¶ Dieu vous garde playsaunce 350
On seuen or no mumchaunce, what yonkers dare auaunce
To playe a grote or twaine.
Loe heare I haue in store
Two or three grotes and no more
I take great thought therfore
For to kepe it, it is much payne
I come now out of a place
where is a company of small grace
Theues and hores that spendes a pace
They were dronken all the sorte. 360
One of their purces I did aspy
Out of his sleue where it dyd lye
And one wynked on me with his eye
But ther began the sporte
Their false falsehode, and I crafty wyt
got the purse loe, heare I haue it
I ran my way and let hym syt
Smoke and shitten arse together.
And yf that I had yll wyll here
with this money we wolde make good chere 370
Gentle brother wyll, I pray the apeare
For thou art in some corner.
+Wytte+ I woulde come in but I am a fearde
Least that I be taken by the bearde
Wyth some catchepol, I haue heard
How thou haste stollen a purse
+wylle+ Thou horson art thou mad, cum in I say
This is not the fyrste hazard that I haue scaped
yf I make an hand to decke my felfe gay
what am I the worse. 380
+wyll+ From thy company I cannot abyde
I must nedes holde upon thy syde
yllwyll and shrewdwit who caa hyde
For they will be together.
+wytte.+ Now welcome wyll and what cheare:
By god I thought for thee a thousand yere
Peace for gods body who cummeth there
Hance bere pot Ascon router.
¶ Entreth Hance with a dutch songe
Gut nynen scone rutters by the moder got 390
It heist owne srhon, for staue ye nete
De qusteker mau iche bie do do
Uau the groate bnmbarde well ic wete
Dartyck dowsant van enheb it mete
Ic best de mauikin van de koining dangliler
De grot keyser kind ic bene his busketer
+Wyll.+ Here ye not dronk[=e] hance how he be gins to prate
The malowperte sleminge is a little to cheke mate
+wytte+ Let the knaue alone, for his name is war.
Such dronken slemminges your company wil mar 400
+Hance.+ Ic best nen emond, ic best in soche
ye secte nete vell ic forstaue ye in doche
+Wyll.+ Cumpt hore leyf with your gound stand nere
yt becummes you better to handle a potte of beare
+Hance+ Dat maght icvell dan, ic can skynke frelyck
Tab bers frow, ic briuges brore, begotts nemerick
+wytte.+ The horsen knaue by the masse is dronke
A winking for depe his eyen be cleane lonck
+Hance+ Ic foraue ye vell ye seg dac ic slope
Nenike, nenike, ic compte hore for an andor cope 410
+Wyll.+ Wel coppin I pray the hartly tell vs trew
Wherfore comest thou hether for any thing to sew
+Hance+ yeicke feger, en b[=u]bardere va de koyning wei it be
Heb twe skelling de dagh ic con scote de culueryn
+wytte.+ Nay ye shall walke a fleming knaue, wyl ye not see
We haue English gunners ynow, there is no rome empty
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