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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    Not Peer Reviewed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)

    1 The Prologue.
    INterpone tuis interdum gaudia curis
    Vt po s s is animo quemuis sufferre laborem
    Doo any of you knowe what latyne is this
    5Or ells wold you haue an expositorem
    To declare it in Engly she per sensum planiorem
    It is be st I speake Engly she or ells with in awhylle
    I may percace myne ownselfe with my latin begile

    The two verses which I rehersid before
    10I finde writen in the boke of Cato the wyse
    Emongs good precepts of lyuing a thousand more
    Which to folowe there he doth all men auise
    And they may be Engly shed breflie in this wise
    Emongs thy carfull busines vse sume time mirth & ioye
    15That no bodilye worke thy wytts breke or noye

    For the mynd (saith he) in serius matters occupied
    If it haue not sum quiet mirthe and recreacion
    Interchaungeablie admixed mu st niddes be sone weried
    And (as who should saye) tried, through continual opera- (cion)
    20Of labour and busines without relaxacion
    Therfor intermixt hone st mirthe in suche wise
    That your strenght may be refre shid & to labours suffise

    For as meat and drinke, naturall re st and slype
    For the conseruacion and helth of the bodye
    25Mu st niddes be had, soo the mynd and wittes to kype
    Pregnant, fre she indu struis, quike and lu stie
    Hone st mirthe, and pa stime is requisite and nece s s arie
    For Quod caret alterna requie durabile non e st
    Nothyng may endure (saith Ouyd) with out sum re st

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