English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Satire, English -- Early works to 1800
Parchemente makers skynners and plowers
Barbers boke bynders and lymners
Repers faners and horners
Pouche makers belowfarmes and cage sellers
Lanterners stryngers grynders
Arowe heders maltemen and corne mongers B. vi. _b._
Balancers tynne casters and skryueners
Stacyoners vestyment swoers and ymagers
Sylke women pursers and garnysshers
Table makers sylke dyers and shepsters
Golde sheres keuerchef launds and rebē makers
Tankarde berers bouge men and spere planers
Spynsters carders and cappe knytters
Sargeauntes katche pollys and somners
Carryers carters and horskepers
Courte holders bayles and honters
Constables hede borowes and katers
Butlers sterchers and musterde makers
Harde waremen mole sekers and ratte takers
Bewardes brycke borners and canel rakers
Potters brome sellers pedelers
Shepherdes cowe herdes and swyne kepers
Broche makers glas blowers cādelstycke casts
Hedgers dykers and mowers
Gonners maryners and shypmaysters
Chymney swepers and costerde mongers
Lode men and bere brewers
Fysshers of the see and muskel takers
Schouyll chepers gardeners and rake fetters
Players purse cutters money baterers
Gold washers tomblers Iogelers
Pardoners kȳges bēche gatherers and lether dyers
There were theues hores and baudes wᵗ mortherers
Crakers facers and chylderne quellers
Spyes lyers and grete sclaunderers
Cursers chyders and grete vengeaunce cryers C. i. _a._
Dyssymulynge beggers hede brekers borders
Nette makers and harlote takers
Swerers and outragyous laughers
Surmowsers yll thynkers and make brasers
With lollers lordaynes and fagot berers
Luskes slouens and kechen knaues
Bargemen whery rowers and dysers
Tyburne collopes and peny pryckers
Bowlers mas shoters and quayters
Flaterers and two face berers
Sluttes drabbes and counseyll whystelers
With smoggy colyers and stȳkȳge gōge fermers
Of euery craft some there was
Shorte or longe more or lasse
All these rehersed here before
In Cockes bote eche man had an ore
All tho that offyces had
Some woūde at yᵉ capstayne as Cocke thē bad
Some stode at yᵉ slȳge some dyde trusse and thrȳge
Some pulde at the beryll some sprede yᵉ mayne myssyll
Some howysed the mayne sayle
Some veryed showte a very slayle
Some roped yᵉ hoke some yᵉ pōpe and some yᵉ laūce
Some yᵉ lōge bote dyde laūce some mēde yᵉ corse
Mayne corfe toke in a refe by force
And they that were abyll drewe at the cabyll
Some the anker layde some at the plōpe a sayll swepe
One kepte yᵉ compas and watched yᵉ our glasse
Some yᵉ lodysshestōe dyd seke some yᵉ bote dyd
Some made knottes of lynkes endes C. i. _b._
Some the stay rope suerly byndes
Some a satte borte a stare borde
Some the standerdes oute dyde brynge
Some one the shrowedes dyde clyme
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