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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    Not Peer Reviewed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)

    Or had sold my selfe to any man at a pryce
    Or had made a fray and had lo st it in fightyng
    Or it had byne stolne from me sleapyng
    It had byne a matter and I wold haue kept pacience
    700But it spiteth my hart to haue lo st it by suche open neg- (ligence
    Ah thou horesone drousie drunken sote
    It were an almes dyde too walke thy cote
    And I sh rew him that wold for thee be sorye
    Too see thee well curryed by and by
    705And by chry st if any man wold it doo
    I my selfe wold helpe there too
    For a man may see thou horesone goose
    Thou wolde st ly s s e thyne arse yf it were loose
    Albeit I wold neuer the dyde beleue
    710But yt the thyng it selfe dothe shewe and priue
    There was neuer Ape so lyke vnto an Ape
    As he is to me in feature, and shape
    But what woll my mai ster saye trow ye
    When he shall this geare here and see
    715Well he know me thinke you when he shal see mee
    yf he do not a nother woll as good as he
    But wher is that other I? whether is he gon
    Too my mai ster by cockes precius pa s s ion
    Eyther too put me out of my place
    720Or too accuse me too my mai ster Boungrace
    But I woll after as fa st as I can flee
    I tru st to be there as soone as hee
    That if my mai ster be not redye home to come
    I woll bee here a gayne as fa st as I cane rune
    725In any wyse to speake with my may steris
    Or ells I shall neuer escape hanging dubtles
    Dame Coye


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