_Gentylwoman._ In daunsynge and syngynge 845 Tyll mydnyght, and then fall to slepynge. _Mery-reporte._ Why, swete herte, by your false fayth, can ye syng? _Gentylwoman._ Nay, nay, but I love yt above all thynge. _Mery-reporte._ Now, by my trouth, for the love that I owe you, D i You shall here what pleasure I can shew you. 850 One songe have I for you, suche as yt is, And yf yt were better ye should have yt, by gys.[188] _Gentylwoman._ Mary, syr, I thanke you even hartely. _Mery-reporte._ Come on, syrs; but now let us synge lust[e]ly. _Here they singe._ _Gentylwoman._ Syr, this is well done; I hertely thanke you. 855 Ye have done me pleasure, I make God avowe. Ones in a nyght I long for suche a fyt; For longe tyme have I bene brought up in yt. _Mery-reporte._ Oft tyme yt is sene, both in court and towne, Longe be women a bryngyng up & sone brought downe. 860 So fet[189] yt is, so nete yt is, so nyse yt is, So trycke[190] yt is, so quycke yt is, so wyse yt is. I fere my self, excepte I may entreat her, I am so farre in love I shall forget her. Now, good maystres, I pray you, let me kys ye-- 865 _Gentylwoman._ Kys me, quoth a! Why, nay, syr, I wys ye. _Mery-reporte._ What! yes, hardely! Kys me ons and no more. I never desyred to kys you before. _Here the_ LAUNDER _cometh in_. _Launder._ Why! have ye alway kyst her behynde? In fayth, good inough, yf yt be your mynde. 870 And yf your appetyte serve you so to do, Byr lady, I wolde ye had kyst myne ars to! _Mery-reporte._ To whom dost thou speake, foule hore? canst thou tell? _Launder._ Nay, by my trouth! I, syr, not very well! But by conjecture this ges[191] I have, 875 That I do speke to an olde baudy knave. I saw you dally with your symper de cokket[192] I rede you beware she pyck not your pokket. Such ydyll huswyfes do now and than Thynke all well wonne that they pyck from a man. 880 Yet such of some men shall have more favour, Then we, that for them dayly toyle and labour. But I trust the god wyll be so indyfferent That she shall fayle some parte of her entent. _Mery-reporte._ No dout he wyll deale so gracyously 885 That all folke shall be served indyfferently. How be yt, I tell the trewth, my offyce is suche D i _b_ That I muste reporte eche sewt, lyttell or muche. Wherfore, wyth the god syns thou canst not speke, Trust me wyth thy sewt, I wyll not fayle yt to breke.[193] 890