[Footnote 144: 1573 reads _case_]
[Footnote 145: Omitted in 1573.]
[Footnote 146: 1573 reads _tempting_]
[Footnote 147: B. inserts _a_]
[Footnote 148: _won._ B.]
[Footnote 149: B. omits _that_]
[Footnote 150: B. inserts _that_]
[Footnote 151: 1573 reads _his_]
[Footnote 152: B. reads _vnsanable_, or _vnsauable_]
[Footnote 153: 1573 reads _some_]
¶ A DOXE. Cap. 20.
++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
afterwarde she is commen and indifferent for any that wyll vse her, as
_homo_ is a commen name to all men. Such {74} as be fayre and some
what handsome, kepe company with the walkinge Mortes, and are redye
alwayes for the vpright men, and are cheifely mayntayned by them, for
others shalbe spoyled for their sakes: the other, inferior, sort wyll
resorte to noble mens places, and gentlemens houses, standing at the
gate, eyther lurkinge on the backesyde about backe houses, eyther in
hedge rowes, or some other thycket, expectinge their praye, which
is for the vncomely company of some curteous gest, of whome they be
refreshed with meate and some money, where eschaunge is made, ware
for ware: this bread and meate they vse to carrye in their [leaf 24]
greate hosen; so that these beastlye brybinge[154] bréeches serue manye
tymes for bawdye purposes. I chaunced, not longe sithens, familiarly
to commen with 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 her talke, that shée hadde passed her
tyme lewdlye eyghttene yeares in walkinge aboute. I thoughte this a
necessary instrument to attayne some knowledge by; and before I woulde
grope her mynde, I made her both to eate and drynke well; that done,
I made her faythfull promisse to geue her some money, yf she would
open and dyscouer to me such questions as I woulde demaunde of her,
and neuer to bée wraye her, neither 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,” sayth
shée. “Then, fyrste tell me,” quoth I, “how many vpright men and Roges
dost thou knowe, or hast thou knowne and byn conuersaunt 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 acquayntaunce, 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 dayelye see?” “By my trouth,” quoth she, “I {75} knowe not paste
six or seuen by their names,” and named the same to me. “When were
they hanged?” quoth I. “Some seuen yeares a gone, some thrée yeares,
and some w_i_t_h_in this fortnight,” and declared the place where
they weare executed, which I knewe well to bée true, by the report of
others. “Why” (quoth I) “dyd not this sorrowfull and fearefull sight
much greue the, 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 forsake, 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 Doxes.
For suche as hath 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.
[Footnote 154: _bryberinge._ B.]
[Sidenote: [leaf 24, back]]
¶ A DELL. Cap. 21.
++A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or
broken by the vpright man. These go abroade yong, eyther by the death
of their parentes, and no bodye to looke vnto them, or els by some
sharpe mystres that they serue, do runne away out of seruice; eyther
she is naturally borne one, and then she is a wyld Dell: these are
broken verye yonge; when they haue béene lyen with all by the vpright
man, then they be Doxes, and no Dels. These wylde dels, beinge traded
vp with their monstrous mothers, must of necessytie be as euill, or
worsse, then their parents, for neither we gather grapes from gréene
bryars, neither fygs from Thystels. But such buds, such blosoms, such
euyll sede sowen, wel worsse beinge growen. {76}
¶ A KYNCHIN MORTE. Cap. 22.
++A Kynching Morte is a lytle Gyrle: the Mortes their mothers carries
them at their backes in their slates, whiche is their shetes, and
bryngs them vp sauagely[155], tyll they growe to be rype, and soone
rype, soone rotten.
¶ A KYNCHEN CO. Cap. 23.
++A Kynchen Co is a young boye, traden vp to suche peuishe purposes as
you haue harde of other young ympes before, that when he groweth vnto
yeres, he is better to hang then to drawe forth.
¶ THEIR VSAGE IN THE NIGHT. Cap. 24.
++NOw I thinke it not vnnecessary to make the Reader vnderstand how
and in what maner they lodge a nights in barnes or backe houses,
and of their vsage there, for asmuch as I haue acquaynted them with
their order and practises a day times. The arche and chiefe walkers
that hath walked a long time, whose experience is great, because of
their continuinge practise, I meane all Mortes and Doxes, for their
handsomnes and diligence for making of their couches. The men neuer
trouble them selues with _tha_t thing, but takes the same to be the
dutye of _th_e wyfe. And she shuffels vp a quayntitye of strawe or
haye into some pretye carner of the barne [leaf 25] where she maye
conuenientlye lye, and well shakethe the same, makinge the heade some
what hye, and dryues the same vpon the sydes and fete lyke abed: then
she layeth her wallet, or some other lytle pack of ragges or scrype
vnder her heade in the strawe, to beare vp the same, and layethe her
petycote or cloke vpon and ouer the strawe, so made lyke a bedde, and
that serueth for the blancket. Then she layeth her slate, which is her
sheete, vpon that; and she haue no shéete, as fewe of them goe without,
then she spreddeth some large cloutes 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 {77} trashe vpon her also; and many lyeth
in their smockes. And if the rest of her clothes in colde weather be
not sufficient to kepe her warme, then she taketh strawe or haye to
performe the matter. The other sorte, that haue not slates, but toumble
downe and couche a hogshead in their clothes, these bée styll lousye,
and shall neuer be with out vermyn, vnlesse they put of theire clothes,
and lye as is a boue sayde. If the vpright man come in where they lye,
he hath his choyse, and crepeth in close by his Doxe: the Roge hath
his leauings. If the Morts or Doxes lye or be lodged in some Farmers
barne, and the dore be ether locked or made fast to them, then wyl
not the vpright man presse to come 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 vintrey, Saynt
Tybbes, and Knapsbery. These foure be with in one myle compasse neare
vnto London. Then haue you iiij. more in Middlesex, drawe the pudding
out of the fyre in Harrow on the hyll parish, _th_e Crose Keyes in
Cranford[156] parish, Saynt Iulyans in Thystell worth parish, the house
of pyty in Northhall parysh. These are their chiefe houses neare about
London, where commonly they resorte vnto for Lodginge, and maye repaire
thether freelye at all tymes. Sometyme shall come in some Roge, some
pyckinge knaue, a nymble 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 a waye with the same with great seleritye, and maketh
porte sale at some conuenient place of theirs, that some be soone ready
in the morning, for want of their Casters _and_ Togema_n_s. Where in
stéede of blessinge is cursing; in place of praying, pestelent prating
with odious othes _and_ terrible threatninges. The vpright men haue
geuen all these nycke names to the places aboue sayde. Y[e]t haue [leaf
25, back] we two notable places in Kent, not fare from London: the one
is betwene Detforde and Rothered, called the Kynges barne, standing
alone, that they haunt commonly; the other is Ketbroke, standinge by
blacke heath, halfe a myle from anye house. There wyll they boldlye
drawe the latche of the doore, and {78} go in when the good man with
hys famyly be at supper, and syt downe without leaue, and eate and
drinke with them, and either lye in the hall by the fyre all night, or
in _th_e barne, if there 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 wyl,
they wyl breake the same open to his farther cost. And in this barne
sometyme do lye xl. vpright men with their Doxes together at one time.
And this must the poore Farmer suffer, or els they threaten him to
burne him, and all that he hath.
[Footnote 155: B. reads _safely_]
[Footnote 156: 1573 reads _Crayford_.]
――――
THE NAMES OF THE VPRIGHT MEN, ROGES, AND PALLYARDS.
++HEre followeth the vnrulye rablement of rascals, and the moste
notoryous and wyckedst walkers that are lyuinge nowe at this present,
with their true names as they be called and knowne by. And although
I set and place here but thre orders, yet, good Reader, vnderstand
that all the others aboue named are deriued and come out from the
vpright men and Roges. Concerning the number of Mortes and Doxes, it is
superfluous to wryte of them. I could well haue don it, but the number
of them is great, and woulde aske a large volume.
¶ UPRIGHT MEN.
A.[157]
Antony Heymer.
Antony Iackeson.
B.
Burfet.
Bryan medcalfe.
C.
Core the Cuckold.
Chrystouer Cooke.
D.
Dowzabell skylfull in fence.
Dauid Coke.
Dycke Glouer.
Dycke Abrystowe.
Dauid Edwardes.
Dauid Holand.
Dauid Iones.
E.
Edmund Dun, a singing man.
Edward Skiner, _alias_ Ned Skinner.
Edward Browne.
F.
Follentine Hylles.
Fardinando angell.
Fraunces Dawghton. {79}
G.
Gryffin.
Great Iohn Graye.
George Marrinar.
George Hutchinson.
H.
Hary Hylles, alias Harry godepar.
[leaf 26] Harry Agglyntine.
Harry Smyth, he driueleth whe_n_ he speaketh.
Harry Ionson.
I.
Iames Barnard.
Iohn Myllar.
Iohn Walchman.
Iohn Iones.
Iohn Teddar.
Iohn Braye.
Iohn Cutter.
Iohn Bell.
Iohn Stephens.
Iohn Graye.
Iohn Whyte.
Iohn Rewe.
Iohn Mores.
Iohn a Farnando.
Iohn Newman.
Iohn Wyn, _alias_ Wylliams.
Iohn a Pycons.
Iohn Tomas.
Iohn Arter.
Iohn Palmer, _alias_ Tod.
Iohn Geffrey.
Iohn Goddard.
Iohn Graye the lytle.
Iohn Graye the great.
Iohn Wylliams the Longer.
Iohn Horwood, a maker of wels; he wyll take halfe his bargayne in hand,
_and_ when hée hath wrought ii. or iii. daies, he runneth away
with his earnest.
Iohn Peter.
Iohn Porter.
Iohn Appowes.
Iohn Arter.
Iohn Bates.
Iohn Comes.
Iohn Chyles, _alias_ great Chyles.
Iohn Leuet; he maketh tappes and fausets.
Iohn Louedall, a maister of fence.
Iohn Louedale.
Iohn Mekes.
Iohn Appowell.
Iohn Chappell.
Iohn Gryffen.
Iohn Mason.
Iohn Humfrey, with the lame hand.
Iohn Stradling, with the shaking head.
Iohn Franke.
Iohn Baker.
Iohn Bascafeld.
K.
L.
Lennard Iust.
Long Gréene.
Laurence Ladd.
Laurence Marshall.
M.
N.
Nicolas Wilson.
Ned Barington.
Ned Wetherdon.
Ned holmes.
O.
P.
Phyllype Gréene.
Q.
R.
Robart Grauener.
Robart Gerse.
Robart Kynge.
Robart Egerton.
Robart Bell, brother to Iohn Bell.
Robart Maple.
Robart Langton.
Robyn Bell.
Robyn Toppe.
Robart Brownswerd, he werith his here long.
Robart Curtes.
Rychard Brymmysh.
Rychard Iustyce.
Rychard Barton. {80}
Rychard Constance.
Rychard Thomas.
Rychard Cadman.
Rychard Scategood.
Rychard Apryce.
Rychard Walker.
Rychard Coper.
S.
Steuen Neuet.
T.
Thomas Bulloke. [leaf 26, back]
Thomas Cutter.
Thomas Garret.
Thomas Newton.
Thomas Web.
Thomas Graye, his toes be gonne.
Tom Bodel.
Thomas Wast.
Thomas Dawson _alias_ Thomas Iacklin.
Thomas Basset.
Thomas Marchant.
Thomas Web.
Thomas Awefeld.
Thomas Gybbins.
Thomas Lacon.
Thomas Bate.
Thomas Allen.
V.
W.
Welarayd Richard.
Wyllia_m_ Chamborne.
Wylliam Pannell.
Wylliam Morgan.
Wylliam Belson.
Wylliam Ebes.
Wylliam Garret.
Wylliam Robynson.
Wylliam Vmberuile.
Wylliam Dauids.
Wyll Pen.
Wylliam Iones.
Wyll Powell.
Wylliam Clarke.
Water Wirall.
Wylliam Browne.
Water Martyne.[158]
Wylliam Grace.
Wylliam Pyckering.
ROGES.
A.
Arche Dowglas, a Scot.
B.
Blacke Dycke.
C.
D.
Dycke Durram.
Dauid Dew neuet, a counterfet Cranke.
E.
Edward Ellys.
Edward Anseley.
F.
G.
George Belberby.
Goodman.
Gerard Gybbin, a counterfet Cranke.
H.
Hary Walles, with the lytle mouth.
Humfrey ward.
Harry Mason.
I.
Iohn Warren.
Iohn Donne, with one legge.
Iohn Elson.
Iohn Raynoles, Irysh man.
Iohn Harrys.
Iames Monkaster, a counterfet Cranke.
Iohn Dewe.
Iohn Crew, with one arme.
Iohn Browne, great stamerar.
L.
Lytle Dycke.
Lytle Robyn.
Lambart Rose. {81}
M.
More, burnt in the hand.[159]
N.
Nicholas Adames, a great stamerar.[160]
Nycholas Crispyn.
Nycholas Blunt _alias_ Nycholas Gennings, a counterfet Cranke.
Nycholas Lynch.
R.
Rychard Brewton.
Rychard Horwod, well nere lxxx. yeares olde; he wyll byte a vi. peny
nayle a sonder w_i_t_h_ his téeth, and a bawdye [leaf 27] dronkard.
Richard Crane; he carieth a Kynchne Co at his backe.
Rychard Iones.
Raffe Ketley.
Robert Harrison.
S.
Simon Kynge.
T.
Thomas Paske.
[161]§Thomas Bere.
Thomas Shawnean, Irish man.
Thomas Smith, w_i_t_h_ the skald skyn.§
W.
Wylliam Carew.
Wylliam wastfield.
Wylson.
Wylliam Gynkes, with a whyte bearde, a lusty and stronge man; he
runneth about the countrey to séeke worke, with a byg boy, his
sonne carying his toles as a dawber or playsterer, but lytle worke
serueth him.
¶ PALLYARDS.
B.
Bashford.
D.
Dycke Sehan Irish.
Dauid Powell.
Dauid Iones, a counterfet Crank.
E.
Edward Heyward, hath his Morte following him, which fained the Cranke.
Edward Lewes, a dummerer.
H.
Hugh Iones.
I.
Iohn Perse,[162] a counterfet Cranke.
Iohn dauids.
Iohn Harrison.
Iohn Carew.
Iames Lane, with one eye, Irish.
Iohn Fysher.
Iohn Dewe.
Iohn Gylford, Irish, w_i_t_h_ a counterfet lisence.
L.
Laurence with the great legge.
N.
Nycholas Newton, carieth a fained lisence.
Nicholas Decase. {82}
P.
Prestoue.
R.
Robart Lackley.
Robart Canloke.
Richard Hylton, caryeth ii. Kynchen mortes about him.
Richard Thomas.
S.
Soth gard.
Swanders.
T.
Thomas Edwards.
Thomas Dauids.
Wylliam Thomas.
Wylliam Coper with the Harelyp.
Wyll Pettyt, beareth a Kinche_n_ mort at his back.
Wylliam Bowmer.
[Footnote 157: The arrangement in Bodley ed. is not alphabetical.]
[Footnote 158: Omitted in 1573 edit.]
[Footnote 159: Omitted in 1573 ed.]
[Footnote 160: Last three words omitted in 1573 ed.]
[Footnote 161: §–§ The 1573 ed. arranges these names in the
following order:—
Thomas Béere. Irish man.
Thomas Smith with the skalde skin.
Thomas Shawneam.]
[Footnote 162: The 1573 ed. reads _Persk_]
There is aboue an hundreth of Irish men and women that wander about to
begge for their lyuing, that hath come ouer within these two yeares.
They saye the[y] haue béene burned and spoyled by the Earle of Desmond,
and report well of the Earle of Vrmond.
¶ All these aboue wryten for the most part walke about Essex,
Myddlesex, Sussex, Surrey, and Kent. Then let the reader iudge what
number walkes in other Shieres, I feare me to great a number, if they
be well vnderstande.
[Headnote: HARMON. PEDDELARS FRENCHE.]
[Sidenote: [leaf 27, back]]
[163]*Here followyth their pelting speche.*
++HEre I set before the good Reader the leud, lousey language of these
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 spéeche.
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,
téeth.
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. {83}
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 shéete 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,[164]
bread.
cassan,
chéese.
yaram,[165]
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 calf a or shéepe.
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 skypper,
a barne.
strommell,
strawe.
a gentry cofes ken,
A noble or gentlemans house.
a gygger,
a doore. {84}
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 gentlema_n_.
a gentry morte,
A noble or gentle woman.
the quyer cuffyn,[166]
the Iusticer of peace.
the harman beck,
the Counstable.
the harmans,
the stockes.
Quyerkyn,
a pryson house.
Quier crampringes,
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.[167]
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,[168]
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 sée.
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 sléepe.
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 thée.
[Footnote 163: *–* B. omits.]
[Footnote 164: The 1578 ed. reads _Yannam_]
[Footnote 165: B. reads _yarum_. The 1578 ed. reads _Param_]
[Footnote 166: _custyn._ B.]
[Footnote 167: For these two lines printed in small type, the 1573
edition reads,
To fylche
to robbe]
[Footnote 168: _benie._ B.]
¶ The vpright Cofe canteth to the Roge.[169]
The vpright man speaketh to the Roge.
VPRIGHTMAN.[170]
Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes, in what lipken hast thou lypped in
this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell? {85}
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[171] me downe to sléepe in a barne this night.
VPRIGHT MAN.[172]
I towre the strummel trine vpon thy nabchet[173] _and_ Togman.
I sée 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[174], I wull washe it of with a quart of good
drynke; [leaf 29][175] 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.
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MAN. This bouse is as benshyp[176] 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 {87} when wee come backe agayne into the country, wee wyll
steale some lynnen clothes of one[177] hedges, or robbe some house for
a bucke of clothes.
[Footnote 169: _Roger._ B.]
[Footnote 170: _man._ B.]
[Footnote 171: _laye._ B.]
[Footnote 172: B. omits _vpright_.]
[Footnote 173: _nabches._ B.]
[Footnote 174: _masst._ B.]
[Footnote 175: This leaf is supplied in MS. in Mr Huth’s edition.]
[Footnote 176: _good_ in the 1573 ed.]
[Footnote 177: The 1573 ed. has _some_]
¶ 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[178] of a shameles Doxe, but for the phrase of speche I set it
forth onely.