lewtering Luskes _and_ lasy Lorrels, where with they bye and sell the
common people as they pas through the countrey. Whych language they
terme Peddelars Frenche, a vnknowen toung onely, but to these bold,
beastly, bawdy Beggers, and vaine Vacabondes, being halfe myngled with
Englyshe, when it is famyliarlye talked, and fyrste placinge thinges by
their proper names as an Introduction to this peuyshe speeche.
Nab, *a head*.
Nabchet, *a hat or cap*.
Glasyers, *eyes*.
a smelling chete, *a nose*.
gan, *a mouth*.
a pratling chete, *a tounge*.
Crashing chetes, *teeth*.
Hearing chetes, *eares*.
fambles, *handes*.
a fambling chete, *a rynge on thy hand*.
quaromes, *a body*.
prat, *a buttocke*.
stampes, *legges*.
a caster, *a cloke*.
a togeman, *a cote*.
a commission, *a shierte*.
drawers, *hosen*.
stampers, *shooes*.
a mofling chete, *a napkyn*.
a belly chete, *an apern*.
dudes, *clothes*.
a lag of dudes, *a bucke of clothes*.
a slate or slates, *a sheete or shetes*.
lybbege, *a bed*.
bunge, *a pursse*.
lowre, *monye*.
mynt, *golde*.
a bord, *a shylling*.
halfe a borde, *sixe pence*.
flagg, *a groate*.
a wyn, *a penny*.
a make, *a halfepeny*.
bowse, *drynke*.
bene, *good*.
benshyp, *very good*.
quier, *nought*.
a gage, *a quarte pot*.
a skew, *a cuppe*.
pannam,[160] *bread*.
cassan, *cheese*.
yaram,[161] *mylke*.
lap, *butter milke or whey*.
*[leaf 28]* pek, *meate*.
poppelars, *porrage*.
ruff pek, *baken*.
a grunting chete or a patricos kynchen, *a pyg*.
a cakling chete, *a cocke or capon*.
a margery prater, *a hen*.
a Roger or tyb of the buttery, *a Goose*.
a quakinge chete or a red shanke, *a drake or ducke*.
grannam, *corne*.
a lowhinge chete, *a Cowe*.
a bletinge chete, *a calfe or sheepe*.
a prauncer, *a horse*.
autem, *a church*.
Salomon, *a alter or masse*.
patrico, *a priest*.
nosegent, *a Nunne*.
a gybe, *a writinge*.
a Iarke, *a seale*.
a ken, *a house*.
a staulinge ken, *a house that wyll receaue 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, *water*.
a skypp_e_r, *a barne*.
stromell, *strawe*.
a gentry cofes ke_n_, *A nobl_e_ or gentlemans house*.
a gygger, *a doore*.
[Header: HARMAN. ROGUES: THEIR PELTING SPECHE.]
bufe, *a dogge*.
the lightmans, *the daye*.
the darkemans, *the nyght*.
Rome vyle, *London*.
dewse a vyle, *the countrey*.
Rome mort, *the Quene*.
a gentry cofe, *a noble or gentleman*.
a gentry morte, *A noble or gentle woman*.
the quyer cuffyn,[162] *the Iusticer of peace*.
the harman beck, *the Counstable*.
the harmans, *the stockes*.
Quyerkyn, *a pryson house*.
Quier crampinges, *boltes or fetters*.
tryninge, *hanginge*.
chattes, *the gallowes*.
the hygh pad, *the hygh waye*.
the ruffmans, *the wodes or bushes*.
a smellinge chete, *a garden or orchard*.
crassinge chetes, *apels, peares or anye other frute*.
*to fylche, to beate, to stryke, to robbe*.[163]
to nyp a boung, *to cut a pursse*.
To skower the cramprings, *[leaf 28, back] to weare boltes or fetters*.
to heue a bough, *to robbe or rifle a boeweth*.
to cly the gerke, *to be whypped*.
to cutte benle,[164] *to speake gently*.
to cutte bene whydds, *to speake or geue good wordes*.
to cutte quyre whyddes, *to geue euell wordes or euell language*.
to cutte, *to saye*.
to towre, *to see*.
to bowse, *to drynke*.
to maunde, *to aske or requyre*.
to stall, *to make or ordaine*.
to cante, *to speake*.
to myll a ken, *to robbe a house*.
to prygge, *to ryde*.
to dup the gyger, *to open the doore*.
to couch a hogshead, *to lye downe and sleepe*.
to nygle, *to haue to do with a woman carnally*.
stow you, *holde your peace*.
bynge a waste, *go you hence*.
to the ruffian, *to the deuell*.
the ruffian cly the, *the deuyll take thee*.
[Header: HARMAN. THE VPRIGHT COFE CANTETH TO THE ROGE.]
[P] The vpright Cofe canteth to the Roge.[165]
*The vpright man speaketh to the Roge.*
VPRIGHTMAN.[166]
Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes, in what lipken hast thou lypped in
this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell?
*God morrowe to thy body, in what house hast thou lyne in all night,
whether in a bed, or in the strawe?*
ROGE.
I couched a hogshead in a Skypper this darkemans.
*I layd[167] me downe to sleepe in a barne this night.*
VPRIGHT MAN.[168]
I towre the strummel trine vpon thy nabchet[169] _and_ Togman.
*I see the strawe hang vpon thy cap and coate.*
ROGE.
I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of benebouse;
then cut to my nose watch.
*I sweare by the masse[170], I wull washe it of with a quart of good
drynke; [leaf 29][171] then saye to me what thou wylt.*
MAN. Why, hast thou any lowre in thy bonge to bouse?
*Why, hast thou any money in thy purse to drinke?*
ROGE. But a flagge, a wyn, and a make.
*But a grot, a penny, and a halfe penny.*
MAN. Why, where is the kene that hath the bene bouse?
*where is the house that hath 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 buose, I bousd a flagge the laste dark mans.
*I saye it is small and naughtye drynke. I dranke a groate there
the last night.*
ROGE. But bouse there a bord, _and_ 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 bene
shyp.
*Se you, yonder is the house, open the doore, and aske for the best.*
MAN. This bouse is as benshyp[172] as rome bouse.
*This drinke is as good as wyne.*
Now I tower that bene bouse makes nase nabes.
*Now I se that good drinke makes a dronken heade.*
Maunde of this morte what bene pecke is in her ken.
*Aske of this wyfe what good meate shee 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 our watche.
*That is very good for vs.*
Now we haue well bousd, let vs strike some chete.
*Nowe we haue well dronke, let us steale some thinge.*
Yonder dwelleth a quyere cuffen, it were beneship to myll hym.
*Yonder dwelleth a hoggeshe and choyrlyshe man, it were very well
donne to robbe him.*
ROGE. Nowe bynge we a waste to the hygh pad, the ruffmanes is by.
Naye, let vs go hence to the hygh waye, the wodes is at hand.
MAN. So may we happen on the Harmanes, and cly the Iarke, or to the
quyerken and skower quyaer cramprings, and so to tryning on the
chates.
*[leaf 29, back] So we maye chaunce to set in the stockes, eyther
be whypped, eyther had to prison house, and there be shackled 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 thee.*
MAN. What, stowe your bene, cofe, and cut benat 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 country, wee wyll
steale some lynnen clothes of one[173] hedges, or robbe some house
for a bucke of clothes.*
[P] By this lytle ye maye holy and fully vnderstande their vntowarde talke
and pelting speache, mynglede without measure; and as they haue begonne
of late to deuyse some new termes for certien thinges, so wyll they in
tyme alter this, and deuyse as euyll or worsse. This language nowe
beinge knowen and spred abroade, yet one thinge more I wyll ad vnto, not
meaninge to Englyshe the same, because I learned the same[174] 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, hee pryge to praunce,
he byngd a waste into the darke mans, he fylcht the Cofe, with out any
fylch man.
[Header: HARMAN. NYCHOLAS BLUNTE'S TRICKS.]
WHyle this second Impression was in printinge, it fortuned that Nycholas
Blunte, who called hym selfe Nycholan Gennyns, a counterefet Cranke,
that is spoken of in this booke, was fonde begging in the whyte fryers
on Newe yeares day last past, Anno domini. 1567, and commytted vnto a
offescer, who caried hym vnto the depetye of the ward, which co_m_mytted
hym vnto the counter; _and_ 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, _and_ so leading him to the counter,
where he remayned three days, _and_ from thence to Brydewell, where
before the maister[175] he had his dysgysed aparell put vpon hym, which
was monstrous to beholde, And after stode in Chepesyde w_i_t_h_ _th_e
same apparil on a scafold.[176]
A Stockes to staye sure, and safely detayne, *[leaf 30]*
Lasy lewd Leutterers, that lawes do offend,
Impudent persons, thus punished with payne,
Hardlye for all this, do meane to amende.
[Header: HARMAN. THE STOCKES.]
[Illustration]
Fetters or shackles serue to make fast,
Male malefactours, that on myschiefe do muse,
Vntyll the learned lawes do quite or do cast,
Such, suttile searchers, as all euyll do vse.
[Illustration]
[Header: HARMAN. THE ROGE'S END.]
{A whyp is a whysker, that wyll wrest out blood, *[lf 30, bk]*
{Of backe and of body, beaten right well.
Of all the other it doth the most good,
Experience techeth, and they can well tell.
[Illustration]
[P] 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.
[Header: HARMAN. THE COUNTERFET CRANKE.]
[Illustration]
[177][P] This counterfet Cranke, nowe vew and beholde,
Placed in pyllory, as all maye well se:
This was he, as you haue hard the tale tolde,
before recorded with great suttylte,
Ibused manye with his inpiete,
his lothsome attyre, in most vgly manner,
was through London caried with dysplayd banner.[178]
[Header: HARMAN. CONCLUSION.]
[Symbol: Right Index] 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 amend their mysdeedes, and so lyue vnharmed.
FINIS.
[P] Imprinted at London, in Fletestrete, at the signe of the Faulcon by
Wylliam gryffith. Anno Domni. 1567.[179]
FOOTNOTES:
[42] leaf 2 _b._ Bodley edition (B).
[43] The severe Act against vagrants, Ed. VI., c. 3, was passed in 1548,
only 19 years before the date of this 2nd edition.
[44] The 1573 edition reads _pynking_.
[45] So printed in both 1567 editions. 1573 reads _housholders_; but
_Borsholders_ is doubtless meant.
[46] leaf 3. B.
[47] Printed "_brfore_."
[48] _reclamation._ B.
[49] The 1573 edition reads _and_.
[50] The 1573 edition here inserts the word _or_.
[51] _vanished._ B.
[52] _fyt._ B.
[53] The 1573 ed. reads _not_.
[54] This word is omitted in the 1573 ed.
[55] The chapters are not noted in the Bodley ed.
[56] The 1573 ed. here inserts the word _he_.
[57] 1573 reads _if_.
[58] 1573 has _or_.
[59] Printed "_vpreght_." _vpright_ in Bodley ed.
[60] 1573, _be_.
[61] 1573, _as_.
[62] _the._ B.
[63] _dogges._ B.
[64] 1573 inserts _and_.
[65] 1573 omits.
[66] 1573 omits.
[67] _saith._ B.
[68] 1573, _myne_.
[69] _tarying._ B.
[70] So printed. Bodley ed. has _the_.
[71] _sakes._ B.
[72] Omitted in 1573.
[73] so printed.
[74] _the._ B.
[75] Why ... end. B. omits.
[76] 1573 reads _mate_.
[77] omitted in 1573.
[78] seing ... dyd. B. omits.
[79] 1573, _was_.
[80] _horses._ B.
[81] Printed _statute_.
[82] Printed _this_.
[83] B. inserts _a_.
[84] B. omits _in_.
[85] Probably the reason why "in print" came to be considered synonymous
with "correct." See 2 Gent. of Verona, act ii. sc. 1, 175.
[86] _those._ B.
[87] B. omits _the_.
[88]
Castyng_e_ of axtre & eke of ston,
Sofere hem [th]ere to vse non;
Bal, and barres, and suche play,
Out of chyche[gh]orde put a-way.--
Myrc, p. 11, l. 334-7 (E. E. T. Soc. 1868).
[89] Printed _hts_.
[90] _to to._ B.
[91] Omitted in 1573.
[92] _him (sic)._ B.
[93] This page is not in Bodley ed.
[94] 1573 reads _exclamation_.
[95] _they._ B.
[96] _my my._ B.
[97] _gyrken (et seqq.)._ B.
[98] _loose._ B.
[99] _refused._ B.
[100] _Gennins._ B.
[101] _trough._ B.
[102] 1573 reads _skolluer_.
[103] Omitted in 1573 edit.
[104] _sayih (sic)._ B.
[105] printed _dody_.
[106] _d. ob._ B.
[107] _bede._ B.
[108] _mans._ B.
[109] 1573 inserts _him; sette hym._ B.
[110] 1573 inserts _that_.
[111] _pence_ B.
[112] The 1573 edition reads _ioly ioylitie; gelowsy_. B.
[113] The 1573 edition finishes the sentence thus:--"ouer the fields to
his own house, as hee afterwards said."
[114] _woulde._ B.
[115] _again til now._ B.
[116] _d. ob._ B.
[117] The 1573 edition continues thus:--"wherof this crafty Cranke had
part him selfe, for he had both house and wife in the same parishe, as
after you shall heare. But this lewde lewterar could not laye his bones
to labour, hauing got once the tast of this lewd lasy lyfe, for al this
fayr admonition, but deuised other suttel sleights to maintaine his
ydell liuing, and so craftely clothed him selfe in mariners apparel, and
associated him self with an other of his companions: they hauing both
mariners apparel, went abroad to aske charity of _th_e people, fayning
they hadde loste their shippe with all their goods by casualty on the
seas, wherewith they gayned much. This crafty Cranke, fearinge to be
mistrusted, fell to another kinde of begging, as bad or worse, and
apparelled himselfe very well with a fayre black freese cote, a new
payre of whyte hose, a fyne felt hat on his head, a shert of flaunders
worke esteemed to be worth xvi. shillings; and vpon newe yeares day came
againe into the whyt Fryers to beg: the printer, hauing occasion to go
that ways, not thinking of this Cranke, by chaunce met with him, who
asked his charitie for Gods sake. The printer, vewing him well, did
mistrust him to be the counterfet Cranke which deceuied him vpon
Alhollen daye at night, demaunded of whence he was and what was his
name. 'Forsoth,' saith he, 'my name is Nicolas Genings, and I came from
Lecester to seeke worke, and I am a hat-maker by my occupation, and all
my money is spent, and if I coulde get money to paye for my lodging this
night, I would seke work to morowe amongst the hatters.' The printer
perceiuing his depe dissimulation, putting his hand into his purse,
seeming to giue him some money, and with fayre allusions brought him
into the streete, where he charged the constable with him, affirminge
him to be the counterfet Cranke that ranne away vpon Alholon daye last.
The constable being very loth to medle with him, but the printer knowing
him and his depe disceit, desyred he mought be brought before the
debutie of the ward, which straight was accomplished, which whe_n_ he
came before the debuty, he demaunded of him of whence he was and what
was his name; he answered as before he did vnto _th_e printer: the
debutie asked the printer what he woulde laye vnto hys charge; he
answered and aleged him to be a vagabond and depe deceyuer of the
people, and the counterfet Crank that ran away vpon Alhallon day last
from the constable of Newington and him, and requested him earnestly to
send him to ward: the debuty thinking him to be deceiued, but
neuerthelesse laid his co_m_maundement vpon him, so that the printer
should beare his charges if he could not iustifie it; he agreed
thereunto. And so he and the constable went to cary him to the Counter:
and as they were going vnder Ludgate, this crafty Cranke toke his heeles
and ran down the hill as fast as he could dryve, the constable and the
printer after him as fast as they coulde; but the printer of _th_e twayn
being lighter of fote, ouertoke him at fleete bridge, and with strong
hand caried him to the counter, and safely deliuered him. In _th_e morow
_th_e printer sent his boy that stripped him vpon Alhalon day at night
to view him, because he would be sure, which boy knew him very well:
this Crank confessed unto the debuty, _tha_t he had hosted the night
before in Kent street in Southwarke, at the sign of the Cock, which
thing to be true, the printer sente to know, and found him a lyer; but
further inquiring, at length found out his habitation, dwelling in
maister Hilles rentes, hauinge a pretye house, well stuffed, with a
fayre ioyne table, and a fayre cubbard garnished with peuter, hauing an
old auncient woman to his wyfe. The printer being sure therof, repaired
vnto the Counter, and rebuked him for his beastly behaviour, and told
him of his false fayning, willed him to confesse it, and aske
forgivenes: he perceyued him to know his depe dissimulation, relented,
and confessed all his disceit; and so remayning in the counter three
dayes, was removed to Brydwel, where he was strypt starke naked, and his
ougly attyre put vpo_n_ him before the maisters thereof, who wondered
greatly at his dissimulation: for which offence he stode vpon the
pillery in Cheapsyde, both in his ougly and handsome attyre. And after
that went in the myll whyle his ougly picture was a drawing; and then
was whypped at a cartes tayle through London, and his displayd banner
caried before him vnto his own dore, and so backe to Brydewell again,
and there remayned for a tyme, and at length let at libertie, on that
condicio_n_ he would proue an houest man, and labour truly to get his
liuing. And his picture remayneth in Bridewell for a monyment."--See,
also, _post_, p. 89.
[118] _of his._ B.
[119] _which priest had._ B.
[120] _cal-(sic)._ B.
[121] _dumme._ B.
[122] So printed. _an._ B.
[123] _pasportes._ B.
[124] _Patriarch._ B.
[125] _faynen._ B.
[126] _lamentably._ B.
[127] _beholding this._ B.
[128] _but._ B.
[129] Omitted in 1573.
[130] Rabbitskins.
[131] B. inserts _sayth she_.
[132] Omitted in 1573.
[133] 1573 reads _I am_.
[134] Omitted in 1573.
[135] _mussels._ B.
[136] _he_, ed. 1573.
[137] _I_, ed. 1573.
[138] _warrant._ B.
[139] _should._ B.
[140] 1573 reads _case_.
[141] Omitted in 1573.
[142] 1573 reads _tempting_.
[143] B. inserts _a_.
[144] _won._ B.
[145] B. omits _that_.
[146] B. inserts _that_.
[147] 1573 reads _his_.
[148] B. reads _vnsanable_, or _vnsauable_.
[149] 1573 reads _some_.
[150] _bryberinge._ B.
[151] B. reads _safely_.
[152] 1573 reads _Crayford_.
[153] The arrangement in Bodley ed. is not alphabetical.
[154] Omitted in 1573 edit.
[155] Omitted in 1573 ed.
[156] Last three words omitted in 1573 ed.
[157] The 1573 ed. arranges these names in the following order:--
Thomas Beere.
Irish man.
Thomas Smith with the skalde skin.
Thomas Shawneam.
[158] The 1573 ed. reads _Persk_.
[159] B. omits.
[160] The 1573 ed. reads _Yannam_.
[161] B. reads _yarum_. The 1573 ed. reads _Param_.
[162] _custyn._ B.
[163] For these two lines printed in small type, the 1573 edition reads,
To fylche
*to robbe*.
[164] _benie._ B.
[165] _Roger._ B.
[166] _man._ B.
[167] _laye._ B.
[168] B. omits _vpright_.
[169] _nabches._ B.
[170] _masst._ B.
[171] This leaf is supplied in MS. in Mr Huth's edition.
[172] _good_ in the 1573 ed.
[173] The 1573 ed. has _some_.
[174] Instead of "the same," the 1573 ed. reads _that_.
[175] _maisters_. B.
[176] This paragraph is omitted in the ed. of 1573; but see note,
_ante_, p. 56.
[177] B. omits this stanza and has inserted the following lines under
the cut.
THIS is the fygure of the counterfet Cranke, that is spoken of in this
boke of Roges, called Nycholas Blunt other wyse Nycholas Gennyngs. His
tale is in the xvii. lefe [pp. 55-6] of this booke, which doth showe
vnto all that reades it, woundrous suttell and crafty deseit donne of
_and_ by him.
[178] This verse is omitted in the edition of 1573; also the wood-cut
preceding it.
[179] B. adds 'the eight of January'. (This would make the year 1568
according to the modern reckoning. Harman's 'New Yeares day last past,
Anno domini 1567', p. 86, must also be 1567/8.)
=A Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery.=
[_Lansdowne MS._ 98, _leaf_ 210.]
A sermon made by P_ar_son Haben vppon a mold hill at Hartely
Row,[180] at the Comaundment of vij. theves, whoe, after they
had robbed him, Comaunded him to Preache before them.
I Marvell that eu_er_ye man will seme to dispraise theverye, and thinke
the doers thereof worthye of Death, when it is a thinge that Cometh nere
vnto vertve, and is vsed of all men, of all sort_es_ and in all
countryes, and soe comaunded and allowed of god himselfe which thinge,
because I cannot soe sapiently shewe vnto you a[181] soe shorte a tyme
and in soe shorte a place, I shall desire you, gentle theves, to take in
good p_ar_te this thinge that at this tyme Cometh to minde, not
misdoubtinge but you of yo_ur_ good knowledge are able to ad more vnto
the same then this which I at this tyme shall shewe vnto you. ffirst,
fortitude and stoutnes, Courage, and boldnes of stomacke, is Compted of
some a vertue; which beinge graunted, Whoe is he then that will not
Iudge theves vertuous, most stoute, most hardye? I most, without_e_
feare. As for stealinge, that is a thinge vsuall:--who_e_ stealeth not?
ffor not only you that haue besett me, but many other in many places.
Men, Woemen, _and_ Children, Riche and poore, are dailye of that
facultye, As the hange man of Tiborne can testifye. [Header: PARSON
HABEN'S SERMON. LANDS. MS. 98.] That it is allowed of god himselfe, it
is euident in many storyes of the Scriptures. And if you liste to looke
in the whole Course of the bible, you shall finde that theves haue bin
belovid of god. ffor Iacobe, when he Came oute of Mesopotomia, did
steale his vncles lambes; the same Iacobe stale his brother Esawes
blessinge; and that god saide, "I haue chosen Iacob and refused Esawe."
The Children of Isarell, when they came oute of Egippe, didd steale the
Egippsians Iewells and ring_es_, and god comaunded the[m] soe to doe.
David, in the dayes of Ahemel[e]ch the preiste, came into the temple and
stole awaye the shewe bread; And yet god saide, "this is a man
accordinge to myne owne harte." Alsoe Christe himsellfe, when he was
here vppon earth, did take an asse, a Colte, which was none of his owne.
And you knowe that god saide, "this is my now_n_e sone, in whome I
delighte."
Thus maye you see that most of all god delighteth in theves. I marvell,
therefore, that men can despise yo_ur_ lives, when that you are in all
poynts almost like vnto Christe; for Christ hade noe dwellinge
place,--noe more haue you. Christe, therefore, at the laste, was laide
waite for in all places,--and soe are you. Christe alsoe at the laste
was called for,--and soe shall you be. He was condemned,--soe shall you
be. Christe was hanged,--soe shall you be. He descended into hell,--so
shall you. But in one pointe you differ. He assendid into heaven,--soe
shall you never, without gods mercye, Which god graunte for his mercyes
sake! Toe whome, with the so_n_ne and the holye goste, be all hono_ur_
and glory for euer and euer. Amen!
After this good sermon ended, which Edefied them soe muche, Theye
hadd soe muche Compassion on him, That they gave him all his mony
agayne, and vij s more for his sermon.
=A Sermon in Praise of Thieves and Thievery.=
[_MS. Cott. Vesp._ A xxv. _leaf_ 53.]
A sermo[n)] of pa_rs_on Hyberdyne w_hi_ch he made att the
co_m_mandemente of certen theves, aft_e_r thay had Robbed hym,
besyd_es_ hartlerowe, in hamshyer, in the feld_es_, ther
standinge vpo_n_ a hy[l~l] where as a wynde myll had bene, in
the p_re_sens of the theves _tha_t robbed hy_m_, as followithe.
the s_er_mon as followethe