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Jacke Jugeler
This 1914 scholarly edition of the mid-sixteenth-century play Jacke Jugeler
contains an informative introduction and detailed notes. Little-known today, the
play represents a pre-Shakespearean example of classical ‘borrowing’ – a Roman
play by Plautus is adapted to an English domestic situation – and it is one of the
first instances of confused identity and ‘doubles’ in English comedy. The text of
this edition is taken from the unique original, probably published around 1562,
in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire. In his Introduction, W. H. Williams
proposes the likely identity of the play’s author, and provides an analysis of the play’s
language to support his claim. He examines the connections in method, characters
and language between Jacke Jugeler and Ralph Roister Doister, a play written and
performed around the same time.
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 CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . vii

TEXT OF THE PLAY . . . . . . I

NOTES . . . . . . . . 47

APPENDIX : FRAGMENT O F A LATER EDITION . . 69

INDEX TO THE NOTES . . . . . . 73

 INTRODUCTION1.
§ i. T E X T . T h e text of the present edition is taken from
the unique original in the collection of His Grace the Duke of
Devonshire, K.G.
§ 2. DATE. In vol. i. p. 202 of Arber's Transcript of the
Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640 A.D.,
(corresponding to fol. 85 b of Register A), occurs the following
entry :
Recevyd of William Coplande for his lycense for pryntinge of an
interlude intituled Jack Juggeler and mistress Boundgrace . . iiijd
The part of the Register in which this occurs extends from
fol. 84 a-92 a, and is headed ' ffor Takynge of ffynes for Copyes
as folowethe.' This again is part of the ' accompte made by...
Wardens of the Companye of Stacioners of all such sommes of
monye as hathe comme to theare handes from the xxij th Daye of
July Anno 1562 vnto the xxij of July Anno 1563 which ys by
the space of one hole yere as folowethe.'
The 'accompte' for the 12 months fills fol. 82a-fol. 96 b.
The entry of the payment for Jack Juggeler is 36th out of
124. Five entries back is one ' Recevyd of garrard Dewes for his
lycense for pryntinge of a pycture of [a] monsterus pygge at
Hamsted iiij d .' Arber's note on this is, ' the broadside is
entitled The description of a monstrous pig, the which was farrowed
at Hamsted besyde London, the xvi day of October, the present yeare of
our Lord God, MDLxij.'
1
Part of this Introduction was published in The Modern Language Review,
July 1912.
W. J. J. b
viii Jacke Jugeler
This, and the comparatively early occurrence of the entry
about Jack Juggeler (the lists are not alphabetical), suggest that
the entry was still in 1562. No. 53 was a payment in respect of
Crestenmas Carroles. This again points to 1562. It may be
added that William Copland issued books with his imprint from
1548 to 1561 (D.N.B.).
We may therefore conclude that an edition of Jack Juggeler
was probably published in the year 1562. The two loose leaves,
which by the courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire are
here reproduced, may have belonged to this edition, as the spelling
is much later than that of the complete copy, which we shall see
reason to believe was written before 1552.
The probability of this assumption depends upon the relation
of Jacke Jugeler (as we will spell it when referring to the older
edition), and Ralph Roister Doister.
We may assume that Ralph Roister Doister was written in
1552. It is not necessary to discuss the question here, but the
reasons may be found in the preface to the edition of the play
in the Temple Dramatists (ed. Williams-Robin), pp. v-vii.
What reasons are there for believing that Jacke Jugeler was
written before Ralph Roister Doister ?
Whether written by the same person or not, there is evidently
a close connexion between the two plays in method, characters,
and language.
[a) Method. Both adapt episodes from Latin comedy to
the environment of Tudor London, and embody more or less
literal transcripts from Plautus. The prologue of Ralph Roister
Doister is either a condensed paraphrase of the prologue of
Jacke Jugeler, or that is an expansion of the main points of the
other.
(b) Characters. Mayster Boungrace corresponds to Gawyn
Goodlucke, Dame Coye to Christian Custance, Jacke Jugeler to
Mathewe Merygreeke, Jenkyn Careawaye to Truepenie, Ales
trype and go to Tibet Talk apace.
 Introduction IX

(c) Language. Among the more obvious resemblances of

language may be noted:

Jacke Jugeler Ralph Roister Doister

69. you shal here a thing y' onlie 1. i. 59. I can when I will make
shal make you merie & glad. him mery and glad.
137. my cosune Careawaie. m . i. 4. my cousin Roister Dois-

148. by cokes prceious (sic) potstike. in. iv. 127. by cocks precious pot-
sticke.
228. she swimmeth to and fro. 11. iii. 46. ye shall see hir glide
and swimme.
317. saint Gorge ye boroue. iv. viii. 45. sainct George to borow.
318. ieopard a ioynt. iv. viii. 17. ieoparde my hande.
348. who lustith to feale shall find HI. iii. 96. I might feele your soule
his hart creping out at his departing within an
heele. inche of your heele.
430. In nomine patris. 1. iv. 49. Nomine patris.
486. Truce for a whyle. iv. viii. 33. truce for a pissing while
or twaine.
496. beate on mee, tyll I stinke. iv. iii. 120. I shall cloute thee tyll
thou stinke.
593. by gods precious. iv. viii. 40 by cocks precious.
615. well curryed. 1. iii. 77- a curried cote.
640. let me alone. 1. ii. 175. lette me alone.
726. this wagepastie. III. ii. 10. a little wagpastie.
731. the matter lyeth gretylie me a I. iv. 9. this lieth vpon his pre-
pon. ferment.
861. I shall rape thee. in. v. 93. rappe you agame.
976. hence to Jherusalem. IV. vii. 60. hennes to grece.
e
1013. cal y other his good maister. iv. vii. 100. be good maister to her.
If these resemblances are allowed to establish a prima facie
probability of connexion between the two plays, whether written
by the same person or not, which of the two was more likely to
be written before the other ?
Jacke Jugeler is a one-act farce on the lines of Heywood's
interludes, with three scenes (vv. 84-601, 602-773, 774~992)>
and five characters, needing only three or four performers (if the
b2
x Jacke Jugeler
prologue and the epilogue were recited by one), the parts being
distributed thus : — i . Careawaye, 2. Jugeler and Dame Coye,
3. Ales and Mayster Boungrace ; or, 1. Careawaye, 2. Jugeler
and Ales, 3. Dame Coye, 4. Mayster Boungrace. The time of
the action is only an hour, and the place is unchanged.
Ralph Roister Doister is a regularly constructed comedy of five
acts subdivided into numerous scenes, with 13 characters requiring
as many as 10 actors even if some of the minor parts are combined.
The time required for the action is two days. The place, as in
Jacke Jugeler, need not be changed, the scene being laid before
Custance's house, but the characters are more elaborated and
individualised than their somewhat sketchy and conventional
counterparts.
Which of these then is likely to have preceded the other in
order of time, the outline or the finished work ? If they were both
written by the same person, probability almost amounts to absolute
certainty. In that case Ralph Roister Doister can no more have
preceded Jacke Jugeler than the full corn in the ear can precede
the blade, or the fruit the blossom. Was then Jacke Jugeler
written by the author of Ralph Roister Doister ?
§ 3. AUTHOR. The verbal resemblances between Jacke Jugeler
and Ralph Roister Doister would not by themselves prove that the
two pieces were composed by the same hand. The author of the
one play may have copied from the other. But if we find
striking similarities of language between Jacke Jugeler and the non-
dramatic works of the author of Ralph Roister Doister the
identity of authorship becomes vastly more probable. Such are :

Jacke Jugeler Udall's prose works

42. And Cicero Tullius Apophthegmes, f. 279, 'Marcus
in that his fyrst boke which Tullius in ye thirde booke of that his
he wrot, and entytulid, of an honest werke entitleed, de qficiis, (that is to
mans office. saie, of honeste behauour, or, how
eche manne ought to vse and to
demeane hymselfe).'
 Introduction XI

Jacke Jugeler Udall's prose works

85. Rest you merye. Floures, ' Amice salue. Good felow
god you saue, or, o louynge frend
god rest you mery.'
108. god before. Apoph. f. 152, 'For the grekes
saien crvv 6(ois, with the Goddes,
for that we saye in englyshe, Goddes
pleasure beeyng so, or, by the wyll
and grace of God, or, and God
before, or, God saiyng amen.'
145. oon faire.toche. Apoph. f. 105, 'yea and for a faire
touche.'
249. I may giue my life for halpenis Floures, ' ego perierim, I am vtter-
three. lye vndone, or I may gyue my lyfe
for an halfepeny.'
293. arayed. Erasm. Par. Luke xiii. 11, 'Araied
with a disease.' Apophth. f. 315,
' eiuill araied.'
482. no poynt. Apoph. f. 137, 'estemed the fruite
to bee no poyncte the more polluted.'
615. curryed. Floures, ' Verberibus casum te, &c.
I woll all to currie the, &c.'
657. as sholde be to him a corrasiue. Apoph. f. 154, 'geuen no bodye a
corrosif.'
674. breched in suche a brake. Erasm. Par. Luke, Pref. 6 b . 'So
should I in this matier stand in a
streight brake.'
731. the matter lyeth gretylie me Floures, ' Scin ad te attinere hanc
apon. omnetn rem ? Doest thou remembre
that all this matter perteyneth to the ?
or lyeth the vppon ?'
908. fauoure your fyste. Floures, ' tibi pane, fauour or
spare your selfe.'
If in addition to these resemblances of language we find in Jacke
Jugeler obviously autobiographical allusions which may be explained
by known facts in the life of Udall the probability of his author-
ship is still further increased.
The facts are as follow. Certain silver images and other
plate were alleged to have been stolen from Eton when Udall was
xii Jacke Jugeler
head-master. The matter came before the Privy Council at
Westminster on the 12th of March, 1541/2, when William
Emlar, a goldsmith of London, was examined on the charge of
buying them, ' and beying suspected to have used hym self lewdly
in the handlyng of the matter was committed to the porter's
warde' (Nicolas, Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council,
vol. 7, pp. 152—3). John Hoorde and Thomas Cheney, late
scholars of Eton, were also examined for the same robbery,
and confessing the fact in writing were committed to the custody
of the clerk of the check of the King's guard. Lastly, on the
14th of March—
' Nycolas Uvedale scoolemaster of Eton beyng sent for as suspect to be
counsail of a robbery lately committed at Eton by Thomas Cheney John
Horde, scolers of the sayd scole, and Gregory a servant to the sayd
scolemaster, and having certain interrogatories ministred unto hym toching
the sayd fact and other felonious trespasses wherof he was suspected did
confess that he did comitt a heinous offence with the sayd Cheney sundry
tymes hertofore and of late the vjth day of this present monethe in this
present yere at London : wherupon he was committed to the Marshalsey.'

In consequence of this Udall was summarily dismissed

from his mastership. Yet in spite of his confession there are
good reasons for believing that he was innocent of the graver
charges brought against him. Had they been true he would have
been ruined for life. Instead of which we find him still vicar of
Braintree in 1544, bearer of the Lord Privy Seal's letter to the
Bishop of Carlisle, then resident at Eton, and soon in high favour
at court, and associated in literary work with the Princess Mary
(Cooper, Ralph Roister Doister, p. xxiv). A letter is extant from
Udall to some unknown patron who has been unsuccessfully
endeavouring to procure his restitution to the mastership of Eton
(Letters of Eminent Literary Men, Camden Society, pp. 1-7).
From this we gather that his influential friend has ' susteined
gret travaill, peines, and trouble in that behalf,' and that Udall
wished to recover the position ' only of an honest purpose to
 Introduction xiii
discharge my debtes, and by litle and litle as I might to paye every
man his own.' He craves to be bestowed to ' suche condition
where I maye by sobre livyng bee recovered to sum state of an
honest man.' He admits that he has deserved his patron's dis-
pleasure and indignation, but trusts that his offences ' humana
quidem esse et emendari posse? If received to grace and favour he
hopes that ' this your correpcion shall bee a sufficient scourge to
make me, during my lif, more wise and more ware utterly for
ever to eschewe and avoid all kindes of all maner excesses and
abuses that have been reported to reigne in me.' He admits that,
the more tenderly his benefactor had favoured and loved him, the
more grievously he must take his ' lewdnes and foly,' but he hopes
for the mercy and forgiveness due ' to all suche as with wholl
herte and purpose of emendemente without dissymulation returne to
the holsome pathe of honestee, from whiche by youth or frailtee
thei have chaunced for a tyme to swerve.' He speaks of his
patron's clemency making ' of an unthrifte an honest man,' and
gives examples of young men who, after being ' of a veray
riottous and dissolute sorte of livynge' in youth, have become
monuments ' of all frugalitee, religion, sobrietee, and holynes.'
Lastly, in a sentence which seems to sum up the situation, he
begs his patron to ' accepte this myn honest chaunge from vice to
vertue, from prodigalitee to frugall livyng, from negligence of
teachyng to assiduitee, from playe to studie, from lightness to
gravitee.'
In this letter, while there is the fullest and even the most abject
acknowledgement of extravagance, laxity, and neglect of duty, there
is no admission of the graver offences with which he was charged.
We are confronted then with two apparently conflicting con-
clusions, (i) that Udall confessed his guilt before the Privy
Council, (2) that he was probably innocent. How are these to
be reconciled ?
If Jacke Jugeler was written by Udall the explanation is given
in the epilogue.
xiv Jacke Jugeler
In the first stanza of the epilogue we are pointedly invited to
look for some ulterior significance in the play. Though the cat
in the proverb had lost her eye there was some meaning in her
wink ; in other words, though one cannot speak out one may
hint and suggest. No tale can be told ' but that sum Englyshe
maye be piked therof out,' i.e. some modern application may be
discovered (v. note on 1. 996). ' A s this trifling enterlud...may
signifie sum further meaning if it be well serched.' Could
anything be plainer ?
It is the fashion nowadays—
' That the symple innosaintes ar deluded
And an hundred thousand diuers waves
By suttle and craftye meanes shamefullie abused
And by strength force and violence oft tymes compelled
To beliue and saye the moune is made of a grene chese
Or ells haue great harme, and parcace their life lese.'

It is an old saying that might, force, strength, power, and

colourable subtlety oppress, debar, overrun and defeat right. The
poor simple innocent that has had wrong and injury must call the
other his ' good maister ' for showing him such mercy. [Cf. such
phrases in Udall's letter as, ' right worshipfull and my singlar
good Maister' ; ' sens the tyme that your maistership, at the
intercession of my good frendes, promised upon myn honest
demeanure fromthensforthe to be my good Maister'; ' bee good
maister to me this .oons' ; ' I trust ye wold become better maister
unto me.' The title ' your maistership ' occurs 18 times in the
letter.]

' And as it is daylie syne for fere of ferther disprofite

He must that man his best frende and maister call
Of whome he neuer receiued any maner benefite
And at whose hand he neuer han any good at all
And must graunt, affirme, or denie, whatsoeuer he shall
He must saye the Croue is whight, yf he be so commaunded
Ye and that he himselfe is into another body chaunged.'
 Introduction xv
The next stanza is still more significant if it was written by
Udall—
' He must saye he dyd amysse, though he neuer dyd offend
He must aske forgeuenes, where he did no trespace
Or ells be in troble, care and meserye without ende
And be cast in sum arrierage, without any grace
And that thing he sawe done before his owne face
He must by compulsion, stifelie denye
And for feare whether he woll or not saye tonge you lye.'
The reference to being ' cast in some arrearage' would be
explained by passages of the letter in which Udall speaks of his
' honest purpose to discharge my debtes,' and says that if his patron
should reject and cast him off, ' though I wer in noo manns daunger,
yet noo man of honor or honestee woll either receive me, or dooe
for me, or favour me, or looke on me.' Again, at the end of the
letter he says, ' where percase aeris alieni magnitude animum tuum
deterret I doubte not, havyng your maistershippes favour and good
helpe, to bee hable to shake it of within two or three yeres at
the uttirmust by suche meanes as I shall declare unto your
maistership if it maye please the same to heare me.'
The epilogue continues in the same marked strain—
'He that is stronger and more of power and might
Yf he be disposed to reuenge his cause
Woll sone pike a quarell be it wronge or right
To the inferior and weker for a cople of straues
And woll agaynst him so extremelie lay the lawes
That he wol put him to the worse, other by false iniurie
Or by some craft and subtelete, or ells by plaine teranie.'
From all this we gather that some simple innocent person has
been beguiled by subtlety and forced by violence to accept and
affirm obvious impossibilities. Some influential personage has
picked a quarrel with him and ruined him by the dishonest or
arbitrary exercise of the laws. He has been compelled to call his
oppressor benefactor for sparing him, and to 'hold up his yea
and nay' even to denying his own identity. Under penalty of
endless trouble and misery, of being arrested for debt, and being
xvi Jacke Jugeler
imprisoned without hope of release, he has had to confess and to ask
forgiveness for an offence of which he was guiltless, to deny what
he saw done before his eyes, and to give himself the lie.
May we not fairly conjecture that this is UdalPs own account
of the circumstances of his dismissal ? It is a significant fact that
his place was filled immediately by a temporary successor, and
subsequently by a Mr Tyndall, whom the Bishop of Carlisle in
acknowledging the letter conveyed by Udall from the Lord Privy
Seal calls ' your own true scholere and bedman.' Did the Lord
Privy Seal want to get Udall out in order to put his own true
scholar and bedeman in ? Failing to inculpate him in the
alleged robbery of plate, did he, partly by threats, partly by
promises of paying his debts, induce him wrongfully to confess
other offences which would be enough to justify his summary
dismissal ? Did Udall, some seven years after, finding all these
promises vain, and feeling himself strong enough in court favour
to defy his oppressor, resolve in this allegorical way to repudiate his
fictitious confession and rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the public ?
§ 4. UDALL'S DRAMATIC WORKS. Bale, in the Catalogus (1557),
states that Udall wrote comoedias plures. In the Loseky Manuscripts
(ed. Kempe, pp. 62—3), we have a warrant dormer from Queen
Mary to the ' maister and yeoman of the office of our Revells for
the time being' beginning :—' Wheras our welbeloved Nicolas
Udall hath at soondrie seasons convenient heretofore shewed, and
myndeth hereafter to shewe, his dilligence in setting foorth of Dia-
logues and Enterludes before us fo' ou' regell disporte and recreacion
...we will and comaunde you...that ye deliver...to the said Udall
.. .out of our office of revelles, such apparell for his use as he shal
thinke necessarie and requisite for the furnisshinge and condigne
setting forthe of his devises before us.' This is dated ' the iii daye of
Decembre, in the seconde yere of ou' reigne.'
Again (tb. p. 90) among extracts from accounts relating to the
Office of the Revels, we find under the date X'mas, 1 and 2
Phil, and Mary, an item, ' certen plaies made by Nicholas Udall
 Introduction xvii
and ther incydents.' In Nichols's Progresses of Elizabeth, m. 177
(Cooper, R.R.D. p. xxxiii), under the year 1564 it is recorded
that one of Udall's works was performed before Elizabeth on her
visit to Cambridge :—' 1564. This day (Aug, 8) was nothing
done publique, save that at 9 of the clocke at night an English
play called Ezekias, made by Mr Udall, and handled by King's
College men only.'
§ 5. PERFORMANCE OF Jacke Jugeler. There are two passages in
the play which enable us to fix with tolerable certainty the time
of year at which Jacke Jugeler was performed. When the actor
who took the part of Jacke Jugeler enters (vv. 84-7), he greets
the audience in the following words :
' Our lord of Heuen and swete sainte Jhone
Rest you merye my maisters euerychone
And I praye to Christ and swete saint Steuen
Send you all many a good euine."
Again, the epilogue ends with the line :
' I praye god graunt, and send many a good newe yere.'
Now, as the festival of St Stephen falls on the 26th of December
and that of St John on the 27th, the conclusion is irresistible that
the play was written to be performed on some day or days between
December 26th and 31st.
That it was written to be acted by boys is evident from
vv. 75-6 :
' For this maker shewed vs that suche maner thinges
Doo neuer well besime litle boyes handelinges.'
§ 6. SOURCES. The episode of Jacke Jugeler and Careawaye,
vv. 331-637, is based upon the scene between Mercurius and
Sosia in the Amphitruo of Plautus (Act 1. Sc. i.), vv. 263—462
(ed. Goetz-Schoell). The dialogue between Boungrace and Care-
awaye, vv. 774—924, is an imitation of that between Amphitruo
and Sosia (Act 11. Sc. i.), vv. 551-632. The rest of the play
seems to be original.
 xviii Jacke Jugeler
§ 7. SPELLING. The spelling of the unique copy in His Grace
the Duke of Devonshire's collection shows certain marked and
consistent peculiarities which prove that it belongs to an earlier
edition than that represented by the two loose leaves which are
contained in that copy and reproduced by the courtesy of his
Grace (we believe for the first time) in the present edition. It
will be noticed that the spelling of the fragment is comparatively
modern and contemporary with the period at which the later
edition was licensed for publication (v. § 2).
The following is a summary of the chief peculiarities of
spelling in the original edition :
a > e. emongs (13, 258) ; couerd (353) ; tvhilberow (417) ; remembrence
(729) ; gethered (902) ; cheryte (939) ; •vncomperable (952).
a > o. my (597).
e > a (before r). sartayne (171) ; parchaunce (297) ; hard (352, 598, 878,
884); marcy (471, 911) ; marchent (759) ; sarue (796) ; sarueth (819) ;
maruael (825) ; parcace (977, 1006).
e > e a . leasone ( 1 0 0 ) ; leaf ( 1 0 9 ) ; feache (143, 7 1 8 ) ; featche ( 1 5 1 ) ;
rekeaninges (171) ; geate (356, 419) ; heare (481, 575) ; make (577) ;
shaping (609) ; cheare (646) ; meat (722) ; meaue (826).
e > ei. theim (535, 641, 754).
e > i. nides (niddes) (17, 141, 730, 801) ; besime (76) ; euine (89) ; reckine
(91) ; nedithe (97) ; dnvellith (113) ; cumithe (137, 639, 689, 695) ;
maisteris (151, 184, 202, 636) ; gatherid (155) ; spokine (190) ;
simithe (191) ; pice (217) ; simperith, prankith (226) ; tredith (229) ;
quauerith, nuardelith (231) ; ivike (274, 297) ; spid (276) ; tokine
(283) ; folonvid (286) ; standith (325) ; thiues (346) ; beginnith (347) ;
makith, lustith (348) ; spedith (355) ; hunderid (358) ; nuashith (368) ;
chise (382) ; iveighith (383) ; tvaghtth (384) ; iv/iilberoiv (417) ;
drunkin (441) ; maisterlis (479) ; siie (541, 860) ; entendith (586) ;
shakin (592) ; heuine (602) ; monethis (651) ; seruithe (669) ; disposid
(687) ; handelid (710, 987) ; besiche (732, 937) ; bitwine (754) ;
darist (774) ; knonvith (777) ; placis (787) ; commaundiment (809) ;
nuhither (829) ; dremid (834) ; bisiche (871) ; £?/««<? (874, 1005) ; euin
(875) i speakith (884) ; scaterid (901) ; rcwfe (925) ; /&«#>*'» (953).
e > y . byliue ( 1 7 8 ) ; »y (191, 2 5 8 ) ; nyde (194); myruayllus ( 2 5 9 ) ;
commaundyd (260) ; dyd [dyde] (293, 620, 958) ; byne (609, 610, 709,
761, 767, 931, 932, 935) ; lyse (619) ; pryue (621) ; byhauiore (663) ;
 Introauction xix
handelyd (760) ; belyue (827) ; euyn (876) ; blyssyd (879) ; faryd
(935) 5 fytwene (974)-
ee > i. betwine ( 1 1 9 ) ; misdime ( 2 9 1 ) ; wine ( 7 0 8 ) ; thif ( 7 4 6 ) ; sine
(821).
i > e. whether (183, 628) ; hether (510) ; set (645) ; twrf (652) ; be (687,
723) ; maruael (825) ; meserye (1023).
i > ey. theyther (718).
i > ie. fiend (250).
o > a. corrasiue (657).
o > e. yender (256, 689) ; buttens (348).
o > i. iuantin (255).
o > u. furtune (62) ; cumpanie (cumpany) (92, 859) ; seasune (270) ; reasunt
(271) ; undune (767).
u > a. apon (175, 566, 600, 731).
u>au. haungrie (380).
u>e. tredging{\zi).
u > i. this (751).
u > o. loke (180) ; soffred (727).
y > e. me (199) ; ioylile (725) ; teranie (1048).

Other peculiarities of spelling are :

scentence (65) ; compasced ( n o ) ; shurlie (206) ; getteth \_=jetteth~\ (226) ;
dought (498) ; dubtles (637) ; Jfe//* (722) ; poumile (725) ; behalphe (762) ;
calphe (763) ; mofe (804, 805, 812) ; Jfofo (813) ; troiest (822) ; shadoo
(822-3) j iuaight(Z$$) ; at tonce (860) ; J«c«g^ (861) ; scacelye (945) ; fouay
(956) ; sertaine (966) ; innosaintes (1001) ; fatf/tf (!°°3) j moune (1005) ;
whight (1019) ; matters (1038) ; cople (1045).
Words afterwards compounded are frequently printed apart,
e.g.:
with in (6, 330, 34.4, 553) ; with out (28, 300, 526, 1023) ; her 0/(29) »
who so (45) ; in too (82) ; with al (116) ; a late (119) ; albe it (122) ; gentle
man (124) ; a ivaye (140, 421, 601, 606, 877, 955) ; sume what (150, 642) ;
too morow (197) ; a nother (201, 541, 627, 783, 1020) ; after noons (219) ;
after noone (525) ; a wrye (229) ; a non (240, 260, 762) ; wher 'upon (264) ;
a lone (279) ; a loon (601) ; no nother (328) ; a fier (354) ; a curste (354) ;
me thinketh (364) ; a sleepe (365) ; a mendes (395, 869) ; a gayne (461, 466,
667, 697, 956) ; a mysse (472, 1021) ; a bout (479, 569, 725) ; a pon (566,
731) ; a moyde (590) ; heretofore (598) ; noo bodie (639) ; euery chone (641) ;
a aiou (708) ; a paied (735) ; a <uise (742) ; straight wayes (779) ; 'under
stood (838) ; a brod (964) ; now a dayes (1000).
XX Jacke Jugeler
§ 8 . FRAGMENT OF LATER EDITION. One leaf of the fragment
corresponds to fol. D. ii. a (vv. 696-718) and to fol. D. iii. b (vv.
775-802) of the complete copy ; the other to fol. D. ii. b and D.
iii. a (vv. 719-774). (See Appendix.)
T h e following differences of reading, other than spelling, may
be noted :

Complete Copy Fragment

711. ' beat me ' ' beaten'
7i5- omits ' misteris'
717. 'is' 'was'
718. 'was* ' wast'
723. 'But' ' By' [a misprint.]
inserts ' first' before ' he '
7*4- inserts ' present' after ' were '
725. 'wold' ' could'
726. 'drunken' 'drunck'
736. ' I knew verie well' ' this mischaunce also fel'
747. 'And I charge thee cum in my ' And come no more in my presence '
presens no more'
756. 'haue with me parte ' ' with me haue part'
758. (head-line) ' Jacke iugler' 'Jugler'
764. 'angered' ' an angred'
768. 'But now I haue reuenged my ' Wei, sith that now reuenged is my
quarell' quarel'
769. omits ' this'
774. 'darist' ' dare'
776. inserts ' you ' after ' tolde '
777. ' fblkes knowith' ' folke knowe'
784. (head-line) ' Boungrace ' ' Maister Boungrace'
789. ' I shreue' ' Beshrew *
798. (head-line) ' Boungrace ' ' Maister Boungrace'
802. 'said' ' saydst'
From this it is evident that the fragment represents a careful
revision of the original edition so as to bring it up to modern
requirements in the matters of punctuation, spelling, grammar and
metre. The punctuation has been corrected, but an unfortunate
convention has been adopted, by which a colon has been put at
 Introduction xxi
the end of the first line of each couplet and a full stop at the end
of the second, without reference to the sense. Constructions that
had become archaic have been modernised, e.g. ' was thou ' becomes
'wast t h o u ' ; 'thou said' becomes 'thou saydst.' The metre
has been normalised by changing the order of the words, or by
the addition or omission of expletives. These are all printer's
corrections, and merely imply that the original copy was carefully
' edited ' for later publication.
§ 9. MODERN EDITIONS. In 1820 The Interludes of Jack
Jugler and Thersytes were edited for the Roxburghe Club by
Joseph Haslewood. Jacke Jugeler was included in Four Old Plays
(ed. Child, 1848), and in Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley's Old English
Plays (1874). Dr Grosart reprinted it directly from the original,
adding an introduction and notes, in vol. IV of his Miscellanies of
the Fuller Worthies Library (printed for private circulation,
1872-1876).
The editor desires to acknowledge his obligation to the Duke
of Devonshire for permission to photograph the pages of the
unique original in the Chatsworth Library ; to the late Duke of
Devonshire for similar courtesy in respect of the two loose leaves
of another edition, contained in the unique copy and here repro-
duced as an appendix ; also to Mrs S. Arthur Strong, formerly
Librarian and Keeper of the Duke of Devonshire's Collections,
for taking the two leaves to Oxford to be photographed at the
Clarendon Press ; also to Professor E. Bensly for extracts from
Arber's Transcript of the Stationers' Register, and to Professor
Bang for the suggestion that Jacke Jugeler was written by Nicholas
Udall.
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Irregular, Doubtful and Erroneous Readings.

The following are the readings of the original edition :

25. industruis 494. iacke iugler (misplaced)

Instie 515- y e (y'?)
28. with out 527. Aud
41. Ppilosophers 590. slinking
104. yers ? 658. maisterishps
105. yon 713. lytle (broken t)
148. prceious 735. full (broken f)
171. Sartayde 742. bete (broken t)
207. sumpretie 777. I (inverted)
217. gingerlte 798. knane
228. Se 825. maruael
23 T. wardelith 861. knanes
239. tael 870. befound
310. stoding 878. a other
427. lynes 925. swite
438. Caerawaye 934. hane
452. thyne ? 968. waister
464. Careawaye (misplaced) 985. I
465. chaung 997. yfso
466. see (thee ?) 1005. aud
481. y^y 1 ?) 1044. wollsone
486. one 1060. gidau
thy
490. cae (contraction of Care-
awaye ?)
 gant
% <&£nteltuoman
fenbtncareatoa?
3legi trppe anD go

J. j .
 i< THE PROLOGUE

I N t e r p o n e tuis interdum gaudia curis

U t possis animo quemues sufferre laborem
Doo any of you knowe what latine is this
O r ells wold you haue, an expositorem
T o declare it in Englyshe, per sensum planiorem 5
It is best I speake Englyshe, or ells with in a whylle
I may percace myne owne selfe, with my latin begile.

T h e two verses, which I rehersid before

I finde written, in the boke of Cato the wyse
E m o n g s good precepts, of lyuing a thousand more 10
W h i c h to folowe there, he doth all men auise
A n d they may be Englyshed, breflie in this wyse
E m o n g s thy earful busines, vse sume time mirth and ioye
T h a t no bodilye worke, thy wyttes breke or noye.

F o r the m y n d (saith he) in serious matters occupied 15

Y f it haue not sum quiet mirthe, and recreacion
Interchaungeable admixed, must niddes be sone weried
A n d (as who should saye) tried, through continual operacion
O f labour and busines, without relaxacion
Therfore intermix honest mirthe, in suche wise 20
T h a t your streght may be refreshid, and to labours suffise
 Jacke Jugeler 3
F o r as meat and drinke, naturall rest and slepe
F o r the conseruacion, and helth of the bodye
M u s t niddes be had, soo the m y n d and wittes to kepe
Pregnant, freshe industruis, quike and lnstie 25
H o n e s t mirthe, and pastime, is requisite and necessarie
For, Q u o d caret alterna requie durabile non est
Nothing may endure (saith O u y d ) with out sum rest.

Example, proufe her of in erth is well founde

Manifest open and verie euident 30
For except the husbandman suffer his grounde
Sum tymes to rest, it wol bere no frute verament
Therfore they lett the filde lye, euerie second yeare
T o the end that after rest, it may the better corne beare.

T h u s than (as I haue sayed) it is a thyng naturall 35

A n d naturallie belonging to all lyuing creatures
A n d vnto man especiallie, aboue others all
T o haue at times cOueniet pastauce, mirthe, and pleasurs
So thei be ioyned wt honestie, and keapt wt in due measurs
A n d the same well allowed not onlye the said Cato 4°
But also ye Ppilosophers, Plutarke, Socrates and Plato

A n d Cicero Tullius, a man sapient and wyse

Willeth the same, in that his fyrst boke
"Which he wrot, and entytulid, of an honest mans office
"Who so is disposid therupon to looke 45
"Wher to define, and offirme, he boldlie on him tooke
T h a t to here Enterluds, is pastime conuenient
F o r all maner men, and a thing congruent.
1—2
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H e rekeneth that namelie, as a verie honest disport
And aboue al other thinges, commendeth ye old comedie 50
The hearing of which, may doo the mynd cumfort
For they be replenished with precepts of Philosophie
The conteine mutch wisdome and teache prudet pollecie
and though thei be al write of mattiers of non iportauce
Yet the shew great wit, and mutch pretie conueiaunce. 55

And in this maner of making, Plautus did excell

As recordeth the same Tullius comending him bi name
Wherfore this maker deliteth passinglye well
Too folowe his argumentes, and drawe out the same
For to make at seasuns coueniet pastims mirth and game 60
As now he hath do this matter not worth an oyster shel
Except percace it shall furtune too make you laugh well

And for that purpose onlye this maker did it write

Taking the ground therof out of Plautus first cOmedie
And the first scentence of ye same for higher things endite 65
In no wise he wold, for yet the time is so quesie
That he that speaketh best, is lest thanke worthie
Therfore, sith noting but trifles maye be had
you shal here a thing yt onlie shal make you merie and glad.

And suche a trifling matter as when it shalbe done 70

Ye may report and saye ye haue hearde nothing at all
Therfore I tell you all, before it be begone
That noman looke to heare of matters substancyall
Nor mattiers of any grauitee either great or small
For this maker shewed vs that suche maner thinges 75
Doo neuer well besime litle boyes handelinges.
 Jacke Jugeler 5
Wherfore yf ye wyl not sowrelie your broues bende
At suche a fantasticall conceite as this
But can be content to heare and see the ende
I woll go shew the Players what your pleasure is 80
Which to wait vpon you I know bee redie or this
I woll goo sende them hither in too your presence
Desiryng that they may haue quiet audience.

V< Jake Jugler

O U r lord of H e u e n and swete sainte Jhone

Rest you merye m y maisters euerychone
A n d I praye to Christ and swete saint Steuen
85

Send you all many a good euine

A n d you t o syr, and you, and y o u also
Good euine to you an hundered times and a thousand m o
N o w by all thes crosses of fleshe bone and blod 90
I reckine my chaunce right maruaylus good
H e r e now to find all this cumpanie
W h i c h in m y mynde I wyshed for hartylie
F o r I haue labored all daye tyll I am werie
A n d now am disposed too passe the time, and be merie 95
A n d I thinke noon of you, b u t he wolde do the same
F o r who wol be sad, and nedithe not, is foule to blame
A n d as for mee, of m y mother I haue byn tought
T o bee merie when I may, and take no thought
W h i c h leasone, I bare so well awaye 100
T h a t I vse to make merye oons a daye
A n d now if all thinges happyn right
You shall see as mad a pastime this night
6 Jacke Jugeler
As you saw this seuen yers ? and as propre a toye
IO
As euer yon saw played of a boye 5
I am called Jake Jugler, of many an oon
And in faith I woll playe a iugling cast a non
I woll cunger the moull, and god before
Or elles leat me lese my name for euer more
I haue it deuised, and compasced hou no
And what wayes, I woll tell and shew to you
you all know well Maister Boungrace
The gentilman that dwellith here in this place
And Jenkine Carreawaie, his page as cursed a lad
And as vngracious as euer man had 115
An vnhappy wage, and as folishe a knaue with al
As any is now, within London wall
This Jenkine and I been fallen at great debate
For a mattier, that fell betwine vs a late
And hitherto of him I could neuer reuenged be 120
For his maister mantaineth hi, and loueth not me
Albe it the very truth to tell
Nother of the both, knoweth me not verie well
But against al other boies, the sayd gentle man
Maynteyneth him, all that he can 125
But I shall set lytle by my wyte
If I do not Jenkine this night requite
Ere I slepe Jenkine shall bee mete
And I trust to cume partlye out of his dete
And whan we mete againe, if this do not suffise 130
I shall paye Jenkine the residue, in my best wyse
It chaaced me right now in the other end of ye next stret
With Jenkine and his mayster, in the face to met
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I aboed ther a whylle, playng for to see
At the Buklers, as welbecommed mee 135
It was not longe tyme, b u t at the last
Bake cumithe my cosune Careawaie, homward ful fast
Pricking, Praunsing, and springynge in his short cote
A n d pleasauntlie synginge, with a mery note
W h y ther a waye so fast, tary a whyle sayed oon 140
1 cannot now sayd Jenkine, I must nides bee goon
M y maister suppeth herbye, at a gentylmans place
A n d I must thither feache my dame, maistres bougrace
But yet er I go, I care not motche
At the bukelers to playe, with thee oon faire toche 145
T o it they went, and played so long
T y l l Jenkine thought he had wrong
By cokes prceious potstike, I wyll not home this night
Q u o d he, but as good a stripe oon thie hed lyght
W i t h i n halfe an houre, or sume what lese 150
Jenkine lefte playng, and went to featche his maisteris
But by the waye he met with a Freuteres wyfe
T h e r e Jenkine and she fell at suche strife
F o r snatching of an Apple, that doune he cast
H e r basket, and gatherid v p the apples fast 155
And put them in his sleue, the came he his waye
By an other lane, as fast as he maye
tyll he came at a corner, by a shoops stall
W h e r e boyes were at Dice, faryng at all
W h e n Careawaie with that good cumpany met 160
H e fell to faryng, withouten let
Forgettyng his message, and so well did he fare
that whan I came bye, he gan swere and stare
8 Jacke Jugeler
And full bitterlye, began to curse
As oone that had lost, almost all in his purse 165
For I knowe his olde gise, and condicion
Neuer to leaue, tyll all his mony bee goon
For he hath noo mony, but what he doth stell
And that woll he playe, awaye euery dell
I passed by, and then called vnto my mynd 17°
Sartayde old rekeaninges, that were behynd
Bitwen Jenkine and me, who partlie to recOpence
I trust by gods grace, ere I goo hence
This garments, cape, and all other geare
That now you see, apon me here 175
I haue doon oon, all lyke vnto his
For the nons, and my purpose is
T o make Jenkine, byliue yf I can
That he is not him selfe, but an other man
For except he hath better loke, than he had 180
H e woll cum hyther, starke staryng mad
Whan he shall cum, I wol handle my captine so
That he shal not well wot, whether too goo
His Maisteris I know, she woll him blame
And his Mayster also, wyll doo the same 185
Because that she, of her supper deceiued is
For I am sure they haue all supped by this
But and if Jenkine, wold hither resort
I trust he and I, should make sum sport
Yf I had sooner spokine, he wold haue sooner been here 190
For my simithe, I do his voyce heare.
 Jacke Jugeler 9
C Careawaye
A syr I may saye, I haue been at a fest
I haue lost .ii.s. and syxpence at the lest
M a r y syr, of this gaynes I nyde make no bost
But the dyuell goo with all, more haue I lost 195
M y name is Careawaie, let all sorow passe
I woll ere too morow night be as rich as euer I was
O r at ye forthest within a day or twaine
M e Maysters purse, shall paye me agayne
Therfor hogh careawaie, now wol I sig. hei hei 200
But bi ye lorde now I remembre a nother thing
By my faith Jenkine m y Maisteris and thou
A r lyke to gree, god knoweth hou
T h a t thou comest not, for her incontinent
T o bryng hir to supper, when thou were sent 205
A n d now they haue all supped, thou wolt shurlie abye
Except thou imagine, sumpretie and craftye lye
F o r she is as all other weomen bee
A verie cursed shrew, by the blessid Trinitie
A n d a verye Dyuell, for yf she oons begyne 210
T o fyght, or chyde, in a weke she wol not lyne
A n d a great pleasure she hath, specyally now of late
T o gette poore me, now and then by the pate
F o r she is an angrye pece of fleshe, and sone displeasyd
Quikely moued, but not lyghtlye appesed 215
W e vse to call her at home, dame Coye
A pretie gingerlie pice, god saue her and saint Loye
As denty and nice, as an halpeny worth of siluer spoons
But vengable melancolie, in the after noons
She vseth for hir bodylie helth, and safegard 220
 io Jacke Jugeler
T o chyd daylie oone fite, too supperward
And my Mayster him selfe, is worse then she
If he ons throughlye angeryd bee
And a mayd we haue at home, Aulsoon tripe and goo
Not all London can shewe, suche other twoo 225
She simperith, she prankith and getteth with out faylle
As a pecocke that hath spred, and sheweth hir gaye taile
Se minceth, she brideleth, she swimmeth to and fro
She tredith not one here a wrye, she tryppeth like a do
Abrode in the strete, going or cumming homward 230
She quauerith, and wardelith, like one in a galiard
Euerye ioynt in her bodye and euerie part
Oh it is a ioylie wenche to myns and deuyd a fart
She talketh, she chatteth like a Pye all daye
And speaketh like a parat Poppagaye 235
And that as fine, as a small silken threede
Ye and as high as an Eagle can fle for a neade
But it is a spitfull lying girle, and neuer well
But whan she may sum yll tael by me tel
She woll I warrant you, a non at the first 240
Of me immagine, and saye the worst,
And what soeuer she to my maisteris doth saye
It is writen in the gosspell of the same daye
Therfore I woll here with my selfe deuise
What I may best say, and in what wise 245
I may excuse this my long taryeng
That she of my negligence may suspect nothyng
For if the faulte of this be found in mee
I may giue my life for halpenis three
Hie cogitabundo similis sedeat.
 Jacke Jugeler 11

Let me stodie this moneth, and I shall not fiend 250

A better deuise then now is cume to my mynd
Maistries woll I saye, I am bound by my dutie
T o see that your womanhod haue no iniurie
For I heare and see, more then you now and then
And your selfe partlie know the wantin wyles of men 255
When wee came yender, there dyd I see
My mayster kisse gentilwomen tow or three
And to come emongs others my thought bysye
H e had a myruayllus great phantasye
A non he commaundyd me to run thens for you 260
To cume supe there if you wold but I wot not how
My hart grudgid mistrusting lest that I being awaye
M y maister wold sum light cast playe
Wher vpon maistries, to se the ende
I tarried halfe supper time so god me mende 265
And besydes that there was such other compainye
As I know your maistrisship setteth nothing by
Gorges dames of the corte and galaunts also
With doctours, and other rufflers mo
At last whan I thought it tyme and seasune 270
I cam too certifie you as it was reasune
And by the way whome should I mete
But that most honest Gentilman in the stret
Which the last wike was with you here
And made you a banket, and bouncing cheare 275
Ah Jenkin quoth he good spid how farest thou
Mary wel god yld it you maister quoth I how do you
How dothe thy maisteris is she at home
Ye syr quoth I and suppeth all alone
12 Jacke Jugeler
And but she hath noo maner good chere 280
I am sure she wold gladlye haue you there
I cannot cum now sayd he I haue busines
But thou shalt carie a tokine from me to thy maistreis
Goo with me too my chaumbre at yone lane end
And I woll a dishe of costerds vnto hyr send 285
I folowid him, and was bolde by your leaue
To receiue and bring them here in my sleue
But I wold not for all Englond by Jhesu Chryst
That my maister Boungrace herof wyst
Or knew that I should any such geare to you bring 290
Lest he misdime vs both in sum worse thyng
Nor shew him nothyng of that I before sayed
For then in dyd syr I am arayed
Yf you doo I may nothing herafter vnto you tell
whether I se mi master doo ill or well 295
That if you now this counsaile kepe
I wol ease you parchaunce twise in a wike
you may saye you wer sike and your hed did ake
that you lusted not this night any supper make
Speciallye with out the dores but thought it best 300
too abyde at home and take your rest
And I wyll to my maister too bryng hym home
For you know he wolbe angrie if he come alone
this woll I saye and face it so well
That she shall beleue it euerye dell 305
H o u saye you frinds, by the armes of Robyn hood
Wol not this excuse be resonable good
To muse for any better, great foly it is
For I may make sure rekenning of this
 Jacke Jugeler 13
That and if I wold sit stoding this .vii. yere 310
I shall not ells find how to saue me all clere
And as you see for the most part our witts be best
When wee be takyne most vnrediest
But I wol not giue for that boye a flye
That hath not al tymes in store one good lye 315
And cannot set a good face vpon the same
Therfore saint Gorge ye boroue, as it wol let him frame
I woll ieopard a ioynt, bee as bee maye
I haue had many lyke chaunces, before this daye
But I promise you I do curstlie feare 320
For I feel a vengeable burning in my left ere
And it hath byn a saying, of tyme long
That swete mete woll haue soure sauce among
And surelye I shall haue sum ill hape
For my here standith vp vnder my cape 325
I would knocke but I dare not by our ladye
I feare hanging where vnto no man is hastie
But seing there is no nother remedie
Thus to stand any longer it is but folye.
Hie pulset ostium.
They bee soo farre with in, the cannot heare 330

CE Jacke Jugler
Soft thy knoking saucie knaue, what makest thou there

Jenkene Careawaie
What knaue is that ? he speaketh not too me I trowe
And we mete the one of vs is lyke to haue a blowe
For nowe that I am well chafed, and sumwhat hote
14 Jacke Jugeler
twentye suche could I hewe as small as fleshe to pote 335
And surelie if I had a knyfe
This knaue should escape hardelye with his lyfe
T o teache him to aske of me any more
What I make at my owne maistirs doore

€L Jacke Jugler
But if thou come from that gate thou knaue 34°
I woll fet thee by the swet lookes so god me saue

V<f Jenkine Careawaie

Woll the horesoon fyght in dede by myn honestie
I know no quarell he hath too me
But I wold I were with in the house
And then I wold not set by hym a louse 345
For I feare and mistrust suche quareling thiues
See how he beginnith to strike vp his sleues

C Jacke iugler
His arse makith buttens now, and who lustith to feale
Shall find his hart creping out at his heele
Or ells lying hiden in sum corner of his hose 350
Yf it be not alredie dropped out of his nose
For as I doubt not but you haue hard beforne
A more dastard couerd knaue was neuer borne

"i( Jenkin Careawaie

The diuell set the house a fier, I trowe it is a curste
When a man hath most hast he spedith worst 355
Yf I bee robed, or slayne, or any harme geate
 Jacke Jugeler 15
The fault is in them that dothe not me in lete
And I durst ieoperd, an hunderid pounde
That sum bauderie might now within be founde
But except sum of them come the soner 360
I shall knocke suche a peale, that al englond shal woder
C Jake iugler
Knoke at the gate hardelye agayne if thou dare
And seing thou wolt not bye faire words beware
Now fistes, me thinketh yesterdaye .vii. yers past
That four men a sleepe at my fete you cast 365
And this same day you dyd no maner good
Nor were not washen in warme blod
Vlf Jenkin Careawaie
What whorson is this that washith in warme blod
Sum diuell broken loose, out of hell for wood
Four hath he slayne, and now well I see 370
That it must be my chaunce the fift to bee
But rather then thus shamfullye too be slayne
wold Christ my frends had hanged me being but yers .ii
And yet if I take good hart and be bolde
Percace he wolbe more sobre and coulde 375
C Jake iugler
Now handes bestur you about his lyppes and face
And streake out all his teth without any grace
Gentelman are you disposed to eate any fist mete
ii Jenkin Careawaye
I haue supped I thanke you syr and lyst not to eate
Geue it to them that are haungrie if you be wyse 380
16 Jacke Jugeler
C. Jacke iugler
Yet shall do a man of your dyet no harme to suppe twise
This shalbe your Chise, to make your met digest
For I tell you thes handes weighith of the best
*$! Jenkin Careawaye
I shall neuer escape see how he waghith his handes
C Jacke iugler
with a stroke they wyll lay a knaue in our ladye boons 385
And this day yet they haue done no good at all
^S? Jenkine Careawaye
Ere ye assaye the on mee, I praie thee lame the on ye wal
But speake you all this in earnest, or in game
Yf you be angrie with me trulye you are to blame
For haue you any iust quarell to mee 390
C Jake iugler
Eer thou and I parte that wol I shew thee
V<? Jenkin Careawaye
Or haue I doone you any maner displeasure
C Jake iugler
Ere thou and I parte thou shalt know, ye maist besure
V< Jenkin Careawaye
By my faith yf thou be angrie without a cause
You shall haue a mendes made with a cople of straus 395
By thee I sette what soeuer thou arte
But for thy displeasure I care not a farte
May a man demaund whose seruant you bee
 Jacke Jugeler 17

C Jacke iugler
My maisters seruaunt I am for veritie
^f Jenkin Careawaye
what busynes haue you at thys place now 4°°
Jacke iugler
Nay mary tell me what busynes hast thou
For I am commaunded for to watche and giue diligence
That in my good maister Boungraces absence
Noo misfortune may happen to his house sertayne
^f Jenkin Careawaye
well now I am cume, you may go hens agayne 4°5
And thanke them yt somuch for my maister hath doone
Sewing them yt the seruants of yr house be cume home
For I am of the house, and now in woll I goo
CT Jacke iugler
I cannot tell whether thou be of the house or noo
But goo no nere, lest I handle thee like a strainger 410
Thanke no man but thy selfe, if thou be in any daunger
€E Jenkine Careawaye
Marye I defye thee, and planly vnto thee tell
That I am a seruaunt of this house, and here I dwell
Jacke iugler
Now soo god me snache, but thou goo thee waies
Whille thou mayest, for this fortie dayes 415
I shall make thee not able to goo nor ryde
But in a dungcart or a whilberow liyng on on syde
w. j . j . %
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€L Jenken Careawaie
I am a seruaunt of this house by thes .x. bons
V<C Jacke iugler
Noo more prating but geat thee hens at towns
Jenkin Careawaye
Why my mayster hath sent me home in his message 420
^Sf Jacke iugler
Pike and walke a knaue, here a waye is no passage
C Jenkin Careawaie
What wilt thou let me from my nowne maistirs house
*$C Jacke iugler
Be tredging, or in faith you bere me a souse
Here my mayster and I haue our habitacion
And hath continually dwelled in this mansyon 425
At the least this doosen yers and od
And here wol we end our lyues by the grace of god
<E Jenkin Careawaye
Why then where shall my maister and I dwell
V<f Jacke iugler
At the Dyuell yf you lust, I can not tell
C. Jenken Careawaye
In nomine patris, now this geare doth passe 430
For a litel before supper here our house was
And this day in ye morning I wol on a boke swer
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