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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    Not Peer Reviewed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)

    85 Iake Iugler
    Our lord of heuene and swite sainte Ihone
    Re st you merye my mai stirs euerychone
    And I praie too chri st and swete saint Steuen
    Send you all many a good euine
    90And you to syr, and you, and you also
    Good euine to you an hunderid times & a thousand mo
    Now by all thes cro s s es of fle she bone and blod
    I rekine my chaunce right maruylus good
    Here now to find all this cumpanie
    95Which in my mynd I wy shed for hartylie
    For I haue labored all daye tyll I am werie
    And now am disposed too pa s s e the tyme and be merie
    And I thinke noon of you but he wold doo the same
    For who wol be sad, and nedithe not, is soull to blame
    100And as for me, of my mother I haue byn tought
    To bee merie when I may, and take no thought
    Which leasune I bare so well a waye
    That I vse to make merie oons a daie
    And now if all things happin ryght
    105you shall see as mad a pa stime this night
    As you saw this seuen yers? and as propre a toye
    As euer you saw played of a boye
    I am called Iake Iugler of many an oon
    And in fayth I woll playe a iugling ca st a non
    110I woll cungere the moull and god before
    Or elles leat me lese my name for euer more
    I haue it deuised and compacced hou
    And what wayes I woll tell and shew to you
    you all know well Mai ster baungrace
    115The gentilman that dwellith here in this place
    And Ienkine Carreawaie his page as cursed alad


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