Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
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Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
English drama (Comedy)
[_Johan._] Lo, nowe am I redy to go to Syr Jhan,
And byd hym come as fast as he can.
[_Tyb._] Ye, do so without ony taryeng. 260
But I say, harke! thou hast forgot one thyng;
Set up the table, and that by and by.[264]
Nowe go thy ways.
[_Johan._] I go shortly;[265]
But se your candelstykkis be not out of the way.
_Tyb._ Come agayn, and lay the table I say; 265
What! me thynkkis, ye have sone don!
_Johan._ Nowe I pray God that his malediction
Lyght on my wyfe, and on the baulde[266] preest.
_Tyb._ Nowe go thy ways and hye the! seest?
_Johan._ I pray to Christ, if my wyshe be no synne, 270
That the preest may breke his neck, whan he comes in.
_Tyb._ Now cūm again.
_Johan._ What a myschefe wylt thou, fole!
_Tyb._ Mary, I say, brynge hether yender stole.
_Johan._ Nowe go to, a lyttell wolde make me
For to say thus, a vengaunce take the! 275
_Tyb._ Nowe go to hym, and tell hym playn,
That tyll thou brynge hym, thou wylt not come agayn.
_Johan._ This pye doth borne here as it doth stande.
_Tyb._ Go, washe me these two cuppes in my hande.
_Johan._ I go, with a myschyefe lyght on thy face! 280
_Tyb._ Go, and byd hym hye hym a pace,
And the whyle I shall all thynges amende.
_Johan._ This pye burneth here at this ende.
Understandest thou?
_Tyb._ Go thy ways, I say.
_Johan._ I wyll go nowe, as fast as I may. 285
_Tyb._ How, come ones agayne: I had forgot;
Loke, and there be ony ale in the pot.
_Johan._ Nowe a vengaunce and a very myschyefe
Lyght on the pylde[267] preest, and on my wyfe,
On the pot, the ale, and on the table, 290
The candyll, the pye, and all the rable,
On the trystels, and on the stole; A iv _b_
It is moche ado to please a curst fole.
_Tyb._ Go thy ways nowe, and tary no more,
For I am a hungred very sore. 295
_Johan._ Mary, I go.
_Tyb._ But come ones agayne yet;
Brynge hyther that breade, lest I forget it.
_Johan._ I-wys it were tyme for to torne
The pye, for y-wys it doth borne.
_Tyb._ Lorde! how my husbande nowe doth patter, 300
And of the pye styl doth clatter.
Go nowe, and byd hym come away;
I have byd the an hundred tymes to day.
_Johan._ I wyll not gyve a strawe, I tell you playne,
If that the pye waxe cold agayne. 305
_Tyb._ What! art thou not gone yet out of this place?
I had went,[268] thou haddest ben come agayn in the space:
But, by cokkis soule, and I shulde do the ryght,
I shulde breke thy knaves heed to nyght.
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