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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    Not Peer Reviewed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)

    1080I wolde gladely byne vnsupped soo you had your fyll
    But goo we in pigesnie that you may suppe
    you haue cause now to thanke this same hangeupe
    For had not he byne you had faryd very wel
    Dame Coye
    1085I bequeth hym wt a hott wengeaunce to the diuell of hell
    And hartelye I besiche him that hanged on the rode
    That he neuer eate ne drynke that may do hym good
    And that he dye a shamefull dethe sauing my cheryte
    Careawaye
    1090I pray god send him suche prosperitie
    That hath caused me to haue all this busines
    But yet syrs you see the charitye of my mai stris
    She liueth after a wonderful charytable faciõ
    For I a s s ure you she is alwayes in this pa s s ion
    1095and scacelye on daye throughout the hole yere
    She woll wy she any man better chere
    And sum tyme if she well angred bee
    I pray god (woll she saye) ye house may sinke vnder me
    But mai sters if you happen to see that other I
    1100As that you shal it is not verye likelye
    Nor I wolnot desyre you for him purposelye to looke
    For it is an vncomparable vnhappye hooke
    And if it be I. you might happin to seeke
    And not fynd me out in an hole weeke
    1105For when I was wonte to rune a waye
    I vsed not to cum a gaine in le s s e thã a moneth or twaye
    Honbeit for all this I thinke it be not I
    For to shew the matter in dyde trulye
    I neuer vse to rune a waye in wynter nor in vere
    1110But all wayes in suche tyme and season of the yere
    When honye lieth in the hiues of Bees

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