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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    Not Peer Reviewed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)

    And at the fyr st it dyd me cur stelye meaue
    Nor I wold myne owne yes in no wyse belyue
    Untyll that other I beate me soo
    955That he made me beliue it whither I wold or no
    And if he had your selfe now within his reache
    He wold make you say so too or ells be shite your (breach
    Mai ster Boungrace
    I dur st a good mede and a wager laye
    960That thou laie st doune and slepe st by the waye
    And dremi st all this that thou ha ste me tolde
    ienkyne Careawaye
    Naye there you lye mai ster if I might be so bold
    But we ryse so erlye that yf I hadde
    965I hadde doone well and a wyse ladde
    yet may ster I wolde you vndere stoode
    That I haue all wayes byn tru sty and good
    And flye as fa st as a bere in a cage
    When soo euer you sende me in your me s s age
    970in faythe as for thys that I haue tolde you
    I sawe and felte it as waking as I am nowe
    For I had noo soner knocked at the gate
    But the other I knaue had mee by the pate
    And I dur st to you one a boke swere
    975That he had byn wachyng for mee there
    Longe ere I came hyden in sum pryuye place
    Euen for the nons too haue me by the face
    Mai ster boungrace
    Why then thou speake st not with my wyfe
    980 Careawaye
    No that I dyd not mai ster by my lyfe
    Untyll that other I was gone
    And then my mai steris sent me after a none

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