Here begynneth a dialogue betwene the comen secretary and Ielowsy touchynge the vnstablenes of harlottes Dialogue betwene the comen secretary and jelowsy touchynge the unstablenes of harlottes. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A20395 of text S112617 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 6807). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A20395 STC 6807 ESTC S112617 99847863 99847863 12926 2248537605

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A20395) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 12926) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 239:11) Here begynneth a dialogue betwene the comen secretary and Ielowsy touchynge the vnstablenes of harlottes Dialogue betwene the comen secretary and jelowsy touchynge the unstablenes of harlottes. Gosynhyll, Edward, attributed name. [8] p. J. Skot, [London : 1530?] Sometimes attributed to Edward Gosynhyll. In verse. Imprint and suggested publication date from STC. Consists of four unsigned leaves. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Women -- Early works to 1800. Dialogues, English -- 16th century. eebo Here begynneth a dialogue betwene the comen secretary and Ielowsy touchynge the vnstablenes of harlottes. [no entry] 1530 10 927 2 0 0 0 0 0 21.57 C The rate of 21.57 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-01 Sampled and proofread 2004-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Here begynneth a dialogue betwene the comen Secretary and Ielowsy touchynge the vnstablenes of harlottes .

Secretary . Ielowsy .

Ielowsy . WHat a world is this / I trow it be a curst Fayne wold I marye / yf that I durst But I trow syth the time that god was born So many honest men neuer held of the horn Secretary . What is the mater / be ye in ony doubte Pacyfye your mode / let it come oute Dyscharge your stomake / avoyde it forth Sorowes in store be nothynge worth Ielowsy . Trouth it is / I trust ye wyll not be greued To a small questyon be to you moued In a mater / to me doubtfull and defuse Whiche I suppose ye haue had in experyence & vse Secretary . That perauenture / but I wyll not promyse you p̄sysely To assoyle your questyon very wysely Howe be it that ye say / I am of experyence So ye wyll be close / ye shall here my sentence Ielowsy . Then thus / she that hath a rollynge ey And doth conuey it / well and wysely And therto hath a waueryng thought Trowe ye this trull wyll not be bought . Secretary . Yes / but take hede by the pryce ye haue noo losse A made marchaunt that wyll gyue .v. m̄ke for a goose Beware a rollyng ey with wauerynge thought m̄ke that And for suche stuffe passe not / a dandy pratt Ielowsy . She that is very wanton and nyse Thynkyng her self maruaylous wyse And wyll come to hym that doth her call Wyll she not wrastell for a fall Secretary . Yes suerly / for a fall flat as a cake And cares not howe many falles she doth take There is noo fall can make her lame For she wyll be sure of the best game . Ielowsy . She that doth make it all straunge and quaynt And lokyth as she were a very saynte If a man in the darke doo hyr assay Hath she any power to holde owte nay / nay Secretary . Holde oute / yes / or it is pyttye she was borne A horse a whele barowe and a Rammys horne It the other thynge come ye Wott what I mene For all her holly lookes she wyll conuey it clene Ielowsy . She that doth loue moche dallyng With dyuerse men for fayre spekynge And thynkys not on her owne shame Wyll not this wylde foule be made tame Secretary . Yes with good handlynge as Iayme Euen by and by ye shall her reclayme And make her tame as euer was Turtyll To suffre kyssyng and tyklyng vnder the kyrtell Ielowsy . She that is sum what lyght of credence And to make her freshe / large of expence Howe say you and her mony doo fayle Wyll she not lay too pledge her tayle Secretary . Yes and yf she be of that appetyte She wyll pledge and sell oute ryght Hede pece / tayle pece / and all .iiii. quarters To one or other / rather then fayle to carters Ielowsy . She that louys to sytte and muse And craftly can her selfe excuse When she is taken with a faulte Wyll she not be wonne with a small saulte Secretary . What nedys a saulte / I dare say she wyll consent That ye shall enter by a reasonable poyntment And then take hede for in kepynge of this warde & hold Is more daunger than in gettynge a thousande folde Ielowsy . She that is of mynde sum what rechelles Gyuynge her selfe all to ydelnes And louys to lye longe in her bed Who wayteth his tyme shall he not be sped Secretary . Tyme nay nay wayte / yf she be in good mode For out of chyrche all tymes be goode But passe not theron / though she say nay For so she wyll whan she hath best lust to play Ielowsy . She that can no counsayll kepe And lyghtly wyll sobbe and wepe Laughe agayne and wote not why Wyll she not be sone tysed to foly Secretary The teares be token a gracyous corage And laugh●nge doth all malyce aswage Whan she is in that takynge marke well marke Let slyp / spare not for one course in her parke Ielowsy . She that is fayre and lusty yonge And can comyn in termes with fyled tonge And wyll byde whysperynge in the eare Thynke ye her tayle is not ●yght of the seare Secretary· By all these symblytudes me thynkes suerly Her owne tayle she shulde occupy Somtyme for nede her honeste saued She wyll wasshe often or she be ones shaued Ielowsy . She that paynteth her in starynge apparell Use hote wynes and dayly to farewell And loues to slepe at after none tyde Who lyst stryke trowe ye she wyll not stryde Secretary . I can not say yf she wyll stryke But yf reason be offered nothynge shall fall besyde For of a trouth as frost engendereth hayle Ease and ranke fedynge doth cause a lycorous tayle . Finis