English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Satire, English -- Early works to 1800
The thyrde persone of Englande
Thus of Cocke Lorell I make an ende
And to heuen god your soules sende
That redeth this boke ouer all
Chryst couer you with his mantell perpetuall.
AMEN.
Here endeth Cocke Lorelles bote. Imprynted at London in the Flete strete
at the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde.
Reprinted at ABERDEEN by MILNE & HUTCHISON.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Padder, or Rumpadder, a thief.--SLANG DICTIONARY.
[2] Maunder, a beggar.--SLANG DICTIONARY.
[3] Dibdin’s Ames, Vol. II., p. 352.
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