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A Ballet Declaringe the fal of the whore of babylone intytuled Tye thy mare tom boye with other and there-vnto anexid a prologe to the reders |
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Apocalyps .xviii Alas alas that great syty babylon which was clothed in Rayes purpel and skarlet and decked with gold precyous stones and perells for at one howre is her iudgement come and her grete ryches brought to naught | |
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W, k. To the Reader. |
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WHen that I ha[r]d hard] had
1548 (deare reader) of the great ouer-throes whyche the howre of
babylon had taken, and partli perseuid how
manfullye she was be
####ab####
sett or campt on euery syde with moste
valiant and chrysten waryors me-thoughte I colde not for the loue which I bare
vnto the truth stand stil and Idly to behold the[m] them]
the 1548, considering also wyth howe miche Ioye and gladnes of hart
the captains of this army hath reseued the
commandement of the lord
sent vnto them by Iohn his embasator
which commandeth them that thei shuld no longer
tryffell nor dallye with thes
citeze[n]s, but boldli to skal ther walles and manfullye to subdue them,
Rewardynge them, As they haue deserued, etc. Powre in dowbell, into
the cup that she hath filled vnto you
Apocalips
x.
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Yt made me so much the bolder to sett
my-selfe forwarde in this battell, trustynge that all-thoughe I be but an
vnworthy sowdyer of Iesus christe, they wil yet bere
wythe my rude wekenes or at the leaste accepte my good-will and mynde for
althoughe (for lacke of knoleg) I can not handell my weapons so hansomly as
those whiche haue ben daily practised in them yet
to declare my-selfe a trewe-harted soudier to my power will (in this battel)
take no skorne, nether it be ashamed to gether together som of
the pelets and wepons
that this cite hath of so
long tyme beten and killed vs
with-al, and lay
them vpon hepes
that thei mai be so mich
the redier at their hands
w[ho]who]
with 1548
can tel (betterbetter] bettter
1548 then I) how to bestow them
in the beting down of our enimies and for so mich
as the gretest multitude hath ben of so long time
blinded in loue
with
the laws and constitucionssig:
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of thes false and vngodly
citisens, that
they can not now perceue the bryght morninge-starre which hath apered and doth
yet dalyi apere vnto them I wold exorte all suche as haue receued ther
preste-money of christ our hed-captayne which is a
constant faythe in his blode to lay now hold on
the armur and wepons of god (which is the gospel)
that we mai al to
####ab####
gether
come into this filde, and ther eueri man as he shalbe apointed and called to
fyghte, a
####ab####
gaynste satan (the captayne of our enymyes
and all his powr perseuinge now his kingdome to be in daunger beginneth to sett
oute his stremers and blo with-out his trompets
thinkinge by
that police to fer
the ost of
the lord but now in our
mercheng forward let vs beware and tak good hide
that aboue al
things breke not our arai but kepe our-selues in good order
against al the
assaltessig:
[A3v]
or onsets
that
they shal hap to geue vs
(that is) to lede a godly
life and conuersacion for ther be a certayn whyche
hath craftli crept into our host and haue professed the[m]-seluesthem] the 1548 tru and faythful souders
when indede the haue proued to
the contrary The possesse
the truth with mothes but in the deds
the vtterly deny yt. and do it
daily for the leue this arai and good order
whiche I before spake of. and runneth abrode some
arowing and a
####ab####
whore-hunting, some
a
####ab####
fighting brawling swering
dising carding and vnresonabel
rioting some geuen to insaciable couetousnes
with a great mani of
other mischeues by the meanes wherof
the haue broght so il a report vpon
the hol host of the lord
that our enimies whiche
wher before easye to be reformed ar bi your euel exampels in a
maner hardened against the
truth and therfore ar al such sowders worthie to be excomunycated out of this
armi vntil ther be sum in them euident
tokens of amendment forsig:
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we haue no nede of ani such sowdiers as
long as the lord ys on our
side for yf the gospel [aide vs]aide vs] 1548 omits we fle not back but
stand by our wepons, and kepe
the a
####ab####
raye which christ our hed-captaine hath set vs in then haue we noo nede to fere
if men [in]in] 1548 omits so many whings
happen to breke in on euery side vpon vs for
he is a
####ab####
bell with turning of
his hand to put them al to flyght and vtterly to
consume them
Yf god be
on our syd how then can preuaill against vs. hauing therfore so sure
a protector and defendor at al times to trust vnto what shulde
then fere vs to prosyde in our warfar agaynste thes
vnfaithful babylonians who althoughe the lie
lurking in ther holds castels and dennes
(that being
lyke feint-harted cowards afraid to skirmish or to tri ther
manhed
with good
wepons [ye]tyet] it 1548 ar they not
in this meane-time fre from
working of mischeu your harts dayli aper[e]thapereth] aeperth
1548
apereth: =appair,
'impair, injure' for [n]ow
that they se thei
can not make your pertyperty: =party good to com face to face and
tosig:
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trye ther cause they haue inuented
a nother praity polyce, and that is this to bring the captaynes of the lordes
hoste in an euel name or as yt were in a mortal hatred
with ther sowdyers and
shucheshuche: =such as ar vnder the[m]them] the 1548
A prety polycy.
satan
hath now beinge ther grawn[d]e-captaynegrawnde]
grawne 1548 sent a
####ab####
brode his crafty spies in-to euery corner whiche
dothe parswade the ingnorant and rude sowdyers that ther captayns dothe seke all
that they can to faymyshe the[m]them] the 1548 and
to take from them al thyngs that ar necessary for them that they
may ther dye lyke brent bestes that is to saye our stiffe-necked pharyseys I
meane to bringe our Kynge and his counsel in an euel name a
####ab####
monge
your subiectes and commons. Runneth a
####ab####
brod in-to euery towne and taueren betyng
in-to the i[g]noranteignorante] innorante 1548 peoples hedes
that
the hier powres
with your statutes
yngnacionsyngnacions: an error for ymaginacions?
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And other of this new
lerning with
ther bokes balatts and songes goeth about no-thing elles but to
destroy and take a
####ab####
way all godly lawes and ordynances as baptym matrimony and
such-like which wicked persuasions often-tymes causethe many to ryse a
####ab####
gainst
there rulers whom they owste to obey in al thinges Exampelles ar to euident Roma,
xiii.
and not to resiste vpon payne of damnation as paul plainly afirmeth to
the Romans where he saith
let euery soul submit him-selfe vnto the octorite of the hier
powers for there is no power but of god
Obai the rulers not
only for fere but by
####ab####
cause of conciens. who-so
therfore resisteth them resysteth the ordy[n]ance of god and reseueth to them-selues
dampnation this be the very
wordes of .S.
paul writen in the .xiii chapiter to the Roma. bi the
with
with:
=which? place and many other mai al men perseue how
far the wicked papiste haue in al rages swarued fro the truth and
specyalsig:
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they in our
time for neuer were the pharysies in the tyme of christ by the tenth parte so wicked wych sought like-wise by al ways and
meanes that they cold to fere
the peple from
christ and his doct[r]indoctrin]
doctin 1548 whose hard and stony harts he wilwil: =well perseuing sessed not to cal
them scribes pharysis ypocrites painted sepulkres
aders a generacion of vepers and blind g[y]dsgyds] guds 1548
Mathew .
x.
xxiii.
with
with:
=which? locked vp the kingdom of heuen be
####ab####
fore
men but nowe to my pourpose considering the wrong
interpretacions
that this wicked and vngodlye
papistes do gather as wel of the moste godly
statuts and lawes set forth by the kinges
magesty, as of other bokes balates songes I take ocacion
gentel reder acording vnto this smal talent
which I haue reseued of the lord to set forth this simpel preface
in
the defence of this rude and
raged rime folowing
with al other
that ar
consonant andsig:
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agreing to the scriptures to put my weke brethern
that ar not as yet dom to
the knoleg of
the truth in
remembrance
that we do not
therin condemne anye godly lawe
but wold gladly wishe that
that were extoled and
mangnyfyedmangnyfyed: =magnified as to haue
the souper of
the lord
that worthye memori of his
deth and passion ofte and reuerently vsed, baptym to be ordered as
the apostels dyd leue yt, marieng to be
had acording to paules consel and
in honor among al men
As well prystes as other for
the[n]then] them 1548 shal the not haue so
muche of other mens. and that the Gospel maye be sinseerly taght and
preched for that was the
comma[n]dement which christ gaue vnto his Apostles
before he assended vnto his father sayeng al powre is now geuen
me in heuen and in erth go therfore saith he into al partes of
the worlde and preache the gospel and as many as do beleue and are babtysed shal
be saued but we fynde not in all the whole Scrypturesbut we
fynde not in all the whole Scryptures] but we fynde not in all the whole
Scrypturessig:
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but we fynde not in
all the whole scripturs 1548
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that euer he commanded any of
them to say masse or to set vp stockes and stones and to make
the peple beleue in the fylthy tradicions of mens
inuencions, as water, salt, bedes bowes, belles, with such
other bagag and therfore ought all true Christen men without
ceasing to praye vnto the lorde that he wold vouchsafe of his greate mercy to
helpe and strenghten our noble kynge with all his godly counselers in takinge
away of all suche popisshe constitucions which hath bene the destruction of many
soules and to the great hinderaunce of his most blessed word for the encrease
nowe wherof let vs all with one mynde praye vnto god
the father of our lord Iesus christ. whose pease I hartely wysh vnto al them
that vnfaynedly loue his
testimonies Amen |
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Finis. |
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The ballet of ty the mare tom boy. |
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TY the mare, tom boy | |
Ty the mare tom? | |
Lesse she straye | |
From the awaye | |
Ty the mare tom. | |
Now good tom bestirre the This is listed by Ringler as the first line of the poem, TP 1228. | |
This mare loke thou wake her | |
And do nothing fere the | |
But boldely go take her. | |
5 | For some wil outwere the |
Do not now forsake her | |
A rope for her beare the | |
That comme thou mayst take her. | |
And ty her good tom boy | |
10 | Thou must therfore fetche her |
That she maye prouyde her | |
Some els-where to mache her | |
Perchaunce she wyll hyde her | |
But se thou well watche her | |
15 | We can not abyde her |
A haulter vpstratche her vpstratche her ='extend to her'; a verb *upstretch is not recorded in OED | |
Therfore ty her tom boye | |
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This tom boy to name hym | |
I will nowe proclayme hym | |
20 | Although some disdayne hym |
And also diffame hym | |
But what though they blame hym | |
And seke for to payne hym | |
Tom troth must we frame him | |
25 | A fole some men fayne hym |
Ty the mare tom boye | |
This mare now open | |
I must nedes declare her | |
Her name to vnloken | |
30 | To set her and stare her stare ='stare at, cause to be stared at', or perhaps a nonce-form of steer ('set and steer')? |
She doth sure betoken | |
A whore now beware her | |
For Iohan hath this spoken | |
Which doth nothyng spare her | |
35 | Therfore ty her tom boy |
In his reuelacions | |
Ther maye all men spye her | |
That haue speculacions | |
And lyste for to trye her | |
40 | Her yll frequentacions |
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Wyll make men defye her | |
For with exclamacions | |
Iohn doth so discrye her | |
Therfore ty her good tom boy | |
45 | Full sore dothe he treate her |
Let she now defende her | |
Or els somwher get her | |
That she may amende her | |
For we wyll so frette her | |
50 | She shall all to ####ab#### rende her |
To harken now let her | |
And to vs attende her | |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
O vnshamfaste harlot | |
55 | So proudly arayed |
In purple and scarlet | |
Thou art now dismayed | |
Of euery varlot | |
Thou madeste vs afrayde | |
60 | Gods worde our true marlot marlot: =marlet, 'martin or martlet'? |
Hath the nowe bewrayed | |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
In castels and towers | |
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Thou were euer walled | |
65 | Great kinges to thy wors |
Thou hast euer called | |
Thy feldes with theyr flours | |
And parkes that were paled | |
With all thy strong dowers | |
70 | From the are nowe fa[y]led fayled] fauled 1548 |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
Thy cofers were fylled | |
With riches and treasure | |
Thy chambers were d[y]lled dylled] delled 1548dylled ='decked, adorned'; see OED s.v. dill v3 | |
75 | With sylkes of great val[oy]r valoyr] valyor 1548valyor: valoir seems to be the word intended, although valour would give a better rhyme; for the phrase 'of great valour' (='material value'), see OED s.v. valour n, 3b |
Thy red-dere were kylled | |
And slayne out of measure | |
Thus poore-men were pylled | |
To mainteyne thy pleasure | |
80 | Ty the mare tom boy |
The fall of the market | |
Thy marchauntes bewayleth | |
Their wares no man lackeit | |
Theyr fyne flower fayleth | |
85 | In sackes maye they seke it |
From ingland it sayleth | |
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Here longer to darke yt. darke ='lie in the dark, lie hid or unseen'; see OED s.v. dark v, 6 | |
Yt no-thing av[ai]leth. availeth] avialeth 1548 | |
Ty the mare tom boye. | |
90 | The shippe-men that spied, |
The [w]all of the cytie. wall] shall 1548 | |
A ####ab#### farr of they cried. | |
Lamentynge with pitye. | |
And saye now ys fyred. | |
95 | Grett babyll so fittye. fittye ='proper, nice'; see OED s.v. fitty adj. 1 |
Alas then the[y] cryed. they] the 1548 | |
Consumed now ys she | |
Ty the mare tom boy. | |
When preistes saw the crased. | |
100 | Ther crownes then they skratched |
And were so adased, | |
Their sete downe they dashed sete: =seat | |
And as thei stil gased, | |
For fere ther tethe gnashed. | |
105 | The lorde is nowe raysed. |
That hath them thus lashed | |
Ty the mare tom boy, | |
For he sent them preachers | |
And they were disdayne[d] disdayned] disdayneh 1548 | |
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110 | To dethe the true techers |
Were alwaye constrained. | |
And [by] this-lyke horsse-lec[h]ers by] 1548 omits; lechers] lecbers 1548this-lyke horsse-lec[h]ers ='rapacious people like this'; horsse-lec[h]ers is a nonce-spelling to rhyme with techers (see OED s.v. horse-leech n) | |
The lorde was blasphemed | |
But marke now ye mechers mechers: =michers, 'sneak-thieves, panders, truants' | |
115 | How well ye haue gayned |
Ty the [m]are tom boy. | |
His laws when he sent you. | |
Bothe Ioyes Ioly, | |
Lyke mad-men ye rent you | |
120 | Blasphemynge his body |
Ye shulde now repent you | |
And therfore be sory. | |
Ned[e]s must ye content you Nedes] Neds 1548 | |
Yt ys but a folye | |
125 | Ty the mare tom boy. |
Bothe pistells and gospells, pistells: =epistles | |
Ye alway obskured | |
To mayntayne fatt mossels mossels: =morsels, 'tit-bits' | |
Ye haue vs alured | |
130 | As satons apostels |
This ar we assured This: =Thus | |
Your meulls trymd with tossels, meulls: = mules; tossels: =tassels | |
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May not now be vsed | |
Ty the mare tom boye | |
135 | Lyke humayne vyces vyces ='designs, figures, devices'? See OED s.v. vice n5 |
Ye were styll grene dowers were: =wear; dowers ='endowments'? | |
Of popyshe pastymes | |
Ye were great alowers | |
For your deuylyshe crymes. | |
140 | Ye muste be now plowers |
Or in the se-rymes rymes: =realms? | |
With ores to be rouers | |
Ty the mare tom boy. | |
Ye haue vs detected | |
145 | With your false commycyon |
So subtell infected | |
Were ye wythe ambycyon | |
As men not elected | |
In chrystes tuycyon, | |
150 | But Iustlye regected: |
As sons of perdycyon | |
Ty the mare to[m] boy | |
Ye serued with knyues | |
At other mens tables | |
155 | And had by theyr vices |
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Yonge chylderen in credels | |
Your great sinfull lyues | |
For all your fyne sables | |
I feare with rych diues | |
160 | In hell be your stables |
Ty thy mare tom boy | |
With dysshes full denty | |
So costly ye fared | |
The pottes went so plentye | |
165 | No hote wynes ye spared |
Tyll go could ye scanty scanty: =scantly, 'barely', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme | |
Your eyes so then stared | |
Yet poore-men full empty | |
To speke not ones dared | |
170 | Ty the mare tom boy |
By other mens fyers | |
Your childeren were warmed | |
With cruell desyres | |
The christen ye armed | |
175 | Lyke roarars and criers |
In churches ye charmed | |
Lyke sellers and byers | |
The whole earth ye fermed | |
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Ty the mare tom boy | |
180 | Your deuelysh dissenti[on]s dissentions] dissentinos 1548 |
And loude exclamations | |
With youre false inuencions | |
Wolde aske long narrations | |
Your subtyll suspentions | |
185 | And wronge accusations |
With spitfull pretencions | |
They nede no probacyons | |
Ty thy mare tom boye | |
Ther was neuer treason | |
190 | But ye did inuente it |
In eares thys to reason thys: =thus? | |
Ye do yet frequente it | |
With some ly or leson | |
Abroade ye forth sent it | |
195 | But come ys the season |
That ye must repente it | |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
Lyke Ioly masse-singers | |
Ye haue vs deluded | |
200 | Your lytell bell-ringers |
At them we much mused | |
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For all your cleane fyngers, | |
Ye must be a ####ab#### cused, | |
In that ye were bringers | |
205 | Of such wares abused, |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
With lawes so prophane, | |
That were full vnr[u]ly | |
Your ashes and palme. | |
210 | Mainteined so dulie, |
Your darke laten salme, darke ='obscure in meaning, hard to understand'; see OED s.v. dark adj., 6a | |
This will I assure ye. assure] assurer 1548 | |
Comme wynde or comm calme | |
It must awaie trulie | |
215 | Ty thy mare tom boy |
With bocke bell and candell bocke: =book | |
Ye gaue vs your curses | |
And wolde vs so handell | |
That walke shoulde our purses | |
220 | Some tyme for to strangell, |
With ropes ye wolde trusse vs | |
No longer nowe dandell, | |
For we ar past nursses | |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
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225 | Yt were greate dispensers |
And there-with reseuers | |
As shepes with sencers, | |
Good basens and euers | |
In ves[t]mentes at venters vestmentes] vessmentes 1548venters: =ventures? | |
230 | Ye sange many prayers |
For them that were lenters lenters ='observers of the Lenten fast'? OED does not record a word *lenter | |
And to your suche leuers, leuers: =levers, an aphetic form of 'believers'? See OED s.v. lever n2 | |
Ty the mare to[m] boy, | |
Your veluettes and satten | |
235 | By suche trickes ye winned |
Betwene masse and mattens | |
Salte water ye sprenged | |
Asparges in latten | |
Forth with them ye singed, | |
240 | To call Iacke and wat in |
The belles out ye ringed | |
Ty the mare tom boye | |
Your fyne waxen tapers | |
Besides your longe torches, | |
245 | With there fumminge vapers, |
Caryed before corses | |
Awaye with clappers, | |
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And puddels in porches, | |
With al such-like maters | |
250 | T[hat] are of no forces That] Ty 1548 |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
Your bedes and your bedroles bedroles ='lists of persons to be specially prayed for' or perhaps 'strings of beads for counting prayers'; see OED s.v. bead-roll n | |
It was but abusion | |
Your trendels and trentals | |
255 | Went al to confusion |
Your oyells and your yemnolls, oyells: =oils; yemnolls: =hymnals, and is perhaps an error for *ymnolls | |
It was playne delusion | |
So was your mementoes | |
To tel the conclusyon | |
260 | Ty the mare tom boy |
Your deryge so netye, deryge: =dirge; netye: =net, 'bright, clear', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme (see OED s.v. net adj., 2a) | |
For sowles hens dic[ea]sed diceased] dicaesed 1548 | |
Your portas so prety portas ='portable breviary' | |
Wherin ye styll preched | |
265 | Withe feates that were fety fety: =feat, 'smart, adroit', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme (see OED s.v. feat adj., 2) |
Ye haue vs defeted defeted ='deprived, dispossessed'; see OED s.v. defeat v, 7b | |
From gods worde so mety, mety: =meet, 'suitable, proper' | |
For vs to be teached | |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
270 | Gon is your nasty |
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And laten procession | |
And so must your casty casty: =cast, 'purpose, design' or perhaps 'contrivance, trick', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme (see OED s.v. cast n, 23, 24a) | |
That false deare confession | |
Which was alway apty apty: =apt | |
275 | To rayse insurre[c]tion insurrection] insurrertion 1548 |
Perswading with suertie | |
To geue vs remissyon | |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
At mydnyght to mattens | |
280 | Ye came from dormyra dormyra ='sleeping, dormitory'(?), a nonce-form perhaps based on Latin dormire; cf. OED s.vv. dorm(e, dormitory |
With lyghtes in youre lantarnes | |
To se your latina, | |
Away must your antems | |
Of Gaude maria | |
285 | In latin your seuen psalmes |
With salue regina | |
Ty the mare tom boy | |
Ye prestes with your presentes presentes ='offerings to God'? See OED s.v. present n2, 2d | |
Ye must be now lerned | |
290 | Your lyes and your legendes legendes ='legendaries' |
Ar lyke to be burned | |
Your picktures with presents | |
May not be adourned adourned: =adorned | |
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For all remes and regentes remes: =realms | |
295 | Will shortely be turned, |
Ty thy mare tom boy | |
Your god ye longe kepe it god: =God, a reference to the sacrament of the Eucharist? | |
Yt wexeth now rustye, | |
And exepte ye strike yt | |
300 | Ye wil be all dustye |
In no wise now slype yt slype ='neglect, skip'; see OED s.v. slip v1, 21b | |
But shew your-selfe lusty | |
For if the mowse [b]yte yt byte] myte 1548 | |
He will eate yt: trust me | |
305 | Ty thy mare tom boye |
Your cursinge and blessinge, | |
Your brethinge and blowynge | |
Your lycking and kissi[n]ge kissinge] kissige 1548 | |
Your mockinge and mowynge | |
310 | Your tossinge and tissinge, tissinge: a nonce-reduplication of 'tossinge' |
Stroud myscheue in ####ab#### soinge, Stroud: =Strewed | |
Therfore your false missing, missing ='error, fault'? See OED s.v. missing vbl. n, 3. There may also be a glance at massing, 'the action or practice of celebrating mass'; see OED s.v. massing vbl. n1 | |
Is now a ####ab#### downe throstyng, | |
Ty thy mare tom boye | |
315 | A nende of my balet, |
sig: [B6] | |
Anone I wyll make you | |
With pollax nor sallet pollax: =pole-axe | |
In no wyse now crake you | |
For thens by the pallet | |
320 | All good men will take you |
Locke vp bagge and wallet | |
And ingland forsake you | |
Now harken good tom boy | |
This mare with her baggage | |
325 | Away loke thou haue her |
And make here no tariage | |
Lesse ypocrites craue her craue] scraue 1548 | |
Strong cartes for her cariage | |
She shall haue to saue her | |
330 | Let sees make her mariage |
For landes wyll depraue her | |
Away wyth her tom boy | |
And cleane to despache her | |
That none may gene-say her gene-say: =gainsay | |
335 | Wyth some good poorte mach her poorte ='retinue, train of attendants'? See OED s.v. port n4, 2b |
As no doubt ye maye her | |
Whych wyll so strayght watche her | |
That if men wolde staye her | |
sig: [B6v] | |
At see they shulde fetche her, | |
340 | Ye may so convaye her. |
And ther leaue her tom boy | |
For as she dothe sealle he[r] her] hee 1548sealle: =sail | |
Betwene france and douer: | |
And ther doth bewaylle her. | |
345 | That she is a rouer, |
The carte-wheles may fayll her | |
Before she come ouer. | |
Then can she not bayell her, bayell ='liberate on bail'; see OED s.v. bail v1, 2 | |
But be a sea-drouer. sea-drouer ='fishing-boat'? See OED s.v. drover n, 2 | |
350 | Therfore leaue her tom boy |
And in England staye the | |
Where none shal ones crake the | |
Nor neuer-more fray the | |
Ne y[e]t ones for-sake the, yet] yt 1548 | |
355 | But newly to ray the, |
And euer obaye the, | |
This promyse we make the, | |
Therfore tari tom boye. | |
My song some wil mocke it | |
360 | I am not ashamed |
sig: [B7] | |
The kye to vnlocke yt | |
I haue not y[e]t framed yet] yct 1548 | |
The truth yet [to] nocke it to] 1548 omitsnocke ='fit (the arrow) to the bowstring ready for shooting'; see OED s.v. nock v, 2 | |
I was myche inflamed | |
365 | Now forthe haue I shot yt |
Let me not be blamed | |
For now myche I care not | |
Althoughe I do end yt | |
To telle all I dare not | |
370 | And then to come sende yt, |
But stampe not nor stare not | |
For it canne not mende yt | |
Finis quod william kythe |
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An exortacion to the papists |
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O papysts repent you O] OA 1548 | |
and for mercy cry you | |
The last day preuent you | |
For yt ys full nye you | |
5 | With gods worde content you |
The pops laws defye you | |
sig: [B7v] | |
No lenger absente you | |
But vnto Christe hye you | |
For he is a sauiour | |
10 | That wyll neuer fayle you |
Yf ye will not wauer | |
But mekely bewayle you | |
Of your misbeauiour | |
And forthe-with apele you | |
15 | To his grace and fauour |
He wyll surely heale yo[u] | |
For so hathe he tolde you | |
By Mathewe his writer his] his hys 1548 | |
And also to bolde you | |
20 | By luke his inditer |
The stories beholde you | |
Of Paule Iohan and Peter | |
Men doth it vnfolde you | |
Both in prose and myter | |
25 | For all this his kyndnes |
Which he doth yet bere you | |
As men that were mindles | |
sig: [B8] | |
Ye rent you and teare you | |
Therfore of payne endles | |
30 | Ye had nede to feare you |
For it is not blyndnes | |
At last day shall were you were: =were: ='defend' | |
The prophetes this telleth | |
Who-so lyst to rede them | |
35 | Whych saythe all that swelleth |
Oor blyndely proceade the[m] proceade the[m] ='carry on, advance their course' | |
He that aboue dwelleth | |
Shal surely outw[e]de them outwede] outwyde 1548outwede: =outweed, 'weed out'; see OED s.v. out-, 15a | |
Let they that rebelleth | |
40 | Beware and take h[e]de them hede] hide 1548Note that heed is spelled 'hide' in the prose passage above (signature A3). |
For though god forgeued | |
Many that offended | |
And also relyued | |
Shuch as were sore spended Shuch: =Such | |
45 | Yet some he sore greued |
And also condempned | |
As Iudas which f[e]ded feded] fided 1548 | |
With Christe that asscended | |
sig: [B8v] | |
Therfore now amende you | |
50 | And shortly confesse you, |
To god who may sende you, | |
His spret to possesse you spret: =sprite, 'spirit' | |
And also defende you, | |
That none shal oppresse you none] ndne 1548 | |
55 | We wil reprehende you |
Until ye addresse you addresse] addrssesse 1548 | |
Now mekely downe syt you, | |
And this I exorte you this: =thus | |
The gospel to get you | |
60 | And therin to sport you, |
Yf that do ones fyt you, | |
We wolde reporte you, | |
And this I commyt you | |
To christe who conforte you | |
FINIS quod. Wyllyam Kith |
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