HODGE.

_Hodge._ Sym Glover, yet gramercy! cham meetlye well sped now,

Thart even as good a felow as ever kyste a cowe!

Here is a thonge[695] in dede, by the masse, though ich speake it;

Tom Tankards great bald curtal, I thinke, could not breake it!

And when he spyed my neede to be so straight and hard, Cii

Hays lent me here his naull,[696] to set the gyb forward,[697] 6

As for my gammers neele, the flyenge feynd go weete!

Chill not now go to the doore againe with it to meete.

Chould make shyfte good inough and chad a candels ende;

The cheefe hole in my breeche with these two chil amende. 10

The iii. Acte. The ii Sceane.

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