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  • Title: Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)
  • Editor: David Swain
  • Textual editor: Dr. Sarah Neville
  • Coordinating editor: Brett Greatley-Hirsch

    • ISBN: 978-1-55058-490-5

    Copyright David Swain. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: Anonymous
    Editor: David Swain
    Not Peer Reviewed

    Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)

    For now that I am wel chafed, and sumwhat hote
    Twentye suche could I hewe as small as fle she too pote
    And surelie if I had a knyfe
    This knaue should escape hardelye with his lyfe
    345Too teache hym to aske of me any more
    What I make at my owne mai stirs doore
    Iacke iugler
    But if thou cum from that gate thou knaue
    I woll fett thee by the swet lookes so god me saue
    350 Ienkine Careawie
    Woll the horesoon fight in dede by myn hone stie
    I know noo quarell he hath too me
    But I wold I were with in the house
    And then I wold not set by hym a louse
    355For I feare and mi stru st suche quareling thiues
    See how he beginnith to strike vp his sleues
    Iake iugler
    His arse makith buttens now, and who lu stith to feale
    shall find his hart creping out at his heelle
    360Or 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 da stard couerd knaue was neuer borne
    Ienkine Careawaie
    365The diuell set the house a fier I trowe it is a cur ste
    When a man hath mo st ha st he spedith wor st
    yf I bee robed, or slane, or any harme geate
    The fault is in them that dothe not me in lete
    And I dur st ieoper an hunderid pounde
    370That sum bauderie might now with in be founde
    But except sum of them come the soner
    I shall knoke suche a peale that all englond shal wonder
    Jake
    B.iii.
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