tell and shew to you. 
 
 You all knowe well llaister Boungrace, 
 
 The gentilman that dwellith here in this place, 
 
 And Jenkine Carreawaie, his page, as cursed a lad 
 
 And as ungracious as euer man had. 
 
 An vnhappy wage, 1 & as folishe a knaue with al 
 
 As any is now, within London wall : 
 
 This Jenkine and [ been fallen at great debate 
 
 For a mattier, that fell betwine us a late, 
 
 And hitherto of him I could neuer reuenged be 
 
 For his maister mantaineth hi, & loueth not me, 
 
 Al be it the very truth to tell 
 
 Mother of the both, knoweth me not verie well. 
 
 But against al other boies, the sayd gentle man 
 
 Maynteyneth him, all that he can. 
 
 But I shall set lytle by my wyte wit 
 
 1 wag. 
 490 
 
36 AX EXTERLUED FOE 
 
 If I do not Jenkine this night requite : 
 Ere I slepe Jenkine shall bee mete met 
 
 And I trust to cume partyle out of his dete. 
 And whan we mete agaiue, if this do not suffise, 
 I shall pay Jenkine the residue, in my best wyse. 
 It chauced me right now iu the other end of y e 
 
 next stret 
 "With Jenkine and his mayster, in the face to met, 
 I a boed ther a why lie, playing, for to see abode 
 At the Buklers, as welbecommed mee. 
 It was not longe tyme, but at the last 
 Bake cumithe my cosune Careawaie, homward ful 
 
 fast 
 Pricking, Prauusing, and springynge in his short 
 
 cote 
 And pleasauntlie synginge, with a mery note : 
 "Wyther a wave so fast, tary a whyle sayed oon, 
 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 
 
 bougrace : 
 But yet er I go, I care not motche 
 At the bukelers to playe, with thee oon faire toche : 
 To it they went, and played so long 
 Till Jenkine thought he had wrong. 
 By cokes pricious potstike, I wyll not home this 
 
 night 
 
 491 
 
CHYLDREM TO PLAYB. 37 
 
 Quod he, but as good a stripe oon thie bed lyght. 
 Within balfe an houre, or sume what lese 
 Jenkine lefte playng, and went to featchc his 
 maisteris, 
 
 Eut by the wave he met with a Freuteres 1 wyfe 
 Where Jenkine and she fell at suche strife 
 For snatching of an Apple, that doune he cast 
 Her basket, and gatherid vp the apples fast 
 And put them in his sleue. the came he his wave 
 Ey 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. 
 TThen Careawaie with that good curapany met 
 He fell to faryng, without en let, 
 Forgettyng his message, and so well did he fare 
 that whan I came bye, he gan swere and stare 
 And full bitterlye, began to curse 
 As oone that had lost almost all in his purse, 
 For I knowe his olde gise, and condicion, 
 Seuer to leaue. tyll all his money bee goon. 
 For he hath noo money but what he cloth stell, no 
 And that woli he playe, awaye euery dell : deal 
 I passed by. and then called vnto my mynd 
 Sartyne old rekeaninges, that were behynd certain. 
 Bitwen Jenkine & me, who partlie to recopence 
 
 1 fruiterer's. 
 
 492 
 
38 AN EXTEELTTED EOE 
 
 I trust by gods grace, ere I goo hence. 
 
 This garments, cape, and all other geare, these 
 
 That now you see, apon me here, upon 
 
 I haue doon oon, all lyke vnto his donned on 
 
 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 luck 
 
 He woll cum hyther, stark e staryng mad. 
 
 Whan he shall cum, I wol handle my captiue so 
 
 That he shall not well wot, whether too goo. 
 
 His ITaisteris I knowe, she woll him blame 
 
 And his lEayster also, wyll doo the same, 
 
 Because that she, of her supper deceiued is, 
 
 For I am sure they have 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 
 For my simithe, I do his voyce heare. 
 
 Careawaye. 
 
 A syr I may save, I haue been at a fest, 
 I haue lost iis. and syxpence at the lest. 
 Mary syr, of this gaynes I nyde make no bost 
 
 1 marry. 
 493 
 
OHYLD&EN TO PLATE. 39 
 
 But the dyuell goo with all, more haue I lost. 
 
 II y name is Careawaie, let all sorrow passe, 
 
 I woll ere too morow night be as rich as euer I 
 
 was, 
 Or at y e forthest within a day or twaine 
 3Ie Maysters purse, shall paye me agayne : 
 Therfor hogh careawaie, now wol I sig 1 . hei, hei, 
 But hi y e lorde now I remembre a n other thing : 
 By my faith Jenkine, my Maisteris and thou 
 Ar lyke to gree, god knoweth hou agree 
 
 That thou comest not, for her incontinent, 
 To bryng hir to supper, when thou were sent, 
 And now they have all supped, thou wolt shurlie 
 
 abye 
 Except thou imagine, sum pretie and craftye lye» 
 For she is as all other weomen bee 
 A verie cursed shrew, by the blessed Trinitie. 
 And a verye Dyuell, for yf she oons begyne 
 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 angry e pece of fleshe, and sone 
 
 displeasyd, 
 Quikely moued, but not lyghtlye appesed. 
 
 1 sing. 
 494 
 
40 AN EXTERLTJED FOK 
 
 ¥e use to call her at home, dame Coye, 
 
 A pretie gingerlie pice, god saue her and saint Loye. 
 
 As clenty and nice, as an halpeny worth of si'uer 
 
 spoons 
 But vengable, melancolie, in the after noons. 
 She useth for her bodylie helth, and safe gard 
 To chyd daylie oone fite, too supperward, fit — two 
 And my Mayster him selfe, is worse then she 
 If he ons throughyle angeryd bee . once 
 
 And a mayd we haue at home, Aulsoon tripe and 
 
 goo, 
 JSot all London can shewe, such other twoo. 
 She simperith, she prankith and getteth with out 
 
 faylle 
 As a pecocke that hath spred, and sheweth hir 
 
 gaye taile. 
 S[h]e minceth, she brideleth, she swimmeth to 
 
 and fro, 
 She tredith not one here a wrye, she tryppeth 
 
 like a do. hair 
 
 Abrode in the strete, going or cumming homward 
 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, 
 
 495 
 
CHYLDKEX TO PLATE. 41 
 
 And speaketh like a parat Poppagaye, 
 
 And that as fine, as a small silken threede 
 
 Te and as high as an Eagle can fie for a neade 
 
 But it is a spitfnll lying girle, and nener well 
 
 Ent whan she may sum yll tael by me tel. 
 
 She woll I warrant you, a non at the first 
 
 Of me imagine, and save the worst. 
 
 And what soeuer she to my mai^teris doth save 
 
 It is writ en in the gosspell of the same daye. 
 
 Therfor I woll here with my selfe deuise 
 
 AYhat I may best say, and in what wise 
 
 I may excuse this my long taryeng 
 
 That she of my negligence may suspect nothyeng. 
 
 For if the faulte of this be found in mee 
 
 I may giue my life for halpenis three. 
 
 Hie eogitdbando similis sedeat : 
 Let me stodie this moneth, and I shall not fiend. 
 A better deuise then now is cume to my mynd. 
 Maisteris woll I save, I am bound by i.y dutie 
 To see that your womanhod haue uo iniurie, 
 For I heare and see, more then you now and then, 
 And your selfe partlie know the wantin wyles of 
 
 men. 
 TThen wee came vender, there dyd I see 
 3Iy mayster kisse gentilwomen tow or three, 
 And to come emongs others my thought bysye 
 He had a myruayllus great phantasy e. 
 
 496 
 
42 AN ENTEEETTED FOE 
 
 A non lie commaundyd me to run thens for you 
 To come 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. 
 And besydes that there was such other compainye 
 As I know your maistriship seketh nothing by. 
 Gorges 1 dames of the corte and galaunts also 
 With doctours, and other rufflers mo. 
 At last whan I thought it tyme and seasune 
 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 week 
 
 And made you a banket, and bouncing cheare. 
 Ah Jenkin s d he, good spid, how farest thou ? mid 
 Mary wel god yld it you maister s d I, how do you ? 
 How dothe thy maisteris, is she at home ? 
 Ye syr s d I, and suppeth all a lone. 
 And but she hath noo maner good chere 
 I am sure she wold gladlye haue you there. 
 I cannot cum now sayd he, I haue busines 
 
 1 gorgeous. 
 497 
 
CHYLDEEN TO PLATE. 43 
 
 But thou shalt carie a tokine from me to thy 
 
 maistreis 
 Goo with me too my chaumbre at yone lane end 
 And I woll a dishe of costerds unto hyr send. 
 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 hereof wyst, wist 
 Or knew that I should any such geare to you 
 
 bring 
 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. [arraigned 
 
 Yf you doo, I may nothing herafter vnto you tell, 
 Whether I se mi master doo ill or well. 
 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 1 not this night any supper make, 
 Speciallye with out the dores, but thought it best 
 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 aloue. 
 this woll I saye and face it so well 
 That she shall beleue it euerye dell. 
 
 1 listed. 
 498 
 
44 AN ETnTERLTJED poe 
 
 How saye you frinds, by the armes of Kubyn hood 
 Vol not this excuse be resonable good ? 
 To muse for any beeter, great foly it is, 
 For I may make sure rekenning of this, 
 That and if T would sit stoding 2 this vii. yere 
 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 unrediest. 
 But I wol not giue for that boye a flye 
 That hath not al tymes in store one good lye, 
 And cannot set a good face upon the same : 
 Therfore saint G[e]orge y boroue, as it wol let him 
 frame : [/" 
 
 I woll jeopard a ioynt, bee as bee maye : 
 I haue had many lyke chaunces, before this daye, 
 But I promise you I do curstlie feare 
 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 up under my cape. hair 
 I would knocke but I dare not by our ladye, 
 I feare hanging, where unto no man is hastie, 
 But seing there is n' other remedie 
 Thus to stand any longer it is but folye. 
 
 1 studying. 
 499 
 
CIIVLBREN TO PL AYE. 45 
 
 Sic pulset ostium : 
 They bee too farre with in, the[y] cannot heare. 
 
 ^f Jack Jugler 
 Holt thy knoking, sancie knaue, what makest 
 thou there ? 
 
 Jenkene Careawaie. 
 What knaue is that ? he speaketh not too me I 
 
 trowe, 
 And we mete, the one of us is lyke to have a 
 
 blowe. 
 For nowe that I am well chafed, and sumwhat hote 
 twentye suche could I hewe as small as flesh to 
 
 pote, 
 And surelie if T 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. 
 
 ^f Jacke Jugler. 
 But if thou come from that gate thou knaue, 
 I woll fet thee by the swet lookes, so god me saue. 
 
 * 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, 
 
 500 
 
46 AN ENTERLTJED EOR 
 
 For I feare and mistrust suche quareling thiues, 
 See how he begiimeth to strike up his sleeues. 
 
 ^f Jacke iugler. 
 His arse maketh butteus now, and who lustith it 
 
 to seale 
 Shall find his hart creping out at his heele, 
 Or ells lying hiden in sum corner of his hose, 
 Yf it be not alredie dropped out of his nose, 
 For as I doubt not but you haue hard beforne, 
 A more dastard, couerd knave, was neuer borne. 
 
 * Jenkin Careawaie. 
 The diuell set the house a fier, I trowe it is a 
 
 curste, 
 When a man hath most hast he spedith worst, 
 Yf I bee robed, or slayne, or any harme geate 
 $o fault is in them that dothe not me in let, 
 And I durst ieoperd, an hunderid pounde 
 That sum bauderie might now within be founde. 
 But except sum of them come the soner 
 I shall knocke suche a peale, that al englond shal 
 
 woder. 
 
 ^f 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 yii. yers past 
 That four men a sleepe at my fete you cast, 
 
 501 
 
CHYLDKEX TO PLATE. 47 
 
 And this same clay you dyd no maner good 
 Noi were not washen in warnie blod t 
 
 * Jenkin Careawaie. 
 
 What whorson is this that washith in warme blod? 
 Sum diuell broken loose, out of hell for wood. 1 
 Four hath he slayne, and now well I see 
 That it must be my chaunce the fift too bee. 
 But rather then thus shamfullye too be slayne 
 wold Christ my trends had hanged me being but 
 yers ii, twain 
 
 And yet if I take good hart and be bolde 
 Percace he wolbe more sobre and coulde. cold 
 
 \ Jake iugler. 
 ]S~ow handes bestur you about his lyppes and face, 
 And streake out all his teth without any grace. 
 Gentleman are you disposed to eate any fist mete ? 
 
 * Jenkin C area way e. 
 
 I haue supped I thanke you syr, and lyst not to 
 
 eate, 
 Geue it to them that are haungrie if you wyse. 
 
 r Jacke iugler. 
 Yet shall do a man of your dyet no harme to 
 suppe twise : \jt 
 
 This shalbe your Chise, 2 to make your met digest, 
 
 1 \vud = mad. 2 cheese. 
 502 
 
48 AN ENTERLUED FOR 
 
 For I tell you thes handes weighith of the best. 
 
 * Jenkin Careawaye. 
 I shall neuer escape, see how he waghith his 
 
 handes. waggeth 
 
 % Jacke iugler. 
 with a stroke they wyll lay a knaue in our ladye 
 
 boons, 
 And this day yet they haue done no good at all. 
 
 * Jenkine Careawaye. 
 
 Ere y u assaye the on mee, I praie thee lame the 
 
 on y e 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 ? 
 
 \ Jake iugler. 
 Eer thou and I parte that wol I shew thee : 
 
 * Jenkyn Careawaye. 
 
 Or haue I doone you any maner displeasure ? 
 
 ^f Jake iugler. 
 Ere thou and I parte thou shalt know, y u maist 
 besure. 
 
 * Jenkin Careawaye. 
 
 By my faith yf thou be angrie without a cause 
 You shall haue a mendes made with a cople of 
 straus, 
 
 503 
 
CHYLDKEX TO PLAYfc. 49 
 
 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 ? 
 
 ^f Jacke iugler. 
 lEy maisters seruant I am, for veritie. 
 
 * Jenkin Careawaye. 
 
 what busynes haue you at thys place now ? 
 
 * Jacke iugler. 
 Nay mary tell me what busyness hast thou? 
 For I am commaunded for to watche & giue dili- 
 gence 
 That in my good maister Boungraces absence 
 Xoo misfortune may happen to his house sertayne. 
 
 * Jenkin Careawaye 
 
 well now I am cume, you may go hens agayne, 
 And thank them yt somuch for my maister hath 
 
 doone 
 S[h]ewing them yt the seruants of y e house be 
 
 cume home 
 For I am of the house, and now in woll I goo. 
 
 \\ Jacke iugler. 
 I cannot tell whether thou be of the house or noo, 
 But goo no nere, lest I handle thee like a 
 
 strainger : 
 Thanke no man but thy selfe, if thou be in any 
 daunger. 
 d 504 
 
50 an; enterltjed foe 
 
 ^f Jenkine Careawaye. 
 Marye I defye thee, and planly unto thee tell 
 That I am a seruaunt of this house, and here I 
 dwell. 
 
 Jaeke iugler. 
 Now soo god me snache, but thou goo thee waies 
 "Whille thou mayest, for this fortie dayes 
 I shall make thee not able to goo nor ryde, 
 But in a dungeart or a whilberow liyng on on- 
 syde. one-side 
 
 ^ Jenken Careawaie. 
 I am a seruant of this house by thes x. bons. 1 
 
 * Jacke iugler. 
 IS; oo more prating but geat thee hens at towns. 2 
 
 Jenkin Careawaye. 
 Why my mayster hath sent me home in his mes- 
 sage [on 
 
 * Jacke iugler. 
 
 Pike and walke a knaue, here a waye is no passage. 
 
 % Jenkin Careawaie. 
 What wilt thou let me from my nowne maistirs 
 house ? hinder 
 
 * Jacke iugler. 
 
 Be tr edging, or in faith you here me a souse, 
 
 1 10 fingers. 2 at once. 
 505 
 
CHYLDBEN TO PLAYE. 51 
 
 Here my mayster and I haue our habitacion, 
 And hath continually dwelled in this mansyon, 
 At the least this doosen yers and od, 
 And here woll we end our lyues by the grace of 
 god. 
 
 ^f Jenkin Careawaye. 
 Why then where shall my maister and I dwell ? 
 
 * Jacke iugler. 
 At the Dyuell yf you lust, I can not tell. list 
 
 ^j Jenken Careawaye. 
 In nomine patris, now this geare doth passe, 1 
 For a litel before supper here our house was, 
 And this day in y e morning I wol on a boke swer 
 That my maister and I both dwelleyd here. 
 
 ^| Jake iugler. 
 Who is thy mayster, tell me with out lye ? 
 And thine own name also let me know shortlie ? 
 For my maysters all, let me haue the blame 
 Yf this knaue kno his master or his owne name. 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 My maisters name is maister Boungrace, 
 I have dwelled with him a long space, 
 And I am ienkin Careawaie his page. 
 
 1 surpass. 
 506 
 
52 AN ENTEKLTJED EOS 
 
 % 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. 
 
 ^[ Jake iugler. 
 Darest thou too my face saye thou art I ? 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 I wolde it were true and no lye : 
 
 For then thou sholdest smart, and I should bet, 
 "Where as now I do all the blowes get. 
 
 % Jacke iugler. 
 And is maister Boungrace thy maister doest y u 
 then saye ? 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 
 I woll swere on a booke he was ons this daye. once 
 
 ^[ Jacke iugler. 
 And for that thou shall sumwhat haue, 
 Because thou presumest, like a saucye lying 
 
 knaue, 
 To say my maister is thyne — who is thy maister 
 
 now? 
 
 * Careawaie. 
 
 By my trouthe syr who so euer please you 
 I am your owne, for you bete me soo 
 
 507 
 
CHYLDREX TO PLAYE. 53 
 
 As no man but my mayster sholde doo. 
 
 Jake iugler. 
 I woll handle thee better if faut be not in fyst. 
 
 Careaware. 
 Helpe, saue my life maisters, for y e passion of 
 christ ! 
 
 Jacke iugler. 
 "Why thou lousy thefe doest thou crye and rore ? 
 
 Careawaye. 
 Xo fayth I woll not crye one whit more : 
 Saue my lyfe, helpe, or I am slaine. 
 
 Jacke iugler. 
 Te doest thou make a romeringe yet a gayne 
 Dyd not I byde the holde thy peace ? thse 
 
 * Careawaie. 
 In faith now I leave crieng, now I sease, 
 
 Help, help ! 
 
 ^f Jacke iugler. 
 Who is thy maister ! 
 
 Careawaye. 
 
 Mayster Boungrace. 
 
 ^f Jacke iugler. 
 I woll make the[e] chaung y* song, ere wee pas 
 
 this place, 
 For he is my maister, and a gaine to see I saye 
 
 503 
 
54 AN ENTEKLTJED FOE 
 
 That I am his ienkin Careawaye : 
 Who art thou now, tell me plaine ? 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 
 Koo bodye, but whome please you sertayne. 
 
 Jacke iugler. 
 Thou saydest euen now thy name was Careawaie. 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 
 I crye you marey 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 
 Therfor I beseche you do me no mere blame 
 But giue me a new maister, and an other name, 
 For it wold greue my hart, soo helpe me god 
 To runne a bout the stretes like a masterlis nod. 
 
 ^f Jake iugler. 
 1 am he that thou saydest thou were, 
 And maister boungrace is my maister y 1 dweleth 
 
 heare, 
 thou art no poynt Carewaye, thi witts do thee 
 
 faylle. 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 Ye niary syr, you haue bette them doune into my 
 taylle, 
 
 509 
 
CHILDREN TO PL A YE. 55 
 
 But syr, might I be bolde to saye on thyng, one 
 Without any bloues, and without any beatynge ? 
 
 ^f Jake iugler. 
 Truce for a whyle, say one what thy lust, on list 
 
 Careawaye. 
 May a man too your honeste by your woord trust ? 
 I pray you swere by the masse you woll do me 
 no yll. 
 
 ^f iacke iugler. 
 By my faith I promise pardone thee I woll. 
 
 Careawaye. 
 "What and you kepe no promise ! 
 Ja. iugler. 
 
 then upo ca 
 I praie god light as much or more as hath on ye 
 to daye. 
 
 Careawaye. 
 Now dare I speake so mote I thee, 
 Maister boun grace is my maister, and the name 
 
 of mee 
 is ienken careawaye. 
 
 iacke iugler. 
 What saiest thou soo ? 
 
 Careawaye. 
 And yf thou wilt strike me, and breake thy 
 promise, doo, 
 
 510 
 
56 Atf ENTERLTTED FOE 
 
 And beate on mee, tyll I stink e, and tyll I dye, 
 And yet woll I still saye that I am I. 
 
 ^f iacke iugler. 
 This bedlem knaue without dought is mad. 
 
 ^f Careawaye. 
 No by god, for all that, I am a wyse lad, 
 And can cale to rememberaunce euery thynge 
 That I dyd this daye, sith my uprisynge. 
 For went I not wyth my mayster to daye 
 Erly in the morning to the Tenis playe ! 
 At noone whyle my maister at his dynner sate 
 Played not I at Dice at the gentylmans gate ? 
 Did not I wayte on my maister to supper ward ; 
 And I thike I was not changed y e way homward ? 
 Or ells if thou think e I lye 
 Aske in the stret of them that I came bye. 
 And sith that I cam hether into your presens 
 what man lyuing coulde 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 y* on this ground stand ? 
 Did not this other knaue her, knoke me about ye 
 hede ? here 
 
 And beat me tyll I was almost dede ? 
 How may it then bee, that he should be I ? 
 
 £11 
 
CHYLDREN TO PLAYE. 5*,9 
 
 Or I not my selfe ? it is a shamful lye. 
 
 I woll home to our house, whosoeuer say naye 
 
 For surelye my name is ienkin Careawaye. 
 
 % Jake Jugler. 
 I woll make thee say otherwise ere we depart if 
 we can. 
 
 ^f Jenkin Careawaye. 
 Nay that woll I not, in faith, for no man, 
 Except thou tell me what I thou hast doone : 
 Euer sythtlue of the cloke this after noone : 
 Eeherse me all that, without anye lye, 
 And 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, 
 Too fet thyther my maisteris, and hy the waye 
 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 be yet. 
 
 ^| Careawaie. 
 How the diuell should they cume there, 
 For I dyd them all in my own sleue bere. 
 He lyeth not a worde in all this 
 rTor dothe in any one poynt myse. 
 
 512 
 
§f$ AN ENTEELT^ED EOE 
 
 For ought I se yet betweene erneste and game, 
 
 I must go sike me a nother name : 
 
 Eut 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 
 
 I could tell if me lusteth a good token listeth 
 
 Eut it may not very well be spoken, 
 
 Jenkin Careawaye. 
 Noo may I pi aye thee let no man that here, 
 Eut tell it me priuelye in mine ere. 
 
 * Jacke iugler. 
 
 I thou lost all thy mony at dice, christ gitie it his 
 
 curse, 
 wel and truelye pycked before out of an other 
 
 mas porse 
 
 ^f Jenken Careawaie. 
 Godes bodye horeson thefe, who tolde thee that 
 
 same, 
 Sum cunning diuell is with in thee, payne of 
 
 shame. 
 In nomine pair is, god and our blessed ladye 
 Now and euermore saue me from thy cumpanye. 
 
 513 
 
CHTLDEEN TO PLATE. 59 
 
 ^f 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, marry 
 
 \ Careawaye. 
 And by these tene bones myne is the same, 
 Or ells tell me yf I be not hee, 
 "What my name from hens forth shall bee ? 
 
 * iacke iugler. 
 By my fayth the same that it was before, 
 "Whan I lust too be Careawaye no more : list 
 
 Looke well upon me, and thou shalt see as now 
 That I am ienkyne Careawaye and not thou. 
 Looke well a pon me, and by euerye thyng 
 Thou shalt well know that I make no leasing. 1 
 
 Careawaye. 
 I se it is soo without any doubte 
 But how the dyuell came it a boute ? 
 Who soo in England looketh on him stedelye 
 Sail perceiue plainlye that he is I. 
 I haue sene my selfe a thousand times in a glasse 
 But soo lyke my selfe as he is neuer was. 
 
 1 lying. 
 514 
 
60 an enterltjed for 
 
 He hath in euerye poynt my clothing and mi 
 
 geare, 
 My hed, my cape, my shirt and notted heare, hair 
 And of the same coloure, my yes, 1 nose and lyppes 
 My chekes, chine, neake, feete, leges, and hippes. 
 Of the same stature, and hyght and age 
 And is in enery poynt maister Eoungrace page, 
 That if he haue a hole in his tayle 
 He is enen I myne owne selfe without any faile. 
 And yet when I remember I wot not how 
 The same ma yt I haue euer bine me thinketh I 
 
 am now. 
 I know mi maister, & his house, my fiue 
 
 witts I haue, 
 "Why then should I giue credence to this folishe 
 
 knaue ? 
 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[e] hens in the dyuills 
 
 name. 
 A voyde thou lousye lurden & precious stinking 
 
 slaue, 
 
 1 eyes. 
 515 
 
CHTLDREN TO PLAYE. 61 
 
 that nether thi name knowest nor canst ani maister 
 
 haue. 
 wine shakin, piloiye pecpours, of lice not wt out 
 
 a pecke, 
 Hens, or by gods precious, I shall breake thy necke. 
 
 ^[ Careawaye. 
 Then mayster I besiche you hartyle take the payne, 
 Tf I be found in any place too bringe me to mo 
 
 againe. 
 iN'ow is not this a wonderful! case, 
 That no man should lease him selfe soo in ony 
 
 place ? 
 Haue any of you harde of suche a thyng here to 
 
 fore? 
 No nor neuer shall I dare saie from hens forth any 
 
 more. 
 
 ^J Jacke iugler. 
 TThyle he museth an iudgeth him selfe apon 
 I woll stele a waye for a whyle and let him a loon. 
 
 * Careawaie. 
 Good lorde of heuine, where dyd I my selfe leaue ? 
 Or who did me of my name by the way bereue ? 
 For I am sure of this in my mynde 
 That I dyd in no place leue my selfe byhinde. 
 Yf I had my name played a waye at dyce, 
 Or had sold my selfe to any man at a pryce, 
 
 516 
 
62 AN ENTERLTJED FOB, 
 
 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 
 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 : 
 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, loose 
 Albeit I wolde neuer the dyde beleue, 
 But that the thing it selfe doth shewe and pryue. 
 There was neuer Ape so lyke unto an Ape 
 As he is to me in feature, and shape, 
 But what woll my maister say, trow ye, 
 When he shall this geare here and see. 
 "Wyl he know me, thinke you, when he shal se mi? 
 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 precious passion. 
 Eyther to put me out of my place 
 Or to accuse me to my maister Boungrace. to 
 
 But I woll after as fast as I can flee, 
 I trust to be there as soone as hee, 
 
 517 
 
CHYLDEEN TO PLAYE. 63 
 
 That yf my mayster be not redye home to come 
 I woll be here agayne as fast as I can rune. 
 In any wyse to speake with my maysteris 
 Or ells I shall neuer escape hanging dubtles. 
 
 Dame Coye. 
 I shall not suppe this night ful wel I see 
 For as yet noo bodie cumithe for to fetmee: 
 But good ynough let me alone 
 I woll bee euen with theim euery chone. one 
 
 I saye nothing, but I thinke sum what I wis : 
 Sum ther bee that shall here of this. 
 Of al unkind & churlishe husbands this is ye casfc, 
 To let ther wyues set at home and fast, 
 "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 unkindlye serued mee 
 I woll not forget it this monethis three. 
 And if I west y e 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. 
 I wolde rate him and shake him after such a sorte 
 
 518 
 
64 AN ENTEELTTED EOE 
 
 As sholde be to him a corrasiue, full lytle to his 
 
 cumforte. 
 
 Alls trippe and goo. 
 Yf I may be so bolde by your maisterships lycens 
 As too speake and shew my mynde and sentence 
 I thinke of this you may the boye thanke 
 For I know that he playeth you many a lyke 
 
 prank e, 
 And that wolde you save, yf you knew as mutch 
 
 as wee 
 That his daylye conuersaicon and byhauiore see, 
 For yf you commaund him to goo speake with 
 
 sum one 
 Yt is an howre ere he wolbe gone. 
 Then woll he rune forth, and playe in the strete 
 And cume a gaine and say that he cannot with 
 him mete. 
 
 Dame Coye. 
 JNaye, 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 : 
 And yet the fault may bee in the boye, 
 As ungracious a graft so met I thriue 
 As any goeth on goddes ground a lyue. 
 
 Careawaye. 
 My witte is breched in suche a brake 
 
 519 
 
CHYLDEEN TO PLATE. 65 
 
 That T cannot deuise what way is best to take : 
 
 I was almost as fare as my maister is 
 
 But then I begane to remember this, 
 
 And to cast the worst as on in fere, one 
 
 yf he chaunce to see mee and kepe me there. 
 
 Til he cum him selfe, & speake with my maisteris 
 
 Then am I lyke to bee in shrewd dystres : 
 
 yet were I better thought I to turne horn again 
 
 And fyrst speake with her certayne. 
 
 Cockes bodie, yonder she standeth at the dore : 
 
 Now is it wo arse then it was before. 
 
 Wold christ I could get againe out of hir sight 
 
 For I see be her looke she is disposed to fyght : 
 
 Bi y e lorde she hath ther an angrie shrewes loke. 
 
 Dame coye. 
 Loe vender cumithe that unhappye hooke. 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 God saue you maysteris do you know me well ? 
 
 Dame coye. 
 Cume nere hither unto 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. 
 For he told me when he forth wente 
 
 e 520 
 
GG AN ENTERLTTED FOE 
 
 That thou shouldst cume bake a gaine incontinente, 
 
 To brynge me to supper where he now is, 
 
 And thou hast plaid by the waie, & thei haue 
 
 don by this. 
 But no force, I shall thou mayst trust mee, 
 Teache all naughtie knaues to beware by thee. 
 
 * 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 
 And his name was ienkin Careawaie. 
 
 Dame coye. 
 What, I see my man is disposed to playe, 
 I wine he be dronken or mad, I make god a vow. 
 
 ^f Careawaie. 
 Nay I haue byn made sobre and tame I now Mow 
 I was neuer so handelid in all my lyfe, 
 I would euery man in England had so beaten his 
 
 wyfe. 
 I haue forgotten with tousing by the here hair 
 What I deuised to say a lytle ere. 
 
 Dame coye. 
 Haue I lost my supper this night through thy 
 negligece ? 
 
 521 
 
CHYLDKEX TO PLATE. 67 
 
 ^f Careawaye. 
 Nay then wer I a knaue misteris, sauing your 
 
 reuerece. 
 
 Dame coye. 
 Why I am sure that by this time it is doone. 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 
 Ye that it is more then an our agone, 
 
 Dame coye. 
 And wast not thou sunt to feache me thyther ? 
 
 Careawaye. 
 Yes, and had cume right quicklie hither, 
 But that by the wave I had a gret fall 
 And my name, bodye, shape, legges, and all : 
 And meat 1 with one, that from me did it stelle, 
 But by god first he and I sum blowes dyd deale. 
 I wolde he were now before your gate, 
 For you woldpoumile him ioylie a bout the pate. 
 
 Dame coye. 
 Truelye this wagepastieis either drunken or mad ! 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 
 Neuer man sofFred so mutche wrong as I had : 
 But maisteris I should say a thinge to you, 
 Tary, it will cum to my remembrence euen now. 
 I must niddes use a substanciall premeditacion, 
 
 1 met. ' 
 
 522 
 
68 AN ENTERLUED FOE 
 
 For the matter lyeth gretylie me a pon. 
 
 I besiche your maisterishipe of pardon and for- 
 
 giuenes, 
 Desyering you to impute it to my simple & rude 
 
 dulines. 
 I haue forgotten what I haue thought to haue sayed 
 And am therof full ill a paied. 
 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. 
 Ere thou go out of my handes y e shalt haue 
 
 sum thynge 
 And I woll rekine better in the mornynge. 
 
 * Careawaie. 
 
 And yf you bete me maysteris a vise you I advise 
 
 For I am none of your seruants now. 
 
 That other I is now your page 
 
 And I am no longer in your bondage. 
 
 Dame Coye. 
 Now walke precious thife, get thee out of my syght 
 And I charge thee cum in my presens no more 
 this night. 
 
 523 
 
OttY-LDREN TO PLATE. 69 
 
 ^f Careaware. 
 Mary syr this is handeling for the noons, 
 I wold I had byn hanged befor y* I was lost. 
 I was neuer this canuased and tost : thus 
 
 That if my maister or his part also 
 Handle me as my maisteris and the other I do, 
 I shall snrelye be killed bit wine 1 theim thre 
 And all the diuels in hell shal not saue me. 
 But yet if the other I might haue w 1 me parte 
 All this wold neuer greue my harte. 
 
 * Jacke iugler. 
 Hou saye you maisters, I pray you tell, 
 Haue not T requited my merchant well ? 
 Haue not I handelyd hym after a good sort ? 
 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. 
 Yf he throughlye angered bee 
 He woll make him smart so mot I thee. 
 I wold not for the price of a new payre of shone 
 That any parte of this had bynne undune. 
 But now I haue reuenged my quarell 
 I woll go do of this myne apparell : 
 And now let Careawaye be Careawaye againe, 
 
 1 between. 
 524 
 
70 AN ENTEELTJEt) FOR 
 
 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 ? 
 
 ^f Careawaye. 
 Now by my truth master I haue told you no lie 
 And all these folkes knoweth as well 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 & shyt agaiae 
 you shall not cause me for any payne, 
 But I woll affirme as I said before 
 That when I came here, a nother stode at y e dore. 
 
 Boun grace. 
 Why y u naughty e villaine darest y u affirme to me 
 that which was neuer sene nor hereafter shalbe ? 
 That one man may haue too bodies & two faces 
 And yt one man at on time may be in too placis ? 
 Tell me drankest thou any where by the waye? 
 
 * Careaware. 
 I shreue me if I drake any more the twise to day 
 Tyll I met euen now with that other I, 
 
 625 
 
CEYLDREN TO PLATE. 71 
 
 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, 
 
 And not onlye I but all that do you sarue 
 
 For meat and drynke may rather starue. 
 
 Boun grace. 
 What, you saucye malypert knaue, 
 Begin e you with your maister to prat and raue ! 
 your tonge is lyberall and all out of frame 
 I must niddes counger it and make it tame : 
 wher is yt other Careawai y* thou said was here ? 
 
 Careawaye. 
 Now by my chrystendome syr I wot nere. 
 
 Boungrace. 
 Why canst thou fynde no man to moke but mee ? 
 
 ^f Careawaye. 
 I moke you not maister, soo mot I thee 
 Euerye word was trew that I you tolde. 
 
 Boungrace. 
 Kay I know [thy] toyes and pranke of olde, 
 And now thou art not satisfyed nor content 
 without regarde of my biddinges and commandi- 
 ment 
 
 526 
 
72 AN ENTEKLTJED FOR 
 
 To haue plaied by the waie as a leude knaue & 
 
 neglige t 
 "When I thee on my message home sent. 
 But also woldest willinglye me delude & moke 
 And make me to all wyse men a laughyng stoke, 
 shewing me suche thinges as in no wise be maie, 
 To y e intent thy leudnes mai turne to iest & play. 
 Therfore if yu speake any such thing to me agaie 
 I promise it shalbe unto thy payne. 
 
 Care a way e. 
 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 
 That he knoweth true, and hath sine wt his ye ? l 
 
 Boungrace. 
 Was it not troiest 2 thou thine own shadoo? 
 
 ^f Careawaye. 
 My shadoo could neuer have beten me soo. 
 
 Boungrace. 
 Why by what reason possible may suche a thyng 
 bee? 
 
 ^f Careawaye. 
 Nay I maruael and wonder at it more than ye, 
 
 1 eye. 2 trowest. 
 527 
 
CHYLDKEX TO PLAYE. 
 
 And at :'. sft it dyd me curst elye meaue, 
 
 $or I wold myne owne yes 1 in no wyse belyue, 
 Untyll that other I beate me soo 
 That he made me beline it whither I wold or no. 
 And if he had your selfe now within his reache 
 He wold make you say so too or ells beshite your 
 breu:-i, 
 
 ^f Maister Boungrace. 
 I durst a good mecle, and a wager laye 
 That thou laiest doune and sleppest by the waie, 
 And dremid all this that thou haste me tolde. 
 
 Naye there you lye master if I might be so bold 
 
 But we ryse so erlye that yf I hadde 
 
 I hadde doone well and a wyse ladde. 
 
 yet mayster I wolde you under stood 
 
 That I hane all wayes byn trusty and good, 
 
 And rlye as fast as a bere in a cage . 
 
 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. 
 
 Foi I had noo soner knocked at the gate 
 
 But the other I knaue had mee by the pate, 
 
 And I durst to you one a boke swere on 
 
 528 
 
?4 AN EtfTERLUED FoU 
 
 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. to 
 
 Maister boungrace. 
 "Why then thou spakest not with my wyfe. 
 
 ^f Carewaye. 
 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 dyuelles name, 
 I wene the dyuell neuer so beate his dame. 
 
 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, once 
 
 I shall rape thee on the lying knaues snought : 
 I woll not be deludyed with such a glosing lye 
 Nor giue credens tyle I see it with my owne iye. 
 
 * Careawaie. 
 
 Truly e good syr, by your maistershipps fauoure 
 I cannot well fynd a knaue by the sauoure : 
 
 529 
 
CEYLDEEN TO PLATE. ?5 
 
 Many here smell strong but none so ranke as he, 
 A stronger scented knaue then he was cannot bee. 
 But syr yf he be happelye founde anone, 
 What a meds shal I haue for y* you haue me don? 
 
 Maister boungrace. 
 If he may be found I shall walke his cote. 
 
 * Careaware* 
 
 Ye for our ladi sake syr, I bisiche you spare hi not> 
 
 Tor it is sum false knaue withouten doubt : 
 
 I had rather the. xl. pens we could find him out 
 
 For yf a man maye belive a glase 
 
 Euin my verie owne selfe it was. 
 
 And here he was but euyn right now 
 
 And steped a waye sodenlie I wat not how : 
 
 A such a[n]other thig I haue nether herd ne sene 
 
 By our blyssd lady, heauen quene, 
 
 Maister boungrace. 
 Plainelye it was thy shadow that thou didest se 
 For in faith the other thyng is not possible to be. 
 
 * Careawaye. 
 Yes in good faith syr, by your leaue 
 
 I knew it was I by my apples in my sleue : 
 And speaketh as like me as euer you harde 
 Suche here, such a Cape, such Hose and cote, hair 
 And in eueri thing as just as iiii. pens to a grot, 
 
 630 
 
76 AN ENTERLTJED EOR 
 
 That if if he were here you should well se e 
 
 That you could not discern you know hi fro me. 
 
 For thinke you that I do not my selfe knowe, 
 
 I am not so folishe a knaue I trowe. 
 
 Let who woll looke him by and by 
 
 And he woll depose upon 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 haue done 
 
 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 y e waie. 
 
 Boungrace. 
 What was that ? 
 
 * Careawaie. 
 How I did at the Bukelers playe 
 And wha I scaterid a basket of apples fro a stal, 
 And gethered them into my sleaue 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 
 To playe when he is sent on his maisters message ? 
 
 Dame coye. 
 Laye on and spare not, for the loue of chryst 
 
 531 
 
CHYLDKEX TO PLATE. 77 
 
 Joll his hed to a post, and fauore your fyste : 
 Now for my sake swete hart spare & fauoure your 
 
 hand 
 And lay him about the rybbes with this wande. 
 
 ^f 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, Careawaye, 
 That if euer he cume to my h ancles agayne 
 I wis it shalbe to his payne. 
 But I maruayll greatly e by our lorde Jhesns 
 How he I escapid, I me beat me thus : 
 And is not he I an unkind knaue 
 That woll no more pytie on my selfe haue ? 
 Here may you see euidentlye y wis, I 
 
 That in him me no drope of honestie is : 
 Now a Yengauce light on suche a churles knaue 
 That no more loue toward my selfe haue. 
 
 Dame coye. 
 I knewe verye well swite hart & saied right now 
 That no fault therof should be in you. 
 
 Boun grace. 
 No truelye good bedfelow, I were then mutche 
 
 unkinde 
 yf you at any tyme should be out of my mynde. 
 
 532 
 
78 AN ENTERLTTED FOR 
 
 Dame Coye. 
 Surelye I haue of you a great treasure, 
 For you do all thinges which may be to my pleasure. 
 
 Boungrace. 
 I am sory that your chaunce hath now byne so yll, 
 I wolde gladlye byne unsupped, soo you had your 
 
 fyll: 
 But goo we in pigsnie that you may suppe 
 you haue cause now to thank this same hang vppe 
 For had not he byne you had faryd very well. 
 
 Dame Coye. 
 1 bequeth him w* a hot vengeaunce to the diuell 
 
 of hell 
 And hartylye I besiche him that hanged on the 
 
 rode, 
 That he neuer eate nor drynke, that may do him 
 
 good 
 And that he dye a shamefull dethe, sauing my 
 
 cheryte. 
 
 ^f Careawaie. 
 I pray god send him suche prosperitie 
 That hath caused me to haue all this business : 
 But yet syrs you see the chary tye of my maistris 
 She liueth after a wonderfull charitable facion 
 For I assure you she is alwayes in this passion, 
 And scarceleye on daye throughout the hole yere 
 
 533 
 
CHTLDREN TO PLAYE. 79 
 
 She well wyshe any man better chere : 
 
 And sum tyme yf she well angred bee 
 
 I pray god (woll she saye) y e house may sinke 
 
 under mee. 
 But maysters yf you happen to see that other I 
 As that you shall it is not very likelye, 
 Xor I woll not desyre you for him purposelye to 
 
 looke 
 For it it is an uncomperable unhappye 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 
 I used not to cum a gayne in lesse tha a moneth 
 
 or tway. 
 Houbeit for all this I thinke it be not I, 
 For to shew the matter in dyde trulye, 
 I neuer use to rune awaye in wynter nor in vere 
 But all waves in such tyme and season of the yere, 
 THien honye lyeth in the hiues of Bees 
 And all maner frute falleth from the trees 
 As Apples, Nuttes, Peres, and plummes also 
 Wherby a boye raaye Hue a brod a moneth or two. 
 This cast do I use, I woil not with you fayne, 
 Therfore I wonder if he be I sertaine. 
 But and if he be, and you mete me a brod by 
 
 chaunce, 
 Send me home to my maister with a vengaunce. 
 
 534 
 
80 AN ENXERLtJED FOE 
 
 And shew him if he cume not ere to morowe night 
 I woll neuer recyue him agayne if I myght. 
 And in the meane time I woll giue him a grote 
 That woll well and thryftelye walke his cote : 
 For a more ungracious knaue is not euen now 
 Bytwene this place and Calycow : 
 Nor a more frantike mad knaue in bedelem 
 Nor a more folle hence to Jherusalem : fool 
 
 That if to cum agayne, parcace he shall refuse 
 I woll continew as T am and let hym choose : 
 And but he cum the soner by our lady bright 
 He shall lye without the dores all nyght. 
 For I woll shit by the gate, and get me to bede, 
 For I promise 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 it 
 
 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 bed I ween : 
 No more woll T, but stele out of syght, 
 I praye god geue you all good nyght. 
 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 eye was out her 
 That is to saye, no tale can be tolde 
 
 535 
 
CHYLDRF.X TO PLATE. 81 
 
 But that suin Englyshe may be piked therof out. 
 yf bo to serclie the laten & ground of it men 
 
 wil go aboute 
 As this trifling enterlud y r before you hath bine 
 
 rehersedj 
 May signihe sum further meaning if it be well 
 
 serched. 
 
 Such is the fashyon of the worlde now a dayes 
 
 That the symple innosaintes ar deluded, 
 And an hundred thousand diners waves, 
 By Buttle and craftye meanes shamefullie abused. 
 
 And by strength, force, and violence oft tymes 
 
 compelled 
 To beliue and save the nioune is made of grene 
 
 chese, 
 Or ells haue great harme, and parcace their life 
 
 lese. 
 
 And an olde saying it is, that most tymes, myght 
 Force, strength, power, & colorable subtlee 
 Dothe oppresse, debare, ouercum and defeate ryght 
 Though y e cause stand neuer so greatlye against 
 
 e quite, 
 and y e truth therof be kno\ve for neuer so p'ftt 
 
 certaintye 
 ye & the pore semple innocent y e hath had wrong 
 
 & iniuri. 
 
 F 
 
82 AN" ENTEELT7ED FOE 
 
 Must cal y e 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, 
 Of whome he neuer receiued any maner beneflte 
 And at whose hand he neuer han 1 any good at all, 
 And must graunt, affirme, or denie, what soeuer 
 
 he shall, 
 He must saye the Croue is whight yf he be so 
 
 comauded 
 ye and that he him selfe is into a nother body 
 
 chaunged. 
 
 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, 
 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. 
 And in euerye faculte, this thing is put in ure use 
 
 1 had* 
 537 
 
CHYLDBEX TO PLANTS. 83 
 
 And is so uniuersall that I nede no one to name, 
 And a? I fere is like euermore to endure, 
 For it is in all faculties a commyn sport and game, 
 The weker to saie as y e stroger biddeth, or to 
 
 haue blam : 
 As a cunning sophist will by argument bring to 
 
 passe 
 That the rude shal confesse, and graunt him selfe 
 
 an asse. 
 
 And this is y e dailie exercise and practise of their 
 
 s coles 
 And not emongs them onlie, but also emong all 
 
 others, 
 The stronger to compell and make poore simple 
 
 foles 
 To say as they commaund them in all maner matters, 
 I woll name none particular, but set them all 
 
 togither 
 with out any exception, for I praye you shewe me 
 
 one 
 Emonges al in the worlde that usethe not such 
 
 fasion. 
 
 He that is stronger and more of power and might 
 Yf he be disposed to reuenge his cause 
 woll sone pike a quarrell be it wrong or right 
 To the inferior and weker for a cople of straues, 
 Any woll agaynst him to extremele lay the lawes 
 
 583 
 
84 AN ENTERLUED EOR CHYLDREN TO PLAYE. 
 
 That he woll 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 
 Brought the gentylmans seruant out of his brayne 
 And made him graunt y 1 him selfe was fallen in 
 
 dotage. 
 Earyng him him selfe in hand that he did rage 
 And when he could not bryng that to passe by 
 
 reason 
 He made him graunt it, and say by compulsyon, 
 
 Therefore happy are they that can be ware 
 
 Into whose handes they fall by any suche chaunce : 
 
 which if they do, they hardlye escape care 
 
 Troble, Miserye, and wofull greuaunce. 
 
 And thus I make an end, counting you to his 
 
 guidauce 
 That made, & redemed us, and to you y* be now 
 
 here 
 
 I praye god graunt, and send many a good newe 
 
 yere. 
 
 * Finis. 
 
 % Imprinted at London in Lothbury by me 
 
 Wyllyam Copland. 
 
 539 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 29. 
 
 29. 
 
 29. 
 30. 
 30. 
 30. 
 
 31. 
 31. 
 
 31. 
 
 32. 
 32. 
 
 33. 
 
 34. 
 
 34. 
 35. 
 
 35. 
 
 percace : = perchance, if it be so, perhaps. 
 
 Bacon, (Bailey's Diet. s. v.) 
 
 auise : = advise [aviser, adviser, Fr.], to give 
 advice. 
 
 noye : = annoy [nuire, Fr.], to vex or hurt. 
 
 streght : sic = strength. 
 
 Duyd: sic: hut I cannot explain unless = David. 
 
 verament : = averment with truth implied : 
 
 here = truly, 
 than = then. So throughout, 
 pastauce : = pastime as in Bales' Kynge Johan : 
 
 1 sumtyme in Englond for my pastaunce* 
 
 Halliwell s.v. 
 to here Enterluds: = to Enterludes such as 
 
 this ? 
 maker : = poet or creator. 
 Too folowe : preposition ' to ' and adverb * too * 
 
 are used throughout interchangeably, 
 quesie: = squeamish, fastidious, 
 everychone: = every one. This spelling not 
 
 unfrequent. 
 oons a day : = once a day. 
 toye : — trine, plaything, 
 cunger the moull : cunger = conjure: moull = 
 
 mole ; but the meaning obscure. 
 
 540 
 
86 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 36. Buklers, bukelers : = buckerels, a kind of play 
 used by boys in London streets in Henry 
 YIII's time. So that the present is another 
 example to be added to H alii well's two from 
 Blount and Hall. 
 >, 36. Cokes precious potstike: misprinted 'prceious': 
 potsick — tipsy (Florio). 
 
 faryng : = fairing or gift-purchases, as at a Fair. 
 
 let : = hinder. 
 
 dell : == deal or dealing-out (in the game) i.e. 
 of the cards. 
 
 sartyne : misprinted l sartayde ' : = certain. 
 
 simithe = simathin = partiality or liking. 
 
 incontinent : = shunning delay, immediate as 
 in Shakespeare. 
 
 lyne t = lin, cease. 
 
 saint Loye : Query — St. Lo, Bp. of Contances 
 in Normandy: died 568. 
 40. wardelith : I have not met with this word 
 elsewhere. 
 
 40. galiard : a nimble dance, consisting of quick- 
 changing movements. It is celebrated by 
 Sir John Davies in his famous poem on 
 Dancing. See our edition of his "Works, 
 Vol. I. 
 
 41. Poppagaye : = a parrot and from it a game. 
 43. costerds : a kind of apple, usually spelled 
 
 costards. 
 45. Holt : = halt or stand still = cease. 
 45. chafed. It may be 'chased/ 
 45. fet : = fetch. 
 
 541 
 
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 37. 
 
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 37. 
 
 >J 
 
 37. 
 
 5? 
 
 37, 
 
 )> 
 
 38. 
 
 >) 
 
 39. 
 
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 39. 
 
 )' 
 
 40. 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 87 
 
 Page 48. in our ladye boons : boon = gift, grant, bene- 
 faction, but here obscure. There may be 
 allusion to Lady Ztoe^grace. 
 
 „ 50. snache : to pierce. 
 
 „ 50. souse : To ' souse ' = fall as a bird on its prey. 
 Here obscure. 
 
 ,, 52. viage : = voyage or journey. [Viage, Sp.] 
 
 „ 53. romeringe: = roaming: but query — 
 1 roaring ' ? l Roamer ' a wanderer. 
 
 „ 54. nod: query, noodle? (i.e. fool) in diminutive. 
 So 'noddy'. 
 
 „ 55. ca : this is unintelligible. 
 
 „ 55. mote : = might 
 
 „ 60. lurden : = lurdan, dunce, scoundrel, with fil- 
 
 thiness implied. Scotice lurdane is a vicious 
 
 slattern. 
 „ 61. wine shakin: = drunken and stumbling. 
 „ 61. pilorye pecpours : = Pillory pick -purse == 
 
 thief deserving the pillory. 
 „ 61. payne = pains. 
 ,, 61. walke thy cote : = awake, as by beating =s 
 
 punish. 
 „ 61. geare : goods, as attire, ornaments, &c. 
 ,, 62. cockes precious passion : cockes bodie : = an 
 
 oath, but I can't elucidate it. 
 „ 63 mome : = a blockhead (Florio). 
 ,, 63. west: = wist, thought. 
 
 63. kyrie: = kyrre, quarry— a hunting term = to 
 
 cut up the deer. 
 ,, 63. hooke : = a crooked (morally) person —a term 
 
 of reproach. 
 
 542 
 
S8 NOTES AXD ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 65. I wine : In the Fragment ' I ween ' : and 
 so p 66, 1 18, ' beaten ' for ' beat me ' : and 
 p 67, 1 8, ' wast ' for 'was ' : and p 67, 1 14, 
 < by God first ' for < be God he ' and p 68, 1 6, 
 ' this mischaunce also fel ' : for ' I know 
 * verie well ' : and yu is c thou ' : and p 68, 
 1 14, ' aduise' : and p 68, 1 20, ' and come 
 no more in my presens this night ' and p 69, 
 1 9, ' might with me haue part ' and ibid 
 i wel, sith that now ' and ' renenged is my 
 quarrel' : and 'Beshrew me'. Also the 
 following orthographical variations may be 
 noted as specimens : p 65, 1 25, tolde for 
 told : foorth for forth : went for wente : 
 p 66, line 1 shouldst for shouldest: come 
 for cume : back for bake : again for a gaine : 
 incontinent for incontinente. See our Intro- 
 duction to these Enterludes. The Fragment 
 begins from p 65, 1 25. 
 
 „ 66. tousing: touze, to touzle or toss roughly. 
 
 „ 67. wagepastie : pastry carrying boy ? or query = 
 wag ? 
 
 „ 68. a vise : = advise. 
 
 „ 69. go do = go don or doff but = (un) dress. 
 
 „ 70. wede = weed or dress. 
 
 „ 76. by: Bailey's Diet. s,v, will reward the Reader. 
 
 „ 77. Joll: = clash or beat violently. 
 
 „ 78. pigsnie : = diminutive of pig — a curious term 
 of endearment which occurs in Essex's 
 letters to his wife. 
 
 „ 79. Vere = Spring (Ver). 
 
 „ 80. Calycow : = Calicut, from whence ' calico " 
 took its name. G. 
 
 543 
 
 L-rffc 
 
^ nefoe cntevlitbe 
 
 drawen oute of the holy scripture 
 
 of godly queene Hester, verye necessary 
 
 newly made and imprinted this pre 
 
 sentyere. M.B.LXI, 
 
 Come nere vertuous matrons & wome kind 
 Here may ye learne of Hesters duty, 
 In all comlines of vertue you shal finde 
 How to behaue your seines in humilitie. 
 
 The names of the players. 
 
 The prologue Pryde. 
 
 King Assuers. Adulation. 
 
 iii gentlemen Ambition, 
 
 Aman. Hardy dardy. 
 
 Mardocheus A Jewe. 
 
 Hester. Arbona. 
 
 Pursueuant. Scriba. 
 
 [Within a very rude wood-cut border.] 
 
 Coloph. Imprynted at London by Wyllyam Pickerynge 
 
 and Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at 
 
 theyre shoppes. 
 
 W. P. 
 
 Collation : Title and 22 leaves (4to.) 
 
r THE EXTERIXDE OE THE VERTTTOTTS 
 AXD GODLY QUEEXE HESTEE. 
 
 -tLhc prologue. 
 
 ITTEES Philosophers auncient and sage, 
 Their clargy and cunnynge to put in 
 practise 
 
 Oft haue disputed by learning and language, 
 To whome greatest honour men ought to demise 
 Or for what cause, hie reuerence shoulde aryse, 
 And amonges manye, some were there doubtlesse, 
 That concluded honour due vnto rvches. 
 
 Some also to noble bloude, and high parayge 
 Affirmed honour dewly to pertayne 
 And some to policie and wysedome sage 
 And some to power and superiall raigne, 
 Eche man his reason sayde in certayne 
 Ouer this some said, that vertuous demenoure 
 To bee excellent, and of moste honour. 
 
 547 
 
4 A. NEW ENTERLTTDE 
 
 ^f The kyng sitting in a chaire speaketh to his 
 
 coiisell. 
 Of these my lordes we woulde be glad to here, 
 Whiche is most worthy honoure to attayne 
 By your high reasons we thynke it maye appeare, 
 To speake therefore we praye you, your sentences 
 
 plaine 
 And as ye determine, so shall wee certaine, 
 Aduannce to honoure, and to promotion applye 
 Alwayes the best, and that bee most worthye. 
 
 Primus generosus. 
 Most drad soueraigne kinge Assuerus to your 
 
 doughty weyghty and sured, ^m^] 
 Of riches power, wisdome, vertue or noble blonde 
 Which is most soueraigne, and of highest honour 
 Me seames as vertue none can be so good, 
 jNot ryches nor power, wisdome nor gentill bludde. 
 For wher vertue fayleth, the other be not suer, 
 Eut full vnstable, and longe cannot indure. 
 
 "Who so wyll laboure storyes to peruse 
 And them with dylligence, often will rede 
 May see and perceue, how vice dyd confuse, 
 Many noble princes whiche were in dede, 
 Of such magnificence, that we not nede 
 To doubt of theyre riches, power and wisdome, 
 And yet for lacke of vertue, vice them ouer came. 
 
 548 
 
OF GODLY QUE EXE HESTER. O 
 
 Secundus Generosus. 
 Xabuchodonozor, Senacherib, and Salmanasar, 
 Nero Dyoclisian Maxentius also, 
 All these prynces of hye honoure were, 
 Of ryches, power and wysdome allso 
 Of noble bloode, yet these and many mo, 
 For lacke of vertue, to vice dyd fall, 
 To theyre owne distraction & they re snbiectes all. 
 
 Tertius Generosus. 
 But then as me seemeth, yt were expedyent, 
 Amonge all vertues apperteyninge to a prince, 
 That same to knowe by sume reason urgente, 
 which is so necessary to the prouince, 
 That wythout yt in no wyse he can conuince, 
 Reyther synne nor synners that uniustly deale, 
 "Nor in good order kepe his common weale, 
 
 Primus Generosus. 
 In myne opynion that is Justice 
 A vertu as exellent as may be. 
 For all thinges it orderith in such wyse, 
 That where it is, is peace and tranquillitie, 
 Good order, hygh honour, wealth and plentye, 
 And where it fayleth in the prince or kynge, 
 The common weale decayeth withoute tariynge. 
 
 Secundus Generosus. 
 Besyde Justice there muste bee diligence, 
 
 549 
 
D A NEW ENTERLUDE 
 
 In hys owne persoune that same to put in vre, 
 Or els some tyme suche coloured sentence 
 Under cloke of Justice ye maye be sure 
 Craftely shall procede from them that haue the cure 
 which in processe, may brynge to downfall, 
 The kynge, hys realme & his subiectes all. 
 
 The iudgement of Salamon, in his owne person, 
 Betwene two women of lyuinge vnchaste, 
 So feared Israeli t?iat vtterlye noone 
 Durste once revell, but they thought it waste 
 In anye wyse to attempt eyther fyrst or laste 
 Any thynge of displeasure to hys maiestye royall 
 Eearyng hys wysedome and Justice so equall. 
 
 Tertius Geuerosus. 
 If by hys lieutenante had been done the same, 
 Hys honoure shoulde neuer haue spronge so farre 
 Nor so much renowned by noble fame, 
 As it is now & that both here & there 
 'Nov yet hys subiectes to such awe and feare, 
 He coulde haue dryuen by no meanes at all 
 As he dyd by hys iustice personall. 
 And ouer thys many a noble man, 
 At the prynces wyll and commaundymente, 
 To employe iustice, dyd the best they can 
 And yet the commons vnneth coulde be content 
 And why? for in their mynde they thyncke 
 verament 
 
 550 
 
OF GODLY QUEEXE HESTER. 7 
 
 That either for riches & honour Justis will doe 
 And he onely, for the zeale that to Justis he hath to 
 AVherfore noble prince, if in youre owne person 
 
 will ye 
 Employe Justis the more youre honour shall be. 
 
 Kyng Assewerus. 
 
 My lordes we thank e you for youre counsell 
 As ye haue saved, so thinke we verely 
 That Justis mainteneth y e common weale, 
 And namely y e prince muste necles him selfe applye, 
 TTnto the same, or els vtterly 
 Shall folowe decay by warre or els death, 
 Quoqz, si princeps malus populus coruet. [_ Si ' c ~] 
 
 And ouer this if that his lieutenaunt, 
 Shal happen to square from trueth and iustice, 
 Albeit his faire wordes and good semblaunt, 
 The prince must nedes be circumspect and wise, 
 That no ambicion nor couetise 
 Through great welth and riches inordinat 
 Doe erect his corage, for to play checkmate 
 For though it be as well as it may neede, 
 It shall be thought nay, I assure you in dede 
 Sir what is your name and progeny ? 
 
 [One of .ye getyllme must answere whyche you will] 
 
 551 
 
8 A NEW ENTEKLUED 
 
 Amati. 
 I am Aman sonne of Amadathy , 
 Of the stocke of Agag borne lyniallye, 
 
 Assuerus. 
 your learnyng and reason pleaseth vs well 
 And ye seeme to be of discretion 
 we beare ye therfore our fauour and zeale 
 So that withoute meanes of intercession 
 we make you our chaunceloure, take hede to this 
 
 lesson. 
 See ye doe iustice and trueth euer approue 
 Or to your destruction, we shall you soone remoue. 
 
 Aman. 
 My duty is more nowe then euer it was, 
 Truly to serue youre moste noble grace, 
 Both nyghte & day, here and in euery place. 
 
 Assewerus (et exeat) 
 
 My lordes as nowe, thus standes the case > 
 we are comfortles, for lacke of a Queene, 
 which shoulde be our ioye, & chefe solace, 
 And to say truth, it hath not been oft seene, 
 But the prince with a princes matched hath beene 
 Leaste defaulte of issue shoulde be, whiche God 
 
 defende 
 therfore youre coun sells firste had, to marry we 
 
 do inted 
 
 552 
 
OF GODLT QUEEXE HESTEB. 9 
 
 Primus generosus. 
 
 Then let your officers peruse this realme, 
 And of fayre maidens that be virgins pure, 
 Of most goodly personages that may be sene 
 Gather a great number, that we may make reporte 
 Unto your grace, then may ye be sure 
 To chose the beste, when ye haue them seene 
 And that is fittest to be your queue. 
 
 Assewerus 
 Call to vs Aman our trusty chaunceler. 
 
 [Here entrith A ma with may me awaitlg on hym.] 
 
 Aman. 
 If it please your grace I am here, 
 
 Assuerus. 
 
 Aman this is the councel of my lordes all, 
 That our officers in hast we shoulde sende 
 
 To pervse this region vniuersaQ 
 From the begynnynge vnto the ende 
 To seke faire maidens, where so thei may be kende 
 And of most goodly personages that maye be sene 
 To the intent among them we may chose a queue 
 This is our minde, more to speake it shal not nede, 
 In all that ye may, see it bee done in dede. 
 [Here the kinge entry th the trailers, Sz aman goeth out.] 
 
 H Here entreth Mardocheus and a maiden with him. 
 I am ^Mardocheus borne in Jerusalem, 
 
 g 553 
 
10 A NEW ENTEELUDE 
 
 The sonne of Jaire, and of the stocke of Beniamy 
 
 By Nabuchodonosor brought into this realme 
 
 ■when he did subdue our kyng Jechony 
 
 And translated the Jewes by conquest and victorye 
 
 Both I and other in number many one 
 
 were brought in captiuitie, into the realme of 
 
 Babilon. 
 I haue heie a maiden of the same nacion 
 My brothers doughter named Edissa 
 But Hester is her common denomination 
 And by that well knowen, nam a deo missa 
 God graunt her grace, that perseuer she maye, 
 In wisedome and womanhead faythfull to bee 
 Her espouse to loue in perfecte amitie. 
 
 So is it nowe oure kynge Assuerus, 
 
 Dyuers Purseuauntes in great haste hathe sente, 
 
 Ouer all hys realme in these parties nere vs, 
 
 To seeke faire maidens is his entent 
 
 To chose amonge theym one conuenyente, 
 
 To bee his quene and Lady Soueraigne, 
 
 In loue and honour with him for to raigne. 
 
 And for as muche doughter Hester that you 
 Amonge other are appoynted for one, 
 I thyncke it accordynge therefore nowe, 
 To giue you mine aduise and instruction, 
 
 554: 
 
OF GODLY QTJEENE HESTEK. 11 
 
 Attende ye therefore without interruption 
 And hy faithfull mind, and stedfast memorye 
 That I shall saye, learne it diligentlye. 
 
 Hester. 
 Noble Maidocheus my father moste kynde, 
 To that ye shall saye I wyll apply e my mynde. 
 
 Mardocheus. 
 Than yf the kinge choose you to his queene 
 It is of hys goodnes, bountie and grace 
 And for none youre merites, the truthe to bee seene 
 Therefore to hym repaye muste you needes 
 
 obedience 
 Trew loue and kyndnes, aboue personnes all 
 Not forged nor fayned, but with affection cordiall* 
 Breake not the course that queenes haue hadde 
 In this noble region most part of all, 
 They haue aye bene good, and none of theym badde, 
 To their prince euer sure, iust and substanciall 
 And good to the commons when they dyd call 
 By mekenes for mercye, to temper the fyre 
 Of rigors iustice in fume or in yre. 
 
 Hester. 
 Thys counsell is perfecte and also so pure 
 I graunt it therfore, and promyse you sure 
 It is my whole mynde and hartye desyre 
 That same to fulfyll, as reason shall requyre. 
 
 555 
 
12 A NEW ENTEKLUDE 
 
 [Here entrith pursiuante with manye maydens.] 
 
 Purseuaunt, 
 I haue here of maydens a fayre companye 
 Of comlye stature and goodly visage 
 which to the king I thynke by and by 
 For to present, and to hys counsell sage, 
 For their promotion, wealth and marriage. 
 Saue before wyth Mardocheus the Jew. 
 I muste speake for Hester, that is so fayre of hew. 
 
 Mardocheus. 
 She is here redy, and doth attende, 
 The kynges commaundiment to fullfyll, 
 And at youre pleasure forth shall she wende, 
 wyth out resystance, and by her good wyll. 
 
 Pursyuaunt. 
 Then shall I brynge her the kynge vntyll. 
 Come on lady Hester, and folio we me 
 To the kynge shall ye goe with youre cumpany. 
 
 [Here Aman metythe the in y e place.] 
 
 Aman. 
 Syr pursiuaunt haue ye these maydens broughte, 
 For the kynge lyke as ye had in commaundement. 
 
 Pursyuaunte. 
 yea syr and for them, farre haue I soughte, 
 Both in yyllage towne and tenemente, 
 
 556 
 
OF GODLY QUEKXE HESTER. 13 
 
 I truste I haue done trew seruice and dylligente. 
 
 A man. 
 So are ye bounde by very dewty 
 Of youre allegeaunce and fydelytye, 
 Se that ye follow vs wyth your hole cumpany. 
 
 Pursyuaunt. 
 As ye haue sayed so shall it be. 
 
 Am an. 
 Pleasyth it youre grace, accordynge your mynde 
 we haue made serche all your regyon, 
 For goodly maydens of nature fyne and kynde, 
 And of them haue founde in myne opynyon 
 A number ryght fayre and of complexion 
 So puer and of so fayre visage, 
 That they surmounte all other in personage. 
 [The thei go to the kynge.] 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Are they also of suche competent age 
 Of suche demeanour and grauitie. 
 That they be fytte for oure mariage. 
 
 Aman. 
 Uppon a profe your grace, shall heare and see. 
 As well theyr wysedome as theyr beautye, 
 
 Assuerus 
 Sertis they be fayre and goodly eche one, 
 
 557 
 
14 A NEW ENTEELUDE 
 
 And as it maye seme by theyr fyrst countenaunce 
 Both by looke and gesture, nature and complexion, 
 In theym shoulde be kyndnes, myrth, and daly- 
 
 aunce 
 wysedome, sadnes, and in loue perseueraunce, 
 Constauncie knit wyth comlines, ioy to encrease 
 Yertue with good demenour, pleasure to put in 
 
 presse. 
 But ye fayre damsell of the highest stature, 
 And of most ripe age, as shoulde seame 
 Of all this companye, of most fynest nature. 
 Tell us your linage, for as yet we deame, 
 your lookes be so lusty, and in loue so breme 
 If that your demenour hereafter be sene 
 To that accoidynge, ye shalbe our queue. 
 
 Hester. 
 Moste noble Prince, as for my linage, 
 !Nor yet my countrey,'Sertis I can not saye 
 My parentes dicessed in myne none age, 
 So that I neuer harde yet vnto this daye 
 what coste orcountrey, what lande or laye, 
 I was bred in, broughte forth or borne, 
 It is to me vnknowen, as aye hath bene beforne, 
 
 iNotwythstandyng, I haue had foode and fostring 
 Of Mardocheus all my lyfe dayes, 
 whom I called father in my yonge age, 
 
 558 
 
OF GODLY QCEEXE HESTER. 15 
 
 And so intend to do eftsons and alwaies, 
 
 whome for his frendshippe I haue good cause to 
 
 prayse. 
 Besechinge youre grace and that moste mekely, 
 To my sayd foster father good lorde for to be. 
 
 Assewerns. 
 Call in ^lardocheus, that we may see his face. 
 
 Mardocheus. 
 
 I am here to attende vpon your grace. 
 
 Assewerus. 
 Mardocheus what call you, youre daughter. 
 
 3Iardocheus. 
 If it please youre grace her name is Hester 
 Assuringe you, she is a virgin puer, 
 A pearle vndefiled and of conscience cleare 
 Sober, sad, ientill, meke and demure, 
 In learninge and litterature, profoundely seene, 
 In wisdome, eke semblante to Saba the Quene 
 Fytt for any prince to haue in marriage, 
 If his pleasure agree to her personage, 
 
 Assewerus. 
 ye say ryghte well, then we thynke it expedient, 
 Some what to proue by communication 
 Her lernynge and her language eloquent 
 And by some probleme of hye dubitation, 
 
 559 
 
16 A NEW ENTERLTTDE 
 
 To knowe her aunswere and consultation 
 
 Howe saye you Hester haue you ought reade or seene 
 
 Of vertues that he best, and fittest for a queene. 
 
 Hester. 
 To speake before a king, it is no childes playe* 
 Therfore I aske pardon, of that I shall saye. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 We pardone you what soeuer ye saye, 
 
 Hester. 
 Then to bee bolde ryghte well I maye 
 No quene there is, but by marriage of a prince, 
 And vnder couert according to the lawe, 
 So that the iurisdiction of the whole prouince, 
 To the kinge perteineth this is the trewe sawe 
 Albeit, sometyme more for loue than for awe 
 The king is content to bee counselled by the queene, 
 In many sundrye causes, as ofte hath been seene, 
 which sentence is sure and grounded with reason, 
 But yet not wythstandynge this is not all 
 But eftsons it may chaunce at sundrye season 
 The kynge wyth hys councell moste parte of all 
 Prom this realme to be absente, when warre doth 
 
 call. 
 Then the Quenes wysdome, sadly muste deale, 
 By her greate vertue, to rewle the common weale. 
 
 560 
 
OF GODLT QUEENE HESTER. 17 
 
 Wherfore as many vertues be there muste, 
 Euen in the Quene as in the prynce, 
 For feare lest in warre, sume treason uniust, 
 The realme shoulde subdewe, and falsely conuince. 
 The Quene muste sauegarde all the hole prouince, 
 And so as muche goodnes aye muste be seene, 
 As in the kynge to be in the Quene, 
 And how many vertues longe to a kynge, belong 
 Lyke vnto youre grace I cannot make recknynge. 
 
 Assewerus. 
 Then I doute not, but the wysdome of vs two 
 Knytte both to gether in parfytte charyte 
 All thynges in thys realme shall cumpas so, 
 By truth and Justice, law and equitye, 
 That we shall quenche all vie 3 and deformitie 
 
 Hester. 
 Then at my beginning I beseche youre grace 
 That I may. shew my mynd, whyle I haue time 
 & space 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Speake at your libertie, I wyll heare it gladlye. 
 
 Hester. 
 Then I wyl be playne, for veritie hath no pere 
 And for a pryncipall of thys my tale, 
 And eke his subiectes both greate and smale, 
 In honoure and wealth : yea, all the prouince, 
 
 561 
 
18 A NEW ENTEELUDE 
 
 So riche and so stronge, that they maye conuince 
 All their enemyes where so euer they dwell, 
 That woulde inuade, resiste, or rebell, 
 
 And where goddes seruyce and hospitalitie 
 Doeth decaye, and almes to to the poorall, 
 There maye be wealth in places two or three 
 But I assure you the most part in generall, 
 Neither haue meate nor money, nor strength 
 
 substancial 
 Fytte to doe you seruice, when ye haue nede 
 whiche is no good order, me thynkes in very dede. 
 
 Let God alwaye therfore haue hys parte 
 And the poore fedde by hospitalitie 
 Eche man his measure, be it pynte or quarte, 
 And no man to muche, for that is great ieoberdie, 
 A meane to lose all, as I doe feare me, 
 For when all is gathered together on a heape 
 It may sone be conueyed cariage is good cheape 
 Thys I speake with trew heart and mynde, 
 Besechyng your grace to take it in good kynde. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Of these matters another tyme mobre at large, 
 "We shall speake, and of dyuers other mo. 
 Aman, see our seruauntes doe accomplishe their 
 
 charge, 
 To awayte vpon oure Queene, and that also 
 
 562 
 
OF GODLY QUEENS HESTER. 19 
 
 In haste vnto ourc waredrobe see ye goe, 
 For riche apparell of golde and pall 
 As well for her selfe, as for her ladyes all, 
 [Here departilh y e queene & Aman & all ye maidens.] 
 
 A man. 
 Than if it please you to licence the Queene, 
 As to her pleasure awhyle shall beseeme 
 
 Assuerus. 
 And we for a season thys busynesse wyll cease, 
 And oure selfe repose for our pleasure and ease. 
 r Here entreth Pride syngynge 
 
 poorely arayed. 
 To men that be heuy, & wold faine be rnery 
 Though they feele smarte : 
 Oft chace such rekning, y 11 with their mouth thei 
 
 sing, 
 Though -thei wepe in their hart, 
 somtime thei dauce, with mery coutenauce, 
 when they had leuer slepe : 
 
 Eke thei laugh & grin, whe by this sunne I wyn 
 In the heart they wepe. 
 who so will accord, with this double world 
 ACuste vse suche artes : 
 
 Outwardly kinde, in his heart a fende, fiend 
 
 A knaue of two partes. 
 Outward honestie, inward inndelitie, 
 
 563 
 
20 A NEW ENTERLTTED 
 
 Both rydes on a mule : 
 
 In peace lie is bolde, but in war he is colde, 
 
 That soonest wyll recoyle. 
 
 Manye bee that profers, but fewe that offers, 
 Deuoutelye in theyr heart e : 
 They saye they can doe all, but when neede doeth 
 
 befall, 
 They begynne to starte. 
 
 He that is double, loues alwayes trouble, 
 And at no tyme wyll cease : 
 And yet he wyll not fyght, by daye nor yet by 
 
 nyghte, 
 In warre nor in peace. 
 
 Eut such men by battail, may get corne and cattell 
 Bully on and plate : 
 
 And yf they once get it, let vs no more craue it, 
 By God we comme to late. 
 Eyther to begge or borowe, except shame or 
 
 sorowe, 
 Dyspleasure and hate. 
 
 Syrs my name is pryde, but I haue layde asyde, 
 All my goodlye araye : 
 ye wynne I lye, there is a cause why, 
 That I goe not gaye : 
 
 I tell you of a worde, Aman that newe lorde, 
 fiathe bought up all good clothe, 
 
 564 
 
OF GODLY QUEENE HESTER. 21 
 
 And hath so many gowncs, as would serue ten 
 
 townes 
 Be ye neucr so lothe : 
 
 And any manne in the towne, doe by him a good 
 gowne, buy 
 
 He is verye wrothe. 
 
 And wyll hym strayte tell, the statute of 
 apparell 
 Shall teache hym good : 
 "Wherefore by thys daye, I dare not goe gaye 
 Threde bare is my hoode. 
 
 Pryde was wonte to be, a man of ioylyte, 
 Of hye countenaunee and face : 
 And since Aman raygned, no man hym retayned, 
 Almoste in any place. 
 
 Tor Anian that elfe, woulde no man but hym 
 selfe, 
 Should e be proude in dede. 
 
 For as men say, all pryde he taketh away, 
 well, God sende him good spede. 
 
 Adulation. 
 
 And as for Adulation, must chaunge his occupation 
 It is not worth a pease. 
 
 Pryde. 
 why so ? 
 
 565 
 
22 A NEW ENTERLUDE 
 
 Adulation. 
 For my lorde Aman, doeth all that he can 
 I assure you without doubt : 
 To take vp all flattere[r]s, and al crafty clatterers 
 That dwell fourtye myle aboute. 
 
 Pryde. 
 yea but the lawe shal, by order substantial, 
 Punyshe all those : 
 
 Adulation, 
 yea, I wil tel you one thing, law now & flatteryng 
 Aye together gose. 
 
 Pryde. 
 why so ? 
 
 Adulation. 
 For al law est & west, & adulation in his chest 
 Aman hathe locked faste \ 
 And by his crafti patteiig, hath turned law into 
 
 flattering, 
 So that fyrst and laste, 
 The cliant must pay, or the lawyer assaye 
 The lawe for to clatter : 
 And whe ye wene he saide right, I assure you by 
 
 this light 
 He doth not els but flatter. 
 
 Pride. 
 
 why so ? 
 566 
 
OF GODLY QUEEN E HESTER. 23 
 
 Adulation. 
 For yf A man wynkes, the lawyers shrynckes, 
 And not dare saye yea nor naye. 
 And yf he speake the lawe, the other calles him 
 
 daw 
 !No more then dare he say, 
 
 So that was law yisterday, is no lawe thys daye, 
 But flatterynge lasteth alway, ye may me beleue. 
 
 Pryde. 
 Dyuines y* do preache, me thynkes they should 
 
 teache 
 And flatterynge reproue. 
 
 Adulation. 
 Syr they haue lefte prechyng, & take them to 
 flatteiTge 
 Moste parte of them all. 
 
 Pryde. 
 I marueyle of that. 
 
 Adulation. 
 Do ye marueyle ? mary I wyll you tell, 
 A cause substantiall. 
 
 when they preached, and the truthe teached, 
 Sume of them caughte a knocke, 
 And they y* should assisted, I wote not how they 
 
 were brysted, 
 But they dyd nothynge but mocke. 
 
 567 
 
24 A NEW ENTERLTJDE 
 
 And that sawe they, and gate them away, 
 As faste as myghte be. 
 
 They solde theyr woll, and purchased a bull, 
 wyth a pluralyte. 
 
 And lefte predication, and toke adulation, 
 And what by mendation, and dyspensation, 
 They gat the nomynation, of euery good benefyce. 
 
 So better by flatterynge, then by preachynge, 
 To wealthe they dyd aryse. 
 But yet ye muste beware. 
 
 Pryde. 
 where of? 
 
 Adulation. 
 That they do not square, farre beyonie the marke 
 For yf yt be a good fee, Aman sayeth that longeth 
 
 to me lelongeth 
 
 Be yt benefyce or parke 
 
 If he espy to y* prootio, he wyll streyt geue 
 
 him a portio 
 A lappe of a thowsande markes, 
 He shalbe purged cleane, he shall singe neither 
 
 treble nor meane, 
 Nor yet speake one worde. 
 
 Pride. 
 Is he well seene in adulation ? 
 
 568 
 
Or GODLY QUEEXE HESTER. 25 
 
 Adulation. 
 He is warde of y e occupatio, without all iestige 
 
 boorcle 
 And no man so hardy, but by hys auctoritie, 
 The same to vse. 
 
 [Here entryth Ambytion.] 
 No, for yf he doe, he were better no, 
 Hys braynes he wyll confewse. 
 
 Pride. 
 "Why who arte thow ? 
 
 Ambytion. 
 
 He that can tell how, Aman vseth to wurke. 
 
 Pride. 
 Is not Ambytion thy name ? 
 
 Ambytion. 
 yes for god y e same, I was wonte to be a great 
 clarke 
 But syn Aman bare rewle, neyther horse nor mule, 
 But ys as wyse as I. 
 
 Adulation. 
 How so ? 
 
 Ambytion. 
 
 For all rewlers & lawes, were made by fooles 
 & dawes 
 He sayeth verely. 
 
 h 569 
 
26 A NEW ENTERLTJDE 
 
 Ordynances & foundation, without consider- 
 ation, 
 He sayeth were deuysed. 
 
 Therfore hys imagination, bringes all out of fashion 
 And so all is dysguised. 
 
 Sum tyme where was plenty, now y e barnes 
 
 be empti 
 And many men lackes bread. 
 And wher somtyme was meat, there now is none 
 
 to get 
 But a]l be gone and dead. . 
 
 Beggers now do banne, and crye out of Aman, 
 That euer he was borne. 
 They swere by the roode, he eatyth vp all their 
 
 foode, 
 So that they gett no good, neyther euen nor 
 
 morne, 
 And many that be pore, though not from doore 
 
 to doore, 
 A begginge they dyd goe : 
 yet had they releefe, bothe of breade and beefe, 
 And dryncke also. 
 And nowe the dore standes shet, and no man can 
 
 we get, 
 To worcke neither to fyghte. 
 wherfore yf warre shoulde chaunce, eyther wyth 
 
 Scotland or Praunce, 
 570 
 
OF GODLY QUEENE HESTEE. • 27 
 
 Thys geare woulde not goe ryght. 
 
 Adulation. 
 And where is all this become ? 
 
 Ambition. 
 As for y* domin 3 vobiscii, I dare say nothinge 
 but mu, 
 Not tyll an other tyme. 
 
 Pryde. 
 All this is out of season, and nothing done by 
 
 reason, 
 Nor yet by good ryme. 
 
 Adulation. 
 How say you ambition, haue ye not prouision, for to 
 get promotion, as ye were wonte to do ? 
 
 Ambition. 
 No by my holydame, for my lorde Aman 
 Handelles all thynge so, 
 That euery office and fee, what so euer it bee, 
 That may bee sene and founde : 
 By his wit he wyl it featche, and or it fal he wil 
 
 it catche 
 That neuer commeth to the grounde. 
 So that I repent, that euer I went, 
 Unto the scoles : 
 For his large commission, maketh me Ambition 
 
 571 
 
28 A NEW ENTEELTTDE 
 
 To dwell amonge fooles. 
 
 Pryde. 
 And is there no remedye ? 
 
 Adulation. 
 None that I can spye, whyle he doeth raygne. 
 
 Ambition. 
 Then lette vs make merye, euen tyll we dye, 
 And dryue pyne awaye : 
 
 Pryde. 
 I hearde once a Fryer, as trewe a Iyer 
 As anye in the countrey : 
 
 Hee preached veramente, that oure testamente, 
 Alwaye ready shoulde bee. 
 
 Adulation. 
 For at oure deathe, we shall lacke breathe, 
 And than fare well wee. 
 
 Ambition. 
 Then mayster Pryde, begynne thys tyde, 
 Let vs here youre fashion. 
 
 adulation, 
 and ye shall here nexte, euen the playne texte, 
 Of me adulation 
 
 Pryde. 
 Then by and by, ye shall heare playnely, 
 wythout impedimente, 
 
 572 
 
OF GODLY QTJEENE HESTER. 29 
 
 The tenour of my wyll, if ye take heede there 
 
 vntyll 
 This is my testament. 
 Al my presumptuous pryde, whether he goe or 
 
 rycle, 
 Nowe or elles than : 
 
 !My heart and corage, for power and language 
 I geue it vnto Aman. 
 Let him kepe of my pryde what he wil, the reste 
 
 deuide 
 amonge hys whole Garde : 
 and when they haue it all, what they wyll dooe 
 
 withall 
 aduyce them afterwarde. 
 
 If pryde haue a fall, let them be content withall 
 as I am nowe : 
 
 For as for Pryde, lasteth but a tyde, 
 I assure you. 
 
 If to it longe shame, let them a goddes name, 
 Take them bothe : 
 
 For as I feare mee, so muste it needes bee, 
 Bee they neuer so lothe, 
 
 Adulation, 
 and I adulation, of the same fashion, 
 at thys tynie present, 
 To recorde euerye man, geue vnto aman, 
 
 573 
 
30 A STEW ENTE11LTJDE 
 
 By thys my testament. 
 
 All my subteltie, & forged fydelite, 
 
 To hym and hys espyes. 
 
 I wot they wyll it vse, trew men to confewse, 
 
 And that craftely. 
 
 And yf they do in dede, I praye god they may 
 
 spede, 
 Euen as honestly, 
 As he that from steyling, goth to sent thomas 
 
 watryng St. Thomas 
 
 In his yong age. 
 So they from pytter pattour, may cume to tytter 
 
 totur 
 Euen the same pylgrimage, 
 
 Ambition. 
 And I Ambytion, had a comission, 
 By force of a bull, 
 
 To gett what I could but not as I wolde, 
 Neyther of lambe nor woll. 
 
 The bull nor the calfe, coulde please the one 
 halfe, 
 Of my feruente desire. 
 But euer I thought by god, there was I woulde 
 
 haue had 
 when I was neuer the nere. 
 
 Therfore all my ambition, to gether in a 
 comission, 
 
 574 
 
OP GODLY QTJEENE ItESTEK. 31 
 
 Under my seale, 
 
 I geue it to aman, to the intent that Sathan, 
 
 Maye loue hym well : 
 
 That whyle he is here, he maye styll desyre, 
 
 and yet nener the nere : Sometyme to bee, 
 
 and when he goeth hence, he maye with him 
 
 dispence, 
 Ey a large facultye. 
 
 That for his sines senen, or he come to heauen, 
 wyth out bourde or game. 
 Sumtyme or tyde, he may for his pryde, 
 Suffer some shame. 
 
 Pride. 
 Nowe by wades myll, euerye mans wyll 
 Is wonderouslye well : 
 
 Adulation. 
 And by my holydome, I wene it be wysedome, 
 For folke often chat, howe men dye in estate, 
 But so shall not wee : 
 
 Ambition. 
 No by sainct An, but yet my Lorde Aman, 
 Neuer the better shalbe : 
 
 Pryde. 
 No forse so god me saue, yf we our wyll myght 
 
 haue 
 we woulde he shoulde neuer thee. 
 
 575 
 
32 A NEW ENTERLTTDE 
 
 Nowe made is our testament, I praye you be 
 
 content 
 Some myrthe to deuyse. 
 
 Adulation. 
 Let vs beginne with singynge, and conclude with 
 
 drinkynge, 
 It is the newe gyse : 
 
 Ambition. 
 Then let vs beginne a songe, that wyl last euen 
 
 as long 
 As hence to the tauerne dore. 
 
 [Thei depart singyng, and Aman entreth.] 
 
 Aman. 
 
 (Et exeunt) 
 Moste noble prynce, and of highest wysedome 
 I do not doubte of youre considar[a]tion, 
 But that you know what I haue bene, eke what T 
 
 am, 
 Bothe in wyll and woorde, and occupation, 
 Of assured thoughte without adulation, 
 And as glad to doe seruice vnto your grace 
 As euer I was to liue anye tyme or space. 
 
 And for the same great malice I do sustayne, 
 Both of your nobles and communaltie 
 To my greate greuaunce and merueylous payne, 
 And eke further, I feare the ieoperdye, 
 
 576 
 
OF GODLY QTTEENE HESTER. 33 
 
 Of my lyfe, goodes, credence and honestie, 
 To cease their malyce, vnlesse you put in vre 
 your power royall, I can not longe endure. 
 The sclauderous reportes, the lyes y* be made, 
 The fained detractions and contumilious 
 The rimes, the railinges, so farre sette abrode 
 Both payntyd and printyd in most shameful] wyse 
 And god to recorde all is but leasinges and lyes. 
 was neuer made on man lyke as is on me 
 Only for aplyment of law and equite. 
 
 In so much that of late now in dede 
 Befor« all the commins vpon myne and me, 
 Moste danable reportes ware sett a brode, 
 To my dyshonour and shamefull villany, 
 And all that were there of that cupanye, 
 As I myghte see by theyre countenaunce and voice, 
 That same alowed and greatly dyd reioyce 
 wherfore noble prince I beseche youre grace, 
 Let me be remoued another to haue my place 
 Assuerus. 
 
 Am an we harde wyth deliberation 
 Uttered and pronounsed by language cleane, 
 A very elygante and prudente oracion 
 Of you as euer to fore was seene 
 By whose tenour we knowe what ye meane, 
 And haue ye no doughte so shall we for you 
 prouide 
 
 577 
 
34 A NEW ENTERLTTDE 
 
 That youre enemies shall domage you on no syde. 
 
 we knowe ryght well the wordes enuious to be 
 One agaynste an other for fee and office 
 But that to regarde in no wyse nede ye, 
 As longe as ye obserue trueth and iustyce 
 From the which we woulde that in no wyse 
 ye shoulde degresse for if ye do in dede, 
 youre owne distrnction shortly ye shall brede, 
 
 But for youre comforte harke what I shall tell, 
 And for more assistance in this that ye do feare, 
 we make you lieutenaunte to rewle Israeli, 
 Take heare these robes see ye do them weare, 
 Eke this golden wande in your hande to beare, 
 A token of honour and of estate ryall, 
 God sende you contynuaunce and well to do with 
 aU. 
 
 Am an. 
 Noble prynce accordinge as I am bounde, 
 I will do you seruice tyll deathe me confounde, 
 
 Assuerus. 
 For a season we wyll to our solace 
 Into our orcharde or some other place, 
 
 [Here the kynge entreth the trauerse & Hardy dardy 
 entreth the place.] 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 A prouerbe as men say a dogge hath a day, 
 
 578 
 
OF GODLY QUEEN E HESTER. 35 
 
 when so euer that it chaunce 
 
 He that wyll drinke wine and hath neuer a vine, 
 
 Muste sende or goe to fraunce. 
 
 And yf he do not, endure he cannot, 
 
 He rnuste nedes shrynke, 
 
 Shrinke yea say that againe, for it is a greate paine, 
 
 To he with out drynke. 
 
 In such case am I, I swere by goddes pety, 
 
 I lacke both drynke and meate. 
 
 But as I say, a dogge hath a day, 
 
 For now I truste to get. 
 
 My tyme is come for to get some, 
 
 If I be not lett. hindered 
 
 It is the common worde Aman is a lorde, 
 
 And Aman is of price, 
 
 And hath perdye all this cuntrie 
 
 At his rwele and deuice. rule 
 
 And I trust to be one of his yemanry, 
 
 To weare his bage and marke. badge 
 
 An office I wold beare and it noughte elles wheare, 
 
 But the keper of his parke. 
 
 Aman. 
 Me seames ye are not fytte. fit 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 ye wene I lacke wytte it may well be so, 
 
 579 
 
36 A NEW ENTERLTTDE 
 
 yet afole when it doth happe may somtyme 
 
 ehaunce to stoppe a gappe 
 when wyse men wyll not mell. 
 
 Aman. 
 Fooles largely will bourde and tell al theyr thought. 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 And wyse men well not speke one worde till all 
 become to nought 
 
 Aman. 
 Fooles will tell all and that trobleth sore, 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 And wyse men will say nought at al til albe gone 
 & more. 
 
 Aman. 
 Fooles to Idleness all wayes be preste. 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 And wyse men vse such busines it were better 
 they were at rest 
 
 Aman. 
 
 Fooles let the reformation, of common wele. hinder 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 And wyse men be so full of imaginacion, 
 they wot not how they deale. 
 
 Aman. 
 
 whyse men wolde do ryght, 
 
 580 
 
OF GODLY QUEENE HESTER. 37 
 
 And foles say nay. 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 And fooles be fayne to fyght when wise men rune 
 away 
 
 Aman. 
 Fooles spend all tyll they hane nought 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 And wyse men carry all tyll they dare no more 
 craue. 
 
 Aman. 
 ye are a foole ye do but clatter. 
 
 Har dy dardy e. 
 Many go to scole tyll they can natter 
 
 Aman. 
 Leaue your clatter, leste ye cume tardy. 
 
 Hardydardy. 
 It makes no matter for my name is Hardydardy 
 
 Aman. 
 Is youre name Hardydardy. 
 
 Hardydardy. 
 Yea y* is it verily, I wold if it plese ye, 
 Be one of your yomanrie. 
 
 Aman. 
 As for that let it passe we take you for our solace, 
 And mirthe sumtime to ken. 
 
 581 
 
38 A NEW ENTEKLT7DE 
 
 Hardydardy. 
 I wene by goddes grace one foole in a place, 
 Doth well amonge wise men 
 ye must nedes laughe amonge & if a foole singe a 
 
 songe, 
 I holde you than a grote, then 
 
 Some wise man muste be fayn sumtime to take y e 
 
 paine 
 To do on a fooles cote. don 
 
 And than perchance it is not redie. then 
 
 Aman. 
 well ye can speake merely wherewith I am con- 
 
 tente 
 Sirs tarrie you a seasone se that farre ye not 
 
 walke, 
 I will to the kinge secretly to talke. 
 
 [To Assuerus] 
 
 Moste victorius prince & of higheste honour 
 Primate of the worlde and president chefe, 
 By whose wisedome and pollityke demeanoure, 
 All the worlde at this day takes relefe, 
 Eoth kynge page and lorde yea in sentence brefe, 
 ~No realm e nor region able were to stande, 
 Onles your councell with them be at hande. 
 
 who compelleth lordes to mainteine their 
 nobilite, 
 
 582 
 
Or GODLY QUEEXE HESTER. 39 
 
 who lerneth kynghtes theyr feates marciall. 
 Or who religion subdewith to humilite, 
 who haue craftes and laborers the worlde ouer all, 
 In ciuill cytie or village ryall. 
 Compelleth eche man to hys order and place, 
 But only the wisedome and polyce of your grace, 
 your strength defendith your wisdome saueth 
 all, 
 Your plentye releuithe almoste euery man 
 Such is your honour and order ryall 
 That none other councell at this day canne, 
 Eeache nor attaine to know how or whan, 
 Lyke good order or honorable guise, 
 As you by wisdume dayly do device, 
 
 So is it your grace from very base parage, 
 And poore estate me to hye honour haue brought, 
 For none my vertues nor wisdome sage, 
 But onely youre goodes haue made me of nought, 
 God is mi iudge it is ther fore mi thoughte, 
 And dayly study aboue all worldly treasure 
 That thing to do, that is your wealth and plasure. 
 
 And yf it please your grace therfore to here, 
 One thynge as I shall make rehersall 
 when I have saide I thinke it shall apeare, 
 To your pleasure and profntte substanciall, 
 And to be playne this is it fyrste of all. 
 
 583 
 
40 A NEW INTERLUDE 
 
 A greate number of Jewes with in this realm do 
 
 dwell 
 A people not goode, nor for youre common weale, 
 
 They be dispersed oner all youre prouince, 
 with in them selfe dwellyng, deseuered from our 
 
 nation, 
 By theyr new lawes they think to conuince, 
 And eke draw vnto theyr cornier sation, 
 And vnto theyr ceremonyes and faction 
 Of our people as many as may be, 
 Intendyng to sub dew all gentilite, 
 
 More ouer the preceptes of your law, 
 They refuse and haue in great contempte 
 They wyll in no wyse Hue vnder awe, 
 Of any prince but they wil be exempte, 
 wherby good order may sone be interempte, 
 And occasion is as I do feare me 
 Your subiectes to rebell in hope of lyke liberte. 
 
 And youre grace knoweth it is expediente, 
 Theyre mallyce to increace thus by sufferaunce, 
 For by that may chaunce greate inconuenience, 
 And to all your realme importune perturbaunce, 
 For theyre possessions be of substaunce 
 So greate and so large that I feare at the length, 
 They wyll attempte to subdewe you by strengthe. 
 
 My couneell therfore to auoide ieoperdy, 
 If that your grace by your power ryall, 
 
 584 
 
OF GODLY QTTEEXE HESTER. 41 
 
 Shall geue sentence and plainly decree, 
 To flea these Jewes in your realm ouer all, 
 Xone to escape let your sentence be generall, 
 Ye shall by that wynne to say I dare be bolde, 
 To your treasure x thousande pound of golde, 
 
 Assuerus. 
 
 My lorde Aman we have harde ryght well, 
 All your oration which is so elegante, 
 And so well towched that nedes we must fele, 
 And perceyue your minde your wordes be so 
 
 pregnante, 
 And as touchinge the Jewes which be so valiaunte, 
 Both of goodes and greate pocession, 
 we do agree vnto theyre suppression. 
 
 we ryght e well perceiue that vnto them drawe, 
 Much of our people and ientile nation, 
 which to our honour and also to our lawe 
 Muste nedes be a great derogation, 
 A meane to bring nil out of facion 
 To quenche them therefore we be contented well, 
 In token wherof holde here a ringe and seale. 
 
 behold 
 
 Aman. 
 Of your sentence there shall not lacke one clause, 
 But all shall be done and that without pause, 
 The Pursiuauntes call to vs shortely. 
 
 i 585 
 
42 A NEW ENTEKLTTDE 
 
 Pursyuauntes. 
 If it lyke you we are here. 
 
 Am an. 
 These letters deuised we wolde ye shoulde aplye, 
 To here forth and that dylligently, 
 with as much haste as may be, 
 To the rewlers of euery towne and citie, 
 Streightly commaunding theim all that they maye 
 The same to execute at their prefixed day. 
 
 Purseuaunt. 
 To his hye pleasure we shall make vs preste, 
 And tyll it bee done, we wyll take no reste, 
 
 Aman. 
 "We be glad we haue attained our purpose, 
 I trust it shall abate the hie corage 
 Of Mardocheus, and eke all those 
 That be hys clyantes brynge to repentaunce : 
 
 Hardydardye. 
 Mary syr they be lyke to take penaunce, 
 It woulde greue any man yonge or olde of age 
 without his head to goe on pylgrimage 
 
 Aman. 
 Thei haue deserued it, and they shall haue it, 
 It is for theym accordynge : 
 
 586 
 
Or GODLY QUEENE HESTER. 43 
 
 Hardydardye. 
 If I shoulde bewray, that some men doe saye, 
 It were a mad bourdynge. 
 
 Amaru 
 Say what ye lyste. 
 
 Hardydardy. 
 So woulde I, yf wiste ye wolude not angrye, 
 
 would 
 
 Aman. 
 ye haue libertie, as ye pleased be, 
 To stande or tumble : 
 
 Hardydardy. 
 Men say in dede, ye shall lose your head, 
 And that woulde make you stumble, 
 
 Aman. 
 why so ? 
 
 Hardardy. 
 Thei say it is conuenient, should be fulfilled y e 
 
 testament 
 Of Ambition, Adulation and Pride : 
 They gaue you all their pryde and flatterynge, 
 And after that saint thomas watring there to rest 
 a tide 
 And men thyncke at hoste, with them was the 
 holy ghoste, 
 
 587 
 
44 A NEW ENTERLUDE 
 
 Theyre testament was made so holily, 
 
 wherfore all that they sayed cannot be take or 
 
 sayed, 
 But as a prophesie. 
 
 Aman. 
 
 well ye are verely, disposed merely, merrily 
 Now for to talke. 
 
 And I am suerly minded secretely, 
 For my solace to walke, Et exeat. 
 
 Here entreth a Jew and speaketh. 
 
 lorde what a thinge is crudelite, 
 whan to it is annexed couetous and Pride, 
 It destroyeth both towne and contrey 
 Eke all regions on euery syde, 
 All is for him to lyttell his mouthe is so wide, 
 His rigour rauenous spares not to spill, 
 Both man and chylde to haue his owne will : 
 
 This rauenous wolfe Aman I do meane, 
 That hath perswaded to kynge to kill and flea, 
 And from all this prouince to auoid cleane, 
 All men and women and children that be, 
 Jewes borne and of the Jewes consanguinite, 
 The precept is set vp men to remember 
 And it shalbe executed the xiii. day of December, 
 Alas that euer shoulde fortune suche rage, 
 From so cankered a caytyfe to procede, 
 
 588 
 
OF GODLY QTJEENE HESTER. 45 
 
 It is his mynde my head I ley to gage, 
 
 All those to sley, I assure you in deede 
 
 That wyll not by flattery hys presumptions fede, 
 
 He woulde be glorified aboue creatures all, 
 
 And yet I trust as Lucifer depe he shal fal. 
 
 Another Jewe. 
 The ITantuans thought it a greate punishmente, 
 To be proscribed from theyre goodes and lande, 
 As recitethVirgill that Poet eloquente, 
 Much more is our payne ye may understande, ■ 
 That shall lose our lyues vnles god take in hande, 
 TJs to delyuer or els me not canne, 
 Auoide the murder of this carnifex Aman : 
 
 An other Jew. 
 He shall by this murder our goodes wynne, 
 And him selfe enlarge his pride to auaunce, 
 And when he hath all he shall be new to begynne, 
 Euer more to gett by some other chauuce. 
 Mardocheus. 
 yet at the laste all shall cume to mischaunce, 
 For both him and his god shall make tame, 
 And for theyre pride and pyllage, sende them 
 worldly shame : 
 
 Hester. 
 
 Mardocheus wyth youre cumpanye, 
 we haue harde youre lamentation, 
 
 589 
 
46 A NEW ENTEKLTJDE 
 
 To our grefe and displeasure rerely, 
 yet we truste by meke supplication, 
 Fyrste vnto god by humble oration 
 And than to the king by desyre eordyall 
 A meane to fynde, for to sauegarde ye all 
 Call in the chapell to the intent they maye 
 Syng some holy himpne to spede vs this day 
 [than the chappell do singe.] 
 
 After this prayer and our former abstynens 
 To the good Lorde I call for cumforte 
 To inspyre the prynce, & his mynd incence 
 That I may obtayne now at my resorte 
 To redeme the Jewes, all the hole sorte. 
 Eke to dysclose the falsed fauell and fraude. 
 Of this cruell Aman to thy prayse & laude. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 goodly Hester our most noble Quene, 
 Of personage pearles and in wisdome alone, 
 In corage and countenaunce none lyke is scene, 
 So discrete in dallyance was neuer none, 
 where is your comfort, care can bee none, 
 Loe here our wand, approch nere to this place, 
 That we may kisse you, and in our armes embrace, 
 
 [here thei kysse] 
 what aske you ladye, and what do you demaunde 
 Halfe our realme is yours, yf ye commaunde, 
 
 590 
 
OF GODLY QrEEXE HESTER. 47 
 
 Hester. 
 !Noble prince and our espouse most deare, 
 Since that to aske ye haue geuen me libertie, 
 I besech your grace, with heart most entier 
 That it may please you this day to dine with me 
 Eke my lord Aman I woulde be glad to see 
 At the same banket for to take repaste. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 
 Call vs in Aman that we may go in haste, 
 
 Aman. 
 T am here ready to atende vpon your grace. 
 [Here must bee prepared a banket in ye place.] 
 
 Assuerus 
 Then let vs go while we haue tyme and space. 
 Lady Hester our moste beloued Quene, 
 So pewer and so exauisite is thys repaste, 
 Both of wine and meate that no better may beene, 
 youre mirth eke and manners so pleasaunte to 
 
 attaste, 
 That for to departe we make no maner haste, 
 Eke our presence we knowe is to youre pleasure, 
 Earre better than golde or any worldly treasure, 
 wherfore as we sayde we wolde ye shulde 
 demande 
 And at your pleasure, your petition make 
 The one halfe of our reame, yf ye it commaund 
 
 591 
 
48 A NEW EJNTEKLTJDE 
 
 we shall with departe, only for your sake 
 
 and of it to you, a playne surender make 
 
 and the more ye aske, wyth louinge intente 
 
 the more we shall geue, and the better be contente 
 
 Hester. ' 
 Noble prynce your hye magnyficens 
 your bounte, and espieciall grace 
 So ofte and so kyndlye doeth incense, 
 To make request from profite to purchase, 
 So y 1 lenger delay were in me great trespase, 
 and by y* also your grace right wel may it thinke 
 That finally your loue vnto my heart did sinke. 
 Wherfore this fauoure sence I haue obtayned 
 Of your grace to haue any my requeste 
 This I do aske with true harte ynfayned 
 and wyth charitie, of all vertues best, 
 That throw all your reame both east and west 
 As manye as bee of the Jewyshe nation, 
 your grace wil them pardon at my supplication. 
 
 Assurynge you I am of that nacion, 
 Borne and eke brede in Jerusalem, 
 yet I and all they by one condempnation, 
 To deathe are determined throughe all this realme, 
 No remedy : lesse your pardon vs redeme, unless 
 we woulde rather we myght be solde to bondage ; 
 Than thus to peryshe, by fury and outrage. 
 
 592 
 
OF GODLY QUEEXE HESTER. 49 
 
 Assuerus. 
 what is he, or what is hys authorities 
 That is so bolde thys acte to attempt ? 
 
 Hester. 
 It is Aman that by cruell enuy 
 Is oure mortall enymye and wold vs entermpt 
 That our lyfe and godes from vs were adempte 
 Then wold he rule all and if he myght to all get 
 And all shoulde not suffice, so hie his heart is set. 
 Hys pompe and his prycle, so muche is in dede, 
 That yf he had all, it coulcle him not suffice, 
 At thys tyme hys treasure youres doeth excede, 
 And yet content is he in no wyse, 
 Eut to gette moore daylye he doeth deuise, 
 The commons he extort eth tyll they be lame 
 He takes the profyt and ye beare the name. 
 But better it were that he shulde suffer payne 
 Than thus by crafte, your honour to dystaine 
 Ey his false leasinges, he putteth other in blame 
 Deludinge youre grace, when he lyst to fayne 
 And no man so worthy for to suffer payne, 
 As he him selfe that by hys poyson and gall, 
 Hath deceuyed you, and eke your commons all . 
 
 Assuerus. 
 He signified vnto me that the Jewes did 
 Not feede the poore by hospitalitie 
 
 593 
 
50 A NEW ENTERLTJDE 
 
 Their possessions lie sayde, were all but hydde, 
 Amonge them selues, lyuyng voluptuouslye, 
 Thinkyng the same might be verely, 
 Much better emyloyed for the common weale, 
 where now it litle profitteth or neuer a deale. 
 
 Hester. 
 Noble prince as for hospitalitye, 
 Of the Jewes dwellinge in your regyon 
 It is with them as alwayes hath bene 
 Sins the beginning of their possession 
 which god to them gaue. of his mere mocion, 
 Eke great knowledge both of cattell and of grayne 
 That none to them like houshold coulde main- 
 
 tayne, 
 Is not of Abraham the hospitalytye, 
 In scripture noted and of noble fame, 
 But one honoringe when he receiued three, 
 The trenitie figured in the same, 
 Both Isaake and Jacob had a lyke name, 
 Of whom the twelue tribes descended be, 
 which euer dyd maintaine hospittalyte. 
 
 Sinse god therfore hath begunne theyre hous- 
 holde, 
 And ay hath preserued theyre hospitallite, 
 I aduise noman to be so bolde ; 
 The same to clissolue what so euer he be, 
 
 594 
 
OF GODLY QUEENE HESTER. 5 I 
 
 Let God alone for he shall orderly, 
 A fine ad finem, both here and there 
 Omnia disponere suauiter. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 kaytiffe most crafty o false dissembler, 
 with thy flatteringe tonge thou haste deceyued me 
 All noble princes by me may be ware, 
 whom they shall truste and put in auctorite, 
 Eke whom they shall promote to ryches and 
 
 dignite. 
 But we shall teache the good for thine ingratitude, 
 And by the all other theyre prince to delude, thee 
 
 Aman. 
 lady Hester moste noble princesse, 
 Of thine honour and goodnes soueraine, 
 Extende to me that pitie or els doutles, 
 To deathe I am dressed and mortal! payne, 
 I wotte I haue deserued it for certaine, 
 And againste the my offence is great, thee 
 
 wherfore vneth I dare thy goodnesse entreate, 
 But trueth is, the merite of thys is better 
 And God it more accepteth a thousande fold 
 Agaynst whome the offence is greater 
 And of them that of iniurie coulde not tell me 
 wherefore to speake somewhat it makes me bolde 
 
 595 
 
52 A NEW ENTERLUDE 
 
 To encrease the merite and rewarde heauenlye 
 Saue my life and I thy seruaunte shall be. 
 
 Hester. 
 Aman this matter so heinous is in dede 
 That of our honour we wyll nother speake nor 
 speede. 
 
 Aman. 
 Alas then am I vtterlye marred 
 I must streighte die it cannot be deferred. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 thou kaytyffe canste thou not be contente, 
 with the mischeffe by the done before, thee 
 
 But the quene wylt oppresse, we beinge presente 
 what nede we call for euidence moore 
 Make him sure and fast and thereto bind him sore 
 we will that oure counsell shortly e deuice, 
 How we shallbe bestow him accordynge to iustice. 
 
 Arbona. 
 There is in the house of thys traitour Aman 
 A paire of galowes of fiftie cubites hie 
 Upo them he had thought either now or than 
 To haue caused Mardocheus to die. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Leade him hence, and vpon them by and by 
 See that ye hange him, and so stoppe his breathe 
 without fauoure fee he suffer deathe. 
 
 596 i 
 
OF GODLY QUEENE HESTEK. 53 
 
 Hardydardye. 
 Other folkes be tardye, as wel as hardy dardy 
 By this reckeninge 
 
 A syr besyde belles, bacon and somewhat els, 
 Must nedes haue hanginge. 
 
 Assewerus. 
 Hanginge doe seme, when they that deserue, 
 Are false feytoures. 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 And it commes to lottes, of heringes and sprottes 
 which be no traytonrs 
 To hange in the smoke, til they chaunge their 
 
 cloke 
 from white to redde. 
 
 Assewerns. 
 But such do no wronge, wherfore they do not 
 
 honge 
 Tyl they be cled. 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 ye speake som what like, for it toucheth the 
 
 quicke, 
 To be hanged in good heale. health 
 
 Assewerus. 
 yet more nede to care, that is wyse and ware 
 And truly wyll deale. 
 
 597 
 
54 A NEW ENTEKLTTDE 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 Haue ye not rede, of Xaso Ouide, 
 That eloquent Poet, 
 Xor Yalery, which telles merely, 
 The proper feates, 
 
 How the smith Perillus, like a tuta vilus, 
 Made a bull of bras 
 He had thought i wis, to haue pleased king 
 
 Phalaris 
 But yet he did muche wurse, 
 
 Assuerus. 
 why so ? 
 
 Hardydardye. 
 I wene by god he made a rodde, 
 For his owne ars, 
 
 Phalaris coulde not get with in the bull to shett 
 Lo here beginnes the game, 
 wherfore in dede he toke for nede, 
 Perillus maker of the same. 
 
 In he did him turne and made the fier to burne 
 And greatly to increace, 
 He caste him in such heate and eke in such 
 
 sweate, 
 He fried him in his greace. 
 
 Assewerus. 
 what meane you by this ? 
 
 598 
 
OF GODLY QUEEXE HESTER. 55 
 
 Ha rd velar dy. 
 I wyll tell you by gis my hole intencion. 
 I meane my master is the fyrste taster, 
 Of his owne inuencion. 
 
 The gallhouse he made both hye and brode, 
 For ILardocheus he them mente, 
 And now he is faine him selfe for certaine, 
 To playe the fyrste pagente. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 He that deserues payne is worthy certaine, 
 Euen for to haue it. 
 
 Hardy dardy. 
 Therfore god sende all those, that will steale 
 mens clothes 
 That once they may goe naked. 
 
 Arbona. 
 If it please your grace, the traitoure Aman, 
 we haue put to deathe as was youre commaundy- 
 ment. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Then shall we streighte as well as we canne, 
 Eestowe his goodes for he made no testamente, 
 Lady Hester this is our intent 
 The house of Aman with all his treasure, 
 we geue it you, do with all youre pleasure. 
 
 599 
 
56 A NEW EIv'TERLUDE 
 
 Hester. 
 I thanke youre grace with barte en tyre, 
 JNowe dare I be bolde to shewe you the playnesse, 
 Of my minde, since Mardocheus is heare 
 If it please your grace the truth is doutles, 
 All be it or now I dyd it not confesse, 
 This Mardocheus is for certayne, 
 My fathers brother, no longer I wyll it leyne 
 A gentyll man he is, for lynyallye 
 He is borne of the stocke of Beniaminy. 
 
 Assuerus. 
 we be ryghte gladde we know his linage 
 Hys truth to ys before was knowen well, 
 we wyll him aduaunce accordynge hys parage, 
 Holde Mardocheus here is our rynge and seale, 
 It is our truste ye wyll with iustice deale, 
 we commytte therfore vnto youre wyse discrescion, 
 Of all thys prouince indgemente and corection. 
 
 Mardocheus. 
 I thanke youre grace trustinge ye shall not heare, 
 In all thynges but as iustice doth requyre, 
 
 Hester. 
 Noble prince and our espouse moste deare, 
 I beseche your grace at my supply cation, 
 The precepte youre grace sente at Amans desyre, 
 
 600 
 
OF GODLY QUEENE HESTER. 57 
 
 Againste me and all the Jewishe nation, 
 
 May be reuoked and vpon conuocation 
 
 A new denised by them that can do best, 
 
 And that sente forthe to set the Jewes at reste. 
 
 More ouer lett the realme be perused 
 
 By them that be of your hye councell 
 
 And if any haue the la we abused 
 
 Of all the Jewes with in youre comon weale 
 
 Let them not spare correction to deale 
 
 And strayghtly constrayne them selfe to addresse 
 
 To obserue that law god gaue them by Moses. 
 
 The Jewes be the people of god elected 
 
 And weare his badge of cyrcumsicion 
 
 The dayly prayer of that hole secte 
 
 As the psalmes of Dauid by gostly inspiracion 
 
 Eke holy ceremonies of gods prouision 
 
 To god is vaileable, that nothing greater, 
 
 And al the whole realme for the fares y e better, 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Stande ye vp Lady, and approche ye neare 
 your petition we graunte it gladlye, 
 
 Hester. 
 Than if it please your grace to heare, 
 This epistle is made to the sealyng readye, 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Let it be red that it maye by and by 
 i 601 
 
58 A NEW ENTEBDUDE 
 
 Be sealed and consigned, and so forthe sent 
 and than I truste ye shall be content. 
 
 Scriba. 
 
 [Here the Scrybe doeth. rede ye klges letter.] 
 
 We Assuerus kynge, and highe regent 
 from India to Ethiopia plaine 
 Send gretinge and straighte commaundement, 
 To all the heades and rulers sertaine, 
 wyllyng they should ypon a great payne, 
 In a hundreth prouinces, and seuen and twentye 
 All men compell to this our decre. 
 
 All though it be so our preceptes that be sente 
 Be of dyuerse nature, and playne repugnant 
 when ye know our mynd ye shalbe contente 
 To thinke it no lyghtnes, nor wytte in constante 
 But the necessytie of tymes yaryant 
 And as cause requereth for the vtyllyte 
 Of our hole reame heedes and comynalte 
 
 And to the entent ye may know our playne mynde 
 The sonne of Amadathy called Aman 
 A Macedone borne and lyke to theyr owne kynde 
 Not of our nacion, as all men tell can 
 whiche by his sutteltye, both now and than 
 Our gentelnes so in fecteth for certayne 
 That neare we were lyke all Jewes to haue slayne 
 
 602 
 
OF GODLY QTJEE.NE HESTER. 59 
 
 we fauored him that he was called 
 
 Our father, and all men did to hym honoure 
 
 But his harte wyth pryde, so strongly was walled 
 
 That by his slyght and crafty demeanoure 
 
 Had we not espyed his subtile behauoure 
 
 He wolde haue dystroyd quene Hester our wyfe 
 
 And from vs at the lengthe haue taken our lyfe. 
 
 But as for the Jewes, we found them innocente 
 And without all blame though to death they were 
 dyth = endited 
 
 wherfore Aman we thought it conuenient 
 To hang hym tyll the death accordyng to ryght 
 within Susis our noble cetye of myghte 
 Not only our dede nor yet theyr chans nor fate 
 But goddes owne Justice what so euer they prate, 
 
 This our precepte and hye commaundimente, 
 we wolde to all cities ye shoulde declare. 
 This is our purpose and veri entente, 
 The Jewes to theyre lawes them selfe shoulde 
 
 prepare 
 Duely to kepe them and not from them square, 
 And no man to hurt them see ye remember, 
 As it was mente the. xiii. day of December, 
 Dated at Susis this is certayne, 
 The. iiii. day of december the. iii. yeare of our 
 
 raine. 
 
 603 
 
60 A NEW ENTERLUDE 
 
 Assuerus. 
 This is well se it be sealed anon, 
 And that euery eitie of them may haue one, 
 Now madam I truste ye be contente. 
 
 Hester, 
 yea and that veramente, 
 May it now please you your selfe to repose ? 
 
 Assuerus. 
 Very well saue fyrst we wol disclose, 
 Parte of our mynde which we thinke necessary, 
 If it be well hard we truste it shall edifye, 
 My Lordes by this fygure ye may well se, 
 The multitude hurte by the heades necligence, 
 If to his pleasure so geuen is he, 
 That he will no paine take nor dilligence, 
 who careth not for his cure ofte loseth credence, 
 A prouerbe of olde sume time in vsage, 
 Few men that serue but for theyre owne ad- 
 uauntage. 
 
 Hester. 
 And yet the seruantes that bee vntrue, 
 A whyle in the world theyr lyfe may they leade, 
 Yea theyr welth and worshippe dayly renewe, 
 But at the length I assure you in dede, 
 Theyr fauell and falsehood wyll come abrede, 
 
 604 
 
OF GODLY QTJEENE HESTEE. 61 
 
 whiche shall be to them more bytter than gall, 
 The hygher they clyme the deper they fall, 
 
 Assewerus. 
 Let vs then cesse thys conuocatione 
 And this tyme dyssolue this congregation. 
 
 Hester. 
 
 That lyke as here they haue lyued deuoutly 
 
 So god graunt them in heauen to lyue eternally, 
 
 Assewerus. 
 To the which we committe all this company. 
 
 Finis. 
 
 Imprynted at London by "Wyllyam Pickerynge 
 
 and Thomas Hacket, and are to be solde at 
 
 theyre shoppes. 
 
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NOTES 
 
 Page 9. ' honour men ought to demise* : = to lay down. 
 Now only applied to death, 
 'parayge: 'parage' (pp 39, 56): — parentage. 
 1 superiall raigne ' — superior. Or is it an 
 early form of ' superlative ' ? 
 
 4, ' here ' = hear. 
 
 5, 17, 18. 'conuince' : = convict See Wright's 
 Bible Word-Book s. v. 
 
 6, 33. ' vre ' = use, practice. 
 
 'cure 
 6. 51. 
 
 = care e. g. ' cure oi souls. 
 
 6, 28. 
 
 'vnneth' = once. 
 
 * verament ' : = truly. 
 
 •' Justis mainteneth ye common weale, 
 
 And namely ye prince muste nedes him selfe 
 applye/ See our Introduction to these two 
 Enterludes on this use of ' namely/ 
 1 happen to square from trueth ' : — go aside 
 from (Yorkshire). 
 
 8. 'princes' = princess. 
 
 9. 'peruse': 'perused' (p 57): — survey, 
 
 examine. The use is found in Shakespere 
 
 and Milton. 
 ' vniuersall " : misprinted ' vdiuersall.' 
 'kende ' — known: 'ken' (p 37) == 'know.' 
 9, 34. ' trauers ' ; = a closet behind a screen. 
 
 607 
 
64 NOTES. 
 
 Page 10, 13. s accordynge therefore no we ' : = agreeing, 
 or in accord with. 
 „ 14. 'sadnes':— gravity. 
 „ * lusty ' : = lively, pleasant. 
 
 „ ' coste ' = coast. 
 
 „ 15. i eftsons ' : = soon afterwards. 
 „ 15, 16. 'sad' : < sadly ' : See on p 14. 
 „ ' demure ' = modest. 
 
 „ 16. * childes playe.' See our Introduction on this 
 
 phrase. 
 „ ' trewe sawe ' : = (proverbial or witty) saying. 
 
 „ 18. 'poorall' = poor all. 
 ,, 19. 'golde and pall* : = palle, fine cloth. 
 
 Modernly used for covering of a dead body 
 
 at a funeral. 
 „ ' licence the Quene ' : = authorize. 
 
 „ ' leuer ' : = rather. 
 
 „ 20. ' Bully on ' : = uncoined gold. 
 „ 21. ' elfe ' : = evil man . Usually applied to witches 
 
 and the like. 
 
 23. ' brysted ' = breasted. 
 
 24. * bull ' : = papal edict from * bulla ' the seal. 
 1 predication ' = preaching. 
 
 24, 59, l do not square ' : See on p 7. 
 
 25. ' syn ' = since. 
 27. ' mu ' = mum. 
 30. ' goth ' = goeth : 'to sent Thomas watring * : 
 
 Query — weeping ? but it is obscure. 
 ' pytter pattour .... tytter totur ' : The former 
 = to beat incessantly — palpitate. The latter 
 = see-saw, vacillate. 
 
 608 
 
NOTES. 65 
 
 Page 31. ' without bourde or game ' : = jest. 
 
 „ ' Nowe by wades myll' a local proverb after 
 
 some men named Wade. 
 
 „ 33. ' honestie' : = what is honoured. 
 
 „ ' leasinges and lyes ' : There must then have 
 
 been a shade of distinction between ' lies ' 
 and ' leasings.' 
 
 „ 35- 'I swere by goddes pety ' : = piety ? 
 
 „ ' perdye ' : = certainly, verily. 
 
 „ 35, 37. ' yemanry ' = yeomanry. 
 
 ,, 36. i will not mell ' : = mingle, associate. 
 
 ,, ' fooles largely will bourde ' : = jest. 
 
 „ 40. ' interempte ' : = interrupt. 
 
 „ 43. l a mad bourdynge ' : = jesting. 
 
 „ 44, 45. ' to auoid cleane ' : = to void or (here) 
 destroy. 
 
 „ 45. ' carnifex ' : = tormentor, hangman. 
 
 „ 46. ' chapell ' : = See our Introduction as before 
 on this word. 
 
 „ * himpne ' : = hymn. 
 
 „ 'incence': 'incense.' (p 48) = cause to under- 
 
 stand. 
 „ 46, 60. ' fauelland fraude' : I have notfound 'fauell. 
 
 „ 47, 56. * espouse : ' = spouse. 
 
 ,, * exausite ' : = exquizite. 
 
 ,, 47,48,58. 'reame': = realm. 
 
 n 49. ' adempte ' : = revoked. 
 
 ,, ' extorteth ' : = forceth. 
 
 „ 52. ' oppresse ' : = violate. 
 
 „ 53. *Asyr': = Ah Sir! 
 
 „ ^eytoures': = scoundrels. 
 
 609 
 
66 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Page 53. ' sprottes ' : = sprats — small fish. 
 
 „ 54. l Valery ' = Valerius Maximus. 
 
 „ 55. i gis ' = guess. 
 
 „ ' gallhouse ' : = gallows. 
 
 ,, 56. i leyne ' : 1 have not met with this word. 
 
 „ 67. i slyght ' = sleight, craft. G. 
 
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