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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
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    Jack Juggler (Quarto 1)

    I shall not suppe this night full well I see
    For as yet noo bodie cumithe for to fet mee
    730But good ynough let me alone
    I woll bee euen with theim euery chone
    I saye nothyng, but I thinke sumwhat I wis
    Sum ther bee that shall here of this
    Of al vnkind & churli she husbands this is ye ca st
    735To let ther wiues set at home and fa st
    While they bee forth and make good cheare
    Pa stime, and sporte as now he doth there
    But yf I wer a wise woman as I am a mome
    I shold make my selfe as good chere at home
    740But if he haue thus vnkindlye seruyde mee
    I wol not forget it this monethis three
    And if I we ste ye fault were in him I praie god I be dede
    But he shoulde haue suche a kyrie ere he went too bede
    As he neuer had before in all his lyfe
    745Nor any man ells haue had of his wife
    I wolde rate him and shake him after such a sorte
    As sholde be to him a corrasiue full lytle to his cumforte
    Alls trippe and goo
    yf I may be so bolde by your mai steri shps lycens
    750As 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 pranke
    And that wolde you saye yf you knew as mutch as wee
    That his daylye conuersacion and byhauiore see
    755For if you commaund him to goo speake with sum one
    yt is an houre ere he wolbe gone
    Then woll he rune forth and plaie in the strete
    And cume a gaine and say that he cannot with him mete
    Dame Coye

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