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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

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    Editor: David Swain
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    Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)

    Ere yu a s s aye them on mee I praie thee lame thẽ on ye wal
    But speake you all this in earne st, or in game
    yf you be angrie with me trulee you are to blam
    For haue you any iu st quarell to mee
    410 Iake iugler
    Ere thou and I parte that wol I shew thee
    Ienkine Careawaye
    Or haue i doone you any maner displeasure
    Iake iugler
    415Ere thou & I parte yu shalt know yu mai st besure
    Ienkine Careawaye
    By my fayth yf thou be angrie without a cause
    you shal haue a mẽdes made wt acople of straus
    By the i sete what soeuer thou arte
    420But for thy displeasure I care not a farte
    May a man demaund whose seruant you bee
    Iake iugler
    My mai sters seruaunt I am for veritie
    Ienkine Careawaye
    425what busynes haue you at thys place now
    Iake iugler
    Nay mary tell me what busynes ha st thou
    For I am commaunded for to watche & giue diligence
    That in me good mai ster Boungraces absence
    430Noo misfortune may happen to his house sertayne
    Ienkine Careawaye
    well now I am cume you may go hens agine
    And thanke them yt somuch for my mai ster haue do one
    Sewing them yt the seruants of ye house be cume home
    435For i am of the house, and now in woll i goo
    Iake iugler
    I canot tell whether thou be of the house or noo


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