English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641
Small-coals here!
Thus go the cries in Rome’s fair town;
First they go up street, and then they go down.
Will you buy any milk to-day?
Thus go the cries in Rome’s fair town;
First they go up street, and then they go down.
Lanthorn and candle-light here! Maid, a light here!
Thus go the cries in Rome’s fair town;
First they go up street, and then they go down.
Here lies a company of very poor women in the dark dungeon, hungry,
cold, and comfortless night and day! Pity the poor women in the dark
dungeon!
Thus go the cries where they do house them;
First they come to the grate, and then they go louse them.
_The Second Song_.
“Arise, arise, my Juggy, my Puggy,
Arise, get up, my dear;
The weather is cold, it blows, it snows;
Oh, let me be lodgèd here.
My Juggy, my Puggy, my honey, my cony,
My love, my dove, my dear;
Oh, oh, the weather is cold, it blows, it snows,
Oh, oh, let me be lodgèd here.”
“Begone, begone, my Willy, my Billy,
Begone, begone, my dear;
The weather is warm, ’twill do thee no harm;
Thou canst not be lodgèd here.
My Willy, my Billy, my honey, my cony,
My love, my dove, my dear;
Oh, oh, the weather is warm, ’twill do thee no harm
Oh oh, thou canst not be lodgèd here.”
“Farewell, farewell, my Juggy, my Puggy,
Farewell, farewell, my dear;
Then will I begone from whence that I came,
If I cannot be lodgèd here.
My Juggy, my Puggy, my honey, my cony,
My love, my dove, my dear;
Oh, oh, then will I begone, from whence that I came,
Oh, oh, if I cannot be lodgèd here.”
“Return, return, my Willy, my Billy,
Return, my dove and my dear;
The weather doth change, then seem not strange;
Thou shalt be lodgèd here.
My Willy, my Billy, my honey, my cony,
My love, my dove, my dear;
Oh, oh, the weather doth change, then seem not strange,
Oh, oh, and thou shalt be lodgèd here.”
FOOTNOTES.
INTRODUCTION FOOTNOTES.
[i.01]
“So compared by the Fathers,” Heywood explains in the margin.
[i.02]
Prefixed to his _Apology for Actors_ (1612).
[i.03]
Until recently, Heywood’s plays were only accessible piecemeal and
in parts. Dodsley’s collection contained two; Dilke’s contained
three, and Baldwyn’s two. Between 1842 and 1851, the Old Shakespeare
Society produced altogether twelve; while Mr. Halliwell in 1853
printed the _Lancashire Witches_ separately. At last, in 1874 Mr.
John Pearson issued a complete edition in six volumes. Since that
date another play in MS. by Heywood, _The Captives_, was discovered
and printed by Mr. A. H. Bullen in the last volume of his _Old
Plays_ (1885).
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