POTYCARY

¶Send you any souls to heaven by water ¶By God I have a dry soul should thither I pray you let our souls go to heaven together So busy you twain be in souls health May nat a potycary come in by stealth Yes that I will by Saint Antony And by the leave of this company Prove you false knaves both or we goo In part of your sayings as this oh Thou by thy travail thinkest heaven to get And thou by pardons and relics countest no lete To send thine own soul to heaven sure And all other whom thou list to procure If I took and action then were they blank For like thieves the knaves rob away my thank All souls in heaven having relief Shall they thank your crafts nay thank mine chief No soul you know entereth heaven gate Till from the body he be separate And whom have you known die hostlye Without help of the potycary Nay all that comes to our handling Except you happen to come to hanging That way perchance you shall nat myster To go to heaven without a glyster But be you sure I would be woe If you should change to beguile me so As good to lie with me a night As hang abroad in the moan light There is no choice to le my hand But as I said into the band Sins of our souls the multitude I send to heaven when all is viewed Who should but I then all together Have thank of all their coming thither ❧ If a thousa ̄ de pardons about your necks were teyd When come they to heaven if they never died ¶Brother you have gone wrong no wit I praise your fortune and your wit That can dyrecte you so discretely To plant you in this company Thou palmer and thou a pardoner I a potycary. ¶Now on my faith full well watched Were the devil were we four hatched ¶What the devil hast thou there at thy back ¶Do women buy their pyncases of you. ¶And other cause why they come nat forward Which makes them daily to draw backward And yet is a thing they can nat forbear The trimming and pynnynge up their gere Specially their fydlyng with the tail pin And when they would have it prick in If it chance to double in the cloth Then be they wode and sweareth and oath Till it stand right they will nat forsake it Thus though it may nat yet would they make it But be you sure they do but defarre it For when they would make it oft times mar it But prick them and pynne them as nyche, as you will And yet will they look for pynnynge Still So that I durst hold you a joint You shall never have them at a fallen point ☞Why be you so universal That you can do what so ever you shall. ¶Than tell me this be you perfect in drinking ¶Then after your drinking how fallen you to winking ¶But is your breast any thing sweet. ¶That answer shows you a right singing man Now what is your will good father than. ☞For will or skill what helpeth it Where forward knaves be lacking will Leave of this curyosytie And who that list sing after me. ¶By God men say so now and then. ⚜As long as we list, nay long as they can. ¶You but yet it is necessary For to have a potycary For when you feel your conscyens ready I can send you to heaven quickly Wherefore concerning our mater here Above these twain I am best clear And if he list to take me so I am content you and no more Shall be our judge as in this case Which of us three shall take the best place ⚜If he taste this box nigh about the prime By the mass he is in heaven or even long time My craft is such that I can right well Send my Friends to heaven and my self to hell But sirs mark this man for he is wise How could devise such a deuyce For if we three may be as one Then be we lords everyone Between us all could nat be mist To save the souls of whom we list But for good order at a word Twain of us must wait on the third And unto that I do agree For both you twain shall wait on me What chance is this that such and self Commanded two knaves be, beside him self ¶If I denied I were a nody For all is mine by gods body. ¶This kiss S all bring us much promotion Fogh, by Saint your I never kyst a wars You were as goo ysse all hallows ars For by all hallows me thinketh That all hallows breath stinketh ¶Well let that pass and look upon this Here is a relyke that does nat mys To help the lest aswell as the most This is a buttock bone of Pentecost. ⚜By Christ and yet for all your boast This relyke hath be shyten the roast ¶All these two days, nay all this two year For all the savours that may come here Can be no worse for at a word One of the seven epers trodden in a torde. ⚜What so ever any other man sees I have no deuac on to Turks teeth For all though I never saw a greater Yet me thinketh I have seen many better. ¶You marry now I can you thank In presents of this the rest be blank Would God this relyke had come rather Kiss that relyke well good father Such is the pain that you palmer's take To kiss the pardon bowl for the drink sake Oh holy yeste that looketh full sour and stale For gods body help me to a cup of ale The more I be hold the, the more I thirst The oftener I kiss the, more like to burst But sins I kiss the so devoutly Hire me and help me with drink till I die What so much praying and so little speed ¶If I have never the more for the Then be the relics no riches to me Nor to thy self except they be More beneficial then I can see Richer is one box of his tryacle Then all thy relics that do no myrakell It thou hadst prayed but half so much to me As I have prayed to thy relics and the Nothing concerning mine occupation But Straight should have wrought in operation And as in valve I pass you and a Here lies much ychesse in little space I have a box of r arb here Which is as deynty as it is dear So help me God and hollydam Of this I would nat give a deam To the best friend I have in England's ground Though he would give me .xx. pound For though the make do it abhor It pourget you from the colour And makes you omake soar to walter That you shall come to the halter ¶Now if I wist this wish no sin I would to God I might Begin. ¶Forsooth you be and honest man. ¶If you be set in mere alynge Then shall you here a meruaylouse thing And though in deed all be nat true Yet sure the most part shall be new I did a cure no longer a go But Anno domini millelimo On a woman young and so fair That never have I seen a gayre God save all women from that likeness This want on had the fallen sickness Which by dissent came lynyally For her mother had it naturally Wherefore this woman to recure It was more harden you may be sure But though I boast my craft is such That in such things I can do much How oft she fell were much to report But her head so gydy and her helys so short That with the twynglynge of and eye Down would she fall even by and by But or she would arise again I showed much practise much to my pain For the tallest man within this town Should nat with ease have broken her sown All though for life I did nat doubt her Yet did I take more pain about her Then I would take with my own sister Sir at the last I gave her a glyster I thrust a thampyon in her tewell And bade her keep it for a jewel But I knew it so heavy to carry That I was sure it would nat tarry For where gonpouder is ones fyerd The tampyon will no longer be hyerd Which was well seen in time of this chance For when I had charged this ordinance Suddenly as it had thonderd Even at a clap losed her bumberd Now mark for here beginneth the revel This tampion flew .x. long mile level To a fair castle of lime and stone For strength I know nat such a one Which stood upon and hill full hie At foot whereof a river ran buy So deep till chance had it forbyden Well might the regent there have riden But when this tampyon on this castle light It put the castles so far to flight That down they came eke upon other No stone left standing by gods mother But rolled down so fast the hill In such a number and so did fill From bottom to bryme from shore to shore This foresaid river so deep before That who list now to walk thereto May wade it over and wet no shoo So was this castle laid wide open That every man might see the token But in a good hour may these words be spoken After the tampyon on the walls was wrought And piece by piece in pieces broken And she delivered with such Violent Of all her inconueniens I left her in good health and Lust And so she does continue I trust. ¶By the mass there is a greatly ¶Proceed and you shall be obeyed. ¶Two knaves before .I. lacketh .ii. knaves of five Then one and then one and both knaves a live Then two and then two and three at a cast Thou knave and thou knave and thou knave at last Nay knave if you to yme by number I will as knauyshly you accomber Your mind is all on your pryuy tithe For all in ten me thinketh your wit lythe Now ten times I beseech him that hie syttes Thy wife's .x. continued ̄ mau ̄ dementes may search thy .v. wits Then ten of my tordes in ten of thy teth And ten of thy nose which every man seth And twenty times ten this wish I would That thou hadst been hanged at ten year old For thou goest about to make me a slave I will thou know if I am a gentleman knave And here is and other shall take my part. ❧ Sir be you sure he telleth you true If we should wait this would ensue to would be said trust me at a word Two knaves made courtesy to the third ⚜And I like wise I make God avow ¶For fere lest such parels to me might fallen I thank God I use no virtue at all ¶In that I think my fault nat great For all that he hath I avow conterfete. ¶Go you before and as I am true man I will follow as fast as I can. ¶Kiss them again and take my part For I am nat worthy, nay let be Those bees that onge Eve shall nat sting me. ¶If you will wprd out this crome that you see If ever you be would ed never trust me Here have I Diamond mpholicus A special ointment as doctors discuse For a fistela or a canker This ointment is even shot anchor For this medecyn helpeth one and other Or bringeth them in case that they need no other Here is syrapus de Byzansis A little thing is Enough of this For even the weight of one scryppull Shall make you strong as a cryppull Here be other as diosfialios Diagalanga and sticados Blanka manna diospoliticon Mercury sublyme and metridaticon Pelitory and arsefetita Cassy and colloquintita These be the things that break all strife Between man's sickness and his life From pain these shall you deleuer And set you even at rest for ever Here is a medecyn no more like the same Which commonly is called thus by name Alikakabus or Alkakengy A goodly thing for dogs that be mangy Such be these medicines that I can Help a dog as well as a man Nat one thing here partycularly But works universally For it does me as much good when I fell it As all the byers that taste it or smell it Now sins my medycyns be so special And in operation so general And ready to work when so ever they shall So that in riches I am principal If any reward may entreat you I beseech your mashyp be good to me And you shall have a box of marmelade So fine that you may dyg it with a spade. ¶If we both lie and you say true Then of these lies your part adieu And if you win make none avant For you are sure of one ill servant You may perceive by the words he gave He takes your mashyp but for a knave But who told true or lied in deed That will I know or we proceed Sir after that I First began To praise you for and honest man When you affirmed it for no lie Now by our faith speak even truly Thought you your affyrmacion true. ¶What thought you in the contrary than. ¶And what of my words. ¶And so thought I by God that died Now have you twain eke for him self laid That none hath lied out but both reuelayd And of us twain none hath denied But both affirmed that I have lied Now sins both your troth confess And that we both my lie so witness That twain of us three in one agree And that the liar the wynner must be Who could provide such euydens As I have done in this pretens Me thinketh this mater sufficient To cause you to gyve judgement And to gyve me the mastery For you perceive these knaves can nat lie ¶By the mass learn to make courtesy Courtesy before and courtesy behind him And thenon eke side the devil blind him Nay when I have it perfectly You shall have the devil and all of courtesy But it is nat soon learned brother One knave to make courtesy to another Yet when I am angry that is the worst I shall call my master knave at the First. ¶By the mass I hold us nought all three ¶Sir in this hoping I will hop so well That my tongue shall hop aswell as my he'll Upon which hopping I hope and nat doubt it To hope so that you shall hope without ⚜I know mine own breath from all hallows Or else it were time to kiss the galows. ⚜I pray you torn that relyke about Other the Trinity had the gout Or else because it is .iii. toes in one God made it much as three toes alone. ⚜What the devil care I what you think Shall I praise relics when they stink. ¶So mote I thrive then for my part I be shrew thy knaves naked Heart For making my wife is pyncase so wide The pynnes fallen out they can nat abide Great pynnes must she have one or other If she less one she will find and other Wherein I find cause to complain New pynnes to her pleasure and my pain ¶Then drink and sleep you can well do But if you were desired thereto I pray you tell me can you sing