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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)

    Tyll Ienkine thought he had wrong
    150By cokes precious pot stike I wyll not home this nyght
    Quod he, but as good a stripe oon thie hed light
    Within halfe an houre or sume what lese
    Ienkine lefte playng, and went to feache his mai steris
    But by the waie he met with a freuters wife
    155Ther Ienkine and she fell at suche strife
    For snatching of an Apple, that doune he ca st
    Her basket, and gatherid vp the apples fa st
    And put them in his sleue, then came he his waye
    By an other lane as fa st as he maye
    160Tyll he came at a corner by a shoops stall
    Wher boies were at Dice, faryng at all
    When Careawaye with that good cumpany met
    He fell to faring withouten let
    Forgettyng his me s s age, and so well dyd he fare
    165That whan I came bye, he gan swere and stare
    And ful bitterly began to curse
    As oone that had lo st almo st all in his por se
    For I knowe his olde gise and condicyon
    Neuer to leaue tyll all his mony bee goon
    170For he hath noo mony but what he doth stell
    And that woll he plaie awaie euery dell
    I pa s s ed by, and then called vnto my mynd
    Sertayne old rekeaninges that were behind
    Bitwene Ienkine and me, whom partelie to recompẽse
    175I tru st by gods grace, ere I goo hens
    This garments cape, and all other geare
    That now you see apon me here
    I haue doon oon all like vnto his
    Fo the nons, and my purpose is
    180To make Ienkine byliue if I can


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