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.*
MAN. This bouse is as benshyp[172] 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 when wee come backe agayne into the country, wee wyll steale some lynnen clothes of one[173] hedges, or robbe some house for a bucke of clothes.*
-- 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[174] of a shameles Doxe, but for the phrase of speche I set it forth onely.
There was a proude patrico and a nosegent, he tooke his Iockam in his famble, and a wappinge he went, he dokte the Dell, hee pryge to praunce, he byngd a waste into the darke mans, he fylcht the Cofe, with out any fylch man.
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WHyle this second Impression was in printinge, it fortuned that Nycholas Blunte, who called hym selfe Nycholan Gennyns, a counterefet Cranke, that is spoken of in this booke, was fonde begging in the whyte fryers on Newe yeares day last past, Anno domini. 1567, and commytted vnto a offescer, who caried hym vnto the depetye of the ward, which co_m_mytted hym vnto the counter; _and_ as the counstable and a nother would haue caried hym thether, This counterfet Cranke ran awaye, but one lyghter of fote then the other ouer toke hym, _and_ so leading him to the counter, where he remayned three days, _and_ from thence to Brydewell, where before the maister[175] he had his dysgysed aparell put vpon hym, which was monstrous to beholde, And after stode in Chepesyde w_i_t_h_ _th_e same apparil on a scafold.[176]
A Stockes to staye sure, and safely detayne, *[leaf 30]*
Lasy lewd Leutterers, that lawes do offend, Impudent persons, thus punished with payne, Hardlye for all this, do meane to amende.
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Fetters or shackles serue to make fast, Male malefactours, that on myschiefe do muse, Vntyll the learned lawes do quite or do cast, Such, suttile searchers, as all euyll do vse.
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{A whyp is a whysker, that wyll wrest out blood, *[lf 30, bk]*
{Of backe and of body, beaten right well.
Of all the other it doth the most good, Experience techeth, and they can well tell.
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-- O dolefull daye! nowe death draweth nere, Hys bytter styng doth pearce me to the harte.
I take my leaue of all that be here, Nowe piteously playing this tragicall parte.
Neither stripes nor teachinges in tyme could conuert, wherefore an ensample let me to you be, And all that be present, nowe praye you for me.
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[177]-- This counterfet Cranke, nowe vew and beholde, Placed in pyllory, as all maye well se: This was he, as you haue hard the tale tolde, before recorded with great suttylte, Ibused manye with his inpiete, his lothsome attyre, in most vgly manner, was through London caried with dysplayd banner.[178]
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[Symbol: Right Index] Thus I conclude my bolde Beggars booke, That all estates most playnely maye see, As in a glasse well pollyshed to looke, Their double demeaner in eche degree.
Their lyues, their language, their names as they be, That with this warning their myndes may be warmed, To amend their mysdeedes, and so lyue vnharmed.
FINISH.