tryninge, *hanginge*.
chattes, *the gallowes*.
the hygh pad, *the hygh waye*.
the ruffmans, *the wodes or bushes*.
a smellinge chete, *a garden or orchard*.
crassinge chetes, *apels, peares or anye other frute*.
*to fylche, to beate, to stryke, to robbe*.[163]
to nyp a boung, *to cut a pursse*.
To skower the cramprings, *[leaf 28, back] to weare boltes or fetters*.
to heue a bough, *to robbe or rifle a boeweth*.
to cly the gerke, *to be whypped*.
to cutte benle,[164] *to speake gently*.
to cutte bene whydds, *to speake or geue good wordes*.
to cutte quyre whyddes, *to geue euell wordes or euell language*.
to cutte, *to saye*.
to towre, *to see*.
to bowse, *to drynke*.
to maunde, *to aske or requyre*.
to stall, *to make or ordaine*.
to cante, *to speake*.
to myll a ken, *to robbe a house*.
to prygge, *to ryde*.
to dup the gyger, *to open the doore*.
to couch a hogshead, *to lye downe and sleepe*.
to nygle, *to haue to do with a woman carnally*.
stow you, *holde your peace*.
bynge a waste, *go you hence*.
to the ruffian, *to the deuell*.
the ruffian cly the, *the deuyll take thee*.
[Header: HARMAN. THE VPRIGHT COFE CANTETH TO THE ROGE.]
-- The vpright Cofe canteth to the Roge.[165]
*The vpright man speaketh to the Roge.*
VPRIGHTMAN.[166]
Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes, in what lipken hast thou lypped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell?
*God morrowe to thy body, in what house hast thou lyne in all night, whether in a bed, or in the strawe?*
ROGE.
I couched a hogshead in a Skypper this darkemans.
*I layd[167] me downe to sleepe in a barne this night.*
VPRIGHT MAN.[168]
I towre the strummel trine vpon thy nabchet[169] _and_ Togman.
*I see the strawe hang vpon thy cap and coate.*
ROGE.
I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.
*I sweare by the masse[170], I wull washe it of with a quart of good drynke; [leaf 29][171] then saye to me what thou wylt.*
MAN. Why, hast thou any lowre in thy bonge to bouse?
*Why, hast thou any money in thy purse to drinke?*
ROGE. But a flagge, a wyn, and a make.
*But a grot, a penny, and a halfe penny.*
MAN. Why, where is the kene that hath the bene bouse?
*where is the house that hath good drinke?*
ROGE. A bene mort hereby at the signe of the prauncer.
*A good wyfe here by at the signe of the hors.*