❧
A
Caueat
FOR
COMMEN
CVRSETORS
VVLGARELY
CALLED
Vagabones
,
set
forth
by
Thomas
Harman
.
Esquier
,
for
the
vtilite
and
proffyt
of
hys
naturall
Countrey
.
Newly
agmented
and
Imprinted
Anno
Domini
.
M.D.LXVII
.
¶
Vewed
,
examined
and
allowed
,
according
vnto
the
Queenes
Maiestyes
Iniunctions
depiction of two beggars or vagrants with a horse and cart and a small dog, accompanied by two uniformed men or soldiers with whips
❧
IMPRINTED
at
London
in
Fletestret
at
the
signe
of
the
Faulcon
by
Wylliam
Gryffith
and
are
to
be
solde
at
his
shoppe
in
Saynt
Dunstones
Churche
yarde
.
in
the
West
.
depiction of a besom or bunch of twigs, a stick or staff, and some rope or string, all separate
Thre
thinges
to
be
noted
all
in
their
kynde
,
A
staff
,
a
beesom
,
and
with
,
that
wyll
wynde
.
¶
A
beesome
of
byrche
,
for
babes
verye
fyt
,
A
longe
lastinge
iybbet
for
loubbers
as
meete
,
A
wyth
to
wynde
vp
,
that
these
wyll
not
keepe
,
Bynde
all
vp
in
one
,
and
vse
it
to
sweepe
.
depiction of a broom, composed of a besom or bunch of twigs, a stick or staff, and some rope or string, bound together
¶
To
the
ryght
honorable
and
my
singular
good
Lady
.
Elizabeth
Countes
of
Shrewsbury
.
Thomas
Harman
wisheth
all
ioye
and
perfite
felicitie
here
and
in
the
worlde
to
come
.
AS
of
Auncient
and
longe
tyme
,
there
hath
bene
and
is
now
at
this
present
many
good
godly
profitable
lawes
and
actes
made
and
set
forthe
in
this
moste
noble
and
floryshynge
realme
,
for
the
reliefe
,
succour
,
comforte
and
sustentacion
of
the
poore
nedye
impotente
and
myserable
creatures
,
beinge
and
in
habiting
in
all
parts
of
the
same
.
So
is
there
(
righte
honorable
and
myne
especyall
good
Lady
)
most
holsom
estatutes
,
ordinances
and
necessary
lawes
,
made
setforth
and
published
for
the
extreme
punishement
of
all
vagarantes
and
sturdy
vacabons
,
as
passeth
throughe
and
by
all
parts
of
this
famous
yle
most
ydelly
and
wyckedly
,
And
I
wel
by
good
experience
vnderstandinge
and
consideringe
your
most
tender
,
pytyfull
,
gentle
and
noble
nature
,
not
onelye
hauinge
a
vygelant
and
mercifull
eye
to
your
poore
indygente
and
feable
parishnores
,
yea
not
onely
in
the
parishe
where
your
honour
most
happely
doth
dwell
,
but
also
in
others
,
inuyroninge
or
nighe
adioyninge
to
the
same
.
As
also
aboundantly
powrynge
out
dayly
your
ardent
and
bountifull
charytie
vppon
all
such
as
commeth
for
reliefe
vnto
your
luckely
gates
.
I
thought
it
good
,
necessary
,
and
my
bounden
dutye
to
acquaynte
your
goodnes
with
the
abhominable
,
wycked
and
detestable
behauor
of
all
these
rowsey
,
ragged
rabblement
of
rakehelles
,
that
vnder
the
presence
of
great
misery
,
dyseases
and
other
innumerable
calamites
whiche
they
fayne
through
great
hipocrisye
do
wyn
and
gayne
great
aimes
in
all
places
where
they
wyly
wander
,
to
the
vtter
deludinge
of
the
good
geuers
,
deceauinge
and
impouerishing
of
all
suche
poore
housholders
both
sicke
and
sore
,
as
nether
can
or
maye
walke
abroad
for
reliefe
and
comforte
(
where
in
dede
most
mercy
is
to
be
shewed
.
)
And
for
that
I
(
most
honorable
Lady
)
beinge
placed
as
a
poore
gentleman
haue
kepte
a
house
these
twenty
yeares
,
where
vnto
pouerty
daylye
hath
and
doth
repayre
,
not
without
some
releife
as
my
poore
callinge
and
habylytie
maye
and
doth
extende
:
I
haue
of
late
yeares
gathered
a
great
suspition
that
all
should
not
be
well
,
and
as
the
prouerbe
saythe
(
some
thinge
lurke
and
laye
hyd
that
dyd
not
playnely
apeare
)
for
I
hauinge
more
occation
throughe
sickenes
to
tarye
and
remayne
at
home
,
then
I
haue
bene
accustomed
do
by
my
there
abyding
,
talke
and
confere
dayly
with
many
of
these
wyly-wanderars
of
both
sorts
as
well
men
and
wemen
,
as
boyes
and
gyrles
:
by
whom
I
haue
gathered
and
vnderstande
,
their
depe
dissimulation
and
detestable
dealynge
,
beinge
maruelous
suttle
and
craftye
in
there
kynde
,
for
not
one
amongst
twentye
wyll
discouer
either
declare
there
scelorus
secrets
:
yet
with
fayre
flatteringe
wordes
,
money
,
and
good
chere
,
I
haue
attained
to
the
typ
by
such
as
the
meanest
of
them
hath
wandred
these
xiii
yeres
and
most
xvi
,
and
some
twenty
and
vpwarde
,
and
not
withoute
faythfull
promesse
made
vnto
them
neuer
to
discouer
their
names
or
any
thinge
they
shewed
me
:
for
they
woulde
all
saye
yf
the
vpright
men
should
vnderstand
thereof
they
should
not
be
onlye
greuouslye
beaten
,
but
put
in
danger
of
their
lyues
by
the
sayde
vpright
men
.
There
was
a
fewe
yeres
since
a
small
breefe
set
forthe
of
some
zelous
man
to
his
countrey
of
whom
I
knowe
not
,
that
made
a
lytle
shewe
of
there
names
and
vsage
,
and
gaue
a
glymsinge
lyghte
not
sufficient
to
perswad
of
their
peuyshe
peltinge
and
pickinge
practyses
,
but
well
worthy
of
prayse
.
But
(
good
madame
)
with
no
lesse
trauell
then
good
wyll
,
I
haue
repayred
and
rygged
the
Shyp
of
knowledge
,
and
haue
hoyssed
vp
the
sayles
of
good
fortune
,
that
she
maye
safelye
passe
aboute
and
through
all
partes
of
this
noble
realme
,
and
there
make
porte
sale
of
her
wyshed
wares
,
to
the
confusion
of
their
drowseye
demener
,
and
vnlawfull
languag
,
pylfring
pycking
,
wily
wanderinge
,
and
lykinge
lecherye
,
of
all
these
rablement
of
rascales
,
that
raunges
about
all
the
costes
of
the
same
.
So
that
their
vndecent
dolefull
dealing
and
excerable
exersices
,
maye
apere
to
all
as
it
were
in
a
glasse
,
that
therby
the
Iusticers
and
Shréeues
may
in
their
cercutes
,
be
more
vygelant
to
punishe
these
malefactors
,
and
the
Counstables
Bayliffes
,
and
bosholders
settinge
asyde
all
feare
,
slouthe
,
&
pytie
,
maye
be
more
circomspecte
in
executing
the
charge
geuen
than
by
the
aforesayde
Iusticers
.
Then
wyll
no
more
this
rascall
rabblement
raunge
about
the
countrey
,
then
greater
releife
maye
bée
shewed
to
the
pouertye
of
eche
paryshe
,
then
shall
we
kepe
our
Horsses
in
oure
pastures
vnstolen
,
then
our
lynnen
clothes
shall
and
maye
lye
safely
one
our
hedges
vntouched
,
then
shall
wee
not
haue
our
clothes
and
lynnen
hoked
oute
at
oure
wyndowes
as
well
by
daye
as
by
nyght
.
Then
shall
we
not
haue
our
howses
broken
vp
in
the
night
,
as
of
late
one
of
my
nyghtbors
had
and
two
great
buckes
of
clothes
stolen
out
,
and
most
of
the
same
fyne
Lynnen
.
Then
shall
wee
safely
kepe
oure
pygges
and
poultrey
from
pylfringe
.
Then
shall
we
surely
passe
by
the
hyghe
wayes
leading
to
marketes
and
fayres
vnharmed
.
Then
shall
our
Shoppes
and
bothes
be
vnpycked
and
spoyled
.
Then
shall
these
vncomly
companies
bee
dispersed
and
set
to
labour
for
their
lyuinge
,
or
hastely
hange
for
their
demerites
.
Then
shall
it
incourag
a
great
number
of
gentlemen
and
others
seinge
this
securitie
,
to
set
vp
houses
and
kepe
hospitalyty
in
the
countrey
,
too
the
comfort
of
their
nighboures
,
releife
of
the
poore
,
&
to
the
amendemet
of
the
common-welth
.
Then
shall
not
sinne
and
wyckednes
so
much
abound
among
vs
.
Then
wyll
gods
wrathe
be
much
thee
more
pacified
towards
vs
.
Then
shall
we
not
taste
of
so
many
and
soundry
plages
,
as
now
dayly
raygneth
ouer
vs
.
And
then
shall
this
Famous
Empyre
,
bee
in
more
welth
and
better
floryshe
,
to
the
inestymable
ioye
and
comfort
of
the
Quenes
moste
excellent
maiestye
whome
god
of
his
infynyce
goodnes
to
his
great
glory
long
and
manye
yeares
make
moste
prosperously
to
raygne
ouer
vs
to
the
great
Felycity
of
all
the
Peres
and
Nobles
,
and
to
the
vnspeakable
ioye
releife
and
quietnes
of
mind
of
all
her
faythfull
Commons
and
Subiectes
.
Nowe
me
thinketh
I
felowe
these
peuyshe
peruerse
and
pestilence
people
begyne
to
freate
,
fume
,
sweare
and
stare
at
this
my
booke
,
their
lyfe
being
layd
open
and
aparantly
paynted
out
that
their
confusion
and
end
draweth
one
a
pace
Where
as
in
dede
if
it
be
well
wayed
it
is
set
forthe
for
their
synguler
profyt
and
commoditie
,
for
the
sure
safegarde
of
their
lyues
here
in
this
world
,
that
they
shorter
not
the
same
before
their
tyme
,
and
that
by
their
true
labour
and
good
lyfe
,
in
the
world
to
com
they
maye
saue
their
Soules
,
that
Chryst
the
seconde
person
in
Trinitye
hath
so
derely
bought
with
his
most
precious
bloud
:
so
that
hereby
I
shall
do
them
more
good
than
they
could
haue
deuised
for
them selues
.
For
beholde
their
lyfe
beinge
so
manyfest
wycked
and
so
aparantlye
knowen
,
the
honorable
wyll
abhore
them
.
The
worshipfull
wyl
reiecte
them
,
the
yemen
wyll
sharpely
tawnte
them
,
The
Husbande
men
vtterly
defye
them
,
The
Laborynge
men
bluntly
chyde
them
,
The
wemen
with
a
loud
reclamation
wonder
at
them
.
And
all
Chyldren
with
clapping
handes
crye
out
at
them
,
I
many
tymes
musinge
with
my selfe
at
these
myscheuous
misliuers
merueled
when
they
toke
their
oryginall
and
begynning
,
howe
longe
they
haue
exercised
their
execrable
wandring
a
bout
.
I
thought
it
meete
to
confere
with
a
verye
olde
man
that
I
was
well
acquaynted
with
,
whose
wit
and
memory
is
meruelous
for
hys
yeares
,
being
about
the
age
of
fourescore
,
what
he
knew
when
he
was
yong
of
these
lousey
leuterars
.
And
he
shewed
me
that
when
he
was
yong
,
he
wayted
vpon
a
man
of
much
worship
in
Kent
,
who
died
immediatly
after
the
laste
Duke
of
Buckingham
was
beheaded
,
at
his
buryall
there
was
suche
a
number
of
beggers
besides
poore
housholders
dwellinge
there
aboutes
that
vnneth
they
myghtly
or
stand
about
the
House
:
then
was
there
prepared
for
them
a
great
and
a
large
barne
,
and
a
great
far
ore
sod
out
in
Furmentye
for
them
,
with
bread
and
drinke
aboundantly
to
furnesh
out
the
premisses
,
and
euery
person
had
two
pence
for
such
was
the
dole
.
When
Night
approched
the
poore
housholders
repaired
home
to
their
houses
,
the
other
wayfaring
bolde
beggers
remayned
all
night
in
the
barne
,
and
the
same
barne
beinge
serched
with
light
in
the
night
by
this
old
man
and
then
yonge
,
with
others
,
they
tolde
seuen
score
persones
of
men
,
euery
of
them
hauinge
his
woman
,
except
it
were
two
wemen
that
lay
alone
to gether
for
some
especyall
cause
.
Thus
hauing
their
makes
to
make
mery
with
all
,
the
buryall
was
turnede
to
bousynge
and
belly
chere
,
morning
to
myrthe
,
fastinge
to
feastinge
,
prayer
to
pastyme
,
and
pressinge
of
papes
,
and
lamenting
to
Lechery
.
So
that
it
maye
apere
this
vncomly
company
hath
had
a
longe
continuance
,
but
then
nothinge
geuen
so
much
to
pylferinge
,
pyckinge
and
spoylinge
,
and
as
far
as
I
can
learne
or
vnderstand
by
the
examination
of
a
nomber
of
them
,
their
languag
,
which
they
terme
peddelars
Frenche
or
cantig
began
but
within
these
.xxx.
yeres
lytle
aboue
,
and
that
the
first
inuenter
therof
was
hanged
,
all
saue
the
heade
,
for
that
is
the
fynall
end
of
them
all
,
or
els
to
dye
of
some
filthy
and
horible
diseases
:
but
much
harme
is
don
in
the
means
space
by
their
continuance
,
as
some
x.
xii
.
and
xvi
yeres
before
they
be
consented
,
and
the
nomber
of
them
doth
dayly
renew
.
I
hope
their
synne
is
now
at
the
highest
,
and
that
as
short
and
as
spedy
a
redres
wyl
be
for
these
,
as
hath
bene
of
late
yeres
for
the
wretched
,
wily
wanderinge
vagabondes
,
calling
and
naming
themselves
Egiptians
,
depely
dissemblings
and
longe
hydinge
and
coueringe
their
de●pe
deceitfull
practises
,
fedinge
the
rude
common
people
wholy
addicted
and
geuen
to
nouelites
,
ioyes
,
and
newe
iuuentions
,
delytinge
them
with
the
strangenes
of
the
attyre
of
their
heades
,
and
practisinge
paumistrie
to
suche
as
woulde
knowe
their
fortunes
.
And
to
be
short
all
theues
and
hores
,
as
I
may
well
wryt
,
as
some
haue
had
true
experience
,
a
nomber
can
well
wytnes
,
and
a
great
sort
hath
woll
felte
it
.
And
now
(
thankes
bee
to
god
)
throughe
wholsome
lawes
and
the
due
execution
thereof
,
all
be
dispersed
,
vanished
,
&
the
memory
of
then
cleane
extynguyshed
,
that
when
they
bee
once
named
hereafter
,
our
Chyldren
wyll
muche
maruell
what
kynde
of
people
they
were
:
and
so
I
trust
shal
shortly
happen
of
these
.
For
what
thinge
doth
chiefly
cause
these
rowseye
rake
helles
thus
to
continue
and
dayly
increase
?
surely
a
nomber
of
wycked
parsons
that
keepe
typlyng
Houses
in
all
theres
,
where
they
haue
succour
and
reliefe
,
and
what
so
euer
they
bryng
they
are
sure
to
receaue
money
for
the
same
,
for
they
sell
good
penyworthes
.
The
byers
haue
the
greatest
gayne
,
yea
yf
they
haue
nether
money
nor
ware
they
wyl
be
trusted
,
their
credite
is
much
.
I
haue
taken
a
note
of
a
good
manye
of
them
&
wylsend
their
names
and
dwelling
places
to
such
Instecers
as
dwelleth
nere
or
next
vnto
them
,
that
they
by
their
good
wisedomes
maye
displace
the
same
,
and
auctoryse
such
,
as
haue
honesty
.
I
wyl
not
blot
my
boke
with
their
names
,
because
they
be
resident
.
But
as
for
this
fletinge
Fellowshyp
I
haue
truly
setforth
the
most
part
of
them
that
be
doers
at
this
presente
with
their
names
that
they
be
knowene
by
.
Also
I
haue
placed
in
the
end
thereof
their
leud
langage
callinge
the
same
pedlers
Frenche
or
canting
.
And
how
shall
I
end
my
prologe
,
makinge
true
declaration
(
right
honorable
Lady
)
as
they
shall
fall
in
order
of
their
vntymelye
tryfelinge
time
,
leud
lyfe
,
and
pernitious
practises
,
trustinge
that
the
same
shall
neyther
trouble
or
abash
your
most
tender
,
tymerous
and
pytifull
Nature
,
to
thinke
the
small
méede
should
growe
vnto
you
for
such
Almes
so
geuen
.
For
god
our
marcifull
and
most
louinge
father
well
knoweth
your
hartes
and
good
intent
,
the
geuer
neuer
wanteth
his
reward
,
accordinge
to
the
saying
of
Saynt
Augustyn
:
as
there
is
(
neyther
shal
be
)
any
synne
vnpunisshed
,
euen
so
shall
there
not
be
eny
good
dede
vnrewarded
.
But
how
comfortably
speketh
Chryst
our
Sauiour
vnto
as
in
his
gospel
(
geue
ye
and
it
shal
be
geuen
you
agayne
)
behold
farther
,
good
Madam
that
for
a
cup
of
colde
water
,
Chryst
hath
promised
a
good
reward
.
Now
saynt
Austen
properly
declareth
why
Chryst
speaketh
of
cold
water
,
because
the
poorest
man
that
is
,
shall
not
excuse
him selfe
from
that
cherytable
warke
least
he
would
paraduenture
saye
that
he
hath
nether
wood
,
poot
nor
pan
to
warme
any
water
with
.
Se
farther
what
god
speaketh
in
the
mouth
of
his
prophete
Esaye
,
breake
thy
bread
to
him
that
is
a
hongred
,
he
sayth
not
geue
him
a
hole
lose
:
for
paraduenture
the
poore
man
hath
it
not
to
geue
,
then
let
him
geue
a
pece
.
This
much
is
sayd
because
the
poore
that
hath
it
should
not
be
excused
,
nowe
howe
much
more
then
,
the
riche
?
Thus
you
see
good
madam
.
for
your
treasure
here
dispersed
where
nede
and
lacke
is
,
it
shall
be
heaped
by
aboundantlye
for
you
in
heauen
,
where
neyther
rust
or
moth
shal
corupt
or
destroy
the
same
.
Vnto
which
tryumphant
place
after
many
good
happy
,
and
fortunat
yeres
prosperouslye
here
dispended
,
you
may
for
euer
and
euer
there
most
ioyfully
remayn
.
Amen
.
Finis
.
depiction of a female figure with a book on a lectern
¶
The
Epistle
to
the
Reader
.
ALthough
good
Reader
I
wright
in
plain
termes
and
not
so
playnly
as
truely
,
concerning
the
matter
meaning
honestly
to
all
men
,
and
wyshe
them
as
much
good
as
to
myne
owne
harte
,
yet
as
there
hathe
bene
so
there
is
nowe
,
and
hereafter
wyl
be
,
curyous
heds
to
finde
fauttes
,
wherefore
I
thought
it
necessary
now
at
this
seconde
Impression
to
acquaynt
that
with
a
great
faulte
as
some
takethe
it
,
but
none
as
I
meane
it
,
callinge
these
Vagabonds
Cursetors
in
the
intytelynge
of
my
booke
as
runneres
or
rangers
aboute
the
countrey
,
deriued
of
this
Laten
word
(
CVRRO
)
neither
do
I
wryght
it
Cooresetores
with
a
duble
do
or
Cowresetors
with
a
w
which
hath
another
singnification
,
is
there
no
deuersite
betwen
a
gardein
and
a
garden
,
maynteynaunce
,
&
maintenance
,
Streytes
and
stretes
,
those
that
haue
vnderstanding
knowe
there
is
a
great
dyfference
,
who
is
so
ingnorant
by
these
dayes
as
knoweth
not
the
meaning
of
a
vagabone
,
and
yf
an
ydell
leuterat
should
so
be
called
of
eny
man
,
would
not
he
think
it
bothe
odyous
and
reprochefull
,
wyll
he
not
shonne
the
name
?
ye
and
where
as
he
maye
and
dare
,
with
bent
browes
wyll
reueng
that
name
of
Ingnomy
,
yet
this
playne
name
vagabone
is
deryued
as
others
be
of
Laten
wordes
,
and
now
vse
makes
it
commen
to
al
men
,
but
let
vs
loke
back
four
.
C.
yeres
sithens
,
&
let
vs
se
whether
this
playn
word
vagabon
was
vsed
or
no
,
I
beleue
not
and
why
,
because
I
rede
of
no
such
name
in
the
old
estatutes
of
this
realme
,
vnles
it
be
in
the
margente
of
the
booke
,
or
in
the
Table
,
which
in
the
collection
and
pryntinge
was
set
in
,
but
these
were
then
the
commen
names
of
these
leud
leuterares
Faytores
,
Robardesmen
,
Drawlatches
,
&
valyant
beggares
,
yf
I
should
haue
vsed
suche
wordes
or
the
same
drder
of
wryting
as
this
realme
vsed
in
kynge
Henry
the
thyrd
or
Edward
the
fyrstes
time
,
Oh
what
a
grose
barberous
fellow
haue
we
here
his
wryting
is
both
homely
and
darke
that
wee
had
nede
to
haue
an
interpretar
,
yet
then
it
was
verye
well
and
in
short
season
a
great
change
we
see
well
this
delycat
age
shall
haue
his
tyme
on
the
other
syde
,
eloquence
haue
I
none
,
I
neuer
was
acquaynted
with
the
muses
,
I
neuer
tasted
of
Helycon
.
But
accordinge
to
my
playne
order
,
I
haue
setforth
this
worke
symplye
and
truelye
,
with
such
vsual
words
and
termes
as
is
among
vs
wel
known
and
frequented
.
So
that
as
the
prouerbe
saythe
(
all
though
truth
be
blamed
it
shal
neuer
be
shamed
)
well
good
reader
I
meane
not
to
be
tedyous
vnto
the
,
but
haue
added
fiue
or
sixe
more
tales
because
some
of
them
weare
donn
whyle
my
booke
was
fyrste
in
the
presse
,
and
as
I
truste
I
haue
deserued
no
rebuke
for
my
good
wyll
,
euen
so
I
desyre
no
prayse
for
my
payne
cost
and
trauell
.
But
faythfullye
for
the
proffyt
and
benyfyt
of
my
countrey
,
I
haue
don
it
,
that
the
whole
body
of
the
Realme
may
se
and
vnderstand
their
leud
lyfe
and
pernitious
practisses
that
all
maye
spedelye
helpe
to
amend
that
is
amysse
,
Amen
saye
all
with
me
.
Finis
.
knotwork ornament or design
¶
A
Ruffler
THE
Rufflar
because
he
is
first
in
degre
of
this
odious
order
.
And
is
so
called
in
a
statute
made
for
the
punishment
of
Vacabonds
.
In
the
xxvii
yeare
of
Kyng
Henry
the
eight
late
of
most
famous
memory
.
Hee
shal
be
,
firste
placed
as
the
worthiest
of
this
vnruly
rablement
.
And
he
is
so
called
when
he
goeth
first
abroade
eyther
he
hath
serued
in
the
warres
,
or
els
he
hath
bene
a
seruing
man
and
weary
of
well
doing
,
shakinge
of
all
payne
,
doth
chuse
him
this
ydle
lyfe
,
and
wretchely
wanderes
about
the
most
shyres
of
this
realme
.
And
with
stout
Adascite
,
demaundeth
where
he
thinketh
hee
maye
bee
bold
,
and
circomspecte
ynough
as
he
sethe
cause
to
aske
charitie
,
rufully
and
lamentably
,
that
it
would
make
a
flyntey
hart
to
relent
.
and
pitye
his
miserable
estate
,
howe
he
hath
bene
maymed
and
broused
in
the
warres
,
&
parauenture
some
wyll
shew
you
some
outward
wounde
,
whiche
he
gotte
at
some
dronken
fraye
,
eyther
haltynge
of
some
preuye
wounde
festred
with
a
fylthy
firy
flankard
.
For
be
well
assured
that
the
hardist
souldiers
be
eyther
slayne
or
maymed
,
eyther
and
they
escape
all
hassardes
,
and
retourne
home
agayne
,
if
they
bee
without
reliefe
of
their
friends
,
they
wyll
surely
desperatly
robbe
,
and
steale
,
and
eyther
shortlye
be
hanged
or
miserablye
dye
in
pryson
,
for
they
be
so
much
ashamed
and
disdayne
to
beg
or
aske
charity
,
that
rather
they
wyll
as
desperatly
fight
for
to
lyue
&
mayntayn
them selues
as
manfully
,
and
valyantly
,
they
ventered
them selues
in
the
Prynces
quarell
.
Nowe
these
Rufflars
the
oute
castes
of
seruinge
men
when
begginge
or
crauinge
fayles
,
then
they
pycke
and
pylfer
from
other
inferiour
beggers
,
that
they
meete
by
the
way
as
Roages
,
Pallards
,
Mortes
,
and
Dores
.
Yea
if
they
meete
with
a
woman
alone
ridinge
to
the
market
,
eyther
olde
man
or
boye
,
that
he
well
knowethe
wyll
not
resiste
,
such
they
filche
and
spoyle
.
These
rufflares
after
a
yere
or
two
at
the
farthest
become
vpryght
men
,
vnles
they
be
preuented
by
twinde
hempe
.
¶
I
had
of
late
yeres
an
old
man
to
my
tennant
,
who
costomably
a
great
tyme
went
twise
in
the
weeke
to
London
,
eyther
with
fruite
or
with
pescods
,
when
tyme
serued
therefore
.
And
as
hee
was
comming
homeward
on
blacke
heath
,
at
the
end
thereof
next
to
shotars
hyll
he
ouer
tooke
two
rufflars
the
one
manerly
wayting
on
the
other
as
one
had
ben
the
mayster
,
&
the
other
the
man
,
or
seruant
caryinge
his
masteres
cloke
,
this
olde
man
was
verye
glad
that
Bee
might
haue
their
company
ouer
the
hyl
,
because
that
day
he
had
made
a
good
market
,
for
hee
had
seuen
shyllinges
in
his
purse
,
and
a
nolde
angell
,
which
this
poore
man
had
thought
had
not
bene
in
his
purse
,
for
hee
wylled
his
wyfe
ouer
nyght
to
take
out
the
same
angell
,
and
laye
it
vp
vntyll
his
comminge
home
agayne
.
And
he
verely
thought
that
his
wyfe
had
so
don
,
whiche
in
deede
for
gott
to
do
it
.
Thus
after
salutations
,
had
this
maister
rufflar
entered
into
communication
with
this
simple
old
man
,
who
rydinge
softlye
beside
them
,
commoned
of
many
matters
.
Thus
fedinge
this
old
man
with
pleasaunt
talke
,
vntyll
they
were
one
the
toppe
of
the
hyll
,
where
these
rufflares
mighte
well
beholde
the
coaste
aboute
them
cleare
.
Quiclye
stepes
vnto
this
poore
man
,
and
taketh
holde
of
his
horse
brydell
,
and
leadeth
him
in
to
the
wode
,
and
demaundeth
of
him
what
and
how
much
monye
he
had
in
his
purse
.
Now
by
my
troth
quoth
this
old
man
you
are
a
merye
gentle
man
,
I
knowe
you
meane
not
to
take
awaye
anye
thinge
from
me
,
but
rather
to
geue
me
some
if
I
shoulde
aske
it
of
you
.
By
and
by
this
seruant
thyefe
casteth
the
cloke
that
he
caryed
on
his
arme
about
this
poore
manes
face
,
that
he
should
not
marke
or
vew
them
,
with
sharpe
words
to
delyuer
quicly
that
he
had
and
to
confesse
truly
what
was
in
his
purse
.
This
poore
man
then
all
abashed
yelded
,
and
confessed
he
had
but
iust
seuen
shylinges
in
his
purse
and
the
trouth
is
he
knew
of
no
more
.
This
old
angell
was
falen
out
of
a
lytle
purse
into
the
botome
of
a
great
purse
.
Now
this
seuen
shyllings
in
white
money
they
quickly
found
,
thinkinge
in
dede
that
there
had
bene
no
more
,
yet
farther
groping
and
searchinge
,
found
this
old
angell
.
And
with
greate
admiration
this
gentleman
thiefe
begane
to
blesse
hym
saying
,
good
lorde
what
a
whorlde
is
this
,
howe
maye
(
quoth
hee
)
a
man
beleue
or
truste
in
the
same
,
se
you
not
(
quoth
he
)
this
old
knaue
tolde
me
that
he
had
but
seuen
shyllings
,
and
here
is
more
,
by
an
angell
,
what
an
old
knaue
and
a
false
knaue
?
haue
we
here
quoth
this
rufflar
,
oure
lorde
haue
mercy
on
vs
,
wyll
this
worlde
neuer
be
better
,
and
there
with
wente
their
waye
.
And
lefte
the
olde
man
in
the
wood
doinge
him
no
more
harme
.
But
sorowfully
sighinge
this
olde
man
returning
home
declared
his
misaduenture
,
with
all
the
words
and
circomstaunces
aboue
shewed
.
Whereat
for
the
tyme
was
great
laughing
,
and
this
poore
man
for
his
losses
among
his
louing
neighboures
well
considered
in
the
ende
.
¶
A
Vpright
man
.
A
Vpright
man
the
second
in
secte
of
this
vnsemly
sorte
must
be
next
placed
,
of
these
rainging
rablement
of
rasscales
some
bee
seruing
men
,
artificers
,
and
laboryng
men
,
traded
vp
in
husbandry
.
These
not
minding
to
get
their
lyuing
with
the
swet
of
their
face
,
but
casting
of
all
payne
wyll
wander
after
their
wycked
maner
,
through
the
most
shyres
of
this
realme
,
as
Sommerset
shyre
,
Wylshyre
,
Barkeshyre
,
Oxfordeshyre
,
Harfordeshyre
,
Middilsex
,
Essex
,
Suffolke
,
Northfolke
Suffex
,
Surrye
,
and
Kente
,
as
the
cheife
and
best
shyres
of
reliefe
.
Yea
not
with
out
punishment
by
stocks
,
whippings
,
and
imprisonment
,
in
most
of
these
places
,
aboue
sayde
.
Yet
not
withstanding
they
haue
so
good
lyking
in
their
lewnd
,
lecherous
loytering
,
that
full
quicly
all
their
punishmentes
is
forgotten
.
And
repentance
is
neuer
thought
vpon
,
vntyll
they
clyme
thre
tres
with
a
ladder
.
These
vnrewly
rascales
in
their
roilyng
,
disperce
them selues
,
into
seuerall
companyes
,
as
occation
seruethe
,
sometyme
more
and
somtime
lesse
.
As
yf
they
repayre
to
a
poore
husbandmans
house
,
he
wyll
go
alone
or
one
with
him
,
and
stoutly
demaund
his
charity
,
either
shewing
how
he
hath
serued
in
the
warres
,
and
their
maymed
,
eyther
that
he
seketh
seruice
,
&
sayth
he
would
be
glad
to
take
payn
,
for
his
lyuing
,
although
he
meaneth
nothinge
lesse
.
Yf
he
be
offered
any
meate
or
drynke
,
he
vtterly
refuseth
scornefully
,
and
wyl
naught
but
money
,
and
yf
he
espye
yong
pyggs
or
pultry
,
he
well
noteth
the
place
and
the
the
next
nyght
or
shortly
after
hee
wyll
be
sure
to
haue
some
of
them
;
which
they
brynge
to
their
stawlinge
kens
,
which
is
their
typpling
houses
,
as
well
knowen
to
them
according
to
the
olde
prouerbe
(
as
the
begger
knowes
his
dishe
.
)
For
you
must
vnderstand
euery
Typpling
ale
house
wyll
neyther
receiue
them
or
their
wares
but
some
certayne
houses
in
euery
shyre
,
especially
for
that
purpose
,
where
they
shal
be
better
welcome
to
them
,
then
honister
men
.
For
by
such
haue
they
most
gayne
,
and
shal
be
conuayde
eyther
into
some
loft
out
of
the
waye
,
or
other
secret
corner
not
commen
to
any
other
,
and
thether
repayre
,
at
accustomed
tymes
,
their
harlots
which
they
terme
Mortes
,
and
Doxes
,
not
with
emty
hands
,
for
they
be
as
skilfull
in
picking
,
riffling
&
filching
,
as
the
vpryght
men
,
and
nothinge
inferior
,
to
them
in
all
kynd
of
wyckednes
,
as
in
other
places
hereafter
they
shal
be
touched
.
At
these
foresayde
pelting
penish
places
and
vnmannerly
,
metings
O
how
the
pottes
walke
about
,
their
talking
tounges
talke
at
large
.
They
howle
and
bowse
one
to
another
,
and
for
the
tyme
housing
belly
there
.
And
after
there
ruysting
recreation
yf
there
be
not
rome
ynough
in
the
house
they
haue
cleane
strawe
in
some
barne
or
backehouse
nere
adioyning
where
they
couch
comly
together
,
and
it
were
dogge
,
and
byche
,
and
he
that
is
hardyste
maye
haue
his
choyse
,
vnlesse
for
a
lytle
good
maner
some
wyll
take
there
owne
that
they
haue
made
promyse
vnto
,
vntyll
they
be
out
of
sight
,
and
then
according
to
the
old
adage
(
out
of
minde
.
)
Yet
these
vpright
men
stand
so
much
vpon
their
reputation
,
as
they
wyll
in
no
case
haue
their
wemen
walke
with
them
,
but
seperat
them selues
for
a
tyme
,
a
moneth
or
more
.
And
mete
at
fayres
,
or
great
markers
where
they
mete
to
pylfer
and
steale
,
from
staules
,
shoppes
,
or
bothes
.
At
these
fayres
the
vpryght
men
,
vse
commonly
to
lye
,
&
lingar
in
hye
wayes
by
lanes
.
some
prety
way
or
distaunce
from
the
place
,
by
which
wayes
they
be
assured
that
compeny
passeth
styll
,
two
and
fro
.
And
ther
the
wyll
demaund
with
cap
in
hand
and
comly
curtesy
,
the
deuotion
and
charity
of
the
people
.
They
haue
ben
much
lately
whipped
at
fayrs
.
Yf
they
aske
at
a
stout
yemans
,
or
farmars
house
his
charity
,
they
wyll
goe
strong
as
thre
or
foure
in
a
company
.
Where
for
feare
more
then
good
wyll
,
they
often
haue
reliefe
,
they
syldome
or
neuer
passe
by
a
Iustices
house
,
but
haue
by
wayes
,
vnlesse
he
dwell
alone
and
but
weakelye
manned
thether
wyll
they
also
go
stronge
after
a
slye
suttle
forte
,
as
with
theire
armes
bounde
vp
with
ketcher
or
lyste
,
hauinge
wrapte
about
the
same
filthy
clothes
,
either
their
legges
in
such
maner
bewrapped
halting
down
right
,
Not
vnprouided
of
good
codgels
which
they
cary
to
sustayne
them
,
and
as
they
fayne
to
keepe
dogges
from
them
,
when
they
come
to
such
good
gentlemens
houses
Yf
any
searche
be
made
or
they
suspected
for
pyltring
clothes
,
of
hedgges
,
or
breaking
of
houses
,
which
they
commonly
do
,
when
the
owners
bee
eyther
at
the
market
,
church
,
or
other
wayes
occupyed
aboute
their
busines
,
eyther
robbe
some
sely
man
or
woman
by
the
hye
waye
,
as
many
tymes
they
do
.
Then
they
hygh
them
into
wodes
,
great
thickets
,
and
other
ruffe
corneres
,
where
they
lye
lurkinge
thre
or
foure
dayes
to gether
,
and
haue
meate
and
drinke
brought
them
by
theyre
Mortes
,
and
Dores
,
and
whyle
they
thus
lye
hydden
in
couert
in
the
night
they
be
not
ydle
,
nether
as
the
common
saying
is
(
wel
occupyed
)
for
then
as
the
wyly
foxe
crepinge
out
of
his
den
seketh
his
praye
for
pultery
so
do
these
for
lynnen
and
any
thinge
els
worth
money
,
that
lyeth
about
or
nere
a
house
.
As
somtyme
a
whole
bucke
of
clothes
caryed
awaye
at
a
tyme
.
When
they
haue
a
greatter
bootye
then
they
maye
cary
awaye
quickly
to
their
stawling
kendes
as
is
aboue
sayd
.
They
wyll
hyde
the
same
for
a
thre
dayes
in
some
thicke
couert
,
and
in
the
night
time
carye
the
same
lyke
good
water
Spanlles
to
their
foresayd
houses
,
to
whom
they
wyll
discouer
.
Where
or
in
what
places
they
had
the
same
,
where
the
markes
shal
be
picked
out
cleane
,
&
conuayde
craftelye
face
of
to
sell
.
If
the
man
or
woman
of
the
house
want
money
them selues
.
If
these
vpright
men
haue
nether
money
nor
wares
,
at
these
houses
they
shal
be
trusted
for
their
vitales
,
and
it
amount
,
to
twentye
or
thirty
shyllinges
.
Yea
if
it
fortune
any
of
these
vpright
men
to
be
taken
either
suspected
or
charged
with
felonye
,
or
petye
brybrye
,
don
at
such
a
time
or
such
a
place
,
he
wyll
saye
he
was
in
his
hostes
house
.
And
if
the
man
or
wyfe
of
that
house
be
examined
by
an
officer
,
they
boldelye
vouche
that
they
lodged
him
suche
a
time
whereby
the
truth
cannot
appeare
.
And
if
the
chaunce
to
be
retayned
into
seruice
through
their
lamentable
words
,
with
any
welthy
man
.
They
wyll
tary
but
a
smale
tyme
,
either
robbing
his
maister
,
or
som
of
his
fellowes
.
And
some
of
them
vseth
this
polocye
,
that
although
they
trauayle
into
al
these
shyres
,
aboue
said
,
yet
wyl
they
haue
good
credite
espiciallye
in
one
shyre
where
at
diuers
good
farmars
houses
they
be
well
knowen
where
they
worke
a
month
in
a
place
or
more
&
will
for
that
time
behaue
them selues
very
honestlye
and
paynfully
.
And
maye
at
any
tyme
for
their
good
vsage
haue
worke
of
them
and
to
these
at
a
ded
lyft
or
laste
refuge
they
maye
safely
repayre
vnto
and
be
welcome
.
When
in
other
places
for
a
knacke
of
knauery
that
they
haue
playd
thei
dare
not
tary
.
These
vpright
men
wil
sildom
or
neuer
want
,
for
what
is
gotten
by
anye
Mort
,
or
Doxe
,
if
it
please
him
hee
doth
comaunde
the
same
.
And
if
he
mete
anye
begger
whether
hee
be
sturdye
or
impotent
he
wyll
demaunde
of
him
whether
euer
he
was
stalled
to
the
roge
or
no.
If
he
saye
he
was
,
he
wyll
knowe
of
whom
and
his
name
that
stalled
hym
.
And
if
he
be
not
learnedly
able
to
shewe
him
the
whole
circumstaunce
therof
he
wyl
spoyle
him
of
his
money
,
eyther
of
his
best
garment
if
it
be
worth
any
money
,
and
haue
him
to
the
bowsing
ken
.
Which
is
to
some
typpling
house
next
adioyninge
and
laieth
their
to
gage
the
best
thing
that
he
hath
for
twenty
pence
or
two
shyllinges
,
this
man
obeyeth
for
feare
of
beating
.
Then
doth
this
vpriight
man
call
for
a
gage
of
bowse
whiche
is
a
quarte
pot
of
drinke
and
powres
the
same
vpon
his
pelde
paie
adding
these
words
.
I.
G.
P.
do
stalle
thée
W.
T.
to
the
Roge
,
and
that
from
hence
forth
it
shall
be
lawefull
for
the
to
cante
,
that
is
to
aske
or
begge
,
for
thy
liuing
in
al
places
.
Here
you
se
that
the
vpright
man
is
of
great
auctoriti
For
all
sorts
of
beggers
,
are
obedient
to
his
hests
,
and
sermounteth
all
others
in
pyltring
,
and
stealinge
.
I
latly
had
standing
in
my
wel
house
which
standeth
on
the
backeside
of
my
house
,
a
greate
cawdren
of
copper
being
then
full
of
water
,
hauinge
in
the
same
halfe
a
doson
of
pewter
dyshes
,
well
marked
,
and
stamped
with
the
connizance
of
my
armes
,
which
being
well
noted
when
they
were
taken
out
were
set
a
side
the
water
powred
out
,
and
my
caudren
taken
away
,
beinge
of
suche
bygnes
that
one
man
vnlesse
he
were
of
greate
strength
was
not
able
farre
to
carye
the
same
.
Not
withstanding
the
same
was
one
night
within
this
two
yeares
conuayed
more
then
halfe
a
myle
from
my
house
,
into
a
common
or
heth
.
And
ther
bestowed
in
a
great
firbushe
.
I
then
immediatly
the
next
day
sent
one
of
my
men
to
London
,
and
there
gaue
warning
in
Sothwarke
,
kent
streete
,
and
Barmesey
stréete
to
all
the
Tynckars
there
dwelling
.
That
if
any
such
caudorn
came
,
thether
to
be
sold
,
the
bringar
therof
should
be
stayed
,
and
promised
twenty
shyllinges
for
a
reward
.
I
gaue
also
intelligence
to
the
water
men
that
kept
the
ferres
that
no
such
vessell
shoulde
be
eyther
conuayd
to
London
,
or
into
essex
promising
the
lyke
reward
,
to
haue
vnderstanding
therof
.
This
my
doing
was
well
vnderstand
in
many
places
,
about
,
and
that
the
feare
of
espyinge
so
troubled
the
conscience
of
the
stealer
,
that
my
caudorendaye
vntouched
in
the
thicke
firbushe
more
then
halfe
a
yeare
after
which
by
a
great
chaunce
was
found
by
hunteres
for
conneys
,
for
one
chaunced
to
runne
into
the
same
bushe
where
my
caudren
was
and
being
perceaued
one
thrust
his
staffe
into
the
same
bushe
and
hyt
my
caudren
a
great
blowe
the
sound
whereof
dyd
cause
the
man
to
thinke
and
hope
that
there
was
some
great
treasure
hidden
,
wherby
he
thought
to
be
the
better
whyle
he
lyued
.
And
in
farther
searching
he
found
my
caudren
,
so
had
I
the
same
agayne
vnloked for
.
¶
A
Hoker
or
Anggicar
.
THese
hokers
or
Angglears
be
peryllous
and
most
wicked
knaues
,
and
be
deryued
or
procede
forth
from
the
vpright
men
they
commenly
go
in
frese
ierkynes
and
gally
slopes
poynted
bene
the
thekne
,
these
when
they
practise
there
pylfringe
it
is
all
by
night
for
as
they
walke
a
day
times
from
house
to
house
to
demaund
charite
thei
vigelantly
marke
where
or
in
what
place
they
may
attayne
to
there
praye
,
casting
there
eyes
vp
to
euery
wyndow
wel
noting
what
they
se
their
,
whether
apparell
,
or
linnen
,
hanginge
nere
vnto
the
sayde
windowes
and
that
wyl
they
be
sure
to
haue
the
next
night
folowing
,
for
they
customably
carry
with
them
a
staffe
of
.v.
or
.vi.
foote
long
,
in
which
within
one
ynch
of
the
tope
there
of
is
a
litle
hole
bored
through
in
which
hole
they
putte
an
yron
hoke
and
with
the
same
they
wyll
plucke
vnto
them
quicly
any
thing
that
they
may
reche
ther
with
,
which
hoke
in
the
day
tyme
they
couertly
cary
aboute
them
,
&
is
neuer
sene
or
taken
oute
till
they
come
to
the
place
where
they
worke
ther
fete
,
such
haue
I
sene
at
my
house
and
haue
oft
talked
with
them
and
haue
handled
ther
staues
not
then
vnderstanding
to
what
vse
or
intent
they
serued
,
although
I
hadde
and
perceiued
by
there
talke
and
behauiour
great
lykelyhode
of
euyll
suspition
in
them
,
they
wyll
ether
leane
vppon
there
staffe
to
hyde
the
hole
thereof
when
they
talke
with
you
,
or
holde
their
hande
apon
the
hole
and
what
stuffe
either
wollen
or
lynnen
they
thus
hoke
out
they
neuer
carye
the
same
foorthwith
to
their
staulyng
kens
,
but
hides
the
same
a
.iii.
daies
in
some
secret
corner
,
&
after
conueyes
the
same
to
their
houses
abouesaid
,
where
their
host
or
hostys
geueth
them
money
for
the
same
,
but
halfe
the
value
that
it
is
worth
,
or
els
their
doxes
shall
a
farre
of
sell
the
same
at
the
like
houses
.
I
was
credebly
informed
that
a
hoker
came
to
a
farmers
house
in
the
ded
of
the
night
and
putting
backe
a
drawe
window
of
a
low
chamber
,
the
bed
standing
hard
by
the
sayde
wyndowe
,
in
which
laye
.iii.
parsones
a
man
and
two
bygge
boyes
,
this
hoker
with
his
staffe
plucked
of
their
garments
which
lay
vpon
them
to
kepe
them
warme
with
the
couerlet
and
shete
and
lefte
them
lying
a
slepe
naked
sauing
there
shertes
,
and
had
away
all
cleane
,
and
neuer
could
vnderstande
where
it
became
.
I
verely
suppose
that
when
they
wer
wel
waked
with
cold
they
surely
thought
that
Robin
goodfelow
(
accordinge
to
the
old
saying
)
had
bene
with
them
that
night
.
¶
A
Roge.
A
Roge
is
neither
so
stoute
or
hardy
as
the
vprightman
.
Many
of
them
will
go
fayntly
,
and
looke
piteously
,
when
they
see
,
either
meete
any
person
,
hauing
a
kercher
as
white
as
my
shooes
tyed
aboute
their
heade
,
with
a
short
staffe
in
their
hand
,
halting
,
although
they
neede
not
,
requiring
almes
of
such
as
they
meete
,
or
to
what
house
they
shal
come
.
But
you
may
easely
perceiue
by
their
colour
,
that
they
cary
both
health
and
hipocrisie
about
them
,
whereby
they
gette
gaine
,
when
others
want
that
cannot
fayne
and
dissemble
.
Others
there
be
that
walke
sturdely
about
the
country
,
&
faineth
to
seke
a
brother
or
kinsman
of
his
,
dwelling
within
som
part
of
the
shire
,
either
that
he
hath
a
letter
to
to
delyuer
to
som
honest
housholder
,
dwelling
out
of
an
other
Shyre
,
and
wyll
shewe
you
the
same
fayre
sealed
,
wyth
the
superscription
to
the
partye
he
speaketh
of
,
because
you
shall
not
thinke
him
to
runne
ydelly
about
the
countrey
,
ether
haue
they
this
shyfte
,
they
wyl
cary
a
cirtificate
or
pasport
about
them
from
som
Iusticer
of
the
peace
,
with
his
hand
and
seale
vnto
the
same
,
howe
hee
hath
byne
whipped
and
punished
for
a
vacabonde
according
to
the
lawes
of
this
realme
,
and
that
he
muste
returne
to
.
T.
where
he
was
borne
or
last
dwelt
,
by
a
certayne
daye
lymited
in
the
same
,
whiche
shal
be
a
good
longe
daye
.
And
all
this
fayned
,
bycause
without
feare
they
woulde
wyckedly
wander
,
and
wyll
renue
the
same
,
where
or
when
it
pleaseth
them
:
for
they
haue
of
their
affinity
that
can
well
wryte
and
reade
.
These
also
wyll
picke
and
steale
as
the
vpright
men
,
and
hath
their
women
and
metinges
at
places
appoynted
,
and
nothing
to
them
inferiour
in
all
kynde
of
knauery
.
There
be
of
these
Roges
Curtales
wearing
shorte
clokes
,
that
wyll
chaunge
their
apparell
,
as
occasion
serueth
.
And
their
end
is
eyther
hanging
,
which
they
call
trinninge
in
their
language
,
or
die
meserably
of
the
pockes
.
¶
There
was
not
longe
sithens
two
Roges
that
alwaies
did
associate
them selues
together
and
would
neuer
seperate
themselues
vnles
it
were
for
some
especial
causes
,
for
they
were
sworne
brothers
,
and
were
both
of
one
age
and
much
like
of
fauour
,
these
two
traueling
into
east
kent
resorted
vnto
an
alehouse
there
beinge
weried
with
traueling
,
salutinge
with
short
curtsey
when
they
came
into
the
house
such
as
they
sawe
sitting
there
,
in
which
company
was
the
parson
of
the
parish
and
callinge
for
a
pot
of
the
best
ale
,
sat
downe
at
the
tables
ende
,
the
likor
liked
them
so
wel
that
they
had
pot
vpon
pot
,
and
sometime
for
a
litel
good
maner
would
drinke
&
offer
the
cup
to
such
as
they
best
fancied
,
&
to
be
short
they
sat
out
al
the
company
,
for
eche
man
departed
home
about
their
busines
.
When
they
had
wel
refreshed
themselues
,
then
these
rowsy
roges
requested
the
good
man
of
the
house
with
his
wife
to
sit
downe
and
drinke
with
them
of
whom
they
inquired
what
priest
the
same
was
&
where
he
dwelt
,
then
they
feyninge
that
they
had
an
vncle
a
priest
,
and
that
he
should
dwel
in
these
partes
,
which
by
al
presumptions
it
should
be
he
,
&
that
they
came
of
purpose
to
speake
with
him
,
but
because
they
had
not
sene
him
sithens
they
were
sixe
yeres
old
,
they
durst
not
be
bold
to
take
acquaintance
of
him
vntil
thei
were
farder
instructed
of
the
turth
,
&
began
to
enquire
of
his
name
,
&
how
long
he
had
dwelt
there
,
&
howe
farre
his
house
was
of
from
that
place
they
were
in
,
the
good
wife
of
the
howse
thinkinge
them
honest
men
without
disceit
because
they
so
farre
enquired
of
their
kinseman
was
but
of
a
good
zelous
naturall
intent
,
shewed
them
cherefully
that
he
was
an
honest
man
&
welbeloued
in
the
parish
and
of
good
wealth
,
&
had
ben
there
resident
.xv
yeres
at
the
least
,
but
saith
she
are
you
both
brothers
,
yea
surely
said
they
,
we
haue
bene
both
in
one
belly
&
were
twinnes
,
mercy
god
ꝙ
this
folish
woman
it
may
wel
be
for
ye
be
not
much
vnlike
and
wente
vnto
her
hall
windowe
callinge
these
yong
men
vnto
her
and
loking
out
thereat
pointed
with
her
fingar
&
shewed
them
the
howse
standing
alone
no
howse
nere
the
same
by
almost
a
quarter
of
a
mile
,
that
saith
she
is
your
vncles
howse
,
nay
saith
one
of
them
he
is
not
onely
my
vncle
but
also
my
godfather
,
it
may
well
be
ꝙ
she
,
nature
wil
binde
him
to
be
the
better
vnto
you
,
wel
ꝙ
they
we
be
weary
and
meane
not
to
trouble
our
vncle
to
night
,
but
to
morowe
god
willinge
we
will
see
him
and
do
our
duty
,
but
I
praye
you
doth
our
vncle
occupy
husbandry
what
company
hath
he
in
his
howse
alas
saith
she
but
one
old
woman
&
a
boy
,
he
hath
no
occupying
at
al
,
tushe
ꝙ
this
good
wife
you
be
mad
men
go
to
him
this
night
for
he
hath
better
lodging
for
you
than
I
haue
,
&
yet
I
speake
folishly
against
my
own
profit
,
for
by
your
tarying
here
I
should
gayn
the
more
by
you
now
by
my
troth
ꝙ
one
of
them
we
thanke
you
good
hostes
for
your
holsome
councel
,
&
we
meane
to
do
as
you
wil
vs
,
we
wil
pause
a
while
and
by
that
time
it
wil
be
almost
night
,
and
I
praye
you
geue
vs
a
rekening
,
so
manerly
paying
for
that
they
toke
bad
their
hoste
&
hostes
farewel
with
taking
leaue
of
the
cup
,
marched
merely
out
of
the
dores
towards
this
parsons
house
vewed
the
same
wel
round
about
&
passed
by
two
bowshots
of
into
a
yong
wodde
where
thei
lay
consulting
what
they
should
do
vntil
midnight
,
ꝙ
one
of
them
of
sharper
wit
&
subtiller
then
the
other
to
his
fellowe
thou
seest
that
this
house
is
stone
walled
about
,
and
that
we
cannot
wel
breake
in
in
any
parte
therof
,
thou
seest
also
that
the
windowes
be
thicke
of
mullions
that
there
is
no
krepinge
in
betwene
,
wherefore
we
must
of
necessity
vse
some
policy
when
strength
will
not
serue
,
I
haue
a
horse
lock
here
about
me
saith
he
&
this
I
hope
shal
serue
our
turne
,
so
when
it
was
about
.xii.
of
the
clock
they
came
to
the
house
and
lurked
nere
vnto
his
chamber
window
,
the
dog
of
the
house
barked
a
good
,
that
with
the
noise
this
priest
waketh
out
of
his
slepe
&
began
to
cough
&
hem
,
then
one
of
these
roges
steps
forth
nerer
the
window
&
maketh
a
ruful
&
pitiful
noyse
,
requiring
for
Christ
sakes
some
reliefe
that
was
both
hongry
&
thirsty
and
was
like
to
lye
without
the
dores
all
nighte
and
starue
for
colde
vnles
he
were
releued
by
him
with
some
small
pece
of
money
,
wher
dwellest
thou
quoth
this
parson
,
alas
sir
saith
this
roge
I
haue
smal
dwelling
&
haue
come
out
of
my
way
,
and
I
should
nowe
saith
he
go
to
any
towne
nowe
at
this
time
of
nighte
,
they
woulde
set
me
in
the
stockes
and
punishe
me
,
well
quoth
this
pitifull
parson
,
away
from
my
house
either
lye
in
some
of
my
our
houses
vntill
the
morning
and
holde
here
is
a
couple
of
pence
for
thee
,
a
god
rewarde
you
quoth
this
roge
and
in
heauen
may
you
finde
it
.
The
person
openeth
his
wyndowe
and
thrusteth
out
his
arme
to
geue
his
almes
to
this
Roge
that
came
whining
to
receiue
it
,
and
quickly
taketh
holde
of
his
hand
and
calleth
his
fellowe
to
him
which
was
redye
at
hande
with
the
horse
locke
and
clappeth
the
same
about
the
wrest
of
his
arme
that
the
mullions
standing
so
close
together
for
strength
,
that
for
his
life
he
could
not
plucke
in
his
arme
againe
,
and
made
him
beleue
vnles
he
would
at
the
least
geue
them
.iii.
li.
they
would
some
of
his
arme
from
the
body
.
So
that
this
poore
parson
in
ferre
to
lose
his
hande
called
vp
hys
olde
woman
that
lay
in
the
loft
ouer
him
,
and
willed
her
to
take
out
all
the
money
he
had
,
which
was
.iiii.
markes
which
he
saide
was
all
the
money
in
his
house
for
he
had
lent
vi
.
li.
to
one
of
his
neighbours
not
iiji
.
daies
before
wel
or
they
,
master
person
if
you
haue
no
more
,
vpon
this
condicion
we
wil
take
of
the
locke
that
you
will
drinke
.xii.
d.
for
our
sakes
to
morowe
at
the
alehouse
where
we
founde
you
and
thank
the
good
wife
for
the
good
chere
she
made
vs
,
he
promised
faithfully
that
he
woulde
so
do
,
so
they
toke
of
the
locke
&
went
theyr
way
so
farre
ere
it
was
daye
,
that
the
parson
coulde
neuer
heue
any
vnderstanding
more
of
them
,
nowe
this
parson
sorowfully
slombering
that
night
betwene
feare
and
hope
,
though
it
was
but
folly
to
make
two
sorrowes
of
one
,
he
vsed
contentacion
for
his
remedy
,
not
forgettyng
in
the
morning
to
performe
his
promise
but
went
betims
to
his
neighbour
that
kept
tiplinge
and
asked
angerly
where
the
same
two
men
were
that
dranke
with
her
yester
daye
,
which
two
men
ꝙ
this
good
wife
?
the
straungers
that
came
in
when
I
was
at
your
house
wyth
my
neighbors
yesterday
,
what
your
neuewes
ꝙ
she
,
my
neuewes
ꝙ
this
parson
I
trowe
thou
art
mad
,
nay
by
god
ꝙ
this
good
wife
as
sober
as
you
,
for
they
tolde
me
faithfully
that
you
were
their
vncle
,
but
in
faith
are
you
not
so
in
dede
,
for
by
my
trouth
they
are
strangers
to
me
,
I
neuer
saw
them
before
.
O
out
vpon
them
ꝙ
the
parson
they
be
false
theues
&
this
nigut
they
compelled
me
to
geue
them
all
the
money
in
my
house
.
Benedicite
ꝙ
this
good
wife
&
haue
they
so
in
dede
as
I
shall
aunswere
before
god
one
of
them
tolde
me
besides
that
you
were
godfather
to
him
and
that
he
trusted
to
haue
your
blessinge
before
he
departed
,
what
did
he
quoth
this
parson
,
a
halter
blesse
him
for
me
,
me
thinketh
by
the
masse
by
your
countenance
you
loked
so
wildly
when
you
came
in
quoth
this
good
wife
that
some
thing
was
amis
,
I
vse
not
to
geste
quoth
this
parson
when
I
speake
so
earnestly
,
why
all
your
sorrowes
goe
with
it
quoth
this
good
wife
,
and
sitte
downe
here
and
I
wil
fil
a
freshe
potte
of
ale
shall
make
you
mery
againe
,
ye
saith
this
parson
fill
in
and
geue
me
some
meate
for
they
made
me
sweare
and
promise
them
faithfully
that
I
shoulde
drynke
.
xii.d
.
with
you
thys
daye
,
what
dyd
they
quoth
she
now
by
the
mary
masse
they
be
mery
knaues
,
I
warraunte
you
they
meane
to
bye
no
lande
wyth
your
money
,
but
howe
coulde
they
come
into
you
in
the
night
youre
dores
beinge
shutte
fast
,
your
house
is
verye
stronge
,
then
this
parson
shewed
her
all
the
hole
circumstaunce
howe
he
gaue
them
his
almes
oute
at
the
wyndows
,
the
made
suche
lamentable
crye
that
it
pytyed
hym
at
the
harte
,
for
he
sawe
but
one
when
he
putte
out
his
hand
at
the
windowe
,
be
ruled
by
me
quoth
this
good
wyfe
,
wherein
quoth
this
parson
,
by
my
trouthe
neuer
speake
more
of
it
,
when
they
shall
vnderstande
of
it
in
the
paryshe
they
will
but
laugh
you
to
skorne
.
A
Wylde
Roge
A
Wilde
Roge
is
he
that
is
borne
a
Roge
,
he
is
more
subtil
and
more
geuen
by
nature
to
all
kinde
of
knauery
,
then
the
other
,
as
beastely
begotten
in
barne
or
bushes
,
and
from
his
infancy
traded
vp
in
trechery
,
yea
and
before
ripenes
of
yeares
doth
permit
,
wallowinge
in
lewde
lechery
,
but
that
is
counted
amongest
them
no
sin
.
For
this
is
their
custome
that
when
they
mete
in
barne
at
night
euery
one
getteth
a
make
to
lye
wythall
,
&
there
chaunce
to
be
twentye
in
a
companye
,
as
there
is
sometyme
more
,
and
sometyme
lesse
:
for
to
one
man
that
goeth
abrode
,
there
are
at
the
leaste
two
women
,
which
neuer
make
it
straunge
when
they
be
called
,
although
she
neuer
knewe
him
before
.
Then
when
the
day
doth
appeare
,
he
rouses
him
vp
and
shakes
his
eares
,
and
awaye
wanderynge
,
where
he
may
gette
oughte
to
the
hurte
of
others
.
Yet
before
he
skyppeth
oute
of
hys
couche
and
departeth
from
his
darling
,
if
he
like
her
well
he
will
appoint
her
where
to
mete
shortly
after
,
with
a
warninge
to
worke
warely
for
some
chetes
,
that
their
meting
might
be
the
merier
.
Not
long
sithens
a
wild
roge
chaunced
to
meete
a
pore
neighbour
of
mine
who
for
honesty
and
good
nature
surmounted
many
.
This
pore
man
tiding
homeward
from
London
,
where
he
had
made
his
market
,
this
roge
demaunded
a
peny
for
gods
sake
to
kepe
him
a
true
man
.
This
simple
man
beholding
him
wel
,
&
sawe
he
was
of
taule
personage
with
a
good
quarter
staffe
in
his
hand
,
it
much
pitied
him
as
he
said
to
se
him
want
,
for
he
was
wel
able
to
serue
his
prince
in
the
wars
.
Thus
being
moued
with
pity
,
&
lokt
in
his
purs
to
finde
out
a
peny
&
in
loking
for
the
same
,
he
plucked
out
.
viii.s
.
in
white
mony
,
&
raked
therin
to
finde
a
single
peny
&
at
the
last
finding
one
doth
offer
the
same
to
this
wild
roge
,
but
he
seing
so
much
mony
in
this
simple
mans
hand
,
being
striken
to
the
hart
with
a
couetous
desier
,
bid
him
forthwith
deliuer
al
that
he
had
,
or
els
he
would
with
his
staffe
beate
out
his
braynes
.
For
it
was
not
a
peny
wold
nowe
quench
his
thirst
thus
swalowing
his
spitle
gredely
down
,
spoiled
this
pore
man
of
al
the
mony
that
he
had
,
&
lept
ouer
the
hedge
into
a
thick
wood
,
and
went
his
way
as
merely
,
as
this
good
simple
man
came
home
sorowfully
.
I
once
rebuking
a
wild
roge
because
he
wente
idly
about
:
he
shewed
me
that
he
was
a
begger
by
enheritance
,
his
Graundfather
was
a
begger
,
his
father
was
one
,
&
he
must
nedes
be
one
by
good
reason
.
¶
A
Prygger
of
Prauncers
.
A
Prigger
of
Prauncers
be
horse
stealers
,
for
to
prigge
signifieth
in
their
language
to
steale
,
&
a
Prauncer
is
a
horse
,
so
beinge
put
together
the
matter
is
plaine
.
These
go
commonly
in
Ierkins
of
leather
or
of
white
frese
,
&
carry
little
wandes
in
their
hands
,
and
will
walke
through
grounds
and
pasturs
,
to
search
and
se
horses
mete
for
their
purpose
.
And
if
thei
chaunce
to
be
met
and
asked
by
the
owners
of
the
grounde
what
they
make
there
,
they
fayne
straighte
that
they
haue
loste
theyr
waye
,
and
desyre
to
be
enstructed
the
beste
way
to
suche
a
place
.
These
will
also
repayre
to
gentlemens
houses
and
aske
theyr
charitye
,
and
will
offer
theyr
seruice
,
And
if
you
aske
them
what
they
can
doe
,
they
wil
saye
that
they
can
kepe
two
or
thre
Geldinges
,
and
waite
vppon
a
Gentleman
.
These
haue
also
theyr
women
,
that
walkinge
from
them
in
other
places
,
marke
where
and
what
they
see
abrode
,
and
sheweth
these
Priggars
therof
,
when
they
meete
,
whych
is
wythin
a
weeke
or
two
.
And
loke
where
they
steale
any
thynge
,
they
conuey
the
same
at
the
leaste
three
score
miles
of
or
more
.
There
was
a
Gentleman
a
verye
friende
of
myne
,
rydynge
from
London
homewarde
into
Kente
,
hauinge
within
three
myles
of
his
house
busynesse
,
alyghted
of
his
horse
,
and
hys
man
also
,
in
a
pretye
village
,
where
diuers
houses
were
,
and
looked
about
hym
where
he
myghte
haue
a
conuenyent
person
to
walke
his
horse
,
because
he
would
speak
with
a
Farmer
,
that
dwelte
on
the
backe
side
of
the
sayde
village
,
little
aboue
a
quarter
of
a
myle
from
the
place
where
he
lighted
,
and
had
his
man
to
waight
vpon
hym
,
as
it
was
mete
for
his
callynge
:
espieng
a
Priggar
there
standing
,
thinkinge
the
same
to
dwel
there
,
charging
this
prity
prigginge
person
to
walke
his
horse
well
,
and
that
they
might
not
stande
still
for
takynge
of
colde
,
and
at
his
returne
(
which
he
saide
should
not
be
longe
)
he
would
geue
him
a
peny
to
drinke
,
and
so
wente
aboute
his
busines
.
Thys
peltinge
Priggar
proude
of
his
praye
,
walketh
hys
horses
vp
and
downe
,
till
he
sawe
the
Gentleman
out
of
sighte
,
and
leapes
him
into
the
saddell
,
and
awaye
he
goeth
a
mayne
.
This
Gentleman
returning
,
and
findyng
not
his
horses
,
sente
his
man
to
the
one
ende
of
the
village
,
&
he
went
himself
vnto
the
other
ende
,
and
enquired
as
he
went
for
hys
horses
that
were
walked
and
began
somewhat
to
suspecte
,
because
neither
he
nor
his
man
coulde
neyther
see
nor
fynde
him
.
Then
this
Gentleman
diligently
enquired
of
three
or
foure
towne
dwellers
there
whether
any
such
person
,
declaring
his
stature
,
age
,
apparel
,
with
so
manye
linamentes
of
his
body
as
he
coulde
call
to
remembraunce
.
And
vna
voce
all
sayde
that
no
such
man
dwelte
in
their
streate
,
neither
in
the
parish
that
they
knewe
of
,
but
some
did
wel
remember
that
suche
a
one
they
sawe
there
lyrkinge
and
huggeringe
two
houres
before
the
Gentleman
came
thether
and
a
straunger
to
them
.
I
had
thought
quoth
this
Gentleman
he
had
here
dwelled
,
and
marched
home
manerly
in
his
botes
,
farre
from
the
place
he
dwelt
not
I
suppose
at
his
comming
home
he
sente
such
wayes
as
he
suspected
or
thought
mete
to
search
for
this
Prigger
,
but
hetherto
he
neuer
harde
any
tidinges
againe
of
his
palfreys
.
I
had
the
best
gelding
stolen
out
of
my
pasture
that
I
had
amongst
others
while
this
boke
was
first
a
printing
.
¶
A
pallyarde
THese
Palliards
be
called
also
Clapperdogens
,
these
go
with
patched
clokes
,
&
haue
their
Morts
with
them
,
which
they
cal
wiues
and
if
he
goe
to
one
house
to
aske
his
almes
,
his
wife
shal
goe
to
another
,
for
what
they
get
,
as
bread
,
cheefe
,
malte
,
and
well
,
they
sel
the
same
for
redy
money
,
for
so
they
get
more
,
and
if
they
went
together
,
although
they
be
this
deuided
in
the
daie
,
yet
they
mete
iompe
at
night
.
Yf
they
chaunce
to
come
to
some
gentylmans
house
standinge
alone
,
and
be
demaunded
whether
they
be
man
and
wyfe
,
&
if
he
perceaue
that
any
doubteth
therof
he
sheweth
them
a
Testimonial
with
the
ministers
name
and
others
of
the
same
parishe
,
naminge
a
parishe
in
some
shere
,
fare
distant
from
the
place
where
he
sheweth
the
same
.
This
writing
he
carieth
to
salue
that
sore
.
There
be
many
Irishe
men
that
goe
about
with
counterfeate
licenses
,
and
if
they
perceiue
you
wyl
straytly
examen
them
,
they
will
immediatlie
saie
they
can
speake
no
Englishe
.
Farther
,
vnderstand
for
trouth
that
the
worst
and
wickedst
of
all
this
beastly
generation
are
scarce
comparable
to
these
prating
Pallyardes
,
All
for
the
most
part
of
these
wil
either
lay
to
their
legs
an
herbe
called
Sperewort
,
eyther
Arsnicke
,
which
is
called
Ratesbane
.
The
nature
of
this
Spereworte
wyll
rayse
a
great
blister
in
a
night
vpon
the
soundest
part
of
his
bodye
,
&
if
the
same
be
taken
away
it
wyl
drie
vp
againe
and
no
harme
.
But
this
Arsnicke
will
so
poyson
the
same
legge
or
sore
,
that
it
will
euer
after
be
incurable
this
do
they
for
gayn
and
to
be
pitied
.
The
most
of
these
that
walke
about
be
walchmen
.
¶
A
Frater
.
SOme
of
these
Fraters
will
cary
blacke
boxes
at
their
gyrdel
,
wherin
they
haue
a
brief
of
the
Queenes
maiesties
letters
patentes
geuen
to
such
a
poore
spitlehouse
for
the
reliefe
of
the
poore
ther.
which
briefe
is
a
coppie
of
the
letters
patentes
,
&
vtterly
fained
,
if
it
be
in
paper
or
parchement
without
the
great
seale
.
Also
if
the
same
brief
be
in
print
,
it
is
also
of
auctoritie
.
For
the
Printers
wil
see
,
&
wel
vnderstand
before
it
come
in
presse
,
that
the
same
is
lawfull
.
Also
I
am
credibly
in
formed
,
that
the
chiefe
Proctors
of
many
of
these
houses
,
that
seldome
trauel
abrode
themselues
,
but
haue
their
factors
to
gather
for
them
,
which
looke
very
slenderly
to
the
impotent
&
miserable
creatures
committed
to
their
charge
;
&
die
for
want
of
cherishing
,
wheras
they
&
their
wiues
are
well
crammed
&
clothed
,
&
will
haue
of
the
best
.
And
the
founders
of
euery
such
house
,
or
the
chiefe
of
the
parishe
wher
they
be
,
would
better
see
vnto
these
Proctors
,
that
they
might
do
their
duty
,
they
should
be
wel
spoken
of
here
,
and
in
the
world
to
come
aboundantly
therefore
rewarded
.
I
had
of
late
an
honest
man
,
and
of
good
wealth
,
repayred
to
my
house
to
common
wyth
me
about
certeyne
affaires
.
I
inuited
the
same
to
dinner
,
and
dinner
being
done
,
I
demanded
of
him
some
newes
of
those
parties
were
boe
didest
.
Thankes
be
to
God
syr
(
sayth
be
)
al
is
wel
&
good
now
.
Now
(
quoth
I
)
this
same
now
declareth
that
some
things
of
late
hath
not
bene
wel
.
Yes
syr
(
qd.
he
)
matter
is
not
great
,
I
had
thought
I
should
haue
bene
well
beaten
within
this
seuenth
night
.
How
so
(
quoth
I
)
Mary
sir
sayd
he
,
I
am
Constable
for
fault
of
a
better
,
and
was
commaunded
by
the
Iusticer
to
watch
.
The
watch
being
set
,
I
toke
an
honest
man
one
of
my
neighbors
with
me
,
and
went
vp
to
the
end
of
the
town
as
far
as
the
spittle
house
,
at
which
house
I
heard
a
great
noyse
,
&
drawing
nere
stode
close
vnder
the
wall
,
and
this
was
at
one
of
the
clocke
after
mydnight
.
Where
he
hard
swearing
,
prating
,
and
wagers
laying
,
and
the
pot
apase
walking
,
and
.xl.
d.
gaged
vpon
a
matche
of
wrastling
,
pitching
of
the
barre
,
and
casting
of
the
sledge
.
And
not
they
go
in
a
fustian
fume
into
the
backe
syde
,
wher
was
a
great
Axiltrye
,
and
thei
fell
to
pitching
of
the
barre
,
being
iii
to
iii.
The
Moone
dyd
shine
bright
,
the
Constable
with
his
neighbour
might
see
and
beholde
all
that
was
done
.
And
howe
the
wife
of
the
house
was
rosting
of
a
Pyg
,
while
her
gestes
wer
in
their
matche
.
At
the
last
they
could
not
agree
vpon
a
cast
,
and
fel
at
wordes
,
and
frome
wordes
to
blowes
.
The
Constable
with
his
fellow
runnes
vnto
them
to
parte
them
,
and
in
the
parting
lyrkes
a
drye
blow
or
two
.
Then
the
noyse
increased
,
the
Constable
would
haue
had
them
to
to
the
stocks
.
The
wife
of
the
house
runnes
out
with
her
good
man
to
intreat
the
Constable
for
her
gestes
,
and
leaues
the
Pyg
at
the
fyre
alone
.
In
commeth
tow
or
three
of
the
next
neighbours
,
being
waked
with
this
noyse
,
and
into
the
house
they
come
,
and
fynde
none
therin
,
but
the
Pygge
wel
rosted
,
and
carieth
the
same
away
with
them
spyt
and
all
,
with
such
bread
and
drinke
also
as
stoode
vpon
the
table
.
When
the
good
man
and
the
good
wyfe
of
the
house
had
intreated
and
pacified
the
Constable
,
showing
vnto
him
that
they
were
Proctors
and
Factors
all
of
Spyttlehouses
,
and
that
they
taryed
there
but
to
breake
theyr
fast
,
and
would
ryde
away
immediately
after
,
for
they
had
farre
to
goe
,
and
therfore
ment
to
ride
so
earlye
.
And
comming
into
theyr
house
againe
,
fynding
the
Pygge
wyth
bread
and
drincke
all
gonne
,
made
a
great
exclamation
,
for
they
knewe
not
who
had
the
same
.
The
Constable
returning
and
hearing
the
lamentable
wordes
of
the
good
wyfe
,
how
she
had
lost
both
meate
,
and
drinke
,
and
saw
it
was
so
in
deede
,
he
laughed
in
his
sleue
,
and
commaunded
her
to
dresse
no
more
at
vnlawful
houres
for
any
gestes
.
For
he
thought
better
bestowed
vppon
those
smell
feastes
his
poore
neighboures
,
then
vppon
suche
sturdye
Lubbars
.
The
nexte
mornynge
betimes
the
spitte
and
pottes
were
sette
at
the
Spittle
howse
doore
for
the
owner
?
Thus
were
these
Factours
begyled
of
theyr
breakefaste
,
and
one
of
them
had
wel
beaten
an
other
,
and
by
my
trouth
(
quoth
this
Cunstable
)
I
was
gladde
when
I
was
wel
ryd
of
them
.
Why
quoth
I
,
could
they
caste
the
barre
and
sledge
well
?
I
wyll
tel
you
syr
(
quoth
he
)
you
knowe
there
hathe
bene
many
games
this
Sommer
,
I
thinke
verely
that
if
some
of
these
Lubbars
had
bene
there
,
and
practysed
amongest
others
,
I
beleue
they
woulde
haue
carried
awaye
the
beste
games
.
For
they
were
so
stronge
and
sturdye
,
that
I
was
not
able
to
stande
in
their
handes
.
Well
(
quoth
I
)
at
these
games
you
speake
of
,
both
legges
and
armes
be
tryed
.
Yea
(
quoth
thys
offycer
they
be
wicked
men
.
I
haue
sene
some
of
them
sithens
wyth
cloutes
bounde
aboute
theyr
legges
,
and
haltyng
wyth
their
staffe
in
theyr
handes
.
Wherefore
some
of
theym
(
by
GOD
bee
nought
all
.
¶
A
Abraham
man
.
THese
Abraham
men
bee
those
that
fayne
them selues
to
haue
bene
mad
,
and
haue
bene
kept
eyther
in
Bedleant
,
or
in
some
other
prison
a
good
tyme
,
and
not
one
amongest
twenty
that
euer
came
in
pryson
for
any
suche
cause
:
yet
wyll
they
saye
howe
pitiously
&
most
extreamely
they
haue
ben
beaten
&
dealte
withal
.
Some
of
these
be
mery
&
verye
pleasante
,
they
wyl
daunce
&
syng
,
some
others
be
as
colde
and
reasonable
to
talke
wyth
all
.
These
begge
money
,
eyther
when
they
come
at
Farmours
howses
they
wyll
demaunde
Baken
,
eyther
cheese
,
or
wooll
,
or
any
thinge
that
is
worth
money
.
And
if
they
espy
smal
company
within
they
will
with
fierce
countenaunce
demaunde
somewhat
.
Where
for
feare
the
maydes
wyll
geue
theym
largely
to
be
ridde
of
theym
.
If
they
maye
conuenyently
come
by
any
cheate
,
they
wyll
pycke
and
steale
,
as
the
vprighte
man
or
Roge
,
poultrey
or
lynnen
.
And
al
wemen
that
wander
,
be
at
theyr
commaundements
.
Of
all
that
euer
I
sawe
of
thys
kinde
,
one
naming
him selfe
Stradling
,
is
the
craftiest
and
moste
dissemblingest
Knaue
.
He
is
able
wyth
hys
tounge
and
vsage
to
deceaue
and
abuse
the
wisest
manne
that
is
.
And
surelye
for
the
proporcion
of
his
bodie
,
with
euerie
member
there
vnto
appertaininge
,
it
cannot
be
amended
.
But
as
the
prouerbe
is
(
God
hath
done
his
part
.
)
Thys
Stradlyng
saith
hee
was
the
Lord
Sturtons
man
,
and
when
he
was
executed
,
for
very
pensiuenes
of
mynde
he
fell
out
of
hys
witte
,
and
so
continued
a
yeare
after
and
more
,
and
that
with
the
very
greefe
and
feare
he
was
taken
wyth
a
marueilous
palsey
,
that
both
head
and
handes
will
shake
,
when
he
talketh
wyth
any
,
and
that
apase
or
fast
,
wherby
he
is
much
pitied
,
and
getteth
greately
.
And
if
I
had
not
demanded
of
others
both
men
and
women
,
that
commonly
walketh
as
he
doth
,
and
knowen
by
them
his
deepe
dissimylation
,
I
neuer
hadde
vnderstand
the
same
.
And
thus
I
ende
wyth
these
kynde
of
vacabondes
.
☞
A
Fresh
Water
Mariner
or
Whipiacke
.
THese
Fresh
water
Mariners
their
shipes
were
drowned
in
the
playne
of
Salisbury
.
These
kynde
of
Caterpillers
counterfet
great
losses
on
the
sea
,
those
bee
some
Western
men
,
and
most
be
Irysh
men
.
These
wyll
runne
about
the
country
wyth
a
counterfet
lycence
,
fayning
either
shipwracke
,
or
spoyled
by
Pyrates
neare
the
coast
of
Cornwall
or
Deuenshire
and
set
a
land
at
some
hauen
towne
there
,
hauyng
a
large
&
formal
writyng
,
as
is
aboue
sayd
wyth
the
names
&
seales
of
such
men
of
worshippe
at
the
least
iiii
.
or
fiue
as
dwelleth
neare
or
next
to
the
place
where
thee
fayne
their
landing
.
And
nere
to
those
shieres
wyll
they
not
begge
,
vntyll
they
come
into
Wilshire
,
Hamshire
,
Barkshire
,
Oxfordshire
,
Harfordshire
,
Middelsexe
,
and
so
to
London
,
and
downe
by
the
ryuer
to
seeke
for
their
shippe
and
goodes
that
they
neuer
had
,
then
passe
they
throughe
Surrey
,
Sossex
,
by
the
sea
costes
,
and
sort
into
Kent
,
demaunding
almes
to
bring
them
home
to
theyr
country
.
Some
tyme
they
counterfet
the
seale
of
the
Admiraltie
.
I
haue
diuers
tymes
taken
awaye
from
them
their
licences
of
both
sortes
,
with
such
money
as
they
haue
gathered
,
and
haue
confiscated
the
same
to
the
pouerty
nigh
adioyning
to
me
.
And
they
wyll
not
beelong
without
another
.
For
at
any
good
town
they
wil
renew
the
same
.
Once
with
much
threatning
and
faire
promises
I
required
to
knowe
of
one
company
who
made
their
licence
.
And
they
sweare
that
they
bought
the
same
at
Portsmouth
of
a
Mariner
there
and
it
cost
him
two
shilinges
,
with
such
warrants
to
be
so
good
&
effectual
,
that
if
any
of
the
best
men
of
law
or
learned
about
London
should
peruse
the
same
,
they
weare
able
to
fynd
no
faute
therwith
but
would
assuredly
allow
the
same
.
¶
A
counterfet
Cranke
.
THese
that
do
counterfet
the
Cranke
be
yong
knaues
and
yong
harlots
,
that
depely
dissemble
the
falling
sicknes
.
For
the
Cranke
in
their
langage
is
the
fallyng
euyll
,
I
haue
seene
some
of
these
with
fayre
writinges
testimoniall
,
with
the
names
and
seales
of
some
men
of
worship
in
Shropshiere
,
and
in
other
Shieres
farre
of
,
that
I
haue
well
knowen
,
and
haue
taken
the
same
from
them
.
Many
of
these
do
go
without
writinges
,
and
wyl
go
halfe
naked
,
and
looke
most
pitiously
.
And
if
any
clothes
be
geuen
them
,
they
immediately
sell
the
same
,
for
weare
it
they
will
not
,
because
they
would
bee
the
more
pitied
,
and
weare
filthy
clothes
on
their
heades
,
&
neuer
go
without
a
peece
of
white
sope
about
them
,
which
if
they
see
cause
or
present
gaine
,
they
wyl
priuely
conuey
the
same
into
their
mouth
,
and
so
worke
the
same
ther
,
that
they
wyll
fome
as
it
were
a
Boore
,
&
marueilously
for
a
time
torment
them selues
,
and
thus
deceiue
they
the
common
people
,
&
gaine
much
.
These
haue
commonly
their
harlots
as
the
other
.
Apon
Alhollenday
in
the
morning
last
.
Anno
domini
.
1566.
or
my
my
booke
was
halfe
printed
I
meane
the
first
impression
ther
came
early
in
the
morninge
a
Counterfet
Cranke
vnder
my
lodgyng
at
the
white
Fryares
within
the
cloyster
in
a
little
yarde
or
coorte
where
abowtes
laye
two
or
three
great
Ladies
beeng
without
the
liberties
of
London
wherby
he
hoped
for
the
greater
gayne
,
thys
Cranke
there
lamentably
lamenting
and
pytefully
crying
to
be
releued
declared
to
dyuers
there
hys
paynfull
and
myserable
dysease
I
b●ynge
rysen
and
not
halfe
ready
harde
his
dolefull
wordes
and
rufull
mornings
hering
him
name
the
falling
sycknes
thought
assuredly
to
my selfe
that
he
was
a
deepe
desembelar
,
so
commynge
owt
at
a
sodayn
and
beholding
his
ugly
&
yrksome
attyre
hys
loth
some
&
horryble
countenan e
it
made
me
in
a
meruelous
parplexite
what
to
thinke
of
him
whether
it
were
fayned
or
trouth
,
for
after
this
manner
went
he
,
he
was
naked
from
the
wast
vpwarde
sauyng
he
had
a
olde
gyrken
of
lether
patched
and
that
was
loose
about
hym
that
all
his
body
lay
●●ote
bare
a
fylthy
fowle
cloth
he
ware
on
hys
hed
being
cut
for
the
purpose
hauing
a
narrow
place
to
put
owt
his
face
wyth
a
bauer
made
to
trusse
vp
his
beard
and
a
string
that
tyed
the
same
downe
close
abowte
his
neke
wyth
an
olde
felt
hat
whych
he
styll
caried
in
hys
hand
to
receaue
the
cheryte
&
deuotion
of
the
people
for
that
woulde
he
holde
owte
from
hym
hauyng
his
face
from
the
eyes
downeward
all
smerde
with
fresh
bloud
as
though
he
had
new
falen
and
byn
tormented
wyth
hys
paynful
panges
hys
gyrken
being
all
be
rayde
with
durt
and
myre
and
his
hatte
and
hosen
also
as
thoughe
hee
had
wallowed
in
the
myer
,
sewrely
the
sighte
was
monstreous
and
terreble
,
I
called
him
vnto
me
&
demaunded
of
hym
what
he
ayled
.
A
good
maister
quoth
he
I
haue
the
greuous
and
painful
dyseas
called
the
fallyng
sycknes
why
quoth
I
how
commeth
thy
gyrken
hose
&
hat
so
be
rayd
wyth
durt
and
myre
&
thy
skyn
also
.
A
good
master
I
fel
down
on
the
backesyde
here
in
the
fowle
lane
hard
by
the
watersyde
and
there
I
lay
all
most
all
night
and
haue
bled
all
most
all
the
bloud
owte
in
my
body
,
it
raynd
that
morning
very
fast
and
while
I
was
thus
talking
with
him
a
honest
poore
woman
that
dwelt
therby
brought
hym
a
fayre
lynnen
cloth
and
bed
hym
wype
his
face
therwith
and
there
beyng
a
tobbe
standinge
full
of
rayne
water
offered
to
gyue
hym
some
in
a
dishe
that
he
might
make
hym selfe
clene
he
refused
the
same
why
dost
thou
so
quoth
I
,
a
syr
sayth
he
yf
I
shuld
washe
my selfe
I
should
fall
to
bleeding
a
freshe
again
and
then
I
should
not
stop
my selfe
,
these
wordes
made
me
the
more
to
suspect
hym
.
Then
I
asked
of
him
wher
he
was
borne
what
is
name
was
how
long
he
had
thys
dysease
&
what
tyme
he
had
ben
here
about
London
&
in
what
place
,
syr
sayth
he
I
was
borne
at
Leycestar
my
name
is
Nicholas
Gennins
and
I
haue
hadde
this
fallyng
sycknes
.viii.
yeares
and
I
can
get
no
remedy
for
the
same
for
I
haue
it
by
kinde
my
father
had
it
and
my
frendes
before
me
,
and
I
haue
byne
these
two
yeares
here
about
London
,
and
a
yeare
and
a
halfe
in
bethelem
,
why
wast
thou
out
of
thy
wyttes
quoth
I
?
ye
syr
that
I
was
.
what
is
the
Kepars
name
of
the
howse
,
hys
name
is
quoth
hee
Iohn
Smith
,
then
quoth
I
hee
must
vnderstande
of
thy
dysease
yf
thou
hadest
the
same
for
the
tyme
thou
wast
there
,
he
knoweth
it
well
,
ye
not
onely
he
but
all
the
house
beesyde
quoth
thys
Cranke
for
I
came
thens
but
within
this
fortnight
,
I
hadde
stande
so
long
reasoning
the
matter
wyth
him
that
I
was
a
could
and
went
in
to
my
chamber
and
made
me
ready
,
and
commaunded
my
seruant
to
repayre
to
bethelem
and
bring
me
trew
word
from
the
keper
there
whether
any
such
man
hath
bin
with
him
as
a
prisoner
hauing
the
dysease
aforesaid
and
gyue
hym
a
not
of
hys
name
and
the
kepars
also
,
my
seruant
retornyng
to
my
lodgyng
dyd
assure
me
that
nether
was
ther
euer
any
such
man
there
nether
yet
any
keper
of
any
suche
name
,
but
he
that
was
there
keper
he
sent
me
hys
name
in
writinge
affermynge
that
he
letteth
no
man
depart
from
hym
vnles
he
be
set
awaye
by
hys
frendes
and
that
none
that
came
from
hym
beggeth
abowte
the
City
then
I
sent
for
the
Printar
of
thys
booke
,
and
shewed
hym
of
thys
dyssembling
Cranke
and
how
I
hadde
sent
to
Bethelem
to
vnderstand
the
trough
and
what
aunswere
I
receaued
agayne
requiring
hym
that
I
myght
haue
some
seruant
of
his
to
watch
him
faithfully
that
day
that
I
might
vnderstand
trustely
to
what
place
he
would
repaire
at
night
vnto
,
&
thether
I
promised
to
goe
my selfe
to
see
their
order
and
that
I
would
haue
him
to
associate
me
thether
,
he
gladly
graunted
to
my
request
and
sent
two
boyes
that
both
diligently
and
vigelantly
accomplisht
the
charge
geuen
them
and
found
the
same
Crank
abowte
the
Temple
wher
about
the
most
parte
of
the
daye
he
begged
vnles
it
were
about
xii
.
of
the
clocke
he
went
on
the
backsyde
of
Clementes
.
In
without
Temple
barre
there
is
a
lane
that
goeth
into
the
Feldes
there
he
renewed
his
face
againe
wyth
freshe
blud
whych
he
caryed
aboute
hym
in
a
bladder
and
dawbed
on
freshe
dyrt
apon
hys
gerken
hat
and
hosen
.
And
so
came
backe
agayne
vnto
the
Temple
and
sometyme
to
the
Watersyde
and
begged
of
all
that
passed
hye
,
the
boyes
beeheld
howe
some
gaue
grotes
,
some
syxe
pens
,
some
gaue
more
for
hee
looked
so
ouglei●
and
yrksomlie
that
euerye
one
pytied
hys
myserable
case
that
beehelde
hym
,
to
bee
short
there
he
passed
all
the
daye
tyll
nyght
approched
,
and
when
it
began
to
bee
somewhat
darke
he
went
to
the
watersyde
and
toke
a
Skoller
and
was
fette
ouer
the
Water
into
Sainct
Gorges
feldes
,
contrarye
to
my
expectation
,
for
I
hadde
thought
he
woulde
haue
gonne
in
to
Holborne
or
to
Saynt
Gylles
in
the
felde
but
these
boyes
wyth
(
Argues
and
Lynces
)
eyes
set
sewre
watche
vppon
hym
and
the
one
toke
a
Bote
and
followed
hym
and
the
other
went
backe
to
tell
hys
maister
.
The
Boye
that
so
followed
hym
by
Water
,
hadde
no
Monney
to
paye
for
hys
Bote
hyre
,
but
layde
hys
Penner
and
hys
Ynkhorne
to
gage
for
a
penny
,
and
by
that
tyme
the
boye
was
set
ouer
,
hys
Maister
with
al
celeryte
hadde
taken
a
Bote
and
followed
hym
apase
,
now
hadde
they
styll
a
syght
of
the
Cranke
whych
crossed
ouer
the
feldes
towardes
Newyngton
and
thether
he
went
and
by
that
tyme
they
came
thether
it
was
very
darke
,
the
pryntar
hadde
there
no
acquayntance
nether
any
kynde
of
weapon
about
hym
nether
knew
he
how
farre
the
Cranke
woulde
go
,
becawse
he
then
suspected
that
they
dogged
hym
of
purpose
,
he
there
stayed
hym
and
called
for
the
Constable
which
camforth
diligently
to
inquire
what
the
matter
was
thys
zelous
Printar
charged
thys
officer
wyth
hym
as
a
malefacter
and
a
dessembelyng
vagabonde
,
the
Constable
would
haue
layde
him
all
nyght
in
the
Cage
that
stode
in
the
streat
,
naye
sayth
thys
pytifull
printer
I
pray
you
haue
him
into
your
house
for
this
is
lyke
to
bee
a
colde
nyght
and
hee
is
naked
you
kepe
a
vytellynge
house
lette
him
be
well
cheryshed
thys
nyght
for
he
is
well
hable
to
paye
for
the
same
,
I
know
well
hys
gaynes
hath
byn
great
to
daye
,
and
your
howse
is
a
sufficient
pryson
for
the
tyme
&
we
wyl
there
serche
hym
,
the
Constable
agreed
there
vnto
,
they
hadde
him
in
,
and
caused
him
to
washe
hym selfe
that
donne
they
demaunded
what
money
he
hadde
aboute
hym
,
sayth
thys
Cranke
so
God
helpe
me
I
haue
but
xii
.
pens
.
and
plucked
owte
the
same
of
a
lytle
pursse
,
why
haue
you
no
more
quoth
they
,
no
sayth
thys
Cranke
as
God
shall
saue
my
soule
at
the
daye
of
iudgement
,
we
must
see
more
quoth
they
and
beegane
to
strype
hym
,
then
he
plucked
out
a nother
pursse
wherein
was
xl
.
d.
Toushe
sayth
thys
Prynter
I
must
see
more
,
Sayth
this
Cranke
I
pray
God
I
bee
dampned
both
body
and
soule
yf
I
haue
anye
more
,
no
sayth
thys
Prynter
thou
false
knaue
here
is
my
boye
that
dyd
watche
thee
all
thys
day
and
sawe
when
suche
men
gaue
the
peeses
of
syxe
pens
grotes
and
other
money
and
yet
thou
hast
shewed
vs
none
but
small
money
,
when
thys
Cranke
harde
thys
and
the
boye
vowynge
it
to
hys
face
he
relented
,
and
plucked
out
a nother
pursse
wherein
was
eyght
shyllynges
and
odde
money
so
hade
they
in
the
hole
that
he
hadde
begged
that
day
xiii
.
s.
iii
d.
ob
.
then
they
strypt
hym
starcke
naked
and
as
manye
as
sawe
hym
sayde
they
neuer
sawe
hansommer
man
wyth
a
yellow
flexen
hede
and
fayre
sknned
wythout
any
spotte
or
greffe
then
the
good
wyfe
of
the
howse
fet
her
mans
olde
clocke
and
cawsed
the
same
to
bee
caste
abowte
hym
beecawse
the
syght
should
not
abashe
her
shamefast
maydens
nether
lothe
her
squamyshe
syght
.
Thus
he
sette
hym
downe
at
the
Chemnes
ende
and
called
for
a
potte
of
Beere
and
dranke
of
a
quart
at
a
drafte
,
and
called
for
another
and
so
the
thyrde
,
that
one
hadde
byn
sufficient
for
any
resonable
man
,
the
Drynke
was
so
stronge
I
my selfe
the
next
mornynge
tasted
thereof
but
lette
the
reader
iudge
what
and
howe
muche
he
woulde
haue
dronke
and
hee
hadde
byne
owte
of
feare
then
when
they
had
thus
wronge
water
out
of
a
flint
,
in
spoyling
him
of
his
euil
gotten
goods
his
passing
pence
and
fleting
trashe
.
The
printer
with
this
officer
were
in
gealy
gelowsy
,
and
deuised
to
search
a
barne
for
some
roges
and
vprighte
men
,
a
quarter
of
a
mile
from
the
house
that
stode
alone
in
the
fieldes
,
&
went
out
about
their
busines
leauing
this
cranke
alone
with
his
wife
&
maydens
,
this
crafty
Cranke
espyeng
all
gone
,
requested
the
good
wife
that
he
might
goe
out
on
the
backside
to
make
water
and
to
exonerate
his
paunch
,
she
had
him
drawe
the
lach
of
the
dore
and
go
out
,
neyther
thinking
or
mistrusting
he
would
haue
gone
away
naked
,
but
to
conclude
,
when
he
was
out
he
cast
away
the
cloke
and
as
naked
as
euer
he
was
borne
he
ranne
away
that
he
woulde
neuer
be
hard
of
again
til
now
the
next
morning
betimes
I
went
vnto
Newington
to
vnderstande
what
was
done
,
because
I
had
worde
or
it
was
day
that
there
my
printer
was
,
and
at
my
comming
thether
I
harde
the
hole
circumstance
as
I
aboue
haue
written
,
&
I
seing
the
matter
so
fal
out
,
toke
order
with
the
chiefe
of
the
parish
that
this
.xiii.
s.
and
.iii.
d.
ob
.
might
the
nexte
day
be
equally
distributed
by
their
good
discrecions
to
the
pouerty
of
the
same
parish
,
&
so
it
was
done
.
A
Dommerar
.
THese
Dommerars
are
leud
and
most
subtill
people
,
the
most
part
of
these
are
Walch
men
,
and
wil
neuer
speake
,
vnlesse
they
haue
extreame
punishmente
,
but
will
gape
,
and
with
a
maruelous
force
wil
hold
downe
their
toungs
doubled
,
groninge
for
your
charity
,
and
holding
vp
their
handes
full
pitiously
,
so
that
with
their
deepe
dissimulation
they
get
very
much
.
There
are
of
these
many
,
and
but
one
that
I
vnderstand
of
hath
loste
hys
tounge
in
dede
.
Hauinge
on
a
time
occasion
to
ride
to
Dartford
to
speake
with
a
priest
there
,
who
maketh
al
kinde
of
conserues
very
well
,
and
vseth
stillinge
of
waters
.
And
repayringe
to
his
house
I
founde
a
Dommerar
at
his
dore
,
and
the
priest
himselfe
perusinge
of
his
lycence
,
vnder
the
seales
and
handes
of
certayn
worshipfull
men
,
which
priest
had
thought
the
same
to
be
good
and
effectuall
.
I
taking
the
same
writing
,
and
reading
it
ouer
&
noting
the
seals
found
one
of
the
seals
like
vnto
a
seale
that
I
had
about
me
,
which
seale
I
bought
besides
Charing
crosse
,
that
I
was
out
of
doubte
it
was
none
of
those
Gentlemens
seales
that
had
subcribed
.
And
hauing
vnderstanding
before
of
their
peuish
practises
,
made
me
to
conceaue
that
al
was
forged
and
nought
.
I
made
the
more
hast
home
,
For
well
I
wyst
that
he
woulde
&
must
of
force
passe
through
the
parysh
where
I
dwelt
,
for
there
was
no
other
waye
for
hym
.
And
comming
homewarde
,
I
found
them
in
the
towne
accordinge
to
my
expectation
,
where
they
were
staid
:
for
there
was
a
Pallyarde
asociat
with
the
Dommerar
and
partaker
of
his
gaynes
,
whyche
Pallyarde
I
sawe
not
at
Dartforde
.
The
stayers
of
them
was
a
gentleman
cal
-
Chayne
,
&
asaruant
of
my
Lord
Kéepers
,
cald
Wostestowe
,
which
was
the
chiefe
causer
of
the
stayng
of
them
,
being
a
Surgien
,
&
cunninge
in
his
science
,
had
séene
the
lyke
practises
,
and
as
he
sayde
hadde
caused
one
to
speake
afore
that
was
dumme
.
It
was
my
chaunce
to
com
at
the
begynnyng
of
the
matter
.
Syr
(
quoth
this
Surgen
)
I
am
bold
here
to
vtter
some
part
of
my
cunning
,
I
trust
(
quoth
he
)
you
shall
sée
a
myracle
wrought
anon
.
For
I
once
(
quoth
he
)
made
a
dumme
man
to
speake
.
Quoth
I
you
ar
well
met
,
and
somwhat
you
haue
preuented
me
,
for
I
had
thought
to
haue
done
no
lesse
or
they
hadde
passed
this
towne
.
For
I
well
know
their
writing
is
fayned
,
and
they
depe
dissemblers
.
The
Surgien
made
hym
gape
,
&
we
could
sée
but
halfe
a
toung
.
I
required
the
Surgien
to
put
hys
fynger
in
his
mouth
,
&
to
pull
out
his
toung
,
and
so
he
did
,
notwithstanding
he
helde
strongly
a
prety
whyle
,
at
the
length
he
pluckt
out
the
same
,
to
the
great
admiration
of
many
that
stoode
by
.
Yet
when
we
sawe
his
tounge
,
he
would
neither
speake
,
nor
yet
could
heare
Quoth
I
to
the
Surgien
,
knit
two
of
his
syngers
together
,
and
thrust
a
stycke
betwene
them
,
and
rubbe
the
same
vp
and
downe
a
lyttle
while
,
and
for
my
lyfe
he
speaketh
by
and
by
.
Sir
quoth
this
Surgien
I
pray
you
let
me
practise
an
other
way
.
I
was
well
contented
to
sée
the
same
.
He
had
him
into
a
house
,
and
tyed
a
halter
aboute
the
wrestes
of
his
handes
and
hoysed
him
vp
ouer
a
beame
,
and
there
did
let
him
hang
a
good
while
.
at
the
length
for
very
payn
,
he
required
for
Gods
sake
to
let
him
down
.
So
he
that
was
both
deafe
and
dumme
coulde
in
short
time
both
heare
and
speake
.
Then
I
tooke
that
money
I
could
finde
in
his
purse
,
and
distributed
the
same
to
the
poore
people
dwelling
there
,
whiche
was
xv
.
pence
halfe
penny
,
beinge
all
that
we
could
finde
.
That
done
,
&
this
merry
myracle
madly
made
,
I
sent
them
with
my
seruaunt
to
the
next
Iusticer
,
where
they
preached
on
the
Pyllery
for
want
of
a
Pulpet
,
and
were
well
whypped
,
and
none
dyd
bewayle
them
.
¶
A
dronken
Tinckar
.
THese
dronken
Tynckers
called
also
Prygges
,
be
beastly
people
,
&
these
yong
knaues
be
the
wurst
.
These
neuer
go
without
their
Dores
,
and
yf
their
women
haue
anye
thing
about
them
,
as
apparell
or
lynnen
that
is
worth
the
selling
,
they
laye
the
same
to
gage
,
or
sell
it
out
right
(
for
bene
bowse
at
their
bowsing
ken
.
)
And
full
sone
wyll
they
bee
wearye
of
them
,
and
haue
a
newe
.
When
they
happen
one
woorke
at
anye
good
house
,
their
Dores
lynger
a
lofe
,
&
tarrye
for
them
in
some
corner
,
and
yf
he
taryeth
longe
from
her
,
then
she
knoweth
he
hathe
worke
,
&
walketh
neare
,
and
sytteth
downe
by
him
.
For
besydes
money
he
looketh
for
meate
and
drinke
for
doing
his
dame
pleasure
.
For
yf
she
haue
three
or
foure
holes
in
a
pan
,
hee
wyll
make
as
many
more
for
spedy
gayn
.
And
if
he
se
any
old
ketel
,
chafer
,
or
pewterdish
a
broad
in
the
yarde
where
he
woorketh
,
hée
quicklye
snappeth
the
same
vp
,
and
into
the
booget
it
goethe
rounde
.
Thus
they
lyue
with
decrite
.
I
was
crediblye
informed
by
such
as
could
well
tell
,
that
one
of
these
tipling
Tinckers
with
his
dogge
robbed
by
the
highe
waye
.iiii.
Pallyardes
,
and
.ij.
Roges
.vj.
persons
together
,
and
tooke
from
them
aboue
.iiij.
pound
in
ready
money
,
&
hide
him
after
in
a
thicke
woode
a
daye
or
two
,
and
so
escaped
vntaken
.
Thus
with
picking
and
stealing
,
mingled
with
a
litle
worke
for
a
coullor
,
they
passe
their
tyme
.
¶
A
Swadder
or
Pedler
THese
Swadders
&
pedlers
,
be
not
all
euyl
,
but
of
an
indifferent
behauiour
.
These
stande
in
great
awe
of
the
vpryght
men
,
for
they
haue
often
both
wares
&
money
of
them
.
But
for
as
much
as
they
séeke
gayne
vnlawfully
aganst
the
lawes
and
statutes
of
this
noble
realme
,
thei
are
well
worthy
to
be
registred
among
that
nomber
of
vacabonds
,
&
vndoubtedly
I
haue
hadde
some
of
them
brought
before
me
when
I
was
in
comission
of
the
peace
as
malefactors
for
brybering
&
stealing
.
And
nowe
of
late
it
is
a
great
practes
of
the
vpright
man
,
when
he
hath
gotten
a
botye
to
bestowe
the
same
vpon
a
packe
full
of
wares
,
&
so
goethe
a
time
for
his
plesure
because
he
would
lyue
with
out
suspition
.
¶
A
Iarkeman
,
And
a
Patrico
.
FOras
muche
as
these
two
names
a
Iarkeman
and
a
Patrico
be
in
the
old
briefe
of
vacabonds
,
and
setforthe
as
two
kyndes
of
euell
doers
,
you
shall
vnderstande
that
a
Iarkmane
hathe
his
name
of
a
Iarke
,
which
is
a
seale
in
their
Languag
,
as
one
should
make
writings
and
set
seales
for
lycences
and
pasportes
.
And
for
trouth
there
is
none
that
goeth
about
the
countrey
of
them
that
can
eyther
wryte
so
good
and
fayre
a
hand
,
either
indite
so
learnedlye
as
I
haue
sene
and
handeled
a
number
of
them
:
but
haue
the
same
made
in
good
townes
where
they
come
,
as
what
can
not
be
had
for
money
,
as
the
prouerbe
saythe
(
Omnia
venalia
Rome
)
and
manye
hath
confessed
the
same
to
me
.
Now
also
there
is
a
Patrico
and
not
a
Patriarch
,
which
in
their
language
is
a
priest
that
should
make
mariages
tyll
death
dyd
departe
,
but
they
haue
none
suche
I
am
well
assured
,
for
I
put
you
out
of
doubte
that
not
one
amongest
a
hundreth
of
them
are
maried
,
for
they
take
lechery
for
no
synne
,
but
naturall
fellowshyp
and
good
lyiknge
loue
,
so
that
I
wyll
not
blot
my
booke
wyth
these
two
that
be
not
.
¶
A
Demaunder
for
glymmar
.
THese
Demaunderes
for
glymmar
be
for
the
most
parte
wemen
,
for
glymmar
in
their
language
is
fyre
:
these
go
with
faynen
lycences
and
counterfayted
wrytings
,
hauing
the
hands
and
seales
of
suche
gentlemen
as
dwelleth
nere
to
the
place
where
they
fayne
them selues
to
haue
bene
burnt
and
their
goods
consumed
with
fyre
.
They
wyll
most
lamentably
demaunde
your
charity
,
&
wyll
quickly
shed
salte
teares
,
they
be
so
tender
harted
.
They
will
neuer
begge
in
that
Shiere
where
their
losses
(
as
they
saye
)
was
.
Some
of
these
goe
with
slates
at
their
backes
,
which
is
a
shéete
to
lye
in
a
nightes
.
The
vpright
men
be
very
familiar
wyth
these
kynde
of
women
,
and
one
of
them
helpes
an
other
.
¶
A
Demaunder
for
glymmar
came
vnto
a
good
towne
in
Kent
to
aske
the
cheritie
of
the
people
,
hauing
a
fayned
lycens
aboute
her
that
declared
her
misfortune
by
fyre
,
donne
in
Somerset
shyre
,
walking
with
a
wallet
on
her
shoulders
wherin
she
put
the
deuotion
of
such
as
had
no
money
to
geue
,
here
that
is
to
say
,
Malte
,
woll
,
baken
,
bread
,
and
cheese
,
and
alwayes
as
the
same
was
full
,
so
was
it
redy
money
to
her
when
she
emptyed
the
same
,
where
so
euer
she
traueled
this
harlot
was
as
they
terme
it
snowte
fayre
and
had
an
Vpright
man
or
two
alwayes
attending
on
her
watch
(
which
is
on
her
parson
)
and
yet
so
circomspecte
that
they
woulde
neuer
bee
sene
in
her
company
in
any
good
towne
vnlesse
it
were
in
smale
vyllages
where
typling
houses
weare
,
eyther
traueling
to gether
by
the
hygh
ways
,
but
the
troth
is
by
report
she
would
wekely
be
worth
vi
.
or
seuen
shyllinges
,
with
her
begging
and
bycherye
.
This
glimmering
Morte
repayring
to
an
Ine
in
the
sayde
towne
,
where
dwelt
a
wydow
of
fyfty
wynter
olde
of
good
welthe
but
she
had
an
vnthryftye
sonne
,
whom
she
vsed
as
a
chamberlaine
to
attend
gestes
when
they
repard
to
her
house
,
this
amerous
man
beholding
with
ardant
eyes
,
beholdinge
this
glymmeringe
glauncer
was
presently
peteously
persed
to
the
harte
,
and
lewdly
longed
to
be
clothed
vnder
her
lyuerye
and
bestowing
a
fewe
fonde
wordes
,
wyth
her
,
vnderstode
strayte
,
that
she
woulde
be
easlye
perswaded
to
lykinge
lechery
,
and
as
a
man
mased
mused
howe
to
attayne
to
his
purpose
,
but
he
hadde
no
money
.
Yet
consideringe
with
hym selfe
that
wares
woulde
bee
welcome
where
money
wanted
,
he
went
with
a
wannion
to
his
mothers
chamber
&
there
sekinge
about
for
od
endes
,
at
length
found
a
lytle
whystell
of
syluer
that
his
mother
dyd
vse
customably
to
weare
on
,
and
had
forgote
the
same
for
haste
that
morning
,
and
offeres
the
same
closely
to
this
manerly
marian
that
yf
she
would
mete
him
on
the
backesyde
of
the
towne
and
curteously
kys
him
without
constraynt
she
should
bee
mystres
thereof
and
it
weare
much
better
,
well
saythe
she
you
are
a
wanton
,
and
beholding
the
wystell
was
farthar
in
loue
therewyth
,
then
rauysht
wyth
his
person
and
agred
to
mete
him
presently
and
to
accomplyshe
his
fonde
fancy
,
to
be
short
and
not
tedyous
a
quorter
of
a
myle
from
the
towne
he
merely
toke
measure
of
her
vnder
a
bawdy
bushe
(
so
she
gaue
him
that
she
had
not
)
and
he
receiued
that
he
could
not
)
and
taking
leue
of
ech
other
with
a
curteous
kysse
,
she
plesantly
passed
forth
one
her
iornaye
&
this
vntoward
lycorous
chamberlayne
repayred
home
warde
.
But
or
these
two
tortylles
toke
there
leue
the
good
wyfe
had
myssed
her
whystell
,
and
sent
one
of
her
maydens
in
to
her
chamber
for
the
same
,
and
being
long
sawght
for
none
coulde
be
found
,
her
mystres
hering
that
dylygent
search
was
made
for
the
fame
,
and
that
it
was
taken
awaye
,
began
to
suspecte
her
vnblessed
babe
,
and
demaunded
of
her
maydens
whether
none
of
them
sawe
her
sonne
in
her
chamber
that
morning
,
and
one
of
them
answered
that
she
sawe
him
not
there
but
comming
from
thence
,
then
had
she
ynough
for
well
she
wyste
that
he
had
the
same
,
and
sent
for
him
but
he
could
not
be
found
.
Then
she
caused
her
hosteler
in
whome
she
had
better
affyaunce
in
for
his
trouth
and
yet
not
one
amongst
twenty
of
them
but
haue
well
left
there
honesty
(
As
I
here
a
great
sorte
saye
)
to
com
vnto
here
which
attended
to
knowe
her
pleafure
,
go
seke
out
saythe
she
my
vntowarde
sonne
and
byd
him
come
speake
with
me
,
I
sawe
him
go
out
sayth
he
halfe
an
our
sithens
on
the
backsid
I
had
thought
you
had
sent
hym
of
your
arrante
,
I
sent
hym
not
ꝙ
she
go
loke
him
out
.
This
hollowe
hosteler
toke
his
staffe
in
his
necke
and
trodged
out
apace
that
waye
he
sawe
him
before
go
and
had
some
vnderstandinge
by
one
of
the
maydens
that
his
mystres
hadde
her
wystell
stolen
and
suspected
her
sonne
,
and
he
had
not
gone
far
but
that
hee
espyed
hym
comming
homeward
alone
,
and
meting
him
axed
where
he
had
byn
.
Where
haue
I
bene
ꝙ
he
and
began
to
smyle
,
now
by
the
mas
thou
hast
bene
at
some
baudy
banquet
,
thou
hast
euen
tolde
trouth
ꝙ
thys
chamberlayne
sewrely
ꝙ
this
hostler
thou
haedest
the
same
woman
that
begged
at
our
house
to
daye
for
the
harmes
she
had
by
fyre
,
where
is
she
ꝙ
he
she
is
almost
a
myle
by
this
tyme
ꝙ
this
chamberlayne
,
where
is
my
mystres
whystell
quoth
this
hosteler
for
I
am
well
assured
that
thou
haddest
it
and
I
feare
me
thou
hast
geuen
it
to
that
harlot
.
Why
is
it
myssed
quoth
this
chamberlayne
,
yea
ꝙ
this
hosteler
and
shewed
him
all
the
hole
circomstaunce
what
was
both
sayde
and
thought
on
hym
for
the
thinge
.
Well
I
wyll
tell
the
ꝙ
this
Chamberlayne
I
wyl
be
playne
with
the
I
had
it
in
dede
and
haue
geuen
the
same
to
this
woman
,
and
I
praye
the
make
the
best
of
it
and
helpe
nowe
to
excuse
the
matter
,
and
yet
surelye
and
thou
wouldst
take
so
much
payne
for
me
as
to
ouer
take
her
for
she
goeth
but
softly
and
is
not
yet
fare
of
and
take
the
same
from
her
and
I
am
euer
thyne
assured
freende
.
Why
then
go
with
me
quoth
this
hostler
,
nay
in
faythe
quoth
this
Chamberlayne
what
is
frear
then
gift
,
and
I
hadde
prety
pastime
for
the
same
,
hadest
thou
so
quoth
this
hosteler
nowe
by
the
masse
and
I
wyll
haue
some
to
or
I
wyll
lye
in
the
duste
or
I
come
agayne
.
Passing
with
hast
to
ouertake
this
paramoure
within
a
myle
from
the
place
where
he
departed
he
ouertoke
her
hauing
an
vpright
man
in
her
company
a
stronge
and
a
sturdye
vacabond
some
what
amased
was
this
hosteler
to
se
one
familiarly
in
her
company
for
he
had
well
hopped
to
haue
had
some
delycate
dalyance
as
his
fellowe
hadde
but
seinge
the
matter
so
fall
out
and
being
of
good
corrage
and
thinking
to
him selfe
that
one
true
man
was
better
then
two
false
knaues
and
being
on
the
hygh
way
thought
vpon
helpe
yf
nede
had
bene
by
such
as
had
passed
to
and
fro
.
Demaunded
fersely
the
whistell
that
she
had
euyn
nowe
of
his
fellowe
,
why
husband
quoth
she
can
you
suffer
this
wretche
to
slaunder
your
wyfe
,
a
vaunt
verlet
ꝙ
this
vpright
man
and
letes
dryue
with
all
his
force
at
this
hosteler
and
after
halfe
a
dosen
blowes
he
strycks
his
staffe
out
of
his
hand
,
and
as
this
hosteler
stepte
backe
to
haue
taken
vp
his
staffe
agayne
,
this
glymmeringe
Morte
flinges
a
great
stone
at
him
and
strake
him
on
the
heade
that
downe
he
fals
wyth
the
bloud
about
his
eares
and
whyle
he
laye
this
amased
the
vpright
man
snatches
awaye
hys
purse
,
wherein
he
had
money
of
his
mystresses
as
well
as
of
his
owne
,
and
there
let
him
lie
and
went
awaye
with
spede
that
they
were
neuer
hard
of
more
.
When
this
drye
beaten
hosteler
was
com
to
him selfe
he
fayntly
wandereth
home
,
and
crepethe
into
his
couche
and
restes
hys
ydle
head
,
hys
mystrys
harde
that
he
was
come
in
,
and
layde
him
downe
on
his
bead
,
repayred
straight
vnto
him
and
aske
him
what
he
ayled
and
what
the
cause
was
of
his
so
sodden
lying
one
his
bed
,
what
is
the
cause
quoth
this
hosteler
your
whystell
your
whystell
speaking
the
same
pytiously
iii.
or
iiii
.
tymes
,
why
fole
quoth
his
mystres
take
no
care
for
that
,
for
I
do
not
greatly
waye
it
,
it
was
worth
but
iii.
s.
iiii
.
d.
I
would
it
had
bene
burnt
for
iiii
.
yeares
agon
,
I
praye
the
why
so
quoth
hys
mystres
I
thinke
thou
art
mad
,
nay
not
yet
qd.
this
hosteler
but
I
haue
byn
madly
handlyd
,
why
what
is
the
matter
quoth
his
mystres
and
was
more
desirous
to
knowe
the
cause
,
and
you
wyll
for
geue
my
fellowe
and
me
I
wyll
shewe
you
,
or
els
I
wyll
neuer
doe
it
,
shee
made
hym
presently
faythfull
promise
that
she
would
,
then
sayth
he
send
for
your
sonne
home
agayne
which
is
ashamed
to
loke
you
in
the
face
I
agre
there
to
sayth
she
,
well
then
qd.
thys
hosteler
youre
sonne
hath
geuen
the
same
Mort
that
begged
here
for
the
burning
of
her
house
a
whystell
and
you
haue
geuen
her
v.
s.
in
money
,
&
I
haue
geuen
her
x
,
s
,
of
my
owne
,
why
how
so
quoth
she
,
then
he
sadlye
shewed
her
of
hys
myshap
with
al
the
circomstaunce
that
you
haue
hard
before
,
and
howe
hys
purse
was
taken
awaye
&
xv
shyllings
in
the
same
,
wherof
v.
s.
was
her
money
and
x.
s.
his
owne
money
is
thys
true
quoth
hys
mystres
,
I
by
my
trouth
qd.
this
hosteler
,
and
nothing
greues
me
so
much
,
neyther
my
beatyng
neyther
the
losse
of
my
money
as
doth
my
euel
and
wretched
lucke
,
why
what
is
the
matter
qd.
his
mystres
,
your
sonne
saythe
thys
hosteler
had
some
chere
and
pastyme
for
that
whystell
for
he
laye
with
her
,
and
I
haue
bene
well
beaten
,
and
haue
had
my
pursse
taken
from
me
and
you
knowe
your
sonne
is
merry
and
pleasant
and
can
kepe
no
great
councell
and
then
shall
I
be
mocked
and
laughed
to
skorne
in
all
places
when
they
shall
here
how
I
haue
bene
serued
,
Nowe
out
vpon
you
knaues
both
quoth
his
mystres
,
and
laughes
oute
the
matter
,
for
she
well
sawe
it
would
not
otherwyse
preuayle
.
¶
A
bawdy
basket
.
THese
bawdy
baskets
be
also
wemen
,
and
go
with
baskets
&
Capcases
on
their
armes
,
wherin
they
haue
laces
,
pynnes
,
nedles
,
white
ynkell
,
and
round
sylke
gyrdls
of
al
coulours
.
These
wyll
bye
conueyskins
,
&
stele
lynnen
clothes
of
on
hedges
.
And
for
their
tryfles
they
wyl
procure
of
mayden
seruauntes
,
when
their
mystres
or
dame
is
out
of
the
way
,
eyther
some
good
pece
of
beefe
,
baken
,
or
cheese
,
that
shal
be
worth
xii
.
d.
for
ii
.
d.
of
their
toyes
.
And
as
they
walke
by
the
way
,
they
often
gayne
some
money
wyth
their
instrument
,
by
suche
as
they
sodaynely
mete
withall
.
The
vpright
men
haue
good
acquayntaunce
with
these
,
and
wyl
helpe
and
relieue
them
when
they
wante
.
Thus
they
trade
their
lyues
in
leud
lothsome
lechery
.
Amongest
them
all
is
but
one
honest
woman
,
and
she
is
of
good
yeares
,
her
name
is
Ione
Messenger
,
I
haue
had
good
proofe
of
her
.
as
I
haue
learned
by
the
true
report
of
dyuers
,
Thre
came
to
my
gate
the
laste
sommer
.
Anno
Domni
.
1566.
a
very
miserable
man
and
much
deformed
as
burnt
in
the
face
blere
eyde
and
lame
of
one
of
his
legges
that
he
wente
with
a
crouche
,
I
axed
him
where
he
was
borne
&
where
he
dwelt
last
and
shewed
him
that
thether
he
must
repaire
and
be
releued
&
not
to
range
about
the
countrey
,
and
seing
some
cause
of
cheryte
I
caused
him
to
haue
meate
and
drinke
and
when
he
had
dronke
I
demaunded
of
him
whether
he
was
neuer
spoyled
of
the
vpryght
man
or
Roge
,
yes
that
I
haue
qd
be
and
not
this
vii
.
yeres
for
so
long
I
haue
gon
abroad
,
I
had
not
so
much
taken
from
me
and
so
euyll
handelyd
as
I
was
within
these
iiii
.
dayes
,
why
how
so
ꝙ
I
in
good
fayth
sir
ꝙ
he
I
chaunced
to
mete
with
on
of
thefe
bawdy
baskets
which
had
an
vpright
man
in
her
company
,
&
as
I
would
haue
passed
quietly
by
her
,
man
saythe
she
vnto
her
make
,
doe
you
not
se
this
ylfauored
windshaken
knaue
,
yes
qd.
the
vpright
man
what
say
you
to
him
,
thys
knaue
fayth
she
oweth
me
ii
.
s
,
for
wares
that
he
had
of
me
halfe
a
yere
a
go
I
thynke
it
well
sayth
this
vpright
man
syrra
sayth
he
paye
your
detes
,
saith
thys
poore
man
I
owe
her
none
nether
dyd
I
euer
bargane
with
her
for
any
thinge
and
as
thys
aduysed
I
neuer
sawe
her
before
in
all
my
lyfe
,
mercy
god
quoth
she
what
a
lying
knaue
is
this
,
and
he
wyll
not
paye
you
housband
beat
hym
surely
,
and
the
vpryght
man
gaue
me
iii.
or
iiii
.
blowes
on
my
backe
and
shoulders
and
woulde
haue
beate
me
worsse
and
I
had
not
geuen
hym
all
the
money
in
my
purse
&
in
good
fayth
for
very
feare
I
was
fayne
to
geue
hym
xiiii
.
pence
which
was
all
the
money
that
I
had
,
why
sayth
this
bawdy
basket
haste
thou
no
more
,
then
thou
owest
me
x.
d.
styll
,
and
be
well
assured
that
I
wyl
be
payde
the
next
tyme
I
meete
with
the.
And
so
they
let
me
passe
by
them
.
I
praye
god
saue
&
blesse
me
and
all
other
in
my
case
from
such
wycked
persons
quoth
this
poore
man
,
why
whether
went
they
then
quoth
I
in
to
east
Kent
for
I
méete
with
them
on
thyssid
of
Rochester
.
I
haue
dyuers
times
bene
attempted
but
I
neuer
loste
much
before
,
I
thanke
god
there
came
styll
company
by
afore
this
vnhappy
time
.
Well
quoth
I
thanke
God
of
all
,
and
repair
home
into
thy
natyue
countrey
.
¶
A
Antem
morte
.
THese
Antem
Mortes
be
maried
wemen
,
as
there
be
but
a
fewe
.
For
Antem
in
their
Language
is
a
Churche
,
so
she
is
a
wyfe
maried
at
the
Churche
,
and
they
be
as
chaste
as
a
Cowe
.
I
haue
the
goeth
to
Bull
euery
moone
,
with
what
Bull
she
careth
not
.
These
walke
most
times
from
their
housbands
companye
a
moneth
&
more
to gether
,
being
asociate
with
another
as
honest
as
her selfe
.
These
wyll
pylfar
clothes
of
hedges
,
some
of
them
go
with
children
of
.x.
or
xii
.
yeares
of
age
,
yf
tyme
and
place
serue
for
their
purpose
they
wyll
send
them
into
some
house
at
the
window
to
steale
and
robbe
,
which
they
call
in
their
language
,
Milling
of
the
ken
,
&
wyll
go
with
wallets
on
their
shoulders
,
and
slates
at
their
backs
:
there
is
one
of
these
Antem
Mortes
she
is
now
a
widow
,
of
fyfty
yeres
old
,
her
name
is
Alice
Milson
,
she
goeth
about
with
a
couple
of
great
boyes
,
the
yongest
of
them
is
fast
vpon
xx
.
yeres
of
age
and
these
two
do
lye
with
her
euery
night
,
and
she
lyeth
in
the
middes
,
she
sayth
that
they
be
her
children
,
that
beteled
be
the
babes
borne
of
such
abhonable
bellye
.
¶
A
walking
Morte
.
THese
walkinge
Mortes
be
not
maryed
,
these
for
their
vnhappye
yeres
doth
goe
as
a
Antem
Morte
,
and
wyll
saye
their
husbandes
died
eyther
at
Newhauen
Ireland
,
or
in
some
seruice
of
the
Prince
.
These
make
laces
vpon
staues
&
purses
that
they
cary
in
their
hands
,
and
whyte
vallance
for
beddes
.
Manye
of
these
hathe
had
,
and
haue
chyldren
:
when
these
get
ought
,
either
with
begging
bychery
or
brybery
,
as
money
or
apparell
,
they
are
quickly
shaken
out
of
all
by
the
vpright
men
,
that
they
are
in
a
maruelous
feare
to
cary
any
thing
aboute
them
that
is
of
some
valure
.
Wherefore
this
pollicy
they
vse
,
they
leaue
their
money
now
with
on
and
then
with
another
trustye
householders
either
with
the
good
man
or
good
wyfe
,
some
tyme
in
won
shiere
,
and
then
in
another
as
they
trauell
,
this
haue
I
known
the
iiij
.
or
v.
shillings
yea
.x.
shillinges
lefte
in
a
place
and
the
same
wyll
they
come
for
againe
within
won
quarter
of
a
yeare
or
some
time
not
inhalfe
a
yeare
,
and
all
this
is
to
lytle
purpose
,
for
all
their
peuyshe
pollicye
,
for
when
they
bye
them
lynnen
or
garments
,
it
is
taken
awaye
from
them
and
worsse
geuen
them
,
or
none
at
all
.
¶
The
last
Sommer
Anno
Domni
.
1566.
beinge
in
familiare
talke
with
a
walking
Morte
,
that
came
to
my
gate
I
learned
by
her
what
I
could
and
I
thought
I
had
gathered
as
much
for
my
purpose
as
I
desired
.
I
began
to
rebuke
her
for
her
leud
lyfe
and
beastly
behauor
,
declaring
to
here
what
punishment
was
prepared
and
heaped
vp
for
her
in
the
world
to
com
,
for
her
fylthy
lyuing
and
wretched
conuersation
.
God
helpe
ꝙ
she
howe
should
I
lyue
,
none
wyll
take
me
into
seruis
,
but
I
laboure
in
haruest
time
honestly
.
I
thinke
but
a
whyle
with
honestie
quoth
I
Shall
I
tell
you
ꝙ
she
,
the
beste
of
vs
al
maye
be
amended
,
but
yet
I
thanke
God
,
I
ded
on
good
dede
within
this
twelue
months
wherein
ꝙ
I
,
sayth
she
I
woulde
not
haue
it
spoken
of
agayne
.
Yf
it
be
méete
and
necessary
ꝙ
I
it
shal
lye
vnder
my
fete
,
what
meane
you
by
that
quoth
she
,
I
meane
ꝙ
I
to
hide
the
same
&
neuer
to
discouer
it
to
any
.
Well
quoth
she
and
began
to
lawgh
as
much
as
she
coulde
,
and
sweare
by
the
masse
that
if
I
disclosed
the
same
to
any
she
would
neuer
more
tell
me
any
thing
.
The
last
sommer
ꝙ
she
I
was
greate
with
chylde
and
I
traueled
into
east
kent
by
the
sea
coste
,
for
I
lusted
meruelously
after
oysters
and
mussels
and
gathered
many
,
and
in
the
place
where
I
found
them
,
I
opened
them
and
eat
them
styll
,
at
the
last
in
seking
more
I
reached
after
one
and
stept
into
a
hole
and
felin
into
the
wast
and
their
did
stycke
,
and
I
had
bene
drowned
if
the
tide
had
come
,
and
espyinge
a
man
a
good
waye
of
,
I
cried
as
much
as
I
could
for
helpe
,
I
was
alone
he
hard
me
and
repaired
as
fast
to
me
as
he
might
and
finding
me
their
fast
stycking
,
I
required
for
gods
sake
his
helpe
,
and
whether
it
was
with
stryuing
and
forcing
my selfe
out
or
for
Ioye
I
had
of
his
comminge
to
me
.
I
had
a
great
couller
in
my
face
and
loked
red
and
well
tollered
.
And
to
be
playne
with
you
hée
lyked
me
so
wel
(
as
he
sayd
)
that
I
should
there
lye
styll
,
and
I
would
not
graunt
him
,
that
he
myghtly
with
me
.
And
by
my
trouth
I
wist
not
what
to
answeare
I
was
in
such
a
perplexite
,
for
I
knewe
the
man
well
,
he
had
a
very
honest
woman
to
his
wyfe
and
was
of
som
welth
and
on
the
other
syde
if
I
weare
not
helpe
oute
I
shoulde
there
haue
peryshed
,
and
I
graunted
hym
that
I
would
obeye
to
hys
wyll
,
then
he
plucked
me
out
.
And
because
there
was
no
conuenient
place
nere
hande
,
I
required
hym
that
I
might
go
washe
my selfe
and
make
me
some
what
clenly
,
and
I
would
come
to
his
house
and
lodge
al
night
in
his
barne
,
whether
he
myghte
repaire
to
me
and
accomplyshe
hys
desire
,
but
let
it
not
be
quoth
shée
before
nine
of
the
clocke
at
nighte
for
then
there
wyl
be
small
s●yrring
.
And
I
may
repayre
to
the
town
ꝙ
she
to
warme
and
drye
my selfe
,
for
this
was
about
two
of
the
clocke
in
the
after
noune
do
so
quoth
hée
for
I
must
be
busye
to
loke
oute
my
cattell
here
by
before
I
can
come
home
.
So
I
went
awaye
from
hym
and
glad
was
I
,
and
why
so
quoth
I
,
because
quoth
she
his
wyfe
my
good
dame
is
my
very
fréend
,
and
I
am
much
beholdinge
to
her
.
And
she
hath
donne
are
so
much
good
or
this
that
I
we
are
loth
nowe
to
harme
her
any
way●
,
to
by
quoth
I
what
and
it
hadde
bene
anye
●ther
man
and
not
your
good
dames
husbande
.
The
matter
had
bene
the
lesse
quoth
shée
.
Tell
me
I
praye
the
quoth
I
who
was
the
father
of
thye
chylde
she
stodyed
a
whyle
,
and
sayde
that
it
hadde
a
father
but
what
was
hée
quoth
I.
Nowe
by
my
trouthe
I
knowe
not
quoth
shée
,
you
brynge
me
ou●
of
my
matter
soo
you
do
,
well
saye
on
quoth
I
then
I
departed
strayght
to
the
towne
and
came
to
my
dames
house
.
And
shewed
here
of
my
mysfortune
,
also
of
here
husebandes
vsage
in
all
poyntes
and
that
I
showed
here
the
same
for
good
wyll
and
byde
her
take
better
hede
to
her
housebande
,
and
to
her selfe
,
so
she
gaue
me
grate
thankes
and
made
me
good
cheere
,
and
byd
me
in
any
case
that
I
shouldde
be
redye
at
the
barne
at
that
tyme
and
oure
we
hadde
apoynted
,
for
I
knowe
well
quoth
thys
good
wyfe
,
my
husband
wyll
not
breake
wyth
the.
And
one
thinge
I
warrant
the
that
thou
geue
me
a
watche
worde
a
loude
when
he
goeth
aboute
to
haue
his
pleasure
of
the
and
that
should
be
fie
for
shame
fye
,
and
I
wyll
be
hard
by
you
wythe
helpe
.
But
I
charge
the
kéepe
thys
secrete
vntyll
all
bée
fynesed
,
and
holde
saythe
thys
good
wyfe
here
is
one
of
my
peticotes
I
geue
the.
I
thanke
you
good
dame
qu●●h
I
,
and
I
warraunte
you
I
wyll
bée
●●ue
and
trustye
vnto
you
.
So
my
dau●e
lef●e
me
settynge
by
a
good
fyre
wyth
meate
and
drynke
,
and
wyth
the
oysters
I
broughte
with
me
,
I
hadde
greate
the
ere
shée
wente
strayght
and
repayred
vnto
her
gossypes
dwellyng
there
by
,
and
as
I
dyd
after
vnderstand
she
made
her
mone
to
theem
.
what
a
naughti
lend
lecherous
husband
she
had
,
and
how
that
she
could
not
haue
his
companye
for
harlots
,
and
that
she
was
in
feare
to
take
some
fylthy
dysease
of
hym
,
he
was
so
commen
a
man
hauing
lytle
respecte
whome
he
hadde
to
doe
with
all
,
and
quoth
she
nowe
here
is
one
at
my
house
a
poore
woman
that
goeth
aboute
the
countrey
that
he
woulde
haue
hadde
to
doo
withall
wherefore
good
neyghboures
and
louinge
gossypes
as
you
loue
me
and
as
you
would
haue
helpe
at
my
hand
another
tyme
,
deuyse
some
remedy
to
make
my
husband
a
good
man
,
that
I
may
lyue
in
sum
suerty
wyth
out
disease
,
and
that
hée
maye
saue
his
soull
that
God
so
derelye
bought
.
After
shée
hadde
tolde
her
tale
they
caste
their
persinge
eyes
all
vpon
her
,
but
won
stoute
dame
amongst
the
rest
had
these
words
as
your
pacient
bearinge
of
troubles
,
youre
honest
behauor
amonge
vs
,
your
neyghbours
your
tender
and
pytiful
hart
to
the
poore
of
the
parysh
,
doth
moue
vs
to
lament
your
case
,
so
the
vnsatiable
carnalite
of
your
faythelesse
husbande
doth
instigate
and
styre
vs
to
deuyse
and
inuent
some
spéedy
redresse
for
your
ease
and
the
amendement
of
his
lyfe
.
Wherefore
thys
is
my
councell
and
you
wyll
bée
aduertysed
by
me
,
for
I
saye
to
you
all
,
vnles
it
be
thys
good
wyfe
,
who
is
chéefely
touched
in
this
matter
I
haue
the
nexte
cause
,
for
hée
was
in
hande
wyth
me
not
longe
a
goe
,
and
companye
had
not
bene
present
which
was
by
a
meruelous
chaunce
,
he
hadde
I
thinke
forced
me
.
For
often
hée
hathe
bene
temperinge
with
me
,
and
yet
haue
I
sharpely
sayde
hym
naye
,
therefore
let
vs
assemble
secretly
into
the
place
where
hée
hathe
apoynted
to
méete
this
gyllot
that
is
at
youre
house
and
lyrke
preuely
in
seme
corner
tyll
hée
begyn
to
goe
aboute
his
busines
.
And
then
me
thought
I
harde
you
saye
euen
now
that
you
had
a
watche
worde
,
at
whyche
worde
wée
wyll
all
step
forthe
being
fyue
of
vs
besydes
you
for
you
shal
be
none
because
it
is
youre
husbande
,
but
gette
you
to
bed
at
your
accustomed
our
.
And
we
wyll
cary
eche
of
vs
a
good
byrchen
rodd
in
our
lappes
,
and
we
wyll
all
be
muffeled
for
knowinge
and
se
that
you
go
home
and
acquaynt
that
walking
Morte
with
the
matter
for
we
must
haue
her
helpe
to
hold
,
for
alwaies
foure
must
hold
&
two
lay
one
.
Alas
sayth
this
good
wyfe
,
he
is
to
stronge
for
you
al
,
I
would
be
loth
for
my
sake
you
should
receaue
harme
at
his
hand
feare
you
not
ꝙ
these
stout
wemen
let
her
not
geue
that
watche
worde
vntyll
his
hosen
be
aboute
his
leggs
.
And
I
trowe
we
all
wyl
be
with
him
to
bryng
before
he
shall
haue
leysure
to
plucke
them
vp
agayne
they
al
which
on
voyce
agred
to
the
matter
that
the
way
she
had
deuised
was
the
best
,
so
this
good
wife
repaired
home
but
before
she
departed
from
her
gossyps
she
shewed
them
at
what
oure
they
should
preuely
come
in
on
the
backsyd
&
where
to
tary
their
good
our
,
so
by
that
time
she
cam
in
it
was
all
moste
night
,
and
found
the
walking
Morte
styll
setting
by
the
fyre
,
and
declared
to
her
all
this
new
deuyse
aboue
sayd
,
which
promised
faythfully
to
fullfyll
to
her
small
powre
as
much
as
they
had
deuysed
,
with
in
a
quarter
of
an
owre
after
in
commeth
the
good
man
,
who
said
that
he
was
about
his
cattell
,
why
what
haue
we
here
wyfe
setting
by
the
fyre
,
&
yf
she
haue
eate
and
dronke
send
her
into
the
barne
to
her
lodging
for
this
night
,
for
she
troubeleth
the
house
,
euen
as
you
wyll
housbande
sayth
his
wyfe
you
knowe
she
commeth
once
in
two
yeres
into
these
quarters
.
Awaye
saythe
this
good
wyfe
to
your
lodginge
,
yes
good
dame
sayth
she
as
fast
as
I
can
,
thus
by
loking
won
on
the
other
eche
knewe
others
mind
and
so
departed
,
to
her
comely
couche
,
the
good
man
of
the
house
shrodge
hym
for
Ioye
thinking
to
hym selfe
I
wyll
make
some
pastyme
with
you
anone
.
And
calling
to
his
wyfe
for
his
sopper
set
him
downe
and
was
very
plesant
and
dranke
to
his
wyfe
&
fell
to
his
mamerings
and
mouched
a
pace
nothing
vnderstanding
of
the
banckquet
that
was
a
preparing
for
him
after
sopper
,
&
according
to
the
prouerbe
.
(
Swere
meate
wyll
haue
sowre
sawce
)
thus
when
he
was
well
refreshed
,
his
sprietes
being
reuyued
entred
into
familiare
talke
with
his
wyfe
,
of
manye
matters
hawe
well
he
had
spent
that
daye
to
both
there
proffytes
,
saying
some
of
his
cattell
that
were
lyke
to
haue
bene
drowned
in
the
deches
dryuing
others
of
his
neyghbors
cattell
out
that
were
in
his
pastures
,
&
mending
his
fences
that
were
broken
downe
.
Thus
profitably
he
had
consumed
the
daye
,
nothing
talking
of
his
helping
out
of
the
walking
Morte
out
of
the
myre
,
nether
of
his
request
nor
yet
of
her
promisse
.
Thus
feding
her
which
frendly
santycyes
consumed
two
oures
and
more
.
Then
fayninge
howe
hee
would
se
in
what
case
his
horse
were
in
and
howe
they
were
dressed
.
Repaired
couetly
in
to
the
barne
,
where
as
his
freendely
foes
lyrked
preuely
vnles
it
were
this
mannerly
Morte
,
that
comly
couched
on
a
bottell
of
strawe
,
what
are
you
come
ꝙ
she
by
the
masse
I
would
not
for
a
hundreth
pound
that
my
dame
should
knowe
that
you
were
here
eyther
any
els
of
your
house
.
No
I
warrant
the
sayth
this
good
man
they
be
all
safe
and
fast
ynough
at
their
worke
,
and
I
wyl
be
at
mine
anone
.
And
laye
downe
by
her
,
and
strayght
would
haue
had
to
do
with
her
,
nay
lye
sayth
she
I
lyke
not
this
order
if
ye
lye
with
me
you
shall
surely
vntrus
you
&
put
down
your
hosen
for
that
way
is
most
easiest
and
best
,
sayest
thou
so
quoth
he
now
by
my
trouth
agred
.
And
when
he
had
vntrussed
him selfe
and
put
downe
he
began
to
assalt
the
vnsa●able
fort
,
why
quoth
she
that
was
with
out
shame
sauinge
for
here
promes
.
And
are
you
not
ashamed
,
neuer
a
whyt
sayth
he
lye
downe
quickely
,
now
fye
for
shame
,
fye
saythe
she
a
loude
whyche
was
the
watche
word
.
At
the
which
word
,
these
fyne
furious
sturdy
muffeled
gossypes
flynges
oute
,
and
takes
sure
holde
of
this
betrayed
parson
,
sone
plucking
his
hosen
downe
lower
,
and
bynding
the
same
fast
about
his
féete
,
then
bynding
his
handes
,
and
knittinge
a
hande
charcher
about
hys
eyes
,
that
he
should
not
sée
,
and
when
they
had
made
hym
sure
and
fast
.
Then
they
layd
hym
one
vntyll
they
weare
windles
,
be
good
sayth
this
Morte
vnto
my
maister
for
the
pascion
of
god
and
layd
on
as
fast
as
the
rest
,
and
styll
seased
not
to
crye
vpon
them
to
bee
mercyfull
vnto
hym
,
and
yet
layde
on
a
pace
,
and
when
they
had
well
beaten
hym
that
the
bloud
braste
plentifullye
oute
in
moste
places
they
let
hym
lye
styll
bounde
.
With
this
exortation
,
that
he
should
from
that
tyme
forth
know
his
wyfe
from
other
mens
and
that
this
punishment
was
but
a
flebyting
in
respecte
of
the
whych
should
followe
,
yf
he
amended
not
his
manners
.
Thus
leuyng
hym
blustering
blowing
and
fominge
for
payne
and
malyncolye
that
hee
nether
myght
or
coulde
be
reuenged
of
them
,
they
vanyshed
awaye
and
hadde
thys
Morte
wyth
them
,
and
safely
conuayde
her
out
of
the
town
,
sone
after
commeth
into
the
barne
one
of
the
good
mans
boyes
to
set
some
haye
for
his
horse
.
And
fyndinge
his
maister
lyinge
faste
bounde
and
greuouslye
beaten
with
rades
,
was
sodenly
abashed
and
would
haue
runne
out
ag●yne
to
haue
called
for
helpe
,
but
his
maister
bed
hym
come
vnto
hym
and
vnbynd
hym
.
and
make
no
wordes
quoth
he
of
this
.
I
wyl
be
reuenged
well
ynoughe
,
yet
not
wythstandinge
after
better
aduyse
,
the
mattor
beinge
vnhonest
;
he
thought
it
meter
to
let
the
same
pas
,
and
not
as
the
prouerbe
saythe
(
to
awake
the
sleping
dogge
.
)
And
by
my
trouth
quoth
this
walkinge
Morte
,
I
come
nowe
from
that
place
and
was
neuer
there
sythence
this
parte
was
playde
,
which
is
some
what
more
then
a
yeare
.
And
I
here
a
very
good
reporte
of
hym
,
now
that
he
loueth
hys
wyfe
well
and
vseth
hym selfe
verye
honestlye
and
was
not
this
a
good
acte
,
nowe
howe
saye
you
.
It
was
pretelye
handeled
quoth
I
and
is
here
all
yea
quoth
she
here
is
the
ende
.
¶
A
Doxe
.
THese
Doxes
be
broken
and
spoyled
of
their
maydenhead
,
by
the
vpright
men
,
and
then
they
haue
their
name
of
Doxes
,
and
not
afore
And
afterward
she
is
commen
and
indifferent
for
any
that
wyll
vse
her
as
homo
is
a
commen
name
to
all
men
.
Such
as
be
fayre
and
some
what
handsome
,
kepe
company
with
the
walkinge
Mortes
,
and
are
redye
alwayes
for
the
vpright
men
,
and
are
chiefely
mayntayned
by
them
,
for
others
shal
be
spoyled
for
their
sakes
,
the
other
in
ferior
sort
wyll
resorte
to
noble
mens
places
,
and
gentlemens
houses
standing
at
the
gate
,
eyther
lurkinge
on
the
backesyde
about
backehouses
eyther
in
hedge
rowes
or
some
other
thycket
,
expectinge
their
praye
,
whiche
is
for
the
vncomely
company
of
some
curteous
ge●t
of
whom
they
be
refreshed
with
meate
and
some
monye
,
where
eschaunge
is
made
ware
for
ware
:
this
bread
and
meate
they
vse
to
carry
in
their
greate
hosen
,
so
that
these
beastlye
bryberinge
bréeches
serue
manye
tymes
for
bawdye
purposes
.
I
chaunced
not
longe
sithens
familiarly
to
commen
wyth
a
Doxe
that
came
to
my
gate
,
and
surelye
a
pleasant
harlot
,
and
not
so
pleasant
as
wytty
,
and
not
so
wytty
as
voyd
of
all
grace
and
goodnes
.
I
founde
by
here
talke
that
shée
hadde
passed
her
tyme
lewdlye
eyghttene
yeares
in
walkinge
aboute
.
I
thoughte
this
a
necessary
instrument
to
attayne
some
knoweledge
by
,
and
before
I
woulde
grope
her
mynde
I
made
her
bothe
to
eate
and
drynke
well
,
that
done
I
made
her
faythefull
promise
to
geue
her
some
money
yf
she
would
open
and
dyscouer
to
me
such
questions
as
I
would
demaunde
of
her
,
and
neuer
to
bee
wraye
her
nether
to
disclose
her
name
.
And
you
shoulde
sayth
she
I
were
vndon
:
feare
not
that
quoth
I
,
but
I
praye
the
quoth
I
,
say
nothing
but
trouth
.
I
wyll
not
saith
shée
,
then
fyrste
tell
me
quoth
I
,
how
many
vpright
men
and
Roges
dost
thou
knowe
or
hast
thou
knowne
and
byn
conuersant
with
and
what
their
names
be
:
she
paused
a
whyle
and
sayd
:
why
do
you
aske
me
,
or
wherefore
?
For
nothinge
els
as
I
sayde
;
but
that
I
woulde
knowe
them
when
they
came
to
my
gate
.
Nowe
by
my
trouth
(
quoth
she
(
then
are
yea
neuer
the
neare
,
for
all
myne
acquayntance
for
the
moste
parte
are
deade
.
Dead
quoth
I
,
howe
dyed
they
,
for
wante
of
cherishinge
,
or
of
paynefull
diseases
.
Then
she
sighed
;
and
sayde
they
were
hanged
.
What
all
quoth
I
,
and
so
manye
walke
abroade
,
as
I
dayely
sée
?
By
my
trouth
quoth
she
,
I
knowe
not
paste
six
or
seuen
by
their
names
,
and
named
the
same
to
me
.
When
were
they
hanged
quoth
I
?
Some
seuen
yeares
agone
,
some
thrée
yeares
,
and
some
with
in
this
fortnight
,
and
declared
the
place
where
they
weare
executed
,
whiche
I
knew
well
to
bée
true
,
by
the
reporte
of
others
.
Why
(
quoth
I
)
dyd
not
this
sorrowfull
and
feareful
sight
much
gréeue
thée
,
and
for
thy
tyme
longe
and
euyll
spent
.
I
was
sory
quoth
shée
,
by
the
Masse
,
for
some
of
them
were
good
louing
men
.
For
I
lackt
not
when
they
had
it
,
and
they
wanted
not
when
I
had
it
,
and
diuers
of
them
I
neuer
dyd
for
sake
,
vntyll
the
Gallowes
departed
vs
.
O
mercyfull
God
(
quoth
I
and
began
to
blesse
me
.
Why
blesse
ye
quoth
she
?
Alas
good
gentleman
euery
one
muste
haue
a
lyuinge
.
Other
matters
I
talked
of
,
but
this
nowe
maye
suffice
to
shewe
the
Reader
as
it
weare
in
a
glasse
,
the
bolde
beastly
lyfe
of
these
Dores
.
For
suche
as
hathe
gone
anye
tyme
abroade
,
wyll
neuer
forsake
their
trade
,
to
dye
therefore
,
I
haue
hadde
good
profe
thereof
.
There
is
one
a
notorious
harlot
of
this
affinitye
called
Besse
Bottomelye
,
she
hath
but
one
hande
,
and
she
hath
murthered
two
children
at
the
least
.
¶
A
Dell.
A
Dell
is
a
yonge
wencheable
for
generation
,
and
not
yet
knowen
or
broken
by
the
vpright
man
.
These
go
abroad
yong
,
either
by
the
death
of
their
parentes
,
and
no
bodye
to
looke
vnto
them
,
or
els
by
some
sharpe
mystres
that
they
serue
do
runne
awaye
oute
of
seruice
,
eyther
shée
is
naturallye
borne
one
,
and
then
shée
is
a
wylde
Dell
,
these
are
broken
verye
younge
,
when
they
haue
béene
lyen
withall
by
the
vpright
man
,
then
they
be
Doxes
,
&
no
Dels
.
These
wyld
Dels
being
traded
vp
with
their
monstrous
motheres
,
must
of
ne●essyty
be
as
euil
or
wursse
then
their
parents
,
for
neither
we
gather
grapes
from
grene
bryars
,
neither
fygs
from
Thistels
.
But
such
buds
,
such
blosoms
,
such
euyll
sede
sowen
,
well
worsse
beinge
growen
.
¶
A
Kynchin
Morte
.
A
Kynchyn
Morte
is
a
lytle
Gyrle
,
the
Mortes
their
mothers
carries
them
at
their
backes
in
their
states
,
whiche
is
their
shetes
,
and
bryngs
them
vp
safely
,
tyll
they
grow
to
be
rype
,
and
soone
rype
,
soone
rotten
.
¶
A
Kynchen
Co.
A
Kynchen
Co
is
a
young
boye
,
traden
vp
to
suche
peuishe
purposes
,
as
you
haue
hard
of
other
young
ympes
before
,
that
when
he
groweth
two
yeres
,
he
is
better
to
hang
then
to
drawe
forth
.
¶
Their
vsage
in
the
night
.
NOw
I
thinke
it
not
vnnecessary
to
make
the
Reader
vndrstān
how
&
in
what
maner
they
lodg
a
nights
in
barnes
or
backe-houses
,
&
of
their
vsage
ther
,
for
asmuch
as
I
haue
acquainted
them
with
their
order
&
practises
a
day
times
.
The
arche
&
chief
walkers
that
hath
walked
a
long
time
,
whose
experience
is
great
because
of
their
continuing
practise
,
I
meane
all
Morts
&
Dores
for
their
handsomnes
and
diligence
for
making
of
their
couches
.
The
men
neuer
trouble
them selues
with
the
thing
,
but
takes
the
same
to
be
the
dutye
of
the
wyfe
.
And
she
shuffels
vp
a
quantity
of
strawe
or
haye
in
to
some
prety
corner
of
the
barne
where
she
maye
conueniently
lye
,
&
well
shaketh
the
same
,
making
the
head
some
what
hie
,
and
driues
the
same
vpon
the
sydes
and
feete
lyke
a
bed
,
then
she
layeth
her
wallet
,
or
some
other
litle
packe
of
raggs
or
scrip
vnder
her
head
in
the
straw
to
beare
vp
the
same
,
and
layeth
her
petycote
or
cloke
vpon
and
ouer
the
strawe
so
made
lyke
a
bedde
,
&
that
serueth
for
the
blancket
.
Then
she
layeth
her
state
which
is
her
shete
vpon
that
,
&
she
haue
no
shete
,
as
fewe
of
them
go
without
,
then
she
spreddeth
some
large
clouts
or
rags
ouer
the
same
,
and
maketh
her
ready
,
and
layeth
her
drouselye
downe
.
Many
wyll
plucke
of
their
smockes
,
and
laye
the
same
vpon
them
in
stede
of
their
vpper
shéete
,
and
all
her
other
pelte
and
trashe
vpon
her
also
,
and
many
lyeth
in
their
smockes
.
And
if
the
rest
of
her
clothes
in
cold
weather
be
not
sufficient
to
kepe
her
warme
,
then
she
takethe
strawe
or
haye
to
performe
the
matter
.
The
other
sorte
that
haue
not
slates
,
but
toumble
downe
and
couche
a
hogshead
in
their
clothes
,
and
these
be
styll
lousy
and
shall
neuer
be
with
out
vermin
,
vnles
,
they
put
of
their
clothes
,
and
lye
as
is
aboue
sayde
.
If
the
vpright
man
come
in
where
they
lye
,
he
hath
hys
choyse
,
and
crepeth
in
close
by
his
Dore
,
the
Roge
hath
his
leauings
.
If
the
Mortes
or
Doxes
lye
or
be
lodged
in
some
Farmers
barne
,
and
the
dore
be
etherlocked
or
made
fast
to
them
,
then
wyl
not
the
vpright
man
presse
to
com
in
.
Vnles
it
be
in
barnes
and
oute
houses
,
standinge
alone
,
or
some
distance
from
houses
which
be
commonly
knowne
to
them
.
As
saint
Quintens
,
thrée
Cranes
of
the
Vyntre
,
Saynt
Tybbes
,
and
Knapsbery
,
These
foure
be
with
in
on
myle
compasse
neare
vnto
London
.
Then
haue
you
iiii
.
more
in
Middlesex
,
drawe
the
pudding
out
of
the
fyre
,
in
Harrow
on
the
hyll
parish
.
the
Crose
keyes
in
Cranford
parish
,
Saynt
Iulyans
in
Thistellworth
parish
,
the
house
of
pity
,
in
North
hall
parish
.
These
are
their
chiefe
houses
neare
about
London
,
wher
commonly
they
resorte
vnto
for
Lodging
,
and
maye
repaire
thether
freelye
at
all
times
.
Sometyme
shall
come
in
some
Roge
,
some
pyeking
knaue
,
anymble
Prygge
,
he
walketh
in
softly
a
nightes
,
when
they
be
at
their
rest
and
plucketh
of
as
many
garmentes
as
be
ought
worth
that
he
maye
come
by
,
and
worth
money
,
and
maye
easely
cary
the
same
,
and
runneth
awaye
with
the
same
with
great
felicitye
,
and
maketh
porte
sale
at
some
conuenient
place
of
theirs
,
that
some
soone
ready
in
the
morning
,
for
want
of
their
Casters
and
Togemans
Where
in
stéede
of
blessing
is
curssing
,
in
place
of
prainge
pestilente
prayting
with
odious
othes
&
terrible
threatninges
.
The
vpright
men
haue
geuen
all
these
nycke
names
to
the
places
aboue
sayd
.
Yt
haue
we
twoo
notable
places
in
Kent
,
not
fare
from
London
,
the
one
is
betwene
Detforde
and
Rothered
,
called
the
Kinges
barne
,
standyng
alone
,
that
they
haunt
commonly
the
other
is
Ketbrok
,
standing
by
black
heath
halfe
a
mile
from
any
house
.
There
wyll
they
boldlye
drawe
the
latch
of
the
doore
,
and
go
in
when
the
good
man
with
his
famyly
be
at
supper
&
syt
downe
without
leaue
and
eate
and
drinke
with
them
,
&
etherly
in
the
hal
by
the
fire
al
night
,
or
in
the
barne
if
ther
be
no
rome
in
the
house
for
them
.
If
the
doore
be
eyther
bolted
or
lockt
,
if
it
be
not
opened
vnto
them
when
they
wyll
,
they
wyll
breake
the
same
opene
to
his
farther
cost
.
And
in
this
barne
sometyme
do
lye
.xl.
vpright
men
wyth
their
Doxes
together
at
one
time
.
And
this
must
the
poore
Farmer
suffer
,
or
els
they
threaten
him
to
burne
him
,
&
all
that
he
hath
.
¶
The
names
of
the
Vpright
men
Roges
,
&
Palliardes
.
HEre
followeth
the
vnrulye
rablement
of
rascals
,
and
the
moste
notorious
and
wyckedst
walkers
that
are
lyuinge
nowe
at
this
present
with
then
true
names
as
they
he
called
and
knowne
by
.
And
although
I
set
and
place
her
but
iii.
orders
,
yet
good
Reader
vnderstand
that
all
the
others
aboue
named
are
deriued
and
come
oute
from
the
vpright
men
and
Roges
.
Concerninge
the
number
of
Morets
and
Dotes
,
it
is
superfluous
to
write
of
them
,
I
could
well
haue
don
it
but
the
number
of
them
is
great
,
and
would
aske
a
good
volume
.
¶
Vpright
men
.
-
Richard
Brymmysh
-
Iohn
Myllar
.
-
Wel
arayd
Richard
.
-
Iohn
Walchman
.
-
Thomas
Bulloke
.
-
Iohn
Iones
.
-
Ihon
Teddar
.
-
Richard
Iustyce
.
-
Lennard
Iust
.
-
Robart
Grauenar
.
-
Wylliam
Chamborne
-
Bryan
Medcalfe
.
-
Robart
Gerse
.
-
Gryffen
.
-
Core
the
Cuckolde
.
-
Robart
Kynge
.
-
Nycholas
Wylson
.
-
Burfet
.
-
Iames
Barnard
.
-
Stephen
Neuet
.
-
Richard
Barton
.
-
Iohn
Braye
.
-
Thomas
Cutter
.
-
Dowzabell
skylfull
in
fence
.
-
Robart
Egerton
.
-
Thomas
Garret
.
-
Dauyd
Coke
.
-
Harrye
Hilles
alias
harry
go
depar
.
-
Iohn
Cutter
-
Folentyne
Hylles
his
brother
.
-
Wylliam
Pannell
.
-
Wylliam
Morgan
.
-
Iohn
Bell.
-
Robart
Bell
his
brother
.
-
Phillip
Gréeke
.
-
Iohn
Steuens
.
-
Robart
Maple
.
-
Wylliam
Belson
.
-
Iohn
Gray●
.
-
Roba●●
Lang●●●
.
-
Ge●●●e
●●r●mar
.
-
Wyliam
●●●●s
.
-
Iohn
Why●●
.
-
Thomas
●ewton
.
-
Wylliam
Garret
.
-
Longe
Gréene
.
-
Fardinand●
Angell
-
Wylliam
Robynson
.
-
Wylliam
Vmb●ruile
.
-
Iohn
Rewe
.
-
Thomas
W●b
.
-
Wylliam
Dauids
.
-
Iohn
M●rres
.
-
Iohn
a
Farnando
.
-
Antony
Heymer
.
-
Laurence
Ladd
.
-
Dycke
Glouer
.
-
Antony
Iackson
.
-
Richard
Constans
.
-
Wyll
pen
-
Litle
Iohn
Gray
.
-
Robyn
Bell.
-
Thomas
Grayhis
toes
begonne
.
-
Robbyn
Topp
-
Iohn
Newman
.
-
Wylliam
Iones
.
-
Great
Iohn
Gray
.
-
Dycke
a
Brystow
.
-
Tom
Bodele
.
-
Richard
Thomas
.
-
Wyll
Powell
.
-
Christopher
Cooke
.
-
Edmund
Dun
a
singing
man
.
-
Laurence
Marshall
.
-
Richars
Cadman
.
-
Edward
Skinner
,
〈◊〉
N●●
Shiner
-
〈…〉
-
〈…〉
-
Wylliam
Clark●
-
Water
Wyrrall
.
-
Ned
Barington
.
-
Iohn
Appconnes
.
-
Iohn
Thomas
.
-
Iohn
Arter
.
-
Iohn
Palmer
alias
Todd
.
-
Iohn
Goffren
.
-
Thomas
Wast
.
-
Thomas
Dawso
alias
.
Thomas
●acklin
.
-
Iohn
G●d●ord
.
-
Iohn
Herwod
amaker
of
wels
,
he
〈◊〉
halfe
his
bargaine
in
hand
,
&
when
he
hath
wrought
ii
.
or
iii.
daies
he
runneth
away
with
his
earnest
.
-
Iohn
Peter
.
-
Iohn
Porter
.
-
Richard
Stategood
.
-
Iohn
Appowes
.
-
Harry
Agglyntyne
.
-
Iohn
Goddard
.
-
Edward
Browne
.
-
Rychard
Appryce
.
-
Harry
Smith
,
he
driueleth
when
he
speaketh
.
-
Thomas
Baset
.
-
Iohn
Bates
.
-
Thomas
Marchant
.
-
Thomas
Web.
-
Iohn
Comes
.
-
Iohn
Chyls
,
alias
great
Chylas
.
-
Iohn
〈◊〉
he
maketh
〈◊〉
and
fausets
.
-
Iohn
Loudale
a
mayster
of
fence
.
-
Robart
Brownswerde
,
he
weatenhe
his
heare
songs
.
-
Wylliam
Browne
.
-
Iohn
Loue
dale
.
-
Harry
Ionson
.
-
Water
Martyn
.
-
Antony
Iacson
.
-
Robart
Curses
.
-
Thomas
Awefeld
.
-
Iohn
Mekes
.
-
Iohn
Appowell
.
-
Thomas
Gybbins
.
-
Richard
Walker
.
-
Wylliam
Grace
.
-
Iohn
Chappell
.
-
Iohn
Gryffen
.
-
Robbyn
Edmundes
.
-
Thomas
Lacon
-
Richard
Copar
.
-
Iohn
Mason
.
-
Ned
Wetherdon
.
-
Ned
Holmes
.
-
Dauid
Edwards
.
-
Wylliam
Pychering
.
-
Thomas
Bate
.
-
Iohn
S●●●ling
with
the
shaking
head
.
-
Iohn
Franke.
-
Thomas
Allen
.
-
Iohn
●●ker
.
-
Dauid
Holland
.
-
Iohn
Basta●●d
.
-
George
Hu●cheson
.
-
Dauid
Iones
-
Fraunces
Dawghion
.
¶
Roges
.
-
Harry
Walles
with
the
little
mouth
.
-
Iohn
Waren
.
-
Richard
Brewton
.
-
Thomas
Haske
.
-
Richard
Horwo●
,
wel
pexe
lxxx
.
yeres
olde
,
he
wyll
byre
a
vi
.
peny
nayle
a
sonder
with
his
téeth
,
and
a
dawdy
dronkard
.
-
Wylliam
Carew
.
-
Iohn
Donne
with
one
legge
.
-
Iohn
Elson
.
-
Thomas
Bere
.
-
Nicholas
Adams
a
great
s●amerar
.
-
Arche
Dowglas
a
Scot.
-
Symon
Kinge
.
-
Iohn
Raynoldes
.
-
Thomas
Shawnean
Iresh
man
.
-
Blacke
Dycke
-
George
Belbar●y
.
-
Humfrey
Warde
.
-
Lytle
Robyn
.
-
Lytle
Dycke
.
-
Iohn
Harrys
.
-
Iames
Monkaster
a
counterfet
Cranck
,
-
Nicholas
Crispyn
.
-
Edward
Eellys
.
-
Wylliam
wastfield
.
-
Dycke
Duram
.
-
Richard
Crane
●●rieth
a
Kinchen
co
at
his
Backe
.
-
Nycholas
Blut
,
alias
.
-
Nycholas
Gennyns
a
counterfet
Crank
Wylson
.
-
Godman
.
-
Iohn
Dew
.
-
Iohn
Crew
with
one
arme
.
-
Nycholas
Lynche
.
-
Raffe
Kyteley
.
-
Richard
Iones
.
-
Lambart
Rose
.
-
Harry
Mason
.
-
Thomas
Smithe
with
the
skal
skyn
.
-
Dauid
Dew
neuet
a
counterfet
Cranke
.
-
Iohn
Browne
a
great
stamerer
.
-
Edward
Anseley
.
-
Robart
Harryson
.
-
Gerard
Gybbyn
a
counterfet
Crank
-
Wylliam
Gynkes
with
a
whyr
beard
a
lusty
and
stronge
man
,
he
runneth
about
the
countrey
to
seke
worke
,
with
a
byg
boye
his
sonn
carying
his
tooles
as
a
dawber
and
plasterer
,
but
lytle
worke
serueth
him
.
¶
Pallyards
.
-
Nycholas
Newson
carieth
a
layned
lyrence
.
-
Bashforde
.
-
Robart
Lackley
.
-
Wylliam
Thomas
-
Edward
Heyward
,
hath
his
Morte
following
hym
Whiche
fayneth
the
crank
Preston
.
-
Robart
Canloke
.
-
Wylliam
C●oper
with
the
Harelyp
.
-
Thomas
Edwards
.
-
Laurence
with
the
great
legge
.
-
Iohn
Perse
a
counterfet
Cranke
.
-
Richard
Hylton
carieth
ii
.
kinchen
Mortes
about
him
.
-
Dycke
S●han
.
Irish
.
-
Iohn
Dauids
his
fellow
.
-
Wyll
Penyt
●e●reath
a
kinchen-morte
at
his
back
.
-
Richard
Thomas
.
-
Iohn
Harrison
.
-
Edward
Lewes
a
dummerer
.
-
Iohn
Carew
.
-
Wylliam
Bowmet
-
Iames
Lane
with
one
eye
Irish
.
-
Hugh
Iones
.
-
Dauid
Powell
.
-
Sothegarde
.
-
Iohn
Fysher
.
-
Nycholas
Decase
.
-
Thomas
Dauids
Swanders
.
-
Iohn
Dewe
.
-
Dauid
Iones
a
counterfyt
Cranke
.
-
Iohn
Gylford
Irish
with
a
counterfet
lysence
.
¶
Their
is
aboue
an
hundreth
of
Irishe
men
and
women
that
wander
about
to
begge
for
their
lyuing
,
that
hath
come
ouer
within
these
twoo
yeares
.
They
laye
they
haue
béene
burned
and
spoyled
by
the
Earele
of
Desmond
,
and
report
well
of
the
Earle
of
Vrmond
.
¶
All
these
aboue
wryten
for
the
most
part
walke
about
Essex
,
Myddleser
,
Sussex
Surrey
,
and
Rent
.
Then
let
the
reader
iudge
,
what
number
walkes
in
other
Shieres
,
●eare
me
to
great
a
number
,
if
they
be
well
vnderstande
.
HEre
I
set
before
thée
good
Reader
,
the
leud
lousey
language
of
these
lewtering
Luskes
,
and
lasy
Lorrels
,
wher
with
they
bye
and
fell
the
common
people
as
they
passe
through
the
country
.
Which
language
they
terme
Peddelars
Frenche
,
Turrian
vnknowen
tong
onely
,
but
to
these
bold
beastly
bawdye
Beggers
,
and
vaine
Vacabondes
,
being
halfe
myngled
with
Englyshe
,
when
it
is
familiarly
talked
,
and
fyrste
plaring
thinges
by
their
proper
names
,
as
an
Introduction
to
this
peuysh
spéeche
.
-
Nab.
a
head
.
-
Nabchet
.
a
hat
or
cap.
-
Glasyers
.
eyes
.
-
a
smeling
chete
a
nose
.
-
gan
.
a
mouth
.
-
a
pratlynge
chete
.
a
tounge
.
-
Crashinge
chetes
.
téeth
.
-
Hearing
chetes
.
eares
.
-
fambles
.
handes
.
-
a
famblinge
chete
.
a
rynge
on
thy
hand
.
-
quaromes
.
a
body
-
prat
a
buttocke
.
-
stampes
legges
.
-
a
caster
a
cloke
.
-
a
togeman
a
cota
.
-
a
commission
a
shierte
-
drawers
hosen
.
-
stampers
shooes
.
-
a
moflinge
chete
.
a
napkyn
.
-
a
belly
chete
an
apern
.
-
dudes
clothes
.
-
a
lag
of
duds
a
bucke
of
clothes
-
a
slate
or
slats
a
shéete
or
shetes
-
lybbege
a
bed
.
-
bunge
a
pursse
.
-
lowre
money
.
-
mynt
golde
.
-
a
borde
a
shyllinge
.
-
halfe
a
borde
sixe
pence
.
-
flagg
a
greate
,
-
a
wyn
a
penny
.
-
a
make
a
halfepenny
,
-
bowse
drynke
.
-
bene
good
-
benshyp
very
good
.
-
quiet
nouhgt
.
-
a
gage
a
quart
pot
,
-
a
skew
a
cuppe
.
-
pannam
bread
.
-
cassan
chéese
.
-
yarum
mylke
.
-
lap
butter
,
mylke
,
or
whey
.
-
pek
meate
.
-
poppelars
porrage
.
-
ruff
pek
haken
.
-
a
grunting
chet
or
apatrices
kichen
,
a
pyg
.
-
a
caklīgchet
a
cock
or
capon
,
-
a
margerye
praier
.
a
Hen.
-
a
Roger
or
tyb
of
the
buttery
a
Goose
-
a
quakinge
chet
or
a
red
shanke
a
drake
or
ducke
-
grannam
.
corne
.
-
a
lowhing
chet
a
Cowe
.
-
a
bleting
chet
a
calfe
or
shéepe
-
a
prauncer
a
horse
.
-
antem
a
church
.
-
Salomon
a
alter
or
masse
.
-
patrico
a
priest
.
-
nosegent
a
Nunne
.
-
a
gybe
a
writinge
.
-
a
Tarke
a
seale
.
-
a
ken
a
house
.
-
a
stauling
ken
a
house
that
wil
receiue
stolen
ware
-
a
bousing
ken
a
ale
house
.
-
a
Lypken
.
a
house
to
lye
in
-
a
Lybbege
.
a
bedde
,
-
glymmar
,
fyre
.
-
Rome
bouse
wyne
-
lage
.
lage
.
water
-
a
skyppar
.
a
barne
.
-
strommell
.
strawe
.
-
a
gentry
cofes
kenne
.
A
noble
or
gentle
mans
house
.
-
a
gygger
,
a
doore
.
-
bufe
.
a
dogge
-
the
lightmans
the
daye
.
-
the
darkmans
,
the
night
.
-
Rome
vyle
London
.
-
dewse
a
vile
the
countrey
.
-
rome
morte
the
Qeune
,
-
a
gentrye
cofe
a
noble
or
gentle
man
.
-
a
gentry
mort
A
noble
or
gentle
woman
,
-
the
quyer
custyn
that
Iusticer
of
peace
-
the
harman
beck
the
Counstable
,
-
the
harmanes
the
stockes
,
-
Quyerken
a
prison
house
,
-
Quier
cramprings
.
boltes
or
fetters
-
trinynge
hanginge
-
chattes
the
gallowes
-
the
hygh
pad
.
the
hygh
waye
-
the
ruffmanes
.
the
wods
or
bushes
-
a
smelling
chet
a
garden
or
orchard
-
crassinge
chets
apels
peares
or
any
other
frute
.
-
to
fyltche
to
beate
-
to
strike
to
robbe
.
-
to
nyp
a
bong
.
to
cut
a
purse
-
To
skowere
the
cramprings
.
to
weare
boltes
or
fetters
.
-
to
heue
abough
.
to
robbe
or
ryfle
a
boewethe
.
-
to
cly
the
gerke
to
be
whypped
-
to
cutte
beuie
.
to
speake
gentlye
-
To
cutte
bene
whyddes
to
speake
or
gaue
good
words
-
To
cutte
quyre
whyddes
.
to
geue
euel
wordes
or
euell
language
.
-
to
cutte
.
to
saye
.
-
to
towre
.
to
sée
-
to
bowese
.
to
drynke
.
-
to
maunde
.
to
aske
or
requier
-
to
stall
.
to
make
or
ordain
-
to
cante
to
speake
.
-
to
wyll
a
ken
to
robbe
a
house
.
-
to
pryggs
.
to
ryde
.
-
to
dup
the
giger
to
open
the
doore
-
to
couch
a
hogsheade
.
to
ly
downe
slepe
-
to
nyggle
to
haue
to
do
with
a
woman
carnally
.
-
stow
you
,
a
holde
your
peace
.
-
bynge
a
waste
go
you
hence
,
-
to
the
ruffian
.
to
the
deuyll
-
the
ruffian
clythe
.
the
deuell
take
thée
¶
The
vpright
Cafe
canteth
to
the
Roger
The
vprighte
man
spaketh
to
the
Roge
Man
.
Bene
Lyghtmans
to
thy
quarromes
in
what
lipken
hast
thou
lipped
in
this
darke
manes
;
whether
in
a
lybbege
or
in
the
strummell
.
God
morrowe
to
thy
bodye
,
in
what
house
hast
thou
lyue
in
all
night
whether
in
a
bed
,
or
in
the
strawe
.
Roge.
I
couched
a
hogeshed
in
a
Skypper
this
darkemans
.
I
laye
me
downe
to
sléepe
in
a
barne
this
night
.
Man
.
I
towre
the
strummell
tryne
vpon
thy
nabcher
&
Tagman
I
sée
the
straw
hange
vpon
thy
cap
and
coate
Roge.
I
saye
by
the
Salomon
I
wyll
lage
it
of
with
a
gage
of
bene
house
then
out
to
my
nose
watch
.
I
sweare
by
the
Mast
I
wyll
wash
it
of
with
a
quart
of
drinke
,
then
saye
to
me
what
thou
wylt
,
Man
.
Why
hast
thou
any
lowre
in
thy
bonge
to
house
.
Why
hast
thou
any
money
in
thy
purfe
to
drinke
.
Roge.
But
a
fiagge
,
a
wyn
and
a
make
But
a
grot
,
a
penny
and
a
halfe
penny
.
Man
.
Why
where
is
the
kene
that
hath
the
bene
house
.
where
is
the
house
that
hath
the
good
drinke
.
Roge.
A
bene
mort
hereby
at
the
signe
of
the
prauncer
A
good
wyfe
here
by
at
the
signe
of
the
hors
,
Man
.
I
cutt
it
is
quyer
boufe
I
bousd
a
flagge
the
laste
darkemans
.
I
saye
it
is
small
and
naughtye
drynke
,
I
dranke
a
groate
there
the
last
night
.
Roge.
But
bouse
there
a
bord
&
thou
shalt
haue
beneship
But
drinke
there
a
shyllinge
,
and
thou
shalt
haue
very
good
.
Tower
ye
yander
is
the
kene
dup
the
gygger
and
maund
that
is
beneshype
.
Se
you
,
yonder
is
she
house
open
the
doore
,
and
aske
for
the
best
.
Man
.
This
house
is
as
benshyp
as
rome
bouse
.
This
drinke
is
as
good
as
wyne
.
Now
I
to
wer
that
bene
bouse
makes
nase
nabes
,
Now
I
so
that
good
drynke
makes
a
dronken
heade
.
Man
tide
of
this
al
drie
what
bene
pecke
is
in
herken
.
Aske
of
this
wyfe
what
good
meate
shée
hath
in
her
house
,
Roge.
She
hath
a
Cacling
chete
,
a
grunting
chete
,
ruff
pecke
,
cassan
,
and
popplarr
of
yarum
.
She
hath
a
hen
a
pyg
,
baken
,
chese
,
and
mylke
porrage
.
Man
.
That
is
beneshyp
to
oure
watche
.
That
is
very
good
for
vs
.
Now
we
haue
well
bousd
,
let
vs
strike
some
chete
Nowe
we
haue
well
dronke
let
vs
steale
some
thinge
.
yonder
dwelleth
a
quyere
custen
it
were
beneshype
to
myll
hym
.
Yonder
dwelleth
a
hoggeshe
and
choprlyshe
man
it
weare
very
well
donne
to
robbe
him
.
Roge.
Nowe
brynge
we
a
waste
to
the
hygh
pad
the
ruffmanes
is
by
,
Nays
let
vs
go
hence
to
the
hygh
waye
the
wodes
is
at
hande
.
Man
.
So
may
we
happen
on
the
Harmanes
and
cly
the
Iarke
or
to
the
quyecken
and
skower
quyart
tramprings
and
so
to
tryning
on
the
chates
.
So
we
maye
chaunce
to
set
in
the
stockes
eyther
be
whypped
eyther
had
to
prison
house
and
there
be
shackeled
with
bolttes
and
fetters
and
then
to
hange
on
the
gallowes
.
Gerry
gan
the
ruffian
clye
thee
.
A
torde
in
thy
mouth
the
deuyll
take
thée
.
Man
.
What
stowe
you
bene
cofe
and
cut
benar
whydds
and
byng
we
to
rome
vyle
to
nyp
a
bong
so
shall
we
haue
lowre
for
the
bousing
ken
and
when
we
byng
back
to
the
deuseauyel
we
wyll
fylche
some
duddes
of
the
Ruffemans
or
myll
the
ken
for
a
lagge
of
dudes
.
What
holde
your
peace
good
fellowe
and
speake
better
wordes
,
and
go
we
to
London
to
cut
a
purse
,
then
shal
we
haue
money
for
the
ale
house
,
and
when
wee
come
backe
agayne
into
the
countrey
,
wée
wyll
steale
some
lynnen
clothes
of
one
hedges
,
or
robbe
some
house
for
a
bucke
of
clothes
.
¶
By
this
lytle
ye
maye
holy
and
fully
vnderstande
their
vntowarde
talke
and
pelting
speache
myngled
&
without
measure
,
and
as
they
haue
begonne
of
late
to
deuyse
some
new
termes
for
certien
thinges
:
so
wyll
they
〈◊〉
an
alter
this
and
deuyse
as
euyll
or
worsse
.
This
language
nowe
beinge
knowen
and
spred
a
broade
,
yet
one
thinge
more
I
wyll
ad
vnto
,
not
meaninge
to
Englysh
the
same
,
because
I
learned
the
same
of
a
shameles
Doxe
,
but
for
the
phrase
of
speche
I
set
it
forth
onely
.
There
was
a
proude
patrico
and
a
nosegent
,
he
tooke
his
Iockam
in
his
famble
,
and
a
wappinge
he
went
,
he
dokte
the
Dell
,
hée
pryge
to
praunce
,
he
byngd
a
waste
into
the
darke
mans
,
he
fylcht
the
Cofe
with
out
any
fylth
man
.
WHyle
this
second
Impression
was
in
printinge
it
fortuned
that
Nycholas
Blunte
,
who
called
hym selfe
Nycholas
Gennyns
a
counterefet
Cranke
,
that
is
spoken
of
in
this
booke
,
was
founde
begging
in
the
whyte
fryers
an
New-yeres
day
last
past
Anno
domini
.
1567
and
commytted
vnto
a
offescer
who
caried
him
vnto
the
depetye
of
the
ward
which
comytted
hym
vnto
the
counter
&
as
the
counstable
and
a nother
would
haue
caried
hym
thether
.
This
counterfet
Cranke
ran
awaye
,
but
one
lyghter
of
fote
then
the
other
ouer
toke
hym
,
&
so
leading
him
to
the
counter
,
where
he
remayned
thrée
dayes
,
&
from
thence
to
Bryde
well
,
where
before
the
maisters
he
had
his
dysgysed
aparell
put
vpon
hym
,
which
was
monstrous
to
be
holde
.
And
after
stode
in
Chepesyde
with
the
same
apparil
on
a
scafold
A
Stockes
to
staye
sure
,
and
safely
detayne
,
Lasy
lewd
Leutterers
,
that
lawes
do
offend
,
Impudent
persons
,
thus
punished
with
payne
,
Hardlye
for
all
this
,
do
meane
to
amende
.
depiction of two men each with a leg in stocks
Fetters
or
shackels
serue
to
make
fast
,
Male
malefactours
,
that
on
myschiefe
do
muse
,
Vntyll
the
learned
lawes
do
quite
or
do
cast
,
Such
suttle
searchers
,
as
all
euyll
do
vse
.
depiction of a pair of fetters or handcuffs and a pair of shackles
A
whyp
is
a
whyskar
,
that
wyll
wrast
out
blood
,
Of
backe
and
of
body
,
beaten
right
well
.
Of
all
the
other
it
doth
the
most
good
.
Experience
techeth
,
and
they
can
well
tell
.
depiction of two whips or flails and two birch-brooms
¶
O
dolefull
daye
,
nowe
death
draweth
nere
,
Hys
bytter
styng
doth
pearce
me
to
the
harte
,
I
take
my
leaue
of
all
that
be
here
,
Nowe
piteously
playing
this
tragicall
parte
,
Neither
stripes
nor
teachinges
in
tyme
could
conuert
,
wherefore
an
ensample
let
me
to
you
be
,
And
all
that
be
present
,
nowe
praye
you
for
me
,
depiction of a man bound at the wrists being led to a gallows past a group of people
THis
is
the
fygure
of
the
counterfet
Clarke
,
that
is
spoken
of
in
this
boke
of
Roges
,
called
Nycholas
Blunt
other
wyse
Nycholas
Gennyngs
.
His
tale
is
in
the
xvii
.
leaf
of
this
booke
,
which
doth
showe
vnto
all
that
reades
it
,
woundrous
suttell
and
crafty
deseit
doune
of
&
by
him
.
depiction of a man or Nicholas Blunt or Jennings with his head imprisoned in the Counter or Compter stocks, guarded by two men armed with sticks and a third armed man nearby
Thus
I
conclude
my
bolde
Beggars
booke
,
That
all
estates
most
playnely
maye
see
,
As
in
a
glasse
well
pollyshed
to
looke
,
Their
double
demeaner
in
eche
degree
.
Their
lyues
their
language
,
their
names
as
they
be
,
That
with
this
warning
their
myndes
may
be
warmed
,
To
amende
their
mysdeedes
,
and
so
lyue
vnharmed
.
depiction of the Madonna and Child or Mary and Jesus in a circular frame with roses and other flowers
¶
Imprinted
at
London
in
Fletestrete
at
the
signe
of
the
Faulcon
by
Wylliam
gryffith
.
Anno
Domni
.
1567.
the
eight
of
Ianuary
.