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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 plaie when he is sent on his ma sters me s s age
    Dame Coye
    1050Laye on and spare not for the loue of chry st
    Ioll his hed to a po st and fauoure your fy ste
    Now for my sake swete hart spare & fauoure your hand
    And lay hym about the rybbes with this wande
    Careawaye
    1055Now marcy yt I aske of you both twaine
    Saue my lyfe and let me not be slayne
    I haue had beting ynough for one daye
    That a mischife take the other me Careawaye
    That if euer he cume to my handes agayne
    1060I wis it shalbe to his payne
    But I maruayll greatlye by our lorde ihesus
    How he I escapid I me beat me thus
    And is not he I and vnkind knaue
    That woll no more pytie on my selfe haue
    1065Here may you see, euydentlye i wis
    That in hym me no drope of hone stie is
    Now a vengaũce light on suche a churles knaue
    That no more loue toward my selfe haue
    Dame coye
    1070I knew verye wel swite hart & saied right now
    that no fault therof should be in you
    Maister boungrace
    No trulye good bedfelow I wer then mutch vnkinde
    yf you at any tyme should be out of my mynde
    1075 Dame coye
    Surelye I haue of you a great treasure
    For you do all thynges which may be to my pleasure
    Boungrace
    I am sory that your chaunce hath now byne so yll

    I wold
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