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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)

    To waight on you home in the dyuelles name
    985I wene the dyuell neuer so beate his dame
    Mai ster boundgrace
    And where became that other Careawaye
    Careawaye
    By myne hone stie syr I cannot saye
    990But I warrant he is now not far hens
    He is here amonge this cumpany for.xl.pens
    Mai ster boungrace
    Hence at tonce sike and smell hym out
    I shall rape thee on the lying knaues snought
    995I woll not bee deludyd with such a glosing lye
    Nor giue credens tyll I see it with my oune iye
    Careawaie
    Trulye good syr by your mai ster shipps fauoure
    I cannot well fynd a knaue by the sauoure
    1000Many here smell strong but none so ranke as he
    A stronger sented knaue then he was cannot bee
    But syr yf he be happelye founde a none
    what a mẽds shal I haue for yt you haue me don
    Ma ster boungrace
    1005If he may befound I shall walke his cote
    Careawaie
    ye for our lady sake syr I bisiche you spare not
    For it is snm false knaue witheouten doubt
    I had rather thẽ.xl.pens wee could find him out
    1010For if a man maye beliue a glase
    Euin my verie oune selfe it was
    And here he was but euyn right now
    And steped a waye sodenlie I wat not how
    Of such a other thĩg I haue nether hard ne sene
    1015By our bly s s yd lady heauen quene
    mai ster
    E.i.